A/N: Sorry, it's been over a week since I updated. I just got a little stuck and school work picked up again. Good news though, spring break is this week so I'll be able to update faster, hopefully. I went to the Dells with one of my best friends and then my Academic Bowl got rescheduled…geeky, I know. I'll do my best to keep updating. Please review! Remember, I own nothing! XD
I climbed out of bed earlier in the morning…evening in human time. Remi was still fast asleep as I gently detached myself from her. I was struggling though as I stood up because she had a vice grip around my torso and she was snuggling into my chest.
I chuckled as I reached around my back to unlock her hands; she slumped back onto the bed as I released her arms. I leaned down, put the blanket back over her, and kissed her with a smile on my face. She murmured my name in her sleep, making me smile even more as I walked into the bathroom and got into the shower.
I was only up this early because I had to go see Lissa about Remi's schooling options. I was also planning on going wherever Remi went. Remi didn't know this though, at least not yet.
Then my thoughts turned over to the fact she was Dimitri's cousin. That was a major shock to me. I dated Rose and he got her back, now I'm dating his cousin. Jailbait cousin on top of that, I have to stop calling her that.
I got out of the shower 5 minutes later, quickly drying my hair with my towel, and then wrapping it around my waist. I looked in the mirror and decided I had to shave my face tomorrow. I was getting a little fuzzy again. I had shaved just before we came back to court but it had grown back fast.
I grabbed my toothbrush, put toothpaste on it, and walked into the bedroom to pull out the clothes for today. I glanced at Remi who was still sound asleep and snuggling my pillow now. I set the clothes on the bed and went back into the bathroom to finish brushing my teeth.
I came back out to see my clothes gone and Remi groggily looking at me.
"What time is it?" she groaned.
"Six and have you seen my clothes? They were on the end of the bed," I wondered. She ran her hands over her face and through her hair with a sigh. Than a devilish smile appeared out of no where, she looked wide awake now.
"You were just pretending to be tired weren't you?" I accused her with a smile.
"Maybe," she grinned cheekily and sat up.
"Have you been awake the whole time I've been up?" I had to adjust the towel so it wouldn't fall down.
"No, I just woke up when you got out of the shower," she shrugged.
"So where did my clothes disappear to?" I asked again. She reached under the comforter and pulled out my clothes, a sly grin on her face.
"How did I know?" I chuckled.
"Here's how I see it. You don't need clothes because you're not going anywhere today. You're going to stay here with me all day," she smirked.
"This is coming from the girl who says we can't have sex until she's 18 and I agree with her," I reminded her.
"I've changed my mind. I've decided its legal… as long as we don't get caught," she told me with a twinkle in her eye.
(Warning more descriptive than normal but it's not mature content)
"Nice try, now give me my clothes. I have to go talk to Lissa," I reached out for my clothes that she was dangling in front of me. Her dhampir reflexes kept them from my grasp. I lunged forward and she shot out of the blankets and stood on the bed. I appreciatively looked over her body, my mouth watering at the sight. Not in the "I wanted to drink her blood" way either. She was admiring my body too as she looked at me from higher up on the bed.
"You know you want to," she teased me and slid her tongue over her top teeth, a man eater smile on her face. I fought my male urges as she looked at me like that and the way she popped out a hip as she stood there.
"I know you know, but we both know I won't let us," I grinned as she pouted.
"It's crazy to hear Adrian Ivashkov pushing abstinence, especially while he's only wearing a towel. Gee, makes me feel like I'm over dressed," she sighed dramatically.
"Maybe if I got my clothes on you won't feel so over dressed, hand them over," I told her sarcastically.
"I just think I should just undress, that would solve the problem," she made a contemplating face.
She wouldn't, would she? ... She would.
Dammit, that was not going to help my situation here. She was testing me. I was going to win.
A look in her eye told me she didn't care if she lost; she was just going to push me as far as I would go.
She shimmied out of her shorts and tossed them at my head. She put my clothes between her legs and pulled of her tank top. I rolled my eyes as she began to jump on the bed. She reached over and turned on her ipod.
"I could dream of ways to see you, I could close my eyes to dream. I could fantasize about you."
The dirty picture song, Remi had just gotten it two days ago and she was hooked. She swore up and down she only ever liked rock. She just made an exception for Ke$ha and some other songs. She was 16 though, what should I expect?
