A/N: Okay so I know some of you were disappointed that the dinner didn't go on and you'll figure out why later. But just because I love you all so much I decided to put in a little bit of dinner in Adrian's Pov. (: [also Adrian's Pov is first set while Rose is sleeping, I didn't want ya'll getting confused.]

-Edit- I was going to do this chapter with half of Adrian's perspective of dinner and then the rest in Rose's persepecitve of the wedding. However Adrian decided he wanted his part longer so this whole chapter is done in Adrian's pov… Also because of Adrian's demands I couldn't get on to the wedding scene so you can all thank him for that…. but I promise next chapter is what we've all been waiting for… dunn dunn dunnnnnnnnnnn (:

PS: This chapter is dedicated to that crazy girl that thinks she's a demon, Hahaha don't worry my slacker days are over(;

PSS: Just letting all you fast readers out there know that this is NOT one of my long chapters. I'm sorry I really wanted it to be but it just didn't turn out like I wanted but next chapter I'll make it suppppper long to make up for it (:

Anyways hope you like it3

Disclaimer: I did not create Vampire academy or any of its characters because if I did, I surely wouldn't be sharing them with you (: Hahaha Jk I totally would (;

Ch7: Bon Appétit

[Adrian's PoV]

"We are running out of options Adrian." Lissa said crankily. The whole trip had stressed her out completely and she had begun to look a little pale. She sat next to Christian on his bed; she looked about as fragile as cracked glass. Yet I couldn't let her have her way about this, I wasn't going let her do that do Rose.

"By all means Lissa," I opened the door to mine and Christian's room and pointed in the direction of the room where my sleeping beauty lay. "Go ahead, tell her what we did; tell her that the guy that tore her heart to pieces is just a floor above her and he's waiting to flaunt his new girlfriend in her face." I said vehemently.

Lissa cowered down, looking to the floor guiltily.

"Tasha and Dimitri are not dating, I asked her myself." Christian said defending his aunt.

"For now they aren't." I said as calmly as I could, I liked Christian but I did not hold the same regards for his aunt.

I watched as Lissa grew more and more stressed, her aura seemed darker than usual and I wondered when the last time Rose had taken the darkness out of her was. My guess was that it had been a few days at least. Her overall appearance gave me and idea.

"Alright, I'm not sure what were going to do about the wedding but I do have an idea for tonight." I said a smile growing on my lips.

…

I sighed as I fixed my tie as best I could then turned to face Rose, "Don't let Lissa's being sick get you down, you're the lucky one." I said with a frown.

She laughed and came to fix my crooked tie. "Oh I know I am, I just feel bad for all of you, I mean a couple of hours with Tasha and that guardian would cause anyone else to lose their mind… Well more than they already are." She amended with a smirk in my direction.

"You are absolutely right," not really knowing where this was coming from but continued anyway. "I am insane but it's my insanity that keeps me sane when everyone else is losing their minds, therefore who's to say whether I'm insane or not? Perhaps I'm the only normal one in a world of crazy people."

I stopped my babbling and tried to concentrate on the matter at hand, I suddenly realized that this whole trip was affecting me just as it was Lissa, only where stress was affecting her appearance, it was affecting my mind. I made a mental note to order a few drinks during dinner tonight.

Rose looked at me with concerned eyes, "Maybe, you should stay with us tonight." She said pulling my jacket off my and setting it on the chair next to my bed.

"No, no I need to go. I mean it just wouldn't be proper if just Christian and Eddie went, she invited all of us." Not that I cared about being proper around Tasha, I really just needed to make sure the conversation at dinner didn't stray to Rose too often. I knew it was going to happen, what I didn't want happening was getting Dimitri riled up enough to go to her himself. That could not happen.

"Well if you want me to go instead, I will. You and Lissa can keep each other company." She said softly. I knew this was a big offer coming from her, she was the last person that wanted to go to this dinner and I knew she secretly thanked God when Lissa became –or unknowingly to Rose, pretended- to be ill.

"I'll be fine my little Dhampir." I said lighting kissing her forehead. She looked up and smiled at me, I could tell she was at battle with herself trying to figure out what the right thing to do was. Her eyes took on a determined look. I was about to ask her what she was thinking about when, suddenly, before I knew what she was doing she smashed her lips into mine. I was unable to move at first because of the sudden shock but I quickly recovered and slid my arms around her waist. We stood there for a moment our mouths slowly moving in sync with each other before she ever so slightly pulled away.

"I decided I'd give you a chance, a real chance." She said shyly –an emotion I thought she was never born with.

