Okay so I'll be honest. I found a story on here that inspired me to write my own story. I am going to make it my own though so don't think I'm coping.

Story based on Vampire Academy after Dimitri is restored to his former self. Rose was not tried for murder and the queen is not dead. Dimitri pushes Rose away. So what happens a year later? The last scene to happen is in Spirit Bound on page 430-431 when Dimitri tells Rose that love fades and he's given up on her. This story starts one year after that scene. Rose is still with Adrian as well.

Here are some songs that have inspired this story:

Miranda Lambert-More Like Her

Kieth Urban- Tonight I Wanna Cry

Celine Dion- My Heart Will Go On

Vengaboys-Forever As One

Kelly Clarkson- Already Gone

Kelly Clarkson- Sober

Evanescene- My Immortal

Kieth Urban- You'll Think Of Me

Dashboard Confessional- Even Now

Adele- Rolling In The Deep

Adele- Rumor Has It

Alexz Johnson- 2 AM

Demi Lovato- Don't Forget

Leana Lewis- Bleeding Love

Leona Lewis- Better In Time

Christina Perri- Jar of Hearts

Civil Twilight- Letters From The Sky

Hinder- Lips of An Angel

Neko- I Wish I Was The Moon

If there are more I'll post them

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Vampire Academy. However, I do own this story and the plot line. I also do not own the songs above. Those are owned by their respectful artists but don't be surprised to see some of those lyrics and song titles in the story Thank you and please review. If I don't get enough reviews I'm going to have to delete this story.

More Like Her: A Tale of A Fading Yet Growing Love

Chapter 1~ Home is Not So Sweet After All

"I've given up on you," he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine Has."

Those words have haunted me for the past year. Every day, every minute, every second brings me back to the pain those words have put upon me. I haven't seen or spoke to him since then. I never expected to either. Lissa was finishing packing up her bags as I sat cross-legged on the edge of her dorm room bed. Lissa and I hadn't been back to Court since the day we left for Lissa to begin college. Now here we were a year later heading back to the one place I dreaded most. All because it the place where he was at.

Lissa zipped up her last bag when she finally stopped talking and looked at me. She was excited to go back to court. Her excitement leaked through the bond but unlike the spirit darkness it was not an emotion that touched me too. She was excited to see Christian and spend the summer with him. The distance between Court and the university was far and Lissa only got to see Christian about twice a month and Adrian and he came to visit us. In Lissa's mind, two times a month was not enough time with her boyfriend.

She plopped herself on top of her closed suitcase and sighed, "Rose I…."

I cut her off. I had listened to her all morning, heck all year, say she was sorry about the way things had turned out for me. I didn't want to hear it anymore. It wasn't like I was throwing a yearlong pity party.

"Look Lissa I appreciate the kind words but I just can't take hearing them again."

Lissa looked hurt and I felt bad but I just wasn't in the mod to reassure her right now. I had more prying things on my mind. I felt Lissa through the bond searching for something to say but I also caught the hint of a secret in the back of her mind. It was in an arms grasp yet I couldn't expand my head long enough to touch the thought before she snatched it away. Lissa was hiding something. I was about to demand her to think about it when a knock interrupted my chain of thought. Lisa jumped up from her suitcase on the floor and snatched open the door running into Christian's outstretched arms. The hint of her hidden secret had vanished and now her thoughts were only consumed of love and longing. I put up my mental walls again just in time to be dragged into a hug by Adrian.

"Little dhampir I've missed you." He kissed me softly and pulled back to take a good look at me. I was surprised when he smiled in approval, "You look gorgeous Rose."

Feeling my normal self kick back into a gear I snickered, "Have you gone blind Ivashkov? Since when is messy hair and bags under my eyes considered gorgeous."

Adrian laughed and kissed the dark circled I knew must be under my eyes, "Since always love."

I smiled at his reassurance. I may not have opened myself up completely to love Adrian but a small part of me knew I couldn't have gone a day without knowing he was there. Sure it was nothing compared to the overwhelming love I had for a certain somebody but it was still something. Christian greeted me kindly and tended to the luggage stacked up around the room. Lissa was practically jumping with joy as she helped him carry the bags out to the car that Christian and Adrian had used to get here in. I wasn't surprised when three guardians walked into view. It was typical for royals to travel with protection. Queen Tatiana had made many remarks when Lissa had argued that I was the only guardian she needed to come with her to college. That was an argument we had won.

