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Chapter 10: Easter Here I Come
So, besides almost blowing my cover with the sexy Russian, it wasn't that bad of a day. It was stressful, but no life or death happened. No strigoi hunting, no guardians chasing after us, Eddie hasn't called. In general life was peachy for the first day back.
Well, then there's Dimitri. But he's only a speck on the clover. It shouldn't be too hard to avoid.
Apparently specks fly around faster than the clover could watch.
For some reason everywhere I went, Dimitri would pop up. First in class, then in the hallway, then in the cafeteria, then in gym. Thank god the day had only twenty minutes left. When I got home I would grab some donuts and sleep this day off. Hopefully my stupid English teacher will actually be here. Why would a Russian teach English anyway? How does that make any sense?
The bell rang and I booked out of my class and texted Alberta saying I would be going home today and taking a nap. She texted me back that it was fine and asked if I needed a ride home. I said sure and then we needed to stop by Rolling Pin Donuts and she texted me back a smiley face.
If everything went as I wanted, I would have Alberta walk out of the school and we walked together to her car, drive to get a dozen donuts, she would drop me off at home, I would check on Mason and do a bit of therapy for him, take a nap, wake up and work out, eat some more donuts, go back to sleep, and then wake up tomorrow late so I didn't have to go to English and my day would be fine tomorrow too.
Except the universe not hates Rose Hathaway, but doesn't like her donuts either.
Alberta did walk out of the school and we walked to her car together, but on the way to the donuts, Alberta wanted to surprise me.
"So... My oldest grandson is 18..."
I sighed and laughed and she laughed with me. "Alberta, you're stuck with me enough as it is. You really want your grandson to date a crazy person like me? And doesn't he live in like Nebraska?"
She gave me a sidelong glance and laughed. "Rose, they live in Arizona."
"Close enough!"
"And besides, Rose. He's a good kid. I've... Talked about you with him and he's really excited to meet you."
"Does he know about the street fighting?"
"No... But I did say you were really tough, tougher than him,even."
I'm tougher than most humans...
"Well, you'll meet him when he comes. And you can't work your way out of this. You promised. I don't know what a broken promise might do to this old womans heart. I might get a stroke." I laughed.
"Alberta, you're not that old. And the only thing that would bring a stroke is your grandson coming home crying after the girl you paired him up with saved his but in a fight."
"If that were to actually happen, I would laugh, not die."
We laughed together. And she wanted me to go buy the grocery store to get some food. I agreed and we went and I stocked up on some healthy food as well as some chips and salsa and Takis. Man, I can't live without Takis. I also got Alberta to buy some alcohol for me. It was mostly for Mason, but I like to indulge myself every once in a while.
So of course Dimitri was working the only open cash register.
What kind of grocery store only has one cash register open at 3:30p.m.?!
"Hey, Alberta, I'm gonna... Do that self-checkout thingy over there" behind Dimitri. She gave a weird look. But nodded anyway.
She walked to the line that Dimitri was working at.
I thought Dimitri was supposed to be at the library?!
As I was doing the self-checkout, some guy who-Was moroi?!- patted his shoulder and took over for him.
Please don't see me, please don't see me, please don't see me... I chanted that in my head while Dimitri walked to the back of the store to probably change and leave. I sighed in relief and finished checking out and met Alberta at her car.
"Rose, what was that about?"
"I knew the guy that was working and didn't want him to see me. Let's leave it at that."
She nodded and I helped her load her car with our groceries and she drove me to get some donuts.
And guess who was in line to get donuts?
Jesus.
Of course not! It was fucking Dimitri Belikov. The one and only.
"Fuck it!" I screamed as I got out of the car to get my donuts.
Dimitri could get in the way of my laziness at school and with groceries. But I'm buying these fucking donuts whether he likes it or not. I mean come on! Obviously god wants me to be royally screwed for the whole, don't mingle with humans, mindset I had earlier on when I rejected the guy.
Isn't there any race that is easy to handle? I could barely handle my own race when I went to school with them, if anything, humans are worse!
Except Alberta. She's nice.
Of course that reminded me of the grandson I was meeting next week. Maybe I need to kill strigoi more than Mason does.
I was standing behind the Russian God with his duster and all and thankfully he didn't really notice me.
And then there was Alberta. "Rose! What was that about? And can you get me a glazed one?"
And I just defended her!
I watched Dimitri's back stiffen and he then turned around and looked down at me.
He was a lot taller when I wasn't wearing sex heals.
I nodded at Alberta and then she saw Dimitri and waved at him. He seemed seriously confused as he waved back at her.
"You are friends with Mrs. Petrov?" He asked.
"Yep, we go way back." I said avoiding eye contact.
"So... I haven't seen you at the library lately. "
"I've had a lot of things going on. Some family emergencies."
"So... You like donuts?" Man was this awkward. We were standing in front of a donut shop. Smooth Dimitri, smooth.
