I lay on my bed sideways with a strong muscular arm around my waist his hand under my tank top rubbing my stomach nice and slow, sending shivers up my spine. I had both of my hands clasped together under the side of my head with my eyes partially closed since I was barely waking up from my sleep. The sun was about to set meaning the start of the vampiric day. In the middle of the night, a few hours after curfew I snuck across campus to go to his room. He was asleep when I got to his room but I broke into the room and snuggled right next to him and he welcomed me in his sleep by wrapping his arms around me and burying his face in my hair.

The air was filled with the smell of his wonderful aftershave as I inhaled the scent as his lips traveled up and down my neck giving me the sweetest, gentlest kisses any one can ever imagine. He was also laying on his side, spooning me from behind it seemed that we fit like a puzzle and that he was my other half. I could feel his every muscles against my back secretly driving me wild. I tilted my head to the side unconsciously to give him more access to my neck. "Hmm this feels nice." I whispered softly trying not to break the mood with loud noises. The room was quiet apart from the noise of our breathing and the sound of his lip smacking against his neck.

"Mmm." he murmured continuing his work against my neck kissing and nipping at his neck lightly but he made sure that there was no mark in case someone might get suspicious. A happy smiled appeared on my face when his hand stopped moving on my stomach but gripped my waist pulling me closer to him.

I turned my head to try to look at him as he stopped kissing my neck. He lifted his head from my neck and hovered over me. He had both of his on either side of my head and his eyes studying me every single inch of my body. My eyes studied his face but they stopped at his dark brown eyes. I could see love shinning in his eyes. I lifted one of my hands from where they were and stroked his face lovingly. He brought one of his hands up and brushed my hair out of my face.

"I loved waking up to you. Right here. In my arms." He said whispered his Russian accent thick as he emphasized the last word in just above a whisper. He wrapped both arms around my waist and he fell on his back on his bed with me on top of him making me squeal in surprise. I giggled against his chest then made myself lift my head from his chest placing both of my hands on each side of his head. He tilted his head a little to get a better view of me and smiled. I smiled back like I always did when he smiled at me.

"I love you." I said sincerely but I was a little surprised at how sincere it sounded to my ears.

"I love you too." he replied bringing one of his hand up to cup behind my neck to bring my face closer to him, not that I minded. I landed with my lips on his and started to kiss him slowly yet passionately, my eyes closed in surrender as he turned again making us land out sides but out lips not breaking. I didn't think I had morning breathe and even if I did he didn't mind because he kept kissing. He placed a hand on my lower back pressing me against him and his hand tightened on the back to the neck kissing me deeply. He licked my lower lip begging for entrance but I decided it would be fun to tease him a little and access denied. He growled playfully as he took my lower lip between in his teeth and slowly pulled on it. I giggled with my eyes still closed as he broke away from the kiss then he placed a soft, chaste kiss on my lips and I smiled again.

I opened my eyes to see the Russian god that was just kissing me and making me feel wonderful but the sight that was there was something that I didn't want to see. I looked at him but I didn't see a loving smile and deep brown eyes. I saw an evil smirk and blue eyes ringed with red. "You just love to tease don't you?" the voice asked me. I stared at him a little confused. He looked so familiar but I didn't know how it was. My eyes widen instantly. I remembered who this was. It was David.

"Now you remember who I am?" he asked with a know it all face. I was about to scream when he grabbed my head in his hands and bit into me draining me from all the blood in my body and I screamed in pain. He pulled away from my neck with my blood dripping down his chin. "Scream all you want nobody will hear you they are all at their graduation." he laughed and went back to sucking my blood.

I screamed and screamed loudly. I shot up from my bed clutching the side of my throat and breathing deeply. I looked around the room to find that I was in my room and alone. I kicked off the covers as fast as I could but they just wrapped around legs even more making it more difficult to try to get out of the cover.

I stopped struggling and I slowly took the covers off of me and walked towards the mirror. I tilted my neck where he had 'bit' me. I knew that he didn't bite me but I couldn't help but check. It had been 3 months since what happened. 3 months since I recovered and 3 months of nightmare. Of course in the beginning it was every once in a while like once every three weeks but now it was every other night.

Now to make matters worse was that they involved Dimitri. He was in the dreams and he turned out to be a David. Ever since I was in the hospital and since he was with me almost every minute of every day. During one of his hospital visits he told me that we needed to hold off of our relationship for now. He said that once Lissa graduates and that we were in the Royal Court we would figure something out.

