Hey everyone one! so this is the second chapter, it's a bit longer than the last one because I felt it was a bit rushed. I wanted it to be in more detail so i tried to detail this one as much as possible!
Anyways hope you enjoy this chapter! Sorry for any mistakes I might have made!
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Oh! just to warn you there is swearing and some heated moments in this. Not like full on heated moments or anything but still thought i'd just warn in advance :)
Kristina x
After I handed my ticket to the air hostess I stared around looking for my seat. Even though I didn't know Rose I was kinda hoping to sit next to her It would have made me feel less awkward, her being my sister an all. She was sat by the window with Dimitri at her side. No hope there then. I frowned and looked around, It seemed everyone had someone to sit with. I spotted a spare seat near to Adrian (Rose had finally introduced me to everyone in the car ride and I had their names pretty well memorised.) hesitantly I sat next to him. He turned to me and grinned
"Can't get enough of me can you?" I rolled my eyes. He was so cocky considering I'd just met him.
"actually all the other seats are taken" I gave him a sarcastic smile and he chuckled to himself. He looked so gorgeous when he laughed. It just looked so natural. I realised I was staring and averted my eyes as soon as I could apparently it wasn't soon enough though.
"I know I'm handsome but you shouldn't spend all of your time staring at my amazing face. I don't blame you though some say it looks like it was sculpted by the angels you know" he held his hands underneath his chin and batted his eyelashes. Rose had told me that the worst thing ever was to laugh at Adrian's jokes. She had said it was practically like first base for him. I couldn't help but let out a giggle anyway. I mean it was a pretty funny sight to see.
"Your so pretty?" I asked sarcastically.
"Aw Thanks!" he winked. He paused for a while before talking again."So, Azra Arabella Kelly .. that's quite an interesting name you have"
I shrugged "I've had it for over 18 years, it seems pretty normal to me"
"Do you know what it means?" he'd rested his head on his hands and actually looked generally interested.
"Yes." I knew it was a vague answer but I really didn't want to tell him what it meant. It was embarrassing enough knowing it myself let alone telling anyone!
"Are you gonna elaborate? Or do I have to guess.?"
"I'd like to see you guess." I laughed.
He came up with an array of possible meanings for my name and they ranged from nice things like beautiful and lovely too really strange ones like Pretzel and banana. I laughed at each one he said because he was so far off from ever guessing it. Like really far off. He laughed along with me and finally said...
"I give up, just tell me?" he pouted and I somehow knew that he used that face a lot when he didn't get his own way. I looked down and started playing with my seat belt
"All right I'll tell you but you have to promise not to laugh or make jokes about it okay?" he nodded but I knew that it would go out the window as soon as he heard it.
"well Azra is Turkish" I paused.
"yes...?" he waved his hand motioning for me to keep going
"It means" I stopped and sighed "it means virgin"
"what?" he scoffed. He burst out into fits of hysterics. I glared at him but he just laughed harder. Hmm . I'd have to work on the famous Hathaway glare I'd seen Rose perform earlier.
"Anyways," I carried on over his laughter, he stiffled his laughter after I'd spoken again but his shoulders still jiggled up and down. "Arabella is German... for hero." Adrian burst out into hysterics again and tried to speak through the laughter.
"That's great, your name means Virgin hero!" I don't remember how long he laughed for. In the end Christian and Lissa had shouted at him to shut up. Thankfully he did.
"and that's the last time I tell you anything." I said, I should have lied and told him it meant something normal. I knew I wasn't going to live it down. He smirked at me trying to stop himself laughing again.
"Sorry, I think it was the shock" it looked like he was about to start laughing again until his eyes lit up spotting something in the aisle coming our way. I looked up to see an air hostess pushing a drinks trolley.
"want some champagne?" he asked. I knew I probably shouldn't be drinking this early but hey, Rose had told me all about the time differences between humans and vampires so didn't that technically mean it was like night time now? And perfectly fine for me to be drinking? Pleased with my justification I agreed.
"Sure" I shrugged, The hostess handed me my glass. I'd never tasted champagne before. Heck I'd never really drank anything with alcohol in before. My parents had frowned upon drinking so I never did. I never went through the rebellious streak in high school and got drunk with my friends off bottles of cheap cider. I'd been the ideal daughter! but hey my parents lied to me for 18 years. Why should I listen to them now?. I sniffed the drink first and made my decision to drink it. I downed it in one and shivered at the taste. It was goooood! I glanced over to Adrian and saw him looking at me a little amused.
"Um, thirsty?" he asked. I giggled. Is it possible to be tipsy after one glass?
"I've never drank it before" I admitted. He looked shocked at this.
"really? Are you just trying to get another free glass of champagne out of me?" he winked.
"no I mean it, that was the first time I've ever tasted it." I stated.
