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Rose POV
The headboard collided heavily with the wall in a steady rhythm. Loud cries of pleasure filled the air. I could faintly hear our neighbours slamming their doors after yelling 'Shut the fuck up!' in different ways, each more vulgar than the last as the night wore on.
"Roza." Dimitri groaned, staring at me in the dimly lit room. We had been here three days, and each night had been the same. Occasionally Dimitri joined in on the yelling, attempting to get our rabbit friends in the room next to us to shut up. Each of the occupants on this nearly deserted floor had come up with at least one plan of revenge, ranging from recording it to play at graduation to soaking their condoms in jalapeño sauce and itching powder.
"Will they ever shut up?" he asked for what seemed like the millionth time tonight. I checked the bond, making sure to only sweep her mind, and not get sucked in.
"Sorry Comrade, looks like we're stuck with this for the rest of the month. There's not even any recognition that it's my birthday in a couple of days in her mind, just Christian's baby dick." my voice trailed off, and he gave me a sympathetic look, placing his arm around me in an awkward half hug. It hadn't been awkward sleeping with him these past couple of nights, not that there had been much sleeping due to the rabbits next to us. But I had longed for something more, every night, we'd get into bed, say goodnight and fall asleep facing opposite ways. And every morning, we'd wake up in an embrace.
"Maybe she's just hiding any plans from you, to keep it a surprise."
"I hope so." the banging stopped, both of us sharing a sleep filled grin and pulled the doona up.
"CHRISTIAN!" she screamed and the banging resumed. I let out a frustrated groan and stood up.
"That's it! I've had enough of this!" I stormed out of the room and knocked loudly on Eddie and Mason's door.
"I'm holding a rebellion!" I said, pushing past a sleep riddled Mason into the room.
"You," I said pointing to Eddie, "Go wake Mia and Adrian. And you go get all of us coffee and red bulls." I said to Mason.
"Dimitri." I said as I abruptly walked out of their room and back into mine, "Go wake the few occupants of this floor and tell them to find refuge with their friends on another floor, and alert Alberta about my plans. We start in 20."
They completed their tasks fairly quickly and soon returned to my room, their eyes widening as I told them my plan. It was fairly outrageous. And they where scared that Dimitri wouldn't go along with it.
"Lets do it." he said, determined to get some sleep. We begun to drink the coffee's and energy drinks Mason had grabbed from a 24/7 seven eleven. Once they were consumed, Mia, Mason and I got up on to the bed. Dimitri was in the armchair, reading a western novel. Eddie and Adrian were on the floor, playing go fish.
Once I felt through the bond that Christian and herself where well on their way to sleep, the three of us slowly begun jumping on the bed. As if rehearsed, we begun to let out sexual moans, and cries of pleasure. We where trying to make it seem as close to real sex as we possible could. The aim was to give the pair a taste of their own medicine. Sneaking a peak at Dimitri I saw, that although his head was turned towards his book, his eyes were trained on me. I hadn't worn a bra to bed, and hadn't bothered to put one on to extract my revenge, resulting in my breasts violently bouncing as I did. I could hear his jagged breathing, as well as see his eyes swirling with lust.
I winked at him discreetly, and continued to re-create the noises I had made in the cabin. Adrian and Eddie where still on the floor, momentarily distracted by Mia and I's noises. She, unlike me, was wearing a bra. But where I was in short shorts and a tight tee, she was in a silk nightie.
"Do you think it's working?" Mason whispered as Mia made her solo début. I felt Lissa waking up and trying to decipher where the cries where coming from. Realisation shocking her as Mia screamed my name, shortly followed by Mason's.
"Yeah, she just heard Mia scream my name." I whispered, "Good acting, by the way."
"Thank you, I faked it with Ralf and Jesse." she said as I cried her name, along with a jumble of 'oh god, don't stop' and 'holy fuck's. Two hours and three 'orgasms' apiece later, there was a loud knock at the door. Still going on with the charade, we continued to jump on the bed and moan as Adrian answered the door, video camera in hand. We where pretending that he had recorded the 'threesome'. Lissa walked through the door, and the three of us sat innocently on the bed, quickly starting those hand clap games with the rhymes that go with it.
