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I was trembling not because I was scared but I was seriously really nervous. Adrian had to go past my room to get to his and that was the important part of our plan. I heard footsteps and I tried to compose myself and act casual, standing in front of my room door. The footstep's pace got faster and faster making my heart beat twice the speed. I tried to keep my breathing steady, as I saw a shadow figure appear, I put my hand behind my back fumbling for the door handle trying to open it but my sweaty palms kept sliding of the handle. I gripped the handle tight, just as I was about to turn it the shadow figure appeared from behind the corner and my hand slid off and I sighed in relief. It was just Dimitri thankfully.
"You nearly gave me a heart attack, I thought you were Adrian for a second!" I said as accusingly as I could from my unsteady breathing. Dimitri smirked at me but then quickly made his way over to me looking over his shoulder a few brief times.
"Adrian's on his way, remember the plan clearly?" Dimitri asked as he started to position me to where I should be standing. "Remember fake expressions, are a winner yes?" He babbled on as his positioned everything in the correct formation. Suddenly I remembered something I needed to reassure with him, knowing Dimitri I know he would definitely rub out the line I made and draw it somewhere he wanted it to be. Better be safe than sorry.
"Only the t-shirt comes off nothing else are we clear?" I said sternly, making sure he made eye contact with me to seal the deal. He mumbled a yes and a quick nod before our heads popped up as we heard a new fresh set of footsteps heading our way. Dimitri looked at me and I nodded at him as we waited a few seconds before the footsteps got close enough for the plan to begin. I started to get a weird feeling in my stomach, just as Dimitri pulled me close and started kissing me. My hand twitched violently wanting to so badly slap him for kissing me but I relaxed the urge to do so. Dimitri's hand found mine and lifted them up so they were around his neck. He pushed me up close to him so our bodies weren't inches apart anymore. I heard the footsteps come to a halt and Dimitri got the queue to open my room door and pull me in. Dimitri had moved the couch so it was in front of the open door and Adrian could see exactly what was going on. I was on his lap now on the couch and we were still unfortunately kissing, just wait for the right time to stop Rose. Before I knew it my t-shirt was off and Dimitri's hands were around my hips. His lips felt rough and weird against mine something I wouldn't really want to kiss in my life. His hands felts awkward on my hips as he pushed me closer to him, and just then someone cleared their throat and we stopped immediately hoping and praying it was Adrian. I turned around first looking straight at the door and held in my sigh of relief. I smirk tried to make its way onto my lips but I held it back and put on my surprised shock face that I practiced. I couldn't read the expression on his face it just looked blank. I quickly scrambled off Dimitri's lap and made my way to the door.
"You erm…" Adrian started but his words soon faded away, I was confused at first at where he was looking but when I looked at his eyes, I covered myself with my hands, which un-hypnotized Adrian from my boobs and made him look and me.
"What?" I snapped back as planned, Dimitri threw my t-shirt at me which I quickly threw on. I put my hands on my hips and gave him a hard look. Why isn't he jealous or angry? I shouted at myself. My fingers wrapped around my hips tightly digging into my flesh. Why isn't he angry!? I shouted at myself again. Think of something Rose, think of something to say to him that might tip him over the edge a little bit. "Can't you see that me and Dimitri are a little busy here?" I snapped back in the same tone. He looked at me and his jaw tensed just for a split second. Just what I was hoping for a little emotion! He gave me a sarcastic smile, and pressed his hand up against the side of the door frame.
"Well, yes I could seeing that you left the door open, I just came to shut it." He looked over at Dimitri and did that nod thing that guys do and with that he gave me a grin and closed the door. I stood near the door until I heard his footsteps fade away and turned to look at Dimitri who had a grin on his face.
"That went well!" Dimitri said happily making himself comfy on my sofa. He thought that went well all he did was fricken tense his damn jaw!
"That, didn't go well at all! Maybe from whatever planet you're from that is good there, but here on earth, that isn't good, all he did was tense his damn jaw for a split fricken second!" I shouted and Dimitri who still sat there with a smile on his face as he began to inspect his nails making my anger spike up even more than it had been before.
"Rose, oh Rose, I know Adrian, and with one tensed jaw for a split second can mean jealousy and anger combined." Dimitri said matter-of-factly, making me calm down a little more. I made my way over to the couch and sat down next down next to Dimitri, I looked over at him.
"Now what?" I asked, because to be honest it was quite confusing in what I, I mean we should do next because Adrian is like a rock he won't budge and I want him to budge just a little, besides we were supposed to be friends right? "Maybe I should talk to him casually," my words came out a little dazed until I realized I was speaking. I found Dimitri looking at me.
