Chapter Nine

I moaned as I woke up, my head was pounding from the binge drinking I'd done last night. As I opened my eyes, I stared in shock at my trashed apartment. What the fuck happened here? As I get up, I become aware of my half-naked body as well as the few other people who were passed out.

Eyes widened in disbelief, I trace my living room with my eyes and nearly smirk upon the sight of seeing Adrian passed out on top of my friend Mason, both of whom were only in their boxers. Why were all of us undressed?

As I take inventory of all the people, I recognize some of my friends who I partied a lot with in the past: Mia, Eddie, Sydney, Jesse, Ralf ... those last two made me grimace. Yep, I was definitely wasted last night if I'd invited them to the party.

Shaking my head, I stumble into my bedroom and nearly fall over at the sight of Lissa and Christian naked on top of my comforter. Ew! Now I was going to have to burn that ... My eyes involuntarily swept over there bodies and I grimaced at the sight of Christian's pasty white ass. God - that boy needed a serious tan.

I pulled on a pair of sweatpants and a loose tank top before returning to the living room after taking two aspirins and guzzling some water from the faucet.

I stared at all the empty bottles from last night, a deck of cards was scattered across the floor and a few feet away a makeshift game of beer pong seemed to have been set up. And when I entered the kitchen, a space had been cleared for a mat of Twister (I later found the spinning board inside my fridge).

Whatever we did last night, we definitely had a ton of fun if my raging migraine and all the aftermath was any indication.

"Rose?" I turned to see Lissa now in jeans and one of my t-shirts squinting at me, confused, "What happened last night?"

My jaw dislocated and I shrugged, "I ... have no idea. I can't concentrate on anything till this headache goes away. You want some aspirin?" She weakly nods and I slowly trek back to the bathroom and later hand it to her. We sit down at my island counter with hot cloths held to our foreheads.

"Do you remember anything?" I ask after several minutes of silence.

"Well ... I remember getting a call from you around twelve in the morning, drunk off your ass and demanding that Christian and I come to your place for a small get together. Just to let you know, there were way more people here last night then there are now. Anyway, when we arrived you were topless and dancing on top of your coffee table with Mason."

I snorted a laugh because generally whenever Mason and I got together, that happened at least once at a party. It had become a sort of tradition in our freshman year of college. I shook my head, bewildered, "I cannot believe this. My apartment is a disaster."

"Yeah ... and last night you kept talking about Dimitri and how he's mad at the wrong person ... and you kept saying you didn't understand. Rose, what's that about?"

I laugh nervously but her dry expression quickly sobers me up and I'm left with no other choice than to immediately spill everything, including the part of Dimitri and Tasha breaking up in college, so as to explain my reaction to Tasha dating him.

She stares at me in shock by the time I'm done and slowly shakes your head, "In the studio? Ew ... I feel for the actors that have used that bed since then."

I giggle at her disgusted face which quickly becomes filled with humor as our light laughter fills the kitchen before we both groan at the same time. I hate hangovers.

"No but seriously ... she cheated on him again?" Lissa questioned.

"Yup," I replied, popping the 'p' as I nodded.

"She is such a slutty bitch," Lissa muttered, "I honestly don't know how she's related to Christian."

"Yeah, me neither," I muttered before realizing what I'd just willingly admitted and scrunched up my face.

"Aw, look at Rose ... embracing her love for my boyfriend." Lissa grinned cheekily at me, eyes dancing playfully.

"Don't get ahead of yourself. Nobody uttered the 'L' word. I simply admit that he's more ... tolerable than Tasha." I sniffed, sipping more coffee that I'd prepared.

"Sure, Rose. Whatever you say."

"Yeah ... but it just pisses me off that Dimitri blew up at me. I mean, I'm not the one that cheated on him! Hello? I told him in the first place," I grumbled, eyes turning to slits as I glared at the dark liquid in the mug before me. Lissa's hand covered my own and I slowly raised my brown eyes to her green ones.

"He's hurt that his best friend kept it a secret, Rose. I mean, did you honestly think that Tasha would immediately run up to him and confess?"

"No, of course not. It's just ... I didn't want to be the one to break his heart ... that's all. I mean if I'd known he wouldn't have cared as much as he didn't seem to, then I would've sent him the picture immediately but it's too late now."

Lissa studied me for a moment before nodding, smiling slightly, "Right but Dimitri will get over it, he's a great guy and a true gentlemen. I have no doubt he'll come over to apologize before the day is up."

I nodded, though not completely convinced, "Hopefully."


