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It's all about Adrian, and who doesn't love him..

Adrian's Date – 45

"Jill?" We all gasped as he smiled and nodded. "How could you do that to her?" I screamed. "She actually really likes you."

"I know," Adrian explained. "And, I like her."

"Since when?"

"Since she asked me if I wanted to hang out the other day when you guys were nowhere to be seen." Lissa looked at me, saying something with her eyes that I couldn't understand.

"What?" I asked her.

"I knew we shouldn't have left him alone," she smiled.

"I'm not a little kid," Adrian said. "I'm actually older than all of you, well not Dimitri, but you know what I'm talking. I'm pretty sure I don't need any of your guy's permission to do anything."

"You do if you're going to date my half-sister."

"I think she's old enough to make her on decisions."

"Like you said a minute ago, you're older than us, and she's younger than us, don't you think you're a little too old for her?"

"That would make Dimitri too old for Rose, and that didn't stop them," he explained.

"Hey, don't turn this on us," I sighed, because he does have a good point.

"He does make a good point," Christian stated.

"Did we ask you?" I glared. He looked at the ground, but not before he shrugged his shoulders at me. "Adrian, she's different, she's the queen's sister for crying out loud."

"No," he replied. "She's Lissa's sister."

"It's the same thing."

"No it's not. I knew Lissa and Jill before she became queen, so to me, she's still just a friend."

"But I am the queen too," Lissa said, getting back into the argument.

"I know that, but it still doesn't change the way that I feel about Jill, even if it never compares to the way I felt, and still feel by the way, about Rose." Everyone got quiet at that, and looked between Adrian and me, not knowing what to say. We all knew he still loved me, but it's still hard to hear him say that out loud.

"Adrian," I whispered, putting a hand on his shoulder. He looked at me and then shoved my hand off of him.

"Forget it Rose, I've already said too much. I think you all should go, I have to get ready for my date." He shoved us all out of his room, looking around at each other, not knowing how to respond.

Adrian's POV

I should have told them a different way, I thought to myself. And I shouldn't have said what I did about still having feelings towards Rose, even though they all already knew it. I should have just told them that I was going to eat with my parents; they might have believed that, even though I can't stand to be around them. But no, I had to go open my big mouth, and now I have to have a date with Jill in a bad mood.

I really do like Jill though, so I don't know why everyone thinks I'm bad for here. It's like they don't trust me with her. Rose out of all of them should know how I am, I'm nice and I don't like to rush into anything. But before she actually finally agreed to go out with me, I did kind of bug her, always following her around when I knew she was interested in Dimitri. Gosh, I still don't like him. But I don't hate him as much as I did when I first met him.

Anyways, it's too late for me and Rose, now I've got Jill, that is if she'll still go out with me after Lissa and them get to her. They'll probably try and talk her out of going out with me, even though they all know that she likes me, she did from the first time she met me. I just hope I don't ruin this date being in the mood I am now.

"They what?" Jill shrieked. I told her my conversation with Rose and them, and she was like me, didn't like it. "Just because she's the queen and my half-sister doesn't mean she can tell me what to do. She didn't have a problem with me liking you before we found out they we're related." She was pacing the room, furious at Lissa.

"I know, and I told them all that. Well maybe not all of it, but most of it that they should understand. Rose out of all of them knows how I treat girls. I may not act like I'm good, but when I'm going out with someone, I'm pretty decent to them." She kept pacing, not even caring that this was supposed to be our date, something she had been looking forward to for a while.

"Adrian?" she whispered. She stopped pacing and looked me in the eyes. "What if they're right? What if we shouldn't be together?"

"Don't you think that's something we should figure out?" She smiled at me as I got up from my chair and hugged her to me.

"And there's something else," she muttered against my shoulder.

"And what is that?" I asked without pulling her away, I liked the feel of her in my arms.

"My mom doesn't really like you either."

"What?" I finally pulled away. "What did I do for her to hate me?"

"She doesn't hate you, she just thinks you're too old for me."

"Is that all?" I smiled and laughed as I noticed her red cheeks. "That won't stop me. I guess we'll just have to try and change her mind, show her how good I can be to, and for, you." She smiled and hugged me again.

Rose's POV

"So what do you think they're doing?" I asked. We were all sitting outside in the court yard, staring up at the stars.

"I don't know?" Lissa replied. "What did you guys usually do on a date?"

"Not much, go out to eat or go to some mysterious party he knew about. But that was when Tatiana was still alive because she was the one that hosted the parties."

"Oh yeah, and you got caught at one that was supposed to be only for royals."

"Yeah, those were the days." We all laughed as we all knew what I was talking about, running around and getting into trouble. But that was the old me, the new me is much more mature with a child on the way.