"what did you think?" he smiled a devious smile which I had also decided was sexy too.
I tried to do the same smile back "Its good" I put emphasis on the good part. I glanced at Adrian again, Taking him in. Did I mention how good looking he was? I could see him smirking at me. Crap. He'd caught me checking him out. I looked away in embarrassment. Feeling my cheeks getting warmer. I laughed a nervous laugh and mumbled something about how I wasn't actually looking at him I was looking out the window. Only to have my plan spoiled when Adrian had stated that the blind was closed. He laughed it off.
"Just admit it, you fancy the pants off of me." he was grinning and I wondered if he actually ever stopped grinning.
"I think you fancy the pants off yourself. Plus no one says that any more Adrian"
"I say it"
"exactly" I laughed. We talked and giggled some more until Rose had told us to go to sleep. Yes my younger sister had ordered me to go to sleep but she did have logic, Cardiff to Vegas was a Ten and a half hour flight. Oh yeah did I mention I'm Welsh? Any way the flight is long enough to have a whole nights sleep. I agreed and grabbed my eye mask out of my bag, after I slipped it over my head I heard Adrian scoff.
"what?" I asked blindly. Literally I couldn't see now that it was over my eyes.
"nothing" he answered I could still hear the amused tone in his voice "I just didn't think people actually wore those that's all.
"I wear them!"
"exactly" he answered with my answer from earlier. I couldn't help but smile. So far I liked Adrian. And yes I fancied him a little too but I wasn't going to let him know this. After all I'd know him what like two maybe three hours? I couldn't sleep for a while. It was hard to get comfy. I kept moving around and tossing and turning. Adrian sighed and pulled a little lever on the side of my chair and it started to lower itself backwards. I felt him move back into his seat and soon after that I drifted off into a dreamless slumber
I woke up to someone shouting at me
"Azra... Azra... AZRA!"
"Hm?" I answered still half asleep.
"The plane has landed, where all waiting on you now" Rose said slightly irratated. Oops! I wondered how long she'd been trying to wake me up. The next couple of things we did were a bit of a blur to me since I was still trying to wake up. I only really woke up when I got out of the taxi and was standing outside our hotel. I caught my breath as I looked around. Vegas. I was in Vegas!. I had to stop myself from doing a happy dance right there and then. Apparently though I hadn't concealed my excitement enough as I heard a few sniggers behind me. I turned to see Eddie and Christian behind me. Eddie put his hand on my shoulder
"Welcome to Vegas" he smiled
"kinda sucks you in doesn't it?" Christian added. I couldn't have agreed more.
"Its amazing" was all I could manage. I seen them smirk at me before going to help with the suitcases. I turned around from all the sights of the Strip and took in our hotel. It practically screamed ROYAL, Obviously only the best for our queen. It felt weird to say that, I mean I was on first name basis with the queen. Not that, that really meant much apparently since she hated being called by her formal name. Lissa ushered us all inside to the reception where she checked us in and started handing out keys. Once Adrian had received his he turned to me and smiled
"So what do you say Virgin fancy sharing a room with me" he put extra emphasis on the virgin word. He was referring to my name obviously not insulting me but the others looked at him in shock.
"Adrian! Are you trying to making some sick advance on Azra whilst insulting her?" Christian asked? He looked most shocked out of all them which surprised me since I hadn't really spoken to him. Well any of them really. I'd only really gotten to know Adrian and I still knew practically nothing about him. I looked around at their faces, there was a mixture of shock and awkwardness. Looking at Lissa's guardians in the distance I noticed one of them smirking but once he saw me glaring at him he went back to looking stone faced. It really did amaze me how they did that.
Adrian had began to defend himself to everyone
"What? Its her -" I decided to cut him off, I wanted to get out of reception since we'd just been standing here for the last ten minutes staring at each other. Plus I really didn't want them to know what my name meant!
"My joke!.. I made a joke on the plane with Adrian. Honestly! he's not like being sick or mean or anything!" I said desperately. I noticed Adrian smirk out of the corner of my eye and was making a mental note to step on his toes "accidentally" later. They didn't seem happy with my comment but no one really wanted to argue about it. Lissa eventually decided on going back to the original topic turning to Adrian
"Adrian your sharing with Eddie remember?" Adrian groaned
"Hey I'm not that bad!" Eddie exclaimed defensively
"I was just hoping for this lovely ladies company" he winked and pointed at me and I froze on the spot, half of me wanted to giggle and curl my hair around finger and the other half wanted to hide my face. I really wasn't used to boy's advances any more, after my last boyfriend broke up with me I never really got back on the dating scene.
