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CHAPTER 10

"Lissa! What about this dress?" I yelled as i sat down on the couch at my best friends place. We had been going over wedding dresses for what seemed ages. Although her wedding is after she gives birth Lissa insisted we get prepared, I thought that we should start with the hens night, but she thought I would just talk about the strippers the whole time. In her favour, she was partially right.

I hadn't found a bridesmaid dresses yet. Jill and Mia were the other bridesmaids, while I was a bridesmaid/ Made of honour. It's fun for a while, until the bride gets stressed and takes it out on you, but I guess that's just how it's meant to be. Either way I still loved Lissa, and thought that she was marrying the right person.

"I like it but it's too casual. Sorry Rose." The sound of Lissa's voice bought me out of my trance about the past.

"Ah, you are very particular Liss. Where are you going to have your Wedding? And what sort of dresses do you like?" I asked with a sigh.

"Well, I was thinking in the chapel at St Vladimir's because that's where we met, or here at court. Christian and I are still deciding. And as for dresses I like. Look for one and I'll say yes or no." She said while grinning like she was planning this all along.

I got with looking at Wedding dresses while Lissa made us hot chocolate. "Liss! What colour for the bridesmaid dresses?" I yelled across the room.

"Uh, not sure, Maybe blue, or we could see how purple looks?"

I hated this, it was so hard to please Lissa, and then trying to find dresses is even harder. "Why don't we just go into town tomorrow and have at look at the bridal stores?"

"Yeah whatever, should we bring the boys so that they can look at suits?"

"I guess so. I'll ask Eddie tonight."

We looked through magazine after magazine all morning until I got sick of it and left, luckily Christian was home.

I was walking towards Eddie's dorm, which has now become both of ours, when I saw Dimitri walking with Abby. Being as polite as I possibly could, and mind you that's very hard to maintain. "Hey Dimitri. How are you both?" I said as I tried to contain my scowl at Abby.

"Hey Rose, I'm good thanks. Yourself?"

"I'm alright, just got back from dress looking with Lissa, we all know that is a nightmare."

He chuckled. "I remember. We should catch up soon, how about it?"

"Uh, yeah sure. I'm not sure when though." I didn't exactly know if I was doing the right thing. I know that I'm over him, but well there is Abby, and she can be a bit bitchy at times.

"Okay. I'll try and catch up with you for a time then. Bye Rose, it was nice to see you again." I waved goodbye and started walking again.

What was that about? I could see his eyes always shifting to Abby as if she might get angry at him for talking to me. But that wasn't the weirdest thing, Abby hadn't even been bought into the conversation, it was like she was never there. Hmm, I could sense something wrong, and I know that I should stay out of it.

"Oh shit, sorry." I heard someone say taking my mind off the recent happenings. It was then that I realised that I had bumped into someone.

"All good. Who are you?" I asked

"Oh, uh I'm a new guardian that has just transferred here, my name is Talen."

He was hot, I had to admit it. "Well hi Talen, I'm Rose Hathaway. Do you need help finding something?"

"Rose Hathaway, THE Rose Hathaway?" Oh god here we go. Every time I meet someone new they always start like this.

"Yes, that's me." I said trying to hide my sarcasm.

"Wow, your hotter than I expected." I laughed, that was something I never really heard from people other than Eddie and Adrian.

"Well, I'd hate to see what you expected."

"Would you help me find my dorm?" he asked while his cheeks turned pink.

I motioned for Talen to follow me as I made my way to his dorm. I remembered these halls from the palm of my hand. Only because Eddie lives around here and well you know the rest.

I came to a stop when we reached door number 335. Talen was only down the hallway from me, which is good I hope. "Well here you go Talen. Lucky for you my boyfriend lives down the hall at number 330. Just go to him if there are some problems, I'll make sure he knows for you." I said while opening the door for him.

"Okay, thanks again Rose. I hope that we will catch up soon." I hoped so too, Talen seemed like a really nice guy, even though is name sounded a little weird.

I walked to Eddie's which was nearly becoming my home, seeing as though I could never be bother to walk to my room. Typical.

I hadn't seen him all day, and I was wondering how him and Adrian were getting along, their 'wedding' is meant to be in a couple of days. Poor Eddie, I don't know what people would be thinking about him in this situation, however, we all know that they will mistake Adrian as a drunken snob.

Before I knew it, I was at the front door. "Eddie, I'm back." I yelled while walking in the front door.

I froze.

Okay, 1- i couldn't see very well.

2- There were candles everywhere.

And 3- Where was Eddie?

"Hey baby. How are you?" Was all I could hear. I knew it was Eddie, because of the intimate sound in his voice, weird I know.

"Why hello there Eddie. Better now that your here." I said as I drifted across to the couch trying very hard not to trip. I had no idea what was going on, but my every intention was to find out.

"Rose, please sit on the couch, we can eat pizza and watch a movie by candlelight. I know it's something different, but thats why I'm doing it." Eddie said, and I noticed a bit of hesitation in his voice.

"Of course, bring the pizza and drinks please!" I said with as much enthusiasm as i could get in my voice. Not that I wasn't excited, i mean Eddie + Candles can mean at lot of different things, all good though.

We sat down on the couch after he bought the pizza and drinks down and watched a movie. It was nice to relax after a long day of looking at wedding dresses and helping a new guy that admires you.

