Sorry this took me a little longer than expected, but here it is. Tell me what you think.
Dimitri looked at me murderously angry. The hard lines on his face looked harder, as if they were carved by a knife.
I nearly threw myself at him, but his fierce words sobered me.
"What the hell do you think you're doing? Do you have a death wish?"
I made a quick decision in that moment and pushed myself past him, jumping inside the car without answering his question. We would have time to talk in the car, but right now he was taking me to the party. I had already decided it and I wasn't going to take no for an answer.
It took him a couple seconds to recover but when he got in the car I thought he looked impressed.
"Where to?" He asked, avoiding my stare.
"I want you to take me to Ralph's party."
He gave me a look that said, you're crazy if you think I'm taking you there.
"Please." I begged him. "Please you got to take me. Mia's in that party and if I don't get her back home she's going to get hurt."
"If I don't get YOU back home you're going to get hurt. Didn't you see the warning? It's not safe out there."
"Dimitri." I pleaded.
"No. You can't go. I'll go to the party and get Mia out of there, but I'm dropping your butt home first."
Hot blood raised through my veins and I shot Dimitri a venomous look. "If you take me back home I'll run off again. Trust me, you can't keep me there."
"Rose, please." His voice for the first time sounded so vulnerable. There was something in his eyes that were practically begging me to listen, but I couldn't. I raised my chin an inch showing him my resolve. I wasn't about to let him take me home while Mia was still out there.
"Fine then," he snapped. The look in his eyes changed suddenly into unreadable blank slates, and when he spoke again his voice was cold. "You're going to regret it though."
Dimitri drove fast no longer going his usual slow pace. We got to Ralph's house sooner than I expected. Neither of us spoke throughout the ride. Dimitri went out first and opened the car door for me before I even had a chance to undo my seatbelt.
I stumbled after him and purposely placed myself behind him when he knocked on the door.
Ralph's house was a large white square shaped manner with a cobblestone pathway leading up to the brass door. There were rose bushes on each side of the pathway making it seem elegant. But the loud party music practically shaking the house from within ruined the affect.
When no one answered the door Dimitri opened it and went in, holding it open for me so I could slide in too before shutting the door.
The party was filled with teens from my school chatting with each other. All of them had red plastic cups in their hands, and I had an inkling that it wasn't punch that they were drinking. Ralph's large living room was transformed into a dance floor where couples were grinding all over each other. Some of the moves seemed to belong in a private bedroom than in a crowded dance floor.
Dimitri and I moved through the party quickly, most people seemed too intoxicated to even pay us attention. I wondered why I was so afraid to come to this party to begin with. Now looking into the faces of my classmates I realized how illogical my worries were. They were all too drunk to even realize that the school freak was in their domain. And even the ones who were sober were in their own world, not even sparing us a glance.
The faster Dimitri and I traveled through the party, the more blatantly obvious something was becoming. Mia wasn't here.
Dimitri turned to me, his eyes were guarded, and he kept glancing around the house as if he expected someone to jump out and attack us.
"This isn't good, is it Dimitri?"
"No, it isn't."
"Why?"
"Because if Mia isn't here there is only one other place she could be at. And it's not good."
Eddie, she's with Eddie. I knew it.
He pulled me away from the party and back towards his car, all the while keeping a constant stream of cuss words. He kept glancing down at the floor as if he was cursing the entire world. He stopped abruptly, making me collide against him.
I almost yelled at him until I saw what brought him to a stop; or better yet who. I looked around Dimitri and saw Christian leaning against Dimitri's car.
"Christian?" The disbelief was evident in my voice. "What are you doing here?"
Never in a million years would I pictured Christian here. It seemed so out of place to see him against Dimitri's car. A look of cool collectiveness on his face. But there was something more. His eyes passed over me, barely sparing me a second glance before he fixed his gaze on Dimitri.
"I know my car is beautiful but could you get your grimy paws off of it and admire it from afar." Dimitri's voice was light but there was something in his eyes which made the challenge evident.
"This car right here?" Christian gave a quick glance towards Dimitri's car. "Not much to look at." He kicked the car door once before stepping away from it and towards us.
Dimitri's lip twitched. "Did you just kick my baby?"
Christian raised his head and looked at Dimitri through slitted eyes. "And what if I did? Are you going to try to lunge at me?" Christian's face turned into a cold smile. It seemed wrong; it didn't belong on Christian's face. He'd never looked at anyone which such a cold calculation before. "But of course you aren't. You wouldn't want Rose to see your wild side."
And there it was. Christian had said my name without one ounce of emotion. Christian had always said my name with warmth; with a smile on his face. He always seemed grateful for being his only friend. I might have believed many things from Christian but this was the last straw. This wasn't my best friend, at least not anymore. Eddie had changed him. My resolve grew brighter than ever. If I ever got my hands on Eddie, I was going to kill him. I would show no mercy for what he did to my best friend. He made the person I trusted the most into something unrecognizable.
I clutched Dimitri's arm reminding him that I was there. "Dimitri lets go. We need to find Mia."
