Chapter 3...

Adrian's hands roamed over my body, making me shiver with pleasure. His lips crashed hungrily to mine, and I responded quickly. We were laying in his bed, with only our underwear left on, and boy did he look good. I pulled him closer to me by his hair, and he moaned slightly.

"Lissa…" he moaned gently.

Wait. Lissa. Shit! I was in her head again. And she was with Adrian. I woke up with a start, breathing heavily. I sat up slowly, then I felt something shift beside me. Oh, that's right, I fell asleep after I had told him about me and Dimitri.

"What wrong?" he asked drearily.

"Lissa is with Adrian, and I got pulled into her fucking head." I said angrily.

"Oh, god, I'm sorry Rose." He replied gently.

Before I could stop myself I had new tears running down my cheeks. Christian pulled me into another hug, and I sobbed into his chest. He never let go of me, and it made me feel slightly better as I continued to cry.

When I stopped crying, Christian let go of me and got off the bed. "Come on, lets go get some breakfast." He suggested. I got up, and followed him out the door.

The next few days followed the same pattern. Me and Christian would sit together at mealtimes and do our best to avoid both Lissa and Adrian. Once Adrian caught me alone and tried to explain himself.

"It was a mistake, you know it couldn't have meant anything Rose." He pleaded.

"Well if it was a mistake then you wouldn't have been at it again a couple of nights ago, would you?" I said, my temper rising slowly.

"How did you- oh right the bond." He finished for himself.

"Yeah, the bond." I said then stormed off.

Today, something interesting definitely was happening though, and I wasn't going to let any fall outs ruin it. Today was the start of the field experience. There was only one thing that was dampening my mood. The possibility of being assigned to Lissa. All the time I had been saying that I was the perfect person to guard her, and now I would avoid it at all costs. Being stuck with her

for 6 weeks would not be a pleasant experience.

I sat down next to Eddie and waited for Alberta to begin.

"You excited?" He asked, whilst almost bouncing up and down in his seat.

"Hell yeah!" I exclaimed.

"I hope I get som-" He was cut off by Alberta's voice ringing out over the group of novices.

"As you all know, today is the start of the field experience. Today you will be assigned to the Moroi you will be protecting from 'Strigoi' attacks for the next 6 weeks." Blah, Blah, I added silently in my head. We all knew this, we just wanted to get on with the assignments.

We all waited patiently - some more than others, for Alberta to finish. When she did there were a few whoops from the crowd and Stan came onto the stage to read the assignments out.

He went in alphabetical order, I generally zoned out from these, until he reached Eddie.

"Eddie Castile," he began. "You will be assigned to… Vasilisa Dragomir."

I breathed a sigh of relief, and Eddie gave me a look of despair. Eddie was one of the few people who had sided with me and Christian on this argument, and therefore had not been speaking to Lissa. I did feel sorry for him, but selfishly, I was more relieved that I wasn't in his position.

Now I had no fear of being assigned Lissa, my only fears were of being assigned to Jesse or Ralf. I zoned out from the rest of the readings, until they reached my name. Jesse had already been taken, so I had no worry of being assigned to him.

Stan then called my name. "Rose Hathaway. You have been assigned to…"