Tomorrow morning we would be heading out for New York. The small U-haul trailer was packed and ready to go. We had mapped out the route that we would take on Mapquest, and it told us that it was approximately a 45 hour drive and over 2800 miles. We decided to make three overnight stops on the way. One in Billings, MT (12hours from Seattle), Sioux Falls, SD (10 hours from Billings), Chicago, IL (10 hours from Sioux Falls), and finally to New York City (12 hours from Chicago).

I couldn't sleep. I was too nervous and excited. I was using Edward for a pillow and was playing with the hem of his shirt. Maybe I should get up and take some cold medicine to help me sleep. I was not going to be any use to anyone if they wanted me to drive at all tomorrow. I sat up and slipped out of bed and padded into the bathroom. I went through the medicine cabinet and all of the drawers and couldn't find anything close to cold medicine or PM pain reliever. So I just took a drink of water and headed back to the bedroom.

Edward had shifted in his sleep to his stomach and had kicked off all of the covers. I stood there for a minute and watched him sleep. Tomorrow we were heading out together to fulfill one of his biggest dreams. I knew that he was excited and I was happy that I would be able to share it with him.

I crawled back onto the bed and started to straighten out the blankets and pull them back over the top of both of us.

"Are you Ok?" He whispered to me in the dark.

"Yeah, I just can't sleep. I'm too hyped up for tomorrow, you know?" I said as I laid down facing him.

He shifted onto his side. "I know what you mean. I can't relax either."

"You looked pretty relaxed a minute ago." I brushed his hair out of his eyes. "I'm sorry I woke you."

"I wasn't really asleep. Scoot over here." I moved closer and turned so that my back was too him. He put his arm around me and buried his face into my neck. I held his hand to my chest. A few minutes later we finally both found sleep.

"Rise and shine sleepyheads!" Emmett boomed marching into Edward's bedroom and jumping up on the bed. "You know what happens today?" He said still shouting. "ROAD TRIP!"

I looked at the clock on the nightstand. 5:00AM. It was still dark outside. Edward and I both groaned.

"It has already begun." Edward mumbled to himself and rolled his eyes.

"We are leaving at six. You two get ready." He said pointing at both of us.

We took turns showering and packed the last of our things into the suitcases that we were using for the trip. I had an extra bag for in the car with our iPods, playing cards, the Nintendo DS's that Emmett got for all of us so that he could 'school' us in Mario Kart, and a couple of books.

Dressed and ready to go we headed downstairs for breakfast. We got to the kitchen and were surprised to see Esme cooking for all of us, and Carlisle at the table reading the paper. It looked like he had just gotten home from the hospital because he was still dressed in surgical scrubs.

We ate and put our suitcases in the trailer that was already hooked up to Emmett's Jeep. I grabbed the pillows off of Edward's bed and a blanket. I was planning on going back to sleep once we were on the road.

The six of us were standing in the driveway saying our goodbyes when Alice and Jasper pulled up.

"We couldn't let you guys leave without saying goodbye!" Alice yelled from the car window.

Alice ran up and hugged me with all of her strength I think. "I'm going to miss you so much." She cried. "You have to call me everyday."

"I will Alice. I promise." I sobbed into her shoulder. "I'm going to miss you too. You have to come and visit soon."

"I will." She said holding onto my shoulders and looking me in the eye. Then she turned to Edward. "You take care of my little Bella Ok?" He nodded and she attacked him with a hug around his waist.

She hugged Emmett and Rose too even though they would be back in a little more than a week. Jasper said his goodbyes as well but with much less enthusiasm than Alice.

I hugged Esme and Carlisle and thanked them for letting me stay over the summer. Esme had tears in her eyes.

We all looked between Edward and his parents. I could see his internal struggle in his eyes. He just stood there at first, his mind working overtime, before he marched out and put his arms around his mother.

Esme instantly reacted by hugging tight to Edward. They stayed in the embrace for a few minutes and all was quiet except for Esme's sobs.

Edward pulled out of the embrace and kissed his mother on the cheek. He didn't say anything; he just wiped his eyes with the palm of his hand.

"Son." Carlisle started. Edward tensed up and his face turned serious. "I understand that this move and this school are what you have wanted since you were a child. Though it is not what I have wanted for you, or what I think would be best for you, but I can see that this is what will make you happy. Believe it or not, I want you to be happy. So with that I want you to go and do your best and I wish you luck. Just remember that you always have a home here, and that I love you." Carlisle reached out to give his son an awkward one armed hug.

Edward's face scrunched up a little and I could see the tears threatening to spill out of his eyes. "Thanks Dad." He whispered.

"Honey we have something for the both of you." Esme said running back into the house and reappearing just seconds later.

She handed us each a small box that was wrapped in 'congratulations' paper. We opened them and found that we now were both cell phone owners.

