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I rolled out of bed jumped in the shower and walked over to the Cafeteria just like I did yesterday except this time instead of kids whispering to other people about me they are actually talking to me. Huh, I guess I got my repetition back I couldn't help not smile at that. I walked straight over to the table Lissa was sitting at with Adrian and sat down. Christian and Eddie walked up then as well. Christian was trying to get an answer out of Eddie about why all the novices are all so excited and happy today.
Eddie sat down and looked at me. "How come all of you are trying to get me to answer and not her?" He said pointing at me.
"First of all she's harder to crack, and second of all she doesn't know any other Novices, she's a social outcast who isn't told anything." Christian said like it was an obvious thing. "Plus she just got back."
"Hey I've been making lots of friends!" I snapped it really hurt to hear that for some reason.
"Yea, she has!" Eddie said laughing at me, "A lot of enemies too."
"What? What are you talking about?" Lissa questioned inquisitively.
"It's nothing." I insured. In need of a subject change I turn towards Lissa, "Hey, sorry but I won't be able to hang out with you after classes I have to go somewhere. Sorry." I added again as she started giving me the 'I'm pissed off look' I know she's been feeling attention deprived but I really, really want to see Riley, it's really nice to just get away and escape the drama of my own world every now and then.
"Fine… but…." She giggled.
"What…"
"I convinced Kirova to let a couple of us go to the mall to find dresses for the end of the year dance coming up. It's the last dance before we head out to the really world. I'll let you off the hook for tonight without getting mad, if I get to dress you and get you ready for the dance!" She giggled again.
I knew that I was submitting to my personal hell but I accepted just because I wanted to see Riley so much and I knew that Lissa would most likely get to do it anyway. Walking through the rest of my classes like a zombie I just manage to get through my morning classes. Walking over to the cafeteria for lunch I arrive to find everyone at our old lunch table.
"Hey guys."
"What's up?" Eddie asks.
"Not much, it seems like every class has gotten longer and even more dull than before I left."
"Welcome back," chuckles Eddie.
Not really hungry I sit down and pick a French fry off Christian's tray. Hitting my way away he tries to grab his fry back but it's in my mouth before he can grab it. Smiling I swallow and laugh.
Katherine walks up behind Lissa and looks at me, "What are you to good to get your own tray now? To good for lunch lines?"
The smile fades from my face as I cock my head sideways and retort, "Oh, to good for hair salons? Is that your excuse for the mess on your head?"
"You're only saying that because the only man around here that you could ever get with was a thirty year old loner, now that he's finally done us all a favor and kicked the bucket I reckon theirs no one else around here that can stand you enough to be with you."
I thought that she was just the normal school bitch, the ones that only really say mean stuff to you because they have no life. The ones that say stupid slightly hurtful stuff but nothing extremely under the belt, apparently that was not one of these girls. She hit way, way under the belt. The insult to me was nothing, but what she had said about Dimitri…. that's unexpectable.
Kicking my chair out from under me I stand up and march around the table. Before she can lift a nail to defend herself I grab her hair and pull her against the wall one table away. Bring my knee up to her stomach she bends over shoving my hand into her shoulder I straighten her back against the wall, pulling my hand back I smash it into her face. Punching her face again blood starts to trickle down her pale skin. Driven by anger I grab her hair again and throw her to the floor, I swiftly kick her in the stomach and she hunches over. Smashing my foot into her again she mummers, "Stop." In responds I get down on top of her and push her out flat repeatedly punching her again. There was nothing stopping me, but then all at ones there where two men lifting me by my arms. Two more men examined Katherine, I slipped out of the man's grip on my left and drove my elbow into the man on my right. Lunging again in one last attempt at Katherine a different guardian's arms wrapped around me from the back and the original to grabbed my arms again. Pushing me against the wall they forced me down to my knees and I heard a ruffle of metal. The guardian's on the side of me never let go but the one that grabbed me around the middle released me to put two cold pieces of circular metal around my wrist behind my back. My eyes traveled to the floor as they lifted me up to my feet and marched me out of the cafeteria.
