I stood at the admin building with the rest of the welcoming committee. Dinner was in less than a hour and we just received word that St. Basil's had arrived at the gate and were on their way to the upper campus. I slipped away from Lissa and the gang and crept my way towards Dimitri, who was probably the most nervous person here.

"Just breathe. She will be happy to see you." I whispered so only he could hear me.

"Thank you, Roza." He said as he brushed his hand against mine. "I know she will be."

The buses pulled up just then and we both took a deep breath. Things were about to get very hectic. People began unloading the bays as the staff stepped off the buses. They spoke to Alberta and Kirova who explained the plan for the night. After everyone gathered their things we would take them to the dorms so they could drop their bags and then head to dinner.

When the students finally got off the bus things really got going. There was so much going on at once. Some students went in search of their bags. Others in search of their friends that didn't ride with them.

I was watching two guys argue over identical bags when I heard a high pitched squeak. Looking to the direction of the noise I saw a girl who was built similar to me running my way. Just as I thought she was going to slam into me she lept up and into Dimitri's arms.

"Dimka is it really you?" She asked through the tears.

"Hello to you to Vika." He laughed as he set her down. "Wow. Look at you. When did you grow up?"

"A long time ago big brother."

They stood there quite a while just taking each other in. Talking in russian about who knows what. I hated to break it up.

"Dimitri I think she needs to go find her stuff. I'm about to take my group and leave."

Looking at me for the first time I could finally his sister and how much she looked like him. Same eyes. Same hair. There was no mistaking these two for siblings. Except maybe height. Viktoria was almost as short as me.

"Right." He said. "Vika go get your things and then follow Rose to the dorms. I'll meet you for dinner ok?"

"Sounds good." She said as she walked off to the luggage pile.

Turning back to Dimitri I smiled up at him.

"See. I told you she would be happy."

"When will I learn you are can be right sometimes?" He joked.

I scoffed at him and walked away. I'm right all the time.

When Viktoria finished collecting her things I gathered all the female novices and headed towards the dorms. Each dorm had a couple residents volunteer to take the new residents up and get settled into rooms. With there only being a handful of female novices I had the easiest group. My floor had twelves rooms and there were only eight girls that would be living here.

"So Merideth and I are the only girls in our year. Since there are so few of us, you guys lucked out and will be getting your own rooms. You can pick which one you want it doesn't really matter." I told the group at the bottom of the stairs. "Once you ditch the bags you can meet me back down here and we can go stuff our faces with some food."

As I was about to walk off to the lobby lounge one of the girls called out.

"What's your name?"

"Oh. I'm Rose."