So here is Chapter 4! Sorry it was delayed a bit but it's the longest chapter yet so be happy. The next chapter may be delayed a bit because next weekend my family is doing a pumpkin carving contest and I will WIN! :D heh heh heh

Chapter 4

4 years later

RPOV

I ran down the hall of the Moroi dorms in search of Lissa. I had finished packing up all the things I would need for our trip to Vail Mountain in Colorado. Rhea and Eric aka Lissa's parents were taking Andrei, Lissa, and for my fifteenth birthday that was in a couple of days, since they know how much I love to snowboard. I dodged people as they flowed through the hallways most headed for the dining hall for dinner. I burst through Lissa's door, not bothering knocking and most defiantly regretted it. Lissa and Aaron were there making out on her bed, and it looked like they were about to take it further. They broke apart at my intrusion.

"Ugh! My EYES! It burns!" I swung around trying to block out the mental image of Aarons pasty white torso. Lissa chuckled and I thought I heard Aaron muttered something along the lines of 'then you should have freaking knocked.'

"Okay, Rose we are descent now you can turn around," Lissa said.

"I would say sorry for disturbing but I'm really not," I said turning around and met Aarons glare with one of my own. "Especially when I see that your suitcase is empty," I said jabbing my finger down at the abandoned pink zebra suitcase on Lissa's floor. "This is exactly why I came over here in the first place. You always wait till the last second to pack, and you always pack way more than you will ever need."

Lissa sighed running a hand through her long blond hair that was now grown down to the same length as mine was, just hitting the middle of our backs. "I know I know. It's just I can never figure out what I want to wear. If I pack to little I may forget something that I need. And what if I get there and an outfit I chose is just not working the way I thought it would. So I have to pack back up clothes to make sure I have options. Which means then I have to pack extra shoes to make sure I have a pair that will match the extra outfits. Then hair products, accessories, and –,"

"No. We are not gonna go through the list of what you think you need to pack," I stopped Lissa there knowing if I didn't it would turn in to a hour long conversation just about her being frustrated about what to pack. "Me and you are gonna go through your closet and pick out 9 out fits only that way you will have to backups just in case, but no more than that. You cannot pick out twenty different outfits to bring."

"But what it I spill something on me at dinner. You know how I am Rose. I spill something one my clothes every time we go out to eat or I trip and fall in a puddle like the time we went to Georgia," she said poking her lip out at me. "I have to bring at least 15 different choices."

"No way, if you spill get all of your clothes messed up we will just go shopping I was gonna set aside a day just for hitting the shops anyways." Lissa squealed when I said this and started clapping her hands like London Tipton from the Sweet Life of Zack and Cody (I used to love her in that show.) At this Aaron stood up.

"Okay, I can see where this is going and I am not sticking around for it," he said while bending down and giving Lissa a peck on the lip. Can't say I blame him when it came to shopping Lissa went crazy. Most of the time Lissa was a extreme pacifist and hated any kind of violence, but when it came to shopping she would trip an old lady or shove small children out of the way to get to a sale. Trust me I saw her do it the very first time we went Black Friday shopping together. "Love you Lissa. I will see you tomorrow before you have to leave."

"Love you too," she said as he shut the door on his way out, hardly acknowledging he was leaving because she was bouncing in place and started talking a mile a minute about what shops we would go to. After hours of planning and forcing her to make decisions on what outfits she was going to bring we were finally done and ready to hit the road tomorrow.

I headed back to my room and took a shower. I had just finished putting on my sleeping shirt that says 'I'm cool like the other side of the pillow', when I heard my cell phone start to ring. I dashed over to it knowing it was Dimitri calling me from Russia. Dimitri had to go back to Russian with his charge Ivan two years ago we have made sure to call each other at least twice a week around this time, to make sure we didn't lose touch with one another. I still can't believe he is so far away. Dimitri has been my best guy friend for years and I hated it when he graduated and had to leave. I still really miss seeing him in person and being able to talk to him face to face. The calls help but it's just not the same as having him physically here with me.

"Hi Comrade," I sang into the receiver. "How's life in the arctic wasteland?" I said just to irritate him. I knew it really wasn't like that from the two trips I had actually been there when I had gone on vacation with him and his family back to Russia to visit their grandmother Yeva. Yeva was a small old woman who kind of gave me the creeps when I first met her. When she looked at me as if she could actually see right through me and into my deepest thoughts, later I found out why according to Dimitri she apparently has some psychic abilities and that she gets visions in her dreams. Neither of us liked each other too much at first but after the Belikovs forced us to spend time together by tricking me into staying at her house while they went to see old friends of theirs, we eventually warmed up to each other. Now is like the grandmother I never had and loves me like I'm one of her own.

I almost could see him rolling his eyes at my comment. "It's good just a little boring. Ivan has been having to go to some meetings for the royals."

"That sucks. I really hope Lissa isn't going to have to go to too many of those once we graduate," I said lay down on my bed.

"No. You probably won't have too many since she is not first in line for the Dragomirs," he said.

