So I haven't updated in forever I know! School caught up with me and I have been overwhelmed with everything. And this chapter proved hard to write, I kept changing the whole thing and at the end I came to be happy with this version. Hope you guys enjoy it. Probably won't update this week because of finals but I'll try and next week defiantly expect two chaps a day. Winter break baby!

Chapter 7

I decided to let my body rest and not get up until I couldn't take it no more. And judging from the way my stomach was growling, the end was to come soon.

However, it came sooner than my hunger winning because there were obnoxious loud knocks on the door.

It was probably Christian again, trying to come in but I hadn't let him come in yet. Of course he didn't give up and kept knocking until five o'clock every day and then gave up because that was when Janine and Viktor came home from "work".

It was only 11 right now and I knew sooner or later I was going to have to face him, I chose right now though because I was truly starving. Not even the pain in my body was worse than what I was feeling in my tummy at this moment.

I got up slowly, clenching my teeth because my body was still in so much pain. I regretted getting out of bed again, taking Mason and Eddie to the bus stop had been painful enough, but I needed to face Christian now when Janine and Viktor could not come and interrupt us.

I opened the door in what seemed like a lifetime but hard merely been minutes. And to my surprise the other person standing outside my apartment was not Christian but rather another guy.

"Umm, Rose?" He seemed unsure, as if questioning if it was really me.

"Yeaa"

"Oh. Hey, it's Adrian" He stopped for a minute, maybe hoping I recognized his named but I didn't recall hearing it ever in my life. "Ivashkov. Adrian Ivashkov? We have like every class together"

Nope. No idea who he was, but he seemed hurt enough already that I didn't want to further that.

"Oh yea! Hey. What are you doing here?"

"Well I felt someone had to bring you the work you've been missing and no one volunteer so I took upon this very significant task. I hope you don't mind" He gave me a shy smile and handed me the work. I leaned to retrieve it but my balance didn't hold far enough and I ended up falling straight into his open arms.

I flinched, I had never been this close to a guy, except for Dimitri and Viktor and those were two different positions than the one I was in right now.

With Dimitri, he had been trying to teach me how to defend myself and even though he would land a blow on me, it didn't hurt. I was more like caressing my skin, I felt save. I missed him.

With Viktor, his touch was malicious and evil and it made me cringed on the inside, I hated it. I hated him.

Right now with Adrian, it was very different. A little intimate but way too embarrassing and painful because of my bruised body.

"Sorry, I'm so clumsy" I tried to ripped myself away from his arms but he held me in place and he seemed to be so focus on my body. I was about to slap him for staring with no decency, but I noticed that he wasn't staring at just my body.

My robe had falling a bit and the big purple bruises where noticeable a mile away.

"Oh god Rose! Are you okay? Do you want me to call an ambulance, those bruises look very nasty." His voice was strangled and I felt like he was more in pain by seeing them than I was by having them.

"No! Adrian don't do that you can't!" I pleaded him, he couldn't do this. No way. I couldn't let anyone know.

He seemed to get the message but he didn't let it go. Then he told me that his mother was a doctor and his father a surgeon, so he knew a bit about taking care of injuries and asked if he could treat mine.

It was more like beg, and I couldn't refuse him so I agreed and we sat in my bed while he took care of my body.

He had gone to the corner store to get some treatments because I didn't own the proper material to clean them.

He had brought way too many things but he said that wasn't even enough and he thought that maybe the pain was getting worse because I had gained an infection as I had not cleaned my body properly. He told me not to worry and that he would sneak the proper pills from their parents office to bring them to me so I could feel better.

Adrian made the little hope I had grow. The hope in humanity. The hope in men, just with so little gestures.

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