A/N- Okay so here's part 2 of the last chapter, because I was right. What I started with was way too long for one chapter. Thanks for reading and reviewing!

Disclaimer: I do not own any part of Vampire Academy, it all belongs to Richelle Mead.

Chapter 7: Surprises

Dimitri POV

Once in the hallway I headed to the laundry room to grab my stuff. I had a little less than 2 hours myself to get things done. I had a shift later today. After leaving everything in my room, I grabbed the stuff I bought and headed towards the cabin. I think there was a fridge I could store stuff in there. Unfortunately for me, I managed to bump into Adrian in my hurry. "Oh. " I heard him mumble from his face in his phone. Adrian then looked up and said, " Oh. Hey." stepping to the side. Just my luck. I hoped he wouldn't ask any questions of the bags in my hands. Or mention this to Rose. "What are you doing Adrian?" I asked. He was never usually up before noon.

"I'm was just going to see...someone." Adrian said, pushing the phone into his pocket and rubbing the back of his neck nervously. He stared at the bags I was holding. "Is that what you got Rose?" he asked. I had the flowers and the strawberries and some other things with me now. I was glad that I wasn't holding the dress too. Adrian didn't get to see Rose in that, only I would. I changed the subject. "It's not Rose you're going to see are you?" I almost growled. Roza was mine. "She's napping right now. Leave her alone." I completely ignored his question and tried to hide the bag in my coat.

"I know she is napping. I was just with her." he said pointy while crossing his arms. I growled and tensed at the fact that Adrian went to see her. I just missed him. "You better not have woken her up." I growled. Rose could use the peace and quiet. She's still going through an emotional rollercoaster. "Well I may of. I also asked her to join me for lunch. " Adrian said snarkily. "Rose may be 'yours' but she has the right to do as she wants." he said, folding his arms. He got me there. Roza would never stand from me standing between her and her friends.

"Stay away from her." I grumbled. I started to stalk away but not before Adrian called after me. I knew that he had helped me at the mall earlier, but that didn't ease my heart when he was trying to spend all this time with my Roza. " I can't do that Belikov." he said in a sing-song voice. "My mind drifts to her. Every thought. Every dream. All her." I wanted to run back and pummel him for even thinking of Roza that way. I had hoped he had stopped visiting her dreams long ago. But I stopped myself. I couldn't get in trouble for beating a royal Moroi. Even if it was playboy Adrian. I kept walking on towards the woods.

When I reached the cabin I checked my watch. I had about 45 minutes left until my shift. That gave me a half hour to get things ready here. I guess I had spent more time with Rose then I realized. It shouldn't matter much, I just needed to clean things up a bit and store things away, I couldn't have a guardian accidently peer in here and see everything set up. Plus I wanted to cook for her. I would have to do that the morning of, but first I had to make sure I had all the materials.

I started unpacking the bags. First I found a vase for the roses and put them in the water. Who knew that the cabin would already have such things, you would think that guardians wouldn't have time for flowers. Then I put the chocolate covered strawberries and non-alcoholic champagne in the fridge. Hopefully the strawberries would be okay on friday, they seemed to have survived the day in my own mini fridge. Then I set about making sure I had all the ingredients for Rose's favorite foods: premade pizza dough, marinara sauce, four kinds of cheese, pepperoni. Check, check, and check. I knew Rose's favorite dessert were brownies, but since I already had the chocolate strawberries I figured we could make due. Plus I was also going to make black bread. I knew Rose had heard me go on and on about how great my mother's black bread was so I wanted to make sure she could try some too.

After checking on the food, I changed the sheets on the bed, found a good tablecloth and some candles for the table, and mopped the floor. Then I went out into the woods and found some firewood, I set in the fireplace and checked my watch. I only had 5 minutes left until my shift! I quickly vacated the cabin, making sure I locked the door on my way out. Then I started jogging towards the Academy, a much easier feat without all my bags from earlier. Thankfully I made it just in time, I was supposed to relive Stan, and I knew that he would have been very grumpy if I was late. Thank the gods that Rose didn't have to deal with him on a regular basis anymore, it was like the man had it out for her.

