Okay, I promise, the next chapter is the actual lemons, like, yummy yummy Rose and Dimitri lemons, not in Dimitri's mind ;)
But this is where they finally meet, kinda, it's one sided :D But his feelings are all pretty and happy.

I started to breathe. I sensed hands on my chest and then on my head. I was choking on the air. I groped for it desperately and finally respired again. My eyes were so close to tearing apart and opening, but they didn't. Behind them, I sensed many people looming over me. I had no idea what was happening and who these voices belonged to, but they rung in my ears loud and sharp. They were all yelling for doctors, then feeders, then I heard something about someone...Lissa, who needed to drink. I then heard a low, hard thud, which sounded like something being dropped to the hard, timber floor. I stared around me at a room with nothing but a small amount of furniture.

"Hello," a man cautiously said to me. "I'm Dr. Levi Cashoviane. From the Academy." I was confused. I scratched the back of my neck and threw him a puzzled glance. The man sighed, and nodded his head slowly.

"What's your name?" Cashoviane questioned.

"Dimitri Belikov."

"Where are you?"

"...I have no idea."

"Do you know what's happened?"

"No."

"Okay, then," he murmured. He dug into his shirt's pocket and drew out a special type of flashlight, shining it straight into my eyes, murmuring a few things to himself. "Well, it's not permanent amnesia, you're just in too much shock to remember anything. All you need to do is jog your memory. I can't tell you anything about what has just happened – you'll have to figure that out for yourself, but I can positively say that it was the most amazing miracle I've ever seen!" I was still baffled, because, well...I didn't get a thing. It was annoying, not knowing something everyone else knew about; it was like an itch at the back of my head. I wanted to tear right into the brain to scratch it, and finally figure out about this.

"Well, I need to check on Rose. She was hysteric. The poor girl." He handed me some disgusting medicine-food that I was required to eat and excited the quiet room, leaving me in the care of Janine Hathaway. It sounded a little familiar, but it wasn't enough for me.

"Belikov, what happened to you was a phenomenon," she started.

"Um, temporary amnesia. Don't know what you're talking about."

"Temporary?" Janine looked at me, kind of shocked. "Alright. I won't help much, but I do have to keep an eye on Rose. I think she's asleep now; the doctor had to give her sedatives so she would sleep for longer."

"Why?"

"She went into hysterics." This girl, Rose. They were all talking about her and they crazy fits she went in to.

"Would I be able to come? I want to meet her." She looked troubled and confused for a moment.

"I have to take you. They put Rose in the car just in case."

I saw a black-haired boy jump out of the car Janine and I were heading to and walked right towards me. I glanced worriedly at Janine.

"Christian Ozera," she muttered.

"Guardian Belikov," he said. "I can't believe Lissa could actually go through with that! At first I was angry that she would risk her life, but she told me everything." I didn't say anything, so he continued. "About you and Rose."

"What about them?" Janine grilled cautiously.

"Well, Guardian Hathaway, I guessed you'd find out sooner or later, anyway. Guardian Belikov and Rose have been in love with each other ever since Rose came back to the Academy." I was in love with the hysterical girl?

"Are you serious?" Janine gasped, and looked at me accusingly.

"I don't know! I can't remember. Maybe if she stayed in the room I should apparently still have at the Academy, I would remember more."

"She'd feel safer, too," Christian piped in.

"I suspected something like this would happen," she grumbled angrily, shaking her head slowly, her red curls swaying in synchronisation with it.

"I think it would b better if I talk with you when I remember more," I suggested, not enjoying the looks she gave me.

"Fine, but I'm not happy, Belikov," she huffed. "We have to leave now anyway. We're all too worn out. You go on the car with Ozera. I'll go with Rose." Janine stalked off and the Ozera boy led me to a car in front of all the vehicles. We got in, and only Christian and I sat on the back seats.

"Can you tell me who Rose is?" I asked him. His gaze was sceptical. "Temporary amnesia," I quickly added.

"Oh, well, her names Rose Hathaway, she's eighteen, a real big bitch sometimes, and used to go to St. Vladimir's Academy, but she dropped out 'cause you turned Strigoi. She was looking for you so she could kill you.. She did, but my girlfriend healed you back to life, leaving the Strigoi out of your body."

"She's eighteen?" I loved a girl seven years younger than I! That didn't sound like something I'd do.

"Rose is, yeah, but I guess you guys didn't care."

"O...kay."

"Uh, lemme think; you are pretty much an antisocial, but you would hang out with Rose a lot and talk with her, too. I don't know much, 'cause I wasn't really there, but Lissa said that you two were more in love than anybody else she's ever seen. She knows now because she remembers. She told me you would both literally die for each other."

"Really?" I loved someone that much! I wish I could feel it. I couldn't wait to see her, but most of all, I couldn't wait to remember everything. The whole way back, Christian told me everything about this girl. She seemed quite violent and rude – maybe it was just to him. But she was also very protective of her second half, Lissa Dragomir. They were bound to each other and were linked eternally – unless one either dies or is turned into a Strigoi – because Rose was shadow kissed, and I already knew what that meant. It was a part of guardian training; it was drilled into my brain, no matter what. Out of nowhere – I wasn't looking out the window, St. Vladimir's Academy appeared before us all. I remembered coming here nearly three years ago. That's all I remembered, but it was a start.

