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Rose POV

I knew that Adrian wouldn't be coming into my dreams tonight, since he's drunk from last night. I dreamt of Dimitri but before I staked him, I hesitated, I cried and he killed me. It seemed like a true fact, I would hesitate if I had to kill him. I moaned and turned, I smelt a familiar smell of alcohol of my face, I opened my eyes to find Adrian's angelic face, inches away from mine, he was asleep, and I was lying on the bed with Adrian's arm around my waist. I replayed the events from last night, Adrian looked heartbroken when he said 'It's always been Belikov, it's never been me'. It was unbearable to think about the part where he shouted to the sky about how no one cared about him, it was excruciatingly painful. Adrian groaned cutely like a little kid would in when they wake from their sleep, tightened his grip around me and pulled me closer, normally I'd bash him up for it but this time… I liked it. I caressed his cheek with my free hand, a few minutes later his eyes fluttered open as he smiled enchantingly.

"Morning, Little Dhampir" he smiled alluringly. "Adrian, would you mind explain how I ended up in your bed?" I asked playfully. "Well, I woke up earlier this morning and you were sleeping on the floor. Thought you'd be more comfortable with me" he grinned mischievously. I sat up and looked at the bracelet Adrian gave to me which reminded me I had I question for him. "Hey, Adrian?" I looked at him. "Yeah, babe?" he looked up at me as he propped up on his elbow and rested his head on his hand. "This is Romanian, yeah?" I gestured to the bracelet. I stared at the engraved words 'Te Iubesc, Iubirea mea'. "Do you know what it means? You didn't cheat and ask Lissa did you?" he pouted. "I asked her but she said she didn't know what language it was." I shrugged. Then I recalled Lissa used to take Romanian lessons few years back, she lied to me, but she probably had a good reason to it. "So what-" I asked but he interrupted. "Te iubesc, iubirea mea" he whispered into my ear and he kissed my hand. I gotta say that made me feel happy and weird inside. "Te iubesc means 'I Love You', Iubirea mea means 'my love' in Romanian." he looked up at me and watched for my reaction. I sat there staring blankly like the whole world just disappeared, am I ready to start a relationship? Am I ready to have a relationship with Adrian Ivashkov? (Of all people) I know he's been proving himself but is he sincere? Would he stay with me if I got… it was hard to think bout it even though we haven't gone anywhere near that part but yes, what if I got pregnant would he leave like all those other Moroi men?

But I didn't care for now, I'll just let flow naturally and let fate decide. "Adrian… That is so sweet and romantic but I don't think I'm ready yet…" I mumbled. "I'd wait forever if I have to, my Rose" Adrian said caringly while he was playing with my hair. "I'm starting to think that, you're way too good for me and deserve so much more." I sighed and stuffed my face into the pillow. "Hey, I'm the one who thinks that I think that I don't deserve you because no one has ever made me feel the way I do like you have and you're not after my money or name like all those other girls." He smiled adoringly and kissed my forehead. "I'll be there waiting for you when you're ready" he said adoringly. I thought of Dimitri, I still needed to keep my end of our promise. But I need to go to Russia and tell his family about the news first. But I couldn't handle the thought of leaving Lissa and I still had my field assignment coming up. Can I tell Adrian or Lissa about it? I don't have the money and it'd seem really low of me to ask Adrian for it. After that night, our friends started giving us suspicious looks, giving us private moments and 'alone' time. Though Adrian and I keep telling them nothing is going on between us…yet (Adrian always adds 'yet' which makes it suspicious). "Hey, did you hear, you guys?" Lissa was so happy she could barely contain herself. "What is it this time?" Eddie sighed, Mia has become friendly towards us and we did the same too. Only after she started going out with Eddie, yes, they finally admitted they've been going out since the week after we came back from Spokane.

