diclamier: sadly, i own nothing of vampire academy. the lovely Richelle Mead owns everything except for Arianna and the plot i have in this story... :)

"Rose, what's your favorite color?"

I looked at Lissa and tilted my head, giving her a questioning look.

"What?" she said a fake look of hurt on her face. "I can't ask my best friend a question?"

"No, you can, just not stupid ones like that" I replied teasing her.

Lissa groaned and sat down in a huff, all the while glaring at me. I could tell through the bond that she was genuinely curious, although I had no idea why. Was it Christmas time already? No, Christmas wasn't for another month. My birthday? Nope not that either. So what could it be?

"Green…" I said finally.

"Green?" Lissa said perking up. "What shade of green? Lime, blue-green, jungle green? Come on Rose! You've got to help me!"

"I don't know!" I said suddenly frustrated. "What up with the twenty questions anyway?"

"Just answer the question! It's not that hard!" Lissa said sounding annoyed.

"Fine…. Emerald green…. I guess…" I said "happy now?"

"Extremely" Lissa said smiling like she just won a million bucks. I probed into her mind knowing that she would be too distracted to tell and tried to find out what the big deal was about my favorite color. I couldn't find it.

"Why green?" a new voice asked.

Faster than lightning I jumped up and pulled Lissa behind me, my guardian instincts kicking in. I mentally kicked myself when I realized that I didn't have a stake on me. but it turns out I didn't need one. It was a dhampir, a dhampir girl no less. And she was, gorgeous there were no other words for it.

She had long wavy chestnut hair that had dark blonde and auburn highlights in it. She was shorter than me. Maybe 5'2. But what she didn't have in height she defiantly had in curves. I envied her for her small waist. It wasn't as small as a Moroi's but it was pretty damn close. Her face looked like it was airbrushed with high, sharp cheekbones and flawless skin. She was tan. Like California tan and to make it worse, it was natural. She had mossy green eyes that were rimmed in gold, like a cats. But there was a crazy, unhinged twinkle in her eye that made her look like someone that would be fun to party with and do stupid stuff with. But judging from Lissa's gasp her aura must've been pretty crazy too. But no matter how crazy I thought she was, nothing could've prepared me for what Lissa said next.

"She's shadow kissed!" Lissa whispered frantically.

"What!" I almost shouted.

"Look into my mind and look at her aura." Lissa said quietly.

I entered her mind and saw the world through Lissa's eyes. The girl was just as pretty in Lissa's mind as she was in my mind but it was her aura that I was staring at. Lissa wasn't kidding. She was shadow kissed. Her aura was rimmed in black just like mine. But how was that possible?

"You must be a spirit user..." the girl said quietly. "I'm right aren't I?"

I didn't think I could get anymore shocked. But then she uttered her next words and I realized that I shouldn't have talked so fast.

"oh! Where are my manners! Hi, my name is Arianna Ivashkov, it's a pleasure to meet you" she said giving us a big perfect smile.

That's when all hell broke loose.

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