Hey everyone. I didn't mean to update so soon, but I know there are people out there that would love it. So for all you people. Here you go! And a thousand thank you's to Delicious! without your reivews, my story would be crap. Thank you.

I woke up to strong arms holding me protectively to a Godly man's muscular and bare chest. I was facing Dimitri, with the side of my face leaning on his chest as if it was the perfect pillow- and it really was. He must have woken up sometime during the night and pulled the covers over our bodies, because from three inches down from collarbone was covered by the sheets.

My arms were holding him close as well, but holding him close like my favorite Teddy Bear. I looked up at Dimitri and found that his eyes were closed. But somehow, I knew he was awake. I leaned in to his lips, but didn't kiss him. Instead, I blew on his lips, and he cracked a smile.

"Roza." He chuckled, his eyes still closed. "Don't tease me."

"Дайте мне одно серьезное основание" (Give me one good reason). I spoke in Russian

He moaned. "You don't want to find out." He spoke in English, opening his eyes and looking at me.

I gave a humorous laugh. "Somehow, I doubt that. But we have a problem."

He gave me one of those beautiful rare smiles. "Let me guess." His hand slid across my back and rested on my stomach. "Your gas tank needs to be filled."

I laughed at his metaphor, then leaned in to give him a quick kiss. "You know too well."

"Only because I love you." And he leaned in to give me a long, passionate kiss.

When we broke, I looked at the time and nearly jumped out of bed. "It's nine-thirty." I wanted to be awake by then to take a shower, then go somewhere and eat breakfast.

"I know. You are always late, so I didn't wake you."

I laughed. "Well, um…"

He nodded. "You've changed. I can see that clearly." He moved his hand from my waist- he put it there to keep me on the bed when I saw the time and jumped- and moved it to cup my chin. "You have become an exquisite, one-of-a-kind woman." He paused for a moment, seeming to relay his words, "not that you weren't when I first met you, but you have become so much more beyond what I could have imagined."

I smiled. He made me smile. I leaned into his touch adoringly. "Tell me more of what you think of me."

He laughed. He can go ahead and laugh, but I wanted to know. What else has changed about me that I wasn't even aware of?

"Before, you always took guarding Lissa from danger very seriously, which has not changed, but you have expanded that feeling to other people, not just her. You learned that she comes first, but so does other people."

I nodded, seeing his point.

"Remember when the Queen said that you were to do two training sessions?"When I nodded, he continued. "You would have thrown a fit, and most likely of called her a 'bitch' and told her to get lost, or get someone else. You didn't, because you saw how important this was. No matter the consequence to yourself, you want to help others."

I nodded. "And that was exactly my motive. I was going to let it become an open invitation to other guardians on campus when they found out about what is going on and what we have discovered any way."

"And that is exactly what I am talking about. You see the bigger picture. And I never thought it was possible, but I have grown to love you and respect you even more than I do now."

I smiled and wrapped my arms around his neck, pulling myself closer to him and rested my forehead against his. "That's it?"

I felt him smile. "No, but that is all I am going to share with you?"

I pulled back to look at him. "Tell me one more thing and I won't ask again, I promise."

He looked at me, ready to answer honestly. Boy was I going to throw him off.

"Am I better in bed?"

His lips twitched and he roared out in laughter. "Oh, Roza." He laughed. "My sweet Roza," chuckling now. "You were amazing the first time and now you have blown me away." He kissed me sweetly, then pulled back to look at me. "You have always been amazing."

I decided that was the best answer I could get, and I got out of bed to take a shower, taking first layer of blankets with me so my nude body was covered.

"Want any company?" He asked huskily.

I turned my head over to my shoulder, but didn't make eye contact. I dropped the blanket and I felt his eyes on me. "только если Вы хотите быть моим рабом (Only if you want to be my slave)." I said in Russian.

I walked into the bathroom and adjusted the water temperature. I walked into the shower and rinced my body over the water that was falling out if the showerhead.

I heard the door open and the shower door open. I didn't open my eyes, just concentrated on how wonderful the hot water felt on my skin. I felt his hands slide from my shoulders down to my waist to my hip. I suppressed a moan. He leaned down and pressed a gentle kiss to my forehead.

"Wash my hair first." I demanded, suppressing a laugh. I felt his lips turn into a smile on my forehead's skin.

"As you wish, моя красота (my beauty)."

He reached over and grabbed his shampoo, which was Irish spring. That brought a smile to my face- I'm going to smell like him today.