"Maybe you should…" He said, pulling me no more like dragging me from my seat. "You need to put on something flattering…" He said as he turned and around and walked into my room to my cupboards and began rummaging, tusking and most of the things he pulled out. He threw a load of stuff on my floor; you could barely see the floor around him.
"Hey that's my favourite jumper," I said picking it up from the ground where he had chucked it.
"More like your grandma's favourite jumper," he mumbled and began to rummage again. After quite a while, when I say quite a while I mean quite a while. He pulled out something. "This is the only decent dress you have; I'm thinking you didn't buy it." He said looking at me judgingly. I held his gaze trying not to break and not give in, until my gaze ripped from his and my head sagged, looking at the ground. "Yeah, it thought so," He said throwing the dress so it landed on my legs. I got a proper look at the dress and saw it was the one Lisa had got for me for my 18th birthday. It was a black body con; the arms and the top part of the chest were covered with mesh designs of flowers all over. It wasn't really suitable to wear to talk to Adrian.
"Why do I have to wear this to talk to Adrian?" I questioned Dimitri as he moved a pile of clothes from a chair and sat onto it.
"Nothing else nice in there," He said meaning I hadn't got any nice clothes in his opinion, but nice clothes to him are girls wearing stuff close to nothing. I threw a pillow at him and he laughed.
"It's not appropriate, unless I'm going to a party," I argued. As I fell backwards onto my bed and huffed.
"I'll buy you a new one," he said normally as if he buys dresses for girls all the time. "Anyone you like," he added. I groaned and sat up.
"Fine…" I grumbled out. I picked up the dress and looked at Dimitri. He looked back at me. I kept looking at him until he got the message. "I'm not wearing the dress over my clothes you know," I said trying to get it through his thick head that he needed to get out of the damn room.
"Yes I know," he said still looking at me, and waiting. What, did he think I was changing in front of him?
"So…Get out!" I said finally, he owed at me and stood up walking towards the door. He shut it firmly behind him just as I let out a huge sigh. "This cannot be getting any more worse," I mumbled to myself just as I got up and quickly folded and hung the clothes back into my wardrobe. I stripped from my casual clothes and put the dress on. I decided that it would be better to put on a little make up knowing Dimitri he would notice it. Then I decided I might as well leave my hair out too, and add a little lip gloss. After I had added everything I stood in front of my full length mirror and inspected myself. I sagged my shoulders and exhaled loudly. If this goes wrong, I will kill Dimitri, I promised myself just before the devil himself spoke.
"I'm coming in," Dimitri said, as he opened the door and actually came in with his eyes covered.
"Are your eyes actually covered Dimitri?" I asked very shocked indeed.
He uncovered them and looked at me," well it's not very hard to believe I do have respect for the ladies, especially my future sister-in-law." He said mockingly. I put my hands on my hips and frowned.
"I do not fancy Adrian I'm just teaching him a lesson to not use girls!" I said a little frustrated at all the accusations I've been hearing from him. Besides I don't fancy Adrian… were just 'friends'.
"One look into Adrian's eyes and one you start to fall for him and want him more every single day, two you dream of him, then three your used and loosed," He said simply just as he ushered me out of the door and shoved some heels into my hands so I could put them on. What did he mean about the list? I'm not falling for Adrian, I'm not dreaming of Adrian and I most definitely won't be used by him either. I am not one of his toys he can mess around with a lead on to think that you'll get married and live happily ever after. I've done that once already and I'm not going back into that hell hole anytime soon, not on my watch! More determined than ever I walked out of my room leaving Dimitri behind, as I started to march the hall towards Adrian's room. The closer and closer I got the slower and slower my marching pace got. Until I stopped at a halt and turned around to see if Dimitri was still at my door, and in fact there he was with a big old cocky grin on his face.
"Where's your determination gone, babe?" Dimitri said in a smug voice. What am I doing? I finally asked myself. You march right up to his door Hathaway! My ego was shouting at me to do one thing and the small unconfident bit right at the very back of my mind tucked away into the darkness was telling me to do something else. I looked up at Dimitri again and he was still stood there in the same exact position. What to do, what to do? "What are you waiting for Christmas?" Dimitri asked as he leaned against the door frame.
"I'm nervous," I said finally, as I came to terms with myself that I could be nervous, that Rose Hathaway actually had the feeling of anxiety hidden away in her. I looked up to see a very shocked Dimitri; he looked very funny that it brought a smile to my face.
