~*Disclaimer: Richelle Mead owns everything but the plot and a few characters.*~
~*Rose's P.O.V.*~
Casper stumbled into our room, belly flopping onto her bed, mumbling under her breath.
"Problem sunshine?" I asked chuckling.
"That Stan Alto teacher. He gave me detention and to top that off these two boys had detention also and they wouldn't stop irritating me. I swear the idiots they let into this school."
"It's our second day here and you're already getting into trouble." I said, shaking my head at her.
"I wouldn't get into trouble if our my teachers didn't severely piss me off. Well, one good thing came out of today." She finished smiling.
"And what would that be?"
"We got invited to a party!" She exclaimed happily, grinning.
"You mean you got invited but you're going to drag me along even though I don't wanna go?" I asked, clarifying. She nodded, grinning wider.
"You're impossible." I told her, shaking my shrugged her small shoulders, smiling shyly.
"Come on, Rose. We used to party all the time. I know... Well ya know, was hard. It was hard on me, too. But that doesn't mean you should shut down. Believe it or not, some people actually give a shit about you."
"Maybe you're right." I told her and rolled over. "I'll think about it, okay, Cas?"
"Okay." She agreed softly and left the room, mumbling something about a shower. I closed my eyes tightly, willing myself not to cry. The accident. It had been terrible. It had been how Casper earned her Zvezda mark. She had walked out of the dorm building looking so helpless, lost, covered in blood. The dhampir dorm is where they hit first. Casper was standing there with me outside, but began looking around. Her panicked eyes met mine.
"Where's Chris?" Christopher Miller had been friends with us for five years and was Casper's boyfriend. I looked around, searching for his wheat brown hair. I couldn't find him. I turned back around only to see Casper running back into the building. I shrieked loudly and tried to follow but two of the full fledged Guardians grabbed me. The head Guardian refused to let anyone go in to get Casper. So the wait began. It was nearly two hours later before she stumbled out, covered in blood and crying. Chris died that day. Casper moved on from it, knowing he'd want her to be happy. I shut down. I stopped partying. I just wanted to always be there when Casper needed me. I wasn't there that night. And it hurt. But maybe she was right. Maybe I did need to live for me again. But it was something about this school. I felt the constant need to watch over Casper. This place just felt somehow dangerous. And I wouldn't let Casper face anything else alone.
I don't know what it was. It's just like everyone had secrets. And Casper was so trusting and caring. She'd give anyone her heart, trust, and friendship. She may be able to hold her own, she definitely proved that with killing a building full of Strigoi, and she was a dhampir and she wasn't Moroi, she wasn't who I was training and been taught to protect, but that's what I wanted to do. I closed my eyes again, and forced myself to get some sleep.