My first fanfic! I might continue if I get enough reviews so feel free to toss out ideas or critiques!

Disclaimer: If you know it, I don't own it!


My mind throbbed with pain as my superhuman hearing took in the screaming high school students sitting around me. I hated these things. They were loud and chaotic. A guardian's worst nightmare. But I wasn't a guardian so I don't why I was so concerned.

My headache forgotten, I slipped into Lissa's mind without a second thought... Or at least I tried to. She was blocking me, which was an odd accurance since I left the academy two months ago. I remembered the day with bittersweetness.

It was the day that I had found out that Lissa and Christian were in love. And the day Dimitri told me that we could never be together. "It could never happen Roza. We would never work out. They would never allow it." Three simple reasons that I could have argued over until either I turned blue or he relented. But then it hit me. He didn't want this. If he did he would have fought for it, for me, for us. After that I couldn't face Liss and Christian. They were happy and I didn't to ruin that for them. So I left. This time by myself.

So here I was in Aquilla, Texas. A town so small that I was pretty positive that the Academy was bigger. But it was small and close-nit and I was positive that no one would find me here. Getting in had been easier than I thought it would have, or should have, been. I had simply told the people at registration that my mother and I had just moved to a close town and that he was busy at her new job and couldn't make it. They gave me the forms and told me to bring them back the next day. I took them to the small hotel where I was renting a room in the next town and started forging. I found myself missing everything that I had left behind but quickly shoved that thought away as the cheerleaders on the court below started calling out names for some skit meant to raise morale for the upcoming football game. I didn't get it but hey, is was Texas, and if you can't beat em' join em'.

A small blonde in a burnt orange uniform called my name and, although flabbergasted, I stepped down from the stands and walked to the center of the basketball court with the other people who had been called.

We stood there waiting for directions and praying that it wouldn't be too embarrassing. Suddenly the small gym was filled with men and (a couple of women i notices) in black and white. Guardians. At least 10 of them. Before anyone knew what had happened all the people around me were pulled away and the guardians formed a circle around me. But I hardly noticed them. I was only thinking about one person who happened to be standing right in front of me. His dark eyes watching my every move, his nearly black hair pulled back into a ponytail, and his duster flaring out behind him making him look like a cross between a cowboy and an avenging angel. Our eyes locked and a single word escaped his beautiful lips. "Roza."

Dimitri. My Dimitri.


Cheesy I know! Review please!