Chapter 1.
"Anastasia Marie Belivok, get your butt down here now." My mother called from somewhere on the first floor of the house. I ran a brush through my long light brown hair before leaving my room and running downstairs.
"Gosh mom, are you really in that big of a hurry to get back to your old school?" I asked as I came downstairs to join her my dad and older brother Bashton. My brother and I looked nothing alike, mom said that was because he favored dad and I favored her. I did look like my mom but my eyes were different, I was the only one in my family who had green eyes.
"No Anna I'm not in a hurry to get back to school I'm in a hurry to kick the smart ass out of you." she said making my dad laugh.
"She remind you of anyone Roza." dad said. He was always telling mom how much I acted like her when she was my age.
"Shut up comrade." We all headed outside to meet up with the Mori mom and dad guarded, and my godparents Lissa and Christian , and their kids Ragen and Riley. Riley also happened to be my lovely boyfriend. When I came up to him he wrapped me in a quick hug and then held my hand as we walked to the car.
"Are you ready to start at St. Vlad?" he asked as we took our seats in the car.
"Oh yes I can't wait to start a school where everyone expects me to live up to Rose Hathaway and Demetri Belivok." I said sarcastically.
"Now Anna I'm sure they won't want you to be just like your mom." Lissa said.
"Yeah, they're probably hoping you won't runaway from school or fall in love with on of your teachers." Christian told me, mom smacked him on the head.
When we got to school Alberta and Stan, some of mom's old teachers, were there to greet us. Mom, dad, Lissa and Christian went up and said hello while the four of us kind of hung back.
"I'd really like to think all of you again for coming to teach here, you're really helping us out." Alberta said. Up until this year we had all been going to school at the Court, but St. Vladimir needed some new teachers so mom and dad took some of the guardian training class. Lissa was teaching history and Christian was teaching Mori self defense. Since it was now decide that Mori could learn to use magic to fight Strigori self defense was offered as an elective. All of this ment that we children also had to switch schools.
"I was surprised you came back Rosemarie, you spent such little time here as a student." Stan said with a grin.
"I just wanted to be able to see your lovely face again Stan." Everyone but Stan laughed.
"Alright, well lets get your kids to their class, and you to yours." Alberta looked at the clipboard she'd been holding. "Well it looks like Rose is teaching first and second year sparing, and Demtri has third and fourth years. I take you both remember where the gym is?" They nodded. "Oh Belivok, take your daughter with you she has you first hour.
"Oh hell." I mutterd, Riley laughed.
"I have my mom first hour, I think, so I'll be outside the gym waiting when your done." I he gave me a quick kiss, then I went to join my father.
"Let's go show these kids how it's done Anastasia." my dad said.
"Do we have to?" he laughed.
The class was about twenty students they were sitting on the gym floor, when the heard the door open they all turned our direction. When all of their eyes hit dad they're jaws dropped.
"Hello, I'm guardian Belivok, I'll be your new teacher. This is my daughter Anastasia she's just enrolled here at St. Vladimir." Dad motioned toward me and they all stared at me like I had a third eye on my forehead. "Now to start off I'm going to show you my method of sparing since I've learned that many teachers have different idea's of what sparing is, Anna." I put my bag down and walked in front of my dad facing him. "1, 2, 3!"
My dad sprang out at me, and I instinctively kick out at him hitting his side and knocking him back a few steps. He came at me again and I began throwing punches at his face, his chest and then his stomach. The third time he came at me I was delayed in my reaction, and I as I kicked at his gut he grabbed my ankle and flipped onto the floor.
"You paused Anastasia." he said helping me up. I tested my ankle which was somewhat tender and sent up a sharp pain if I put to much weight on it. "Go next door to your mother and get some ice for that I think I twisted a little harder then I meant to."
"Yeah I think you did to, that one really hurt." I said as I began limping to my mothers half of the gym. The two classrooms in the gym were separated by a retractable wall so the students, or teachers, wouldn't get distracter. Mom was observing her group of first years as they demonstrated their blocking techniques. She saw me and jogged in my direction.
"What the hell happened?" she asked.
"Your husband twisted my ankle, he said to have you get some ice for it." I told her.
"Alright go have a seat on the bench and watch them for me." I went to take my seat as she headed for the storage room where a small ice container was. I scanned the group of sparing kids looking for familiar faces, and I found one. A blonde haired blue eyed girl with her hair pulled back in a short ponytail, Elizabeth, Eddie and Mia's little girl. I had almost forgotten she went to school here.
"She's good, isn't she?" Mom as she came up and handed me a bag of ice. "Tell your dad I said to take easy on you." I nodded then limped back to dad's section of the gym, where I sat on the floor and watched the others spar. When class was over dad came over to me and helped me up.
"I really am sorry Anna." he said as he helped me to the door.
"It's okay, I couldn't think of a better way to start my first day of school here." we both laughed. When we made it to the door Riley ran up to me.
"What happened?" he asked taking me from my father.
"Just alittle sparing injury, I'll be okay tomorrow." I leaned against him. "Walk me to math?" He nodded and we walked to my math class together. After math I limped to Lissa history class where she asked what happened and I had to tell her, but by lunch I could walk just fine.
"Man dad beat my butt in sparing today." Bashton was saying when I took my seat between him and Riley.
"Uh-huh, well did he injure you?" I asked.
"Oh yeah he told me about that, hows your ankle?"
"Fine now, a little stiff but I can walk on it." I told him.
"At least your dad let you fight. Daddy told me he needed to find a partner that was suitable for me before he let me spar." Ragen said. "Riley was in there with me and he got to spar with some little skinny dude."
"Dad doesn't let you spar because he loves you more, I however am the screw-up of the family who lounges around and makes inappropriate comments, like Ivashcov over there. Heck, if things don't work out with Anna I might even take up residence here at St. Vlad."
"Talking about me again cousin." Adrian said coming up behind Riley.
"Of course not Adiran, just saying how you're my role model." Riley smiled.
"Sure you were," Adrian said, "how are we today little Ozera's and Belivok's?"
"Oh just terrific." I said and he gave a slight chuckle.
"You are just to much like your mother," he smiled, "watch out Riley Hathaway's are heartbreakers." he and Riley laughed and I stuck my tongue out at him. I found it funny how Adrian could now joke about something that caused him and my mother so much pain and almost cost them their friendship. A friendship that began to get better after we children came into the picture.
After lunch we went to our final class then headed home for the night, Alberta offering to let us kids stay in the dorms. We wanted to but mom and Lissa said they needed to think about it. So we went home to prepare for our second day of school.