The Story After Vampire Academy

Chapter 2:

I smiled as I saw Adrian coming towards us. I rushed up to him and hugged him closely, I crinkle my nose as it pick up the smell of cloves and alcohol coming off Adrian. "You sober enough to drive? Or am I going to have to get us to school?" I ask with a smirk. "Sober enough" he says with a grin. Adrian was closer to me then my parents were. He doesn't really talk to them much.. They won't tell me why, but my mom doesn't object me hanging out around him. He nods at Josh and they shake hands. "How's your mom?" He asked Josh. "She's doing good" he nods. I smirk thinking how formal Josh can get around other people. It reminds me that he is the son of the queen. I often forget this, but no one else seems to. You would think being the son of a queen would make him prince but according to Moroi history that's not how it works. I look back at Adrian and he gestures towards he car "Well let's go then" Josh hesitates to follow Adrian, I think it made him nervous to think we might be driving back to school with an intoxicated driver. I laugh and turn to him, grabbing his arm and pulling him towards tho car "Come on Josh!" He laughs and pretends he's a six year old who doesn't want to leave, but he lets me drag him into the car. We all squish in and I look at Adrian. "If you get us all killed I'll--" Adrian interrupted "you'll what? Kill me?" I roll my eyes as he pulls away from the airport.

It's about a 20 minute drive to get to the school and it is filled with lots of catching up. Adrian has been at the school the past 2 months helping a newly found spirit user I'm our grade, so I Haven't seen him much. "So how's Miya?" I asked curiously. Adrian smiled "she's been progressing very well in controlling spirit dreams." he nods and glances at Josh "but I could really use your mothers help in teaching her to heal." Josh shrugs "Sorry, but my mom barely has time for me and I'm her son." This made Adrian frown. From what I have gathered about our parents past, a lot has changed since my mom was 17. We kept quiet for the rest of the drive.

When we reached the school, Josh and I said goodbye to Adrian and were assigned dorm rooms and our class schedules. Classes were to start on Monday. It is Saturday today so Josh and I have almost 2 days to get settled back into our old habits at St. Vladimir's. Josh walked me to the novice dorm which I wasn't too happy about, considering I was supposed to be the guardian. "You know maybe this should be reversed." He gives me a sidelong glance "What do you mean?" He asked. "I mean shouldn't I be walking you to your dorm? Or would it hurt your manly pride too much to be escorted by a girl?" I replied with a grin. He rolled his eyes. "When your my guardian it won't have anything to do with pride. But for now, I am going to keep my manly reputation in tact thank you very much." I laugh slightly at this "You can't loose what you don't have." This makes him stop and turn towards me. His face shows false offence, he is a good actor I had to give him that. "Well I'm offended" he said with mock disgust. I rolled my eyes as we both started laughing. As we reached the dorms entrance he set my other bag that he was carrying down for me. "I can help you bring these upstairs if you want."

I smirk. "You know the rules Mr.Dragomir." I said with a fake accent of authority "No boys in the female dorms." "yeah, yeah." He said with a shrug as he picked up my bag again and headed into the dorm In front of me. "Josh!" I complained. "Your going to get us both in trouble before school has even started!" He ignored me as he headed upstairs. We get assigned the same dorms each semester so he knew exactly where my room was. I swear if he didn't need a key to get into my room he would have just ran past me and got us busted.

Once the door was unlocked and open, Josh and I walked into my room. I smiled taking in the familiar settings. I had left my sheets and blankets here over the summer. Along with some other things that matched the room. Josh set my bag my my dest which held a computer, 2 notebooks and a handful of pens and other writing necessities. I set my other two bags that I had been carrying down on my bed and turned around to face Josh. Who to my surprise was examining every inch of my room. "You should probably go-" I say "I don't want you to get in trouble." he nods and runs his fingers messily through his hair. "Okay... I'll see you at dinner." I nod as he turns to go.

When he's gone I start to unpack my things, I put the majority of my clothes into my closet and then fold the rest and put them In the small dresser across the room. I take out my smaller bathroom bag and set up my bathroom so everything has it's place. About an hour before dinner I finally have time to examine myself in the mirror. My long dark brown -almost black- hair is tangled in knots that should take forever to get out. My dark brown eyes that match my fathers seem lighter then usual, they seem to have turned almost hazel on the trip here. I shrug and decide to take a quick shower to help get rid of the jungle that is my hair. Once I'm done I quickly blow dry my hair and let my now curly hair fall down to the centre of my back in peace. I pull on my favourite dark navy denim skinny jeans along with a purple shirt and my black leather jacket. Before heading out the door I pull on my knee high black boots -with only a slight heal on the they are surprisingly very comfortable.- and make my way to the cafeteria.

As I enter the cafeteria I search the room for Josh, he is sitting with some other royals who I recognized. One was Daniel Zeklos, his dark hair and light green eyes made him pretty hot around campus. Next to him was Lana Tarus, and Trevor Ozera who is technically Josh's cousin. When Josh was born his parents decided to give him the Dragomir heritage opposed to the Ozera. -Mostly because there was only 2 other Dragomirs in existence until Josh was born.- But also because when you are closely related to Christian Ozera -Josh's dad- you are often reminded of how your grandparents were evil strigoi. Having the last name Dragomir helps people forget. I sit down next to Josh and Lana. "Hey Klara" says Lana. "How was your summer?" I shrug "I spent most of it stuck inside training" she nods, knowing this was a regular summer for me. "You should have stayed with me and my parents, we could have gone to the mall and the beach! Oh we could have had such a fun time!" I roll my eyes slightly at Lana's enthusiasm. Lana is always fun to be around, but you have to get used to all her energy. I quickly change the subject. "So I'm thinking about Americanizing my name for when I'm here" I say. Daniel smirks "and what would your 'Americanized' name be?" He asked. I shrugged "I don't know, maybe Claire?" He nods. "I like Claire" says Lana. "Thanks" I say. I look around at the others at my table who seems to nod in agreement. Except for Trevor, who has stayed quiet this whole time. "I like Klara" he says. He's been so quiet I almost forgot he was here. I turn and look at him, he hasn't grown much in size since last time I saw him... But there was defiantly something different about him.. He seemed much older then he had last year. I open my mouth to respond when I am hit in the back of the head with a scoop of mashed potatoes. I freeze and the cafeteria goes silent. I slowly turn around and scan the room for my attacker. There I spot him, a friend of mine who I hadn't yet seen since I arrived. He's a novice my age named Connor Stowe. He is standing up watching me carefully, ready to dodge my attack. Connor is one of my closer friends at school, I force back a grin as I grab the first thing I can find on my plate and hurl it at him. I'm a good shot, and with all the training I did over the summer, he was the one out of practice. It turns out what I threw at him was a handful of yogurt which it him square in the face. He wipes his face quickly with his hand and looks at me with his signature 'your going down look' as he grabs a water bottle and charges towards me. That's when somebody yelled "FOOD FIGHT!" And all hell broke loose.