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small town has its advantages. There’s not a lot of crime and you know everybody. The downside is that there’s nothing to do and you know everybody.”
    “I can see that.”
    It only took them a few minutes to get through town; there weren’t very many people out. Everybody was probably at church tonight, trying to wash away a week’s worth of sin. Paige couldn’t stand church or the church crowd, so she avoided it as well as she could. Although, she was beginning to think maybe the bible wasn’t as fake as she once thought. If werewolves and vampires are real then what about angels and demons?
    The night air was cool and she cruised with the windows down, trying to get some fresh air in on them. Travis filled so much of the car it was getting hard to breath. She left the radio off, not wanting to arouse suspicion or attention from anyone that may be walking down the street. Travis had retreated into his own world after his last words, probably concentrating on the task in front of them. The silence hung heavy in the car, thick enough to cut with a knife.
    Finally the buildings of Main Street gave way to houses and then to trees, leading them out of town. Just outside of town she turned right on a gravel road, following it as it twisted through the trees. To the left and right were old dilapidated houses or mobile homes, the absolute dregs of society. People bought this land cheap and slapped whatever they could on it, trying to make ends meet.
    Finally they came to the end of the street where the road dipped low, leading to a dilapidated old farmhouse sitting at the bottom of a hill.
    “Is this his home?” Travis asked.
    “It is,” Paige said.
    “How do you know where he lives?” he asked.
    Paige had wondered when he was going to ask this question. “My brother and I delivered some supplies to him one night. He couldn’t make it into town and he’d asked for us to help him out by bringing his usual order out to his house.”
    “And he didn’t try to eat either one of you?” he asked, his face a mask of questions.
    “Not at all,” she said. “Actually he met us at the truck when we pulled up. We didn’t even have to get out.”
    “How long ago was that?” he asked.
    “A long time actually,” she said. “I haven’t seen Dario in at least a month.”
    “Stay here,” Travis said, getting out of her car and staring down the hill at the house below. “If there’s trouble leave and don’t come back.”
    “Wait,” she started to say, but it was too late: Travis was already stalking down the hill towards the house.
     

Chapter 7
     
    The vampire kept his house very dark, there was no light on the property. Luckily, Travis could see in the dark. If Paige had decided to join him she probably would’ve already broken an ankle trying to make her way down the hill.
    When Travis got to the bottom he looked back up at the top where she had shut her car off and turned out the lights.
    Why is that hill so steep? It’s way too steep for a driveway. It’s odd for a vampire to live in such a crappy home, he thought.
    Travis started sneaking towards the front door but stopped when he saw the porch in front of it, it was made of old rickety wood, it would creak if he put any of his considerable weight on it. Vampires had very keen senses; he would immediately be given away. Although, the vampire probably already heard the car or saw the lights. Hopefully he thought it was someone trying to turn around. Silently he cursed himself for not thinking things through better and asking her to drop him off further down the road.
    The vampire’s home wasn’t much bigger than the cottages Travis was used to living in. It was kind of cozy with the trees behind it: if he was a lone wolf he’d consider living in a place like this.
    I bet there are deer in that forest, he thought. I could hunt every day and never have to eat processed human food again.
    He sniffed the air, trying to find any evidence of traps around