Once all the bags were thrown around in the big black Escalade. Lissa and Christian jammed into the third row of seat along with a guardian I didn't know too well. I slid into the second row and Adrian followed while another guardian took the seat next to him. The two remaining guardians took the driver and passenger seat. I was a little nervous since they had strapped a few suitcases on the top of the car. I was worried they would fall and cause an accident. I was pondering ways on how I could protect Lissa from a potential car crash when Adrian interrupted my silent worries.

"It's going to be alright Rose." Adrian squeezed my hand tightly. He may be my boyfriend but he also knew I had some very complicated feelings about out relationship. I was surprised he so understood though.

The car became very crowded after about two hours of driving on the road. Lissa and Christian were so engrossed in their conversation that it was a shock when we finally pulled up to the entrance gates of Court. But it wasn't such a surprise to me. The gate made my stomach lurch and for once I was scared.

Love fades. Mine has.

The words trespassed on my moment of fear. Why was I so scared to be at Court? He didn't love me anymore. I just had to face it. I had to grow up. Wasn't he the one always telling me I was so immature? As soon as that thought scrapped my mind another one did. I time long ago when he told me that I was older than my years. I brushed the though away. I wasn't going to ponder the past when my present was just as much crucial.

The guardian at the gate barely gave us the time of day as they rambled on a cell phone. Apparently something big at Court was happening because the guardians all looked a bit jumbled and disoriented. The car port also was overflowing with a good dozen of extra cars. Through the bond I could feel Lissa become flustered and the hint of the secret she was keeping trying to break through her mental barrier.

The guardian driving pulled the car into a parking slot and immediately jumped out of the car. We all were soon escorted out of the Escalade and the guardian were busy lugging around the suitcases. Christian and Adrian went to help with the load and I was left with Lissa who was almost jumping of her skin with anxiety.

"Whatever your hiding Lissa, why do I have a feeling I'm not going to like it?"

Lissa jumped at the sound f my voice and that one second of shock was all I needed. She had slipped up. She had revealed her secret. Her mind thought about the crisp and fresh invitation that she had shoved into her suitcase before I had woken up this morning. To the time when she had checked her little mail box to find it sitting on a stack of letters from friends.

Her eyes pleaded with me as she saw the expression on my face change, "Please Rose, don't be mad at me."

I swallowed the lump that had built up in my throat, "You knew? You knew about this and you didn't say anything?"

Shock was replaced with anger as Lissa's expression changed into sympathy.

"I thought if I had told you that you wouldn't have returned back to Court with me."

I hated being angry with Lissa but I couldn't help it. She deserved to be yelled at. My voice rose and the group of guardians carrying our luggage, along with Christian and Adrian paused in their work.

"You're so selfish that you have to think of yourself before someone else. You couldn't have told me?"

Realization flashed across Adrian and Christian's face and my anger grew about ten notches.

"You both knew too!"

Adrian took a slow but steady step towards me, "Everyone knows. The wedding is in about two weeks."

My anger was momentarily replaced b a wave of sadness and pain. A small sob escaped my mouth and Lissa reached out a hand to me but I stepped out of the way. I didn't need them. My friends or my boyfriend. They had let me down. Then I thought of all the other people who knew and hadn't even told me either. Then I thought of him. He hadn't even thought to ask Lissa to speak to me. I knew they talked on the phone once in awhile and not once did she ever ass the phone to me for him to tell me something this important. I shook my head trying to escape these feelings but it was unbearable. I knew the way to the room I would have and before any of them could stop me I bolted. I ran down the familiar paths of Court on my way to my room so I could break down in peace. I passed very few Moroi and dhampirs who all gave me a curies glance. It was still daylight so most people weren't awake yet. It took me about ten seconds to realize that my feet had carried me beyond my room and in another direction. My feet came to a standstill outside the door of one of the big churches on campus. This church however had been the same one I had rushed out of a year earlier. I was glad when the heavy doors weren't locked and I slid in. The place was deserted and I quickly made my way to the same pew I had sat in that awful Sunday morning. I sat thee in though.

At that exact moment I knew about two things. One was that I had overreacted and taken my anger out on Lissa. Two was that the man I was still in love with was getting married to a woman I would never be, Tasha Ozera could give him children. He could have a normal live with her. And that's what he had chosen. I was nothing but a memory to him now. That truth crushed my soul and I fought back the urge to scream. Instead I complied with letting my tears fall. They fell onto my cheeks in thick sheets and soon my vision blurred and my head started to spin.

Dimitri Belikov was marrying Tasha Ozera. My life was about to end.

A/N- This is a short first chapter more coming soon.