This is my longest chapter by far... I wanted to do THE DATE chapter right...Enjoy and please tell me what you think...
**SOME SUGGESTIVE CONTENT IN THIS CHAPTER**
A LITTLE BIT OF DINNER
DPOV
I rushed home as fast as the speed limit would allow me. Ok, I was driving above the speed limit but only a tad bit over. I quickly ran up the three flights of stairs to my apartment because I felt I could run quicker than the elevator. I wized by the older lady that lived down the hall from me. She gave me a worried look and asked me where the fire was. I stopped for a second and turned around and told her I had a date this evening. She just smiled at me and shook her head.
I rushed around my apartment looking for my overnight bag. I had to slow down I told myself. I stopped in the middle of my studio apartment trying to remember where I had placed my bag. "Under my bed," I said to no one.
I took my bag out and tossed it on my bed. I began filling it with things I would need. I packed a pair of jeans, a sweater (in case it got chilly), three t-shirts, some shorts, socks, underwear, sandals and I would pack my showering kit when I got out of the shower. I would wear my sneakers there.
I took what might be the quickest shower on my record, 15 minutes in and out. I wanted to be on the road by Noon, which was in under and hour. I put my showering kit in my bag, I tossed my wet hair in a small ponytail and I was out the door.
I entered the address Roza gave me into my GPS. 4268 Cape Breton Cove, Irishvale. I didn't know that area and I didn't want to get lost.
RPOV
"Rose are you ok? Earth to Rose..." Lissa said snapping her fingers in my face to break me out of my daze.
"Hmm...What? Ya,ya.. I'm ok.." I turned around with a look of horror on my face. "Lissa, I have nothing nice to wear. I only brought my comfy clothes...What am I going to do? I should call Dimitri and cancel.." I opened my phone back up to redial his number.
Lissa grabbed the phone out of my hand, and turned me to face her. "You are going to do no such thing."she said as seriously as she could. Then a smile started to creep across her face.
"Lissa... I know that look..." I said with a sheepish look.
"SHOPPING! We are going shopping again.. Dimitri is going to be here in what...four hours? So that means we have two hours to shop and get back here. One hour to get you ready and into your first outfit. Than about 20 minutes to ooohh and aww over how awesome you look and get me out the door." she said with almost a squeal. "Oh, this is going to be fun.. I feel like a Mom on prom day."she laughed.
"Two outfits?...Why do I need two outfits for one date?"I said as Lissa grabbed the car keys, our purses and dragged me out the door.
On the drive to the mall, Lissa explained to me the reason behind the two out fits.
"You need two outfits because, this is how it is all going to happen... Your first outfit is going to be a cute pair of short shorts and a flirty tank top with a pair of flip flops. You are going to wear your hair up in a messy bun. This outfit is the outfit that you are going to greet him at the door with...Outfit two is the outfit you are going to wear for the actual dinner.. About an hour or so before dinner you are going excuse yourself and tell Dimitri that you need to freshen up.. You are going to go up stairs and slip into a sundress and a pair of thongs..Oh, don't give me that look.. You don't want your granny panties showing through your dress."
"Lissa..." I tired to say.
"Listen to your Mother here and don't interrupt me until I'm done explaining." We both laughed at that. " As I was saying.. When you are done getting ready in outfit two, let your hair down and fluff it out. I don't care if it only takes you 10 minutes to do all of this, you are going to make him wait at least 30 minutes. It will drive him nuts. Then just act like your shy self and you will have him eating out of your hand by the middle of dinner. That is IF you make it through dinner."
"What do you mean IF we make it through dinner?" I questionably asked her.
"Well, if my plan works... He would have jumped you before the dinner even hits your plates." she explained as calmly as if it was public knowledge.
"LISSA!OH MY LORD!" I said loudly as I punched her in the arm.
"Careful now...Do you want to make me drive off the road before you get..." I cut her off there, and we both started to laugh.
We were back at my parents' in a little over the two hour mark, but we still had plenty of time. We were late getting back because Lissa said she had to make a quick stop. I had waited in the car until she came out.
She got into the car and threw me the bag saying, "You are going to need this too."
I looked at her with a questionable look and opened the bag. "Oh Lissa... Really? You bought condoms?.."
"Better to be safe than sorry..." was all she said.
