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Dimitri

Rose was standing outside Lissa's room. She was in her formal guardian cloths with her hair up. It's hard to keep telling myself that She doesn't remember me, especially at times like this when she seems so much like herself.

"Rose?" I asked as I walked up to her. "What's wrong?" I could hear in my voice that I was hoping she remembered something else.

"I don't know what to expect at this dinner."

"Just do what the other guardians do," I put my hand on her shoulder and she looked up at me with her deep brown eyes. "Being a guardian is instinct to you, I'm sure you'll do fine."

Somehow, what I told her seemed to lighten her mood. It was almost like before. I almost expected her to give me a sarcastic smile. But no such smile came and it felt like someone had stabbed me in the chest.

"Come on, let's go in." I tried my hardest to push the pain away as we went into the room.


Rose

The door opened and the group of us started walking in slowly. I was with three other guardians, who like me had red pins on their collars, and of course Lissa. She looked gorgeous in a silver dress. To me she looked like an angel.

The room was full of people. Some of them were older people, but a majority of them were high school students. I noticed that the dhampirs sat towards the back while the moroi sat in the front of the room. There were guardians standing around the room against the walls and near the doors. All eyes were on my group as we slowly made our way into the room.

As we passed the rows of students all of them went down onto their knees. I had to remind myself that Lissa was the queen, this was a sign of respect.

I resisted the urge to turn around in a circle and look around. This is the schools cafeteria, there is a chance something here could make me remember something else. I would have time to find it later, right now I had to act as if nothing is wrong.

Our group finally made it to the front of the room where a table was set up. Sitting at the table was Jill, Adrian, and Christian. There was an empty seat between Jill and Christian for Lissa. I took my spot against the wall behind her seat. Facing all of these people, even if they were all watching Lissa, was frightening.

Lissa sat down and the whole room did the same, all except the guardians. I did what Dimitri told me to do and did what the other guardians did. I dared a glance in his direction to find that he was watching me.

For the second time today, I felt a flutter in my chest. What was that? What was Dimitri to me? What was I to him? I don't know.

About halfway through the dinner I realized I was being stared at. A short female guardian with curly copper hair at the back of the room was boring a hole into me. I couldn't help but wonder if I was supposed to know her.

Lissa began her speech not too long after that, and all through the speech, the guardian woman stared at me. It took a lot of effort for me not to squirm under her gaze. I couldn't even focus on Lissa's speech, but I could tell by her feelings that it was going well.

The room broke into applause and the female guardian finally looked away. Lissa stood up and the other three guardians and I got into formation. I felt eyes watching me as I passed the rows of students. Now it wasn't just the woman guardian, it was almost everyone I passed. Some people turned and whispered to their friends.

I pretended to ignore them as our group made its way outside. The walk back to the guest rooms seemed a lot longer than it had before.

One of the other guardians mentioned something about seeing me later. Lissa gave me a hug and I could feel through the bond that she thought I did a great job. I didn't want to worry her, besides, the other guardians didn't know about any of this.

I left after they closed the door to her room and went back to my room. I couldn't resist the urge to look behind me to see if anyone was staring. Why had all those people stared at me? Did they notice something wasn't right with me?

I closed the door behind me and leaned against the wall then slid to the floor.

What about that woman? She knew. She knew something was wrong with me. But I have no idea if she is important or not. Should I tell the others? Would I just upset them if she were important?

There was a knock on the door. I didn't want to answer it. It would just be someone else I didn't know or that I was hurting. I was hurting everyone by not remembering. I was hurting Lissa and Dimitri the most.

Dimitri. The fluttering in my chest was still confusing to me. If I had feelings for him, did he have feeling for me? Do I have feelings for him? Should I?

There was another knock on the door. I was close to opening the door and yelling at the person to go away.

Before I could do anything, the door opened and in walked Dimitri. He stopped in his tracks when He saw me sitting on the ground.

"Roza," He closed the door and came to kneel down in front of me. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine," I looked away from his intense gaze. I couldn't handle the way my heart reacted to him being this close. It's like I could feel him, even though he wasn't touching me anywhere.

"Rose, I can tell that you're lying," He reached out and tucked a stray piece of hair behind my ear. My stomach did a flip when he touched me. This felt familiar, like maybe this had happened before. I tried to grasp on to the memory, but it flitted away.

"There was a woman at the dinner," I started slowly. "She kept looking at me. It was like she could tell that there was something wrong with me." I looked back up at Dimitri. His eyes softened when he looked at me. I could tell he wanted to say something and maybe he was about to say it, but I didn't get to find out because there was another knock at the door.

Dimitri stood up with an unbelievable grace and went to the door. I'm not sure who I expected it to be, but I can honestly say I did not expect the woman from the dinner to be at my door.

"Janine," Dimitri had a similar look to the one he had when Adrian brought Abe to us.

"What happened?" The woman, Janine, asked.


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