We ended up in Kirova's office. An hour later I leave with detentions after classes every day until Mrs. Kirova is satisfied and a not-so-polite warning that if I laid another hand on a student I would be out of this school before I was done beating them up. Technically I have three more classes but instead of going to them I head to my room. When I get go inside I find Lissa waiting. The tension in the room starts as soon as I walk in but I try to break it, "Playing hooky to?"
"After Kirova was so nice by letting you come back this is how you show her how grateful you are? Did you even see how bad Katherine was? She was unconscious; they had to take her to the clinic."
"You heard what she said; I wasn't and will never let anyone talk bad about Dimitri."
"God Rose!" Lissa stood up from the bed and faced me, "Get an ego check!" She yelled.
"I realize that I lost control a little bit too much, but can't you just understand a little more? Or at least pretend to? I thought we were supposed to be sisters; sisters support each other no matter what they think."
"Why should I? You don't get to do whatever you want! You are supposed to be a guardian! I thought you learned control, are you going to go crazy every time someone meanchins Dimitri's name? Because if so than maybe I need a more stable guardian!" She shouted.
Before I was beyond pissed off, but all my anger turned to painful rejection and disbelief. "Are you saying that I'm not good enough for you?"
With no hesitation Lissa marched past me and stopped just at the door, "Yes! Nobody wants to be around a mobbing lunatic." She slams the door and I fall to the floor.
Katherine's words didn't bother me because I knew that they weren't true, but Lissa throwing this in my face only made the words true. My hands covered my face as dry sobs came bursting out of me, I can't handle it. None of it, Dimitri's gone, Lissa's gone, everyone's gone; I have no one.
Pushing my back against the wall I stand up walking over to the bathroom sink. Picking up my scissors that I use to use to trim my bangs I slide the silver metal across my arm. Deep red lines of liquid push up through the cut in my arm and the pain feels like a relief. Drawling another line the pain of Lissa's words barely have any more effect on me, all my mind can comprehend is the throbbing pain in my arm as once again I drag the scissors deeply across my arm. The blood loss makes me feel dizzy and faint; eventually my body crumples and lies there drifting off with no one to save me because ultimately I'm alone.
Rileys prov (he's thinking this to himself)
I know that she is coming here right after her classes, and I know I have to tell her what I am but how can I? All you have to do is really look at her. Not with pity, not out of curiosity but just truly look at her to notice that she acts happy, but if you really watch her the littlest things will make her extremely sad. It's almost hard to see because she just covers it well and changes the topic instantly but it's there. I want to cheer her up; I want to take away her pain. I know it's just sympathie and I know that I have this weird need to protect her but I also know I also have to tell her the truth.
If someone's in pain do you bring them more pain knowing that it will be littler pain, or do you try to put it off knowing that the problem is just going to grow? Because the worse thing is that she has no clue any of this is coming.
Situational Quote
Ignores is bliss until the ignored catches up with you, then it's like an anvil being dropped on your head, the more longer ignored the bigger the anvil.
Rose's Prov
My eyes peel back only to seek blinding light. Getting up on my knees I push myself up into a standing position. Everything spins and my legs feel to weak to hold me up. Stumbling over to my bed I pick up a third of the way drank orange juice and jug it. Feeling a trickle on my skin I realize what I did and realize that although the blood stopped pouring out it hasn't completely stopped. Making my way back to the bathroom I almost slip in the huge blood stain on the floor, carefully crossing to the other side of the bathroom I pull out my first aid kit and I start applying gaze to my cuts. Taping them up tightly I cross back to my bedroom and sit down on my bed with my hands in my face. Wimpy tears start to tread down my checks, little trails of fire. Riley. Wiping away my tears I finally get a pleasurable emotion, excitement pumps through me and I strip off all my blood covered clothes to jump in the shower. Holding my taped up arm out of the water I clean the blood off the rest of my skin and turn off the water. Tying my hair up in a ponytail I toss on a fresh pair of dark jeans. My hand was half way reaching for a short sleeved shirt when my hand froze. Moving over to a different side of my clothes I pick a long sleeved black shirt. Heading out I can't help a smile of anticipation.