" I want to see Rose now," I demanded after we got out of the car. Nobody answered me. Christian moved two vehicles behind to see Lissa, so I moved the other car, directly behind the one I was just riding in. People were getting out and opening the door to take the girl out. Two men had to grip her and bring her out of the car. I walked closer and asked if I could hold her. They reluctantly gave her to me, and I picked her up in my arms easily without looking at her face. As we entered the Academy, I let my eyes drift up her legs that look – and felt – so familiar. It was as if all of this was on the tip of my tongue – my life. My eyes drank in her stomach and breasts, and I was almost there. I gazed down at her delicate neck then let my eyes rest on her sleeping face. I had to stare for a quarter of a minute before anything came to me.

It was worth it, though.

I jumped and stopped walking, letting the memories flood me in a flash. Rose. Roza, my beautiful. It was like drinking from the lake of life after nearly dying of thirst, the way I remembered it all. I now remembered who I loved, why I loved her and how great it was to feel these emotions. I looked down at myself, closed my eyes and felt my heart beat, warm and alive. Everybody had stopped, too, and was gazing at me with tentative eyes. I didn't care. I smiled and began to laugh gleefully, a tear slipping from my eye with the joy I felt. I held Rose tighter and kissed her sweet, soft wonderful unconscious lips. I heard a few people gasp, but I kept laughing to myself, looking up at the sky, the moon almost out of sight and the bright, beautiful sun rising. I murmured Roza's name quietly. Around me, people were now smiling, happy for me, but Janine sighed and walked on. I jogged with Rose in my arms and kept pace beside Janine.

"So, we can talk about it now?" she fumed.

"Yes, of course." Nothing could have brought me down now, not even one of Janine Hathaway's long, angry lectures. She didn't say anything as we walked up to my form that, to my surprised, I missed. I put Rose on the untouched bed, grinning and kissed her cheek. I followed Janine out of the room, and closed the door behind me.

"Why – how can you do this?" she raged, glaring at me in a way that Rose, too, would. It didn't faze me – I was used to it.

"I don't know. It just happened. Don't you see what I see in Rose?"

"Of course, but have you considered the age?"

"Yes."

"Your occupation?"

"Yes."

"And what would there be that you could do?"

"Many things. There is only a short gap age, and in Court, I could get another job so we wouldn't have to worry about the same person when we'd be too busy stressing over each other. "

"Dimitri –"

"Janine, I've worried about this for months, but I decided only hours before I was...turned. I'm not going to let my feelings go to waste again, or it might be actually be too late. Fate wants us to be together."

"Hours before. Decided what?" she pressed slowly and suspiciously.

"That I would show her how much I loved her without holding back and regretting it."

"And how did you do that?" I think she was catching on.

"Well, uh..." I looked away, uncomfortable. To my utter astonishment, Janine laughed.

"Sex?"

I shrugged. "Yeah."

She seemed more concerned about Rose's sex life than why we loved each other. "Was that her first time?" I leaned against the doorframe.

"Yeah, it was."

"Well, I guess that's good."

"Alright. Are you over the fact that Rose and I are in love?" I raised an eyebrow and Janine shook her head, smiling.

"I guess so. I mean, there's nothing I can do, right?"

"Right, but maybe you should give Rose a little lecture. She'll think it's too unusual if you don't and if you tell her it's okay with you, she'll think something bad of you and start plotting."

"Nice thinking, Belikov. She'll probably hate me for a while afterwards. We just can't tell her because I know she gets carried away when it's okay to do stuff."

"Maybe after she graduates, we'll let her."

"That sounds logical. I guess you have a lot to check up on, a lot of people to speak with. You're the talk of the school right now, so be careful." She smiled, nodded her head, and left. I sighed, so happy. I returned to my dorm and instantly looked at Rose under the covers, sweating. The weather was heating up., and she was still in jeans and a heavy jacket. I approached her and zipped the jacket open and slid it off her body, which was difficult. What was more complicated, after slipping her shoes off, was unbuttoning her jeans and tugging them off. Rose wasn't cooperative, so it took a while. I left her in her shirt and underwear, just appreciating her bare, slender legs for a moment, loving the thought that they were mine. That she was mine. I decided to shower and dress in some different clothes, and clean myself up. During the shower, flashes of my Strigoi life flew across my head, the blood and dead bodies filling my vision. I fought them away with beautiful thoughts of the future Rose and I could have now.

When I was finally fresh again, I kissed Rose goodbye and sauntered downstairs to the first floor where the administrative offices were. I talked to Ellen, the headmistress (Actually is her name! I laughed when I recalled this again. Ellen Kirova? Psh, funny!) about Rose and I, but didn't tell her to know. She actually understood my point of view and agreed to act ignorant about it. I conversed with many other people for almost an hour before heading back to my dorm. The sun was beating down without searing my body to ashes. I was alive, I was. I hadn't seen the daylight for the first time in what felt like years. I was almost scared for a moment before I remembered, it really couldn't hurt me now. I laughed at myself and returned back inside. I couldn't hear a thing in the lobby or the first and second floor. Probably the soundproof walls. It was eerily quiet, nevertheless, so I rushed into my dorm and found my gorgeous Roza still soundly asleep. I tugged my shoes off with my feet and lay down beside Rose, stroking her hair and face, gazing deeply into her face that I missed so much. Before I knew it, I fell asleep.

Now this was the start of my life.

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