We followed Riley on the freeway and we were somewhere in Idaho by the time we were exiting off and he left us to a small restaurant.

"What better way than to bond over food, don't worry I'm paying" Riley grinned. Bella stayed closed to me and held onto my arm as we entered the nice restaurant. It wasn't that busy so the hostess found a table for three very easily and quickly.

"Can we have our bread and water now?" Riley asked as we were handed our menus. We were seated in a booth seat with table and chairs on the other side. Bella sat close to me in the booth and Riley sat on the other side of the table in his chair.

"I'm Riley Biers" Riley smiled at Bella. She looked at him hesitantly before taking it and shaking it.

"Bella Swan, I'm with him" She said softly. Riley raised a brow at me and looked to Bella.

"With him eh?" Riley grinned. I rolled my eyes.

"Not that way asshole" I growled. I wasn't even sure how much I liked her. All I knew is that I liked Bella more than a friend but had no balls to do anything yet.

"I would like to cut the fucking chase now if that's okay" I said changing the subject and Bella flinched from my harsh tone. She was still on edge from what happened moments ago and the shaky scared feeling hasn't worn off yet.

"Anthony, before I start I want you to think for a moment. Do you remember me at all?" He asked me. It was foreign to me to hear my real name but it was a good tingly feeling and it made me feel happier with the decision to leave that dinky town.

"Riley to be honest, I don't remember much from Chicago. It was too painful to remember when I first got to Forks so I stopped. Most of the memories are dull and most of them are my parents. The trauma kind of scared them away so it's hard to remember and recognize faces or places. I'm sorry; do you have any memories you can tell me?" I asked. Riley's face fell a little and he pulled a few photos out of his pocket and laid them on the table. I reached out with my free hand and picked them up to study them. The first was my family in our small suburban home. I appeared to be one or two years old and there were three men lying on the ground with me. They had different colored plastic balls and I recognized Riley in the middle between my father and a man I recognized as my father's close friend.

"You've known me my whole life?" I asked staring at the picture. Bella leaned in to take a closer look and she smiled for the first time since she saw Riley shoot those two men.

"Yes. Your father and I went to medical school together. We met in one of our classes and became fast friends and stayed friends since obviously since I'm in that picture" He smiled.

"You were an adorable child" Bella complimented and smiled at the picture. I chuckled and nudged her.

"Thanks" I said and moved on to the next picture. The next picture was me as a little kid maybe 7 or 8, and I was dressed up in a makeshift costume and I had a paper plate with cut out eye holes and mouth holes strapped onto my face. Riley stood behind me with his hands on my shoulders and a woman crouched down next to me.

"My wife Bree; we babysat you that night because your mom and dad went out for the night. You wanted to dress up like a super hero and we didn't have anything for you so Bree had the idea to make your costume from house hold stuff" Riley commented as I stared at the woman in the picture with curiosity.

"Do you remember making compilations on your piano?" Riley asked and I nodded. My mother and I sat at the piano as Riley knelt down beside me and pointed to the keys and I appeared to be a little toddler. I loved playing that piano. My mother played and she taught me how. It was our bonding time so to speak and I vaguely remember Riley being there to help me as well.

"I remember that piano. I was in love with the damn thing" I chuckled. Riley smiled sadly.

"Yeah we couldn't get you off it for the longest time. Do you still play?" He asked. I shook my head.

"Oh. Your mother would love to hear that you still do since you guys did it together" He answered. I stared at the picture and looked up to Riley.

"What happened to my parents Riley?" I asked. He ripped off a piece of the breadstick I wasn't aware the waiter had brought and sighed.

