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"You wanted to see me?" I asked tentatively in broke Russian to the back of the woman behind the desk.

"Yes," hissed the lady behind the desk before addressing me in English. "Please take a seat, Ms. Hathaway." She turned around, giving a good look at her. She was tall, slim, and her face reminded me of a vulture. "I'm Headmistress Kirova, and it has come to my knowledge that your first days of schools have been...eventful...to say the least."

"Umm…" I cleverly say, wondering what she's talking about.

"Ms. Hathaway, what happened on your first day of school."

"I came to school…"

"With Mr. Belikov!" Belikov, that name sounds familiar.

"Who?"

"Dimitri Belikov. My sources say you had an altercation with him towards the end of the first day of school."

"Oh him! Yea he said something rude to me and I replied with a slap to his face. Honesty, I went easy on him."

"Oh really? Well did you go easy on Ms. Rinaldi also?"

"The kindergartener?" From the exasperated sigh she gave, I guess I'm right. "Well that was a tiny bit impulsive, but she was offending my best friend and I was just defending her."

"Yes, well, you can't go around slapping and punching people you don't like," she began before launching into a lecture about right and wrong and not taking things into my own hand, it wasn't until the end that I zoned back in. "Since it's only the first week of school, I won't suspend you, but you are prohibited from attending the fall dance and you must attend detention for a month."

"What?!" I screamed, getting up from my chair. "That's not fair!"

"Now, Ellen, that's a little dramatic don't you think," the P.E. teacher said from the door. Oh thank god, I thought. "Detention is a waste of everyone's time. How about instead make her join a team...like track, she'd be a wonderful asset. Although, she is a bit behind, but that's no issue, she'll just have to put in extra time with the team captain."

"Hmm, you have a point there, Alberta. Fine. No detention. But still no dance."

"No. Please!" I begged. Yes. Begged. "I'll do anything, but please let me go." This got her attention. She quipped her eyebrow at me.

"Anything," she purred. I slowly nodded my head, already regretting saying that. "Ok then. The dance committee is having trouble finding people to help with the set-up and all that stuff. You are now in that group." I groaned. Great. "From this Saturday until the Saturday of the dance you will be here helping make the props, decorations, ballots, and whatever else they need help with. On the day of the dance you will be here setting up. You fail to come on one Saturday and you will not be able to attend, am I understood?"

"Yes, ma'am." Just what I wanted to do on my Saturdays.

"Very well. You may leave now," she said dismissively, waving her hand. As Alberta and I reached the door she spoke again. "Oh and Ms. Hathaway? Welcome to Saint Vladmir's Academy. I hope to never see you in my office again." Don't count on it, I thought as I followed Alberta out.

"Good morning class, can everyone please take your seats," Ms. Karp said once she settled in the front, annoyance evident in her request. Once everyone was seated she continued. "If you remember from last class, I mentioned there being a project you will have all semester to do, and that you get to work with a partner. Originally, I was going to let you all pick your partners, but after careful thinking, I decided that it would be better if I assigned partners. With that being said, on my desk will be a sheet that list the partners and their topic. You can see it as you leave class." Everyone let out a unison sigh before she started to lecture about the basic chemistry we needed to know for biology. Before I knew it, class was over and we were standing in line to see the sheet.

Mason was in front of me and so was the Russian Nitwit. When Belicock saw it his body froze and he look around, confused. Huh, must not have gotten one of his besties. When Mason saw the list, his expression saddened and he gave me an apologetic look. So he's not my partner, how bad could it be?

The minute I looked down and found my name, my only thought was: it's fucking bad.

It was organized in alphabet order, so naturally Mason's was first, but mine was second.

Ashford, Mason with Ozera, Christian on Animal Evolution

Belikov, Dimitri with Hathaway, Rose on Sports Medicine

"WHAT?!" I shouted as I turned around and went to Ms. Karp.

