I tried to finish this as fast as I could and get it up as fast as possible because of a certain lack of updates in a while...

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Crazy4Reading

Chapter 7

''I'm not promising anything!'' She sighed and said

''Well you'd better get back to your friends they look like they'll steal your donuts if you don't'' I turned around scanning over the watching eyes of everyone in the cafeteria to find them.

''BACK AWAY FROM THE DONUTS!''

Rose's POV

After the doughnut scare i sat down in front of my pre-packed tray which was in between Luke's and Eddie's.

Lissa was talking animatedly to Luke as Christian grumbled. Eddie and one of his novice friends (Mike?) were talking away as well. I looked up around the cafeteria.

We got a lot of looks which we ignored. The looks asked questions you could practically see the thought swirl through there heads.

Is Rose being back temporary? Who's the new boy? Is he related to the new trainer who arrived?

Slowly the original quietness that had spread across the room when I had first arrived had turned back into the normal buzz of voices. Reminding me of when me and Lissa had been paraded through here in the middle of the cafeteria during breakfast time. I swallowed back my sudden surge of sadness. I looked down at my plate and ate my lasagna slowly. Thinking.

I was over him now.

Right?

I mean I wasn't completely over him, but I wasn't going to lock stay locked up in my room crying over Dimi-him I wasn't going too.

I felt my shoulders roll and my eyes well up in but I quickly wrenched my shoulders back with my old self's confidence and wiped at my tears quickly. Looking around the table to make sure no one saw.

I looked across at Lissa who was now talking to Christian, they hadn't noticed, Eddie and his novice friend who sat to my right were talking so they hadn't noticed I looked over to the left quickly to see Luke staring at me with concern.

Shit.

Damn why did he have to notice. I could have fooled any of the others at this table or convinced them not to say anything but this guy...

I didn't know anything about him.

''Are you alright?'' I glared at him

''I'm fine.'' I growled at him, he shook his head and said

''you don't look like your alright'' I laughed trying another way to get him to forget what had happend and said

''Your just hoping that I might get sick so that you don't get your but kicked tomorrow.'' He laughed and we quickly launched into an argument.

All the while I was hoping that he had forgotten about what had happened.

Luke's POV

As Christian I think his name was took over the conversation I happily leaned back in my chair and watched Rose's friends. Particularly I watched the only other novice's at the table. They looked strong but I'm sure I could take them. I glanced at Rose she was staring down at her food picking away at her lasagna. Her shoulders rolled in and I say her eyes go shiny.

What was wrong?

When I'd first arrived she'd been a guardian faced teen hard and uncaring. When she saw us that began to change. She slowly let that guardian mask drop. And when we had gone to see her Ivashkov friend she'd turned into a completely different girl. She turned into the Rose I'd heard rumours of. Snarky, sarcastic, beautiful girl with a protectiveness you could see when she was with the Princess even if she wasn't protecting her.

What had happened to her to make her turn into the guardian faced girl? All I knew was that she'd lost a friend...

That must be it she'd been attacked by strigoi and lost a friend in the process it makes sense that she would be sad but... Why?

I buried my curiosity and stared at her with concern. Her gaze had darted around the table until they landed on me with a glare.

''Are you alright?'' I asked

''I'm fine.'' She growled at me, yup definetly not fine. I shook my head at her stubbornness and said

''you don't look like your alright'' She laughed a musical sound and said

''Your just hoping that I might get sick so that you don't get your but kicked tomorrow.'' Shooked I quickly retorted saying I could beat her in my sleep. This quickly launched into an argument.

I decided to pry into what had made her cry latter and let the fun argument take away my worries about fitting in here.

'cause let's face it, no matter who you are moving somewhere new is unsettling.

Hope you enjoyed it

Have a nice weekend!

Crazy4Reading