Okay you can officially kill me! Or maybe I don't know what lol
maybe yell at me? Anyways I know how long it's been since I've updated
but I have personal reasons as to why.
But do know I have been writing so I haven't been that out of it lol
Enjoy it!
Relationship developments?
I don't even know how to descirbe it anymore.

VA=Richelle Mead

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Chapter 9
Why Is It So Complicated?

The bell rang.

Finally time for the last class. An end to this weird 1st day. I sighed in relief.

"What class do you have next?" asked Adrian as we walked down the bleachers.

"English" I said.

He smiled. "Me too"

"Us too" said Mia, walking toward us with Eddie, Mason, and Dimitri.

I smiled. "I knew it" I said.

Mason shook his head. "Not until we see Lissa & Chris there" he said.

"Fifty bucks says that they will be" I said.

Eddie shook his head. "Dude, every year you lose. Don't make that bet" he pleaded.

Mia smiled. "That's true Mase. You know it's always the same. Rose is awesome that way" she said.

I smiled. "They're right. Just back off the bet. No hard feelings" I smirked.

"You're on Hathaway" and we shook hands.

"Easiest money I ever made" I said as we walked out the gym and headed off to English.

My favorite subject.

Ms. Petrov was is an awesome teacher and that just added to my favoritism of the subject.

I also likes it because of poetry.

Writing poetry is my favorite thing to do. Right next to photography.

I'm an artistic chick but I keep that to myself…got a rep I need to protect.

It was a job I had back home.

I was a freelance photographer.

My mother didn't know. No one did. I wanted to enjoy something that was mine. Not provided by my mother…or my father.

"Hey" whispered Adrian. "Are you okay?"

I nodded. "Just thinking" I said.

We made it to English and I smiled.

"Rose!" Lissa yelled and ran to me launching herself right into me, almost knocking me on my ass.

"Whoa slow down kitty cat" I said.

"Are you okay?" she asked.

"I'm sorry" was all I said.

"I'm just glad you're okay. You had me worried"

I smiled and looked at Adrian, then back at Lissa.

"I'm okay"

She looked at me and then at Adrian.

She was about to say something but I cut her off.

"Later. Right now English class"

She smiled that beautiful angelic smile of hers. "Okay"

She started pulling me towards the class but first things first. I turned to Mason.

"I know you already have it in your wallet so just hand it over"

He groaned and pulled out his wallet, with my fifty bucks.

"Mason" said Lissa. "Again? Really?" she sighed and pulled me to class.

When we reached the door I saw Christian smiling while shaking his head.

"Rose, Rose, Rose. When will you stop taking Mason's money?" he asked.

"Hey! He started it!" I said in a childish tone.

Everyone behind me laughed. I could easily pick out Dimitri's laugh and Adrian's laugh. Their laughed made my heart race.

Christian looked at Mason. "How much in total?"

Mason sighed "Two hundred bucks"

I laughed "That's all?"

He nodded and sighed. "Yeah, and that's only in the English class bet. I don't even know how much money you've won from me with the other bets" he sighed.

I laughed a little laugh. "Sorry" I said in an innocent voice.

He chuckled "Sure you are"

"Easiest money you ever made" Christian said.

"That's what I said" I laughed.

"Alright, alright. Stop picking on Mason. Come on, let's go and sit and relax until Ms. Petrov shows up" said Lissa as she tugged me to the back of the class.

When we sat down I noticed I got stuck in between Dimitri and Adrian.

I sighed, frustrated.

"Are you okay Rose?" asked Dimitri in that hot Russian accent.

I nodded and smiled. "Yeah, I'm fine"

He smiled and I almost turned into mush.

That voice was beautiful and added with that beautiful accent, a whole lot of sexy.

"I can tell you really like this class" said Dimitri.

I nodded. "Poetry is what I like most when I'm in this class"

"Do you write poetry?" he asked. His eyes showed interest and something else.

Something I couldn't point out.

I nodded, smiling. "Yeah, tons of it. Especially love poems. Those are the ones that come easy"

I can't believe I'm telling someone I don't even know that well things about me that I don't like to really tell anyone.

But Dimitri, he brings out something in me. Something that hasn't been out in so long.

The desire to just be. No weirdness, no sadness. I feel that if I could I would talk to him all night and day and never get tired.

"One day I'd love to hear one. I bet you sound beautiful reading them" he said.

I blushed. "Nah, I've never read them out loud before. Well I did but only to my friends. I'm kinda shy with all eyes on me"

He let out a small laugh. "Really?"

I nodded. "Easy to keep a normal drama free like without all eyes on you"

"That's true" he said in a serious tone.

"Welcome back everyone" said Ms. Petrov as she entered the classroom and sat down on her desk chair.

