Love Ever After

Chapter Five

Rose

I slowly woke up from a night of not dreaming and I was ever so thankful for that. I was almost certain last night if I fell asleep I would have terrifying nightmares of the monstrous things Dimitri had attempted and succeeded to do to me. Yes I was thankful for a dreamless night.

I was well aware of the activities that took place last night after leaving Adrian's and coming back. I rolled over on my other side with my eyes still closed. I could feel him running his fingers down the side of my cheek, so I gave him a sweet smile.

"Good morning little dhampir" he whispered.

"Good morning" I whispered back.

Although I honestly didn't think today would be a good day, granted I did get out of classes for the day but I would pay when I returned and just the thought of Christian not having a guard I'm sure I would pay even more.

I finally opened my eyes and got a good look at Adrian. His brown hair was mused in a not so normal, natural messy way. He lost his shirt at some point and his bright green eyes seemed to have brightened over night.

He moved a strand of hair out of my face, tucking it behind my ear. He leaned in slowly as I closed my eyes and gave me a gentle kiss. I kissed him back just as softly and then pulled back leaning head to head, our noses resting against each others. His sent was intoxicating.

"Well it seems my dreams came true little dhampir." He said breathlessly.

"Why do you say that?" I whispered, not bothering to open my eyes or more away from the comfort of him.

"Because you are in fact, in the bed."

I outright giggled. And I Rose Hathaway, do not giggle. Adrian soon joined in too, wrapping his arms around me.

"Did you sleep well?" he asked once we calmed down from the private joke.

I nod into his chest. "Very surprisingly" I answered.

"Good, because I have something I want to do for you today."

Curiosity now had me. It was one thing he already got me away from school for the day.

"What do you have in mind?" I asked still in his arms.

"It's a surprise, for now at least."

I now held a half smile.

"Don't worry little dhampir, your safe with me as I am you. I promise you this much." He let out a sight and reluctantly let me go. "Now if only I could say that you would enjoy this day I would feel better, but I know how you feel about surprises."

That brought my smile back to full gear. "Well we just have to wait and see don't we."

He kissed my cheek one more time before getting out of the bed. I finally opened my eyes as I was no longer in the comfort of his arms and sweet scent. And the sight was well worth it, I wanted to just plow under the covers and pull him with me.

He stood in all his tall glory, barefoot in a pair of black lounge pants. He didn't have a complete set of washboard abs but he was defiantly in shape and toned, more defined than your average moroi. I wanted to rub my hands on his stomach to feel his ever so firm shape and have him wrap me in his arms tightly.

"Hello, earth to Rose!"

"Huh?" I jumped out of my obvious day dream.

I felt so embarrassed knowing he could see my aura and probably knew exactly what I was thinking. I looked down feeling the heat rise in my cheeks. But my chin was pulled up and before I could resist he gave me a sweet kiss.

"Please don't be embarrassed" he pleaded quietly. "If you could see mine you would realize it is occasionally the same as yours when I look at you."

I couldn't respond because he kissed me once again.

"Now" he began when he pulled away and kiss me once on the nose. "Get out of bed so we can get ready and go before it gets too late."

I groaned but got up and once I got out of bed I realized I still didn't have my pants on. Adrian being the gentlemen he is noticed this right away and turned around till I had them back on.

"Sorry, I don't know what's wrong with me today." I gave him a shy smile.

He gave me one back. He gathered his clothes and wrapped an arm around my shoulders. He locked the door as we left and went to my apartment without running into anyone, even the normal guard that would sit at the desk down stairs.

Once in my room I left Adrian sitting on my bed as I showered and fixed my hair and make up. Today I settled for a pair of dark skinny jeans, clack flat boots with silver buckles on the side, and a long sleep black sweater with a belt around my waist. It showed off my curse but covered my skin from the cold winter air.

