Sorry it took me so long to post, my sister was in a serious car accident just after Christmas so I've been spending most of my time at the hospital with her. The doctor's said that she would make a full recovery and that she can come home tomorrow.

So with that said, this chapter is kind of short but I should have more posted within the next few days.

Enjoy!

RPOV

-Friday-

Today is the day of the dance. The past week seemed to fly by rather quickly.

Besides all my boring classes, I think I had a great week. Lissa and I had been hanging out a lot more and talking, both very excited about the dance tonight. Dimitri and I have been trying to spend time together in our free time and he also was reinstated as my mentor so I've started training again this week. He's also been sneaking into my room every night because he says he can't sleep without me in his arms, I feel the same way. Dimitri and I can't go to the dance together because he's still a teacher and I'm 17 so not everyone can know about us yet. But he said that he would still be there and that Alberta was going to have a student teacher dance so that I could dance with Dimitri at least once, after all it is Valentine's Day and I want to dance with my boyfriend. I absolutely love saying that. But Dimitri said that he would make it up to me by us having a romantic dinner in his room after the dance and that I could stay the night because tomorrow is Saturday. This may be the best weekend of my life.

And to my pleasure, I've hardly seen Tasha around campus.

But as I was saying, today is the day of the dance and classes have just finished and I was now heading to the gym for my after school practice.

As I enter the gym, I notice nothing is set-up and that it is completely empty. Then just as I was about to call out if anyone was there, I smelt his scent just before he wrapped his arms around my waist from behind pulling me toward his chest.

I knew that it was Dimitri instantly so I relaxed my body and tilted my head to the side to give him access to my neck which he didn't hesitate to kiss causing me to moan at his touch.

He started kissing me at the base of my neck and started to kiss up my neck until he got to my ear where he took my earlobe in between his teeth and started to suck, causing me to gasp out at the pleasure coursing through my body.

"Roza, you should be more aware of your surroundings, you didn't even put up a fight." He whispered in my ear before spinning me around in his arms.

"Well Comrade, I knew it was you because no strigoi smells that good," I told him then switched my voice to turn seductive and leaned into him causing his breathing to speed up, "besides, if you were strigoi, all I would have to do is this," I whispered slowly as I trailed my hands down his chest to position my hands in the right places. Then as soon as I finished, I moved to swipe his legs out from under him while also flipping him over so that he would land on his back.

In a matter of seconds he was lying on the floor on his back with a very surprised look on his face with me pinning him.

I then leaned down to whisper in his ear, "Never let your guard down Comrade." Then I leaned in and kissed him with all the love I left for him in the moment.

I was then about to pull back, but Dimitri noticing what I was about to do, flipped us over so that he was hovering over me deepening the kiss further. After a few minutes, we broke the kiss so that we could breathe I then took the opportunity to talk.

"So Comrade, why isn't anything set up?" I asked in a slightly breathless voice.

"Well I thought that I would cancel practice so that you could go and get ready for the dance tonight because I am dying to see you in that sexy red dress again," he said and then dropped his voice into his sexy as hell seductive, Russian voice," although I wouldn't mind finishing this." He then resumed kissing me, and the kiss was so perfect that I almost felt compelled to stay there with him and finish what he started but I needed time to get ready. So I did the last thing in the world I wanted to do, I pulled away, which ended up causing Dimitri to make the cutest noise ever, which was somewhere between a groan and a whimper. This made me smile.

"Why are you smiling? You're torturing me by not letting me kiss you." He said with a pout on his face causing my smile to grow.

"Sorry about that but I need time to get ready for tonight so that I can torture you further by making myself look so sexy that all you'll be thinking about all night is wondering whether or not the dress will be easy to rip from my body." And with that, I flipped him back over and ran out of the gym before he could do anything else.

As I was walking back towards my dorm room I got a message from Lissa through the bond telling me that she was waiting for me in my room already with everything we would need for tonight. So with that I pushed myself to jog the rest of the way to my room.

Once I got into my room, I saw Lissa already setting up everything throughout my room. I spared a glance at the clock next to my and saw that we still had about four hours to get ready for the dance, but knowing Lissa, she planned on using the full four hours.

As soon as she noticed me standing in the room she handed me my robe, shower caddie, and shower shoes and told me to go get a shower. So I immediately ran into the shower room on my floor.

