Warning: Adrian lovers be warned, Adrian does sort of end up as the bad guy in this story.

Disclaimer: I do not own vampire academy or any of its characters. Though how I wished I owned Christian!

Chapter 1

"Rose, Rose, ROSE!"

"Mm, What?" I zoned back into the conversation that my friends were having. But there was none, instead they were all looking at me expectantly.

I looked around at each of their faces hoping one of them would fill me in. To my left sat my boyfriend of three years Adrian Ivashkov and next to him sat his best friend Andre Dragomir and then his girlfriend Sydney Sage. Next was Sydney's best friend Jill Mastrano and then her boyfriend Eddie Castile. Next to Eddie was his best friend and practically my best guy friend, Mason Ashford with his girlfriend Mia Rinaldi. Christian Ozera sat next to her and Lissa Dragomir, His girlfriend and my best friend, sat in between him and me. And as it just so happens she was the one saying my name.

Our group was sort of the most popular in the school, I guess you could say. Adrian, Andre, and Mia threw the best party's in the school. All the guys, except for Christian, were on the football team, basketball team (which is the one currently in season right now), and Eddie and Mason were on the wrestling team. Sydney was the senior class president since she; along with Adrian and Andre were seniors. Lissa was the junior class president because she was a junior along with the rest of us, except for Jill that is, who was a sophomore. Jill and Sydney were the only ones who weren't on the cheer squad since Jill's kind of too shy, and Sydney just didn't want to. Though Jill is on the dance team. Frankly, I didn't want to cheer either but it's a great work out, time consumer and an excuse to hang out with my friends. It was just us ten. We even had our future's planed out together with going to the same college, even though a few of us didn't actually even want to go to college, and then the five pairs getting houses somewhere near the others. Though, we weren't the type of populars who just hung out with each other, that would get on my nerves. We all had other friends that we talked to and invited to parties and stuff. Hell, between the ten of us the whole school was our friends.

"You weren't listening, were you?" She looked at me expectantly with a playful glare though I knew she was dead serious.

"Um, sorry no, I wasn't. What did you say?"

"I had asked, If you're in tonight?" She looked at me hopefully but I knew that she already knew the answer.

"What's today, Tuesday? Sorry guys, you know I can't, I have work." I gave them my most apologetic look but they all just scowled. Not for the fact that I was ditching them but because I had a job. They were all rich and never had to care about money. Only Sydney and Mason really knew. Sydney had a job at Hot Topic but my friends never complained about that. Hey, Discount! Of course, thanks to Andre, Sydney was spoiled and had things as if she were rich. Mason just worked with his uncle when his uncle needed the help. It was really the only way Mason could keep his car since it's the only thing his mom won't pay for.

Adrian slung his arm loosely over my shoulder and leaned a little closer to me. "You know, babe, I honestly don't know why you have a job. I mean, it's not like you need the money. Your dad sends you like a thousand dollars a month."

It's true; my absentee father did send me money every month. I've never met him and I guess it's sort of his way of saying sorry. But it was eight-hundred a month, not a thousand.

"Um, Adrian, it's eight-hundred and that's not the point. I do my job because it relaxes me and I like it. Is that a problem?" I playfully sent daggers at him though I think they came out a bit harsher than I intended. I mean, I've met and been with the guy since summer after 8th grade year, and I love him to death and back, I couldn't picture myself with anyone else, I didn't want to be with anyone else, but he should defiantly know my basics.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever," He said with an eye roll as he took his arm back so he could tear off a piece of his doughnut and stick it in his mouth. Though I really wasn't paying that much attention because just then somebody walked past our table.

The guy was walking away so I could only see his backside but damn he was tall! If I had to guess I would say 6'4 or 6'5. (Since Dimitri is a 19 year old in high school I'm not making him as tall as he is in the books as a 24 year old) He had brown hair tied back at the nape of his neck and a long coat on. A duster, I think it's called. It looked extremely warm too. It was the middle of January here in the middle of nowhere; Also known as Montana. The snow was starting to melt and the sun was out and shinning; It was medium jacket weather, that is if you've lived here all your life and was used to this weather, which I have and was, and I've most defiantly never seen him before.

"Hey, who's the new guy?" I asked no one in particular as I kept watching him sit down at an empty table in our schools cafeteria with what looks like a bagel for breakfast.

"Well, let's see," I looked over to see that Mia had flipped her phone out and was already scrolling through what was probably Facebook. "His names Dimitri Belikov, He's super sexy, Camille Conta would defiantly tap that, He's from Russia, He's a 19 year old senior, Most likely failed a grade or something, he is panty dropping gorgeous, Meredith Blake is gonna be his by the end of the year and practically every girl at this school that's single, and a few taken ones, are already falling all over him when it's only his first day and school hasn't even started yet." Mia took a big breath when she finished, put her phone in her lap and looked at me with a smirk on her face. "Why? You're not gonna fall for him to are you?"

"Hardly," I snorted. I looked back over at Dimitri. "I just, he seems familiar, that's all. I think I might know him from somewhere." And it was true; Dimitri Belikov did seem achingly familiar. Though I was almost positive I've never met him before because I'm sure I would've remembered. And without another word I got up from my seat, grabbed my bag and made my way over to him.

I hoped on to the table right next to him and swung my legs back and forth a little. "Hey, cowboy."

He immediately looked over at me, looking me up and down real quick. Looking at Dimitri face to face was breath taking and proved that he was indeed panty dropping gorgeous. He had soft, beautiful brown eyes that I could stare into all day if I was allowed. Eyes that were staring just as intently back at me, studying me in the same way. His complexion was perfect, the way his lips set into a tiny, crooked smile was perfect, his hair was perfect; I could honestly say I wouldn't have minded running my fingers through his hair either to see if it was as soft and silky as it looked. My god, he was perfect.

'What are you thinking Rose!? You have a boyfriend! Remember him, Adrian?' A tiny voice screamed in my head.

"Um, hello." My god, that accent!

"I'm Rose." I breathed.

"Dimitri. Do I know you from somewhere?" humph, so I wasn't the only one with a feeling of recognition. Still trying to fully get a hold of myself again I just shook my head. "Prior life, maybe?"

Grabbing a hold of myself again, I cracked a joke. "Oh yeah, you know, I was the beautiful princess all the peasant men were trying to get at and you were my knight in shining armor keeping them all away from me."

He smile slightly grew and he nodded his head in agreement as if actually recalling it. "Oh yeah, only problem was I was trying to get at you too." I released the breath I was holding and we both laughed. I finally had a hold of myself again.

"Well comrade, welcome to St. Vladimir's High School."