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Rose POV
It'd been almost a week since Mason and Dimitri had gone back to college, school just let out a couple hours ago and now I was free, well, for two weeks.
In that entire week I'd hardly talked to Lissa, the night when the boys left I couldn't even talk to her because she was out on a date with Christian. We set up times to hang out but then she always said she had some urgent family matter, this happened probably five times.
Today we were going to have a sleepover to celebrate the beginning of break and just because we hadn't really seen each other in so long, I mean a week to normal people was like a year to us.
Liss promised that this time she wouldn't cancel; she said that her family was going to be busy until probably seven o'clock, but after that she was totally free to spend time with me.
I trusted Lissa a lot and I knew that if something important was happening she would tell me, but I still couldn't help be really curious about what was going on.
It just seemed pretty weird, her parents and brother were always really social with people from work or school, Liss was always a little more reserved, we partied all the time but we weren't the people who tried to be best friends with everyone.
That being said her parents were never close with members of their family. The only one I'd ever even heard of was her Uncle Victor, and he had been sent to jail for attempted mass murder. If that was the best of their family I could see why they wouldn't want to be closely acquainted with them.
So it really just didn't make sense that she would suddenly have all these family matters to attend to. I made a mental note to ask Lissa later as I tried to focus on packing instead of the Dragomir's family problems.
I threw random things into my small over night bag; sweat pants, jeans, pyjamas, tooth brush, perfume and anything else I thought I might possibly need to use in the next twenty-four hours.
I looked at the clock after deciding I had everything I needed (probably more) it read 6:41 pm. I knew that it would take about fifteen minutes to get to Lissa's house walking so I could probably leave now, it wouldn't matter if I got there two minutes early.
I called good bye to my mom as I walked out the front door out into the bitter cold of winter in Montana. I headed down the street and towards the forest; going through the forest was the only way I could get to Lissa's house without it taking almost an hour.
The forest was huge so the streets to get around in were long and I always hated walking them to get to Lissa's house if I couldn't get a drive. So being the fearless nine year old I was I had decided it's be much easier to just cut through it instead of spending forever going around it.
I walked along the edge of it for a few steps before finding the entrance I'd been looking for. There was an opening there where I had pulled out all the weeds one day so that I would always know where to enter and I wouldn't get lost.
After coming in here for so many years I could probably find the entrance with my eyes closed. I knew the forest by heart and I didn't have any trouble winding my way through the trees in the direction of Lissa's street.
When I came to the last ravine I had to cross before I could exit the forest, I decided it would be in my best interest to just slide down on my butt since on the last icy ravine I went down a little while back I bruised my tail bone and knees from falling so many times.
So I sat down at the top hugging my knees to chest, then scooted a little forward and down into the ravine I went.
What I failed to remember was that there was a river at the bottom, I didn't see it because it was frozen over and covered in snow but I did notice it when I landed on it breaking the thin ice.
My legs were drenched in icy water and they soon started screaming in pain, the water felt as sharp as knives, if I didn't know better I would've said I was literally being cut.
I scrambled out of the water as fast as I could once the original shock was gone, praying my over night bag hadn't gotten wet considering it held the clothes I would need to change into and my phone.
I climbed my way up the other side of the ravine grabbing onto random dead looking trees for support hoping nothing would snap and send me back down into the freezing cold river.
Luckily I ended up okay and got to the top of the ravine safely. I could already see the other weeded entrance to the forest a couple of yards away. I made my way towards it wanting to arrive at Lissa's quickly so I could change out of these freezing cold clothes.
I would do it right here in the forest since I'm technically alone, but I'd always been sort of scared of creepers watching me from somewhere I couldn't see, so I suffered through the cold.
I finally reached the exit (or other entrance) of the forest so I left the world of barren, frozen trees and entered onto Lissa's street. I walked slowly up her street feeling the water on my pants slowly freezing.
