A.N.- Okay everyone, my schedule is about to get pretty busy, so I probably won't be able to post everyday, when I do post I will try to make the chapters long, but no guarantees. I will finish the story, so it might take a while, but I will finish it.
RPOV:
The late fall air was brittle; through there was no wind. These conditions made a perfect day for running. It was 3:30, and still there were only twenty kids present, oh well.
"Alright. Raise your hand when you hear your name called." I said and started to take attendance. I circled the names of the kids missing. There was no Jacob Jefferson, Tom Andrews, and Jeremy Dunes, though Jeremy had been excused, "Okay, I want ten laps each."
Everyone complained, but they all started running. Once they got to the halfway point, I jogged behind them and soon overtook them. I turned around to look at them, jogging backwards, slower than I had been jogging forward.
"Wow, a three month pregnant eighteen year old can jog backwards faster than you can jog forward. I guess I know what we will do first in P.E." I commented and turned around and jogged off.
I knew everyone was watching me. The girls stared probably (hopefully) in amazement. The boys were staring because even though I was three months pregnant with twins, I still looked really good. I was wearing black short-shorts, a tight red tee shirt, which clung to my baby bump, and black puma sneakers. This attire would have frozen most people, even Dhampirs, in this weather, but Dimitri had taught me endurance, this didn't bother me at all.
I had finished two laps without any problems, lapping the novices. I walked over to the metal bench where I had left my gym bag. I reached in and grabbed my sweatpants. I looked over to the forest and I could have sworn I had seen a face, but at second glance there was nothing. I pulled on the sweatpants and sat on the bench. I had had a feeling the novices would take a while, so I had packed my iPhone. I took it out of my bag and started to listen to it. I shared an iTunes library with Saffron, so I had certain music I normally wouldn't listen to. I had also stolen some of Lissa's songs, most of which were Lady Gaga. I was in the middle of LoveGame when Saffron sat next to me. She took one of the earbuds and put it un her ear. She waited, then jumped up and started dancing this stupid jump-around-flailing-your-arms dance. The earbud fell and dangled by my chest. She sang out, "Hold me and Love me, just wanna touch you for a minute!".
I laughed and then sang with "Baby three seconds is enough for my heart to quit it," We sang the chorus together.
We had attracted a crowd, since the novices had finally finished their run. Lissa was there, too. Lissa and me had had a dance for this song when we were Saffron's age. When we were that age the dance was cute, now it some of the moves would be considered stripper moves. Oh Well! Lissa and me started doing our dance. She could dance so much better than me, but my voice blew everyone away (except Lissa, who knew I could sing.)
"I can see you staring there from across the block
With a smile on your mouth and your hand on your huh!
The story of us, it always starts the same
With a boy and a girl and a hump and a game
And I came, and I came, and I came, a love game!"
By the end of this particularly stripper-ish verse, Lissa and me went back to a sweeter version of the dance. Soon the dance ended. Everyone stood there looking at us; their soon to be Queen and their new headmistress.
"Oh my god! She can fight. She can run. She can teach. And now she can dance and sing!" A girl in the back row said, but I hardly paid her any attention, because Saffron had disappeared.
"Liss?" I thought.
"Yesss?" She said back to me in her head.
"Do you see Saffron?" I was getting worried.
"Yeah she is over there with that Jeremy Dunes and his friends! Get her away from them now!!" Lissa screamed at me in my head.
I seemed to turn in slow motion. I saw Jeremy and his friends all standing in front of Saffron. Jeremy and Jake were farther away, but Tom was holding her arm, and had her pinned with her back to the wall. His hand moved every so slightly, but I didn't think a girl being touched like that, and I knew she didn't want to be touched like that. I took off running, but it was too late. I was too late.
SPOV:
"I can see you staring there from across the block
With a smile on your mouth and your hand on your huh!
The story of us, it always starts the same
With a boy and a girl and a hump and a game
And I came, and I came, and I came, a love game!"
I waited until Lissa and Rose had their backs turned, and then I ran off. I wanted to go have a training session with a certain Dhampir both of them had warned me away from.
"Hey!" I said as I walked up beside him.
"Hey." He said.
"Jeremy, if you want to do this another time…" I said, disappointed, I had been looking forward to this all day.
"No. Come on." We started to walk towards the gym, when two boys drew level with us.
"Hey Jeremy. Saffron." Said the boy standing slightly behind the other.
"Saffron this is Jacob Jefferson, but he goes by Jake." Jeremy said, indicating the boy who had spoke.
"Hi." I said.
