Hey guys!!!! Thanks so much for the reviews, it means so much to me that you guys like my story and are patient with me. Sorry it took so long to update I had finals week and works been hectic because of the holidays but I promise I will update more often. One of my reviewers asked how to get started on a story just find something you love and write what you wished happened or what you think should happen. Well here is the long awaited 3rd chapter R&R!!!

I was in a house that was very well decorated. As I ventured further into the house I saw it adorned with pictures of me in Russia along with other places with Dimitri. It was then that I came across the center picture, me in a wedding dress, and Dimitri in a tux. Then a set of arms came around my waist, and greeted me with a kiss, which I deepened. It was Dimitri. His skin was warm, and eyes were that deep brown that l had always loved. As things started to get hotter between us he carried me bridal style to our room….and that's when I bolted upright in my bed and started screaming.

"Shit that felt so real." I muttered to myself after I had calmed down from my nightmare.

To most people they would think I was crazy for calling a dream like that a nightmare, but to me it is. And it's the worst one I have about Dimitri. The usual strigoi Dimitri dreams are nothing compared to the happy nightmares where he was never strigoi. This is because the happy nightmares represent a world that would have my reality if Nathan hadn't of turned Dimitri.

I tried to fall back asleep for the one hour I had left before trials, but I couldn't shake off the nightmare, so I took a quick shower and got ready to go to my trials.

When it was time for breakfast I went down and met my friends at our usual table.

"So are you excited Rose?" asked Lissa.

"No, more bittersweet."

"Why bittersweet?" interrupted Christian

Before I could answer his question Adrian went into crazy mode. "Bittersweet, bitter and sweet. You can't be both its one or the other."

"Okay then whatever you say Adrian. I'm bittersweet because I'm happy that I'll be a guardian soon I just wish that Dimirti could be here to see this."

"Oh." Said Christian

Before anyone could say anything else Eddie came rushing over to us.

When he reached us I said "Whoa Eddie chill out, what's up?"

"We gotta go Rose we have trials they start in 5 minutes!" Eddie replied

"No Eddie we have a half…" as I looked down at the time on my phone I saw that Eddie was right it was five minutes to eight. "Fuck, I'm dead if I'm late. See you guys after trials."

Me and Eddie ran down toward the field to where the trials were being held. When we got there I saw my mom and dad in the audience section, wow they actually came. Me and Eddie finally got to the novice section. From there you could really see the field it was set up with all sorts of obstacles that we had to get past in order to pass, get our promise marks and become official guardians.

When it started, I sat bored listening to Alberta's rules speech. I knew the rules I just wanted this day to be over so I could be an official guardian and be assigned to Lissa at graduation. When she was done she called us in alphabetical order. Every course was different for each of us. When they called Eddie I watched intently as he staked each of the "strigoi" and made it out of the course in ten minutes, we each got twenty minutes.

More and more people went then I heard Alberta "Rose Hathaway!"

I grabbed my stake and ran out to the field. When I heard the air horn signaling me to start, I walk in being aware of my surroundings. I highly doubted they would go easy on me seeing how I had two molnijas and a battle star.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw a moving figure I prepared ready to stake whoever it was. It was Stan. He put up a good fight but at the end of our fight I won and "staked" him. I went through the course, each fight getting harder and harder when I reached the end I fought ten "strigoi", and eventually "staked" them all. When it was finished the audience roared in applause, then was told by Alberta who was at the end that I finished the course in seven minutes and that I could go get my promise mark.

There was no ceremony for getting a promise mark because there were just too many of us. So I got in the short line of novices who were getting marked. When I reached Lionel, the guardian who gives the tattoos, he greeted me and told me how to take care of my promise mark. While he was tattooing me, all I could think of was what Dimitri would have said, and how proud he would have been of me. I started to tear up but before Lionel and anyone else could see them I swallowed them back.

When it was over I looked at the promise mark in the mirror the Lionel held to show us our mark. I thanked him and he congratulated me. Then started to run toward where my parents and friends were.

When I was almost to where my friends where I heard a very faint sound of someone calling my name.

"Rose!"

Hmmm I wonder who's calling her name. Anyway, its 1:45 am where I am, but I wanted to put it up for people who are being super patient with me. So hope you enjoyed it. I'll have the next chapter up before Christmas Eve, I swear.

R&R!

Rachel =]