okay peeps! here's my other story that goes with THE ONE AND ONLY seth's imprinting. this is my first chapter so there for i hope you like it.. there's more to come.. i promise... plzzzz review... :D
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Chapter one: Settling In
I cursed my luck as I looked at the time on the radio clock in my car. I had an interview with the chief of police, Charlie Swan at eight this morning. I was being transfered from Mississippi and I was really excited. I hope I wasn't going to be late. I got into town that was in between Port Angeles and Forks last night in the late hours and I was so exhausted from driving for so long; I went to sleep just when my head hit the pillow of the bed at the hotel.
I couldn't believe that I moved away. I was excited. I just hope that I won't be home sick. Everyone at home was going to miss me but I was old enough to take care of myself and making my own decisions.
Back at home I had three brothers. Tom, Allen, and Dale. We were all a year a part. That was enough to make you go insane. Since, I was the only girl and youngest that my parents had, my brothers were extremely over protective.
They were always running away any of my dates because they "wasn't good enough for their lil Al." Hell, I even rented a townhouse on the beach of Biloxi with them. They gave me hell when I decided to be a cop when I turned twenty one. I went through an academy and extra training not too long afterward. They finally shut up about it when I beat them at some of the training exercises.
Now I was known as one hard ass bitch.
I loved my parents but lord help them they were always doing their own thing now. After we all moved out, they sold their house and started going on trips. I think now they were in Hawaii. We got postcards and sometimes phone calls to let us know what they were up to.
I pulled my little Orange Volkswagon Beetle in the parking lot of the station. It was starting to sprinkle as I stepped out the car and started toward the door.
That's fucking great! I frowned as touched my hair. I knew that it was frizzing, making a brown halo, around my head.
I was dressed in a pair of black slacks and a v-neck pink dress shirt. It was the only thing that I had dressy in all the clothes that I had. I attempted on walking in the three inch black heels my mom gave me just in case for emergancies.
I was one of those t-shirt and blue jean kinda of chicks. Yes, even people from down south would call me as a country girl through and through. I think people would be very shocked on my appearance today. I was even wearing makeup.
I pushed open the door to the station and was greeted by the secretary. "Hello. What can I do for you this morning, sweetie?"
"I have an interview with Chief Swan."
"You must be Ms. Alexus Martin." She smiled at me. I couldn't help from returning one back at her. She was an older lady of probably mid fifties, petite with dark rimmed glasses. She reminded me of my grandma when I was younger.
"Yes, Ma'am." I told her.
"Oh my! You do have an accent." She said as she started walking to a closed door to the right. She knocked and held it open for me.
I walked inside stood infront of a gentleman with a grey mustache sitting behind the desk. He had papers all over his desk. He was dressed in t-shirt and a baseball hat.
What the hell?! Why isn't he in his uniform, I thought frowning a little.
He caught my gaze and his brown eyes twinkled as if he knew what I was thinking.
"Today is my day off. Please, sit down, Ms. Martin. I was reading your resume that you faxed me this week and I'm really impressed with it. I also talked with your Chief back in Mississippi and he gave a very good word. He told me that you were top of the class in the Academy.
He also told me that you are a very motivated person and do your job right. I need someone like that. I'm a type of person that takes pride in my officers.
This is a small town and hardly have any crime. What I'm going to do is partner you up with Ben Phillips, Monday. I'm going to let you get settled in for a couple of days and I'll see you Monday at six o' clock sharp so we can get your uniform and equipment." He said standing up and stuck out his hand.
"Welcome to Forks and our force, Officer Martin." I shook his hand and smiled up at him.
"Thanks, Chief."
"Now, I'm going go watch a football game at home." He told me as we walked out of the office.
"Who's playing?" I asked.
"You watch football?" He asked, taken back.
"Of course. Its my favorite sport to watch." I told him. I didn't tell him that I use to play it all the time with my brothers on the beach.
"Well, I be damn. Miami and Saints are playing." He said.
"Saints, for sure." I winked at him, making him blush a little.
"Ha. I know. Well, young lady, I'll see ya Monday." I waved at him as I walked out of the building and to my car with a skip. I sat in my car took off my heels and threw them in the back seat. Much better, I thought rubbing my feet. Now to the hotel and call the guys to let them know the news.
I started the car and headed back to the hotel. When I pulled up in the parking lot my phone started ringing. I looked down at the caller id and answered it. It was my older brother, Tom.
