I didn't get a chance to see Jack as they got him ready to leave for New York. I didn't even get a chance to say 'goodbye' as Doc and Gabby left with him. I slept through all of it because I was so emotionally drained and too sick to move. When I woke up, I also found out that Amanda and Mike also left with the new baby. I don't even know what she had or what she named it.

Ashley stayed by my side the whole entire time I was asleep. Taking care of me whenever I needed it. David and Ricky sat outside the door in the hall, waiting to be let in. Derik left angrily and apparently went back to the house we shared. No one has heard from him since.

Currently I sat in the bed with a tray resting over my lap. Broth steamed in a bowl making my stomach turn. Ashley wanted me to at least try eating something because it wasn't just my health I had to think about. As much as I wasn't expecting to get pregnant until after I got married, I was kind of excited to become a mother. If only I made a better choice on picking who the father was.

"You aren't eating," Ashley scolded as she browsed through the channels on the TV across the room. I was just amazed that she could see that far, but yet again, she was a Seadonna.

Sometimes I forget that I'm surrounded by vampires. They were so normal that you could mistake them as just your average person. Then they do things that remind you that they aren't at all that normal. David was pretty much healed by now, but still showed some stiffness. An average person would have probably died or at least took twice as long to heal as it did David.

Getting lost in my thoughts was starting to be a huge habit of mine. Ashley ended up letting out a heavy sigh, knowing fully well where my thoughts were going, "Stop overthinking things. This is your life now and we are all here to make sure you adjust to it smoothly."

"Can you help me break up with Derik?" I heard myself ask. The shock on her face wasn't hard to miss either, "I was blind to his manipulation. No. I fell for it knowing exactly what he was doing. I regret ever trying a relationship with him."

"What about your baby?" she asked in a reasoning voice, "Are you never going to tell him about it?"

That was when I looked her straight in the eyes with a serious expression, "I'm going to lie to him about it. I'm going to tell him that I'm pregnant with David's baby. It's what he wanted anyways."

Derik has been expecting me to cheat on him with David the moment we started dating. It wouldn't be such a hard lie for him to believe. But Ashley looked at me as if I was growing a second head in front of her. Just seeing her face made me want to defend my case, but the bedroom doors opened before I could get a word in. Making us silently look at the door in shock.

"Derik is coming and he demands to talk to Leah," Ricky announced just moments before Derik came storming in the room. Making Ashley run out of the room with Ricky. I have never felt so abandoned in my entire life then I do now.

He was upset. It was plain to see with the look on his face. His eyes glared at me as he clenched his fists at his sides. His breathing was ragged as if he had been running for miles all morning. The whole image of him standing there intimidated me to the point I hugged a nearby pillow on the bed. The tension in the room was almost suffocating; and knowing fully well that he would never hurt me didn't ease the fear that was slowly creeping up within me.

"What do you want to talk about?" I asked in a small voice. The fear wouldn't let me talk louder or more confident.

"You willing to talk to me now?" Derik responded harshly. Making me flinch a little bit, "You aren't going to come up with some dumb excuse on why we can't talk? Maybe you are going to conveniently get sick again."

The fear instantly disappeared at that moment. Instead annoyance gave me more confidence. "Do you honestly think I got sick on purpose?" I said in disbelief, "My best friend was on his death bed and I couldn't take all of the emotions I was feeling at that moment. Did it ever cross your mind that I've been sick for the past few days and unable to eat anything?"

I could tell that I had just caught him off guard. His anger lessened a bit as guilt slowly filled in his expression. His job was to protect me and all he could worry about was himself and his selfish needs. Not once did he ever bother to look at the bigger picture and see the things that were important. But since I started, I couldn't stop.

"This whole entire time you have been only concerned about your self and manipulating me into staying in a relationship with you. Why? Because you want to show up David?" I moved the tray onto the bedside table before standing up from the bed. Too angry to sit down during the conversation that needed to be said, "I'm not some prize to have under your arm, Derik."

"Why are you getting upset? I've done nothing wrong to you, Leah," he tried to defend himself. Which only made me angry more.

"Why am I getting upset? Really, Derik? You have to ask that?" I was amazed that he was trying to turn this fight around and put the blame on me, "I see what you are doing and it is pissing you off. You can't manipulate someone if they don't let you."

"I'm not trying to manipulate you," he said in disbelief, "I'm just trying to figure out if you are on the same level as I am when it comes to this relationship."

"By constantly not trusting me and accusing me of cheating with David?" I was pretty close to having about enough of this conversation. This wasn't going to go anywhere if he was just on the defensive.

One of us had to be the big person here and walk away. For a fact, I knew that it wasn't going to be him. Not by a long shot. So instead of waiting to hear out what his next excuse it, I decided to walk past him and leave the room.