"Your father is a brilliant man. I respect him a lot. He was a respectable person in general. Everyone loved him, and he was an easy person to like. A year before this commotion happened, a man named James Denali and his wife Victoria moved to Chicago and he was transferred to the hospital your dad and I worked at. The three of us became fast friends and he was soon coming to family friend functions and at get together it was Carlisle, James and I and the wives Esme, Bree, and Victoria and then there was you. You served as everyone's son in a way, which is why I'm so shocked he would do this" Riley said frustrated. He told the waiter to just keep bringing in light appetizers so he wouldn't be interrupted.

"Who?" Bella asked meekly. He sighed and ran a hand through his hair.

"James. James was jealous of your dad because you know his reputation to be an outstanding doctor, everyone knew him, and he was just a really likable person. He was the person most doctors wanted to be and that sometimes was overwhelming for him. James tried to be him and you know take the spotlight but once your dad discovered a new method for heart failure and it worked on a lot of our heart failure patients the spotlight was once again on him. I guess James just couldn't take it. He started lashing out and stopped arriving at parties and barbeques and we stopped seeing him.

"What an asshole" Bella said listening intently. She leaned into me and concentrated on what Riley said.

"James is an asshole. It only got worse when your dad became friends with other doctors he met at a convention in LA where doctors from the top hospitals in the country came to share ideas and shit. He was talking with an oncologist Dr. Boon about cancer and then James came up with the idea to make a medicine that guaranteed to put patients into remission and stay in remission. The three flew out to Boon's hospital and I remember James and Carlisle went back and forth between there and here. One day it paid off. Boon was on the verge of figuring out the medicine and James decided to take over. It was like a complicated math equation. James made the formula and Carlisle used it to solve the medicine and get the right solution. He solved the medicine and perfected it all while getting all the credit for Carlisle stayed there for about a month testing it on patient's and figuring out that it worked. Boon allowed him to take all the credit because truthfully, he deserved it. And it pissed James off to no end." Riley said taking sips of his water. Bella was on the edge of her seat, really paying attention and captivated with what Riley was saying.

"In James's mind he made the formula and he deserved all the credit. He thought that Carlisle was getting too pigheaded and cocky. According to other doctors James had been telling them that Carlisle stole the idea from him and is mocking him with the attention he's been getting. In truth, James was jealous of the fame and fortune Carlisle was getting with the new discovery. Instead of being happy for our friend and the happy fortunate patients getting this medicine, James was thinking of what's in it for him. Like the fame and fortune, everything. One day when Carlisle was out of town visiting Boon and the cancer patients, James asked me if I wanted to help take out Carlisle. He thought he was getting too much power around the hospital and he was a cheating and lying bastard that needed to get taken out. I told him no he's my best friend and if he tried anything I would get law enforcements involved. In my mind I guess I thought James would never go through with it, he would cower out of it and just forget it. I was wrong." Riley said quietly. Bella gasped and I felt my blood boil. How can someone who had been like a family member to us be so deceiving and evil? It was his fault I wasn't with my parents. It's his fault I was stuck in this fucking CPS system. I hated James. The thought of him alone wanted me to go shoot him with Riley's gun.

"What does that have to do with me in this fucking CPS shit?" I asked. He took a deep breath and looked to me.

"What I'm about to tell you is pretty shocking, and I promise you I take no part in this. I can never do that to you, or your dad or your mom. When I told James no he went to other doctors all around the country and came to them with the idea to take your father out most of them agreed." He said angrily and started bunching up his table cloth. Bella sighed softly from beside me and leaned her face into my arm. She said up a little straighter to where her mouth was at my ear.

"I'm so sorry about all of this, but I'm with you all the way" She whispered. I held her closer in response and she snuggled in.

"So those dirty cops decided to take my whole fucking family out or what?" I asked. Riley shook his head.

