Dimitri left. The only man I had ever loved left me. After two straight weeks of ignoring phone calls, not answering my door and not leaving my room I decided I had better move on with my life. And so, I did.

I showered and changed into my work out gear. Dimitri had left to be Tasha's guardian, which meant I had been left without a mentor. Yesterday a Guardian had come to my room with a message from Alberta saying that they had found me a new guardian. I hadn't been told a name but I was hoping it would be someone but ugly and with a horrible personality, just so I wouldn't be able to fall in love with them too. I checked my alarm clock 6am (pm for humans), I sighed and mentally prepared myself for training. I knew I would be kind of outta shape (my pillow didn't serve to well as a punching bag) and there wasn't much space to go for a jog in my room.

I took a deep breath, this would be the first time in exactly two weeks that I had stepped outside my room. I closed my eyes and smiled, just as I took my first step into my 'Dimitri-free' world I tripped, seriously I fell flat on my face. Well, if that wasn't a bad sign I don't know what is.

"Rose, I'm so sorry" said a voice. Without turning around I knew who it was. Adrian. I plastered a smile on my face and turned. "Hey Adrian...what are you doing?". He looked half asleep, his hair was sticking out on one side. He looked cute. He held a pillow in one hand a blanket in the other. "Are you camping outside my door?"I demanded without letting him answer my first question.

"Uhh, well-I..Yes." He replied looking down.

"Why?" I asked, curiously

"I was pretty much hoping for this, for you to come out of your room. I didn't know when that would be so I thought I'd be on the safe side and just camp here" he said looking a bit embarrassed. I sighed.

"Adrian, I have to go, you know training and all"

"Yeah, yeah sure. Hey listen do you think we could do this again?"

"What? You mean you trip me over again. I may have to decline your offer, I think once was enough" I joked, it was easier than I thought it would be, to be normal again.

Adrian's eyes lit up at my joke "Haha, nice to see Rose is still with us, no I mean talk... if you want to no rush" he said

"Of course we'll talk again, duh at lunch. I'll see ya in a few hours" I said as I headed off towards the gym.

"Okay, god Lissa will be over the moon when she sees you" I heard him say as I rounded the corner to the gym.

Once again I took a deep breath, I pushed the doors of the gym open and set my mind to 'don't think your new mentor is hot' mode.

"Hey, you must be Rose. I'm your new mentor, Alex." Came a... feminie voice.

I looked up and saw a woman, around 35 years old. She was short around 5"3, short pixie cut neon blue hair and she was built pretty much like me.

"Yeah I'm Rose, nice to meet you. I like your hair" I said the first thing that came to my head.

"You do? Ugh this other guy Guardian Alto didn't think so" she said with a laugh.

"Stan? Don't worry about him, I don't" I said smiling. This was going to be great, she pretty much had the same attitude as me, I knew that we would get along great. And a plus, she is a she...No chance of me falling in love. I was over the moon.

"Okay we're gunna stake some dummies, now, where is the heart?" she asked

That one question made me think of Dimitri, god I need to stop thinking about him. I started to think maybe I needed to give Adrian a go, it was obvious he didn't just want me for sex, maybe it would work?

I focused back on training and pointed to the heart. "Good, now, lets kill some bitches" said Alex