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Chapter 10: Seattle
Previously: "Rose, this E-mail involves you. Your friend Vasilisa Dragomir is visiting you next week."
"Really! That's great!."
"Yes I suppose. But your old mentor, Dimitri Belikov is coming."
"Have you heard?" Lissa yelled into the phone. I had to keep it away from ear so that I wouldn't since every time she yelled. She wasn't usually like this, but I guess she was excited to see me.
"Yeah I heard. I can't belive you're coming in like two weeks." I smiled widely into the phone.
"Yeah, the 24th."
"And you're bringing Dimitri."
"Yeah, he's technically in charge of me until he leaves with Tasha." Before this whole thing with Dimitri I wanted to tell her, and I eventually would have, but I know that now if I did I would just be embarrassed when ever she brought it up. It was weird to see all these happy couples knowing your own love life is going down the drain. "So he has to come everywhere I go."
"Oh, well listen Lissa I better go before all the food at dinner is gone. I'll call you later."
"Ok Rose. I'll see you in two weeks!" Then she hung up. I lied in bed for a little while. Contemplating in my head what to do about Dimitri. Should I just completely ignore him? Will he try to approach me? Should I tell Lissa what happened between us so that she might switch her guardian?
This wasn't working.
"Ok, I guess I'll just go eat." I tried to will myself out of bed but it wasn't working. I was too worried. All of a sudden I heard a knock on my door. I went to get it and found Stephanie there. I had forgotten all about my new friend. She stood there in a flowery skirt with a green v-neck that was probably designer. Her hair was crimped and looked amazing.
"Hey Rose. Are you on your way to the caf? I wanted to walk there together."
"Hey and sure lets go." I slipped my shoes and followed her out.
"Are you excited for the trip tomorrow?"
"What trip?"
"The trip to Seattle of course."
"Oh yeah, today's Friday. What time do we leave?"
"Six A.M. right when the sun goes down. Hey why don't you sleep over my room? It would be fun we could check out the store sales on my laptop, eat snacks and you could let me expirement on your hair."
"Sounds fun." It certainly sounded better than wallowing in my room.
"Okay! We should hurry, all the good food will be gone and I'm craving something salty and greasy."
"Join the club." I laughed.
After we'd eaten and went to my room to grab a few things before going to Stephanies, I told Steph about St. Vlads.
"So did you have a boy friend?" She asked sitting on her bed.
"Yes, no. I don't know. It's complicated.""
"How complicated?"
"Well, this guy is kind of unavailable."
"Is he taken?"
"No, just unavailable."
"Oh. Same here, but the guy I like is taken." She sighed.
"Really, who?"
"A friend. I don't think you know him."
"Ok. So exactly what did you want to do to my hair?"
"I wanted to curl it, I saw a hairstyle in a magazine one time but when I tried it on my hair it came out bad. I need thick hair like yours." She reached out to touch it and I let her.
"I wish I had hair like yours." She whispered longily.
"No you don't. It gets annoying most of the time."
"I doubt it." She bit her lip. "So what's your favorite store Rose? Are you girly or edgy?"
"A little bit of both. My styles pretty simple though."
"Oh, don't worry we can fix that." I laughed, she made it sound like a condition or something.
"We'll see. I'm not really that crazy with money. Mostly because I don't have tons of it. My mom sends me money once a month for some small expenses."
"That's okay. It's on me, It helps to be part of the royal family." She held up a black credit card.
"Thanks." I yawned. "Where do I sleep?"
After Steph gave me a very comfortable spot on her queen sized bed I passed out. When I woke up it was late morning for Moroi. Stephanie was still asleep and I tried not to wake her as I used her bathroom to freshen up.
"What time is it?" Mumbled Steph as she lifted her head."
"Five, we have an hour to get ready. I'm going to go change in my room and I'll meet up with you at breakfast."
"Wait! When can I play with your hair?" She jumped up and I saw that she had left her hair in curlers.
"Not today. It'll take too long." I picked up a bag I brought that had a stake, since the attack I had been very cautious, and a couple of other toiletries. "I'll see you later."
"Okay." She pouted and I smiled. Steph was so, for the lack of a better word, cute. I walked down the hall to my room and noticed something weird. My door was open, not all the way it looked as if someone had swung it but not hard enough. I got a flashback to when I went with Dimitri to get my Qualifier. I remembered all those dead bodies and shivered.
I took the stake out and crept in as quietly as possible. I looked around my bare room. Nothing looked touched or messed up. I saw into the bathroom easily since it was swung open. Nothing.
I know I closed the door last night, so that meant someone came in here while I was over Stephs. I winced when I heard a branch scrap against my window. I looked outside and hadn't noticed it was raining. Really bad too.
I put my stake away and went through my closet for something warm. I came up with a pair of sneakers with jeans and a sweater. I brushed my hair into long waves. Leaving it down but made sure to bring a scrunchie to tie it up if I need too later on.
I went to the banquet hall and got myself a big breakfast of bacon, pancakes and waffles. I found a seat next to Nate, who was drowning his waffles in syrup.
"Rose! Nice to see a celebrity like you eat with me. I'm not worthy."
"Celebrity?" I scoffed at his sarcasm.
"Hell yeah, your the number one hot topic in Madisons Academy."
"Seriously? I don't know whether to be flattered or cautious. Is there any gossip yet?"
