Hey, it's Sarah. Thank you to everyone who reviewed. I got a lot of reviews saying I should continue, but also some saying I shouldn't. I personally want to so I'm going to. Those of you who wanted me to continue, here you go. Those of you who didn't... well I hope you like it and change your mind.

P.S. A special thank you to the people who said I shouldn't continue it because it was perfect the way it was, it boosted my confidence in my writing.

P.P.S. I do except critique, it helps me get better.

I woke with my right arm across Dimitri's chest and my right leg encasing his right thigh. His right arm was behind me, his hand gentle resting on my back and his left arm was around my waist. It may sound kind of weird, maybe even un-comfortable, but it's actually really comfortable. I lay there for a while, tracing shapes into his chest. That is until he took a really deep breath, and sighed. Pulling me closer his kissed the top of my head and sat up. I buried my head in the pillow, slid my arms under it and grumbled, I so did not want to get up.

"Come on" Dimitri whispered, smiling. He rubbed my back and then lay back down next to me.

I turned my head in the pillow so that I could see him.

"What? I don't get a 'Good Morning'?" I asked, whispering

He chuckled and put a hand on my cheek, gently caressing it with his thumb. "Good morning, Beautiful" He whispered

Why we were whispering I do not know.

"I didn't ask for the 'Beautiful' part" I stated

"Do you want me to take it back?"

"No, I liked that part" I smiled, and he pulled me to him, pressing our lips together. When we pulled apart he looked me in the eyes.

"I love you, Roza" He whispered

"I love you, too" I whispered back.

"But we have to go, or we'll get caught, everyone is going to be up soon, adn I still need to clean up in here"

"I'll help you"

"You should go back to your dorm, so you don't get caught"

"I won't"

"Rose.." He warned

"I'm not gonna leave. Besides, we still have our morning training to do"

"Fine" He sat up, pulling me with him.

As, I sat up the blanket fell down from my chest. Dimitri, obviously, looked, but then looked away really fast. I laughed, and he blushed.

"Am I hallucinating or is Dimitri Belikov blushing?" I said, sitting up on my knees and putting my chin on Dimitri's shoulder.

"Get dressed, Rose" Dimitri said, looking away.

"Someone's worried about losing there control" I said, in sing-song. I stood up and looked around the room.

"Um,...Dimitri" I said, turning around and facing him.

"What?" He asked staring at the ruins of the fire.

"I can't find my panties" I said, trying not to laugh.

"Wow" he muttered, putting his head in his hands. He stood up and started looking around the room. I, on the other hand, just stood there, enjoying the view. Because I know how to keep my control. I think.

I walked behind Dimitri and wrapped my arms around his waist.

I stood on my tip-toes and whispered in his ear "I guess I'll just have to go commando under my pants, no won't I?"

Dimitri tensed, pulled my arms off of his waist and walked over to where his boxers were. He slipped them on, then began looking for his pants.

"Get dressed, Rose" He repeated. I smirked and walked over to my pants. I slipped them on, and found out that it is very uncomfortable not wearing underwear under your pants.

"This is uncomfortable" I muttered slipping on my bra.

Shirtless, Dimitri walked over to me and put his hands on my waist. He had a weird look in his eyes: Sad, but also happy? His eyes were also watering a little. I don't know it was weird.

He leaned down and kissed me. He forced my mouth open, and at the same time we both deepened the kiss. I wrapped my arms around his neck and we stood there for... I-don't-know-how-long.
His skin was warm against mine, and I pressed my self closer. But I couldn't get close enough, couldn't get enough of that skin-on-skin feeling, couldn't get enough of Dimitri. When we broke the kiss he gently kissed my shoulder, then nuzzled his head in the crooked of my neck and gently kissed my there to. I put my head on his shoulder, and we just stood like that for a while. But, eventually we both pulled away, knowing if we took to long we would get caught. So we put our shirts on and began to clean up.

I successfully made it back to my dorm without getting caught. Dimitri had taken the box of decorations to his dorm and told me to meet him in the gym in fifteen minutes. So I changed, put some panties on, maroon sweatpants that stopped mid-calf and a white T-shirt that hugged my curves and buttoned up from the just below my chest to the top of it, just below my collar bone. I always left a few unbuttoned though. I slipped on my white running shoes, brushed my hair and put it up in a high pony tail. Then I grabbed my dark blue gym bag and headed to the gym.

Amazingly I got there before Dimitri, so I started with some warm-ups. I kicked off my shoes, and pulled of my socks and walked to the middle of the mat a began stretching. After I was done stretching I walked over to the punching bag and started on a combo of punches and kicks. Eventually I heard the gym doors open and close. Out of the corner of my eye I could see Dimitri, standing there watching me. I finished with a round house kick.

"You know" I said, putting my hands on my hips and staring at the punching bag "Sometimes being a novice makes me feel like a ninja" I turned to see Dimitri pulling out the dummies.
"Somebody was very late. And surprisingly, it wasn't me" I said, walking over and helping Dimitri set up the dummies.

