So, I have many people asking if I'm copying this story right out of Fallen and I can assure you I'm not. Like I said before this story is Fallen by Lauren Kate inspired so there will be many similarities. But I am putting my twist in it. I might be following the story line but I'm putting my own dialogue, thoughts, and scenes. So I am not copying this straight from the book. If you have read the books then I'll tell you right now that the shadows(announcers) Luce sees won't be in this story and I'm changing the ending as well. There will also be minor details that I'm changing because it is my own twist on the story. If you don't like how I'm writing this story than please don't read it and then accuse me of plagiarism because I can assure you that's not what I'm doing. For those who do like this story and where it is going, Enjoy!(:
"Rose.", Someone says shaking me,"Wake up."
"Go away." I mumble covering my head with a pillow.
"Rose! Get up!" I peak an eye open and see Lissa.
"How'd you get in my room?" I ask with my head still under the pillow.
"Your door was unlocked, are you going to get up?" she asks.
"No." I say simply pulling the covers over my head.
"We're going to be late!" Lissa says shaking me more.
"Late for what?" I ask.
"Detention!" she replies
"What!" I shoot up and look outside my window. Turning back to Lissa I narrow my eyes," Haha, very funny. It's the middle of the night Liss."
She shakes her head," No Rose it's 4:55. We're supposed to be in detention by 5 now get up!"
I jump off my bed and run to my suitcase, which was still unpacked," Who the hell has detention at five in the morning!" I yell aggravated.
"We do now get dressed we have to be at the cemetery in five minutes." she says.
"The cemetery?" I ask pulling on a pair of skinny jeans.
"Yeah that's where we're serving detention." Of course, what did I expect out of this school other than to have detention at a cemetery. I pull on an over-sized knitted sweater and ridding boots.I turn to look at the mirror and see that my hair was a mess. I quickly brush it out into soft waves and brush my teeth before following Lissa out the door.
"How much time do we have?" I ask.
"1 minute!" she says
We start running since the cemetery is behind the library which is on the other side of the campus. I finally see the iron gate to the cemetery and a group of what looked like four people.
I stop running right in front of Mr. Alto, who looked pissed.
"Miss. Hathaway you're late." he says, arms crossed over his chest.
"Look I'm really sorry-" I start but then Lissa finally catched up. If the situation wasn't so serious I'd probably be laughing right now. Lissa was hunched over, hands on her knees, huffing and panting like she ran a marathon.
"How" huff "are" huff "you" huff "not" huff " tired?", she asks huffing between every word.
I shrug," You're not" huff "even" huff "breaking a" huff "sweat!" she says finally starting to control her breathing," Are you in cross" huff "country or something?" she asks.
I open my mouth about to speak but Mr. Alto cut me off," If you girls haven't wasted enough of our time I think we should get started." We all nod and I notice who's in the group. Tasha, Christian, and ... Dimitri.
He was still looking at Lissa still fighting to get air into her lungs and he looked like he was about to laugh. Not a harsh laugh though like a genuine one. He had a small smile on his mouth like he was holding back laughter. His eyes drift up to mine and he still has his small smile tugging on his lips.
He's smiling at me. He's actually smiling! I start to smile back when his face goes blank. Again. I wait for him to flick me off like before but instead he just glares.
I'm so tired off the way he's acting so I just shake my head and roll my eyes.
Mr. Alto pushes open the gate to the cemetery and walks in, everyone following him in a line. He leads us to the middle of the cemetery where there is a pile of rakes on the floor.
"Why do we need rakes?" I ask Lissa quietly.
She gives me an 'are you serious' look and said," To rake the leaves."
"But its fall wouldn't there be leaves on the ground tomorrow anyways." I ask.
She just shrugs.
"Okay partner up." Mr. Alto says.
As soon as the words leave his mouth someone speaks up walking from behind a statue.
"Rose, be my partner?"
I look up and see Adrian walking towards me. He was staring me straight in the eyes and no matter how much I wanted to look away I couldn't pull my gaze from his jade green eyes.
He is only about a foot away from me when Lissa steps in front of me.
"Sorry Adrian, she's my partner." she says.
"Really? I didn't hear you ask." he says with a smirk on his face.
"I don't have to ask she's my friend, it's a rule." he raises an eyebrow.
" A rule?" he says looking at me.
"I-um-I guess." I stutter.
He nods," Well if it's a rule there's not much I can do. I'll catch up with you later though." he says with a wink.
Lissa immediately grabs my hand and drags me to the pile of rakes. She picks up two and hands me one.
"So which statue do you want to clean?" she asks.
