Hi everyone. I must say that I'm really excited from the reviews, favorites and alerts for this story. You know, its my first one and it goes really well so far. Thanks guys.

Anyway, Miss Roza Belikova is the beta of this story and I want to thank her! :)

Sadly I don't own Vampire Academy or Dimitri :'(

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New students

As it seemed, Dimitri knew the Ozera kids really well. Or should I say he knew Tasha really well?

These two didn't seem very social. After I greeted them, they excused themselves and went to sit at a table at the corner of the room. After a minuet, Dimitri joined them. As for me, I went back and sat with my friends.

But back to the point. Dimitri and Tasha were talking excitedly about something I didn't know. Her brother, Christian, seemed like he didn't care about what they were saying as he was looking at his hands with his face blank.

I saw Tasha leaning near Dimitri and whispering something in his ear. Dimitri laughed and looked at her with appreciation. Dimitri never showed that kind of emotion to any girl. He usually looked at them with the look of a boy who wanted to make out. I was the only girl that looked at her like this.

I frowned. I didn't like it.

As I watched them I noticed Aaron coming in our table, holding hands with Mia Rinaldi. This girl was a year younger than me –that means she is fifteen- but she looked like she was thirteen with her annoyingly innocent face and her blond hair.

Aaron and this little snake that he called girlfriend sat at Dimitri's empty sit.

"Hey, the Ozera kids are here" he whispered.

Mason rolled his eyes. "We can see them" he told him. "We are not blind".

"Yeah" he said without losing his excitement. "But do you know anything about them?"

"The only thing I know is that they are Dimitri's friends" I answered him.

Aaron looked at us. His gaze stayed longer on Lissa witch made Mia glare at her. Did I mention that Aaron was Lissa's ex?

"Rose, their parents became Strigois willingly" he said taking his gaze away from Lissa. "They are dangerous. They might decide to become Strigois too"

Everyone in the table stayed frozen. Was this true? Did Dimitri know? Was this the reason everyone glared at them?

"Does Dimitri know?" I wondered.

Adrian who was sitting next to Victoria snorted. "I think he does" he told me. "And look at him. He is so into Tasha".

I giggled. "Oh, please" I told him. "Dimitri wants to make out with every girl in the planet"

"Trust me on that, he likes her very much" he said with a grin.

Sometimes Adrian was so weird. No, forget that. Adrian was always weird, but sometimes he was even more. He spoke like he knew about what other people were thinking.

But who was I to talk? I was the one who was sixteen and didn't specialize yet. I was the one who had all those weird dreams, the dark thoughts and feeling. I was the freak.

Anyway, Adrian wasn't a student here. He was eighteen and had graduated. But, for reasons I couldn't imagine, he chose to come and stay here at the academy.

"Maybe they'll get together" Natalie said with a dreamy smile. "Can you imagine it? The player with the school's freak"

I sighed. "Natalie, you should stop reading romance novels," I told her. "Anyway, I don't think that they'll be together. Maybe they'll make out, but that's all".

Victoria coughed. "First of all they are not freaks" she said annoyed. "Tasha and Christian are just fine. They suffered a lot in their lives, that's all. And they are not dangerous. As for my brother, I think Adrian is right. He had a thing with her last summer. Seriously, she's a year alder than him but that's okay with me. She's the only girl that made him stop acting like a man-whore"

For some unknown reason, the thought of Dimitri being in a serious relationship with a girl made me feel angry. I couldn't exactly say why, but I did. And that was not good.

"Anyway, I'm leaving" she said then stood up and walked away.

"Me too" Mason said and followed her. Eddie, Camille, Aaron, and Mia followed him. Now it was just Adrian and me. I glance at where Dimitri was sitting and then looked back at Adrian. His grin was wide.

"Well" he started, "do you want to come to my room after school?"

I looked at him angrily. "No, Adrian" I answered coldly. "It happened once. I'm not making the same mistake again"

"But Rosie, we'll have so much fun and…"

"She said no, Adrian" I heard Dimitri saying from behind me.

I turned around and saw that he was serious. Very rare for Dimitri.

Adrian just shrugged but didn't argue. He was smart enough not to mess with the badass dhampir that Dimitri was.

When Adrian stood up and walked away the bell rang and we got out of the cafeteria as well. Dimitri was silent as we were walking towards our next classes. Afternoon classes were common for Morois and dhampirs.

Dimitri and I sat together at history class, at the back desk. When I opened my book he slide a piece of paper in front of me.

I'm bored.

I smiled.

Me too. History is the worst subject!

I know. I sould have skipped this class, but it's the first day.

Yeah, that wouldn't be good. Anyway, you seemed really close with the Ozera girl.

Yeah, Tasha is an awesome character. She's funny and honest. Everything I like in a girl. Oh, did I mention that she's super hot?

Eww. Stop it! Your talking to a girl.

Sorry.

Aaron told me about their parents. It's so sad.

Yes. They suffered a lot. But now they are ok.

Aaron said that they might be dangerous. You know…

Don't tell me that you believe that they'll become Strigoi?

Well, they could be.

Stop it Rose. I have known them since I was seven. They are fine.

Well, people change.

They're not dangerous.

You don't know that.

What happened to you? Who are you to tell anything about them? But I forgot. You're a Royal Moroi. The Queen's niece.

Take it back.

I'm not taking back anything.

I looked at him angrily and threw the paper away. I was hurt and angry. How could he? How could Dimitri. My best friend Dimitri think something like that. He knew me so many years.

When the bell rang I stood up without looking at him. "Rose, hey I'm sorry", he tried to apologize.

I didn't give him a single glance as I walked away from him. I could feel the dark thoughts attacking me once more. All the pain, the agony that I felt two years now came back.

Even though I was usually a happy person, sometimes the depression attacked me so hard that it physically hurt. These times I couldn't control my own self. And I felt that this would be one of those time.

I skipped the next class and went out, at the forest. I knew that I shouldn't go there, but I needed time alone and didn't want to get caught.

I sat on a fallen tree and looked around me. It was dark and in a way I felt secure. Here I didn't have to pretend I was fine. Here nobody could see me. Deep inside me I knew I was overreacting. I mean, okay, Dimitri was a dick head. But that didn't mean I should have all those thoughts.

But since that accident, everything seemed darker and scarier. Every day I was going farther into the darkness and I didn't know if I could go back to light.

As I looked down at my foot I saw something white a little far from me. I stood up and approached it. Then I was shocked to see a white fox covered in blood. Someone had killed the poor thing. The way they killed it made me feel like I was going to faint. I felt tears running down my cheacks as I approached it more.

At the tree near it, I could see that someone had written something. I looked more carefully and screamed. My name was written on that tree with the animal's blood.

I kneeled down and buried my face in my hands. What was that for? Who did this? And why?

I stayed there crying like a little girl. I knew that I should go. I knew that it was dangerous. But the darkness inside me was too strong to fight it.

When I felt something touching my shoulder, I yelped and tried to stand up.

"Rose" I heard the only voice I wanted to hear right now. "Oh, God, Roza. I thought you were hurt…"

I turned around and looked Dimitri in the eyes. "I am hurt Dimitri" I said and buried my face in his chest.

He smoothed my hair carefully. "Shh, Roza" he told me. "It's okay. I'll take you away from this forest"

And with that he took me in his arms and carried me in the school.

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