Chapter 6...

I saw him materialize in front of me. "Hello Little Dhampir." he said smugly.

"What do you want Adrian." I asked coldly.

"I just want to talk, I want to explain."

"There is nothing to explain." I said simply. I focused all my energy on waking up. Building up the mental walls like I did when I wanted to block Lissa. Slowly I could feel the dream fading around me.

"Rose! What the-" he was cut off as I managed to wake up. I shuddered. Now I knew I could block Adrian. This was definitely a skill worth learning.

Now I was awake, there was no chance of me getting back to sleep. Not that I wanted to knowing there was a chance that Adrian might still try to invade my sleep. Instead, I got up slowly, trying not to wake Christian up. A failed attempt.

"Rose?" he asked groggily. "Is that you? Are you awake?"

"Yes it's me, yes I'm awake." I answered, wondering whether to tell him about Adrian in my dreams. I decided I would, I seemed to be telling him every other detail about my life recently. "I had to wake myself up."

"What do you mean 'you had to wake yourself up'?" he asked confused.

"Adrian invaded my dreams." As soon as I mentioned the name Adrian I could see him tense, and anger grew in his eyes. I still couldn't help but notice the piercing blue of his eyes after looking into them last night. No. I mentally shook my head. Not going to start thinking things like that, I told myself.

"What did he say?" Christian asked, taking me away from the kicking I was giving myself mentally.

"Nothing. He just said that he wanted to talk, then I blocked myself from him before he got to say anything else."

"How did you block yourself?" he asked curiously. "I didn't know you could do that."

"Me neither really. I can block Lissa out, so I figured it was the same concept, and apparently it is. At least now I wont have to listen to more of Adrian's apologies." I said. I decided it was best to leave out that I only ever needed to block Lissa out when she was having sex with Christian.

"Oh okay, well at least you can block him out." Christian said at last. After that, we both got dressed and headed down to breakfast.

During 2nd period there was a message that all the novices were to report to gym lunch. I spent the rest of the time until then wondering what this could be about. I didn't understand what could be so important that they would drag us away from protecting our Moroi at a time when most of the 'attacks' were made. Whatever it was, I had a bad feeling about it.

When lunchtime came, I said goodbye to Christian and went to meet Eddie by the gym.

"I wonder what this could be about?" he asked, obviously seeing the same logic as me about pulling us from a vital 'protection' time.

"I don't know." I said. "I've been wondering the same thing since we got the message. Oh well, lets go inside and find out shall we?" He nodded, and we went inside and sat down on some benches that had been pulled up in rows for us to sit on.

Alberta stood at the front of the bench rows and signalled for us all the be quiet. Silence washed through the rows, and she began to speak. "I have called you hear today to tell you about an extra part that has been added to the field experience." she began. Me and Eddie exchanged puzzled looks. What more could be added? We already slept in the same rooms, skipped all of our classes to do this. Surely they weren't going to strip us of our day off, making it more 'realistic' were they?

Alberta continued, bringing me out of my little rant about how unfair these people could be. "As I am sure you know, spring break is coming up soon and we have decided to incorporate this as part of the field experience." Now I really was confused. What was she talking about? They weren't going to make the Moroi stay here were they? "You will each go with your assignment to the place they have chosen to spend there spring break at, with no arguments on your part" Alberta finished.

I was left sat there in a state of shock. I couldn't quite make myself move. I was going to have to go with Christian to wherever he was going. Unfortunately, I had a pretty good idea where I was going to be spending my spring break…