Chapter 3
Sometimes, I don't know what to believe. Wether I should Believe In Destiny, fate, or even hope. Today, well, Heck yeah, I'm A believer. "Jury, you may read your verdict," the judge stated. One man at the end of the isle stood up with a sheet of paper in hand. "We hearby find Guardian Rose Hathaway Not guiltly of first degree murder, but find it is fair to Arrest Ambrose (Sorry guys, don't know hos last name...) for murder." I was so happy I couldn't breathe! And Lissa was happy too- so happy she pulled me inside her, adn that was pretty extreme because that was hard to do when I had my gaurd up. The judge spoke, but I didn't hear. Once everyone started talking and movinig, I realized it was ok to celebrate. I ran up to everyone I knew, hugged them, and relief washing over me. I knew I was innocent, but it was still stresful because I could have died if found guilty. I even hugged Adrain. He seemed so happy, but also upset, like he knew about Dimitri. I would have to Catch him alone.
"Rose! Oh, im so excited! Rose, I have good news! But we have too wait, you have a er, get to gether to go too! Come on, I even got you something to wear! Come On!" So was veery estatic, so i couldn't be mad at her for throwing a party.I followed her to her room, while everyone else trailed off to the party. Once we were in there, She turned around, hugged me tight and said,"Rose, You got assigned to me. I don't know how, but you did! I think the queen knew that we would be trying to find my brother, so before she was...murdered...she assigned you to me! Your my guardian!" She hesitated, then conitued,"And, well, I have another gaurdian, ofcourse. Well, I dont know wether or not you would call him my gaurdian, but the messenger said he was to accompomy us. Even though hes not completley cleared to be a guardian again, Dimitris coming with us!" She smiled, and my eyes popped out. I was going to have to get struck by lightning or something because things were going just too good! I Laughed and hugged her again! She gave me a cute red s dress that was short, but not slutty. It had a rounded neck with long sleves and it tottaly matched the heels I still had from the dress Tasha gave me. "So whats this party even for?" I asked while putting on my dress. "Partly because of your assignment and partly because of you being free!" She smiled, and I walked out the room with her.
When we walked in it was nothing big, thank god, but it was good. Dimitri, Abe, Adrian, Lissa, Christian, Eddie, and Mia were here. And food, which I heavily eyed. I hadn't eaten in a day, and haven't eaten good food in two months. Yeah, the prison fed me, and it wasn't bread in water or anything, but it wasn't ideal. Everyone was sitting around talking, so I went for some chicken and sausage and joined them.
"Oh Rose, I'm so glad your back! I just didn't know what to do with myself while you were locked up, it was so scary knowing that our great protector was gone! The world is safe once again." Christian said sarcastically. Everyone smiled, and I couldn't help but laugh."I missed you to, Christian." Believe it or not I Did. After some joking and caching up, Mia, Eddie and Abe left. Adrain started the topic we were purposeley avioding. "So when are we leaving to go find Lissa's brother?" "Um, We? You and Christian aren't going." Lissa said surprisingly. "Why not? Just because we're not your guardians don'[t mean we can't go!" Dimirti spoke up then," We don't know how dangerous this will be. I'm not even her guardian, but I can protect her. We need to make this journey as easy and as short as we can. The more people there are, the more attention we'll gather from strigoi. And that won't be easy." Adrain turned to me. "Rose? Can we?" Ugh, I didn't want to do this Now! 'I don't know, I Meean Dimitris right. And theres only two of us, so it would be hard to fight off alot of strigoi if some came after us, and we'd have to watch ya'lls back, too. " Adrain's face darkened. "Of course you'd side with him. You always do. I thought this was over, Rose! I can't believe you, one minute you r with me, then With him the next. I can't take it Rose. I just can't take it anymore." "Adrain, that is Not! why Im siding with him. Can we talk about that later, alone? And Its only reasonable to leave you here! It would make it that much harder on Lissa if everybody was there." Christian, who had uncharicteristacly been silent for all this time, said,"You know I can protect myself. I have fire. And We can drag him along, too. We might need him, for I don't know, a sacrife if some strigoi are attacking." He said the words jokingly, but I knew he was trying to convince us that he could help and Adrian wouldn't be that big of a problem. I was about to speak, but Lissa beat me to it. "Fine. You guys can go, but you can not get in the way." I Eyed her, and she sent me 'You know they'd come somehow. Might as well give them permission that way we won't hate them the whole time for sneaking.' I sighed and said," Well Whatever. I'm going to my room to get ready. We leave, say, in two days?" Everyone nodded, and I stormed out, followed by Adrain.
"What was that in there?" I demanded before he could trash talk me some more. I noticed I hadn't sseen him drinking in there, too. "i don't know. You tell me. What happened to me and you? You said it was done with him. But clearly its not." " What do you mean, Clearly its not.? what do you think you know? And besides, what chioce i make is my Desicion, not yours." I said, getting ready for the heartbreak to come. "I see the way he's looking at you. Yesterday night, when we were in your room, he looked at you like he was going to blow you out, so i left, not wanting to get in the way, but this morning its like you guys have fallen over each other again. I've been waiting for that, you see. i've been Looking out for the day when he relaxes around you and doesn't have remorse and sorrow in his eyes. And yes, today was that day. What happened last night rose?" he took a few ddeep breathes as if to calm hijmself. I felt something wet drip off my chin and noticed i was crying. Crap. "Adrain, I'm sorry. i didn't want to hurt you, but I Love him. You know that. I always have, and i've only been giving you a small peice of that love. You deserve more. Dimitri's where I belong, Adrain. I Love you, alot, but I Just...I have to be with Him. " I Took a step forward. He didn't back away, but he didn't come running ither. I knew I was breaking up with him, but I Figured it would hurt so much. "Little Dhampir. I love you, too. I love you too much. I know how you feel about him. I feel alot like that aabout you. But I don't want to hold you back from him. Just for my selfish needs. I'm not going to be like that. But I'm waiting. I'm always waiting, no matter what. One day he might leave you, Or you could even leave him. he may be shipped away, and studied like a lab rat. Or even Killed, although i don't want that at all. But I'll be here, waiting for you." He stepped up, and Kissed me lightly. He pulled back and smiled a very sad smile. I was still crying, and he pulled me close. "I will always remember you, and if someday things go bad, and your still waiting, I'll come. But you don't need to wait for me, you need better." I told him. He just sighed and said,"There is no better." I didn't want to be selfish, but I was glad he would love me. I knew I should want him to move on, But I relized he did carry a peice of me with him, even though it was small. If he was going to wait, that was his desicion, even though he shouldn't. Maybe some girl will come and sweep him away. That would be good, and he could have a life. I stepped away, gave him one last kiss, and walked back to my room, silencing my crys.
Well, Rose, your done with the dirty work. Time to set off again.