I was walking around on my shift when I noticed someone was slumped outside the dining hall. Walking over to take a closer look, I saw it was Rose. I ran over worried, "Rose, Roza, are you alright?" I gently picked her up, holding her in my arms, not caring if anyone saw us. "Yeah. I'm fine." Rose finally said looking up. She looked a little dazed. Rose wasn't getting sick was she? Dhampirs rarely ever got ill. The few times we did were from serious maladies that we couldn't work back from. I hoped Rose didn't catch anything deadly while she was away. I couldn't help myself when I started being confrontational. I was just worried. I hoped the stress wasn't getting to her, with Victor, and then Mason. "What was that right there Rose? Are you sure you're alright?"

"I'm fine." she said again. "Just dizzy from some news." I saw her look back towards the dining hall and then at me again. I heard her mutter, " Babies?" before she stood up and dashed back into the dining hall without another word. Through the door I could hear her voice shout "Lissa!?" Was the princess in trouble? I was her personal guardian and it seems like I was doing a horrible job of it. First allowing her to get kidnapped by Victor, and being unable to stop those pranks. Rose was getting too far into my brain. I should resign from the Princess' Guardian as soon as possible. I wasn't suited to the job. I would always pick Rose over her.

Following my duty, I stuck my head in the dining hall to see if the Princess was in any trouble. She was sitting there talking with Rose and the rest of her friends. I breathed a sigh of relief. It was probably just teenage drama. I went back to my shift, walking the borders of the Academy. What a tiresome job.

I was making another round when I saw Rose sitting on a bench alone. I guess lunch must be over and classes must be starting. I didn't realize that when we put her on half-time that Rose would have so much free time between training and counselling sessions. I snuck over to her hoping to surprise her. I was always yearning to be around her these days. Before I could get to her unnoticed, Rose looked up and said, "I don't want to get married." I was taken by surprise. Where did that come from? Did Roza never want to get married or was it just now. I wanted Rose to be mine forever, I wasn't going to propose to her now, but maybe someday. I wanted to make it official, for the world to know that we were together. I grabbed a hold of myself. "Why do you say that?" I asked.

Rose didn't look at me when she responded. She stared at the stars in the sky, as if she were thinking about something else. "Lissa is hoping Christian will ask her soon. Do they not know they're like babies!" I sighed. So it wasn't that she never wanted to get married just not this young. That I could understand, Rose was still 17, where I was 24. I was ready to get married now but it might take some time for that idea to grow on Rose. Another problem our age difference creates. It shouldn't have mattered to me, I would wait for Rose no matter what, but I still wanted to be less than 30 when I got married. "Oh Roza...sometimes...when they just know they're ready it's going to happen. It's not like the Princess is pregnant."

"Yet!" Rose shouted, then she lowered her voice. "Her sex life doesn't wake you up in the middle of the night." she said under her breath. I was stunned. I knew Rose had trouble sleeping, but I had thought it was because of nightmares not because of the Princess. "Rose..." I started. I didn't know what to say. "Rose, if the princess is causing you to lose sleep maybe you should talk to her about it." I said, I wanted Rose to be healthy, if such a petty little thing was preventing that then it needed to be stopped. "Your lack of sleep could affect your ability to guard her proficiently." I added. I knew Rose would never ask the Princess for anything unless it affected her safety.

"Do you know how awkward that may be?" she hissed. "What am I supposed to say? Lissa can you stop having sex at night?" she said sarcastically. "In the church of all places, every Time!" Rose blushed again. I guess she said too much. Then I remembered that Rose could actually feel what the princess was feeling when she got sucked in. I had to experience watching her in pain when she felt the Princess tortured when Victor captured her. Did that mean? No,... She had told me she was still a virgin. It didn't stop me from asking though, the words were out of my mouth before I even knew what I was saying. "Roza...did you ever..." I didn't finish my sentence, rose could always understand what I meant before I could.

