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I was terrified. I was running through the darkness of a forest, scared for my life, so scared I couldn't even think.

My feet weren't moving fast enough, they were getting closer. Closer. I had to hurry up, but I couldn't. Red eyes were following me from everywhere. I couldn't breathe. I got out of the forest.

My view was blurring, but I could tell I was running on a country road. I heard their almost inaudible steps. Right behind me. One of them was so close I could feel his breathe in my hair. It was gross, full of death. He grabbed my hair and pulled me back. I screamed and he thrown me on the ground with force. All I could feel was pain when my chest touched the cold dust. The cruel laughter scratched my ears.

"Rose. Rose, wake up!"

"Ah!" I gasped and woke up from the horrible dream. It wasn't real. Just a dream. No strigoi killing me. Just a dream.

I could see Christian shaking me. He sighed in relief when I woke up. I was full of sweat, and I was breathing hard.

"You scared the shit out of me" he said looking at me like I had two heads or something.

"Why?" I asked, still breathing hard.

"You were screaming." He said with a blank face. "Did you dream Ivashkov?" he asked then with a goofy smile.

"I wish" I said and stood up. "I dreamed… crap, I can't remember" I lied. Because I did remember, but I really wasn't in the mood to live through that again so soon.

I went to the bathroom and washed my face. I thrown the wet shirt in the bag for dirty clothes and put on a clean one. Then I decided I needed a shower so I took it off and took a cold shower.

God, that felt good. Water was going down my body, cleaning the dirt and bad memories. I got out of the shower and dressed up. I didn't bother to brush my hair and put it in a ponytail.

Christian was waiting for me. We went to breakfast together. Lissa was already there.

"Morning, love" Christian said and kissed her, when I pulled him back

"What the heck?"
"Today is my day with Lissa. So back off, fire bug. No snogging, kissing, funny business, pecking, shagging, touching, petting today. Just friendship" I grinned to them and Christian grimaced. Lissa was chuckling silently.

"She's right, Christian. I'll see you later, okay?" she said and he sighed and moved to a table with Eddie, Mia and other guys.

"So, what are we doing today?" I asked sitting near her with my breakfast.

"First we go to the church. Then out in the park. Then we can go in my room." She said chewing her cereals.

"Cool." I agreed though I wasn't into the church stuff. But it was Sunday, and she wanted to go, so I was going with her.

And it was nice outside, so a walk in the park sounded just cool. We usually talked about a lot of stuff and never got bored.

And her room meant she was going to do my make up and vice versa. Not my favorite action, but for Lissa, anything. As long as we spent time together…

We ate then went to the church. After that we went to the park. We talked, we laughed, we ate chocolate…

The park was the space between the courtyard of the Academy and the real woods, a space with rare trees and a lot of paths Lissa and I loved.

"Let's run" Lissa suddenly said when we found ourselves alone between the trees. I laughed and ran after her. I was soon near her, then I outrided her. She laughed and tried to keep up with me, so I slowed down. We were getting deeper in the forest.

"I loooove feeling the wind in my hair" she said and closed her eyes for a second. She really looked like the most royal princess you could ever meet: tall, pale, slim, golden hair flying around her head, jade eyes, a beautiful dress.

I smiled at her and kept running. Suddenly, I felt the weird thing that tells me there are stirgoi around. I had that special ability thanks to being 'shadow kissed'.

So I stopped and pulled Lissa with me. She looked at me questioningly.

"Strigoi" I whispered and I could sense her panic. The bond was sending me a lot of feelings: fear, concern, thoughts about everyone else, if they are all right, what could she do to defend herself…

"It's coming from this way" I whispered pointing at the woods . "Let's go back to the academy. Run."

We started running, but Lissa was already a bit tired, and I was a lot harder for her. I had training, I could run. But Lissa couldn't.

What should I do? If I shouted for help Strigoi might find us faster. And I could take down one or two, but not more. How many were there, I couldn't tell. And I had no stake, or match or lighter. I stood no chance against any of them. Then again, if we didn't get help they might take down more moroi and dhampirs.

"HELP!" I started shouting. "STRIGOI! HELP!"

The feeling from last night came back to me and I panicked for a second. No. I have to stay cool. I can't leave Lissa. Stay cool. God. I was usually more confident. But now memories from that shitty dream kept coming in my head. And I was scared.

No. Stop, Rose, stay focused.

Lissa kep running right behind me, because I was slowing down. I couldn't leave her behind. That was my duty, to protect her.

We were getting closer to the academy, but there was no one outside. I shouted again, when I saw a shadow. Or what I thought was a shadow.

"Well, well."

Crap. A tall, pale, guy was in front of me. He.. it had long, sharp teeth. Red eyes.

A strigoi.

Lissa was looking at him hypnotized.

"Hello there" he waved. "What are two little girls like you doing here?"

I was going to tell him who was a little girl, but Lissa's feelings distracted me through the bond. She was scared, so scared she could hardly breath. I had seen strigoi before, but she hadn't, at least not so close.

"Well, little girls shouldn't be alone in the woods" he continued. "They should have someone to take care of them" he said and took a step closer to us, while we took a step back. He just grinned, a cruel, emotionless, ugly grin.

