Hey my peoples! Okay, so, yeah, this is basically as the title entails. It's prom at St. Vlads. That is just too fun for words. Luckily, I will attempt to but it into words. Okay, so, keep in mind that it was a dance in the first book, so this is completely different. Plus, this has Aqua in it. She always makes things fun. So, yeah, the first chapter is in Aqua's room in guest housing. BTW, check out Days vs. Nights. It's just a kind of… different intake of vampires. They have beating hearts, but yet they never age. Learn more by reading it. Oh, and this is at the end of the year, the day after graduation. Rose was already assigned to Lissa and Dimitri was assigned to Christian. Dimitri is not Strigoi.
Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Academy. It doesn't get any simpler than that.

Getting Ready

Rose POV

"Guys, please. I can take care of myself. Go work on yourselves," I said for the thousandth time as they put makeup on my face.

"Rose, you know it doesn't take long to do me, and Lissa's a fast worker. So, please, stop moving your pretty little lips so I can put lipstick on them," Aqua reasoned.

"Besides, don't you want to look good for Dimitri?" Lissa asked. She had a point. Lissa had found out about me and Dimitri when me, Dimitri, and Aqua, along with two Moroi teachers, had been kidnapped at the rescue mission after the attack on the academy. The bond had turned two-way, like Aqua and Alex, her husband. So now we can talk in our heads back and forth.

Lissa and Aqua were monsters alone, but when you put them together, well, you got the Tasmanian devil times 10. There was no stopping them. I sat back and let them do whatever the hell they wanted. Knowing my girls, I would look fabulous. Oh, my God, did I just say "fabulous"? They're rubbing off on me.

I felt them stop doing stuff to my face, so I opened my eyes to look at what they had done. I was shocked. They had applied a bit of toner to under my cheek bones to make them look even higher that they already were, giving a sexy look to them. My lips were blood red, making them look full and kissable. My eye shadow was red near the eye and went black as it went out. The Maybelline Lash Stiletto mascara they had put on my made my eyelashes look like they could Dorothy blow from the Land of Oz and then back to Kansas in one bat.

"You guys are just amazing," I said, still marbling my reflection.

"Glad you like it. Now, sit back so we can do your hair," Aqua said. I sigh and let them without arguing, because if it came out anywhere near as good as my makeup, it would be enough to pull of the dress that they were making me wear. It was a long flowing red dress that had some flowers embroidered on the waist (dress on profile). It was cut up to the top of my thigh on one side. I insisted on something less expensive, but they didn't listen to me. They just bought it anyways. I swear, they bought me more clothes than I had in the first place in the past 9 months. I swear, it kills me.

"We have way more money than we want, Rose," they would always say. "Plus, you're our best friend." I would always give in to the clothes and endless hours of trying things on and modeling them. I get sick of it, but they don't.

I felt someone start to tug on my hair as they tried to brush out my now dried hair. It tends to get knotted when it's wet and air dried. I had to try to not squeak at the pain of it all. Curse me having hair that went to the middle of my back. I was really a pain in the ass, but I knew Dimitri liked it. Finally, the pain ended and I felt small hands run through my hair. It was probably Aqua, due to the size. I felt a lock of hair being pulled up then tugged lightly as it got curled. I could feel the heat at my scalp, but thanked God for their precision when it came to hair. The lock was released and pinned to my scalp as to not get in the way. The curling continued for a while. When it finished, they unpinned the curls so they fell freely. A few were pinned up, from what I could feel. They sprayed something in my hair.

"Okay, Rose, you can look," Lissa said. I opened my eyes and looked at my reflection. My hair was in loose curls around my head. There were little red rose barrettes all over my head, holding some locks out of my face. There were side bangs on the left that were strait and the end of them was pinned up just in front of my ear by yes another rose.

"As much as I hate roses, this is beautiful," I said, touching my curly gingerly.

"Thank you for the appreciation. People hardly ever get it from you," Lissa commented. I rolled my eyes at her. "What? It's true."

"Whatever," I said.

"Oh, and we have to help you into your dress so you don't mess up your makeup or hair," Aqua said.

"Okay, sure," I said and got up. I was only in a strapless bra and underwear. Just as Aqua got my dress out of the dress bag, there was a knock on the door.

"Is everyone decent?" Alex asked from the other side. I chuckled.

"Actually, I'm not, Alex, so don't come in," I said.

"Aqua, can you hand me my flower? I forgot it," he called.

"Sure," she said and grabbed a white flower pin off the bedside table. She ran to the door and cracked open so she could give it to him without him seeing me.

