A/N: I have written the start of this story before, it is still posted with on my account and I have no plans to remove it because some things will be changing to help with the flow a bit better or I no longer like how it played out. It is also a spin off of the completed story called 'My Best Mistake'. I currently have no idea what my posting schedule will be like just yet. I hope you all enjoy it, please let me know what you think!

The Bloodline Series still took place but Adrian wasn't involved for the purpose of this story and some things will be included that was revealed in Bloodlines.

I also don't own anything you recognise from the wonderful world that is in the Vampire Academy Series.

Prologue

Adrian,

I don't know if you remember me, there is a part of me that hopes you do because that summer we had together are some of my fondest memories. My name is Ashleigh Monroe and I was the girl you spent that crazy summer in Melbourne, Australia with, the summer through 2011 and 2012.

We met in the Upside Down Dog and you originally said you weren't planning on staying long but a week turned into two, then a month and next thing I know the summer is over and we're saying goodbye.

I had hoped to tell you this any other way than this, I would have preferred to do this face to face but you gave me no way to contact you and I'm relying on the Private Investigator that I've had to hire to find you on the minimal details I do know about you.

It is currently July 2012 and if this letter reaches you with no letters following then it means something has happened to me.

I am currently six months pregnant and I in no way request anything from you other than allowing you to have the knowledge of that I was pregnant with your child and please trust me when I say it is your child as I was never with anyone else but you.

We're having a baby girl and I plan on naming her Adrianna Meredith Ivashkov with hope that one day you may be able to find her.

I was told to late in my pregnancy that there was a very high chance I wouldn't survive, me suffering from a very rare medical condition that makes the process of giving birth a very high risk, no matter the form of delivery.

I put so many precautions in place, written letters that I wished our daughter to read when the time was right, making sure she is placed with my parents and making sure the Private Investigator I hired continued to look for you until he did or he ran out of options and was at a complete loss of where to continue to look for you. While I do prefer our daughter being raised by her father should I not survive, my parents are perfectly capable our raising our daughter.

We never spoke of children, of families, of the future so I do hope you will take this knowledge and use it to get to know your daughter, she deserves to know who her father is. While I do hope you can do the right thing by her, I understand if the letter reaches you far too late to do anything, that the lateness burnt any potential bridges between the two of you and I'm incredibly sorry that it couldn't reach you sooner.

The memories I have of our time together were incredible and amazing and I am so fond of them, I wouldn't give them or our daughter up for anything.

Adrian, you were my best mistake.

Love,

Ashleigh.

Adrian POV

I sat there, staring at the letter for who knows how long. I did remember that summer I spent in Australia, it wasn't long after I had taken off from Court, from my family and friends. Rose had just been declared innocent in the crime of murdering my Great Aunt while the true murderer had been brought to the light of day.

All the events that led to that one day was too much, a family member I was incredibly fond of had been murdered, the girl I thought I was in love with had cheated on me with her ex dead, undead boyfriend and I couldn't take it, so I took off instead and didn't tell anyone where I was planning on going.

Originally what drew me in was her looks, Ashleigh was stunningly beautiful, but it was her personality that made me stay to begin with. She reminded me so much of Rose and I used Ashleigh to try and fill the hole in my heart that Rose had created but after a while I realised just how different the two were and the hole was slowly healing.

But there was a drawback, the main reason why I left. I'm technically a vampire, not one of those blood sucking killing type ones you always see on television but while I do feed on humans I don't kill, that would create a whole different type of vampire and I only take what I need, from those who are willing and they are what we call Feeders. The type of vampire that I am is referred to as a Moroi in my world.

Ashleigh may have seen my fangs once or twice over the time I spent with her and I used compulsion to make her forget she saw them, make her believe that I was in fact human. That was another thing that was different about me compared those vampires portrayed on television, we could harness magic.

Originally my people believed we could specialised in only one of four types of magic, Air, Water, Earth and Fire, you know the typical elements but it was when I was younger that we discovered a long lost type of magic, Spirit. We've come across several Spirit users over the years and their abilities did vary, while some managed to have the same ones occasionally we found someone who had a new ability we didn't consider was a possibility.

I never fed on Ashleigh, in fact I had made friends with some of the other Moroi in Melbourne and they had helped put me in touch with some Feeders so I was able to get blood the whole time I was in Melbourne.

