Sorry for the wait but I've been uper busy lately. Here it is, Chapter 5!

I'm gonna go all River Tam! Then I'll own Vampire Academy. But I don't right now so be patient world!

The amazing thing about ex boyfriends is that they suck. It had been a week since Adrian had made his suckish return to court and the week had been total b.s. with no break. First of all I had to deal with the Adrian problem. That was so fun I just needed another reason to want to punch something so the queen was on my back about Lissa's protection and practically gloating about Adrian's perfect girlfriend. So when Dimitri sent his next Strigoi attack when Lissa wanted to go to the mall I was more than ready to stake the hell out of them. I took all three down in a matter of minutes while Eddie, Lissa, and Christain watched with their mouths gaping open in shock. When I was done Eddie started a slow clap that no one joined in for. I smiled at him and he laughed, slapping me on the back.

"Well that's one way to release your stress," he said.

"Yeah I was thinking about using drugs but I figured this was even more efective," I joked.

"Rose, I'm not sure that was entirely healthy," Lissa said with worry.

"I don't know. I think it beats our untimely deaths," Christian said.

" Well I really don't think these were sent to kill us," Lissa retorted.

"Why would you think-" Eddie started to ask but I cut him off.

"Because they weren't. They were giving another message."

"Another?"Christian asked. I glanced at Lissa and she nodded. We then took turns telling them the story about Dimitri. Of course we didn't tell them everything, but enough for them to understand the serious situation. At the end of it Christains suspision and sarcasm had faded into loathing and disgust. Eddie had a look of fierce protectiveness that made me proud to be working with him. I felt better telling them. Then Lissa brought my attention back to the message.

"So what was the message," She asked.

"Something annoyingly cryptic. The Strigoi said don't let anyone else fear him because anything he does should be blamed on you. I think he's planning on going after people close to me. He wants me to feel grief and guilt because he's a sick bastard," I stated with my voice cracking. I felt sick at the thought of Dimitri getting near any of them and I needed to get them home. It was just as I was thinking this that I heard a scream from somewhere in the mall parking lot. I turned to see five Strigoi surrounding two guardians an two Moroi. My stomach lurched when I realized that the Moroi where none other than Adrian and his girlfriend. I turned to Eddie.

"Stay here and shout if anybody gets near those two," I shouted, pointing at Lissa and Christian. I took off before he could say anything back. I then ran up and threw the nearest Strigoi to the ground and staked him. The next two I staked didn't go down quite as easy, but I took both of them down. One of the other guardians staked the one he was fighting but the other one was still fighting. He managed to get him pinned down with our help but before he could make the killing blow the Strigoi had time to tell me that "he warned you". I was taken aback. Adrian?! My brain shouted questions at me with confusion. Why him? There were other more obvious targets! How did this just happen? This was too planned out. It didn't seem real. Lissa ran over with Christian and Eddie tailing behind her.

"Rose, Adrain!"she shouted," Is everyone okay?"

"I'm fine Liss, go check on the other guardians," I said. She nodded but before doing what I said, turned toward Adrian.

"Adrian are you alright?" she asked with innocence and pleading. He turned away from his girlfriend and looked at all of us with something like anger.

"I'm fine Vasilisa. Please take your guardians and leave," he snapped. Okay, that's it. I was done watching this crap.

"What the hell is wrong with you?! You're acting like an asshole and treating everyone like shit!"I yelled.

"Excuse me?!," he yelled," What's wrong with you? You shouldn't talk to me like that you...you blood whore!"I heard gasps from everyone in the group, including Shawna.

"Adrian!" she exclaimed in shock. Eddie looked like he was holding Christain back. Lissa looked like she was going to slap him. I stepped back, feeling numb. But all of this was interrupted when we heard one of the other guardians started yelling.

We all turned to see another group of Strigoi coming our way. The guardians pushed our charges behind us and ran into battle. It seemed to last a moment but the fighting went on for a while. When we finally had killed every one of what seemed to be about ten Strigoi, we turned back to check if every one was safe. Christain had been right there fighting beside us and was uninjured. Adrian was standing in front a confused looking Lissa protectively. He turned around and helped her off the ground. She started to thank him but he interrupted her with an apology. I was glad he wasn't hurting Lissa anymore but something about the scene felt off. It was then that I realized Shawna was gone. I looked all around, double checking the group. She was no where to be found and I could only guess one thing that could have happened to her. Shawna had been taken to Dimitri.

Everyone point and laugh at Adrian. Oh that's really mean, sorry. He payed for what he said to Rose though. He does have an excuse for all this, any guesses what that could be?

"Always be yourself...Unless you suck"