I do not own vampire academy, any publicly recognizable characters, or any publicly recognizable place or things. Also, MAJOR props to my beta, VampireFairy13 for being so frakkin awesome and editing my chapters cuz if she wasnt there..this chapter would look like total shit.

"Roza," a voice like honey melting on a slow fire said, "I've been waiting for you."

I screamed loudly and twisted my body to try to get him to release me. Dimitri placed his nose in the juncture between my neck and shoulder. He sniffed and kissed the spot slowly. I quickly turned to side to make it seem like I was still struggling. Swiftly, I sunk my elbow into the fleshy area of his solar plexus. He gasped and released me, holding his middle. I whirled around and faked a kick to his head. Dimitri ducked and I waited until he popped back up to thrust a sidekick to his stomach. He flew into gym door and fell to the floor. I skipped backwards away from him, never taking my eyes off of his body. He rose into a crouch, catching his breath for a second, then stood and looked at me with a surprised look on his face.

"Stay away from me," I demanded, never letting him out of my sight as he slowly took a step toward me. I turned my body so that my right leg was facing away from him and put my right fist next to my jaw. My left hand also went into a fist, slightly bent and angled to the floor, leaving nothing open to him unless he tried to kick me. He took another step to me and I stepped back.

"Dimitri, I'm not messing around, stay away from me. I didn't say it was you earlier but I won't hold back if you try anything this time." Dimitri still didn't say anything. He simply stared at me with a quizzical look on his face. He opened his mouth and let out a hysterical sound, like a dark, choked chuckle.

"Roza, what are you talking about? Earlier I was with Adrian outside the door, trying to open it. I told him to keep trying and went to get something to open it with." He took another step toward me.

"Dimitri, I'm not going to tell you again. Stay. Away. From. Me." I said each word clipped and separated. Now Dimitri looked genuinely hurt. He took a step back as if I physically wounded him.

"What happened in that room Roza? Who was in there with you?" My head was spinning horribly. How could he pretend like he didn't do anything? Like he didn't know what exactly went on in that room. Why would he lie when there was no one here to get him in trouble. I've protected our relationship furiously and could understand if there was someone here.

My mind went back to before the incident. He was the Dimitri I knew and loved and he was escorting me back to my room after our session, as ordered by Stan so I wouldn't 'get any ideas'. I pulled him into the room for a quick kiss and he ended it like he usually did, with warnings against doing things like that and a quick peck on the forehead. Later that night a piece of paper was slid under the door to meet him. When I walked into the room I was grabbed painfully and heard a voice that sounded like Dimitri's, except without its usual warmth and love, whispering harsh and obscene things into my ear.

Dimitri snapped me out of my last thought by touching my arm. I hadn't realized that he had gotten so close to me and my body jerked backwards, away from his touch, as if remembering those same hands coming toward me with the goal to hit me. My fist went out and punched his face, only to be blocked this time.

"Roza who was with you in that room?" Dimitri asked again. I knew he wasn't going to give up until he had his answer. I guess he just wanted the sick satisfaction of me saying that he was the one who was there doing what he said he would never do.

"You!" I heard my voice yell and echo throughout the empty gym. Dimitri flinched at the sudden loudness of my voice. "You were in that room with me. You tried to rape me. You cut my clothes off and tied me naked to the bed." Tears began to develop in my eyes, but I didn't let them fall. I glared at him, frustrated that he could make me want to cry twice in the same night, or day if you look at it from a human perspective. He still had the gall to look confused.

"How could you?" I asked him. It was the question that had been going through my mind for a while now. It just didn't make sense. "After everything you told me about your mother and after everything you told me of how dhampir girls were always being taken advantage of in your village, how could you do this to me?"

"Roza, I don't..." he began but I didn't let him finish. Without saying another word I ran out of the gym through the other door and ran to my dorm. I couldn't have this conversation right now. I knew that I would have to face him eventually, but to face him so soon and in an enclosed space like that; it made me uncomfortable. I just wasn't ready yet. My eyes burned from the salt water. The tears I still refused to let fall were stuck, staying just on the precipice of my eye. I wouldn't cry twice. I refused to.

My thoughts consumed me as the building came into view. My mind continued to run through the situation again and again. I knew that I would definitely get some answers from Adrian.

Lisa's thoughts flooded my mind while I sprinted up the stairs. She was worried about me and Christian's efforts weren't doing much to help with the situation. Adrian was just at the door, about to come out and find me. I didn't know if Dimitri's story was true or not but I knew that some alone time with Adrian would definitely clear some things up. I opened my door to be greeted by a flood of questions and a very warm set of arms.

Suddenly, I couldn't keep the tears back. I felt weak, like a damsel crying in the arms of her saviour while wondering how such an awful thing could have happen to her. I was no damsel, I despised them actually. But feeling the warm arms of Adrian around me and feeling his soft voice tell me that everything was going to be okay, even though I knew that he was lying to me, made everything feel better.

And for just a few seconds, I forgot everything that happened to me.