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So I know I said the next update was either going to be at the end of the day or yesterday, but you know how reel life could be sometimes. School had all of my dam attention and then I was too tired to write anything! So my apologies for the wait even though it wasn't much.

You guys know the drill. This isn't edited and of course I don't own VA!

I didn't know what love was, until I met you.

Chapter 4.

Weeks passed without much happening, or so it seemed. In that time, Adrian had become my rock. He, Lissa and I were for lack of a better word inseparable.

Jesse and Mia were still bound at the hip and Mia always seemed to be parading around in her skimpiest clothing, something I knew Jesse liked. Now that I'd had the time to think, I could see quite clearly why Jesse had cheated. It was because even at his age, he wanted to do stuff, stuff I wasn't ready for. Mia, it seemed, had no problems with giving him what he wanted.

Oh no, I'm not assuming, I saw the proof. It was all over her pretty little neck.

Meanwhile, Adrian and I were becoming closer, even more so than before. And yet, it was somehow a different kind of closeness. I didn't want to believe it, but I saw the changes and so did Lissa.

"He likes you, you know." She'd said to me one night whilst we'd been getting ready for bed. I continued brushing my hair as I stared at her in the mirror.

"Who does?" I asked. In the mirror, I saw Lissa roll her eyes.

"Adrian," She said incredulously. I shook my head, ready to protest because surely that was just ridiculous, right? Adrian was my friend. He was so much older than I was, why would he like me?

"No Rose, it's true. How can you not see it? Don't you see the way he looks at you?" No. Lissa was just messing with me, reading too much into everything.

"Liss, that's crazy. And even if he likes me like that, he's so much older." Lissa nodded, but a smile was threatening to break out on her lips.

"So, what you're saying is, you like him. You just won't get together with him because he's older?" I shook my head and had to resist throwing the hairbrush at her in a fit of exasperation. The smile was on full display now, dam girl.

"I'm not, Liss. I don't even know how you came to that conclusion in the first place. All I'm saying is that there's no way he could like me like that." I told her and, Lissa narrowed her eyes at me.

"And why not? Because you're 10 and he's 16? You're almost 11 and you know what they say, age is just a number." Was this girl serious? She was right and I knew it, I just tried my hardest to ignore it.

That night sleep kept evading me. When I finally fell asleep, however, it was to be awakened a few hours later by the blaring alarm clock. I'd had to force my eyes to stay open while I busied myself with getting ready for the day.

When I saw Adrian at breakfast though, I couldn't help but suddenly wake up. It was as though his smile was the sunshine I'd been missing. His eyes met mine across the room and I saw the look Lissa was talking about. It was warm and tender, full of adoration and something more that I couldn't put my finger on.

I felt butterflies take flight in my tummy. My heart rate kicked up a few notches. The world was suddenly a much clearer place. That was the moment I made my decision. I was going to tell Adrian Ivashkov the truth. Little to my 10 year old knowledge, that was not how things was going to play out.

Oh no. What could possibly go wrong now? Will these 2 ever get together? Should they ever get together? Review and let me know my darlings.

Review lovelies and Dimitri/Adrian will smile at you from across a room ;)

P.S. I can have the next chapter done and posted in a while if you guys want, you just have to review ;) ok, I'm going now

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Roza