"Have I ever what?" she asked. I just stared at her, soon she caught on. "Ever liked it?" she finished. "No. Most the time it starts out with me having a dream about us," she explains and I calm down and smile a little at the thought of us, " ...then I hear Christan and I snap out of it and pull away as fast as I can to take a cold shower to forget what just happened." she says. That was nice to know. I just hope she never saw more of Christian than she ever wanted to. I hoped she never saw anyone's private parts, but given Rose's skeptical past, she could have possibly or accidentally here and there. I held my hand out to her. "Okay Rose. Come on, why don't you head back to your room and finish your cleaning while I finish my shift." I pulled her off the bench.

Rose POV

I woke up to Adrian knocking on my door asking me to join me for lunch. He had jumped into one of my dreams while I was sleeping. He even warned me to get up that he was on his way. I hadn't listened, but as I stood I noticed that I was hungry. My midsection mumbled strange sounds. I had agreed to go with him as long as he understood nothing was coming from this lunch, and so he would get out of my dream so I could sleep peacefully. I yawned looking over to the side, of course Dimitri had already left. I grabbed the note he left me and slipped it into my pocket. Then I heard another knock on the door. It was more like pounding.

"Little Dhampir!" I could hear Adrian's voice loud and clear through the thin door. "Give me a second!" I yelled back to him as he kept his knocking. I opened the door and leaned on the frame with my mouth open in mid yawn. I glared at him. "You really want to go out like that?" he joked. I hurried to my mirror to look at my appearance. I looked like a mess, my hair was everywhere and my eyes were still kind of red and tear stained from the commotion with Dimitri. I picked up a brush and smoothed my hair out. Stable boyfriend or not I was still a girl, which meant I was still a little vain about my looks.

Adrian just stood by the door staring. "Come on Little dhampir." he whined. "You might not be hungry, but I am, let's go!" As if on cue, my stomach growled again. "I am very hungry." I noted to him as I rubbed the redness from my eyes. "I'm just sleepy is all." I grinned and walked on out. "Someone was keeping me from peacefully sleeping." I teased. Adrian looked at me with an innocent face, like he wanted to say, 'who, me?' We walked as a steady pace towards the dining hall. "So Rose, what are you doing on Valentine's Day?" he asked. There was no way I was going to go on a date with Adrian Ivashkov. Even if training wasn't the most fun, at least I would be with Dimitri. Plus, there was no need to add to the rumour mill at St. Vlad's.

"I have plans." I told him bluntly. "Guardian Belikov and I are training. It's going to be a all day thing." I said turning him down. "and I'm not into the whole Valentine's Day thing." I added to try to let him down a little easier. Adrian frowned. "Of course you're going to be off with the cradle robber." I heard him mutter. There he goes with that ridiculous nickname. Like he was any better, Adrian was still years older than I was and here he was still hitting on high school girls. I stopped and looked at him almost angrily. "Did you know that you and Dimitri are only two years apart?" I said, defending Dimitri. He cracked a smile at me. "3 years" he said correcting me. "Anyways I'm still younger." I frowned and placed my hands on my hips. " Either way that was rude."

We kept walking, not speaking any more. I guess Adrian didn't feel like getting on my nerves anymore. We were almost at the dining hall now, I was sort of curious of what Adrian was going to be doing on Friday now that I turned him down. "So...what were you planning to do on Valentine's Day? I'm sure it's much more exciting than training." I asked. "I think we both know you're not just training." Adrian snickered...then continued..."oh I'll find someone. I am Adrian Ivashkov." He flashed me his signature smile that usually made other girls melt, but it had no effect on me, I only had eyes for Dimitri.

