A/N: Hi everyone...this story idea came from the wonderful DEE2389. So I hope everyone likes it :) Please read the A/N at the end!

Disclaimer: I don't anything Vampire Academy and the storyline is joint custody of DEE2389 and I (although she has the majority)


"I have good news and I have bad news," Mr. Dragomir began as we all sat down for dinner and the food was brought out.

By everyone I mean everyone. Eric, his wife, Rhea, their son, Andre, their daughter - and my best friend - Lissa, their personal live-in bodyguard, my mother, and myself. Since my mom and I have lived with them since I was born, we were all one big family. Lissa was more than my best friend, she was the sister I never had. And Andre was just as much a big brother to me as he was for Lissa. Him and Lissa were twins, but he was born first so he took his "big brother" role seriously.

The only person missing is my father, but can't really miss something you never had. As rocky as things get between my mother and I, it has always been just her and me, and the Dragomir's, who were no doubt the nicest people I have ever met. I mean they hired my mom when she was pregnant for god's sakes! And offered her the guest house. And took care of the medical bills for everything, from the ultrasound appointments to my birth to the countless trips I've taken to the ER in the past seventeen years. They truly were a family for me, and I was like another daughter for them. So whatever news Lissa's father had to share, it goes without saying that it affected my mother and I too.

"Well, dear, are you going to tell us or make us guess?" Rhea said sweetly, although we could clearly see how anxious she was for him to share the news.

"Right. Well. Good news first. My father and I have decided to expand the company overseas and to ensure success we have arranged a partnership with friends of mine that has their own businesses running smoothly."

"That's great, honey!" Rhea said in her soft voice, enveloping in a tight hug.

"Way to go, dad!" Andre said admiringly, proud of his ultimate role model.

"Congratz, daddy!" Lissa said, always happy to see others happy.

"Nice job, Mr. D!" I said. Although I grew up with them like anther set of parents, I couldn't really bring myself to call them Mom and Dad or Aunt and Uncle, and it seemed rude to call them by their first names, so I stuck with Mr. and Mrs. D.

"Glad to hear about it, boss," my mother said with a small smile.

"Well, there's more," Eric said hesitantly. "Since it's in another continent, father thinks it would be best to have one of the CEO's there to see it through at least for one or two years rather than having someone else be hired or asking Nathan to do it." He scratched the back of his neck as he brought down hell onto us, or maybe just me. "So I'm going to be the one going to Russia and being the sole CEO of the company there. And, no I'm not going alone. We're all going."

"What?!" Andre, Lissa, and I screeched. We had one year left in high school. One. Year. He couldn't wait? We had everything planned out. We were making this year our bitch.

"Dad I can't just leave Avery!" Andre began. Avery was his girlfriend, they've been going out for more than a year, and he was hopelessly in love with her. I feel bad for the guy.

"Andre, it's just a year," Eric said firmly. "Next year you both can go to whatever school you both want to go to. And we can even fly her over for winter break."

"When do we leave?" I asked, not even bothering to put up a fight I wasn't going to win. He clearly had everything planned out and ready. Everyone looked at me shocked. Ok, so maybe this was the first time I didn't argue my way out of it, or try to. But, well he was so happy to be doing this, I couldn't ruin the moment.

"Um, in the middle of August. You guys get to enjoy summer here, and I have enough time to finish whatever needs to be done and then we move and have time to settle in and get things ready before you guys start you senior year at St. Vladmir's."

"Sounds conceited. Please tell me no uniform." He didn't say anything, which told me everything. I groaned and dropped my head on the table. I felt Lissa's small hand rub my back. I took a deep breath before sitting back up. "Well, Mr. D, I'm happy for you. Really. You deserve this, and I can't wait, truly. But um I'm not hungry anymore, so I'll excuse myself." I gave a small smile and got up and ran to my room. But not before seeing everyone's jaw slack and hit the table. First I don't argue and now I don't eat, yea I think that's a bigger shocker than us moving halfway across the world. When I got to my room, I changed into workout clothes and shimmied down my drain pipes so I wouldn't bump into anyone and did the one thing I do best. Run.


"Ugh," I groaned as I slugged down the hallway with Lissa and Andre next to me. It was our lunch break, finally. Lissa and I had identical schedules, except for a class or two but that's because I'm best friends with Ms. Smartypants. Lissa, Andre, and I had the same lunch time and P.E. class. School is tough no matter what. First day of school is worse. First day of school in a new school that spoke another language? Suicide.