There was some flirting here and there during practice. Okay I admit a few stolen kisses but nothing like my dream that I wish would come true. The whole Dimitri part not the David part. He killed him. I keep telling myself that and I knew that there was nothing to worry about and that he killed him or so he told me at the hospital.

FLASHBACK

"Hello Roza." Dimitri said walking into the room after school. I wasn't in classes exactly but he helped Stan with guardian techniques and usually he would come here to see me and help me with some bookwork so I didn't get far behind.

I turned my head slightly to look at him. He was smiling at me. He sat on the chair right next to my bed where he would always leave it. At first the nurse would always put it back to where it was but now she just leaves it right next to my bed. "I brought you a doughnut." he announced proudly holding up the doughnut wrapped in wax paper.

I smiled weakly at him. He scrunched up his eyes brows in what I already knew was confusion.

"What's wrong?" he asked concern. I closed my eyes and winced at the dream that I just had. But it wasn't a dream is was more like a living nightmare since it was a flashback on what happened. I squeezed them some more to make sure that I didn't cry in front of Dimitri. I wanted to be strong for him. I felt like I couldn't let him see me cry.

I thought happy thoughts trying to make the tears that were in my eyes go away but instead they just fell out of my eyes and I opened them again. Before I could reach to my face and wipe away my own tears Dimitri's thumb already wiped them away for me.

I looked up to see him in the eyes. He didn't look confused or concerned. He looked at me with sympathetic eyes. "Does your neck hurt?" he asked me gently cupping the back of my neck gently.

"No." I answered as he scooted a little towards the edge of the seat.

"Then what's wrong?" he asked being concerned.

"Did someone kill David?" I asked him softly. He froze and he stopped caressing my cheek like he was a few seconds ago. I froze too I didn't know what to think of him freezing. What if there was a possibility that they didn't kill him.

"Yes." he answered his Russian accent thicker than usual.

"You sure." I pressed. He smiled at me and chuckled a little and stood up from the chair.

"I'm positive." he reassured me. "What's worrying you?"

"Nothing, it's just that we haven't talked about it and it scared me that if he didn't get killed he'll come back to get me and I'll let him do this to me again." I breathe out. I knew that I was lying and he told me that he did kill him so the nightmare wouldn't be anything that he or anyone else should worry about.

"Relax." he told me before saying anything else. He looked really concerned for me and it was then that I realized that I was starting to hyperventilate.

I nodded taking a deep breath making myself calm down and sure enough I was breathing normally. "There's nothing to worry about. He died and he won't hurt you anymore." he reassured me again kissing my forehead before sitting down on the chair again telling me how classes went.

End of Flashback

There's nothing to worry about. He died and he won't hurt you anymore. That was an understatement. He didn't hurt me physically but he hurt me mentally. He was with me all the time. He was always on my mind and he didn't want to leave my brain.

I even went to the chapel and I got confessed trying to make the nightmares go away but it didn't help. I attended church every Sunday and actually paid attention to what they were saying. I actually paid attention to what he was saying and was into the church service but that didn't stop the nightmares from coming.

I didn't want to sleep anymore and I used to love to sleep. I'm afraid that if I sleep that he will pop into my dreams. Sure there were days that I told my brain to shut up and that I needed to get some sleep but it didn't work. I would watch a sappy love story before going to sleep but that didn't work either.

Tomorrow would be the day that I was graduating and here I was standing in front of the mirror thinking about how frequently I had nightmares. I rolled my eyes and hopped back into bed snuggling into my pillow. Happy thoughts, I said to myself, happy thoughts. I yawned and fell back to a dreamless sleep.

"Beep. Beep" The stupid alarm rang through my room. I opened my eye slightly to look at the time and groaned. I felt like I was asleep for only a few minutes but in reality I was only asleep for a few hours. Damn David and damn these stupid nightmares.

I got up and walked towards my closet. Today was the day we got our diplomas. Yesterday the novices went through the field experience and got our promise marks but today we got a real high school graduation and wore the caps and everything.

Lissa bought me this strapless aqua blue dress that stopped at mid thigh. It had a glittery sequence belt around the waist that made it look like it had diamonds. The top fit me tightly and wrapped around my curves and the skirt on the dress started at the curves that made me look like a ballerina.

My mom called me earlier this week to ask what I was wearing and I described it but she said that it wasn't the prettiest thing to wear but when you saw it it was looked beautiful. I loved the dress and I was so excited to wear it. Lissa bought me Silver high heels to match the dress and I was so grateful. I loved that girl and she knew what I loved.

