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Chapter 4

ROSE

Wishes come true...

If you wish them to...

It was my slogan before Adrian left. Actually it was one of my slogans. I had a few of them. Some of them funny while other were realistic. One of the my favourite was

"A great person is not the one who can fight the other,

A great person is the one who can stop himself from fighting off the other."

I used to say this to Adrian every other day and he used to say "Little Dhampire, this only follows for you".

And it was true. He didn't care for me at all. I tried everything to contact him. I send him messages everyday and I knew he did read them, but still he hadn't replied.

He didn't care for me a bit. I thought I loved him but it wasn't true. This office is the place where I spent most of my freshman year. I am the good girl in my class. Only that my best friends were the biggest mischief makers in the class or in the whole academy. Most of the times, Adrian and I were caught bunking the class and singing in the closet or on the terrace.

I still remember the last time, he sang a song for me.

He was singing my favourite song, as I asked him to, it was last day we were alone together. Then suddenly he started ignoring me. He exchanged his seat beside me with Mason. He locked himself in his room in the last few days he was here.

And the day before he left, I confronted him and asked why he was he was trying to ignore. But he just shrugged at me and said "Rose, later". It was one of the few times he called me Rose instead of Little Dhampire. Even though I would beat anyone to death if he or she tries to call me that. But in reality, only one person on this entire planet was allowed to call me that. And he was Adrian Ivashkov himself.

I was pretty dangerous then.

The Headmistress' office has changed a lot since the last time I came here, which was two years ago. The room has been painted blood red in place of plaid blue. The furnitures have been remodeled and the statue of Cupid at the corner of the Office has been removed.

Other things are quite similar as it used to be . The only problem was I don't know what I am doing here.

Headmistress Kirova looked the same as she used to. I often see her making rounds in the corridors or in the assembly especially held for Lissa's parents death, Queen Tatiana's welcome.

She was wearing a dark red dress, which completely matched the background. And with pale white skin and grey hairs, still, she looked beautiful. Guardian Alberta was standing at the corner of the room.

She is the head guardian of our academy. And a second mother for me. She has been taking care of me since I was 4, when my real mother, the famous Guardian Janine Hathaway, left me at the academy for doing her job.

The door of the office opened and a tall man, sorry, dhampire with shoulder length dark brown hair entered. He was the same man who had beaten me up at the gym. I don't remember what his name was but I do remember he had a thick accent, probably Italian or Russian.

Headmistress Kirova looked at him and greeted in a melodious voice that all moroi have.

"Guardian Belikov"

"Headmistress" he replied softly.

Then she turned to me and said "Rosemarie, it's a great pleasure to have you back in my office. I must admit that I missed you in these past years. And look at you, you have grown up. You look so much like Janine now. Except your hair and eyes, they come from your father, Ibrahim, he was quite a gentleman." I could sense the bitterness in her voice, when she talked about my father as if her memories were playing off in her mind.

Even though I have never met my father or heard from him. I had a respect for him. But Headmistress Kirova knew him, all these years she knew him but she never told me anything until now. For the first time in my life, someone told me that I looked like my mother. Maybe it was true, it has been a long time since I met her. Almost five years, I was twelve when I last met her. I don't even remember her face properly. She was taller than me, but her skin was paler than mine. And I do remember that she had red curly hair, which were cropped into short curls, which were not long enough to cover up her marks. But now when I think about it, I think she kept her hair short to show off her marks. Then I looked at Headmistress. She was still standing quietly as if she was in Sub-concious world.

Guardian Alberta spoke in to break the silence between us. Guardian Belikov sighed, it was barely noticeable, his head just lowered, as if he was simply breathing. No one paid attention to his sigh and looked at Guardian Alberta.

Headmistress too turned her head and she again at us. And by us, I meant me and Guardian Belikov.

She spoke again "Rosemarie, you are going to spend your every spare moment with Guardian Belikov. He will be training you from now on. And you should also know that he is Princess Vasilisa's guardian."

This took me by surprise. How could they remove me from Lissa's guardianship. I have been training my whole life to become Lissa's Guardian.

I spoke lightly and as politely as I could. "Headmistress, I am Lissa's Guardian. This is what I have been trained for my whole life. And this was what Lord and Lady Dragomoir wanted for Lissa."

Before I could speak more, Headmistress Kirova interrupted me, this time in her real voice, the same tone she used to talk to me two years ago. "Rosemarie, you will be Vasilisa's guardian and Guardian Belikov will be too." Her hands gestured toward Guardian Dimitri Belikov. I looked at him.

And she continued her sentence "You will be partners. Do you really think, the Moroi Court will leave the last Dragomoir, one of the Royal Moroi Families, the last of the blood of the dragon in the hands of a silly young dhampire girl who can't handle herself." She embarrassed me. I have never been so embarrassed, especially in front of a foreign stranger, who had beaten me up last wwhich

I knew, he was probably laughing at me. Or at least making a joke of me in his head. But when I looked at him. He made no change in his facial expression. He just didn't have time to look up at me.

Guardian Alberta said "You can start your training from today onwards. And now you can go, Rose."

I walked out of the room.