A/N I do not own Vampire Academy - the credit goes to the lovely Richelle Mead.

This chapter is for Rose Melissa Ivashkov my first reviewer. She is also an amazing author so you should also check out her page and stories!!

Chapter 4

"I think I am falling in love."

Lissa squealed with excitement. "This is going to be great!" she exclaimed. With that she looped my arm in hers and we took off to the cafeteria.

When we walked in my smile faded when I noticed Christian and Eddie sitting together with no Adrian. Get a grip on yourself Rose Hathaway! I thought. Just because he knows you want to give it a shot doesn't mean he is going to want the world to know about it.

It was true that Adrian Ivashkov was probably out of my league. I was meant to be Princess Vasilisa Dragomir's guardian and best friend, nothing more, nothing less. I was a dhampir while Adrian was a Moroi. A royal Moroi at that. His Aunt Tatiana, who is the Queen, already made it clear to me months ago that she would never approve of Adrian with a dhampir like me (even though ironically at that time I had absolutely no interest in him). Since Adrian was known to be a womanizer, many would think he only wanted me for one thing, to be his bloodwhore. In our world only humans gave blood to Moroi's. If a dhampir did it was considered indecent and disgusting. Although I had let Lissa drink from me before in times of need (not something we made highly known to others) I was scared of getting that reputation, especially if Adrian decided he wasn't serious about me. I decided at that moment that if Adrian and I were going to try any form of a relationship we would need to have a discussion.

Although Lissa dragged me to our table I was lost in my own thoughts until I felt a pair of rather strong arms wrap around my waist and a warm breath on my neck.

"I missed you my little dhampir."

For some reason with that line I began to blush and all my negative thoughts disappeared for a few seconds. I turned my body around and replied to Adrian, "I missed you more." Just by looking in his beautiful green eyes I was lost in a daze. Our faces came closer together and if possible Adrian kissed me with even more passion and love then before.

As we broke apart we realized that the entire cafeteria went silent.

Then from the back of the cafeteria I heard the jerk Jesse and his friend Ralf both cough, "Bloodwhore" under their breaths.

Tears immediately formed in my eyes. I just knew this would happen, I began to think. Adrian is not going to want to deal with this. But with one look at Adrian all my sadness and doubt went away. He looked livid. I don't believe I had ever seen Adrian so mad. He looked beautiful and timeless in his anger. But in no way was he angry at me. His anger was directed at Jesse and Ralf across the cafeteria.

He looked down at me and whispered, "Wait here for me babe I'll take care of this."

With that line he turned around and walked right up to get into Jesse's face. "If I ever hear you talk about Rose that way again I will not hesitate to hurt you and I sure as hell will not stop MY beautiful dhampir if she wants to join." With that Adrian turned back around and walked back over to me looking at me with so much love and devotion in his eyes. He also looked very determined.

He grabbed my hand and walked right to the front of the cafeteria. He stopped, turned around, put his arm around me, kissed my forehead then turned to face the now focused crowd. I had no clue what he was about to do and it kind of made me nervous.

"I would like to make some things clear to everyone. I, Adrian Ivashkov, love Rose Hathaway. She is my girlfriend and my other half. She is not any type of bloodwhore nor will she ever be. She is my princess and I will treat her as such. I am devoted to her and our relationship. If anyone has anything to say about this you should say it now because I will not tolerate hearing people say anything negative about our relationship."

As I stared up at my knight in shining armor my heart was overwhelmed with the love I felt for him. I realized at that moment that I did indeed love him with all my heart.

Adrian took my hand and led me back to sit at our table with our friends. Christian and Eddie were looking at Adrian in awe, not believing he had just said that to the entire school, as well as the few guardians and teachers in the room. Lissa was just staring at me with the biggest smile on her face. Through the bond I heard her think Wow Rose the look on your face. You definitely love him. That was the sweetest thing I have ever seen a guy do. I responded giving Lissa a bigger smile and a wink.

For the next few minutes I just rested my head into Adrian's chest as he was sat next to me on the bench.

As I sat and listened to Adrian and Lissa talking about practicing their element together I just enjoyed the feeling of being close to the man I loved. Lissa and Adrian both practiced spirit. All Moroi had control of one of five elements: earth, air, water, fire, or spirit. Spirit is of course the rarest with their only being a few known users in the world. Truth be told it was a forgotten element for years before Lissa's uncle and kidnapper, Victor Dashkov, made it known to Lissa that it was her element and she did specialize contrary to what everyone else believed. I knew that Adrian and Lissa would be practicing for a little tomorrow afternoon and that Christian, Eddie and I would also go to watch. I really was beginning to enjoy this little 'family' Lissa and I had created for ourselves.

Christian interrupted my happiness by announcing, "We should get to class."

I made a tiny pout and looked up into Adrian's eyes.

"Am I..." I began as he interrupted me by asking, "Rose, will you do the honor of joining me for dinner in my room tonight?"

"Of course" I replied with a smile since I was going to ask him if I would see him later anyway.

We both got up from the table, looking into each other's eyes. I was mesmerized by the perfect green eyes I saw there. For some reason I felt like Adrian could look into my soul and feel everything I felt for him even if I was not ready to say those things yet. I couldn't believe it took me so long to realize my true feelings for him.

He walked me to class, with Lissa by my side since she had the same class as me. Our hands stayed intertwined the whole way there.

When we arrived Lissa ran into the room but not before saying a quick goodbye to Adrian.

"Unfortunately I have some business to take care of today before our date tonight so I will not be able to join you for lunch. I am looking forward to tonight. I know it will be the beginning of something extremely rare and priceless. I love you Rose and I cannot wait to see you tonight." With that he kissed me and before I could respond he walked away as the bell rang and I ran into class.

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