Seeing the dress I was immediately excited once again. My tiredness went away. I ran to the bathroom as fast as I could to take a fast shower and to blow dry my hair to curl it.

Today was finally the day that we get to get out of this hellhole. I passed all of my classes with high B's. Shocker right. I don't even know how I did it but I did and I was happy with the outcome. I was excited to see what was to come after this graduation.

"These students are beyond ready to head out in this world-" Stan was saying in his speech but we really didn't want to listen I was too anxious to get to the diplomas. I wanted to get mine already. I sat in the second row next to some of my classmates. We were facing a crowd of parents while we were on some sort of stage in the field where the field tests were held yesterday. There were stadium lights to light up the stage. The Guardians and staff were sitting in the middle of the stage while Dhampir sat on one side of guardian and Morois sat on the other side as we all had our heads turned to the right where the podium and microphones were.

"When the students surpass the teachers it's when we are absolutely sure they are ready." he said glancing at the Dhampirs. We laughed as if we were on some kind inside joke which we were. Stan confessed a week before that he was bruised in every place possible due the field experience.

"I know for sure that these students are ready for the real world as they are some of the best that we have seen in years." he continued. I glanced around to see some of our classmates twitching in anticipation for the party that the staff threw for us afterwards in the dining room. This was the best party of the year. Everyone at St. Vladimir's knew that. No party at his school was like this not even the best ones in a dorm with alcohol.

"Now for the captain of our staff Alberta Petrov." He announced going to sit down at his seat as Alberta stood up and headed for the podium and the whole field applauded for him. "I'll be giving out the diplomas of our new guardians and Headmistress Kirova is going to give the diplomas out to the Morois." she said. "The first one on our list is Mason Ashford." Everyone clapped again as Mason stood up to get his diploma. He scanned the crowd looking for his mom and he spotted her posing as she took a picture of him with his diploma.

I felt a little sad. My mom told me that she couldn't make it to my graduation. She came to the field experience telling me that she wouldn't miss that for the whole world. But right after the tattoo ceremony she told me she had to go back to the to her Moroi but my eyes lightened up when I saw her in the crowd.

She looked up to see me and she smiled. I knew right then and there she was only to take me by surprise. This is one of the best surprises in the world. I smiled at her and looked up to see my classmates getting their diploma.

"Rosemarie Hathaway." I heard my name being called as I stood up and I heard cheers and applauds around my but this was all a blur. I walked up to get my diploma and I saw my mom standing up as well as everyone else in the crowd I shot them a smiled and I turned to the guardians and staff and they were standing up as well.

"I know that valedictorian is a person with the highest grades but Rosemarie Hathaway you have a great honor here at St. Vladimir. You helped everyone stay safe and you defended our school against Strigoi. But you are a valedictorian in our eyes." Alberta said as tears well up in my eyes I turned to look at where Alberta was gesturing and I saw every teacher walking towards giving me hugs and handshakes. Dimitri was one of the last ones and he gave me a hug and a smile. He gave me what seemed to be a teacher giving a student hug but I knew what was meant in his eyes.

Kirova gave me another certificate and he have me what seemed like a gold medal. I smiled at her and she gave me another hug. I had another round of applause and I sat back down. I didn't except this but apparently Lissa did. I'm proud of you. Lissa said through the bond.

"Congratulations!" My mother said after the ceremony giving me a hug. She wasn't bit on affection even when she came to visit me at the hospital.

Flashback

"Rose?" Came the frantic voice of my mother as I tilted my head slightly careful not to hurt my neck to look at my mother. She closed the door behind her and she came towards my bed as fast as he short legs allowed her too.

I looked at her and she still had her black slacks and her white shirt which meant that she still had her guardian clothes.

"Did you leave you guard just to see me."I teased her with a smiled. She sighed in relief.

"Yes." she breathed out. "How could you do this to yourself?"

I laughed softly. This was the same thing Mason told me a few days ago. "You know," I started. "I walked up to the Strigoi and looked him right in the eyes and told him to crack my neck because I wanted to die due to the bad grade on math test." I said sarcastically.

"Rose. What am I going to do with you?" My mother asked me as I flashed her a tired smiled. She smiled at me weakly and stroked my hair lovingly.

"I'm sorry mom." I apologized. "I didn't mean for this to happen but they came on campus because of me. I needed to take care of them."

