(Rose POV)
By the time our bus pulled up to the main building, I was exhausted, and Dimitri was ignoring me. I'm going to have to do some major convincing for him to believe it was just a mistake. Sighing, I dragged myself off the bus, and followed Adrian to the front desk so he could check us all in. I was suddenly bored out of my mind with nothing to do and no one to talk to.
Lissa was excitingly telling Mia all about how awesome her trip was the last time she came to Mexico, Adrian was still checking us in, Eddie and Mason were engaged in a conversation about the last basketball game, the guardians kept their distance, silently talking among themselves, and Christian stood next to me pretending to be fascinated in a painting, when, in reality, he just had no friends. I looked over to where the guardian's stood, and Dimitri suddenly met my gaze. I gave him a small smile, and he bit his lip and looked away. Fuck. How am I going to fix this? I can't let this ruin my vacation—Adrian was right. I just needed a break. I need to make the best of this, with or without Dimitri. I'll make sure everything is fixed by the time we get back to St. Vlads.
"Alright," Adrian said interrupting my thoughts. No one even glanced at Adrian, and they acted as if he hadn't said a word. I laughed, and he scowled at me. "I'll get their attention," I assured Adrian.
"Oh really?" He said, raising an eyebrow. He seemed to have forgotten everything that had happened on the plane, which I was thankful for…I didn't really want to think about it. I know he didn't mean it, and I don't want it to be weird between us over something stupid.
"Yessir," I said, flashing him a grin. "HEY BITCH!" I yelled loudly. Everyone stopped their conversations and looked up. "Told ya," I said, pleased with myself.
"Thank you, Rose. That was so pleasant," Adrian said sarcastically. "Okay so you can all get freshened up and we'll meet at the buffet in fifteen minutes. Put your bathing suits on, because right after we eat, we're going to the pool." Everyone bobbed their heads up and down in unison, and Adrian passed out the keys to our hotel rooms.
"Who's sleeping where?" I asked Adrian, as we were walking to the hotel. Adrian grinned.
"Well, I got us the honeymoon suite, Mrs. Ivashkov," Adrian said putting an arm around me.
"What! Ivashkov, you better be joking!" I said, pushing his arm off me, and stopping to glare at him.
"I am, little dhampir. Chill out. You, Lissa and Mia can go in a room, unless you want to join me…"
"No," I said, gritting my teeth.
"Well, then I guess I'm stuck with Pyro. Eddie and Matt get a room, and the guardians go wherever the hell they want I don't give a shit," Adrian said.
"Mason," I corrected him. He rolled his eyes.
"Whatever." He said, not really caring.
We arrived at our building, and we split up to find our rooms. Lissa was acting as sprightly as a child who just got a big scoop of ice cream. Mia opened the door to our room and gasped. The room was sick! It was painted a light blue, and there were three beds. It had a huge bathroom, and a balcony that gave us a view of the beach.
"Oh my god! There's a Jacuzzi out here!" Lissa yelled excitingly.
"Holy crap! That's so awesome!" Mia said. I followed Mia out to the balcony and sure enough there was a round Jacuzzi out there, and two chairs and a small table. I left Lissa and Mia outside while they admired the scenery and looked around a little more. I noticed a wooden door that I hadn't seen before.
"Hey, guys. What's this door for?" I asked curiously.
"I dunno. Open it," Lissa said, poking her head out from the balcony. I reached for the handle, and the door burst open. I jumped back.
"Jesus Christ!" I yelped, jumping backwards, almost falling on my ass.
"Surprise! Our rooms connect!" Adrian said, happily. He plopped down on one of the beds, and I glared at him.
"Did you do that on purpose?" I asked.
"Mmm…possibly," Adrian said.
"Ugh," I groaned. I looked through the door Adrian had uninvitingly burst into, and saw Christian lying on the floor with a magazine over his face. "What the hell are you doing, Pyro?"
"Please put me out of my misery! Can I have a new room? I don't want to be stuck here with…that!" Christian said taking the magazine off his face and pointing to Adrian. Adrian pretended to be hurt by his comment.
"You can always go to Eddie and Mark's room," Adrian said. Christian groaned.
"Adrian, his name is Mason. It's not that hard to remember," Lissa said, a little annoyed at Adrian for never remembering his name. Christian and Adrian ignored her.
"But that's on the first floor. I prefer being on the fourth floor," Christian said. Adrian shrugged.
"You're such a girl, Christian! Suck it up. It's only a week," I said, rolling my eyes.
"A whole week of misery!" Christian said, dramatically. He put the magazine back on his face, and I rolled my eyes.
"Stop being such a drama queen, Christian!" Lissa called out to him.