"Where the hell are you going now?" he questioned a little annoyed, "We aren't done talking."

"We aren't even talking," I shouted back as I entered the hallway and headed for the stairs. Part of me just wanted to go home and lock myself away from the world. But sadly, Derik had a key to that place and my father's place wasn't safe either with Donny running around. But at this point, I wouldn't mind being taken by Donny as long as it got me away from Derik.

As I got to the stairs and started to head down them, I realized how stupid that thought was. That would put all of David's efforts into protecting me to waste. It was something I just couldn't do to him. But I needed a place to just calm down that was away from the person irritating me. Not a whole lot of places came to mind.

When I got to the bottom of the stairs, I was greeted with the familiar face fo Katelyn. I was kind of shocked to see her in the house, but it quickly faded when I remembered that she was marrying Jared.

Looking at her, she looked exactly the same as she did back in high school. Part of me wished that we were still friends, but I got sick of her going after my boyfriends all of the time back then. That was when I confronted her about my feelings and she said some mean things that ended our friendship. She even made it clear when she stole my last boyfriend from me on graduation day.

She looked at me with a look of disgust and annoyance. Like I was an unwanted rat walking the halls of the house, "What the hell are you doing here?"

"Nice to see you too, Katelyn. It appears you haven't changed much since the last time I saw you," I politely said to her.

She rolled her eyes at me, "Cut the crap, Leah. You are here to get a cut of Jared's fortune, aren't you?"

It took everything in me to not roll my eyes. I may have had a crush on Jared, but he chose her and I was going to respect that. Sadly, there was no point in explaining this to her because she already had her mind made up about me. When that happened, there was no changing her mind.

"Leah!" Derik's voice carried from up the stairs. Making me tense up more and it wasn't left unnoticed by the young woman in front of me.

"A friend of yours?" she asked slyly. Making my stomach turn because there was no way to know what was going through her head right now. I could only imagine.

I tried to push myself past her, but she continued to block my path. It was like she was trying to get me caught. All I wanted to do was escape and have a few moments to myself, but it looked like Katelyn was determined to take that away. Until I gave her a pleading look.

"Please just let me go. I don't want to talk to him right now," I pleaded. Making her look at me shocked. Like she couldn't believe that I would beg her to do something in a million years, "I'm not ready to tell him something. Not until he's calmed down a little bit."

Katelyn slowly took a few steps back, giving me enough room to pass. She was still looking at me a little shocked. Unsure of what to think. I even thought I saw something flash in her eyes, like she missed us being friends, "Leah? Who is he really?"

I stopped at the door for a second to process her question and come up with an answer. Finally I looked at her right when I opened the door, "The wrong choice."

And with that I walked out of the house and walked towards the driveway. I was pretty sure that I could find my own way home from here. As soon as I found out which street we were on, I would know which way to go from here. All of the expensive houses were all on the outskirts of town. But I only got halfway down the driveway before someone finally stopped me.

It took me a while to figure out who it was. The only reason was because I started with the black skater shoes and tight black jeans. Working my way past the navy blue plaid shirt to focus on the tattooed hand holding a lit cigarette. What took me the longest was trying to remember the sharp jawline and full lips sucking on the end of the cigarette. Part of me was king of glad that it was him who stopped me. But another part told me to not trust him.

"Hi Erik," I heard myself say. Just seeing him stand in front of me made me realize that he hasn't been around all that much recently, "What have you been up to?"

He threw the cigarette on to the ground and then stepped on it. His light brown eyes focused on the ground below him, "Just working like everyone else." His eyes suddenly shifting to me, "If you need a quick escape, your motorcycle that Jared got you is in the garage."

My eyes went back up the driveway towards the house and attached garage. Going back was only going to risk me into running Derik. Then I would be forced to continue our argument. Something I was currently trying to avoid.

"I can go get it for you," Erik suggested. Making me nod in agreement.

Erik turned and started to walk for the garage. It was at that moment that the front door was opening, filling the outside with two people having an argument. The voices sounded like Katelyn and Derik. From where I was I couldn't make out what they were saying, but it kind of sounded like she was trying to buy me some time. Which took me by surprised.

But I didn't have time to process what she was doing as Derik squeezed past her and headed towards me. There was no where to hide, but it didn't stop me from trying to find a spot. My need to run away kicked in, making me turn to in the direction I wanted to go. But before I could take a step, Derik grabbed onto my wrist. Keeping me in place.

"Are you willing to talk to me now? Or, are we going to continue this whole game of chase?" he said annoyed. The anger wasn't too far from the surface either. I guess we will be continuing our conversation after all.