All the couples were well.. coupled together and Lissa handed my key to me looking slightly guilty. I would be on my own, Rose realised too and instantly blurted out that she would stay with me if I wanted, I had almost considered taking her up on her offer when I looked up at Dimitri and saw a look of disappointment on his face it was only there for a second but I'd still seen it. I couldn't split those two up for my own selfishness of not wanting to sleep on my own.
"No! I'll be fine! Honestly, I don't mind sleeping on my own! ... Honestly" I sounded almost convincing and was pretty proud of my performance. I mentally patted myself on the back. She looked unsure at first but eventually gave in probably just wanting to get back to her room and relax.
"Okay, so I'm guessing everyone is going to want to go to their rooms and freshen up and then maybe we could meet at the hotel restaurant in say... two hours for some lunch?" Lissa asked looking around at everyone. My stomach grumbled thinking about food, I'd apparently slept through breakfast on the plane. I heard a laugh and looked up to see Christian shaking his head
"I guess you really are a Hathaway" I was about to ask him to explain but he and Lissa and their guardians were already in the elevator. I ended up waiting for it to come back down with Adrian and Eddie,
"Which room are you in then?" Eddie asked casually, probably just trying to make conversation. He seemed really kind like as if you could talk to him for hours. He was pretty good looking too. Hey! Its not my fault that I happen to be caught up in a group of gorgeous men.
"B13" I answered Looking at the blue keyring attached to the small key.
"Ha! No kidding, We're neighbours!" laughed Adrian. I suppressed a groan. Hiding it with a fake smile. Not that I wasn't happy with being close to Adrian and Eddie. It did make me feel safer especially since Eddie was a guardian, I guess Lissa had made it this way deliberately. Rose and Dimitri were on the same floor as Lissa (along with her other guardians), and Adrian and Eddie happened to be next door to me. I smiled at myself cracking Lissa's secret Plan. Adrian mistook my smile for my eagerness to be next to him. He winked at me. Thankfully the lift came and we found our room's. I said my goodbyes and see you later's and opened the door to my room. I'm surprised my jaw didn't hit the floor! I definitely couldn't open my mouth any wider. Woah! I thought taking in my surroundings. The room was absolutely amazing! The bed was huge! Definitely King sized. Maybe bigger. Can you get bigger than that? There was a sofa and plasma TV, a large glass coffee table with complimentary chocolates and mints. I took one of the mints and went around exploring my room.
"Holy Shit!" I exclaimed looking around the bathroom. Massive just isn't the word. There was a jacuzzi bath and a separate shower. I could have probably fitted my bedroom back in Cardiff three times in here! I remembered that I only had two hours to myself before meeting back with everybody and decided on spending my time testing out the bath and just pampering myself to death. Well maybe not to death. But you get what I mean.
Forty minutes later I left the bathroom. You might have already guessed this but that bath. Was. Awesome. I really didn't want to get out. But the water had gotten completely freezing and I forced
myself to leave in the end. I started to unpack some clothes into the extremely large wardrobe. My hair was half dry by the time I'd finished, I looked at my reflection in the mirror. Like Rose I had been gifted with a curvy body and large bust. I used to get plenty of attention from boys because of these reasons but as I said since my last boyfriend I kind of pulled myself away from flirting and dating and all that kinda stuff. I brushed my hair and decided on blow drying the rest of it dry. I had naturally Curly hair, some people might have found it a nuisance but I loved it, of course the red wasn't a natural colour. It was bright bright red but I liked it it was a real conversation starter too. Often people would walk up to me and be like "wow I love your hair" most of those were probably Rihanna fans though. Once my hair was dry I back combed it a little to stop it looking too pristine. I preferred messy curls and waves to just outright tidy ringlets. I applied a bit of mascara and lip gloss. I looked at my watch half hour to go I thought. I tried to pick an outfit as slowly as I could. But even that only took up five minutes. I'd settled on a pair of acid wash skinny jeans and a white vest top. I chucked a chequered shirt on over it leaving it open like a jacket. I'd even tried to waste time by putting an effort into choosing matching shoes but it was no good, I already knew what ones I wanted to wear. My pink suede Dr Martins. I loved these boots. I practically lived in them. They where one of my Christmas present from my parents. I did consider for a while not wearing them because I was mad at them but quickly brushed that idea out of my mind. Thinking of my parents I remembered the note I'd left them before I left.
Dear Anna and Joseph (if that's even your real names)
I had some guests today. You might recognise one of their names. Rosemarie HATHAWAY! Yes. My sister. She offered me a chance to go to Vegas with her and her friends and I accepted. I'd appreciate if you didn't interfere. This is something I need to do. I cant believe you guys didn't tell me. You'd have still been my parents. The people I love and the people bought me up for 18 years. I'm nearly 19 and you didn't once think of saying "hey you know what your adopted!"
I'll call you in a few days once my head is clear.
Love
Azra.