"THERE'S GOING TO BE TWO NEW STUDENTS!!!" she jumped excitedly on her chair. "Yeah, I heard they're coming today, my new mentor is coming today too" I sighed and leaned my head on my arms. "Don't worry, if he does anything to piss you off or upset you. I'll come running like I did, the night at the party" Adrian winked. I thought back about Adrian punching Dimitri and feeling satisfied after. Now I just feel discomfort whenever I think about Dimitri, well to be precise, whenever anything about Dimitri is said, reminded me of him or thought of (by me). "So are you guys going out" Mia asked teasingly as she raised her eyebrow and Eddie smirked as he eyed between me and Adrian. Eddie and Mia started doing this to us after they revealed their 'it-obvious-that-we-are-going-out-but-we're-just-'hiding'-it-from-you' relationship to us. This was their payback for all the times Adrian and I made them feel awkward. Why didn't they do anything to Lissa? I sighed. "What's wrong?" Adrian looked at me with concern. "We're getting our assignments today" I looked up at Lissa and she smiled so wide it was scary to even think that a smile that wide was possible.

After the bell went, Lissa and Christian went to their we're-too-smart-to-be-in-a-normal-maths class together. While Eddie and I ran to the gym to get our assignments, I bumped into a dhampir guy who was arguing with a dhampir girl. I didn't recognize them, they must be the new kids. He was pretty good-looking, he had dark brown hair, a little lighter than mine and darker than Adrian's. You could see his toned muscles through his black cotton shirt. He had really nice grey eyes, and his features were sharp. The girl was a little shorter than me, she had dirty blonde hair, she probably dyed her hair brown before but it faded because it didn't look natural. She had wide, light blue eyes, they weren't icy like Christian's. She had a heart-shaped face and her body was sort of like mine, but I have more curves and she looks just as badass as me. "Sorry bout that" I said apologetically as the good-looking dhampir guy helped me up. "I'm Damon, this is-" he said playfully but was interrupted by the girl. "Celeste, nice to meet you." she shot an angry look at Damon and smiled when she turned back to me. I'm pretty sure the same thing popped into me and Eddie's head the minute Damon spoke… Adrian. He didn't look anything like Adrian but his personality was the same. "I'm Rose, this is my friend Eddie. Welcome to St. Vladimir" I smiled at them. "Thank you, you're very kind" Celeste smiled sweetly. "The pleasure's mine, beautiful." Damon reached for my hand to kiss it when Celeste grabbed it. "Can you not harass the first girl you see when we've just transferred in?!" she roared at him. "Come on that's not harassing, she doesn't look like she's uncomfortable and kissing someone's hand is just a polite, gentlemanly 'hello' gesture, C, are you jealous?" he waggled his eyebrows playfully at her.

"Is it just me or does he remind you of Adrian?" Eddie whispered to my ear and we laughed leaving them to look at us dumbfounded. "Uhh..sorry bout that, he's always like this. But I know how to handle this womanizing idiot" she blushed at us. "We do too" Eddie and I said at the same time. "Haha, guess we're alike then" she laughed and Damon looked at me full of interest. "Let's head down to the gym together, we're getting our assignments today." I said and she ran up to me and linked her arms in mine and we started walking down to the gym. We chatted and Damon was still giving me the I'm-interested-in-you look and Eddie started a conversation with him to distract him and I gave him a meaningful look. We took our seats as more dhampirs filed into the gym. "So any hot guys?" Celeste grinned to me. "Right next to you, baby" Damon whooped and Celeste smacked him on the arm. "Is he always like that?" Eddie asked. "Yeah, I'm the only one who knows how to deal with him or tolerate it, we don't really have any friends because of his stupid behaviour" she giggled and pushed Damon away as he was bout to hug her. We saw the rest of our friends at the gym doors and Celeste nudged me, "Hey, who's that hottie?" she pointed to Adrian. Eddie and I choked and started coughing. "What's wrong?" she looked up at us. "That is the person who we learnt to handle the way you handle Damon" I rolled my eyes and she made a face. "And he's going out with Rose" Eddie blurted and I punched him on the arm, Damon gave me another look. "We're not" I shot him a look. "Not yet anyways" he chuckled and lifted my right hand up and showed my bracelet to them.

