A.N: Hey Guys!! I'm so happy with all your reviews. I see that you enjoy the story and It pushes me to write a bit faster ( I actually spend almost all my free time writing those days XD).

Anyways I'm working on a play list for this story right now I should post it at the same time than the next chapter ( but I'm not sure since it can give a bit too much of the story away lol)

Oh another thing I just wanted to tell you that I picture Adrian as a little younger (like Supernatural season 1) Jensen Ackles, I mean the hair… the eyes… it fits lol ( and boy the guy is Hot!!)

Well please please don't forget to review okay? I love to read you!!

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Chapter 4:

"That movie was so bad. I thought I was about to gauge my eyes out!" I said to Christian as we were walking back to his room from the common.

It was Friday night and I hadn't seen Adrian since the little incident on Tuesday, and I had to admit, somehow shamefully, that I was longing for him. I knew from Lissa that he wasn't on campus on Wednesday and Thursday as he had some business to attend at the Court, but still, he didn't contact me or anything not even in dreams! I thought surprisingly sadden but Christian brought me back to reality.

"You were not supposed to watch it anyways, you were my guardian not my date." He said as an attempt to joke but he was too sullen to be credible. "Plus you were so lost in your thoughts that you missed half of it!"

I did miss half of it as I was constantly sliding into Lissa's mind just to see, well I was pretending it was the reason, that they were fine. But I just wanted to look at him, his deep emerald eyes, his pouty bottom lip….

Stop it Rose!! I shook my head.

"Well it's sweet." I said sarcastically. "Oh come one, I know that being sullen is in the job description of 'how to be an emo kid' but give me a break." I said elbowing him playfully. "You know there is nothing going on between them and she came out with this schedule idea to make you feel better" I added a bit more seriously.

He just nodded still pouting slightly but I could see he was doing better and I was a hypocrite as I was sulking too but it was more discreet.

As soon as we made it to the room Christian called dibs for the bathroom and I took advantage of being alone to slip into Lissa's mind but she was already in her room chatting with Eddie about the short notice banquet organized for this Saturday by the Queen herself and she was pretty excited by the idea and Eddie was too.

I was pleased he decided to go as he really needed the distraction. We all needed some distraction but as the presence of the Dhampirs was not mandatory, and that if we decided not to attend, it will make our day off start after Class on Saturday and not only Sunday morning I jumped on the occasion. I could both dodge a boring night with the Queen and win a night of freedom? There was not much to think about!

Christian left me the spot of the bathroom and I felt grateful once again that we had a private bathroom because I really needed to linger under the very warm water tonight. I was too stressed and my muscles were aching accordingly.

As I was under the hot water I rested my forehead against the blue tiles of the shower wall and did some breathing exercises.

I was mad at Adrian for ignoring me the rest of the week as he didn't seem that upset Tuesday and I was angry with myself for letting his attitude hurt me.

"Who does he think he is? I didn't promise him anything it was just a damn kiss!" I said out loud but quietly enough to stay out of earshot. "Damn Ivashkov!"

I finally stepped out of the shower and saw the little piece of paper that was slightly out of my rear jean pocket and groaned.

Today was already a pretty sucky day but when Alberta found me during lunch to tell me that Kirova and Dimitri thought that my training should continue even during the field experience and that I would be excused from the exercise one hour per day in order to train, Sunday included and that all guardians were aware not to attack Christian or Lissa during this hour. That made me even more depressed as I knew that for one hour every night I would face the cause of all my heart ache! So much for wanting to stay away from him!!

Plus he was coward enough to send Alberta to tell me!! He was right up with Stan now on my list of Guardians I would love to beat unconscious.

When I crawled beside Christian in the bed he shot me a glance.

"Look who is all sullen now?" He said smirking. "Trying to be 'emo' chick?? You are too damaged for that!" He said with a low chuckle.

"Yeah? Well takes one to know one!" I snapped back adjusting the covers ruefully. "I guess that the emo poster kid I'm spending my days and nights with is starting to give me his freaky attitude." I added turning my back to him. "Or maybe it's your moronic movies that are starting to eat up my brain." I added happy that he couldn't see my smile.

"Well there was not much to eat in the first place." He said trying to sound serious and I kicked him in the leg.

