Different Story

Chapter 2

 Dimitri's POV

It was around 9am and I was reading a book, when someone knocked on my door.

I put the book down and answered the door.

The person at the door was Adrian Ivashkov. He was my best friend. Yeah, yeah. Wondering why a Royal Moroi is my best friend. Well... even I don't know how that happened. It's quite shocking, I kind of just saved him from some guy who was beating him up, for some reason I don't know. After that we just became best friends.

"Hey Dimitri, get ready we're going shopping." He said.

I raised my eye brow and asked, "Why?"

"Just because." he replied.

I nodded my head and got ready.

When I was done, Adrian, I and two guardians called Matthew and Jason.

While walking there, I noticed there were two SUVs and that two guardians were already inside one of them. Then there was two girls standing in front of that SUV.

I looked at the blond haired girl first. She was a Moroi.

Then I looked at the dark brown haired girl. She was a Dhampir. I studied her. She looked really beautiful. Her hair was long, she had brown eyes and her skin was lightly tanned. Her height looked around 5'7".

While I was looking at her, our eyes had locked for a few seconds when she looked away.

After a few seconds, we were now standing in front of them.

Adrian began to introduce us, "Dimitri Belikov meet Vasilisa Dragomir and her best friend Rosemarie Hathaway, Vasilisa Dragomir and Rosemarie Hathaway meet my best friend, Dimitri Belikov."

I knew Vasilisa Dragomir. Well.. I haven't met her before, but I know that she's that last Dragomir. People used to talk about her. Then they started to talk about something else.

I was brought out of my thoughts when I saw the brown haired girl glared at Adrian then looked back to me with a smile on her face, stuck out her hand and said, "Just call me Rose"

I smiled back at her and shook her hand

Vasilisa then stuck out her hand and said, "Just call me Lissa" then she smiled.

I shook her hand and then Adrian, Matthew, Jason and I went to the other SUV.

Adrian and I sat in the back while Matthew was in the passenger seat and Jason was driving.

On the way there it was silent, no one said anything, but that didn't bother me.

After a few minutes we arrived at the mall.

We all got out and Adrian and I made our way to Lissa and Rose.

I was just going to follow Adrian around since I wasn't planning to buy anything.

Adrian and I were now following Lissa and Rose into a dress shop. I'm guessing they're looking for dresses for the ball. Then all of a sudden she looked at us and asked, "And what are you guys doing here?"

Adrian answered her, "We're just going to give our opinion on the dresses that you and Lissa would be trying on"

Then Lissa said, "Oh really? That would be great if you could tell us how we look"

I then heard Rose sigh. I guess she really didn't want us to be here.

We were walking from store to store and the girls still haven't found anything. We all then began to get hungry so we went to the food court. I wasn't really hungry but still had a small snack. Then I looked outside, it seemed like it was 1pm right now.

After we had eaten, the girls continued their search for their dresses.

We entered a store and Lissa had found a dress and went to try it on.

We were waiting, then Adrian asked Rose, "So do you have dates for the ball?"

She said, "nope"

After she had said that Lissa came out wearing a nice dress.

"Wow, you look very beautiful" Rose told her.

At the same time Adrian and I said, "Yeah"

I then looked at Rose. I remembered the question Adrian had asked and she said nope. How could a girl like her not have a date for the ball? I noticed that I was staring at her and looked away. Luckily, she didn't notice me.

Lissa already had changed and bought the dress and now we were walking towards another dress store.

Out of nowhere Adrian says, "Well... since you guys don't have dates, why don't Dimitri and I be your dates?"

I was shocked at what he was saying. I was just looking straight ahead while Rose dragged Lissa away from us and started talking.

When they came back Lissa said to Adrian, "Okay you can be our dates."

Adrian exclaimed with a loud, "Yes!" his face full of excitement.

"But Adrian you're going to be my date and Dimitri you're going to be Rose's date" Lissa said.

I looked at Adrian and his face didn't seem that excited anymore. I guess he liked Rose.

I looked back to the two girls and saw that Rose's eyes had widened and it looked like she was about to protest. But before she could I said, "Okay.."

"So now that that's settled let's continue looking for Rose's dress and you guys need to find tuxedo's" Lissa had then grabbed Rose's arm and pulled her into another store and we just followed then in.

What did I just agree to..

We were now waiting for Rose to come out of the changing room. Lissa had found a dress for her and told her to try it on.

After a few minutes, Rose came out and I could feel my jaw drop.

She looked gorgeous in the dress!

I was just staring at her until Lissa exclaimed, "Rose you look so beautiful!"

I closed my mouth and muttered a "yeah"

I saw her smirk towards our direction before she went to change.

After she had changed and bought the dress, Adrian and I told them to wait for us at the food court while we go find ourselves some nice tuxedos.

It didn't really take us that long to find tuxedos.

Adrian's tuxedo was color black. 

And mine was color white. 

It took us 15 minutes to find the tuxedos and then we made our way back to the girls.

When we reached the food court, I looked outside. It was getting dark, we should leave.

Then Rose said, "Come on you guys we have to get back to the Academy before it gets dark" we nodded our heads and then we all made our way to where the SUVs were.

We were getting closer to the SUVs, when we got surrounded by strigoi. We were all shocked but then recovered and then Rose, I and the guardians took out our stakes. The first thing I did was push Adrian behind me.

I looked around, there were 15 strigoi. We were outnumbered.

No one was making a move. Until one strigoi went to attack Rose. That was when the other strigoi began to attack us.