"You and those smiles." He said as he scrubbed my hair.

"It's all your fault, you know." I said to him matter of fact.

He laughed, and kissed my cheek. "I sure hope so."

I smiled big and got lost in the feel of his hands scrubbing my hair. When Lissa and I were younger, she would always do my hair up, and the feel of her hands on my scalp and hair massaging me, always put me to sleep or in relaxation. Right now, I was relaxed.

I felt his hands stop working and I began to protest, but he pushed me under the water and started scrubbing again, getting all the shampoo out.

Then he grabbed a washrag.

"where is the conditioner?"

He smirked. "It was in the mixture of the shampoo." I pouted and he laughed and put soap on the rag and scrubbed every inch, then pushed me in the water again.

Next was his turn and I did the same to him….

After the shower, I got dressed and put adidas shorts and sports shirt. The shorts half-hugged my thighs; the color white, with a light blue strip going down the side. I had on a black Nike tight (wasn't really tight, but it hugged me a little bit) tank top, with a thin pink line below my boobs, with a pink triangle outline, an inch above the small dip of cleavage, which the pink cotton covering my cleavage. I had on a purple Nike sports bra, which I knew I would show off because I was going to be sweating up a storm. The braw fit snug, and went down two inches from my boobs, or where my last rib bone was. The bra had the Nike (checkmark) icon big in the middle in gray. To finish it off, I had on blue and white Nike running shoes. White was the background, with a 'c' shape curved line in the middle.

Dimitri had on black baggy shorts that went below his knee, that was Nike, and had a bright white shirt, that was also Nike, but was made with no sleeves and gave an excellent view of his muscular arms. He had on white and gray Nike shoes. White was the background as well, but he had on a gray patch, that allowed his feet to breath- I should look into buying me a pair of those.

I turned to Dimitri. "Ready?"

He looked me up and down. Then gave me a smile. "Yes."

Dimitri drove to the gym. The building was huge. Like, seven football fields long. It was ridiculous, but it was extremely convenient right now. It had that same medieval touch to it, because it looked like it was made out of stone. The color was a light gray, with sparkles that would shine off of it in daylight. There was a big opening and a sidewalk that was stretched out, so that several people could pass by one person. The doors were black metal, so no one can get in without key if it were locked.

When we entered, there was a long hallway. I looked to my left and saw glass doors, with a silver handle in the middle of the door, allowing the person to push that so they won't touch the glass. That door was leading to a huge ice rink.

To my right was a bright white work out gym. The floor had shiny wood, giving it a school gymnasium feel, but I knew better. Many weight lifting machines and benches for bench pressing were there too, all lined up and spaced far apart so no one would get hurt or bump into someone. Weights were on a rack on a wall. The weights were circular, with a four inch hole in the middle. They had metal bar racks in the wall (it was like the bar was cemented in, so no one would pull it out) sticking outward, allowing the person to slide the circular weight on the bar. That was all I could see so far.

Then I felt that Lissa was here; she was close by. Mmm, what does that mean? Why is she here?

We entered, and to my right was several long tables. At the beginning, there were plastic plates and silverware and napkins. After that, was pancakes, sausages, several kinds of homemade omlets, bacon, French toast, hash browns, corn beef hash. Almost anything you can think of for a breakfast. Then after that, you had containers, and I can only imagine that it was filled with orange juice, apple juice and milk. After that were several multicolor hard plastic bottles of water that said 'royal guard' on them. They weren't the cheap kind either.

I looked for Lissa, and found her before she did me. "Rose!" Lissa's voice came to me, echoing off of the building. She was farther down to my right, sitting at a circular table with a white table cloth, with Christian, Tasha-uh, I don't like her- Tatiana, with Tamara and a few royal guards (who were standing up), with Adrian, Sydney, Eddie and Mia. Why was she sitting at a table? Why is a table in here?

In fact, there were several white tables, all of which was full of guardians. Full! My jaw dropped, and I was sure that Dimitri was as surprised as I was with how many people were here. I was not expecting this big of a crowed. And this crowed, was around thirty to forty, not counting my gang. I also saw Dimitri's family, which I saw that they combined two round tables to try and form one.

Dimitri and I walked to her table, had in hand. When we were a few feet away, my gang stood up, causing every guardian to look at me and Dimitri. My gang was scattered from table to table. Talking, I think, to other guardians. I suddenly felt shy. I know, me, shy. Right? Well, when you are put on this kind of pressure- pressure to make sure every guardian is ready for a war with strigoi- well, you start to feel both shy and nervous.

