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blindfold back on. “Please don’t hurt me!”
    “Violet, you said that if I told you where Benji was, that you’d free her,” Hunter said, trying to coax her to do the right thing.
    “Did you really think I’d do that Hunter?” she said. “Would you have done that for me? Would you have risked your life, the life of your own brother and your entire coven for me? I DON’T THINK SO!”
    “Violet, this isn’t about you,” Hunter said.
    “I don’t think our love was ever that strong,” she said. “You never loved me like you did Penelope.”
    “Violet, set her free, you promised,” he said again.
    Then all of a sudden, the guards came up behind him and put his blindfold back over his eyes and started dragging him out of the room. Then, he heard her speak again.
    “I LIED!” Violet said, followed by a loud cackle laugh.
     
     

 
     
    Chapter Seven
     
     
    Inside the large gymnasium of the castle, Rachel stood there with the group of young vampires learning how to fly. Unfortunately, it wasn’t coming as natural to her as some of the others and she was feeling a bit depressed about it. But not as depressed as she felt about the idea of learning how to fly in the first place. She knew it was necessary to survive as a vampire, but she still wished this had never happened to her. She wanted so badly to escape all of this and return back to her former life.
    “Let your wings protract naturally,” the coach said in a calming voice. “You are one with your wings.”
    Rachel tried again to let them protract, but they wouldn’t come out far enough to gain momentum to lift off.
    “I’m trying, I can’t do it.  I think they’re stuck.”
    “You’re thinking too hard, Rachel. This seems to be a common theme with you,” the coach answered.
    Rachel looked around to see all her fellow young vampires each achieving a lift off and soaring high into the quadruple story gymnasium, their wings glistening as the light hit them. Even her new friend Georgia was flying.
    “Rachel, up here!” Georgia said, showing off her shiny wings. “This is fun, come on up, what are you waiting for?”
    The coach took hold of Rachel’s wings and helped her spread them out for her to see. She peeked over her shoulders to see large, bird-like wings. They too glistened in the fluorescent light from the gymnasium.
    “On the count of three, we will lift off together, ready?” the coach asked.
    Taking a deep breath in, she steadied her mind and body, preparing for her first flight.
    “Ready!” she replied, suddenly feeling a surge of excitement.
    “One, Two…Three!” the coach said, and waited as she tried to release her wings and lift off for the first time.
    Feeling her wings opening wide for the first time, she felt the momentum she needed for a successful lift off and flight. Her body became weightless and as she got off the ground she could hear her fellow young vampires cheering her on. Then, all of a sudden, as if that never happened, her wings retracted and she fell a few feet back onto the gymnasium floor with a splat. The cheering and applause she was getting suddenly stopped and turned into shrieks of panic. “Oh no! Ouch! Yikes!” she heard, as she hit the ground.
    “I give up!” she said in a frustrated voice. “I’m done for the day.”
    She stomped away and sat on a bench on the edge of the gym.  She couldn’t help but look out of the window and onto the large grassy knoll that lay outside. She wished she could go out there, to lay in the light of the sun, to feel the warm rays on her cheeks. She looked away, trying to get the idea out of her head.
    She tried to change her focus as she watched Georgia and the rest of the crew flying around effortlessly. This made her even more upset. She couldn’t understand why it didn’t come as natural to her as it did everyone else.
    Maybe I’m not really a vampire? She suddenly thought. Then she looked out the window and without thinking, looked for the latch to