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I'd never felt as happy as I did now. I was lying in Dimitri's bed, moving my hands over his naked chest. No, we'd not gone all the way but I'd been spending the night at his place. I guess you could say that we were officially dating now. Four weeks had passed by since I'd kissed him when playing Truth or Dare and three weeks since we'd started seeing each other after him seeing me in town. I wanted to tell him how much I loved him but I found myself being a coward when it came to telling how I felt. Lissa was really cheery to my relationship with Dimitri now. Unlike she was in the beginning when she thought Dimitri was out for sex.

This was the first time that I had been staying for the night and I intended on doing it more than once… I couldn't really say we hadn't been moving fast forward but I was happy we'd done. That would have meant less time together, the only explanation I could give was that it was love at first sight. Somehow I felt like it was supposed to move fast and I took in every moment I had with him. It felt like if we didn't move fast, he would disappear. Though Dimitri had made me realize that we didn't need to have sex until we really felt ready, both of us. After we'd had a – believe it or not – long talk about us, I'd decided that I'd wait a bit with rushing forward with him. Right now I just wanted to be with Dimitri and I wanted to stay with him forever. Dimitri mumbled something in Russian close to my ear and I could only tell my own name, nothing else.

"What did you say comrade?" I whispered and he pulled me closer to him – if that was even possible. He sighed and kissed my head.

"Nothing Roza. I just remembered something." He was good covering up lies but he failed this time. I got out of his grip around me and looked at him. I remembered me only wearing my underwear and he took in the sight of my body when he could peak in under the blanket.

"I could tell that you were lying and I can only do that when you're really lying comrade. Come on, tell me what you said!" I laughed and gave him a playful punch on his arm.

"Roza, what I said is not important, I shouldn't tell you now. I have to wait." He looked concerned but I couldn't tell why though. I frowned and he gave my cheek a soft kiss.

"Tell me Dimitri!" I commanded but he shook his head.

"Don't force me into making this a game Roza." Dimitri teased and I punched him on the arm again. I pretended to get angry and buried my face in the pillow. The truth was I buried my pillow so that he wouldn't see me laughing. I mean, you don't laugh when you're angry…

"You know Roza, it's Monday." Dimitri laughed and I looked up at him confused.

"Why would that matter?" I asked and he chuckled.

"It's 9.00 am on Monday morning. Do you really not have anywhere you need to be right now?" Dimitri gave me an amused look and I started to think and that's when it hit me.

"Shit! I should have been at school for an hour ago!" I exclaimed as I threw myself up from the bed and hurried to put on last nights clothes. I didn't have time to go home and change clothes so I had to wear the dark blue blouse that was strapless along with the short black skirt that really showed off my curves.

"I'm really a bad influence on you." Dimitri said and I shook my head quickly.

"No Dimitri, I'm always late so you better get used to me rushing out of your bed at the morning." I gave him a quick kiss on the lips and went to get my shoes.

"Damn it, why didn't I wear my converse last night instead of these nightmares?" I sighed and Dimitri caught me from behind. He trailed kisses along my jaw and down to my neck.

"Want me to give you a ride?" He whispered in my ear and for a minute I let myself just relax in his arms. I nodded as an answer to his question. I put on the high heels and within ten minutes I was wearing makeup as well and I was ready to go. Dimitri had been waiting by the door for five minutes when I came running and we took the elevator so that I wouldn't risk breaking my ankle in the stairs.

Dimitri stopped the car on the parking lot and got out to say goodbye. He wrapped his arms around my wait and leaned down to give me a sweet kiss. I lingered my fingers in his soft, long hair as I reached up to pull him even closer to me. When we pulled away from each other we said goodbye, kissed each other one last time but this time it wasn't nearly as passionate.

I waved to him as he started the car and went to the school building.

I noticed that Dimitri and I had been having an audience during our little make-out session. My friends came running towards me with Lissa in the lead.

"Hey Rose, how are you doing?" Mia asked and Lissa glared at me and I knew what she was going to say.

"I overslept this morning Lissa! Don't glare at me like that! I didn't skip classes, believe it or not…" I explained but she didn't look satisfied and I knew what it was this time as well.

"Where were you last night? You never came home and now you're getting a ride from him. Did you really spend the night with him? You've been a couple for what is it? Two weeks and you're already sharing the same bed at night? Have you had sex as well?" I got confused by all her questions so I shut down my hearing for a while until she'd calmed down.

"Liss calm down for god sake! No I haven't had sex with him but it's just… I can't explain it Lissa, he's not like any guy I've ever met and I think that he likes me too." The whole gang started laughing as I tried to paint them a picture of how I felt. Adrian put his arms around my shoulders and he was laughing the most of all of them. Wait, what was Adrian doing here?

