My Vampire Academy

Chapter 9

After my little speech, which I was very proud of saying! I took Lissa inside the little house to clean up the now almost dried up blood on her shirt. The place looked the same and still had that feeling of comfort, it was sad to see it empty with sheets over the furniture the only sound being Lissa breathing heavy and our footsteps. I could sympathize with Lissa, she lost all of her family not only that but that she had been the one to survive that exact same accident. Who wouldn’t freak out?

Lissa took a seat on one of the covered couches not bothering taking off the sheet, I got a cloth and rinsed it with some hot water. I gave Lissa the cloth to clean up the cuts that were still bleeding she murmured a thank you still finding the floor interesting, she hadn’t looked at me once since we came in and it frustrated me. I took a seat in the opposite couch and groaned, Lissa’s head shot up and she looked concerned “Lissa keeping everything bubbled inside is just gonna make things worse! Please just tell me what happened. Please” I wasn’t begging but I was close. She looked at me for a while before exhaling but kept quiet “Liss, I can’t say I know what your but I know cutting yourself is a healthy way in coping” I said once more she looked at me and finally in a whispers started saying “It helps, it takes the pain away. Its weird how in hurting myself it takes the pain that is unbearable away, but it works. I can’t act of fake forever, put on a smile while I feel like crying, laughing while I want to scream or cry… it’s not an easy thing to do.” She paused probably composing herself but I saw the signs voice breaking, tears gathering on the brim of her eyes she was fighting back tears most likely sobs too. She then continued “You probably heard that Mia had said something, obviously seeing that you want to go beat her up or something” she looked at me “Yeah… but don’t know what she said” I said hinting her to tell me. She looked away pain still evident on her face.

“I never did anything to her, I didn’t even know who she was. Until she started with all this… bullying? I don’t know what I did to have her hate me, loath me, despise me but she is repaying me with full force. Promise not to get mad when I tell you” she asked me I nodded and prayed she would forgive me if I did. She took a deep breath and I could see a single tear trail down her cheek “The more I think of it what she said is true I did kill him, but not how she said or even the motive. She said that I killed Andre- the motive obvious being that I wanted the title and to be the only living Dragomir! I… I don’t even want the damn title, why- why would I kill my own flesh and blood to get it? I now get why she had panted ‘Murder’ on my door I know it was her she made it clear, but why? I swear I didn’t do anything to her to deserve this” she was in full blown tears and sobs now. My anger had grown with every word of what Lissa said about this Mia royal wannabe, but I knew Lissa needed me more that is what kept me from running back to campus and find her and beat the living hell out of her.

I shot up and made my way to Lissa and hugged her to me in a tight embrace “Lissa you know what she say is a loud of bull. You tried saving him if it wasn’t for that strigoi you could have” I said she shook her head “No Rose I should have saved him instead” she said in between sobs “But what would have cost you? The strigoi would have killed you both, and I know if that happened I would never be able to live with myself. Knowing that I could have prevented this… I am sorry Lissa. But know this even if you don’t believe it I am here now for you and always will be, that is a promise! And I am gonna sort everything out starting with this little wannabe bitch!” Lissa still cried but it was calmer.

After a few minutes Lissa was calm and was not crying, breaking the embrace she looked at me giving me a weak smile “You know Rose with everything that has happened all the bad there was one good thing that has helped coping with… all this” she said looking around her and then back at me. She poked my nose “You know you’re that good thing, right?” she asked I shrugged with a smirk on my face “Of course I am, just glad you noticed” I said hugging her again she laughed and rolled eyes “Oh haven’t changed at all!”       

We took all the sheet off dusting off here and there “I think we should come here more often, you know like we use to?” Lissa suggested when we looked at the empty house “Yeah think we could do that, couldn’t hurt right?” I shrugged “Then it’s settled! When we need a break we agree to come here then?” I just nodded seeing this as a good sign. After a while I said that we had to get back seeing that I still had my afternoon training.

I promised Lissa to see her at dinner making my way to the gym, I was sensing an interrogation coming on from Dimitri and smiled at myself. Think he could make a good bad cop, I laughed at myself and bumped into someone. When I looked up I saw a little moroi girl with blond hair in ringlets, if you looked quickly you would have mistaken her as a doll “Sorry” I said “Watch where your-“ she stopped when she looked up at me turned and walked away, almost running. Weird, I looked at the retreating moroi for a second turned and continued to the gym.