Okay, so this story begins when Rose asks Adrian to use compulsion on her to make her want to kiss him. The rest is all me :)
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"I want to kiss you, Rose," he said softly. "And I want you to want me too."

Every aspect of his body—his lips, his hands, his scent— suddenly overpowered me. I felt warm all over. I wanted him to kiss me with every ounce of my being.

There was nothing in life I wanted more than that kiss. I tilted my face up toward his, and he leaned down. I could practically taste his lips.

"Do you want to?" he asked, voice still like velvet. "Do you want to kiss me?"

Did I ever. Everything around me had blurred. Only his lips were in focus.

"Yes," I said. His face moved closer, his mouth only a breath away from mine. We were so, so close, and then he walked away.

He walked AWAY.

He walked away?

I blinked several times, then focused my eyes on his retreating form. The effects of the compulsion were gone in an instant, but the memory of it lingered. I don't recall ever wanting something more in my whole life. It wasn't real, but in that moment, every microscopic part of my body, soul and mind wanted his lips on mine.

I shook my head. "What the hell was that?" it wasn't my voice, but Christian's.

I turned to him, pursing my lips. "Just trying something out."

"Clearly," he said flatly as the bell rang. "Come on, let's go find Lissa."

"Yeah," I simply agreed, then followed him, my mind still on Adrian and my almost-kiss.

I lay in my bed, under a tangle of sheets.

It was Sunday, so once again I was free of Christian. This meant that I had to find something to distract me; I knew all the things he and Lissa would get up to, and I did not want to be an unwilling voyeur. I mean, sure, I'd know what was going on anyway, but that didn't mean I wasn't going to try and distract myself on top of blocking Lissa out.

I dragged myself out of bed, had a shower and after getting dressed, I decided to go for a walk. I went off into my own world, vaguely aware that my feet were still moving. I didn't realise that I was walking towards the chapel until I was a few yards from the entrance.

I frowned, going in. Why the hell had my legs brought me here? I searched the rows of pews and noticed a familiar head of shoulder length brown hair. Dimitri. Always Dimitri.

He was sitting in the back, staring straight ahead, a peaceful look adorning his gorgeous features. I half expected my heart to jump out of my chest like it usually did, but this time, it didn't. Yes, I felt it racing…..but it was different this time….and I couldn't figure out why.

I slid into the pew behind him and sat not directly behind him, but to his left. Knowing he hadn't seen me, I smiled; hell yeah…I'm a friggin' ninja.

"It's one of your days off, and you choose to spend it at church?" Damn. My ninja skills were a bust.

"Is that so surprising?" I tried to keep the smile from my voice.

"Do you need to ask?" he said. He turned, our eyes meeting; his held amusement and curiosity.

I felt my insides come to a standstill. Neither my lungs nor heart found it important to function at that moment. Dragging my eyes away from his, sure that I would collapse if I didn't, I shrugged.

"Maybe I just wanted to be with you…?" it was more of a question than a statement.

He turned back to the front, stood up abruptly, then walked out, knowing that I would follow. I fell into step beside him, keeping quiet. It wasn't an awkward silence; it was a comfortable silence. There was no need to talk because we were just content…being together.

Though why wasn't it as comfortable as it usually was? I sighed, annoyed at myself. What was happening? "Stupid girl," I muttered.

Dimitri eyed me questioningly. He was about to ask me something when Stan came up behind us. "Dimitri, Alberta has called a meeting. We need to plan…things."

Dimitri turned from Stan to me. He opened his mouth, about to apologise for having to leave me but I stopped him by shaking my head at him, letting him know that he had nothing to worry about.

He nodded. "I'll see you later."

Shooing them off, I wondering what those "things" were. I decided to walk around campus some more, but then got a little tired and after getting something to eat, I went up to my room and plopped down onto my bed.

My feet seemed to heave a sigh of relief; I had practically been walking since I woke up. I lay back onto the bed and stared at the ceiling. Dimitri. My thoughts seemed to always be on him. Dimitri.

My eyes closed, sleep somehow taking over, before I felt the all too familiar signs of one of Adrian's dreams. "Damn!"

I was standing in the middle of the cafeteria. It was eerily silent. Without thinking, I grabbed the nearest chair and sat down; this may have been a "dream", but I was still tired from all the walking around I'd done.

"Adrian," I called out. "This may come to you as a surprise, but I'm tired and want to sleep."

"But you are sleeping." He said with a smile, seemingly coming out of nowhere. He took a chair and sat opposite me. "Besides, you have to explain to me what the other day was about."

I tried to look indifferent. "What happened the other day?"

I felt my breathing hitch slightly as he turned serious, his intense green eyes boring into me. "Don't act like you don't know. Why did you want me to use compulsion to make you want to kiss me?"

I thought for a few seconds before coming up with an answer. "I wanted to know what it felt like to be under the influence of your compulsion; especially when it was more direct."

He considered my answer. If he did or didn't believe me, he didn't say. Instead he sighed, looking away from me. "You don't know what you do to me, little dhampir."

"No," I swallowed. "I don't."

"You," he started, quietly. "Have inexplicably charmed me more than any spell ever could."

I sat there, breathing heavily, sure that my heart had skipped a thousand beats.

He looked up at me suddenly, "I really wish I would get the hang of using spirit to heal."

He had just done the typical Adrian thing, and changed the topic to something completely unrelated. Did he realise what his last sentence had done to me? How it had affected me?

"Well, I've got what I came here to get; you've answered my question. Though I doubt that was your true reason." He stood up, and brushed his lips over my forehead. "Sweet dreams, little dhamphir…..though I find it hard to believe they could get any sweeter than this." He added the last part with a lazy smile, before the dream ended.

I woke up a little while after that and shook my head as a shocking revelation hit me.

I was falling for Adrian Ivashkov.

*gasp!* jeez Rose, it ain't the end of the world! haha...

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