"Oouch!" He complained.

"Yeah well better shut up fire boy or next time I'll hit a bit higher in a more…central area!" I said through clench teeth.

"That would make Lissa really REALLY unhappy" he said so seriously that my mouth popped open and I burst into laugher.

"Ewww Come on! I don't want to think about that!!" I whined still laughing looking at him.

"Well you started it!" He said cheekily "and if you hurt me Lissa will give me the okay for you to go back on sleeping on the floor."

I was about to retort that sleeping on the floor was better than beside him but it was not true. He had a pretty large queen size bed with a very comfortable mattress. Lissa complained so much about how we were childish for not sharing the bed and even with our heavy jokes on how it was surprising that she wanted her best friend to sleep with her boyfriend she didn't change her mind.

The first night it was pretty awkward at first, but now, it was a habit, it was the fourth night and it was really like a brother and sister sharing their bed or a girl sharing her bed with her gay friend.

Only few people could comprehend our group really. The Spokane incident, Lissa's kidnapping and all that created something between us. We were a family, unusual for sure but a family nevertheless. Both Lissa and Eddie didn't think anything of me sharing a bed with Christian and I was pretty sure that Adrian wouldn't mind either, he probably didn't even care about me anyways. Not that much of a novelty anymore.

I slept on the side just next to the door because in the very, very low possibly of Guardian/Strigoi bursting through the door I needed to be the one they came to face but then, it would be a bitch to explain why we were sleeping in the same bed. That would cause some pretty good gossip!

I sighed and came back to reality to find Christian still half sat his laptop still on his legs but he was scrutinizing my face.

"What's wrong Rose?" He asked with solicitude which was pretty rare from him but since Spokane he was letting his guards down more and more often with me too. "You seem preoccupied by something…Can I help you?" He asked as I saw he really wanted to help.

I smiled to him. "No that's fine really it's just…I'm slightly confused about some stuff that are not that important but I need to figure them out by myself but it's not important I promise." It's just my heart! I added to myself.

He nodded and smiled back. "Okay. As long as you know that I'm here." He said closing his laptop and setting it down on the floor.

"I do know that." I said sincerely "and likewise you know that too huh?" I asked.

He nodded. "I do;" He turned off the light. "Goodnight Rose."

"Night fire boy." I said turning on my side face to the door.

And when I dreamt, I knew instantly it wasn't my dream as I was standing in a huge botanical garden I've never seen before and the sun was so bright it was almost blinding but it was playing with the flowers so beautifully that it was almost magic.

I looked around trying to find Adrian and there he appeared up a small tiles path.

The sun was playing on his face, and your type or not, you couldn't deny that he was a very beautiful man with features close to perfection. He had a very well designed, strong jaw line, a straight nose, big emerald eyes with long and thick black lashes. He also had very well designed lips, the bottom one was a bit plumper which caused a very slight pout, a real invitation to kiss and I also knew, from experience, that those lips were as soft as silk just like his hair that was brown but in this bright light you could see some discreet golden reflects. He also had a small scar at the corner of his jaw.

Uh …I'll have to ask about that one day. I thought.

I now looked at his body. He was really tall, not as tall as Dimitri but easily 6'4. He was wearing some cream khakis shorts and a green tank top that matched his eyes. I looked at his arms and was surprised to notice that he was a lot more muscular that I thought he was. Well, I did notice before that he was far from being as lanky as a normal moroi but now, I also noticed that it was something he did gain by spending numerous hours at the gym as I noticed that his legs were pretty muscular too. My eyes wandered to the floor and noticed that he was barefoot and I couldn't help to think that the tiles should be burning under this sun.

Such cute feet!! I thought wanting to slap myself. What's wrong with you?! Since when do you find that feet are cute!!

I finally concentrated my attention on his face again as he smiled at me but I didn't smile back.

"Don't you like this place?" He asked walking toward me but stopping about 2 feet away. "It's my grandmother's garden" he added seriously.

"It's gorgeous" I said sincerely. "Almost magical" I added looking around.

"But you seem unhappy." He said curiously. "Is there something wrong?" He asked cocking his head to the side, taking one more step toward me.

"Don't pretend like it matters, like you care!" I snapped regretting straight away to have shown him that his absence did upset me.

