"What do you mean?" Alberta asked.
My lips turned inward and my mouth became a hard line.
I saw her eyes wander down to the base of my throat.
"He used you, Rose. He was experimenting with you, strigoi are evil, remember?" Her words were logic and I wanted to follow them but with the small being in my stomach, I knew that I needed to protect it.
"How do you know? Dimitri could be different."
"All of them are the same. How do you even know if it was truly him?"
"I gave him my heart, I know who he is." Tears were leaking from my eyes.
"Hun," she stood up and walked over to me, pulling me into an embrace. "You are in trauma. So much has happened to you."
"I'm still pregnant with a strigoi's fetus." Leaning against her chest, I began to cry. Loud noises came out of my throat and my chest hurt.
"Shush, it's ok."
"No, it isn't! Life sucks. He's gone and this thing is the last part of him that I have."
"That thing is your baby. And your mother was pregnant with you when she was nineteen. Look how far she came."
"Why did you change your mind so fast? Do you truly want me to have this baby?"
"I want you happy. I made a promise to your mother to keep you safe and so far I haven't kept it."
"Were you and my mother friends?" I looked up at her while wiping my eyes.
"The best of. We grew up together. My mother was a bloodwhore. She couldn't live with a child while she had moroi in our house. Five years ago she was murdered."
"Are you going to tell her?"
"Do you want me too?"
"I prefer not to be the one to tell her about… The baby."
Alberta began to giggle.
"Ok then. Now that you are at least thirty minutes late for class, I believe you should go."
Nodding my head, I walked off. Funny thing was, I felt better.
~*~*~*
Lissa's P.O.V (The day after Rose told Alberta)
"Christian?" Lissa looked up into Christian's eyes. It was a picture perfect reception. Fake snow was falling outside and the lights were dimmed inside. A fire flickered warmly in the fireplace off to the side.
Knives made music against the porcelain plates and soft chatter went along between the other guests eating.
Christian and Lissa were at a wedding. It was between two nobles they didn't even know the names of but Adrian sat next to the bride's mother.
They sat close together on their seats; Christian had his arm draped across her shoulders.
"Yes, Love?" Of course, as usual, Lissa was a beauty. Her slender body was covered in a soft silky tan dress that skimmed her knees. It was cold in the night air outside so Christian had placed his tuxedo jacket around her shoulders.
"I'm going to tell you something very important. Promise that you won't tell anyone about it or freak out. Ok?" Lissa asked. She knew at some point that she would have to tell Christian about Rose, but it still stung deep down.
Leaning down, Christian gently swept his lips over her cheek and down her jaw.
"Anything, Princess." The nickname caused Lissa to giggle.
"Rose is pregnant."
"Ha, really now, tell the truth."
"No, she truly is."
"With which poor moroi's creature?" Christian asked sarcastically.
"He used to be a dhampir… But then he got her pregnant as a strigoi." Lissa closed her eyes as his lips paused at her right ear.
"Strigoi can't get dhampirs pregnant."
"Logic decided to take a break that day."
"Who's the daddy?"
"Dimitri. Rose was raped."
~*~*~*
Back to Rose. Same Day as the Wedding.
Sitting in my room Indian Style, I ate a cup of grapes. They were the kind you used to make wine; the skin was tart while the inside was a tangy sweet. I had to spit out the three tiny seeds from each one, though.
It wasn't as good as wine but it was an ok substitute. My mom sat behind me braiding my hair; the weird thing was that I allowed it.
"Mom, have you ever loved a dhampir?" I asked and popped another grape into my mouth.
"Mmm?"
"Is that a yes?"
"No. I never was in love. Unless you count the motherly love I have for you. I love your father too, but I see him as more as a business man."
She pinned my hair up into a bun and stood up. I followed after her as she walked over to my closet.
"Why is that?"
"Because I have always put them first." She paused as she flipped through my cloths and finally pulled out a smoky gray dress with a white sash.
"What's this for?" I asked as she passed it to me.
"I've been invited to a wedding. I'm sure you'll be able to attend, too."
Weddings always bugged me. A waste of money and time. And it also sucks when you have no one to go with. Though of course the last wedding I'd gone to was when I was eight.
"God shoot me now." I said rolling my eyes and tossed the dress on, zippering the back swiftly. I remembered buying it in Russia but I didn't see how it got to America.
She continued to look through my closet and finally pulled out a chocolate brown dress. Another one bought in Russia. Sighing, I decided to undo the bun. I pulled out the bobby pins and undid a few rows of the braid, carelessly tossing the rest of it over my shoulder.
It conveniently covered the bite marks.
My mother pulled on the brown dress and pulled a hand through her short hair. She hadn't gotten it cut since I went to Russia and it reached the small of her back.
Janine Hathaway was still hot in mid-age.
Slowly, I walked into the bathroom and applied a light shade of brown eyeliner and mascara. I dabbed some pale green eye shadow to trail away from the dress and a shade of brown mixed into it. I found a white ribbon in the sash of the dress and tied it around the bottom of the braid.
"Mom?" I walked back into my room and saw her lying on my bed with the nazar in her hand.
"Evil is in this room. It comes with a price. You may not know it now, but it is soon to come." A dark voice hummed from her mouth, sugary and inviting.
My legs carried me over to her and I kneeled beside her head.
"What do you mean?"
"My time here is over, but remember that things you once loved aren't healthy for you anymore."
Her body shook for a moment before it turned limp; her eyes closed for a few minutes and opened again.
"The wedding just ended," She said looking at her watch. "But we can still make it to the reception."
It was as though the prophecy never happened. Did the nazar have more power than we knew?
A/N~-Coughs- I think that was the longest chapter ever… :D. Look, more confusing shit! xD Lol, thankies for reading. Please review :D I have the dresses on my homepage.