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Chapter 19

The moment the giant Academy plane touched down the Royal Court's I felt queasy; but not from any shadowkiss powers or something. I felt queasy from the mere sight of the Royal Court.

Buildings scattered in a furbished mini-exclusive subdivision like, fancy buildings and such. I have been in the Royal Court, dozens of times, but never stayed for more than a week or so, two weeks tops.

I hated it.

The dispatching of quarters and assignments where a blur to me. I think I nodded in just the right places and smiled and bowed to the rightful people, but I barely cared if I did wrong.

Lissa and Christian were immediately separated from Eddie and me, while Adrian; who surprisingly decided to visit his parents and whole family once again, in a longer term, wink wink, strolled in his own pace, leaving his crutches a few days ago, not needing them anymore- behind from Eddie and me and all the other dhampirs who where all about to meet up with the Royal Guardians. The guardians where clearly shocked and at the same time suspicious as why someone as Adrian Ivashkov would want to attend a guardian gathering as such, but they only eyed him warily.

"Wow, so do I like watch you get it on with other guardians?" I heard Adrian say excitedly from behind. Eddie swallowed a small chuckle while I turned back and raised an eyebrow at the boy.

He turned to look at me, from where he was curiously studying the insides of the gym where we entered.

"What?" He asked naively.

I glared at him "Take a wild guess."

"I meant, you know, fight and battle with people with the same interests as you?" He tried miserably redeeming himself.

I smiled at him cheekily and relieved him from his misery.

"Nope. Sorry Your Highness, no 'getting on' today". I air quoted him.

He cutely harrumphed and crossed his arms and pouted disappointingly while sitting down in the laid out chairs in front of a podium.

I grabbed his hand suddenly a held it between our chairs. I saw Eddie, who was seated beside Adrian, glance at our held hands and shook his head with a small smile playing in his lips.

I can't believe Adrian and I are beginning to act like one of those sappy and touchy couples, but I didn't dare let go of his hand.

When everyone was settled, three major guardians entered the gym and made way to the podium. I recognized the guy in the middle, who was probably the leader as the Queen's head of security. I felt him glance briefly at me and Adrian.

I felt self-conscious, because I know without a doubt that he would report us to the Queen. I started letting go of Adrian's hand which was settled in my lap. Adrian had other thoughts though, he didn't let go of my pinkie and he intertwined his with mine.

I looked at him questioningly, he glanced at me and winked, then turned back to the front of the room, after a second he turned back to me and smiled at me and crossed his eyes.

I probably have the weirdest boyfriend in the world, except Lissa- Christian is a freak without a doubt hahah-; he has the heart of a four year old, but a heart capable of loving me completely, no matter what.

I kissed his nose and settled my head in his shoulder and listened to one of the most boring lectures inof my life. About responsibility, discipline or something.

Adrian spent the night in my quarters. I am one of the few who received the privilege of staying in a single quarter, along with Eddie and some of my other dhampir friends.

It was one of the best nights of my life. We had first fought because of what movie we should watch- we attempted to pull out an all-nighter –I wanted something with more action and gore stuff while he wanted to watch a documentary about Star Wars.

I hit him with a pillow for even suggesting such thing. He ignored it breezily and went in front of the dvd player to put it on, crouching in front of the television set. I ran after him and jumped in his back and tackled him.

I straddled him and grabbed the cd he was about to put and threw it across the room.

"Oh, now you did it." He growled at me. He rolled us over, so now he was on top. He was attempting to kiss me and at the same time tickle me hard in the sides.

"Stop!" I screamed and laughed at the same time, and punched his chest hard. He got off me for a second, but that was all I needed. I proceeded to the table where our snacks where stacked, grabbed the cheerios he was saving for the night and ripped it open and threw it in the sink, threw it all and watch them get ruined by the dampness.

Cruel, I know. He realized this and grabbed me by the waist and carried me in his shoulders.

"I can't believe you just did that! My cheerios!" He scolded at me.

He put me down and I realized that we were in my bathroom and it dawned on me what he was planning on doing. And before I could leave the bathroom, he had the door blocked with his big frame.

He grabbed the head of the shower hose and directed the water at me.

"Adrian! You goof!" I squealed at him

"You hit me hard with the cheerios!" He whined back.

I lunged at him, taking him down in the bathroom floor and got him wet.

We both surrendered after that. We were both panting and staring at each others eyes while laying side by side in the bathroom floor.

"Come on you. We should get into warm and dry clothes before we do much more damage." I said as I got up and help him pull up.

"Uhm…What damage?" He said suggestively at me.

I hit him playfully at the chest and dodged his advancements and proceeded to the bed where our clothes and luggage were messily strewn.

I threw him a towel and grabbed one for myself.

Life could probably not get any better than this. I thought as I see Adrian struggling to get off his shoes which were now soggy, and him practically pulling it and taking his foot along.

I woke up to the most wonderful sensation in my life. Warm and strong arms wrapped around my waist against an equally warn and strong body behind mine. I smiled groggily as I remembered our failed attempt to pull out an all-nighter. I turned around so that I came face to face with Adrian's peaceful face.

I guess he was as tired as I am that he didn't dream at all because of the wild and crazy night we had, we didn't spend time in our dreams as much as we did these days. We preferred being with each other in reality.

I got up slowly and smoothly trying my best at not waking up Adrian. I heated some water and grabbed two coffee ready cups, opening only one and pouring hot water in it. After taking a sip, I gained some alertness and glanced at the clock in my bedside table. People would probably be awake by now and doing their daily routines.

I thought about asking some guardian where they might be keeping Dimitri. I needed to see him and check if he was okay and awake.

I churned all of my other thoughts inside my head sorting them.

It felt weird waking up in the Court and thinking about my assigned duty rather than my classes. It was like as if life was getting too far ahead without me fully grasping leaving the vicinity of the school.

I opened my door gingerly to glance in the hallway, to check if the other dhampirs were awake yet.

But when I opened my door, I came face to face with the Queen's profile along with a couple of guardians. I gawked at her.

She didn't notice me at first, she was dictating orders at one guardian beside her who has taking notes accordingly when she noticed me standing there, in a shirt too big for me, no doubt anyone could tell that it was Adrian's. I saw her eyes flicker inside; my door was so widely open that you could see a small portion of my bed where undoubtedly someone was contentedly sleeping.

She glanced back at me, her eyes narrowed and lips pursued. I almost laughed at her face, but I settled with looking smug and raising an eyebrow.

"Morning Your Majesty." I told her cheekily and bowed to her.

She turned a funny purple shade. And before she could order the two guardians with her to murder me, I nodded respectfully and quickly closed the door before letting out my grin.

Hmm…Maybe my stay here would not be as bad as I expected it would.

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She kneeled in front of the couch he was lying on and stroked his cheeks "Adrian honey…We're all worried. You haven't step out of this hell hole of yours for weeks!" She looked around his dirty and awfully smelling room with disdain.

"If you don't stop this madness-" She was suddenly caught off guard with her son's loud guffaws of laughter.

"Madness mother? Seriously? You have no idea how appropriate you word of choice was for this!" He swung his hand up and made a gesture around his room. His mother visibly grimaced.

"You want me to leave this pigsty? This? This one place where I could escape everything! Everyone!" he suddenly sat up and threw his unfinished bottle to the wall in front of the couch, it shattered into hundreds of broken glass. "You want me to get out and put on the face of the good son and be happy and merry for all the other socialites to see? Come on! You know me better than that."