"What the fuck Rose?! We where trying to sleep!" she raged, a pissed Christian by her side.
"So where we. God, at least the church attic was private. I'm sure the entire floor can imitate your sex noises by now, cause I'm damn sure I've got Christian's down." I laughed bitterly, Dimitri shot me a worried glance. Damn, he could tell that the darkness was getting to me. Lissa and I stared it off for a little while more.
"Fine. I'm sorry, we'll keep it down a bit." she finally caved.
"It's not me you have to apologise to, I have to put up with it whether you guys are loud or not. It's the rest of the floor you need to buy candy."
"Goodnight Rose." she said dryly, turning on her heel and walking out. I snickered at her defeat. I could feel the darkness building up, it was only a matter of time before I snapped.
That night when we went to bed, we all found boxes of candy laying on our bed. Grinning, I sat on the bed and started to unwrap them.
"You shouldn't be eating that so close to bed, Roza." he said, pulling his top over his head. Oh god. He did the sexy shirt thing. The one where guys pull their tops off from the back of their neck, oh shit. Growing up surrounded by Dhampirs I wasn't not used to buff shirtless guys, but there was something about Dimitri that made me weak at the knees. He made me want to be better, he made me want to prove that I was worthy of his affections. I was Rose Hathaway, I never got self conscious or wanted to prove my self to anyone, much less a guy. But Dimitri wasn't a guy, he was a man. Something I was reminded of every time I caught sight of his promise mark, hidden at the nape of his neck by his hair.
"I didn't realise you were my mother." I said, popping a sweet into my mouth. I skimmed the list of things to do at the town. I had crossed things off as I went, wanting to do everything before I was sworn into slavery. He laughed and lay on the bed next to me. Today had been nice, I had gone to the zoo with everyone. Lissa and Christian had attended also, but they had gone together instead of with the group. Dimitri and I had ditched the others and stolen the map in the maze next door, laughing as we heard them walking aimlessly and trying to escape the thing. It reminded me of the maze in the goblet of fire, I suspected an earth using Moroi had used their magic to create small special effects within the maze.
Dimitri and I had hidden in a dead-end, sitting on a bench that had been there. We sat there for what felt like hours, talking. We both knew that it was wrong, we couldn't be together until I officially graduated. We knew that taking small moments to our selves was harmful, not to others, but to our selves. I didn't know about him, but every moment like that I spent with him, knowing he was just with in my reach, but I couldn't have him killed me.
My eyes drifted to one of the shops listed inside the resort. A tattoo parlour. I was turning eighteen soon, so nothing could stop me. And I wanted to do something nice for Dimitri, to prove just how serious I was about us. A tattoo was a perfect, permanent way of proving my love. I couldn't get his name, that would be too obvious to everyone else. Maybe I could get something cowboy related? I had my fake id with me, maybe I could sneak away in the next couple of days. Or wait until my birthday.
The headboard collided heavily with the wall in a steady rhythm. Loud cries of pleasure filled the air. I could faintly hear our neighbours slamming their doors after yelling 'Shut the fuck up!' in different ways, each more vulgar than the last as the night wore on.
"Roza." Dimitri groaned yet again, staring at me in the dark. I couldn't fucking believe them, even after our intervention earlier in the week. It was three am, and I turned eighteen in two hours, thirty-six minutes and eight seconds.
"What a way to spend my birthday," I grumbled "Happy birthday Rose, here, listen to the sound of all the sex you can feel but you're not having." Dimitri laughed, resting his hand slightly on my waist. My breathing caught in my throat as he leaned towards me.
"Happy birthday, Roza." my eyes were lost in his, our lips almost touching. His eyes never leaving mine, he closed the distance between us, his lips meeting mine in a love filled passionate kiss. I was elated. Dimitri's lips never wavered from my own, hands moving around me, one in my hair and the other my lower back. Before either of us knew what was happening, he was on top of me, sliding my shirt up my hips and above my head. His chest was already bare, leaving me in only my borrowed sweats and bra. Him in his sweats also.