I smiled to the crowed, but looking at every one of my gangs faces, telling them hello.

"Hello Lissa." I smiled, taking her in for a hug when I reached her. I pulled away and looked at Tatiana who had gotten up and walked over to me. She was wearing a red velvet dress and low heels. The red reminded me of her royalty and power. I couldn't help but admire her.

I also couldn't help smiling at her. "I wasn't expecting to see you here." I admitted.

She gave me a kind smile and hugged me. "I had to see how this turned out. Besides, I read into your records; I'm half surprised that you didn't go for the food first."

Dimitri, Lissa and I laughed in agreement. "I guess I keep surprising everyone."

Tatiana chuckled. "Get some food Rose. I want to make sure everyone has a good breakfast before they start their hard core training with you. I had a feeling that you wouldn't have had time to eat breakfast, so I took the liberty to do this for you."

I starred at her in amazement. "You organized this?"

She nodded. "I also have set up, on the other side of the gym, a stereo with music that you all can work out to with a beat. I also wanted to give you this, thinking it would come in handy." She held out her hand and gave me a heavy duty plastic pouch, which inside held a black metal whistle. And it wasn't a cheap whistle either.

"Thank you." I said appreciatively, for both the stereo, food and whistle. The stereo will defiantly come in handy, and most defiantly the whistle. I walked away, heading for the food with Dimitri on my heels. I got a little bit of everything. I walked back to my table and saw that my gang was there as well, with a few extra chairs so that they all can squeeze in and make room.

"Wild night Rose?" Zena asked me in Russian, because she didn't know any English. (A/N Just so everyone knows, cuz I want to make this clear, no one besides Lev and Denis speak English, who is in her gang.)

I winked at her. "You bet."

The whole table busted out laughing, even Tatiana, but Christian looked pained, like he didn't want to hear a word about it. I smirked at him.

"How long are we going to be here for?" Gab asked me.

"Until four-"

"No, I mean here in America."

I went to say something, but closed my mouth. I looked at my gang, then at Dimitri, Lissa, Christian, Eddie, Mia, Adrian and Sydney. Then I shrugged. "I'm not sure." Then a disturbing thought crossed my mind.

I looked at my gang seriously, but calmly, letting them know that it was entirely up to them. "But if you don't like it here, or would want to go home, you can leave whenever you want." All of them shook their heads. "It is your choice. I won't hold you somewhere where you don't want to be."

"I like it here." Larisa said. "I like being open in a dhampire and moroi place and not hiding what I am."

Lev nodded. "I also like their gym here. And the women." He smirked at that last part, most likely thinking of some girl he met within the time period of arriving here.

"When do we start?" Denis said, drawing my attention.

"Whenever everyone is done and their food has somewhat digested. I don't want people getting sick on me."

He nodded with a smile and watched as I practically inhaled my food.

"Rose, you have another training session at five." Tatiana informed me.

I nodded. "Your majesty, that was delicious." I commented to her.

"It was, wasn't it?" Asked a familiar male voice coming from behind me.

I turned around and saw my father, Abe, smiling at me. "Hello, my darling daughter." He said in Russian, clearly catching on that we were talking in Russian.

I heard my gang's intake of breath. "Rose, Abe Mazur is your father?" Zena, Larisa and Denis said in unison in Russian.

I smirked and nodded.

"I see that you used that program I bought you."

I smiled at him. "You bet, and it helped out more than you would imagine."

He shook his head. "No, I knew how much you would need it. Anyway," he looked down at me in affection, "you caused quiet uproar in Russia. My guardians told me rumors about a woman in a hot leather outfit with a gang, killing a number of strigoi."

I looked at my gang, showing them how proud I was of them, of us. "We sure did, didn't we?"

That earned me and Abe a couple of 'hell yeah's' and 'you bet.' But I could tell that they were all still shocked about the news over him being my father. Really, was it that hard to actually see? I had his hair and eyes. Hell, even parts of his attitude, like the dangerous part…or was that from my mother? Because she can be pretty scary at times.

I drew my attention back to my father. "Dad, have a seat and eat with me."

He didn't have to motion or anything; one of his guards came over with a seat and set it by me, sitting in the middle between Lissa and me.

"Hello Lissa." He said smiling gently at her. "It is wonderful to see you."

