Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Vampire Academy.
This is my continuation of the next chapter of Shadow Kiss. You can find the excerpt on Richelle Mead's site
"Rose." The moment I heard my name, I deliberately threw my covers 10 feet off my bed and sat up, which I immediately regretted because the room began to spin.
"Lissa?" I must have slept in. I turned to look at my clock by the bedside, it was 9.
"Shoot!" I jumped out of bed and picked a pair of jeans off my chair and a clean shirt, " Today's the first day of training week, ugh."
As I poked my head through my shirt, I could feel a weird sensation of giddiness through the bond, as my stresses of training week began to evaporate. I finally found the opening to my shirt , only to see Lissa smiling at me. It was a relief to know that she was happy and not as effected as I was after the recent events, but why the suddenness?
"What? Did I miss something?" I asked as she began to toy with an invisible lint on my bedsheet, full smile still on her face.
She looked up, eyes glowing," I don't know, I just had such a great night last night." Oh, that's what was on her mind. Well, apparently I knew exactly how great it was.
I paused, " Oh..really? " I decided to save her the embarrassment of knowing that I had already seen and felt a jist of it through the bond, unintentionally of course.
Her smile faltered," Aw, Rose.. you felt it all didn't you. I'm so embarrassed!" I guess it didn't work.
"No..Well, yeah. But I tried to get out as soon as I realized what was happening and if you two were sleeping..in your respective beds last night then it wouldn't have happened, but I guess now I don't have to ask you how it went ?" I said playfully with a smile.
She rolled her eyes at that and smiled back, and threw a sweater off the bed and in my direction except my reflexes were way too quick and I caught it just in time.
" Good luck on your training, I can't wait for you to be my guardian for the next six weeks, you'll be great." I felt her sincerity through the bond as I quickly shot her a smile and ran out the door before I would be late.
As I fast walked towards the stairwell , I quickly remembered last nights events and Dimitri's conversation with Alberta. The one I wasn't supposed to hear, but it reminded me that he wouldn't be here today for training. This started the fury inside me all over again because Dimitri was out at some trial with Victor Dashkov, while Lissa and I were stuck here at the Academy, hoping to God that he wouldn't be set free. On another note, I remembered that I haven't told Lissa about what I had witnessed last night about Victor's trial, or the other thing. Mason.
I figured it was for the best, because I wouldn't want to put extra stress on Lissa especially after she was doing so well on being happy this morning, and if they were smart they would see that Victor is guilty and probably wouldn't even have the chance of being released, right? Also, I was probably just feeling lonely last night and Mason was just being the great friend he was by showing himself, even in my imagination. I missed him so damn much. I felt so silly for even being frightened.
"Hathaway, you're late. " One of the guardians with short black hair and a clipboard in his hands said, as every novice in the gym turned to look at me. Great, what a wonderful way to start training week.
"Sorry, my alarm didn't go off " I quickly entered the gym before I could get any more embarassed.
"Anyways, you will be assigned a Moroi who you will protect night and day, while us guardians will be marking you on your responsibility, seriousness, technique... " He went on and on about how we were going to be marked and tested, but honestly all I was thinking about was if they didn't give me the position of being guardian for Lissa, that WOULD be something to test.
Fortunately, after going through all the rules and lectures of being a responsible guardian and how it could affect us greatly if we didn't take it seriously , I opened up the card that the black haired man with the clipboard had handed out to us individually , which held the names of the Moroi that we would have to protect for the next 6 weeks.
"Vasilisa Dragomir" I sighed in relief. I couldn't imagine anyone else protecting her but me and it was a relief to know that I would be protecting my best friend, and I was sure she would be happy too. While the gym began to get louder with everyone comparing and discussing with eachother who they got and whatnot, I tried to concentrate on where Lissa could be, through the bond, so that I could go find her and tell her about the news.
"Little Dhampir" Unfortunately, I knew that voice anywhere.
I turned to see Adrian standing there with a grin on his face. That wasn't surprising. Adrian usually had that stupid grin on his face, as if he was thinking sensual thoughts, which wasn't unordinary for him, especially when he was speaking to me. What surprised me though, was seeing Lissa standing beside him with an eager smile on her face as if she couldn't wait to tell me something. Although, something about her eagerness told me that I wasn't going to enjoy hearing what she had to say.