I shrug. She leads us to a statue of an angel and I get to work. No more than five minutes later my arms were sore. I'm not a manual labor type of girl. What kind of detention is this anyways! Aren't you suppose to be stuck in a room with some boring ass teacher. In my old school that's what detention was we'd be in a room and write an essay. That's what a normal school does. Well St. Vladimir's is no normal school.
Getting tired I get up and lean against the statue. I brush a strand of hair back from my face and see Dimitri working across from me...with Tasha.
I look away immediately, Lissa catches my eyes and gives me a half-smile that said, 'sorry'.
I look for Mr. Alto and see that he's reading some book by a tree, it looked like he was about to fall asleep. I prop my rake against the statue and walk over to Lissa.
"I thought you said Dimitri didn't like Tasha?" I ask quietly.
She raises an eyebrow and smiles,"Defensive of your man?" I give her a dead pan face.
She visibly hold back laughter and says," He doesn't. But Stan," she says pointing to Mr. Alto," is smart enough to know that he can't put Dimitri and Adrian as partners. So that's why he paired him up with Tasha."
"Wait. Why can't Dimitri and Adrian be partners?" I ask.
Lissa bites her lip and averts her eyes," Um- they just don't get along. They've known each other for a while and um- Adrian likes to get in Dimitri's business a lot."
"In his business? About what?" I press.
"Oh my gosh I completely forgot to tell Christian that he has a fellow pyro at the school. He'll be excited to hear that you're one too! You guys can light stuff together!" she says running to Christian.
Did she really just bypass my question? What type of history do Adrian and Dimitri have? And why doesn't she want to tell me?
I shake my head and turn around to pick up my shovel when I see Tasha sitting on the statue I was working on.
"Stalking Dimitri again?" she asks.
"Wha-No!" I say.
She studies me for a second and then he face falls,"Shit."
"What?", I asked confused.
She hops off the statue and walks to me,"It's too late." she mumbles.
"What's too late?" I ask.
"Look stay away from Dimitri. It won't end well trust me. It never does." she says. Unlike the last time, she seemed sincere. Like she knew something bad was going to happen.
I was about to say something but she turned around and walked away. What the hell!? Can she be anymore cryptic?
I turn back around and see Dimitri walking towards me. Wait! He's walking towards me! Shit, watch him call me a stalker again! He'll find some way of making it seem like I got detention just to be with him.
"What did Tasha tell you?", he asks.
"Um," I mumble thinking of something to say. What can I say?! Uhhhh. Umm? Whenever I start thinking about something really hard I unconscionably crack my fingers. Which is exactly what I was doing right now.
Dimitri places his hands over mine own and pushes them apart," I hate when you do that, you know it's not good for your hands."
I look at him eyebrows furrowed. The way he said it was like he hated when I cracked my fingers specifically. But we only just met.
"Tasha told me to stay away from you." I say simply.
He looks at me shocked, he probably thought I wouldn't actually tell him.
"Are you going to?" he asks walking closer.
I take a step back,"Stay away from you?"
He nods walking closer,"Are you?"
He was close. Too close.
"Probably." I say taking another step my back hitting the statue.
I load groaning noise came from behind me. I look up and see the statue begin to sway from side to side. It started tilting forward, right were Dimitri and I were standing.
I couldn't move. Every nerve in my body was telling me to move out-of-the-way. But I couldn't. And in that moment it didn't really matter. Because before I knew it Dimitri's arm encircled my waist and yanked me down against the platform where that statue previously stood.
I shut my eyes tightly. I hear when the statue finally fall. Opening my eyes I saw that the head off the statue was in the ground, the bottom still on the platform. I turn my head slowly and see Dimitri. We were so close, our noses touched.
My eyes drifted between his eyes and his lips, it seemed like his were doing the same too.
"Roza." he whispers. His lips got closer, If I moved the slightest bit we'd be kissing.
The next thing I know I was being pulled out from beneath the statue.
It was Adrian, he had both hands on my arms inspecting to see if I was hurt,"Are you okay? I saw it tip over but I couldn't get here fast enough."
I nod silently not able to trust my voice. We almost kissed. Dimitri and I almost kissed! I turn my head to look for him and see him getting off the ground. Without a second look at me he turns on his heels and walks to the gate the leads out of the cemetery.
"What happened!" Mr. Alto asks.
"I-I don't know it just fell." I say
He gives me a look that said he didn't believe me and went to inspect the statue.
I stood there in shock. Dimitri just left. Like he could care a rats ass if I was okay or not. But we almost kissed, he had to care, right?
Tasha walks past me to look at the broken statue and I faintly hear her say,
"I told you to stay away from him, bad things always end up happening."
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