"I totally got to the top first." Emmett kept going on. He and Jasper decided to have a contest on who can climb to the top of Big Ben and I was dragged along to be the judge. It was close but Jasper's fingers hit the small flag set up next to me a second earlier then Emmett's. Of course being the sore loser Emmett was still trying to claim victory.

"Keep saying that but Edward declared me winner so there." Jasper smirked as we entered the apartment. He went straight to Alice, who was researching fashion for new designs, and wrapped his arms around her. Carlisle and Esme were watching T.V. and Emmett was looking for Rosalie. Coming up empty he turned to the two. "Where's Rose?"

"She said she wanted to go for a walk. That was about an hour ago so she should be back soon." Esme replied. Not a minute later she came bursting in with a disbelief look. Her mind was racing with different thoughts but I was concerned when I saw Claudia in a few of them. "You are not going to believe this."

"What is it?" Carlisle asked as we all turned our focus to her. Emmett wrapped her arms around her waist in a protective way. "I know why we can't remember Claudia." Her mind became more focused and she replayed the night in her head. I froze.

"Mind erase?" I breathed.

She nodded. "Claudia erased our minds." My family gasped. "Apparently something happened in the past between us and she erased our memories. That's why we can't remember anything about her but proves she had some connection to us and I think the connection was Edward."

"That explains a lot." Esme said after a moment of silence. But what happened?

But then in Rose's head another scene played that really made me stiff.

"Did you love him?"

"I never stopped."

My eyes looked up at her as she nodded. "She's in love with you."

Now my family really was going at it that Jasper kept releasing his gift and making us calm though he too was bouncing with feelings. Even this made my vampire knees weak and I fell on to the couch as Esme touched my shoulder.

"And from the picture, you may have loved her back." Rosalie continued.

Claudia loved me? And I loved her? So much emotion was going through me. Shock, confusion, happiness, relief as I began piecing things together. That explains the picture and our expressions; that explains the lack of memory. And then anger and hurt; if we were in love, why did she make me forget her? Did something happen between us? Did one of us fall out of love? A feeling of calm came next.

"I know this is a lot but before jumping to conclusions we should hear her side." Jasper spoke, seeming uncomfortable with all my emotions. I gave him an apologetic smile.

"Jasper's right," Carlisle said. "At least let us get the answers we need before doing anything." I could not argue with him so I nodded my head and it went silent. At least their mouths were silent but their heads were another thing.

So Eddie boy actually had a girl?

An interesting gift of erasing minds. What else does this strange breed do?

I hope we can figure this out for Edward's sake. Maybe..just maybe..

Let's hope everything works out. My vision isn't changing so I am worried what happened to lead to that.

Poor Edward.

She's a tough cookie, but she's crumbling. Tonight seemed like a wakeup call to her.

I went to my room to block them out and pulled out the photo, laying on my bed. The girl in the photo; I almost saw her today in Rosalie's mind. The cold-hearted Claudia I had met was different from the defeated one Rose saw today. Could we really have been like what my family was? In love?

But what happened? What was so bad that not even I, a vampire, could have protected her from? Or did we fall out and she didn't want us to remember her? I sighed with frustration. No matter how much I thought of the name Claudia it just didn't seem to match the brown hair girl.

What angered me the most was that if it was so, why did I let the first person whom I may have had the first ever feelings of love for, slip away? Just staring at the picture, her innocent smile, made my frozen heart seem to beat again.

Alice's vision came back in my mind and still made me shudder with fear. Just watching her, lying on the ground and ready for death, whispering something unclear, gave me the chills. I couldn't let her die, I wouldn't let her die.

Sitting up I made a promise to myself. Being in love was such a foreign feeling for me but if there was ever a time I felt it, just for a moment, I was going to get it back. I will find out what happened between Claudia and I, I will protect her for my sake.

I looked at the clock to see it was three in the morning. Three years. After three years, I will know everything.