Riley'sPOV

I sat there re adjusting my legs and trying to look around the auditorium to spot my friends, it was first day back and Kirova was giving her same speech she gave at the beginning of every year about expected behavior and such. Since we were all seated alphabetically I was sitting in the second row next to my brother… who was falling asleep… typical. I slightly nudged him, which caused him to jump up and yelp with shock, distracting Kirova from her very detailed speech, "Mr. Belikov, pray do enlighten me as to what you appear to find more important than the well-being of you and your fellow class mates…" Kirova bellowed down the microphone, while the vein on her forehead pulsed in irritation. If there is one thing in life that Headmaster Kirova cannot stand, it would have to be my brother, Nikolas Belikov.

"Well you see Headmaster Kirova ma'am. I was sitting here listening to your oh so riveting speech, but I kept getting distracted by your body… correct me if I am wrong, but have you lost weight!?" Nik replied with a wink as half the auditorium erupted into laughter and the other half too shocked to move. If I wasn't here to witness it, I don't think I would have believed it, but somehow Kirova's vein seemed to get bigger as if it was going to burst any moment, and her face went as red as a tomato as she harshly whispered for my brother to wait outside her office until the assembly was finished.

After Nik had left, Kirova seemed to speed up her pace as she flew through the remaining hour of her speech, no doubt in a rush to hunt out my brother and punish him, was that excitement I glimpsed in her eye as she scurried off the stage?

I got up off my seat and headed towards my dorm room, hoping to find my room mate and one of my best friends Bella Ivashkov. As I battled through the crowd of students I heard my name being called out just as someone grabbed me from behind and spun me around off the ground. As I was set back on the ground, I turned around to the familiar face of Andre Ozera-Dragomir. "Hey Andy" I greeted as I lightly punched his shoulder, "How was your holiday at court?"
"Oh you know a bit boring without you, Riley, and the gang of course, but it was relaxing I suppose, how was the exotic trip to Hawaii?" he asked while he wrapped his arm around my shoulder and we headed towards my dorm room again.
"Oh it was amazing! You should definitely come with us next time! Mum and dad won't mind, I'm sure. Oh. And you won't believe what I heard while I was there, Nik told me that…"

"RIIIIIILLLEEEEYY!" yelled Bella as she came crashing down the hallway and straight into me.

"OOF! Oww! Haha, hey Bella!" I laughed as we went crashing down to the ground.

"Oh man, I feel like I haven't seen you in sooo long Riley, we must catch up on everything! I want to hear all about Hawaii! Oo I bet there were so many cute guys drooling over you while you were there! I need details, and don't leave anything out! Was Hawaii fun!? Did you finally meet the man of your dreams? Did you get tons of photos of the scenery, your hotel room and the local guys? Did you find a man for me? Did you…"

"Whoa…slow down there tiger! One question at a time!" I laughed as I grabbed her hand and pulled her towards our dorm with Andy in tow.

We spent two hours discussing every detail of my trip, and to Bella's disappointment I hadn't found myself a man, or one for her. I had a good excuse though; I had tried to explain that I found training with local guardians much more interesting since they all had different styles. But this excuse just got me a groan and a roll of her eyes.

It's true that Bella and I are complete opposites. Bella is quite girly and she is so beautiful, all the guys go for her, since she has the dhampir curves and complexion. Bella has always been a bit different though, she never wanted to be a guardian, in fact she doesn't even like being a vampire. Her biggest wish is to just be a normal human going to a normal high school. She only came to St. Vladimir's to learn to defend her self after she was attacked one night on her way home from shopping. Her dad Adrian is a Moroi, and a close friend of my mums, her mum, Sydney, also a close friend to my mum is how ever a human. This is really rare to see these days, a moroi/human relationship that is.

Where as I, Riley Belikov, daughter to the famous guardians; Dimitri Belikov and Rose Hathaway and grand daughter to the legendary guardian Janine Hathaway and Abe Mazur, well I was dead set on exceeding the reputation of my family. I loved every moment of being here at St. Vlads.

But no matter the differences I was glad she was here, leaving us with a total of two female guardians in our year level.

I was pulled out of my thoughts as Nik finally entered our dorm with Dylan Castile in tow. "God, Kirova is such a cow! She has me in detention for two weeks! We haven't even been here a whole day and already the witch has me in detention!" Nik complained as he flopped down on my bed.

"Hey gang, hope you guys didn't miss me too much" Dylan greeted with a wink as he lounged on the couch.

I smiled as I looked around the room, seeing all the people that meant most to me, excluding my parents. My life would be perfect with just my twin, Nikolas Belikov, Bella Ivashkov, Andre Ozera-Dragomir and Dylan Castile. It's weird how just like we were all best friend's, so were our parents, well Dylan's mum Mia wasn't there friend at first but they all are now.

We sat around a while longer before we all decided to go un-pack our things.
As I was un-packing my bag I found Nik's iPod, deciding I would take it over to his dorm to stretch my legs, I grabbed my coat and headed over.

I knocked for what felt like an eternity and with no luck. As I turned to walk away, I heard his door fling open. "Fiiiiinally Nik, I was..." I turned and came face to face with the most incredibly good looking guy I had EVER seen. I was speechless. He had light brown hair, and even though he was a moroi, he had quite an impressive pack of muscles, I could tell because he only wore his boxers, I had clearly woken him up.

"I.. I..I'm so sorry.. I didn't mean to wake you up, I was looking for my brother... Nikolas Belikov? maybe he got moved to a new dorm?" I apologised as I went to walk away.

"No, no, you have the right room, I'm his new room mate" .God, his voice was so beautiful.. the way his lips curved into a half smile... SNAP OUT OF IT RILEY! "But you're Moroi?" I finally managed to choke out. "Oh I enrolled late and there were no more Moroi rooms, but I didn't mind sharing with a dham... with Nikolas.." he trailed off before stretching his arm out to shake my hand. "I'm George"