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By the time graduation day hit I was so nervous. Why I don't know, but I was half expecting Kirova to tell me that I wouldn't be graduating, despite Alberta saying I was the top of my class, because with my luck that was an entirely plausible outcome.
I had a few birthday gifts to open in the morning, which cheered me up a lot. Lissa got me a dress and shoes for graduation; I noticed the dress was a designer one I had seen online that I could never afford. It was a fifties style prom dress, emerald green with black polka dots. It had a halter neck that emphasised my cleavage and was pulled in at the waist. It went perfectly with the black platform heels that she had chosen. Jill and Eddie had got me a box of my all time favourite foods: brownies, fudge, chocolate liquorice (yes, it is real and it is amazing!), and caramels. Dimitri had gotten my favourite lip gloss like he had when we went to the mall all those months ago; I tried not to read too much into that and I also made a point of apologising to him the next time I saw him for being such a bitch to him. I remember my mom saying she would give me gift when she saw me so I would have to wait for that. Adrian didn't get me anything.
It didn't take me long to get ready, the dress that Lissa got me was for the graduation party later on today so I wore the traditional guardian black and white uniform that had been given to all the novices the day before.
The graduation ceremony was held in the main hall and all the seniors were already seated. I had just sat down with Lissa, Jill, Eddie and Christian when Kirova came and stood at the podium that had been put up on a make shift stage at the front of the room.
She made some speech about how well we had all done and how brilliant we were. Individual awards were given out as well as diplomas to the Moroi; I noticed all the individual accolades were only given to royals. The novices were given our promise marks and the tattooist complained that there was little room on my neck to put the mark so it ended up being put at the very base of my neck; it was practically on my back. The tattooing took the longest time so when that was over we had officially graduated.
"I can't believe we did it!" Lissa shouted as everyone started filing out of the hall. The graduation party wasn't for another hour or so giving us plenty of time to get ready.
"Neither can I. With my track record it's a wonder I'm still here!" I said as I hugged her.
"We're all shocked about that too." I heard Eddie say as we came towards us hand in hand with Jill.
"Well, you know at least I made school more interesting." I laughed and I hugged Eddie and Jill. I saw Christian out of corner of my eye. He obviously wanted to come and talk to us but decided against it and walked out of the hall with Tasha. I didn't even see her here.
"Yeah, I just wish Mason was here." Eddie said and Jill squeezed his hand.
"So do I. But I am pretty sure wherever he is celebrating and laughing at how I actually managed to graduate!" I laughed trying to lighten the mood.
Eddie smiled. "Yeah, you're right."
"Come on, girls! We have to get ready!" Lissa said, taking mine and Jill's hands and dragging us out of the room.
"Oh, Rose." I heard Eddie call. "Happy Birthday!"
I tried to turn back to say thank you but Lissa wouldn't let me.
Exiting the hall I noticed Dimitri was standing off to the side and I managed to convince Lissa to let me talk to him while they went up to my room.
"So you have finally graduated." Dimitri smiled.
"Yeah, about time!" I joked. I looked up at him and saw a serious look in his eyes. "Dimitri, I'm sorry for what I said to you yesterday. It was completely out of order. You were there for me when I was upset and I really appreciate it, you are a really good friend." I said.
"It's ok, Rose. I know you were under a lot of pressure and that you didn't mean it." He smiled and hugged me.
I hugged him back, it was nice. Like we were friends and it wasn't awkward like our other encounters.
"You know, I wouldn't have graduated if it wasn't for you. You kept me in the school when we ran away and I owe you a lot." I told him and pulled away.
"You didn't need my help, you'd have caught up with everything and I'm sure Alberta would have spoken up for you. But thank you and it was an honour to teach you."
"What a line." I laughed.
"Go with Lissa and Jill and I don't want them to hunt me down for keeping you away." He laughed and pushed me lightly towards the stairs.
I went to my room to get ready and Jill and Lissa had already laid our dresses on my bed and got all manner of beauty products on my desk. Lissa said she'd do everyone's hair but we had to do our makeup. She started with my hair because she said it wouldn't take long. She pulled my hair into a high ponytail making sure that there wasn't a hair out of place. It took no more than ten minutes. I did my makeup, with pale green eye shadow, dark mascara and eye liner and pale pink lip gloss and put on the dress and shoes that Lissa got me.
Jill wore a Greek style one shoulder dress which was knee length in a deep blue with blue suede platform heels. Lissa wore a pink sequin body con dress with mid length sleeves coming to just above the knee. I have to admit, we looked hot.
"Our guys are going to be loving us tonight!" Jill said when we finished checking ourselves over. Me and Lissa suddenly looked down at our feet. "Oh, shit! Sorry, guys I forgot." Jill said coming over to hug us. "They don't know what they're missing. After you seeing to night they'll want you back.