"That wasn't their intention but it played out that way. They first took your mother and told her that if she didn't help them with my father than they were going to hold you hostage. She knew them all on a friendly level and thought they would never have the balls to do it. She refused and went on with life as if nothing happened. She of course told your father but he advised to not listen to them. After a while it died down and we were all off edge and able to live life normally. That's when they struck. A group of 200 doctors got together with the same beliefs James had and wanted to take out your dad. They started threatening friends, distant family in Europe, people who you interacted with on a daily basis. The cops were involved and on the day you came home from school was the day they took your mother and took her to some area in the country in order to get you and your dad. That's when Jenks came to you about this and had to keep in you hiding in order for this to die down, which unfortunately never happened. As of right now there are over 200 doctors who are very unhappy with your dad and the rest of them have been killed for siding with your dad, some have bee held hostage like your dad, others just went into hiding and moved from Chicago to protect their families; like Bree and I for example. Edward this is getting really bad really fast. The police can't seem to control this and we seem to have figured out some dirty cops being paid off by James to keep this quiet and under wraps to not do anything about it. This has gotten very dirty very quickly." Riley said. I was trying to fathom what has been said to me but I couldn't my mind came up blank from the shock that was taking over and it was just a lot to take in.

"What should we do?" I asked. He sighed and stood up leaving two twenties on the table. How generous.

"You're coming with me to Montana where Bree and I have set up shop. It'll take a day to get there but just trust me. I promise I won't let anything bad happen to you" Riley said once we were outside of the restaurant.

"Okay I trust you but just know that if anything happens, I won't hesitate to do something" I said. He nodded and got into his little Lexus while Bella and I headed towards the bike. I climbed on and handed her the extra helmet but she never put it on.

"Bella come on we have to get going" I said. She bit her lip in that cute innocent way and looked to me.

"Are you okay Edward? That was a lot to take in" She said looked at me. I looked to the ground and looked back up at her.

"I'm fine Bella, I promise you. I'll be fine" I said sternly looking into her eyes. She blinked once and nodded.

"Okay" She said giving me a small smile and wrapping her arms around me. It was a small comfort hug and god did I need some of that. When I pulled away she gave me a soft kiss on the check before putting her helmet on and sliding in behind me.

"Just follow me" Riley yelled from his car and sped off. I sped off after him and he led us onto a highway where I knew I'd be driving for hours.

Riley was right. It would day a day to go to the house and it was eleven at night when he pulled into a motel. He paid for everything and made sure our cars were hidden so no one in this sketchy area would find us.

"We'll arrive sometime tomorrow and we'll figure everything out then. As for now, get some sleep, take a shower, and get ready for tomorrow. We'll get breakfast early tomorrow so don't' be pissed off when I come over pounding on your door to wake you kids up. Oh I almost forgot no monkey business." He winked before walking out of our room.

"He's nice" Bella commented and I chuckled rolling my eyes.

"Yeah a total charmer" I replied and yawned. She made a face at me and pushed me in the direction of the bathroom.

"Go take a shower and after we can go to bed. I'm exhausted" She yawned and laid on the bed. I chuckled and decided to take a quick shower it didn't relax me like I had hoped and I cut it short. When I got out Bella was out on my bed and I chuckled before getting dressed. I lay next to her watching some TV before she faced me and yawned.

"Someone named Jasper and Emmett called you" She said through her yawn handing me my phone.

"Oh shit!" I exclaimed and quickly called them back. I felt like a bastard for forgetting him.

"Hello?" Jasper answered on the third ring. As much as I didn't want to talk to him, I knew I had to.

"Hey Jasper" I sighed. Bella mumbled something and curled into my side in a small ball pulling the blanket closer to her and cocooning herself all while cuddling into my side. It made me chuckle and she pressed her check to me.

"Edward?" Jasper asked frantically. I rolled my eyes at him and bit my tongue.

"Yeah it's me dickwad" I muttered. I heard him give a sigh of relief and a rustle of clothing and Emmett shouting.

"Jasper what the fuck!" Emmett yelled. I smiled to myself and I heard the phone being moved.

"Hello?" Emmett growled.

"Nice to hear from you too asshole" I said and he laughed loudly in my ear. I cracked a smile and Bella twitched from the loud noise from my phone.

