Full Description: Sticking to Mason dying, but Rose being able to see him everyday like nothing has changed. But the truth is everything has changed, Mason's a ghost and things begin to heat up yet again with Dimitri. Will Rose for once choose someone other than Dimitri or will she fall back into the arms of Dimitri? How will Rose handle everything with Lissa and Christian? Then there is Adrian slipping into her dreams and invading her privacy like always.

Chapter 1: Rose

I stood there, watching them lower Mason into the ground. I still couldn't believe this had happened. I know this was the consequence of what we had done but it still hadn't seemed right. Everything was just starting to become normal for all of us. Even things with Dimitri seemed normal, he'd told me to try to give things with Mason a chance, and that's what I had been on my way to his room to do.

I've been blocking out the rest of it, which has been easy since Lissa had been using a lot of spirit's lately. Ever since we got back from the ski resort in Spokane, she'd been practicing as much as she could with Adrian. This didn't help anything though, this only seemed to encourage him to use spirits to slip into my dreams. I did trust Lissa and Adrian, but the thing that keeps me up at night is is that I didn't trust the spirits.

I'd been dreading this day for a long time now; I hated when someone would mention the date. This even seemed to make Dimitri a little worried. Lissa was worried and instead of expressing that to me she told Christian. Well she told him during their make-out sessions in the Church attic. I'm happy she's found someone, but I still didn't completely trust him yet. It wasn't for the same reason everyone else tried to stay clear of him. I'm don't think he'd turn Strigio on us, it was because of him hurting Lissa. I couldn't deny it though, Christian had definitely grown on me, and I knew Lissa had noticed it.

Lissa was resting her head on Christian's arm crying softly, she was trying to be strom, but today it looked like it was Christian's turn to be her rock. Eddie was standing next to me. He'd told me he could be my shoulder to cry on since mine was gone. I know he meant it as a joke but it still hurt. Eddie had too been good friends with Mason. We both had been being held captive along with another girl by Strigio.

Mason had been there for me and Lissa when we came back after being on the run from the academy for two years. I'd known he'd had a thing for me, but everything that started with Dimitri when we came back was just too much. I'd flirted with him, which probably gave him false hope which I felt bad for, but I was trying to be nice. He should've also known that I was the flirty type. Yep, that's me flirty Rose, it got me in trouble a lot, along with my attitude.

When they had finally finished lowering Mason into the ground, I realized I couldn't take this anymore, I had to get out of here away from all of this. At that moment I wish with all my heart that Dimitri or Mason were here. Mason would've made a joke about how this is all ironic in some way and Dimitri would tell me to suck it up and be strong like a guardian.

I told Eddie to stay and make sure Lissa was fine and not to come after me. He knew I could take care of myself so I'm hoping that he wouldn't come after me. I walked away from all this death, I knew this was part of being a guardian, but this was my friend, my friend whom I was going to try to have a relationship with. I was almost out of the cemetery when a figure stood in my path.

This figure wasn't a human it was transparent, and worst of all it looked a lot like Mason. No, I take that back it looked exactly like Mason. I stopped and just stared. I didn't say anything or scream, I'd gotten used to weird things happening to me since we figured out about the bond and all of that stuff. It ended up giving me weird things that just wouldn't stop happening in my life. And I was pretty sure this was a ghost. No it was Mason's ghost.

"Mason?" I whispered just barely making a sound. I couldn't believe this I was going to try talking to a ghost, did this make me officially crazy or just on the edge of being crazy? I'm not really sure what any of this means.

"Rose! You can see me!" His face light up with delight. He looked as though he'd been trying to get my attention for awhile. The truth was that he had been. He'd been trying for a very long time.

"Yeah, but how?" Oh for the love of god, why was I doing this? Why was I making myself look like I was completely and utterly insane.

"You know the bond between Lissa and you? Well her bringing you back to live meant that you had been dead, but she pulled you back before you reached the other side. You're this thing called Shadow Kissed. Shadow meaning I believe that you can see ghosts." Mason made sense which to anyone else I'm sure he just sounded like a crazy person.