"Is something wrong, Ms. Hathaway?" she asked, not looking up from whatever she was working on on her desk.

"You have to give me another partner, Mr, Karp. Please!"

"Now why would I do that?" she asked calmly as she got up and went around watering her plants.

"You don't know the vulgar monster that he is!" I shouted.

"Rose, Mr. Belikov has been coming here for four years, I've had the pleasure of teaching him last year, I can assure he's no monster. However, if he's done anything offense, I suggest you bring it to principal's attention so the correct measures can be taken."

"It wasn't anything that drastic. I just want another partner, PLEASE!" I begged, chasing her around the room.

"Well, I'm sorry, but I'm not switching partners. I paired everyone up with someone they don't usually interact with."

"I'm new here, I haven't reacted with anyone! So why not have me go with someone else?"

"Because I've already assigned everyone with someone else, it's too late to go back and switch it. I'm sorry, Rose, but you're just going to have to deal with it," she said kindly, turning around and placing a comforting hand on top of mine.

"I DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH IT!" I shouted a bit too loudly. Taking a deep breath, I calmed myself before continuing. "Look he and I...we didn't get off on the right foot. For christ's sake, I slapped him when we met."

"Well that's not my fault, no is it? I don't know what happened, nor do I want to. Fact of the matter is, what's done is done and there's no going back. I am not changing your partner," she said in a stern voice that left no room for discussion. "Plus, this project will give you the opportunity to get to know each other better and make up for the horrendous first meeting you two had."

"Or make it ten times worse," I mumbled.

"I'm sorry, Rose," Ms. Karp said sincerely. "There's nothing I can do, so I suggest you make the best of it and try to start new and get to know him."

After a moment of thinking about it, an idea struck me. "Fine," I grumbled.

"Like I said before, he's not a bad person, you might come to befriend him," she said as I walked out. Yea right, I thought.

"High school sucks," I said as I plopped down in a seat next to Lissa, resting my head against her shoulders. I felt Lissa's shoulder shake as she chuckled.

"What happened?" she asked, her voice full of humor. I turned my head up and glared are her.

"What didn't happen?" I mumbled. "I'm paired with the demon giant. I have to go spend every waking hour with the pom pom bimbos. And I have to run."

"What?" Adrian asked, a twinkle in his eyes. "I can't hear mumble."

I let out deep sigh and nestled myself closer to Lissa, ignoring Adrian.

"Aww, bad day, Rosie?" Andre asked as he sat next to me.

"Yea and so will you if you call me that again," I snapped grumpily, switching over and resting my head on Andre. He wrapped his arms around me and I turned so I was curled up into him. He placed a bag on my lap, probably filled with what I asked him for.

"Ooo feisty," Mason said as he sat next to Adrian. "Doesn't have anything to do with being partnered with the tall, dark, handsome Russian you slapped, does it?"

"Shut up, Mase," I warned before Lissa nudged me to sit up and turned towards me, her eyes gleaming at the sound of gossip.

"Wait what? You're Dimitri's partner? For what?"

"Shh, Lissa, don't want the whole female population in this school to kill me on my third day." Everyone fell into laughter.

"What's so funny?" Jill asked as she came to join us, another blonde next to her. Why did she look so familiar? It wasn't until Adrian's face brightened up and he stood up and hugged her tightly and gave her a quick peck before sitting her down on his lap that I remembered who she is.

"You're Sydney," I blurted before quickly adding, "right?" She nodded her head with a skeptical look, as she turned to Adrian, probably asking him who I am. "Oh right! I'm Rose, this is my best friend, Lissa, and her brother, Andre. We're new here."

"Oh, I'm sorry. I've been so busy I forgot Adrian mentioned making some new friends. Well, yes, I'm Sydney. You're from America correct?"

"Yes, ma'am," Andre said as he and Lissa shook her hand.

"Welcome to St. Vlad's, I hope everything's been going well for you three."