"i-uhhh.. ill.. umm ok." Was all I could say, my shock preventing me from saying anything romantic or suave. I silently cursed myself.

She laughed a brilliant laugh that made my heart beat ten times faster. "Come by after dinner?" she asked.

I nodded not trusting my words, was this really happening? Was I really getting my chance to be with Rose?

She smiled one more time before leaving my room. I continued to get ready with a joy that I had never felt in my heart before.

…

"Hello, Aunt Tasha? Sorry were late, someone spent thirty minute just to do his hair." Christian glared at me which I shrugged indifferently at. I didn't give a flying flip that we were late.

"That's alright," Tasha said looking from Christian, to Eddie and finally to me. The three of us took our seats at the table; there were two vacant chairs to where Rose and Lissa were supposed to be. I couldn't help but feel a little guilty about making Rose miss dinner but I quickly recovered.

"Where are the girls?" she asked a little disappointed.

"Well Lissa isn't feeling good; I think she caught something on the plane." Christian lied smoothly.

"And Rose?" Tasha raised her eyebrows.

"Rose didn't want Lissa to be by herself with her being sick." I said looking at Dimitri. He had been staring straight ahead as if I wasn't paying attention to our conversation but when I said Rose wasn't joining us his eyes snapped to mine. Hurt radiated from his body and before he could hide it I saw disappointment in his eyes. I hope he was comfortable with that feeling because if I could help it Dimitri was in for a lot of disappointment.

With that everyone sat in an awkward silence, and everyone besides Tasha knew why. When the waiter came over Eddie, Christian, and I already knew what we were going to order. We didn't want to stay any longer than necessary so following our lead Tasha and Dimitri ordered as well. It was rather funny looking at everyone around the table. Eddie could not stop the glare that kept forming on his face. Christian tried to concentrate on anything other than Dimitri but failed miserably and was stuck with a half smile, half frown while staring at everything else. And Dimitri was looking at me, his eyes held no emotion but I knew better than that. I gave him a smirk and took a drink of my iced tea.

"So how is Rose doing anyways? She didn't talk much when we saw her at the mall" Tasha said obviously trying to break the tension. However, unknowingly to her, she created more tension with mentioning Rose.

"She's doing just fine actually," I said. "She's got a new mentor, one that is actually going to stay until she graduates." It was a low blow but I couldn't keep the satisfaction off my face when I saw Dimitri's torn expression. The way I saw it, he should be feeling every ounce of pain that she had… times ten.

"You know she's going to have to talk to Dimka sometime," catching on to why everyone was so uncomfortable; maybe she wasn't as stupid as I had thought. "I don't know why she's acting so childish." Tasha said like she had something sour in her mouth. I ignored her and stared straight at Dimitri, his face was pained but held stubbornness to it.

"Rose can talk to me when she's ready." He said it with confidence as if he knew she would talk to him soon. I was excitedly waiting for that bubble to burst. I couldn't help it when words started flowing out of my mouth.

"I sure hope you're a patient man then because she's not talking to you anytime soon." My face held a cocky smile though inside I was not as confident. What the hell was I doing nagging him on like that? I should have been trying to steer the conversation away from Rose not towards her. No matter how much I liked to see him hurting.

"But why?" Tasha inquired.

This time I turned to Tasha, "Why don't you ask him?" Dimitri shot a glare at me but I ignored him. Instead I focused on his aura. When I had looked at it earlier it had seemed pale almost washed out –like what it would look like if someone was compelling him, but I knew he wasn't by taking a deeper look. Now his aura was a vibrant a deep shade of blue. I looked uneasily at the aura; I knew he wanted to talk to her but now it was like a need he felt. How I knew this I had no idea, I could just sense these things when I really focused on an aura.

Tasha began questioning Christian about school and other trivial things that went on in his life. They began talking back and forth with Eddie sometimes joining in. Dimitri and I remained silent the rest of dinner consumed by thoughts of a certain little Dhampir.

Dinner finally ended and we all went our separate ways. Christian and I –under Rose's request- came by their room and with Lissa magically feeling better we decided to watch a movie. It wasn't long before we all heard someone knocking at the door.

Rose sighed getting out of the bed, "I'll get it."

I jumped out of the bed and pushed her back down. "NO." I took a deep breath trying to calm down. "It's the man's job to provide and protect, and since you've gone and taken the protecting part out of my hands, all I have left is to provide. So," I said pointing to the TV. "I am providing you with you the opportunity to finish the movie." I said with the manliest voice I could muster.

Rose rolled her eyes and laughed, "You are so weird, sometimes I worry about you."