"Come here you beauties!" I said whisking my shoes up and putting them on my feet. I checked the time and sighed. Giving up I decided to go down early thinking that at least I could have a quick look around anyway. When I got to reception I was surprised to see everyone standing there talking.
"your early!" I announced to the group.
"Rose was hungry" Christian said. Dimitri chuckled and Rose patted her stomach.
"what I wouldn't give for a chocolate glazed do-nut" she said thoughtfully. Everyone laughed. Including me.
"Don't worry Rose, you'll be stuffing your face before you know it!" Eddie exclaimed!
And sure enough she was. I thought I ate a lot. But there are just no words to describe how much she ate. The restaurant had a buffet table at the far end, filled with chinese food. She had a hard time carrying her plate back to the table – balancing all that food and making sure it didnt fall off. We'd all finished our meals and we watched Rose eat in awe. She finished her last Rib and set the bone down on the table. Even though at one point I'd been convinced she was going to eat that too!
"So, Azra how're you liking Vegas so far?" asked Dimitri. I think this was the first time he spoke to me, I kinda figured he was shy or just anti-social so I wasn't expecting a conversation to start with him.
"Um, Yeah its pretty awesome!" I said off guard. He nodded in agreement and I smiled awkwardly across the table. There was silence for a couple of minutes until Lissa spoke,
"So, we have a few spare hours before any evening entertainment happens so what do you want to do? We could walk around and explore the shops or if you want to split up in separate groups and do our own thing then we can?" she looked around the table expectantly. I noticed Rose and Dimitri look longingly at each other, something told me they'd rather be in their room right now.
"Um well Dimitri and I are pretty tired we were going to go for a nap.." she avoided looking into anyone's eyes in case she gave herself away.
"Yeah right Hathaway!" Christian laughed. She glared at him but got up and caught hold of Dimitri's hand, She hugged Lissa and the two of them left.
"Your awfully quiet Adrian" I glanced at him sideways, I saw him grin and he replied
"I guess I'm just captivated by your beauty, Or is it your extra tight jeans?" he winked at me and never wiped the grin of his face. I laughed, embarrassed.
"They're not that tight. They fit perfectly" I defended myself.
"Oh I quite agree, they definitely fit you perfectly" his grin lessened a little into something more seductive. I couldn't help but smile back. Crap. This guy definitely knew how to charm the ladies.
Eddie coughed awkwardly and I felt my cheeks warm a little. I laughed awkwardly, hoping someone would say something soon. Thankfully they did.
"Actually I'm feeling quite tired too Christian" Lissa said whilst doing something funny with her eyes. I'm guessing she was trying to hint at him for some uh.. alone time but whatever she was doing kinda made her look half crazy and half drunk. I had to stop myself from laughing. Christian hadn't noticed the funny side. He got the message clear as day. He stood up and tried to hurry Lissa out of the room.
"We'll meet you at the bar later!" she managed to shout before being rushed away. Their guardians followed and I saw the same guy who had smirked at me earlier smiling at me again. I was a bit taken back when I realised he was looking at me. I remembered that he had laughed Earlier when Adrian had called me a virgin. I wanted to talk to him, ask him why he had laughed. He was either cruel and laughed at Adrian branding me as a virgin or he knew my name. He must have heard Lissa and Rose talk about operation kidnap me so, maybe he'd heard them say, Azra at one point. The last one seemed less likely but I didn't want to believe he was cruel, the way he looked at me when he walked out the door.. and the smile. Well it seemed .. nice. Adrian cleared his throat in an obvious way and smiled.
"looks like you have competition" Eddie stated, he'd seen the guy smile at me. Obviously he didn't think it was a cruel smile either.
"So, what do you guys want to do? Everyone else is off having sex" I stated bluntly.
"well" Adrian began. I cut him off mid sentence -
"How about we take a look at the shops around here?" I suggested quickly. Adrian smirked at the change of subject but they both agreed to go, we handed our plates to the waitress collecting plates and glasses and left the hotel. We wandered down a whole street of random shops. We found this really cool trinket shop and I found some pretty wooden beaded bracelets. I was about to buy them when I realised something.
"Shit!" I cursed looking into my purse.
"What?" Eddie asked worried. Him being pretty much on guardian mode meant that he always thought someone was in danger.
"I just realised, I didn't change any money over into dollars. I've got like no money." I look around apologetically at the stall owner, he muttered something that sounded a lot like "stupid tourists" I walked off embarrassed. Eddie followed me
"So I guess we need to find you somewhere to change your money over then?" I nodded. I'd never been to America before. Let alone Vegas. I had no idea where to go. I didn't even know how to exchange money. A few minutes later Adrian caught up with us,
"where'd you get caught up to? Did some girl have more than a centimetre of cleavage on show?" I asked sarcastically. Eddie laughed at me and Adrian stopped and handed me a brown paper bag. He was grinning. Oh god I thought What has he done now? I opened the bag to find 5 of the wooden beaded bracelets I had wanted to buy. I frowned.
