Chapter 7
Dimitri POV
I had to do something being in my room all day was driving me nuts. I thought about going for a run, it always helped me relax, so I was heading towards the track.
I came around the corner a stop dead, the one person I was trying not to think about was walking towards me, she had her head down so I don't think she knew that I was there.
When she looked up, she stopped but quickly looked away so we didn't make eye contact,
"Hi" was all I could get out, we still hadn't moved.
"Hi" she looked up at me, then looked away again "I have to go" she started walking, changing direction slightly to walk around me. I reached out and grabbed her arm as she walked past.
"Rose wait, we need to talk" she looked down to were my hand touched her arm then looked back at me, are eyes met.
"I know, but I have to go, I sorry Dimitri" she pulled out of my grip, and turned away. No I had to talk to her and she just wanted to avoid me. How are we meant to practice together everyday if she won't even look at me.
I reached out for her again and made her look at me. " No, Rose we need to talk now" she looked at me for a second, pulled away again and stepped back.
"Fine talk" she crossed her arm of her chest. Why was she being like this? Why did she have to be so…so Rose? or at lest how she used to be. Out of everyone I have ever met she is the only person who drives me crazy.
"Look Rose about what happened, it would happen again, I don't want you avoiding me, I care about you, I don't like seeing you like this" she looked at the ground the whole time I was talking.
She looked up at me and let out a laugh, "I know it wont happen again, and don't worry about see me like this, ill get over it" what why was she saying this?, how could she say it?, I thought she loved me, like I love her.
"Roza please, don't say that" she took a step back.
"Stop calling me that please" she looked at me with sadness in her eyes.
"I'm sorry Rose I..." I could hear the pain in my own voice. I reached out to touch her and she moved out of my reach.
"I'm sorry, I have to go" and with that she ran from me, leaving me stood in the middle of the quad. I didn't know what just happened, that wasn't Rose, she's not like that. There's something she wasn't telling me.
I walked back to my room, I really wasn't in the mood to run anymore. I couldn't stop thinking about her, what did I do to make her like that, I know we went to fair in the gym but she has never been like that before,
When I got to my room I went straight to bed, I needed to relax I needed to sleep, maybe in the morning I could try talking to her again.
I got up early and went for a shower before getting ready to practice, not that I thought she was going to show up for it anyway, but I would go just in case. As I made my way to the gym, I heard Alberta calling me.
"Guardian Belikov may I have a word?" she stopped in front of me I nodded in respect.
"Of cause, but do you mind if we talk on the way to the gym, I have practice with Rose" she gave me a questioning look. "What wrong?" I asked
"You don't have practices with Rose anymore" what? yes I did she only cancelled yesterday practices.
"What do you mean?" she gestured me to sit down so I did. We sat on the wall across from the gym.
"I thought you would have known…" she stopped, oh come on this is driving me mad,
"Known what Alberta!" I was getting annoyed and she could tell.
"Rose asked for a new mentor and Kirova agreed to it". My heart sank how could she do this to me? "I'm sorry you had to hear it from me" she stood up and faced me, "I really thought you knew, I don't know what she didn't say anything to you"
I couldn't believe it, why didn't she say anything to me? How could she after everything I did for her? I got up and walked away I was going to find her and make her talk to me. I wasn't paying attention to Alberta anymore I think she was calling after me, but I'm wasn't sure.
I was so mad, normaly I could control it, but I…I was, I don't know. I just had to find her, I was running around the school, trying to think about where she might be. Then I saw her she was in the quad where we were last night, she was with Lissa who looked happy about something, but Rose wasn't, she looked sad, and nervous about something.
I walked straight up to her and she most have seen me coming, I slow down, I didn't say anything instead I took a swing at her. I don't know why I did it, I just did, luckily she ducked out the way pretty quickly, with a shocked expression on her face.
"What the Hell Dimitri, are you mad" She shouted at me. I took another swing and she dodged that one to.
"Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you talk to me?" i was more or less shouting at her, I could see the regret in her eyes, she knew I knew.
"I'm…" I didn't let her finish I went to hit her again, she moved just out of my reach with her hands placed out in front of her, "I'm sorry".
She was sorry, I could see it in her eyes, but it didn't matter, I wanted to fight, I wanted to take my anger out on something and she was there. i knew i shouldn't want to fight her, but she hurt me.
"It's to late for that Rose, Fight me" I went to swing at her again, and again she moved out of the way. "Come on, one last lesson from your old mentor" she flinched at the anger in my voice.
"Dimitri please" she pegged me, I wasn't going to let it go. I took another swing at her but this time she didn't move quick enough, and I caught her cheek with my nail. She staggered back slightly and touched her cheek with her finger tips and saw the little drops of blood.
She looked at me in disbelief and anger, I don't think I ever made her bleed before. I grinned at her and attacked again, instead of moving out the way this time she blocked me, so I wasn't expecting her, to turn and pouch me in the face, which caused me to stagger back.
A few seconds later we where fighting, we where both attacking and blocking. I was partly aware of the crowd around us, some where chanting "Hathaway" and some where chanting "Belikov". I blocked every one out and only focused on Rose, the girl who just ripped my heart out.
The more hits we took the more powerful she got, she was getting mad "Come on Rose, why did you do it?, do you hate me that much?" I was a little breathless.
"Because" she blocked my attack "I can't do it anymore, I can't be around you, and not want you" she was breathless as well, she said it so that the others around us couldn't hear her, and I was caught of guard when she said that. She did want me.
With me partly distracted, she attacked me with a hit to the face followed by a hit to the stomach. I could hear the crowd shouting and cheering for Rose, the next thing I knew was that she knocked my legs out from under me and I landed flat on my back.
She put foot on my chest holding me down, she met my eyes and I could see a tear drip down her cheek, "I'm sorry i don't hate you" she whispered "I just cant do it anymore, it hurts to much". She released me and moved back, not taking her eyes off me until she reached the cheering crowd then she turned and pushed though them, I tried to call after her, but she didn't stop, I saw her run off toward the woods.