A Strigoi is a type of vampire that kills when they feed, they are everything evil in this world. They can't harness magic like the Moroi, and they couldn't go out in the sun like Moroi and it gave us an advantage. While Strigoi weren't fussy in the type of blood they drank, typically feeding on humans, they did prefer drinking from Moroi and it's why some of us lived the way we did.

Some lived behind warded properties, the wards being made by one of Moroi specialisation as well as having Guardians protect them.

Guardians are those in our world that are half Moroi and they are known as Dhampir. They are produced by a Moroi and a Dhampir have a child together but for some strange genetic reason two Dhampirs were unable to have children together but yet a Moroi and Dhampir were able to produce a 100% Dhampir when they were typically produced by a Moroi and a Human having a child together but that stopped when our races began hiding from the world with fear of being hunted by them.

But if this letter that Ashleigh had sent me was true then it meant that I had a five-year-old daughter living somewhere in the world. Not just that but she was a Dhampir.

Dhampirs were trained as they grew to become Guardians, they were dangerous in the right situation and were genetically, the best option to protect us as they get the best traits from their human and Moroi counter parts. It allowed them to have the better chance at surviving when they came across Strigoi, with hope that we can slowly remove them from existence but since one of the ways to become a Strigoi was for a Moroi to completely drain the person they feed off, it would be impossible to completely remove them from existence as there will always be some Moroi over the years that wanted the eternal life that was promised to those that became a Strigoi.

But while we tried our hardest to train the Dhampirs to be the best, our races were still slowly being killed off, less Dhampirs were becoming Guardians either running off to the humans or they were staying home and raising their families.

I read the letter a couple of times, making sure I understand exactly what it was that I was reading before I was on a plane to Australia. I only received the one which meant that my daughter was most likely being raised by her grandparents and it didn't sit right with me.

I didn't care that she would be a Dhampir, my wife Elenore was the love of my life and she was pregnant with our first child and I was thrilled at becoming a father and the news of a five year old out in the world, I wanted to raise her myself.

I knew when I was younger what I was like but I would never have let some girl raise a child without me, I would have always helped her out and it was something that my mother made sure to drill into my head and when I said this to Ellie, the look on her face before she kissed me declaring that she loved me even more than she thought was possible and it was in that moment that I loved Ellie more, her not caring that I could potentially be bringing home the child to another women who was human and have given birth to a Dhampir, that we would be claiming the Dhampir as our own child.

Attached to the letter was an address in Melbourne and I assumed it was where Adrianna was currently living. I hated leaving Ellie behind while she was pregnant, but I knew she wasn't alone, and she understood why I was doing this. I couldn't leave Adrianna in Australia with me worrying over what her life has been like.

I made it to Australia as quick as possible, partly in thanks to a good friend of mine Queen Vasilisa who had also specialised in Spirit. She had given me permission to take one of the private jets, so me and my two Guardians went to Australia.

I had been given two Guardians, one because I belonged to a royal family and two I was a rare Spirit user that they wanted to protect. Shane was my main Guardian while Alex was my second and when I was behind heavily protect wards they were rostered into those Guardian rosters and since I spent most of my time at Court where my friends and family were living, or at St Vladimir's where I was teaching Spirit to other Spirit users.

Again, it happened so quickly because I had friends in high places that it allowed both of my Guardians to come with me, that their shifts were so easily covered because I wouldn't have been able to go on my own. It didn't matter if at times of the year that it was warmer in Australia to make it uncomfortable for Moroi, even less time for Strigoi to venture out in the dark there was still a risk and as such I couldn't leave without both of my Guardians.

The car pulled up to a house and I looked at it, it looked just a normal house and I was beginning to wonder if this was the right thing to do but I couldn't not be in my daughter's life. I was beginning to debate whether or not this was right, if I would be attempting to pull Adrianna from a home where she was loved and cared for or was Ashleigh incorrect of where Adrianna get placed, did Adrianna not get placed with her grandparents?

I eventually got out of the car and headed up to the front door where I could ring the doorbell and I patiently waited for it to open. I was confused when it opened, I could hear a number of children as they ran around yelling screaming and I was confused but it lessened a little as the lady stranding in front of me seemed nice enough and she had a warm smile on her face.

"Hello, can I help you?" She questioned softly, her smile not leaving her face and it helped place some relief in me that maybe my daughter wasn't in a horrible situation.

"Hello," I gave her my own smile, I still wasn't sure I was in the correct place. "I received letter telling me that I have a daughter and I was told she was living at this address; my name is Adrian Ivashkov." I introduced myself and she nodded, I was grateful that my surname was familiar.