"Shh Emmett, you're a little loud" I said into the phone.

"Sorry man. Okay dude, a few things we need to clear up are one are you with the chief's daughter? Are you seriously with Swan?" He asked incredulously. I grinned into the phone and looked down at Swan who was sleeping peacefully beside me.

"Why yes I am Emmett, she's actually next to me right now sleeping; it's been a long day" I told him. He was mumbling something to Jasper and then gave a big boisterous laugh.

"Holy shit Cullen; you really are something aren't you?" He asked. I laughed and sighed.

"I'm not crazy for nothing. How is everything in Forks? Any good gossip?" I asked.

"Yeah Mike Newton is talking about the real reason you and Swan ran off is to get eloped. Stanley is saying you and Bella had been having a fling behind everyone's backs and when you knocked her up you ran off in embarrassment. Tyler told a few guys it's because you're under arrest and ran off with Bella as your hostage. There are more ridiculously stories like this but those are the most popular ones" He chuckled, "It's such bull shit and don't worry I'm trying to stop as many as I can along with Jasper and the boys. It's hard but you know we're working on it"

"Thanks Em I appreciate that. Those stories are fucking stupid. Who believes that shit anyway? Someone one has to be sick in the head to believe it. When I tell Bella she'll be pissed but I doubt it. She'll want to beat the shit out of Jessica; she already hates her with a passion" I said trying not to laugh at the thought.

"A girl fight? Fuck yes count me in, Jessica deserves to get her ass kicked; even if it is by Swan. Hey, how the fuck did you get Daddy's Girl to go with you of all people?" He asked sounding very interested in the non-exciting story.

"I didn't. She wanted to come. She claimed something of wanting to get out of Forks and be the person she wanted to be not the person people were expecting her to be. Pretty truthful words. She wanted a way out and I gave it to her. At first I didn't want her to come, you know I left for a legit reason and I didn't want her getting hurt; in the end it was more her talking me into letting her going instead of me talking her into going" I laughed. Emmett gave out another of his hyena laughs and I missed it hearing it.

"Well fuck man. She's got some balls" He said laughing, "so why did you leave and not even bother to ask me or Cowboy?" He asked. I ran a hand over my face.

"'Can't tell you, fuckface. I didn't ask Cowboy because he is a fucking momma's boy, and I would have asked you but it's a long story bro, hopefully you'll visit me when I reach Chicago" I said. He was quiet and he gave a heavy sigh.

"I want out too. You bet your ass I'll be joining you in this road trip. What do you mean visit you when you're in Chicago?" He asked. I shrugged to myself.

"You know Em, I might not even come back from Chicago or wherever the hell I end up. I'll probably just come back to drop Bella off when we're done but I'm not going to stay." I said quietly. He said nothing in reply and neither did Jasper.

"We grew up here Ed" Jasper said speaking up, "are you that ready to give it up?"

"Yes"

"Why?"

"I love Chicago it's my first home before Forks" I answered truthfully. And that was the truth. To the others I had lived in Chicago before Forks and I could hear by Jasper's scoff over the phone that he saw through that lame excuse.

"Bullshit. Even though it is the truth I know that's not the real reason why you're going to Chicago. All I want is the real truth and not some lame-ass excuse your mind can conjure up. I thought we didn't lie to one another about anything and especially not as serious as this" He said in a bold tone. I felt myself shrink under his voice.

"Jasper there are some things that not even I can tell you guys and that's hard. I've never kept secrets from you two because you're my brothers we've been through a lot, but I can't tell you yet. There are some things that I need to fix before I can tell you. I hope you escape the shit town named after an eating utensil and come visit me in the windy city when I get there. Bring Alice and Rose too, I know Bella will appreciate that" I said solemnly. Once again they became quiet and Emmett broke it by sighing heavily.

