A/n: Sorry about the wait, and the length. I feel bad about losing interest.

"Lissa? Lissa come out of there!" I shouted, banging on the bathroom door.

"No!" she sobbed, blowing her nose.

"Come on Liss! I just want to talk to you." I called, banging my head on the door lightly.

"Rose..." Dimitri whispered, putting a hand on my shoulder.

I looked at him and sighed. Then, put two fingers to my head like a gun and pulled the trigger.

He smiled, kissing my forehead. "Lissa-"

I suddenly sank into her. Lissa's mind was clouded with rage. Adrian was supposed to help me through this. Her mind screamed at me. He can't just take me off my medication and leave!

I looked down and then at Dimitri. "Where did Adrian go when he left?"

He shrugged and tried to guess what I was thinking.

"I need to talk to him..." I whispered, to myself. "Liss, I'm going to see what I can do. I'll be back. You're going to be fine." Quickly, I sat back down in my seat. It wasn't hard slipping into unconsciousness.

I sat down in the sun, waiting.

"I knew you'd be looking for me."

I looked at him and folded my arms.

"Well, cuss me out."

"I'm not going to cuss you out, no matter how much I want to. You really hurt Lissa, you know." I snapped, standing up at walking over to him.

"Lissa? We're going to talk about Lissa?"

"What did you think I would want to talk about?" I asked, putting my hands on my hips.

"Um..."

"Adrian!"

"Okay, well her Royal Highness wants Victor Dashkov at the hearing." he whispered, barely audible.

"What?" I shouted, suddenly infuriated.

"He says he knows something about you and your guardian friend." he raised an eyebrow.

I shook my head. "He's going to tell everyone, and this time, they're going to believe it."

"I did tell her that you weren't interested in me anymore. She was delighted." he frowned.

This time, Victor Dashkov was going to get his revenge. "Wait, anymore?"

"You have to admit, you were mildly attracted for a while."

I shook my head again. "Stop distracting me."

"What's the big deal? So you have a boyfriend." he shrugged.

"They won't let us both guard Lissa once I graduate." I explained.

"So? Why can't protect someone else? Isn't Lissa going to the Royal Court for school? Why can't he guard someone that lives in the court? You'd still see each other."

I opened my mouth to argue, but he had a point. "Stop that."

He smiled.

"Back to reason I'm here. You upset Lissa."

"I didn't mean to. She's got you anyway. Can't she do the energy transfer thingy?"

"That's not the point. She trusted you to help her." I snapped.

"Well I'm a little busy right now. I'll visit..."

I rolled my eyes. "What are you so busy with, that you can't keep a girl from committing-"

"I'm seeing someone."

I fell backwards. "What? Someone? Like a girl?"

"No, a dog. Of course a girl, damn Rose."

"I'm sorry. But who is she?"

"Katelyn Zeklos."

"Jesse's sister?" I almost growled.

"Cousin, but she's not as bad as most of the Zeklos' are." he admitted, testing my reaction.

"Aw Adrian." I smiled, punching his shoulder.

"Am I off the hook?"

"For now. I'm going to see what Lissa has to say about it." I laughed, and woke up.

"Hey Dimitri, how's she doing?" I asked, sitting up.

"She's out of the bathroom. Last row."

"Thanks." I whispered, making my way back there.

"Liss?" I whispered, sitting next to her.

"Did you talk to him?"

"I did. He told me the reason he left. You're going to laugh." I smiled, taking the hair out of her eyes. She looked at me curiously.

"What did he do?"

"He's dating somebody!"

"What? When? Who?"

I nodded. "I don't know how long, but its Katelyn Zeklos."

"Aw she's really pretty, and nice." she nodded. "Unlike her cousin."

"Yeah, he's an ass."

She laughed. "I guess that's okay. At least he has a good reason... I feel bad now."

I was trying to come up with a good way to tell her about Victor. There was no way I could tell her now, with her emotions flaring up like this. "Hey, does Christian have any plans for a guardian next year?" I asked, changing the subject.

"I don't think anyone would want to guard him. He doesn't like the pressure anyway." she wiped her nose and looked at me.

"I think I have a way that I can guard you and see Dimitri at the same time."

"You want Dimitri to guard Christian?" she gasped, looking at him.

"Don't you think that would make sense?"

"I- I guess it does. I've never though of that!"

"Thank Adrian for that one."

"I will."

We were quiet for a minute and she started laughing. "Katelyn Zeklos!" she smiled, shaking her head.

A/N2: I think that's the way they should be assigned, so they can still be together.