"Of course, come in." She stepped aside held the door open for me. "I know exactly who you are talking about, I would recognise those eyes anywhere." I hesitated before stepping in, I automatically assumed that Adrianna would have Ashleigh's blue eyes instead of my own as no Dhampir born of Ivashkov blood had ever been graced with the bright emerald green eyes that among common among my family members, it was a trait that helped distinguish who was a family member and among the royals, there was a number of royal families that had eye colours that were vastly different to what was typically seen among people.

"By the way, my name is Corrine Reynolds." I merely nodded at her, I looked back at the car and nodded letting Shane and Alex know that I would be okay entering the house.

I stayed silent as I followed Corrine throughout the house, taking note of the surroundings as I walked throughout the house and noticed a number of children running around and wondered if Adrianna would be among them but no one had the same eye colour as me.

We eventually came to a stop and when I looked inside the room there was a young girl looking out the window, not paying attention to anything that was happening around her. I recognised the hair colour as my own, I opened up to Spirit and allowed the magic to flow through me as I focused on her aura, letting me know something about what I could possibly be dealing with and I was shocked with what I saw.

Typically auras had a variety of colours that show different things but the one thing that is common among Spirit users and only Spirit users was the gold in our auras and I saw that in Adrianna, while it wasn't as much, or bright as what I would see in Lissa, there was still something there. The rest of her colours were mostly normal, a colour indicated that she was scared but I hoped it was for other reasons and not my worst fear.

"Adrianna," Corrine spoke, and the young girl turned around, allowing me to take in the sight of her. "Sweetheart why aren't you played with the other children and Adrianna shook her head.

I stood there and looked at the large doe like eyes that she had, and they were definitely the trademark bright emerald green that was associated with the Ivashkov's. I added her eye colour and the gold aura, and I instantly had this need to work out why she was different as well as this urge to protect her. I knew she was mine, she had to be. There were too many features that I recognised as my own, or I had seen in my parents as well as what I remembered Ashleigh to look like.

"I'm waiting for nonna and nonno to come find me, they've been gone for so long." My heart broke as her eyes welled up before looking back out the window.

I continued to look at Adrianna, see if she said anything else but nothing was said and Corrine got my attention to follow her and we entered a kitchen where she began walking around to put the kettle on.

"How long as she been here?" I questioned as I took a seat at the kitchen table. I was curious as to what the situation was with Adrianna, I assumed that she would be with her grandparents and by her comment it seemed like it was true but why was she here instead of with them?

"Only a week," Corrine responded, and I was curious about what was going on. "I was told her mother died during childbirth and she was left in the care of her parents while I was told nothing of father. A week ago, her grandparents were on their way to pick her up from kindergarten when their car was t-boned by a drunk driver, all I know is that they both died. Child services brought her here because the other children in my care are of a similar age, but she won't play with them, she thinks her grandparents are going to come collect her."

I accepted the mug Corrine handed over but didn't take a sip, I just looked at it just thinking about the confusion a young girl would be feeling at her grandparents never coming to collect her.

"You saw you're her father, why are you turning up now and not five years ago?" I took a moment to look up, trying to word this correctly in my head without setting alarms off in Corrine's head.

"I had some issues at home, and I came here to get away from them and I ran into her mother, we didn't share much other than our names. We didn't mean for anything to happen but obviously something did. I only had a letter turn up a few days ago stating I had a daughter and then I came out here. It must have taken a while for the Private Investigator to find me I suppose," I explained the best I could, hoping it would be enough for her to not think I was a crazy person. Hell, there was moments I did think I was a crazy person.

"That is fair, I doubt Adrianna is the first child to be born of a situation like that. I'm assuming you're here to collect her?" Corrine spoke and I was torn but eventually nodded. "There are two possibilities for it to happen, a DNA test to prove that you are her father and you can take her relatively easily or the other one will be you having to go through the proper adoption channels to take her just like everyone else who comes here to adopt children."

It was an easy option, I went with the DNA test and if she wasn't my actual daughter than she wouldn't be of any use in my community and most would just see her as a feeder despite my need to find out why she had gold in her aura while the eye colouring could be explained as a rare trait among humans.

In the end I didn't have to worry about what could happen to her as a human because she was mine and that meant she was a Dhampir and would be welcomed back home despite the rare situation in me claiming her as my own.