"Adrian, you shouldn't have bought these!" I exclaimed guiltily.
"Oh relax! They were like $2 each" he was lying I knew the real price, Hence why I was only going to buy one or two.
"Adrian-" I'd started to protest and to tell him to take them back
"look, you like the bracelets don't you?" he asked.
"yes bu-"
"No buts, just accept them and say thank you" I gave him a huge smile.
"Thank you" I said, he returned my smile. I still felt pretty bad about taking them though i'd know him around 12 hours. It just didn't seem right to be taking gifts from him.
"Woah! don't get all like gushy on me guys" Eddie joked. I laughed back
"No chance" I said glancing sideways at Adrian. He was looking at me too. I couldn't help but laugh. We spent the rest of the time out searching for somewhere to exchange money only for Adrian to tell us they do it back at the hotel. Eddie and I both shot him our best glares when he'd told us. But he just laughed it off and said that he was having too much fun watching my expression "go funny" when we would get lost. Adrian had tried recreating the look but failed claiming that I was the master of them. He even pretending to bow down to me at one point. Which cracked Eddie up. In the end I gave in and laughed along with them. All in all today had been good! I couldn't wipe the smile off my face as I walked back to the hotel with my two newest friends. We found the money exchange booth pretty quick, it was near the casino part, which I guess was only fitting, tourists come in change their money then spend it all straight away in the casino. Adrian caught me looking into the casino. He must have mistaken my staring for longing.
"too bad your not old enough to get in there" he whispered into my ear. I have to admit that his mouth being so close to my neck and my ear kind of sent shivers down my spine. I tried to control myself hoping he hadn't noticed and turned around with my most flirty smile.
"actually I have a drivers licence in my purse that says I'm 21." I produced it from my bag and held it out to him.
"but your n-" he stopped himself in his tracks, "its fake?" he whispered. I nodded. His grin got wider and he looked at me in amazement. Even Eddie seemed a little shocked he laughed at me and shook his head.
"I guess your more of a rebel than I thought" Adrian admitted. But something stayed in my mind. More of a rebel than I thought. So he hadn't thought I could be rebellious? I don't know why it pissed me off as much as it did. How could he even assume that after only knowing me a few hours? I guess the thought of people thinking I didn't have a back bone kinda pissed me off. I may not drink a lot or wear slutty clothes or parade my ass around for guys to touch but that doesn't make me spineless. I always thought of myself as elegant. I'd always fantasized about being the girl who would walk around a party in a long red satin dress that clings to her curves and bust with loose curls hanging around her shoulders. Red pouty lips and a glass of champagne in her hand. You know. Elegant but not like uptight just a hint of sexiness. Like the Jessica rabbit of humans. I guess I'd been lost in thought for a while since when I came back to reality Adrian and Eddie were staring at me Both amused.
"I can be rebellious!" I snapped. I guess I'm really not very good at shouting at people since every time I do they kind of just look at me in disbelief or humour. Like Adrian was now.
"I'm sure you can," he smirked and looked away. I growled in my head. Ass
"fine! I'll prove it too you, how can I show you that I do actually have a spine?" I was smiling at him in a bitchy way. The smile that kind of says "your an ass hole"
"Tonight," he looked into my eyes. I felt a challenge coming on. I'm extremely competitive and rarely did I ever lose. He carried on "let your guard down, have more than one drink. And well.." he pointed to a sign on the door to the casino it said karaoke competition. Shit. I have terrible stage fright. Like really bad but hey if im going to have a few drinks before hand It would calm my nerves right? I couldn't back down now. Adrian would never let me live it down but on the other hand, what if I got up on stage and everyone boo'd or I fell on the stage or worse – off it. I came back to reality to see Adrian looking smugly at me and that really made my mind up for me. I wanted to knock the smug look off his face.
"fine, your on" I smiled.
"Woah! I want in on this" Eddie laughed.
"fine, I bet that you, Azra Arabella Kelly will back down, you'll probably have a drink or two then make an excuse and go back to your room." Adrian had a playful smile on his face. It made me want to smack his and then kiss him. I scoffed.
"okay! And I bet that I Azra Arabella Kelly will not back down, I'll have a few drinks have fun and best of all win the karaoke competition" I knew it wasn't the safest bet but what they didn't know was that I had a weapon. My voice. I'd had singing lessons a few years back. I was even in a stage production at the local theatre. I was good, but I didn't know if I was that good.
"Eddie?" I looked up at him expectantly, waiting for his decision
"I'm going with Adrian" he looked down guiltily. I glared at both of them.