Then, as quickly as it started, it was over. Dimitri pulled away from me, throwing my shirt at me whilst gruffly telling me to get dressed. After pulling a shirt on, he sat in one of the chairs in the room with his head in his hands.
"Why do you always do that?" I asked angrily.
"Do what?"
"You know exactly what! Any time you lose control and kiss me, you break away from it like I'm poisonous!" his head whipped up to stare at me, I couldn't make out the emotion in his eyes, but I knew he could see the hurt and heartbreak radiating from me. He continued to stare at me, never making a sound.
"Forget it." I snapped, throwing some clothes into a canvas bag, "I can't be in this room with you." he didn't make a single movement to stop me as I walked out of the room, finally letting a small tear escape from me. By the time I had walked the small distance to Adrian's door they where falling uncontrollably.
"Little Dhampir?" he asked, rubbing sleep from his eyes. He led me into his room, being wary of the sleeping Mia in one of the beds. Wrapping a blanket around me, he attempted to coax what had happened out of me.
"Guys suck." was my only reply, understanding coloured his face, and after giving me a block of chocolate and a kiss on the cheek, he wrapped his arms around me and fell asleep on the couch with me.
Mia had already left by the time that I woke up, Adrian walking out of the bathroom dressed and with wet hair.
"Breakfast is starting." he said with a smile, he pulled a small package from his bag and sat it in front of me along with two others.
"From Mia, she didn't want to wake you." he said, motioning to the smaller pinker of the two.
"And the other..." he motioned to the slightly larger, perfectly wrapped box, "Is from Belikov, he came around earlier and asked me to give this to you. Saying something about you probably not wanting to speak to him." my heart wrenched at the thought of Dimitri, I was still confused over what had happened earlier. I pushed all thoughts of that to the side and pulled the huge box Adrian had given me onto my lap. I opened the lid and found a photo album, one filled with pictured he had taken over our short friendship. There was one from the ski lodge the day I met him, I had walked up the steps, the wind blowing my hair out and my goggles resting up on my beanie. My black eye was visible, but Adrian had taken the shot in such a way that it made me look striking and beautiful. I flipped through the album, the only ones there of us where our ridiculous selfies. My hand froze mid page turn as I noticed the double page spread dedicated to Dimitri and I, there where ones of us training, looking at each other, and even a couple of him looking at me admiringly as I walked to class with Lissa. I threw my arms around him enthusiastically.
"Thank you," I whispered. "So much."
"Open your other presents little D." he pushed Mia's towards me, opening it up, I saw it was a ring with a molnija stamped into the cool silver surface. Sliding it onto my right pointer finger I grinned, that would defiantly leave a molnija shaped mark on whoever I punched. And after reading Mia's birthday note, I realised that was exactly what it was meant for. Examining it further, I detected a faint engraving on the inside. E&C, it said. I sucked in a harsh breath, E&C was a semi-prestigious jewellers at court. This would have cost a lot for her, taking her family's low status into account. I vowed never to loose it.
I hesitated over Dimitri's, I felt guilty for walking out on his this morning. But I had been fed up with his whole do good attitude. I wanted him, he wanted me. It was simple. But at the same time it was complicated. I was his student, he was my mentor. I was eighteen, he was twenty-four. We where both destined to be Lissa's guardians.
I unwrapped the gift, eyeing the jewellery box, it wasn't E&C, but one I recognised from here at the resort. Carefully opening the box, I saw a white gold chain nestled into the soft velvet lining. And a heart-shaped pendant. It was white gold, just like the chain, and had diamonds and aquamarine varying around the pendant. I turned it over in my hand, and saw that there was a message engraved on the back, it was in Russian, so I had no idea what it could be. But the thought brought a fresh round of tears to my eyes. Dimitri was truly amazing, he deserved so much more than me, he deserved someone who could give him children. But he didn't want anyone else, just me. The thought made me smile.
I hung the chain around my neck, it sat just above my cleavage. I picked up my present from Adrian, the now empty boxes and the chocolate from Dimitri and carried them to my room before making my way towards one of the cafe's.
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