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-FH-

I froze, taking in the words.
Royal. Court.
Did my ears just deceive me or did I not hear correctly?
This was some kind of sick joke, wasn't it? He couldn't be at court! He had to be there when I picked!
"What the fuck are you doing at fucking court?" I said slowly, saying the words through grunted teeth. "Unless the court is under attack or the Queen herself has been murdered, you better have a good explanation."
"I-" He started. "I'm so sorry."
"Just get back and it'll be fine."
"No. I'm not only sorry for that. I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have but it was a direct order. I couldn't disobey!"
"Wait- what?"
"Please, I'm sorry."
"What. Hold up. Rewind. Why are you sorry? What are you talking about?"
"It's a long story. I feel like such a coward not telling you in person. How could I be so stupid and allow myself to carry on like this?"
"Chris-"
"I'm sorry!" He wailed. He's on the verge of tears, I could hear it in his voice.
"Explain."
Lissa - who was still doing my hair - gave me a weird look.
'What's going on?' She mouthed.
'Later.' I mouthed back.
She nodded and walked out of the room, giving me some privacy.
"Explain now." I prompted.
"Remember how I was Queen Tatiana's guardian?" He paused. "Well... We were close-"
"Oh God. Don't tell me you're sleeping with her!"
"No. What? Of course not."
"Thank God."
"As I was saying, we were close - not in that way. She would tell me things that the royal families and the council didn't know yet. She would gossip with me and share things about her family and plans. One day, she came to me and had a new plan. You know this already. She wanted Adrian and Lissa together. But what you didn't know were the extremes she would have gone to get them together."
"I don't understand." I said when he paused for breath.
"You will. The extremes she was willing to go to was simple. Me. I was to guard at ST Vladimir's and observe the Princesses's relationships and report back to the Queen."
"You were a spy?" My voice cracked with betrayal.
"In some sense."
"Some?" I shrieked. "You were spying on Lissa! I trusted you."
"Please. Let me continue."
I took a deep breath in a failed attempt at calming myself.
"Go ahead."
"This part is worse." He warned. "So not only did I have to spy, but I had to try to... try to-um..."
"Try to um what?"
"Break Lissa and Christian up." He whispered.
"What?"
"I know you're angry-"
"Try pissed. But you didn't break them up so it's fine."
My statement was met with silence.
"What. Did. You. Do?"
"They um broke up last night."
"No, they didn't. Lisa would have told me."
"She didn't want to upset you. She's been blocking her feelings through the bond, if you haven't noticed."
I slipped into Lissa's mind straight away. Sure enough, her thoughts were empty. Pulling out, I saw red.
"You fucking bastard. What did you do?"
"I paid some Moroi to kiss Christian in front of Lissa and say something that suggested they were together."
"You're lucky you left campus. If the ball wasn't on tonight I would fly to court and rip your balls off!"
"Rose- I'm sorry!"
"I liked you Chris. I cared about you and trusted you. And you threw all that back in my face!"
"I'm sorry! I love you Rose. If you could give me a second chance?"
"This just makes my final decision easier."
With that last remark, I hung up and threw my phone against the wall.
It smashed into a million tiny pieces and they littered the floor now.
Collapsing on the bed, I covered my face with a pillow to muffle the yells.
"Th... Bas...ad!" The pillow worked well.
"Rose? Rose!" Lissa rushed into the room, seeing a broken phone and a broken me.
"What happened?"
I forgot out my problems for a second and threw the pillow away.
"Why did you tell me you and Christian broke up?" I tried to say but my voice broke. I didn't cry, knowing that my makeup would smudge. I was just really pissed at the moment. So pissed that you could probably die from my glare.
"What? How do you know?"
"Why didn't you tell me?" I ignored her question.
"You were so down with the whole Dimitri and Ch-"
"Do. Not. Say that low life bastard's name."
"Oh God. What happened? That's why you're angry."
"You'll be angry too, after I tell you."
"Why do I have a terrible feeling that this is bad?"
"Because it is."
"Explain."
"That fucking dickhead was a spy. He broke the two of you up!"
"Wait- what? Spy for who? And he didn't break us up. Christian was seeing a another women behind my back."
"No no no. Queen Bitch wants you and Adrian together so she got him to spy on you and he paid some chick to kiss Christian."
"Oh God." Lissa sat down on the bed and closed her eyes to stop tears from falling. "I yelled at him. I didn't believe him. I broke up with him. Oh God. And that's why Tatiana tried to get Adrian to help me organize the ball but he constantly refused."
"I didn't know that" She shrugged. "We'll fix this Christian mess after I kill the fucker."
"Rose. As much as I dislike him, you can't kill him."
"Sure I can. I am."
"He's a royal guardian. Tatiana's going to be pretty angry if her guard was killed by you. She'll put you in court prison and have you executed. Then we'll have to bust you out."
"Mh. No. I'm pretty good at hiding the evidence. I'll frame someone else."
"And pray tell me whom?"
"Tasha."
"Oh God. Forget it. Just get ready for the ball. This must be really hard on you. How are you going to cope?"
"Simple. Move on."
"Huh?"
I smiled. The smile didn't reach my eyes until I spoke my next words.
"Dimitri's waiting. Come on."

