This chapter was written SO much faster than the other chapters. It literately only took me about 3-4 hours to write 4 pages out on paper.

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Disclaimer: I do not, in any way, own Vampire Academy. It all belongs to the amazingly talented Richelle Mead, who I just learned lives only about 40-50 minutes away from me. Weird statement, but okay.

Chapter 4

"Have a great day. Stay out of trouble you two." My mom looked pointedly at Adrian and me.

"Mom? Seriously?" I said as I leaned back into the car to grab my bags.

"Yes. We don't need a repeat of last year, do we?" She asked.

"No, but mom, we all know why last year was the way it was. It's not going to happen again." I tried to reassure her. I quickly swung my backpack onto my back, and my sports bag onto my shoulder so that it was hanging off to my side. "See you after practice." I called as I turned around and walked towards Lissa, where she was standing with the rest of our group.

"Thank you for the ride, Mrs. Dragomir." I heard Dimitri say to my mom. God, I hate that name. Why did she decide to be so old-fashioned and take his name? Why couldn't she just get the modern times, and keep Hathaway? Now that I think about it, why did she have to get remarried in the first place?

I thought I was keeping my anger well-contained, but I must have failed because the next thing I knew, I was hearing my name being called out.

"Rose? What got you so mad all of a sudden?" Christian said. "Your face looks like something just crawled up your ass and died."

"Oh, Sparky, I didn't know you cared so much." I sneered.

"You know, I'm really starting to hate the nickname." He groaned.

"Well, you should've thought about that before you became a pyromaniac and almost set the garage on fire." I reminded him. We had barely been able to put it out.

"Will you two stop? I think I've heard enough of your bickering to last me ten lifetimes." Lissa complained. She quickly stepped between us to get our full attention, firmly holding Christian's hand.

"Your gonna have enough to last you hundreds of lifetimes than. It's too much fun, and he makes it too easy." I continued to stare at Christian, waiting for his next move.

"For the first time, she's ri..." He sputtered. He tried again. And again. He eventually gave up and said, "She's not wrong-"

"That's amazing! Gold star for Rose!" I heard a voice say from behind me.

"You have got to be fucking kidding me." I turned around and saw the one and only, Jesse Zeklos. "What do you want Jesse?" I looked towards Camille. "Is this your new blow up doll?" I turned back to Jesse. "I thought I made myself clear at the beginning of the summer, that I didn't want anything to do with you. After that little stunt you pulled, you should be happy that I didn't press assault charges." I crossed my arms over my chest.

"But you didn't. I just happened to be walking by when I heard that you were actually right about something for once." He said in his usual snarky attitude. "I mean, look how making the wrong decision helped you last year with your daddy."

"Why, you little..." I lunged at Jesse. Well, correction. I tried to lunge at him. Not even a second after I moved, a strong pair of arms wrapped around and restrained me. I growled and flailed my legs, trying to get out of my captor's grasp.

"Woah, little girl. Trying to start a fight on the first day of school?" I heard Jesse say from the recesses of my mind.

"I'll show you a little girl when I punch your nose in!" I exclaimed, still trying desperately to get out of my restraints. "Let go of me!"

Through my yelling and growling, I heard a quiet and soothing voice say, "Rose, everyone is looking at you. I don't think you want to spend the first day in the headmistress' office." The voice had a slight accent. I stopped struggling to get free, trying to catch my breath. Let's face it, trying to get out of someone's arms, more specifically, someone like Dimitri, was tiring. Dimtri loosened his hold, but didn't fully let go until I was completely calm.

I looked around me, and finally saw my surroundings. I saw Jesse and Camile retreating back into the crowd of onlookers. It seemed like the entire junior and senior class were staring at the confrontation that had just happened in St Vladimir's courtyard. I had always enjoyed the serendity of this particular place during my free period.

With tables and chairs placed sporadically thoughout the large expanse of space, it was a great place to go and wind down after a hard day. There were trees set around the area, providing a great deal of shade on the sunny days. I would go here nearly every day. This was one of the few places I could go after the accident, that I could really, fully think.

I turned around and realized that Adrian and Lissa had already started walking towards the front office building with the rest of our little group. I'll bet my life savings that they are headed to get their term schedules, I quickly thought.

I turned slightly, and saw Dimitri looking down at me. "Are you okay now?" He asked.

"Yeah. I just kind of lost it back there. Nothing to worry about. It happens every now and then. Especially since the accident." I found that I felt compelled to tell him all that, even though it seems like all I'm doing is rambling. Something I don't do often. I rubbed my hands on my arms, as if trying to get warm. "How about we go and catch up with Lissa and them?" Before I make a bigger fool of myself.

"Uh.. Yeah. Sure." He didn't sound so sure. I nodded and quickly grabbed my bags, which seemed to have fallen off my shoulders, or something along those lines.

As I started walking towards the administrative office, I realized something. "Look. The crowd isn't much of one anymore." How unobservent, Rose.

Dimitri didn't do anything to reply to that, except for a light, breathy chuckle under his breath.

When we finally got to the office, I could see Headmistress Kirova handing out the schedules. I thought see would get Mrs. McDonald to do that, I laughed lightly. Mrs. McDonald was Kirova's personal secretary. They were two very different kinds of people.

I saw everyone else from the little group, standing off to the side. Lissa motioned her head towards Kirova, as if trying to encourage me to just get the schedule done and out of the way.

I shook my head, but headed over there anyway. "Ah, Miss Hathaway. It's always a pleasure to see you." Kirova said as I approached the large front desk.

"The feelings are mutual, Headmistress." I plastered a smile onto my face.

She extended her hand with my schedule. I took it. "Hope this schedule suits your interests."

I was really tempted to say, "Yeah, sure. All you want is for me to get out of this school. I know how you feel about me." But, instead, I just thanked her and walked away. As I walking towards the side of the room that everyone else was on, I looked down at my schedule.

Period 0- Homeroom- Edlund- Rm. 182

Period 1- Advanced Algebra- Jastrzembski- Rm. 307

Period 2- World Studies- Harkness- Rm. 304

Period 3- Conditioning- Elliott- Gym

Period 4- Biology- Wurdermann- Rm. 162

Lunch

Period 5- English- King- Rm. 232

Period 6- Chorale- Green- Rm. Choir

Period 7- Free Period

Period 8- Health Science 1- Kennedy- Rm. 217

Are they trying to kill me? These classes are so spread apart, I won't have time for anything else! Ugh!

Ok. Not as long as before, but I was wanting to update, and with the HSPE (High School Proficency Exam) this week, I have been cramming like nothing else. So, I tried to do my best. It may take me a little longer to update the next chapter, but I am honestly struggling in my English class, so I need to put as much effort into that as I can. My mom is going to kill me when she sees that grade, so I might not be able to get on the computer, therefore no typing. But, never fear, I will be writing the next chapter on paper when I don't have access to it.

I was also wanting to ask a quick question, and you can answer them in a review or PM me your preference. Do you want Rose and Dimitri to get into a relationship by her birthday (which will be in about 3-5 chapters), or do you want it to take a while? Please reply. It is important for the progression of the story. Either way, Rose is still going to battle with her problem of opening up.

Have a great day!

-Camzi

PS: Most of those teachers and classes are ones I actually have. They are not made up!