"Roza." His deep Russian voice said.
I grunted and rolled over, only to feel my shoulders being slightly shaken. "Roza." He said a little louder.
I knew I was going to lose this battle of trying to sleep in longer, so I slowly opened my eyes. I glared at the source of the person who made me get up. Dimitri just watched me in amusement and said "You are not a morning person in any way, are you."
Slowly raising myself up, I said "Not in any way and I don't understand how you can be either. Its weird." He rolled his eyes and pulled me against his chest.
"Well someone has to make up for your morning attitude." He said sarcastically.
I turned around to him and cheekily said "Hey! You cant be sarcastic. That's my job."
"Sorry." He said. Then he bent his head down to mine and said "Is this better?" he kissed my lips and enthusiastically deepened the kiss.
With a sigh I pulled away and said "We better get down to the gates. Victor said to meet him there." I looked at the clock and gasped. "Come on! Let's get going, or were going to be late!"
After getting my last minute things and stopping by Dimitri's room to get his luggage, we made it down to the gates. Everyone was waiting impatiently for us and Christian said "And Rose continues to amaze us with her ability to be late."
With a sly punch to the gut he shut up and was happy enough for just a glare at me. Lissa grabbed his hand and grinned. "I'm so excited!"
And excited she was. The heels of her feet were practically jumping up and down and her face glowed happily. I looked up at Christian's face and saw his genuine smile looking down at Lissa. Then I decided to see how everyone else was. Christian's cousin Tasha, who was convinced by Victor to come along, was looking at her Christian with a smile curving her lips.
Mason and Eddie were excitedly talking about the slopes they were going to be able to hit. "Don't get too excited! You know I'll beat both of you." I said confidently.
They laughed and Mason said "We'll just see about that, Rose."
I flipped my hair and turned around facing Victor Dashkov. Despite his sickness he looked happy about going. Natalie stood next to him looking positively smug with his hand on her shoulder. Right as I was about to look over at Dimitri he had turned towards Victor and said "Thank you again, Mr. Dashkov."
"It was no problem. I'm sure Rose really wants to meet your family anyway." He said shooting a smile in my direction. I nodded in agreement and walked to Dimitri's side. He wrapped an arm around my waist and I put my head on his shoulder.
We all looked up when we heard a car coming down the road and Victor said "Here is our ride." We all cheered and clambered around in the two cars provided for us. Our car was being driven by none other than Stan. "Hello Stan." I said, somehow managing a straight face.
He growled and turned towards me. "Respect, Ms. Hathaway." I just smirked and he seemed to know me well enough to not correct me further.
Victor chuckled from the front seat he was occupying and said "Rose, you never change do you?"
"Never will." I said honestly. He chuckled a little more and the car took off. I looked over at Lissa who was a little less excited than before. She sat in her seat clutching Christian's hand and the other hand digging into the leather seat.
It didn't surprise me that she was acting like this. Hell, I should probably be acting like that. I had died in a car accident…but I was brought back….and magically bonded to Lissa. Her whole family had died in that accident. Christian seemed to be handling the situation well enough. He was stroking her hand and kept leaning down to whisper in her ear.
Looking away, still feeling a little jealous that Christian was just as important to her as I was, I viewed the scenery passing by.
We finally made it to the airport and got into our first class seats. I reclined in mine and said "This is the life."
"Land! Sweet land!" I yelled in happiness as I collapsed on the ground. The plane ride had been terrible. Christian decided to take it on himself to annoy me to death on the plane. I was about to literally punch him in the face when Eddie realized flying made him sick. It was terrible.
"Stop being so dramatic!" Lissa tried to say it seriously, but it didn't work out in between her giggles.
I stood up from the ground and walked over to Christian, who was looking the other way. I whacked him so hard on the head that he doubled over in pain. "Sorry." I said with no pity.
He looked up at me and his palm lit up with fire. I burst out in laughter and said "Leave it to sparky…" and walked away. I could feel Lissa's strong annoyance through the bond so I decided to act as mature as I could get.
"Hey Pyro!" I yelled to Christian. He looked up with anger in his eyes and I said "I'm sorry I provoked you enough to set yourself on fire."
I saw the anger leave his eyes, knowing that he knew this was how close I could come to a sincere apology. He mumbled that it was fine and then we went to back to our bickering.
We all once again got into the cars so that we could get to the ski lodge. The car ride was silent because we were all lost in our own thoughts. I was personally thinking about how Dimitri's family was going to be. Were they going to be like him? Would they think I was a little over obnoxious? Probably.
We slowed down and pulled into what I assumed was the lodge. I squeezed Dimitri's hand and said "We're here!" he smiled back and together we walked out of the car.
My jaw dropped open at the sight in front of me. Not because of how beautiful the lodge looked, or how big it was. No. It was because this was the same ski lodge that Adrian had brought me to in his dream. Everyone else began moving, but I stood frozen.
Was Adrian here?
That was the thought that was echoing around in my brain. There was only one way to find out. I dropped Dimitri's hand and mumbled a quick "Um. I'll meet up with you guys. I need to see something." Then I started speed walking to the one place I knew he would be if he were here: The Bar.
I ran around and by some miracle stumbled upon the bar within minutes of looking. Dimitri was closely following her, as were Lissa and Christian. So much for them letting her go for a minute. I walked in and surely enough, there he sat.
"Adrian." I nearly shouted.
A pair of Emerald green eyes turned to face me and I couldn't help the huge smile that made its way on my face.
Adrians back! I had to bring him back, i missed him!