-FH-

Camera's flashed. People posed. Memories were made.
Music was pumped through the hall and flash lights raced across the dance floor. People grinded and danced amongst one another.
I was so happy Lissa let me hook the gym up with surround sound and stage lights otherwise we would be waltzing to classical shit like she planned.
People were evidently happy. Not a face was smile-less. And against Lissa's wishes, I ended up spiking the punch. She doesn't know -yet.
Lissa and I stayed together trying to find our men. Christian was no where to be seen and neither was Dimitri. He wasn't hard to miss. Surely I could find him soon?
I sculled my spiked punch while Lissa fussed over finding leaves and dirt under her table cloth. Oh Shit. Hopefully she won't blame m-
"Rose. How did this get here?"
"Um. The flowers were... Breeding? Yeah. They were sexing it up and hiding their fallen leaves because they like it rough." What the fuck? Where was my brain?
"Then where did the dirt and spilled water come from?
I raised my eyebrows suggestively.
"This better be the only thing you did wrong." She hissed.
"Yep." I said hoping she won't find out about the punch.
She sighed and turned to face me. Her eyes bulged out of her head.
"Um Rose. Come this way. There's ... Something I need you to look at." She grabbed my hand and pulled me towards the opposite direction. I twisted my head back to where she was looking.
What I saw broke my heart.
Dimitri looking as gorgeous as ever in a black tux and half face mask with a little skank clinging to his arms.
"What the fuck?" I stopped dead in my tracks.
"You saw?" Lissa stopped and squeezed my hand. "It's okay. There is probably a very good explanation for this."
"With that bitch involved? No way."
Tasha spotted me and smirked, pulling Dimitri in my direction. My heart ached.
He wore a blank expression but when he looked at her, his face lit up into a broad smile. What was he smiling at? Her ugly, scared face? Her slutty, tight clubbing dress that was obviously three sizes to small for her? She wasn't even wearing a mask! She looked like a hooker, not a 31 year old royal attending a masquerade ball.
Lissa gasped. "What is she wearing?"
"Nothing." She might as well have with that dress.
She narrowed her eyes at Tasha. Through the bond, I could tell she was pissed at Tasha for taking Dimitri and for breaking her strict ball appropriate dress code.
"Tasha. Dimitri." I growled as she stood in front of us. Her eyes were locked with Dimitri's.
"Say 'hello', Dimitri."
"Hello."
Dimitri didn't even glance at me. Lissa gasped once again. I slipped into her head curiously.
Lissa had summoned Tasha and Dimitri's aura. And it was not good.
Tasha's aura was surrounded by the normal colours found around people but some colours were dominate more than others. Colours that represents love and jealousy. Pinks, reds and greens whirled around her. Lissa looked at Dimitri and observed.
His aura was... Blank. All colours were blurred and blended together. The array flickered around him. Pulling out of Lissa's mind, I realized what his aura meant.
"You fucking bitch!" I growled. "You're compelling him!"
She smirked. "I'm only getting him to ... Follow his heart."
"You meant follow your wishes. Stop this now."
"No."
"I mean it bitch. If you think I'm angry, when Dimitri is released from the compulsion he's going to be furious."
A cruel smile crept upon her face. "Who said I was going to release him?"
Before I sprang forward to add a matching scar and bruises to her ugly face, Lissa's voice sounded.
"Tasha. Release Dimitri from your compulsion then get the hell off campus."
Lissa's voice was sickly sweet and innocent. Calm and gentle in a way. Her piercing jade green Dragomir eyes glared at Tasha.
Tasha turned to Dimitri, blinked then ran out of the hall.
"That was easy. Why didn't we think of that earlier? She smiled.
"What happened?" A husky voice asked.
I turned around and smiled.
"Dimitri! I ran up to him and hugged him tightly.
"Rose? What happened?"
"Tasha compelled you to be with her."
"What? I swear I'm gonna-"
"Shh." I cooed. "It's all good."
"You didn't kill her did you?"
"God knows how much I wish I did. But she's gone. Or going."
"That's great." He paused. A frown now plastered on his face. "Where's Connor?"
"Gone."
"Gone?"
"At court?"
"Court?"
"Long story. He was a spy for Queen Bitch."
"Oh. I'm sorry Roza. I know you care about him."
"Cared."
"Huh?"
"Past tense."
"So. What's going to happen now?"
"Even if he was here I was going to choose you."
That was true. Even though I cared about Chris, I had known and loved Dimitri longer. I knew everything about Dimitri and he knew everything about me. We were in sync.
I was going to explain my decision but instead, he kissed me.
It was our first kiss in ages. I hadn't kissed him since he had left a while ago. Even if it had been weeks and weeks, we still kissed as if nothing had happened. And that's all that mattered.
The kiss was slow and passionate. We threw all our love in the kiss.
We pulled back when we heard sound next to us. Lissa was crying.
"You guys finally worked it out!
We smiled in response.
"We still need to talk later." I said to Dimitri and he nodded. I smiled and changed the subject.
"Come on Dimitri, Lissa. The night's still young and we have a graduation to celebrate!"
They cheered in agreement and we went to fill up our drinks.
I sculled mine, eager to just hop onto the dance floor with Dimitri.
He finished and I was about to drag him off when Lissa turned towards me.
"Hey, did the punch taste a little funny to you?"

-FH-

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