FIRST STORY DONT BE TOO HARD PLEASE

ALSO JUST UPDATED THE CHARACTER MARKINGS R/D

I was lying in bed staring at the ceiling. I was supposed to be getting ready to leave for court tomorrow. I couldn't, I didn't know what to do. I lay there for a while more until I forced myself to get up. I hope the two little pink lines where a lie because I didn't have time to deal with it. I decided to get up and finish packing up the rest of my stuff. I heard a knock at my door and knew it wasn't Lissa. She wouldn't have been able to surprise me like that. I ignored it until I heard the knock again. "Rose I know you're in there." Oh God, Christian, what did he want.

"Damit Pyro, I don't have time to talk," I stopped myself. As much as I liked to joke with Christian I realized I was sounding like a bitch at the moment. "I need to finish packing." I said in a calmer voice. I looked like a mess and, I knew even Christian would figure out something was wrong with me.

"I can help you, I know you don't want to spend your last day at the academy in your room packing." I was taken aback by his friendly tone. "Lissa and Adrian are packing some books to take and I already turned in my dorm keys so I have nothing to do." That made more sense. Christian and I weren't that close, but I didn't want to leave the guy to get in trouble for being in the female dorm.

I finally responded "Fine just let me get some pants on." I began to hurry to my little bathroom and threw away the little plastic stick and wiped my eyes. I quickly smoothed my hair as I walked to the door. I didn't care if I looked like crap in front of Christian, but I didn't want to look like I got hit by a bus. I opened the door. He wasn't upset but he looked at my pajama pants and then smirked at me. He didn't say anything for a moment.

"So what are you hiding rose?" Christian said bluntly. "Those are the same pants you were wearing when me and Lissa left yesterday." I put on my guardian face and replied sarcastically.

"Lissa and I" I could care less about his grammar but I wanted to avoid his question. He rolled his eyes. I continued "I'm not hiding anything, as you can see everything I own is all over the floor." I was relieved when he dropped it and asked what he could do. I was surprised "Wait, you actually want to help. I though you just said that to get me to answer the door."

"I did." He continued "but I'm not going to just sit here and watch you do whatever you're doing. So what do you want me to do?"

"All I have to do is fold clothes and put everything into boxes. Also figure out what needs to go into the suitcase for while the house is getting situated. So do you want to do fold my underwear or fill boxes?" Before he could give me an answer I pointed to the pile of boxes in the corner and handed him a roll of tape. "There is already a pile of sheets and pillows that can be put away next to them"

I turned around and grabbed my suitcase and backpack." I put my laptop and my iPod and my laptop into my backpack after I cleared out my school work. I was thinking about everything I would need tomorrow. I decided to put a sweater and my wallet into my backpack too. I finally spoke up. "So Christian do you know what we are doing tomorrow night after we get there?"

He looked up at me, "I think we're going to a dinner or something to celebrate our new life or whatever." I sighed and he continued "Hey, I don't want to either but Lissa needs to go to these events so she can prove she can take the spot on the council." I thought he was done speaking so I started to walk toward the bathroom so I could get my hair and makeup products. I didn't have much but I wanted to put them in my suitcase so I would have things to get ready with if I actually had to go to some Moroi event. He stopped me.

"Rose, I know you're hiding something." I thought he forgot about that. "You're too quiet." He hesitated. "I won't tell anyone not even Lissa." I knew he wasn't going to drop it so I had to come up with something. What I said was clearly not that great.

"It's Nothing Christian, I'm just kind of sad we have to leave the academy." He looked at me and I knew he didn't believe me. He looked down for a moment and the looked back at me he said.

"We both know that's a lie, you've wanted to get out of this place since you got here." I started to wonder if I could tell him I was possible pregnant. I stopped myself. No, dhampirs can't have children together the test was probably defective or something. I began to think of another lie but I decided to just tell him.

"It is nothing worry about." He was about to protest my answer, but decided not to. We finished putting the things into boxes in about an hour so we decide to go find Lyssa and Adrian.

Our house was going to be a normal court town house. Queen Tatiana decided to let Lissa live with the 'normal' royals as long as she agreed to work 4 days a week. Each town house had another one that was connects to it. Lissa and I would live one together. We would have plenty of space and we could roam around the different restaurants and stores freely since we were permanent residents. The one thing I was dreading was our neighbors we would be connected to. Lissa was so excited to have Christian next door, but he wasn't living in that house alone. He was going to be sharing his house with his aunt, Tasha, and her new guardian. This was the part that was going to make my life hell. A week after the school was attacked Dimitri decide to take up Tasha's offer and become her guardian. They have been living in a temporary house at court while Lissa, Christian, and I finished school and finalized our new house plans.

I was lost in thought so I didn't even realize Lyssa and Adrian sitting down next to me with some donuts until I heard Adrian say in a cool tone. "Little Dhampir, have you been sitting here staring at nothing all afternoon?" Although Adrian wasn't going to move into my nightmare townhouse. I knew I would be seeing a lot of him since he lived at court and did mostly nothing with his life. I came back from my dazed state.

"No Christian and I packed up my room and then we came here to wait for you guys. Except I don't know where he went." I noticed Adrian's smile drop a little before he said.

"Rose are you drunk?" His question seemed to come out of nowhere and he could tell I was confused. "Your aura is so faded I can barely see it and it is not as black as usual, more of a navy color." I decided to just play dumb because I didn't want him to question me like Christian did.

We sat in the cafeteria for the last time eating donuts while Lissa was talking about all the things we would get to do while we lived on our own. I didn't get to share in her excitement because I knew I was going to spend a lot of time in my room avoiding Dimitri. I excused myself and went to the bathroom throwing away the rest of my second donut on the way out. I wanted to make sure I looked okay on my flight since Tasha and Dimitri were most likely going to meet us at the airport. I didn't want to look like Dimitri leaving me ruined my life. Even though, if I'm pregnant he kind of did. As I was walking out I suddenly felt a wave of nausea so I took my stake out. I peeked out of the door and saw that everyone was calm I didn't look like anyone was in danger. I slowly put my stake away as I scanned the room.

I started to walk back toward my table still tense. The nausea came back but this time I leaned over the trash can and threw up the donuts and hot chocolate I just finished. As soon as I was done I noticed Adrian holding my hair and Lissa looking at me worried. Lyssa helped me to the table and Christian handed me a water bottle. Adrian came and sat next to me and said quietly. "Are you sure you haven't been drinking anything, Rose."

I drank some water and answered in a whisper that was so quiet I barely made a noise. "No, honest." He looked at me with a worried expression and stood up.

Lissa sat next to me, her face showing the same worry Adrian's had. Her bright green eyes looked at my quizzically. "Are you getting sick we can delay our flight if you want?" I quickly shook my head.

"I probably shouldn't have eaten those donuts that's all I've had all day." I said a little more confidently. Lissa relaxed and I was glad, I didn't want to ruin her day she was so excited to finally do something to help the Moroi. I see Adrian and Christian out of the corner of my eye and they both knew I was lying but chose not to say anything. We all got up and walked to Lissa's dorm room. We all decided to leave our suitcases there and wait for 4:00 we wanted to take off just before the sun went down so we would be safe from any strigoi. The runway at court was protected by wards so we would be fine landing in the dark.

Although the plan ride was short it was still messing up our sleeping schedule so I decided to nap on Lyssa's old mattress while she did all the last minute preparations and Christian and Adrian watched TV. As I was falling asleep I saw Christian and Adrian talking. I didn't know what about but I was glad those two were finally becoming friends. I didn't realize how tired I was but I was glad I had a few hours to sleep.