I smiled and bent down to her eye level, "I wouldn't have it any other way, love." I kissed her forehead and walked into the hallway. There was another set of impatient knocks. I slowly opened the door and just as I suspected, Dimitri stood at the entrance looking uncomfortably at the floor. When he looked up and noticed it was me his eyes turned hard.

"I need to talk to Rose." His voice was strong and held weight and if I wasn't so accustomed to disobeying authority I would have let him inside, however I did like to break the rules so his tone had no effect on me.

"I'm sorry but she's not here right now, would you like me to take a message?" I asked with a smirk.

"Well where is she?" he said agitated.

"As if I would tell you even if I did know." I said with distaste.

"But you do know don't you? You've played stocker with Rose for quite some time now I'm sure there's not a time in the day where you don't know where she's at." He said with a sneer.

I may not have known him very long but I did know that he was never this insulting. I knew he never liked me but he had never breathed a word of it until the day he left. I slightly wondered if this had anything to do with Rose.

"Your right I'm almost always with Rose, and when I'm not most of the time I know where she is, what can I say I learn from your mistakes." I said hoping it would make him so mad he would leave.

He was about to say something else, but his eyes shot passed me.

Please, please don't let that be Rose. I silently prayed. I turned around and saw her looking to me and Dimitri confused. I slammed the door shut and turned to her.

"What was that all about?" she asked pointing to the now closed door.

"Nothing, that's matters now." I saw trying to pull her back into her room with no such luck.

"You should have made her stay in her room if you were going to lie about her being there Ivashkov." Dimitri's voice was calm but I knew that was only for her benefit.

Rose looked at me questioningly and I just shrugged my shoulders slightly.

She squared her shoulders and walked towards the door, "What do you want?" she said in a neutral voice. Though, I had noticed that she didn't bother to re-open the door.

There was no answer for a minute, I assumed from him trying to gather his thoughts.

"Rose I just want to talk." His voice was desperate.

Shocked Rose turned to me and whispered, "How does he know my name?"

"We talked about you at dinner, a lot." I said trying to keep my expression composed but I was failing miserably.

I watched her expression change from shock to uncomfortable. Yes! I wanted to shout from the top of my lungs. She was getting creeped out by him, this was even better than I could have possibly hoped for. Maybe Lissa and I had been worrying for nothing. I continued to silently jump for joy as I waited for her to answer.

"I'm sorry but Lissa is feeling really bad right now and I have to finish taking care of her, whatever you want to talk about is going to have to wait."

We both jumped as we heard a loud cracking sound, it sounded as if he had punched a hole through the wall. His entire self control was starting to waver and I wondered what would happen when it was completely gone.

"Damn it Rose, I want to talk about us! How we left things, why can't you just grow up and talk to me like a normal person would and stop acting like I don't even exist!"

Rose let out a laugh and looked at me with incredulous eyes. Like she couldn't believe what this guy was saying, I looked away guiltily.

"Dude, your freaking psycho if you think I'm going to talk about "us" with you. I don't even know –."

I jumped into motion and covered her mouth. She struggled at first but calmed down. She looked at me questioningly I panicked, not knowing what to say I shook my head and used a tiny bit of compulsion with my eyes. It wasn't enough to brain wash her but it made my idea of walking away seem like the right thing to do. I began to pull her out of the hallway when she stopped in her tracks.

"Rose?" I asked trying to pull on her arm but she wouldn't budge. Her eyes were glazed over as if she was somewhere else. She started to whimper and grab her heart. No, I thought. She's starting to remember. Suddenly her head snapped up and she looked around disoriented.

"Are you okay?" I asked her worriedly.

"Yeah, I'm fine." She said shrugging me off and walking ahead. I could tell that whatever she had seen it wasn't good.

A/N: okay so this chapter didn't go further in the story but I really felt like everyone needed to know what happened at dinner. It seemed like an important part of the story. I mean I'm sure you were all wondering like WTH happened at dinner for Dimitri to come see Rose? So what did you all think? This story is mostly in Rose's Perspective so I know ya'll are anxiously waiting for the moment when everything blows over because it seems like every time a big scene comes, Rose gets whisked away it's frustrating but keep in mind that Lissa, and Adrian are doing all they can to prevent Rose from as much "Dimitri" encounter as they can… but all that's about to change. MWAHAHAHAHA! *grins evilly* (:

&& A special thanks to GabbiCalabrese [the wanna be demon I mentioned earlier… yeppp that's her] for helping me with this chapter your inputs are always amazing and I'm so grateful, soooo thanks((:

[[Sorry for the grammatical errors, I did not have time to reread this before I posted it I just really wanted to get this up for ya'll.]]

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