This chapter is a bit longer than the rest, I hope you enjoy it, I know I enjoyed writing it, even though I should have been doing science homework ;D

Chapter 7...

"Christian!" I yelled breathlessly. I had just run all the way from the gym up to his room. I stood there banging on his door. "Christian! Let me in!" I continued to yell.

He answered the door in a panic. "What's wrong Rose? What's happened?"

I didn't bother to answer any of those questions, instead I asked one of my own. One that I desperately didn't want to know the answer too. "Christian, where are you going to for spring break?" I asked in a rush.

"Aunt Tasha's, why?" he replied, obviously still confused. I couldn't help myself. I turned around and punched the wall next to me. I could see the blood coming out of my hands, but god I had needed to punch something, and rather the wall than Christian.

"Rose! What the hell are you doing! Are you okay?" he asked franticly.

"No." I said simply. I could feel the tears running down my face. Christian scooped me into his arms, and carried me to his bed. I don't think he trusted me to walk after my outburst. By now there weren't just tears coming down my face, I was full on sobbing into Christian's shirt as he carried on hugging me.

"Come on Rose," he said gently. "Start from the beginning."

So I decided that's exactly what I would do. "Well, you know the novices were called to the gym at lunch, well I went and Alberta started talking about adding something onto the field experience." I said between my sobs. Christian just continued to look at me, and nodded in the right places. "I didn't know what she could mean, I thought she meant like working on Sunday or something. Then she carried on, and she said something about spring break, and I have to go with you Christian!" I blurted out helplessly. "And I don't know if I can do it! I don't know if I can face him again, Christian!" I turned towards Christian. He had a look of utter shock written on his face.

"Well, we wont go! Simple as that." he said simply, as if it meant nothing. I could tell by looking at his eyes that he felt the same despair that I had upon hearing I had to go with him, he didn't want to put me through that.

"It's not that simple Christian," I said gently, I had managed to stop crying by now, but you could still hear the sadness in my voice. "You have already made your plans with the academy, haven't you?" He nodded. "Your not allowed to change them, Alberta said we weren't allowed to argue, and she'll know that if you change them now it's because I asked you to. Anyway, I wouldn't want to stop you from seeing your aunt, I know you love her, and I couldn't take that away from you, even if it was just for a week."

Christian just stared at me astonished. "You would really go and face all that pain just to make me happy?" he questioned. I nodded slowly.

"You've been through just as much pain as me Christian, one of us deserves to be happy." He still had the look of amazement on his face as he tightened his hold around me. It was true though. Christian did deserve to be happy. He had done so much for me, when I was breaking down he would always be there. I didn't care how much pain I had to go through to see him happy. It would be like a thank you to him for me to do this. I would have to live through it - not that I really had much choice.

"I wouldn't let you do this if I had a choice you know," He said smoothly. He paused for a moment after that. "But if I don't, then I might as well thank you for thinking of it that way." He finished finally. I tightened my hands that were holding onto his arms which we wrapped around me. He tightened them as well. We sat there in silence, both thinking about what interesting events were going to happen at spring break.

The rest of the week carried on as normal. I tried my hardest not to dwell on the fact I would be seeing Dimitri within a number of days, and carried out my duty as Christian's guardian the best I could. I seemed to face 'Strigoi' attack every other day. But I still hadn't lost one. I was proud of myself, but somehow I couldn't quite manage to enjoy my victories fully.

The days swept by, and soon it came to that day.

"Come on Rose!" Christian shouted from the plane. He might feel sorry for me having to see Dimitri, but he couldn't quite hide the excitement about going to see his aunt Tasha.

"I'm coming!" I said grumpily as I lugged my case towards the open doors of the Academy jet. The plane was small and only had about 50 seats. A few other Moroi and there guardians were sharing the same flight as us, as they were heading in the same direction.

The plane journey seemed fast - probably because I slept the whole way through it. I woke to find my head on Christian's shoulder and his arm around mine. He was gazing down at me softly, and I couldn't help the flutter that my heart made under his gaze.

"Morning." He said while laughing gently.

"Morning." I replied in a groggy voice.

He laughed at my voice and told me to buckle up because we were landing, I did as I was told and turned to look out of the window. It was raining. What a surprise. Just as I thought we had discarded the harsh Montana weather, here we were in it again. "Tasha is picking us up at the airport." he said. He didn't need to imply that Dimitri was going to be there, we all knew it already. I didn't want to imagine the awkwardness of this whole situation. Me and Dimitri not speaking, Christian trying not to say anything that might not upset me, Tasha bringing Dimitri into every conversation she had. I decided I would just sit there and take it. Not spoke unless spoken to - and then I could guarantee I would not be saying much. I shrugged down in my seat on the aeroplane, dreading what was about to come.