My heavy footsteps echoed throughout the marble hallway as I practically dragged myself to our house. The gym bag strap weighted a ton on my shoulder. I rubbed my eyes with my forearm, the rays of sunrise hit directly through the windows and my eyes were starting to odd the abundance of light. I cursed silently at the people who designed this, okay they thought, since it was a Damphir residence building, we would be appreciative of the fact that it allowed in as much light as possible, they didn't think however that since we have crazy-as-hell-Moroi timetables he presence of light would screw up our Melatonin levels and sleeping schedules.I finally got to the door and clumsily opened it trying to avoid at all cost the unnecessary exposure to the light – and I really love the sun, so you can kind of imagine how tired I was. As soon as I got in I thanked all the little saints in the sky – and Dimitri – that the blackouts were down and that the only thing lighting the room were the lamps on the nightstands. I leaned back on the closed door and dropped the gym bag on the floor. Now aware of my arrival Dimitri came out of the bathroom with a towel around his waist – very low in his waist may I add – and a smaller one around his neck which he was using to dry out his hair. I stood there gawking at him – I believe with my mouth half opened – almost letting it sink in to my slow paced brain the sexy god I had standing in front of me, probably looking myself like a sweaty, exhausted, beaten up homeless person.

"Hard training I see…" he smiled kindly at me, heading towards the bedroom and sitting on the bed, continuing the hard task of untangling his hair. "Oh, I ordered dinner"

"You have no idea… the guy was a mess in the movements but he was I think trice my size and weight so yeah…I'm dead right now…" I followed him into the bedroom and leaned into the door frame "You did?" only now processing the last thing he had said "what did you order?"

"You'll see" he winked and then put on a very provocative and teasing look "Did you win?"

"Obviously!" I pretended to look insulted "I'm shocked you had to ask that!... You must pay for that insolence" I slowly approached the bed as I pronounced each and every word. I watched him stop what he was doing and put his hand on the bed for support while leaning slightly back. I got close and slid each of my legs next to his, facing him. He remained with his usual serene look, like nothing at all was happening. I absolutely could not accept that, Dimitri Belikov, god of god's had to surrender at my ministrations. I pushed him on the shoulders and watched him fall back on the bed – obviously I didn't have enough strength to do that, not right now at least - but one of my guilty pleasures regarding Dimitri was when he pretended that I was physically stronger than him – I leaned myself against him making every intention of eliminating the distance between every inch of our bodies. I rubbed softly my lips against his, and in a stroke of yearning he jerked his face upwards clashing our lips together into a passionate kiss. My hands quickly jumped to his wet hair, as his danced around my back getting a hold of my top and making all efforts to pull it off. All the pain my body felt a few minutes ago had disappeared - or had at least been overpowered by the lust I was feeling right now. Our mouths almost never parting from each other's, like in a game of who could hold their breath longer. Time must have lapsed because suddenly I realized that my bra had vanished and so had my gym leggings. God Dimitri had fast hands ... God I loved those hands. I pushed away for a second, standing a few inches from him, just enough so I could stare into those delicious chocolate brown eyes. I loved when I could make him feel like that, when I would make those eyes show desire and lust and even something more…pain or a desperate craving for something…for me, almost like the need for air.

I decided to end his silent suffering by bringing us together again. We just had begun to pick up the pace when I heard the doorbell ring. I pulled away – again – looking confused.

"Dinner" Dimitri said, between husked deep breaths "Hum…Rose I can't go to the door…" he smiled with a bit of embarrassment in his voice and he quickly glanced down and up at me again. I looked down as he did so, noticing a protuberance in the towel that was wrap around him and I couldn't help but smirk back at him.

"Okay Comrade don't worry, I'll go to the door" I winked and laughed at his now very embarrassed look. As I walked midway out of the bedroom I noticed my absence of clothes so I made a small detour and picking it up from the armchair I put on Dimitri's leather duster and buttoned it up looking back at him over my shoulder with a very provocative look to which he simply responded by smiling helplessly and looking at the ceiling.

I got to the door to be surprised by a pizza delivery boy – Dimitri knew me so well… - after I paid him I returned to the bedroom with the 2 boxes and the 2 beers and put them on top of the low chest-drawer. Re-assuming my previous position on top of Dimitri – still with the duster on, thinking it would give him something more to undress off me - and clearly making sure I was rubbing my leg against his….well his "sensitive parts"…as I did so. He had barely finished unbuttoning it all when I heard my phone ring. I groaned loudly.

"Forget about it" he said in a hushed tone, loosely grabbing my arm as I quickly got off of him and stretched out to reach my phone. I groaned again as I saw the ID caller on the screen. Janine Hathaway. My mother had perfect timing sometimes….gosh. Since the disaster dinner last month I had called to talk to her and we had both apologized – a little more me than her, but that's beside the point – she was able to, kind of, give her blessing, never fully dismissing on letting us know that it was going to be a troublesome matter, for everyone. Nevertheless we were on "better" terms again. I put the phone down, deciding to ignore her call. I would respond later, right now I had more…urgent matters to take into hands – literally.

I returned my look to a very frustrated Dimitri, giving me an annoyed look from all the interruptions.

"There there I'm all yours now" I said lying on my side next to him and covering his cheek with my hand. He smirked

"I thought you would never say that" and he pulled himself over me in a quick movement, holding my head so that our lips could meet once more, and leaving the towel forgotten on the corner of the bed.