Christian's gaze snapped towards me and for a moment I saw my best friend. "Don't go Rose, not with him. Come with me."
He seemed so sincere, but I found my head shaking no. "Rose please." He sounded desperate. "Please, don't go with him. Come with me."
"No, I can't. He has Mia, Christian. But you already knew that, didn't you."
He looked at me startled. "What?"
"Eddie. He has Mia. Or didn't your precious ally tell you." I couldn't help the sneer that came out. This wasn't my Christian, I kept reminding myself. This was Eddie's Christian.
"Rose it's not what you think. Eddie isn't—"
"Stop." I screamed. "Christian, please get out of our way. We need to find Mia. I need to find Eddie."
"No, you can't." His gaze hardened. "I won't let you. It's Dimitri, Rose, he's evil. Not me, please. I'm your best friend. You and I have always told each other the truth. We have always trusted each other. Trust me now. Don't go with Dimitri. Please, stay here with me."
I wanted to ask him so many things but for some reason only one question came out. "Will you tell me why you and Lissa were talking?" He mentioned we had always told the truth to each other, well he never explained this to me.
He turned his head away from me and I knew his answer. No, he wouldn't say.
"I'm sorry Christian, but I'm leaving with Dimitri to find my sister."
His face crumpled up in pain as if I had wounded him with my words. Something about seeing Christian in pain tugged at my heart strings. He was always closer than a friend to me; he was my brother.
I left with Dimitri, my heart still heavy with grief. I didn't speak while Dimitri drove. It was quiet. I trusted that Dimitri knew where he was taking us.
I was hardly surprised when we arrived at the cemetery. I should have thought of it before, of course Eddie would be cliché enough to go back to the scene of his first crime.
Dimitri came around the car and opened my car door quickly, helping me descend from the car. In normal circumstances I would have declined but I felt oddly vulnerable; weak.
I was here, I was going to face Eddie, and all I had with me was a packet of pig's blood that I might not even be fast enough to pour on him.
The whole world started spinning and my vision began to blur.
A strong voice sounded in my ear. "Rose, breathe, please Rose breathe. Mia's in there, we need to get her out."
Those were the right words to tell me. As soon as I heard my sisters name the world righted and I could see clearly again. Dimitri was standing in front of me; his hands cupping my face, steadying me.
"I'm fine. Let's go get Mia."
He gave me a look filled with worry. "You don't have to go in there you know. I can get her out. Just stay here where you're safe."
"No. I have to go in there. It's the only way. Only my blood can kill him." I said fiercely.
Dimitri must have known I was serious because he just nodded his head and lead the way.
It had only been a week before that I traveled through this cemetery in broad daylight with Mia. Now it was dark and I was with Dimitri. Under difference circumstances going with Dimitri to an abandoned room hidden away in a cemetery would have been quite intriguing. This on the other hand was like the universal distorting every girl's fantasy into something sick.
There was no light illuminating the cemetery. I kept tripping over my own feet. Twice Dimitri caught me before I fell. But we somehow made it to the room. It was as if Dimitri had night vision because I couldn't see a damn thing.
The shadow of the little room was just barely visible behind the inky darkness of the night.
Dimitri opened the door and suddenly it was as if I was back in my dream, because the whole room was decorated in candles.
"Ahh, Rose, nice of you to join us."
The candles covered every part of the room, but standing in the center was Eddie, Mia next to him.
My initial shock was gone; instead it turned to blinding fury. "You make it sound as if you were expecting me." I said between clenched teeth. My hands were tightly knotted into fists, my knuckles turning white.
Dimitri was still in front of me, and only his hand, which he placed on my shoulder, was holding me back.
"Why of course we were waiting for you. This party could not have started without you." He grinned at me, and I found it disturbing to see such a bright smile on his face.
I lifted my chin and gave him a mocking smile. "How nice of you to have gone to all this trouble for me. Too bad I can't stick around to enjoy it.
"Oh and why not." He looked disappointed.
"Because I don't party with demons, as I recall I'm supposed to kill them. Isn't that right, Eddie? Or whoever the hell you are who is using Eddie's meat suit."
He didn't look surprised. He was expecting this. Eddie's eyes left mine and slid over next to me, looking at Dimitri for the first time since we came in.
"Naughty, naughty, Dimitri. You know better than to tell the little seer our secrets. But never mind, I'll give you the proper punishment in due time. At least you did your job correctly and got her here."
My head snapped towards Dimitri, but his gaze was soly on Eddie's.
"What's the matter Rose?" Eddie called mockingly. "Didn't you know Dimitri here is my shadow?"
Shadow. But no he couldn't be. Suddenly many images of Dimitri came to my mind. He had told me he was forbidden; he couldn't say a word about demons and seers to me. He seemed to be in physical pain when he described to me the forbidden subject.
And when he talked about the men who sold their souls, what was it that he had said.
Men desperate enough to sell their souls for food and shelter. Men with family's who were dying. He had said it with so much vigor, at first I thought it was because he had seen it first hand; but what if he was talking about himself?
Another image flashed in my head. Dimitri saying very bitterly, I do have someone, just not someone worth mentioning.
