So the weekend didn't go well for me. It was all good right up until night time. Maybe it was meant to be. I laughed it off most of the time. It was now Monday morning and It was time to go back to school.

" You ready Mason." I heard Alice call up the stairs. My blazer was sitting on its own just waiting for me. No was the answer.

" Just coming." I said to her. One of the perks of being a vampire is that I could speak normally and someone across the other side of the house could hear me perfectly.

" Well i'm walki-" Alice began but stopped when I appeared in-front of her. She smiled softly at me. " I'm glad you're here. Off to school then." She said Talking my hand and rushing to the bus stop. Upon reaching it we caught up to the other who'd left before me and Alice. Jesse was standing with Andrew while Lauren and Anna were discussing what to do when they got into school. Also standing at the bus stop was Craig. Although he didn't live anywhere near here.

" What you doing here Craig?" I asked. He shifted his eyes a little and shrugged.

" Got a lift this far but still have to get the bus." He said. I gave him a sad look but turned back to Alice. She put a hand on my shoulder and smiled softly

" You OK. You don't want to let Friday events die down a little. Its only natural?" She asked.

" No" I said firmly. " It will be worse if I don't go."

" But if you're sure." She said again. I only nodded to her. Thirty minutes later we were standing at the usual back of the school. Not taking much. We really were pushing it by standing still for so long. Humans would notice. Alice was next to me and had her head on my shoulder. I couldn't help but feel relaxed with her their. Words really couldn't explain it.

" In my two hundred years. Iv never felt so at ease." Alice sighed to herself. I instinctively put an arm around her and laughed a little. Just then I heard my name from outside being used.

" I'll be but a second." I said to her and she nodded. I jumped down the stairs to see Patrick laughing. But when their eyes fell upon me, silence ensued. " So … What's all this about then. Care to share." I said. My voice was very close to a growl. Instead of the normal laugh and pointing at me, I got silence and scared gazes back. I must look really angry.

" Mason Cameron." Came an old voice came from the door.

" Yes." I said turning. The Secretary of the school was standing there.

" Your wanted in the meeting room." She read the shock on my face. " Nothing bad dear just someone wanting to see you. I think he said he was your uncle or something." she turned and left without another word. How could that be my uncle. I had no uncle for crying out loud.

" Sorry guys Id best be off." I went up the stairs and as soon as I was through the door Alice, Lauren, and Jesse joined me.

" You don't have an uncle and how does anybody know your here." I mimicked her concern in my face as I stared at her. We walked in silence to the meeting room which was in the student support area. I could see through the glass windows and shock took over me. Enough shock that I felt my eyes on the verge of turning vampire. There sitting in the seat was the same vampire I saw back in America that was behind Damon.

" No they couldn't have-."

" QUIET ALICE. They can hear you." As I said it the mans face turned up and he looked at us.

" Their here." Were the only words he said and If my heart was pumping, it would have been dead now from who I just saw taking a step away from the curtains. That smile and the black hair. Damon. He stood their smiling at us and then waved. Nothing could have prepared me, all of us for this. We were free and had a new life. How did they find us here. His smile disappeared from his face.

" Lets go." He told the other vampire and he stood up and went for the door.

" Go now." I said to the others. If there were any humans paying close attention to us then all suspicions of what we were would have been confirmed because of the speed we ran down the Biology corridor and then at full speed once we got out. Within a millisecond we were at the music school and we jumped as far as we could from their to stop our scent allowing them to find us. We all landed on the hills just outside Edinburgh and looked back. Nothing but air between the school and us.

" GET DOWN." Alice shouted and she pushed me and Lauren into the ground so our head were the only thing really visible. We saw Damon coming past the maths door heading for the music department with four other vampires at his side. He stopped were we had jumped.

" Please, please, please." Jesse mumbled. The vampires all spread out trying to find a scent but to no avail.

" Wait till they turn around then." Alice turned to Lauren. " Run back to your house. We will have to be fast in getting the essentials but just some clothes and our credit cards." we all nodded. The vampires looked about for a further thirty seconds before they started to head back and we all ran as fast as we could back to the house. I grabbed my wallet and put some clothes in a bag and then got my phone and went to the door. Alice came close behind me and the others came but they were holding nothing. They were doing quite the opposite of being quick. Jesse was just staring out the window while Anna who was speechless was walking around the house.

" What are they-"

" No time. Here take this." She handed both me and Alice envelopes and pushed us out the door.

" Run. Its been nice meeting you but I don't want you both to die so run. Please." I nodded and Alice quickly hugged Lauren and we both set off south and ran again at full speed. I couldn't explain the feeling of anguish and pain. We didn't know where we were going but we just kept on going as fast as we could. What would Damon do to the others after he eventually came to their house. God forbid he kills them. If he does then it would be our fault for going their.

