Previously: "You could say that." I turn, lying with my back to him. "It's late we should sleep."

"Okay, good night." I hear him yawn and become silent.

All I can think about was his last comment. You have things you want to hid don't you Rose? You have demons. Don't we all?

Chapter 14: Mistakes

I woke up to see Jake dressed up in a fitted pair of dress pants and a light blue button down shirt. I tried to muss with my hair before he noticed but gave up after realizing it was too much of a mess.

"Why are you all dolled up today?" I grumbled at him, rubbing my eyes.

"I'm hardly 'dolled up' Rose, but I'm on my way to church."

"Church?"

"Yes church, it's generally what people who want to save their souls do every Sunday." He winked at me. "Not that you would know anything about that."

"Hey! I'm a nice person and although church may not be my idea of a good time it doesn't mean I don't want my soul to be not saved." I babbled.

"So then, are you coming with me?"

"Actually, I don't think I can't. I 'm not really dressed." I lifted the blanket off me to show my bare legs. "I doubt the Father would be very happy with me entering like this. No one would be able to focus with these bad boys around."

"Definitely wouldn't want Father to get a heart attack." Jake said leering at my legs. I blushed and recovered them.

"So, can you bring me clothes before church?"

"Can't, I'm already late. I'll bring it to you after church, I should be back in an hour."

"Fine. Can you bring me food then?" I smiled widely "Preferably bacon, eggs, sausages and pancakes. Oh and three chocolate donuts if you don't mind."

"You're cutting back aren't you?" He teased and I threw a pillow at him. Which he deflected of course.

"Just go and bring me jeans and a shirt. I'm starting to think that you like keeping me trapped in here." He smiled widely and grabbed his phone.

"Bye Rose." He left. I only had enough time to change the channel on the TV before the door opened it again. Jake had probably forgot something.

"Hi Jake." I said without looking.

"Rosemarie Hathaway, what are you doing in Mr. Soles bedroom?" Anthony yelled at me. I jumped up, shit.

"I was, well, you see, I was walking toward the dorms when this bucket of mud fell on me and-" I heard a deep chuckle come behind Anthony and turned around him to see who it was. Great.

"You never change, Rose." Dimitri chuckled again. Seriously? I asked God wasn't it bad enough that Anthony found me here? Did you have to make Dimitri find me too?

"Actually," I glared. "I've grown a lot the past year. If you remember, I came from not being able to throw a proper punch to handing your ass to you plenty of times."

"Oh, I remember plenty. I also seem to remember an incident like this involving a certain Jesse Zeklos." I wanted to slap the smirk off his face.

"That was almost a year ago-" Anthony had interrupted me.

"Rose, stop talking!" I shut up only because I couldn't believe what he'd just said to me. I felt a long string of profanities well up. Anthony turned to Dimitri, "Guardian Belikov, we'll continue this conversation later."

"Yes sir." Dimitri winked at me and left.

"Anthony…"

"Rose, I don't have time for this, I want you and Jake in my office at 3. Don't be late." And he left. I sat on my bed dejectedly. The door opened and I quickly stood up. I was surprised to see Dimitri standing there. He had a hungry look in his eyes.

"What? What are you doing here?" Dimitri didn't say anything and took three long strides so that he was a breathe away from me. I felt shivers go up my spine and my traitorous heart began beating faster.

"Dimitri," I tried to stop my voice from shaking. "Why are you-"

"Roza," He said huskily. "You have no idea what you're doing to me." I tried to speak again but then he put his mouth to mine and my mind went blank. He pulled me down on the bed so that he was on top and left me completely breathless. I tugged on his shirt and he pulled away enough to rip it off. I sighed, it was hard to explain how I felt.

Dimitri and I fit perfect together, then Dimitri then tugged on my shirt and then I remember the big shirt I was wearing. It made me remember what I was doing and who I was doing it with. I pulled back and he settled for kissing my neck.

"Dimitri, get off me." I tried to shove him off but his arms were like steel cages.

"You don't mean that." He murmured against my neck.

"Get off me." I released my arm and pushed against his neck. He made a weird gurgling sound and fell back.

"Roza?" He looked hurt. It surprised me the last week he'd been so cold and now here he was acting more like his old self. The past week had been hard and I almost didn't even know who he was anymore. It angered me that he thought it was perfectly alright to mess with my emotions.

"We can't do this. You're engaged remember?" I said scornfully. I threw him his shirt and turned away from him.

"But Rose, I love you. " I turned around quickly,

"What the hell is wrong with you? You've been acting like i'm some sort of annoying child the past week and now your seducing me? What drugs have you been doing? I can't take this, get out and leave me alone!" I was completely confused. Is he suffering through some personality disorder or something?

"Roza…"

"Rose!" I snapped. "Get out."

"Fine." He said icily and put his shirt on. "I forgot to tell you but we have a training practice tomorrow at 8 pm. Don't be late."

I sat on my bed, I was right back to where I started. I started wondering about Dimitri. This was very strange. Is someone using magic to make themselves look like Dimitri or something? Did it have something to do with Tasha? I don't know but it was weird.

I sat there wondering until I heard a knock on the door and Jake yelling out 'Rose'.

"Hey Jake" I mumble guiltily while opening the door. Jake had brought me plates of food wrapped in a bag and another bag with clothes. He handed me the clothes.

