Chapter 1

"Would you like some water Miss Hathaway?" The flight attendant asked me.

"No thank you." She nodded and walked back to the attendant room.

It's been three hours and ten minutes since I left the academy and all I felt was pain. I usually argued about how much I hate Montana, but you don't know how much you miss something until it's gone. Gone, out of your grasp.

I still don't know where I'm going, whether it's a school or a Dhampir city, or even to my mom. I've been trying to ask one of the attendants, but they keep ignoring me like I'm a blood whore or something. Figures everyone probably knows. My life will never be the same.

"We will be arriving at the airport in five minutes, please buckle up your seatbelts and sit back and relax." The intercom said. I sat back and buckled up my seat belt. I closed my eyes, too afraid to see where I was.

I felt the bumps come and when the plane reached the ground, I felt like I was skating on ice.

"Thank you for riding the vampire express. Please recommend us to your friends. Thank you once again." The intercom said for the last time.

I got up and grabbed my two suitcases and a guardian grabbed my other two. We walked to the front of the airport where my car was waiting for me.

While we were waiting, I looked around me and saw a bunch of casinos surrounding a lot of hotels. Vegas. That's where they sent me. Vegas. It was light outside so it looked about nine in the morning, human time.

A black tinted car finally came around the corner and stopped in front of us. The guardian helped me put my bags in the trunk before pushing me into the back seat, while he got into the passenger seat.

There was a man with black hair in the drivers seat. He was wearing a regular t-shirt and jeans. I would think he was cute if I didn't fall in love with Dimitri.

The driver turned around to face me. His eyes were green-ish blue-ish with perfect olive skin.

"Hello, Miss Hathaway. I am Guardian Salvatore. I will be your mentor for the rest of your senior year. You are going to attend St. Luke's Academy also. Any questions?"

Another hot mentor, great.

I nodded and looked out the window. Guardian Salvatore started driving on. We were driving for about twenty minutes when we reached the academy and boy was it huge. It's probably the size of ten football fields. What a year this is going to be, I thought.

When Guardian Salvatore reached the gate, he said a few things in Russian before the guy at the gate let us in. We parked in the parking lot west of the academy and walked on. Guardian Salvatore and the other guardian carried my suitcases while I walked up the hill.

When we reached the academy, we walked straight to the headmistress's office. Guardian Salvatore exchanged some words with the office aid, and she gave me my schedule and a map. The other guardian led me to the headmistress's office with guardian Salvatore behind me.

He gently knocked on the door and out loud came a 'Come in'.

We walked in and the first thing I saw was the bookcase behind the headmistress. There were at least five in the room. There was a tv in the right corner, near the door and a desk.

The headmistress gestured to a seat and I walked over and sat down.

"So! Miss Hathaway. Welcome to St Luke's! I am Headmistress Casnova. Your fighting skills look very advanced and I see that you already killed your first two strigoi. Quiet impressive. Your behavior on the other hand is unacceptable. I see that you were transferred here because you were seem kissing your ex mentor, am I correct?" I nodded and she continued on. " Okay so here at Luke's we have a great program where we let the students start all over. So this behavior record can be erased if you do not cause any trouble. Do you accept?" I nodded.

"Great! I will let you unpack and your classes start tonight. So I suggest taking a nap to get back on vampire schedule." I nodded and she let me out. Me and Guardian Salvatore were walking to the Dhampir, girl dorms.

"Flirting with a mentor. Tsk tsk, Rosemarie." Guardian Salvatore said. I shrugged.

"It's nothing. And please do not call me Rosemarie or I swear I will rip your-" He interrupted me.

"Now, now what did Headmistress Casnova say again? Oh right you have to be on your best behavior!" He grinned evilly at me.

"How old are you anyways?" I said to him cruelly. He laughed.

"Twenty." I laughed harshly.

"Now what are you doing here big boss?" He ignored the nickname and replied.

"My mori is here at the academy so I stay here. You are my first student."

"Oh. Well big boss you act like your five years old. Grow. Up." I said. He laughed once again and smiled.

"I'm going to have some fun with you. You remind me of me when I was your age."

"Which wasn't too long ago. Right. I'm seventeen." I said.

"Correct," He smiled at me and looked at the building we stopped at. "Well here we are, Dhampir girl dorms. Walk inside and Jane should be at the desk. She will show you your room and room mate." A roommate, great….

"Okay," I walked inside and met an older mori in her thirties with light reddish brown hair.

"Hi, I'm Rose Hathaway." She nodded and looked at her computer. She typed a few things before turning around grabbing two keys.

"These are your room keys. One if you lose one. Follow me." She led me up to the third floor and in a room on the right. She knocked on the door lightly and a girl with curly brown hair opened it.

"Oh hi! I'm Rebecca! Come in, come in. I can handle it from here Jane." Jane nodded and walked back down the stairs.

"You must be Rosemarie. Or do you prefer Rose? I met your mom and she always says Rose this, Rose that. So Rose right?" I smiled and nodded.

"I'm sorry am I annoying you? Sorry I like to blab a lot." I shook my head.

"No, no! I like that you like to blab. I thought I was the only one. Like one time in class I kept going on and on and on. Okay not I'm blabbing. Sorry." She smiled and gave me hug.

"We are going to be the best of friends!" The rest of the time she helped me unpack and told me the hours of the day. We compared schedules and found out we have all the same classes together.

After finishing up my side of the room she let me rest along with herself.

For the first time in hours, I didn't cry. I felt like I belong here. Even though I am going to miss Lissa. She will always be my sister forever.