Chapter thirteen: Dinner and dance.
The speech went by uneventful, well aside from someone standing and yelling trough the crowd that Lissa was the most awesome queen ever and the following events thereafter. Maybe I should describe what happened.
Lissa was almost done with her speech, when suddenly someone stood up. I immediately pulled Lissa behind me, as Dimitri did with Christian. He shouted something. At which there was a lot of confirming shouts.
They were still shouting and the teachers were trying to calm them down and it didn't work. The headmistress was looking embarrassed. I guess it was to me to shut them up. I took the micro out of Lissa's hand and shouted
"Shut the f*cking hell up, before I make you."
The room fell quiet again and I handed the micro back to Lissa. She looked a bit flustered.
"Euh Thank you, that was unexpected. Though thank you for the compliment, I try my best. Only if you want to compliment my guardian, say it in English, she does not speak Russian. Though something tells me you don't dear telling her that in English."
"What was it?" She smiled apologetic.
"Sorry Rose"
"Dimitri?"
"No need for anyone to get castrated tonight."
"Because you are the one doing that?
"Maybe."
"Okay, Victoria?" I asked after I saw her while sitting in the crowd. She started to say something but Dimitri cut her off. What did he have on her?
"Christian?"
"Yeah my Russian isn't that good."
"Paul?"
"Oh no Grandma will wash out my mouth with soap if I repeat those words." Damn!
"Okay, I'll kick there ass latter anyway, whether I find out what they said or not." Lissa laughed and said her goodbye's welcoming everyone for dinner and dance tonight, saying to dress young and festive.
We went to our rooms for everyone to change. Lissa wanted me to dress up, I did not. I was her guardian tonight, so I would represent as such, also I didn't have a dress with me. We came to a compromise. She could do my hair and makeup and I would wear a dark skinny jeans and a nice top, but with my guardian vest and combat boots. Lissa changed into an white short dress with beading and short sleeves and a little crown of course. It was queenly but not too stiff. When Lissa was ready we left, way too early for some reason.
When we entered I understood why. This looked like Tatiana had come back alive and threw up all over the place. Big vandals from the sailing and railing that was two stories up, stiff tables and boring music. The headmistress came forward.
"You're majesty, not everything is ready yet..."
"Please, don't worry about it. Actually I meant to come early." She looked around her. "Headmistress, I hope I don't offend you with this, but this is ratter stiff, isn't it? I mean, the students that are coming are in-between 8 and 18 years old. I myself am not even 19 yet. Just put the tables a bit more to the side, play some more modern music. It doesn't have to become a rave of course, just a little less stiff."
The headmistress was looking around her. "Actually you're right, lets loosen this up a bit. Is it just me or is it rather warm in here." This is when the guardian next to her spoke. "Yes some moroi student thought it was rather cold so they turned the heating system up a bit."
Christian laughed "Trust me it was not because they thought it was cold."
"What do you mean Lord Ozera?"
"Did the moroi students had a magic test recently?"
"I don't know, wait a minute." He called over one of the teachers. and asked something to him. He answered."
"Yes they had a magic test yesterday, a quit imported one may I add"
"I don't know about every element, but for air and fire specialized moroi it's help them get a good grate."
"What do you mean"
"Well when it's warm it's easier for fire users to create fire out of thin air. For air users it's easier to feel the air around them when the air is warm. That's why the heating system was turned up."
"So Sparky you just admitted to cheating and you're not actually good as they say you are?" I couldn't let this one go by.
"Rosie posy, you've seen my magic when it was freezing outside, I don't need tricks like that."
"Then how would know?"
"Students always asked me to heat up the classroom a bit right before a test."
"So you where just kissing their asses?"
"What? No!"
"You didn't like you're fellow students and you're magic was good enough, so why would you do it? Either you where kissing there asses or you were being a nerdy and wanted to up your grades? Maybe you wanted to empress the teacher with it, our maybe someone else?"
"Whatever Rose."
"Ha, you wanted to empress Lissa!"
"Maybe..." Score!
"Oh honey, that's so sweet, but I always knew that where good at you're magic." And she kissed him.
"Okay People I do not need a demo of your magic, I unfortunately had that experience before. Let's just open a window shall we?" The guardian looked a bit weird at that. Dimitri said something in Russian to him.
"What?" I asked. I recognized my name.
"I just explained that sometimes you would get pulled into Lissa's head. He thought you and Christian had a fling or something." My face went in pure horror. Eddie almost doubled over in laughter and even Lissa couldn't hold herself at the horror faces of me and Christian.
"Ieuw. That's messed up. I'm feeling like I am going to be sick"
When the laughter died down. The head guardian spoke again.
"Dimitri we have some old stuff of yours back here. You never came to the reunion because you where to far out, so we still have a box of yours here in storage."
"Why didn't you just gave it Victoria of Paul."
