After a few hours of being in the car we finally arrive at the house we always stay in, every year we go away for a week and stay here. It's gonna be the first time in years that Ryan's gonna be with us and not just as my brother, but also my mate. 

We pull up all climbing out Ryan and I go to the boot to get our stuff out while mum and dad unlock the door, I try to pick my bag up but Ryan does before I could. 

"I'll carry it for you come on," he says walking towards the house making me smile and follow him in. 

He carried them all the way up to my bedroom for me, putting my bag on my bed turning around to face me. 

"You haven't really changed anything in here," he says looking around my room? I actually haven't thinking about it.  

"Well I'm only here for one week for an entire year, so there's not much point, I've changed a few things but not much thanks by the way for carrying my bags up" I smile as he picks his bag up which he placed on the floor. 

"I haven't seen my room in years," he says walking out, I follow behind his room was only next door. 

"Mum always locks it so no one can go in," I say as he unlocks his bedroom door carrying his own bag in smiling as he does. 

"Just how I left it" he smiles looking around, I haven't been in here since he left it did all look the same. 

"It's nice for you to come with us again" I smile he turns the smile still on his face as my mum pops her head in the door.  

"Getting settled in" she smiles walking into the room looking between us, which  was my cue to leave.  

"I better get going and sort my room out, I'll see you guys in a bit" I smile walking out Ryan's room and towards my own but Ryan stops me just as I got to my door. 

"Mum and dad said they're just gonna get takeaway but I don't feel like that tonight, so I was wondering after we unpack we could go get something," he asks smiling, I know this was his way to ask me to dinner with him, which made me feel weird thinking about that. 

"Yeah sure" I smile, he nods happily before walking back into his bedroom, I shake my head walking into my own bedroom smiling before I start unpacking my things. 

I was getting ready to go out with Ryan? I didn't want to dress up if he wasn't gonna, I look through my clothes and see something that was dressy but not too dressy. It was a flowing red dress that stopped just above my knee it was perfect. After around half an hour I make my way downstairs to see Ryan standing by the door, he wore black skinny jeans with a white dress shirt tucked in, my father walks over to him passing something but I couldn't see what it was. Ryan finally looks up and notices me walking down the stairs his mouth just hangs open. 

"I'd close that mouth you don't wanna catch flies" I smile making him shut his mouth instantly, as my mother walks out the kitchen. 

"Aww look at you two, wait here I need to grab my camera," she says running towards the kitchen as I make it fully down the stairs to stand next to Ryan. 

"I'll finally a nice photo of you Ryan as you didn't go to prom," she says turning it on but Ryan just sighs placing his hand around my shoulders for the photo.  

"It was a few days after I found out Savannah was my mate, I couldn't take her with me so I didn't want to go with some other person that wasn't her," he says looking down at me smiling as a flash of a camera filled the room.  

"What that moment was too cute not to take a photo, now smile," my mum says before taking a load of pictures.  

We managed to leave the house away from our mother holding a camera as Ryan drives us somewhere, I actually didn't know where the heck we were even going at this point but I thought it was nice that he was surprising me. 

"This next part you need to put this on," he says pulling a blindfold out of his pocket handing it to me. 

"You just carry a blindfold around with you" I smile making him laugh a little as I take the blindfold out his hand.  

"You never know when you might need one, now put it on we're nearly there" he smiles making me put the blindfold on covering my eyes. 

We drive for a few more minutes until he stops the car climbing out having to help me as well I couldn't see anything, he walks behind me making sure I don't walk into anything or trip over. He makes us stop letting go of me but told me not to take the blindfold off yet, so I was standing somewhere just wearing a blindfold. 

"Take it off now," he says after a few more minutes of me just standing in the middle of nowhere. 

I slowly take the blindfold off to see a beautiful forest themed picnic right in the middle of the woods. 

"I remembered you love nature so I set this up" he smiles as I take slow steps closer to the amazing place, it was so thoughtful of him. 

"This is incredible thank you" I smile as he takes my hand sitting me down on a picnic blanket next to him. 

"I got your favourite foods too," he says pulling all the snacks I love out a cute little picnic basket, I love all the little details.  

