It was 5:30 in the morning when my alarm went off startling me awake from what ever dream I was having. Groaning I slipped out of my lumpy, uncomfortable, second hand store bed. I walked outside to the hot spring behind my hand built cabin in the woods. At first I was afraid of someone trying to break in, but that was ten years ago when I was 17. To save me the worry my very rich best friend Lissa Dragomir for my 18th birthday she bought me a personal trainer. Trainer Alto only taught me for a year but after he got tired of my sarcasm I had learned enough to be able to keep going with my training. Each morning I would go for a five mile run but this morning was different. When I was 22 I graduated from Leigh University with Lissa with a degree in teach. Today is the start of a new school year at St. Vladimirs academy. Everybody knows my name at that school because I am every students favorite teacher. I am Rose Hathaway and I am about to make today my bitch. After bathing in the hot springs I went inside and pulled on a pair of black pants and a blood red blouse. After I pulled my hair back with a red scrunchie to match my shirt and began my jog to work.
I teach the kindergarten students at St. Vlads so I really had to watch my language around them. The kindergarteners only had a half a day in school so in the past I taught some of the higher grade's English Lit classes, but this year one girl in the class has to stay all day so I have to stay all day in my class room with her. I began the five minute jog to work at 6:00 in the morning so I could be prepared for the students. I walk through the front door making my way in to the office and knocking on the door to the principal's office. Moments later the door is opened and I am greeted by Lissa's smiling face.
"Look at you already for this years pack of troublemakers." I say with a smile.
" Yup I am already." Lissa says before her smile fades. "Rose you know how I told you that you have to stay with the one girl after school, well she is the king's daughter."
My face immediately grew grim. King Dimitri Belikov was the love of my life before he dumped me through the mail. It just happened to be the same day that I found out my father was dead and the day my mother kicked me out. You could say his majesty was a royal pain in the ass. Instead of yelling at Lissa for not telling me I simply put up my mask and said "Thank you Lissa for that information. I must go get to work have a nice day." I just got up and walked to my classroom. I loved my room except for the fact that when I come in early the room is pitch black and the lights are on the opposite side of the room from the door. I unlocked my door and blindly began to make my way to the other side of the room before I was grabbed from behind with a hand clamped over my mouth and the lights flashed on momentarily blinding me. Instead of waiting for my sight to clear I began to fight against my captor.
I brought my leg forward before slamming it back into what believed to be my captor's groin. He immediately released me and I spun aiming a roundhouse kick at his head now that I could see again. I turned back around knowing that because of me being grabbed at the same moment as the lights came on, that I had at least one other person after me. Sure enough a larger man was making his way towards me. Instea of waiting for him to reach me i jumped up on to the nearest table before diving towards my second attacker. I tackled him to the ground before pinning him.
"Who the heck are you and why did you and your partner attack me?" I asked in a dangerously quiet voice. the man smirked and said "We work for the king Ms. Hathaway and when he heard you fought he wanted to see if you were good enough to guard his daughter. He told me that if you could take both of us down to give you this letter." When he finished he explanation I released him and stood up dusting myself off while he pulled out a letter addressed to me with the King's old pet name for me "Roza."
"Well if you will excuse us Ms. Hathaway I must get Guardian Ralf some medical treatment. I was wondering if you would teach me some of your moves. My names Mason Ashford here is my card if you are interested." Mason said before walking out the door carrying Guardian Ralf over one of his shoulders. I began to organise my class room leaving the letter forgotten on my desk at the front of the room.