"Fine! What does the winner get?" I asked. Adrian smiled
"their pride"
"and the loser?" I was guessing the opposite of having their pride. Knowing Adrian it was something completely daft.
"the loser, has to perform a strip tease on stage" I laughed at him.
"you know you could loose right?" Eddie looked like he agreed with me
"yeah Dude-" Adrian cut Eddie off with a look that said "we wont lose!"
"well I look forward to tonight, when I get a personal strip tease, from two sexy men" Crap. I hadn't meant to say the last bit, I'd been thinking it but it was never supposed to come out of my mouth.
They both laughed at me, and I laughed it off pretending I was actually meant to say it and that it was a joke. We decided to go back to our rooms to get ready for the night. Once we reached our doors. Eddie said goodbye and waited for Adrian to follow through the door but when Adrian didn't follow him Eddie thought best to mumble something and close the door.
"shouldn't you be preparing your best undies?" I smirked "I mean the whole hotel is going to be seeing them tonight" I winked.
"I have a feeling the tables will very much be turned, although I'm sure you'll be truly disappointed when you don't get to see my super hot bod" he was moving in close to me with a very seductive look on his face. I couldn't help but laugh at his words "super hot bod" he leaned in so our faces were almost touching each other. I couldn't help my drag my eyes to his lips. Mine started to tingle sort of yearning for his touch. Instead of going for my mouth he turned his head and whispered into my ear.
"You can laugh, but I know you think I'm sexy, you told me so remember" he moved his head so it was directly in front of my face again. I saw his eyes watch my mouth as I started to breath loud and ragged breaths. He stepped back and looked at me, well it almost felt as though it was around me like he could see something surrounding me. He chuckled to himself.
"You just proved my point, if only you could see what I see" he looked my body up and down, gave me another seductive smile and opened his door.
"I look forward to tonight!" he said before closing the door. I stayed there for a moment. What the hell just happened! I walked into my room still breathing hard and still astonished at what happened. I'd decided to talk a quick walk around the hotel to clear my head so I wasn't next door to Adrian and thinking about him. I decided on going to tell Rose, Dimitri, Lissa and Christian about the plans for tonight, leaving out the part about the bet. They seemed pleased with us all going to the bar together. I walked out of Lissa's room and looked up to see the familiar smile I'd seen twice today already. He had a light tan – sort of like mine and his hair was dark brown, short and messily pushed back so some of his fringe would hang down the one side of his face. One thing that I mostly noticed (apart from the smirk) were his eyes. They were big and brown. He was - well gorgeous. I needed to find a new word to describe good looking dudes because well gorgeous doesn't quite cut it for some.
"Is something funny?" I asked a bit impolitely if I'm honest. He didn't seem bothered though.
"Nope." he said putting emphasis on the p to make a popping sound.
"So then why do you keep smirking at me?" he did it again and I couldn't figure out weather I wanted to punch him or stay and talk. I felt sort of mesmerised by him. It was strange.
"Your name, Azra, I know what it means, When your friend mentioned what it meant and you tried to cover it up – well it was just amusing." he smiled again. But I couldn't help notice the way he'd said friend, it sort of sound disgusted. I chose to ignore it though since I didn't see the point in arguing.
"So, are you Turkish?" he nodded.
"well my mother is, my dad's American" he looked at me as if that was all the explanation I needed. when I blinked a few times not saying anything he sighed and continued.
"My sister's middle name is Azra," he looked at me amused
"ah" I said understanding. "poor kid!"
"if you knew her you wouldn't say that" he laughed.
"Speaking of names, What's yours?" I asked. He looked at me in a way that I couldn't quite make out I guess that he was probably deciding weather to tell me or not seems as I wasnt a guardian or anyone relevant to him or Lissa.
"Guardian Sevim" he stated. I sighed.
"What's your first name?"
"Why do you want to know?" he asked with a small smirk playing on his lips.
"I'm not a guardian, so I don't need to call you by your formal name, Plus" I threw on the man eater smile I'd seen Rose use on Dimitri. "I'll need your first name when I tell me friends about the hot guy I just saw" oh GOD! Did I just say that? I don't think that's even flirting that's just- plain cheesy. Ugh! Was I using chat up lines now? He chuckled.
"My, my aren't we eager... its Nathan" I smirked back
"That's not very Turkish"
"I said that my Dad was American, plus your name is Turkish but yet your accent isn't, what is that by the way?"
Who's eager now?" I said winking. "its a welsh accent." I eyed him. He was looking back at me, sort of, he was doing the same thing Adrian had been doing earlier.
"Well its.. nice" he finally said and smiled. I was about to smile back when I sudden thought popped into my head.