"How long did this take you?" I smile looking around this looks perfect it must have taken him ages. 

"Not long actually mum and dad helped, mum cooked the food while dad and I set all this up" he smiles, I'm gonna have to thank them when we get back, wait did I spent that long getting ready what the heck? 

But in a few hours, I'd soon realise that seeing them again wouldn't be that easy.

The picnic was amazing, we really got to catch up apparently he'd done a heck of a lot when he was travelling.  

"So you're telling me the guy just smashed a shop window and walked away like it was nothing," I say shocked, he was telling this story about a guy he came across on his travels, a very drunk guy.  

"Yeah just randomly, but I have to admit it was quite funny" he laughs remembering what happened making me smile "I never forgot you, you know every day I was wondering what you were doing" he smiles but I look to the floor, I guess since I found out about us being mates I was worried if he just forgot about me and went with other people, I know he isn't like that but when you find out your mate has been travelling around the world, I guess you don't know what to think. 

"Don't worry I never had any girlfriends or anything like that when I was away, the only person I thought of like I said was you and only you" he says like he knew what I was thinking making me smile, he takes my hand but his phone ringing spoils the moment. 

"Hello, wait slow down," he says I still didn't know who he was talking to but from the sounds of it the person wasn't happy, he puts the phone on speaker putting it between us.

"You and Savannah need to leave right now, don't bother coming back to this house at all quickly go back home but don't stay long," my father says really fast on the other end making me panic looking up at Ryan as he continues "pack some of your things and leave don't come back ever it isn't safe, whatever you do don't try to look for your mother and me, make sure you look after Savannah don't let any harm come to her or you," he says but he has to stop as we hear our mothers shouts in the background. 

"They're here we need to try and get away, give the phone to me," she says my father must have passed her the phone cause her voice was louder than our fathers panicking one in the background "you two need to look after each other now, just remember that we love you," she says as a huge crash could be heard with even more shouting but the phone goes dead. 

We don't speak and just sit in silence for a few seconds before Ryan springs in action, he stands up quickly picking some of our stuff up taking my hand making me stand. 

"We need to leave," he says making us run out of the woods and towards our car where he rushes me to get in. 

"Are we gonna go back to help them?" I ask as I put my seatbelt on but he just shakes his head. 

"No you heard what they said it's not safe for us," he says but I speak up before he could finish. 

"They're our- I mean your parents Ryan, we can't just leave them," I say but he just shakes his head taking the other turning away from where they were. 

"You're my mate, I'm gonna protect you over anyone that includes my parents, you're my main priority Savannah, they even told me that," he says grabbing my hand in his but I just sigh and look down, it feels so wrong we shouldn't be leaving them we should go back and help them like they've been doing for us our whole lives. I felt like I had too since they adopted me, if they didn't I could have been put with some really mean people and might have never met Ryan.  

"Nope that's wrong, he's our mate we would have found him no matter what," my wolf says in my head, wow I haven't heard from her in awhile. 

"I forgot about you," I say making her speak up kind of annoyed. 

"I'm always here Savannah just at the back of your mind, waiting for a time when I'm needed," she says making me smile, it's weird I only got her a few days ago and I feel like she's always been a part of me. 

"And you were needed now?" I ask, it's weird I feel like I'm talking to myself but I'm not at the same time. 

"Definitely! You were doubting if we'd ever find mate that was the perfect time for me to speak up, and yes I've always been a part of you ever since you were born, so even though I only was able to talk to you a few days ago I've with you since day one" she says making me smile but a question came to mind. 

"If you've been with me ever since the beginning, does that mean you know who my birth parents are?" I say but she seems to start disconnecting with me, I try to fight her to stay connected but it wasn't working. 

"That's correct, but I think it's your job to find out who they are," she says before she fully leaves making me snap back to reality being back in the car with Ryan. 

"Talking with your wolf" he says looking over at me but I just nod smiling "mine started to get annoying after a while, he kept telling me to tell you how you were my mate but I couldn't do that, even though I wanted too" he smiles making me smile with him. 