It took a couple of days before I was able to take Adrianna with me, I still had to fill out paperwork but since there was a DNA test attached to prove that she was mine I didn't have to wait for approval. Adrianna questioned if I was taking her to see her nonna and nonno, but I didn't have it in me to say anything, how do you tell a five-year-old that her grandparents are dead.

It wasn't until we were walking towards the plane that Adrianna stopped and pulled her hand out of mine. "No," she cried out. "No plane."

Up until this point I had no issues with Adrianna, she happily came with me but I think it was because she assumed I was taking her to see her grandparents instead of a foreign country where she would live for the rest of her life.

I knelt in front of her as she continued to shake her head. "Adrianna, do you know who I am?" I questioned softly but I caught Shane's eye over Adrianna's head, and I knew what he was saying, we needed to get on the plane soon.

Adrianna nodded at me. "Corrine said you were my daddy and you were taking me home."

"Yes, I am but my home."

"No," she argued with me and I couldn't help the smile that appeared on my face. "Nonna and nonno."

"I'm sorry but they can't look after you anymore, I'm here to take you home with you." My heart broke as her eyes welled up before she hung her head and I was at a complete loss of what to do and I hated this feeling and I knew in that moment I definitely didn't want to see her cry again, or even my next child.

Adrianna didn't fight me this time when I grabbed her hand and led her towards the plane, she hadn't even questioned who Shane and Alex were and I just hoped it was because she trusted me. I stood there and watched as Adrianna walked over and curled up in one of the chairs as she looked out the window, I had hoped I could take this flight as a chance to speak with her but it was when I was able to leave my seat that I noticed she had fallen asleep and decided it could wait for another time.

.oOo.

Adrianna had been with me at Court for about a month now and most of the time she stayed silent, but she was beginning to open up the longer she was here, and I took that as a good sign.

I still hadn't told her the truth about what she was, what I was as well as those around us, but I didn't know how and those around me were at a loss of how as well. Even Lissa didn't know much more about her aura either with the gold present.

"I honestly don't know Adrian," Lissa spoke from beside me, but I didn't remove my gaze from where Adrianna was outside. "I haven't seen anything like it."

We were both standing there in my kitchen looking outside to where Adrianna was playing with Rose and Dimitri.

I didn't know if it was because Rose and Dimitri were both dhampirs as well and she felt a slightly different connection with them than she did with the rest of us but she seemed to be more at ease with them, but I also knew Rose and Dimitri were using Adrianna to fill the void they both had not being able to have their own child.

We tried along the way to help them, anyway we could think of with Spirit to allow them to have their own children but nothing seemed to work and in the end the heart break was too much and we all gave up trying to help, it was easier in the end.

"It doesn't make sure," I spoke, breaking the silent. "I'm worried for what this could mean for her."

I hated that Lissa was silent before responding, it unnerved me. "Adrian, she is healthy so maybe it is nothing and it's just the Spirit in you coming through. For now, we need to focus on telling her the truth before something happens to scare her."

I didn't say anything, I knew Lissa was right, we had to tell her the truth eventually. I had to tell her that vampires were real, and she was half one, and what it meant for her future because in a couple of months she would be heading to St Vladimir's for her education.

I turned and headed outside, deciding to tell her everything now with both Rose and Dimitri present to help with their side of things.

"Adrianna," I called out and I was so grateful when she turned around, a large smile on her face as she did and I was happy she was finally settling in but I was worried how this conversation would change things. "Come sit down, we need to talk."

It didn't take much convincing, but she ran over and took a seat at the table with me, while Lissa, Rose and Dimitri slowly joined us.

15 years later

Adrianna POV

Before junior year was let out, we were asked to describe out lives and what we enjoyed about it the most. I didn't even know where to begin with that question and I didn't know what my teacher expected me to say. My life was far from perfect and I didn't even know what would be considered a perfect life.

My name is Adrianna Ivashkov and I'm a dhampir, half vampire half human and before you even begin to question no, I don't drink blood.

There is something about me that my dad can't work out, my aura. Spirit users don't tend to have the same abilities within controlling the element, dad's best ability seems to be dream walking and aura reading even though I don't think he uses either of them anymore whereas the Queen's best ability is her healing but both of them can read auras and what stumps them about mine is the gold that is present. Everyone has their own individual aura, the gold like colour is usually only present in Spirit users but some reason it is in mine. Dad has stated that it is nowhere as bright or large as the Queens and she shares the same thing comparing mine to dads. Dad says that even though there are other colours present and take over my aura the gold is still visible in the back.

