I was flying. Everything was nice, colorful, and bright. I could feel the sun caressing my skin, enveloping my body with its warmth. Lissa and I were flying above the beach, looking for some hot guys that might worth my time. Then fireworks were heard, going off into the bright sky. Boom, Boom, Boom! Suddenly, a cold, strong breeze hit my face, I looked around to see Lissa was nowhere in sight.

"Rose." That wasn't Lissa's voice for sure.

"Rose wake up!" the voice commended. Ughhh… was that a dream? Oh mannn.. I was going back to reality.

"No… go away I wanna sleep!" I whined to whoever dared to even try to wake me up. 'cause there is no way in hell Rose Hathaway is waking up this early.

"Rose.. For the sake of love, get up!"

"Dimitri?"

"Yeah, now wake up before we are late!"

"Late for what?" I asked.

"Our flight." He said in a kind of small voice… afraid of my reaction.

"OK! Let's go!" I started getting up until I realized… "Wait… did you just say our flight?" I am so confused.

He nodded.

"And may I ask where are we going, or it is no matter for discussion either?" I asked.

"To the court." He answered immediately.

"For?..." I asked, trying to get a more specific answer.

"To see Victor Dashkov." He said, with a voice lacking of emotion.

"Vi…victo.. Victor Dashkov?" I managed to say, before choking on my own saliva.

"Yes." He answered with still blank face.

"May I ask why?.." I don't get this.. I thought he was the one that might rip Victor's throat out ever since the attack, and now he wants to go to court to see him?

"Why do you think Rose?" he asked, losing his patience with me, obviously aware of the time.

I looked aside, slowly recalling all last week's mood swings. I punched Jesse, got depressed, cried all the time, never wanted company except for Dimitri.

"And how are you planning to get me out of here?" I challenged.

He didn't answer; he was too busy staring at my injured hands.

"Omg! Are we gonna run away? Are we gonna make this escape for the sake of our freedom like I did with Lissa?" I was obviously playing around. I'd do anything to take that pain away from his eyes.

"No. I'm not that irresponsible." He replied, making fun of me.

"You know my answer, and my attitude, so you don't want to get me upset." I said, playing this game again, and winning. I gave him a quick kiss on his cheek, and headed off to take a shower, and get ready.

When I got out of the shower, and was fully dressed, he was already done packing my clothes and all my "girl stuff" from the bathroom.

"So we are going for more than one day." I assumed.

He smiled. "Yes. We are going to spend the night there."

I smiled back. He leaned in and kissed me, but pulled away after a few seconds.

"I'll let you finish getting ready. I'll wait for you by the gate." He took my suitcase, and left the room. Since he kind of got me into that mood again, I thought it was a good idea to change clothes. I put in a red tank top that was from my old days as the naughty irresistible Rose. Skinny black jeans, and red pumps. My pumps weren't too high, they were about 3.5 inches high, but it was hell to run with them. From experience.
I met Dimitri at the gate, after I told Lissa I have "guardian stuff" to take care of at court, and I'll be back in 2 days. When Dimitri saw me his eyes almost popped out and his jaw was left open. But as always, he immediately recovered himself, and said," Rose, we are going to the court, not a nightclub."

"Oh. You think this is what I would wear for a night club? Are you kidding me? This is way too formal!"

He sighed and said, "of course it is."

As soon as we were past the wards, and no one from the Academy was in sight,(besides Alberta which had to come with us, who-knows-why.. but she was coming later so it didn't matter.) we held hands and walked silently towards the car. Once we started on our way to the Academy's private jet, Dimitri turned on the radio to one of his way-too-old-for-me stations.

"Do I really have to listen to this oldies music?"

"yes." He replied, barley letting me finish my question. So that's how he wanted to be. That's alright. So I pulled my hand away from his and looked "dramatically" out the window. He chuckled but then he realized that I'm not gonna hold his hand until he changes the station.

"fine." He said. He changed the station and before taking my hand in his again, his hand gave me a slight but full of electricity touch to my inner thigh. With that touch my head snapped towards him, only to see him cracking up at my reaction for his little trick.

"bastard." I mumbled under my breath, although I'm pretty sure he heard me because right after I said that he laughed even harder.

"Eyes on the road, Comrade! I don't feel like getting killed today."

Once we got to the airport, he parked the car where most of the academy's cars were, and headed off towards the jet. When we got to the jet I gasped. This jet had everything. Like, I mean everything. It had a refrigerator, a whole kitchen with a sink, a dish washer, gas, and an oven. It had a long sofa along the right side of it, and on the left side there was a dining table with two wooden chairs on each side. It also had a bathroom that was about the size of my dorm! It even had a closet that had a mirror on it. And it had two huge LCDs!

Dimitri must have noticed my expression, because he started laughing and said, "yeah it's pretty much a house.."

"Pretty much?? It is house!" I started walking towards the couch, when Dimitri caught my wrist and pulled me to him.

I looked into those deep, serious, brown eyes. "I picked this jet because this would be the only time we can be alone, and I wanted to make it special." He whispered.

I just kept staring at him and smiled.

"Thanks, Dimitri." I wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed him. The kiss started very slow, and soft, but soon it became passionate and urgent. Unfortunately, we had to pull away a few seconds later because we heard Alberta outside the jet.

"Are you all set Guardian Belikov?" she asked as she walked into the jet.

"Yes. Thanks with your help convincing Headmistress Kirova about this. It's a great opportunity for me to test Rose in the actual field."

Alberta smiled and said, "You are very welcome." She shook Dimitri's hand firmly, and then looked at me.

"Good luck Rose. I heard what he is planning for you. It's not gonna be easy, so umm… yeah. Enjoy!"

"Oh I will." I replied. Dimitri elbowed me for the double meaning of my answer.

"What?" I asked after Alberta left. He gave me that 'I-know-you-know-what-I-am-talking about' look. "Oh, come on! She had no idea what I was talking about!"

"I'm not so sure about that Rose." He said, walking towards the couch, and sitting down.

I followed him and sat with one leg bended so I sat on it and the other was swinging from the couch. "What do you mean?" I asked, curious.

"Well… she knows how I feel about you. Kind of. But she doesn't know how you feel about me."

"Oh… really?" to be honest, I'm not surprised. He always looks at me in a special way. But I know I have that exact same look on my face when I'm around him so I know that Alberta has the idea of what's going on.

"Yeah…" he said, lost in thought.

"So what did she say when she told you how you feel about me?" He smiled at my confusing question and said,

"She told me that she knew this would happen. She knew I would like you very much because of who you are. You are a fighter. You have a strong personality." He started leaning closer to me as he said his next words. "And you are exceptionally beautiful, and you have a smile that would make the whole school melt. And you are the most amazing person I've ever met in my whole life." He cupped my face in his hands. "And I love you." He whispered. I stopped breathing the moment he cupped my face. "Breathe, Roza." He whispered, and then leaned in to kiss me ever so lightly, it was like warm, delicious silk caressing my lips. It made me shiver down my spine.

"I love you too Dimitri. From the bottom of my heart." I whispered.

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