Sorry this has taken so long but for the past week I have been writing a very long summary of the end of the story. I have always had an idea of what I wanted but now it's official and boy, things are going to get crazy. :D

Again sorry, but I'm here now and I'm not giving up on this story.

Previously: "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."

Chapter 15: Fairness

"Do you think he'll give us detention or something?" Jake asked worriedly. I rolled my eyes and reassured Jake, again, that Anthony would understand our problem and let us go with a free pass. I had met up with Jake after cleaning up my room and I had found the piles of clothing that Jake had told me about. It hurt me but I knew I had to run and check out the clothes later or risk getting yelled at for being late to Anthony's office.

"What about if he calls our parents?" Jake asked. "My parents would probably kill me if they thought I did something stupid."

"So, the school's badass turns out to be afraid of a phone call to his mommy." I teased him, hoping he would stop whining. Jake punched my shoulder and I retaliated of course and Jake tried to kiss me. And what I mean by 'try' is that he leaned in but I ducked out of his way. He looked confused but I just looked away. I felt guilty, I wasn't over Dimitri and kissing him like that wasn't helping out my situation.

"We should keep going or else we'll be late." I led the way to the main office. The secretary sent us in when we announced that Headmaster Drozdov wanted to speak with us. Anthony's door was open and he was facing the window and was talking on his cell phone.

"Yes I heard about the attack." Anthony muttered into the phone. "How many guardians are we talking about? Did we lose any Moroi?... Yeah, I'll call Zeklos." I wanted to keep listening but Jake knocked on the wall. Alerting him of our presence.

"Headmaster Drozdov?" Anthony took one look at us and quickly yelled something unintellible into the phone and closed it.

"Rosemarie and Jacob. Nice of you to grace me with your presence." He said drolly.

"Was there another attack?" I ignored his sarcasm.

"I beg your pardon?"

"You said something about an attack on your phone. Was there another Strigoi attack?" Anthony stood up and closed the door and turned back to us.

"You can't say anything about what you heard to anyone. The royal court wants this kept secret."

"Fine. Just tell us what happened." I insisted. I really hoped it wasn't someone I knew.

"I can't. No one is supposed to know about this." Anthony sat back down. "So, tell me. Why was Rose in your room half dressed this morning Jacob?"

"We didn't break any rules, headmaster. Well we did but it was kind of an accident."

"An accident?" Anthony raised an eyebrow.

"Exactly." I cut in and told the entire story. Of course I left out the picnic. When I was done, Jake looked even more worried than before and Anthony's face was expessionless.

"Is that really what happened?" Anthony directed the question at Jake. I scoffed, I know it was hard to believe but doubting me was rude.

"Yes sir. One hundred percent correct." Jake fidgeted but looked at Anthony in the eye.

"All right," Anthony sighed. "If that's what happened, then that's what happened. Jake you get a warning, another warning and you'll be properly disciplined. Rose, you will get detention for a week." Anthony wrote something down.

"A week?" I yelled, "Why me?"

"You already had a warning." He saw the blank look on my face. "Don't you remember your... disagreement with Catherine?"

"Oh," Damn. "But I can't tomorrow, I have extra classes wih Dimitri." I didn't remember the exact time Dimitri and I were supposd to meet up but I really didn't want detention.

"Rose, I'll take care of Guardian Belikov."

"Fine." I glared at him. "Bye"

Jake excused himself quickley and followed me. "You okay?"

"Fine."

I waved by to Jake, telling him I had to go to my room and sudy for a test I had. I made it to my room and saw 4 piles that I hadn't noticed last time I was in my room. In each pile there was a pair of shoes and an outfit, Stephanie must have brought these over. I looked through the first pile and saw a comfortable pair of sneakers. They were all black and looked sturdy. The rest of the outfit was a pair of red spandex mini shorts and a tight black and red workout top. The second outfit was a pair of ballerina flats with a bow on top, a loose grey and white designed tank top with a lace back and a pair of black ripped stretchy shorts. The third outfit held a flowered romper with dark brown wedges and a bead necklace. The last one was the most impressive. It was a a short hot pink dress that had a layer of see-through material on top of the pink dress. It was tight at the bodice but swung out near my thigh. It came with a pair of nude colored heels and matching dangling earings. The outfits were amazing and I appreciated the fact that most of them wouldn't be to hard to fight with.

