I DON'T OWN ANY OF THE VAMPIRE ACADEMY CHARACTERS I ONLY OWN THE PLOT!
I am not a professional author and therefore there maybe repeats of phrases, please be kind!
I'm also from Australia so my English may be different to yours and I will probably vary between American and Australian spelling!
Chapter 9; RPOV:
"Rose, oh my god, what happened?"
"Dimitri happened" I said between sobs, I told her everything that happened. I was an utter mess. Lucky I had Sunday off and didn't have to see him, Lissa wanted to heal my hands but I told her no, I didn't want her to use her magic, and it would take away the feeling of my broken heart, we talked for hours and I ended up staying in her dorm that night, we had not had a girls night for a long time and it was nice. In the morning when we woke up, she looked tired, and her eyes were puffy!
"Liss what's wrong?"
"It's okay Rose, I'm taking care of you, I'm alright, it doesn't matter"
"What do you mean it doesn't matter, it does matter. Please tell me"
"Well, um Christian and I broke up, I'm okay really. I'm just on my period" she laughed
"I don't understand, you guys seemed really good and happy"
"That's the thing, we were happy but as friends. Even I realised it wasn't working. He told me he's not into girls" she said, she looked so sad
"Lissa omg I'm so sorry, I didn't see that coming" I'm a bit confused. "If he knew he was into guys, why did he date you? I asked, a little bit pissed.
"Well, he wasn't sure, it's okay. We're still really good friends Rose, I'm happy for him." She seemed genuinely happy for him, well if she's fine with him then I will be too.
"How long has it been Liss, have I really been that absent?"
"Rose you have been so dedicated to your training and schoolwork I didn't want to take you away from that, and that's okay I'm not upset, it's been maybe one month, he's actually interested in someone and you won't believe who!" She said with her usually high pitch excitedness.
"Who?"
"Adrian Ivashkov, the Queens nephew"
"Are you serious, he's here?"
"Yeah, Queen Tatiana sent him here to train with me, he's also a spirit user" she said, I'm glad she's found another spirit user.
"So, Lissa, if you're really okay, then are you interested in anyone?" I asked wiggling my brows, she laughed
"Maybe"
"Spill Princess" she rolled her eyes at the 'princess' part
"Okay, but you can't tell anyone"
"Who would I tell?"
"I'm in crush with Ivan"
"Ivan, Dimitris friend Ivan?" If they get together, I will be seeing a lot more of Dimitri, oh god
"Yeah, we have been sort of seeing each other" I smiled at her
"That's good, I'm glad you're alright, but are you over Christian if you cried over it this morning?"
"Yes Rose, I told you it's just my period, I promise you I'm fine, my feelings for Ivan are stronger than My feelings for Christian were"
"Alright if you say so, I'm happy for you" I said giving her a genuine smile and hug.
I told her I was leaving, and that I was going to back to room and shower and do somethings around there, she said she was meeting with Ivan soon anyways and that I could him if I wanted to but I politely declined.
I made my way back to my room, feeling numb all over. When I got there, I had a nice long shower, washed my hair, exfoliated my body, shaved and washed my face, when I got out, I put some oil and leave in conditioner spray in my hair. I then went onto my skin care, I started with ultimate youth serum, moisturiser, and a moisturising spray, I than put coconut and Manuka honey body butter all over the rest of my skin. I was feeling emotionally drained, so I decided to do some yoga, I ended up doing about 30 minutes of yoga and felt so much better. I will have to keep my feelings in check and be professional in training but it's so hard, I'm in love with Dimitri, we have shared many stolen kisses, but he never ever gives me a solid reason why we can't give in, I understand where he is coming from. But we can make this work. There must be a bigger issue. I decided that Lissa and I really needed some girl time and that we needed to head to the city so that we could have a girl's day. I knew I would never be allowed to take her by myself out of the academy, so I needed someone else, and it definitely was not going to be Dimitri.
I arrived at Berties door and knocked a couple of times
"Come in" came Albertas voice
"Hey Bertie"
"Rose, what can I do for you" she asked as she stood up to give me a hug
"Well, it's a long shot but I was wondering if maybe today human time we can go into the city, me and Lissa and you and have a spa day? I know Lissa really needs it you know, with coming back to the academy and her and Christian breaking up, and I have been so busy. Do you think it's possible?"
I crossed my fingers behind my back
"I will see what I can do, I will let you know in half an hour okay?"