"Rose, why did they come here in the first place?" she asked me sitting in a the chair that was right next to the bed where Dimitri left. She crossed her legs and crossed her arms and leaned back.

"When I was in Spokane I received a message telling me not to come back to the academy and not to become a guardian..." I started seeing that her eyes went wide. "I took that message seriously and stayed with Stephanie until I graduated but they found me and brought me back." I swallowed and closed my eyes. "Everything was going well but they came for me. I thought it was a hallow threat but they did come for me. Apparently I killed their cousin in Spokane and came to avenge him."

I opened my eyes and tears fell down my face. "I was so scared." I turned to look at my mom's emotionless expression. "I let them do this...I allowed him to kill me when he used compulsion. How can I be so stupid?" I asked her. She stood up and wiped my tears.

"You did what was right and what you needed to do." She comforted me grabbing my hand that was closest to her. I nodded softly seeing as my neck was in pain. I let out a sob and I cupped my mouth with the hand that my mom wasn't holding to make sure I didn't sob again. Or at least so loudly.

The nurse came in and injected my next dose of pain medicine in my IV. "Go to sleep." she said to me softly as I quietly fell asleep that day.

End of Flashback

Not once in that week or that day did she give me a hug. But being there was more than affectionate enough for me from her. But this hug. This hug shocked me.

"Thanks." I told her.

"I'm so proud of you. Valedictorian." she said hugging me again. I pulled away.

"What about you? I thought that you weren't coming." I said to her giving her a light shove. She smiled back at me.

"They changed my flight I have to go right now. But I'll see you next week at the Court." she said looking at her watch and her eyes grew wide. "My plane is going to leave me." she said hugging me one last time before rushing away.

"Bye." I yelled waving at her and she turned back just in time to see me and she waved back at me too.

"Congratulations!" Lissa said behind me giving me a huge hug and I hugged her back and we started to jump together.

"You too." I said pulling apart with a wide smile. She squealed happily.

"By the way Ms. Valedictorian of the people you look fabulous." she said looking at me up and down. I placed both hands on my hips and modeled for her. She nodded in satisfaction.

"You look good too." I told her. She look beautiful. She had a strapless blood red dress on that ruffled from the lower waist that stopped mid thigh and had a black bow on the waist. It really made the only curves that she had pop. Her tiny waist look really tiny in the dress and she was really beautiful.

"So beautiful." I confirmed nodding.

"Don't I know it." Christian said from behind her wrapping an arm around her waist and dropping a kiss on her temple while he held a drink in the other hand that wasn't holding on Lissa's waist.

"You look good Fireboy." I complimented/teased. He scowled. He was wearing a suit and tie that matched Lissa's dress. If they didn't know any better they looked like they were heading to prom than being at a graduation.

"If you don't be quiet I won't give the very important note that I have to give you." he told me. I straightened up and shut up. He laughed and let go of Lissa's waist to dig into his pocket and pulled out the note.

Rose,

meet me behind the Dhampir building as soon as you can. Don't worry to take a long time I can wait. Make sure that you dispose of this note as soon as you read it

-D

I crumpled the note in a ball. "Can you burn this?" I asked Christian and there was an eager look in his eyes and nodded. I threw the ball up in the air and it burst into flames and then as soon as the flames appeared they were gone.

"All done." he said proudly.

"Why did you want to burn it?" Lissa asked curiously.

"It's some stupid joke." I lied rolling my eyes.

She laughed and I could see her hips start to shake to the dance song that was playing inside. "Why don't you go dance. I have to check on some last minute things and I'll be there with you." I informed her. Her eyes lit up. If Lissa was anything she was an extreme party girl and she loved dancing. Christian glared at me before Lissa pulled him inside to dance.

I laughed quietly and headed towards the back building where I knew that Dimitri was waiting for me. I was so glad that he had a brain. Everything was empty and everyone was either at the party or the younger students already went home. I walked from the wrong direction and Dimitri was leaning on the wall sideways and I came from behind him. I jumped up and hugged his shoulders from behind.

He grabbed both of my hand and turned around slowly. He still had both of my hands in his and he through my hands over his shoulders making my elbows rest on his shoulders and he rested on both of my hands on either side of my waist. "Congratulations." he said, "You graduated."

"A miracle huh?" I said teasingly.

"Nah." he answered leaning down and placing a chaste kiss on my lips quickly pulling back.

"I just wanted to tell you congratulations and that I will see you in a few days seeing as my plane leaves for the royal court a few days before yours do. I have to help coordinate the guardian assignments." He explained to me and he rubbing his hands on my waist. I nodded telling him that I understand as he smiled at me and nodded along with me. "I also wanted to tell you that you look beautiful."

