Chapter 5: On the Run

Nessie's POV

I rubbed the sleep from my eyes as my brain registered what he said. "Wait we are leaving?"

"Yes and we have to go right now. Otherwise my dad will come home and stop us,"

I shot out of bed as quickly as I could. I got dressed as fast as I could. It only took me a few seconds to do everything that would normally take a human a few minutes to do. I felt an odd sense of thrill again. Just like when I left school for the airport.

"Come on Nessie," I heard Ryan urge from the hallway.

"I'm done," I said as I opened the door. I smiled again when I saw him. The sight of him sent butterflies into my stomach. He grabbed my hand and led me down the hallway and out of the house. To the garage.

"You have a Mercedes Coupe?" I stood there in shock when I saw his car. Brand new I guessed from the lack of license plates. I'd wanted this car for awhile now. Only I wanted blue and this one was grey.

"Yeah it was a birthday gift from my parents. Well technically my dad since my mom had already vanished," he said sadly. He opened the passenger door for me. "Although my dad is probably going to regret giving me this car now," he sat down in the driver's seat and started the engine.

"Where is your dad?" I asked him.

"I'm not sure," he admitted. "I think he went down to the police station again. Don't really know why he thinks the police will be able to help. They're only humans after all,"

"Oh," I said. "So where are we going exactly?"

"Well right now we're apparently going to the gas station god damn it!" he growled. "I don't even have cash on me,"

"Don't worry I have a credit card," First the plane ticket and now a trip to the gas station. If I succeeded in saving my mother she was going to kill me for all these charges to her credit card. Her emergencies emergencies only credit card. While this did count as an emergency? Right? i certainly hoped so.

We pulled up to a Cheveron. Ryan jumped out of the car as quickly as he could. I handed him my credit card. He moved around impatiently. I could hear him quietly cursing about how slow the whole process was taking. I could feel my own nerves getting worked up. Like we could get caught at any minute.

"There that's done now lets go,"

We sped so fast out of there that I was barely aware of what was happening. My eyes nearly popped out of my head when I saw the speedometer at 110 miles per hour.

"Dude if you don't slow down we are going to get a ticket,"

"We can't slow down. Not at least until we're out of the city," he said.

I had to admit that I was loving the fast driving. Mom and Jacob wouldn't like it one bit but what they did not know would not hurt them. When I looked at Ryan I could see how stressed and worried he was.

"So how did your parents meet?" Out of all the questions that I could come up with why this one?

"You really want to know?"

"Sure why not?"

"My mom was hiking through the forest while my dad was hunting. My mother's scent attracted him but when he found her he couldn't bring himself to do it. He had killed a million times before but there was something about my mother that stopped him. Of course my mom, being human at the time, was attracted to him. My dad made up some bogus story about hiking out there. Then he asked her to meet him there again the next day at the same time," he explained. "Then he started asking her out on dates,"

"On dates? Like to restaurants?"

"Yeah my mom found it really odd that he never ate anything on their dates. She questioned him about it every time,"

"So how did she find out he was a vampire," I asked.

"When he saved her life. She was crossing the street when a drunk driver sped down the street. Dad ran to her and pushed her out of the way in time. Mom knew something was up because he was on the opposite side of the street only a second before. Then there were the dents in the guys car. Dad didn't tell her right away but she started investigating and researching on her own. She kind of figured it out on her own," he explained. "What about your parents?"

"I don't know," I answered honestly. "The only thing I know about my dad is that he didn't want me to be born. Neither my dad or anybody else on my dad's side of the family wanted me to be born. One of them was a doctor who wanted to force my mother into having an abortion. They all wanted to force my mom into aborting me. Well except for one aunt. My mom says I have one aunt who really wanted me to be born. She tried to help my mom. My mother ended up running away witnout anyone knowing. She waited for them all to go out hunting and she took advantage of their absence and left as quickly as she could.

"That's horrible. Why wouldn't they want you?"

"Because they thought I was purposely hurting my mom when she was pregnant with me,"

He sighed. "When my mom got pregnant with me my dad was extremely worried for my mom's health. He urged her to have an abortion as well. But when my mom refused he supported her. I'm glad he did,"

"You're lucky,"

"I'm sorry about your dad," he said. "But at least you have your mother," he said. "Well you know what I mean," he explained.

"It's okay. I love my mom and she loves me. That's all that matters," and Jacob. Of course there was Jacob. Jacob looked after me all of my life. He was always there. Then when my mom disappeared he became all that I had. I never understood why Jacob stayed around. I imagined he was very happy now that I was gone as well. He was no longer obligated to take care of me. Maybe he'd finally pay attention to the countless women who had been after him over the years.

Suddenly there were loud sirens behind us. "Oh God damn it," he cursed.

"So much for no cops being around," I said as we pulled over.

"Don't worry. In a few seconds you won't have any memory of this,"

"What are you-"

"Sir are you aware that you were driving three times the speed limit?"

"No I wasn't officer," Ryan lied so smoothly that it shocked even me."It was all a mistake, a misunderstanding. I wasn't speeding,"

"Oh," the cop said looking dazed. "I'm sorry for disturbing you,"

"Wow how did you do that?" I asked him as the cop pulled away.

"Do what?"

"Lie to the cop so convincingly that he actually believed you,"

"Nessie how did you know that?"

"Um because I watched you do it. Duh,"

"But you should've believed me to. When I lie everyone believes me. I can manipulate people's memories so they believe me when I lie. I inherited the talent from my dad. It should've worked on you too but it didn't. Why?"

I shrugged my shoulders."i don't know let's just get out of here before someone catches us," after all we were still on the run.

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