I came out of my bathroom to find Adrian dressed and hair styled perfectly. He wore a blue plaid button down shirt with a grey cotton V neck sweater over, jeans and a pair of Preston penny loafers by duck head. He looked handsome as ever.

"Are you ready to go?" He asked sweetly.

After putting in my ear rings and slipping my silver ring, Lissa compelled on my finger I nod to him.

"Don't forget your coat, gloves, and scarf you'll need them." He informed me.

I grabbed them and walked out locking my own door. Adrian took my scarf from my hands and wrapped it around my neck once and pulling it though then kissed my cheek before heading off.

As we walked with one of his hands resting on my lower back I realized we we're walking towards the car lot of the academy.

"Exactly where are we going?" I asked curiously.

He smiled but didn't look at me. "Like I said it's a surprise."

We made our way to the cars and he held the door open for me, but before I could get in I just had to ask.

"Are you sure this is a good idea? I mean it's the middle of the night, well day for us, the strigoi are out. We have no guardians and I have no stake, plus no one knows we're leavings."

He gives me a smile and takes both of my hands in his. "Will you trust me please?" He asked with pleading eyes.

"I am safer with you than any other guardian and don't worry about the stake."

Feeling uneasy, I gave in. "Fine, but if anything ever happens to you, I'll never forgive myself."

He kissed me long and sweet. "Rose, nothing will happen to me with you around. And nothing will happen to you with me around." He kissed me again.

"I stick to my words Ivashkov."

He held open my door and shut it for me after I was buckled and in. He soon joined me starting the car as it started to snow again. We sat there a minute before pulling out, looking at how beautiful it was falling and sticking to the snow that already littered the ground.

When we finally mad our way to the gate we we're asked for our ID's and again I didn't want to but still did.

"Neither of you have guardians; do you have permission to leave campus from the headmistress?"

I knew it was too good to be true I thought as I let out a sigh.

"Headmistress gave us permission to leave for the evening; she thought it would be a great task for Rose to train."

I looked at Adrian, he had a shit eating grin on his face. Can you say liar?

"Well let me check with her and then I will let you go." The guard said about to leave.

"Give me the ID's, don't call Kirova, give me your spare stake, and open the gate."

Jerking my head to my left I notice Adrian had his eyes locked with the guard and he did everything he was asked, like a robot.

"Good now, forget that you saw us." The guard stood there silent and not looking as we drove away.

Adrian put the stake in the glove compartment without saying a word. We sat in an awkward silence for a few minutes until he finale broke it.

"Don't worry little dhampir, just relax and enjoy."

He took my hand in his driving with one on the wheel. I felt calm with just the small amount of our skin touching each other and sat back in my seat. We drove for about an hour and half before Adrian pulled over into an abandon parking lot.

I looked around be we we're literally in the middle of no where; all you could see where snow covered mountains and hills. It wasn't snowing here, surprisingly it was a clear night sky and you could see almost all the stars.

"Where are we?" I asked.

"Well this is just stop one but this is just a small park."

I grabbed the stake out of the glove compartment, put it in my coat than put that one along with my gloves and scarf again. I got out of the car and looked around and Adrian. I was about to let him know it was okay but the next thing I knew he was by my side.

"Are you ready?"

I sighed and took his hand as we walked together under the night sky. "You know you could have at least let me scout out the place before you jump out of the car."

He laughed, he actually laughed at me. "Ah, Little Dhampir you honestly have nothing to worry about. This park has been closed down since a newer one was built ten years ago and honestly if strigoi are lurking it wouldn't be here. They would be closer to the academy or closer to a more populated town; this would be too obvious of a place for them to stay."

I had to hand it to him he was smart but I couldn't ever let my guard down, out of the wards or now in it due to recent discoveries of the humans now helping the walking dead.

We walked to the back of the car, I turned to keep eye out as he grabbed whatever he was getting. Everything seemed to be, well normal. He shut the trunk and I turned back to him. He was now holding a huge bag on his shoulder.

