A/N- Woooo. I didn't realize how long I made this story. Half way there I think, tbh I haven't even written Valentine's Day yet so actually I don't know how much longer its going to take. Actually I haven't written the ending of this yet, so let me know what you want to happen by pming me or reviewing. But I promise you will have little lemony tidbits on the side! I feel like I should apologize for being awol again but I have a feeling everyone's sick of them so I'm just gonna stop rambling now and get to the story.

Disclaimer: I do not own any part of Vampire Academy, it all belongs to Richelle Mead.

Chapter Eight: Jealous?

Rose POV

The next few days went by slow. There were no attacks on Christian and me, and practice went by as usual. Dimitri seems to be trying to put more distance between us. I didn't even see him on my days off like I usually did. It was almost like he was taking on more shifts this week. I spent more and more of my free time with Lissa because Dimitri was always so busy. They all had been talking about Valentine's Day all week. I was just bored. Nothing exciting happened until Thursday at lunch.

Every girl was excited about tomorrow. They wouldn't shut up about it. It was we're going to do this, we're going to do that. For the first time this week, I didn't mind. I was kind of excited myself. I got to spend the whole day hiding away with Dimitri, and since I barely saw him the rest of the week, I couldn't wait to spend some quality time with him. Lissa mostly talked with Carly and Christian at lunch, now that I thought about it, even though we spent more time together, we haven't actually talked until she told me about the possible marriage.

As the bell rang I led the group out of the dining hall. I just wanted to go back to my room and take a nap. I had a hard time sleeping last night because I kept imagining Mason was coming after me, or Isaiah, or Elena. Dimitri was right, I did need help, I just didn't want it from the school. Then suddenly everyone stopped. Candles had been laid out in a large heart in the middle of the main quad. People were gathering around and staring. It was right after lunch, right in front of the dining hall doors. I wish candles were the only thing we saw. Nope, in the middle stood Adrian with a microphone in hand. Lissa and I stopped in our tracks, and my mouth dropped. Please tell me he wasn't doing this, please tell me he wasn't going to make a fool of himself. Adrian knew I wasn't interested, actually only he really knew that I was already taken. Lissa covered her mouth and held back a laugh, Christian stood there with a confused expression on his face. " Rose? What's Adrian doing?" He asked me. "Trying out for American Idol I hope." I muttered.

Adrian had gotten a large crowd of people now. Too many to see who was all there. My heart was beating like a drum in my chest. I just stood there as white as a ghost holding my breath hoping this was anything, but what I thought it was. I made eye contact with Adrian for a second. He grinned and blushed? Oh dear god this was worse than I thought. If he dedicates this to me I was going to murder him. Stake him? No that was too easy, I'd have to do it the messy way. Or maybe I'd just castrate him, then again, I didn't want to be touching that EVER.

"Can I have everyone's attention please?" Adrian started into the microphone. His voice rang loud and clear. "I'd like to dedicate this song to my little dhampir. Happy Valentine's Day since tomorrow you're too busy to spend it with me." he said with a little pout. I locked eyes with him and my mouth dropped. I couldn't believe he was really doing this. Why, why was he trying to embarrass both himself and me. I didn't ask him to do this, we weren't in any kind of fake relationship, and he knows I am taken. What part of taken did Adrian not understand. I wish I had a better relationship with God right now. Maybe he could strike Adrian down before this happened. But no. He went on talking and even walked over to a radio and started to hit a button. Dear god this was really happening.

This was not the kind of thing I was into. I pictured Dimitri singing and that made my expression grow more worried. If boys liked you they sent flowers or candy, not embarrassed you in front of everyone. Maybe if I thought hard enough about it, Adrian might hear my thoughts and stop, that or look at my aura and would be able to tell. Then he started...

"To the top of all the world. To the tasteless under world!"

Adrian sang loud and clear. Every word that came out of his mouth hit me like a rock. Adrian could sing well, I'd give him that. He just shouldn't be singing to me. He came closer to me and pointed.

"To the center of your heart, Cleopatra is the only one you loved! To demonstrated smile."

He motioned me to him. I shook my head and started to back away. I wished I didn't know this song, but it was a favorite of mine.

"To lonely love child, Destination desolation tell me when you reach the blink of life."

He came closer locking eyes with me. And from a push from Lissa he took hold of my hand, I tried to pull away, but he wouldn't let me go.