"I had stuff to do" was all he said

"Okay" I mumbled "Why are we getting the dummies out anyways? We haven't used these in, like, forever"

"Review"

"Okay" I repeated

All morning all we did was review. Where to stake it, how to stake it, what to do in certain scenarios. The whole time Dimitri kept his distance, and went back to acting all mentory, and after a while I got tired of it.

"Okay" I said, crossing my arms over my chest "What's up with you? You've been acting weird all morning"

"Rose-"

"Do not want me anymore? Did I do something wrong?"

"No, Roza." Dimitri sighed and walked over to me, finally closing off the distance between us. He cupped my face in his hands "I want you, I really want you. You know that. It's just, we can't be together, and it kills me."

"So we're back to that, huh? I thought that we had finally gotten past that. I thought that after..." I trailed off, a tear drop slipped down my cheek and Dimitri wiped it away. then pulled me to him.

"No, we're not back to that. I mean publicly. I can't hold you and kiss you and show you off to everyone like I want to. It kills me, the only time I can be intimate with you or show you how much I love you is when we are in private, but even then we have to risk of getting caught. Like right now some one could just walk right in. I can't be around you the way I want to be"

He pushed me away just enough to be able to look me and the eyes. "But, that's love, right?" I said "Fighting through all of this until we figure something out...Right?" I have to admit I sounded a little innocent and hopeless.

He smiled and pecked me on the lips "Right"

After that we moved on to the dummies, starting from the very beginning, I had to show him where the hard what, he questioned me on Strigoi fighting and the proper things to do in certain situations, and then we moved on to the stakes.

I laughed "Remember when I was so eager to use a stake? We ended up fighting over it all the time"

"Yes, but then you just a child" He said in an overacted teacher voice, and smiled. "Okay, no show me how to kill it"

Smiling I turned back to the dummy and easily struck it in the chest, breaking through all the fake ribs and finally hitting the fake heart.

"You know what would be cool?" I asked Dimitri, who was leaning against the wall proudly watching me.

"What?"

"If when you stabbed the dummy fake blood squirted out"

He chuckled "Roza, Roza, Roza. What am I going to do with you?"

"Spar?" I asked hopefully

Dimitri shook his head "Run"

I sighed and walked over to my socks and shoes. I slipped them on and headed outside tot he track.

"How many laps?" I asked

Dimitri Shrugged "Until I get tired"

I stared at him with a blank expression on my face. Great. Dimitri never gets tired of running.

Dimitri and I ran 25 laps, in 1 hour. We had less than 30 minutes to spar.

Panting, I chugged down a bottle of water.

"Okay" Dimitri said, clapping his hands together. He had changed into gray sweatpants, a tight white tank top, and taken of his shoes. Damn, he looks fine. "Let's spar"

I put down the water bottle, and after taking my socks and shoes off again, walked to the middle of the mat. I got into our ready stances and glared at each other, deciding who would make the first move. Me.
I jumped up and brought my leg around, kicking him in the side of him ribs. He grabbed my leg, and twisted it, causing my whole body to twist. I brought my other leg over and kicked him in the side of the head, before I fell. When I did fall I kicked his ankles, making him fall to the ground. He fell with a thud. I stood up and took a step towards him, he was looking at me proudly.

"I'm on a roll today" I stated.

"Not for long" He grunted, and tripped me, the exact way I tripped him. Karma.

I fell to the ground, and before I knew it he was straddling me, holding my wrists above my head.

"Never let your guard down. Even when you think you've won. Your opponent could easily bounce back, and if I were a Strigoi-"

"I would be dead right now" I said, finishing his sentence "Yeah, Yeah. I know, but you have to admit- I was on a roll"

I smiled, which he returned "That you were... and" He reached into the pocket of his sweats and pulled something out "I believe these are yours" He dangled my panties above my head. I snatched them from his grasp, giggling.

"Yes, there are. You're welcome to keep hem if you want, though. I think it would be pretty interesting to see you in these" I said, smiling from ear-to-ear

"Not in a million years" He said, and leaned down to kiss me.

I'm so sorry I haven't updated in like over a month. I just haven't had the chance to. I've been working on it, here and there, but I'm having a really bad block right now. One reason is because I HAVE to listen to music while writing, but it has to be the right music, the kind that get the flow going. Influential music. For those of you out there who need to listen to music in order to be at you best while writing, what are some really good songs you listen to the really get the flow going? Some really influential songs. I will try to update faster. And with my other story, 'Can This Love Last?', I am trying to work on it, but like I said, I haven't gotten around to it. See, with that one I have it originally written on notebook paper, so you would think I would update it faster, but actually it takes longer, because I ahve to sit here and re-write all of it, not completely, but I also have to edit it and stuff, so it's frustrating, and takes a while. So yeah, please, some songs? Ad I will definitely try to work on the more.