I know Strigoi won't come out for awhile so I didn't know what we are going to do but I don't really care, I just can't wait to be with him. It's like he makes the darkness go away. Or maybe not go away but he takes me out of reality and gives me a place where I can just be me and not Guardian Hathaway. Glancing down I notice that I completely forgot to put on shoes. I'm such a dumbass sometimes, I got so excited I just left without checking that I had everything, I guess if I go patrolling with Riley I'll just steal a pair of his shoes.
I walk up to the cabin that he's been staying in and knock a couple of times on the door. After the second knock I see Riley standing there with the biggest smile I've ever seen him have, but I guess I've only known him for 2 days. "What?" I asked self consciously.
"What, what?" He double asked me laughing.
"Why are you smiling so stupidly?" I asked playfully punching him in the arm. Instead of answering he simply pulled the door open further and gestured for me to come in. I walked in the door but was instantly taken aback at what I saw. The room had a mini kitchen area with a belt in bar area, a bed, a dresser, a TV, and a couch. But that was just the basics that had all ready been in here. You could tell because all lot of it was still covered in dust, except places where he had been. But along with one back pack that was over flowing with clothes, he had the entire surface of the bar covered in candy. And sitting on top of the TV was a DVD case, I could tell the title easily because he had propped it up on display showing of the fact that it was Never Back Down. I started laughing.
"Hey, laugh all you want but at the end of the night you will no longer be candy deprived and you will be witness to the best movie of all time." He walked over to the bar and pulled out a stool, I sat down on it and he sat next to me. "So pick your poison." He says pointing towards the pile of candy. "You've got you gummy worms, gummy bears, chocolate covered gummy bears , sour gummy bears, peach rings, Hershey's chocolate, chocolate kisses, Twix bars, 3 musters, paydays, think of a candy and I'll have it." He smiles and I decide to test him…
Running down a list of all the candies I've ever heard of or seen he had them all. Until I got to one I knew he wouldn't have because I knew for a fact that the where a special Halloween Addison flavor, "special dark midnight Twix," I smirk with confidence. He laughs, shifts some stuff out of the way, and pulls a bunch out.
"They're my favorite, I had to buy a lot of them, and he shrugged.
"They're my favorite too," I laughed. "Lissa, my best friend, bought me like five bags of them for Halloween when we weren't at the academy and I ate so many so fast I threw up the entire next day." I laugh nostalgically.
"You weren't always at the academy?" He raises an eyebrow opening a bag of m and m's.
Once again I didn't even hesitate before telling him, "Ya, but best friend is a spirt user, since she's one of the first some really strange things happen but we have no idea how to control them. We thought that she was in danger so we ran away for two years. We ended up being brought back though." Something inside of me wanted to keep talking, something inside of me wants Riley to know every tiny thing about me, and it feels amazing to just let it all pour out. "A couple of years ago I was in a car crash with Lissa and her family; me, her brother, and her parents died. She used spirit and brought me back, but it made me shadow kissed, which means that I'm bonded to her. Basically I can see inside her…"
"I know."
"What?"
Riley is glancing between me and the ground, his eyes finally settle on a package of candy. "I know about the element of spirit, I know about shadow kissed people, and all about the bonds."
My mouth dropped to the floor, "How?"
He didn't say anything for a long moment, "I used to be bonded."
"Used to be?" He nods. "I'm sorry."
Neither of us says anything but there seems to be something he really wants to tell me, I don't push him and he doesn't say it. After a moment he gets up and puts the DVD in, smiling I put both my arms out and bare huge the pile of candy, closing my hairs like a claw machine I run over to the coffee table in front of the TV and drop the candy. Riley sees me doing so and laughs at my success.
Plobbing down on the couch I put my feet up on the table stretched out. Riley grabs the route from the remote holder and sits next to me, skipping through the advertisements he get's to the title screen.
"I don't understand why DVD's have advertisements and trailers, we paid for the DVD so why should we have to watch advertisements?"
"True that."