"Wow, that's a Dragomir crest, no way, you know Vasilisa?" Damon gasped. But Celeste's eyes were on the Tiffany's bracelet from Adrian. "Lissa? She's my best friend, and I'm her future guardian" I smiled proudly. She took my hand and inspected the engravings. "Is this from him?" she giggled. "Yeah, that engraving on the back is in Romanian and it translates to 'I love you, my love' in Romanian" Eddie howled in laughter and I sighed. This is going to be hell. "Aww, that is so sweet and romantic" her eyes shone. "Don't worry I won't try to steal him from you" she smiled. Eddie and I smiled up at her, I'm really starting to like Celeste, she's nice, fun, carefree and loving. Damon cleared his throat and we turned to look at him. "A Moroi? Seriously? I think he's just going to play with you till he gets bored." Damon muttered hatefully. "Royal Moroi" Eddie corrected and Damon scoffed. "You're just saying that because she's not available" Celeste snapped at him. "Do you two have history or something?" Eddie's asked sarcastically. "NO!!!" they both exclaimed at the same time and we just laughed at them. Someone cleared their throat, it was Alberta on the podium. "Today is the day we give you your charge for your field assignment which will last six weeks. You might not like them but you have to deal with it. Remember, 'They come first'. Now I would like to introduce two new students that will be joining our school. Celeste McKenzie and Damon Ackhart" they stood up together and bowed as everyone applauded them. "I would also like to introduce our new teacher and Guardian, Jack White." We clapped and most of the girls when 'wooo' when he came up and stood next to Alberta on the podium.

He was about 6'2 – 6'4, he had gingery brown hair and he looked like a cross between Dimitri and Damon, in terms of body build and size. His eyes were sort of an icy grey and blue mix. He was hot, but I wasn't really attracted to him like all the other girls were. "Oh my God, he is fucking hot" Celeste said to us, Damon rolled his eyes. Names were started to be called, each person made their way down. "Eddie Castile, Mia Rinaldi" I snickered, he glared at me then his face turned soft when he walked down to accept it. "What?" Celeste looked at me. "He's going out with Mia" I laughed. "Damon Ackhart, Christian Ozera" I laughed so hard the whole gym echoed. "Ms. Hathaway, please keep it to yourself" Stan said harshly grabbing the microphone from Alberta. "What now?" Celeste looked completely lost. "He's going out with Lissa and he's a jerk" she laughed along with me. "Well, good luck, sexy" Celeste winked sarcastically at him and patted on his back as he stood up. Some guy who looked familiar was all happy since he got Camille. Someone got Abby Badica, most people were happy with who they got. "Celeste McKenzie, Vasilisa Dragomir."

"WHAT?!" I jumped out of me seat. "I'm suppose to get her" I yelled at them. "Calm down, Rose. It's only for six weeks, it's not like you're not going to get her after you graduate" Alberta finished and with that I calmed down. She's right, I am getting Lissa after graduating. I smiled up to Celeste. "Don't worry bout it, I'm sure you'll do a good job" she stood still for a moment then gave me an appreciated look and made her way down. "Rosemarie Hathaway, Adrian Ivashkov." My head shot up, great… I said I needed a break from Adrian but I got him for six weeks instead. Celeste and Damon were too busy arguing to realise that I just got announced. I heard Adrian shouting from the door but I couldn't make out what he was saying. People were giggling as they made private jokes amongst themselves, I looked at Adrian who looked like he was bout to die on the spot, Mia and Eddie who was standing next to her was literally on the floor laughing. I held my head high and collected my package. "I'm sorry, Rose" Alberta said as she handed me Adrian's information. "It's alright, he's my friend." I shrugged. "Though I have a question, Adrian isn't a student so why did I get him?" Jack crooked me a smile. Right, he's my new mentor. "Well, Jack wanted to see how you would react when you get someone else and he also wants to see if how you'd protect someone else. And to be reasonable we drew your friend's names out of a hat for you, it was just coincidence that you got Adrian" she smiled and put a hand on my shoulder. Sometimes I think of her as a mother figure, since mine failed at doing her motherly job.

Adrian POV

"Rosemarie Hathaway, Adrian Ivashkov." Guardian Petrov said. Christian and Lissa looked stunned and dumbfounded me. Well she should be happy she got Lissa, no way! I'm not a student here, how did I manage to get her? "DID SHE JUST SAY WHAT I THOUGHT SHE SAID?!" I grabbed Christian by his shoulders and shook him. Lissa nodded and giggled. "My Little Dhampir got me!!!" I jumped from my spot at the door. Eddie and Mia were on the floor laughing, Christian had a look that I wanted to punch off, Lissa's aura just exploded and lit up like a supernova with 'happy colours'. "Did you like bribe someone to do this" they all looked up at me. "Guys, I think his stunned reaction explains it well enough" Lissa beamed. I watched my Little Dhampir as she made her way up gracefully to collect the package with my details(I hope there isn't any bad or embarrassing in there), oh who cares she got ME!!! She was talking to that Jack guy and she started walking towards us while chatting to that new dhampir guy and chick, I really couldn't contain my happiness anymore so I….

