Here's the next chapter, even though I shouldn't be putting it up,
since NO ONE responded to the quiz. I'm really DISAPPOINTED about
that.

So for now on I'm going to take my time in updating, which is
going to be hard since I already have like the next SEVEN or so
chapters ready.

But anyways, ENJOY.

PEASE RESPOND...

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"You did?" I squealed as I jumped on Adrian for a hug. "How? When? Why didn't you tell me sooner?" I asked in a rush, not giving him time to answer.

He shook me as he covered my mouth with his hand. "Calm your horses Rose. I'll tell you everything, every little detail." He let go of me as I started jumping with joy, making him laugh. It's weird of me acting so childish, but I can't believe that Adrian actually got a hold of Lissa. I somehow knew that he would eventually, but it's so good to hear that he finally did. It almost made me want to kiss him, almost.

"Well, tell me," I said, waving my hands in front of his face.

"Fine, just calm down and sit," Adrian said as he pulled up a chair by the bed as I jumped down on the bed. "Well you already know that Dimitri told me to try to get a hold of her, so I tried of course. I was trying to think when Eddie found me and asked if I wanted to go out and eat with him, so I went and we started talking. Then I told him that you guys wanted me to try to get a hold of Lissa, and he thought it was a good idea also. So I closed my eyes like I always do, and concentrated on Lissa. Everything about Lissa, how she looked, acted, what she wore last, anything and everything."

"And.." I said, trying to rush him to the part with Lissa.

"Nothing." I stared at him with a blank look.

"What do you mean nothing?" I so wanted to hit him. He just told me that he did talk to Lissa, and now he didn't.

"Well nothing at first. So I thought harder and harder. Then I finally got a dark room with a blanket on something that was moving. I whispered her name, hoping it was her, but it just made her hide under the blanket and sniffle, like I was going to hurt her."

"How'd she look? Is she okay?"

"She looked bad. There were dark circles under her eyes, and she was paler than normal. She was a big mess, but of course I didn't mention that to her, I didn't want her to be any sadder than she was."

"Poor Lissa," Dimitri muttered. "What were they doing to her? Wait! Was she a Strigoi?"

"I was getting to that part. Gosh, don't rush me. Okay, so where was I? Oh, so as I was saying, she tried to hide. So I told her it was me, that it was okay. She straightened up and started to look around. And that's when I found out that she couldn't see me. At first I thought that maybe she had gone blind, but I realized a little later that she wasn't."

"What do you mean she couldn't see you? Like you were a ghost or something?" I asked worriedly.

"Something like that. It was like I was there, but then at the same time, I wasn't. She could hear me, but not see me. I asked the first question anyone would ask her, 'Where was she?'. But she didn't know the exact location," Adrian said in a rush before I could interrupt him again. "All she knew was that they were headed west."

"West," Dimitri whispered with a puzzled look on his face.

"What is it?" I asked him as I scooted over to him on the bed.

"Nothing, I was just thinking. Why would they go west?" he asked as he looked at Adrian.

"That's what I asked her and she told me that they're going to the leader," we all gave him a blank look as he continued. "I know, that's what I thought. She also thought it was weird since Strigoi don't usually stay in large groups, so why would they have a leader. But all she knows is that the leader apparently told the Strigoi to keep Lissa human until he or she saw her. She said that the leader calls from where ever he's at, and they follow the orders. But I haven't even gotten to the worse part, or what I thought was the worst part."

"Well tell us then," I yelled, getting angry that he was taking his time.

"You know how I said that I'd tried to get a hold of Lissa before, but couldn't?" We all nodded, waiting for him to continue. "Well I found out why I couldn't, and probably why she couldn't see me. The leader ordered the Strigoi to feed from her to keep her weak. And they hardly let her eat. So she never really went to sleep, she always just pasted out, her mind was always blank, that's why I always just got blackness."

"So how did you get a hold of her this time?" Dimitri asked because I was still in shock.

"She actually fell asleep this time. She said that they feed from her and she pasted out. Then she woke back up, but didn't move or open her eyes. Instead, she just went to sleep. She apparently heard before she went to sleep that one of the Strigoi was worried that they'd taken too much this time 'cause they thought she was out for a while."

"Okay," I muttered, finally coming back from hearing that she was actually being feed from and that she wasn't a Strigoi, or at least not yet. "So they're keeping her weak from feeding from her, they're heading west to their leader, and Lissa isn't a Strigoi."

"Yeah. but she told me that they're trying to make her become Strigoi, but they want her to want it, if not, she said they'll kill her. And she told me that's what she wants, to die."

"NO, SHE CAN"T DIE," Christian screamed from the corner by Janine and Abe, saying something for the first time.

"And that's what I told her," Adrian said as he got up. "That she can't die, everyone needs her. That if she had to choose, she should just become Strigoi, so that way we could change her back since we know how to. But she was worried that she'd kill people before we got to her, and she couldn't stand that. But she did agree to me that she'd try." Everyone looked at Adrian, waiting for more details. But when it finally looked like there was none, we all sat back down and was silent for what felt like forever.

"Well, what do we do now?" Eddie whispered, not really wanting to interrupt the silence, but asking the obvious question.

"More planning?" Adrian suggested.

"Dhh," I mumbled as I went to pull out a map out of my bag. I grabbed it and a pencil and went the desk by the door. "Well we're here," I said as I put an X on the map of where we were. "And here's the court. And here's where Lissa was taken." I marked the court with a little building, and the place where Lissa was taken with an airplane since we were at the airport. "And you said she said that they were headed west?" I asked Adrian.

"Yeah. But she also said that they knew we would be following them, so they keep heading different directions, from south to north and back to south and so on. Just to try to lose us. But I'll keep trying to get a hold of Lissa every now and then, to make sure. She also said they keep her blind folded, except when they stop at a gas station so she can use the restroom. She said the last place she remembers them being is in Colorado. 'Cause you know they can't drive when it's light outside. So we can probably catch up with-in a day or so." I marked Colorado with a question mark and then put everything back in my bag.

"So we're heading to Colorado now," I said, looking into everyone's eyes. "Are you guys ready to leave now?" Then I grabbed my stuff and went to the van.

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