TUESDAY! CAN'T WAIT!

Chapter 24

"Sydney, why are you here?"

Adrian's arm around my waist tightened as Sydney fiddled with the cross around her neck. "I was assigned. That's all you should know." I stepped backward, and she came inside.

"Wait… what?" I asked as Adrian left me to go get a drink for the living room.

"I thought it was obvious that I knew at summer camp." She said softly. "Because I do. They don't usually tell you about people like me, humans who know the secret, but I'm an alchemist."

Sydney didn't explain much. But as she talked, I picked up she seemed not to like Adrian that much. She was wearing a yellow and white flowered skirt, a t-shirt, and a white cardigan. I did remember that about her, how she always dressed nicely.

"Adrian, this is Sydney. We met at summer camp a few years ago." He nodded, and sipped from his glass.

Sydney's shot me a confused look. "Boyfriend." I explained.

"Fiancée." He corrected from the couch. I blushed, and Sydney raised her eyebrows.

"I forgot; the reason I came here was to tell you that school will be starting as planned again tomorrow."

"It's not really school. They just need to occupy us until graduation."

"Well tomorrow is field day." You might think that it was stupid, and it was… but some parts of field day were fun. They split the whole school, Moroi and Dhampir into two teams, red and white. Lissa and I were on red, and pretty much all of our other friends, except Eddie, were on white. One of the only parts anyone liked was the tug of war. The tug of war was red against white, then by color for each grade, and then the top students against the teachers and guardians. "I'm supposed to tell him," She said, gesturing to Adrian, "that he's on red, and I'm on white."

"Well I'll see you tomorrow."

"Bye!" I closed the door behind her, to find Adrian behind me.

"Isn't she human?" He asked.

"Yes. Yes she is."

"She doesn't seem to like me."

"She's kind of wary near all vampires. I guess that's why she didn't like Lissa. She was never really nice to me either. She didn't talk to us much at camp." I stared after her.

"Rose." He said. "Rose?"

"What?" I kept staring at the door, somehow unable to look away, lost in the memory of those few weeks at camp.

"Look at me Rose." I snapped out of it when he grabbed my arm, forcing me to look at him. His green eyes gazed into mine with such intensity, I got lost again.

This year, they put a twist on field day. The team with the most team spirit didn't have to go to the day of school the day before graduation. So of course, Lissa had about fifteen girls in her room, and Adrian, all waiting to have their hair sprayed red. We each had a can of red hair spray, trying to spray as many people has we could. The room was filled with red, red clothes, hair, and someone wearing a red cape. That was a little over the top, but if we won I wouldn't complain.

Lissa had her ipod speakers on full blast, playing '4ever' by The Veronicas. Lissa and I were singing along. "Come on baby we ain't gonna live forever, let me show, you all the things that we could do, you know you wanna be together, And I wanna spend the night with you." I looked pointedly at Adrian, and he grinned.

"Liss." I called to the other side of the room. "I'm gonna go spray the boys' hair." She nodded. "I'll meet you in a couple minutes." I grabbed Adrian's hand, two more bottles of hair spray and left. Adrian was wearing a red shirt, and jeans. I'd written 'Rose' in his hair with the spray. He didn't really know that, because you couldn't see it in the mirror. I had on red short-shorts, a dark red polo, and my maroon converse. There was bright red lipstick on my lips, courtesy of Lissa, and I had sprayed only the tips of my dark hair so it faded from dark brown to bright red. It was out of the ponytail, waving down my back.

"Rose slow down!" Adrian said. I realized I was pulling him along. I did, and he wrapped his arms around me, pulling me close and kissing the top of my head. "A little excited aren't we?"

"A little." I admitted. "But really, who wouldn't want to beat Kirova at tug-of-war?"

He laughed, and held the door into the boy's dormitories for me. About ten guys jumped out of their rooms, spraying Adrian and me with red silly string. "OH MY GOD!" I screamed, trying to hide behind Adrian.

"Stop!" I heard Eddie call. "They're with us."

"Why are you so competitive." I asked no one in particular"." Anyway, I'm here to spray your hair."

"Why?" Someone asked.

"Because." I started, 'The girls want this extra day to do whatever we want. If we don't win, all of the girls will be really pissed. At you. Do you want a bunch of girls screaming at you?"

"No." Luke said, almost like he hadn't realized he was saying it.

Scott and Luke both stepped up to get their hair sprayed. "This takes courage." I pointed out. "I guess none of you have any."

Within twenty minutes, all of the boys had their hair painted red, and some had weird things drawn on their heads, by request.

LISSA'S POV

Where was she? She had left thirty minutes ago, and we really needed to go. Finally, I heard the door open, and saw her come down the hall, laughing. It was one of those things, Rose's laughter, that when you watched her, you couldn't help but smile too. She twirled, holding Adrian's hand above her, her hair flowing behind her. Pretty much all of the boys on the red team followed her. She seemed to have the same effect on everybody. They couldn't help but smile. Adrian was laughing with her, his eyes on her. "Hey Lissa!" She called, breaking my train of thought. I grinned wider at her. "Lets go!" And we did.