A/N- I just want to say THANK YOU to you guys for reading my story and all your nice words! You make my world so much brighter! And sorry for the long period of no updating! These last few weeks have been the longest in my life! I'm sure some of you can agree. I'm not going to bore you with details but let me just say cancer is a B! %*#

I am so sorry guys! I thought chapter 9 was already posted! why didn't one of you guys yell at me! Sorry!!!

Here ya go!-

Chapter 9

We pushed through cars on the highway just as the sun went down. We were behind schedule, not even close yet and it was getting dark.

We were on route 70, which would lead us out of Ohio and into Pennsylvania fastest.

I looked at the clock and frowned. 6:30. The girl would be waking up soon and I still hadn't come up with an explanation as to why she was suddenly in the middle of nowhere. The best I had come up with was 'you were kidnapped by a oblivious vampire, who can't quite read your mind, and almost killed you but is now trying to help, sorry for the inconvenience, any questions?'. Abducted by aliens was second. Though I wasn't positive I was pretty sure those two wouldn't go over to well.

So the truth was out of the picture. Had it ever even been in the picture? I doubted I could ever tell her what we were, but I was interested if she was aware of what her fiancé was. I couldn't imagine the amount of work it would be to keep that secret away from someone you were always around.

I chuckled to myself when I realized the irony. My family did that every day. At school, at work, at the mall or anywhere public.

A small yawn made me glance over at the girl who was rubbing her eyes. I thanked the sun who had just sunk down behind a far hill for not blowing my cover.

"You're up." I noted.

"mhhm" She said absent mindedly still now fully awake.

I watched her stretch and pull the blanket around her tighter when I got an idea.

"I hope you don't mind, but about this time of year my family always takes a little vacation to the mountains and since you're our guest it wouldn't be fair if we just left you at home." So it wasn't the best story, but it did the job. "And since you'll be better soon, you'll be able to go home with your family."

"Where?" She mumbled.

"We have a mountain house up in the Pocono mountains in Pennsylvania."

She nodded but said "My family?"

"They know you're here. You can go back home with them very soon. You are healing so quickly."

"Where is my family?"

"Home" I said glancing over at her, wondering if she had even heard me explaining everything to her, thirty seconds ago.

"Where is home?" She whispered sounding confused.

I thought back to that day at school when her background was in so many minds, laid out to me on a wide table. The kids all mentioned her coming up here to visit her father. Maybe she didn't know if her home was with him or with the beast she's marrying, or where she was before she came to live with her father. Where ever that was.

"Back in Washington. I'm sure your father will be happy to see you." I said smiling over at her. I could only imagine the look on Charlie's face when he finialy finds his long lost (long presumed dead) daughter.

She didn't respond to me, just kept her face scrunched while she looked out the window.

"What are you thinking?" I all but demanded, my curiosity getting to me.

She jumped at my harsher tone but said softly "Who is my father?"

What? She had caught me off guard and I swerved in the road.

"Who is my family?" she continued. "Where exactly is my home?"

I kept my eyes on the road, wide open. I was pretty sure my mouth hung open in awe. I had slowed the car down to a craw on some back road.

"Your father? Police Chief Swan. Chief of Forks." I prompted. She shook her head.

"I don't know him."

"How about Jacob Black?" I darted.

"I don't think I know him either." She admitted playing with her hands.

The rest of the drive we spent in silence. I hadn't expected this. This could make everything so much easier for my family. A great cover up story and an escape route. Surly we wouldn't bail on our actions, but we could if we wanted to. All because one minor factor. A life saving factor. She didn't remember.

She didn't remember?

***

We hadn't spoken since the car ride. After another hour or so, the house had finialy come into view. Somewhere in that hour, the girl had drifted back to sleep, and I carried her up the grand Titanic themed double staircase to guest bedroom.

I was a huge fan of this house. Esme had decorated it in a very classical historic way. All the bedroom's resembled First class rooms of the titanic. We had a almost identical dining room and ball room, which were hardly ever used. This was one of our larger house, mansions if you prefer. Our largest house be far is one based on the southern "Gone with the wind" mansion. Esme is especially proud of that one.

I decided to take my bags and head to my room. What was special about this room was definitely my Piano. It was the same kind that the pianist had played on at my parents wedding. I had taken great time finding it. I spent many hours just getting lost in its keys.

After un-packing the few things I had brought, and tapping out a few songs, I headed to the kitchen to get some dinner for the girl.

I poked around the cabinets, realizing my family hadn't been here in several years therefore we had no food. Minus the fact we didn't eat. I should have stopped at a store on the way here.

If I remembered correctly the closest store was about 25 miles down the mountain, which most likely have several roads closed due to ice. I could just run out quickly, get something fast and bring it back for the girl, but with her timing she'd wake up and get freaked out over being alone.

"I wonder if anywhere delivers around here." I said to myself looking for a phone book but stopped when I remembered icy mountain. I then decided I would take my chances and run to the store rather than taking my car. I would be back in less than 10 minutes easily.

I grabbed my wallet from my room, and a winter jacket with gloves and a hat. I didn't like wearing all the extra layers but it was better than having every other person I saw asking me 'Aren't you freezing?'

On my way down the hall I stopped and peeked in the girls door. Still sound asleep. She looked so blissful and angelic. "Focus" I corrected myself and shut the door.

I made it to the front door, putting on my boots when I hears the crunching of gravel. I quickly pulled the door open reveling two headlights shining in the night. A person got out of the car and said

"You are one hard driver to follow."

***

Who is the person? o.O

Chapter sucks or chapter good? Let me know.

Also I think next update I'll have a little answer session at the bottom, so if you have any questions, hit me up now. Not that I won't still answer them later.

Oh one more side note, my spell check is broken =[ I think I turned it off somehow? But I tried my best with checking it so sorry if there is a fair amount of errors.