Chapter 14

Adrianna POV

"Dri are you still alive in there?" Dad's voice pulls me out of my half asleep state.

"Yeah I'm alright" I manage to say back.

I know I should get out of the tub but after the last three days my muscles were killing me and I had bruises everything. The hot bath is making everything feel better, originally I was just meant to do two days with just Rose and Dimitri but for some reason they decided I should learn from Eddie as well.

Most of the time I was getting beaten when I sparred with my classmates but there was the occasional fight where I would win and whenever I went against Nikolaus I never won, this made me realise just how much I still had to learn and also how easy Nikolaus was going on me. All three of them had kicked my ass and I ate mat multiple times.

Aside from them kicking my ass I was curious to see what they did as Guardians and how it differed depending on who the Moroi was. Rose spent a lot of time with other Guardians because Lissa was queen and had several Guardians while Dimitri rarely worked with other Guardians unless Christian went somewhere with Lissa where as Eddie worked with another Guardian because Princess Jill Dragomir had two Guardians.

I finally dragged myself out of the bath and left the bathroom only to find both Nate and Matt standing in the hallway. Those two were always up to no good, I had no idea how the school would survive if they were twins.

"Dri!" they chimed together with grins on their faces.

"What do you two want?" I raised an eyebrow at them as I walked closer to them

"Your phone has been going on like crazy" Matt spoke, he was only 12 and was still not allowed his own phone. He was annoyed every time he saw me on it and it was going off like crazy, he was jealous he couldn't talk to his friends whenever he wanted

"We wanted to read your messages but it's locked" Nate always wanted to know what I was up to, if I had a diary he would have been reading it regularly like he was his favourite book.

"And that is why I lock my phone, you two always want to read my messages"

"I was more curious about what lame explanation you were giving mum and dad so you can go see your friends over Christmas break. I heard about your party"

"You don't know anything Matt, and Nate you should spend more time wanting to know what Matt keeps from you instead of what I get up to with my friends" I pushed past both of them and shut my bedroom door behind me. I walked over and picked up my phone and I did in fact have a numerous number of messages, I had left my phone at home while I spent the day with Eddie since it would be a distraction. A couple were from Stefan and Emily while the rest were from Jason.

Stefan and Emily were both along the same lines, we're meeting up tomorrow night for some fun, hope you could come. Whereas Jason's were completely different from the rest

So my camping trip got cancelled due to Bushfires in the area, since I still have no idea where you are living I hope you are nowhere near the region and you will be fine – Jason

I still haven't heard anything so I'm a little worried – Jason

They kind of went along the same lines, guess there must have been some serious bushfires going back on in Melbourne. It's weird to think that there is snow here at Court while there were bushfires in Melbourne, it wasn't unusual to have bushfires during the summer but it was unusual to have them this early in the season.

Sorry Jase, I had to complete some work placement thing that dad forced me to do as punishment for the party I attended a few weeks back. I'm nowhere near the fires so I'm perfectly safe, what are you going to do now that camping has been cancelled? – Adrianna

I was hoping I could see you, I miss you Aid. I could even come to you, Michael hasn't said anything about you in a few months. I think he has given up on hoping I was still in contact with you – Jason

I stared at my phone unable to know what to send back. I did miss Jase, I really did. He was my first true friend growing up in fosters home and he made the abuse I received from Michael more bearable but I was unable to tell him the truth of where I was living, no matter how much I wanted too.

He hadn't said anything about Michael in months so I had also assumed that he had given up on me. Not long after Jason had message me saying that Michael had been asking about me, Jason had ended up in the hospital. Turns out Michael had gotten the jump on him in hopes of beating the truth out of him about my where bouts. I felt so bad that I was the reason he got beaten up but he assured me that even if he knew the truth he would have kept it from Michael to make sure I wouldn't go through the same abuse.

In the end I just send Jase a message saying that dad had pulled a surprise holiday on us and I was flying out of the country tomorrow. This would give me a few days until I could come up with another excuse as to not tell him where I was.

I know dad had told me it made things so much easier to not tell him the truth but I hated keeping this secret from Jase, I told him everything about my classes I explained that I was in some high sports program and that was why I did so much physical activity classes.

I placed my phone on my bed and stood up to head into the kitchen for dinner. I was quiet all throughout dinner both dad and Ellie noticed something was up but didn't say anything until Nate and Matt had left the room, they were excited to go play one of their video games.

"Dri what's wrong?" I looked up from my half eaten plate of dinner and gave dad a forced smile

"Jase keeps asking why I can't tell him where I'm living or why I can't see him"

"Dri we have had this conversation multiple times. You know you can't tell him the truth because it involves telling him the truth about who you are, why you are on this vampiric schedule instead of seeing daylight..."

