A/N: This is the last chapter of "Through the Bond"!!!! I tried to close any lose ends and get the setting ready for the sequel.
I'm going to try and get the sequel out tomorrow but I have eighth grade registration and I don't know how long that will be. So read this and review please!
"And that's our graduating class!" Kirova said and everyone cheered. My classmates and I threw our hats up and caught them. I was about to go over to Lissa when Kirova started talking again. "I need all Dhampirs to go back to their dorms…parents are more than welcome to join them. And all Moroi need to go over to the offices and get assigned their Guardian. Please allow the royals to go first."
I sighed and did like she had asked. On my way out I caught a glimpse at what kind of looked like my mom, but there was no way. I went over to the dorms and when I opened the door to my room sitting on my bed was none other than my mom! I looked at her for a minute and she sighed.
"Did you really think I was going to miss your graduation, Rosemarie?" she asked.
"I didn't know…what about your charges? Aren't you supposed to be watching them?"
"They gave me time off so I could be here. I wanted to see who you got assigned to and be here when you got your promise mark."
"I know who I'll be assigned to, mom. Lissa and I have had this planned since we met each other."
"I read in a report that Lissa was pregnant."
"Not anymore. Alyssa and Chrissa are one week old."
Mom's eyes got wide. "She had twins? Where are they now?"
I rolled my eyes. "A kindergarten teacher offered to baby-sit while we went to graduation. What did you think; she left them in her room?"
"Well I didn't know what to think, Rose. And I could do without your attitude."
The phone in my room started to ring and I went over to answer it. "Hello?" I asked.
"Miss. Hathaway. You've been requested for a Guardian, you're needed down at my office right away." I recognized the voice as Alberta's.
"I'll be right there. Thank you." I hung up the phone and looked at my mother. "I'm needed down at Alberta's office…somebody's requested me."
"Okay. I'll be going with you." She started to get up.
"Of course," I muttered under my breath as we went down to the offices. When we got there I went inside Alberta's, one I had been in often. Lissa and Christian were in the office already, and so was Dimitri. I sat down in a chair next to Lissa and my mom went against the wall with Dimitri.
"Good to see you again, Guardian Hathaway," Alberta said to mom.
"You too," Mom replied.
"Now Rose. Lissa and Christian have decided to that they want to keep the old arrangements as the field exams. So Guardian Belikov will be taking Lissa and you'll take Christian. Okay?"
I sighed. "Okay. That sounds great."
"And I'm sure you're familiar with their plans of college."
"Yes ma'am."
"Then we're through here. Good luck!"
We all thanked her and left the office. I still had one hour until the future Guardians got their promise marks so we went back to Lissa's room to play with the twins while Mom and Dimitri went to go do 'Guardian stuff'. Everybody knows that all the new Guardians are invited to a big party thrown by the older Guardians after the Promise marking ceremony. But it's always funny how everybody tries to keep it a secret and everything.
So we went and played with the babies so the baby sitter could take a break and go get something to eat. After she came back we went back to the gym. Lissa and Christian sat down in the seats at the front row and I went over to where the other novices where waiting. Eddie Castile ran up to me when I approached.
"I'm going to the Royal Court! They just asked me a second ago. They were going to ask you too, but you're already going with Lissa and Christian!"
"Eddie, that's great!" I said, high fiving him. Getting asked to go to the Royal Court was the biggest honor that only the Novices top in their class got. The Queen there, Adrian's aunt, had already asked Lissa to go there and study at the colleges nearby. She had hoped that Adrian would end up marrying her, but now that she had had twins with Christian, the offer applied to him too. We were all going next week, and now Eddie was going too.
He started to tell me something else, but the ceremony started so we had to be quiet. They go in alphabetical order, so Eddie went before me, and then a bunch of other people. When they finally got to me I was a little nervous. It hurt really badly when they started, but I had gotten used to it by the time they finished.
After the ceremony, all of my friends came up to me.
"Oh Rose! You made it look like that didn't even hurt!" Lissa said, hugging me.
"Trust me, it did." I told her. Dimitri hugged me after she did and then my mom did too.
"Are you going to the big party tonight?" Dimitri asked me.
"Uh, yeah! I've been waiting all my life for it!" I replied and he laughed.
"Well, we're going to go back to my room. Ms. Ryan is probably out of her mind if Chris has gotten mad." Lissa said with a laugh. We all told them goodbye and I went with Dimitri and Mom to the party.
Everything was going okay. I graduated, became a Guardian, got my best friend as my charge, and now had two new nieces. Plus, those two said nieces also started the next generation of what me and said best friend used to be and still are.
A/N: I don't think that last line makes any sense but I wasn't sure how to word it...haha