As soon as I got into the shower and under the water, I felt myself relax; I hadn't realized how long it had been since I just took the time to relax like this. I'm usually always in a hurry in the morning because I'm always late for practice so I don't get to do this that often but I miss it. I then quickly shampooed and conditioned my hair, and shaved because I knew that Dimitri and I would be busy tonight. Just thinking about Dimitri brought a smile to my face. I couldn't believe he was mine and that we could be together. I also could not wait to see him in a tux.

I must have taken longer in the shower than I thought because the next thing I know Lissa is yelling at me through the bond telling me that I had been in the shower for almost an hour. It wasn't until she told me that that I realized my fingers were very pruned. I then shut off the water and dried off quickly. Then as soon as I had my robe on and had all of my things, and quickly got back to my room before Lissa bit my head off, no pun intended.

"What took you so long?" Lissa asked as soon as walked through the door.

"Sorry I just lost track of time" I replied while taking the towel off my head and brushing my hair out.

"Well you're lucky we still have time to get ready now get over here so that I can do your hair since mine's finished." She said as she directed me towards the designated seat where she would do my hair. As I walked towards the seat, I took the time to notice her hair. Her blonde hair was done in soft curls that fell around her shoulder and down her back ending just around her shoulder blades. Her hair was also pinned back slightly so that it didn't cover her face. (Picture on Profile) The hairstyle looked beautiful on her and once she puts her makeup and dress on, she'll look absolutely wonderful.

As soon as I was seated Lissa began to blow dry my hair which took longer than I thought it would due to the length of my hair. I was thinking that maybe I should cut it but quickly dismissed the idea because I hated the thought of cutting my hair, and besides, Dimitri loved my hair.

After Lissa dried my hair she then began to curl my hair into soft curls like hers. This only took a few minutes. She then pulled it back into a low, side pony tail to keep it out of my face. She then quickly covered it in hair spray to keep it in place and then took a mirror and showed me it. (Picture on Profile) I thought it looked great but once I was finished then I would look sexy as hell, Dimitri won't know what hit him.

As soon as Lissa had finished with my hair we both then moved onto make up. I decided that for my make up that I wanted to go natural, so I chose a light brown eye shadow to help bring out my eyes with a little gold glitter. I then applied some eye liner and mascara so that you could faintly notice it. And then as a final touch I put on some of the lip gloss that Dimitri got for me. When I was finished I looked over at Lissa who was just finishing up.

Lissa did something similar to me by going natural. Only she decided to use a pink tinted eye shadow which in contrast to her green eyes made her look stunning. Once we were both finished and packed up all Lissa's hair and makeup stuff, I turned to the clock and saw that we had only a half hour left until the dance started.

Seeing this Lissa and I got all our jewelry and accessories on and then slipped our dresses on. And they were everything we hoped they would be. Lissa looked absolutely fantastic in her dress and with everything else she had on, she looked like the perfect princess. And me, well, I looked drop dead sexy. I couldn't wait for Dimitri to see it. Lissa and I then hurried and slipped our shoes on and were out the door with ten minutes to spare. Liss and I agreed to Dimitri and Christian at the dance to give some time to talk.

As we were walking towards the dance, I noticed Lissa fidgeting with her hand, her left hand to be exact, and through the bond I could tell that she wanted to tell me something and that whatever it was, she was extremely happy about it. Then just as I was about to ask her about it, I heard a noise come from the adjacent woods to my dorm building. It sounded like a branch snapping, and if it weren't for my heightened hearing, I may have missed it. I continued to listen for any other noises while pushing Lissa behind me in case there was a threat lurking in the shadows.

I could feel Lissa's worry flow through the bond, then just as I was about to grab Lissa and make a run for it to the gym to try and notify the guardians, I felt a stinging sensation in my shoulder. When I looked down to see what it was, I saw a dart looking thing sticking out of my shoulder. I then pulled it out and held it up to look at it more closely and after getting a slightly dizzy feeling in my head I realized it was a tranquilizing dart.

I then looked back to where the dart was shot from and saw a group of about seven or eight humans dressed in camouflage emerge from the woods each carrying a dart gun.

Thinking that they were after Lissa, I pushed her back while telling her to run and get help by alerting the guardians, but as she got further away, I realized that it wasn't her they were after, it was me.

A few of the humans began to approach me but despite the dart that they shot at me, my mind was beginning to slightly clear up. When two of the humans who I noticed were male approached me with rope, I struck out with a kick and punch sending them both back a few feet.

"She's still pretty strong, quick, fire a few more darts." And before I even have time to understand what they said I felt about ten more stings throughout my body and soon my sight began to get darker. It wasn't longer before I completely collapsed onto the ground and then just before I completely went unconscious, I saw Lissa make it to the gym.