July 14, 2010

Only a frozen Illusion

Everyone says love lasts forever. But if your boyfriend was turned into an undead vampire against his will. Do the rules change? Do you still wait for the one you love? All I know, is that's what I intend to do.

The academy had just finished picking up the broken pieces of the attack. Many of our members has been killed or tuned into Strigoi. Along with the group we lost was my secret boyfriend: Dimitri Belikov. Our relationship was somewhat complicated. Wait, no, scratch that, extremely complicated. Our first meeting was when I was brought back to the academy after being caught by their dumb-ass guards. I had taken me and my best friend Lissa Dragomir out of the academy and into the real world. He was assigned to help me get back on track with the rest of my class and train to be Lissa's guardian. It didn't go well at all.

He would drill me, making me do things over and over until I was sick of it and wanted to scream and pull my hair out. Somewhere with me arguing with him, insulting him and his training me I started to have feelings for him. He at first tried to deny his feelings for me but that soon ended. We both had feelings for each other but we could not be together.

For one: I was only seventeen and he was twenty-four. He had kept saying our age difference would get us into trouble.

For two: He had admitted it to me that if him, Lissa and I were every in danger he wouldn't know which to save. He would jump in front to save me and not Lissa. The one rule that the academy has taught us, even when I was younger, was: "They come first".

The Moroi vampires were to always be protected. They came from royal lines and Dhampirs, like me, were trained to protect them.

"Rose, are you coming?" I glanced up at Lissa and faked a smile.

"Yeah, Liss I'll be right there" I said breaking away from my thoughts; I headed over to a mirror.

I stared at myself for a long time trying to figure out everything. There was something different about me. I still had my long dark hair, big dark eyes, lightly tanned skin and great curves. Though, when I looked closely, I could see the pain in my eyes. Right before the attack, Dimitri and I had just made love. He was my first and I know he had loved me. We had scrambled to get out of the cabin and after a couple of yards one of the guardians had warned us of the situation and Dimitri took off. That was the last time I saw the flow of his dark hair, the last time I heard his voice speak amazing words to me, the last time I felt his skin beneath my fingers. When the Strigoi attacked they took a piece of my heart with them. I felt the wetness on my cheeks and cursed myself. I never did like crying. I knew I should be joining Lissa but I needed a minute. She knew why I was so sad I felt her worry in our bond but nothing could bring him back. Though I won't give up on him I won't give up on my love.

I looked in the mirror and saw him. I saw Dimitri standing there smiling at me.

"Dimitri?" I called and turned but I stared into the empty air. He wasn't here. It was only a frozen illusion.