I smiled. "Thank you." I answered.

"You really do." he said leaning down to kiss me again but this time more passionate. I wrapped my arms tighter around his neck and brought one hand up threading my fingers in his hair. He moved his hands on my back to make one press against the upper part of my back and the lower part. He really attacked my lips but I didn't mind I responded with much enthusiasm. His lips were warms against my lips and his breathe was sweet. It drove me crazy.

He pulled apart. "I have to pack." he explained.

"I have to get back to Lissa." I answered back pulling away from him.

He nodded.

"Have fun at your party" he said and I nodded.

"I'll see you in a few days." I answered pointing back at him. He pointed back and I turned around to go back to Lissa. He gave me a few wolf whistles and I turned around to see him smirk and I laughed going to the party.

"We're at the Royal Court!" Lissa squealed jumping up and down as we walked into baggage claim to get our luggage. Mason, Meredith, and Eddie came to the court a few days earlier but we barely got here. I smiled at Lissa as Christian rolled his eyes and grabbed all of the luggage. Lissa kept walking forward and I grabbed my one and only suitcase from across Christian.

"Don't let anyone help me with this luggage. I got it." Christian said getting all of Lissa's luggage and by all I mean Lissa's 5 suitcases and Christian's two suitcases. "Can I help you with the luggage Christian it looks kinda heavy. Don't worry about it I got it." he said complaining.

I turned to look at him and laughed. "Can I help you with the luggage Christian it looks kinda heavy." I asked repeating exactly what he said. He shot me a grateful look.

"Please." he breathed out.

I gave him a shocked look. "But I thought that you said that you got it?" I asked playfully. He glared at me and I got a clue. I grabbed some of Lissa's suitcases helping Christian. After I got all the bags that I could handle I looked over to look at him and he looked extremely relieved. The last time that I was at baggage claim was when I was with Stephanie when we barely arrived in Montana. Poor Stephanie. I hadn't seen her since the incident.

FLASHBACK

Today was finally the day that I was going to be let out of the stupid clinic. Every day I had a therapist that helped me strengthen my neck muscles. But today was finally the day that I got to go. Today was the first day that I get to actually wear some normal clothes instead of the stupid hospital gown that I had on for three weeks and my mom brought me a T-shirt and some jeans and some tennis shoes.

"Are you okay?" My mother asked right by my side in a flash. I stared at her.

"I'm fine."I assured her. I took a step forward and she had her hands up as if she was ready to catch me. "Mom. It's a neck injury. I'm not disabled." I said getting a little annoyed.

"I know I just want to make sure you're okay." She said calmly. I raised my eyebrows and glared at her playfully as she put her up in defense and walked towards the chair that was across the room and sat down.

"Knock knock." was a female voice at the door. I recognized her voice but I haven't heard it in a while. My mom and I look over to the door and see Stephanie standing there smiling innocently. I smiled at her and my mom just stared at her emotionless.

"Hey Stephanie. Come in."I said giving up my battle to walk out of here. I leaned my butt against the bed while Stephanie walked into the room almost timidly.

"Hello Janine." she said acknowledging that my mom was in the room and my mother just nodded emotionless. She silently ignored the cold shoulder and she turned her head to smile at me. "Here" she said handing me a small box that was wrapped up like a present.

"Thanks." I said accepting the box. She folded her arms across her chest uncomfortably as I opened the box. She looked around the room uncomfortably.

There was some of my old things in this box. There was my IPod that I missed a lot with its charger, some of my favorite sweatshirts and some of my old lips glosses with some new ones. "Thank you." I said opening my arms wide apart so she could walk into my arms and I give her a hug. She understood the invitation. Over her shoulder I saw my mother roll her eyes.

Be nice. I mouthed to her and she just laughed quietly crossing her legs and leaning back in her chair while she looked at a different direction. We pulled back and I smiled at her.

"I feel so bad." She confessed to me.

"Why?"

"David did this to you and his brother is Bob." she said. "Next time I see Bob I'm going to give him a piece of my mind."

She laughed a little and my mom's face dropped a little. She looked sympathetic. "I'll leave you two alone." My mom said getting up from the chair. Stephanie looked at her in confusion. I took a deep breath as we both watched my mom walk out of the room.

"She doesn't approve of me still loving Bob even after what he became." She asked pointing her thumb in the direction that my mom just left but she still had her arm across her stomach.