The cold hard truth hit me like a slap in the face. My eyes focused on Dimitri again. It was so hard for me to believe that this could actually be true.
Lightning fast Dimitri grabbed me and pulled me against him. His arms created a cage around me. My back was against his front, he had me in an inescapable hold.
Dimitri leaned forward and whispered in my ear, "I told you to go home. I told you not to come here but you wouldn't listen to me. Now I have no choice."
My breath caught. Dimitri's voice was so final, it was a mix between coldness and grief.
Eddie looked at our interchange, a wry smile on his face. Mia appeared to be in a trance, she was standing next to Eddie completely still; her eyes were wide open and appeared to be looking at something that wasn't here in this room, but far away.
"Funny isn't it." Eddie said. "I actually thought better of you, Rose. But you were so easily caught. It's rather disappointing. I thought for sure you were different. But turns out you're just like Natalie."
I took a sharp intake of breathe when I heard her name. Natalie. Natalie, I'm sorry.
"You don't look too surprised. Do you know of little Natalie."
"Yes I do." My voice cracked. I cleared my throat and tried again this time my voice came out stronger. "I know that you killed her."
Eddie's eyebrows raised, "I see Dimitri didn't tell you. Where are your manners Dimitri? Tell her now. Tell her how you lured Natalie. It was quite fascinating. All done to take me out of hell. But what are shadows for right?"
"What?" I couldn't believe it. No! Eddie was the murderer, not Dimitri. Dimitri couldn't, he wouldn't. I couldn't let go of the trust I had for him. He had opened up so much to me; I had seen the goodness in him. That couldn't have been all a lie.
"What's the matter Rose? Not what you expected. Typical. You fell right for my trap and you didn't even realize it. Don't you see, everything I have done is to make Dimitri your savior. I pushed you towards him without you even knowing."
A flash back of the first day I talked to Dimitri came to me. The only reason Dimitri sat next to me was because my desk partner, Mason, had sat behind me in Dimitri's seat. Mason had sat behind me, and next to Eddie, both of them seemingly in a great conversation.
"Mason." I whispered.
"Yes, Mason. All I had to do was offer him the seat next to mine, strike up boring human conversation and that's all it took for the seat next to yours to become unoccupied. And what a stroke of luck that Dimitri was able to sit next to you, don't you think."
"But why?"
"Why? Don't you see that by sheer brilliance I got Dimitri close to you so you could trust him. And of course there's his handsome face; girls could never seem to resist it. That's something both you and Natalie have in common. So easily persuaded by a handsome face, both of you were crazy enough to follow him through a cemetery in the dark."
"I came for my sister!" I shouted.
"Ahh, that's another thing. Next time make sure to hide your feelings for your loved ones. Might save them from getting hurt. I admit at first glance I thought both of you were mere siblings forced to live together. But you made the mistake of showing how much you really cared about her that day in the classroom." I knew what day he was talking about. It was when I stared him down to get him away from her. "It gave me great leverage to get you here."
"You bastard! What did you do to her?"
"Me, nothing. She's in a simple trance is all. She's none of my concern now, she served her purpose."
I was shaking all over and if Dimitri didn't have me in such a tight grasp I would have leaped on Eddie.
Eddie leaned over and pressed his face against Mia's hair, inhaling deeply. "Mmmm she smells rather nice, doesn't she. Too bad she's so shallow. I'm surprised that you love her as much as you do, seeing how she is."
"She isn't shallow; Mia's a good person, unlike you."
"You'd think that wouldn't you. But Mia is a shallow bitch. Always has been. You think just because she's changed that everything is better? Didn't you find it a little weird that Mia started changing, turning into much less of a bitch after her encounter with me."
"What? No, you're lying. You didn't…"
"I did. I performed a hypnosis on her. You see how much power I have over your life. I made you trust two people that were under my command. I got all the information I needed about you from what they told me. And you know what's even better, not only did I push you to trust my people; I also made you distrust the only person who could have helped you." He laughed out loud, nearly buckling over.
Grief overtook me. Christian. He was talking about Christian. An image of Christian's pained face flashed through my mind.
"All I had to do was get Mia to make you come to Christian's house so you could see us together. How incriminating." He laughed again. "If only you knew he was striking a deal to save you. Oh that's rich." Eddie wiped the tears that came out of his eyes.
"Christian was trying to help me?"
"Of course he was. Don't you think it's a rather big coincidence that you made a friend who just happened to have a weird obsession for hell. How he made you study so many defense mechanisms against demons and informed you about the supernatural world. Almost like he was preparing you. All I had to do was get Mia to get me information about you and Christian. As soon as she told me about Christian's obsession I knew what he was. He was your guide. I'll be an inexperienced one but still your guide."
Christian was my guide. Christian was my guide and I abandoned him. Christian was trying to save me and I ditched him for a guy I hardly knew. Remorse tasted bitter, and it didn't go down well. "Now Dimitri if you will, kill her."
Do you hate me? Anyways, lets see what happens next. Tell me what you think will happen, and lets see if you guess it right. Oh and someone asked me if I did good on finals, I did ok lol.