All of the houses on that street were huge, Liss and I used to call it the royal street because well everything just looked like it belonged to someone royal. Lissa's parents were really rich and could afford to have an amazing house like this.
When I was younger I would get jealous of how perfect Lissa's life was. It really did seem so sometimes, I mean her parent were so amazing and loved her a lot, but when I got older I realized her life wasn't perfect.
Liss never fit in with the entire perfect rich people scene she wasn't comfortable there and even though she was always beautiful or elegant or both, she never really realized and always thought too little of herself.
I snapped out of my thoughts when I heard a voice talking loudly. I searched for the owner of the familiar sounding voice; my eyes were led to a guy walking towards me. When I looked closer I could see that this guy was clearly Adrian.
I could hear what he was saying too, it sounded like my name. It looked like Adrian had noticed me too.
"Hi, Adrian." I called back to him.
"Rose, fancy seeing you here!" he exclaimed smiling.
"Just heading to Lissa's house." I told him.
"Funny, I'm just leaving Lissa's house." So he was part of the 'family matter' that Lissa kept talking about.
"What were you doing there? I know she's your cousin, but I've never even heard of you in the fourteen years I've known Liss. Why does it seem you're with her all the time now?" I asked him. He looked amused by my obvious attempt to pry for information.
"Oh, I'll let Lissa tell you about all that boring stuff. By the way you smell really good you know?" He changed subjects and I decided to let him get away with it. I'd talk to Lissa later about the 'family matter'.
"I just walked twenty minutes to get here. I probably just smell like sweat or dirt considering I was in that forest." I pointed back at it.
"You must have some perfume or something on, the ladies always do." He winked at me and I feel my cheeks heating slightly.
"No I don't actually." I inform him.
"Do you not own any perfume?" Adrian's eyes looked wide and surprised.
"Of cour-" I started but he cut me off.
"I'll just have to buy you some then. I'll get a lot so you have a good selection." Maybe he didn't know that good perfume was expensive.
"Adrian? Perfume is very expensive well the good stuff is, and I'm sure you're not poor or anything, but you work as a waiter, I don't think it's in your best interest to spend a lot of money on perfume for a girl you hardly know."
"Obviously, Lissa hasn't told you much about me, my parents are rich, as in richer than hers, I can have whatever I want. They made me work because I need to learn 'responsibility' or something, plus it's good to pick up girls, like I did with you." He smiled at me in a really sexy way, oh so he wanted to flirt, two can play that game.
"You're rich and sexy! I'm lucky you picked me up at that restaurant." I looked at him sweetly.
"You are one interesting person Rose." He watched me with interest.
"Well, I try." I laughed.
"I don't think you even have to." I couldn't tell if I was supposed to hear that or not he says it so softly. "Why are your pants soaking wet and freezing?" he asked as if just noticing.
"I sort of forgot about that," I had actually, it seemed when I was with him none of that mattered much, it was weird. "I uh, fell into a river in the forest on the way here."
"Really? Are you okay? You must be freezing!" his tone turned from flippant to serious and concerned.
"I'll be fine, I'm going to change when I get to Lissa's house, if I ever get there, I must be ten minutes late by now." I assure him.
"I should let you get over there then, you need to get warmed up. I'll see you around Rose." He turned to walk farther down the street.
"Okay bye." I was a little surprised by how fast our conversation came to an end, I had actually been enjoying it.
I shrugged it off and started in the direction of Lissa's house.
"Hey Rose wait a second." I turned around at the sound of his voice.
"Do you want to go out sometime?" he asked me looking a little nervous I think, but trying to cover it up with over confidence. It was sort of cute.
"You seem like more of a one night stand kind of guy, I'm not a random slut for you to sleep with." I told him, meaning it.
"I didn't say you were. Just think about it okay?" he looked at me seriously.
"Fine I'll think, what's your number? I'll text you or something." I agreed not knowing whether I should say yes to Adrian or not.
So I'll just have to think.
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