"Tell the world what I believe, but whenever I'm not with you, it's so hard for me to see, I need to see a picture of you, a special picture just for me."
She jumped up and down, keeping my clothes just out of reach. She began to sing along when Ke$ha began to sing too.
"So take a dirty picture for me. Take a dirty picture. Take a dirty picture for me. Take a dirty picture. Just send the dirty picture to me. Send the dirty picture. Send the dirty picture to me. Send the dirty picture."
Using this moment with her distracted, I reached out and pulled her feet out from under her and she fell onto her back on the bed with a cute squeal. I reached over her for the clothes but she tried to move back with clothes in hand. I placed both my arms on the sides of her head and trapped her there. She grinned and traced a hand down my chest. I shivered at her touch.
Damn her. I leaned down and began to kiss her senseless for torturing me. Not that she minded. Not to mention, this was my sexual outlet for 16 months. I was stuck making out for a whole 16 months. I could make it… hopefully. She was a hormonal teenager and I acted like one around her… who am I kidding? I've always acted like hormonal teenager. All my perverted jokes, all the girls I'd been with, and now. Remi was pushing my will power to not take her right then and there.
She knew she was doing it too, I could tell by the way she was teasing me. She was doing it all on purpose, the little temptress.
There was no harm in kissing the little temptress some more though. She ran her tongue on my fangs and I groaned out. She smirked and pushed her self up and straddled me. I gripped her waist tightly and fiddled with the elastic of her underwear.
Remi's hands clenched my hair as she grinded closer into me.
Holy hell, I needed to distract myself from the fact that my body was responding to her teasing.
Car crashes, abused puppies, anything that was depressing.
The door to my room slammed open, both of us snapped our heads up to see Dimitri looking livid.
All of a sudden it felt like there was a bucket of ice water that had been thrown on me. I was going to die by the hands of Dimitri today.
"Hi, Dimki," Remi stuttered looking a bit terrified. I feared for my life as she got off of me and put her clothes back on quickly. She was the only way Dimitri wouldn't kill me.
"Get your clothes on Ivashkov, Remi come with me now!" Dimitri snapped.
"Dimki, I started it don't blame Adrian," she said confidently when I knew she was cowering on the inside. She stood by me with her arms crossed over her chest, trying to defy Dimitri.
"Let's go Remi," Dimitri repeated tensely, looking at me with a glare. If looks could kill, I would be dead.
"No, I don't see why, Adrian is leaving soon anyway," she protested, Dimitri just got angrier when she brought me up.
"Remilda Florence Szelsky, you will come with me whether or not you don't want to," he said in a deadly tone. She scowled at him but began to follow him out. She turned around and quickly kissed me goodbye. Dimitri pulled her away, she growled as he practically dragged her out of the apartment.
I sighed and put my clothes on. I knew Dimitri would probably come kill me later today. The compromising position he caught us in looked worse than it actually was. Remi and I weren't going to have sex. Not until she was 18 and more prepared.
Prepared? What do I mean when I say prepared? Remi already knew how to get me going in mere seconds. She knew a lot about sex for someone who was a virgin. Did I mean to think that we had to wait till we were prepared? I mean I didn't have any protection. I hadn't had any use for protection in a long time. Should Remi go on the pill before we have sex which wouldn't be until December of 2011?
Just stop thinking about it, you shouldn't have too. That's 16 months away from now.
(End of any descriptive stuff, not that it was too bad)
I pushed all those thoughts aside, put on a pair shoes, and headed off to the Throne room where I knew Lissa would be.
The Guardians outside the doors waved me through. Being a Royal really had its perks. I didn't need to have an appointment with the Queen, though Lissa was also my friend and the Queen before her was my aunt so I always got in.
"Adrian!" Lissa greeted me with a wide smile.
"Your highness," I over exaggerated a bow. Lissa scowled.
"Do not call me that Adrian, you're practically my brother. I'm Lissa to you," she told me.
"Of course… you're majesty," I teased as she hugged me. She playfully slapped my arm,
"What I said before was an order Adrian."
"I got it cousin, no worries," I smiled. She sat down on a step and motioned for me to sit next to her.
"What brings you here today Adrian? The last I saw of you was when Rose got shot," she wondered.