"They're practically my life. Can't keep on breathing without them."
"Sir? Next in line please?" Dimitri turned back around and ordered two donuts and payed in cash.
"I'll... Uh... See you later Rose."
"See yah"
"Hi, miss what would you like?" I told her my order and got back in the car with Alberta.
"What did you and Mr. Belikov talking about?"
"Alberta... He thinks I'm a college student that tutors in the library sometimes. We... Made out at a club last week. I don't know what to do." I blurted it all out before the filter could show up.
She looked at me and laughed. "Rose, you get yourself into the worst situations!"
I just pouted as she laughed her ass off on the ride home.
And of course when I walked in, the house was on fire.
"Fuck!" I grabbed the fire hydrant and sprayed all of it on the fire and it came out. It wasn't big and it was only the stove/oven that was on fire.
"Mason!"
I ran into the sound proof room and saw Mason shooting. He saw me in the corner of his eyes and he got a frightened look in his eyes as I marched over him. I jumped on him and punched him in the face as we fell to the ground.
"You left the oven on you stupid son of a bitch!" I punched him again. "You could have burnt the whole house down. And another.
Finally I stopped and helped him up.
Silently we walked to the kitchen and cleaned everything up. I went online and ordered a new stove to be installed on Thursday.
" Mason, I know you're on edge. I've decided to call Anthony and have him go with you to Mexico tomorrow."
"Rose..."
"Mason, you need to go hunt. You can't stay here by yourself. I know you and Anthony aren't the best of friends but you work well together. O he's going to pick you up tomorrow at 3."
He nodded and walked over to him and hugged him. "You've given me a lot Mason, and I want to make sure you're OK. Come back whenever you want. I've got everything covered for here. And I'm not gonna fight again for another two weeks so no worries." He nodded again and we both showered and I got ready for bed as he was packing for his trip.
When I woke up, the sun came in through the curtains and hit me in the eyes. Damned sun, always ruins mornings. It was quiet, Mason should have left earlier and that means I have to make my own breakfast. When I looked outside I noticed he didn't take his truck. His Keyes were on the kitchen counter so I grabbed them and drove his truck to get donuts. Mason took the few I had left from yesterday. Damn him.
I parked my car in the student parking lot of my school and walked into Alberta's room to eat some lunch, aka the donuts and chocolate milk.
"I swear, its astonishing you eat so much junk and yet you're still so fit."
"Its in my blood."
We laughed.
"So, are you leaving tomorrow?" Alberta asked.
"No Mason left with another friend last night. I'm going to stay this week and actually go to school." I also decided to distract myself with a fight on Thursday. However she didn't need to know that, and neither did Mason.
After school finally rolled around and I didn't want to do much, so I decided to see if Jill was in the library.
I wasn't looking for Dimitri.
I mean, I was a bit harsh on him. After all, he doesn't know that I have different blood than him and that its forbidden to be together because being with me might put him in more danger than a normal human should be in.
Maybe we could be friends, and totaly forget about the night at the club.
I walked into the library and saw him at the desk. He looked over his book, saw me, and then smiled.
"Roza." I smiled back at him.
"Comrade."
It was quiet for a moment.
"How... Have you been?" He asked me.
"Better. Look..."
"No, no. Its fine. I don't know what happened, but everyone has their reasons. I can live with it. But, at least you're here now, and I mean, we can talk, right?"
"Yah."
So that's what we did. We talked about his family and how they are in Russia. He went quiet, as if he was thinking deeply about something. I asked him what was wrong.
"My... Father died recently. Well, my step father."
"How... Did he die? If you don't mind me asking." He sighed heavily and stared down at his hands.
"I'm not sure. There are a lot of really... Weird attacks in Russia. The police said he had these marks on his neck, but that was all they would tell us. My mom... She's really broken up about it. So, I decided to have her and my sisters come stay with me here for easter." He changed the subject quickly. That was fine. I wasn't exactly so open about my family at the moment.
But hearing that little description. It must have been Strigoi.
"Roza. This may be weird to ask, but, would you like to come visit while my family is here?"
What's with these people wanting me to meet their families?! Im not exactly the best with families. I never had one.
"Umm..."
"How about just one dinner. I have a sister who's seventeen and I think you guys would really get along."
Great, not only do they want me to meet their families, they want me to hook up with one of them, too.
Too many people like Rose Hathaway.
"One dinner should be fine." I said.
He smiled and we continued to talk for a little while longer until I found Jill and she also invited me to visit her family over the break. I couldn't help but laugh and she had a confused look on her. I just said sure and told her to call me and schedule something, because I'd be really busy.
Easter here I come.
Hope you guys like this chapter. Its. Bit boring, I get that, but the next chapter will be easter break! I might break it off to one chapter for each family she visits. You guys tell me if you want me to bring the visits together into one or two chapters or like 3 to 4 for each family. Please review favorite and follow. Adios my lovelies!