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CHAPTER 8 – Good-bye USA! Hello Turkey!

The Graduation Ceremony was finally over and now I was on my way to the Turkey. After the official Graduation the novices had received their promise marks but I didn't since I would be leaving the country soon. I had made my decision to move with my parents to the Turkey and to take some time out before returning to the guardian business again. I wanted this year for myself to get to know my parents, especially my father Abe Mazur.

Also the big wedding of my parents – this sounded so strange to say at least – would take some time to plan, so we all decided to take some time off. My mother seem to cope with it better than I did, because I knew I would my old life at the Academy with Lissa more in the Turkey than here in the US. It would have been so much more fun to explore the new country together with Lissa.

When we arrived at the airport in Istanbul after a flight that seemed to never be ending, my father opened me that we still hadn't arrived at our destination. Another small plane was waiting for us a little afar from the main airport to bring us to Izmir where we entered a big black car – it was a Chevy they told me later – to be driven to the small town of Cesme. When we finally arrived at my new home I was too tired to take a look around and went straight to bed. I wasn't even able to take a look at my new room, because as soon as my head hit the pillow I was unconscious.

When I awoke the next morning I was confused. This didn't look like my room at the Academy at all and I took me a few moments to realize that I wasn't actually at the Academy at all. When my brain had gotten behind the dazed state of sleep I remembered that I was in Turkey now, together with my parents.

To get a closer look at my new home I slowly sat up in the big four poster bed. The curtains had been fastened at the bed post so the sunlight made its way inside. The whole room was spacious and only a few pieces of furniture stood in various spaces. The walls had been colored in a light yellow with deep red stripes crossing without an actual pattern and a big window allowed looking outside.

Intrigued by the light remitting through the huge window, I slowly pushed away the covers and stood up. Taking a few steps on the plush carpet in a light beige color, I pushed away the lighter white curtains being moved by a soft breeze, and stepped out onto a huge balcony. The view I was having from this balcony was astonishing. Huge acres of pure green stretched out in front of me, only being accented by darker green trees and bushes. And at the end of all the green I saw the sea, sparkling in deep blue and turquoise colors.

I have always loved the ocean and taking a swim in the cool water in the morning would make me an absolute happy person. Whirling around, when I heard the door opening, I saw my mother standing in the door.

"Good morning, Rose. Do you like it?" she asked, nodding to the window.

"Yeah, it's absolutely breathtaking." I answered, still astonished about the thin friendship my mother and me had built up during the last days. It seemed that there still was a slim chance that we could have a real mother-daughter-relationship one day. To my astonishment this thought made me happy.

"I suggest you take a quick shower and we meet us down in the living room where we can have breakfast." she suggested.

"Sure thing. Give me thirty minutes." I said, already walking towards my suitcase to take out some comfortable jeans and a t-shirt. It was summer here in the Turkey and I could already feel the heat making its way through the open window.

When my mother had vanished again, I walked towards the small door, I had missed when checking out my new room earlier. It made me happy to not have to share a bathroom with other people as I had to in St. Vladimir's Academy.

Thinking about my old school my thoughts automatically turned in the direction I wasn't really fond of thinking about. I tried to convince myself that I had no interest in what Lissa was doing but I knew that I was lying to myself. I still cared for her deeply and it had been a very long time since I had been in her head the last time. Right then I decided to give it a try, calculating in the time difference. It would be near to midnight in the States right now but since they would still be living by Moroi schedule, it would be around lunch time there.

I sat back down on my bed, afraid I might all down when would rush in to her head too deep, I started to relax and let my mind wander off over the big ocean.

"Lissa! Dinner is ready!" I heard Christian calling out for me where I was placed on the couch, surrounded by schedules of classes and lists of various teachers I would get to know at the new university. I was thankful for Queen Tatiana to arrange this, even though I would have to face many social responsibilities while studying. It would be a though four years but after that I knew my chance of becoming queen someday would be almost a hundred percent. I would be able to reach my goal.

"Lissa, hun, are you coming?" I stood up quickly and walked into our kitchen where I saw Christian standing in front of the oven, making lunch. I would never get tired of watching him move. He was so graceful for a man and yet each move gave an impression of his real powers. He was strong, not only his body but his magic ability also. Christian still trained with his aunt Tasha on a regular basis and this worked out just fine. Taking towards the love of my life, I wrapped my arms around his torso lovingly. I still loved Christian with all my heart and I was certain that these feelings would never fade.

"Hungry?" he asked in his deep voice, his mouth turned upwards into a beautiful smile.

"Yes, very." I answered, giving him a quick kiss on his cheek. Then I turned around to put plates and silverware on the table. Bringing over the pot with noodles and tomato sauce, we sat down on the table and filled our plates.

After a few moments of silence, Christian suddenly looked up at me and asked as question I wished he wouldn't have asked ever.

"Have you heard something from Rose?"

"No." I shrugged, knowing that he could easily see through my act of ignorance. He knew very well how much I missed her, but still couldn't get myself to call her.

"Try it, Lissa. I know that you miss her, why is it so hard for you to get over your fight and call her?" he urged her.

"Because I still can't get over how much she had changed. She hadn't been the Rose I used to know for some time now and this scared me."

Christian's deep blue eyes bored into mine. "Why have you never asked her?"

I started to feel uncomfortable under his stare. He was going on territory I wasn't so sure about following him.

"I don't know. Why should I? she had always been the constant part in our friendship. She never changed and this was something I could always rely on."

"Don't you see how selfish you've been? Rose is as human as you are. Have you never even wondered why she had changed so much?" His voice showed how much he cared about our friendship.

"I did!" I said, defending myself. "I just didn't ask her." I mumbled, not really wanting him to hear this. I squirmed on my seat, not really comfortable with the direction this discussion went.

Christian shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe you should ask her. I'm having the feeling that something drastic had been the reason behind this all."

"Yeah," I said, shoving a fork full of noodles in my mouth and swallowing quickly. "I'll call her later, okay?" I tried to convince him, not so sure if I would really do this. A part of me missed her dearly and our old friendship which had been so close but the other side still was mad at her to not talk to me about her problems.

The rest of the meal was eaten in silence, both being deeply in our thoughts.

I forced myself leave her head and to return back into my own body. I was astonished about the conversation and also about Lissa's feelings. Had I really hurt her for not telling her about my love for Dimitri? I had been so deeply in my own world, trying to get rid of the daemons ruling it, that I had never really thought about how Lissa felt. Maybe it had been my fault after all?

I sighed. But it still would have been nice of Lissa to ask what problems I was having when she saw clearly that something was wrong. Didn't real friends do that? Why would I have always come to her to tell something? She could have also come to me.

I sighed again, standing off of the bed and heading towards the bathroom and a wonderful warm shower. Knowing that thinking about the past would bring me nowhere I took off my clothes and stepped into the shower.

But still did I miss my Lissa. And also the other person that played such a major role in my short life. Dimitri. Again my thoughts started to wander off, wondering what his new life had brought him. Was he happy? I believed so. Did he miss me? I could only hope.

Starting the warm water I let it wash away a tear that had escaped. I would miss both of them dearly every day of my life, though I knew it was time for me to move on. With a broken soul and heart.

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