I was finishing getting ready when I received a text from Dimitri.
The text read, "Be there in about 15 minutes.. I stopped to pick up some wine... D "
"Wow, Dimitri is a little speed demon." Lissa had commented.. "Here let me take a picture and then I'm gone. She snapped the picture with her phone gave me a hug and kiss and left to go out the door. As she was walking out the door she said, "Make Momma proud child, make Momma proud."
DPOV
I pulled into the drive way and pulled up to the house. The clock on the car said 2:33pm. I had made it here in a little over three hours since I was talking to Roza. I pulled the shopping bags and the flowers out of the car and headed for the front door. I set the bags on the front porch and rang the door bell.
I turned my back to the door and was admiring the view. I heard the door open, so I turned back around.
"Hi..Come on in.", she said with a smile.
I couldn't move. She was just too beautiful. I drank her in from her head to her toes. She wore her hair up in a cute sexy messy bun, a pair of jean shorts, with a yellow tank that showed a tiny bit of her stomach and a pair of black flip flops that had yellow daisies on them. I finally lifted my eyes to look her in the eyes.
"Hello Roza...These are for you." I mustered to say, while handing her the bouquet of daisies. She stepped a little closer to me and took the flowers.
"Thank you...Daisies are my favorite flower.."she said with that beautiful smile of hers. She surprised me when she went up onto her tippy toes and gave me a small kiss on my cheek. "They are beautiful."
She moved aside and motioned for me to come in. She tried to take a bag from me. But I told her that I could manage, because it was only three small bags. I told her that I left my overnight bag in the car and that I would get it later.
She placed one of her hands on my arm and asked,"Would you like a tour of the house before you start? "
"I would like that.. Just let me put these bags in the kitchen and your flowers in water and I will be right back." She pointed me in the direction of the kitchen.
She showed me the entire house. Including the room I would be staying in, her Dad's office, where the bathroom was and finally the back yard that lead down to the lake. The house was in an area that reminded me of a private little oasis. The closest house was about a mile in either direction, and the backyard opened up onto a beautiful lake with a dock and boat house.
"This place is amazing." I told her. "It is so peaceful and quiet."
"I try to come out here as much as possible. I think of it as my own private oasis."Roza said as she looked out over the yard. She had such a peaceful look on her face, it made me smile even more.
After that we headed back inside so I could start dinner.
She leaned over the counter, placing her chin in her hand. "What can I do to help?, she asked.
I walked over to the table and took over a chair. I placed it behind her and told her to sit. "You..Do nothing.." I whispered into her ear. I walked back behind the counter and went to work, first making the black bread.
I explained to her that this bread was my favorite food in the whole entire world. "This recipe has been in my family since the beginning of time." Ok, I exaggerated a little bit there. "Whenever Momma would make this bread, she would always let me help. As I got older she would get me to make it, since I ate so much of it." I said with a laugh.
I finished making the bread and cleaned up all my mess. I then started on the sauce.
"First thing you do when making sauce, is pour two glasses of wine...One for you and one for me." I leaned over the counter and passed her her glass."
When the sauce was almost cooked Roza excused herself to go freshen up for dinner. I took this as the opportunity to go grab my bag from the car and freshen up myself.
When I came back inside, Roza was still not back. I turned the sauce down and placed water on the stove for the spaghetti. I took my glass of wine and went over to some pictures that were hanging over by the breakfast nook.
On a closer look of the pictures I noticed they were of a little Roza helping her Mom and Dad cook. One of them was when she was about six, Roza and her Mom were making cookies. There was flour all over their faces. Another one was of Roza and her Dad. They were sitting at the counter eating some oreo's and milk. Her Dad had a fake frown on and Roza and was laughing with a milk mustache. It looked like she had stolen all the cookies.
I wonder what was taking Roza so long. I hope that everything is ok.
I heard her holler down that she would be here in a minute. I walked back to the stove and drained the spaghetti and took the black bread out of the oven.
I heard Roza come in the kitchen and turned to face her. The site before me was beyond beautiful..