"Because we never do that without permission of the person himself and well, it's personnel." Personnel? I wanted to see that box.
"Why don't you go get it now, Dimitri, take Rose with you. It's still ten minutes before this actually starts." Lissa heard the same as I, me guess.
"Okay, We'll be right back." With that we left, up a few stairs and through a few hallway's till we passed a few hallways were the one side was the railing looking over the grand hall. I could see Lissa and everyone else. It looked like they were just talking. We stopped at a door name 'Storage' She pulled up the key and opened the door, it was just rows whit boxes upon boxes, with a table in the middle of the room. She pulled one out and put it on a table.
"Here it is" She said. Dimitri opened the box there was not much in it. The first thing he pulled out was photograph of two boys in suit linked whit two girl on their arms.
"That's you and Ivan, Isn't it?"
"Yes"
"Who are the girls?"
"Our dates for some dance"
"Name?"
"No"
"Why?"
"You're not going to hurt her, she was a friend and fellow novice, nothing more." He put the photo back and pulled out a CD.
"I don't remember this?"
"It's a little film, it has you, Ivan and a few friend of yours on it. It looks like a party of some sort. We didn't know who's it was and since Ivan is not here anymore, we put in your box." He put it back there were a few clothes he said he would give to Paul. The last thing in there was a binder, he pulled it out and opened it.
After a quit examination, I noticed that it was his file from when he was a student. I took it out of his hands and ran. He was shouting at me to come back. I came across a railing and jumped over it landing a few meters bellow on the floor under it. Thank Vlad I didn't give in on Lissa and wore my combat boots. I was standing in the grand hall. Novices and moroi students where slowly filling in and looking in surprise, not sure what to do. I looked up to see Dimitri still standing there. He weighed a lot more than me and if he jumped he would most likely sprain his ankle. He knew that to.
"Roza." he said irritated. "Do not open that file and give it back to me" He tried in his best instructor voice. Like that would work.
"You now comrade, it's been a long time since you've been my mentor. Though I must congratulate you. In comparison with me, you've really been a good boy. My file was at least four times this."
"Roza your file broke all records since you had an entire drawer dedicated to you."
"I know, Kirova told me that my OFFICIAL file broke the schools record when I was 14 and the all around world records when I ran whit Lissa. I am just that awesome"
"Something tells me she wasn't congratulating you. Now get that fine ass of yours over here." WOW Dimitri was talking about my ass in public. There must really be something in this file.
"Why don't you and that fine ass of yours, come get this fine ass of mine?" I said while I was slowly walking backwards.
"Gladly, though I'm thinking you are forgetting something Roza. You might be able to jump two stories without spraining your ankle, but I grew up in this place. I know every single route and were it ends. Every single short cut. Every door that is closed and the ones that are always left open..."
"Shit!" Whit that I turned and ran. He was right. There was a reason I never got caught when I did something big. I was always able to go through places that teachers and guardians never thought about, because I knew the place I grew up in. I was almost at the window wall. I threw the file in Eddie's hands with a quick shout to give it to Lissa and jumped through the open window.
I have no idea where he came from or how he got there so fast, but suddenly, he tried to catch me by my side. I half flipped him of me, but in moments he had me in an unbreakable embrace. And pulled me back inside.
"You know Comrade that I don't have it anymore right?"
"I know. Where is it?" He asked just as we were back inside.
"Lissa has it." He let me go instantly, he knew he wouldn't be able to get from her.
"Fine, but don't be upset when I did more 'awesome' stuff in the academy than you."
"Comrade, You have seen my official record, I was good at not getting caught. They don't know half the thing I've done, though they expected it was me." He laughed at that. I reached Lissa and she whispered in my ear.
"Eddie and Jill are putting it with her underwear.
"Nice choice." It was, Underwear of Jill was save. Mine wasn't save from Dimitri and a little predictable, Lissa's stuff wasn't save from Christian, who would gladly help Dimitri if it meant getting back to me. None of them would look trough Jill's stuff, because they didn't knew her that well and Eddie was always on my side.
"Let's go get some food." I said to Lissa to get the attention away from the file. we all got some food and stood at the end of the table. It was a little strategic. It was easier for someone to talk to us if we weren't in a far corner.
Student were filling in and teachers where talking to Lissa and Christian. The punch bolls looked heavily guarded, guess they didn't want a bunch of drunken students to upset them more than they did this afternoon. After a while one of the older guardians came up to us. He greeted everyone and made a small bow to the queen and then padded Dimitri's back and spoke something Russian to him.
"Me too, me too" Dimitri answered. Ah start speaking English already! He spoke to him in Russian again and Lissa coughed on her drink, hard.
"What is it?" I asked.
"Nothing..."
"Liss, You never been able to lie to me in the past thirteen years, don't start now." She looked sheepishly.