"Of course it matters!" He said like I was utterly absurd. "And I do care." He added reaching out with a red rose in the hand. "A rose for my Rose." He said tentatively.

I snorted. "I was not your Rose this week!" I said defiantly crossing my arms on my chest to show him I didn't have the intention to take the rose.

"It was a really busy week Rose. I had business to attend and I couldn't delay any longer but I DID miss you." He said sincerely. "I thought about you everyday."

"Would have been nice to know…" I grumbled looking down.

He sighed and closed the distance between us and cupped my face with both his hands.

"I'm sorry, really" he said kissing the tip of my nose "and I did miss you, I still miss you." He brushed my cheeks with his thumbs. "I need to see you, I need to kiss you, to hold you in my arms" he said, voice full of emotion.

My eyes locked on his lips. "When?" I asked not even realizing I did speak.

"What about now?" He asked the voice and eyes full of anticipation.

"Now?!" I almost shrieked. "The guests pavilion is too far from Christian's dorm I can't go across campus and…" I bit my bottom lip as I thought. "It's maybe not the best or safest idea to be alone in a room with you."

He chuckled. "Yeah maybe you are right. Well I can come to meet you then." He said still holding my face.

"But it's day outside" I said worried about him. "I… No…You need to stay put I don't want you to get hurt."

"Not seeing you will hurt me more." He added with such a look in his eyes that it tightened in my chest. I knew he was mostly flirting to get me in bed, that it was only lust talking, but it felt good anyways.

"Ok…" I said resting my hands on his bare arms thinking. Think Rose think…I thought.

After a couple of minutes I slapped his arms opening wide eyes.

"I got it!!" I said jumping up in anticipation.

He gave me his deep, throaty, joyful laugh that I loved.

I gave him an itinerary to follow that was mostly covered by trees and told him to wait for me under the old oak tree as there were 3 huge branches intrigued together and it was making a very nice shield from the sun plus it was pretty close of the dorm.

"Ok, I'll meet you there in 10 minutes" he said kissing my forehead. He than leaned to whisper to my ear "Wake up!"

My eyes shot open, I slightly turned to find Christian fast asleep.

Man he really does drool when he sleeps!! I thought with a smile thinking on how many witty remarks I'd use against him.

I got out of bed as quietly as I could and managed doing so without waking him up. I suddenly realized that our jackets were in the wardrobe that squeaked loudly and I was bound to wake him up.

I sighed. Never mind the coat I thought.

I put my training shoes and sneaked out of the door. We were staying in the last room at the end of the corridor, the one the closest to the corridor window as that floor only had one, and I was lucky that the room was on the first floor. I'd use the gutter to go down…a piece of cake. The problem was the cold but I figured that wearing my flannel PJ, with the bright sun out and with only 100 yards to go I should be alright… Boy was I wrong!!

I ran to the tree for two reasons. Firstly because I was eager to see Adrian and secondly because the freezing wind was like thousands of little needles going through my skin.

When I saw him, draped in his expensive long charcoal cashmere coat, with a wide smile on his face, I stopped thinking about the cold and smiled back.

"Hey!" I said stopping in front of him as I didn't want him to step from his shielded spot.

"Nice" he said looking down, pointing at my PJ.

I blushed as I was getting self-conscious. The PJ were fresh washed and I was too pleased to wear it, but it was the flying rabbits one.

"No don't be self conscious" he said seriously "I really like it. I wouldn't mind waking up beside this PJ every morning" he added looking away.

At this moment the wind made me shiver, and understanding flashed in his eyes.

"Rose!!" He said exasperated. "No coat?? Come on!" he shook his head in disapproval starting to unbutton his coat.

"No don't do that!" I said stopping him as he was about to take it off. I was freezing but I was still more resistant than a moroi as tough as he could be.

He smiled, put his hands in his pockets and opened his coat wide. "Maybe we could share" he said smiling wider flashing his teeth, fangs included.

"I love that idea!" I said rushing into his open arms wrapping my arms around his waist as he closed the coat around us.

He rested his cheek on top of my head, sighing in contentment as I rested my ear against his heart listening to the slow thuds of his heartbeat.

We stood like that and he seemed content enough to just hold me which was not fitting with the whole 'I want your body' theory but maybe it was just a little trick.

