Sorry the first author note was long. I promise to keep them short and sweet from now on. Some of you thought I should try and put in some other VA characters and some scenes directly related to the book, all I can say is I will try. Since this is an AU nothing will be exactly the same.
Dimitri walked me to my locker, which was ironically right beside his. I could feel him carefully watching me as if he expected me to try and run from the school. I wondered how he could know me so well after just two weeks. I reached in grabbing what I needed for my first three classes. First was World Civ. Then I had remedial geometry, because I went from school to school so often I was behind the rest of the sophomore class in most of our classes. And then third block was gym, I was actually put into the senior class because I was apparently "too rough" for kids my age. I took this as a complement; it just meant I was in shape when they were not.
I slammed my locker door in my typical rose Hathaway fashion. I looked over at Dimitri knowing he would be waiting to walking me to my first. He always did. One my first day in his house his mother had told him to look out for me, and he apparently took his job very seriously. I didn't mind, I liked having a Russian body guard. We started to walk in the direction of the social studies hall. We always walked in silence, at first I thought he hated me and was giving me the silent treatment but I soon learned Dimitri doesn't waste time on small talk.
I was in daydreaming about my running away to Florida when some jackass purposely ran into Dimitri causing him to run into me.
"Watch it!" the guy snapped at Dimitri. He simply rolled his eyes and muttered under his breath in Russian.
"Oh watch it Paul, he might lace you house in C4!" said a friend of his. (If you didn't know that is an explosive used by the KGB, if you don't know what the KGB is one word my friend … GOOGLE!) The boys burst out laughing. Dimitri turned to walk away and I started to follow. It still amazed me how well he stayed in control. Just as we started to walk away something hard hit me it the back of the head. I looked at the floor to try and find what hit me. It was a soda can that had been painted red and had TNT printed on it. It was obviously meant for Dimitri but who ever threw it had bad aim.
Now Dimitri may be able to stay calm but I was rose Hathaway. I walked straight up to the guy who had shoved Dimitri and pushed him so hard he stumbled back and almost fell to the ground. There was an audible gasp from the crowd that had formed.
"You bitch!" he yelled at me.
I grabbed him by his shirt collar pulling him close to me. "Don't piss me off today," I warned, "I'm running out of places to hide the bodies." His face drained of all color. Apparently my bad girl reputation was more wide spread than I originally thought if this jock was scared of me. Just then a strong hand came down on my shoulder.
"Is something wrong Miss Hathaway?" it was a teacher. I didn't know his name but I knew he was nice and usually let bad behavior go by unpunished. So I plastered on a smile and lied.
After a second of staring at me he told me to get to class. I reluctantly did.
"You know one of these days you're going to fight someone who can actually beat you." Dimitri said. I snorted as if to say 'as if.'
"I mean it Rosemarie, maybe you should think before you act." He said as we reached my World Civ. Class. He gave me one last look over his shoulder but continued down the hall.
"It's Rose!" I screamed after him.
Sighing I walked into class. Because of the jerk in the hall I barely made it to class before the bell rang. There were two seats left. One was in the very front row but by the window on the far side of the room and the other was right behind it. I have never willingly sat in the front seat so I chose the one behind it. I stared out the window waiting for the teacher to finish taking attendance and start class.
Just then the door opened and a girl walked in. She was tall and skinny with straight white blonde hair and jade green eyes. She seemed scared and unsure of herself. I immediately realized she was new here and was scared. My heart went out to her. I had been like here once, but you eventually get over it with practice.
"Um… Is this world civ. With… uh Stan Alto?" she stumbled over her words.
"It is and your late." God he is such a jackass.
"I'm sorry; it's my first day I got lost." She seemed so scared.
"Well when you're late to my class you must answer three questions for each minute you missed, seeing how you are three minutes late that's nine questions." The girls eyes got big but she just nodded. Stan launched into his impossible questions. Looking around I noticed that no one in the whole class knew the answers, not even the nerds.
"WRONG!" Stan snapped again. The poor girl looked close to tears. I couldn't take it anymore. I reached into my messenger bag and pulled out my calculator. I threw it as hard as I could at Stan. Every head in the class turned to look at me. So I said the first witty thing that came to mind.
"I'm watching this trying to see it from your point of view but…" I paused to look at the class to make sure I had everyone's attention. I then looked Stan straight in the eye. "I can't get my head that far up my ass."
The room burst out laughing. Stan's mouth hung open in surprise. When he finally regained control he started to yell.
"Hathaway! New girl! Office now!" I just shrugged and walked out the door. I knew my way to the office by heart already. As I sat in the reception area the secretary looked up and shook her head. The new girl chose to sit right beside me. I turned to look at her. She looked scared out of her mind.
"Sorry about getting you in trouble." I said truly meaning it. She turned to look at me and smiled.
"Thank you for standing up for me. I'm Lissa." I smiled at her. I already liked her; she hadn't blamed me for her getting in trouble.
"Rose" I said just as a kid with long shaggy black hair walked out of the principal's office.
"Yes I believe I know you Miss Hathaway, but who is this that you dragged down with you."
I sighed as the principal went on and on. I knew I was going to have a bad day, why hadn't Dimitri just let me sleep?
Okay that was really! Long for me:D
hopes you like it! Next up she will be in gym class (damn principal talk's forever LOL). Guess who is in her gym class!!!
Question of the day:
Who here can say for Christmas their grandma bought them sexy underwear? (I can. And I am only 14! Sigh ]= )