"As much as I hate to leave you girls," Adrian said, rolling off the bed, "I have to get ready. I'll see you soon, Rosie!" Adrian skidded out of the room, and closed the door behind him.
"I'm gonna go get ready!" Mia said, taking her bag into the bathroom, and closing the door.
(Adrian POV)
"Soooo," I heard Lissa say from the other room, dragging out the word. There was a pause.
"What?" I heard Rose say. Christian turned up his ipod really loud, and I couldn't hear anything.
"Christian!" I whispered.
"What?" He groaned, taking off his earphones.
"Lissa and Rose are talking about something, and I can't hear! Turn it off!" I yelled/whispered. He obediently, turned it off, and put his ear to the door like I was doing.
"What's going on between you and Adrian? I thought you guys had a thing," Lissa said. Christian rolled his eyes, and I pressed my ear closer to the door.
"Ugh. No way," Rose said. Christian stifled a laugh. I shushed him, and glared.
"Come on, Rose. You and I haven't had a nice talk in a while. What's going on? I know Adrian really likes you, and he is really cute. And, I saw you guys kiss on the plane! I think you should go out with him!" Lissa said. I smiled, appreciating Lissa for trying to convince Rose that I am perfect for her. Christian glared at me, jealous because Lissa called me *cough* "cute". We all know she meant to say "devastatingly handsome", or "a god", or "sexiest man alive".
"All he wants is to get into my pants! And, we didn't kiss! It was a mistake. He got bumped into me. It didn't mean anything!" Rose groaned.
"Fine it was a "mistake"," Lissa said, "But you know that's not…entirely true, about him wanting to get in your pants!" Thanks Liss, I thought. "I've seen the way he looks at you. It's not an "I want to rip off Rose's clothes off" look. It's a look of pure love. He really loves you I can see it," Lissa said.
"Aw," Christian whispered, "my Adrian's growing up! You're in love with Rosie!" Christian said sarcastically. Right at that moment I wanted to rip off his head, and feed it to a dog.
"I dunno, Liss. I'm not ready to start a relationship…After me and Mason broke up it's been…hard," Rose lied. She doesn't give a shit about Marco. It's Belikov. It always has been, and always will be. I was curious why Rose still hadn't told Lissa about Dimitri. No one else but me knew, and I couldn't help but feel special knowing a secret no one else knew. But, I mean it's not like she wanted to me. I just figured it out on my own.
"I know, but you're going to get over it sometime. Just think about it," Lissa said. I heard a door open, and I assumed it was Mia coming out of the bathroom.
"You guys have five minutes before we're supposed to meet everyone!" I heard Mia say.
"Okay," Rose muttered. Christian and I backed away from the door, worried that one of them would bust us listening to their conversation.
(Rose POV)
Me and Lissa got ready in a matter of minutes, and I was about to knock on Adrian and Christian's door to get them when I overheard them talking.
"So you really do like Rose?" Christian asked. I tried to detect humor in his voice, but he sounded dead serious.
"Uh, yeah," Adrian replied, almost as shocked as I was by how serious Christian was being.
"Listen man, even though I really don't like you, Lissa thinks you're somewhat decent for Rose, and I trust her. From the short few months I've come to know Rose, she's actually great. She's like a sister to me, and Lissa really cares for her and I do too. I just want you to know that I think that you would be great with Rose since you care for her that much. We all know Rose is stubborn but maybe one day she'll wake up and say "Hey, I think I want to date Ivashkov", and I would be okay with that. I just don't want Rose to get hurt because it kills Lissa to see her upset, and I will be upset too," Christian finished his speech and I felt somewhat touched by what he said. I guess I considered Christian like a brother to me. He was great even though I hated to admit it, and Lissa really likes him. But he is also fun to mess with.
"Thanks. That actually does mean a lot," Adrian said.
"Tell anyone about this talk and I will personally kill you," Christian said.
"Same goes for you, Ozera," Adrian said. I smiled.
"What are you doing Rose?" I whirled around and Lissa was staring at me like I was an idiot. I was on the floor with my ear pressed to the crack on the door that connected to Adrian and Christian's room.
"Uh, nothing," I said, scuttling up.
"Okay…are you going to get Christian and Adrian?" Lissa asked, putting her sunglasses on top of her head.
"Yeah. I'll get them. You get Eddie and Mason. I'll meet you down there," I said. Lissa nodded her head, and left with Mia. I banged on Christian and Adrian's door.
"Open up! Lissa and Mia already left to get Mason and Eddie!"I yelled.
"Good old Rosie," I heard Christian chuckle before opening the door. We all walked down to the first floor in silence, but I could feel Adrian's eyes on me the whole way down. I started to feel a little self conscious. I looked down at my too short red cover up dress that revealed my back, and the straps to my bikini top.