"Oh, I see we have faces" she said as she looked around. "And also old faces" she winked at me and I smiled.

Ms. Petrov was awesome in every way. I have no idea why she was working here in this stupid school.

With talents such as hers, she should've been famous a long time ago.

"Okay, well let me start by introducing myself. I am Mrs. Alberta Petrov.

Whoa? Mrs.?

I raised my hand.

"Yes Rose?"

"You got married?" I asked with a smile on my face.

She nodded with a big smile plastered on her face.

"Oh my god! When?"

"This summer. About two months ago"

"Oh my god! Congratulations"

Everyone in the class said the same. Lissa asking how the wedding gown was, the designer, the wedding planner. I sighed. When will she stop?

"Thank you, thank you. But please let's get back to the class."

I was thinking what it'd be like to get married and just like that I took that thought back.

Marriage?

Yeah, I wasn't that type of girl. I liked all the independence I could master. Marriage always complicated things in my book.

Besides I don't think I wanna end up like my mom and dad.

I would never put my kid through something like that.

"Now today we're just covering the basics. Nothing interesting, just getting to know each other and things like that"

I sighed. Good. Nothing major, or embarrassing.

"But" uh-oh "I want to keep a tradition" oh no. "Rose, please" she looked at me with pleading eyes and I could never say no to Mrs. Petrov.

I sighed. "Fine"

She smiled. "Okay class, our favorite poet is going to read a poem I specifically picked out"

I sighed and walked up to the front of the class.

All eyes on me.

Adrian's eyes.

Dimitri's eyes.

Mrs. Petrov handed me the paper and I looked at the poem.

Memory of Love by Anna Akhmatov

I sighed.

Memory of love, you are painful!
I must sing and burn in your smoke,
But for others-you're just a flame
Too warm a cooling soul.

To warm a seated body,
They needed my tears…
For this lord, I sang,
For this I received love's communion

Let me drink some kind of poison
That will make me mute,
And turn my infamous fame
Into radiant oblivion.

People started clapping and I saw Lissa, she was tearing. She always got that way after I read a poem.

That's why I didn't read a loud anymore.

"That was beautiful Rose. Thank you, you can go back to your seat now"

"Thanks" I grumbled and went back to my seat.

"That was beautiful Rose" said Dimitri.

"Thanks"

"Can I ask you something Rose?"

"Sure Dimitri what's up?"

"Do you mind if after class you go down to the lake with me?"

"Sure. No problem"

He nodded. "Okay, cool"

To say that I wasn't nervous would've been a total lie. Being along with Dimitri like the day we first met is kind of nerve wrecking.

But seriously why did he wanna go to the lake anyway?

Damn it! I'm Rose Hathaway. I'm never intimidated by anything. Or anyone.

The bell rang, signaling the end of the day.

The annoying first day of my senior year.

The whole gang was gonna go out to hang in Missoula for a while before curfew.

"We'll meet you guys there in a bit" I said.

Lissa looked at me questioningly.

"You okay Rose?" asked Mia.

I nodded. "Yeah, just me and Dimitri have something to do that's all"

Then I saw Adrian look at me with those beautiful emerald eyes. But this time his eyes looked darker, like if he was sad or angry.

I looked away. I didn't like the look in his eyes.

I grabbed Dimitr's arm and started my way to the lake.

"Don't be too late" yelled Lissa.

"We won't" I yelled back.

When we sat down on the bench I had a little flash back of last night.

I smiled.

"Are you really okay Rose?" asked Dimitri.

"You're the third person to ask" I said in an irritated tone.

"You were the one who hung up on me. That's why I'm asking"

I looked at him "What are you talking about?"

He looked at me and I was mesmerized. Those dark brown eyes that looked so warm and soft.

"I believe your words were 'go away'?"

"That was you?"

He nodded.

"Why?" I asked.

"I had a feeling" he said.

"A feeling?" I yelled.

"Yeah, a feeling that you somehow needed someone. So I took the number from Adrian's cell and called you. But you hung up" he said this all in a normal tone.

But me, I was fucking pissed!

"I don't need anyone's help in anything. I'm fine!" I said and starred to get up and walk away.

I heard him follow and then felt his strong hand grab my wrist and pull me to him.

He was hugging me. And I was fighting him,

The more I kept trying to fight him, the stronger his hold got on me and I was growing weaker.

"I wanna help you Rose. Not in the way you think. I just want to be there for you"

"Why?" I asked. My voice thick, my eyes stinging.

He held me tighter to him, his chin resting on my the top of my head.

"I don't know" he whispered.

I gave up.

I wrapped my arms around him, tightening them, and I started to cry.

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-Kristy