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I'm sorry for the long wait, I had to study for some finals. (College sucks.) Anyway, here's the 10th chapter. Hope y'all like it. Oh yes, and I've already started on the 11th chapter, so if I get some comments it'll make me post faster! ;)
Lorin-Nicole
I was walking back to my room examining my newly polished hands and nails. I was lucky to have a friend like Lissa, one that I could talk to and do girlie things together. But, even though
going to a spa should be relaxing- a place to forget about all your worries, I just couldn't. Not when I had something so important to do. I sighed looking at my nails,
"These aren't even going to make it through tonight." I mumbled to myself.
"You're right. You should sit out of practice today to save them." a voice bombed, making me jump out of my skin. I felt foolish for not being aware of my surroundings- what a great
guardian
I am. 'Who am I kidding?' I thought. I'm awesome.
I looked up to see Demyan staring down at my hands.
"No such luck." I said laughing. Was he kidding? "I'm not skipping out of a chance of beating your ass again. Especially in front of everyone." I finished with an evil smile.
"Oh? Well, maybe I was still holding out on you last night." He said with a smirk.
My mood did a 180.
"You better be joking." I said with my best glare. I was going to threaten him with his life, but I figured that since I was just accused for murder, making death threats would be pretty
stupid.
He started laughing, worsening my mood.
"I guess you'll just have to find out, won't you?" He said with a sloppy grin. I knew that look. Flirty. Ugh, I did not need this. And who flirts like that? He was pissing me off to no end, but I
decided to not let him get the best of me. I put on a neutral face.
"No, because we're suppose to be learning with Moroi today. You should pay more attention to the schedule, Guardian Nevsky." I said flatly.
"My apologies, Guardian Hathaway." He retorted, still smirking at me. I brushed past him, heading towards the gym's doors. I felt him following me, his body heat reaching my right arm.
Too close. He either didn't get the hint, or just like pushing my buttons. I stopped when I reached the doors. I kept telling myself not to let him know how much he was getting under my
skin, but I couldn't take it anymore. I glared at him with such an intensity that he jumped a foot away.
"Do not," I said stepping closer to him, "mess with me." I was so annoyed that I missed the pleasure in seeing his smirk disappear.
I didn't wait for a reply as I turned and pushed through the doors. I wanted to know where my father found such an unnerving person for a guardian. I bet he didn't push Abe's limits,
seeing as his knee caps were still intact. I then had a mental image running through my mind of breaking his knee caps myself. I hope this kind of thing didn't run in the family.
I walked into the gym with anger plastered on my face, like the glare had frozen there. I walked over to a bleacher, sat down, and crossed my arms over my chest-feeling slightly like a
pouting child.
"Your aura looks like a tornado, little dhampir."
I bit my tongue, almost telling Adrian to fuck off. I knew some of this was darkness from Lissa-but mostly my dislike of Demyan, so I tried a more friendly retort.
"I would've guessed hurricane or typhoon, actually." I said finally looking over at him. And with one look at Adrian, I was practically on the floor laughing. Tears were threatening to roll
down my aching cheeks from laughter. Adrian, usually dressing to perfection, was wearing what I would usually see dhampir novices wearing back at the academy. He had tennis shoes,
basketball shorts, and a plain Nike T-shirt on-which is in no way humorous. But. On Adrian it looked ridiculous, and to add on to his hysterical look, he had a thick white head band on. He watched me
laughing with an amused look in his emerald eyes. "Although I'm happy to literally brighten your mood, and aura, I'm not so sure I'm happy that it's at my expense." He said flatly. "Now what
is it that you find so amusing little dhampir?" He asked with his lips twitching, trying to fight a smile. I gave him another look over, starting another round of laughter. He sighed looking down
at his clothes. "Not very fitting of me is it?" He asked knowing quite well what I found hilarious. Unable to speak, I nodded to him, whipping away a few of the tears that did manage to
escape.
To my amusement Christian and Lissa showed dressed similarly, although it wasn't as funny. The two years that me and Lissa had run away, it wasn't uncommon to see her dressed like that.
And Christian never dresses like a royal anyway. Adrian was truly out of his boundaries. Abe and his guardian Jemal were the last two to show. Apparently Jemal was the better guardian. I
bet Demyan didn't even know where Abe was.
After everyone had showed up standing in scattered clumps around where I sat on the bleachers, Abe cleared his throat and turned to me.
"Well, seeing as I know little about training, I think this is where you take the reins."
"Right." I said standing up. I felt a little insecure about leading guardians that were much more experienced than me in a training course. Especially Dimitri, seeing as he was my instructor at
one time. Not anymore, Rose. "Okay, well we should start with stretches." I finally said. "Wouldn't want to pull a royal's muscle." I said with a grin.
