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I hear a knock on my bedroom door and groan.

"Go away!" I half mumble and half yell.

"Come on mom, Tasha's plane comes in an hour and Aunt Lissa wants to meet with you. Get up! " I opened my eyes and saw my daughter sitting at the foot of my bed. I started pulling the covers off and made a futile attempt to wake up. In the midst of sheets and me trying to stand, I somehow collide with the floor, groaning. I hear Alex laughing. I untangle my way out of the sheets and into the shower and suddenly remember something Alex said. Dimitri's coming today.

"Shit, shit, shit." I mumble and hop out of the shower. I throw on my guardian uniform and make my way to the kitchen and grab an apple.

"Come on Alexandra, we have to go now." I call from the door. I see Alex come around from the living room. I open the door and start jogging towards the runway. I see Lissa waving at me to come over. 'You're late' she hissed through the bond.

"Gosh, sorry Liss. What's up?"

'Tasha has decided that she is going to be staying for a bit longer than she originally planned.'

"How long is she staying" I ask.

'A month.' Really, ugh. 'Sorry.'I didn't have anything against Tasha, I thought she was an amazing woman, but I wanted nothing to do with Dimitri. After 15 minutes if sitting around waiting, the plane finally arrived and Tasha got out, with Dimitri at her heals.

"Christian, it's been a long time. " she went up and hugged her nephew. "Lissa" she hugged us all in a line, and she finally got to me. "Rose, you really have grown up." She hugged me. "And who is this?" She asks motioning to my daughter.

"That's my daughter, Alexandra." I saw Dimitri stiffen at this.

"Oh, how old is she" she asked cautiously, sensing she was treading on thin ice with Dimitri around.

"She's 14. Her birthdays on October 15th."

"How about we show you to your room and head to lunch?" suggested Lissa. Tasha nodded and we headed out across the grass. We separated and Alex and I went to the door of our house. I went to my room and dug through my closet for something nice to wear and decided on the dress from the night of the lust charm. I knew it was mean, but I wanted to make Dimitri hurt as much as I had. I slipped on my heels and met Alex at the door.

"Wow mom, nice dress. " she said motioning to what I was wearing. It barely covered my thighs and lacked straps. I smiled and we started to walk out of the house. I walked next door to Lissa's and walked in. I saw Dimitri gulp when he saw me.

"Are we going to go out of the court for lunch?" I asked. Lissa nodded.

"We decided that we'd spend time shopping and have dinner too." She said. I smiled. We hadn't been shopping in a while.

"When are we going?"

"Soon, we're just waiting for everyone to get here" I nodded my head and got up to go to the bathroom. I saw Dimitri get up to follow me.

"Hey Rose, can I speak to you?" He asked after we were behind the wall.

"Sure." I said.

"Who is Alexandra's father?" He asked.

"Right, because you totally have the right to know. What happened to me just being your student." He was such an idiot.

"Rose just tell me." He groaned.

"Why does it matter? Love fades remember" I could see the memory flash in his eyes.

"Rose I didn't mean-"

"Shut up Dimitri, I have moved on, and apparently so have you. I don't need you anymore." I didn't mean that, but he was pissing me off. The hurt flashed over his features. "Oh and don't you start about how I hurt your feelings. Do you know how much it hurts to have the love of your life tell you that they don't love you anymore? To get up and leave? No Dimitri, you don't, so stop acting hurt!" I turned and walked down the hall before he could see me cry. I still loved him, I just couldn't admit it yet. I opened the door of a quest room and sat down on the bed. I wiped the tears from my eyes. I heard a small knock at the door.

"Hey Rose, can I come in." Lissa asked quietly.

"Sure" She opened the door and sat down next to me. "Why did he have to hurt me so much?"

"I don't know Rose," She stroked my back and let me rest my head on her shoulder.

"Its just not fair, he has no right to know about Alex or anything in my life. He made that very clear when he left." I cried.

"But he does deserve to know about Alex, and I know you don't want to tell him, but you have to. She is his child." I knew she was right.

"I know." I answered after a little bit.

"Come on, lets get you cleaned up and get this party started." She said, trying to lighten the mood. I laughed and followed her into her room. She sat me down in a chair and fixed my makeup and then we walked into the living room. Everyone paused as we walked in, they all probably heard what happened with me and Dimitri. Dimitri got up and started to walk over to me.

"Not now, please." I told him, and he went back to his seat. I looked at the people gathered in the livingroom. Alexandra, Dimitri, Tasha, Christian, a few guardians and surprisingly, Adrian. I had no idea he and Tasha were friends.

"Hey Little Dhampir, how are you."

"I'm good. How are you?"

"Always better at that." I laughed. Adrians usual flirtatious personality seemed to lighten the mood.

"Well, I guess we should get going." A guardian who was at the door suggested. We all started to move towards the big SUV's parked in the front of Lissa's house. We pack in and I end up sandwiched in between Alexandra and Adrian. This was going to be a long ride.

"Nice dress, Little Dhampir. I can only imagine what you look like underneath it." I am not really surprised with adrians comment.

"Adrian, key word: imagine, and thats all youll ever get to do." I see him frown, and make a face like he is terribly hurt, and I laugh.

The car ride was not very event full. We neared the mall and I started to split us up into groups.

"Can I have 2 guardians to a Moroi, and Alex can you help me guard Lissa." We all got into groups, and I found myself guarding Lissa with Dimitri. We started toward the mall doors as I saw Dimitri trying to talk with Alexandra.

"Hello, I'm Dimitri Belikov, your mothers old mentor." He started.

"I know, you're the douchebag who left mom when she needed help the most. Nice going there." I was surprises by her response and found myself suppressing a laugh. She rarely snapped at people, and when she did, she was pissed. I walked up to her and grabbed her hand.

"Alex, language."

"Wow, I never thought that I would hear you tell someone to watch their language," Dimitri said, in a tone that seemed to be asking for confrontation.

"Well Dimitri, you know absolutely nothing about me anymore." I snapped. He seemed so full of himself now, like he deserved something from me. I ran ahead with Lissa, or ran as much as my dress and heels would allow.

As we wandered around the mall, Lissa bought me countless dresses and the like. I saw this one dress though, that was beautiful. It had a halter top and was floor length. It was black and had red accents. It looked so regal, yet fun.

"Liss, look." I grabbed Lissa's hand and tugged her over towards it. "What do you think Alex?" I asked.

"Wow," They both said in unison. Of course Lissa bought it, and finally, we left the mall. We once again gathered inside the SUV's and drove off to dinner. When we got there, we all got out and sat at a booth. The waiter came over and we ordered. We had a nice dinner. After, we all piled into the cars, and I found myself falling asleep.