A.N.- Okay. Eventually, I am going to bring Lissa back into the story (maybe Adrian too). Should I wait longer or bring her in soon. When I do should she be married and if so to who? Let me know!
RPOV:
I was pissed. Well maybe not pissed, but I was definitely angry. We were on one of the Academy's private jets heading to Christian's house (he wouldn't take over until he was nineteen, which was in a little less than a year). I had asked him so many times, but he refused to answer me.
Currently I was leaning my head against the window. I was staring at the little screen in front of me. It was playing the stupidest, but surprisingly entertaining, John Tucker must Die, I could tell Christian was watching, too. He looked confused. And Cute! (Shut Up Rose!!!) It was pretty hard to follow the movie without the sound, which was coming through the headphones in my ears. An idea occurred to me. I took out the headphones and pause the movie.
"So are you watching?" I asked Christian.
"Yeah. I've seen this so many times before." I could tell he was lying.
"So have I. What do you think about that Andy chick?" I asked.
"She's my favorite!" he said.
I flashed him my famous Rose-Hathaway-smirk, "There is no girl in this movie named Andy. Tell you what I'll give you one headphone, if you tell me where we're going."
"How about you give it to me because you're a nice person." He said. We both started laughing, "Okay. How about twenty questions?"
I thought about it, "Fine. Question 1: Is it on the coast?"
"Yes. The backyard is the beach."
"Okay. Question 2: Is it on the West Coast?" He shook his head.
Okay. It's on the east coast. "Is it in the South?"
"It is in the southern United States, yes."
"Question 4: Is it on the southern coast?" He shook his head.
The game went on until I decided to guess the place my mom had taken me to once. The Outer Banks in North Carolina. I knew I was right when his smirk disappeared. "Ha!" I yelled, earning myself a scolding look from attendant. I returned her look adding a little Rose Hathaway to it, she practically ran away. When we were done laughing at her expense I asked him if it was one of the four by fours.
"Yeah it is. I rented it out while I was at school. Now I'm taking it off market. And we'll live there." He paused, his smirk returned, "Now give me a headphone!" He grabbed on out of my hand. I put the other one in my ear and resumed the movie.
CPOV:
How had she guessed that? It's not like they four by fours are advertised a ton. Plus it was really sunny. Maybe she knew I didn't mind the sun like most moroi, in fact I loved it. My thoughts were interrupted by Rose's head leaning against my shoulder. I went to turn off the TV, but she grabbed my hand. I thought she was asleep and her head had slumped onto my shoulder. Apparently not.
I looped one arm around her and she scooted closer. We were both watching the movie. After an hour or two of her slowly getting closer to me, we had completely forgotten about the movie. We had taken the headphones off and she was sitting on my lap. Her arms were around my neck and my arms were around her waist. We just sat there. Without realizing it, we began to inch closer and closer, until our lips were almost touching, and then…
"Ladies and Gentlemen, please buckle your seat belts, we will be landing shortly." A voice said over the loud speaker. Rose giggled and slid back into her own seat. She buckled her seatbelt and I did mine.
A few months had passed since my almost-kiss with Rose. We were at the beach or as I call it 'my backyard'. Rose was waist deep in the water. She had her back to me and was playing with a little girl with black hair and piercing blue eyes. That little girl was my sister.
Apparently my parents had somehow survived the silver stakes the guardians had drove through their hearts the day they came back for me. I also recently learned, if two Strigoi has a child, it would be a Dhampir. My parent had left the little eight-year old here on Tuesday, which was the day I graduated. I guess they were good parents and wanted the best for their kids. Considering we should have been back late that night (we are now running on the human's schedule). They left a note, which had read:
"Dear Christian and Rose,
First off, congratulations on graduating! We are very proud of you Christian. And Rose, we know you and our son don't always see eye to eye (we met Dimitri, we aren't stalking you or anything), but we would like to thank you for agreeing to be his guardian. We heard you are the best guardian of your year if not of the century, I guess that's what you get when you mix Abe Mazur and Janine Hathaway and then have it trained by Dimitri Belikov. Anyway, the little girl who gave you this letter, is your sister, Christian, she is eight years old and is a Dhampir. Her name is Saffron. Please be kind to her. We wrote a letter to the Academy to explain her situation. They said if Rose would train her a bit, they would be happy to take her, and depending on how much Rose trains her, she may skip a grade or two.
Love,
Mom and Dad
P.S. Tell Tasha Thank You for not letting us turn you, if only we could reverse the deed we had done to ourselves.
P.S.S. Thank you for everything Rose, and Dimitri says hello."
And that was how Rose and me gained the responsibility of raising an eight year old. Well actually, Rose and Saffron had become best friends from the moment they had met. Since then, they had trained all night long and played together all day long.
