Chapter 2...

"Rose, Rose, come one, wake up." I could feel Christian shaking me slowly. "Come on Rose." Obviously he had never tried waking me up before. "ROSE! WAKE UP!" He shouted at me this time, and I opened my eyes.

"God Christian, nothing like going easy on the eardrums!" I grumbled before standing up slowly.

"Yeah, urm, sorry about that." He said while laughing nervously.

"Don't worry about it." I said gently. I think by the look on his face he thought I was going to hit him. He stood up to, and I looked around the church attic. The sun was just setting out the window, which meant it was morning at the St. Vladimir's. "We should get going to breakfast." I said, and started walking out of the attic. Christian followed and we made our way down to the canteen.

We were silent while we walked, but it wasn't awkward. Until we saw Lissa and Adrian walking towards us. "Rose!" Adrian shouted. I grabbed Christians arm and started pulling him in the opposite direction. Adrian grabbed my arm, and began to pull me back to him.

"Get off me Adrian!" I yelled at him, and he let go of my arm immediately.

"Rose, please! It isn't what it looks like! Please don't do this to me, I love you!" He pleaded with me.

"No Adrian, you obviously don't love me, or you wouldn't be getting it on with my best friend! How much do you think that proves that you love me. And you…" I turned to Lissa who had been quiet throughout this whole ordeal. "You cheated on your boyfriend with my boyfriend! How do you expect me to forgive you for that! How could you hurt me and Christian like that!"

"I…" She began.

"No!" I interrupted. "You nothing! You must have known what you were doing, in fact I know you know what you were doing. Because I could feel it. I could feel you touching him, and him touching you. You knew what you were doing, and that just hurts me even more!" This time I did grab Christian's arm and dragged him away. No one bothered to try and stop me this time. I couldn't face going to breakfast right now, so I just kept walking. I had let go of Christian's arm, but he followed me anyway. Soon, I found myself outside my room.

"You can come in you know." I said to Christian who was stood on the doorstep.

"Thanks," he said as he walked in. " Are you okay?" he asked gently.

"No." I answered simply. Then I burst into tears. He ran over to me and wrapped his arms around me. "I'm not okay. It just keeps getting worse. First Mason, then Dimitri, and now Lissa and Adrian."

"Shh. It's okay. Mason wasn't your fault, and Dimitri chose to do what he wanted, you cant help any of that." He said gently.

"No! I am going to tell you something that I have never told anyone, and you cant tell anyone. Promise?" I was taking a risk here, and even though I had never been the best of friends with Christian, I did trust him. With my life if it came down to it.

"Promise." He said sincerely. I did trust him. And so, I told him everything. From when I was falling for him, how we almost kissed when I hurt my ankle, to the lust charm, and how he told me he didn't love me, to when he saved me from Natalie and he told me he did want me, to when I kissed him in the gym. He listened intently, and didn't interrupt once. When I had finished I had fresh tears running down my face. He wiped them away gently, telling me it would be okay. Honestly, I don't think I could bring myself to believe him just yet.

"I can't believe I didn't notice you and Belikov! I mean when I think about it now, the way you even looked at each other, I'm shocked everyone didn't notice come to think of it!" He exclaimed, clearly shocked at his own failure to notice this.

"Way to make me feel better Christian." I replied coldly.

"Yeah, yeah, sorry." He said, clearly meaning it, then he asked, "Did Lissa know?"

"No." I answered simply. He looked shocked then recovered quickly.

"So who exactly does know then?" He quizzed slowly, and carefully.

"You, Victor Dashkov, and Adrian."

"Adrian! How exactly did he find out?"

"Well on the ski trip he overheard me and Dimitri arguing, and I think he kind of guessed. But aside from that, I think the ability to read aura's might have had something to do with it."

"Suppose." He answered, then he remained silent for a while longer, until I slowly drifted off to sleep.