Okay so i was going to stop it after the last chapter but i got a couple of reviews and messages telling me to keep going so HERE IT IS!
Chapter 2
I walked back inside the bar, Dimitri right behind me and as soon as Lissa saw me I heard through the bond Oh my God Rose what did you do?Are you okay?Do you need me to kick his ass?Do I need to kick your ass?I just shook my head and smiled and sat down next to her. I saw Dimitri walk over to Tasha and I sat there watching, really looking forward to what this conversation was going to bring. Lissa saw where I was looking and then looked back at me, she kept her gaze shifting between me and Dimitri still trying to see what was going on. She and I both saw Tasha's expression at the same time, at one point it was all smiles and laughs and then it grew serious, and disappointed.
I couldn't really hear what they were saying and I'm kind of glad because it was fun to ad lib. I saw a couple of words come off her lips that I had memorized what they looked like, like hoar and bitch, the basics. She looked over at me and when she saw me watching she got up so fast that her chair flew back and hit the back wall. She started walking over to me when she got there she started yelling. I immediately cut her off
"Lets go outside, we don't want to start a scene." It was amazing that I was being the sensible one, but I didn't want my friends to find out about Dimitri from her, I wanted them to know it from me. Christian looked at his aunt puzzled, wondering why she was so mad, and when he caught my eyes recognition crossed his features. I got up to head outside and Dimitri started to get up too but I shook my head at him and he sat back down.
I walked out the doors and out into the cool night air.
"You little bitch, I've only had him for a month, and here you are taking him away from me." I was shocked at how she was talking about Dimitri.
"Dimitri isn't some dog that I can take away from you, he makes his own decisions, and he chose me, so you might as well get over it. And the way Dimitri said it, it was your idea to come to this restaurant, so don't blame me that things didn't go according to your master plan, this is your fault. So I suggest you just move on before one of us gets hurt, and I can guarantee it won't be me." I was really not in the mood to play her games.
"Are you threatening me? I'm a royal, and a Moroi." She said shocked.
"I'm not threatening you, I'm giving you an ultimatum, leave, or get your ass kicked, and I don't give a shit that you are a royal Moroi because according to everyone else, the ozera name is ruined, and tarnished, and I would be doing the world a favor if I took you out of it, the only thing that is stopping me is that you are Christians aunt, and for some convoluted reason Dimitri thinks you are a good person. So just don't mess with me today Tasha, I'm really not in the mood."
She was just standing there speechless, I knew that I probably went a little too far, but I really didn't care. I saw Christian walk out of the bar and I thanked whatever God was up there that he didn't come out seconds earlier, and actually his timing was perfect, because at that instant Tasha lit me on fire. Not the kind of fire that is just meant to scare you, the one that actually burned your skin.
"AUNT TASHA!" Christian yelled instantly putting out the flames that his aunt had so recently created. She whipped around and looked horrified that Christian was there.
"You should hear what she said, you, you would have done the same thing, Christian I'm so sorry." He just looked at her shock written all over his face.
"No Aunt Tasha, I wouldn't have done the same thing, because Rose is a friend, and everyone even remotely close to her knows that she runs her mouth without even thinking and not to take anything personally, but you are so caught up in trying to prove that you are better than her that you are just making yourself seem more and more like a little teenage brat. I thought you were supposed to be mature, and well rounded, isn't that how you raised me." I held back my comment about how she didn't do a good job, because he was fighting for me so instead I just stood back and watched.
Tasha stood there looking at Christian
"Yes, that is what I taught you, but Christian, you weren't HERE!" she sounded desperate right now and I kind of felt bad for her.
"No Aunt Tasha, I don't want to hear it." Christian brushed past her and came over to me.
"Rose, are you okay, we can have Lissa heal you." He grabbed my arms and was looking over my body seeing if I had any burns.
"No Christian I'm fine, but your aunt is right, I said terrible things to her, I deserved it." He looked at me shocked.
"Rose, no one deserves that, no matter what you said." I looked at him and I saw how much he actually cared for me, not in a romantic way, the only one he saw that way was Lissa, but he did look at me with a kind of brotherly affection. I took him and brought him into a big hug, and at first he was surprised and then he hugged me back.
"Go back inside, I can handle this."
He nodded and walked back inside the bar. I started to follow him but I looked back towards Tasha to see if she was okay. When I saw her face was one mixed with horror, and anger, and shock.
"Tasha?" I asked.
"It's ruined, my life is ruined, the only two guys I ever loved hate me, and it's all because of YOU!" I started backing up, buying time, deciding that I had to chose my words very carefully to make sure I didn't get in trouble again.
"Tasha, they still love you, both of them, more then you know, you're just too blinded by jealousy to see it. Tasha they would do anything for you, you just have to give them time and in a couple of days they will both be back to looking at you like a loving aunt and an old time friend."
"But I don't want him to look at me like a friend, I want more than that!"
"But Tasha, you will never get that, and if you don't accept that you could lose him forever, hell you could lose both of them forever, and I know that you don't want that." I was slowly walking towards her and my hands were on her shoulders by the time I was done.