Rose POV

He walked up to me and introduced himself. "Hey, Rose. I'm your new mentor as you heard. I heard about what happened to your previous mentor, I'm sorry bout that" he frowned. "Nice to meet you, Jack." I smiled warmly. "Since you're my student you can call me, J or White" he smiled "We'll start training tomorrow after school?"

"After school?" I looked at him, puzzled. "Yeah since you're busy protecting your Moroi, you'll need your sleep although he probably has to come with you to practice. Kirova told me that I have to take four students. Which is Eddie Castile, Celeste McKenzie, Damon Ackhart and you " He looked briefly at them as I nodded. "Yeah, I'll tell them bout it. Welcome to St. Vladimir's by the way, I gotta go now" I waved goodbye at him as I made my way to my friends. Celeste and Damon caught up to me. "He was so checking you out, Rose." Celeste grinned. "Hey, I noticed something. If you hate Damon so much why are you guys always together?" I raised my eyebrows at them as they looked at each other blankly. "I actually don't have a clue. Maybe it's coz he stood up for me when some other kids picked on me when I was 13" she said "We've been hanging out together since then, we sort of connected and stuck together I guess since we were the only dhampirs, we were the odd ones out in school…the hot freaks to be precise, back in LA." Damon put an arm around her and smiled.

"Our families tried to be normal by blending in with the humans, but it wasn't easy for us. But still that doesn't give you an excuse to be all over me" she pinched Damon's arm and he pulled it off. "Little Dhampir!!! YOU GOT ME!!!" Adrian ran across the gym to me excitedly, he even lifted me up and twirled around. Lissa, Christian, Mia and Eddie trailed behind. "You wanna introduce me to your boyfriend, Rose?" Celeste asked me cheerfully as Adrian set me down. "He's not my boyfriend" I sighed. "Yet" Adrian added and ran a hand through his hair smoothly, he turned to Celeste and put on his charming smile. "Adrian Ivashkov, it's a pleasure." He said as he shook Damon and Celeste's hands and they stiffened at his name. Damon face showed disgust and Celeste just looked between me and Adrian. "A-Adrian IVASHKOV?!" she jumped and looked at me full of concern. Right they were busy bickering, so they didn't hear his full name. "Don't worry he's not as bad as his reputation says he is, if he does anything bad, Rose'll come running and she'll bash him up good" Eddie stood next to Adrian and winked at them. Adrian's jaw dropped when he said that then they let it slide.

"I'm Celeste McKenzie." Celeste ran up to Lissa and gave her a hug which shocked her for a second then she hugged her back. "Damon Ackhart, know any hot chicks in this school?" Damon put on a perverted smile as he shook Christian's hand. "He's my boyfriend" Lissa tugged Christian's arm as she spoke to Celeste. Damon eyed Adrian and me enviously. "I think we've just found Adrian's best friend" Christian smirked and Lissa whacked him across the head. "Well at least we've all got each other for the next six weeks" Lissa said when we sat around our usual table in the library. "I feel sorry for Meredith even though she's the most annoying and miserable person I know in class" Eddie made a face. "Who'd she get?" I looked at him bewildered. "Jesse Zelkos" Mia said bitterly. I started laughing and slamming my fist on the table till someone kicked me under the table. "We've got two new friends in our group, do you guys have any history? You look really close." Lissa started with the questions. "Why does everyone say that?!" they both said at the same time and we laughed. "Well, after my parents died when I was 13, all the kids in school made fun of me, Damon punched all of them and made them say sorry. We were also the school outcast and freaks since we were different from the others, though dhampirs aren't so different from humans" she rolled her eyes. "I'm sorry" Lissa looked up sadly. "I deserved an award for that" Damon said confidently. "So after that…we sort of looked out for one another" She shot a teasing I-don't-really-care-bout-you look at Damon. "Harsh words there, C. You're hurting my feelings" Damon put a hand over his heart.

