Caroline rushed out of her house the next day without so much as a backwards glance at her family. Instead, she simply offered a brief explanation for her quick departure. She couldn't pin-point the cause of her excitement. On the one hand she a date to meet Klaus for coffee, and on the other hand Klaus had information on the side of her family she never knew. The side of her family that has been smacking her in the face ever since she arrived in town. When Caroline arrived at the coffee shop Klaus was already there awaiting her arrival.

"I found these in the attic one day. The place was filled with family photo albums and trinkets." Klaus handed Caroline two items. "This is actually where I got my inspiration to do the piece. It was like it fell into my lap." Caroline careful regard the two journals.

"May I burrow these?" Caroline barely breathed out. She held in her hands the keys to her mothers past. One journal read property of Liz Flemming, and the other one read property of Izzy Flemming. These two journals would tell Caroline more about about her mother than anyone alive ever could. Journals, after all, were the one place a teenage girl could be free and honest.

Klaus responded quickly. "As far as I am concerned these are yours. Everything in that attic belongs to you."

"Its funny, I spent the whole of my life this far with my mother, and I move here and I learn she had a whole another life." Caroline confessed with out taking her eyes off the items. The face she made was clear; she was hurt that her beloved mother kept secrets from her.

"I know and that has me very curious. I mean why would your mother lie about having a sister, correction she didn't lie she kept you in the dark about her whole family. And then as the fates would have you move here, and it appears ever where you turn you are being slapped in the face with family history. It's kind of like an outside force brought you here. That is if you believed in that sort of thing." Klaus smiled at Caroline. She would make a very interesting subject.

Caroline had never felt more used she had thought that Klaus was a kindered spirits of sorts. "I am not a freak and my life is not for you to use so you can pass an art class." Caroline rushed away for the table.

Klaus threw a few bills down and quickly chased after her. "Thats not what I mean, and I certainly do no think that you are a freak. I find you interesting. You are the first person in this provincial little town that has not bored me to tears. I want to get to know you. I want you to get to know me. Take a chance Caroline."

Caroline relented. What was the harm in trusting Klaus anyway. "Do you believe in ghosts? Or that people can be haunted?"

"I believe that we have things in our past that follow us. Do you think that you are haunted by the past of your mother or by Izzy?" Klaus answered seriously.

"No I mean really haunted. I think that Izzy is haunting me." That was the first time that Caroline ever expressed her fear out loud.

Maybe involving Caroline was such a good idea, Klaus began to think. "Maybe I shouldn't involve you in this any further."

"No, no, " Caroline shook her head. "I need to immerse myself in this as much as possible, maybe then I can forget about it." Or she would leave me alone, Caroline thought to herself.

Klaus relented after looking into Caroline's eyes. How could anyone refuse her when she looked at them like that? "Alright, alright. You and I are going to make a deal here. " Klaus motioned between the two of the with his pointer finger. "You are going to promise me two things. The first is that you are not to go out on your own and do any investigating. We will do it together. The second that if at anytime I feel as though this is effecting you too much I alone reserve the right to end your participation." Caroline went to argue with him, but he was quick to cut her off. "These are non-negotiable."

Caroline thought things over chewing on her bottom lip. "Deal." The two shook on it. "So what do you know?"

"Honestly I know the basics. What I know I have gotten from old news paper clippings. Would you like to see them?"

"Sure."

"We can go to the library and get a private study room." Once they were along Klaus explain everything he knew. "Alright so here is the gist of the all the news paper clippings. I was able to find that Izzy's parents woke on Saturday morning to find that their eldest daughter was not in her room. Her bed was made and her room was neat, but they weren't surprised. Apparently she was very neat, and she often went out early. As the day passed their concern started to grow. When they hadn't heard from her by night fall they started to panic. Of course they had asked her sister, your mother, if she had seen her sister but she had spent the day with her boyfriend. They quickly started to call all of her friends but none had seen or heard from her since school on Friday. With their worst fears confirmed, their daughter was missing, they called the police. A search party was formed. The search lasted for days, but turned up nothing. They had tried to use search dogs to pick up her scent but they were useless."

Caroline had to interrupt him there. "Why were the dogs useless?"

"Izzy had grown up playing in the woods, and spent much of her time in town her scent was everywhere. Three different dogs came up with three different trails. They weren't able to find any freshly dug up soil, and the lake was drained - producing nothing. The official report has her listed as a runaway in spite of there being no reports that said that she was unhappy with her home life from either her family or friends. In fact many claimed that if she had left town she would have made contact with her mother or sister. Some were even adamant that if Izzy left then she didn't go by her own choice. The years came and went and no heard from her. She is a true mystery."