"You know nothing about me or about what I want!" she turned away and walked to the parking lot and got into her car. I just stood outside staring after her retreating car until I could no longer see it. I knew in my gut that this wasn't over yet.
I walked back into the bar and instead of sitting over by my friends I walked over to Dimitri. I scooted into the booth that he was sitting in and leaned my head on his shoulder. "Did you drive here with Tasha?" I asked and he nodded. "Well I guess you're coming home with me then." I felt him smile and I smiled too. I looked up at him "Hey, you never sang me a song, I sang you a song, but you have been sitting in this back corner the whole time." I smirked at him and he smiled back. "I know exactly what to sing." I was pleasantly surprised that he was going to do it, I was actually just joking.
The singer that was up there ended and Dimitri walked up on stage. I went back and sat with my friends and Lissa opened her mouth to bombard me with questions but I didn't have time.
"Yes we are back together, yes he regrets his decision, Yes Tasha is pissed" I said that part with a smile "and she drove home without him so he is coming home with us, yes we are going to take it slow, and no my heart is not going to get broken again, and I am so thankful that all of you guys where there for me but he has done in one day what you guys couldn't do in a month, and now he's going to sing a song, so be quiet." I said it all in a rush and was done by the time Dimitri got up to the mike. I recognized the song as soon as it came on. It was "Hero" be Enrique Iglesias. He started singing and his voice was beautiful, there was a little trace of a Russian accent and it made it that much more sexy.
Let me be your hero
Would you dance, if I asked you to dance?
Would you run, and never look back?
Would you cry, if you saw me crying?
And would you save my soul, tonight?
Would you tremble, if I touched your lips?
Would you laugh? Oh please tell me this
Now would you die, for the one you love?
Hold me in your arms, tonight
I can be your hero, baby
I can kiss away the pain
I will stand by you forever
You can take my breath away
Would you swear, that you'll always be mine?
Or would you lie? Would you run and hide?
Am I in too deep? Have I lost my mind?
I don't care you're here, tonight
I can be your hero, baby
I can kiss away the pain
I will stand by you forever
You can take my breath away
Oh, I just wanna hold you
I just wanna hold you, oh yeah
Am I in too deep? Have I lost my mind?
Well I don't care you're here, tonight
I can be your hero, baby
I can kiss away the pain, oh yeah
I will stand by you forever
You can take my breath away
I can be your hero, I can kiss away the pain
(I can be your hero, baby)
And I will stand by you, forever
You can take my breath away
You can take my breath away
An' I can be your hero
The whole bar was cheering by the end, and the entire song he never took his eyes off of me. I had butterflies in my stomach and when he got down off the stage I walked up to him and gave him a kiss.
"Let's leave" I said with a smile and he smiled back. I walked over to the guardians and asked for the keys to one of the vans. They said the only way that I could go is if I had a trained guardian with me and took two Moroi. I pointed to Dimitri and although that wasn't what he meant he had to acknowledge that I found his loophole. And then I said that I would take Adrian and Mason, because Adrian was too drunk to remember anything and Mason looked bored to death sitting at the table. Before we left I walked over to Christian
"Just because I'm leaving doesn't mean that you get out of having to sing Single Ladies, Lissa will video tape it for me."
Lissa smiled at me and we walked out of the door. It took me and Mason to get Adrian in the car and I sat up front with Dimitri and he held my hand on the center counsel. We got to the academy in record time and We were all getting out of the car when Mason came over to me.
"Rose are you sure this is right, I don't want you to do something you will regret later." I looked at him and saw the concern in his eyes, and behind that I saw the anger for Dimitri.
"Mason, I know what I'm doing, and I know you just don't want to have to nurse me back from a broken heart again" he started to interrupt but I continued "and I'm going to tell you what I told Lissa, he had fixed my broken heart faster in one day then you guys have in an entire month, I at least have to try." He nodded and then helped Adrian out of the car and back to his dorm.
"We're finally alone. I haven't been alone with you in an entire moth." When I said that I saw his eyes turn sad but they quickly were replaced with joy as he realized that we were in fact alone. We walked up to my room hand in hand, and when we got in there I didn't think I could hold it back anymore. I wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed him like I did when we were at the bar. I shut the door with my foot and he led me over to my bed and threw me down.
He was looking down on me and I saw the hunger in his eyes. I pulled him by his shirt so that he was on top of me and then I took it off. He took mine off next but then he stopped, just looking into my eyes.
"Rose, you're still only seventeen."
"You really know how to ruin the mood don't you?" I questioned sitting up on my elbows.
"I'm serious." He said and I could see the hunger and passion being replaced by love and concern.
"I don't care Dimitri, I love you." He seemed shocked to hear me say it, and I think he just was never really sure, not until then.
"Rose, I love you so much it hurts, it physically hurts to be away from you."
"Then don't" I said it like it was so simple, because for me it was. And just like that the decision was made, and I brought his lips back down against mine.
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