"Wait – your dad picked your name? I thought moroi blokes didn't tend to stay around once the baby is born?" he looked surprised by my question. I hoped I hadnt offended him. I guess I should learn to keep some questions to myself.
"Are you speaking from experience?" he asked sarcastically.
"Actually I found out I was adopted yesterday, I've been living with humans until Rose – my sister came and told me what I really was - a dhampir." I saw a look of regret flash through his eyes and just like that it was gone. I wonder how they do that?
"Sorry to hear that," he said awkwardly "you say your a dhampir?" he sounded confused.
"Yep, apparently, here I am in person all 5 ft 2 of me – dhampir" I nodded.
"ah" thinking our conversation was over I turned and walked away.
"Goodbye Nathan Sevim"
"There's something else to you, you know" hesitantly I turned around and saw him frowning.
"what?" I asked confused.
"There's another side to you" he looked confused at me at first and then looked deep in thought and bit his lip. What was that about? I thought.
"Isn't there two sides to everybody?" I asked thoughtfully. He smiled and with that I walked off back to my room. That was so odd! First I try and flirt with him and then he says crazy stuff. Weird.
I checked the time and soon realised I had half an hour to get ready. Shit. How long had I been talking to that guy? I stared into my wardrobe looking for something sexy to wear, I wanted to be confident in every single way. Including my looks. I'd decided on a killer black dress I bought a while ago. I've never worn it since my parents thought it was too provocative, I don't even know why I bought it. I guess fate wanted me to wear it. It was tight, hugging my curves and chest, I smiled at my reflection in the mirror, I've never worn anything like this before. Everything usually had a hemline that at least reached my knee but this came to halfway down my thight. I touched up my make-up adding a bit of red lipstick in. I wore a pair of bright red heels. Matching my hair and lipstick and I made sure to wear the bracelets Adrian had bought me. I looked back at my reflection and decided that, I looked good. Almost sexy. Just the confidence boost I needed. Tonight I was going to be a total bad ass. Well probably not but I refuse to let Adrian and Eddie win.
I decided to take the steps instead of the elevator since I was late and the elevator was taking ages to come back to my floor. I'd started to regret it until I walked into the lobby and saw a few guys heads turn my way. Woah I'm so not used to this attention. I smiled awkwardly and walked towards the bar I caught sight of Adrian and everyone all gathered waiting for me, I saw Adrian's eyes widen for a moment before he smiled and looked my body up and down he nodded as if he was saying he approved. I glanced towards Eddie and saw the same look. This was just going to make it so much better when I win I thought.
"Woah, Azra, you look … amazing!" Lissa admitted. I couldn't help but smile. "Oh and I love your bracelets"
"Oh thanks! … Adrian bought them for me" their heads quickly glanced towards Adrian, probably in shock but then he's probably known for splurging his money.
"I can be nice!" he said defensively. Crossing his arms in front of his chest. I laughed at him and couldn't help but notice how good he looked. He was wearing a tight fitted shirt, it wasn't too tight but tight enough to admire. He was wearing jeans and some sort of brown dress shoe. Fancy and no doubt expensive. Adrian and I had been stuck with getting the first round - Well Adrian offered to buy everyone drinks and told me I had to help him carry them. Isn't he charming? I couldn't help but notice his eyes trace over my body every now and again
"you should concentrate on where your walking you know, you might walk into something"
"just admiring the view" he smiled. I smiled back as we reached the bar, Adrian had ordered everyone the drinks they asked for – mainly cocktails or beer. He turned to me and playfully smiled turning back to the bartender and muttering something, I didn't hear a word he said but I understood as soon as the bartender handed Adrian A large bright yellow drink. My drink apparently since Adrian had handed it to me.
"What is this?" my eyes widened, he chuckled and leaned in towards me
"Not scared are you?" I scoffed at him.
"Not one little bit" with that he grabbed a tray and handed it to me and placed various different shots and cocktails onto it.
"Adrian-" I began but a soon as I saw the smug smile on his lips I stopped in my tracks. "never mind," I finished. Sitting back at the table he unloaded the trays contents and placed half of them in front of me , my eyes got wider every time he placed a new on the table. I looked up to see everyone else just as surprised.
"Adrian? Why're you trying to get my sister drunk?" it was so odd hearing Rose say that I was her sister. I still was far from being used to hearing it. I couldn't help but smile at her though. I'd always been a bit of a loner in school. Not in the geeky way as in everyone hated me but my class mates annoyed me and I found it hard to actually hold a conversation with any of them. I was sort of friends with this one girl – Jenny for a while but for some strange reason she moved away without even muttering a word to anyone about it. Even though Rose and I were far from being close something warmed inside of me at the thought of having a sister.