"Just a picture on your wall. That's nice, what a metaphoric fall"

His hand soon found my hip and he tried to pull me to him for a side hug, everyone around us yelled 'Awww' even Lissa who I looked over my shoulder at. She was so happy. I knew that I was showing that I wasn't amused. I pulled away again.

"Typically, I was a validation on your sleeve" he pulled the sleeve of my sweater as he went on, keeping me from leaving him in his little circle.

"Oh what an indication. To the center of the pain. Through your tattered window pane. To the middle of your heart" I stepped back from him and angrily stomped away. I was done, I didn't want to deal with this anymore. What did I ever do to deserve this abuse. As I stepped back, Lissa and Carly started pushing me forward, I held my ground, glaring at Adrian.

"Resolutions and lovers in the kitchen. Love is clueless and destiny is wishing. This is my heart, its on the line, Rose." My jaw dropped. Adrian did not just do that. In my surprise I lost my stance and Carly and Lissa finally got the leverage to push me towards Adrian. He dropped the mic and pulled me close. His empty hand taking my chin in hand. His eyes stared into mine and I couldn't pull away. Was he using compulsion on me? I didn't know what was happening, and before I knew it, he kissed me. Adrian kissed me! In front of most of my class. I couldn't pull away, damn it Adrian, when I got out of this I was going to kill him.

Thankfully seconds later I heard someone angrily coming over and pulling me out of Adrian's arms. I snapped out of the compulsion I was going to kill him! "Female and male fraternization is not allowed on campus." Dimitri hissed at him. My hero. Wait, why was he holding me back. He kept his iron grip on my arms as I tried to wriggle out of his grasp. Didn't he understand, Adrian needed to be punished. I knew he couldn't do it but I could. I had no qualms over hitting a royal moroi.

Finally I loosened out of Dimitri's grasp, but one of his hands still gripped my arm. My other arm flung forward. The base of my hand smacking Adrain hard on his cheek. "You used compulsion on me!" I yelled after leaving the red hand print on his still smirking face. Rose!" Lissa scolded me, I knew she didn't want me to get Adrian in trouble. Compulsion within our society was forbidden. Before I got to hit him again, Dimitri started pulling me back, "Come on Rose." he said gently, even though his hands were rough on my arm as he dragged me away.

"You mother-fu...!" I yelled at Adrian, Lissa cut me off. "Rose! Don't you dare call him that nasty word!" I looked at her with heated eyes. She was following Dimitri and I, and was still lecturing me. "That may have been the sweetest thing anyone has ever done for you." She went on. Oh dear god if she only knew how much I wasn't into her fairy tale crap. My head leaned back. "Lissa do you not hear yourself?" Lissa rolled her eyes. I saw Adrian still standing in the middle of everyone, holding his red jaw. He smirked at his crowd as the bell rang. "I think she likes me." He said in a funny way. I scowled at him. I would take care of him later, when Dimitri and Lissa weren't on my back.

Lissa followed us all the way to the gym. Dimitri finally let me go and I started pacing. She looked at Dimitri and placed her hands on her hips. "Maybe you can talk some sense into her Dimitri." She said pointedly before walking off with Eddie to go to class. "Rose. Rose, look at me." I heard Dimitri say after Lissa left. Even though I didn't want to, Dimitri was still my mentor and I couldn't disobey a direct order. Finally I turned and looked at Dimitri. "What?" I said, clearly pissed.

He looked behind him for a second before grabbing me and kissing me hard. "Don't you ever let him do that to you again." He said between kisses. "Do you know how much I wanted to beat Ivashkov into a pulp?" I giggled. Who knew Dimitri being jealous could be so hot. It brought out a passion that made me dizzy. That kiss was wonderful. That kiss was heated. That kiss made me want things that were bad and dirty. "Dimitri..." My eyes drifted to the small unused office in the gym. I needed to be touched. "Guardian Belikov...I think you should take me into your office and give me a proper lecture." I dragged my words out knowing he would get the hint. At least I hoped he did.

"ROZA..." Dimitri groaned. "You know I...we shouldn't..." he fumbled to say something coherent. I used my body to my advantage, pushing up against him and running my fingers up and down his chest. I knew better, but I wanted something now. "It's almost Valentine's Day." I pleaded, pouting. "Rose...I…" Dimitri started. He really wasn't giving in. I guess even I couldn't break his famous control. I stepped back from him and looked off to the side. I didn't want to deal with Dimitri right now. If he didn't want to be with me then fine, I could find other things to do. I wish things could be different for Dimitri and me. I loved him being my mentor, but moments like this made me wish he was just my lover.