"I told you that I'll call you when I got settled." I told him slamming the car door. I walked to the hotel door slid in my card waited until the green light came on and opened it.
"I don't care. I told you to call me when you got there and you never did. What if something happened to you and we didn't know it?" He said making me roll my eyes.
"I was really tired when I got here, Tom. Lay off of it. Plus, ya'll were a sleep." I threw the hotel key on the table and layed down on the bed, switching the tv on with the remote. There was a movie that I wanted to watch for a while and it drowned his bitching out.
"Al, you listening to me?" I heard him say.
"No, I'll call later." I shut the phone cutting him off. I turned the tv up a little just when the phone started ringing again. I snatched it up and put in the drawer of the nightstand without answering it. I really wasn't in a mood to hear him. I loved him but damn he got on my nerves. Always telling me what to do. Can't he see that I'm a grown woman now ?
I layed there for a few minutes with the AC on and I drifted off to sleep.
I finally woke up hours later. It was dark outside so it could've been really late. I checked my phone flipping it open and looked at the missed calls. I also had few text messages they all were from Tom. He was determine to drive me crazy.
"God dang it!" I didn't bother to check the time because this is what he gets when he calls a million times. I let the house phone ring until someone answered.
" 'ello." It sounded like Tom.
"About damn time you answered." I grumbled in the phone. Being in a hotel room was making me feel lazy. Maybe a nice long run would get me going in a few hours.
I was totally awake now. Washington was two hours behind of Mississippi so its going to take a while for me to get used to it.
"I was asleep, ass. Like you should be." It wasn't Tom. It was Dale, my brother that was born before I was. We always stuck together through thick and thin. He was always taking up for me when the other two was trying to bully me around. He was a sweetheart.
"I just woke up. So, is Tom sleeping?" I asked.
"No, he left to go some where. I tried calling him but he turned his cell off." He yawned. I frowned a little. That was unlike him. Maybe he went out with a couple of buddies to get toasted or something.
"Where to at this time of the night?"
"Hell if I know. Look, Al, I need to go back to sleep. I'll call you later on to catch up I promise. I have to work." He yawned again.
"Okay. Okay. Talk with ya later , bro." I hung up the phone.
Okay, I missed them. I could feel tears starting to brim a little. Straighten up, Martin, crying is for babies. I told myself.
I looked toward the window that was covered with red curtains, I could see it was getting daylight now. I quickly got out of the bed, opened my blue suitcase and threw clothes out until I found my silk running shorts, white sports bra, white socks and my tennis shoes.
Before I got dressed I turned the coffee pot on that was in my room and started making some coffee. I need my energy for sure before I even ran.
I stopped by the front desk of the hotel to let them extend my stay for another few days before I left to run. Few seconds later, I started running down the road not worrying about anything.
The weather was slightly cool but not cold enough to stop me. I put my headphones in my ears from my ipod and off I went. Running was my favorite thing to do out of all the exercises I had to do to keep in shape. It was a way for me think through things and relax basically.
All the rest of the exercises was hell and hurt but I knew that I have to do it. That's the only way I could keep my flat stomach and stay the size of five. Plus, it helps on the job too to catch people that run from the us.
The roads was quiet and very eerie this morning. There was fog over the roads reminding me of a scary movie I watched a long time ago. It was about about a killer werewolve. I pushed that thought out of my head and I ran harder pushing myself.
I could feel the sweat rolling off of my back and the burn in my legs the further I went. To the right of me I could see the beach through the trees. Even though it was tempting, I kept on going. Maybe later on today, I thought. I passed the sign on the side of the road that Port Angeles was 30 miles away. I should go shopping for some clothes today, I thought.
I stopped and checked the clock that was wrapped around my ankle that showed how many miles I ran or how many calories I burned One and half miles. I took a swig from my water bottle. It felt really nice and cool going down. I ran enough to turn around and go back, I thought heading the opposite direction on the road. Still no vehicles on the road.
It started drizzling just when I made it back to the hotel. It was a very clean hotel even though they were working on remodeling. It had a gym that was opened twenty-four hours, breakfast in the morning, and also the rooms were not little for a hotel. I knew very soon I'm going to have to find a place to live in Forks. I guess I have to take a day at a time.
I used my card on my room door and walked in. The cool air hit me and made me shiver a little bit because I was so damn sweaty. I went straight to the bathroom to take a nice long hot bath in the garden tub. I wanted to go shopping. I had a few bucks to spend for sure!