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"Jade, look on the bright side," I said, trying to cheer up the sad Jade. Her oldest brother Ervin had left the academy a few nights ago. "You won't have anyone to tell you what to do and stuff like that. And plus, you are going to see him again soon."

She rolled her eyes. "Rose, I am not sad because my brother left." She rolled her eyes again. "I am upset because my other brother is coming here."

This was so not making sense. "So?"

"So? So?! This brother is the one I was talking to you about. He makes my brother Ervin seem like he is the best thing in the planet, which he is not!"

"Okay, Jade. Whatever you say. I need to get to practice soon. Talk about something sane."

"Well…" She began, not knowing where to go next. "I am dating Jesse Zelkos."

I didn't know what to say. "I said to talk about something sane. This is defiantly not sane!" I took a deep breath. "But, all I can say is…EW!"

She chuckled. "Don't worry; I am not with him because I love him or anything like that. I am only playing him." She looked over my shoulder at something. "In fact, he is coming over here now." She smiled seductively at him. "Watch me work my magic, Rose." She whispered.

This girl was seriously crazy. Ever since we had bumped into each other three weeks ago, we had become like best friends. Lissa was still acting as a bitch towards me, but I couldn't care less. I would never beg anyone to like me or be my friend. Right now, Jade and I were the best of friends. No, she was more like my soul sister. Like I had said, we were the best of friends; we were closer than Lissa and I had been. We trusted each other with our whole life.

"I missed you last night. You didn't meet me in the garden like you had promised." Jesse said, using a tone I had never seen him use on anyone. It was sweet and gentle and soothing.

Jade pretended like she was examining her nails. "I never promised anything. I said I'd go, if I had time to go, which I didn't. I am an Ivashkov; we are busy all the time with other lovers." She said, looking from her hands to his face, an innocent expression on her face.

Oh! I soo loved this girl! She had guts, we had to admit. If it had been me playing Jesse, I would have killed him already.

"Sweetheart, I'll be waiting for you tonight."

Jade was barely paying attention. She was looking at something over Jesse's shoulder. I saw her look of carelessness fade to a look of adoration. I looked to where she was looking and I saw that she was staring…oh hell. Cat fight. She was staring at Christian Ozera. Meanwhile, Lissa was staring at Lissa furiously. Like I had said. Cat fight!

She shook herself and turned back to Jesse with a fake smile plastered on her face. She ran her hands over her hair. "Um, tonight? I'll try my best." She pushed him away. "Now, leave!"

Willing, he left. This was so not a Jesse I knew. It was like Jade him under a spell. Good girl.

"And that's how you do it, Rose." Jade said, with laughing green eyes. Jade looked like a super model, except she wasn't anorexic skinny. We almost shared the same body structure, except she was several inches taller than I was because she was Moroi. The only thing that we didn't have similar was our hair color. She had light brown hair; I had dark brown hair that almost looked black. But, other than that, we were hot as hell.

"Wow…" I said, laughing. "Jesse is totally whipped! If it weren't for the fact that you were a girl, I'd kiss you right now."

She smiled and starting to lean towards me. I knew her well enough to know that she was just playing around with me. "Come closer, babe. Give me some of those wonderful kisses…"

I rolled. "Please, I am taken ."

She laughed. "By who? The wind?"

I rolled my eyes again. "Jeez, Jade. Like I have said so many times, you are just too wild and crazy!"

She smiled a fake reverent smile. "And like I said so many times, you haven't seen my brother." She laughed but then became serious when her phone beeped. She looked down at the txt message she had received. "Speaking of that bitch, I think he arrived." She started walking to the academy's runway, but then looked back at me. "Hey, do you want to come and meet him?"

I hopped off the bench I had been sitting on. As always, I was late for practice. Again. I wanted to go off with Jade. But damn! I knew Dimitri was going to kill me if I skipped today's Saturday practice to go meet a guy. "Jadie, I would love to, but Russian-Man would shoot me in the head if I skipped his training."

She pouted. "Oh, Rose. Too bad."

I smiled. "I'll meet your brother some other time." I said, trying to cheer her up.

She gave that way too excited smile. "Oh, Rose! He totally needs to meet someone decent like you! He needs a pretty, decent woman in his life."

I tried raising an eyebrow, something I had tried to do ever since I learned what the word kill was (which was just some time after I turned six). "And you think I'm decent?"

"Compared to all the other sluts he has dated, yes."

"Oh, wow." Seesh! Dimitri was going to be so pissed now. I walked over to her and hugged her. "Well, Jadie, I'll see you later. Tell your sexy brother I said hi."

"Sure, thing. I'll also tell him that you want to hook up with him later tonight, Rosie!" She called out to me. I knew she was not kidding this time.

I walked off with a smile on my face, not knowing that when I met her brother, my life would change—or rather my love life, but overall, my life would most definitely change.