"C'mon, it's not that bad, Rosie," Andre said cheerfully. I glared at him as we got to my locker. I pointedly ignored him as I put my bag in my locker. When I was done we went to cafeteria, walking into another doom. In appearances, it looked like the cafeteria's back home, kids spread among the tables in their own groups, talking and eating whatever was being served. But that was as far as this made-for-Hogwarts cafeteria went in similarities. Unlike home, the kids here were talking in Russian, and the food looked like it was a bubbling volcano awaiting to erupt. Nonetheless, the three of us walked up in line. That's when horror struck. There was nothing resembling food. No pizza. No pasta. No burgers. Nothing. Just the soup/stew they were serving and the thin pancake looking thing to go with it. There was no soda. No juice. Just water. When I came to this horrid, terrifying realization, my face had a permanent horrified look, which quickly turned into a scowl when I heard Andre snickering next me while he looked at my phone. He was walking and getting his food without looking up.

"You know, it's not safe to walk while looking at your phone," I said as I turned around to face Andre, walking backwards. He looked up at him and quirked his eyebrow. He looked like he was about to say something but decided against it and shrugged his shoulders, looking back down to at his phone. I shook my head and turned around. Except I didn't turn around completely. Oh no, I turned right into someone. My lunch dumped into his shirt, turning his blue form-fitting sweater into a blue sweater with a big brown circle in the middle. Oops.

I looked up and was met with piercing green eyes, brighter and greener than Lissa and Andre's pale green eyes. Those emerald green eyes looked down at me filled with amusement that paired with the lazy grin he was giving me. I was slightly aware that his arms wrapped around me when I collided with him. I was clearly too shocked and embarrassed to do or say anything. I think Andre and Lissa were shocked stupid too because I just heard Lissa gasp.

"Oh. My. God," I said slowly. "I am sooo sorry! I didn't see you."

"Karma's a bitch isn't it, Rosie," Andre snickered behind me. I quickly looked over my shoulder and shot him a glare that would kill men, but made him full out laugh.

"It's ok," the green-eyed beauty said as he took a step back and pulled his arms back. "I was actually getting up to ask if you guys wanted to sit with us." He gestured to the table with two other people who were looking at me wide-eyed. He could see the uncertantiy and hesitation in my face and gently nudged me to the towards the table, the two people on the table scooted over so I sat down and Lissa sat down next to me. Green Eyes sat down across from me and Andre sat down next to him. He then proceeded to taking off his sweater, his shirt sticking to it and giving me a peak of his flat abs. When he took off he said with a smile, "It's a good thing that was my least favorite sweater."

"Good thing," I replied back. "I'm Rose by the way. This is Lissa and her twin brother Andre." I pointed to them as I introduced them. Lissa gave a small wave and a smile, while Andre absentmindedly waved without looking up. "For Christ sake Andre!" I said, causing him to look up. "What is so goddamn important on that phone that you haven't been able to look up for more than a second!"

"Avery. She hasn't responded yet, but she should be up. I think. What's the time difference between here and United States?" I just gave a sigh of defeat.

"It's about a 12 hour time difference, give or take a few hours depending on which part of Russia you're in and where they are," Adrian responded. "I take it she's your girlfriend back home."

"Oh," he said defeatedly. "Yea, she's in Montana and I've, well we've, only been here for a few weeks and I'm not used to the time difference."

"I get it. My girlfriend went to Palm Springs for a summer and god was it brutal. And that was just two months," Adrian responded, and then something seemed to click in his head. "Oh! I'm sorry! Rose, Lissa, Adrian, these are Jill and Mason." He pointed to the girl next to him, she looked younger than us and had dirty blonde hair with green eyes that were closer to Lissa than Adrian. Then he pointed to the guy next to me, who looked our age and had orange ruley hair and lots of freckles. We all said hi to each other.

"So, how was Palm Springs?" I ask Jill. "I've always wanted to go cus of the beaches."

Jill turned beet red and looked down at her face. Mason let out a chuckle and Adrian made a face that look like it hurt. "That's not his girlfriend," Mason said. "She's his baby sister. She's a freshman."

"Oh," I said, feeling my cheeks get warm. "I'm sorry. I just…"

"It's fine," Adrian said waving it off. God, today wasn't my day. "Actually Sydney's over there." He pointed behind me, a look mixed between disdain and annoyance crossed his face. I turned around to see him pointing to at table with six people sitting around it.

I couldn't really see them well. I just saw the back of a tall guy with brown hair that fell to his shoulders and next to him was a chick with long black hair leaning into his shoulder. On the other side were two guys, one with jet black hair like the girl, but short and styled, kind of looking like a modern, cool goth without the eyeliner, black nail polish, and bracelets and necklaces. The other guy had short light brown hair and looked casual. One one end of the table was a small girl with curly blonde ringlets and on the opposite end was another girl with blonde hair that had brown highlights in it that fall past her shoulder and looked to layered. I'm assuming Adrian's girlfriend was one of the girls on the end of the table, that or his girlfriend was really something. I turned back and gave him a questioning look.

