Stan Misses You

I woke up the next morning to a banging on my bedroom door. Dimitri and I both shot up in bed and reached for our stakes. Bang bang bang. I looked at Dimitri. We both got up and headed for the door. "Rose! Wake up! There's a drunk out there and he wants to see you!" Screamed Sydney through the door.

Dimitri and I both looked at each other. "Adrian." We both said at the same time. We both relaxed and put our stakes down. We went down stairs with only our pajamas. Dimitri's pajamas only consisted of a pair of soft baggy pants, leaving his wonderful chest open for me to gawk at. That man can stop a rocket ship. Screw the truck. Mine consisted of some short shorts and a shirt that only reached right above me belly button. Sydney was on the couch again trying to go back to sleep. I opened the door and there stood a drunk Adrian and a woman chastising him.

"- need stop drinking. If you don't I'll leave you." She said. She looked at us and switched in to a smile. "Hi, my name's Sarah." She turned back to Adrian. "I'm this drunken bafoons girlfriend."

I brightened up. So Adrian finally found someone. "Hi, Sarah, my names-"

"Rosemarie Hathaway. You don't like your full name so you go by Rose. You and Lissa met when you chucked a book at your kinder garden teacher. You don't mix with authority very well. You are engaged-" She looked at my hand, "-married to Dimitri Belikov. Dimitri on the other hand wasn't that social around any one until you came along. You guys trained together. Dimitri was a Strigoi. You saved him. No, you're here."

"Uh… yah." I said and looked at Dimitri. He was staring at her with an eyebrow up and his mouth half open. You could see in his eyes that he was confused. Wow. Score one for Sarah. I turned back to the strange Moroi. "How do you know all that?"

"Lissa, Adrian, and your parents wouldn't shut up about you on the flight over." She laughed. Lissa? My parents? "Adrian and I got our own car." I looked to the silver rent-a-car. "No offense, but I just I couldn't handle them talk about you anymore." She sighed. Adrian touched one of the flower pots.

"So pretty…"

"Don't worry, Sarah." I told her. "I know exactly how you feel." We laughed and Adrian fell on me.

"Little Dhampir?" He asked. "Little Dhampir!"

"Yes, Adrian?"

"I like what you wearing. But you should wear less." He fell of me pulling my shorts down with him.

"Adrian!" All three of us screamed at once. He was asleep at our feet. I ripped my shorts away from him and put them back on.

"Oh god, Rose. I'm so sorry." Sarah gushed.

"It wasn't your fault, Sarah. He's always like this." I said while I dragged him into the living room. Sydney looked at us funny.

"Is he okay?" She asked.

"Yep. Just drunk out of his mind." I said while I hefted him on to the other couch.

"Ohhh. So this is Adrian Ivashkov?" She asked.

"Yes, how do you know?" Dimitri asked.

"I'm an Alchemist. It's my job to know." We shrugged and agreed and went to sit in the kitchen.

"So, Sarah… who are you?" I asked straight out.

"Rose!" Dimitri chastised me.

"What? How else am I supposed to ask her?" I said.

He was about to answer but Sarah cut him off. "No, it's really okay, Dimitri." He nodded and listened with me. "I am Sarah Ozera, a cousin of Christian's."

"Funny, you don't look anything like him." I said.

"I get that a lot. But it's true. So, I went to school in Oregon. I got kicked out." I smiled and Dimitri shook his head. "Yah, but it wasn't my fault. A prissy Zelkos bitch framed me because her boyfriend left her for me. I didn't like him anyway." She paused and composed herself. "I was transferred to St. Vladimir's Academy because they had made you so different."

"Pfft… they... the only one who taught me anything was Dimitri." I crossed my arms.

"Yah. I figured that out after I had a run in with Stan Alto and was sent to Kirova's office." She laughed.

"Ah… Stan… I think he'll miss me…" I looked over to Dimitri. "Did you ever like him?"

"Nobody did, Rose. No one." He chuckled.

"He misses you, Rose. He always mumbles through his classes that no one, what was it- 'no one provides logical argument anymore.' Yah that's it. Freak."

There was another knock on the door then a crash as the door hit the wall.

"Rosemarie Hathaway!" Lissa screamed. Oh crap she found out. "How dare you get married without telling me!" She came in to the kitchen and immediately changed. "No, let me see the ring!" She squealed. I held out my hand. She grabbed it and pulled me out of the chair.

"Geeze, Liss. Don't have a heart attack." Christian said as he walked in. Behind him, my parents, Dimitri's family, and Eddie walked in.

"Hey everyone!" I yelled. "Uh… I don't' think we'll all fit… Sydney and Adrian are on the couches…"

"Sydney's here?" My father asked. "I have to ask her something…"

I blocked his way into the living room. "What do you have to ask her?" I crossed my arms.

"Business."

"She's on vacation."

"There's no vacation for Alchemists."

"In my house there is." He backed off. "That's what I thought." Everyone just stood around talking amongst themselves. "So, Nathan's dead." Every stopped talking and turned toward me. "Yep. Dead." I went over to the freezer and grabbed a chocolate popsicle.

"Rose." My mother said. "This is not something to joke about."

"I'm not joking. I killed him. That's why Sydney's here." I waved toward the living room.

"Kiz," He paused. "He's really gone?"

"Dead. Gone. Zip. Game over."

"Are you serious?" Lissa asked.

"Serious as a heart attack." I said licking my popsicle.

"Rose. Like your mom said. No time for jokes." Lissa scolded me.

"Sorry. I make jokes to ease the tension." I gave a small grin that didn't reach my eyes.

"Oh my God." My mother said. "So, what next?"

"We rejoice. Have a party." I said simply.

"Whoo! Par-tay!" Christian said.

"I'm going to go hang with Christian. You guys are all downers." I said and walked over to him. "Let's blow this popsicle stand, Christian." I looped my arm through his and started toward the door. But I was called back.

"It's not over Roza." I stopped at Yeva's creepy voice. "More obstacles are to come at you and Dimka." I turned toward her. "No matter if you know them or not, they will come for revenge." She pushed past me and out the door.

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