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Chapter 7
"Rosemarie Hathaway, will you make me the happiest man alive? Will you marry me and be my wife?"
I stared at him with shock. I did not expect this at all. I think Adrian was getting nervous because he quickly started to say, "Rose I don't mean to rush you. If you do accept we can wait as long as you would like for us to get married and if you don't accept I will understand as well. I love you no matter what your answer is."
I was crying at this point. I couldn't even get words out. I just looked into his eyes and when I saw love and devotion I jumped up and hugged him. I whispered in his ear, "Of course Adrian I would love to marry you. I would marry you right this second if I could." Then I looked into his eyes and kissed him with all the love I had for him. He picked me up and spun me around. After about a minute or two of intense kissing we finally broke apart and just stared into eachothers eyes.
I really don't know how long we stood there. It could of been seconds, minutes, days, or months, but in that time we just looked into the eyes of our soulmate, our true love. Never in my life had my heart been so filled with happiness and love for another. I knew that Dimitri never made me feel this way and I also knew, beyond a doubt, that noone would ever have my heart like Adrian would.
After a time Adrian took my hand and led me to a small balcony that each guest dorm (at least of this size) had. We sat in a lounge chair with Adrian behind me and me resting between his legs with my head lying on his chest. I started to shiver and Adrian covered us with a blanket he had next to the chair. We layed there looking at the stars in a comfortable silence for the next few minutes.
"When you were gone," Adrian began saying in a slight whisper, "I came out here at night and stared at the stars when I felt like everything was becomming to much and I would fall apart. Being out here I felt like I was with you somehow. I knew that no matter where you were you may be looking up in the sky at the same time as me. And I secretly prayed you would be thinking about me as well. I would wish on stars that you were safe and would come back soon. I especially wished that when you came back you would also come to me. You are like the calm to my personal storm. I am so lucky that you love me as much as I love you."
As he came closer he kissed right below my ear and then said very lightly into my ear, "I can't wait for you to be Mrs. Rose Ivashkov. It has been my dream and wish for so long."
"Thank you Adrian. I have never felt this much for one person and I am so happy you feel the same way about me."
I turned around so I was comfortable when I reached for Adrian and started to kiss him. We kissed for as long as we could before we had to stop and take a breath. Adrian began to kiss down the right side of my neck, along the top of my chest above the dressline, and then back up the left side of my neck right back to my lips. The kiss deepened once again and both Adrian and I could not get enough of eachother.
"Maybe we should go inside," I whispered into his mouth. With that he moved me forward then put both his hands under me lifting me up bridal style. He walked me into the living area of his room, using his foot to slide the door to the balcony shut, and carried me into the bedroom where he layed me down on the bed.
As he came onto the bed next to me he looked at me and said, "As beautful as you are and as much as I want you there is a request that I have. I would like to wait till our wedding night to make love to you Rose. You know I have been with other girls but noone has or will ever compare to you and I want our first time to be special and for you to know that I want you for the rest of our lives. Is that alright with you?"
I have to say I was kind of stunned by what he said since Adrian is known to be a womanizer. I was also amazed. Just with those words Adrian proved to me once again that he wanted me not just for a night but forever. (Not that he hadn't proven that to me countless times this very day and night.)
"Of course that is alright Adrian." I finally responded. I gave him my maneating smile and continued, "Will this wedding be soon or am I going to have to wait for a long time to have all of you?"
"We can have it as soon as you want, my love," Adrian said with his sexy grin on his face.
"I think we should wait till right after graduation, then we can plan a wedding. We don't want anyone to think we rushed into this. I don't want anyone to doubt our love for eachother," I said.
At that moment I had an idea but realized it might upset Adrian. I tried to put my thoughts into words as delicately as possible, "I love you Adrian and I am so happy we are going to get married but maybe we should wait a week or two before we even let anyone know we are engaged. I mean of course we can tell Lissa, Christian and Eddie but maybe we should hold off on everyone else. I am scared that if this looks rushed then people will talk more and it will get back to your aunt and I really want us to have time to be happy together before things fall apart." At this point I began to form tears in my eyes because I was afraid of his reaction. As it was I could not look him in the eye as I said the last part.
"Rose, my love, I understand what you are saying and if this is what you want it is fine with me." I looked up as he said this looking into his beautiful eyes. "I don't need everyone here to know we are engaged as long as I know we are together and how we both feel. Cesides I already declared you as mine and I as yours in front of most of the school today," he smiled as he said this. He continued by saying, "although even if someone doubted our relationship we really could prove our love has been in our hearts for longer than just today."
At this point I looked at him with confusion all over my face.
Adrian continued, " First of all, since you got back from your trip we have been together alot. Although we only 'announced' our relationship today, some may assume we have been together longer then just today and kept it secret. Second, I bought you that engagement ring two days after I met you at the ski lodge. If you take it off you will see an inscription I had put in it for you. I told you, I knew we were meant to be together."
