Hey guys! Thanks for all your kind words and for not giving up on this story! I know it's short, but i wanted to give you guys at least something. I stayed up writing this chapter and plan on updating very, very soon. It starts with Dimitri's point of view, then later changes bacl to Rose. Let me know what you think! :)

-Mikaela

DPOV

From the first day I saw her, I knew everything was about to change.

*Flashback*

It was a few days before I left to Russia and I was talking to my best friend, Andre Dragomir.

"You're going to like her a lot. I just know it Dimitri," he told me.

"What and who are we talking about?" I asked with a puzzled expression.

"Rose. She's Lissa's best friend. She's moving in with my family and me, ever since her parents died," he replied. "She's super hot and has the attitude of a badass," he said grinning.

Rose...that's a nice name I thought to myself. She sounds amazing as it is. Hopefully when I get back from Russia I'll get to meet this mystery girl...

Oh, how mistaken I had been. From the moment I laid eyes on Rose Hathaway, I knew there was something different about her. The way her long, dark brown hair flowed down her back, the way her eyes lit up when she smiled, and everything else about her made me curious to get to know her. There was only one problem...

Tasha.

I started going out with her the day before I left to Russia, mostly out of pity. She had liked me for 3 straight years, and I thought if I agreed to go out with her right before I left, she'd forget about me and meet someone else. Wrong. She called me every single day, and most of the time, I just ignored her calls. Tasha wasn't ugly, but for one thing, she was a total snob. She always went around picking on people who weren't as popular as her. The main reason I didn't like her, however, was that she just wasn't my type.

I am not and will never be the guy who cheats on a girl. The person who I'm ashamed to call my father, cheated on my mom with 3 other women. She was devastated. I swore I would never do that to a woman, which is why I had to hide what I really thought of Rose.

She was beautiful. No, more than beautiful. She was perfect...to me. When she walked up to me and said hello and gave me a flirty grin, I wanted to just kiss her, right then and there, but the better part of me came through. I put up a mask and ignored her, as much as it hurt me to do so.

I had gone through with ignoring her and giving her cold looks, but sometimes, I think she was able to see through my façade. Whenever she would catch me staring at her, I would either look away or pretend like I was glaring at her. And then when I saw her falling... I wasn't going to take it to an extreme and let her just fall! So I caught her by the waist before she hit the ground. What I didn't expect was to feel bolts of electricity race up my arms. I didn't want to let go, but reluctantly I did.

Then when she cut herself, I felt awful. I was provoking her while she was washing dishes and she cut herself with a knife by accident. I know it wasn't a major cut, but I was still worried about her and treated it right away.

After consulting Andre and telling him how I actually felt, I broke up with Tasha. She wouldn't let go and insisted on telling everyone we were still together. She's tried kissing me and hooking up with me about 20 times already, and I keep telling her to back off but she wouldn't listen. I was finally going to tell Rose what I actually thought about her at Adrian's party.

And now...seeing her here in this room with Jesse, looking so helpless and scared just broke my heart, not to mention make me furious.

*Flashback*

I had just walked in on Rose and Andre in the bathroom, with his arms around her. I was angry... and confused. Andre was my best friend. He was the only one who actually knew how I felt about Rose, and he SWORE he wouldn't tell her. I walked out of the bathroom, not caring how well I hid my emotions. A few seconds later, I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned around, angrily, knowing it was Andre.

"What the hell was going on in that bathroom Andre?" I said trying to calm down.

"She tripped, so I caught her, and that's when you walked in! I swear Dimitri, that's all that happened!" He said desperately.

"If you like Rose then that's okay. I mean I can't blame you, she's beautiful," I said sadly.

"Stop being ridiculous, Dimitri! I know your true feelings about her and our friendship is everything to me. I wouldn't do that!" He told me, trying to prove his point.

Before I could respond, I saw Rose being pushed toward us. Oh God, I hoped she did not just hear everything we said. With her arrival, I left. I couldn't face her, not now anyways. I was going to go get some air when Tasha approached me.

"Hey Dimka," she said, failing to be seductive. I wasn't really in the moo, but I really wanted to get my mind off of Rose, so when she started kissing me, I didn't object. We were making out when I felt someone staring at me. Oh God please don't be...of course. It was Rose. Before I could even think to do something, she took her eyes off of us and took off. I had to go after her this time.

"Dimitri wait-"she said, starting to grab me. I quickly shook her off me and went to go look for Rose.

I was looking for a good 10 minutes when I heard a noise coming from one of the bedroom doors. The music was pretty loud so it could've just been my imagination, but I knocked on the door regardless. No one responded so I knocked harder, and louder, knowing someone was in there.

"HELP!" I heard her scream.

Rose.

She was in trouble.

I held my breath and used all my strength to knock down the door. That's when I saw Jesse from our math class, positioning a knife above her, looking like he was about to stab her. He'll wish he never existed by the time I'm done with him.

RPOV

In he came, looking like a god.

Dimitri's look of pure rage scared even me, which was saying a lot considering the circumstance I was in. He ran to Jesse and full on tackled him. It didn't take much to knock him to the ground, considering Dimitri was a 6'7 giant compare to Jesse who was only 5'9. Dimitri kept punching him over and over again, and soon Jesse's face was covered in blood. Dimitri didn't stop though, and as much as I wanted Jesse to feel pain, I didn't want him to die.

"Dimitri, stop! He's unconscious already!" I said in fear. He was too preoccupied with destroying Jesse's face to hear what I was saying. So I yelled.

"STOP!"

Dimitri finally heard the message and stopped what he was doing. He looked at his hands that were covered with Jesse's blood, back down to Jesse, and then to me. He scurried over to me, in the corner, still half-naked. I was in shock of what just happened and my eyesight was getting blurrier by the second.

"Roza. Roza. Look at me, don't close your eyes," I faintly heard Dimitri say, desperation lacing his voice. I was about to ask him what a "Roza" was when the darkness consumed me and everything suddenly turned black.

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