" The next place we go we cant stay their for long." Alice shouted as we ran. " Two days at max. if they found us after a week then we need to through them off more than last time." I could only nod to her. I was overwhelmed by them finding us in the first place. Someone must have given away our position on told them where we were. But there was no one that could have told them. Then I thought, what about the guy that stopped us in princess street last week when we got here. How could he know that we were vampires. Damon couldn't have known we would have come here as well. And why would he track two vampires how are running across continents I mean we're not that important.

" Lets stop here." Alice said. We were just at the bottom of Britain and looking over the English channel.

" Open the note Lauren gave you."

" She gave you one too." I remembered this and rummaged my pockets until I found it. I pulled it out and there was a small paragraph on it

Alice and Mason. If your reading this then the worst has come and you have either been found by the Officials or your secret of being vampires has gotten out. In any of these cases I want you both to go to my Great, Great Nieces . She will take care of you for some time. I advise you to keep moving but I'm sure Alice will have already thought of that by now. Don't worry about us, we will be fine. Just keep yourselves safe. I don't know if you both know why he's after you in particular but words can't explain but I'm sure you'll both find out. Word spreads fast. Take care and we wish you the best. Go to this address

Number 4 Rue Louis Notari

Monte Carlo - Monaco

France

I Read the note over again. I new first of all we were going to Monaco and we were to go to her Nieces. What I didn't get was what she meant by words cant explain why he's after us in particular. There wasn't anything special about us so to speak.

" What does yours-" she cut me off.

" The same."

" What does she mean. After us in particular. Were not different than any other vampires are we." Alice shook her head but was obviously as astounded as me.

" Well we might as well follow her advice. Do you know were Monaco is?" I new basic geography and it was in France and roughly in the south. I looked at her.

" Maybe we should get a map, just in case." She shook her head.

" Well we need to cross that." She pointed at the channel. " Then get to Monaco and find Lauren's niece." I couldn't smile at her. I only jumped in the water and she followed. Not ten minutes later we were at the Paris bookstore.

" bon- après midi que je peux aider." The assistant chirped as we walked in. I new French and she just asked if we needed any help. I glanced quickly round to see any maps but I couldn't see any.

" pourriez-vous avoir la gentillesse de nous indiquer à la section de carte s'il vous plaît." Alice didn't understand much of what I said I think. She could speak Spanish and Latin but not French.

" Ah. I'm hearing British accent there yes." The woman said and smiled.

" Oh I never new you could speak English." I replied a bit grateful knowing Alice could understand me and her now.

" Yes I speak it quite fluently. The maps are up the stairs and at the window facing the street. Exactly above us." Her English was heavily doused in the French tone. I smiled at her and walked past her for the stairs

Alice tapped me as we went up the stairs. She wasn't happy

" just grab it, pay for it and lets go. We're hanging about too long and I'm not to sure we should be doing that." I nodded at her and quickened my pace. I wasn't going to let anything happen to us. Especially her. As much as it shocked me. I was starting to grow closer to Alice. More and more I felt I wanted to protect her and not let anything happen to her.

" I'll just get this one." I said quickly to her and picked up a small map of France. I could clearly see Monaco on it and it was near the south end of France.

" I'm really sorry." I said to Alice as I picked it up. Not looking at her. I could almost sense the change in her mood.

" Sorry for what-"

" Don't say that. You know what."

She sighed and pulled my face to look at hers. Her golden eyes seamed to go on forever. " Now listen to me. You have to be sorry for nothing. Absolutely nothing. You did nothing wrong."

" But if it weren't for me, we wouldn't be running all over the world trying to avoid that guy and all his vampire friends. Its my fault that we're here right now. Its my fault that I put you in danger." Alice stood there and let me get it all out. " Dom hates me because i'm a vampire. I haven't seen my father or sister since we were in America. They could have been killed for all I know. And all this wouldn't have happened if I wasn't turned into a vampire." I felt the tears start to trickle down my cheeks. I realized the truth in my words as I said them. Alice put both her hands on my cheeks and stared into my eyes. I couldn't help but relax a little.

" Listen to me Mason. You have done nothing wrong. Was it you who choose to hunt us down over continents. No it was Damon. Was it you who choose to swear our deaths. No it was Damon. It is all his doing." She pulled me into a hug and I heard her sniff a little. She must have been crying a little. " You will never be wrong in my eyes."

" Thank you." I said to her. I would stand there forever with her in my arms. But I knew it not to be so. We had to be at Monaco as fast as possible. I pushed out of her hug and she reluctantly let go but she had a pout on her face. " We should move. Remember what Lauren said." She nodded and I grabbed the map. We paid for it and left without a backward glance.