"It is," Lissa said while I gave a sarcastic laugh. "Don't mind her she's had a bad day."

"I don't see how getting paired with Dimitri is considered bad," Jill said absentmindedly. From the corner of my eye, I saw Sydney freeze.

"You're doing a project with Dimitri," she asked cooly.

"Yea," I grumbled. "Karp didn't want to switch so I'm stuck with him. Hey, wait, you tutor them don't you?" She nodded her head slowly, not knowing where I was going with this. A small smile formed on my lip. "Well if I'm lucky enough, I'll end up doing the project with you and not have to be stuck with Belicock."

"Belikov," everyone corrected, I just shrugged my shoulders. Sydney got up and dismissed herself from everyone, giving Adrian a parting kiss before leaving to go do some homework before tutoring. Everyone said goodbye to her and once she had walked away I detached myself from Andre and got up.

"Well I should be off too. Don't want to be too late to my first practice."

"Wait what?" Lissa asked, blindsided. "What practice?"

"Well someone snitched to Kirova about me slapping the Russian pervert and punching the kindergartener so I got stuck with detention. However, Alberta saved my ass and got my detention changed to being on the track and field team, but I have some catching up to do. I don't know why since it's just running, but I'm in no place to complain."

"Wait, who snitched on you?" Sydney asked from behind me. I turned around to face, surprised she was still here.

"I dunno know. Kirova never said. Why?" I asked her skeptically. She had this faraway look, like her mind wasn't really here. As I kept staring at her, she must have noticed because it wasn't long before she focused in on my face.

"Huh? Oh. Nothing, just curious," she quickly said before turning around and briskly walking out.

"What else did Kirova tell you?" Adrian asked. I put my hand on my hip and gave him a challenging look.

"Why does she have to have said anything else? Wasn't that enough punishment?" He gave me a pointed look, almost like he could see right through me. "Fine! She also suspended me from the Homecoming Dance, which I fought tooth and nail to get her to take back."

"Did she?" Mason asked hopefully.

"Yea," I grumbled. "On the condition that I help with the behind the scene stuff. Making the decorations, setting things up. Basically I have no life outside this school until the dance. And you won't believe who's in charged."

"Tasha and Mia," Jill answered.

"Correction. Screaming bitch and her kindergartener. God this is gonna be hell." I slung my backpack over my shoulder and left for Alberta's office.

Alberta POV

"What?" I heard someone say in the biology classroom I was walking past. The voice sounded vaguely familiar, but I didn't pay too much attention. What caught my attention was that class was over and the students were on a ten minute break, so who could be shouting in there? I heard some mumbling until the same person shouted, "You don't know the vulgar monster he is!" Wonder who she's talking about. I approached the classroom cautiously, not wanting anyone to accuse me of eavesdropping while I'm suppose to be patrolling the halls. As I came closer to the door, I noticed to figures inside. I saw Sonya's face clearly and the back of whoever must be shouting.

I wasn't close enough to hear what Sonya responded, I just heard the beginning where she addressed the student, Rose, and mentioned Dimitri. Is this the same Rose that was in Ellen's office this morning? "Well, I'm sorry, but I'm not switching partners," I heard Sonya tell Rose sternly.

"I'm new here, I haven't interacted with anyone! So why not have me go with someone else?" Rose countered. What could possibly have happened between her and Dimitri in two days that makes her so adamant about not being partners with him? Rose…Rose…what's her last name…Hathaway! She's the same girl that undressed in P.E. An idea popped in my head. I was about to retreat when I heard Rose's booming voice scream, "I DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH IT!" Uh oh, I thought, walking back to the door, ready to enter and intervene if things got out of hand. My hand was around the door knob, ready to open it when I heard her say, "I slapped him when we met."

Hmm, I know just what to do with her, I thought as I took my hand away and walked towards my office.

I was on my lunch break working on some paperwork when I heard a knock on my door. I called them in, not looking up from what I was filling out.

