The Eyes of Heavenly Fire
Chapter 13
Dimitri surveyed the cafeteria as Rose chatted with Mia, Adrian, and Sydney. Adrian and Mia weren't a surprise to see, but Sydney was a whole different story.
"Are you two dating now?" Rose asked.
Since last night's encounter, Rose had rested, but she was still aware that something was after her. Talking about something else helped her cope. Sydney smiled and grabbed Adrian's hand.
"Yes we are."
Mia's eyes darkened under her happy expression.
"That's great." Rose said ignoring Mia.
"Yeah. Great." Mia Murmured.
Mia didn't seem too thrilled to him. The bell rang and Mia shot them an unreadable look as her and Adrian left the cafeteria.
Rose and Dimitri made their way to science and Tasha seemed more pissed off than usual. He requested being partnered with both of them and Tasha seemed angry that her charm had rolled right off of Dimitri.
"Hey bitch. Are you ready for our lab today?"
"This should be a fun experiment. Just try not to fuck it up this time."
Tasha's smile dropped as she sat down in her chair. He stared at Rose and smiled putting his hand on her upper thigh. She smiled back as Tasha jerked in her seat. Rose looked at her wide-eyed with concern.
"Are you okay Tasha?"
"I'm fine, Cockroach." Tasha spat out. "Have you and lover boy over there fucked yet?"
Rose's color drained as she looked at Dimitri for an explanation.
"That's none of your business." Rose said calmly.
Tasha's smile turned cold.
"I don't even know why I bothered asking you. I mean it's obvious that you two are porking on a regular basis."
"Shut up Tasha."
"Why don't you make me, little girl?"
When that sentenced had left Tasha's lips, Dimitri knew immediately that Tasha had been possessed by one of the fallen. Tasha reached for the veil of acid that they were working with and he flew out of his chair to knock Rose out of the way.
The acid fell to the floor by Rose and she looked up at Dimitri wondering why Tasha would want to kill her. Someone screamed as they got up.
Tasha's body was convulsing on the floor when they looked over to see what the student was screaming at. The vial of acid was by her head. The science teacher dialed 911 as they hopelessly watched Tasha get worse.
"What's happening?" Rose whispered crying.
"The dark angels have marked her."
The paramedics rushed in and carried a still convulsing Tasha out of the room.
After the teacher had managed to calm the class down, the bell had rang. As they headed for art, Rose stopped him.
"Will Tasha be alright?"
"No. Tasha will only get worse as time passes. There's nothing they could do to save her."
"I should have never been born."
"Why do you say that?"
"Tasha would still be able to live if I hadn't escaped death."
"Listen Rose, if they wanted Tasha they would have taken her if you were born or not."
Rose nodded as he pulled her into a hug.
"Come on let's go to art."
She followed him to art where Mia had rushed up to the both of them.
"Oh my God, Rose I heard what happened. Are you okay?" Mia asked hugging Rose for dear life.
"Yeah. I'm just a little shaken up about it."
"Well hopefully the rest of the day will turn out better for you."
"One could only hope."
They squeezed past her and went to their canvas's.
"Alright class today we're painting images of each other. "
Rose took out her water colored paint and looked at Dimitri.
"You first." She said with a smile.
He nodded knowing it made her calm to paint.
"I can never really capture your full beauty, but I'll try my best."
"You'll do great."
The portrait was halfway done when the bell rang for last hour. Mia rushed over to them with her blonde curls bouncing.
"Ready for last hour?" she asked with eager eyes.
Dimitri swore this girl could be so strange sometimes.
"Yeah sure." Rose said shuffling along.
They walked out of the art room and headed for history.