I should have decked him for that comment, in such a public place as well. Instead, I gave him a smirk as we walked in the lunch room. I knew Adrian liked me, hell he may even love me. But the way he pretended not to helped me forget that for a moment. The minute I walked in the room Lissa spotted me. She waved an arm and tried to call me over but smelling the food I realized I was starved. I had missed breakfast because I was with Dimitri, so I pointed over to the food line indicating that I would be with her in a second. Through the bond I could feel that she was excited about something and she was just about ready to burst.

I picked up my lunch and hurried on over to where Lissa was. "Hey Rose! What did you do with your morning?" she asked as soon as I was within earshot. I sat down with my plate and smirked at Lissa. My morning was great but I could tell Lissa that I had been cuddled up with my Russian god. I couldn't. "Napped and trained." Liss smiled. I wasn't too sure why she was so happy but I would probably find out soon. Lissa was never very good at keeping secrets. "Guess what?" she asked.

"What?" I said, a little bored. Honestly I could save a lot of energy by just looking into her mind, but I knew Lissa hated that. Instead I tried to only keep my line to her emotions open and not to her thoughts. "It's about my date on Friday!" Lissa said excitedly. Great...more Valentine's Day stuff. I started to eat my french fries as Lissa talked. She was probably about to tell me some information about her and Christian's love life. Eww. "I think he's gonna propose..." she whispered.

I almost choked and spit out my food when she told me this. Thankfully, I stopped myself before I could create a scene. " Are... are you ready?" I stuttered. This was big stuff. Marriage, wow. We weren't even out of highschool yet, we weren't even 18 yet. I was pretty sure that you had to be of legal adult age to get married. "I don't know but I'm so excited!" Lissa squealed. "I need the perfect outfit, I'm going to ask Kirova if we can go shopping!" Lissa's excitement was bouncing off the walls now. It was overwhelming. I blinked a few times and stood up from the table. "Give me a moment." I said. I stood up, heading outside. I needed a few minutes to myself to process this and calm down.

"Rose." Lissa called out. "Rose where are you going?" I just ignored her and the constant questions coming through the bond. Once outside I sank to the floor. "Marriage?" I leaned down and breathed hard. "Oh dear god." Suddenly I heard someone say something. The same person grabbed me by the shoulders and picked me up, holding me up in their arms. There was something familiar about them, then I smelled it, his aftershave was a dead giveaway. I looked up and saw Dimitri. "Yeah. I'm fine." I said.

I was still going through my own thoughts. Normally, I would be thrilled to be in Dimitri's arms, but what I was processing was something that took priority over my own happiness right now. What if they were making a mistake, I thought to myself. "What was that right there Rose? Are you sure you're alright?" I heard Dimitri ask. He sounded worried. "I'm fine." I said again, trying to reassure him. "Just dizzy from some news." I told him as I looked back at Lissa then at him. Then a thought ran through my mind. " Babies?" I muttered. I pulled myself out of Dimitri's arms and walked straight past him, hurrying into the dining hall. "Lissa!?" I shouted, putting myself into a panic. I ran back to the table and grabbed her arm rather roughly, leading her away from the other moroi.

"What is it Rose?" she asked. She looked a little frazzled as well. Was my over reacting new? Liss was always the quiet one and I was always the crazy, outgoing, loud one. I took and deep breathe to calm myself before asking. "Are you pregnant?" I questioned her quietly. My eyes wide and not blinking while I asked her. Lissa looked shocked. She blinked a couple times before exclaiming. "Rose! What has gotten into you?"

I glared at her. What did she think I was doing? I was doing what I always did, look out for her well being which it what I always did. "You're over here talking about marriage. I didn't know if there was a reason of that it not." I explained. Why else would they get married. They were too young, not even out of highschool yet. What if they didn't last through college, or even worse, life at the royal court. As the last Dragomir, Lissa had to be there, and I knew Christian wouldn't want to spend much time there. He was treated like an outcast there, just as he had been here before Lissa started dating him.

