13 FEELING FRUSTRATED, I went to my bedroom to sulk and decided to remove the bandage from my wrist. It felt like the pressure from the bandage aggravated me more than the sprain. Once it was off, I noticed that it felt much better. I went back downstairs to watch television, and find out if there were any more missing teens in town. Fortunately, the biggest story was about a sixty-year-old woman who’d just given birth to triplets. I thought about my mother giving birth to Caleb’s child and shuddered. Could vampires even impregnate women? I hoped to never find that answer out. As I was flipping through the channels, I started thinking about Duncan again and wondered what in the hell had really happened to him. I was pretty sure that Celeste had made the entire thing up. I needed to get