"Roza...I...don't go..." Dimitri called. I didn't turn back to him. "Its okay, Comrade." I lied. It wasn't okay, that we were having these problems. And it wouldn't be okay till we were out of the Academy. I heard him walk over to me, and he put his arms around me. "Rose. You know I want to. I really do." I sighed. Dimitri was just repeating what he said everytime. Damn his strong morals, though not really. I loved him for the saint he was. Still, I wasn't happy about his decision to stay away. "You always want to...you just never do." I told him as I stepped from him and turned to face him again. I gently pushed him away, and said, "Anyway...I'm going to go hide in my room. Half of the school saw Adrian sing to me, and then they saw me smack him. I don't really want to be hearing all the gossip." I turned away and started heading out of the gym. Then I heard Dimitri's quiet voice asking, "Can I join you?"

I spun around surprised. Dimitri had never shown initiative like this before. "If you want to." I said, almost stuttering. I tried to look confident by crossing narrowing my eyes at him. "Do you want to?" I asked hesitantly, I was afraid of his answer. If Dimitri came over then we would be in a much more private setting, and then maybe, just maybe, he would be willing to do something. Even if we didn't, I liked spending time with Dimitri, just him and me. "I always want to be with you Roza." I heard him say, and I almost ran and jumped into his arms. Instead I just smiled, gesturing to him to follow me to my room.

Dimitri POV

Rose and I continued our weekly routine as usual. I tried to keep everything as normal as possible so she didn't suspect anything. There were no more sunrise or sunset runs or stolen kisses. We were back to trying to keep our distance from each other. It was easier this way. In preparation for friday, I was taking some extra shifts to ensure that I got all of friday and Saturday morning off. It's been a long week. I was walking towards the dorms when. I heard someone cry out. Then I stopped in my steps. There was Adrian with a mic standing in the middle of a circle of candles. I stopped in my steps and stared. This could only mean one thing, I knew Ivashkov wouldn't give up easily. I thought Roza said she had already turned him down. I guess the royal moroi didn't know when to give up.

After Adrian dedicated the song to my Roza I clenched my fists. It was taking all of my self control not to jump the royal moroi and beat him senseless right now, and he didn't even start singing yet. I hoped he wasn't a good singer, I didn't need him to show Rose something else that I couldn't do for her. I glanced over at Rose. Her jaw was dropped wide open. Good she wasn't expecting this either. I started to calm down a bit, but I still couldn't move. I kept staring at Adrian. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop this? Would Rose stop him? I didn't know what I would do if Rose actually liked his song. What am I supposed to do?

"To the top of all the world. To the tasteless under world!" Adrian sang. Roza looked extremely uncomfortable. I had half a mind to just break the crowd up and order everyone to their classes. Unfortunately, Ivashkov had timed this well. It was still lunch so the students had every right to be here watching."To the center of your heart, Cleopatra is the only one you loved! To demonstrated smile." He pointed to Rose and she started to back away. If only I could swoop in and rescue her right now, but I didn't have a good excuse to take her away from her friends. Plus I was still technically on shift.

"To lonely love child, Destination desolation tell me when you reach the blink of life." I recognized the song. I had heard it many times with Rose. It must have been one of her favorites and somehow Adrian knew that.

"Just a picture on your wall. That's nice, what a metaphoric fall." Adrian tried to grab Rose and hug her but she kept wiggling away. The second he touched her my anger flared. It was a good thing no was looking at me right now or it'd be like staring at death in a duster.

"Typically, I was a validation on your sleeve. Oh what an indication. To the center of the pain. Through your tattered window pane. To the middle of your heart." Finally Rose broke out of Adrian's circle and stalked back to her friends. I felt my whole body deflate of tension. Hopefully this would be over soon.

"Resolutions and lovers in the kitchen. Love is clueless and destiny is wishing. This is my heart, its on the line, Rose." And then, and then he kissed her. Ivashkov kissed my Roza. Before I even knew it, my feet brought me over to them and I pulled them apart. The music suddenly stopped and everyone stared. "Female and male fraternization is not allowed on campus." I hissed at him, taking Rose in my arms. I completely forgot about my shift, this was clearly more important that walking around the campus a couple times. She seemed like she was trying to break out of them. That was odd, I would think Rose would be happy to be in my arms in public, actually in any moment. At least, that's what she told me before.