"He said Dimitri should be glad with such a good friend around him."
"Yes and?"
"Roza, He meant you, he said that it always nice to have a college guardian to have a good bond with." Oh...
"Trust me we have a very good bond. I literally know him inside and out. His every single move. Every muscle move. Every single inch of him..." My voice grew more seductive towards the end. No, he still didn't get it. He was looking weird at me though. Eddie was laughing hard. Jill and Lissa giggling. Christian was trying to look discussed.
"They are together, as in romantically involved." Lissa clarified.
Realization dawned on him. "But you're both guardians, I mean you both are very high classified guardians. Don't you think it could compromise you. Not you don't deserve to have love in your life, Dimitri. You know I always..."
Dimitri started to talk to him in Russian, assuring him, telling him what we both had told numberless people over the course of the past months. That we had lost the other before that our life would be too short and unpredictable to have any regrets. We were better together. And when we couldn't work together, we just had to trust the others skills and that they would stay save.
"In that case congratulations." He was still eying me weirdly.
"Oh come on, spit it out. Tell me what you're thinking."
"I'm just looking if you're good enough for him and I'm not talking about your skills. You're the queens personal guardian, you must be good. But you know he's been through a lot, you know."
"Guardian Bogrov" Victoria who just joined us said. "Rose here has gone through hell and back, multiple times, to bring Dimitri back. Trust me she's good enough. Even Yeva says so."
"And Yeva we must believe. She's never going to say it in my face, is she?"
"No, probably not."
"So you're to girl who came to the Belikov's last year."
"Yaeh, kind of messed up, I know."
"They said you went with the unpromised and then just disappeared."
"Look no offence but if I wanted to relive the entire thing, I would have recorded the entire thing, not?" Dimitri put his arm around me to calm me down.
"Of course, I'm sorry" Just then Paul came running up. Introducing us to with two boys and a girl, supposedly his friends.
"Uncle Dimka, Auntie Roza, you must meet my friends. This is Maxim, Yori and Alexandra, or Sacha as we call her."
"Privet" Dimitri said. They aswerd back in Russian.
"Well hello, nice to meet you." Yori was staring at Lissa. "You want to meet her?" I asked. He looked socked at me. "Can I?"
"Of course, Hey Liss, want to meet Pauls friends? They're kind of star struck."
"Well of course." She went up to them. She started talking to them in Russian. Dimitri was silently translating for me.
"L-Hello, My name is Lissa. What are yours?
M-Maxim
S-I'm Sacha this is my brother Yori. I think he lost his tong
L-That's alright as long as he finds him again in the end.
L-So you're all dhampirs?
P-Yes, I want to become a guardian and become as good as my uncle Dimka.
M-Me too
Y-Me too
S-I want to become the best guardian ever.
Y-But you're a girl
S-So? Pauls aunt is a guardian
Y-Yes but she's special
L-Actually there are a lot of female guardians in court.
M-Really?
L-Of course. If a girl wants to become a guardian, then she can if wants. Not all boys become guardians. So why shouldn't girl be able to choose.
Y-You know a boy that didn't became a guardian?
L-Yes I do, he's name is Ambrse and he is a friend of mine.
Y-Wow, I guess you can become a guardian then, if mama say it's okay
M-Why is your aunts last name Hathaway, I mean if she is your aunt then her last name should be Belikova right?
P-They are not officially married yet, are you married, your majesty?
L- No I'm not
M-But you have a boyfriend right?
L- Yes I do
Y- Then why does he not marry you, you are beautiful
L-Thank you, and I will marry him when he asks me to. There is no rush.
M- You are a really nice person you know
L Thank you, you three are real gentleman's, don't lose that.
S- And me?
L-You have a fiery heart, don't lose that and fight for what you believe in."
A bell shimmed and Dimitri stopped whispering in my ear.
"That's us, we have lights out in ten, it was really nice meeting you, you're majesty" Paul said. They all said goodbye's Paul gave me and Dimitri a big hug, before they all ran of.
"You're a natural" I told Liss
"Really? Thanks, I want a large family."
"Good that way you can reinstate the Dragomir line all on your own." She looked at me and we both started laughing.
The little party went on without much happening and it looked as the students were actually having fun. Vika came running towards us.
"So if we are going shopping when are leaving?"
"We are going during human hours, guardians are now putting everything together and they will come get you when we leave it will probably be in the early evening"
"Okay, this is going to be so much fun!"
"Is there someone you want to bring?"
"Yaeh, but I haven't seen Rose for so long, so I kind of wanted to spent time with her."
"Okay, no problem"
Not long after that we went up to our rooms and settled in for the night. I wasn't looking forward to tomorrow. Those two together could kill me with their fashion sense.
"Think about it this way Roza, if you go now, she can't take you for another few weeks."
"Thanks comrade" With his calming sent around me, I fell asleep.
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