"actually we had a little bet" he confessed. Rose nodded but frowned at Adrian still not convinced. Then satisfied she turned back to Lissa and carried on her conversation. Christian stared in amazement at all the drinks. After a few minutes I realised he'd stopped unloading drinks and was expecting me to to drink them straight away. His smile grew bigger. I looked at Eddie who was sat with his arms crossed and one eye brow raised. He didn't think I could drink these, Even I was doubting that I couldn't.
"Drink up" Adrian said as he lifted back a shot of his own he swallowed it without even a wince. I looked back at my little arrangement of drinks, I placed a few of the shots in a line. I thought it would be worse if I did them singularly and feel the burn of the alcohol each time than if I did them quickly one after the other. I inhaled deeply and lifted shot by shot to the back of my throat and swallowed. Once I finished my 6th shot and slammed it on the table I noticed the room spinning and all the different tastes in my mouth made me feel nauseous but I refused to vomit. The burning went after a while and I opened my eyes and attempted to smile smugly at Adrian but as soon as my eyes were open properly I noticed that my vision was slightly blurry. I blinked a few times in a row as if to try and wipe away my dizziness. I took in a deep breath and turned back to Adrian
"See, easy.." I lied. He chuckled at me
"Yes, I can see that" he joked. Eddie laughed along with him and soon the whole table was laughing. I didn't see what was so funny myself but after hearing them laugh I couldn't help but giggle along either – I blame the alcohol. I smiled a lop sided smile and took a sip of my cocktail to hide my tipsiness. I know that experienced drinkers probably wouldn't have been affected at all by the shots but for me it was lethal. I kept sipping my cocktail and after the first few sips I started to feel a burning in my throat worse than what I had after 6 shots.
"Adrian – what the hell is in this?" I demanded.
"Are you backing out?" he smirked. God I'd had just about enough smirking for one day. Everyone I talked to today seemed to smirk atleast once in our conversation or do one of those evil sarcastic smiles. It was annoying me. A Lot.
"No i'm not! I did the shots didn't I? So will you stop smirking and just tell me what's in the drink?" I tried to put fierceness into my words, to make them sound like a warning but he just chuckled at me.
"vodka, sambuca, whiskey and a bit of rum oh and some lemonade of course" oh yeah of course the lemonade, I was drinking a death cocktail but dont forget the lemonade!
"is that even safe to drink?" I motioned towards my drink. He seemed to consider this for a while but finally made his decision
"perfectly safe" he hid his grin by taking a sip of his drink. I shook my head in astonishment.
"I'm not coming back from this tonight, you know that don't you?" I asked to Rose. She laughed and said i'd be fine.
"Don't worry! I used to drink like this all the time! You'll be fine honestly! Plus if you agreed to this bet that I cant really do anything.." she said smiling. Great so apparently there was some guardian rule that says you have to protect someone- unless they've made a bet. Brilliant. I rolled my eyes and turned back to Dimitri remembering my earlier conversation with Nathan.
"Hey, Dimitri do you know Lissa's guardian – Nathan?" he looked confused at me for a while and I rolled my eyes and corrected myself "Guardian Sevim?" his eye lit up in realisation. I wanted to laugh but shook it off claiming a bug had landed on me. That earned me a few odd stares of course but Dimitri carried on the conversation regardless.
"Oh! Yeah he's not long joined the royal guard but I know him from a while back" he seemed to be lost in memories for a while but then turned back to me. "why?" he asked.
"Um, I was just talking to him earlier thats all" I answered awkwardly I noticed Adrian shifting out of the corner of my eye. I had to hold back a smirk (yes even I was doing those now) could he really be jealous? After a day? I was about to tell everyone at the table about my weird conversation with him (minus my awful chat up line) when a voiced boomed over us all. Looking around for the source I found a guy on stage talking into a microphone.
"okay everyone! So welcome to the karaoke competition, I hope everyone who wants to participate has filled in their entry slips" a few cheers came from the crowd to show that ofcourse they had! I was about to say to Adrian "oh no! Looks like I cant do it.. you didn't get a slip. Oops looks like no singing for me." but as soon as I had turned to him I saw him holding up a slip with my name on it. I glared at him and took it out of his hands.
"Hoping i'd forget?" he winked.
"No, I'm excited actually! I was more worried that you hadn't got one" I sipped my death cocktail to hide my lie. He raised an eye brow at me but I ignored it. I had to win this bet tonight or I'd be fronting my undies on stage for everyone to see.
"okay so," - the voice continued over the microphone. "Were gonna go in alphabetical order-"
fuck. Adrian laughed and clapped his hands together.
"first up is Azra!"
So thats the second chapter! Hope you enjoyed it!
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Thanks for taking the time to read this!
I hope I potrayed Adrian right, I wanted the right amount of sarcasm and arrogance mixed with the right amount of nice Adrian haha!
Oh and what do you think of Nathan?
Kristina x