"Thanks, babe," he said and walked in the direction of the building exit. He was probably going to Dimitri's room, where Christian and Adrian were.

"Okay, let's get you into that dress," Aqua said once she got the dress from the bed. "Hands up." I lifted my arms above my head and she unzipped the zipper on the waist. It slid down easily until it got to the torso. That was tight fitting, so, even unzipped, we had to work to get it around the makeup and my hair. Once that was done, Lissa zipped it up and they stepped back to admire their work.

"She's growing up, Liss," Aqua said in a strained voice, like she was going to cry. She bit her lip and smiled, taking Lissa's hand like they were my parents.

"She sure is," Lissa said in the same strained voice. Aqua leaned her head on Lissa's shoulders.

"You guys are drama queens," I said. And then I saw the actual tears in their eyes. They really did act as my parents, though Lissa was only about half a year older than me and Aqua was only 4 years older than me. They were just there for me. So was Dimitri, but I could never see him as a parental figure to me. Not hardly.

"I love you guys," I said and went over to hug them. I hugged then tightly and kissed each of their cheeks.

"Rose, don't you dare cry. We worked way too hard on your makeup," Lissa said. I chuckled and kept the tears at bay.

"Best friends forever, right, guys?" I said.

"Forever," they said together.

We pulled back and they went to get ready. I took the opportunity to look at myself in the mirror. I looked just beautiful. My dress hugged be in all the right places and allowed extensive movement. My hair looked elegant spiraling to my shoulder blades. The large amount of red kind of emphasized my name. It all looked stunning. Then I remembered that my necklace was in my room. It was one that Dimitri had gotten me for Valentine's Day. The charm bracelet I had gotten myself and then a matching one for Dimitri was also stuck in my dorm.

"Hey guys," I called into the apartment. Mia and Viktoria were here, too, but they hadn't helped with me. They were too busy doing themselves. I was truly grateful for that. "I'm going to go get my jewelry from my room."

"Wait, I want to see you first!" Mia yelled and ran out of the bathroom. "Wow, Rose, you look just… wow."

"Nice choice of words," I laughed and turned to go. I walked out and went into the dhampir dorms. I ran into Alberta on the way.

"Wow, Alberta. I didn't know you had curves," I said to her. She was wearing a long black dress with buckles on the straps. It was simple, but beautiful on her. "You look amazing."

"Thank you, Rose. Have you seen Princess Ozera?" she asked. I nodded.

"She's getting ready in her room. And it you don't want bruises, I suggest you don't call her Princess. She hates that. And the bruises will be from her, not me," I warned. She chuckled. I kept a strait face. "I'm not kidding. You should have see this mean bruise she gave Dimitri for calling her Princess Water."

"I'll keep that in mind," she said and headed in the direction I had just come from.

I headed up to my dorm and got my stuff. As I came out, I ran straight into Adrian. He was in black vest tuxedo with a purple tie. He looked good.

"Hey, Adrian. You look nice," I said.

"Why, thank you, Little Dhampir. You don't look to bad yourself. Did Lissa and Aqua get to you already?" he asked.

"Yup, pretty much," I said. "Have you seen Vikki?"

"Yes, she's in Aqua's room getting ready," I said. Adrian and Viktoria were kind of a thing. They hadn't done anything, do to Viktoria only being 17. So he had agreed to wait until she was 18. "I suggest you don't go in there. They're probably trying to help her out and that could go pretty bad."

"Good to know. Well, see you at prom, Little Dhampir," he said and started walking toward Dimitri's room.

"'Kay, bye, Adrian," I called over my shoulder. More people were coming out, so there were plenty of well dressed novices and Moroi in the lounge. This is probably what one of those high class offices looked like, flooded with people all dressed up. A few heads turned in my direction and the whispers commenced. I made my way back to Aqua's place and when I got there, I looked at myself again. Much better. The necklace was a single large rose on a sterling silver chain. The bracelet was a silver chain with teardrop diamond on it. I had added a couple charms, though. Aqua had given me and Dimitri heart-shaped aquamarine charms (ha, ha) (on profile), Lissa had given me a charm that was gold in the shape of a heart was studded in diamonds. It said "Love" in the center (on profile. Oh, and I know the one in the link is cubic zirconium. Just pretend it's real), and Alberta had given us both a wing charm (again, on my profile). I didn't get it at first, but then I realized they were the wings of guardian angels. It was sweet of her.