"We charged them up and they should be ready to go. We all have programmed everyone's number in there already. Now you will not have any reason not to call us."

"Thank you so much for this." I said hugging both Carlisle and Esme again.

We loaded up into the Jeep and headed out towards the freeway. I curled up next to Edward in the backseat and covered both of us with the blanket.

I woke up a couple of hours later to find that we were still in Washington, and a sour face on Edward.

"What's wrong?" I asked him.

"Nothing."

"Oh he's just pissy because I wanted to stop and look at the 'view point' when we went through the Cascades. It was breathtaking. Rose, show her the pictures on the camera." Emmett said.

Rose reached back and handed me the digital camera. There were pictures of the view from the mountains and a picture of Rose beneath a sign that said "View Point-Cascade Mountains: elevation something or other" I couldn't read it from the glare on the camera.

"Did you see these?" I asked Edward.

"I saw the real thing. I saw it for twenty minutes." He growled.

I looked at him with my eyebrows raised.

"You won't look at me like that once we have stopped at every view point, every historical landmark, and have taken all of the 'scenic routes' across the country. We'll be lucky if we make it to New York this week."

"SLUGBUG!" Emmett shouted startling everyone and punched Rose in the arm.

"Emmett Cullen! You did not just hit me in the arm." Rose yelled holding her the spot that Emmett slugged her.

"But it was a 'Slugbug'." Emmett pouted. "It's a game sweetheart."

"It's a game that we will not be playing." She said glaring at him.

"Thank God." Edward said.

Another hour into the ride we all decided to stop and get lunch at a diner on the side of the road.

Once back on the road, Emmett hooked up his iPod to the car stereo. Much to Edward's dismay, Emmett's iPod was full of Rap and R&B songs, and Emmett sang along to all of the lyrics.

I tried to distract Edward from the horrible sounds coming from the front seat by playing the DS's that we brought. It worked. Edward was too competitive for his own good, and it was driving him crazy that he couldn't beat me.

"I win…again! Even though I got hit by three 'blue shells'" I said sticking my tongue out at him before the next race began.

"Rainbow Road! Ooh pretty!" I said smiling hugely because I knew Edward hated this track because his car always managed to fall off the edge into space.

I paused the game because Edward's frown was too cute and I had to kiss it off of him.

"Ack! None of that back there. I don't want to watch you two make out all the way to New York!" Emmett shouted to us.

That just made Edward smile and kiss me again. "Keep your eyes on the road or you might miss 'The World's Biggest Ball of Twine' or something stupid." He laughed.

"Just wait little brother. That is on the way you know and I am not going to miss it."

We had left Seattle at six in the morning and it was now eight at night. Fourteen hours after we left home. This first day was supposed to only take twelve hours, but with Emmett's sight seeing and need for food every two hours it took longer than expected. We pulled into Billings, MT and checked into our hotel. We had just booked one room with two beds. The place was full.

After dinner we made it back into the room and just wanted to crash into bed. I talked Edward into swimming with me in the hotel's heated pool. I know that I needed some exercise after being cooped up in the back seat of a car for fourteen hours. Plus I thought it would be good for Edward to work out some of his frustrations with Emmett with exercise.

We went back to the room and changed into some pajamas. Emmett and Rose were already in bed with pillows propping them up against the headboard watching TV.

Edward and I climbed into the other bed and switched off the light on our side. I snuggled into Edward's side and closed my eyes.

I woke up in what seemed a few hours later sweating and found that Edward had kicked off all of the blankets and was just lying there in just his boxers. I swear he went to bed in pajama pants and a t-shirt. Then I heard the loudest snore ever coming from the bed beside us.

I sat up wiping my forehead of sweat and looked down at Edward.

"It's fucking hot in here." He groaned.

"Let's turn on the AC. I can't sleep like this." I whispered back to him.

"I know. It was on, but Emmett must have turned it off. I swear he's just as bad as an old lady."

I crawled out of bed to find the switch for the AC. "I can't see anything." I said feeling around on the wall.

The next thing I knew the light was on and Edward was at the temperature controls with a smirk on his face.

"What are you guys doing? Turn off the light and go back to bed." Emmett whisper yelled so that he wouldn't wake Rose. He looked pissed.

The AC kicked on and I clicked off the light. Edward and I crawled back into bed.

"Now I might not get back to sleep you jerks." Emmett whined. "You made it too cold in here."

"Just let us get to sleep first please. Your snoring is too loud." Edward snipped back. "And it is not too cold."

"I do not snore."

"Be quiet." We both said at the same time.

The next morning and a few Egg Mc Muffins later we were back on the road. Emmett started singing "99 bottles of Beer on the Wall" and we all groaned.

Only twelve more hours to our next stop.