"Damon, can you please just shut up and let me talk?" she shot him a furious look. "Oh yeah, since you guys are my friends now you can call me, C." she said sounding pleased. I remembered at that there was something important at the back of my head.

Adrian POV

"Right, I just remembered something you guys" my Little Dhampir said. "What would that be, babe?" I smiled at her. I couldn't keep my eyes off her, she looked gorgeous but I saw some jealously coming from Damon aura. "Ugh…it doesn't really concern you, babe" she rolled her eyes, she even said 'babe' sarcastically and emphasized it "Actually now that I think bout it everyone's going to have to be there" she added. "What's this bout?" Christian a.k.a emo/lover boy looked up at her, for once he didn't say something stupid. "Well you know how I'm getting a new mentor? It's Jack White and he said that Alberta told him that he's taking three other students with him, which is Eddie, C and D." She said quickly. "And we'll be going after school since we need our sleep apparently because we're on field assignment and all of you guys" she gestured to me, Lissa, Christian and Mia. "Are our charges so you gotta come with" she finished, god, something is up with me because I just kept thinking bout kissing her and all the things we could do together for the next 6 weeks. "Nice, I get to see you get rough again, can I volunteer? I liked the last time we-" Rose interrupted me by cupping her hand over my mouth and smiling Celeste and Damon. They raised and eyebrow and turned to Lissa. "A few months ago, we went to a ski lodge for Christmas and that's where we met Adrian. There were quite a few memorable encounters between Rose and Adrian." She trailed on but I turned my attention back to Rose.

How the hell am I going to control myself for six weeks with her in me, not only with me what about when we go back to my room and we're alone… Ugh, if I don't want to lose her trust or friendship, I can't do anything reckless or anything she doesn't want…Which is me right now. God, after all this thinking and Spirit training from this morning, I need a drink or cig. "Right, Little Dhampir and I would like to excuse ourselves." I stood up and grabbed her hand. "Why are you taking her/me with you?" Lissa and Rose asked at the same time. "Uhhhh…because she's my sexy, badass guardian for the next 6 weeks… and I need a drink or a smoke…maybe both" I winked and nudged her as she groaned and stood up, I put an arm around her as we walked to the exit, we heard a roll of laughter coming from Christian, Eddie and Mia before we walked out. "I'm not going to stand around when you smoke your disgusting clove crap" she exhaled loudly. Hmm, since she's on duty can she drink? I could always say I commanded her to if we got caught.

"So you're drinking?" I thought back about the time we drank and danced together at the Lodge. "No, I have to save your ass so I can't be tipsy and staggering if I have a job to do" she sighed. "Hey, I had nothing to do with you getting me." I raised my hands up to show I had nothing to do with it. "Yeah, I know" she sighed again "What?" I looked at her confused "My new mentor wanted so test my skills, he wanted to see how I'd do guarding someone else, Alberta was reasonable enough to draw all my friend's names out of a hat and I got you" she looked up at the sky thoughtfully then glanced back at me. "Well, aren't I the luckiest guy in the world? Like I said back then, maybe we're destined to be together" I closed the space between us and her hands were pressed up against my chest. We looked into each other's eyes and melted away (not really but that's how it felt) but was interrupted by someone clearing their throat. "Hope I'm not interrupting something, glad things are fine between you and your Moroi, Rose." He shot me a pissed off look. Everyone else came rushing out of the library, chatting and laughing, thank god they broke the tensed atmosphere. My heart stopped for a second, would I lose Rose as my "6 week guardian"? Everyone stopped next to us and looked at the guy.

End Of Chapter 10

The Potbellez - Trouble Trouble

Here we go now, no return
The trouble starts here!

We are trouble trouble, trouble trouble
Oh oh
We're in trouble trouble, trouble trouble
Oh oh

You say you'll never do it again
Say you'll never do it again
But you're better than that
Better than that, all that trouble
Oh oh!

How did you guys like the new ppls? I'm starting to like C and D haha. I didn't notice this but after writing Damon's description I realised how much he sounded like Damon Salvatore ROFL, well C is awesome for bashing up Damon ahahaha. I dunno why but I like the idea of Rose getting Adrian for the field assignment.

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