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Chapter 7

That night I didn't sleep much. I was hoping that Dimitri would come to my room, but he didn't. I still couldn't get over the fact that he was leaving so soon.

I realised it was morning when the sun disappeared and all that was left was the hallway light coming in from under my door.

I took my time that morning to get ready seeing as I had still a few hours until class started. Once I had a shower and got dressed, I went into Lissa's head to see where she was. She was still in her room, putting on her pants and giggling to herself. But then I dumbly realised she wasn't laughing to herself, but at Christian who had put his arms around her waist.

"I love you. Did you know that?" Christian teasingly said and kissed the side of her neck and again behind her ear.

"I love you too" replied Lissa and she turned herself around so that she was facing him and wrapped her arms around his neck

"Now would you like to come back to bed? Or do I have to pick you up and take you there?"

Wait. Bed? Oh god please no!

"Christian" Lissa squealed and tried to get away from Christian who only tightened his hold around her waist, "I have to go and see Rose...seriously let go" she laughed even harder but then all of a sudden stopped and I felt shock and confusion in her as she stared blankly at the wall in front of her.

Christian immediately noticed the change and let go of her, walking in front of her face, "Hey! Babe...are you...alright?" he waved his hands in front of her eyes but she didn't take notice. I was also worried of why she wasn't moving. I wanted to run to her right now.

I was about to pull out of her mind when she said, "Rose? Are you there?" WHAT! How did she...how did she know? "Rose? If you're there can you give me some sign..."

"Lissa?" I replied in my thoughts

"Rose? Oh my God! I...I can hear you –" and then everything blacked out. I found myself sitting on the edge of my bed. What the hell just happened? Could Lissa feel that I was with her? And then did she just talk to me?

I shook out of my thoughts and ran out of my room. I was going to head straight to Lissa. She would be feeling weird too, I'm sure. I mean, we just talked and she felt me.

How cool!

I ran and got as far as the cafeteria before Lissa stopped me, obviously she was running to come to me too, "Rose! Rose!" we stopped in front of eachother and both just stared at eachother in disbelief, waiting for the other person to respond...

When we both squealed, "OH MY GOD!"

I didn't doubt that many Moroi and Dhampier's looked at us like we were weird.

"Did that...did that just happen?" Lissa finally said as we finished our over-excitement, "Did you just hear me talk to you?"

"I think so. I think so." I was shocked. That's all I knew what to say. Everything from my mind previously was forgotten and all I could think about is the fact that me and Lissa could talk to eachother in our thoughts now.

"But why did it black out all of a sudden?" Lissa asked confused

"I don't know. Maybe because it's all just new to us that we don't know how to control it and therefore it doesn't last that long." Silence "How cool is this? We have to tell Kivora...we have to tell everyone...oh my god! I cannot get over this Liss. It's so friggin' awesome!"

"I know! I know! Ahhhhh!" We hugged eachother tightly, both smiling big, broad smiles.

When we let go, we went to have breakfast first before heading over to Kivora's office. When we got into the building we both stood in front of her office for a few moments, both nervous but equally excited.

Knock knock knock

"Come in...Oh good morning girls. What can I do for you?"

It was Lissa who answered, "Well, Headmistress Kivora. Rose and I have some exciting news to tell you..."

"Oh, well why don't you girls take a seat" she gestured for us to sit while she walked over and closed her office door. "So what is it you would like to tell me?"

Lissa and I both glanced to eachother before I took the cue for my turn to talk, "Um, well this morning I went into Lissa's mind to check up on her, like I always do, when all of a sudden she could feel me watching over her and she talked to me," I smiled "I mean, actually talked to me and I could talk to her"

Kivora sat in her chair shocked. She had a few moments of silence before she could find the words to say, "Oh. Wow. Girls...this is...this is...well frankly I don't know what to say," she let out a small chuckle, "um...this is great news. For both of you. I'm sure that this will benefit you for your future endeavours as a guardian, Miss Hathaway, and to you as well Princess."

"Yes. I'm sure it will" Lissa said and glanced over at me smiling. I smiled at her back

After the meeting with Kivora, Lissa and I split ways to go to our first two classes. At our break, I accompanied Lissa to the feeders before parting ways once again to go to our next two classes.

At lunch, Lissa and I were eating our food when Christian joined us, "Congratulations Rose" Christian said before kissing Lissa and sitting down.