"Hey, Rose!" Eddie said cheerfully, as he stepped out of his room with Mason behind him.
"Hey," I said.
"The guardian's weren't in their rooms so I guess they're already at the buffet," Mia said linking arms with Mason. I was a little surprised at first, and Mason and Mia looked at me as if they were asking for my permission, and I smiled, and they both let out a sigh of relief. Why would they think that they would have to ask me if they wanted to go out?
"Which way is the buffet, Adrian?" Lissa asked, stepping out of the building. Adrian put his arm out, stopping her.
"No need for that, cousin, I got us a personal ride there," Adrian said, grinning. We all looked at him confused until we saw a golf cart approach us.
"iHola!" The driver said. "iVamos!"
"Huh?" Mia said.
"He means get in," Adrian said. Eddie sat next to the driver, Lissa sat next to Christian in the seat behind them, Mia and Mason sat next to each other and Adrian sat next to them.
"Uh…there's no room for me…I guess I'll walk…" I began.
"Nonsense, little dhampir! You can sit on my lap!" Adrian said. Christian snorted.
"No, no. I can walk," I said waving my hands.
"iVamos!" The driver said again.
"Okay," I grumbled. I sat down on Adrian's lap, uncomfortably. It felt a little weird being this close to Adrian. Adrian was practically breathing down my neck, and I couldn't help but smell his drakkar noir aftershave.
We pulled up at the buffet, and all the guardians—including Dimitri, were waiting for us. Dimitri shot daggers at me and Adrian when he saw me sitting on his lap. Damn. I scrambled off his lap, and stayed a far distance away from him. Everyone evacuated the cart, and in no time we were all sitting at a large table drinking piña colada's and strawberry daiquiris, and eating various Mexican foods that were quite delicious, and some American food.
"Is there anything else I can get you?" A tall, handsome waiter asked me specifically, in a Spanish accent.
"Uh…yeah. Ketchup," I said. He gave me a confused look.
"Eh…what?" he said not really understanding what I was saying.
"Oh. Uh…tomate…" I said. I think that's how you saw tomato in Spanish…I started making hand motions of a bottle.
"You want tomato?" he asked confused.
"No. Ketchup," I said, pretending to put invisible ketchup on my fries.
"Salsa de tomate," Adrian said to the waiter.
"Oh, right away, Senorita," The waiter bustled off to get me some "salsa de tomate".
"You know Spanish?" I asked Adrian, raising an eyebrow.
"A little. I would've helped you out a little earlier to get you the ketchup but it was funny watching you to try to ask him for it," Adrian said. Everyone laughed. We finished up our meal, and were stuffed from all the food.
"We should go to the pool! I'm getting really fucking hot." I said, using my napkin as a fan.
"Oh, yes. Let's," Adrian said, smiling brightly.
"Shut up. You just want to see Rose in her bikini!" Eddie said.
"Who doesn't?" Adrian said, laughing. It was silent.
"Christian!" Lissa said, smacking Christian's arm.
"What?" Christian said rubbing the spot Lissa hit him.
"You were supposed to deny when Adrian said 'who doesn't want to see Rose in a bikini!'" Lissa said. Christian turned bright red.
"Whoa there, Pyro. I didn't know you felt for me that way!" I said, jokingly.
"Shut it, Hathaway. I would have denied it but I was chewing and it's rude to talk with food in your mouth!" Christian said.
"Suuure," I said, grinning.
"Cannon Ball!" Adrian screamed. Eddie, Christian, Mason, and Adrian were all standing by the edge of the pool.
"Shit," I muttered. "Run for your lives!" I screamed. Me, Lissa, and Mia tried to back away from the pool as far as we could, but the guys made the biggest splash that soaked all three of us.
"You got my hair wet! I hate you!" Mia yelped.
"I'll give y-you t-ten s-seconds to get out of the pool and f-face m-m-me," I said, teeth chattering. The water was freezing.
"You're going to have to come and get us, Rosie!" Adrian chanted. I threw off my red cover-up dress to reveal one of the new bikini's Adrian bought me. Adrian stared at me wide-eyed. I angrily jumped into the pool.
"Swim away!" Adrian yelled. All the guys started swimming away as fast as they could, but I was faster.
"Ouch! Shit, I hurt my ankle! Oh somebody help me!" I said, dramatically. Adrian turned, trying to decide if I was faking or not, when I started to fake cry he immediately swam over to me.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
"Yup," I said smacking him in the back of the head.
"Hey! That's no fair!" Adrian said, rubbing his head.
"Sorry!" I said, sweetly. "Bitches get what they deserve!"
Thanks for reading! I promise there will be some Dimitri soon! Probably the next chapter!
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