Disclaimer:I know you have all been waiting for this so here it is!
But I didn't have training on my mind. No, I was going to break that ice wall around my Roza's heart and show her that we could be in love and still be guardians. I would have Roza back in my arms in a week tops, I thought while smiling.
And what better way than a romantic holiday?
RPOV
I was just sitting down to eat breakfast when I heard Lissa scream! I jumped up instantly and got ready to kick the ass of whoever made her do that- except that when I turned around, nobody else was there.
"Liss what is it? What's wrong?" I asked still looking around for any danger.
"Oh nothing's wrong Rose, in fact everything's right! You will never guess what I just heard!"
I didn't even bother trying to guess. Whenever Lissa asked me to guess something she always ended up telling me before I even got one guess in. But I played along anyway.
"That the school caferter-"
"The school is sending us on a ski holiday!" she squealed again and started jumping up and down.
"Ok Liss ok tune it down a decibel, it's way too early in the morning for this much noise," I said, but I was smiling. This was perfect! It was just the thing I nedded to take my mind off of Dimitri.
After I gave him my heart and he stomped on it, training with him was awkward at best. I mean we had to see each other the next day and the next! There had been no time to heal. But now I could escape for a while and put the shattered pieces of my heart back together. I could go skiing in the day time and soak in a hot tub at night and curl up next to a roaring fire and-
"Wait! What's the catch?" I asked. This was to good, there had to be a trick here somewhere. Lissa just shrugged her shoulders.
"As far as I know there is no catch. Apparently there was this Strigoi attack a little while ago on some higher up roles and now they don't want their kids to go to their local school so they're sending them here. And the school needed to send a bunch of us away to make room or something. But that's not important, what is is that we're on the list!" she cried again and started jumping up and down.
Honestly. And I was the one that had donuts for breakfast. "Ok Lissa, yes this is great news," I said trying to make her stop. "How long do we get to go for?" How long did I get away from Dimitri for?
Wrong question. "A whole month!" Lissa shrieked and jumped up and down AGAIN! What did that girl have, springs in her shoes?
"Wow that is great, who else is going?" I asked as I planned who I would exact revenge on with a snowball fight. I really hoped that Jesse would be on that list. I owed him big time.
"All the novices and Moroi from our year level, and of course some guardians, " Lissa said casually as she looked over at the breakfast line.
I felt my heart go still. No. No no no. Lissa don't say it!
"Any idea who?" I asked trying to sound just as casual. Lissa looked at me with a slightly evil look in her eyes.
"Already picking out targets?" She knew me so well. "Well you will be happy to know that Stan Alto is going to help chaperone this trip so you had better save some revenge for the others, you're not the only one with a score to settle."
I couldn't help but laugh. She was so right, what with him going out of his way to torture his students with test that the school didn't approve and sitting students that he didn't like next to people that they didn't like so they would be just as miserable in class as he was. There would definitely be a queue.
"Well you're right about that. Anybody else?" I asked as I held my breath.
"Well Alberta will be in charge so if you do anything to bad then you most likely won't get sent back here as punishment. She always did have a soft spot for you."
"You can say that again, without her I probably would have been expelled ten times over," I laughed with her. But on the inside, I was shouting at her to just tell me if Dimitri would be coming on not!
"Well there's..." and on the list went. She must have named everyone that I didn't care about in alphabetical order! Aww screw it!
"What about Dimitri?" I asked trying to keep my voice level.
"Oh yes how could I forget? You two will be doing some sort of special harsh weather training together. But don't worry, you will still get plenty of time to hang out and go skiing and-"
But I had stopped listening. A whole MONTH with just Dimitri and I! No this couldn't be happening, this was all just some nightmare. Because I knew for a fact that if he got me alone for long enough, then I would stop fighting this pull in my heart that was telling me to forgive him and give him a second chance. But if I did that then what was to stop him from just breaking it again? No. I couldn't let this happen. I was going to have to get out of this trip somehow.
I realized that I hadn't been listening to a word that Lissa had said and she was looking at me expectingly. I just smiled and took a wild guess at what she asked me.
"Yeah Liss, I think that Christian would really like you in that," I said with a fake smile
"Oh you do? I thought that he might think that I was trying too hard to impress him."
Wow I actually got that right? Why couldn't I do that in class when I zoned out? Lissa continued on about something and I just nodded my head at the appropriate times, but I was really trying to think of a way to get out of this ski trip.
"And then I was thinking of- oh here comes Christian," she called out to him and he came over to sit with us.
"Good morning Rosie," he said with a smile so fake I'm surprised that I didn't see a rubber stamp on it.
"Good morning fire crotch," I said exactly as sweet. He didn't like that.
"What's that hairstyle you're going for? Drowned rat?" he said dropping the nice act.
"What's that gender your trying for? Male?" I said not missing a beat.
"Stop it you two, or I will have to separate you," Lissa said. Yeah like that was a threat!
"I'll stop annoying him when he stops doing that annoying thing with his mouth."
Christian looked at me confused. "What annoying thing wit-"
"See your doing it now! How does that not drive you crazy?" I asked in mock seriousness.
"Keep it up Hathaway and I'll take you outside to settle this like men," he threatened. I batted my eye lashes innocently.
"If were doing it like men then what are you coming along for then?" Christian stood up and I think he was about to throw a fireball at me.
"Stop it you two! If you keep fighting then you might not be allowed to go on the ski trip!" Lissa said truly annoyed now.