"What's in that?" I asked curiously.

"You'll see." He said giving me a dazzling smile.

He took my hand in his free one and we bag to walk, it was dark out no moon or lights. Adrian pulled out a flashlight and we made our way through the unbothered snow, coming to a stop at the bottom of a hill.

"Hold on to my wrist."

I did what he said as he grabbed my wrist tightly so I wouldn't fall backwards from the steep walk. We managed to slowly climb our way up to the top, when we go there I turned to face the mountain we just climbed, well it felt like on.

Adrian dropped his flashlight and bag before walking up behind me wrapping his arms around my waist and resting his chin on my shoulder.

"Look how perfect our show prints look side by side."

He was right they looked good together, leaving the only mark in the snow. He kissed me on my cheek before he pulled away. I turned to him as he walked back, pulling stuff out of his bag.

"Can I help?" I asked.

He was knelt down with something grey folded in his arms. He seem to think about it for a minute before he answered. "If you really insist" he said smiling at me.

I rolled my eyes at him and knelt down to help. He threw it open me catching the other end and laid it out flat. I realized from the texture it was a tarp. I looked at him confused but before he had to say anything he got up and pulled another folded piece from the bag.

Throwing it open I caught it. It was a blanket almost the exact same size. He took a seat and patted the space besides him. I walked over and sat with him but before I could get comfortable he was pulling me back softly with him, laying us down.

We sat in a comfortable silence as we looked up at the ever so beautiful night sky.

"Do you see that star?" Adrian points.

"The really bright one" I ask back.

"Yeah"

"What about it?"

"That is Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. It actually dominates the sky most during the winter and has a magnitude of negative one point four six."

"Wow" I breathed. "How do you know so much about this?"

To say he surprised me was an understatement I was blown away.

"Before I dropped out of college I was a science major, astronomy to be exact."

"Seriously"

He nodded to me. "The night sky was the one thing that could bring me peace from my spirit induced crazy besides drinking or smoking. Granted it was my favorite subject and I wanted to learn more about it also."

I looked up with a smile on my face and I instantly wanted to know more. "Show me something else." I was glad he had something besides drinking he could fall back on if he wanted to.

He had the biggest smile ever and for once it was a genially happy one.

"Okay well look at this" He pointed again. "These six faint stars"

"Okay, I see them."

"What do you think they are?"

I looked at it for a minute before I answered. "An old TV with an antenna?"

He laughed a low laugh. "No but I do see how you see that. It's called Camelopardalis, the giraffe. It appears upside down in the winter but during the summer it's right side up. Granted it's so faint you can barely see it but if you try hard enough you can see how it's a giraffe."

After looking long enough he was right. We had spent at least two hours, if not more sitting right there in each other arms looking at the stars. He showed me Canis Major, the dog. That one was obvious. Columba, which was supposed to resemble a dove but I didn't really see how so. To me the wings looked bent the wrong way from the head.

I also saw Gemini, Monoceros, and Pictor. They we're all really beautiful.

We laid on the snow covered hill with our blanket now wrapped around us and closely together in each others arms.

"Yes they are beautiful, but nothing can compare to the beauty that lies in my arms right now."

I closed my eyes as he brought his lips to mine. I pulled my hand up to rest on his soft cheek. Before things got too steamy though he pulled away giving me soft little pecks on my lips and cheeks.

I let out a giggle and a few seconds later he finally stopped. "We better pack up or we're going to be all out of time."

"Time for what" I asked curiously.

"You'll see my little dhampir."

I smiled at him calling me his. I liked the way it sounded.

So we see a new side of Adrian! Hot right? I'd like to thank so.

Where do you think this day Adrian has for Rose is planned to go? As I ended it, it isn't over yet and might turn out a little surprising!

Review, give me your thoughts and opinions, all are welcomed good or bad. Although I would like to think more good than bad.

XOXO

Rhiannon