Chapter 1: Arrival

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Tessa's POV (point of view)

I exited the airport and stepped out into the morning sun's rays and breathed in the fresh air and stretched out my muscles from the two hour plane ride I had endured. Chicago now far away from me like I wanted and now I'm finally here in New York.

Adjusting my shoulder bag and purse a little I grabbed my suitcases handle and made my way to one of the many available cabs sitting outside the airport. I told the driver the address that I wanted to get to and from there the driver pulled away from the airport and made its way to said address.

I knew Larry wasn't home as he said he had a few errands to do and he also had to take Nicky to hockey. Boy did I miss my nephew. I wonder how big he is now. Larry had told me that he told his ex-wife Erica that I was coming to New York to stay with him. She was real excited when she heard and straight away said yes to Larry when he asked if I could go to her place till Larry returned. That way I wasn't waiting out in the hallway of his apartment or wandering around the city with all my bags since I don't have a key to his apartment.

The cab finally made it to the apartment that Erica lives in. Thanking the driver and paying my fair I gathered my bags and made my way into the apartment building. I made my way to her room which was a few floors up, so I headed to the elevator and pushed the button for the floor I wanted. Once the elevator reached the floor I stepped out and proceed to walking down the hallway and making a few turns. I then stopped in front of the door to her room and took a deep breath and raised my hand and knocked on the door a few times. I then waited patiently for someone to answer the door, I was about to try knocking again when I started to hear footsteps coming to the door. The door opened revealing Erica on the other side. When she saw that it was me knocking at her door she smiled and you could see a glimmer of happiness in her eyes.

"Hi!" I said to her with a little wave.

"Oh Tessa!" She pulled me into a hug. "It's so good to see you again."

"You to Erica."

"Well come on in." She said after releasing me from the hug.

She grabbed my rolling suitcase and took it inside. "We still have about an hour till Larry comes back with Nick from hockey. So you and I can catch up while we wait."

I chuckled a bit. "Okay." I said and entered the room closing the door behind me.

No Ones POV

Walking through the park side by side coming from hockey practice Larry and his son Nicky make their way back to Erica's apartment, exchanging conversations as they walked.

"I'm telling you man you tore it up out there today. Thinking the NHL's a serious possibility."

"Yeah I don't really want to be a hockey player anymore." Nicky replied back.

"Alright what do you want to be?" Larry asked.

"A bond trader."

"Bond trader?" Larry questioned him.

"Yeah it's what Don does, he took me to his office last week."

"Uh-huh. That's cool. So what? You want to dress up in a monkey suit and tie every day? Like an au-tom-a-ton ro-bot?" Larry said making robot moves with his arms and changing his voice to sound like a robot in a way.

Nicky laughed at his dad's comment and silliness.

"Trust me, can't play hockey in a cubical. Kinda awkward." Larry continued.

"Well, he's got a pretty big office."

"That's not the point, come on you love hockey!"

"I still like it, but bond trading's my fallback." Nicky replied back.

"Your fall back? Wait a minute, wait a minute your too young to have a fallback, okay Nicky. And-and then also where did you even hear that word?"

"Mom was talking to Don about all your different schemes."

"She called them schemes?" Larry questioned

"She said it was kinda your fallback."

Larry looked stunned at what he just heard from his son and turned away from him to look ahead of him.

Nicky stopped walking and asked. "Are you really moving again?"

Larry stopped walking as well and turned to look at his son. "Uh. I don't know. We'll see. I mean there are some pretty cool places out in Queens."

"Yeah." Nicky replied sounding disappointed and put his down.

"Hey. Hey, Nicky, look at me. Look at me man I wanna tell you somethin'. I know that things have been kinda up and down for me and, and that it's been hard for you. But I really feel like my moments coming and when it does everything's just gonna come together. You know?"

"What if you're wrong and you're just an ordinary guy who should get a job?" Nicky questioned.

Larry let his eyes wander about trying to come up with an answer his sons' question.

"Alright well… You know what we'll figure it out okay? Alright? Come on let's get you back to mom's. Come on."

The two then continued they're walking through the park.

"Hey I got a surprise for you when we get back to your mom's." Larry said trying to lighten the mood.

"Really? What?" Nicky questioned.

"You'll have to wait and see till we get there. But I know you'll like it."

"If you say so dad."

"Oh I know so Nicky." Giving him a light shove.

"Ah! Hey!" Nicky said in surprise. But retaliated by putting his arms around his dad and try to push over to the side.

"Whoah, hey there mister! Easy I think you've been watching too many hockey fights during the games on TV that it's getting to your head now." Larry said jokingly and knocking on his son's head lightly.

Nicky chuckled and swatted at his dads hand. He then moved closer to his dad and took his hand in his and they walked hand in hand the rest of the way to the apartment.

Author Note: Well I managed to get another chapter done and up amazingly and shockingly. I've never done a chapter this fast before, literally. But anyway I hope you enjoyed this chapter, next chapter Nicky meets his Aunt and she gets reunited with her brother and settled into his apartment and also Larry starts his job hunting as well. So were almost at the museum part. Probably in the third chapter he discovers the night magic. I'm going to have Larry on his own for his first night on the job as the night guard and on the second night Tessa will join him. So till then stay tuned and I hope you enjoyed this new chapter to 'Brand New Day' and I hope to have the next chapter up soon. Who knows maybe I'll surprise myself again by having it up by the next day like what I just did. But for now it's farewell till the next chapter. Don't forget to fav, comment, etc.