I took off the ring, which I now noticed was white gold with a princess-cut 2 karat diamond in the middle. It also had one slightly smaller diamond on each side and very tiny diamonds around the band. The center diamond was slightly raised up with a beautiful X design of tiny diamonds on the front and back making it look like the center diamond was on its own little thrown. It was perfect for me. This ring really showed how well Adrian knew me. I knew he could of bought me a huge 'rock' but he knew that I would not want something that big. I was more of a person who would want something unique and this was definately unique.
I looked into the ring and immediately started crying with joy when I saw the inscription knowing he bought this before I would even give him the time of day.
R.H.I. My one and only, with all my love A.I.
"This ring is my promise to you Rose."
I put the ring back on my finger and leaned up to kiss Adrian. This was a perfect night.
Then I ruined the night by yawning.
"Ahh my little dhampir is tired. Although I want to wait till our wedding night to make love, I would be honored if you would share my bed with me tonight so that I could hold you in my arms all night and wake up to your beautiful face in the morning." As he said this I was thinking, how did I ever get so lucky?
"I would love to Adrian, but I dont have any clothes to sleep in or for the morning and I really don't think it would be a good idea to leave here tomorrow in what I am wearing tonight." I was kind of sad when I realized this but knew it would not be a good idea.
"Don't worry, I asked Lissa to pack you some stuff just in case you were tired and wanted to spend the night. I hope you don't mind and aren't mad at me."
"You always think of everything don't you Adrian Ivashkov. I don't mind; I know you know me well enough to do small things without asking me first. But I hope you know that I want us to be equals which means we don't keep big things from eachother and we make important decisions together. Is that alright with you?" I had to make sure Adrian understood that just because I would be his wife soon I was still my own person.
"Of course, Rose. I would not expect anything less of you. You are my equal partner in life and I will never take that for granted." Adrian said as he kissed my forehead. "Why don't you go get changed. Your bag is next to my dresser and there is a bathroom through the door next to it. I'll wait for you here."
I jumped up and grabbed the bag on the floor. At that moment I kind of dreaded what Lissa may have packed for my sleepover with Adrian. I prayed that it was nothing too revealing and sexy so that Adrian could keep his hands off of me. Although I wanted desperately to make love to Adrian I knew he was sincere in wanting to wait for our wedding night and I agreed that it would be special that way. I decided it would not be a great idea to tempt him more than I had to because that would be unfair.
When I got into the bathroom I found that Lissa, thankfully, had packed a pair of black shorts with a gray tanktop. I knew I would look hot in it but not enough to tempt Adrian to break his promise.
I quickly got changed, washed my face, brushed my teeth and my hair before I left the bathroom to join Adrian in bed. I immediately stopped when I stepped back into the room and saw Adrian.
Adrian was sitting on the bed in a pair of flannel pajama pants and he had no shirt on. His body was sculpted in marvelous muscles, not too big but big enough that you could slighty see the defintion of them on his chest. Most Moroi are skinny with not much muscle while Dhampirs were built very altheltic and ready to fight. Adrian was not as built as a Dhampir would be but he definately had a nice body.
He caught me staring and smiled as he asked, "Like what you see, little dhampir?"
"Yes, I do," was all I could muster out of my mouth and I knew he only heard me because of his more sensitive hearing.
As I walked to the bed to lie down next to Adrian he explained to me that, "Christian and I decided to start working out 3 times a week with Eddie while you were gone. You probably did not realize we were going to the gym because since you got back Lissa has occupied all your time when we were there. We thought it would be good to be a little more 'in shape'. We are also learning a few fighting skills just in case. I found it was a good temporary release of my darkness while you were gone. I now understand why you sometimes just want to beat stuff up. It helps you release some of Lissa's darkness, doesn't it?"
Adrian was talking about the fact that I was bonded to Lissa and was referred to as "Shadow-kissed." When Lissa's family and me were in a car accident a couple years back everyone died in the accident besides Lissa. Lissa was somehow able to bring me back from the dead with her element, spirit. At the time we did not realize what Lissa did but eventually we became aware. Some of the side-effects of this bond we now shared included me feeling Lissa and her emotions, sometimes being pulled into her head by her emotions, being able to sense Strigoi (undead vampires), seeing ghosts and taking in Lissa's darkness that she got from using Spirit too much, among some other new qualities.
While telling Adrian, "yea it does help," I began to think about how Adrian must have to deal with the darkness and how I would help him through it since I could not take it from him. "Maybe sometimes we can work out together, take some of that aggression out. It could be fun."
"That sounds like a plan," Adrian replied with enthusiam.
I yawned again.
"I think it is time for sleep, my only love. Would you like me to meet you in your dreams?"
I looked up at Adrian and kissed him passionately. As we slowly seperated I began to shut my eyes and whispered to my fiance, "I will be waiting on the beach."
We then fell asleep to spend the night together in our dreams.
A/N I know some of you were a little (or alot) surprised that Adrian proposed so I want to just explain I did this because I just felt it was such an Adrian thing to do since he is very impulsive. Adrian was not planning on proposing for a while but then decided at that moment it was the right time. At least from my perspective you can tell that Adrian has had feelings for Rose since they met at the ski lodge. As to why Rose was so eager to accept.. well that is explained in a later chapter. Hope you all enjoy this long chapter!
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