Chapter 2
"Adrian?"
"Yes?"
"What are we doing tonight?" I looked at him from my perch on the back of the sofa in the lounge. Lissa sat under me on the cushions, and Christian lounged out next to her.
"Lissa's having movie night in her room." Christian mumbled, he was half asleep.
"Did I ask you, flames for brains?"
"We can go to Lissa's." Adrian said. "Or we can go to my place."
"I choose the second option." I looked at Liss. "Sorry Liss."
"Saw it coming." She said, her eyes on Christian. Have fuuunnnn…. She thought to me.
Adrian grabbed my hand and pulled me off the couch. We turned into the hallway, hand in hand. "You up for a Rock Band tournament?" He asked.
"Hell yeah."
We sprinted off towards his room.
* * *
"Who knew you were so good at Rock Band?" I asked Adrian the next morning as we walked to breakfast. Tasha and Dimitri were coming today, so Adrian and I were staying together all the time. I had to admit though, I was enjoying my time with Adrian. We had a lot of fun together, and it was good to have a friend who knew everything and could distract me. Not to say that Lissa couldn't, but spending time with Adrian was just… different.
"When you don't have anything to do other than get drunk like me, you find yourself playing videogames a lot." He answered.
I laughed as I grabbed a chocolate frosted doughnut from the box. We sat down at our table and quickly fell into the conversation. "Did you hear?" Lissa was asking Eddie.
"What?" Eddie and I both asked at the same time.
"Tasha and Gaurdian Belikov will be here around three!" She squealed. "And Tasha's taking us all top the mall!" Of course. Lissa would only get this excited over shopping.
"Great. I saw this really cute dress the other day." I said.
"The dark blue short one we saw on that website the other day?"
"Yeah!"
"It'll look great on you."
"I'm sure it will." Adrian said, squeezing my hand under the table.
* * *
Adrian sat in the bleachers on the side of the gym as I staked and kicked practice dummies. "Really Adrian." Stab. "You." Kick. "Don't" Stab. "Have to stay." Kick. "And watch me do this."
"No. I'm good. You look incredibly hot doing that."
I grinned at him. "Well of course I do. I'm Rose Hathaway."
I concentrated on the dummies again. Once I was done, I decided meet up at the feeders at two so I could shower and change.
I stripped out of my tank top and shorts and got in the hot shower. I thought about the recent events in my life. Adrian's plan had gone well so far, but it was only step one. Step two was the hard part, when Tasha and Dimitri got here. I used to think Adrian was just trying to take advantage of me, but the more I got to know him, the more I realized that he might actually like me for me.
I stepped out of the shower and slipped on a pair of dark wash jeans and red tee-shirt. I ran out to the feeders, and got there just as Adrian was finishing. "Hey hot stuff." I said, kissing him on the cheek.
"Hey equally hot stuff." We started off towards Lissa's dorm before I stopped dead. Just in the distance, I could see a plane about to land on our airstrip. I realized there was only one plane coming in today, and guess who was on it? Just my luck, they were early.
I sprinted off towards the commons, dragging Adrian along with me. "They're here." I whispered in his ear just before we got to Lissa's room. I knocked on the door and opened it. "Hope I'm not interrupting anything." I said as I walked in. Good thing I wasn't. I'd had way to many of those nights when I couldn't sleep because of them. Adrian and I sat to watch the end of the TV episode they were watching.
About twenty minutes later, there was a light knock on the door. "Lissa honey?" A soft voice called. I moved a little closer to Adrian. "It's Tasha." A little closer. "Can I come in?"