A.N: Hey guys!! I wanted to thank you for all the sweet reviews you left me for the first chapter! Big kudos to you and to Ash my beta !! Well here chapter 2, i hope you`ll enjoy it as much as the firs one.

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Chapter 2:

As soon as I walked through the doors I saw Eddie waving in my direction and pointing to the empty sit beside him.

Awww bless him ! I thought gently jogging to him and sitting looking around as some moroi, probably the one with a free period or ditching class, came to see which novice would be assigned to them. I got a glimpse at Lissa and Christian as they waved to us. We waved back and I concentrated my attention on my surroundings again.

All the novices were seated already and we could feel the excitement of the novelty. My heart sank a little thinking about Mason and how he would have been excited to be there.

I shot a quick look to Eddie and saw the same shadow in his eyes. I reached for his hand and squeezed it gently.

He looked at me and smiled sadly. We understood each other.

At this instant Dimitri stepped on stage and whispered quickly into Alberta's ear he then looked in our direction very coldly before standing, arms behind his back behind Alberta.

"Wow he looks super pissed!" Whispered Eddie to my ear as Alberta was setting things up, taking the clip boards and stuff. "What did you do to him?" He asked teasing.

"Nothing, he is probably PMS or something" I said with a shrug.

Eddie looked at me mouth open as he didn't expect me to badmouth Dimitri. We both burst into laugher before being called back to order by a very loud throat clearing coming from the Stage where Alberta stood with a microphone.

She started her boring lecture with the set of rules for the field training, as we had to stay with our moroi only got Sunday off. We would be attacked by guardians dressed all in black and pretending to be strigoi and that we should restrain them and give everything we had.

At this moment, I could see some malicious light in the eyes of some of my fellow novices as they were probably imagining which guardian they dreamt of beating.

I probably had the exact same light in my eyes as I could see myself kick Stan Alto's ass.

I'll teach him to mess with Rose Hathaway! I thought mischievously.

Alberta continued on how when you get assigned your moroi, you had to take your package with his/her family history, a training stake, and how you shouldn't linger around take your moroi if he is here, or go meet him based on his schedule.

As Alberta started to call the names, Eddie leaned toward me.

"Man I hope I get a good one." He said almost pleading. "I mean someone who get along with Lissa and stuff." He added slightly pouting.

"Yeah I hope too! I'll miss you too much if it wasn't the case." I whispered back. "Well worse case scenario, we'll have Sundays." I said trying to cheer him up.

"Well… I guess but it's only a day but you know if I get Zeklos….."

"Oh would you leave the door open at night so I could go all strigoi on his ass?" I said pretending to be serious.

"Well I can do that only if you promise to let me kick him once or twice when he is down." He said with a low chuckle.

"Ok… but it's because I love you" I added chuckling too.

Eddie and I developed a very strong brother sister relationship since what happened in Spokane 3 weeks ago.

We were very good friends already but he lost his best friend and I lost my 'boyfriend' and we were trying to protect and be there for each other. The funny part was that I also loved Christian like a brother even if I'd rather get stab than recognize it. But it was two different kinds of brotherly love, one was the protecting caring type, and the other was the smartass competitive for the mommy (or Lissa) attention but in the end when needed; we would stand up for each other.

Spokane did bring a lot of pain and loss in our lives but also created some bonds that would last forever.

"Well if it makes you happy… I would let you beat him." He said with an evil grin.

"Like you wouldn't enjoy it. I -"

"Mr Castile!" Said Alberta clearly annoyed.

We concentrated our attention on the audience again. They were all looking at us, she probably already called him a couple of time. Eddie blushed furiously and stumbled his way up the stage and right then Alberta said something nobody could have expected.

"Mr Castile will be in Charge of Miss Dragomir." She said pointing to the guardian handling the packages.

At this moment Eddie froze on stage and turned around to look at me.

"What?!" I heard Lissa shout with surprise from the back of the room.

"What the f-" I started to say jumping from my chair but two strong hands forced me down again.

Eddie regained his composure and walked down to pick up his package looking at the name because he was sure it was a mistake. I was pretty sure it was a mistake too but when I saw his puzzled look and how he went to Lissa I realised that it was not a mistake.

I turned my head with a glare and saw Stan glaring back.

"Don't make a scene." He growled quietly.

I looked beside him there was one of the younger guardian Ian I think his name was. He was looking at me warily. His body tense as if he was ready to restrain me.

They knew I would react badly but they still did it! I thought so angry I had trouble breathing.

"Miss Hathaway!" called Alberta as I stood up walking stiffly onto the Stage as I imagined punching her for pulling such a stunt on me. "You'll be in charge of Mr Oreza" she said smugly as I shot her my 'you're-gonna-pay' stare.

