“Hello?” he says.

“Hey, Keegan, it’s Aurora. What’s up?”

“Same, same. How are you feeling?” he asks.

“Much better. You?”

“Good. Nothing much happened to me. It’s you I’m worried about.”

“Don’t worry. I’m feeling much better. Just a little confused, I guess.”

“Yeah. That’s totally understandable.”

“Hey, I was wondering if you could come over here for a little while. There was a few things that I wanted to tell you but with all the stuff that’s happened it’s been kind of hard to get a word in.”

“Yeah, sure. I’ll come over. I remember at the party something was on your mind. I never got to find out what it was. I’ll be over in a few minutes.”

“Okay. Bye, Keegan.”

“Bye, Aurora.”

We hung up and I went into the living room to wait for Keegan to arrive.

There was a knock on the door about five or ten minutes after I got off the phone with Keegan. I went to the door and looked through the peep hole to see who it was. It was Keegan, standing patiently on the porch. I opened the door to let him in. He smiled at me and stepped through the door. I had never noticed before how tall Keegan was. He was at least a foot taller than me. I hated it when people were way taller than me. It made me feel really short. It didn’t exactly make me feel very comfortable.

“Hey, Aurora. How are you feeling?”

“Much better than yesterday, obviously. But better all the same.”

“That’s good. I’m glad you’re okay. I have to admit, you had me worried there for a while.”

I just stared at him, not saying anything.

“Your said that you had something that you wanted to tell me?” he said/

“Oh,” I said, coming out of a daze that I had apparently drifted into, “Right.”

I sat down on the couch and he sat down next to me. I angled my body so that I was somewhat facing him and began to talk. I started out by telling him about what had happened after Moris had taken me back to the small clearing in front of the cave, and ended with my suspicions about Victoria. He sat through the whole thing without a single interruption, just listening to everything that I had to say.

“Wow,” was all he said when I finished.