at dead of night | a twilight fanfiction

at dead of night | 02

january 17th, 2005

mr. swan has been buzzing for a bit already, and from what i heard from mami and papi, he's just excited for his daughter to get here. apparently, he hasn't seen her since she stopped her summerly visits to him.

"that's a long time." i mumble, brushing my curls back into a messy ponytail.

i walked downstairs, papi in his uniform while mami was in some pajamas still. lucky, her winter break was extended for the hours she worked during christmas eve. this was our biggest christmas yet, we had invited mr. swan over to celebrate and did reach out to jacob, seth and some of the others if they would like to celebrate with us since mami cooked so much, and they were more than happy to come over, and also brought along emily with sam, embry and quil, who were jacob's best friends.

after christmas, sonya and seth announced they're dating, which i wasn't surprised to, but our parents sure were, but overall supportive.

i did offer an invitation to leah, but she only lingered for a bit due to sam and emily. she "didn't want to sour the mood" even though i offered that we could just hang out in my room, just me and her, but she declined and left afterward.

we got off of winter break last week, and mr. swan is supposed to pick up his daughter later today from the airport.

"i'm going now, ray, ramiro, let's go." i said, calling to the twins as i grab my jacket. mami said that since she doesn't have work for a couple of days she'll drop off the others at la push for school.

"bye mami, love you!" i said to her, waving as we left to my car. papi followed behind us to his cop cruiser, waving to us as we waved back. i got into my car, starting it up as the twins got in while fighting for passenger seat.

"¿qué tal si ambos se sientan en la parte de atrás, eh?¹" i said to them harshly, and they groaned as they both went to the back, but raymundo leaned to connect his ipod to my radio so he could play music. he was into a lot of usher, tupac, and eminem. his music was surprisingly good, i've never heard of eminem before, but ramiro explained he was a newer artist. (1: how about you both sit in the back huh?)

the drive was nice and short, as i pulled into the parking lot and got out with the twins following behind but rushing over to their friend group.

i met with jessica and angela in the parking lot, and we talked about the weekend. they had fun at port angeles, browsing and hanging out. meanwhile i was stuck at work.

"so lucky, i need to ask for time off soon." i said, walking with them into the building as we talked about some of the assignments. for some reason, i remembered the past couple of days, and mentioned it to them.

"oh yeah, i think chief swan's daughter is moving here." i said to them, not thinking much of it until jessica urged me to continue.

"wait really? do you know how old she is? how she looks?" i blinked in confusion and shrugged some.

"i think she's around our age? so probably a junior too. kinda sucks she's moving here in the middle of the year, that's the worst that could happen." i said to them, trying to recall what mr. swan said about his daughter to her parents.

"this is big, like newspaper article big." angela said, already excited to write the news article.

"what's big news?" eric was summoned just like that as he swung an arm around myself and amgela, who grew red in the face.

"cherie was saying that there may be a new girl coming soon. when did you say?" jessica said to the shorter boy, as we walked the halls.

"mr. swan said he was picking her up today, so maybe this week or next week?" i guessed, shrugging my shoulders some as we walked to class.