While (( c = getc(file)) != EOF) loop won't stop executing

I can't figure out why my while loop won't work. The code works fine without it... The purpose of the code is to find a secret message in a bin file. So I got the code to find the letters, but now when I try to get it to loop until the end of the file, it doesn't work. I'm new at this. What am I doing wrong?

main(){

FILE* message;
int i, start;

long int size;
char keep[1];

message = fopen("c:\\myFiles\\Message.dat", "rb");

if(message == NULL){
    printf("There was a problem reading the file. \n");
    exit(-1);
}


//the first 4 bytes contain an int that tells how many subsequent bytes you can throw away
fread(&start, sizeof(int), 1, message);
printf("%i \n", start); //#of first 4 bytes was 280
fseek(message, start, SEEK_CUR); //skip 280 bytes
keep[0] = fgetc(message); //get next character, keep it
printf("%c", keep[0]); //print character

while( (keep[0] = getc(message)) != EOF) {
    fread(&start, sizeof(int), 1, message);
    fseek(message, start, SEEK_CUR);

    keep[0] = fgetc(message);
    printf("%c", keep[0]);
}

fclose(message);

system("pause");
}

EDIT:

After looking at my code in the debugger, it looks like having "getc" in the while loop threw everything off. I fixed it by creating a new char called letter, and then replacing my code with this:

fread(&start, sizeof(int), 1, message);
fseek(message, start, SEEK_CUR);

while( (letter = getc(message)) != EOF) {
    printf("%c", letter);
    fread(&start, sizeof(int), 1, message);

    fseek(message, start, SEEK_CUR);
}

It works like a charm now. Any more suggestions are certainly welcome. Thanks everyone.