"The Rose Hathaway who randomly came and hugged me in the cafeteria, threatened to snap my arm and made out in front of Adrian, is nervous? My oh my!" Dimitri said in a surprised voice with a little sarcasm you couldn't miss out. I rolled my eyes at him. "Go on then," He said I thought he was actually going to come and drag me all the way to Adrian's door if I didn't go now. Suck it up Rose, I said and finally turned on my heel and walked down to Adrian's room. With every step I took more and more of my self-confidence returned to me. I was like I was picking up pieces of my confidence up that I had dropped. This is it I said and rolled my neck and rolled my shoulders back as if I was going to play a football match. I picked up my hand to the door… and now for the knock. I started knocking on the door and I was pretty proud of myself that I could stop knocking on the door. Okay Rose stop knocking. And before I knew it the hard wooden texture of the door was replaced by a soft but hard surface. I looked to see what it was. Shit. It was Adrian's chest I had been knocking. I could hear laughter from down the corridor then a door slam shut, fucking little bitch. "Oh god I am so sorry Adrian I didn't notice that you opened the door," all my words rushed out really faster than I had hoped. I looked up to see Adrian and he was dressed it a suit, and by all means he looked so damn sexy in one. No he doesn't Rose, he looks ugly remember, my conscience reminded me as I steadied myself once again.
"You look, erm, really nice in that dress you know," nice did he say I looked nice oh how nice of him! I forced on a smile.
"Thanks, you look nice too," I said back to him. "Where are you heading off to?" I said rather curious in why he was wearing a suit. Maybe he wanted to take me out for dinner? I shut the thought and crammed it to the back of my mind with the other unwanted thoughts about Adrian had gathered up.
"Taking Britney out to dinner," He said casually as if he takes girls to dinner every time. There wasn't any sense of proudness a guy usually feels when he states boldly that he's taking the girl he loves to dinner. It was just, 'yeah I'm going out to dinner with another girl nothing much,' more like that.
"A ha," I said and noticed the feeling of disappointment and rejection filling up inside of me unexpectedly. It's just Adrian Ivashkov going out to dinner with another girl, there's nothing to feel about that. Then all the thoughts started to build up inside of me, like why was I making an effort to dress nice and take interest in everything he does when he doesn't do any of that back to me! I'm taking all of the steps here trying to get us to be closer and tighter together! All of a sudden anger washed into me making me feel angry that he didn't ask me to dinner and went with that slut Britney instead and before I could even control my tone or take back what I was going to say it all came out. "Well, for your information I'm going to dinner with Dimitri, enjoy your dinner with Britney," I said as I gave him a sarcastic smile to match my tone as I stormed off down the corridor opened my room door changed my clothes into a pair of black sweat pants and blue Victoria's Secret cropped tee I bought in the sales and my white sneakers. I ignored Dimitri's comments as I brushed past him out of the room and scurried to the gym, ready to take my anger out on a boxing bag. It was quite empty with the odd people finishing off their training just as I get started to the boxing bag. My punches were harder than I thought as I took my anger out on the red battered boxing bag. "Fucking ho bag," I said not knowing why I said it. "Bitch," I said as I punched the bag with more force. I continued to punch the bag, a lot more than I had ever. There was a brief sense of tiredness but it washed away completely, as I ignored it and focused of what I wanted to do, which was punch the god damned bag. The only thing that I could see right now was the punching bag, moving in the air rapidly as I paced my punches quicker. I knew I was getting tired I could sense it in my bones but my mind felt up for it determined more than ever. I could feel my hands getting sore and they were probably bright red like the boxing bag. I kept to the rhythm I started off with. 1,2,1,2… I repeated in my head, trying to drain the un-drainable steam I had built in me. I could see the wariness on my face through the mirror in front of me. It started to break me slowly creeping up into me like coldness never leaving. I tried to ignore it and not pay attention to the mirror but my eyes kept drawing to the glass.
My breathing went faster and faster as my overly tired body tried to keep up with me. Rose, I heard shallowly, I thought I was my tired self-conscience playing tricks on me when I heard my name again louder, Rose. Then again much louder, "Rose," Then I felt a soft tap on my shoulder, which I ignored and continued punching the bag 1,2,1,2 until my shoulders got shook by someone making me stop and turn around to see a worried Lisa.
"Hey," I said as I noticed how tired I was by my voice. I raked my hands through my hair as I put on a smile trying to cover up my wariness.