The pizza was half cold when we got to it but we really couldn't care less. While Dimitri got up and went to the kitchen to get a bottle opener I reached out to the last drawer on his nightstand and took out an old oversized – for me at least – t-shirt and put it on. He opened the beers and handed one over to me. We started devouring the food, hungry from the hard day's work and well…the exhausting and yet satisfying early activities. Suddenly I remembered something, my hand jolted to my forehead and I jumped of the bed kneeling in the floor looking for something. Dimitri looked at me very curiously.

"What the hell are you doing?" He asked while he nibbled the crust of his pizza.

"My phone, I have to call my mother before it gets too late! – AH!" I found it under the bed – it must have fallen off earlier – I sat up again and began dialling.

"Hathaway" I heard the voice answer.

"Hi mother" I responded biting off a small piece of peperoni pizza.

"Rose, is everything okay I called two times earlier"

"Everything is fine" I looked at Dimitri and smirked "I was training…"

"Oh okay… So, how's everything?"

"Everything is good, you know…work, training, home and repeating it the next day." It was unavoidable, there was always a certain level of awkwardness when we talked on the phone "Boring uneventful stuff" she mm in agreement.

"And the wedding plans?" my face showed a hint of surprise and then I rolled my eyes as Dimitri had a tell-me-what-are-you-talking-about expression.

"It's going good, we decided to do it in July or August" I made a signal to Dimitri touching my engagement ring, letting him know it had to do with the wedding topic "But I'll let you know when we are sure, we still have to talk to the church to figure out the exact date"

"Which church is it?"

"It's a surprise…. For now"

"Okay then. Goodnight Rose, give my best to Dimitri"

"Goodnight" I ended the call resting the phone on my nightstand and returning my attention to the pizza.

"What is a surprise?" Dimitri asked, finished with his food he leaned back, putting a pillow between him and the wall.

"The church" I answered with my mouth full.

"You didn't tell her?" He looked a bit surprised and disapproving.

"No, I'm not in the mood today to hear that it is a bad idea, because it's too far away or … whatever" I put the cardboard boxes on the floor next to the bed and snuggled next to Dimitri "She'll find out when we set the date 'cause then there's nothing she can do about it" I looked up at him and stuck out my tongue. His hand reached for my face and stroked it softly.

"About that, we have to decide who are we going to invite" he said smiling at my surprised expression "I saw the scheduled to-do-list you put on the fridge" he grinned widely – which was something I loved watching him do because it was so rare.

"Very good boy…" I got out from his embrace and took something out or the drawer next to the bed, returning to the previous position with a small pad and a pen in my hand "Lay it out on me"

"Well since we're doing it in Baia you can put down my family obviously"

"Okay" I wrote down all the names of his family – that honestly almost filled the small piece of paper. I turned it around "Lissa, Christian…" I looked at him waiting his approval. He nodded positively.

"Do we count with us or not? For the total number of people?" He asked.

"Well we are quite indispensable for the whole matter" I laughed "But for now let's just put everyone else "Well…Janine and Abe… I guess"

"Yes, obviously Roza…"

"Well if they end up coming"

"Just write them and don't stress about things before they happen"

"Yes Master Zen Wizdom… more…more" I looked at him hoping he would say something. We knew a lot of people, well we were quite famous in the guardian world – more Dimitri than me obviously, but I was slowly getting there – nevertheless people we would actually feel comfortable having at our wedding, was a different matter.

"Well it depends…who do you want to invite?" He responded with a very tender look.

"I… I would like to invite Sydney but I don't know to a certain point how Adrian would react upon going…"

"Well, just put down the name, and then you'll talk with them"

"Anyone you would like to invite?" I asked kissing his hand that still rested on my cheek.

"I don't know…I think maybe Alberta, she always knew about us and she has always been a good friend…but I don't know if she can take leave from the academy…"

I smiled and wrote down the name. It was different for him. He had always been very private about his personal life, he had friends of course but well he never let go much of himself to others, but Alberta had always an ease to talk to him, and she had been so gracious about us this whole time, even during the academy. I thought it was a nice to invite her.

"I'm not seeing anybody else…but I think we gathered up a nice group" I started counting: Yeva, Olena, Karolina, Sonya, Viktoria, Paul, Zoya, Katya, Lissa, Christian, Janine, Abe, Adrian, Sydney…Eddie (Adrian's guardian) Declan, Alberta…around 5 guardians for Lissa, 3 guardians for Christian… "Well it gives us…25 people. Not bad, we never wanted a lot of people either way so it's great" I smiled up at him.

"Sounds good, now we just have to talk to everybody"

"Well, maybe I can talk to everybody and you handle the church"

"Okay…May I ask why?"

"Maybe because If I take care of the church with my deep knowledge of Russian we would end up getting married in a barn…with a polar bear presiding" I threw the pad to the nightstand and rested my head on his chest. I felt one of his arms holding me tight as the other one drew the comforter on top of us.

"How did you know? That is actually the typical marriage ceremony in Siberia" He let out a few rasp laughs and turned off the lights.


Here is another one! My exam went terribly, i'm gonna have to redo it...but in the mean time i felt inspired eheh...

I hope you liked this one...The title of the next one is: "A Special Outfit"

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