"Alright Ed, I believe you. Be careful and pick up some shit for me like a tee shirt or even a fucking keychain; just bring me back something along with a list of good places to get some grub too. Call soon and keep us updated and we'll keep you updated. See you asswipe" Emmett said hanging up. I stared at the phone and I was thankful for the amazing people I had in my life.

There was still one person I needed to talk to who I'm surprised didn't call.

It took a few rings and I was about to hang up and give up hope when someone answered.

"Hello?"

"Sherri" I sighed happily with a smile. I heard her breathing hitch and she let out a breath.

"Fuck you Anthony Carlisle Edward Masen! Fuck you!" Sherri cried at me. Shit she used the real name. My hands played with the bed sheet. I deserved it.

"You didn't call" I said. She snorted at me.

"Neither did you" She argued. I smirked.

"Touché Sherri. I was wondering if you'd ever yell at me" I said.

"I was waiting to see how long you could go without calling me. Congrats Edward, you made it a couple days" She said sarcastically at me.

"I can't go very long without talking to you, you know that" I said smugly at her. She let out a cackle.

"That's right baby boy, you have to call yo momma!" She said. I let out a belly laugh and then Bella stirred and opened her eyes at me smiling. She laid her head on me snuggling closer and I pointed to the phone telling her to give me a minute. She nodded and lay there peacefully.

"That's right Sherri" I said still smiling. My free hand found its way to Bella's hair and began running through her soft long locks.

"Where are you? I trust your safe and in a hotel or somewhere and not on the road" Sheri chided me. I rolled my eyes at her.

"Yes I am don't worry. I'm in bed and my dad-Carlisle-his friend came and found me and took me into a hotel and is going to help me. He explained everything and said he and my dad have been having secret contact and is here to help bail my dad out. We're going to take down those fuckers" I stated loudly. I hear Sherri doing a small 'woo' for me.

"Yes! Go Edward! Okay I have to go now, Casey and his friends started doing shots and I want to join. I'll call you later and don't worry I'll fight off those gossip hateful fiends in Forks. Love you" She said and the line clicked. I put my phone on the nightstand and faced Bella.

"Hello" I said. She giggled and rolled her big doe eyes.

"That was so cheesy, but hello to you too" She giggled again.

"Are you okay?" I asked. She nodded and bit her lip.

"I'm fine. Are you okay? I know you talked to Jasper, Emmett, and Sherri." She said staring up at me.

"I did but it was good. Emmett told me about what is going on in Forks and all the things going on" I told her. She scoffed and rolled her eyes laying her head back down on my chest.

"What is going through the rumor mill now?" She asked annoyed. She as so cute when she was angry. My hand found its way back to her hair and surprisingly it calmed me down.

"Mike is saying we eloped, Jessica is telling everyone that we had a secret affair and I knocked you up so we ran off to escape the shame and embarrassment. Tyler thinks I broke the law and there's a warrant out for my arrest so I ran away and took you as my hostage. Emmett said those are the most popular but there are more like it" I answered. She gasped angrily and fisted my shirt.

"Bella those are petty people shit talking because we got out of Forks and they didn't. They're not important don't focus on them." I said caressing her check. She scrunched up her nose and let out an angry breath.

"Jessica Stanley is a fucking bitch. What I would give to beat her up or shoot her with a bazooka. I'd be doing the world a favor!" She protested. I laughed at her and nodded at her ideas.

"I agree but we have a big day ahead of us and we better get to sleep so you can dream of beating up Jessica Stanley. Riley is getting us up early tomorrow and I don't want to be driving with only a few hours of sleep" I said. She hummed at me and snuggled in closer as I turned out the light. My arms went back around her and held her close.

"Get some sleep Cullen" Bella said softly and I chuckled.

"Kick some Jessica ass, Rocky Balboa" I joked and tapped hers as I said it. She yelped and kneed me in the leg.

"Goodnight jackass" She grumbled.

"Goodnight Rocky"

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