"You haven't heard the news?" I asked curiously, I was sure my dating life would have reached her ears.
"I've been pretty swamped with all this political stuff for awhile, I don't have much time to myself and when I do, I try to be with Christian. He's still having a tough time with the whole Tasha ordeal," Lissa sighed.
"I can imagine."
"Enough about that. What's the news?" Lissa asked.
"I have a girlfriend and I need your help to help her," I grinned. Lissa's eyes widened and she looked shocked.
"What?" I wondered.
"I just didn't know you'd get over Rose that fast," she shrugged.
"I didn't either," I agreed with a small smile.
"So who is she? Give me all the details," Lissa was intrigued.
"She's a Dhampir, her name is Remi Szelsky, I met her in Vegas, and she is 16 almost 17," I trailed off in the end.
"She's only 16?" Lissa repeated very loudly.
"That's what I said," I chuckled.
"Are you crazy? That makes her…" she started.
"Jailbait, I know," I finished her sentence for her.
"Adrian, that's illegal. I know I'm the Queen and everything but I have to follow the law too so I can't keep you out of trouble," Lissa fretted.
"It's not illegal, cousin. We're not doing anything illegal and she's my bondmate."
"Well you never know you could do something illegal… did you just say she's your bondmate? You have a bondmate? What? How? When?" Lissa stuttered.
I told Lissa everything that happened—leaving out the Victoria's secret part and other parts like me biting her and Remi and I's make out sessions—since I met Remi. Leading up to how I needed her help to get Remi into an academy.
"Wow, Adrian, wow. Who knew you, a guy who drank heavily and loved girls, would bring a girl back to life and stick with that girl. Not to mention vow not to have sex for 16 months," Lissa was stunned.
"Hey, I was not that bad of a person and I just think it's a miracle I could bring her back to life at all. So can you call up some academies and ask if they'd take her in? Remi really wants to become a Guardian," I asked her.
"Of course I can Adrian; I'll let you know tonight. Bring Remi with you, we'll all have dinner. You, Remi, Rose, Dimitri, Christian, and me. It'll be fun," Lissa suggested.
"It does, and it'll be good for Remi and I. Neither of us can cook," I chuckled.
"I can't either. That's another reason I love Christian. He can cook and bake me a lot," Lissa laughed.
"Not to mention the rest of us," I added.
"I'm happy for you Adrian. I can see in your Aura that you're really happy and in love," Lissa smiled.
"Thanks cousin, I'll see you later than," I kissed her cheek.
"You're welcome, Adrian."
"Now I must go find my Jailbait, even though I promised to stop calling her that, and try not to get killed by Dimitri in the process," I sighed.
"It's kind of crazy that Remi and Dimitri are cousins and Adrian?"
"Yes?"
"I hope you don't combust from the sexual frustration from the situation you're in, I know I would," Lissa smirked.
"Isn't that a little inappropriate to say as a Queen?" I grinned.
"I'm a teenage Queen and it's not like you're going to go blab about me talking inappropriately," Lissa rolled her eyes.
"True, see you later cousin," I chuckled and left the thrown room and waved at Rose as I left. She smiled a little and returned to her Guardian mode.
Later That Night at Dinner
"You have got to be kidding me? You dated that jerk?" Remi choked on her steak.
"I wouldn't call it dating, I made out with him a couple of times," Rose laughed. Dimitri's aura darkened.
"Awww, Dimki don't get jealous of Rose making out with other guys," Remi cooed, I snorted. I liked to see Dimitri getting picked on by my girlfriend.
"I'm not jealous of Jesse Zeklos," Dimitri stated. Rose snorted and began to laugh.
"Dimitri, you practically made him shit his pants when you found him kissing me when you took Lissa and I back to the academy. You are jealous, but no worries you got the one thing no other guy can get. Not that I would have sex with any other guy anyway," Rose giggled.
"Rose, watch the language, let's not talk about sex, and I'm not jealous," Dimitri protested. Rose rolled her eyes and kissed him.
"Dimki, I'm not a child. I've heard those words and you well know I know about sex. Not from experience but in general yes I know," Remi added wittily, smirking at me. I smirked back. Earning looks from everyone else around the dinner table.
"Adrian, have you been teaching a minor about sex?" Christian asked cockily.