When I loosened my grip on her just for a second, Rose flew out of my arms. I knew she was going to attack Ivashkov now so I managed to grab one of her arms before she got very far. However, with her other arm she managed to slap Ivashkov, loudly. "You used compulsion on me!" she yelled. I stood there shocked and proud. I knew that magic was the only way for Ivashkov to get close to Rose. She would never get that close to him willingly. Some part of me wanted to let Rose beat up Ivashkov for this, and maybe throw in a few punches myself. But the guardian part of me knew that it could get Rose into a lot of trouble, attacking a royal moroi, even if that royal moroi went against the law. Rose couldn't afford any more trouble, not so close to graduation. I started to pull her back. "Come on Rose." I said gently.

I dragged Rose further and further from the crowd towards the gym. Rose kept yelling expletives back and Ivashkov and when the Princess scolded her she cursed under her breath. The Princess followed us all the way back to the gym lecturing Rose. Rose argued back, this was one thing I knew she wouldn't agree with the Princess on. I knew the Princess couldn't help herself. She just wanted Rose to be happy and she didn't know about our relationship. No one did.

Once we got to the gym she stopped struggling. I let her go. The Princess turned to me and said, "Maybe you can talk some sense into her Dimitri." before regally walking out of the gym, Eddison trailing behind her. I looked back at Rose, she was staring into the distance again, daydreaming, imagining, whatever is was that she did. "Rose. Rose, look at me." I said. Rose grumbled and looked up hesitantly, "What." she said.

I looked behind me to make sure the Princess had gone and no one else was around. Then I kissed her long and hard. I tried to put all of my emotion into the kiss. I wanted her to know she was mine, and that only I could ever kiss her like this. "Don't you ever let him do that to you again." I said between kisses. "Do you know how much I wanted to beat Ivashkov into a pulp?" I said.

When we broke out of the kiss Rose moaned. "Hmmm...Dimitri...Guardian Belikov...I think you should take me into your office and give me a proper lecture." she said sultry, her eyes drifting to the small private office. I groaned. Oh Rose please don't make it any harder than you have to. "ROZA…" I almost yelled in frustration. "You know I...we shouldn't..." But Rose kept pushing into me, trying to break my control. Whatever she was doing, it was working. I wanted to ravish her right now so badly.

"It's almost Valentine's Day." she pleaded, staring into my face with those beautiful brown eyes and her brown, almost black curls framing her face. I didn't know what to do. I really wanted to give in, but I had to save it. Until tomorrow at the very least. I just kissed her again. "Rose...I..." Rose wouldn't have my excuses. She stepped out of my arms and turned away, moving towards the window. I didn't want her to pull away, but we just couldn't go any farther. Not somewhere so public. "Roza...I...don't go..." I started to beg.

"Its okay, Comrade." Rose said in a monotone. That's when I knew she was really mad. She never hid her emotions unless she was trying to keep herself from being hurt again. I walked over behind Rose and hugged her from behind, leaning down to kiss her forehead. "Rose. You know I want to. I really do." I told her, trying to make her feel better. "You always want to...you just never do." she said sighing again. Rose turned to face me again, and gently pushed my arms away from her so we had some distance between us. "Anyway...I'm going to go hide in my room. Half of the school saw Adrian sing to me, and then they saw me smack him. I don't really want to be hearing all the gossip." Rose said, before turning away and starting to walk out of the gym.

I didn't want to leave her like this. She shouldn't have to be alone. Not after that whole mess. "Can I join you?" I asked quietly. The least I could do was go comfort her. I didn't care about my shift anymore, I just wanted to make my love happy. Rose stopped in her steps and turned around looking stunned. "If you want to." she said uncertainly. Of course I wanted to be with her, what was Rose thinking, did she not believe in my love for her. " Do you want to?" she asked again.

I told her the truth. "I always want to be with you Roza."

A/N- Thanks for the reviews guy! I think I forgot to say that earlier. The other chapters might take awhile to come out because muse19 and I haven't written them yet. Oops! Oh and the song is by Imagine Dragons. tbh I've never heard it but the lyrics are cool.

Ciao!

~Tiffany 3