Chapter 3
I was to the doors in 58 seconds, when the walk took two minutes. I was going a lot faster, now that fresh blood was in my system.
I walked inside, controlling my urge to run in. Everyone was fighting on the mats, one person pretending to be a Strigoi and the other a guardian. It was pathetic.
I walked up to Alberta, "What do you want me to do?" She looked at me.
"When you see someone winning and winning I want you to fight that person." I nodded, getting what I had to do. I started walking around as Dimitri walked in.
We shared a milla-second look than I turned away. He didn't know. He would never know. The first person I sprawled was Mason.
"Think you can win?" I asked as Eddie and some other students watched us.
"Maybe." He said, not getting too cocky. He was the guardian and I was the Strigoi. I lunched, and he thought I was going to knock him over, I wasn't. As I past him he got confused. Perfect.
I turned skill-fully and attacked him from behind; I had him in a head lock easy.
"Let. Go." He panted, I dropped him and he fell flat on his stomach.
"Never," I said my voice low and dangerous. "Never let them have a second of surprise, that's all they need. You thought I was going to knock you over, never expect anything, and be ready for everything."
I walked away, to another group, another person. A girl named Cami was fighting Jason. She was winning. When I walked over she smiled.
"This is going to be fun." She thought she was all big and bad. Well, I was bigger, badder, and scarier. I smiled, as I was being the guardian. She lunged, I moved. She tried to hit me but I moved away from her hits, like a dance. Graceful yet scary.
Finally, after 8 minutes of this I jumped up, using her shoulders for support and wrapped my arm around her neck, a head lock. One where I could snap her neck easily. She squirmed and kicked, but I had her.
I let her go and walked away as she gasped for breath. I did this for 3 hours. I crushed sprits and made people stronger.
Mason almost had me once, but I was tired, hungry, and trying to ignore the faint pulse of her heart. The bell rang and we left. I walked down the hall and into Ms. Koski's office for more blood.
Blood.
I smiled as the same girl was there, Ms. Koski said nothing as I bit into her again, her sighs were the only sounds. I was quiet. I finished and walked out, the girl begging to come back, she loved it. I wiped my mouth and walked into the crowded cafeteria. People stopped talking and watched.
Probably shocked that I beat everyone in my class including Alberta and Dimitri. I slid into my table and watched as my friends stared at me, except Mason and Eddie, they shrugged and went back to eating.
"Is it true you beat everyone in gym?" Mia asked.
"I already told you," Mason said, "She screwed us all up and we all gotta be ashamed. She's been gone for two months and we can't even beat her."
"It's like she went all Strigoi." We all laughed, mine was careless and easy on the outside but on the inside I was freaking, was I giving it away too much?
"Hey Rose, you going to get something to eat?" Mason asked.
"Nah, when I left gym, Ms. Koski had me eat. She's deciding it be best for me to eat with her in the office for awhile, you know, till…" My voice trailed off.
"Till your not afraid of your own shadow?" They laughed, I glared. They should be the ones afraid. Terrified. A monster was on campus.
"So, Rose, who is your Moroi?" Christian asked.
"Oh um," I said, not sure. "She'll be guarding any one of the royals."
Dimitri's voice was right behind me. "Really?" Eddie and Mason asked. "How will she do that?"
"She is to watch a classroom, Ms. Koski thinks it's the best since she has excelled everyone is class." And it's safer for me not to be left with someone too long.
"Oh, so what schedule will she follow?" Lissa asked, hope filled me.
"Yours."
She smiled, "Okay!"
He nodded and left.
"Creepy much?" Mia asked, but no one was paying attention.
"You have to watch a full room?" Mason asked, still in shock.
"Yeah, guess I do." I said, glad I wasn't alone with someone…
I followed Mia and Lissa into History. Mason was assigned Mia and Eddie was Lissa. We walked in and I nearly stopped. My mother was talking to the teacher.
"Hey Rose, I didn't know your mother was coming to visit." Lissa said.
"Uh, yeah, sorry, I meant to tell you guys at lunch. She's here to train the guardians."
"What about her Moroi?" Mia asked, I didn't answer because my mother was walking towards me.
"I think we should…Leave." Eddie said, the others nodded and left. Lissa sent me calm thoughts, but I wasn't really angry at my mother anymore, I was more worried about what she was going to do it she found out… Anyone found out.
"So, I hear you're the top of gym." She said as we leaned against the wall in the back of the room, away from the others.
"Yeah, just got lucky." "
Lucky doesn't bet Alberta or Dimitri." She said.
"Yeah, well, they were going easy." I said.
"Easy? Alberta was telling me how you pulled her arm out of her socket when you were the guardian."
"Yeah, that was a accident." I said, "I didn't mean to pull her arm out of her socket."
My mother said nothing else, seeing as class was beginning. The teacher began a long lecture that I tuned most of it out. I was trying hard not to let my thoughts turn to blood. Than I saw it.
A flash. A face in the window, it was Maria. She was checking up on me. I nodded as her face flashed again and she looked at me like,I knew Samuel wanted to see me… Soon. I waited and waited, hoping no one else saw the face, no one did.
Of course no one would notice a face in the window. It was too fast, only someone who had enough blood in their system and was Undead could see that. I kept my thoughts on what I was going to do.
I was engaged to one man, an Undead man and I was in love with another.
One who was trained to kill me.
Karma must hate me, Karma must be punishing me for being terrible all my years of being alive… Alive.
The thought brought the image of blood to my mind, my throat began to burn. I shifted, uncomfortable.
Do not think of blood…
Do not think of blood…
Do not think of blood…
The bell rang and I stiffened. Lissa and Mia walked back to us, smiling. "That was so boring." Mia said.
"Yeah, totally boring." Lissa said.
I could tell I was growing father and father away from Lissa. But that was good, just in case. I could always attack.
"So, you excided for the dance?" Lissa asked me as we walked out.
"Dance?" I asked, getting a queasy feeling over myself.
"Yeah, there's a dance. Oh Rose," She turned and face me, "What are you going to wear?"
"Oh, um, I might not go." I said, but my evil, monster mind was already planning the best way to lure someone out. Someone who drank a little too much at the party. I shook my head.
"Rose, not going to a party?" Mason asked and put his hand to my forehead. "You don't feel warm, but you do feel a little bit cold."
"Yeah, that's it, cold." I said, shivering for effect. "Besides, I need to un-pack."
They looked at me with concern but said nothing. I could feel Lissa's worry over me and it nearly killed me.
I smiled and looked like I was sad with the idea. But really, I was glad.
It meant that there was no way for me to be able to attack someone…
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