I took the package and walked to stand beside Christian.

"Hey Guardian" he said quietly. But as he saw I was just staying there he continued. "We're not supposed to linger here. Let's go."

"Oh shut up fire boy!" I said scowling at him. "Just give me two freaking minutes to deal with them."

He looked at me and nodded knowing that arguing with me will be pointless.

Once they were done, I walked to Alberta and I saw her sigh, and roll her eyes.

"When did you decide to do that? To screw up both my life and Lissa's??" I shouted at her without preamble.

"Rose -" started Dimitri in a soothing tone.

"Does it look like I'm talking to you?" I snapped at him.

"Don't you talk to me like that! Understood" He said so coldly that it actually took me aback.

"I'm sorry Guardian Belikov." I said looking straight into his eyes so he could see I didn't mean it at all.

They started to explain that I needed to train with someone I didn't have a bond with that being with Christian was still being close to Lissa and that it was good for her too to experiment with another guardian.

"Bullshit!" I said at the end of Alberta's speech.

She snorted. "You have no choice anyways Rose" she said crossing her arms over her chest. "Either you accept the assignment or you drop out and don't graduate."

"Bullshit!!" I said even louder turning around storming out shouting as I passed the doors. "Come on fire boy! Move!!"

Christian rolled his eyes and groaned. "This is gonna be fun…" he whispered but I pretend I didn't hear anything.

I went through all the morning classes with Christian sullen and my mood didn't improve so much even with Lissa and Eddie trying to cheer me up.

But as it went on, I knew it was childish and I was lucky that our little group was still united as we would be guarding them as a team most of the time anyways.

As we parted from Lissa and Eddie for the afternoon electives classes I sighed.

"I'm sorry.." I said sheepishly to Christian.

He shrugged "it's ok Rose I know you and honestly I take this outburst as a declaration of love."

"Declaration of love? To whom?" I asked confused as we walked through the garden and sat at one of the picnic table as Christian had a free period.

We sat across each other as I started to eat the sandwich he just picked up for me after his feeding.

He hated fish but took a tuna one cause he knew it was my favorite. That was a totally Christian behavior.

He was an ass 85 % of the time but sometimes he would do something that was cute and you would remember why you loved him as a brother.

"Declaration of love to me of course." He said seriously.

I almost chocked on my sandwich. "Ok Emo Boy..." I said putting my sandwich away. "Can you tell me how your deranged head figured that one out?"

"Yep. You see, you being assigned to anyone else than Lissa, would have been a like 8 or 9 on the Rose BF scale but this one…." He thought for a second or two. "Was not even a 5! It means that you care about me!" He said like he had such a solid and valid argument.

"BF scale?" I asked confused.

"Bitch fit scale!" He said with a grin.

"You really are something… else" I said laughing.

"Thanks…" he said happily.

"Yeah…Wasn't a compliment." I said sarcastically biting in the sandwich.

"Anyways it's better for you to be with me then with Ralph or Jesse no?" He asked putting his elbows on the table and resting his chin in his hands.

I made a noise of disgust but finally started to laugh. "No actually it would have been fun to guard them! See, I could have pushed them down the stairs saying I wanted to protect them as I thought there was an attack."

"Oh you ARE evil!" He said the voice full of approval.

"I know… Don't make me blush" I said playing the ingénue.

"Well you forget at night when you sleep in the room with them…", He said wincing.

"Oh ewww!!!" I put my hand on my mouth. "I think I just threw up in my mouth a little."

He chuckled. "Well unless you would like to have their hands all over your body."

"Bite me!" I snapped back.

"Not a chance babe I'm dating your best friend" he said with a wink.

"I can if you want." said a deep voice behind me causing me to shiver.

Adrian sat beside me on the bench straddling it to actually face my side.

"I think I'll pass" I said blushing a little. Just thinking about our kiss brought a hot flush all over me.

I finally allowed myself to look at him and we locked eyes for a couple of seconds as many feelings, mostly lust and desire on my part, passed between us. I wanted him to kiss me hard again and mentally kicked myself for wanting that.

Christian looked back and forth between Adrian and me. "Awk…ward" he said clearly embarrassed. "Ok Rose let's go meet Lissa before our next class." He said standing up.

I nodded and stood up too, Adrian copied us and walked with us silently but I was super aware of his presence, more than I've ever been.

We made it to the room just as they were walking out of it. Lissa and Christian had the next class together so I turned to look at Adrian and I didn't even notice I was reluctant to go before he leaned forward to whisper into my ear.

"Don't look so sad my Rose…. I'll think of you too." He quickly and discreetly kissed my temple before walking away.