left St. Vladimir in the freshman year. Adrian is only one year older than Rose. Lissa is Rose's best friend but she spends most of her time with her royal friends. Lissa and Rose never ran away but they are bonded. Rose is studious good girl, best in every subject and badass in gym. But she is shy and more respectful and mature. She knows her father but he doesn't have a great relationship with him.
Chapter 1
Oh God. I have never thought Lissa would do that to me. She is in a relationship with Christian Ozera. He has a bad reputation in the class. When he was young, his parents turned to Strigoi willingly. Oh God.. I can't believe Lissa would hide this from me. And I can't even tell it to someone.
Mason. No... He is one of my oldest best friend and he will never tell it to someone else but still it's Lissa and Mason doesn't like to talk about Lissa. I wish Adrian would be here.
Adrian..
It still hurts me. Even his name reminds me of a vacant space in my heart and a lost hope. I still dream of him making silly jokes and him calling me his "Little Dhampire". Initially I was annoyed by this nickname but with time I have learned to like it. It's been almost two years since I last him. I know I shouldn't have been so angry at him. But still he knew he was going. At least he should have told me, I would have mentally prepared myself. Actually no... If I had known that he is going to leave. I would have tried everything to make him stop. I would have pleaded to him, I would have cried. And he knew that. So that day he did everything to make me angry, to make me hate him. And I had been so angry at him that when he called my name, my real name I didn't turn back to see him for the one last time. I regret that and I still wish that I would have gone back in time and change that.
I am sitting in the gym alone after a long morning practice. Sweat was dripping off my skin and my shirt seem to be drenched by it. I have to change before everyone comes in. I went to the changing room and took out another pair of sweat shirt and pants. Took a short shower and changed into the clean pair. I dumped my dirty clothes in my bag. When I returned to the gym, almost everyone from my class was present there. I noticed Mason standing beside Eddie Castile. I walked toward him, when Mason saw me coming toward him, he waved at me.
He greeted "hey, Rose"
I returned his greeting. And then we did our secret friendship handshake.
With his red hair that stuck up everywhere, he was good looking guy. And also one of the funniest guys I knew.
"This is my time, Hathaway. I am leading the session today."
"Oops" i replied "I thought it would be a nice time to teach you a few good lessons."
"It's never a nice to learn from a little girl" said Eddie Castile, a good friend of mine, breaking the tension between us.
I paired off with Mason. We had a good fight, but not good enough. I stabbed him in the first five minutes.
Then I was paired off with Eddie Castile, he kicked me hard in the stomach, I punched him in the face and stomach repeatedly. I leaned backward and let him come forward and when he pushed his punch towards me and kicked his leg, blocking the punch and making him fall on the wooden floor. Then I stabbed him.
I whispered to him "its always a good time to learn from a little girl."
I stood up. A guy stood behind me. He was older than us, maybe mid-twenties and probably tall as six-six or six-seven. He had shoulder-length brown hair, tied back in a ponytail. Dark brown eyes. A long brown coat- a duster, I thought it was called. He had deep tanned skin, much deeper than my own skin color. He came in a gesture of attacking me.
Panicked and not entirely in control of my higher reasoning. I acted out my instinct. I attacked him first. The move was stupid. And it was hopeless. He was a skilled guardian, not a novice who hadn't finished her training.
He moved fast, really fast. He knocked me off. I went on flying. I fell on the ground. I know my back is going to be soar along with the pain Eddie gave me. I stood up quickly, ready for another attack. He jumped on me and God, he was fast. I fell on the ground and I felt tired. God knows I have been practicing for hours. My back hurt, really bad. He was over. I felt nervous, I have been this close to any guy. And God he was good looking. I took all my strength and stood trying to punch him. But that didn't make any difference. He barely touched me and I was flying across the room. I started to fall. Its going to hurt alot.
Only it didn't.
Just as quickly as he blocked me, the man reached out and caught my arm, keeping me upright. When I steadied myself, I noticed he was staring at me. He left me. I stood back, trying to keep myself standing.
A pair of arms caught hold of me. I turned to see, it was Mason. Eddie joined him.
That man said "My name is Dimitri Belikov," I could hear a faint Russian accent. "I've come to train you, Rosemarie Hathaway."
But by the time he completed I lost my balance and fell and I can't see who caught me.
Chapter 2
Headmistress Kirova was a tall and slim, like most moroi. She was sharp nosed and gray-haired.
"Welcome to St. Vladimir's Academy, Guardian Belikov"
She kept her gentle accent while explaining to me my assignment.
I have been transferred to Montana to be a Royal Princess' Guardian. Queen Tatiana Ivashkov is worried that Princess Vasilisa Dragomoir, the last living descendant of Royal Dragomoir Bloodline might run away. She has similar behavior to Lord Adrian Ivashkov, Queen's Nephew, who ran away from St. Vladimir's Academy. It has also been reported that two of them were close. So, there's a slight chance that she might run away with her assigned Novice Guardian, Rosemarie Hathaway. Rosemarie Hathaway is the daughter of Famous Guardian, Janine Hathaway and infamous Mob leader, Abe Mazur. I have personally known Abe for years. He has helped my family many times. But still he is a dangerous person to mess.