I thought something was going to happen tonight, but I was wrong, it was planned as a romantic dinner for 2, and I enjoyed it.

. . .

I woke up to find Lissa and Christian standing over me. "Rose! Will you hurry up, we need to get to the shop in another half hour." God so bossy, I don't want to go stupid dress shopping, I hate it.

I went and had a quick shower, and dressed in some casual clothes that included jeans and a tank top. It was easy to run in if needed, as Lissa usually told me to just dress nicely instead of in the Guardian attire.

I looked in the mirror once more and walked out to the car, which by the way had the boys including Adrian in it too. "SHOTGUN!" I yelled while hopping in the front passenger seat.

"Of course." I heard someone mutter, but I chose to ignore it.

I was surprised to find Talen in the driver's seat. "Talen, is that you?" I asked curiosity shaping my voice.

"Rose! How are you?" he asked turning his whole body towards me.

"I'm great. Did you settle in alright?"

"I did thanks. Where am I taking you and your friends today?"

"Lissa, where are we going?" I asked my best friend.

"Well, there are a few shops in town that I would like to see. Just take us to the mall, and we will go from there."

"Okay, hear that Talen?"

"Sure did." He said while starting the car.

"By the way everyone, this is Talen. He arrived only yesterday. Talen, that's Lissa, Christian, Eddie, and Adrian. Try to avoid Adrian as much as possible." I said sarcastically. "Oh and Christian here, well needless to say, he is a pain in everyone's ass, except Lissa, and we don't really want to go there." I say poking my tongue at Christian.

"You can talk Rosalina." I heard Christian mutter.

"Rosalina, really. That is one of the worst nicknames I have heard you say to me." I laughed.

"So Talen, where did you transfer from?" I asked while resting my head against the seat.

"St Vladimir's. I was working there over the past year, after I transferred from Russia." Funny how he didn't have an accent.

"But you don't have an accent? Did you meet Stan when you were at St Vlad's?"

"Well, I was born in Australia, and lived here for a few years before I went to Russia. And Stan, well that's a whole different story."

I decided not to talk about it anymore, as if I wanted to hear anything about Stany-boy.

Before I knew it, I was asleep.

ADIRAN POV

This week has been shit.

To top it all off though, when we all went dress shopping for Lissa, and Rose just had to buy a cheap dress for me and a tux for Eddie, because apparently we have to have a wedding at the end of this week.

I took another swig of my vodka bottle before I walked to the couch. Today was going to be another long day, I hated this dare, people have started to look at me funny.

My phone started beeping to tell me that someone was calling. "Hello?" I answered.

"Adrian! How are you?" I recognised the voice to be my girlfriends, Jill's. She is still in school at St Vladimir's. Luckily she is only a couple of years younger than me.

"Jill, I'm great now you have rung. Hows school?"

"School is school. Not long until the holidays though. Only a couple of weeks till I can see you again." Jill was always excited, it got on my nerves sometimes, but otherwise I just thought it was cute. Of course we hadn't done anything except for a few make out sessions.

"Yes not long now. I can't wait. I will have a surprise for you." I said grinning like an idiot.

"Ohhh can't wait. Hows the whole 'loving Eddie' Dare going?" Of course she had to bring that up.

"Oh Jill, HELP ME!" I shouted. "This is just torture, and Rose is going to make us have a wedding!"

To make matters worse, all I could hear on the other end of the phone was laughter. No-one except for Eddie really knows what I'm going through.

"I can't believe it." I heard Jill whisper while trying to stop laughing.

"What?"

"That she is making you both have a wedding. I wish I could come to court for it. Ah, I hate school!" I could hear the anger in her voice, but I didn't know how to help her.

"Aww Babe, I don't know what to do." I started. "I haven't been through that as much as you. I will organise for you to have a week earlier off shall I?" That was the best I could think of to help, I was hopeless in this situation.

"Yeah that sounds alright. I gotta go now Adrian. I'll talk to you later."

"Bye Jill." I said as she hung up.

Well this is crap, my girlfriend thinks it's funny too, just my luck.

Maybe I should go and see Rose, I'm pretty sure she has the day off. Oh well, I guess I will find out.

I walked towards my door, while drinking the rest of my precious alcohol, and placed it on the kitchen bench.

I walked past corridors after corridors until I found the room that belonged to Rose, and sometimes Eddie.

ROSE POV

Today had been exhausting. We had all gone into what seemed like millions of shops just to try and find the perfect dress for Lissa, although we still couldn't find any worth buying. Luckily, we got Adrian's dress and Eddies tux for their little wedding.

I had been lying on the couch resting all afternoon, just trying to build my energy that I had wasted today.

I was nearly asleep when I heard a loud knock at the door. "WHAT!" I yelled.

The sound of the door opening, and footsteps made me sit up. "Hey Rose." I heard Adrian say.

"How the hell can you be walking after our trip today?" I asked while standing up to give him a hug.

"Alcohol." Was all he answered.

"Of course." I muttered

"I'm going to see if I can get Jill to come home a week earlier."

"Sounds good, but how are you going to do that?"

"I have no idea. I thought you could help me." He said, hope in his voice.

"I don't know Adrian. I'm sorry." I genuinely was, I loved Jill, she was always nice, and she was great for Adrian.

"That's okay. What shall we do then?"

"I suggest we sleep." I stated falling onto the couch.

"Agreed." Adrian chuckled.

I fell into a dreamless sleep minutes later.