Chapter 4

Cutting loose ends

It has been about a week since I have been let out of the hospital and I'm learning every day. My favorite food I pizza, my best friend is Lissa, and this is St. Vladimir's academy. No matter how many times I say it, it doesn't fit in my brain. It's like this is someone else's life and I'm just taking over for now.

They've excused me from my classes, seeing how I won't remember any material so I've just been sitting in my room alone trying to wrap my head around things. That girl, Lissa, she visits me often. So does the guy with styled hair whose name I learned is Arian. I haven't seen the beautiful man who sat next to my bed in the hospital. I'd been told his name was guardian Belikov.

I was alone now though. Lissa, Adrian, Christian, none of them were here. I read a book on something called guardian techniques for the advanced as I wait. I didn't know what I was waiting for I was just… waiting.

I put the book down and walk to the rest room gasping as I see that girl again. The one with the dark brown eyes and hair all the way down her back. Me. It was frightening to think the girl I'm seeing is myself. Somehow she didn't look right. My eyes fall to a pair of scissors left on the table. I pick them up and look in the mirror carefully cutting the dark locks. By the time I finish its chin length and the rest of the hair, my hair, lies on the ground around me.

I take a step back and bend over cleaning my mess and walking back out o my room. I had an eagerness to show my look off. To show I'm not the same as the girl in the mirror. I dress in jeans and a simple black t-shirt as I leave the room. I'm only a few feet away from my door when I hear

"Rose?" knowing that's my name, or what it used to be, I turn to see him

"Hello guardian Belikov."

Comment, comment, comment! Should I make some drama and have her go out with Adrian for a while? Should Dimitri get mad about Roses hair? Tell me!