"She's the one with the blonde hair with brown highlights," he said, his voice showing the love he had towards her.

"Well I can't wait to meet her," I said with a smile. I may not know him or anyone at this school, but he was the first person to talk to me and make me feel welcomed. He smiled back at me.

"So, Rose," Mason said. "Do you have a boyfriend." Oh boy, I thought. I heard Andre put down his phone and look at me expectantly and Lissa looked at me trying to keep a straight face.

"Not exactly," I drew out. I was about to continue but I saw Andre's jaw drop and his eyes fill with tears.

"Not exactly? Not. Exactly? How could you Rose? I thought what we had was special. I thought it was to the end of the galaxy and back, babe," Andre said, his voice heartbroken and angry. I looked at him in disbelief, not sure where this was coming from and Lissa's face was red like it physically hurt her to not have a straight face. Adrian, Mason, and Jill looked confused and shocked as the looked at me and Andre.

"I don't...I swear...what?" I stuttered, my embarrassment up to the mortification level. Then the Dragomir twins broke into a fit of laughter. My face went red from embarrassment to red with anger. "Really Andre?! No everyone's going to name us to psychotic new kids!" I groaned as I closed my eyes and pinched the bridge of my nose.

"Calm down, Rose. I was just messing with you," Andre said, now sitting next to me. He had that stupid grin of his on and he put his arm around my shoulder and pulled me in. "Plus, no offense, but you're not my type." He scrunched his nose. "Your like my baby sister and that's just wrong."

"Seriously? We're like 6 months apart."

"Actually, Dre and I are nine months older than you," Lissa interjected while she braided her hair. "Hey do any of you guys have P.E next?"

"Actually, we all do, except for Jailbait," Adrian said as he grabbed his stuff. Ugh. Lunch was too short for my liking. And I didn't even get to eat.

"Yea, seniors have it all at the same time, except they separate boys and girls," Mason said. "But since it's the first day and we don't have our gym clothes, we're going to be all together in the big gym."

"Great!" I said, jumping up. "Let's go then!"


"Seriously, who runs a fucking mile in a fucking skirt?" I asked no one in particular as we walked out of gym. We were free to go after we got our locker number and combo. Since Mason's last name began with an A we all went with him and got done early.

"Your fault they made you do double," Lissa said chantingly.

P.E. was brutal. Mason was right about us staying as a big whole class. Well our class wasn't that big, actually the whole school in general was small, but still 30 students in one gym got kind of loud. The teachers, Alberta for the girls and Stan for the guys, got fed up with trying to talk to all of us so they made us go outside on the track and run half a mile. Of course, I wasn't having any of it, so instead of trying to talk my way out of it, I dropped my skirt off and took off my blouse and ran in my under shirt (that had partical sleeves!) and my running shorts. I liked running, so I didn't mind, but I wasn't doing it in a skirt. Stan, however, was livid when he saw me stripping and told me I had to do a whole mile. What fucking ever. I did it and still finished first. Well second, because some guy on steroids decided to be an over achiever and ran the whole fucking mile faster than me. I blame his long legs.

We had gotten to my locker and I was about to snap back to Lissa as I put in my lock combo, but someone from behind me cut me off. Not just any someone. Someone I've seen twice today.

"I've seen you before," he said in English with a thickly accented voice, I could feel his hard chest behind me and feel his breath tickling my ear, but I was too shocked to turn around. "Last night, in my bed, screaming my name."

The shock wore off and I spun around and clocked him in his right cheek. It must have hurt because he started spewing Russian curse words. It serves him right. At the same time the ebony haired chick came running to him, checking to see if he was already right while shrieking God knows what at God knows who, I think it was at me from the glare she gave me. He's a big boy, he'll live.

Looking at him now, I mean really looking at him, the only thing that ran to through my head was Damn he's hot. In all his 6' 7" glory, chestnut brown hair that fell to his shoulders and dark, chocolate brown eyes, he really was the sexiest thing I've ever seen. Too bad he's a dick.

"Oh, he'll live," I said nonchalantly, earning death glares from both of them. I just shrugged my shoulders. "It serves you right for talking to me like that."

He growled and looked like he was about to say something when the screaming girl quickly got in front of him and said, "Dimka, don't. She's not worth it." Clearly saying it in English so I could hear her. She shot me a look that said I was beneath her before pulling "Dimka" away. I quickly grabbed my bag from my locker, pushed past my friends, and walked in the opposite direction. God first days suck.


A/N: Well, there's the first chapter :D How about that first meeting? Can you guess who sat at that table with Sydney? Please leave me a review with what you thought about it :)

Since I'm still writing Behind Closed Doors, I want to focus on making sure I get that one posted on time, so here's how Dee and I plan on running this show.

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