Since it is gonna take almost a whole year for Princess to complete her senior year. So, until then I have her novice guardian, Rose Hathaway, who would be my partner and Princess's near guardian when I would be the farther one. Headmistress Kirova gave me the file of Rosemarie Hathaway, since I have to train her. I have to know about her.
Rosemarie Hathaway seems to have a good profile and record. Good grades in every subject, respectful to teacher. Not a red dot on her file. Best friend of Princess Vasilisa Dragomoir since Kindergarten. Was also a good friend of Adrian Ivashkov. Went to an accident at the age of fifteen. The same accident which killed Lord and Lady Dragomoir along with Prince Andre Dragomoir.
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Rosemarie is a hardworking girl. She had been working out for three hours in the morning before her class starts. I have been watching her from distance for hours. After her class starts. She met few of her friends. Then she beat up one of them pretty easily. Then she fights with the other one, he beats her pretty hard in the stomach. But still she didn't give up and stakes him. Then she whispers something in his ears and then she giggles. He must be her boyfriend. I walked toward her. She notices my presence and turns toward me. Then I saw her. Dark brown hair, almost black tied back into a pony reaching up to her waist. Light tanned skin just like her father with brown eyes which were staring at me.
I didn't understand why but she attacked me. I moved before she launched toward me as a reflex. I knocked her out. She fell on the flying. She fell by her back. She stood up pretty quickly which surprised me. But this I attacked her. She was trying to punch even though it didn't make a change. She was tired and weak but still she was trying hard. I realized she was standing too close to me but it didn't matter. I brushed her off and she flew to the ground but I caught her before she could fall. And then I saw her eyes, dark as she has pain and suffering, like she had her loved one. But then I realised it wasn't her pain, it was the reflection of my pain in her eyes. I let go of her. She tried to stand steadily but her red headed friend caught her and then her boyfriend on the other side.
She was looking at me. I spoke "My name is Dimitri Belikov. I have came to train you Rosemarie Hathaway". And she fell on the ground losing her consciousness. But I caught her in my arms. Her red headed friend and boy friend was looking at me.
I spoke to them " You both complete your training. I willtake her to the Infirmary. But the red headed boy said "No, I will go with her. She is my best friend." Then he looked at Rose's boyfriend and said "Eddie, you stay here. I'll take care of her." Eddie nodded to Red headed boy. So he wasn't Rose boyfriend.
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Chapter 3
ROSE
I woke up. The lights were too bright. It was hurting my eyes. But soon it adjusted to the light. Doctor was standing in front of me. Her name was Alyssa. She was moroi in her early twenties. Not much older than me. She is tall moroi with soft straight red hair and pale skin like most of the moroi. She has soft grey eyes with high cheek bones and small pink lips. She has been always kind to me. Over the years she had became a good friend of mine. I tried to sit but she stopped and said "Don't move. You are weak."
I asked "what happend?". She replied softly "You were pretty hard. You had internal bleeding but now you are good."
She walks outside and then said "The guy who brought you here was smoking hot" and then she was goneback to her work.
Then I remembered. Guardian Dimitri. His eyes and his hair. I saw Lissa standing on the door. She ran to me and hugged me. She said "Rose, are you alright?" I nodded. There were tears in her emerald green eyes.
She said "Rose, why do you do this kind of works?".
"What kind of work?" I asked accusing.
"You know what I am talking about?"
"I do what I am supposed to do".
"You aren't supposed to kill yourself"
"I am not trying to kill myself"
"Don't lie to me"
"I am not lying, lis"
"You end up in the hospital every week."
"It's not like that"
"Its completely like that"
"I am just doing my workout"
"You used to do workout before but you were not like that. Since he's left, you are working like hell."
"No, I am not. And it's not related to him."
"Please, Rose stop it. He's not going to come back."
Tears were coming out of my eyes. She looked at me and hugged me.
Chapter 4
ADRIAN
God knows what's happening to me. I thought I was going insane. I am just different. I ran away from the St. Vladimir's Academy because I was scared, I thought I was having some kind of disease. I could see some kind of glow out of people. Then it was pain in my head. All of this caused me to leave behind my life. My school, like I cared about it. My friends, Lissa and My Little Dhampire. How could I forget her. She was mine. But I left her. But now I found the solution. I found the reason I was behaving like that. Actually there are five elements of magic instead of four. Air, Fire, Water, Earth and Spirit. That I was specialized in. We had different powers. Some could heal. Some could read minds. Or Some could travel through dreams, like me. Spirit is a very rare element of magic. Only very few Moroi have this element. Some of Spirit specialized people I knew were St. Vladimir, Ms. Sonya Karp, who actually explained him about it and advised him to run away and a Russian Couple.
But now things are changed. I know what I have been suffering from and I know it's cure too. There are only three ways of staying sane from Spirit. First one is Don't use Spirit at all. Then using spirit ornaments like rings, chains, etc which protects us from the darkness, Spirit brings us. And having Shadow kissed partner. It's something I didn't understand completely. It like a bond between two people, who love and care for each other alot, and the Moroi Spirit user heals heals their partner in a very complex or life and death situations, which is hardly possible for me.