"Hey. Your in a our Algebra class, right?" He said trying to start a conversation.
"Yeah." I said.
"This is Tom Andrews. He goes by Tom, sometimes Tommy, but not often." Jeremy said.
"Hey." I said.
His only response was to take a step forward and I took a step backwards. Once again he took a step forward. I stepped backwards. He stepped forward. I stepped backwards; I felt my back hit the wall. He closed the distance so he was rather close to me. I saw Jeremy and Jake flank him. Tom grabbed my upper arm and rubbed soothing circles against my skin with his thumb.
I knew a thousand ways do knock him back, but for some reason I couldn't make myself do any of them. I felt him slip his hand off of my arm and closer to my chest, which for an eight-year-old was rather large. I looked over at Rose, she was running towards me, but stopped as I meet her gaze. Rose! Get him away from me! I shouted in my mind.
Suddenly I knew why she stopped. I felt Tom's hand fly away from me as did his body. I turned. I saw Tom hit the tar, Jeremy on top of him. Jeremy was punching every piece of him. I just stood there stunned, as did Jake.
I had been under the impression that Tom was the tough guy, but it turns out he was just the big shot who had brute strength, but when it came down to it, there was no chance he could beat anyone. He ran a group of kids, mostly Dhampirs, which ruled the school. He had his bodyguards, Jeremy and Jake. I could tell those two absolutely hated Tom, but when it came down to it, if they didn't do what he said, they would end up as social outcasts.
Now, Jeremy had cracked. He was done. Now he was beating every inch of Tom. I noticed Rose was standing next to them, a smile on her face.
"You're a Belikov, aren't you?" Rose said.
"How did you know?" Jeremy asked, stopping his punches. Lissa, who was scolding him, escorted Tom to the infirmary.
"You fight just like Dimitri. You're Viktoria's son, aren't you?" Rose said, studying his features.
"Yes I am. I came here with my Uncle Dimitri, your mentor, but I pretended to be the adopted son of another guardian, who agreed to pose as my adopted father as a favor to my mom. She was so young, and it would damage her reputation as a guardian if people knew she had a son while she was so young, she was only 8, how she got pregnant, I don't know, and I don't want to know. So now I pose as a orphan, both parents killed by a strigoi when I was five, who was adopted by a kind guardian."
"Did you hear about…"
"My mother? Yes. I know. Uncle Dimitri told me as he was passing through, I was the one who gave the notes to Kirova 'I found these on a bench.' I said and she believed it."
"Okay. If you want, Dimitri asked us to take in his nephew; I guess that would apply to you. How would you feel if Christian and I became you temporary guardians, nothing offical, just wathing out for you, at least until Dimitri comes back, he said he would take you and Paul away to Russia, or at least that's where I think he will bring you…." Rose said.
"Sure, that'd be cool."
"Now if you will excuse me, I need to go deal with Thomas. Thank you for protecting Saffron." Rose said, turning on her heel and walking away.
"Guardian Hathaway!" It was Jake. I had forgotten he was standing next to me. Rose turned, "Before you get Tom in trouble, can I give him a good punch?"
Rose thought about it, "Only if it's a good one." She turned back around and continued to walk away, Jake running after her.
I slumped to the ground, leaning against the wall. I just sat there. I was heaving; I felt like I was going to throw up. Jeremy sat down beside me, careful not to touch me.
"Are you really eight?" He asked, after a while of sielence.
"Why do you ask that?" I asked back. Shit!
"No reason, just the way you act, you seem older than your age." He commented, staring straight ahead.
"No. I'm not eight. I'm eleven." I said quietly.
"Then why are you telling people you are eight?"
"My parents weren't sure if the school would accept me, especially since I was raised by Strigoi." I had told Rose and Christian this a while ago and they had told Lissa and Adrian, so my family knew, and here I was confessing this to a boy I hardly knew, "The school would probably accept me if I was young enough that my out looks on vampire life could be changed, though I know Strigoi are wrong, my parents drilled that into my head, they would accept me. So I pretended to be eight." That was all.
"Well then, since you aren't eight, I don't feel bad about doing this." He said.
"Doing what?" I asked turning to face him.
He quickly pecked my lips. Got up and said, "See you around, Ozera." He walked off.
"See ya, Jeremy." I whispered to his retreating figure.
A.N. Okay! I told you I was going to bring a certain Belikov into this story, and that Belikov was Viktoria. So what do you think about our newest couple? Let me know. And by the way, I wanted Saffron to be eleven the entire time, which is why I had her make comments most eight-year-olds wouldn't understand.