Lissa's voice softened at my explaination. "Rose if I was, you'd be the first to know. Plus wouldn't you feel it?" she asked. Maybe. I didn't know. I wasn't sure what would happen to the bond once she carried a child. Would I be bonded with both? Would it mess up the bond? Could it break the bond? I stared at Lissa and I could feel that I was making her a little uncomfortable. "Come on we should head back. Lunch is about to end." Lissa said. I nodded and stood up and started walking with Lissa. I couldn't even wrap the idea in my head all the way. Marriage? Before college? Why?

Those thoughts were running through my head all for the rest of lunch and as I walked Lissa to her class and then went on my way. I sat on a bench near the woods just thinking. I didn't know why I didn't go back to my room, but when I was about to leave, I saw Dimitri standing right in front of me. I looked up at him and without thinking the words popped out." I don't want to get married." I noticed his expression show great confusion. I guess that's not what any boyfriend wanted to hear was it. Were we boyfriend and girlfriend now? I know that we told each other that we would never want anyone else, but we never made it official. I guess now wasn't a good time to ask.

"Why do you say that?" Dimitri asked. I leaned my head back and took in a deep breath. If I was going to tell anyone, it was going to be Dimitri. He was still Lissa's guardian and he deserved to know too. "Lissa is hoping Christian is going to ask her. Do they not know they're babies!" I thought they were entirely too young. Neither of them could think through this clearly and I didn't want them to make a terrible mistake. I didn't want to be the one picking up the pieces if it didn't work out. I'm even kinda fond of Christian, I don't want his heart broken either.

Dimitri sighed, just looking at me with his beautiful chocolate brown eyes. "Oh Roza… sometimes… they just know when they're ready." he explained. "It's not like the Princess is pregnant." Dimitri added, great minds think alike. Just like I thought of that earlier, Dimitri did too. "Yet!" I shouted. Oops, I didn't mean to be that loud. "Her sex life doesn't wake you up in the middle of the night." I hissed. Again something I shouldn't have said. I was spilling all of Lissa's secrets now. I just couldn't hide from Dimitri.

"Rose..." he started. "Rose if the princess is causing you to lose sleep maybe you should talk to her about it." He was crazy right. I would never ask Lissa to stop her happiness for me. I was a guardian I could make sacrifices. "Your lack of sleep could affect your ability to guard her proficiently." he added. Well Dimitri had a point there, but still. That wasn't a conversation I wanted to have any time soon. "Do you know how awkward that may be?" I narrowed my eyes at him, giving him excuses."What am I going to say? Lissa can you stop having sex?" I said sarcastically. "In the church of all places. Every Time!" I exclaim. Dimitri stares, and my cheeks redden. I have completely sold out all of Lissa's secrets there. I hoped Dimitri would go find them one right now.

Yet Dimitri seemed to have his own things in mind. "Roza...did you ever..." he asked. I noticed he was whispering now. " Have I ever what?" I asked him. Dimitri just stayed silent, waiting for my answer. Then I caught on. " Ever liked it?" I worded it in a proper manner. I didn't want to say had sex with Christian through the bond. Thankfully that hasn't happened yet. "No." I say to reassure him. "Most the time it starts out with me having a dream about us," I noticed his expression soften as I say that "...then I hear Christan and I snap out of it and pull away as fast as I can to take a cold shower to forget what just happened."

Dimitri smiled. I looked back up at the stars, complimenting the sky. Looking back down I saw Dimitri's hand. I look at and let me help me up. "Okay Rose. Come on, why don't you head back to your room and finish your cleaning while I finish my shift." he said. Walking away I thought about Dimitri. I hoped I didn't get Lissa and Christian in trouble. Hopefully Dimitri was more loyal to me than academy rules. I also hoped I didn't scare him off the whole marriage thing. I would love to marry Dimitri, just not yet. I'm too young, even though he might be ready, I wasn't.

A/N- Shorter chapter again. I know, I'm sorry. I'm also sorry because I said I'd have this on here by the second but I didn't get to finish it last night. Hope you enjoyed! Please read and review!

Ciao!

~Tiffany 3