Now aside from the fact that I am a dhampir I am different among my people; my last name isn't something you hear among dhampirs. The Ivashkov's are a part of the Moroi royal families, you see my dad left his friends and family behind after his ex-girlfriend broke his heart and met my mother. They didn't plan on having me yet here I am anyway.

My mother is completely human, something that doesn't happen anymore. Centuries ago, the Moroi and dhampirs had to distance themselves from the humans because they were expecting too much from us.

So aside from me having a royal last name, a human mother I also have something else that stands out. My incredibly bright emerald green eyes, something I inherited from my father which also happens to be something that is only seen in the Moroi Ivashkov's.

My mother died while giving birth to me and I was left with my grandparents and had no idea as to who my father was. When I was five my grandparents were killed in a car crash by a drunk driver, I was placed in a foster home for a about a week and it was then that my father turned up. All that was needed was a DNA test to prove I was his and then he took me to America where he lived and introduced me into the world that I then proceeded to grow up in.

My dad had married a women named Ellie and she was the best replacement for a mother anyone could have asked for and I have two incredibly annoying brothers in the world called Matthew and Nathaniel or Matt and Nate as they preferred.

You may think my world is full of adventures and mystery, but it really isn't, I attend high school just like everyone else with a slight difference. My education involved training me to be able to one day to become a Guardian to help defend the Moroi population from the Strigoi, even though the Strigoi happily fed from humans they preferred Moroi and dhampir. Strigoi were incredibly strong and fast and we needed the training to be able to even come close to them.

It didn't matter if the Moroi could harness magic, they still weren't strong enough to compete against the Strigoi and it's where we came in. We gave our lives to protect theirs, we have this saying 'They come first'. Even though I grew up in this world I'm unsure about that, if they were my friends then I would die protecting them but a complete stranger I wasn't too sure about.

Senior year was technically starting tomorrow despite me already being at school and I was currently breaking curfew by having snuck out of my dorm to where I could sit out in the clearing nearby and just enjoy the sun while I could because before too long the weather will start to change and it will become cold and no more heat. I hated the cold.

"Ivashkov." I held in my groan at the Greek accent.

I knew exactly who it was, he definitely wasn't the last person to find me out here, in fact I rather enjoyed his company because he was incredibly hot but it just sucked because he was technically a teacher and my teacher at that. We got assigned mentors during junior year and he was mine.

Nikolaus Anastas started at St Vladimir's at the beginning of sophomore year and was still here and every single female I knew of had made mention about how they would have sex with him if they had the chance, I was always inclined to agree with them.

I don't know if he was friendly with Guardians Tanner and Todd before junior year but I did notice him speaking with the two of them on a number of occasions and I wondered if it was because they were assigned to my two closest friends, Brianna Grayson and Declan Henderson.

Bri and I had been best friends as soon as I joined their classes, I can't even remember what brought us together but we instantly clicked and we had been best friends ever since and then we latched onto Declan when we were twelve and he had transferred from of the academies in England. To begin with we wanted to be friends with him just for his accent.

But it turns out that we had a lot in common and our friendship grew, and it wasn't long until our fourth best friend joined us when we made it to the senior campus Josh Bennett, rounding us out to an even four which made arguments rather hard since it always fell with two vs. two.

"Anastas," I flashed him a smile as I stretched my legs out, it was still rather warm and as such I had come out wearing shorts that were probably a little too short for school but I had heard from a number of the male novices in my class about my legs and I always used it to my advantage and right now I caught him eyeing but I knew better than to say anything, just had a smirk appear on my face.

"You're breaking curfew," he pointed out.

"Oh, I didn't realise, I thought that all started tomorrow, once, you know class began?" I smiled at him innocently as I laid back on the grass and soaked in as much as I could. As much as I wanted him to believe me, he never did, and I couldn't understand how he was able to see through my lies when even my parents hadn't gotten that good at reading me.

"You know full well it begins the moment you step foot on the grounds," he pointed out, but I merely shrugged, closing my eyes as I looked up at the sky.

"I'm enjoying the sun and plus, first and second period is cancelled in the morning." I explained but I still hadn't opened my eyes to look at him, I only did once I felt a shadow across my face and I frowned at him.

"There is a whole school assembly, surely you know that the Queen is addressing you all in the morning."

I sat up at this comment, not exactly thrilled with the presence of our Queen but it's only because of what followed.

