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Mia

The restaurant is a quiet, nestled high in the mountains where most humans would never venture to drive. Adrian drives like a maniac - I wasn't sure if it's because he's been drinking, or if that's the way he always drives. Either way, I was terrified until I realized he wasn't going to crash.

He made a very showy gesture when we entered the venue, which was dimly lit and had lanterns hanging from strings. Everything about the place screamed of understated elegance, exactly the type of place I never thought I could get into.

"Do you go here often?" I asked.

He shrugged. "Only when I'm in this resort. Come on, small thing like you; you'll like the food."

Rose

"Fancy," I said appreciatively, bumping Dimitri's bicep with my fist. "I'm impressed, comrade."

He smiled at me, an amused look twinkling in his eyes. "Try not to embarrass me," he joked.

I popped one of the mints they had sitting in a glass bowl a table into my mouth. "I just hope this isn't one of those stuck-up places where the meals they serve you are so small that it should be considered baby food."

Dimitri rolled his eyes. "Then you can order two of whatever it is you want," he offered, although his tone was teasingly anxious.

I cocked my head to the side. "Hey, that couple over there looks kind of familiar," I commented, noticing a petite blonde walking hand-in-hand with a tall moroi.

"Unless it's a strigoi, could you try not to worry about it?" Dimitri wondered. He stroked my hair, letting his hand trail down my back and wrap around my waist. Even though we had been dating publicly for a few months now, gestures like this still amazed me. It still felt good not having to keep our relationship a secret. "We don't get a lot of time together. Just let me have this one night."

I bit my lip and smiled up at him. "Alright," I surrendered, still not taking my eye off them. There was something nagging about them, and I had to figure it out. I knew it was going to drive me insane all night.

Mia

"...and then I punched him right in the nose and told him I'd rearrange the rest of his face if he ever spoke to me like that again," Adrian was saying.

I gave him a long look. "Do you really expect me to buy that?" I asked, scowling.

Adrian chuckled. "It's very believable, Goldilocks," he told me matter-of-factly, still laughing as he took another forkful of food. "And half of the story is very true." He touched the tip of my nose with his fingertip.

I gave him an eye roll. "I know I may look young, but I wasn't born - " I yelped as a piece of food fell from my fork and into my lap. "This is going to stain," I grumbled, excusing myself as I hurried off to the ladies' room.

I headed straight for the sink, wishing I'd had some of that Tide-to-Go Rose has been carrying around with her ever since she first stained Dimitri's duster. He'd thrown a surprisingly uncharacteristic diva-fit about it, which had me in hysterics at the time. I wet a paper towel and dabbed at the stain.

"Damn food," I muttered.

Rose

"I knew it," I said to Dimitri as he grew weary from my tone, "this place doesn't serve real food."

Dimitri rubbed his temples. "Rose, not everyone eats an arm and a leg for every course. I thought you would want to go somewhere fancy, since I never get to take you out. Could you at least humor me?"

I sighed. I was being kind of mean. After all, Dimitri had put in quite the effort trying to get us a reservation. He was trying to treat me, so I could at least try to appreciate it a little more. "I'm sorry," I apologized. "I promise when I get back from the loo I'll have a complete attitude change."

"Don't fall into a toilet," Dimitri teased, watching me worriedly.

"That's what you're worried about?" I wondered, arching an eyebrow.

Dimitri looked up at me from under his lashes. "No," he admitted. "Truthfully, I'm more anxious you're going to find yourself in some kind of fist-fight."

I opened my mouth to reward him with a witty Rose Hathaway quip, then shrugged. "That's actually a valid statement," I said, wandering off to the bathroom.

While I was washing my hands, I noticed a small blonde girl dabbing furiously at her dress. "Damn food," she muttered.

I looked at her sympathetically. She looked like the same moroi I had seen earlier, the one who I had pointed out earlier to Dimitri. Her dress looked relatively new, but I also noticed that when she lifted her arm, she had a price tag tucked in under her arm, as if she was only wearing the dress for the night. She probably couldn't afford it and was going to return it after tonight.

I fished in my purse for my Tide-to-Go. "You want some of this?" I asked, holding it out to her. "I've been carrying it around ever since my boyfriend - "

When she turned around to thank me, I realized why she seemed so familiar.

"Mia?"


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