After a little while I decided that we connected enough as I really didn't need to replace, or try to replace, my addiction to Dimitri with someone else.

I crooked my neck, stood on my toes and started to kiss his jaw line lightly.

He groaned and leaned down to meet my lips. What a kiss! I thought as electric currents passed through my body.

I was starting to think that the first kiss was so good because of all the anger I was feeling and because it was a novelty but I was so wrong since that second one was even better!!

We finally broke it off reluctantly as we both needed air. He kissed my forehead.

"I promise I really did miss you." He said against my lips "and I can't wait to see you all dressed up at the banquet tomorrow night" he added pressing his body a bit more against mine. His body heat was a bliss.

"Yeah about that…" I started to rub his back. "I'm not going. I mean I really need a night to chill out and thank god Lissa is letting me off the hook as she knows how much I hate those events but…." I smiled and kissed his lips quickly as he was still leaning toward me. "You are more than welcome to join me for the evening" I said cheekily. What is better than a full evening of hot making out session with a guy not expecting to gain your heart?! I added to myself.

"You are killing me there!" He growled frustrated.

I unfastened my arms wanting to break our embrace but he tightened his grip against my back . "Well if it's such a burden please don't sweat it!"

"Oh my… Touchy" he said kissing my forehead again. "I like that! But just so you know there is no place in the world I rather be than with you."

I rolled my eyes. "It's ok don't need to get cheesy!" I said wrapping my arms around his back again and listening to him my ear pressed on his chest.

"No but I have to attend because my aunt will be super upset if I don't and I won't hear the end of it" he said removing a hand from his pocket and started to stroke my hair softly "but you know what, as soon as they acknowledge my presence I'll sneak out and join you ok?" He said cheerfully.

"Yeah that's fine" I said kissing his chest.

He sighed and unfasten his hold. "It's getting late my Rose and I don't want you to be a mess tomorrow. I want you to kick some guardian ass!" He added chuckling.

I let go reluctantly and stepped out of his coat.

"Good night" he said kissing me quickly. "Sweet dreams" he added looking totally at peace.

"Good night" I said turning around to leave, and with the back at him, I added "I missed you too."

I ran back to the dorms and I was only started to go up the gutter when I heard someone clear his throat behind me.

Damn karma! I thought jumping down as I perfectly knew who it was.

I looked behind me. "Guardian Belikov" I said.

He looked at me with anger, jealousy and reprobation. He took a little devise from his coat pocket.

"Petrov it's Belikov. Can you check if Castile is with Princess Vasilisa right now please." He barked in the little think.

I heard Alberta saying. "Going now!"

I crossed my arms on my chest. "You are going to report me to Kirova."

He waited a bit more scowling at me.

"You should do it... It's the professional thing to do." I added as I knew I would probably have to cry my eyes out to get out of this one but Kirova was still impressed with my brave behavior in Spokane.

He kept scowling his face hard. "He is in the room and seeing his sleepy face he didn't move." Said Alberta through the little devise.

Dimitri looked both surprised and suspicious. So now he will investigate a bit more. I'm pretty sure it would be fun to see his face if he found out I was making out with Adrian but it will created too much trouble for both of us.

I shivered as I was getting cold again, Adrian body heat was fading.

Dimitri started to get off his coat but I stopped him raising my hand.

"Stop it! Either you bring me to Kirova now to rat me out or you let me go back up" I added pointing at the gutter "either way I won't be out much longer."

He sighed raising his hands in surrender. "I'm not going to rat you out Rose" he said with clear exasperation.

I looked at him and he probably noticed that I was closing up as he shook his head "you can go if you really want to" he added so sadly that it stopped me a second.

"Thank you" I said trying to sound nice enough and started to get up the gutter as I didn't know what more could be said as he clearly told me that things couldn't change between us.

I made it to the room very quietly and I was so pleased to hear Christian's quiet breathing when I settled back in bed.

I'm such a kick ass ninja!! I thought with a smile turning on my side ready to sleep.

"Oh by the way Rose" said Christian with a sleepy voice "I'll ask you where you disappeared for the last 2 hours in the morning. Just think of a believable excuse." He added simply going back to sleep.

Fuck! I thought before that my exhaustion made me fall into sleep.