"Oh my gosh," Christian laughed. "did he ever take you out there?" He gestured towards the beach were we could see two figures running down the beach to a table I hadn't even seen set up. And for a second I actually got jealous of Jill.

"Aww," Lissa moaned. "How sweet! A romantic candle light dinner under the stars on the beach. How come you never do that for me?" she smacked Christian in the chest.

"Lissa," I practically yelled. "It's not supposed to be sweet. We're supposed to be against this."

"I know, but Adrian can be sweet when he actually wants to and tries." I sat there staring at Jill and Adrian sitting at their little table under the stars, seeing Jill laugh and look so happy. Maybe they are good for each other, I thought to myself.

"They look so cute together," Dimitri said beside me.

"Cute," Christian shrieked. "Since when do you think things are cute?"
"I don't know, since I found out I am going to be a father." He smiled at me, squeezing my hand to his heart.

"He's right though," Lissa said, drawing Christian's attention back to her. "They do look cute together. Tell me again why we don't want them together."

"Only because he's too old for him."

"Like Dimitri is for you?" Christian muttered.

"I heard that."

"You were meant to."

"He's right though," Dimitri whispered. "I am seven years older than you."

"But Adrian's around the same to Jill," Lissa said. "And you know, I don't have that big of a problem with it. Just as long as he doesn't hurt her, or push her into doing something she doesn't want to do."

"He's not like that," I said. But as I said it, the memory of when Adrian and I almost had sex came in my mind. He was pressuring me or anything, but he sure wanted to do it even after we realized that we didn't have a condom. But in the end we didn't do it, so that has to count for something.

Adrian's POV

"Are you ready for the main course?" I asked as I held out Jill's chair for her.

"Of course," she squealed. I laughed at that, her squeal is just so cute. I pushed in her chair before going to mine and pulling the lids off the plates. "Lobster!"

"Yeap, and only the best and freshest one's for you."

"I've never had lobster before."

"Really?"

"Really. My family never had enough money to order it."

"Well then, this will definitely be a night to remember." She smiled up at me like she was thinking the same thing, but not about the lobster. I watched her as she took her first bite. "So?"

"It's delicious," she laughed. "I'm glad I had a chance to try it."

"Just wait for dessert." She talked all through dinner, learning a lot of stuff about each that I would have never guessed about her.

"So you've really only had one other boyfriend before?" I laughed. "How can that happen? You're so beautiful."

"If you hadn't known, I'm quite shy."

"Actually, I haven't noticed. Anytime I'm around you're quite talkative."

"That's only because i was always around Lissa and Rose, I'm not shy with them. I'm only shy when I'm by myself, I usually don't know what to talk about with people."

"You seem to be managing quite well tonight."

"That's only because for some reason things come easy when I'm around you."

"I just have one of those faces, right? Ones that you can tell anything."

"You must have, because I haven't even told Lissa most of the stuff I told you."

"That's probably because she's queen now, she kind of scares some people now, and she doesn't even know it. But all queens do that, only because they can do whatever they want and tell other people to do whatever she wants."

"Yeah, but Lissa's not like that."

"Not yet she isn't. Believe it or not, my aunt wasn't like that until after a year or so."

"Yeah, I don't believe it."

"What? She was actually real sweet."

"To you yeah, she loved you."

"Yeap, I was her favorite nephew. But look at me; it's hard not to love me." I laughed as her cheeks grew red again. She laughed as she realized I was only joking."

"So, what's for dessert?" she asked, changing the subject.

"One of my favorites." I walked over to the tray I had laid on a blanket. "But you'll have to come over here. This time we get to sit here," I said, sitting down on the blanket and patting a spot for her. She smiled and sat in the spot I had patted for her. I pulled the lid of the plate, showing a big slice of cheesecake.

"Only one?" she asked.

"Yeah, but it's a pretty big slice. So, what kind of berries do you want, cherries or blueberries? Or do you want to be wild and try both like I always do?"

"Both, of course." She laughed as I scooped a large scoop of each berry on the slice of cheesecake. I took a spoon and scooped a big slice off and held it out to her. She opened her mouth and ate it all. She moaned as she swallowed and licked her lips. "That's delicious."

"Thanks!" I laughed. "That's another thing most people don't know about me, I love to cook."

"So you made this?"

"You sound surprised."

"I am. I didn't know you were such an excellent cook."

"That's only because I don't tell people. You know how most of everyone likes to make fun of guy that love to cook and bake."

"Yeah, but most of the famous cooks are guys."

"True." We ate the rest in silence, just staring at the waves and stars before us.