"Well I've heard that you took on an army of Strigoi by yourself and you did it with half your bones broken. Also that you're the mother of twins and that the father is Adrian Ivashkov, Mr. Playboy himself. But I think my favorite piece of gossip is that you were kicked out of St. Vladimirs academy for killing your mentor." He paused and smirked. "Gee Rose, didn't know you had so much going on."
"It could be worse." I said this mostly to myself.
"I guess. By the way who's going to be your charge?"
"My what?"
"You know for the trip." He took in my confused expression and elaborated. "They aren't just letting us go to Seattle because they like us Rose. It's practice for the field experience. We get to pick our own Moroi to guard."
"I'm hanging out with Stephanie for most of the trip. That count?"
"As long as she knows."
"Oh so then I guess Stephanie is my charge then." I took a bite of my bacon.
"Stephanie Ivashkov is not your charge." I turned around and saw my most favorite person in the world... Cathy.
"Why did she tell you otherwise?" I was tired of seeing her everywhere. She was getting almost as annoying as Mia when I first got to St. Vladimirs.
"No, but we've been together all year. You can't have her." She grinned.
"Let's wait for her to come down and tell us." Right on cue, Steph entered the room, she saw me and smiled but the smile lessened when she saw who I was talking to. "Here she is."
"Hey Rose, hey Cathy. Fancy meeting you here."
"Stephanie, who is your guardian? Me or Rose?" Cathy said my name as if it was something of disgust.
"I'm s-sorry Cathy. But I asked Rose to hang out with me today. If you want you can guard me next time."
"Are you serious? Rose came in 3 days ago and we've been friends for years and you pick her? Stephanie Ivashkov, I am going to ruin you so bad not even your money will save you!" Steph looked as if she was going to cry so I butted in.
"Can you stop acting like such a bitch? She picked me over you get over it and get the hell out of here. You act as if your the damn queen of Sheba but you are nothing." It was a little mean of me to say that but she had it coming.
"Don't even get into this you mutt. Didn't you sleep with all the guys in your school, and let them suck your blood? At least I have some class while you're just a filthy blood whore. Go back to where you came from." We had the attention of the cafeteria and I debated whether or not to sock Cathy, but there were too many teachers and I didn't need another bad mark on my record.
"At least I don't intimidate innocent Moroi. Isn't that something a Strigoi would do? You aren't hiding anything are you? I mean everyone already knows about how your salon stylist hated your guts and gave you that bad perm. But is there anything else?" Turns out I was right about the horrible hairstyle and when I heard it in Moroi culture class I knew I had to save it for later. She lunged toward me looking for a fight. Why should I deny her?
I punched her in the jaw so hard I had to shake the pain off my knuckles. She winced and aimed a kick at my stomach but I twisted enough so that she got my hip instead. I tried to grab her but that was when the guardians started ripping us apart. I stopped struggling and let them take me and Cathy to the headmasters office.
"Hey Anthony." I waved at him as he looked at us sternly.
"Miss Hathaway, Miss Damora." He nodded at each of us. "What happened?"
"Well," I started happily, "We were having a spirited debate and I was winning so Cathy thought she would have a better chance of showing her point of view by involving brute force. Sad I know." I kept a straight face and Anthony rolled his eyes at me.
"Rose, Cathy, I should make you stay at the academy while the rest of us enjoy ourselves in Seattle, but I'm in a good mood so I will let you go and you will both be suspended from extra-curricular activities for a week. But, If I hear any more about 'spirited debates' you will both be refrained from going to any trips in the future. Am I understood?"
Cathy and I both nodded and left our separate ways. We didn't look at each other again.
"I can't belive he's letting you guys still come to Seattle. I thought for sure he'd make you stay." Steph said as we got onto the coach bus, the ones with the comfortable seats, cup holders, mini TVs and a bathroom in the back. It was neat. I was happy to see that she had recovered from the incident.
"Yeah me too," I remembered Jason and thought about asking Steph if she knew why he was so scrawny. "Hey Steph do you know a sophomore named Jason Rayson?"
"Yeah, poor kid. Did you hear what happened to him?"
"No, what?"
"Well he had some type of cancer in his stomach so he was in the hospital for like a year and lost all the muscle he had, he used to be the top of his class or whatever. But now he's better and he's working on building up his muscle. Its going to be hard because the cancer screwed up his metabolism but It won't be impossible."
"So thats why he's so desperate to build up." I mumbled to myself.
"Rose! Try this on!" Steph shoved a jumper into my arms and pushed me into a dressing room. For such a small person, she was pretty strong. We were at a store in the beautiful city of Seattle. It was a lot prettier than I expected it to be.
"How does it look?" Cathy asked eagerly.
I looked at myself through the mirror. The jumper looked adorable on me. It went all the way the the top of my chest until my mid thigh and was tight. It was a little too promiscuous for school but would do great for parties.
"It looks amazing."
"Let me see!" She stormed into the room. "It looks incredible! We are going to get it."
"Thanks."
"No problem. It's the least I can do for my savior."
"I guess. Hey, why do you need novices anyway? Aren't the guardians technically protecting you? Because I haven't seen any."
"You wouldn't see any guardians around here Rose, Didn't anyone fill you in?"
"Apparently not."
"Well the Guardians are acting as Strigoi and they'll attack sometimes." On the word 'attack' I went into Guardian mode. There were two entrances and a lot of people.
"Would they attack in front of humans?"
"Yup; humans mostly think the guardians are just muggers or something." She barely able to finish her sentence before a bald guardian attacked me.
"Shit!" I yelled as I pushed Steph behind me and turned to face my opposer.
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