Okay here is chapter two. Sorry it took so long. I work from 9pm -5:30am and I am still getting used to the sleeping times. I will try and update every 1-2 weeks.

"I'm going to miss you both so much," my mother said to Karolina and Sonya while hugging my two older sisters. Sonya was turning 15 in two weeks and was starting into her freshman year while Karolina was a 17 and a senior. "I will see both of you at winter break." She then moved to me and cupped my face with her hand. "Take care of your sisters Dimka. I love you," she said as she kissed my forehead. Sighing she picked up my youngest sister Viktoria and hugged her to her chest. Vika had just turned 5 a couple of months ago and was going into the kindergarten classes. "I love you Vika. Be good and listen to your brother and sisters." With that she set her down and waved us good-bye and told us she loved all of us one last time before leaving.

"Alright well let's get going then. Dimka you need to the head mistress's office to pick up your class schedule. Sonya and I are going to get Vika settled in and show her where her classes are. We will see you at Dinner," Karolina said as she picked up her bags and some of Vika's and headed off towards the elementary campus.

With that I grabbed my duffle bag and threw it over my shoulder and headed off in search of the headmistress's office. I wasn't particularly looking forward to starting at a new school, but I knew that we all needed a fresh start.

My father had beat my mother periodically for years. For a while I did not even know that he had been hurting her, I would always be sent away for one reason or another so that I would not see the beatings. But one night I had come down stairs for a drink of water and saw my mother sobbing in the corner of the living room. I ran over to her to make sure she was okay and that's when I saw the bruising covering her skin. I demanded for her to tell me what happened and with enough persuasion she finally broke down and told me. I had been infuriated. I had screamed and yelled and tried to go after my father, but my mother had held me back and stated making excuses for him. She forced me not to do anything about it for so long. But one day when I had come back from St. Basils on a short break, I walked into the house and froze. My father had my mother pinned to the ground. He had already beat her and was about to rape her. I snapped. I tore him off of her and started to beat my father and in blind rage. By the time I finally stopped it looked like he had been hit by a train. He was unconscious and blood was everywhere. His face was so swollen you could not even recognize him. We took him to the hospital and explained what had been going on to the police, but that was it. I refused to let any of my sisters or mother visit him. The last time I ever saw him again was when I walked into his hospital room in the middle of the night and woke him to warn him if he ever came near us again that they would never find his body. And now we are in America for a new beginning.

It didn't take long to get everything taken care of with Headmistress Kirova. She really did not seem very interested in really helping and seem to just want to get me in and out of her office. She didn't even bother to tell me where the seventh grade classes where.

I headed off towards the guys dorms and had just rounded a corner when something—or someone—ran full speed right into me. I looked down and saw a small girl a little older than Vika, having fallen flat on her butt. Then she looked up at me and glared at me. I was struck by how adorable this little girl was, she had dark brown curls that just sat on her shoulders and dark brown eyes.

"Jeez, what the hell are you made of? Rock?" The girl growled as she picked herself up off the ground.

"You shouldn't cuss. Are you okay?" I asked, ignoring the snide comment.

"I'm fine. You talk weird," she said cocking her head to the side.

"It's my accent. I'm from Russian. Why were you in such a hurry?" I asked, trying to change the subject so she wouldn't ask why I moved here. She had just opened her mouth to answer my question when we heard—

"ROSE!" A middle aged dhampir woman yelled as she came flying around the corner.

"Shit, it's Alberta! See you later Comrade" the little girl, apparently named Rose, said before taking off full speed with Alberta hot on her trail.

What the hell was that about?

I was able to find the classroom right before the bell rang. I slide into a seat in the back next to some moroi.

"Hey, man. I'm Ivan Zeklos. What's your name?" he extended his hand.

"Dimitri Belikov," I answered as I shook his hand.

"Zeklos, Belikov would you care to share or are you going to zip it so we can start the lesson," the teacher said while shot a glare in our direction. Ivan mumbled a sorry and I shook my head. Mr. Delesky then dimmed the lights and started showing a PowerPoint slide.

Halfway through the slideshow Ivan passed me a note. We will talk more at lunch. Meet me at re-center. What other classes do you have?

Okay. Where is the rec-center? I passed him the note back along with my class schedule.

We have the same 4th period and lunch is after that so we can just go together.

Just as I finished reading the note Mr. Delesky came and snatched the note up.

"Belikov and Zeklos stay behind after class I want to have a word with you."

"Detention on the first day. This sucks," Ivan grumbled as we left the lunchroom and began walking through the courtyard. We had chatted all through 4th period and lunch, it turned out we had a lot in common. He had grown up in Russia, but due to his mom and dads divorce he ended up moving to America with his mom.

I nodded in agreement and was about to comment when out of the corner of my eye I saw the Rose girl from this morning walking with a blonde moroi girl beside her. It looked like they were headed for the elementary school campus when three moroi boys around the same age came up behind her and yanked her backpack straight off her shoulders, causing her arms to jerk back painfully. Once they had the backpack they slung it across the courtyard, making her stuff scatter across the yard. Rose swung around and started screaming at them as they laughed. I had already began to head over there to put a stop to it with Ivan in step with me, when Rose swung out and crushed the boy in the middles nose. By the time we managed to get over there she had already punched the second one in the stomach and had the third by hair and was basically bitch slapping him across the face.

I got there and picked Rose up football style so she would quit hitting them, but she continued to struggle and yell at me to put her down nonetheless. Ivan was useless due to him keeling over laughing.

"Keep that psycho little bloodwhore away from us!" The one in the middle who had the same blonde hair and blue eyes Ivan did said, but it came out gurgled and slurred due to his broken nose. Ivan straightened when he hear this.

"Watch your mouth Jesse! You will not talk about her or any dhampir that way. Auntie raised you better that that. If fact I think I'm going to give her a call to let her know what just happened. Now go back to your room now!" Ivan growled out. At that all three of them ran full speed in the direction of the elementary campus. "Sorry about that Rose, my cousin is an idiot."

"You didn't have to do that, I could have handled it myself," Rose huffed. Ivan just chuckled. "Now will you PLEASE put me down Comrade?"

"It's not comrade, its Dimitri," I said while placing her on her feet. "How is it every time we meet you are in some kind of trouble?"

"Hey! This one wasn't my fault, and well the first one….well I still clam that hamster found his own way into the hermit crap cage." She said placing her hands on her hips. She was just beyond cute and I could hold back the smile on my face. Then the little blonde girl she had been walking with ran up to Rose with her backpack in Roses backpack in hand. It seems she had went and picked up all the stuff that had scattered from her backpack. In truth I had forgotten about her.

"Thanks Lissa," she said putting her book-bag back on. Lissa just smiled at her and looked up at Ivan and me.

"Thank you for helping us. I don't know if I would have been able to stop Rose myself," she said causing Rose to snort. Then the bell rang for the next class to begin.

"We have to go," we all said at the same time, causing them to laugh and us to smile.

"Bye! Come play with us tomorrow!" Lissa and Rose yelled over their shoulders as they ran to class.

And we did just that. We would visit them often, me in particular. I don't know what it was that drew me to Rose, but I just could seem to stop myself from wanting to visit her and see her almost every day. That was the beginning of our friendship.

Well that it for chapter two. Let me know what you think. Also this is the first fanfiction I have ever written so let me know what you think about the way I have written the story in general and my writing style. SO REVIEW PEOPLE REVIEW! It will keep me motivated! :D