"Go change in the bathroom, I'll set out the food."

"Okay, thanks." I smiled halfheartedly and walked into the bathroom. I grabbed all the clothes and started putting on the panties(I knew Jake must have looked for them but I didn't push the issue) and then the jeans. I didn't notice until I had the jeans buckled that I had never even seen these jeans before. It was a pair of dark washed jeans that had some type of glitter on them. I looked at the shirt, it was a lace, strapless top that cinched in the waist. It was amazing, but it wasn't mine.

"Jake?" I yelled through the door. "Where did you get these clothes?"

"Your room, there was like 5 different outfits folded on your bed. Never knew you were that neat."

"I'm not, Stephanie must have left it there. She mentioned something about buying me clothes." I put on the shirt and looked at myself in the mirror. It was a gorgeous shirt that probably cost more than half my wardrobe put together. I brushed my hair with Jake's comb and it seemed to do the trick. I noticed that in the bag there were a pair of brown, strappy wedges.

They were way too high to be appropriate for anything I had planned today and they definitely wouldn't be useful in a fight. I wore them anyway. I could always go to my room and change.

"What do you think?" I asked walking out of the bathroom.

"I think that I definitely have to thank Stephanie for this." He grabbed my waist and to be nice and because I felt guilty, I wrapped my arms around his neck.

"You know, this is actually a very comfortable position. I'm leaning on you for a reason, these shoes are killing me." I joke.

"So I guess you're going to have to lean on me the entire day huh?" I rolled my eyes at the goofy smile he had on his face and suddenly remembered Dimitri. I felt so guilty, here was a super sweet, cute and badass guy who liked me and I seemed to keep falling for Dimitri. It was Mason all over again.

"So why don't we eat?" I sniffed the air. "The food smells amazing."

"You sure do have an appetite. Don't think that I don't remember you stuffing all that food in your mouth yesterday." I punched his arm and sat on the couch he had. The dresser of his was made into a makeshift table and had a buffet full of food.

"How did you get all this?" I asked in wonder.

"Remember my friend who works in the kitchen?"

"The asshole?"

"That's him." He laughed.

"Remind me to thank him later." I grabbed a plate and started loading it up.

"Woah, its not going to get up and run away." I ignored his last comment.

"Oh, and Jake?" I said, remembering my encounter with Anthony.

"Yeah?"

"We have to go to Anthony's office today at 3."

"Anthony? Who's that?" I forgot that I'm the only one in the school who disrespects teachers.

"The headmaster, I mean."

"Why? I don't remember him telling me anything about a meeting."

"It was recently penciled in." I murmured with a straight face. "The headmaster kind of came in today while you were at church."

"What! That's not good." He grew pale. "Did you explain to him that we weren't doing anything?"

"I tried, but he just seemed too mad to listen."

"Damn, we'll try again at the meeting. He'll understand, won't he?" He seemed pretty anxious.

"Of course he will." I rubbed his arm.

There were two hours left and then I had to get Jake to come with me to Anthony's office. After eating, I decided to go to my room and call Lissa, It had been days since I've spoken to her.

"Rose!" Lissa yelled when she answered.

"Hey Liss, how are you?" She ignored my comment and went on.

"Why haven't you called me before? I miss you so much Rose."

"I've been busy hanging out with some, friends."

"A boy friend?" Damn, She must have noticed my hesitation.

"Kind of."

"Rose! Tell me, who is he?"

"Well," I smiled, her energy was contagious. "his name is Jake and he's one of the bad asses around here. Well, not as bad ass as me."

"Wow"

"So how's the academy? Are you a sparky ok?"

"Yeah, we're fine. He's coming with me to see you."

"That'll be fun. And speaking of the trip, did you know that Dimitri was here?"

"He is? No one told me, I haven't seen him for a few days but I didn't really think much of it."

"Yeah, is Tasha around?"

"I saw her yesterday. She's coming with me to see you though." If Tasha was at the Academy she couldn't have anything to do with Dimitri's strange moods.

"She is? To see Dimitri right?"

"Yeah, they're getting married soon."

"I know," I swallowed down the hurt and continued. "Has Tasha or anyone been acting strange or something?"

"What do you mean strange?"

"Can you keep a secret?" I went to lock my door and lowered my voice, I didn't want anyone to hear.

"Rose? What's wrong?"

"It's just that, Dimitri's been acting weird. It's like someone is trying to control him. He would act like someone I don't even know one minute, and act like my… mentor the next."

"I wish I could tell you that I've noticed something but I haven't. When I get there I'll check his aura or use compulsion. Who do you think is changing him?"

"I suspect it might be Tasha but since she's at St. Vladimirs, I don't know."

"Well, it still could be someone outside of where you are. Any type of user has the ability to infuse silver with magic. Is he wearing anything that looks silver?"

"Yeah, a silver ring." I thought back to the first time I saw Dimitri here and wondered if he had been wearing that ring just now. "It looked kind of like an engagement ring though."

"That could be it. We'll find out when I come this weekend."

"Ok, well I better go. I have a meeting with the headmaster later and I'm starved."

"What did you do this time?" Lissa laughed.

"You would freak if I told you."

A lot of surprises are in store my friends. Thanks tons for the reviews, It makes me smile every time I read them. Tomorrow I will finish my last final and then I'm out for the summer so expect more updates a lot quicker.