"Christian!!! Help!!! Shark!!!" Saffron's voice pierced the air and snapped me out of my thoughts. I saw her running towards me. Rose was nowhere to be seen.
I ran through the water and dove in. I opened the eyes, the salt not stinging in the slightest. I saw her. She was kicking at the shark. And the shark was huge, probably twice as long as she was tall and four times as wide as her. Still she kicked and punched. Eventually, she landed a punch on its nose. Killing it. As soon as she knew it was dead she let her weakness show. She passed out. I swam towards her as fast as I could. I grabbed her and swam for the surface.
I was so grateful, because as we reached the surface, Rose's eyes fluttered open. I swam a bit and eventually was able to touch the ground. I carried Rose to land, where I told Saffron to lay out a towel. She did as I asked. I place Rose gently on the ground.
"Saffron? Can you go grab her sundress? I think she left it up at the pool." I asked her. Saffron ran to the stairs that lead to our boardwalk. I watched until she disappeared out of view. Then I turned my attention back to Rose.
"Thank you. That's the second time you've saved my ass." She said, her brown eyes boring into mine.
"Yeah, it doesn't count this time, cause if you didn't, you and Saffron would be Shark-Chow." I said staring at her. I loved her eyes. I know it might sound like that pathetic line a tone of guys use, but Rose's body may be hot and amazing, but her eyes were better. They just had the way of captivating you and make you not want to look away.
I hadn't notice it, but whiled I was thinking about her eyes she had sat up, so now we were so close. I could feel her breath on my mouth. We both leaned in….
RPOV:
I was swinging little Saffron around in the water. I couldn't believe much she looked like her older brother. They had the same pitch-black hair, her hair hung straight, like mine did at that age, and they had the same perfect lips, nose, skin and the same gorgeous eyes. The only difference was she was almost as tan as me. We had learned that if two Strigoi had a kid, it becomes a Dhampir. And little eight-year-old Saffron had been born with two Strigoi parents.
Saffron and I had become close friends and we trained every night. She was pretty good. She was easily able to pin Christian down, which made him annoyed, but me and Saffron gave up on training that night since we couldn't go five minutes without bursting out laughing.
"Oh my god!!" She yelled, looking over my shoulder. I turned. There was a huge shark behind us.
My guardian training kicked in. "Saffron!!! Run!!!" I yelled. She obeyed.
I attacked the shark. A wave pulled me under. I didn't care. I continued to punch and kick. Until I eventually landed a punch on his nose, killing him. As soon as I saw the shark drop, I lost conciseness. The last thing I was aware of was a pair of strong arms wrapping around me.
Soon I felt cold air hit me. I was able to get my eyes to open as I gasped in the fresh air, but I couldn't keep them open because of the bright sunlight so I closed them. Next thing I knew I was on a towel. I opened my eyes and saw Christian staring at me worriedly.
"Thank you. That's the second time you've saved my ass." I said, staring into his electric-blue eyes.
"Yeah, it doesn't count this time, cause if you didn't, you and Saffron would be Shark-Chow." He said returning my gaze.
I loved his eyes. There was something about hem that could tell you exactly what he was thinking. And right now I would bet everything, he was thinking about either my eyes or the time we almost kissed.
Without thinking, I slowly sat up. He leaned back to give me enough room, but we were still very close. I leaned in and….
Something hit me from my right sending me sailing. I rolled tangled with the thing that had assaulted me. I managed to untangle my self and stand. I was ready to take on a Strigoi. I was ready to take on another shark. But what I saw made me wish it were a hundred Strigoi and a thousand sharks. What I saw made me wish I hadn't been that close to Christian. It made me wish I could calm down my best friend in the world who chose to show up the moment I was about to kiss the guy who dumped her.
Lissa jumped me. She wasn't very strong, or that good of a fighter so I managed to pin her down. Then I realized, she was a lot bigger then the last time I had seen her. I jumped up.
"Lissa! Your…Your pregnant." I stammered. Christian and me exchanged glances and then looked down at Lissa.
"They were at the door, so I brought them down here." I heard Saffron say, but I couldn't tear my eyes away from Lissa.
"Liss? Who's the father?" I asked.
"He is." She said pointing back towards Christian.
I turned to see the last person I ever wanted to see under these conditions.
A.N.- I feel so bad! I kept setting them up and then no kiss. Any way this is a link where you can see Christians house .
I need ideas for who the baby's dad is going to be. Now I'm leaning towards, Ralph or Jesse, maybe Adrian. If you have any other ideas let me know.
Oh the bedrooms are as follows (if you look on the website):
Saffron: Pic 24
Rose: Either Pic 18 or 21 (let me know)
Christian: Pic 16 (I know it is kind of girly, but most of them are and I'm not giving a eighteen year old a bunk bed)
Lissa & Baby Daddy: Pic 14