"Thanks Bertie" I ran off to Lissa's room to tell her, when I got there and let her know what's going on she squealed, I told her we need to sleep so that we will be rested for the trip, we hugged and said goodbye and I told her to be ready by 7am. The time is currently 11pm, as I walking back to my room I stopped and decided to lean against a pillar of a building, I looked up to the sky as I thought about everything that has happened over the last couple months and especially Dimitri's reaction to my molnijas marks, I subconsciously touched the back of my neck, should I be hiding them? I mean I'm not ashamed of them but so many people would ask so many questions, I'm not sure I'm ready for that. I decided I would do some reading on molnijas, so I headed to the Library.
I walked into the library and began looking for something on Molnijas when my eyes stopped.
Molnija Handbook
To Receive a molnija is to release Strigoi from certain retribution and to let their soul move on to the afterlife, One shall not be ashamed but respectfully display they have helped a persons loved one, friend or family to rest in peace, be not vain but modest always.
I didn't read much further, I decided not to dwell too much and maybe I would start to show my marks. I needed to go back to my room and write a list of things I needed to get whilst we were out shopping. After I wrote the list, I got a text from Alberta saying we were going and to meet at 7am, just like I thought. I changed into a t shirt and jumped into bed.
At 5am my alarm was sounding, I got up and had a shower and after my shower I did my skincare and moisturised my body, I got everything I needed and headed over to Lissa's. I knew she would want me to get ready in her dorm. When I got there, I did our secret knock, and she opened the door and gave me a hug but surprisingly she didn't scream. We first started with makeup. I'm more of a dewy glowy looking gal and Lissa is more of a full coverage looking gal
I started with my Becca Backlight Priming filter and then went onto the Bali Body BB cream, and I applied these two with my fingers, I then used my too faced cocoa contour pallet to contour my face, L'Oréal Life's a Peach for blush, I then sprayed urban decays all nighter setting spray and finished off with my Bobbi Brown waterproof mascara. Lissa's makeup started with her Bobbi brown Vitamin E enriched face Base, then used her beauty blender to apply her Bobbi brown skin Long-Wear weightless Foundation, she then used her tarte shape tape concealer and set that with Anastasia Beverly Hills loose setting powder, Bobbi brown to contour, life's a peach blush, hourglass highlighter, all-nighter, setting spray and Bobbi brown mascara. She's so beautiful. I've let my hair grow lately so it was just above my bottom, it naturally falls into waves but today I straightened it, my hair colour is dark brown almost black, Lissa put her hair in a high messy bun, ever since I had shown her how to do it on the run it's one of her favourite hairstyles. Now onto clothes.
I wore black high waisted skinny jeans with slits at the knees, red high-top converses and a Nike fitted sweater. Lissa wore light blue skinny jeans, white converse, and a grey fluffy jumper. Although it's warm enough to wear a shirt we liked to wear jumpers it's nice and cosy. I had my wallet and phone in my back pockets and Lissa had a black over the shoulder small bag. It was 6:45am and we started walking to Alberta's office that's where we were to meet. When we got there, we heard talking, I recognise the voices to be Dimitri and Ivan, why were they here? I knocked on the door and we were welcomed in. Lissa looked ecstatic, my mask fully in place showed no emotion. Alberta explained that Dimitri and Ivan were already heading into town and said we should carpool no use in taking two cars. We were just waiting on another guardian to come and accompany us. Once he had arrived, I think his name was Spiridon, he called shotgun and Alberta was driving, great. So, Alberta was driving, Spiridon was in the passenger seat, Lissa and Ivan were in the seats behind them and it was Dimitri and I in the back, when he saw me in the office his guardian mask was in place, but I saw his eyes and they showed lust and love, I looked away I couldn't look at him any longer. I must say though wowweee he looked fine, he was wearing his leather duster, I say I hate it but secretly I love it, underneath he wore a white v neck that showed all his muscly goodness, black jeans and black sneakers, the duster didn't really fit with what he was wearing but that's okay.
I was beginning to think I was going to suffocate back here and just started listening to the music one of mine and Lissa's favourite songs came on and we had to sing along. Break up with girlfriend, I'm bored by Ariana Grande, Lissa and I were singing and dancing as much as we could in a car. I could see Ivan was fully transfixed on Lissa and Dimitri was mesmerised by me so I thought I would have some fun with him.