"They have" Eddie said coming from nowhere. Well, maybe someone heard my scream after all. He threw me a stake, which I caught. I smirked to him then turned my attention back to the strigoi.

"Well, now, take care little girl. That's a toy for big people. You should rather play with dolls" he said, not seeming scared or affected at all. "What are you three going to do to me? Tickle me? Meaningless, useless, eatable, stupid children" he sniffed .

I'm not sure how, but Eddie and I both jumped at the same time. I staked the strigoi's arm, and he staked his chest.

The strigoi screamed in agony, but we hadn't killed him. Eddie looked at me a bit worried and I understood: he hadn't killed a strigoi before. I had. He was freaked. But he wanted his chance. I took a step back and he jumped once again. He staked the puzzled strigoi right into the heart.

It fell on the ground death. Well, as death as can something soulless be.

Right behind him, from the academy, were coming Alberta and Stan. And behind them were Christian and Adrian.

Alberta looked at the strigoi, back at Eddie and I, back to the strigoi…

"Oh my. Hathaway and Castile. What did you do?"

"Uhmm.." we looked at each other unsecure. WHAT did we do?
Stan was looking at us in shock.

"Did you kill it… on your own?" he asked. No, we asked our fairy godmother to do it for us, of course we killed it, you dumb ass!

"What do you expect" Alberta said. "Rose has killed two strigoi already"

"Eddie did it" I said, not wanting to get his glory away. Eddie looked at the ground while Stan and Alberta congratulated both of us.

They asked us what happened, and Lissa and I told them. Eddie said how he heard me scream and hurried to us.

Christian was looking at Lissa with big eyes. He waited until we finished our story then jumped on her, hugged her tight, then kissed her hair, her eyes, her lips..

I smiled at them when a hand grabbed me. I was ready to fight back when I felt Adrian's scent.

He pulled me behind a tree and started kissing me fiercely. After the adrenaline and panic, his kisses were exactly what I needed. I could feel every inch of my body relaxing, enjoying his touch. He broke the kiss and looked me in the eye.

"Don't you ever go in the woods again" he said with a serious face. I frowned and touched his cheek.

"I am a big girl. I can take care of myself." But I was secretly happy: he was worried about me. How sweet! Uhm, I mean, how stupid of him, I can take care of myself!
He just looked at me, then kissed me again. I responded him thankfully.

But he was somehow right. If Eddie hadn't appeared, I don't know what we could have done. I had no weapon. I decided to wear one, even on my free days.

We went back to the Academy, where Christian kept holding Lissa's hand. I decided not to be selfish so I said:
"Don't worry Lissa. Go. We'll catch up later. Your boyfriend will kill me if I take you away right now"

She nodded at me thankfully and left with him.

Truth is I was really selfish. I wanted to spend time with Adrian. And I couldn't, unless they were busy. Eddie was easier to trick.

I grabbed Adrian's hand.

"Is you room available?" I asked and he smirked, taking me there.

It was the first time when we were doing something like this on the horizontal, and I liked it.

We were lying on his bed, Adrian on his back and I half on his chest. We were kissing and hmm... He was slowly pulling his tongue in my mouth, moving it leisurely, while moving his hand, slow, up and down my feet, up my back…

And I was enjoying every second of it.

He stopped and looked at me. He raised his arm and brought it lightly to my face. He touched my lips with his finger. Then my cheek. Then my jaw line. The moved it down on my neck, in a continuous move. Then lower, lower..

I closed my eyes and moaned.

Why didn't I say 'yes' to him in the first place? What? Stupid, clueless, rich, spoiled idiot? Who cares. In love with Dimitri? That started to become just a memory. All that mattered was Adrian. His amazing hands and kisses, and his sweetness.

"Little dhampir" he said in a husky voice.

Just then someone knocked at the door.

"Mister Ivashkov. Are you in there?" I could hear Alberta.

"Fuck" he whispered and pulled me off him. "Go in the bathroom, now"

He opened the door.

"Can I help you?" I heard him say.

"I just wanted to check on you. There's been a strigoi attack. "

Apparently she hadn't noticed him behind her. Or grabbing me behind some trees and kissing me senseless.

"I heard. Is everyone all right? How many strigoi are there?"
"Just one, and it's been killed. Everyone is all right until now. We are just checking to make sure"

Bitch, she should have said it was Eddie who killed the bastard.
"Oh. Yeah, well, I'm cool."
"All right. Good afternoon"
"See you" he said and closed the door. I got out of the bathroom and he smiled to me.

"Where were we?"

But I felt that Liss was looking for me so I told him we'd continue later. He just smirked and I went to find my best friend.

It's been a … nice weekend. And I couldn't understand why, but Adrian kept growing on me. I had a secret affair with him, what the heck. It wasn't quite a relationship yet, I mean it was more something physical, but I found myself enjoying just talking to him.

And of course, bickering. That was our favorite sport.

Done :).

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~Anana

P.S. I just discovered 'A very Potter musical'. Check it out on youtube if you like HP, because it's awesome xD.