She said a few words, but I was lost of the, because all my attention was on my food and how great it tasted. I wanted to go back up for seconds, but decided against it, fear of getting sick myself.

I turned my attention back to the table, and saw that everyone's eyes were on me. "what?" I asked, startled.

"Still inhaling your food I see." Eddie remarked. I rolled my eyes.

"Ever known me not to?" I asked him in English.

He laughed.

"Are you staying for the training session?" I asked him.

"Yes." He nodded with an excited look in his eyes.

"So are my guards."Abe said. He must have saw something in my face and he continued on. "It was their choice. In fact, they insisted on it. So I get to sit and watch." He said with a smile.

"Dad, you don't have to."

"I'm the reason he is staying." Said a soprano female voice, coming up to stand behind my father's seat. It was my mother. Janine Hathaway.

I didn't know if I should smile at her or exclude her from me over what happened the last time I saw her. I settled for giving her a sharp nod.

She frowned and looked uneasy. "Rose…I want to talk to you."

"There is nothing to talk about." I said sharply and in a rush, which I instantly regretted because she flinched.

"Rose, Все хорошо? Кто - эта женщина? (Is everything alright? Who is this woman?)" Zena asked. I looked at her, and her body was ready to leap out if my mother was to attack me. I guess she heard the harshness of my voice and read my body language, which it was on edge and ready to fight.

I smiled at her. "She is nobody to take lightly. Just ignore her. I do." I said in Russian. I looked at my mother to see if she knew what I was saying and she seemed confused at upset. I suppressed a grin.

"Rose, outside. Now." She demanded, pointing to the door.

I got up and looked around, and saw that everyone was done eating and just talking. "No. I have a class to teach." I said to her in English, then in Russian, I spoke to my gang. "Follow me."

Then my gang instantly go to their feet, and my friends followed. Including Lissa. I looked at her, and saw for the first time that she was dressed in workout clothes, and so were the other moroi- Adrian and Christian. Sydney was also dressed in workout clothes.

"Guys," I spoke in English, and Eddie, Christian, Lissa, Tasha-oh, look, I forgot she was even here-, Adrian and Sydney looked at me. "Don't push yourself too much. Following my lead, but go at your own pace. You will pull muscles today, but don't overdo it; otherwise you won't be getting out of bed tomorrow morning."

They nodded at me. We walked over to the other side of the gym, where the stereo was at. I played the music and started my session by blowing my new whistle.

"Alright everyone, grab your water bottles and let's get started."

Eddie gave me a 'woo, woo, woo,' while pumping his fist in the air three times.

I watched as everyone from the tables got up and walked over to the table and grabbed a sweat, but cold, bottle of water and head over to where I was. In less than a minute everyone was standing before me watching me.

My gang, knowing my training techniques, made a V shape line, giving a good example of what we should be doing. As always, I was the point, the main focus. I was going to demonstrate what we would be doing first, so that I won't have to translate what we were going to do to them, they would just know by watching me.

"So, you all know why you are here today?" I asked, raising my voice so everyone could hear me.

"Yes." They all responded, a mixture between male and female voices.

"Okay, then let's gooo!" I yelled 'go' for three seconds with a boast of energy, just like a professional work out athlete.

"First thing we are going to do is get your body warmed up. Let's start with a jog." I felt more like a work out trainer than anything, but our bodies needed to be warmed up first. Now we all jogged in our places that where we all stood at.

"We are going to do this for three minutes." I saw that everyone was going in strong, including my moroi-well, aside from Tasha, she isn't my moroi.

When three minutes had passed, I decided to switch it up. "we are going to do butt kickers. You are going to bring your heal up to your butt when you jog. We are going to do this for three minutes."

Three minutes later. "Squat jumps!" I said jumps with energy, making sure I haven't lost the attention on my audience. "Your spin should be somewhat cured and your butt out, like you are going to show it off, and it should be heading down to the floor. Your thighs, parallel to the floor. Do as many as you can in two minutes."

Everyone was going strong. "Jumping jacks. Your hands are not going to meet one another above your head when your feet are spread apart, instead I want you to make a fist and bring it up like you are going to punch the air, and when you bring your arms down and feet together, your elbow is going to make a ninety degree angle. Do as many as you can for three mintues."

"Jack pushups! I know most of you have not heard of this," because I came up with it. "Let me show you. Get down to a push up position. When you go down, I want your feet to spread out like you did with your jumping jacks. When you push up, your feet are going to come together. Do this for a minute and a half."

