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At least a week had passed since Mason's death. And I decided to change my attitude and my way of being. I needed to be more serious about life. One way to show that my way of being was going to change was apologizing to everyone I had upset. First off was Lissa.

Hey, speaking of Ms. Blonde…

Lissa tried not to look at me as she passed by the table I was lounging on. Too bad. She was going to have to look at me whether she liked it or not.

"Lissa?" I called out, hopping off the bench and walking to her.

She stopped and turned around, her face showing that mask of carelessness she always tried to portray. There was no other face that fit her other then sweetness, though. "Yeah?" She asked, trying to sound as careless as her expression.

I swallowed, trying to summon the words that one used when apologizing. I had no words. This was so out of my personality. I tried, though. "Liss, I want to say…I'm sorry?" I sounded like I was asking a question instead of stating something.

I saw her face turn to sweetness, only for a second. Her face turned back to that carelessness one. "Sorry for what? It wasn't me you hurt! It was Christian! Start by forgiving him and then I might forgive you!" She yelled the words at me. I was shocked. Lissa so rarely yelled and she so rarely yelled at me. I had hurt too much; she was not acting as the same sweet Lissa that I loved.

I stood there, shocked. Damn, she was right. It wasn't she I had hurt that bad. It was Christian. I had told him some very undeserved words. I would have gone off to find him, but I was late for the meeting Alberta had made me go to.

Once I am out of this damn meeting, I'll go apologize to you, flame. I promised to whoever was listening.

The meeting was the most boring thing ever. The only exciting part was that I had gotten two marks for killing to beastly vampires that we call Strigoi. It wasn't really fun remembering about killing someone. It was just cool that I had gotten Molnija marks way before anyone else. Cool but not so fun at the same time, if that could be understood.

I was thinking about all that killing crap when I saw the person I was dying to look for walk by.

"Christian?" I asked as he slowly walked by me.

"Rose." He said, his icy blue eyes looking at me from head to toes. "What can I do for you?"

I looked away and looked back at him. "Look, I just wanted to say that I am really sorry for saying all those words to you." It all came out in a rush. "You did nothing to deserve those words. It was just my rudeness acting up; it made me say those words to you. I guess I should have thought before I acted."

He looked at me with a face of a professional poker player. By far, that was the best poker face I had ever seen in my life. And I had seen a lot since I was a beast at poker! "I am amazed." He stared at me and I wanted to squirm away. "It took a best friend's death for you to realize how bad you acted and for you to change your ways." He nodded. "Don't you wish that you would have changed sooner? Maybe you could have had Mason with you right now."

What comes around goes around. I was so going to beat the shit out of him for saying that shit to me. I sauntered forward to slap the shit out of him when he put up a hand in a motion of stop.

His lips quirked up at the corner. "See that wasn't so nice was it? Now you know how I felt when I said those words."

I got annoyed. "So…do you accept my apology or not?" God this boy was so—what is the word I am looking for—he was so annoying. I wanted to slap some sense into him.

He ran a hand through his black, curly hair. Sometimes I thought a spider or a rat was nesting in there and when someone got near it would pop out and scare the shit out of someone. That someone would most likely be…me. "You apologized, really? Can you repeat it again so that I can—"

I stopped his blabber. "Look I know I said some undeserved things." I got closer to him. "But you know what the truth is? Lissa loves you. It's scary how much she loves. I could feel it through the bond. She loves you and needs you more than the airs she breaths. It's scary, like I said."

He was taken aback. "She does?" I swear his face lit up like a light was shinning on his face from above. All he needed was to start floating so that he would look like an angel.

"Yes, she does." I was happy for them. I mean if someone loved somebody this much, why didn't they get together? And then an idea occurred to me. I could feel Lissa was in the church attic where she loved to be. I grabbed Christian's hand and started dragging him with me.

"What the hell?" He asked as he saw that I dragging him along.

The church was around the corner and I pushed him inside as soon as I saw the doors. "Go. She is in there. Tell her how much you love her. Shit, show her how much you love her!"

He smiled. "Sure."

"Oh, and tell her I am sorry."

He smiled again and walked inside.

I turned back around only to slam myself into something—no, someone.

"Uh, hello? Can I help you?" The curvy Moroi that looked about seventeen years old said from where she lay on the ground. Had I slammed into her too hard to make her fall down? Judging by where she was, I knew that I had.

I tried not to crack a smile or bust out a laugh. "Um, are you okay?" I said, reaching out my arm so that I could help her up.

"Yes, I am!" She said.

This girl seemed like fun. "Okay."

She was starting at me an awful lot. "Oh. My. God. I. Know. Who. You. Are." She started getting really excited. "You are Rose Hathaway, daughter of my father's guardian, Janine Hathaway! You two look so alike!"

I nodded. "Yeah!"

"You are so cool!" She started to walk away. "Oh, crap!

"What?" I asked.

"I forgot to introduce myself. I am Jade I." I knew by the way she was dressed that she was a Royal Moroi. Her green eyes and light brown hair made it confusing for me to decide if she was from the Conta clan or the Lazar clan. "Jade Ivashkov."

Ivashkov…I had never heard of that last name in my life. Well, I had. But it was the queen bitchy queen that was ruling our world. "Cool."

Jade's phone rang. "Hello, brother. How can I help you?" She uh-huhed and hmmed at times. I let her finish her conversation. At the end, though, she said: "Guess who I met? I met Rose Hathaway!" She clapped her hands in joy.

"You are some wild person." I commented as soon as she hung up. As wild as she was, I knew I could get along with her.

Her eyes went wide and then she smiled. "Ohh, you so have not seen my brother." She looked away and started acting more serious. "Well, you haven't seen my brother! If you think I am crazy…then I wonder what you are going to think when you see him!" She started telling me about a story. "One time, we were at a party and he did he knows what with a girl in front of a lot people! Crazy, yeah. But I love my brother to death."

I nodded. "I'm sure you do." I looked at the time. Damn, I loved talking to this girl and I had to go to practice in less than a minute. "Well, Jade, it was nice meeting you, but I have to go to practice."

She nodded. "Okay! Anytime you want to see me, I am in the guest housing. I am starting school next week!"

"Really? That's great!" Dimitri was going to burst a vein as soon as I walked in the room.

"Yeah!" She started walking in the opposite direction I was going to start walking. She waved. "Bye! Take care, my new friend! I'll tell my brother about you so that he could finally get a decent girlfriend!"

I chuckled and rounded the corner with a smile on my face, heading to practice.

Okay, people! Bear with me! Just one more chapter and then Adrian comes in the story! I am so excited for that chapter! Did you like Jade, Adrian's sister? Tell me what you think! Review…or else I will haunt you down. (insert evil laugh)