If someone told my best friend she thought I was a bitch, and my best friend told me, should the person who thought I was a bitch get mad at my best friend? I;m thinking no, because I tell my best friend everything, and so does she!

Chapter 17

"Rumor has it he proposed last night…" The girl said to her friend.

"Even after she slept with all of those guys?" I stopped listening. Throwing my food in the trash, I grabbed Adrian and pulled him outside with me.

"What the hell is wrong with them?" I vented to him.

"Well they have low self esteem-" Starting the 4th grade health textbook reason of why people gossiped.

"Don't you dare say they want to make themselves feel better." I interrupted him.

He laughed and pulling me closer to him and tipping my head up so I could look into his green eyes. "Don't let it bother you." He said into my ear. "Do you want a distraction?" He trailed his lips from my ear to my lips, and kissed me softly.

"I would love a distraction." He pulled me behind the building and kissing me again.

Someone walked behind us a moment later, and there was a hand on my shoulder. Lissa. "Can I talk to you guys for a minute?" She pulled us over to where Christian and Eddie stood.

They deserve to know. She thought to me. I glared at her. I can't choose for myself apparently…

"Adrian we're going to tell them." I whispered to him.

"Hey guys!" I greeted them. "Adrian and I have some news."

"There isn't going to be a little him walking around is there?" Christian said, gesturing towards Adrian.

"No." He answered. "But Rose and I are getting married after graduation."

Shocked didn't cover the look on their faces. "Yes Christian, so you better pop the question to Lissa soon." I smirkedq at how speechless he was.

* * *

Ok so all I was doing was walking down the hall, when a certain ex-boyfriend of mine pulled me into an empty classroom.

"Pushy much?" I muttered. Then louder, I said "Why are you still here? I thought you were leaving yesterday."

"Would you like to tell me something Rose?"

"Would you like to answer my question?" I replied coldly.

"Tasha wanted to stay for another week. Now do you want to tell me something?" He was right in my face, a little closer than comfortable.

"There is nothing I want to tell you Gaurdian Belikov."

He scoffed, and grabbed my hand. Pulling my hand up to my face, he asked, ""What is this?"

"A ring?"

"And who gave you this ring?"

"Why the hell do you care?" I spat. He glared at me. "Fine. Adrian."

"And why did he give you this ring?"

"Because he was much braver than you were and asked me to marry him."

"You know why I couldn't ask you to marry me." He said, his voice getting softer.

"Adrian shouldn't have asked me either! I'm not suited for him at all. I'm a dhampir, Dimitri, and he's a Royal Moroi! Dhampirs and Moroi just don't get married."

"But two Dhampirs is even more forbidden." He said.

"I love Adrian, and he loves me, and we're getting married." I turned to leave the room, but before I could he grabbed my arm and kissed me. He kissed me for a moment, before reality came crashing down on me. I pulled back and pushed him away. "Dimitri! I'm engaged." I ran out before he could say anything else, tears starting to pour out of my eyes.

I ran into Adrian in the hall, like really ran into him. I started to fall backwards, but he caught me. "Hey." He noticed the tears leaking from my eyes, "What's wrong baby?" He asked.

He pulled me to the side of the hall, letting me stain his shirt with tears. When the tears finally slowed, he leaned down and looked me in the eyes. "Who's ass am I kicking?"

"No one's." I said. "Sorry about that Adrian."

"No problem. That's one of the reasons I'm here isn't it?"

* * *

"Adrian?" I said as I was about to fall asleep that night.

"Yes Rose?"

"Dimitri kissed me." I was half asleep, my head against his chest, so it was jarring when he sat abruptly upright. "But I pushed him away. I-" I stuttered.

"I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at him." His voice was hard, and strained. He tried to get out of the bed, but I pushed him down.

"Where are you going?" I asked.

"To kick his ass."

"No you aren't." I kissed him, long and passionate. "See, we all just need to calm down." I kissed him again.

"Ugh Rose, why do you have to do this to me?"

"Because I'm your fiancée."

"I love it when you say that."

"See, nothing to worry about. Lets just go to bed ok?"

ADRAIN'S POV

I walked down the hall in search of Rose. I got halfway down before she ran into me. I caught her from falling. "Hey." I looked at her beautiful face and saw one of those rare tears fall down from her eye. "What's wrong baby?" I asked, rubbing her back as she cried into my chest.

I pulled her towards the side of the hallway so we weren't in the middle of everyone going where they needed to go. Finally she stopped crying and we made eye contact. Her brown eyes were red from the tears. Whoever made her cry like this had to pay. "Who's ass am I kicking?"

"No one's." Her voice soft. "Sorry about that Adrian." She apologized.

"No problem." I told her. "Isn't that why I'm here?"

* * *

She was falling asleep when she said, "Adrian?"

"Yes Rose?" I asked her. Her head was resting on my chest, and I hugged her closer to me.

"Dimitri kissed me." She was on the edge of falling asleep, and her voice reflected that. Wait… WHAT? I sat up, and then she was sitting in my lap. "But I pushed him away. I-" She was wide awake now.

I cut her off. "I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at him." I tried to get up, but Rose, being the fighter she was, pushed me down on the bed.

"Where are you going?" She asked me.

"To kick his ass." I answered.

"No you aren't." She kissed me. "See, we all just need to calm down." She kissed me again, giving me her most seductive smile.

I groaned. "Ugh Rose, why do you have to do this to me?"

"Because I'm your fiancée." She said.

"I love it when you say that."

"See, nothing to worry about. Lets just go to bed ok?" She tried to calm me down, but tomorrow morning I was going to give that Guardian a piece of my mind.