I hastily slammed the door behind me, angrily leaving the principal's office. I mean, seriously, somebody had had to put the teacher in place. She had thought she was miss-know-it-all and I just so happened to be the one to tell her how it was. Excuse me for being honest!

I continued my walk, stepping out of the main building, and walking to the other side of campus. I thought about Kyle, waiting in our dorm room alone, and immediately checked the bond to make sure he was okay.

He was, though it seemed like I was, sitting on the couch watching TV. Of course, deep down inside, I already knew he would be. His favourite TV show was always on at this hour. Ugh, I could never get some peace and quiet after such frustrating days at school.

Though, I guess it was good to have the distraction. That way, I didn't have to think about my problems, about reality. It pushed away, to the back of my mind as much as it could go, my thoughts of how I could have one day been a successful guardian. Sometimes things just didn't make any sense. I now had no idea what I would do with my future. I realized that we had left the academy for a reason, to protect Kyle from whatever weird things were going on, but now I just didn't know if that was such a good idea. I mean, really, we couldn't hide from the well-trained and numbered guardians forever! I didn't want to live a life of fear of rounding the corner never knowing who I was going to bump into, or more like have to run away from.

Though, I guess now it was too late. There was no way I could ever even think about going back to the academy- they would take Kyle and force me away.

I kept on having mental attacks as I made my way through our dorm building, up to our dorm room. I passed many humans. Yep, we were living amongst humans, but they weren't all that bad. At first, it was kind of difficult for the both of us to adjust as we didn't know how to act, but now we were fine. Actually, we had grown fond of some of these non-vampires. It was the complete opposite in the beginning though. They thought we were different in some way (they thought right), therefore thinking we were weird. That all changed though once they got to know that we, well more so I, were rebellious teens like them (most of the time, because, you know, I can be an angel. Well, not really).

Once I arrived at our dorm room, I didn't bother knocking as I knew the TV would be on so loud that Kyle wouldn't even hear me.

I pulled out my keys, of course I had to drop them on the floor, picked them up and used them to unlock the door. I was right- the TV was blaring. Ugh, I so didn't want to deal with this now.

"Kyle, could you please turn down the TV- I have a headache because of the stupid principal! I swear, all he ever does is talk, talk talk, talk talk. Well, more like lecture. My ears are ringing from it all! "

"Oh Dimitri Belikov, what have you done know- or should I ask?" he replied with much sarcasm- he loved to tease me about all the trouble I got in- but I wasn't sure if I had also heard a hint of something else in his voice. I just couldn't put my finger on it. Yet.

"Don't even go there, just turn down the TV," I replied angrily. I knew I shouldn't be yelling at him. After all, he hadn't really done anything wrong, but I was just so frustrated with my life and I needed someone to take it all out on.

"You're in luck. My show just finished. Wow that must have been some long lecture!" he replied and I couldn't help but notice his eyes drift closed for a few seconds before opening again.

I observed Kyle more closely. Even though he had already shut the TV off, he was still lying down on the couch. He looked quite tired and I continued to contemplate why that might be.

All of a sudden, I gasped. Of course! How long had it been since he had last fed? Obviously too long.

He must have realized what I was thinking because he responded to my unspoken question aloud "It's been a few days. I didn't want to disturb you. You seemed busy."

"You shouldn't have worried about me," I wanted to tell him that he had me worrying more now than I would have been if he had fed right away.

I walked over to the couch as he sat up. I plopped down on the empty space of the couch and leaned my neck towards him.

He bit into my neck and I felt a pure sensation of bliss. Though, I knew I would be out of it for a while after this was done.

Since Kyle couldn't feed off any human now that we were in the real world, I let him feed off me. We were different in many ways. For one, he was a moroi, a full vampire, though a good vampire. He needed blood but he didn't drink enough to kill. Strigoi were the bad vampires, immortal. They lived off of moroi and human blood, but preferably moroi. That's why dhampir like me were trained to become guardians for the moroi. We needed to protect them from those evil creatures of the night. We were strong and fast by nature, while moroi were magically inclined. Moroi specialized from either one of the four elements: earth, fire, air and water. Though, we weren't sure why, but Kyle hadn't specialized yet. It was so weird. But he could do cool things like use compulsion stronger than most moroi.

That wasn't Kyle's and my only difference though. We also had physical differences. Kyle was tall, not tanned since the sun wasn't good for him, and had curly, short, light blonde hair with jade green eyes while I still was very tall with tanned skin and had long, shoulder length, brown hair with brown eyes.

I was Russian. I had grown up In Siberia with my family and had gone to the academy there, St-Basil's. When I had turned ten, I had gotten myself kicked out of the academy so they sent me to St-Vladamir's in Missoula, Montana. There, I had met Kyle and we became best friends. We had developed a bond, stronger than any normal bond. A bond where I could feel Kyle's emotions and so on. We didn't know how it had happened, it just did. It was a big help since we were out in the real world and I barely knew how to defend myself against anybody, let alone strigoi. That really scared me. Especially because, since the accident, Kyle was the last of the Dragomirs, which meant he was probably a big target for strigoi.

I was really enjoying myself-too much- when Kyle pulled his head back. I felt dizzy and light-headed.

"Why don't you go lie down?" It wasn't really a question. "Come on," he said as he pulled me off the couch and started walking us to our room, where I collapsed on my bed. We were lucky. We were in one of the not so many dorm rooms that didn't confine students to just one room with two beds. We had two rooms in our dorm room: the living room and our room where we slept.

"I'll be right here doing my homework if you need anything. Tell me if I'm bothering you," Kyle, always so thoughtful.

"Thanks," I replied so low that he probably didn't even hear me.

I immediately dozed off. I felt amazing. I was on the beach, the sun shining down on my face as my feet caressed the sand, along with the water from the ocean that slid up my ankles. I could hear and see the waves crashing against the shore. It was breathtakingly beautiful. Then instantly, almost as quickly as it had come, it was gone. I was standing by the window in our cramped up room, staring outside. I was staring at a woman…. a dhampir. She had long brown hair so dark that it looked black, with brown eyes. She was curvy and well built. She was beautiful. Yet, I felt something was wrong. I felt a fear, and even though I couldn't figure out why, I knew that deep down inside I just knew. I thought hard and jumped awake as soon as the answer came to me. It wasn't me staring out the window. It was Kyle, staring at the elegant dhampir. A guardian.

I jumped out of bed and went to stand beside Kyle at the window. Yep, I was right. There she was… watching us.

"Kyle, get the keys. Now. We have to get out of here right away," I said in a panicked voice, though trying to portray calmness.

I had a bad feeling about this.