The movie starts and we settle into a comfortable quiet. His arms lying on the couch next to his body and I lay my arm right next to his, our bodies exchanging heat. His eyes trail down for a moment he smiles and looks back up at the screen.
When the movies ends and the credits start to roll through it's still light. "So?" Inquires Riley turning his head to look at me with a smile.
"Haha, definitely awesome."
"What didI tell you? Go ahead and say it, 'your right Riley'." He jokes animating my voice.
I lean in slightly and whisper evilly, "Never."
I had turned sideways to face him but he springs out at me pushing me back against the rest of the couch. Leaning over me he starts tickling my body, "You're right Riley." He animates my voice again.
I shriek out in laughter as I try to catch my breath. Smiling so big I start poking him and I try to tickle him back, but I'm laughing so hard I can't. "I'll never admit it."
"So how are you going to get me to stop tickling you then?" He teases.
Instead of attempting to tickle him I hold the sides of his head, pulling him down to me up I slowly put my lips to his.
He stops and freezes, definitely not what he expected. For the first two seconds our bodies are stone in shock, the next few minutes is like pop corn curdles exploding with desire, then our French kiss turns in to something on the same level of a atom bomb going off. His long tan arms rap around my waist, his face cuddles into the curve of my neck, sucking and kissing on the sensitive skin their I let out an unintended moan and rap my legs around one of his upper thighs pulling my body off the couch and up against his body. Pushing down he sandwiches my body between the velvet soft cushions and his body. The funny part is with anyone else I would have pulled them off after the first second of the kiss. I'm not ready for someone else, with Dimitri so close to my heart I would have thought I could never do this. But the desire for human contact and the need to have somebody who's just mine drives me to keep going. Dimitri would have wanted me to be happy. I want to be happy. I don't want Lissa and Katherine to be right, I want to be needed, I want to be loved.
He disconnects our lips and he slides on the side of the couch so he's next to me lying on his side. He gazes at me under dark eyelashes and his gaze is warmer than the sun. "Why did you stop?"
"We met only a few days ago, I figured you would want me to stop."
Our eyes connected and we both just looked at each other for a long moment. "You are one of the most patient, respectful, amazing, caring man I have meet. So many guys want to hook up with me to have a fun night and have that be that."
"Did you want me to be a one night thing?"
I grin widely and put a quick kiss on his lips, "Absolutely not."
The sun has yet to appear so we decide to play a game, he had a deck of cards so we decided to play poker with gummy bears, popcorn, and skittles. It was really fun but it got dark fast and he had to patrol. I knew that I should leave but I didn't want to so I went with him, plus it seemed like the entire night he wanted to say something but wasn't. I explained my shoe dilemma and laughing he pulled out an extra pair of converse he had, they were a little big but I tighten the laces so they won't fall of and I didn't complain. He insisted that I take a bunch of candy with me so he dumped his clothes in a corner and filled up the back pack with candy. He just barely was able to close the bag and he stuffed full all of the pockets laughing at my face. "I have a LOT of eating to do!" I laughed.
"Haha, I think you can do it." Carrying the bag for me and we started to walk around the school.
We walked in a comfortable silence for quite some time before he abruptly stopped and turned to me. Taking a big breath he just watched me carefully. This is going to sound crazy, because it is.
"What?"
"Would you like to go on a date with me?" His confident voice turns to nerves.
For a minute I can't say anything. "A date?"
He blushes and starts to continue walking, "Never mind, I'm just a waste of your time."
I grab his arm smiling, shaking my head from side to side I wrap my arms around him securely. "I would love to go on a date with you."
His nervous flat line face turns into a copy of mine, completely relaxed and happy. "Do you want to sneak out and ditch this place tomorrow night? The city a bit north from here has the best pizza I've tasted in my entire life, it's unbelievable."
"Sounds terrific, do you have a car somewhere?"
"Ya, I took every cent I'd saved up and put it into buying a car."
Turning back to the trail we started to patrol again, a moment later a warm and steady hand slipped into mine. Giving it a little squeeze to let him now I liked it we continued to walk the night.
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