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As soon as I walked into the gym, I regretted it all at once. Dimitri was still the same love struck guy he had been ever since we had come back from that horrible ski trip. During one of our practices, he had mentioned that he had met the most wonderful woman in his world. He said had fallen in love and that his grandmother had been right. He had fallen in love, but not with the evil.

Dimitri was so not him as we practiced. He was acting more…gentle? Compassionate? No; he was acting like Jesse had been acting with Jade earlier. Totally…love struck. The woman was still a mystery to me. I had yet to ask him about her.

After practice, though. I did ask. "Who is it that you fell in love with?" I asked.

His eyes shined again. "Her name is Tasha Ozera."

Oh god! The last name sounded familiar but not the first name. Was she related to Christian Ozera? He proved it a second later. "She is related to Lissa's boyfriend, Christian." Oh, what was up with the Ozera's falling in love lately?

"Well, that's great Dimitri." Not.

And as I watched him, I realized that I was love struck as well. Love struck by him. He must have noticed the change in my expression because he opened his mouth to speak, all the while reaching his hand to my cheek. But I stopped it with a question.

"Is she here now?" It was a question I didn't really want answered. If she was here, good; if she wasn't here, great!

He didn't answer my question…which was great. But he did smile at something behind me. His whole face lit up like a dog when he sees his loving owner.

I turn around and I saw her standing there, out of nowhere. "Dimka…" she said in a voice so filled with love.

"Tasha, my love."

This was all so weird. I swear it felt like a field of daisies was going to blossom and Dimitri and Pasta—I mean, Tasha would start running around, hand in hand, wearing summery clothes.

I watched as she walked up to him, dressed all in black like her nephew. She threw her arms around him and he spun her around and started kissing her. Jeez, this was too intimate for me to witness it. But I had to be here until he excused me.

As I watched them, I couldn't help but feel jealous, real jealous. While I was stuck here, with thousands of rules I had to follow, other people were out there living there life however the hell they wanted. I couldn't believe I was jealous of Tasha Ozera. She had something that I wanted ever since I had laid eyes upon him. She had the guy I stayed up some nights thinking about. She had the love of my life—or she had the guy that I had thought was the love of my life. Nonetheless, she had him, and I didn't.

Dimitri and Tasha pulled away. He gestured to Rose. "Tash, this is Rose, my student."

Tasha looked at me, up and down her eyes traveled. She wasn't checking me out or anything like that; she was looking me over to see if I was better than she was. Of course I was better than she was! I, for one, wasn't old and saggy like she was. I was beautiful and young and so full of life, unlike her who looked literally dead. She reminded of a deserted with just tumbling weeds, rolling around the desert, making it seem like that was the only life. The only life you could detect on her was her icy blue eyes that were identical to Christian Ozera's.

"Hello," she sneered, when she noticed that I was prettier than she was.

Oh, two could play at the bitching game. I didn't even say anything. I just acknowledged her hello with a wave of my hand.

Dimitri must have noticed the change in me because he asked: "What's wrong?" He asked, stepping closer to me, his hand reaching for me.

I pulled my hand away, letting a tear slip. Shit, was I that mad? I thought I was since tears were slipping out. Usually I just cried when I really pissed off. This was one of those times. "Rose, tell me, what's wrong?"

"Nothing! Can I go back to my room?" He studied me for a second and realized that he would not get an answer out of me. After a second, he nodded. I swear that I saw Tasha saunter towards me with a heat of anger. I ignored her and everyone who tried to get in my way as I stomped to my room, except Jade.

I wiped off some tears, hoping that Jade didn't see that I had been crying like a six week old kitten.

"Rose, my sister, what's wrong?" Damn, she had noticed my tear streaked eyes.

I yawned. Usually when I yawned it looked like I was crying because of all the tears my yawning produced.

She nodded, totally believing it. "It happens," she said, patting my arm. Oh. She hadn't believed a single word I had said. She was just giving me my space. She tried cheering me up. "You know the crazy brother I just can't stop talking about?"

I nodded. "Yeah, what's up with him?"

"Well, nothing is up. He just said that he would want to meet you later tonight—or tomorrow because right now he is taking his beauty sleep."

How could I have thought about other guys when the one I wanted wasn't even interested in me?

I gave sigh of desperation. "Sorry, Jade. Tell him I'll see him some other night. I am too tired tonight."

My tone was enough for her to not press her case. She nodded and reached out to hug me. "It's okay, Rose. He is going to be here quite a while. He is practicing Spirit with that Dragomir Blonde…what's her name? Anyway, he is going to be here a while. So no worries."

Oh. He was the Spirit user Lissa had been talking about. I was kind of excited. But thinking about Dimitri brought me down again. I told Jade goodbye and before I left, she said, "I am here if you need me." She hugged me again and I walked to my room.

I went straight to bed and cried, while I imagined a future that I couldn't have with him, Dimitri—or anyone.

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