I try on the outfit with the ballet flats and I was looking myself over in the mirror when I heard a knock on the door.

"Hey Rose! Since you're parading around in the new outfits i'm assuming you like them?" I threw my arms around her, catching her by surprise.

"Thanks so much, Steph! I love them. They're exactly what the doctor ordered."

"No problem." She giggled as I swung her around. "It was fun, the pink dress is my favorite."

"It's gorgeous."

"I know." She winked at me and sat on the bed. "So, where were you last night?"

"I was in the headmasters office. We were talking about my future." I knew I had to lie, just because I liked Steph doesn't mean I trusted her.

"Rose, if I asked you something, would it stay between us?" I looked at her wierdly.

"Sure, if that's what you want." I had a feeling I asn't going to like this very much.

"Do you really want to be a guardian for the rest of your life?" My eyes must have been huge. What is with this school? Did everyone have problems with the system? I was used to being the only one.

"Yeah, I really want to dedicate my life to protecting my best friend." I hesitated.

"It just seems like a waste. Why are Moroi lives more important than Dhampir? What exactly do we do that makes us so special?" It took me a moment to answer.

"You continue my species. Dhampirs need Moroi to survive." Steph rolled her eyes, she'd probably heard this before.

"So while you guys are out defending us and giving up and risking your lives, we're having sex?" She shrugged. "Doesn't seem fair to me."

"No one ever said life was fair. Believe me when I say that whenever I get the chance, I'll fight for me and my race but now," I sighed. "I have to graduate for Lissa. I need to protect her and I will. Even if it means giving my life up, she would do the exact same thing for me."

"Thing is Rose, I don't think she would." She go up and headed for the door, she turned to me once, suddenly looking tired. "I'm glad you liked the outfits."

I nodded and she left, leaving me to my thoughts. I couldn't get her last comment out of my head. Thing is Rose, I don't think she would.

Lissa would do anything for me, we're sisters, we've been through hell and back together. I couldn't wait for Lissa to get here, this place is making me go crazy.

The next day went slow. I got the message from Anthony saying that my meeting with Dimitri would be moved to lunch that day so as soon as I finished with my language arts class I made it back to the gym. But first I walked around the building and tied my shoes and anything else that could make me late. I really didn't want to talk to Dimitri after yesterday.

"You're late." Dimitri growled as I slowly wandered in.

"And? It's not like you can do anything to me comrade, you're not a teacher or my mentor anymore."

"You are wrong about that Rose. I can make this school very unpleasent for you."

"How exactly can you do that comrade?"

"I can't release my secrets here Roza. We have practice." He smiled evilly at me.

"I told you not to call me that anymore."

"And?" he mocked me. Anger tore threw me and I flew at him. Almost catching him off guard. He tried to strike out but I blocked it. I punched him in the gut and he doubled over. I tried to kick him but he grabbed my foot and twisted it. I fell over but got on my feet again. Crouching slightly, Dimitri mimicked my movements and we circled each over before he ran toward me. Grabbing me by the waist and pulling me down. He tried lying on top of me but I was squirming so I slipped out and sat on him. Bringing my knee into his gut so that he ran out of breath and he tested . I looked him in the eye.

"Don't call me Roza." All I got was two eyes glaring at me so I stood up, grabbed my duffle and left. I felt so happy, like i'd finally conquered a mountain, or in this case a badass Russian. I skipped to the dining hall and even got the last brownie before sitting down next to Jake.

"Hey." I said and he nodded at me and went back to reading a textbook laid out in front of him. "Watcha doing?"

"Reading."

"Reading what?" I knew I sounded annoyed but I don't like being ignored.

"Just something I found interesting." He closed the book in front of him, probably realizing my annoyance. "What's up?"

"Just finished my session with Dimitri." I shrugged.

"Dimitri?"

"You've probably heard of him, Dimitri Belikov? The badass from Russia? My old mentor?"

"Oh yeah, he-" Jake stopped abruptly and looked at the space behind me.

"What's wrong?" I turned and saw a Moroi with gold hair and was looking around.

"Lissa!" I yelled and tackled her.

Done, sorry it's so short guys but I really wanted to update and this was where I planned on stopping. You guys, I have terrible luck. I could make a 12 page of list that stated everything that's gone wrong since I last updated but, oh well. Expect an update soon. And I mean it this time. :D

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