Kissed in the darkness

Chapter 12

I know I was the one who made Christian and Aria break up- and I want them back together. I know, silly me for making them split in the first place haha! Love ya'll xx -Tay

Aria's P.O.V

It's like kids in primary school, excluding others out of the fun at playtime. The Guardians seem to be excluding me, it's been a week and we haven't been attacked once. I'll have to attack them if they don't attack me soon. On Monday Christian speaks up- it's been pretty awkward between us this past week
"You okay Aria? You look like you're going to scream." I scoff
"Oh I definitely am if they don't attack us soon." He chuckles
"Darling calm down, our turn will come." I squint at him
"Call me darling one more time- I dare you." I feel his fingers touching my thy, trailing his fingers up and down while he whispers in my ear
"...Darling."

My breathing speeds up as I feel his fingers slip underneath my school skirt. I reluctantly grab his hand and slide it back down my leg
"Christian." He smirks
"Christian? Your addressing me by my actual name?" I rapidly Shake my head
"If it means you'll stop touching me like that then yes, I'll call you Christian." He removes his hand
"That's all I wanted Aria... But I don't think that's all you wanted." He's right, I wanted him so badly just then that it hurt. I find his hand under the cafeteria table, squeezing it gently
"You're right," he eyes out hands as if it's some sort of miracle that I'm happily touching him, do what I say next takes him completely by surprise "I wanted so much more."
We lean into each other, trying to reach each others lips- and we would have. If it wasn't for the stupid bell signalling it's time for class.
"Guardian training time."

At training Dimitri is our instructor for today. So when we split into pairs like usual I'm up against Dimitri- it's only fair for the other novices. Which gives me the perfect opportunity to chastise him for not attacking me.
"What's the go with the Guardian/Strigoi thing?" He dodges my right hook
"What do you mean 'what's the go with it'?" I jump over his sweep kick and send an axe kick to his head which he blocks with guardian grace
"I meant- why haven't you attacked me yet?" He laughs
"Your so eager Aria. Have patience- your turn will come."
"But why do I have to wait?" He tsks as he twists my arm behind my back
"Do you have some sort of anxiety that triggers if you don't get attacked every few weeks?" I scoff while breaking free and sending a back kick straight to the centre of his chest making him stagger backwards
"It's not like I crave fights, I just want to make sure I get good marks." He advances on me again

"Then I suppose you can wait." With the built up anger inside me I flip him over by grabbing his wrist and shoulder dropping him backwards. When he's down I pin him by his throat
"How about this Guardian Belikov- I will wait at lunchtime for you specifically to attack me. Do it when I least expect it- but if I don't get attacked at all today, tomorrow I will make you sorry you didn't."

So I wait, past lunchtime, past the next periods- all until dinner.
"So... Where were we at breakfast love?" He places his hands in my hair and pulls me towards him, angling my face up to align our lips, then he's ripped from his seat, and not a moment to soon- I felt his lips brush over mine when he was yanked away. Then coming out of my shocked state and jump onto the table- back flipping off and landing behind the guardian. I wrap my right arm around their neck from behind pulling it backwards down over my shoulder- then I see his eyes, it indeed is Dimitri. I regain my composure and kick a leg out from under him, expecting him to loosen his grip on Christian- he doesn't. And he struggles against me, but not with his upper half because he knows that if he makes a wrong movement on his behalf while I've got him in this hold could result in the breaking of his neck. It's hard to fight against Dimitri because he can anticipate my every move before I make them, he know exactly what I'm going to do- mainly because he's taught me a lot of what I know over the past years of my life. Think of it like fighting your mirror self.

I kick his other leg out from under him as well forcing him into kneeling. The first thing I need to do is get Christian out of the picture. Leaning my head back to tell Christian straight into his ear so he only hears
"When his grip on you loosens or spaces out step out of his arms." He wordlessly agrees. I don't know how I know that, he made no movement to say yes but I just know he did. I back kick Dimitri straight to his spine so that he falls forward, face planting into Christians back. I shove Christian Forward so I can kick the 'Strigoi' by the shoulders into the ground. Following my orders Christian quickly steps out of his arms, I signal him over to another guardian with their Moroi who is watching he nods and runs over reluctantly even though he know this is only a guardian.

Now the real fighting starts. I attempt to pin him but rolls up onto his knees and winds me. I get over the blow quickly and right hook him. Then while he's off guard kicking him in his side then going to whirl around to lay a kick to his head- instead he catches my ankle and forces me down onto the floor. I knee him in the gut, it's startles him but nothing more. He's pinned me now lowering his fake Strigoi fangs down to my neck, so I'm left with nothing more to do than my secret battle tactic- I kiss him. Actually kiss him this time. He's caught so off guard that his hold on me relaxed enough for me to rip my arm out of his grip and pull my training stake from my boot and get him through the back. All within that two second smooch.