RPOV
I excused myself to go freshen up, just like Lissa said I should. I was ready to go back down stairs in like five minutes. But I would follow the plan. "Make him wait," Lissa had said. After about what felt like over 30 minutes I called down to Dimitri telling him I would be right there. I took one last look at myself in the full length mirror. I smiled at myself, I looked really nice. Lissa helped me pick out a plain midnight colour sundress, that hugged me in all the right places. I did a pit check and then I was off back down stairs.
I walked barefoot into the kitchen. Dimitri was just taking the black bread out of the oven.
I thought to myself, "Why me? Why or how could he be interested in me? I don't deserve someone like Dimitri."
He sensed me come into the kitchen and turned around. The look he gave me was a look of...what? He looked at me like I was the only person in the world. But there was something else in his eyes, I just didn't know what it exactly was. I just stood there with a smile of my own.
"Ouch!" he said, dropping the pan of black bread onto the counter, snapping him out of his stare. I quickly rushed over to him.
"Oh my..Are you ok?. Here let me see.." I said with concern in my voice. He was shaking his hand as to cool it off. I took his hand in mine, blowing gently over it to cool it off. I put my lips to his hand and gave it a gentle kiss in the middle. "There we go..Are you ok?"
"It is now," he replied, with a sultry look in his eyes.
We stood there, eyes locked for a few more moments. I could feel my checks going flushed. "We better eat before the food goes cold," I said, being the first to look away. I helped Dimitri take the food over to the table, which he had beautifully set with my daisies as a center piece.
Dimitri had poured us each another glass of wine. We talked about everything. He told me more about his family and about life living in Russia. He told me,once he had graduated school he was recruited to immigrate to The US to become a cop and how he quickly moved through the ranks. I told him about my love to travel.
"You would like Russia," he told me. "Just the beauty of everything and everyone. I just think you would really like it there." We continued to talk and laugh, enjoying each other's company.
We just finished laughing from a story I told him about when I was 10, when he looked at me and giggled again.
"What are you laughing at now?" I said, trying not to laugh because he was laughing.
"You have some sauce right there," pointing to my face.
I was wiping all over my face. "Where? Did I get it?"
"No. Here, let me get it." He scooted over to me, took his napkin and gently dabbed off the sauce on my nose.
When he was done, he put his napkin down and looked me square in the face. He put his hands on either side of my face.
He flatly told me, "I'm going to kiss you. Is that ok?"
I just shooked my head yes.
I closed my eyes, taking in how soft Dimitri's lips were. They were so soft and gentle. He broke the kiss and kissed me on the forehead.
He put his forehead on mine and said with a good sigh,"I have wanted to kiss you for so long Roza. In the short time that we have known each other, I feel like you are the missing piece of my puzzle. The missing piece that I didn't know was missing. You are the most gorgeous, sexy, smart woman I have ever met. I think about you all the time, while I eat, on my runs, in my dreams, and you take my breath away. Roza, I don't want to scare you, but...I have fallen in love with you."
He pulled back to look at me in the face when he felt my tears reach his hands. "What's wrong Roza? Did.. Did I say something wrong." Dimitri had so much love and concern in his eyes.
I tried to quickly wipe my tears. I looked back into Dimitri's eyes and said, "No, you said nothing wrong.. It's just that no one has ever said something like that to me."
"I'm glad that no one has,because otherwise you probably wouldn't be here with me."
I smiled as the next words came to my lips. "Dimitri... I have fallen in love with you too."
Dimitri pulled me onto his lap, with me facing him and my legs on either side of him. He first kissed into my hair and then his lips found mind again. At first he kissed me softly, then it turned into something more hungry, more eager. Almost like he wanted to do more. He wrapped his arms around me and lifted us both off his chair. In between kisses he asked me where my bedroom was.
Still holding me in his arms he carried me to where my directions directed him too. My bedroom was upstairs, down the hallway and too the left. He slowly lowered me onto the bed, half hovering over me.
He pulled back, his eyes scouring all over my body. I flopped my hands above my head, hitting something. We both glanced to what it was. It was the box of condoms that Lissa had bought.
When I looked back up to Dimitri he had raised one of his eyebrows. "You're going to have to show me how to do that," I said with a playful smile.
As Dimitri started to slide up my dress, he said, "I'm going to show you a lot of things."
It was a long, long, long night.
What did you think? Oh, and the long awaited Adrian chapter is coming up next. The whole chapter is going to be all of Adrian's point of view.