"So...how are things going with you and the ginger?" I silently panicked for a moment. Dimitri had seemed not to like Mason from the first time I introduced him and had been animate about him not thinking he was good for me. Since then Mason and I have had kind of a on and off again relationship were we would date for a little while then would go months at a time apart were we would see other people. One of those people being a senior now Adrian Ivashkov, who Dimitri seemed to hate even more that Mason due to his bad reputation with women. But this last time Mason had blew it. While we were together I found out he had slept with Mia Rhinaldi and now we were through for good. Though to a point I can't say I blame him we had been seeing each other on and off for years and I had always refused to sleep with him, which is the main reason why we kept breaking up. I knew Dimitri was not the 'I told you so type' but by stubborn side still didn't really want to admit he was right.

"Um well we decided to take a break again. We were just both needing our space a little bit," I said trying to edge my way around the truth.

"Mmhmm I bet," he said dryly. "Well anyways are you excited to be leaving for the Vail tomorrow?"

"YES! I can't wait! They are having a concert festival the week we are going to be there, and me and Lissa are going to try and hit all of them," I told him excitedly then sighed. "I wish you could come too, I haven't got to see you in forever."

"I know Roza, me too. If Ivan did not have all of the royal meetings lined up back to back, I would defiantly be there." He said sounding just as depressed as me about it. That's what I loved about our friend ship even though we could go so long without getting to see one another we were still completely in sync with each other's thoughts. "I did go ahead and mail your present to the lodge there though."

"Present?!" I yelled excitedly. I loved presents but I hate surprises or more like I hate waiting for them. Even at Christmas when the presents are under the tree I will literally sit down and feel and shake my presents trying to figure out what they are. I got pretty good at it too one year when I stayed at Olena for Christmas and guessed over half my gifts. "Please tell me Comrade! You know I can't stand waiting. It is gonna drive me nuts having to wait to find out," I said whining, but my voice sounded like I was in pure agony. At this I heard full out laughter from the phone.

"Not a chance Roza. It's not going to happen. Not hints and no descriptions of what size the box is," he said laughter still in his voice.

"I didn't know you hated me so much Dimitri," I said in a whimper.

"That's not going to work Rose and you know it, so give it up," he said with a smile in his voice.

"Ugh! Fine Scrooge," I said giving up the act with a huff.

"Alright Rose get some sleep. Text me when you get to the lodge to let me you got there safely. "

"Will do. Night night, Comrade."

"Goodnight Milaya," he whispered then ended the call.

We finally landed in Colorado around 9am vampire time. We went to retrieve our luggage and I had to end up helping Lissa carry half of her. After all that arguing with her she still ended up packing three weeks worth of clothing and shoes.

It was about an hour drive from the airport to the lodge. The whole drive Andrei kept purposely annoying Lissa to make her mad, and they ended up fighting the whole drive. By the time we finally got to the lodge we were all ready to throttle them both. The lodge was beautiful. The oak and stone exterior was covered in a blanket of fresh powdery snow and the twinkling lights wrapped elegantly around the pillars and trees accented the architectures beauty. (picture on profile) Lissa's parents paid for each of us to have one of the three room condos and got a cabin for themselves so that they could have 'alone time' on the vacation. Lissa, Andrei, and I made our way up to our condo on the top floor.

Our condo was awesome. It had a kitchen with brand new stainless steel top of the line appliances, granite countertops, dark oak wood cabinets and stone tile flooring. The Great Room had black leather couches centered around the gas fireplace. Above the mantle of the fireplace was a 65in LCD flatscreen TV equip with surround sound. There was a set of French doors beside the big bay window that lead to our own private porch that was currently covered in snow. The walls lined with the dark oak wood that the hotel was covered in and highlighted with gold moldings.

It had a bathroom in each of our rooms and one right off the hallway of the entrance. We each took off to each claim our own rooms. I claimed the one nearest to the entrance just in case of intruders. I still had to keep in mind on this trip that I was one day going to be one of the Dragomirs guardians and wanted to show that I could be responsible. The room was huge. I think it turned out that I had grabbed the master bedroom. The room was painted with a burgundy red and had the same golden moldings and trimming as in the great room. I had my own fireplace and there was a step up to the bed, and the bed its self was amazing. The headboard and foot board looked like a crowns and were made of white leather outlined with gold. The feather comforter was the same red as the walls, with gold, red, and white pillows to match. The room had its own bay window that had a beautiful view of the mountain. (Roses room picture on profile)

I went into the bathroom that was off to the right (I really don't feel like describing what the bathroom looks like so I put a picture on my profile of it so look at it and pretend I described it to you ;) ) and started to get ready to go out and hit the slopes. I was going to sweat so I didn't bother with putting on too much make up only some mascara and eyeliner. I decided to not bother about my hair and just let my dark brown waves fall around my shoulders. I threw on my white knit turtle neck sweater that clung to my figure and black thermal leather ski pants. I laced up my black boots and put on my white and black leather coat. (Picture of outfit on profile) I walked back out to bedroom and to go and get Lissa when I froze. There sitting on the edge of my bed grinning at me was Dimitri.

This was more of a lead up to the next chapter since it is going to have a lot more drama. Tell me what you think! REVIEW! Also Andrei and Lissa's room pictures are also on my profile