“I’m sorry, Aurora, but I can’t leave just yet. There is something that you need to know.”

“And that would be?”

“Where is the stuff that you found in the cave?”

“I don’t know. Keegan and everyone hid it somewhere before I got back from the cave. They haven’t yet told me where they put them. Why?”

“There is something that I need to show you before I can leave.”

I nodded and ran past him to go and see where Keegan was. I had to ask him where he put them. I found him sitting down on the couch where we had been just before Erik had come.

“Keegan, where did you put the stuff that I found in the cave?” I asked. He didn’t answer me.

I turned back to find Eric standing right behind me.

“What did you do?” I asked him.

“Simply put him in a trance to keep him quiet,” he answered.

“Well, undo the dang trance! I need to talk to him,” I somewhat screamed at Eric.

He closed his eyes and seemed to concentrate for a second. About three seconds later, he opened his eyes again and looked at Keegan. I turned to look at Keegan, too. A sudden shudder passed though him and he suddenly turned around and looked at me. Something was wrong. His expression, the look in his eyes, . . . . It just wasn’t right. I turned around and looked at Eric. Something was wrong there, too, and he was laughing at me. Vampire laughing maniacally= BAD. Something was definitely going on here and it wasn’t for the better.

I tried to run to the other side of the room, but within seconds he was behind me and had my arms locked in a stone-hard grip behind my back. It had all been a trap. I had let my guard down, the biggest mistake that I had made so far.