It's just a weekday afternoon, like any other afternoon.
An afternoon out hunting for supposed 'man-eating' wolves and then everything changes.
Charlie asks them to stay home together, but her older sister has somewhere she wants to go. Bella leaves her off at her best friend's house. Seth Clearwater, who's father is also off on the wolf hunt, is already home from school when Mackenzie Swan arrives. They spend the afternoon playing video games in his bedroom, arguing over which of them is better at first-person shooter games, and waiting for his father to come home so that they can eat dinner.
They aren't expecting a phone call from Charlie, aren't expecting to have to jump in the car and rush to the hospital.
Aren't expecting that Harry Clearwater would die of a heart attack.

They're there for an hour. Her father is there, with Billy Black, and Sue and a few other people from the reservation. Seth is crying, clinging to Mackenzie like his life depends on it. She doesn't blame him, she doesn't know what she would do if she lost either of her parents. Seth's older sister, Leah, who'd arrived earlier comes over to them. Despite her normally standoff-ish demeanor, it's obvious that she's devastated. She tells them that they're going home. Someone that Mackenzie doesn't know drives them back to the Clearwater House.

The three of them spend the next two hours sitting in the living room. At some point Mackenzie goes into the kitchen, makes a small dinner for her and the Clearwaters. She leaves leftovers for Sue on the table (and the realization hits her that she didn't need the rest for Harry. (She cries where her friends can't see her.) None of them really eat. They sit on the couch picking at their plates, eating only a few bites, until Seth starts crying again. Mackenzie does her best to comfort them, but there isn't much she can do or say. So she lets her best friend bury his face in her lap and rubs his back as he sobs. Leah cries as well, her jaw tightening, and fists clenching as she tries to control herself, but she breaks down too. Pulling her legs up onto the couch and sobbing into her knees, Mackenzie is at a loss for what to do for her, so she puts her hand on Leah's shoulder and she holds it there. Because she doesn't know what else to do. What is there to say?

Sue, Billy, Charlie, and a friend of Sue's arrive thirty minutes later. Her father tells her that he's going to stay for a while longer with Billy, keep an eye on Sue and the kids. Bella isn't answering her cell phone so Sue's friend drives her home. Her sister's truck is parked in the street, in front of the house and the lights are on, but Bella's sneakers aren't in the foyer like normal, though a boy's are.

They aren't her father's, that's for sure, so she concludes they must belong to Jacob Black. She's right, she notices as she peers into the living room. "Hey Jake," she greets half-heatedly as places her coat on a hook by the door, voice hoarse from crying. Jacob is silent, sitting by himself on the couch with the tv off. She wonders where her sister is.

"Where's Bells?" She questions as she takes off her shoes. Jacob's face twists in disdain as he answers, "She went somewhere with Alice Cullen." The Cullen's were back, since when? The 16 year old shifter finally looks at her, for the first time up close since he'd phased. In that exact moment, Jacob's entire universe shifts. He feels all his love, dedication, and loyalties change. Bella, his father, the pack; nothing matters anymore. Gravity no longer holds him down to earth, but instead the girl in front of him does. The younger sister of the girl he's been crushing on since he was a toddler.

Mackenzie Swan is 14 years old. Lithe and petite, shorter than her sister, with long dancer's legs. She has the same brown hair as Bella and Charlie, though curlier like her mother's. Her eyes too are like Renee's, blue. She's nothing like her older sister. Mackenzie is outgoing, friendly, and graceful. She smiles a lot and is considerably more talkative than Bella. Everyone that meets her loves her, pulled in by her kind and playful demeanor. It's needless to say that she and Bella are polar opposites.

The last time that Jacob had seen her face to face was the night Edward Cullen left Bella in the woods and Sam Uley had found her. He remembers how worried she was, pacing back and fourth in front of him and his father. Billy had tried to calm Mackenzie, him and Harry assuring her that Bella would be fine. Since that night, he'd only been in contact with her in passing. Greeted her from the door when he'd come to see Bella, talked to her on the phone when calling to talk to Bella.
All in all, he'd only associated with her when around her older sister.

Not that he doesn't like her, in fact he's always been fond of Mackenzie. They got along well, they're both kind and friendly, and had sunny personalities as Bella calls it. But, his romantic interest has always been directed at the elder sister, perhaps because Mackenzie is younger than him. She is two years his junior, born on January 20th, 1992. Their birthdays are six days apart. Jacob isn't sure why Bella has always been his main interest, but he suspects it has something to do with her being older than him. Watching her grow into a pretty teenager while he and Mackenzie were still a lot like kids.

But, all of that was over now. Suddenly, the younger sister became his entire world. It takes him a moment before he realizes it, but he's just imprinted on Mackenzie Swan.

Shit.