"I think our little dhamp- I mean, Rose has gone off and fallen in love." Adrian joked but Lissa didn't seem happy. He'd said something, a word he didn't finish and I thought that was what Lissa was so upset about.

"We better get inside." Eddie said as the tension between us got really awkward. We all got in and when the headmistress saw me she asked me to come to her office.

The headmistress was a middle age girl named Eve Cavanaugh and she didn't like me, just like all the other headmistresses had done at every school I went to. They didn't like my behaviour against staff and other students and that I was the school's player girl only made it worse. The rumours went on that Rose Hathaway was such a player, a whore and you know the drill…

"Ms. Hathaway I've gotten reports from teachers saying you've been missing in the morning. Why can't you just show up to school until your graduation? If I'm correct you're in the middle of the age of seventeen and that means that in a couple of months you'll turn eighteen. Then you can do what you feel like doing but right now the school has a responsibility for you that your mother gave us. She trusted us that we could raise you in a good way but if she saw you today, she would be very disappointed." I grabbed my book that was lying in my bag and I threw it right at the headmistress.

"I've told you not to talk about my mother! She didn't give you responsibility because she trusted you! She did it to get rid of me so that she could work properly. My mother is a selfish bitch and she abandoned me!" I yelled and bowed in front of her as she gave me a deadly glare.

"If I may be dismissed Headmistress Cavanaugh, I have a lesson I need to attend to." I said in my "polite Rose Hathaway sarcasm".

The day was worse than I'd expected it to be and I was very relieved when Dimitri texted me and said that he was waiting for me outside until I ended my class. Instead of waiting until the end of lesson I packed up my things, grabbed my bag and walked towards the exit.

"Ms. Hathaway, where do you think you're going? The lesson hasn't come to an end yet, please sit down." The teacher followed me and when we stood on face to face by the door I smiled politely – in sarcasm of course – and excused myself,

"Sorry but I've got somewhere I have to be right now." I slammed the door shut in her face but she didn't have the energy to follow me. I came out and much correctly Dimitri was sitting in his car on the parking lot.

"I didn't think you ended class for at least one more half hour." Dimitri asked as he looked up from his western book.

"I decided to end early." I said with a shrug and Dimitri drove away. While sitting in the car with him I couldn't help but to think of my mother. I had pictures of her that I'd gotten from the headmistress and other facts I needed but nothing on what she worked as, absolutely nothing. I wondered if the school really had that information. I didn't think so because it felt like something they would've shared with me.

"What are you thinking about?" Dimitri asked and grabbed my hand. I lingered my fingers together with his and the warmth from his body spread though mine.

"My mom…" I answered honestly. I never talked to anyone about my mother. Well Lissa of course but not even with her I was talking a lot about my mother.

"What about her?" I turned my head to the side so that I was looking at him, not in the eyes since he kept his on the road – thank god, I didn't want to have to relive the accident.

"Well, I barely know her and it feels like everyone knows more about her than I do. I don't know what she works as and she left me because of work. No wait, she didn't just leave, she abandoned me! Though I have my theories." Now and then Dimitri looked at me but mostly he was looking at the road. His grip around my hand tightened and I sighed.

"What theories?" Dimitri got that bothered look again and I tried to figure out why.

"I've got the theories about her being a whore or maybe even something worse. Maybe she got knocked up when having some fun with some guy and that's why she didn't want to keep me." Dimitri didn't answer and I was actually starting to get suspicious. Why would he be bothered because we talked about my mother?

"You know something about her don't you?" I exclaimed as I realized what this was about.

Just when Dimitri was about to answer something smashed against the window and the glass broke. I could hear Dimitri call my name but I was paralyzed of shock. When Dimitri could finally shake me into reality again my only thought was, what the hell just happened?

Dimitri and I got out of the car and found a man lying in front of the car.

Oh god, we'd just hit someone with the car and he seemed pretty dead to me until he moved.

"Are you okay?" I asked but Dimitri didn't move. I could suddenly feel his hands on my shoulder and calmly he said in a quiet voice,

"Roza get away from him…" I looked up at him in shock.

"What the hell are you talking about Dimitri? He needs an ambulance quickly, he's probably badly injured." I fumbled with my hands to look for injuries but before I could touch the man, Dimitri stopped me.

"I said, get away from that man Roza. Now!" Just then the man opened his eyes and at first I thought that I was being paranoid but I realized I wasn't. The man's eyes were actually red. Within a second the man was on his feet, I was behind Dimitri and Dimitri had some kind of weapon in his hand. It looked like a silver stake.

I hadn't the time to react, not even when Dimitri threw himself over the man with red eyes. They fought and I could only watch, terrified and confused…

Could it possibly be a strigoi they've hit (sarcasm…)?

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