Author's Note:

I know A Hard Day's Night has not been updated, I promise to update this weekend.

Here is my short drabble story for the October Drabble Wars! I have the banner up on my Facebook. Check out all the other stories for this month too at drabblewar . blogspot 2012/10/ october-author-question-of-day-monday . html?zx=96b5e7dc3872428a

Also I was post this story later on my blog in PDF along with my other stories, and the other websites.

Thanks to my beta's Darcysmom and BelleDuJour for their help. They are truely amazing.

Disclaimer: All Twilight related things belong to Stephenie Meyer.

Swan Escape

1.

"Bella, calm down," Edward laughed. "It isn't like I haven't met your family before. They did come to our wedding."

I sighed. "I know, but I worry."

I was born into a big Italian family. Every year since I could remember, my grandparents on my father's side would take the whole family on a weekend getaway. They called it the "Swan Escape." This year's escape was in Monterey Bay, California, a long, eight-hour drive from Fallbrook, California.

"Honey, come on. Everything will be fine." Edward ran his fingers through my hair and turned his eyes back to the road.

"I know, but I get afraid sometimes that you will realize how crazy my family really is and run away."

It wasn't that I was ashamed of my family, but they were a bit on the crazy side. The Swan family children consisted of three boys and one girl. My father was the second oldest son. My oldest uncle, Felix, got married four years ago. Although he was always nice to me, he took advantage of my grandparents' money. My father, Phil, was the perfect child growing up, but his parents soon realized that it was all a scam. My father not only was a diagnosed sociopath, he was released from prison this year. My father had a thing with stealing money from everyone, including his parents and my step-father, Charlie.

My youngest uncle, Demetri, was a swinger and a ticking time bomb. At one Escape he punched Uncle Felix at dinner. Needless to say, no one has spoken to him since. Then there was my amazing Aunt Gianna, the only girl and, not coincidentally, the only perfect child of the bunch.

She lived thirty minutes away from my family, while my uncles and grandparents lived in Northern California.

Growing up, I was closest to my Aunt Gianna and her husband, my Uncle Marcus. I was the oldest grandchild, which meant for three years I was the only child and received the undivided attention of all family members before my other cousins joined the family. Even though I was twenty-four years old now, the men in my family were still a bit overprotective of me. They had met Edward a couple of times— while we were dating, our engagement party, and our wedding. However, spending a couple of hours with each other during those times, was way different then spending an entire four days together.

We had so many interesting stories growing up—especially on the Swan Escapes. Although, for the first time, Edward, my husband, would be joining the family. I was a bit concerned, because things could get wild on these trips. Where my family talked exceptionally dirty, Edward's parents were very serious and didn't find any interest in humor. It was a bit intimidating.

"Don't worry, everything will be fine," he said and leaned over the center console to give me a kiss, ending the conversation.

Fine. Everything would be fine.

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