The next day in school I was nervous about seeing Adrian again. How should I react? I mean, we made out and shared a night together but that doesn't necessarily mean that we are together now right? You could never be sure with a man like Adrian Ivashkov. I would just wait and see if he does anything, that way I won't embarass myself which happened way too often in the last couple of days.
On my way to my first class I saw him in the corner with his friends (of course Jessie was among them, why is he still hanging out with him!?) smoking a cigarette. I looked at him and after a few seconds he noticed me. He smirked and nodded in my direction.

"That's it? He just nodded at you?" Lissa asked during our economy class.
"Yes and it's not big deal. I didn't expect him to kiss me and tell the whole world that we share a magic bond and are a couple now." Or did I?
"What kind of nod was it? Was it the 'Hey, Hathaway what's up'-nod or was it more of a 'I want to continue what happened yesterday' nod? " Caroline wanted to know eagerly. The second one. Definitely the second one.
"Gosh Care, I am NOT overanalyzing this okay? He has his own life and I have mine and if he's not the type for casual dating then that's fine."
"You're not gonna be his booty call aren't you?" Lissa wondered. Something like that had to come from her, she was always so worried about me and my feelings.
"God no! I won't let him treat me like this." I cried out.
When the class was over I headed in the direction of the library because I still needed some books for my homework. First, everything seemed normal but then I noticed that people were looking at me, whispering with their neighbour.
'screwing everyone on this campus.'
'Adrian's new toy'
'couldn't take long until she found a new one'
Oh no, this wasn't happening. Not again. Despite the fact that half of it wasn't true, how could they know? I only told Lissa and Caroline and they would never spread rumours and Adrian... What the hell did he tell his friends?
A loud familiar voice ripped me from my thoughs. "I heard they were doing it in several different positions last night and she just couldn't get enough so she gave him a blow job in the mens room right before the first class started. What a slut." Mia Rinaldi. She saw me coming down the hallway, she wanted me to hear those things. I walked up to her. Time to show her that you better not have Rose Hathaway as your enemy.
"What the fuck is your problem?" I said as fiercly as I could.
She looked at me with her big doll eyes like she could do nothing wrong. "Uhm, I don't know. You?"
Enough was enough. I pushed her against the wall and brought my lips to her ear. "Leave me alone or I will make your life miserable. I will destroy you even if it's the last thing I do." No need for her to know that these were more or less empty threats because I have nothing in hand against her. She didn't seem to notice that though. As I let go of her she actually looked a bit intimidated.
I was in such a rage that Adrian was the next on my list. If all of this was his fault then God better help him. After some time I found him coming out of the men's restroom. Using both of my hands I hit him hard in the chest hoping that it would affect him.
"What the hell was that for!?" He looked at me in shock.
"You know what that was for!" I almost screamed.
"No, I don't for fucks sake. Will you enlighten me?" He asked confused.
"Everybody is talking about us having sex and they say what a big slut I am. So thanks for that asshole!"
"Wait, what!? I never said that we did it to anyone. When Jessie asked - "
"You freaking told Jessie!?" I couldn't believe he was still friends with the one person I hated the most. "That explains a lot actually. I can't believe you told him. Him, of all people! You know what, Adrian? Just fuck off!" I exclaimed. He should have known better. I left him standing there with a speechless look on his face and went home.

The same evening

After I did all the neccessary college work I finally went to bed but I couldn't fall asleep. My mind was still processing what happened earlier. Maybe Adrian had honest intentions and thought Jessie is a good friend. Well, technically Adrian is coming out of this whole rumour mess pretty good, I was the target of Jessie's hate. I just wish he would finally let go of the past and let me live my life. Was I being unfair to Adrian? Probably. I let my emotions control what I did and that's never good when I'm in rage. Nevertheless it wasn't right that he went around bragging with what we did... After an eternity I fell asleep but I had rough dreams. I moved around, trying to get out of these nightmares which ended up me being in a awake/sleep coma.
A loud knock pulled me out of my sleep. I looked at my cell phone. 4 AM. What the hell?
"Rose!" Was that...Adrian!?
"Rose, please open up!" He knocked again. Oh God, is he serious!? I got out of bed and made my way across my room to the door. I opened it and found...Adrian sitting on the floor.
"Adrian what are you doing on the floor?" I wanted to know.
"I need to talk to you because - wow you look really pretty. Do you always look so pretty when you wake up?" he rambled.
"Are you drunk?" I took a closer look at him. "And is that a black eye?" I decided to help him up and continue the conversation in my room before the whole dorm knows what's happening here. Easier said than done.
"Nah, I just took a bit of LSD and oh wait, maybe I had a drink...or two." he said while we stumbled into my room. He couldn't be serious. I didn't want to have any kind of conversation with him while he was like this.
"C'mon, you should have a little bit of sleep until you're sober." I suggested while I let him fall into my bed.
"But tomorrow we talk yeah?" he mumbled and his eyes grew tired until he was asleep.
"Oh yes, tomorrow we will definitely talk. You have some explaining to do Ivashkov." I said although I knew he couldn't hear me anymore.