I stare out the window for awhile my wolf said she knows who my birth parents are, I wish I could remember them but I was obviously much too young to remember anything like that, as much as I've tried to these last couple of days. I must have only been a newborn when I was given up for adoption? that's what age you normally are. 

"You just turned a year old when you were taken from your parents," my wolfs says speaking up again but the way she says taken made me question everything even more, before I could ask her she blocked me out. 

"Get some rest," Ryan says snapping me out my thoughts once again but I shake my head "you've had a busy day? I'll keep driving, again your my main priority Savannah you're the only person I care about now," he says while reaching in the back pulling a soft throw blanket from the backseat.  

I decide to listen to him as I was actually getting tried, I wrap the blanket around me slowly drifting to sleep with Ryan's hand in mine.

I woke up to someone shaking me a little, I open my eyes to see Ryan smiling looking over at me. 

"We've arrived but remember we can't stay long, so only pack what you need," he says which makes me look around to see our house in front of us, I was still in a state of sleep so I just nod smiling. 

He gets out the car running over to the front door quickly unlocking it, I climb out and walk quickly but didn't run like Ryan cause again I was still half asleep and follow him into the house. We both run up the stairs going our separate rooms, I grab two bags that were under my bed starting to pack clothes, makeup and things I just can't bear leaving like photos and keepsakes. At the bottom of my wardrobe was a box that I kept all my old things, things I've had since I was a baby, I pick the box up emptying the whole contents into a bag safely. Once I'm finished I zip the bags up walking towards the door, I turn taking one more look at my room before walking out the door. 

Ryan runs out of his room taking my bags off me saying for me to get some last things we might need downstairs, I run downstairs towards the kitchen while he runs to the car to put our bags down. 

I grab some food cause well you need food! And just some little things before running out the house joining Ryan, he shut the boot of the car before running over to me.  

"Have you got everything?" He asks, I just nod before looking back towards the house, we've shared so many memories between these four walls. 

"We'll be fine I'll look after you," he says wrapping his arm around me where we stand for a few minutes staring at the building in front of us, tears start to prick my eyes at the thought of leaving this place and all the memories stored inside. 

"I know it seems hard leaving but it's just a house, the memories aren't going to stay within it, they'll remain in your head which has unlimited space to keep even more," Ryan says holding me tighter sensing I was getting upset, he always knew what to say. 

We pull away Ryan putting his hands on both my shoulders smiling at me. 

"Now wipe them tears and put a smile on that beautiful face, we can leave this house with a smile on our faces saying a happy goodbye," he says smiling, I wipe my tears putting a little smile on my face. 

"What are you doing back here already," a voice says behind me, I quickly wipe the remaining tears from my eyes turning around to see Gabbie standing behind me. 

"Oh we forgot some things so we decided we'd take the drive here," I say trying to make my voice not sound like I was just crying, which was a very hard task. 

"That's a such a you thing to do" she laughs as she looks to me than Ryan "you two look smart" looking at our clothes.  

We haven't had the chance to change after we had lunch? I was still in my dress that was actually becoming uncomfortable. 

"Yeah Ryan took me out for dinner just before, so we haven't had a chance to change yet" I smile which isn't actually a lie, our dinner was interrupted by the phone call. 

"Well I'll let you go cause I know how your mum gets when you're late" she laughs walking over wrapping me in a hug, I hug her tightly I wish I could tell her what's going on but I know Ryan won't let me, but I don't blame him. 

"I'll see you Monday" she smiles pulling away,  I felt like crying at this moment but I knew I couldn't. 

"yeah Monday," I say fighting back the tears that threatened to leave my eyes, Ryan comes up behind me wrapping his arm around me. 

"Have a lovely week Gabbie" he says she smiles looking down at me before turning and walking away.  

"I love you Gabs!" I shout she turns back smiling.  

"I love you too!" She shouts as she walks into her house when she was out of sight I let the tears win the fight and they began to stream down my face once more.  

"When am I gonna be able to see her again?" I ask as Ryan holds me tighter. 

"I don't know Savannah, but we can hope for the best" was all he ways which makes me turn and hug him fully.  

This is one of the hardest things I've had to do.