"If I pull a muscle that only means you'll have to help work it out." Adrian retorted, which got him an elbow from Lissa.
"Let's pair up, guardian to Moroi. The guardians can show the Moroi what stretches to start out with." No one moved. What was this? I felt like I was back in human high school, where no
one wanted to pick who was on their team for P.E. I sighed. Hoping that I would queue in the others to pick a partner, I turned to look at the Moroi, deciding when training came around I
could easily use my bond to help teach better. "Okay, Lissa you're with me." I heard Adrian silently curse. Thankfully my mother got the hint and walked over to Tasha. I smiled and then
looked over to Dimitri, Eddie and Demyan. Eddie was making his way over to Christian, probably glad he had a choice between him and Adrian. Dimitri looked over at me questionably. I could
tell he wanted to change something. "You don't have to raise you hand comrade, what's wrong?" I said earning a grimace from my mother for my nickname usage.
"I don't think you should train with Lissa. Your bond with affect you. Your natural response to protect her will throw you off, and she will be the same way." He said it calmly. My fists balled up
in anger. But before I could voice my opinion Lissa lightly touched my arm.
"He's right Rose." I looked at her. She wasn't pleading me to pick another partner to calm me down. She really agreed with him. I sighed. Adrian was the only one left. I looked back at Dimitri.
"This better not be because you didn't want to train Adrian." Apparently my comment didn't deserve a response. I walked over to Adrian and he smiled at me, putting an arm around my
shoulders.
"We're going to have so much fun, Little Dhampir." I rolled my eyes.
"You can say that again." Demyan said walking up to us.
"No." I practically growled at him.
"No choice. We're out of Moroi." He said with another sloppy grin. "Plus, I figured you'd need the help with this one." He added, getting a glare from Adrian.
"What about Zemy?" I asked. He really never thought about his charge, even though he was privately hired. I thought I had him there, but apparently luck wasn't on my side.
"I'm not participating in your games, little girl." Abe said walking over, shadowed by Jemal. I finally noticed that he was dressed in his normal pirate attire.
"Where's the fun in that old man?" I teased.
"I figured my funding your mission made up for my lack of physical involvement."
"Fair enough." I said and turned to Adrian. "Well, lets get started."
We started with our stretches. I stood in front of Adrian so he could watch how to do them properly. I was proud of Adrian's lack of sexual harassment, but like I noticed earlier, luck was not
on my side. Where Adrian lacked in inappropriate comments, Demyan made up for them.
"You know Rose, I think your form is great. But, I think if you leaned more this way," Deyman started to demonstrate "it would help more." He finished with a smirk. I had been ignoring him
for the past fifteen minutes, which he had filled with comments like these. But, when he didn't get a response at all, he got a little braver.
I watched from the corner of my vision Demyan walk over to me.
"Here let me help." He said with humor in his voice. It only took me a second after he put one hand on my hip for me to snap. With unrealistic speed I turn and kicked him in the gut, making
him slam up against a wall. I was there before he even realized what had happened. I punched him in the face with more force than I thought I possessed. With my other hand I grabbed his
shirt, forcing him to stay against the wall. Blood from his nose-which I only knew where it came from because his nose was clearly broken- was dripping off his face onto my arm. If I wasn't so
angry I would have been impressed with myself. That's when I finally realized how angry I was. I could barely hear the protests of my friends across the gym.
All I could see was red.
"Don't fuck with me Guardian Nevsky." I spat.
Adrian was suddenly in my line of vision. Without thinking I lashed out at him. But my fist never made it to him, because Dimitri was suddenly there holding back my arm.
But I was still seeing red.
"Rose. Stop." Dimitri said in a calm voice, understanding the situation. But I wasn't ready to give in so easily, Demyan had pushed me too far. I remember feeling this type of anger before,
back when I almost killed Jesse at St. Vladimir's. Only this time, it was stronger.
"Go to hell Belikov." I said thrashing violently, trying to loosen his hold. Adrian was there again, staring right into my eyes. Suddenly I couldn't look anywhere else, those emerald eyes locked
into mine. This didn't slow my violent attempt to loose the steel grip of Dimitri.
"Rose, stop fighting." Adrian said, his voice was silky smooth. I couldn't help it, I went limp in Dimitri's arms instantly. But suddenly pain shot through my skull. A pain so surreal, I couldn't do
anything but scream. And that's what I did. I didn't have to feel it for very long, because the red was fading from my vision. Black was taking over. I vaguely remember being lifted from where
I had apparently collapsed in pain. The strong and distinct smell of Dimitri's after shave and his sweet accented voice laced with worry saying 'Roza' was the last thing I remember before the
black completely took over.
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