This is set after the cabin scene and strigoi attack, Dimitri was never turned. Not sure when Mia started being nice to Rose and Lissa but in this one she is, and Mia still lives at the academy.

Disclaimer-I own nothing, but wish I did, it all belongs to the talented Richelle Mead.

Chapter 1… Dance committee, do I have too?

Beep Beep Beep.

The most annoying sound that anyone can hear, the sound of your alarm clock. I hit the snooze button hoping for 5 more minutes of peaceful sleep before I had to get up and go through the hell Dimitri called training.

I closed my eyes and what felt like a second later the beeping started again. This time I decided that I better get up or I am going to be even more late and I am going to have to do extra laps.

I got up, brushed my teeth, brushed my hair put it up in a ponytail, and put on a sports bra with some track shorts. I ran down to the gym with my bag and a water, and surprisingly was on time. Turns out I wasn't the only one that was surprised, because when I threw opened the door Dimitri jumped and let out a yelp of surprise.

I was shocked to say the least that Dimitri Belikov, my Russian GOD actually yelped when I opened the door. He looked at me and gave me a stern look before laughing along with me. When I finally calmed down enough I said

"That was something I NEVER thought I was going to see Comrade." he only replied

"You're early, you're never early."

"well I might start being early if this is the response I get when I am" I laughed again and he just told me to do my laps.

Grudgingly I went out to the track and ran, and ran, and ran. This is the one thing that I don't like about training, is all of the running, I know why I have to do it, but that doesn't make it any more enjoyable.

When I got back inside Dimitri was in the corner reading his western novel, and looked up when I came in. We sparred for the rest of practice, and this was the hardest he ever went on me, I never thought that he was holding back before, but now I'm pretty sure he was. I think he just had to prove that he was the same Russian god I fell in love with.

I barely got one hit on him the whole practice, all I got was a bunch of bruises and blocked punches, and kicks. I was getting more and more frustrated one that I wasn't able to hit him, and two that he was holding back on me during all of our other practices. I gave a punch kick combination that was my secret weapon, because he hadn't been the one who taught it to me, it was Alberta who showed me during one of our classes. I'm pretty sure I was the only one besides her who knew about it.

It definitely caught him by surprise and I finally got to pin him. We were both breathing heavily, we were sweaty, and I didn't even bother to keep any of my weight off of him because I was just too tired to try. I stared into his eyes, our faces only inches apart and I kissed him. He hesitated before kissing me back with more love then I ever thought possible by one person.

He rolled me over so that he was on top and then got up. I sighed, and he chuckled.

"Good job Roza, I've never seen that move before, I definitely didn't teach it to you, where did you learn it?" I could tell he was just curious but I was not going to give up that information, so I pulled a classic Dimitri.

"Novice secrets" and with that I walked out of the gym to get a much needed shower, and food.

I went to breakfast, and I was starving, my stomach confirmed my thought by letting out a loud growl that I'm amazed the whole cafeteria didn't hear. I went to the lunch line and got pancakes, French toast, and four chocolate glazed doughnuts. Satisfied with what I had on my tray I went back to our table.

Lissa, Christian, Mia, and Eddie where there and not surprisingly, Adrian was nowhere to be seen, it was still too early for him. Everyone looked at my tray with wide eyes accept Eddie who just asked "Belikov?"

"How'd you know?" I asked in my best sarcastic tone, which was really good.

"The bruises" That's when everyone else seemed to look at my arms, and Lissa my legs because she was on my side of the table and she let out a little gasp before placing her hands on me. Before I registered what she was doing my body felt 100 times better and I hadn't realized how bad I had hurt until then. I gave her a disapproving look.

"Those would have healed on their own." I didn't want her wasting her power on just some bruises, I also definitely did not want to have to absorb any darkness over something so small. Unless of course it ended up the way it had last time, minus the strigoi trying to kill us all part, and me trying to kill Jesse, and me trying to hurt Dimitri, okay so all I really wanted was to be in that cabin again.

I was broken out of my thoughts when I was flooded with happiness and excitement from the bond.

"What is it Liss?" I asked

"What is what?" Oh she is trying to play dumb, well that is so not going to work.

"You know exactly what, now spill."

"Well I talked to Kirova this morning and asked if we could have a graduation dance" They had canceled it because of the attack.

"When you say you asked her do you mean asked or asked?" I was sure I already knew the answer, and my suspicions were confirmed when Lissa blushed and I felt guilt through the bond.

"So because you asked her, she said yes" I said, putting extra emphasis on the asked part.

"Of course she said yes, it is going to be in a month." That's when I got excited too, and Mia and we all started jumping up and down in our seats. (A/N: not sure the actual time line in the book but that is what it is in this)

"And guess what else!"

"What?" Mia and I asked in unison

"I signed us up for the dance committee" with this new piece of information I groaned and Mia squealed.

"Dance committee, do I have too?" I whined

"Yes Rose you have too" With that Eddie and Christian started laughing at me before Lissa turned to them and said "If I were you I wouldn't be laughing because I signed you up too." Now it was my turn to laugh and their turn to groan.