Vampire academy

People think I'm unstable, but I tell you, Rose is ten times worse.

I might know something about her, but I probably shouldn't tell you…”

I leaned forward. "Oh, you already tipped me off. You've got to tell me now.”

"It'd be wrong," he teased. "How do I know you'd use this knowledge for good instead of evil?”

Can't slip that leash. I'm with my Russian jailer.”

Yeah. It's kind of hard to outlive your past

My instincts urged me to do something, maybe go smack one of the air users. But I couldn't pick a fight with everyone who annoyed me, and certainly not a group of royals

Moroi were alive; Strigoi were undead. Moroi were mortal; Strigoi were immortal. Moroi were born; Strigoi were made.

A perpetually sardonic smirk.

Christian Ozera.

"Don't worry," he said. "I won't bite. Well, at least not in the way you're afraid of." He chuckled at his own joke.

He was a royal Moroi, and he was so hot, he should have worn a WARNING: FLAMMABLE sign. He met my eyes and grinned.

"Hey Rose, welcome back. You still breaking hearts?”

"Are you volunteering?”

"Are you lost, little girl? The elementary school's over on west campus.”

A pink flush spread over her cheeks. "Don't you ever touch me again. You screw with me, and I'll screw you right back.”

Oh man, what an opening that was. Only a head shake from Lissa stopped me from unleashing any number of hilarious comebacks. Instead, I opted for simple brute force, so to speak.

"And if you mess with either of us again, I'll break you in half. If you don't believe me, go ask Dawn Yarrow about what I did to her arm in ninth grade. You were probably at nap time when it happened.”

So, Hathaway," said Stan cheerfully, strolling back up to the front with me. "Enlighten us about your protective techniques.”

"My…techniques?”

"Of course. Because presumably you must have had some sort of plan the rest of us couldn't understand when you took an underage Moroi royal out of the Academy and exposed her to constant Strigoi threats.”

It was the Kirova lecture all over again, except with more witnesses.

"We never ran into any Strigoi," I replied stiffly.

"Obviously," he said with a snicker. "I already figured that out, seeing as how you're still alive.”