Adrian POV:

I strolled casually into Rose's room, expecting her to be sitting at the computer or even better still be in bed, not wearing anything. But she was nowhere in sight. Not standing up and yelling at me to get out of her room, not staring at me with those deep brown eyes that that I love so much. Where was she?

"Rose?"

"Hey Rose, if you're mad at me its okay, just come out!" Okay. Maybe she was mad at me. What have I done to annoy her in the past few days? I don't think that I did anything. Though if I know Rose (and I do, trust me I'm a bit of a stalker) then she could be mad at me for anything. I could have sat too close to her at breakfast yesterday, or maybe she overheard me saying something horrible about her that I don't remember saying.

"Rose! Are you here?" There was silence in the room and then a quiet sobbing sound came from the bathroom.

I slowly approached the bathroom door and the sobbing got louder, it could have been her but never once in the time that I had known her had I seen or heard her cry. Very slowly i reached out and turned the handle. "Rose, I'm coming in now okay?" I waited a second to see if she would protest but after I heard nothing I just went on straight in, then stopped. The scene before me broke my heart.

Rose lay on the tiles next to the bathtub with a depressing look on her pale face, nothing like the tanned skin colour that a dhampir should have. It looked like she hadn't eaten anything for days, yet I had seen her just yesterday eating two whole meals just for breakfast. Her hair was laying damp around her neck and it was then that I realised that she was only wrapped up in a towel and had obviously just had a shower. It would have made me stop and stare if I hadn't been so busy being worried about her.

"Hey, Rose. I'm going to help you up now, okay sweetie?" I used my softest and kindest voice possible, yet she still filched at the sound of it. I walked over to her and lent down so that I could see into her eyes, they were wide and blank and staring at nothing. It was the scariest thing that I have ever seen, Rose looking so lost and empty.

To give myself an excuse to look away from her dead eyes I bent over and picked her up easily, luckily I am pretty strong for a moroi as it would be very awkward for us both to have to drag her back into the bedroom.

Once I got in there and onto the bed with her still on my lap I paused. Now what? I had to get her to get dressed and to explain who the hell said what to make her like this. Well, I guess most important first.

"Rose...what happened?"

She paused and then sobbed slightly before shuddering and looking up at me. "It...it's-" Her voice broke and she sobbed again. I held her closer to me and she wrapped her arms around my neck, luckily the towel was wrapped around pretty tight otherwise we would have come to another possible awkward situation. I would like it but I think that Rose would be sad, well sadder then she was already.

"Dimitri, he...left me."

The cradle robbing Russian left her? As in broke up with her? Or did he leave as in go away leave? Leave the academy leave.

"What do you mean, he left?" I choose my words carefully, not wanting to say something stupid and have her bursting into tears; Rose crying in the first place was horrible enough. I just wanted to murder him now for hurting someone that i love. Although now that Dimitri was hopefully out of the picture I could have a chance to comfort Rose, to make her feel better. And maybe one day...

"He...left with Tasha. To become her...her guardian" The way that she left the sentence hanging proved that she obviously didn't think that he would be just her guardian. The jerk. He had this beautiful, caring and perfect woman right here all wrapped around his finger and yet he leaves her for a scar faced...

"Rose. Look at me." When she doesn't move I let go of her back and cup her face, turning her face to look at me. Tears are silently streaming down her face, but her eyes look slightly better. Getting it off her chest was obviously a good thing. "He was a jerk. He is a jerk, okay? And you can do so much better than him because you are so wonderful and if you think that him leaving was your fault then you are very wrong. It is all his fault. He is the one with the problem and he doesn't deserve someone like you."

She just sat there quietly, still holding onto my neck before very slowly letting go and sitting back slightly. I wipe the tears away from her eyes and gently push her off me. "Feeling better?" She nods. "Good. Now go and get dressed. Lissa doesn't need to be worried." Hearing Lissa's name seems to snap her out of any lasting sadness and she stands up, smiles at me one last time before walking over to her closet, grabbing some clothes and going into the bathroom.

I lay back on the bed and sighed. Rose was going to be alright. Everything was going to be fine.