Chapter 2
The "celebration" was being held in the gym. Usually our marks were given in the guardian building, but I guess this time they wanted to show off the process. The marks we got were called "Molinja" marks which meant lightning in some language I didn't know. Each mark was equal to one kill. In all the confusion of the Attack we pretty much lost count of everyone's kills. So they gave us a star-looking mark called a "zveda". Some call it a battle mark I say it's a way of saying " we lost count" ,But whatever.
When I walked into the gym I saw Lissa walk over to our regular group. I walked over to join her and our friends. Our group consisted on Lissa, her boyfriend Christian, Eddie, Mia, Adrian ,and of course me. I wish Dimitri could come and hang out with us, hell I wish I could introduce him as my boyfriend to the whole world, but we all know that wouldn't go over well, him being seven years older and my mentor. I hadn't realized that I had been staring at him longingly while he was with the other guardians across the room. Thankfully the only one who noticed was Adrian; unfortunately, I knew he was the also the only one who would make a comment.
Adrian came up and whispered to me. "If you keep staring at the cradle-robber over there someone is bound to notice. I kind of hope they do, maybe they'll ship him back to Russia and I can have you all to myself." I scoffed at him.
"Well you wouldn't have me for long." I said back at him.
"And why is that? Would you jump on a plane and go after him? Ha!" I just stared at him.
"That's exactly what I'd do; I'm going to be 18 soon so there would be no one to stop me." He looked at me wide-eyed and I think he finally realized it. But then he put his "I'm cool" face back on. Whatever.
"Well then" his voice softened seductively and his mouth came to my ear. "That means I have a month to change your mind"
I gasped and turned to him with a great urge to slap the sadistic smirk off of his face, apparently everyone else noticed and stared at me, wondering what had happened. Of course Christian was the first to stay something.
"Whoa Rosie if looks could kill Adrian would be dead right now, what he say to get you so pissed off."
"Yah Rosie, what I say?" Adrian looked at me expecting me to be baffled and unprepared and spill about Dimitri. I took a deep breath and gave Christian the same look.
"He called me Rosie, twice. Honestly he shouldn't be able to walk right now." I gave him a death stare, he straightened up quickly.
"You know how I hate being called that; "Sparky" "Now he looked scared shitless.
"I- I'm sorry rose won't happen again." I laughed that I had that power over him.
"Better not." I said. There was an awkward silence that was ended by announcing that the marking ceremony would begin. This would be an important milestone because for the first time, a moroi was getting marked. And much to my disappointment it was Christian. He had helped me kill a lot of Strigoi. He may be annoying as hell but I would probably be dead if it wasn't for his Fire power. But I would never actually admit that. The ceremony took about two hours. By the end of the ceremony I was exhausted and went up to my room for a well-deserved night's rest.
