AN: Soo... this chapter is a little OOC for Rose, but its the best I could do. At home, we had a blackout... and I couldn't write the story or update :( sorry guys!

I don't know if I'll be able to update for a while but I'll try, holidays are nearly over and the blackouts supposed to go for like anoth day or two. Eww!

Anyways... Enjoyy and review, review, review! :)


Chapter 3

They gave us a day to unpack before we had to return to school. I didn't get to unpack much, seeing as Stan wanted to see me immediately after the meeting to organize our training sessions. I was to train for 2 hours after school and an hour and a half before. Seeing as school was almost over for the day, he settled on an hour after school.

In my packing time, I snuck out of my dorm to see Lissa. She was hanging on, happy that I hadn't been expelled.

"Rose!" She squealed when she opened to door to me.

"Yeh, Liss, its me." I told her, smiling widely "How am I going to cope with Stan as a mentor? I hate him!"

"I don't know…" She said thoughtfully, before launching into a long lecture on why I had to behave.

"I'd better go, before the bell rings." I said, glancing at the clock, relising it was the end of the school day. "And I have training."

"Well, good luck! And be good!" She yelled as I sprinted out the door.

"Rose!" Someone called my name as I entered the dhampir dorms. I recognized the voice, but I couldn't quite put it to a face.

I turned, to see Mason racing towards me, almost out of breath as the bell rang. "You need to exercise more" I teased him.

"Good to see you too, Hathaway," He retorted, before pulling me into a pashionate kiss.

Mase and I had a kind of on again, off again kind of romantic relationship. He totally into me, but I wasn't so sure how I felt, and he was one of my closest dhampir friends. I didn't want to ruin that. When we had left, it had been off again, so I wasn't sure why he was kissing me now.

"What was that?" I asked him, pulling myself out of his arms.

"A kiss?" He told me, raising an eyebrow. "I'm glad your back. Maybe I can finally beat you now."

"You wish," I laughed at him.

"Is it true?" He asked suddenly.

"Is what true?" I asked him back I had no idea what he was talking about.

"That you have marks. I heard a rumor going around. Someone said they saw them this morning."

My grin dropped. I didn't want everyone knowing about that. "Who said that?"

Ignoring my question, Mason said "It's true, isn't it." Before reaching behind my neck and looking at my 4 marks. His eyes went wide.

"I got to go to training. I'll talk to you later," I said jerking my head away from him and heading off towards my room.


"You're late Hathaway." Stan told me, as I entered the gym. "That's strike one."

I gave him my signature 'are you kidding me' look, before asking "What have you go planned?"

"We're going to spar, see what your up to, which no doubt is with the elementary dhampirs and the you are going to do laps."

"You doubt me? It's going to be embarrassing for you when I kick you ass." I taunted.

And I was right. I took him down easily. To which he was stunned to say the least.

"Ok, Hathaway. Laps." He barked.

"No. You do laps." I told him, he's the one who lost after all.

"Strike 2." He muttered.

"Fuck you." I told him. "Just because you're embarrassed doesn't mean you have to take it out on me. Maybe if you trained your ass little more often, you would be able to beat someone of 'elementary' level."

"Strike 3. Headmistress's office. Now."


"Already, Miss Hathaway? I thought you wanted to keep you place here." Kirova asked me, as soon as I walked in the door.

"I didn't do anything wrong!" I yelled.

"Then why are you here?" Kirova asked, cunningly

"Because Stan hates me! And so do you!"

"We have had an offer for another school to take you, so you will go there." Kirova continued calmly. This was what she wanted.

"But what about Lissa?"

"She will be better off without you. You leave tomorrow." Kirova told me, a slight smile on her lips.

I left with out a word after that, storming out of here office towards the Moroi dorms.

The matron in the lobby tried to stop me, but I kept walking up. I could tell that Lissa was feeling better, settling in.

The tears were threatening to overflow my eyes by now. I NEVER cried. I can't believe they were sending me away. We had to get out now.

I knocked on Lissa's door. She had company that I hadn't realized before. It was her roommate, a moroi I had never seen before but looked scarily like Lissa, who threw the bond I could tell was named Jill Manstrano.

She opened the door, enveloping me in her arms immediately. I could feel the questions through the bond, but chose to ignore them. Lissa began to worry, but at the same time she trusted me not to get expelled.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to…" I told her over and over again. I couldn't say it.

"What happened Rose?" She asked me.

"They kicked me out…" I cried into her shoulder. I felt so weak, being so emotional.

"They what?" She said, jerking her head back to look at me. "Why?"

"I don't know. I gave Stan attitude." I told her. "We have to get out of here."

"Yeh, what do we need?" Lissa asked me.

"No!" A voice came suddenly, looking through the bond, I could see the voice surprised us both. "You can't leave!"

It was Jill. She had just come out of the bathroom, having heard the last past of the conversation.

"And why not?" I growled,"We've done it before."

Jill looked scared, but I had to admire her couraged. The look I gave her usually at least slowed a person down. "I know you've done it before.. but, but, if you leave, the-they a-are shh-ure to find you again- and this time, the-y prob-probably wo-uldn't just t-ake you b-back, they'd pr-probably kill you. Or at th-the v-very l-east… Kick L-lissa out too." Jill stuttered, looking nervous once again.

"She's right." Lissa held my shoulders and began to sob. "As much as I can't bear you not being here, it'd much so much worse if-if the-they killed you. All because of me…"

"But what about…" I stopped myself. Jill didn't know. She couldn't. "You know…"

"Don't worry. I'll call you everyday and we can visit each other. All the time." Lissa told me sadly. "We'll work it out. Want me to come and help you pack?"

The walk to my room was excruciating. The tears has stopped fowing from my eyes, and dispite my best efforts, people still came up to me and asked me what's wrong.

Lissa growled, which made me laugh, and those who I was friends with before I left trailed behind as me and Lissa tried to make it to our room. I let them all in. Standing with us were Lissa, Mason, Eddie, Jill and Mia.

Me and Mia had our ups and our down, but we came together when we both realized that the royals were asses, who care for no one but them selves – except Lissa that is.

"Rose, what's wrong?" Mason asked me, for the twenty-or-so-ith time. This time, went Lissa answered for me, but I cut her off.

"Kirova kicked me out." They gasped, but I just laughed humorlessly. "Don't act so surprised. We all knew it was coming. The bitch hates me."

They were all too dumbstruck to speak. They hadn't expected that. But me, being me, thought of the ways to benefit out of the situation.

"Let's play truth or dare." I told them, I mean, since I'm no longer a student, it's not like I could get in any trouble, so I told the that. "It's not like you guys could get in any trouble, blame it on me."

They didn't respond, so I resorted to pleading. "Pl-easee?"

It didn't work, so I tried the pity vote. "It'll make me feel better, make me not so sad."

That one worked and one by one, they began to cave.

"Sit in a circle." I ordered, before asking, "Who wants to go first?"

"I warn you, Rose is totally badass at truth or dare." Lissa warned.

"Like they didn't know that Liss," I laughed. "Besides, I'm badass at everything."


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