That was it! All I had to do was start a fight with someone and I would be banned from going on the trip! I was sad that I wouldn't get to go and ski with my friends and have a good time, but this was a matter of self presevation. I couldn't spend a whole month with Dimitri and make it through with my heart still intact. He would either have smashed it more by just pretending that I was nothing more to him then just another one of his students. Or he would try to win back my heart and then stomp on it before the holiday is over.
Either way, I couldn't endure to go on this trip.
DPOV
I was overjoyed about the chance to get Rose back in my life and back in my arms. One chance was all I needed, but that alone wouldn't be enough. Roza was stubborn. Even if I had her every day of this trip, which I wouldn't, she still might not take me back. I needed to think of something- no, more than just one something, I needed a whole bag of tricks to pull this off.
First I would try to lower her guard. Just try to talk to her, get her to open up a little, then, I would tell her something personal about me. She couldn't resist it when I told her something about my past or my family. Then if that went well, I would-"
"Belikov, are you there? Over."
I looked down at the walkie talkie on my belt. I had forgotten that I was on perimeter watch. I was too busy thinking of ways to win back the heart of the woman I loved.
"This is Belikov. What's the situation?" I asked my guardian mask (as my Roza called it) slipping into place.
"Principal Kirova wants to see you in her office. There's been an incident involving Rose. Apparently she striped Jesse Zeklos down to his underwear and smeared him in honey before taking him out into the woods and tying him to an ant mound."
I had to hold back my laughter. I know what Roza did was wrong, but I really didn't like Jesse after the rumors that he and Ralf spread about her.
"I'll be right there," I said before I put my walkie talkie away. Why would Roza do this now? It had been months ago that Jesse and Ralf did anything to her. So why now? I hoped that it wasn't because of the darkness. I knew that that could have some very bad effects on Rose.
I knocked on the door and was told to come in. I nodded to Principal Kirova as I walked and then took in the seat before me. Rose was sitting in a chair looking very happy with herself, while Jesse was sitting as far away from her as possible with a blanket warped around him. They must have gotten him to wash off the honey before bringing him in here.
"What seems to be to problem?" I asked even though I already knew the answer.
"Well it seems that Miss Hathaway decided to pull a nasty prank on Mister Zeklos involving a bunch of honey and an ant mound."
I glanced at Rose out of the corner of my eye. It wasn't like her do do something like this without a reason. But then again this was Rose were dealing with. All Jesse would have to do was say something nasty about either her or Lissa and Rose would think that the punishment was justified.
"And does she have a reason for doing this?" I asked looking at her. She seemed calm for someone that was about to get into major trouble. Much too calm...
"As far as I can tell, no. There has been no contact between Mister Zeklos and Miss Hathaway. And I have several eye witnesses saying that the attack was unprovoked.
I looked at Rose again. Why would she do this? She knew that she would get caught if there was several witnesses at the time. And there was no motive. So why would she pull a stunt like this right before...the ski trip. That was it! She way trying to get kicked off of the list so she wouldn't have to spend time with me. Well two could play at that game.
"So you called me in here to issue a punishment?" I asked looking back at Principal Kirova.
"Yes and no. As Rose's mentor, you of course have the best insight as to what punishment would best make her learn her lesson," Kirova said with a smile that I would have to call evil. I hadn't believed Rose when she told me before, but it seemed that Kirova really did hate her.
"But I have already decided that she will be banned from the ski trip with the rest of her classmates. And instead be made to stay here and do cleaning," Kirova said looking happy with the outcome.
Yep. Evil.
It took every bit of my self control to keep my guardian mask on my face. No. No! She couldn't do this to me! I needed Rose to go on this trip so I could prove to her how much I loved her!
But I kept my face impassive and instead used this to my advantage. I cleared my throat and hoped that I could fake my way through a conversation as good as Rose.
"Actually Headmistress Kirova, I believe that that would be the exact opposite of what we should do," I said trying to figure out where I was going with this. Kirova just raised one eyebrow and leaned back in her chair.
"Explain."
"Well...I...Rose did this because she obviously lacks...self control."
"And letting her go on this trip will help improve that?" she asked not sounding convinced.
"Yes it will. Or rather what she will be doing on this trip will..." It was now or never. Think Dimitri! "Well... before, Rose was going to do some training with me on some of the days and then have free time with her friends for the month. But now I think that she should have half of the day with me for the first two weeks. And then we will go out to a little isolated cabin in the mountains for some intense training. I think that that is what Rose needs. Not to just sit out and feel like a social misfit. Or she will do something like this again just to get attention."
I really hoped that Kirova went for this because that was all I had. Also it was more than I could have ever hoped for. Two whole weeks with just me and Roza. She would take me back for sure...I hoped.
"I see. You make a strong argument Mister Belikov. And none of the punishments that I have come up with seen to have worked. I think that this training exercises will be a valuable life lesson for Miss Hathaway."
I had to fight hard to keep the smile off my face. Which wasn't hard when Rose spoke up.
"What! I have to spent two week alone with him in some creepy old cabin? You can't do that to me, I'll go crazy!"
Her words hurt me more than she knew. I knew the memory of what I had said to her hurt her everyday but was it really causing her pain just to be in the same room as me?
"I can and I have Miss Hathaway. Now go and pack your things. The bus leaves tomorrow."
Rose got up and stormed out. I left after her but didn't follow. And as I saw her walk down the hall, I let the smile slide on to my face. A whole month with her and two whole weeks alone. I could hardly wait.
Well that blew up in Roza's face now didn't it?
what do you think is going to happen with there training?
And what will Rose do to make sure that it dosnt go well?
pleases review,theres only three more days of the contest!
Written in support of Frostbite2015. 1. 5 Million Words Challenge open until 3rd September