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Chapter one-
Breathe, breathe, come on Rose just breathe. I'm seriously sh***ing myself and I have every right to be, I guess. I mean I'm used to it; I change schools all the time. It's just what happens when I get there that worries me.
"Rose! Get out of the car! I'll be ancient before you open the bloody door!"
"Jeez, Mum! Just wait! God!" I groaned out angrily. My mother just ignored me, standing there with her arms crossed, tapping her foot.
"You ready Kiz?"Dad asked, putting his arm around my shoulders. I nodded. Here I go into another new school.
I jumped out of the car and faced the huge iron gates in front of me. My father went to verify who we were so we would be able to pass on through the wards. Once they thought we weren't crazy strigoi trying to attack the school we walked up to the Academy itself. It was around lunchtime so it was very dark and only because of my vampire senses was I able to see the campus. Since Moroi were very big on tradition, the school has large architecture, high peaks and stone carvings. In fact it resembles a human's university rather than a high school. I found out before I left that the school is split into age 'groups' of sort. Obviously because I'm 17 then I'm in the secondary campus which was built around a large quadrangle decorated with lots of stone paths and enormous trees. Apparently Moroi dorms were separate to dhampir dorms.
Well enough of the visuals. The walk to Kirova's (headmistress) was … interesting. Everyone was eating their lunch and we just had to pass them. As soon as they saw me they all broke out into a whisper. I caught a few things like 'OMG is that Rose Hathaway! I heard she got expelled 10 times!' or 'Do you think she would hook up with me?' or even 'Look its Janine Hathaway! Is that her daughter? REALLY! I didn't even know she had a daughter! Oh God, I hope he's not the father! Isn't he Abe Mazur? She must be pretty badass!' I laughed at that.
We finally arrived at the headmistress's office. I have a feeling I'll be spending a lot of time in here.
"I have a feeling you'll be spending quite a bit of time in here, Kiz." Dad whispered in my ear. His breath tickled me and I laughed. Sometime we think alike, and I actually find it a bit scary.
But its so special. Especially when most dhampirs don't know their moroi fathers so I'm very lucky.
He released me once we entered and I sat down on a chair near the very back of the room. Here comes the pointles speech.
"Hello Rose, it's wonderful to finally meet you" She held her hand out for me to shake; I looked at it as if it was going to bite me. Out of the corner of my eye I saw my mother giving a disapproving look directed straight to me, so I plastered on a fake smile and shook her hand. She smiled back at me and I cringed, I could tell we weren't going to get along, but then again when do I ever get along with higher authority?
"It's nice to be here." I said, my words laced with heavy sarcasm. The bitch almost dropped her smile, but held it.
"We can't thank you enough for allowing Rose into the school so well, we are all grateful." My mother obviously picked up on my mood because she put heavy emphasis on the word 'all'. After that I zoned out. Blah Blah Blah Blah is all that I heard until I heard my name.
"Yes well we read Rose's records and were pleased with her standards. She will make a fine guardian." Kirova was looking at me when she said that and I felt my lips pull into a small smile. "But we will have to work on her behaviour. I heard she was expelled from three schools already." There goes the smile, it practically flew out the window along with my common sense.
"The only reason I was expelled is because…" I practically shouted, she and the guardians both flinched.
1 for Rose
0 for BITCH
But I trailed off when I caught Abe's eye and looked back down at the floor.
1 all.
"Yes Miss Hathaway?" She was smirking! The bloody bitch was smirking!
"She was expelled because her behaviour was wrong and she wishes to learn from it, don't you Rose?" My mother said. I gave her an exasperated look and she winked, at least my mother knew the real reason.
"Very well. Here at Saint Vladimir's Academy we have a tradition, we gather all the senior dhampirs into the gym and you fight. Just so they get to know you a bit." YES! I get to fight! You're going down dhampirs!
"Well Rose looks happy about that!" My father said smiling at me, he knew how passionate I was about becoming a great guardian and he saw the small smile etched onto my face. "We better be going then, goodbye Kiz, have fun. We'll visit soon, okay?" He said kissing my forehead.
"Okay bye mum, bye dad." I got out of the chair to give them a hug.
"Good bye darling, behave and let us know when you want to catch up. Love you." When she said that I grinned. Me, behave, NEEEVVVEEERR!
