"Mom!," my mother, Janine Hathaway. The one Guardian in the world who thought her job was more important than her children. I haven't seen her in five years, since before I left court. What the hell is she doing here? How did she find me? Abe. Why didn't she tell Lissa? Liss was the one person who missed me the most other than Adrian. And she was the one person who people would tell her where I was so she could see me. At first I was so shocked to see my mother that I didn't notice the woman standing right next to her... an exact replica of me. It took me a few seconds to find my words, but when I did they were in complete Rose fashion.
"Who the hell is this?," I screeched so loud I probably woke the neighbors. "Mom is there something you need to tell me?"
"Rosemarie, I think you should sit down for this," mom said calmly. I sat and she continued quickly. "This is your twin sister Lilyanna. I wanted to conduct an experiment after I found out I was having twins. I wanted to see who would turn out a better guardian. Your father or me. I kept you and sent you to the academy to be trained, while Abe had Lilyanna and she went to school in Turkey while living with your father fulltime. Were supposed to bring you together after you graduated, but you left court before the plans could be made. Abe just finally told me where you were."
All through this I sat fuming silently with rage, but I had to be careful not to draw darkness from Liss. Lilyanna was a really good guardian in training but she was a little scared of me. She was staring at me in awe when she suddenly spoke.
"So…" she began "You left court? And Vasilissa? Why, she's the Dragomir princess and the last one at that?"She obviously didn't understand. And she was getting on my nerves. Lillyanna was starting to unclench her fists and calm down realizing I wasn't going to hurt her.
"Yep, I couldn't handle it, so I left court, and Liss is fine I check on her every week because I get sucked into her head. But it is none of your business about why I left court, now is it?" I think I was starting to alert her guardian senses thinking I'm a threat. And of course she clenched her fists again. Now she's really getting on my nerves enough to get me standing up. She saw what I was thinking and backed up, still thinking I was a threat. All guardians were like that, if they sense a threat they back up thinking the threats were going to attack. Then something unexpected happened, something that made me stand up and go stand by my mother. And my mother was the one person who I was trying to avoid. Lilyanna sat down right next to me like we were best friends. And then she spoke.
"Well then I guess were sisters, so when do we start training?"… That threw me off, I thought she was scared of me, and boy was she perky! She was sitting by me, smiling at me, and staring at me and it was creepy. Most other guardians were scared of me but didn't think I was a threat. Lilyanna was a whole different story, she didn't think I was a threat or, she wasn't scared of me either or she wouldn't have sat by me. She was more like me than I thought. I suppose I could give her a chance of training with me at all.
"Um,… I guess we can start bright and early tomorrow at 6:00. That's when I'll think about getting up. K?"