Don't walk out the door

Chapter 10

NORMAL POV

"Don't leave."

Rose stares at him, not being able to move. She walks up to him, and whispers, "Sydney walked over to your room, you should see her before she leaves." Then she lightly pushes him out the elevator and the door closes in front of him, with the image of a sad smile curling up on her lips.

He starts pushing the button like mad but nothing happened. He walks back to his room in a hurry to find Sydney waiting outside his door.

"Hey." She waves, "You get my text?"

"Yeah," replies Adrian and opens his door, she walks in then finds a syringe she dropped while getting rid of the Strigoi.

"You done?" asks Adrian at the doorway, she looks at him and nods.

"Did I do something wrong? You seem really cold towards me," she states

"You'll miss your flight," murmurs Adrian then locked the door as she walked out the door.

"My flight's in an hour, I thought we could hang out for a bit," suggests Sydney, and Adrian shrugged his shoulder, "Sure why not?"

As they walked to the elevator, his phone rang, and it was Lissa.

"Adrian, have you seen Rose?" asks Lissa

"She left a few minutes ago, to her room," answers Adrian

"Well I'm in our room, and all of us haven't seen her at all."

"I'll look for her. Maybe she came back down."

"Alright, well find her soon. Her flight's in 30 minutes."

"What? Isn't she leaving tonight?"

"No, where'd you hear that from?"

"Nevermind, I'll talk to you later." He cut the phone and starts to panic, he left her when she was the most vulnerable. She lied to him because she didn't want to tell him something.

"Typical Rose."
"What's wrong?" asks Sydney as the elevator door opens

"Something came up, I can't see you anymore," says Adrian

"Oh, we can just hang out when we meet again." She looks at him to find him looking guilty.

"I can't see you anymore, we can't meet again," he says and gives her a soft smile

"It's Rose isn't it?"

"I'm sorry, she's someone I can't lose. She gets vulnerable to certain things, and she pushes people away when she has a problem, she acts quite weird in the mornings, then she starts to worry about things, it's quite typical for her," laughs Adrian who receives a smile from Sydney

"You care for her a lot don't you?" He gives her a small nod, and says goodbye to her.

"Take care Sage."

She purses her lips, holds in her tears, walks in the elevator, and holds her head up high.

"Goodbye."

He walks around the hotel trying to look for Rose, he comes back to his room and looks at his watch to find only 15 minutes till they leave.

He calls Lissa and she picks up.
"She's with us now. You want to talk to her?" asks Lissa

"Yeah."

The phone changes, and he hears a small argument from Lissa and Rose.

"You've got to talk to him Rose… No buts… He deserves an explanation," mumbles Lissa and he hears an exasperated sigh.

"Sorry for getting you worried," says Rose

"Just glad you're okay," replies Adrian

"So how was it meeting up with Sydney?" she asks

"Nothing happened, and I'm sorry for not telling you I talked to her last night."

"No, it's not your fault. I shouldn't have to keep you on a leash or anything. You have your freedom," explains Rose

"Why'd you lie to me about your flight this morning… What's going on Rose? This is so you, you'd feel bad about something then not talk about it, then go off into some corner torturing yourself. Tell me Rose, what's happening?"

"Nothing to do with you Adrian," she snapped and sighs, "Look, I'm sorry I've been acting like some cranky frantic woman."

"You're always like that," jokes Adrian who receives a small giggle from Rose

"Maybe one day. When you come back to court, for now you should have fun with Sydney."

"Is this what this whole thing is about? You being jealous of me being with Sydney?" I asked getting annoyed

"No. It's me being angry at myself for letting myself fall into my emotions so quickly without even thinking twice."

"What's wrong with that?"

"Adrian, while I was with Dimitri, you've been with dozens of women, and you met Sydney. She helped you, and yes I admit, I'm feeling angry at myself for letting you go through the pain. But you can't say that the whole relationship didn't feel like anything to you. Before you even think about me, think about Sydney first. Do you want to let her go and be with me? Because, then I'll-," before she could finish she passed the phone to Lissa, she mumbled, "I can't Liss, I can't finish the sentence."

Lissa sighed and answered in place of her, "She said she'll leave you and move on if you think about getting together with Sydney, so you don't need to think about her anymore."

"Tell her tha-," before he could say anything Lissa replied, "Adrian, now's not the time. Come to court and we'll talk. We're going now. Goodbye."

Then he heard Rose say, "SHUT UP CHRISTIAN. IT'S NOT LIKE YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MY LIFE." Then the phone cut with the silent beeps.

He quickly dialed a number, "Hello? This is Adrian Ivashkov. I'd like to borrow a jet that will send me back to the court right now. Please. Thank you."

ROSE'S POV

Once I cut the phone I let out a sigh of defeat and sat down on the chair.

"Look at that, Rose Hathaway giving up on the man she tried to chase down by getting rejected multiple times. Tell me Rosie, why did you let the man you love go?" smirked Christian and I started to fume, with tears of anger begging to come out of my eyes.

"SHUT UP CHRISTIAN. IT'S NOT LIKE YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MY LIFE!"

The others snapped their eyes at me.

"Rose, calm down," pleads Lissa

"No Liss, tell your boyfriend to get out of my sight," I said and sat down as far away from Christian.

"Christian, what'd you say to her?" asked Lissa getting angry

"I heard you loud and clear Christian, you better apologize," threatened Eddie
"I didn't think it was such a big deal," mumbled Christian and came over to me. He sat down next to me and opened his mouth to say something but I shut him up.

"If you're planning to apologize to me, then forget about it."

"Rose, I'm sorry. I said too much. It's just, leaving Adrian like that wasn't what you really wanted, and honestly, this isn't you. You love him and you know it. Yet you left him, telling him that he can go back to his ex and forget about you."

By then I let out a tear or two but quickly wiped them away.
"I know it's hard. But don't you think you've done enough torturing yourself?"

"I don't know what to do anymore. Seeing him talk about Sydney made me so angry at myself, I thought 'Why did I let him go through the pain.' Or 'Why am I such an idiot'."

"It sounds like you're jealous," says Christian

"Jealousy would be better than what I'm feeling," I murmured

"You're scared Rose, you fear losing him," answers Christian to my mental question of 'Why am I feeling like this?'
"But why?" I ask

"Because you already lost him, you don't want to lose him another time."

"It's true Rose, don't deny it," said Lissa walking up to me, and reaches out for my hand. She grips them tightly, "Nothing will be over until you finally admit it is. So this is my question for you, are you over Adrian?"

I think about last night, and I bit my lip, "No I'm not. I never was."

"Then that's the answer Rosie," said Christian brightly and smiled, "The old Rose better come back because the Rose I'm talking to is a bore." I lightly punched him and laughed.

"Thanks pyro."

"Just this once." He says and sits back down next to Lissa.

As we arrived back to court, it was still 4 in the afternoon. I walk to my room, and I find it unlocked. I slowly opened the door, and I find a black figure sitting in the dark room.

I flick the light on and I see Adrian, staring at me.

"Shit."