"Sure mum, love you too!" I waved to them as they walked out of the office, and then turned back to the mother bitch herself. "So, when this little showdown thing?"
"Not till later so the guardian here will show you to your room. If I'm correct then your number 513 and you will have a room to yourself." Yes! I get my own room!
"Thanks, when and where do I meet for the fight?" I can't wait!
"Be in the Gym by 1am, in clothes you can fight in, of course." No DUH! "Oh and here's your class schedule. Your parents said they wanted you to be mentored so Guardian Petrov here will be your teacher. You will also be mentored with another student."
"Thank-you Headmistress." With that I made my way to my room, well actually I got a bit lost. I walked around for a bit but this stupid map was so confusing! I walked around a bit more until
"OOMPH!" I ran into a Moroi with long beautiful, blonde hair.
"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry! Are you alright? Hey your new here aren't you?" She seemed nice, better test the waters.
"Its ok, and yeah I am, um… do you think you could show me where my room is?" I laughed nervously and she joined me but hers was more relaxed.
"Of course, come on I'll show you." She officially got the Rose tick!
The girl led me down a number of strange corridors and up a few staircases but eventually we arrived in a long corridor. The 500's I realised. Then I remembered that I didn't know her name.
"Thanks, my name's Rose Hathaway, yours is?" She looked a bit shocked but quickly recovered.
"Wow your even prettier than they say you are! And my names Vasilisa Dragomir but my friends call me Lissa." I blushed when she said I was pretty, WAIT! Rose Hathaway does not blush, it was more of a flattered look.
"Well thank you for that compliment. You're pretty good looking yourself!" She grinned widely when I said that. Then she did something that shocked me, she hugged me!
"I can tell we are going to be great friends!" I nodded and patted her back awkwardly. She eventually let go and started to make her back to the way we came waving to me as she went. "If you haven't got any plans you can sit with me at dinner. I'll look for you!" I grinned.
"Okay and thanks!" Now to find that key. I searched through my pockets trying to find the damn key! AHA! There it is, it went into the lock with ease opening it just as easily. The room was pretty plain; it had a double bed and small desk with an old computer. The wardrobe was tiny and I knew I would have trouble fitting all my clothes in it, but I've had worse.
Dumping my suitcase on the floor I jumped onto the bed and fell into a dark dreamless sleep. When I woke up I felt a bit groggy and my hair looked like an elephant farted on it! UGH! As I got out of bed I caught my reflection in the mirror. Yup, my hair was a complete mess, my blood red T-shirt was all crinkled and my eyes looked as if I'd been crying. Had I? I probably had, it's been happening a lot lately; crying in my sleep and not remembering, that is. I had a quick shower, straightened my long dark brown hair; putting it into a high ponytail. I walked over to my suitcase and changed into my workout clothes. They may be for working out but they left little to the imagination. Hugging my curves and bringing out my natural beauty; they made a good first impression.
12:45; good, enough time to find the gym. Locking the door on my way out, I walked down the staircases Lissa took me through this morning. Eventually, I found a huge building with a large sign on it saying GYM. Opening the doors I walked in, there were already a lot of students in here and they were forming a large circle. On my left stood Bitch and her guardians, trying to get everyone's attention. After a while they did and she greeted everyone, followed by my introduction during which Kirova gestured for me to go stand with her. I reluctantly obliged and everyone's eyes were glued on me as I made my way up.
"This is Rose," I'm not going to look scared, "and as you know every time a new student comes to our school, we… get you know each other, of sort. You will fight against each other, using all you abilities. Who would like to verse Rose first?" I gave everyone my man-eating grin and nearly all the boys fainted. No one put their hand up, no one, no one, aha! A muscly boy with short black hair and dark brown eyes raised his hand. He looked cocky, probably thinking that I'm a helpless girl that can't beat a toddler, wrong you are buddy!
"I will!" As he said that I made my way to the centre of the circle adding a small, seductive swing to my hips. He also made his way into the circle and smirked at me. Everyone was staring at us, and I found it amusing that he thought he could beat me. "You're going down Hathaway." He whispered, causing everyone to; OOOOOOOHHHHHH!
"In your f*cking dreams!"