"That's part of it." I admitted raising my eyebrows innocently. She stared at me and gave me a disapproving look. It was a look that I knew oh so well. She swallowed softly. "How much do you know?" I asked her but seeing she was a little confused "By what happened." I elaborated.

"I know that David turned Strigoi and that he came to the academy to avenge the death of his cousin." she explained.

"Did you know that David turned and he was the one that turned Bob." I asked her in a soft voice.

"No." she said her voice cautious.

"Did you also know that he came to the academy and that...he was trying to kill me so I had to kill him." I told her all in one. There it was out. I had to let her know. I studied her expression only to see that he brain was processing things.

"So you killed him?" she asked after a while of awkward silence. "Wow. I came here to see if you were okay and to cheer you up-"

"Steph-"

"But you give me the news that you killed my husband." she said in an angered voice. "How could you do this?"

"I only did what I had to do to keep my school safe." I said trying to be calm. This was a lot of her to take in. I did kill the love of her life and I knew that I wouldn't be able to bare it either.

"I'm sorry." I said standing up from my leaning position. I put my hand on her shoulder trying to provide her some comfort but she swatted it away.

"Don't you touch me!" she growled angrily. This was making me angry. I tried to be understanding and I only did what was best for the whole school and she's being mean. Yeah, I killed her husband but she needed to understand that he wasn't the same. He was evil and with one disagreement he would kill her off because he had no self control over his feelings. I accepted the fact that she still saw and loved him but she needed to accept the fact that I only did what I had to do.

"Stephanie...I had to do what I had to do." I said pleading to her. I took a few steps over to her until I was standing in front of her.

"I wish he did kill you" she growled dangerously. She took a step towards me until we were pressed up against each other front to front. "I wish you were death instead of my husband." she spat.

I clenched my teeth angrily. "You know what. You could be waiting for him your whole life but he was never going to come back. I at least had the guts to tell you. That's why I had the school contact you to tell you what happened. But you're being a bitch and you are yelling at me. That's straight up fucked up." I yelled at her.

She screeched in anger and she put my hand on my throat and started to choke me. I coughed and knew that I wasn't going to be weak again. Sure I've been in the hospital for what seemed years but she wasn't going to hurt me, not on my watch.

"Rose!" I heard a panicked voice at the door. I looked over the corner of my eye to see that Dr. Olendzki was coming in here to give me the final statement to let me out of the hospital. She rushed out of the room no doubt to get a guardian.

I pulled my knee up and hit her in the stomach. She crouched down to grab her stomach and I tripped her making her fall on the ground. I pinned both of her hands above her hands straddling her waist and stared at her intensely in the eye. "Don't you ever try to choke me again or it won't be pretty." I told her and she scrunched her eyebrows in anger.

She tried to pull her arms out of the lock that I had her in but I tightened my grip on her wrists. "Oh and by the way if there was a Strigoi that wanted to hurt you. You'd be so dead. I took you down and I've been in the hospital for about three weeks." I informed her and she swallowed knowing that I was right.

"Rose!" I heard this time but it was a Russian accent. "What are you doing?" he asked pulling me away from Stephanie slowly and carefully making sure that he didn't hurt me but it wasn't like I fought much knowing he was a lot stronger than me for the moment. I looked down at Stephanie and my mom was at her side trying to help her up and she held on to her, just in case.

"I didn't do anything." I said trying to defend myself. "She came on me."

"Right." He said sarcastically. He didn't believe me. I knew that my record wasn't good but he should've at least believed me.

"She was." I heard Dr. Olendzki at the door. She had a scared expression on her face. "She had her hands on her neck and she was chocking her."

"I think you should leave." My mom said glaring at her sister. There was a relationship that would never be fixed. Tears fell down Stephanie's cheeks as she left the hospital room.

End of Flashback

Later in the week she called me to apologize and I forgave her to an extent. I would've acted the same way if I found out that Dimitri was killed by one of my family members but I wouldn't have chocked them especially when they were barely getting release from the hospital.

Once I helped Christian with Lissa's luggage, we all headed out of the Royal Court airport to step into the actual Royal Court. Here we go. The start of something new.

This is the first chapter of the sequel. I hoped you guys like it. I'm really excited about this story and if you really are curious to see how the dresses look review of PM me and I'll give you the links to the dresses. Let's see how that works. =D Please review and tell me if anything is wrong or how you liked it or any suggestions I'll really take them into consideration. =D