"Rose, what are you doing punching a bag at this late hour?" Lisa said "You look so tired did you even take a break, well it doesn't matter your taking one now." Lisa instructed me as she pulled me out of the gym door and down the corridor to our room without a single word. As soon as we walked in I saw Dimitri lightly sitting on the couch flicking through the channels. As soon as I entered he put on a façade of worriedness. He got up and came towards me and put me in a half hug. They both ushered me to the sofa like I was a sick puppy or a child who'd been left too long in the rain and is feeling sick. I shrugged them both off as we sat down me in the middle and both of them either side of me.
"Rose what's wrong? Dimitri told me you stormed off abruptly," Lisa said as I gave a look to Dimitri who tried his best to keep a straight face. I then noticed that all the furniture had been place back to its normal setting it had been before. The room was so much warmer and it made me feel a tad bit better than I had a couple of minutes ago.
"Nothing you need to worry about Lis, I just wanted to… box." I said softly as she started to make a decision in her head in weather she should believe me or not.
She looked over at me judgingly then she smiled like she got an idea. I groaned mentally. "Alright, but on one condition, stay at Dimitri's tonight because Christian's staying over." She said whispering the last part as If Dimitri couldn't hear us. I rolled my eyes at her as she gave me her puppy dog eyes.
"Fine," I groaned/mumbled at her as I got up and walked towards my room to gather some stuff. "Fucking stupid Dimitri I bet this was all his idea, as if the day could get worse," I mumbled sarcastically to myself as threw some stuff into my bag. I bet Dimitri's having the time of his life putting me through this entire tormentor. I huffed as I walked out the door towards Lisa who was talking to Dimitri about me.
"So who did you guys meet?" Lisa questioned, oh shit. This is queue to barge into the conversation.
"Hey babe, you ready to leave now?" I said trying to sound as calm as possible. Now we needed to think how Dimitri and I met! Great, I take back my words, my day just got better! He smiled as me as he snaked his arm around me.
"I'll see you tomorrow be safe," She said and winked at me as we walked out the door. I knew exactly what those words meant and the only thing Dimitri could use to be safe was a mouth guard. As soon as we made it further down the corridor where no one could see us, I un-snaked Dimitri's arm from my waist.
"O how about you stay at Dimitri's today Rose," I mimicked Lisa's voice, "What a fucking great idea Dimitri!" I yelled taking out my aggravations, I grinded my teeth trying to calm myself from doing anything stupid next. Dimitri chuckled at me as he led me further down the corridor towards his room. "Wait, I thought you had a roommate?" I said thinking how awkward it would be if he bunked with Adrian.
"No I don't actually me, Adrian, Christian, Mason and Eddie don't have one." He said who were Mason and Eddie? But that thought soon disappeared as he opened his room door. I was welcomed by the most up class room I've seen in this university. Even higher class than the teacher's rooms, I blinked a couple of times then walked in. His room was White with small black designs on the walls. The room still looked extremely bright without lights. He didn't have a separate room for his bedroom it was placed at the far end of the room. His bed wasn't placed on the same floor I was standing on it was placed a little higher with 2 steps. He had matching bed sheets and white glossed bed and cupboards. He had a huge plasma screen and a corner sofa as well.
"Wow, nice room man," I said as I made my way to the bed and flopped down onto it. Dimitri grinned at me and walked over before he could flop down on the bed next to me I put my hand up against his chest gesturing for him to stop. "What do you think you're doing?" I asked him. His grin was replaced with a confused face.
"Flopping onto to bed next to you of course what else?" He said as if it was that bate that I'd let him sleep next to me. I rolled me eyes at his stupidity.
"Your bed," I said pointing at the sofa. "Is over there babe." I said giving him a big smile, as he sagged his shoulders.
"Come on Rose, don't be like that," He said in a deep husky voice making his accent stand out. Some would say it was sexy but I think it's desperate.
My lips curled. "That doesn't work with Dimitri. You told Lisa for me to stay with you so I'm on the bed you're on the most comfy sofa." I said using sarcasm.
"Fine… but you'll me in there with you soon." He mumbled and waddled off to the sofa. He took his t-shirt off right in front of me revealing a much built up body. His back muscles were extremely tense making them look even more built. He then stripped his jeans and was standing in his DKNY boxers. He turned around abruptly, not giving me enough time to turn around and pretend I wasn't looking at him.
"Want me now?" He said sexily. I laughed out loud at him and threw him a pillow.
"Go to sleep Romeo," I said, no more like laughed.
