Okay, thanks for the support guys! You've probably heard that Richelle Mead might possibly release a story about Rose and Dimitri visiting his family! The post is on her blog! I'm so excited! It'll probably be much better than this, but I can't wait!
"A-Adrian?" I stammered out. He stared back at me, eyes hard.
"Rose," he said simply. I wondered why I was cowering under his gaze.
"What are you doing here?"
"I had...things to do. None of your business. I came here because there was so much spirit radiating from the house. What the hell is going on?"
"Dimitri's mother. She's kind of ill with a compulsion disease that we can't get rid of."
"Just compel it out."
"We've tried." I gestured to Oksana, Mark and Olena and he shrugged.
"I guess you're obviously doing something wrong." I felt my normal self bubble up.
"Well if you're so clever, why don't you do something about it?"
"What do you expect me to do? Get caught up in that mess?"
"Well, you could at least try to help."
"Why should I? Why should I help his mother?" Lissa flinched at his harsh tone, but Dimitri stayed stoic as ever. I knew, however, that it affected him much more than we realised.
"Fine then. Don't. We don't need you anyway."
"Good."
"Good."
"Fine."
"Fine."
"Good bye."
"Good bye!" I yelled. I was about to shove him out of the door, when Sydney shouted,
"No!" I turned back to her, eyes wide.
"He has no use here."
"Oh, thanks Rose," Adrian remarked dryly.
"He does. He can help with...something...spirity," Sydney fumbled for a lame excuse. I caught Lissa's eye and we both raised our eyebrows, sensing the lie immediately.
"Are you sure it's not because you fancy him?" I wondered.
"I do not!"
"I can tell. You do."
"I don't! I just don't really understand what's going on?"
"Sydney!" Adrian gasped. "Why don't you defend our love?"
"I knew it!" I shouted. Everybody around us was shocked. I heard the murmurs rustle through the guardians.
"Adrian Ivashkov and an Alchemist?" they whispered. Turns out guardians aren't all stoic and sensible.
"Adrian," she hissed. "What are you doing?"
"People may as well know soon enough," he told her with a loving smile on his face. I'd seen something similar before. It was a mixture between Adrian's casual grin for me and Dimitri's beautiful smile. They were so in love. I should've sensed it earlier.
"Well, isn't this going to be interesting," I mused. They all turned to me. "What?"
"You aren't going to say anything about it," one of Adrian's guards muttered from an armchair. Because the room was absolutely bursting with guardians, they weren't all needed at the moment.
"I wasn't going to. Jeez." Adrian reached for Sydney's hand and she took it, shock still plastered all over her face. "Adrian...I'm happy for you." He looked down at me and snorted.
"Happy for me?"
"Yeah. That you found Sydney. I can tell that she's the one for you." Lissa nodded.
"Your aura's are like the sun!" she explained. Adrian grinned but it fell when he turned to me.
"Why would you be happy for me? You cheated on me!" he almost yelled. I felt my eyebrows knit together as everybody apart from Dimitri, Adrian and I took in a sharp breath.
"Dimka?" a frail voice called from the sofa. "Would you like to explain this?"