Hey guys, this is chapter 2. Hope you like it because I tried really hard. The last chapter was more of a recap, and a small insight as to how rose is feeling. So, this is the real chapter 1 but whatever, I don't know. Tell all your friends, whatever, just please, please, please comment! I have nothing else to say except I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. –Leah3
This takes place a like, a few weeks after Lissa's carination. ~
I was so excited I could barely stand it. Tomorrow I was officially starting my guard duty! Protecting my best friend, Lissa. The Queen. You know, after all the shit that's happened, I made out pretty well. I managed to escape death on several occasions, each one changing me for the better. I stared at my 18 year old self in the mirror. Large, dark brown eyes surrounded by my makeup looked back at me. I whore Gilly Hicks skinny jeans, black moccasins, neon purple socks, and a purple, long-sleeved Abercrombie shirt. I hadn't flat ironed my hair today, so it kept that natural wavy look. Yeah, I looked pretty hott. (A/N~ like when you refer to something as sexy hot, it has two t's not one. Lol, ok, thanks.) Before leaving my room - Lissa had given me a room here at Court - I grabbed my knock-off Kathy bag, and hung my nazar around my neck. I turned back to the mirror again, and gave my hair a quick fix before I left my room. I knew Dimitri had had a shift this morning, and it felt nice to have a little time to myself, of course when I turned around, that feeling evaporated.
"Hey, Rose." My heart paused. I knew that voice. I could feel tthat voice . . . and the sorrow in it.
"Christain" I said, my voice coming out like icing. "Look I, don't . . . I wasn't . . . I . . .I . . ." I had trouble forming the sounds that came out of my mouth, translating my thoughts, into words.
"Rose . . . I . . . I understand. I just wish that this wasn't real. I want to close my eyes, count to three, and then when I wake up, I want it to be like is used to. I know I shouldn't blame you for what's happend, I don't Rose, I just came to tell you that It's okay. You may or may not actually feel guilty about this, but I just wanted to let you know, that if you do, it's okay. I . . . I forgive you."
I stared at him compleatly astonished. I had never expected him to open up like this. To forgive me after I had kicked him. Truthfully, I was more than willing to accept his forgivness. I hesitantly stepped up to Christain, pushed my arms under his and have him a hug. It was far from anything on a romantic level, but I did love him. I loved him as my snarky and sarcastic best friend.
I didn't know how to move on in this conversation. It felt odd, so I just satyed there unsure of what to do. The strange thing was, was that I could feel it. I could feel his arms holding me as I held him. I pushed down any awkward feelings that bubbled its way to the surface of my mind. I wish I could take back what had happend, of course it wasn't my fault but, when I acused Tasha, I saw the light in Christain's eyes fade ever so slightly. Like whatever faith he had once had in me crumbled. I knew I couldn't ever make up for it, but I could try. My thoughts were cut short by the movement of Christain's arms unwrapping around me.
"Sorry, Pyro." I said trying to lightin the atmoshpere. Apparentally I had succeeded because a ghost of a smile flickered across his face.
"If you tell anyone rose . . . I'll have to hunt you down and kick your ass!" I let a grin to form on my lips.
"Yeah right, the only thing you could hunt down is a tree, and even than I think the tree would win." Christain formed a smirk and snapped his hand. A small flame hovered over his fist, like his hand was a lighter. I rolled my eyes.
"I think it's going to take more than that to bring down a tree around here." Christain's smirk grew, stretching across his face. He held his hand out palm up, and an orb the size of a large beach ball was poise above his palm.
"Okay, Christain, you win. Don't burn me I'm too pretty!" He smiled back at me and then furrowed his eyebrows, cunfused. I wacthed him,wondering. I was pretty caught off guard when when he suddleny jumped.
"OH! I forgot I'm going to be late!" panic spread across Christain's face.
"What? What are you going to be late for?" I was kind of stumbling over my words, trying to get them out fast enough.
"Tasha, my Aunt Tasha! They're sending her away soon! I told her I would be there when she left!" he was shouting, not at me ( I think.) but the sittuation was surley stressing him out.
"Rose, I gotta go! We'll talk later!" he shot off running. I hadn't seen him run that fast since the Spokane incident. I shuddered a bit thinking about it.
"Christain wait! Where is she-" I ran out of time, Christain was already too far way for him to hear me. I could have caught up with him, but then I would be getting closer to Tasha. Better to let my anger towards her fade before I get within choking distance of her. I was almost prosecuted for the murder of a royal I didn't kill. I surley didn't want to be prosecuted for the murder of a royal I did kill. Plus, I don't really want to loose the major progress I had just made with Christain. Killing his aunt probobly wont help me on that. I watched him run franticly for a moment, until he ran a corner, and I couldn't see him. I took my phone out of my back pocket, and looked at the time. One o'clock. I should really get up earlier. With that I turned in the direction of the Court's kitchen. It was this way. Or was it that way? Honestly, I had no clue where anything was. Sure I'd been here before, but only on the main floor. I never realized how huge this place actualy was. I just kept walking, wondering around, hoping that somehow I'll find a map or something.
"Hey rose!" or someone, I thought. I turned around to see a man behind me.
"Um hey. Do I know you?" a puzzled look crossed his face.
"You should. Remember me? When you got thrown out of the court session for speaking what's on your mind? Speeking exactly what was on your mind, word for word. You know, for the age law thing?" A mischievous grin crept over his face. It was actualy kind of weird. Oh! "Yeah I remember, you threw me out?""Orders. But you really did say what they needed to hear." I thought about that day, then I remembered the note Tatiana had written me.
Rose,
~If your reading this, then something terrible has happened. You probably hate me, and I don't blame you. I can only ask that you trust that what I did with the age decree was better for your people than what others had planned. There are some Moroi who want to force all dhampirs into service, whether they want to or not, by using compultion. The age decree has slowed that faction down.~ (not the whole note)
I suddenly felt like an asshole again. She really did want to help dhampirs, and I tried to make everyone see her as the ass I thought she was.
"No, I didn't. If only I knew then what I know now." I felt really old when I said that. It was pretty unlike me, and apparantly the man thought so too because he was looking at me funny. Whatever, I was starving!
"Do you know where the kitchen is? I'm so lost right now." He shot me a smile and said,
"Sure, follow me." I couldn't help but wonder, who was this man? I mean, i'd seen him once before but never again until now. We walked in silence for a while until my voice broke the silence.
"What's your name?"
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