"I didn't have to teach her, she already knew about it. You know, like most teenagers in the world," I left the part out where she knows how to talk dirty. Remi gave me a sideways glance and giggled.
"You know what I just realized?" Remi piped in.
"What?" We all replied.
"I'm the only virgin in this room," Remi sighed.
"Of course you are, you're only 16," Dimitri said tensely.
"So, a lot of people lose their virginity at or around 16," Remi reminded us.
"I was 14," Lissa offered up, Christian frowned. Lissa squeezed his shoulder sort of in an apology.
"I was 15," I admitted.
"I was 17," Christian smiled at Lissa.
"I was 17," Rose grinned and nudged Dimitri.
"24," Dimitri smiled softly.
We were all stunned. I think we had all figured he had had sex before Rose. It seems as though Rose was his first. Rose seemed very pleased with this.
"So you got to have illegal sex with Rose, but I can't with Adrian?" Remi asked astounded.
Everybody was shocked, even me. Remi was the one who came up with the idea to wait. I didn't even really think about it until she brought it up.
"Rose was almost 18 and darkness was controlling her at first," Dimitri replied calmly.
Remi just rolled her eyes and sat back in her chair. I held her hand and gave her a questioning look. She shook her head at me.
"Which reminds me, Remi, we have to get together someday for lunch or something so I can discuss the details of the bond with you," Rose smiled at her.
"Soon," I added, "I don't want darkness affecting you so much later on."
"Topic change, I called all the academies there are and none of them want to risk taking in a Dhampir who hasn't been training for a year," Lissa said hesitantly.
"Not even with you asking? You're the Queen," I cried out. Remi looked devastated, her mouth gaping open and it opened and shut. Nothing came out.
"St. Basil's said they would reconsider for second semester if she trained and kept her schooling for this semester. If she can fight at a senior level next semester they will take her in, for now she's going to have train and catch up with her schooling," Lissa brought out the good news.
"She's killed Strigoi though," I was actually kind of angry, I think part of the reason the academies didn't want her is because they know she's been a blood whore.
"They were only new Strigoi who used to be Moroi and it was difficult to take them down. If it were an older Strigoi I would have had to face I would have been dead or Strigoi myself," Remi said quietly.
"I'll train you," Rose offered.
"Thanks Rose, but you have to guard Lissa at Lehigh," Remi declined.
"There's a human school just a half an hour away from Lehigh that will take you in. Once I found out you had to just catch up educationally and combat wise, Rose suggested she train you and you go to a human school for education," Lissa told her.
"You should go," I agreed. Remi looked at me and frowned.
"Adrian, I don't know," she murmured.
"You need this, you want this. You're going to be a great Guardian," I squeezed her hand.
"I know, I'll think about it. I'll see you guys later. Thanks for dinner Christian," Remi looked troubled as she left.
We all looked at the door, confused.
"Dessert anyone?" Christian asked quietly.
We all agreed, I began to worry for Remi. What was wrong with her? She should be happy, she can become a Guardian.
Remi's POV (OMG POV CHANGE!)
I ran back to Adrian's room and pulled on my workout clothes. I scrambled to find my work out headphones for my Ipod. I needed to start running and fast.
I felt like I was going to burst. It stung that no academy wanted to take me in and it brought back the fact that I wasn't so sure about Logan's whereabouts. I knew he'd end up finding me sometime. Then Adrian would be pissed that I didn't tell him about Logan not actually being dead.
That was the only reason I risked my life to scope out the Strigoi in Vegas. If Logan turned up I had to set him free. Chills went up my spine from the last time I saw him. Just right after my Dad's memorial service. Logan's kind blue eyes had turned ice cold and were rimmed with red. He had been waiting for me in my back yard. The wards were no longer in place since my dad was dead.
"Remi," his voice whispered in my head. I shivered and finally found my headphone. I shoved my ipod into my workout arm band and put my head phones in my ears. I ran and I ran around the court's track. I tried to get him out of my head, but it kept haunting me. I knew someday he'd find me again. I didn't know if I'd ever be ready to face him.
"You will be mine, Remi. When you've fully trained, you'll be mine again. No one else's."
A/N: BUM BUM BUM! Good chapter? Let me know! Review please. Can't believe Remi is keeping secrets from Adrian's? Express your feeling of this in a review… please review! XD
