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I ran my hand through my hair tiredly.

Alberta sat at her desk waiting patiently for me to begin, but her eyes stared me down. She must have wondered what the hell I was doing visiting her at this ungodly hour. To be honest I had no idea what I was going to say; how was I supposed to explain that I had been drinking in my room all night and now wanted to quit the job she had generously given me. Yeah - that would go down a treat. I bet she could even smell the alcohol on my breath. Great!

"I noticed that Rosemarie's file said she can't speak. Or to be more specific, refuses to speak. Which means that she does have the ability to talk." I spoke slowly, so that my words did not slur together.

"Yes. I did not know that was a problem, is it a problem Dimitri?." She asked.

"No problem," I muttered, "Oh and one of the students, Adrian Ivashkov, turned up drunk to the lesson. Is there anything I should do about him?"

"Unfortunately… no. Mr. Ivashkov's family is one of the twelve main contributors to the school. The punishment for being drunk and smoking on campus is immediate expulsion, however, their money is greatly needed. If he were to be excluded we would lose the Ivashkov's funding and the school would most likely have to close. So no, you will not do anything about it." Alberta explained.

"Erm..okay, thanks. Thank you for seeing me and sorry for wasting your time."

Just as I was about to leave an idea hit me. BAM!

"Can I take Rosemarie off campus seeming as it is Saturday tomorrow?" I asked.

"Of course, just make sure that you are not as drunk as you are now." Alberta laughed.

With that I left preparing for tomorrow's outing with Rose.

I met Rose by the gates of the academy. She held up a whiteboard with the words, 'Where are we going Comrade?' written on it in large, easy to read font.

"Why don't you use sign language?"

'I'm too lazy to learn it.'

"But you haven't picked up on anything at all over the past few years?"

She grinned mischievously before wiping the board clean and writing her reply. 'I know how to swear, if that makes it any better?'

I rolled my eyes at her response and opened the door of the car for her. This was going to be a long journey.

About two hours later we arrived at our destination. It was a huge open field with a lake hidden behind a tower of willow trees. I had discovered it in my last year of school and had often come here to study or relax after a stressful week.

"I heard that you like pizza, chocolate brownies and doughnuts." I pulled out a basket filled with her favourite treats.

We sat down in a secluded area by the lake and ate in silence. It wasn't an awkward silence, more like we were enjoying each others company so much so that we did not need to speak. I glanced at Rose's happy carefree face and chuckled.

'What?' she wrote.

"You have icing on your nose."

She playfully shoved me at the comment as she wiped the icing of her nose. I responded by shoving her - a bit harder than I'd meant to and landed on top of her.

We both froze for a few seconds, as our eyes locked. Neither of us seemed to know what to do, and Rose didn't seem to know how to react. Our breathing became heavy – mine with anticipation as her gaze flickered to my lips before darting back up to meet mine. We both stared at each other for another long minute before she lifted her head up and I dipped mine down to meet her.

"You are so beautiful." I whispered in Russian as my lips met hers.

Moments after the kissed started realisation slammed into me like a sledgehammer and I pulled away.

I was her mentor, that's all I could be.

I scrambled up and off of her delicate, warm body before I could change my mind and do something that was even more stupid.

"I'm sorry, we should go." I turned around sharply and started to make my way back to the car.

"Don't go." Her voice rang through the air.