I did a couple, and walked around to see if anyone didn't understand the simple directions I gave. There was thirty seconds left and I saw that everyone understood.

"Alright! High knees, four minutes."

Something about high knees always gets to me, because by the end, I was breathing mildly. I looked over to Lissa and saw that her forehead was sweaty.

"Thirty second break."

Some people grabbed their water bottle, already thirsty. "It's important to get that water in you. Don't be afraid to quit and take a five, ten second break." I said in a louder voice.

Thirty seconds were up and I demonstrated my next moves. "I want you to go into another squat position, then jump in the air like you are going to dunk the basketball into the basket. This stretches out you quads and arms. Do this for two minutes on one side, then two minutes on the other."

Adrian groaned. "You're killing me here!"

The dhampies laughed, and so did I. "Go at your own pase. I don't care how many of these you do, just as long as you do them." I said, doing my share as well. I looked over at Sydney, and she was struggling. I walked over to her and did them with her, showing her how to do them.

"Remember to breathe! Breath in when you go back into that squat position, and exhale when you jump!"

"Next side!" I said, one minute, thirty seconds later. And I did my other side. "Good form everybody!" Though, Adrian was struggling more than Sydney.

When that was done, I demonstrated another move. "This one is simple. As a guardian, you will come across situations in which you need to jump higher than you might have inticipated. Like for me example, take in my height. I am short, therefore I need to jump higher if someone was to kick my legs out from under me. This exercise helps. You are to jump as high as you can using the squat positon."

That earned me a few groans and I smiled. "You can do it! This is called the ninja jump! Act like a ninjaaaa!" I yelled. I jumped with my group, my knees going up to my chest in the squat position. I could feel everyone's weight hit the floor, which wasn't right.

"Land softly! Remember, be like a ninja- they are quiet and sneaky. Land on the balls of your feet!"

When we were done with that one, everyone was breathing heavy. Some brought towels and whipped off their perspiration on it. Which, I have to admit, was a great idea. Dimitri, being the amazing guardian he was, brought us each one. And I will gladly when I need it, but not now- even though I was sweating now too, but this was nothing.

"This next exercise," I said after two minutes of the ninja jumping. Over half the people had to stop and take a ten second break. Which was fine with me, but me and my group were still going at it like it didn't faze us, which it was starting to, but didn't really because we were use to it, " you are going to walk-jump, which means when you jump to the right, your left knee comes up to your abds. When you jump to the left, your right knee comes up to your abs. There is no jumping in between. You are walk-jumping, side to side. I call this the 'penguin on crack.'"

That earned me a few laughs. "Three minutes." I scanned the crowed and saw Lissa, who was sweating more now. Her body is not use to such an intense work out, but she wanted to support me, which my heart melted over. I jogged over to her, signaling my gang to stay put.

When I got to her, she kicked it into gear, and went faster. "you can do it!" I yelled.

"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Good job Lissa, take a break!" Everyone was still going at it, well, besides the moroi. They all stopped. Tasha stopped too, sweating just as much as Lissa. Christian's shirt was soaked, and his face was red from not breathing as much as he should. I looked at him and saw me looking I smiled, and said looking at him "remember to breath." He nodded, knowing that he was red and I was giving him a tip.

Five seconds later I jogged back into my place with my gang. "Alright stop. Thirty second break, grab that water!" And I did. I sucked it down, knowing my gang was doing the same, and whipping their perspiration off with a towel. I scanned the audience and saw the Belikov's. Yeva was taking it easy, while the others were hard at work. Viktoria, Karolina, Olena and Sonya were sweating so heavily, their shirts were soaked.

"I want to do one more warm-up with you, called the 'reach and flinch'. This will seem somewhat silly, but believe me, it will help you." I looked into my audience and they were all breathing heavy.

"You have twenty seconds left, so watch me. Your knee is going to be slightly bent, and your other leg is going to be straight. You are going to bed down and touch the floor, then jump up, like you are flinching out of the way, then go to the other side, repeating the process. Remember to bend the knee, touch the floor, straighten out of the position, then jump the other side, then repeat the process."

"Five seconds, stretch out it out! And….go! Follow my lead. Go as fast as you want. Guardians push yourself! Strigoi will not show any mercy. If you drop your stake and they come at you, you are going to want your reflexes at top speed! So push yourself!"