This shit always happens to me (yeah)
Why can't we just play for keeps? I looked at him with side eyes and jerked my head up and went back to looking towards the front
Practically on my knees
But I know shouldn't think about it
I looked at him dead in the eyes
You know what you're doin to me
And then I looked away
You're singing my songs in the streets, yeah, yeah
The song kept going and I was just singing and having fun. The next song came on and only I was singing it it was body say by Demi Lovato
If I had it my way, I would take you down
If I had it my way, I would turn you out
I could feel Dimitri next to me, he was sitting so still like he couldn't move
And if my body had a say, I would come again
Scared of what I might say, 'cause I'm at the edge
We Locked eyes
And our eyes are crossing paths across the room
And then I turned away
There's only one thing left for us to do
You can touch me with slow hands
Speed it up, baby, make me sweat
Dreamland, take me there 'cause I want your sex
If my body had a say, I wouldn't turn away
Touch, make love, taste you
If my body told the truth, baby I would do
Just what I want to
If I had it my way, I would take the lead
And if I had it my way, I would take you deep
If my body had a say, I'd get it off my chest
Show you all the red lace underneath this dress
Alberta didn't think this song was appropriate, so she changed the song. We sang along to some of the songs, Dimitri and I didn't really talk all that much, whereas Lissa and Ivan were engrossed in conversation, Spiridon and Alberta were also talking, I decided that I should probably stop being an idiot and just talk to the guy.
"So what are you and Ivan getting you up to?" I asked
"Christmas is almost here so we are getting some Christmas shopping" oh yeah, I forgot about Christmas
"Oh cool" really Rose, is that all you have
"What about you Rose, what are you and Lissa doing?"
"Spa day, mani pedi. Boring stuff you wouldn't like" I laughed a little and to my surprise so did he.
"Roza, you look beautiful" I smiled and said thanks,
Dimitri and I made mindless chatter the rest of the drive.
When we arrived, we went our separate ways, Spiridon went with Dimitri and Ivan.
Lissa, Alberta and I headed straight to the nail salon, we all got Mani Pedis and our nails painted, Lissa got pastel purple, I got a blush pink and after much convincing Alberta got black.
I had not told them that I had booked in for a tattoo and I told them I had an appointment Lissa was quite excited and Alberta was hesitant, but she lets me take my own lead despite being a motherly figure in my life. I told them to go and look at some stuff whilst I got this tattoo and they agreed to meet back in 45 minutes. On the left side of my body, from my ribs running down to my hip I got "для тебя я буду улыбаться" in Russian, it means,' for you, I will smile'. When we were on the run Lissa and I had a really good friend name Liliya, she was human with terminal cancer, on her last day she told Lissa and I not to cry but to smile because we made her last month's amazing and likewise she was an amazing person, we met her through Vikki, she was Vikki's translator, Viktoria took it harder than us as she had known her for longer and she was like a sister.
I also got another tattoo in the inside of wrist in elongated text that said spirit and just underneath was a little cross with the letter V and that was Lissa, for saving my life and for her rare element.
When I was finished I paid and waited out front for Alberta and Lissa, I told them I needed clothes so we went to a shop called Kasualty, I got some shirts, singlets and shorts, we then went to nike and I got some leggings, sports bras, bike shorts, shirts and some shoes we continued shopping and I'm pretty sure we walked out with the entire mall.
We all jumped back in the car in the same seating arrangements, I was so tired, Dimitri and I were talking but I must have fallen asleep because the next thing I know I was woken by being put in bed, I opened my eyes and Dimitri was lowering me on to my bed.
"Dimitri" I questioned
"Roza, I'm sorry I didn't mean to wake you"
"It's okay Dimitri"
"I'll be back in a second I'm just going to get your shopping bags" I nodded at him and he left to go get my shopping, I quickly took this as an opportunity to change into something comfier, much like yesterday I put on the same baggy shirt and just stayed in my underwear, I was using a baby wipe to take off my makeup when Dimitri came back in, I didn't really feel like being alone.
"Will you stay and talk?" I asked him
"I'm not sure it's a good idea Rose" I internally scoffed 'Rose'
"Okay well goodnight then" I then turned and faced the other way laying down.
"spokoynoy nochi Roza, ya lyublyu tebya" he said softly, as the door closed
I don't think he's aware I understand and can speak Russian!
Once I heard the door shut, I responded saying I love you too as a tear rolled down my face, I don't understand why we can't be together.
Sorry I haven't been updating, work has been so busy!
Extra long chapter for you guys, be kind please
Hope it's not boring
In russian Dimitri said Goodnight Roza, I love you