The bet

Chapter 1

Ugh... I hate one-way bound. I wish I could just tell Lissa to stop making out with Christian. She doesn't get it, how hard this day is on me. Being single on Valentine's Day. Having to live your best friend perfect love life. Being in love with someone you can't have. Worse, being in love with someone you know who loves you back but still can't have him. She just doesn't get it and never will.

So I am gonna do like every other normal day. Wake up early, go training with him, shower, eat, attend classes, eat, attend classes, train with him, eat, sleep. Oh,and try to pretend that we are not that day of the year. This is going to be a long day.

On my way to the gym, I practically run, trying to catch up for my morning laziness and not be late. Maybe Dimitri will be later than me.

"Hey Rose" shit, He is gonna kill me for being late.

"Hey Dimitri" I say with my please-don't-kill-me-man-eater smile.

For answer he laughs at me. Really? I'm late and you just laugh? No extra laps? Nothing? Well, I am not going to complain.

"I was thinking of teaching you how to stake, but if you cannot bother to get here on time, you might not be responsible enough for it. Maybe in a few weeks you will." Oh, there it is. The punishment. I knew it was too good to be true.

"Please Dimitri, you know I am ready for it!" I plea.

"Well, I may have been wrong Rose..."

"No you weren't! I will pr-" Then I see it, the little twinkle in his eyes that tells me that he is just messing with me.

"Took you long enough to realize it Roza." He fully smiled. Ugh, what that nickname and that smile do to me...

"It isn't funny Comrade! You know how much I want to learn to stake." Then he does the thing when he flips the stake in the air before catching it in his hand.

"And that. You know how much I want to learn that too! Can you teach me?"
He chuckled before looking at me with eyes that say you forget something.

"I knooow, safety and boring stuff first." He smiles, seeming proud and amuse by me. "Okay, a stake is made of silver and is infuse with the four elements so it can kill a strigoï, because of the life of the magic. You have to pierce the heart with the stake to make it kill a strigoï, but any cut will freaking hurt too. " He chuckles at my comment. " The heart is on the left side of the chest, but not to much." I indicate by touching his chest where his heart is. It isn't necessary but like that I can feel his muscular chest without him telling me it is wrong. Then I tell him everything I judge important about staking or anything he might judge important, answer a few question and there I go! Actually staking dummies. Training seems to be flying today. It's already over and I am on my way to breakfast.

When I arrive at the pink and red table,  Mase is a little overexcited about something that I do not know yet.

"Hey Mase, what's the news?"

"I am fine Rosie, thanks for wondering" Says a pretty sarcastic Christian.

"Oh, shut up Sparky, I had my dose of you this morning for like the next 10 years."

Understanding struck into him a second after it did with Lissa, who is already tomato red.  It's actually really funny to see him speechless.

"So Mase? The news?" I ask, letting the lovebirds chill a little.

" Kirova announced earlier that we, the senior novice and the guardian, are gonna have a tournament for Valentine's Day" He says very happily.

" I might be weird, but I don't get why you are super happy about that..."

"  The novice are gonna get assigned to a guardian. The first between you or your guardian to give up the bet you would have set together is gonna lose. If the novices mostly win, we have a 10% bonus in the class of our choice!"

Nice! If I get a +10% in Stan's class, I can actually ditch it for the next few weeks and still pass! I hope I get match with Dimitri. It's gonna be funnier.

" Wait a minute Mase, what happens if we lose?" I guess it would be very bad.

" We have to reorganize the library..." Yep, I was right!

"Shit! We better win!! It's been like a thousand years since someone did some cleaning there!"

He takes a pretty dramatic tone before saying "Yes, Rose, it sure does."
I laugh, always loved that tone.

At that moment, Kirova enters the cafeteria and uses her air control to amplify her voice. "So, I think you all heard the news about the senior/guardian contest?" A bunch of yes answers her.

"Good, then I won't lose time explaining the rules. Ashford, you are pared with Alto." Mase's face literally droped on the floor while mine light up. If Mase got Stan, I can't get him! Poor him though.

"Castile, you got Kepner." He doesn't have luck... Being paired with a guy who just arrived and that we don't know yet... Still he seems kinda fun. Better than who Mase got. A few names later it's my turn. Without surprise, I am pair with Dimitri. I think Kirova only trust him to keep me in line. She's not wrong... But he is also the one who is making me lose my control the fastest. Well, exept maybe for Stan.... Sometimes. Even though it's really not in the same way.

Today, classes don't seem to end. I mean, it's worse than usually, because I don't have just one reason to be excited about the end of it. Normally, I would only have trainning, but Dimitri and I are going to decide what our bet is gonna be. I hope I win. Maybe I can get Dimitri to agree to an extra reward for the winner, not just the normal ones.

I think Dimitri is really enjoying my pain. He knows that I really want to talk about the bet, but he still doesn't let me time to do that until five minutes before the end of training.

" Do you have any idea for the bet Roza?" How can a name hold that much of power over someone?

" A few... But go first" I say suggestivelly. I am pretty sure he is messing with me. He only suggests boring bet like the first one who talks lose, the one that argues the less with Stan or other stuff that I am absolutely sure to lose.

" I am going to punch you if you don't stop saying boring stuff!"

"Your control Roza..." Why does he keep using my russian name? Why is he testing my control?

" I get it." I am actually very proud of me getting it." You already decided the bet. You just don't want to say it."

"Maybe Roza, maybe" He says softly to me, wanting me to snap out of control only 30 seconds after the start of the bet.

"Comrade" I moan close to him before taking a step back just when his hand is about to reach my cheek.

"Then let's the war begin" I give him my man-eatter smile, then begin to walk slowly , with my hips swinging more than required, in direction of the girls' shower. I just have the time to hear him chuckle before I open one of the showers, making sure the door of the room is still a little bit open. This bet is going to be very hard on me if he continues to call me Roza and if he actually tries to make me loose control. It's already hard when he doesn't try...
But I am going to win the bet, no matter what.

So here it is! The first chapter of my new story. Hope you like it. The next chapter is gonna come really soon.

Fred:)