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rooms had the exact same plaid walls.
    She went around
pushing on walls and tapping on surfaces to find this secret hidden bookcase
but it was nowhere to be found. She tried a third and a fourth room with the
same outcome. She felt like giving up but couldn’t.
    Her heart was
leaping out of her chest at the thought of entering another room and risking
being caught by the other vampires. She didn’t know what would happen if they
were to find her. She knew it wouldn’t be good, though, and was scared at the
mere thought of it.
    As she approached
the fifth door, she was hoping for a better outcome. She was petrified that
someone would be in the room when she knocked, but luckily, it was empty. As
she entered, she saw the same plaid wallpaper—but this room was a little
different than the rest. On the far wall was a roaring fireplace with a large
stone mantle above it. There was a  sitting area in front of the fireplace and
two walls of books on either side. Immediately, Rachel went over to the
bookshelf to see if this was the secret bookcase and started pushing and
tugging to find the secret door. After what felt like hours of prodding the
right side of the bookcase, she found nothing. She even glanced at all the
titles of the books and none of them was the old coven book.
    Then, as if by
chance she looked over at the mirror and in its reflection saw a tiny glimmer
of light coming from the other side of the bookshelf. She slowly walked towards
the light and peeked in through the crack. It was so small that she couldn’t
see in the crack. Part of her was scared to touch it as the light poured out.
It was almost as if the glow of an angle was behind the wall. She knew this was
it, she knew this must be the secret bookshelf that Hunter was talking about.
She had to find a way to open it though.
    She pressed and
prodded, but nothing. The bookshelf would not open.
    Her mind kept
going back to all those movies she used to watch where the detective would
waltz into a room and swing open the secret bookshelf and find the missing
link, but that wasn’t happening to her. It was much harder than she expected.
She knew now that it would not be easy and it would take much more than a
simple push to open this so-called secret bookcase.
    She looked around
the room, maybe it needed to be opened with some sort of key, she thought. She
opened drawers and checked under the carpets for hidden keys, but nothing.
There were no keys, nor did she see a key hole anywhere on the bookshelf so
even if she had found some key she wouldn’t even know where to put it.
    Then she stood in
front of the bookcase, and if by sheer force willed it to open. She used Mind
Control for the first time on something other than an animal or a human—and it
worked. The book shelf began to part and the ray of light that was peeking out
of the small crack began to flood there room. For a second, Rachel thought she
was entering the gates of Heaven.
    When the doors
finally opened all the way, there, in the glowing ray of light, lay the old
coven book. She knew this was it. It was the thickest book she’d ever seen and
must have been two feet tall, lying on its back looking up at her. It was bound
in beautiful brown leather with a golden embossed cover which read CXB and under it was a picture of a panther with fangs. She wasn’t sure what CXB
stood for, but figured it had to do with something from this coven.
    She stood there
for a second in awe of this enormous and beautiful book. She knew this book
would hold the key to healing Benji, but she worried that it would take her
days to find the right page with the information about the Red Amulet. She
turned around to make sure that nobody had come in after her or sensed that she
was upstairs before she opened the book. Then, she turned and lifted the front
cover.
    The feel of the
book reminded her of her father’s old Encyclopedia collection that was bound in
beautiful leather. She was hoping to find some sort of table