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Chapter 15
Two Weeks Later (so like the second/third week of May)
Although we had gone through my time guarding Christian, I still needed to finish with one last test: fighting a group of guardians to see if I would become an official guardian. We had a week and a half of classes left, and then tests, then graduation.
I was really nervous for the tests, but everyone I talked to about it assured me that I would do amazing and I had nothing to worry about.
But still I trained harder than ever, getting up early to use the practice rooms. Adrian came with me in the mornings, and Lissa came with me after school.
She seemed pretty happy most of the time, and when she wasn't, I would make her send the darkness into me, and I could deal with it in different ways. If it got to be too much though, she would heal most of it out of me, and the cycle would start again. Happy, sad, depressed, crazy, calm. Each was a stage, and I really didn't like the middle ones, but like I'd told her in Miami, it was a balance, but I could make it work.
"Rose?" Adrian asked me one morning as I practiced staking dummies.
I stopped, turning around to face him. Several strands of hair stuck to my face with the sweat. "Yeah?" I brushed the hair out of my face.
"What are you doing after graduation?"
We hadn't talked about our future together at all. I staked one of the dummies. "I'll follow Lissa and Christian I guess." I started. "I fully intend on becoming her gaurdian, and I'll follow her where she goes. What are you going to do?"
He grinned at me. "Follow you where ever you go, as I fully intend to marry you someday." I staked another dummy.
"Is that a proposal, because I'll want a ring." I joked.
I looked to see if he was smiling. He was. "No Rose, it's not a proposal… well not yet."
I started to put away the practice dummies, and Adrian came over to help as he usually did. But when we were done, instead of walking me to my dorm, he pulled me to him. "But Adrian I'm all sweaty!" I protested.
"I've told you once and I'll tell you again, sweat isn't all that bad." He kissed me. "But if I were to propose, sometime in the future, how would you respond?"
"I would say hell yes." He smiled, pecked me on the lips, and walked me to my dorm.
* * *
School days were normal, but it was the weekend I had to worry about, so when Friday finally came around, I was a little cautious about this weekend.
"So Little Dhampir, you and me, dinner tonight?" Adrian asked as we walked to my dorm the next morning.
"Yeah sure…" I said. "Where?"
"It's a surprise."
"Please Adrian? Is it fancy?"
"Yes, so wear a dress."
"Oh come on Adrian!"
"Nope. No way Rose." We were behind the dorm now, and Adrian pushed me up against the wall, kissing me passionately. I kissed him back, and we both got caught up in the moment, and soon my legs were wrapped around his waist, and we were clinging together.
* * *
"And he asked me what I would say if he proposed, and I said I would say yes." She squealed. I held up two dresses, the first, red with a black lace layer on top, the second was a short gray dress that clung to all of my curves when I wore it.
She pointed to the gray one and I slipped it on, along with a pair of silver heels with rhinestones on the toe. Lissa went off to find Chrstian, and I went to meet Adrian near the gates. He pulled up, in a small black Porsche.
"Nice car." I said, opening the door and got into the passenger's seat.
"Nice dress." He commented, kissing me lightly on the lips.
I had a stake strapped to my leg under the dress, so we would be safe if a Strigoi attacked.
Adrian drove for about twenty minutes and then he pulled into a small restaurant. The valet parking people took Adrian's keys, and he led me into the retaurant.
The hostess was a tall human, and she seemed very interested when Adrian walked in. "Reservation under Ivashkov, for two." I clung unto his arm, as if to claim him as mine. The hostess got the message and she led us to our table. Adrian pulled out my chair for me, and I sat down. We ordered our food, (I got this ravioli thing) and we waited for it to come.
"Rose I brought you here to ask you something." He said to me right after our food came.
"What did you want to ask me?"
"Rose, I love you so much, and I want to be with you forever. I want you to be mine."
He slid out of his chair and got onto one knee. Oh god.
"I know we haven't been dating for long, but I wanted to ask you because I feel like I've known you forever, and I want you to be mine so badly. I want you to be my wife, and I want to father your children." He paused. "Rosemarie Hathaway, will you marry me?"
Only a two words came to mind, and those words were "Hell yes."