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Amor Prohibido.
Chapter 12.
I got out of bed and went to go shower, actually humming. I had no idea what the heck I was even humming, but it felt good, I felt good. Apparently, I felt so good in fact that I completely forgot that I was in someone else's bedroom and that he could enter anytime he wanted. Which, co-incidentally, was exactly what happened.
"Whoa," Dimitri said. "Sorry!" I squealed. Crap, I was a complete idiot who had just walked out of the shower completely naked. Couldn't I have remembered a towel?
"Sorry. I'll just be outside now." He said, already on his feet and heading to the door. Blushing, I hastily threw some clothes on, internally screaming every single swear word known to man both in English and in every other language I knew. Truth be told, I didn't speak that many languages, I just knew how to cuss in many of them.
"Jesus," I heard Dimitri say from outside and chuckled to myself. It was like he could hear my inner ramblings.
"I'm decent!" I called sitting on the edge of the bed. He walked back inside giving me a sheepish smile that made my heart do weird things which it really had no business doing.
"Sorry," He said again. "I kind of forgot you were in here."
"It's fine," I said, not even wanting to admit to myself that the fact that he'd forgotten stung a little. Before I had time to even try to figure out why that should bother me, Dimitri spoke again.
"Did you settle in ok?" He asked blushing adorably. I nodded awing a bit. Dimitri rolled his eyes. "Really now?" He asked.
"Your blush is cute," I said a little defensively. He rolled his eyes yet again, as if this was something he heard often and obviously did not agree with.
"Got you a room," He said producing the key.
"Thank you." I said and gave into the impulse to hug him and kiss his cheek. He hugged back before pulling away and giving me the key.
"You should come down and get some food." He said. I nodded. Food sounded great right now.
"Where is food?" I asked. Dimitri smiled.
"Come with me," He said. I nodded and followed as he led me down to the school's cafeteria. I couldn't help the nerves, and apparently it was visible on my face.
"Relax," Dimitri said. "Most of the kids are in class." I nodded again. "Anything you feel like eating?" I very nearly blurted you for some reason, but just shrugged.
Taking my shrug to mean I wanted him to decide, he started making me a tray. I yawned as I watched him work. He chuckled softly and led me to a table where I proceeded to glare at the food like it was holy water. Dimitri laughed.
"Been a while hasn't it?" He asked laughter still in his voice. I nodded and started eating the food ravenously, crumbs all over my face and oddly in my hair.
"I haven't had food in years," I said, but Dimitri only laughed again. I couldn't help but notice that he was in a good mood today. Vaguely, I wondered why that was. My mind supplied an image of the dhampir girl with the dark hair and eyes and killer body. She'd looked like a desert princess that day in the woods. Did she have something to do with his mood?
"I know." Dimitri said breaking me out of my thoughts. "I figured you might want some before blood." I nodded and blushed when I noticed people staring.
"Pay them no attention," Dimitri said following my gaze. I nodded again and sniffled, kind of wanting to bolt. I wasn't use to this many eyes on me, and I wasn't sure I liked it.
"You want to go eat somewhere else?" Dimitri asked. I nodded. "Come on then," He said and I let him lead me outside, to a much quieter part of the school.
"Five minutes in and I'm already a freak," I said softly, just picking at the food now as my appetite had long since vanished.
"Hey consider yourself lucky this isn't the royal court." Dimitri said and I stiffened. Even as a strigoi who had been pretty removed even from strigoi society, I knew about the court. And I would be a liar if I said it didn't scare me, how the rulers would react to a strigoi who had been restored.
"Relax I'm kidding. Dimitri said. "They're usually this curious when we have visitors." I nodded and he smiled. I felt a smile of my own slide onto my face, instantly calmed by his smile.
"What is a cappuccino? I asked when I had finished eating. Dimitri chuckled a little.
"It's a little difficult to explain if you haven't had one." His face lit up. "We need to get you one. Because they are great."
"Right now?" I asked and he shook his head.
"No I have to go to work, but we can get you one when we go shopping because I'm guessing you're going to need to get new things right?" I nodded, a little uneasy about the whole idea as it had been a while since I'd been around many people.
"Don't worry about it," Dimitri said picking up on the tension. "It's going to be fine. The world has changed in all these years you know." I sighed and yawned a bit.
"I…Ok." I said finally and then he walked me back to the room before leaving to go to work.
RPOV.
For the first time in a while, I felt good. Not just good, but really good. Like pep in your step, no high school drama or annoying teachers like Stan Alto bothering you kind of good. The day was a breeze, the defensive combat classes being the best because I kicked Eddie's ass in most of them. I'll admit though that my eyes kept straying to the guardians who guarded the classes searching for Dimitri, but he wasn't in any of my classes that day.
Each time I looked for him and didn't find him I grumbled a little internally, but overall I didn't mind so much. After all, ever since my mom flipped out about us being together this had become kind of a common thing. I consoled myself with the fact that I would see him at practice. Only when I walked into the gym, he wasn't there. Instead, my mother was.
"Rose," I jumped a little, not at all expecting to see her, and quite frankly not really wanting to either.
"Hey mom." I said trying for nonchalance.
"I'm moving you from this school." She blurted. It took my brane a few seconds to pick up on what she had just said.
"Where's-Wait...what?!" Surely, what I had just heard was complete bullshit, right? There was no way in hell she had just said that.
"You heard me." She said and ok, now I was getting pissed. Who the fuck did she think she was?
"Yes," I said. "But have you lost your mind?"
"Nope." What the absolute fuck was going on? Why the hell was she so calm and where the hell was Dimitri?
"Then you hate me and want to ruin my life." I stated matter of factly.
"Nope," She said again. I started pacing, my agitation only growing at the deadly calm she was emitting.
"Then what the hell mom?" I snapped stopping right in front of her and using the couple inches I had on her to my advantage as I glared down at her.
"I asked you to stay away from Dimitri," She said, and I felt those couple inches I had on her evaporate. My mother might only be 5 feet nothing of Scottish guardian, but what she lacked in height she made up for in personality and presence. "And you disobeyed."
"What is even the problem, mom? I asked and started pacing again. "There's an age difference between you and dad too you know. And you're not even here most of the time, why do you have to show up now and stir up this shit?!" My eyes stung, but I refused to cry in front of her. The way she was looking at me made me feel like I was 5 years old all over again.
"I'm doing what's best for you," She said with a sigh. I shook my head.
"Right," I snapped. "And hitting Dimitri is what's best for me? Dragging me away from the one place I've grown up is what's best for me? Asking me to leave everything I've known since I was 5 years old is what's best for me? What about Lissa, mom? We're bonded I'm going to be her guardian after graduation."
"I'll take care of that." She said and I felt the stinging in my eyes intensify. The thing was, these tears were brought on more by the anger and frustration coursing through me than anything else.
"I don't want you to!" I said a tear rolling down my face as I turned for the door. "And I'm not leaving." I heard her sigh as I stormed out, but I really didn't care in that moment. As I walked back to my room head down and hands shaking, I felt every bit of the high I had been riding on all day evaporate, and with the crash came that endless pit of despair that had for the past couple weeks been threatening to swallow me whole. The only difference was that this time, I feared it actually might, because there was only one person that could make this better, and right now he didn't seem to be here.
Oooh well, thoughts guys? Dimitri's going shopping with May and Janine is still not wanting to hear anything about him being with her daughter. I guess drastic times calls for drastic measures, but what now? Let me know!
Review lovelies, tell me if you want to see the shopping trip or if you want us to skip ahead. We can do both!
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