"I was told you wanted to see me," said a gruff voice, no doubt the track team's captain.

"Yes, take a seat, please," I said, putting aside the form I was working on and looking up at him. "As you probably know we have a few new students." He nodded, his expression indifferent. "Well one of them is joining our team. She's good on her feet from what I've observed, and she's very…resilient...so I think she's perfect for the team. However, she's lacking disciple, form, and control, and she's just all together behind...in everything. I need someone I can trust, that's one of the best, to train her before and after school until she's one of the best."

"Well, I'm sure Eddie would be more than happy to do that," he offered, unknowing of my plan.

"If I wanted Edison to be her trainer, I would have called him in," I stated, leaning forward and waiting for him to get my message. His eyebrows furrowed in confusion and then his eyes slightly widened in understand before he put back on his mask of indifference. "As team captain, and the best on our team, I'm giving you the task of training Rose before and after school. I need you to train her to excel in everything our team does, but for right now I need you to focus on her running, she's got potential, I just need you to get her to hone it in."

"Rose?" he asked, surprised by the familiarity of the name. "Rose who?"

"Hathaway. Rose Hathaway," I stated simply. Then I got up, walked to the door and then turned and said, "I'm sure you're familiar with who she is." Closing the door afterwards.

Practice had started fifteen minutes ago, and warms-up were all finished so half the team was in our gym working out while the other half was out here running. And yet we were missing someone. It was then that I heard the rapid tapping of feet descending the stairs that let to the field. I looked up and saw someone running down, trying to put her hair up in a ponytail without having her bags fall off her shoulder. She stopped right next to me and bent down to tie her shoes.

"You're late," I said, looking at her through my peripheral vision, keeping my eyes on the students finishing whatever lap they were on.

"I know. I'm sorry, I didn't have clothes to change into so I had to wait for my friend to come back with my clothes. Please don't tell Kirova," she pleaded, as she stood up next to me.

"I won't. Next time you forget your clothes, just wear your gym clothes."

"Ok. What do you want me to do?"

"Go up to my office and wait for me there. I'll be there as soon as they're finished."

"As soon as who's finished?" she asked, genuinely curious.

"You'll just have to wait and see," I said curtly. Her eyes flashed with anger, but she didn't say anything, just turned around and went up to my office.

It was a few minutes until he finished all of his laps. When he got to the finish line I nodded my head for him to come over.

"Once you're done with you cool downs I want you in my office, leave Eddie in charge," I ordered, turning around and heading to my office.

"Well, Rose, welcome to the team, I'm glad you decided to join us," I said as I sat down.

"Didn't have much of a choice, did i?" she asked rhetorically. I nodded my head.

"Nonetheless, I'm glad to have you on the time. I saw you running in P.E. and I've got to say you have some real talent, and potential."

"But…"

"But, you can't get to where you can on this team be by yourself. You're behind, and you haven't gone through the rigorous training everyone else on the team has gone through. You don't have control and you most definitely don't have disciple. No. Let me finish," I said cutting off whatever argument she had on her tongue. "This team is more than track, we do more than run around the field. We do weight training, combat fighting, but you're not ready for that yet. But I want you to be."

"And how do you suppose I do that?" she asked sarcastically.

"I'm glad you asked. Rose to catch you up, I need you to work one-on-one with someone I assign to be your trainer. You are going to train with them for two hours before school and an hour after practice. During practice you'll be solely on the track field. Of course all of this is for however long I deem fit. When I think you're ready to move into the gym, I'll have your trainer start working with you in your sessions, and when I think you're at your potential I'll end the mandatory extra sessions. Do you understand?" She nodded her head. Before I could continue, I saw a tall figure approach the door and knock. A small smile formed on my face as I nodded for him to come in.

"Rose, meet the team captain and your personal trainer, Dimitri Belikov."

A/N: DUN DUN DUN! They meet again! Seems like fate is hell bent on putting them together ;)

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