Chapter 8
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Eddie sighs and looks at Nina sitting beside him in the common room. "I really think that there's something suspicious about that book and Daniel. He seemed so nice and eager to give us the chapter, and, I have to admit, it kind of freaked me out a little. What if he's hiding something?"
Nina shrugs and plays with her locket. "I don't know, Eddie. I kind of felt that way, too, but I don't think he'd do something like that. He's pushing sixty. He's a little too old for that."
Eddie's mouth drops and he looks at Nina like she's crazy. "Nina, Victor is at least two hundred years old, and he still does crazy and evil things!"
Nina sighs and cracks her knuckles. "Eddie, calm down. Now that I think of, Daniel did seem pretty weird, and so did that bookcase. Did you notice anything weird about it?"
Eddie rubs his temples and closes his eyes. "Um, it kind of looked like it could have moved like the one in the antechamber. And I'm pretty sure that one of those books was sticking out farther than the rest of them. That could have been the book that opened it!"
Nina nods and gets up. She clenches her fists and turns around. She smiles at Eddie. "We have to go back! There's no telling what he could be hiding behind that bookcase! There could be dead bodies, or cat corpses, or some kind of spooky Egyptian artifact that we suddenly need to find!"
Eddie catches up to Nina and grabs her wrist to make her stop running. They're outside now. "Nina, itis so risky. Daniel could be a serial killer, or he could have bombs ready to blow up in his house! There's at least a million things that he could do! If we're going back, you need a survival pack, too, so we can carry more things. We need to wait until he leaves. We both know how to pick locks, and I didn't notice an alarm system in there. And, most of all, we need to bring the rest. We can't do it by ourselves."
Nina shakes her head and rips her wrist out of Eddie's grasp. "Eddie, we're not bringing the rest! I am not putting them in danger! Not again! Not after two years! This year, they're going to be perfect! They're not going to know anything, and no one is going to touch them!"
Eddie rubs his temples again. He has a serious headache now. "Okay, fine. I have mini cameras in my room that I bought last year for Mara and I when we were hunting Senkhara, but I never used them. We can hide them in some bushes or something by Daniel's house. We need to see when he leaves, and for how long."
Nina snaps her fingers and beams. "Remember yesterday!? Daniel said he had a doctors appointment for sleeping problems in thirty minutes! That was around six! And, if he has sleep apnea, he'll have to sleep at the doctor's office and stay there all night! That'll be our chance!"
Eddie laughs nervously. "Sorry to burst your bubble, but my cousin has sleep apnea, he goes to his appointment once every two months."
Nina groans them smiles. "Maybe Daniel has it really bad. Gran did, and she went once two times a week."
Eddie smiles. "I'll go get the cameras and the survival pack, and I'll be back here in five minutes."
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Eddie runs down the boys' hall and throws the door to his room open. He looks around and notices that Fabian is putting his things in his new backpack, Eddie stole his other one, and listening to something because he has his headphones on. Eddie smiles. He has to make sure that he can't hear him, though. "Fabian! Fabian! Fabian!"
Fabian doesn't look up.
Eddie laughs, grabs the survival pack and the cameras, and runs out of the room again.
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Nina taps her foot and looks at the house. She sees Eddie run out of the door. She laughs and checks her watch. "It took you six minutes!"
Eddie laughs and hands Nina the cameras. "Here. Wanna get a cab?"
Nina shakes her head. "No way. Daniel is probably at home, and if he sees a cab in front of house he'll probably get suspicious. Let's just walk."
"Nina, that's at least two miles!" Eddie whines like a little kid.
Nina hits him on the shoulder and laughs. "Come on, you baby!"
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Amber closes her fashion magazine and lays it on the coffee table. She sees Patricia walk into the common room. "Hey, Patricia. Have you seen Nina and Eddie? I haven't saw them all day."
Patricia scoffs and sits on the other couch. "Their probably making out somewhere."
Amber's brow furrows. "Why would you say that, Patricia?"
Patricia laughs at how oblivious Amber is. "Amber, have you not seen how close they've been since last night!? They're probably dating."
Amber can't get anymore confused. "But that's part of their destiny. Remember, Trixie? If they don't date and make out, they'll die. I completely understand why they've been hanging out so much."
Patricia's eyes widen. She completely forgot about that stupid destiny! She has nothing to be jealous about at all! She laughs. "I completely forgot about that!"
Amber laughs. "Who's oblivious now?"
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Eddie and Nina slowly tiptoe across Daniel's yard, trying to make their way to the huge bushes along his fence. One of them is facing a window with no curtains, so that would be a perfect place for a camera. Eddie doesn't see anyone in the living room, so Daniel has to be gone, in the mysterious bookcase, or upstairs somewhere. Nina runs back around from the backyard. "He's gone! The car isn't in the garage! We could go now!"
Eddie shakes his head and walks over the the bush. He positions the camera and takes his phone out. He can see right into the living room. "No! He could show up at any time and see us! We need to wait at least a day and watch the camera footage! Then we'll come back!"
"Fine!"
Suddenly, Nina and Eddie hear a gunshot. They look at each other with wide eyes, and they start to run down the huge hill that Daniel's house is on. Halfway down the hill, Nina falls and rolls the rest of the way. "Nina!"
Nina laughs. "I'm fine, Eddie!" She stands up and falls back down. "Scratch that. I think I sprained my ankle!"
Eddie runs down the rest of the hill and helps Nina up. "Can you walk on it?"
Nina puts her foot down and winces. "Nope."
Eddie picks Nina up bridal style. "Come on. Trudy will know what's wrong."
