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Tension. Mental or emotional strain; intense, suppressed suspense, anxiety, or excitement. In my case all of them. Intense were the looks that he gave me. Suppressed suspense was the situation. Anxiety was what I was getting from sitting directly across from him. Excitement was what was in the air for the rest of the inhabitants at the table.
I didn't know what the dominant emotion at the moment was, but I did know that my heart was about to burst with despair as I heard that evil witch talk.
"We are going to be the best monarch in the world," she said, "I can already see it." She smiled bright as she kissed his cheek. Dimitri smiled politely and went back to eating his food silently. Natasha looked at me, and asked, "Are you Viktoria's maid or something?"
My eyes widened and I opened my mouth to say something, but Viktoria beat me to it, "No, Natasha. Was your empty head spaced out when I introduced her to you, and Dimka? She is my friend." I looked at Viktoria shocked that she had said that, and tried to contain my smile. It was in that moment that I knew that I was going to like that girl.
Apostle opened his mouth to reprimand her I assumed when Natasha said, "Oh, so she's a commoner. I would think a princess would have more class than to be friends with a commoner." She was talking as if I wasn't even in the room, too bad for her, because it was time for me to speak up.
"Wow," I looked down at my food then back up at her, "Now I know why Turkey wants to marry you out of the country so bad." I held in my smirk as I heard Karolina next to me chuckle lightly as Viktoria laughed outright. I saw Dimitri smile lightly, and even Olena cracked a smile. Ivan covered his smirk with his hand and Sonya laughed with Viktoria as she held her pregnant belly. Apostle just shook his head and continued eating. Tasha was beat red, but held her head high and rolled her eyes.
After everything died down and we all went back to our dinner I was chewing and I felt nudge my foot. At first I ignored it thinking it was an accident, but then I felt a harder nudge come from directly ahead of me. I looked up at Dimitri through my eyelashes, and found him looking back at me with a smirk on his lips. I looked back down to my food, giving him the clear signal that I wasn't happy with him. He nudged me again, but that time I nudged him back forcefully.
"So," Karolina spoke up, "Ivan you don't have a lady friend, right?" Ivan shook his head. "Well, I think you and Rose would make an amazing couple."
Ivan and I laughed then stopped to look at each other then laughed again.
Karolina rolled her eyes, and said, "Okay, maybe not."
I looked at Dimitri and saw a look of relief on his face, and I didn't like it. An idea popped into my head and I opened my mouth, "Well, I mean maybe, who knows. We could get to know each other, and maybe it could happen."
Ivan had a look of pure confusion on his face, but he caught my drift soon enough and nodded, "Yeah, maybe we could, it's all a matter of how much we get to know each other."
Dimitri glared at Ivan, and narrowed his eyes. Ivan smiled and shrugged.
After Dinner we all bid each other a good night and went our separate ways, but not before Dimitri gave me a heated look. Viktoria and I walked up to her room and I lay down on her bed playing with Basil as she showered. I thought of Dimitri and Natasha just one room over; probably doing things that I wished I could do with him. I felt as the tears gathered in my eyes, as they spilled onto my cheeks. Viktoria came out of the bathroom with her nightgown on and gave me a hug. She told me to take a shower, that it would make me feel better.
I jumped in the shower, and tried to not think about anything. When I was done I dried my body, and put my nightgown on. I walked outside, and smiled as I saw Viktoria with two spoons and a carton of ice-cream in her hands.
The ice-cream was vanilla and it was awesome. Maybe it was because of my grief stricken faze, but I thought it was awesome. After a couple of hours eating ice-cream and talking about girly things we put Basil to bed on a couple of blankets on the floor.
"So Viktoria," I said, "how did, uh, how did you and Nikolai meet?"
Her cheeks turned fire red as I brought up her lover's name. "One night I really wanted a book, so I took my cloak and I went out to buy it. It was already dark outside so I didn't expect many people to be out and about." She stopped to adjust herself on her bed. "When I got to the bookstore they were just about to close so I bought my book quickly and started heading back home. I didn't want anyone to recognize me so I pretty much hid myself under my cloak. I thought someone was following me so I kept looking back, and I wasn't watching where I was going and I accidentally bumped into him. My book fell, he picked it up for me, and I don't I kept going back at night to see him."
I stared at her and I couldn't contain my laughter.
"What's so funny?" She looked hurt.
"No, nothing, it's just that he is so funny because he told me once that he was going to bump into people purposely because that is how he is going to meet his wife." I told her. I remembered the exact same moment he told me.
We were in Lissa's house, in her room. The mint green walls letting off a warm feeling. I was sitting on the floor next to Nikolai; as we listened to Lissa go on about how when she got married it was going to be spectacular. Nikolai laughed as Lissa said that whoever she was going to marry she was going to meet by accident.
"That seems to work a lot," Nikolai said, "Accidental meetings. I'm going to start bumping into random girls; maybe I'll meet the love of my life that way."
I laughed, "That's never going to work, and they are just going to think that you are a klutz for bumping into them."
I guess I was wrong. I looked at Viktoria and saw how her eyes sparkled as she talked about him. "I guess it worked for him." She blushed again and smiled.
There was a quiet knock on the door. Viktoria and I froze and looked at each other.
"Come in," she said loud enough for the person on the other side to hear her.
The door opened and Dimitri walked into the room. I stood up and walked out to the balcony. I heard someone walk in behind me, so I turned around and walked out.
"Rose," I heard, "Don't be like this."
I was facing Viktoria and Dimitri was standing behind me. Viktoria's lips were pursed as I saw her slowly inch backwards towards the door. I plead to her not to leave with my eyes because I did not trust myself in a room alone with him. She smiled at me and scurried out. I sighed at her lack of support.
"Rose," I heard him call again.
"What?" I turned around. "What do you want from me?"
"Rose, I know you are mad," He said hesitantly coming closer, "and I'm sorry, but this is news to me as it is news to you."
I closed my eyes and I felt his arms wrap around me. I shook my head and pushed him away. "I don't care, Dimitri, your fiancé is in the next room over, and you're getting married soon. I don't want anything to do with you." I could feel the tears streaming down my face.
"Rose," I shook my head, "Rose look at me," he took my chin in his hands and lifted it. "I'm not going to marry her. If all goes the way I plan she will be running out of here by the end of the week. I told Vika to argue with her. They are going to fight a lot I can assure you, and hopefully Natasha will get tired of it and leave." I looked at him and I could tell that he was serious.
"Why?" I asked.
"Because I love you."
Cliff hanger. Stinks huh? Anyway thank you for reading don't forget to review. :)
