Chapter 7: Hotel

Nessie's POV

We didn't stop driving until we reached the California/Oregon border. The area where both of our mom's had gone missing. It was an eerie feeling. I wish my mother would've stayed close to home. Why did she feel the need to venture out so far to go hunting anyway? I would never understand.

"So where do we start investigating?" I asked Ryan.

"We can ask around. See who might know something,"

"But how when we didn't even bring pictures our them to show people?"

"Damn!" he yelled. "I didn't even think about that,"

"Look why don't we go to a hotel for now and get some rest. We've been driving all night. I think some sleep will do us both good,"

"Yeah you're probably right," he agreed.

It did not take long for us to find a hotel. It was a small town with only one hotel. Which thankfully was not completely booked with people. I took a deep breath when I handed the employee my credit card. If my mother was still alive then she would definitely kill me when she received the credit card bill I was wracking up here.

"Why do you look so tense Nessie?" Ryan asked me.

"Just thinking of all the ways my mom can murder me when she gets the credit card bill,"

He laughed. "Don't worry I will protect you,"

"Thanks for your generous offer but you're only half vampire. Like me. My mother's a full vampire,"

"Well then I will die trying,"

I couldn't help but laugh. It felt weird to laugh again. I hadn't done so in many months but it felt really good to laugh now.

As soon as we got up to our room my anxiety started to fade. The first thing I realized when we got to the room was that there was only one bed. When we were reserving the room we didn't think to ask if if it had one bed or two.

"I'll take the sofa," Ryan immediately offered.

"No you can have the bed. I will take the sofa,"

"No Renesmee," he shook his head. "What kind of a gentleman would I be if I let you sleep on the sofa?"

I blushed. "Well what kind of a girl would I be if I I allowed you to sleep on the sofa when you just spent the whole night driving?"

"Nessie-"

"Look I have a really crazy borderline insane idea. Why don't we just share the bed?"

"You want to share the bed? Are you sure you're comfortable with that?"

"I'm fine with it. I don't think you're dangerous. If I thought you were crazy I wouldn't have even gone on this adventure with you,"

"Wow," he said. "Maybe you are crazy. After all you trusted me after just barely meeting,"

"Yeah maybe I am crazy. But I like crazy. Sanity is kind of boring," I laughed. "Or maybe it's a hybrid thing. You seem a little crazy yourself. Going off with a girl you barely know. You do realize that just because I'm a female it doesn't make me any less like to be some psycho killer, right?"

"Okay. Fair point," he laughed. "So let's agree on one thing. We are both equally crazy, okay?"

"Agreed,"

"You are one of the most interesting girls I have ever met,"

"Funny. I can say the same about you. Well I mean that you're one of the most interesting boys that I have ever met,"

"Oh come on. Surely you have had plenty of attention from other guys," he commented.

"Having attention from guys and actually liking said guys are two totally different things. Surely you would know that. Looking like a younger Liam Hemsworth has to have gotten a lot of unwanted girl attention,"

"You think I look Liam Hemsworth?"

"Out of all things I just said that's what stuck out to you?"

"Um yeah. By that logic I can say you look a younger Kristen Stewart," he laughed. I blushed because I knew he was right. Sometimes I wondered if my mom and I were actually related to that actress.

"So do you go to school?" I asked.

"Yeah I do. And yes I did get a lot of unwanted attention from the girls there. None of them even remotely interested me,"

"I wasn't going to ask about all that but that is good to know,"

"You trying to size up your competition or what?" he said. "Because I'm here to tell you. You don't have any competition," I'm pretty sure my face was more red than an apple by that point.

"So do you want to watch a movie or something?" he asked.

"I thought the plan was to get some sleep for now?"

"That's why I want to watch a movie. Movies usually put me to sleep,"

"Really? Some movie date you are,"

He laughed.

We turned the TV and within minutes we both fell asleep. No movie needed. I woke up before he did a few hours later. I could hear him snoring softly. I was hungry so I thought I'd go into town to get some food and bring it back. I left him a note just in case I got back before he woke up.

I walked to a pizza place that I had seen on our way to the hotel. It was when I was walking back to the hotel that something strange happened. I was walking by the hospital when I heard someone say "Bella,"

At first I ignored it. Thinking that whoever it was, was talking to someone else. Not me,"

"Bella,"

Then suddenly an ice cold hand grabbed my shoulder. Stopping me in my tracks. I dropped the pizza in shock. I turned around and found myself face to face with a blond man with golden eyes. His gold eyes told me he was a vegetarian vampire like my mother. He was dressed like a doctor. Could a vampire work at a hospital?

"Bella?" he repeated. "Is it really you?"

Then it hit me. He thought I was my mother. He used to know my mom. I looked at him. His eyes were full of hope.

I shook my head. "No. I'm her daughter. Did you know my mom?"

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