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K replying to a review that I couldnt PM to.

Dimkasroza123: Whoo! Ur updating this story sounds so good one of the best I've read I think so far update soon please!

Woow. Thank you thats something to live up to, but thank you for that amazing compliment :D

And yup. Im updating, slowly, but updating.

Anywaaaaaaaaaaaay.

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-CHARACTERS BELONG TO RICHELLE MEAAD!-


Dimitri's POV.

It has been 3 months since I have been back to the Academy. I accepted her request for me to become her guardian, with that means that I would have to leave the academy and follow Tasha where ever she goes. Of course, that is no trouble at all. I've been best friends with Tasha since I could remember, and just recently have we taken that friendship to a whole new level.

2 days before I had left the academy, Tasha gave me a ring. Nothing special nor big, just a plain simple silver ring with the words they come first written on it. The guardian mantra. That was the day she confessed her feelings towards me. I remember slowly understanding her words, and accepting her feelings. I remember telling her that I loved her and I didn't want to ruin the friendship we had if I became her guardian. I distantly remember feeling some sort of disgust? Remorse? Guilt? I can't pin point my mind on that feeling even now as I look back on that memory of that odd feeling that was coursing through me. It was slowly fading away from me, growing darker each day until it was almost gone. I could vaguely remember that my reasons had to do with Rose but for reasons I couldn't seem to remember.

That exact same day, I told Alberta of my plans. I planned to become Tasha's guardian as she requested. I would leave in 2 days, when she was scheduled to go back home. Alberta would then become Rose's mentor as wouldn't be there to help her train. I felt sad, I was sure Rose would go long ways and become a great guardian, but I wouldn't be there in helping her get there. But I trusted Alberta to train her well, just as she deserved to be trained to become the guardian that we all see I her. She had her friends with her to help her too, Lissa, Eddie, Adrian, Mia, even Christian.

So I came back to the Academy with Tasha who was visiting Christian, and as duty calls, I had to go along with her, not that I minded. What surprised me was not seeing Rose with Lissa, but for all I knew, she could have been training with Alberta or someone. Feeling as if someone was watching me, I turned around quickly to see who it was, but they left around the corner before I could see them. But I have a feeling I already knew who it was.

Later in the day we had finally found Christian and Lissa and decided to go take a walk around the park on academy grounds. It was night time, but the moon shone brightly against the park. I saw a lady sitting on the bench with sunglasses on which was odd to me, but she had a book in her lap. Maybe they were reading glasses, clearly accustomed for reading in the night outside. So I ignored her and interacted with Lissa and Christian.

We talked and reminisced about the past 3 months, what each of them were doing and what we had missed about in each other's lives. What struck me odd was I never once heard Rose's name in any of this conversation, which is hard to believe considering the friendship that they both shared.

So when Tasha and Christian went off to talk by themselves, I went to go talk to Lissa.

I asked her about spirit and how she was doing with that. I knew she was practicing different techniques that spirit can be used with Adrian, but soon this conversation just wasn't able to hold me off.

I asked her about Rose.

Lissa's POV.

I froze.

I didn't know what to say.

I haven't talked to Rose in the past 3 months. Not after that fight we had. For a while, I was angry at her for being such a bitch to me. Then I kept thinking about all the other fights we had and was thinking, did she mean every word she said before? Knowing Rose, I don't think she meant every word, but there was truth in the words that she said. And that hurt, to know that my best friend would think about me in that way. I wasn't helpless and vulnerable as she made me seem, but it was still a low blow.

My anger lasted about a month almost 2. But that was then when I started to miss her. I missed her presence there, her jokes, and just the way she knew whenever something was off about me. We still have the bond, but ever since that fight, I blocked her off, and I could tell that she blocked me out too. As much as I would love to have her back as my friend, I know it wasn't the right time. None of us were ready to face each other again. I was able to get back to my life, just with Rose only lingering in the back of my mind. I had my friends and my makeshift family to keep me happy and loved and to get me through this.

"Lissa... what happened?" Dimitri asked me, breaking me out of my reverie.

And so I told him the story of the fight when it started, how it started, what happened, and the aftermath.

And that's when I realized when I told Dimitri the story, that just a week after that fight, Dimitri had left her.

She lost the two people she trusted the most, within two weeks.

And that's when the change in her attitude all made sense.