I waited for about 5 more minutes until Aqua, Lissa, Victoria, and Mia came out. Aqua looked great. She had a simple dress. It was a blue v-neck halter dress. It came to just above her kneecaps (on profile). It made her short legs look longer. Her hair was curly, as usual, but, like mine, some hairs were pinned to her scalp gracefully. She also had a tiara that had aquamarines in it (again, ha, ha) and spiraled gracefully (on profile). She had on blue wedges that made her the slightest bit taller. She finished the look with a blue fan. I don't know why she had the fan, but it was a cute touch added to the tiara.

Lissa had on a long pink semi-poof dress that had intricate designs on the torso and chest. It was strapless and fit her perfectly (on profile). She had on her Dragomir necklace (on profile) and a tiara with pink and clear stones and spiraled into a heart at the front (on profile).

Mia's dress was a purple short dress that went about 3 or 4 inches above the knee and was one shoulder. There was a strip of glitter at the side that went up until it reached her breasts then in went across and around the side (on profile). She had on white high heels and a diamond bracelet.

Viktoria's dress was a simple white dress, but it was satin and hugged her torso so that it looked beautiful and sexy on her. The bottom was flowing and long. She had on silver stilettos and a sterling silver anklet.

"Anyone laugh about the tiara, and you're dead," Aqua threatened and held up her hand. She produced a baseball sized fireball and tossed it up and caught it.

"Don't worry, it's actually cute on you. Why do you have a fan?" I asked.

"I think it's cute. I thought I might as well add onto the tiara look. It turns out that all Royal females have to wear a stupid tiara." I smiled and chuckled at her. She was so much like me. She glared and then smirked. "Don't think I didn't anticipate that laugh. That's why I got you one, too." I frowned. She went into her room and came out holding a tiara that was pretty simple. It was diamonds in the shape of a tulip in the front and then two lines on diamonds went back from it and met in the back (on profile) but I still didn't like to wear tiaras and Aqua knew it.

"But Aqua-," I started whining, but she cut me off.

"Nope. You have to wear it. The only way out of wearing this one is if you win prom queen. But until then, you wear this one."

"Okay, everyone ready?" I sighed, holding out my hands to Lissa and Aqua. They smiled and took them. Aqua took Viktoria's hand and Lissa took Mia's. We all left the room, hand-in-hand, and headed toward the Dhampir dorms. We went up to Dimitri's room and knocked. Adrian answered and smiled when he saw Viktoria. Then he burst out laughing when he saw my tiara. I sent him a death glare and he stopped.

"Guys, the girls are here," Adrian called.

"Let them in, then," Dimitri called. Adrian went in and we followed. We plopped down on Dimitri's bed. Eddie, Alex, and Dimitri were sitting on the couch, Adrian walked to sit next to Viktoria on the bed, and Christian wasn't in the room.

"Where's Christian?" I asked.

"Bathroom," Dimitri said. Just then the toilet flushed from the bathroom and in walked Fire Boy.

Dimitri was wearing a black tux with a black tie and white shirt underneath. Eddie wore a tuxedo vest that was blue, a white dress shirt, and a blue tie. Christian was wearing a black suit with a white tie and light blue shirt underneath. Alex had on a grey suit, white shirt, and blue tie. They all looked pretty good.

"Should we go now?" Christian asked, sitting on the bed. Everyone shrugged and we got up. The girls let go of each other's hands and exchanged them with their date's hand. So, it was me with Dimitri, Aqua with Alex, Lissa with Christian, Viktoria with Adrian, and Mia with Eddie. We all walked out and toward the commons. Of course, when I and Dimitri came out, hand-in-hand, the whispering started up again. I did my best to ignore it.

When we entered the commons, I was dazzled. The walls were lined with twinkle lights and there were couches and chairs and tables set up everywhere. There were streamers on the walls and tables that ranged from black to cream to white. It was beautiful.

They were playing "Party in the USA" by Miley Cyrus.

"I put my hands up, their playing my song, butterflies fly away. Nodding my head like yeah. Moving my hips like yeah," all the girls in our group sang along, doing as the song says. The guys just chuckled as they let us to a couch and sat us down on their laps as we still sang and danced on their laps. They were all but in hysterics by the end of the song.

Let prom begin!

Okay, so, I need help with Prom King and Prom Queen. I was thinking either Lissa and Christian, Rose and Dimitri, or Aqua and Alex. Also, I might make Aqua loose her cool in the future. She has a hot temper. That's due to being a fire user and the effects of spirit. So, yeah. Tell me what you think about both those topics, 'kay? And I need ideas about future chapters.

Love,
Viktoria Belicov