Our Queen Vasilisa Dragomir or Lissa as I refer to her. She is incredibly close with my father therefor making the two of our families incredibly close, her Guardian was the famous Rose Hathaway while Lissa's husband Christian Ozera had Dimitri Belikov as his own Guardian. Rose and Dimitri were married but didn't have any children since dhampirs cannot have children together for some strange genetic reason. Both Rose and Dimitri were the two people I trusted the most in the world, whenever I had concerns or was arguing with my dad, I went to them. Dad and I had clashing personalities and we were regularly arguing, in fact during the summer I spent more time at Rose and Dimitri's then I did at my own home.

As such when she visited, I always got questions as to if I knew if there was an alternative motive behind her visit, there usually wasn't.

I looked away from him, back out across the grounds as I sat up straight. "Yes I did know that, probably something along the lines of a new year and a fresh start, how she can't wait to see us all the following summer when the seniors become Guardians," I rolled my eyes, grateful that he couldn't see my face as I had already heard the speech.

Everyone who was an adult in my life at Court wanted me to try and behave this year, but it wouldn't happen. I was too busy partying and breaking rules to even consider staying out of the trouble, the only thing that kept me out of a huge amount of trouble with everyone was the fact that I was the top of my class and word was that there was a huge gap between me and who was in second but I didn't let it get to my head, I still trained as hard as ever because some people believed that me having a human mother was a disadvantage and I wanted to prove them wrong.

Nothing was said as Anastas took a seat beside me, but I couldn't help but looking at him with a grin on my face, it was always a good sign when he sat down. "Are you planning on staying out of trouble this year, it is your senior year after all."

I scoffed. "Where is the fun in that."

Anastas shook his head but I could see a slight smile on his face. "Just no more parties close to the boundaries," and just like that the smile was gone and it had turned serious.

Despite the serious tone of the conversation our relationship was better than most novices with their mentors and I was grateful because it allowed us to have moments like this, it gave me the knowledge that I could trust him if anything happened but I also knew the risks that came with the closeness of our relationship since I grew up watching Rose and Dimitri still to this day, deal with the problems from some people about their relationship.

"Aw do you care," I cooed, and he let out a laugh.

"Please, it looks bad on me," he responded, causing me to laugh in return.

The party was huge, I mean really huge. It ended up being a massive blow out between the juniors before senior year started and I think nearly everyone was in attendance including those that weren't typically seen at parties. The only downfall was its location, it was too close to the wards and we were in a large amount of trouble when it eventually got busted by the Guardians and we were all punished the following morning while hungover.

"I care enough to make sure you don't get in a lot of trouble and get expelled, your family wouldn't be happy about that," a dark look crossed my face as I turned away from him and he let out an audible sign.

There had been moments when the two of us, and my dad, had been requested to the Headmistresses' office or Guardian Petrov's for whatever trouble I had caused at the time. Most instances it was just Petrov that handled my punishments while as of last year Anastas had been dealing with them.

It was the rare occasions I was in the Headmistresses' office that always led to dad and I arguing on the way out. I hated that he was a teacher at my school, it meant he heard every little thing I did wrong. If talked back to a teacher, I skipped class, if I was late to class, if I was somewhere, I shouldn't be, every little thing dad heard about and I hated it.

Don't get me wrong, I'm eternally grateful dad turned up when he did to claim me because I hate to think how my life could have turned out if he didn't. I love my dad and my family; I would be devastated if something were to happen to them but there were moments where I wished I had more space from him like my friends did.

"Right, my family," I muttered.

"No matter how much you and your dad fight I'm sure he loves you."

I looked over and I didn't know what to say in response. It was rare when we had these moments, it was odd when we did. I would always made jokes about him caring but they were just jokes, to try and break the tension or remove the seriousness nature of a conversation that I didn't want because I was trying to prevent something from happening.

He was hot, only a couple of years older than me and we got along. It was a recipe for disaster.

"Shouldn't I be going back to my dorm?" I spoke as I stood up, I completely changed the subject not wanting to head into dangerous territory by opening up like that. I looked down at him, hoping he would help me sneak back in.

"Yes, you should. Come on." Anastas stood and led the way back to the dorms.

Typically, I didn't get in trouble for sneaking out, most had learnt that I didn't do anything aside from sitting here. Anastas had stopped giving me lectures for sneaking out, just made a joke about it. Occasionally if someone else caught me I would get a lecture but most had learnt, in fact they all knew so well that typically Anastas came and got me but I don't know if that was because he became my mentor last year and he was always rang as a result. I never asked.