"That's the thing. Adrian wants me back and I love him but..."
"Rose, he won't care that you kissed Dimitri. You weren't together then so you did nothing wrong." Jill said.
"It feels like I did." I mumbled.
"And Christian is being a total dick! He knows it was all compulsion but he insists on not talking to me." Lissa joined in.
Jill sighed. "You know what? You two are being ridiculous. We are going to go to the party; we are going to have fun. No more guy talk." She announced, picking up our purses and leading us out of the door.
When we got to the hall it had been completely transformed into a sort of night club. I noticed the lights were not too bright however because that would have really hurt our eyes. The stage that had been there earlier had been collapsed allowing for a massive dance floor. Guardians and teachers lined the walls observing, the guardians looked ready to pounce at any minute.
"Jill!" Eddie shouted and he and Christian came over to us. "You look so beautiful." He said to Jill and that sparked a make out session. It made me sick.
"Lissa," Christian started and I left them alone. I was pretty sure this was a conversation I didn't want to hear.
I went over the drinks table and had a glass of punch. It had been spiked but I didn't care, it was my birthday and graduation I could let my hair down and get drunk if I wanted. Looking around the room I saw Jill and Eddie sitting on a chair in the corner of the room, still making out. Lissa and Christian were sitting at a table on the other side of the room discussing their 'options' from what I could tell from Lissa's head. I knew for a fact that they both wanted to be together and they should stop being stupid and do it.
"Idiots." I muttered taking a sip of my drink.
Continuing my survey, I saw Dimitri talking and laughing with Tasha. Most of the seniors had either moved on the dance floor or were clustered in groups around the floor talking amongst themselves. Eddie and Jill I noticed were no longer in the room but Lissa and Christian were making out in the corner. I smiled, about time.
"About time." I heard Tasha say coming up beside me with Dimitri. She was looking at Lissa and Christian.
"Yeah. "I agreed. "It was only a few weeks but the awkwardness was getting too much for all of us." I laughed and sipped my drink.
"What about you and Adrian? You were so good together." She said.
I sighed. What about me and Adrian? "I don't know. I haven't spoken to him."
"Maybe we should talk about something else." Dimitri said and I smiled at him. "Like how I'm going to be Tasha's guardian." He smiled and I noticed that they were holding hands.
"That's great!" I said and I hugged Tasha. I noticed Dimitri was smiling but there was something in his eyes that wasn't quite right. "You've got a great guardian there, Tasha." I pulled away and smiled at her.
"Yeah I have." She smiled up at Dimitri and I saw the love in her eyes, I felt bad for her knowing he didn't return that love. But who knows, maybe he'll realise that he can have so much more with Tasha than we ever could with me. I was happy for them.
"Can I have everyone's attention!" A voice came over the speakers and I saw Adrian at the front of the room, standing on a table with a microphone in his hand. What was he doing?
Lissa and Christian came over and stood with us. "What's he doing?" Lissa whispered to me.
"I don't know." I whispered back.
"I would just like to make a little announcement." He said and everyone turned to listen. I could see the guardians and teachers move forwards slightly, they knew that Adrian could be slightly unstable. "First of all congratulations on graduating!" No one said anything. "Ok then. I'll get right to it." he smiled. "As you all know, I used to date the most amazing, sexy and beautiful little dhampir in the entire world."
My breath caught. "What the hell?" I whispered to Lissa and she shrugged. I could tell she had no idea about what was going on.
"And as you also know, she left me because Avery Lazar compelled all her friends to tell her that I was cheating on her when I wasn't. Why she would even believe that is beyond me because she is far sexier and pretty than Avery will be any day. Am I right or am I right?" he asked the audience and I laughed when I saw a few guys nod their heads.
"Anyway, she won't have me back because she thinks she did something wrong when she kissed another guy after we broke up."
I gasped. How did he know about that? "Jill told him. Even said who it was." Christian whispered to me. Wait, so everyone knew now? "Yes, I know to, Rose so does Eddie." He added and I blushed bright red.
"I just wanted to let her know that she doesn't have to avoid me because of that because she did nothing wrong." He said and he looked down at me. "Rose, I love you. I don't care that you kissed another guy because I know that you would never have done that when we were together, like you know that I would never cheat on you." He got down from the table and walked towards me.
He took my hand and dragged me towards the table that we had been standing on. He helped us both up. "Little dhampir, I love you more than anything else in the world." He reached into his jacket pocket and pulled something out.
"Rosemarie Hathaway." He got down on one knee and I heard the whole hall gasp along with me. "Will you marry me?"
Oooooohhhhhhh, cliffhanger! Will Rose say yes? Will she say no? What will Dimitri say? Questions, questions...
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