"I miss daylight..." I cut dad off, I knew I shouldn't have done it but it was true. I did miss daylight and not just the human morning light that came through at the end of our night but the full blown day light that was seen in the middle of the human day – or our night.

"Don't interrupt Adrianna"

"Sorry dad"

"You know you can't tell him, he's at a risk. How do we know he can be trusted? There are humans out there that would do anything to become a Strigoi, they believe vampires are the best thing in the world thanks to all those Hollywood movies"

"He can be trusted, I trust him dad"

"Adrianna I said no. I don't care if you trust him, humans can't be trusted. You never know if someone secretly wants this life and they would do anything for it, I mean it. There are humans that serve as slaves for the Strigoi in hopes of being turned one day"

"Then why did you spend so much time with my mother? She was just another human, you had to trust her to have sex with her. When having sex there is always the risk of the female falling pregnant, you had to have known that if she fell pregnant you would have to tell her everything! Therefore you had to trust her!"

"Adrianna I am only saying this one more time. You cannot tell Jason where you are living, lie to him for all I care but he cannot know you are here. That is final, if I have to I will pull you out of St Vladimir's and put you to work in the Guardians office until the end of time" Adrian stood up from the table and left the room not allowing me to say anything else. I turned to Ellie and looked at her.

"I agree with your father, if you seriously believe humans can be trusted go talk to Dimitri" Ellie stood up and left the kitchen to follow Adrian after that.

I stayed at the table trying to decide if I wanted to keep eating, in the end I decided I didn't want too and her telling me to talk to Dimitri was all the permission I needed to leave the house. I didn't go and see Dimitri instead I went to go and see Emily, she was the only one of my friends that knew I was in contact with a human from my past and she understood strangely enough.

I walked over to Emily's house, her mother worked at Court giving her a bit more freedom to see her kids during breaks as well as doing her part to protect our world. Emily had two younger sisters who were just as annoying as my own brothers, except her sisters were dhampirs as well. They all had the same father but her mother wouldn't let it slip as to who he was though.

I entered Emily's room to find her standing there half naked pulling clothes out of her draws, this was nothing unusual for us though she had no problem standing in front of me naked and I had no problem being naked around her.

"What are you trying to accomplish here? I can see you have succeeded in pulling all of your clothes out?" I walked over and took a seat on her bed, funnily enough it was the only place her clothes didn't up on.

"I have a date tonight..."

"Wait what?" I cut her off, I wasn't shocked because she had one. She was beautiful there was no denying it but she was uncomfortable around guys that she liked. It was funny watching how nervous she got around them but I was the complete opposite I had more confidence around guys I liked and I loved to flirt with them whether I liked them or not

"Oh come on it's not that shocking that I have a date"

"It is a little, I have only seen you hook up with one maybe two guys at parties and it's always the same guys!"

"I'm not that predictable"

"No you're just shy around guys you could have anything with"

"I don't have your confidence Dri, not that I'm complaining but why are you here?"

"I got into another fight with dad about Jason again" I sighed as I laid back down on her bed

"Dri you know what I think about this. I also understand where you are coming from, you got pulled out from your old life and you are holding onto whatever friendships you can keep from it but I agree with your dad. It's dangerous to tell him and I won't be the only one to think so, we are raised to believe that and nothing will change it just like we are raised to believe that the Moroi come first. Maybe you should just cut your losses with Jason"

"I can't cut him out Em, he means too much to me"

"Oh come on Dri, I thought you had the hots for Anastas and not Jason?" I looked over her and noticed she was joking. Both her and Stefan always made jokes at my expense about my time with Nikolaus. For some reason they believed something was going on between us and trust me there were moments when I was convinced something would happen but alas nothing ever did.

"I don't have the hots for either of them and why are you going on this date when you have the hots for Stefan?" I had her there, at one point she did have feelings towards Stefan and then she realised how much of an asshole he can be to the females at the academy. Normally it was the Moroi that caught Stefan's eye, it's not to say that he didn't find the female novices attractive he did. He left the female novices alone because there were so few of us and it was easier if he harassed the Moroi.

"We're straying from topic here, you should either suck it up and realise you can never tell Jason the truth about where you are or cut off communication" I stayed quiet for a few moments, allowing her to go back to her clothes and giving me time to think. Before I could even consider my options, my phone rang.

"Crap..." I looked at the screen and dad was ringing me, he had to have realised I wasn't with Dimitri by now.