A few hours later everyone had left after aiding me in cleaning up my apartment apart from Adrian who was now nursing his own hangover which seemed to be worse than anyone else's. Which was understandable as I vaguely recalled him chugging an entire bottle of Jack Daniels by himself plus tequila and vodka shots ...

After bidding Lissa goodbye, I plopped down on the couch and appreciated the quietness even if my headache had long since passed.

"So, are you okay now?" Adrian asked. I cocked an eyebrow in confusion, "Before the party, we did meet at a bar where you proceeded to complain about Dimitri bitching at you for over an hour. And the only thing I could really get from your slurring plus I was pretty buzzed by the time you got there ... anyway, all I got was he was yelling at you for something that really wasn't your fault?" Adrian raised an eyebrow, nursing an glass of orange juice in his hands.

"Oh, well ... yeah, I think I'm okay. Dimitri will probably come over later to talk about it anyway. I think he was just angry and I happened to be the only person around. And hopefully he ended things with Tasha." I scowled a the mere mention of her name, lips curling in a distasteful sneer.

"Right," Adrian looked at me with slight fear on his face before smirking, "You're a fun person to hang out with, Rose. Especially when you throw a party and are wasted."

I smirked at him, "Oh, I know."

Hours seemed to pass as Adrian and I just sat there, talking about everything and nothing. He was hilarious and easy going but at times tended to become annoying. He was a complete pervert and constantly leering at me but in a joking manner (most of the time anyway).

It had already gotten to seven o'clock in the evening when we started to bid our goodbyes.

As I walked towards the door, I turned to him as I opened it but the smile fell off my face when his expression froze in a clear one saying, "Oh shit." Confused, I turned around only to grimace at the sight of a pissed off Dimitri Belikov.

There wasn't anything scarier than a 6'7" Russian who was majorly pissed off. I gulped when his blazing eyes met my fearful ones.

"What is he doing here?" Dimitri seethed, fist clenching so tightly that his knuckles where a startling white.

"Dimitri ... calm down. It's not what you're thinking." I calmly said, raising my hands in a surrendering motion.

"I'll ... just go." On any other circumstances I'd have glared at told him to stay put but the way that Dimitri was eyeing Adrian ... it was probably safest (for Adrian) for him to leave.

"Yeah," I wanted to say 'see you later' but didn't want Dimitri to blow up. So once Adrian had disappeared down the stairs, I stepped aside as Dimitri entered my apartment but he was anything but calm.

"Rose?" I sighed at the accusing tone before explaining what happened last night. Upon my mention of being upset after our fight, his eyes turned dark with sadness and regret. After my monologue, I sighed tiredly and leaned against the nearest wall.

"That's actually what I wanted to talk to you about, Rose ... I need to apologize. I did a lot of thinking and analyzing my reaction. I shouldn't have yelled at you. Maybe you should have told me sooner but you were also waiting for Tasha to do it. And it wasn't like you were intentionally trying to hurt me. I shouldn't have reacted like that and I'm sorry." He ran his hand through his hair, awkwardly smiling at me.

"Well, I forgive you." I murmur, returning his smile. I was finally happy. Dimitri wasn't dating a lying bitch and I finally had my best friend back, "Why do you hate him so much?"

Dimitri stiffened upon my words before shuffling uncomfortably, "That's another thing I wanted to talk about ... Rose, isn't it obvious?"

"Isn't what obvious?" I asked, confused. Dimitri blinked at me before shaking his head and running a hand over his face.

"Never mind. I'm tired and want to go to bed. I'll talk to you tomorrow, okay?"

He was out the door before I could reply, leaving me utterly confused.

What was supposed to be obvious?


Review guys! Did you like this chapter? Satisfied with what happened between Rose and Adrian as well as Rose and Dimitri? Please tell me!

AND OH MY GOD! Am I the last person to find out that Vampire Academy is actually becoming a movie which will be released February of next year? Am I? I am SO excited now! Like, really I'm grinning like a psycho because I'm so happy (really ... my cheeks are starting to hurt). I can't believe it's finally happening! It's actually becoming a movie and how awesome is the title? Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters? That is fucking awesome! I can't wait for this to come out, the rest of this year can now fly by thank you very much ... Like, no joke, the cast is awesome and totally lives up to my expectations of what they should look like. I'm so ecstatic! It can't come soon enough.

Oh, and I'd love to give a shout-out to Dimitri Damon Derek Obsessed for making me aware of this because I had no idea ... So thank you for making me so, so incredibly happy :D

- Hannah