Authors note: so. ..my newest Twilight fic, eh? *badum tiss* okay so I know the first couple of chapters are going to be slightly less OMG GIRL NO HE DID NOT and more background which is important to this story. You'll see why. Anyway, it's great to be back I missed writing! Leave a review if you're so inclined. Stick with me, this story will get so much better!
Yes, Layla does smoke. But you shouldn't. She's fictional. You're not. THINK OF THE CHILDREN! So don't do it. Also, I own everything SM doesn't. She owns Embry. HOW IS THAT FAIR?!
Layla parked her Escalade in the Doveslinen Academy parking lot. It was entirely too early for school to start and she had no caffeine to start the day as her phone alarm didn't go off in time. It may or may not have been set for pm instead of am. Thankfully she had her mother. Bonnie was up before the sun, without an alarm, without any good sense to sleep late. So in a rush Layla got ready and headed for school. Layla groaned and got out of the vehicle, getting her backpack from the passenger seat and shut the doors, pressing the lock on the key fob. Layla headed to the library, thankful beyond measure that she was picked by the librarian to help her for first period every morning. Layla set her backpack in the librarian's personal office and started scanning and shelving books.
Layla nearly threw the book she was teeing to shelve when she was tapped on the shoulder.
"Holy mother! Do that again and see if you don't get the biography of Lucille Ball right to your junk, Kai." Layla grumbled.
"But then who would hook you up? You'd have to socialize with these morons. Nobody wants that." Kai said, grinning as he held out a small baggie.
"I'd bring you ice. And an online subscription to that hot guy magazine I found shoved under one of the chairs here. " Layla said, snatching the baggie and pulling out a $50 bill and hanging it to Kai.
"I'd almost risk a sore crotch for that. If I could get one of those guys to make it ask better then hell yes. " Kai said. "You're lucky we're friends. You'd be so strung out."
Layla raised an eyebrow. "Why would I be...?"
Before Layla could finish her sentence, the library's double doors opened up and Francis strolled in, although he liked to saw he walked in with a deadly swagger.
'Swagger my left knocker.' Layla thought, trying to duck behind Kai.
"Layla!" Francis called out.
No such luck.
"I'm working, Francis. Buzz off. " Layla said gruffy.
Francis smiled, but it was empty. "No. Not until you agree to go out with me. We're a perfect match. Money should go with money. "
"Yeah, no. You're going to make me vomit in 17 languages. " Layla said.
"I can make you go out with me." Francis vowed before storming out.
Layla shuddered. "I think I just threw up a little bit in my mouth."
"I just threw up a little bit in my mouth and he's not even after me, thank God. " Kai said. "Someone serially needs to make him chill out because he'll be like hiding behind your shower curtain with a large knife and bad music. "
"Kai. " Layla whispered, giving him the most withered look she could muster. "Stay right there I'm going to vomit on you. "
"No way. This bitch is on fleek. Or whatever you straighties are saying these days." Kai replied. "Bye sister from another mister. "
"Bye brother from another mother." Layla said x waving.
Hopefully that would be get only contact with Francis for the rest of the day.
Embry Call sat in the garage of one of his best friend, Jake. He had the day and night off thanks to covering for Paul the othernight so he could go on yet another date. And by date he meant seeing one of his friends with benefits. It's not like he was doing much anyway. Embry stood up and walked over to one of the tool chests, sorting and organizing while letting his mind wander. Sam had gotten a deal set up with tribal court that he and all the other guys get paid for their nightly payrolls of the reservation. But that was just a night thing for Embry. He needed something to occupy his mind during the day since sleep wasn't coming easily for him.
It's not that he was having nightmares. It was that his mind wouldn't shut the hell up. Was this a side effect of not having imprinted yet? Because he wasn't going around screwing everything with a pulse? Maybe he needed a daytime job to further exhaust him. He knew one of the bars just off the rez was hiring for bartender. The guys here drank some so maybe he could get some practice in if they'd try mixed drinks.
"Dude, what gives? You've been picking up and putting down the same 3 wrenches for the past fifteen minutes." Jake said, leaning against the car he was working on.
"Nothing you need to worry about." Embry said, moving back away from the tools. "I have to run a few errands. Be back later. "
"Go to Taco Hell and get those $20 boxes. We haven't had the endless shits in a while. " Jake called out, tossing a wadded up $20 to Embry.
"Sure thing." Embry said, walking out of the garage.
He figured he might stop by Emily's and Sam's and alert her that Taco Hell was going to be on the menu tonight so she only had to make dessert if she wanted. He came up to their door and knocked a second before walking in. He saw Emily standing on a step ladder, trying to get to something in the cabinets above the fridge. Embry jogged over and grabbed Emily gently by the waist and picked her up, turning and then sitting her on the counter.
"Sam will shit a brick if he catches you doing that while you're pregnant. " Embry said. "What are you looking for, anyway? "
"He's not even here!I just wanted to get up there to look and see if there was any of my grandma's recipe books. I want chocolate something but I don't know what. " Emily replied. "And I'm barely 2 months along. He's like the size of a pea. Maybe."
"He'd walk through that door and flip out. Then you'd withhold sex and Sam would get all kinds of pissy and angry and that's ALL we would hear on patrols. So please...as your most favorite brother...don't do that to me. Don't make me hear those words my innocent ears just can't handle. " Embry whined.
"Fine. But there should be some old books in those cabinets. " Emily said.
Embry could easily see into the cabinets and grabbed every book in there, setting them on the counter next to Emily.
"Jake wants Taco Hell for dinner, so I figured all the guys will. You don't have to make anything unless you want dessert. " Embry said. "Also, do you and Sam want the $20 boxes? "
Emily looked up and put her hand on her flat tummy. "Maybe. Whatever I don't eat I know Sam or one of the other guys will."
Emily slid off the counter and walked to the counter, pulling 2 twenties or of their money jar and handing out to Embry. She hugged Embry and then walked him to the door. "Go ask the others. They'll probably all want one. Take my Jeep to go get them. " Emily added, tossing her keys to Embry.
Embry got into her Jeep and made stops at each of his brother's and his sister's houses. He drove off the rez to the bar first, to put in his application for bartender before driving to the Taco Bell to get a couple dozen of those big boxes of tacos.
"Is this what my life has come to? " Embry whispered to himself as he leaned back against the wall, waiting for the food to be ready.