Adrian and Christian started back up when we were halfway done with the Bend and Flinch. I walked over to a stranger that I hadn't know, who was doing great. She had red hair and blue cunning eyes. She was a dhampire. Her hair was back, and her chest and arms were sweaty.

"Am I doing something wrong, Rose?" she asked.

"Nope, you are doing great. What is your name?"

"Tina"

"Alright! Legs do ninja jumps one more time and we can have a two minute break, then I we can finally move on top defive position!" I addressed to everyone. I looked at my gang, and Lev and Denis caught my eye and translated what I said to the others.

We all started up. "How fast can you go? Care to race me?"

She smiled and started going faster, and I counted out loud. "8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! Whoo! Take a break!" Cause I sure was! Damn, my quads were burning in outrage. I told them to shut up. I jogged it out for a second, then jogged to my gang.

"We are going to count down from eight doing ninja jumps." I said to them. They all nodded.

"Ready! Go!" I yelled, my breathing, mild.

I counted in English, while they counted in Russian. "87654321. 87654321."

By now, more than half of my audience was taking a break and catching their breaths and looking at me like I was crazy for not being as out of breath as they were. Eddie was also taking a break and his shirt was off, giving every female in the room a wonderful look at his toned, sweaty chest. I saw a few girls look at him and I smiled, knowing he knew they were watching-and I knew he liked it.

"Alright. Take a break everyone." I turned to my gang and signaled for them to stop, and I was breathing heavily now too. Most of my group stop mid way through the second set. Larisa, Denis and I kept going, but I could tell we were all tempted to stop as well.

I gave them a two minute break, as promised. Now, time for my new self defense moves! I looked and scanned the crowed for Dimitri. He was breathing heavy and taking a drink of water. He looked at me, sensing my gaze. I smiled and he smile back. I turned to Denis, my second in command.

"Denis. Be my genie pig?" I asked in Russian.

He gave me a big smile, even though he was breathing heavy and his shoulders were heaving. "Thought you would never ask." I smiled back and turned to the guardians and moroi.

I blew my whistle, and their attention was on me. "Make a circle everyone and spread out!" I yelled. I wanted to demonstrate my move so that everyone would see. Within moments they made a wide circle. I saw my mother out of the corner of my eye, but didn't acknowledge her.

"My genie pig, Denis, here." I said, putting my hand on his shoulder and patting it. "Is going to come at me, and I am going to show you a maneuver that I learned out in the field. Maybe you guys might have learned this to out there. The moroi can easily do this as well. It is small and simple, but very useful."

"This for when you get into a position to where your stake falls or gets knocked out of your hand. Denis, come at me and get the stake out of my hand."

He took a few steps back and we danced, reading each other's body language and waiting for a move. He surprised me by kicking my hand. And man did it hurt! But it did his job, he got the stake out of my hand, and was coming at me.

I spoke my thoughts out load so everyone could hear. "Usually you would go for the chest and knock the wind out of him, or back away then charge at him. No. do not run away." Denis was coming at me, his arms stretched outward, and protecting his chest, just like a strigoi. "Wait for him to come at you." Denis was in arms reach of me. And as I did this I spoke. "Reach out and punch is throat," I didn't punch, I just pushed, "breaking the windpipe, then go for the shins or patella. Personally for me, the patella will keep him down longer so that you have a long enough time to get your stake and stake him or get the hell out of there." By the time I was done, I had Denis on the ground and on his back with the butt my stake positioned at his heart. I didn't want to put the pointed part near his heart.

They clapped and waited for more instructions. "You want to pair up and try it?"

They all nodded and paired up. I turned to my gang and told them that they could do that was well or take a break. Gab and Tamara took a break, while the others went at it.

I looked for Dimitri, but saw that he was with…my father! Uh, whatever. Wait- was he wearing sweatpants? I thought he only wore expensive suits? Ha! My old man.

A tap on my shoulder and I turned towards the person, who was my mother.

Great.

"Be my partner." Her tone made it clear that I was not to mess with her nor deny her. I gritted my teeth. I was doing the one thing I was good at, the one thing that I could escape any thought of her, and she wanted to be my partner.

Just fabulous.

So how did I do on the training part? There will be more self defense stuff coming up next. It's a long chapter as it is. I don't want to make it too long that you would lose interest.

More Dimitri in the next chapter, along with Janine. Please give me your thoughts! My story lives off of them!

I was having trouble with the warm-up part. I know it wasn't interesting, but I tried. So don't shoot me. : /

Review please.