Chapter 5.
When we returned to St. Vlad it seemed as though everyone knew about Adrian being my real father, news traveled fast when it came to royal mori families. As Riley walked to the gym for my first class of the day stares fallowed us, I sighed and he tightened his arm around me.
"Don't let them get to you, they're not worth it." he said as we stopped at the gym door.
"I know, it's just so strange, you'd think they'd have something better to talk about." I told him as I leaned into him as he wrapped his arms around me.
"It'll all die out soon enough Anna, just don't worry about. Go in that class and kick some ass it'll make you fell better." he kissed my forehead and then I went into Demetri's class. I walked in and sat on the bench against the far wall and waited for the class to start, and when it stared I was surprised to see not Demetri, but mom walk in.
"Grab a seat on the mat everybody." mom said and everyone scrambled to the mat. "I'm gardian Rose Belivok and I'm taking over this class. So I want you guys to pair up, there's and uneven number so Anastasia your with me." Everyone paired up and I went to mom, and we began to spar.
"Why isn't Demetri teaching this class anymore, is it because of me?" I asked as we fought.
"He didn't think he'd be able to control himself if kids started saying things about this weekend. He may not be you real father but he's been taking care of you your whole life Anna." Mom kick my legs out from under me and pinned me down.
"I know mom." I said as she helped me up. She called the class back to the mat to teach today's technique.
"During some fights you will need to disarm your opponent. Anna come here for a minute." I stood up and walked to my mothers side, she grabbed one of the rubber stakes we used to practice. " Alright Anna I want you to disarm me as quickly as possible." I nodded and we took our beginning stances. As me lunged at me with the stake I kicked up and hit her wrist and the stake fell from her hand. "Good good Anna. Who else wants to give it a try?"
After class I went to see Demetri he was sitting on a bench waiting for his next class to come in. He had his earbud in and was reading some novel. He didn't hear me come in or notice me as I made my way over to him.
"Demetrie," I said and he looked up at me, "you shouldn't have given your class up."
"It's okay Anna, I have more patients for the younger ones then your mother does anyway." He stood up and hugged me, it didn't matter that I wasn't his daughter Demetri still loved me like I was.
That night I lay across Riley's bed waiting for Lissa to finish dinner, he was sitting on the edge of his bed strumming a tune on the guitar. I just lay there listening to the tune thinking about everything that had happened in the past few weeks.
"Ya know if we would have stayed a t court nothing would have changed." I said.
"What?" Riley said still strumming away.
"If we wouldn't have come here I wouldn't be around Adrian as much and I still be Anastasia Belivok, not Anastasia Ivashkov." I told him.
"Well I guess that's true but then you'd still be living a lie, you wouldn't know the whole truth about your family." he said.
"Anna, Riley, Bashton, and Ragen, dinners ready." Lissa called form downstaris.
"That means get your asses down here." mom added. Riley and I laughed as we made our way downstairs. Dad had made it to the house now I hugged him then found my spot at the table. Dinner as always was filled with swearing and laughter, much of the swearing was from mom and Christian who constantly fought about fighting tactics.
After dinner I walked dad to the door and hugged him good bye.
"Hey Anna can you come by my place Thursday? Theres something I need to about with you."
"Okay dad I'll see you then, love you." I said.
"Love you to little dhampire." he kissed the top of my head and then left. We stayed and Lissa and Christian's for a little while longer and then we said our good-byes and went home. I crawled into to bed and feel straight to sleep not caring about how many kids would stare tomorrow or if Nathan would ever except me as his grandaughter at that moment I content with how life was.