Every one broke out into applause and whistles Alberta took the mic off me and I stood to one side
"Thank you Rose that was beautiful" Dimitri stepped forward and handed me my stake looking at the top there was an inscription that read 'always and forever my Roza'. Without any words he walked off stage and went to stand by Lissa, I stood on stage as Alberta said the final thank you's and good bye then she came over to me and handed me my certificate.
" Guardian Rose Hathaway welcome to the ranks" I gave her a hug and whispered thank you. Before going off stage I glanced into the audience to see more of them crying, even Stan was in tears, I made Stan Alto cry yey high school is complete. Now for the cover blowing moment.
I walked down stage and practically ran and jumped into Dimitri's arms kissing him as soon as we made contact. Finally pulling away I looked into his eyes the through Lissa I could see everyone staring at us so I did what I do best. Only slightly twisting so I was still in Dimitri's arms but facing everyone I shouted
"Yo take a picture it will last longer and if you have nothing nice to say keep your gob shut because I'm not interested and neither is my fiancée. Thank you" yep cover blown sky high Rose Hathaway style, I twisted back round to face him but to my surprise he was grinning from ear to ear, I thought I was going to get a hell of a zen life quote
"Roza did you really just say that?"
"You mean did I just blow our cover sky high and announce or engagement to the whole of the guardians and senior class. Yep I did" popping the p. I could vaguely hear shuffling behind me and some people laughing but I couldn't care less
"Ohh Roza you do realise in the last ten minutes you have made me and everyone else in the audience cry twice from your speech and song which was beautiful by the way. Then you have shocked them by revealing us, why don't you announce the baby and you can just emotionally break everyone"
"You know as well as I do that I would be going out with a bang and I'm pretty sure you've just told every guardian, the headmistress and my friends who are all standing behind me about our miracle baby" that got me a confused look until he lifted his head and I turned around only for him to put his arms round my waist and rest his hands on my tummy. Everyone had big smiles on their faces, wait what I would have thought we would be getting escorted of campus by now. It was Alberta who spoke first but I think it was more to the other guardians behind her then us
" well it looks like I win then" wait what!
"You knew" Alberta and the guardians burst out laughing most likely at my very shocked face.
"Of course we knew after the rescue in the cave it became very clear so we have been watching you for the last month"
"Not that I'm objecting but why haven't you said anything, we have been careful for the last month to not get found out because we thought I'd be expelled and Dimitri fired"
It was Kirova who spoke this time "because Rose even though I'm a Moroi I still know how rare it it for two guardians to find their soul mate. You two have been through hell and back so we thought you deserved to be happy" I squealed and hugged Dimitri again. One of the guardians I didn't know spoke up next
"Is it true what you've just said about being pregnant?" Oh great
"Yep and Dimitri is the father, I'm shadow kissed which changed me but Lissa has been reading up on some things and I'm also soul kissed which means I can have children with my soul mate and have a bit extra to help protect our baby"
"What do you mean extra?" I hesitated for a minute
"Ohh just show them rose" fine
I lifted up my hand and concentrated again, my hand became hotter and I had a little fire ball in the palm of my hand, the guardians looked shocked
"I can control the 5 elements plus another called darkness that is gathered through a spirit user and shadow kissed pair but if you have any other questions ask Lissa because it confuses my brain" that earned me another laugh. Kirova turned to Lissa
"Have you told anyone yet princess?" Everyone else but me looked as though they knew what she was talking about. Grrr.
"Everyone but rose I was going to wait until she opened her certificate but she got urrm distracted"
"What you on about liss"
Dimitri whispered I'm my ear making my shiver "Roza open your certificate"
So I opened it up and read
I hereby present Guardian Rosemarie Hathaway.
Guardian to Princess Vasilisa Dragomir
"Eeek I'm you guardian" we hugged and squealed until we burst out laughing "wait who's your other?"
A voice I had completely forgotten about called out "I am" I turned round to see... Eddie.
"Eddie your guarding Lissa, your my partner?" He nodded and I ran up to him giveing him the biggest hug ever
"Love you brother"
"Love you too sis" I didn't realise I was crying until Eddie brushed a tear away, I turned round to see people staring at my in amusement
"Stupid hormones" and that had everyone laughing again
"Rose you do realise I'm not going to really need you and Eddie that much" what how can she think she doesn't need us
"Like hell you aren't being guarded" a smile crept across everyone's face "what the hell am I missing or not being told because your all smiling like that and it's pissing me off"
"Rose I'm not going to need you unless we leave here"
"Why won't you be leaving I thought we were going to court"
"Not anymore headmistress offered me and Christian jobs teaching magic and offered you a job teaching combat classes so I accepted and we can stay together"
" omg that's great" I did something no one ever thought I'd do; I hugged Kirova
"Thank you" she smiled and pulled away
"No problem guardian Hathaway it will be my pleasure to have you and your family here"
I turned back to Dimitri who had the biggest skill ever
"Well comrade it really does look like I'm home" everyone shot me a confused look but it was Alberta who spoke
"Rose what do you mean, I heard a bit of your conversation yesterday but couldn't understand it. But yesterday you said it's not home"
"Yeh most people think of home and think of the house they live in but I've never had that I've lived at the academy since I can remember so I naturally called it home but after the attack my views on home changed. Home is no longer a place or a building for me, now it's a feeling, a memory or a person. Like seeing Dimitri smile, hearing Lissa laugh or even right now with all of us hear because this is when I feel the most happiness and love. There's no amount of words to describe how much I love you both Lissa and Dimitri but also everyone here I care for in a different way whether it be a brother or a mother either way that's when I feel like I'm home; the feeling of love and safety I get around the people I care about. But if anyone ever uses any of that against me I will kick your ass"
"Well then it looks like I'm not needed then" no one knew who said that but they sounded familiar but I still moved closer to Dimitri and Lissa to Christian behind us. Dimitri put his arms around me and protected our baby, but It was someone I never expected it to be here. My mother.
(Roses mum never went on the mission to save them so they never reconnected)