"Um...thank you?" I was slightly confused. I didn't know what I had done.

"About our minds silly" Lissa said, slapping me on the arm

"Oh! I know. I'm still shocked about the fact that we can do it. Only we've tried and can't seem to do it again. I hope that it wasn't a one off"

"It wasn't Rose" Lissa said with slight annoyance "We will try again later ok? We just have to let it settle and try again"

"I know Liss." I laughed back at her. She smiled.

I finished eating my burger and started to stand up when Christian stopped me, "Hey Rose? I saw Guardian Belikov walking out of the wards with a bag over his shoulder before I came in here. Is he going away or something?

WHAT! "What? What do you mean? Well...yes he is getting transferred but he wasn't leaving until tonight!" By that time I had stood up and was heading out the door

"Rose? Where are you going?" Lissa called out to me as I walked out of the cafeteria

"I'll explain it to you later" I managed to call back before I started running. I ran with thoughts clouding my head. How could I just forget everything that was going on? Dimitri was leaving. But he wasn't supposed to leave until tonight. And I'm positive he wouldn't leave without saying goodbye to me. He couldn't...he wouldn't...

I ran straight to the edge of the school's entrance. But nobody was there. I stood there frozen. He left. He left me without saying goodbye. I felt tears swelling up in my eyes but I held them back when I saw the guard standing only a few feet away from me, "Are you ok Miss?"

"Uh...yes..." I pulled myself together to ask, "Has Guardian Belikov left yet?"

"He was about to, but he told me that he had left something up in his room and he would run up to get it"

Before he was finished I was running towards his room. I felt bad for just running away like that but I couldn't think about that now. I had more things to worry about.

When I made it to Dimitri's room, the door was slightly open, but I opened it fully to find Dimitri putting a letter on his bedside table.

He looked at me and held up the note like he was caught red-handed, "I didn't know how to say goodbye. I knew I wouldn't be able to. So this was the only way I could think of doing it...I'm sorry"

"You have to be kidding me right? You were just going to leave? Like that? Without saying goodbye – "

"I wrote you a note – "

"Bullshit! That isn't a proper goodbye and you know it!" I was furious and yelling, "How could you? How dare you!"

"Roza. I love you. More than you know. That's why I did this" he waved the letter in his hand

I felt bad immediately. I knew that if we did say goodbye I wouldn't be able to let go. He wouldn't be able to let go. Maybe this was the best way.

"I'm sorry...but why are you leaving now? You said tonight."

"I know. But at the meeting last night, Kivora told me that I had to leave at lunchtime today instead"

I ran over to him and hugged him hard. He hugged me back and my face leant on his chest. I started to sob. I couldn't help it.

Dimitri chuckled, "this is why I wrote the note" he loosened the grip and cupped my face with his hands so that we were staring directly at eachother, "this is why I couldn't say goodbye. I knew it wouldn't work" he smiled slightly before crushing his lips against mine.

It was amazing. I wish it could go on forever but I knew it had to end. He was the one that pulled away because I was bawling my eyes out. How embarrassing. A wet, sloppy kiss.

"Roza, don't cry" he wiped away my tears before walking over and grabbing a tissue and handing it to me

I wiped my eyes and forced a smile, before hugging him again, "I want to never let you go" I managed to say as I was hyperventilating. He chuckled. "I love you. So, so much"

"I love you too Roza. I'll see you soon I'm sure."

I took a deep breath in and released my hold on him, he did the same. "Promise me that we'll stay in contact. Somehow. I don't care. I can't lose you Dimitri. I can't"

"And you won't" he cut me off "I will always love you. Even if we aren't together, I will still know what you smell like, smile like, what you do...and even what you're like when you're dressed...or undressed" he chuckled and I smiled, "see, that's the smile I want" he rubbed his thumb across my cheek.

"And I will remember you too. Always and forever." I kissed him again and we hugged for a few more moments before we both knew he had to go.

A started to cry again and hyperventilate. I tried to cover it up by smiling and bowing my head down so he couldn't see my face.

"I have to go now" he whispered

"I know" I whispered back, my head was still lowered

He kissed me on my forehead before walking towards the door. When he reached the door he turned his head around, "Love you"

I turned to face him, "Love you too"

And then he was gone.

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