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I Hate You, I Love You

Chapter 2 :

At 6 o'clock Adrian was sitting to a table smiling waiting for Rose. Finally he made her to agree to go to a date with him.

He was so proud of himself. It was easy.

Rose entered the restaurant wearing a black skinny jeans red top and gray sweater. Her hair was up in a ponytail.

Adrian thought if it was a date or studying appointment. Nonetheless he thought she was beautiful wearing anything.

He smiled at her. She saw him and now she was walking to the table. He stood to pull the chair for her.

She glared at him. "Where's my notebook? I'm not sitting till I see it."

He sighed taking the notebook showing it to her. "Are you happy, now can we sit?"

She took it from him. "I want to be sure it's mine." She looked and was sure it was hers. "Thank you." And she turned around.

"Hey, where are you going to?" Adrian called.

"Leaving. I said I'll come but I didn't say anything about staying, Ivashkov."

She got to the door and came out to the fresh air as he was chasing her. "Hey, wait. You can't do that."

She smirked. "I just did."

"That's not fair."

"You've been harassing me since the beginning of the year, you've no right to take about fairness."

"C'mon a date won't hurt you."

"Actually, it'll. I don't want to go out with you 'cause I know what do you want and I'm not giving it to you."

"You don't know what I want."

"Actually, I do. You want to get to my pants then walked around saying that you fuck Rose Hathaway."

"I'm not going to do such a thing." He told her offended.

She nodded. "Sure you're. You're a party fucker boy, you're not going to change."

"Maybe I'll for the One." He said.

She smirked. "And that's surely not me. Besides, I don't believe you can ever change."

"That's so hypercritical."

"Listen, I'm tired and I don't want more annoying. So just shut up, okay." She said that and rode her bicycle away from him.

Not that easy Adrian.

Rose came downstairs one night after she'd a shower humming some songs. "Hey Eddie." She said sitting with him in the couch.

"Hey. You got a delivery." He told her.

"A delivery?" She said surprised and he pointed at the far coffee table.

"It came when you were in the shower." He told her and she sighed walking to see.

It was a big bouquet of red roses, something amazing and with high taste.

"I think you've a secret admirer." Eddie told her with a laugh.

She snorted. "Yeah, right."

She took the card from the bouquet and looked at it.

[Happy Saint Agnes' Eve.

Dream of me, 'cause I'll do the same.

-Adrian Ivashkov.

P.S. Don't throw the roses away, even if you went mad.]

"Hey Eddie, what's the date?" She asked after a sighed.

"It's the 19th. Why?"

"Do you know what's Saint Agnes' Eve?" She asked while smelling the roses. She was mad at him for what he did but the roses were so beautiful to be thrown away.

"Let me check?" He said typing the words in his laptop, googling them. He burst out laughing.

"What?" Said Rose running to look at the screen.

"It's tonight, Rose." He told her.

She looked at the screen and cursed Adrian several times.

[Saint Agnes' Eve is the 20th night of January. In Britain especially, some people believe that if a girl saw a guy in her dream at this night they were going to marry.]

"Nice flowers." Said Lissa who just came from outside with her boyfriend.

"Take them all." Rose said with a frown.

Lissa took the card from the bouquet and she read it along with Christian. "Is he serious?" Christian asked.

"Do you know about this night?" Rose asked.

Christian nodded. "Yeah. They think if you saw someone in your dream that night you're going to marry him."

"That's why he wrote 'dream of me'." Lissa said.

"Maybe I'll be dreaming of him dying or something." Rose said and left to the kitchen to have a beer.

"I'd an amazing dream last night." Adrian said sitting next to Rose in the class. "It was all about you."

"Was it about me killing you?" She asked.

He chuckled shaking his head. "No, actually, it was about more interesting thing. So did you get my flowers?"

She glared at him. "Why don't you stop stalking me?"

"Did you dream of me?"

She sighed shaking her head. "No, are you happy now. Get away from me."

"You know it's almost Valentine's day."

She looked at him like he was crazy. "It's almost a month for the Valentine's, Brainless."

"Well, with you I've to be prepared very early to convince you." He said logically.

She sighed. "I'm not going in any date with you let alone spending the Valentine's with you."

"Why? What are you going to do then?" He asked.

"None of your business. Now shut up and let me listen." She glared at him and he shut his mouth, for five minutes.

"Let's have dinner together." He said.

She shook her head. "In your dreams."

"Yeah, I always have such a dream and now I want to make it real."

"Fuck off." She told him.

"C'mon give me a chance."

"There's no use in such a chance." She told him.

"I can change. I'll show you."

"People can't change, especially you." She told him.

"Fine, you can say no but I'm fighting till you say yes." He told her.

"Don't hold your breath." She told him then ignored him for the rest of the lecture.

"Go away." Rose snapped at Adrian. He was following her around for the whole day. He was waiting for her out of the rest room and out of her classes.

Even in the café she worked in. He didn't leave her alone unless at the end of the day or if he wanted to go the bathroom or a class though he already had his schedule to match her as much as possible.

He shook his head. "I'm not till you agree on coming with me in a date."

"No. No. No. Just leave me alone. "

"You've to. I'm not leaving you unless you said yes. For real Rose. I'll live in a tent next to your house if I've to."

She sighed. "Oh my god, stop. I'm sick of your noise pollution. You're so annoying." And she sneezed. "Great, just great."

"Are you okay?" He asked her.

"I'll be when you leave me alone." She told him.

"Oh, that's not going to happen babe."

"I'm not your babe. You can't call me that."

He shrugged. "You'll be. You'll be."

"Go away." She said taking her bike to ride to her house leaving him behind.

Now Rose's house was filled of roses, red roses everywhere. Adrian now was sending them to her every night.

And last weekend with the flowers he'd send Pride and Prejudice for her to read.

The next day Rose woke up with a high temperature, sneezing and coughing. "Great." She murmured to herself before falling back to sleep. She'd to miss her classes for the day.

When it was lunch time she woke up and went downstairs to hear someone knocking on the door. "Coming." She called walking to the door then she opened it. "Oh boy."

She found Adrian standing at her front porch with a smile. He saw her and frown. "Are you okay?"

Rose sneezed. "I'm sick. I'm in no mood to fight with you, Adrian."

"Then say yes." He told her.

"Goodbye Adrian." She said trying to close the door.

But he slid in. "Adriaaaaaaaaaan." She shouted at him.

"Relax, I came here to check on you. You missed all your morning classes."

"Because I'm sick." She told him.

He nodded. "I know, that's why I brought you your favorite soup and some aspirin with orange juice. You'll feel better after this combination."

Rose sighed and walked to the kitchen. He took it as a sign and followed her, closing the door behind him.

He heated the soup for her as she sat on the stool after she took the aspirin. Three things for her to do, coughing, sneezing and watching him.

He gave her a big bowl of soup with some loaf. "Thank you." She said and took the spoon.

He smiled and nodded. "You're welcome."

After she was half way in her soup she noticed him looking at her.

"What?" She frowned.

He shook his head. "Nothing."

"Aren't you eating?" She asked.

He shrugged. "I'd some sandwich in my way. I can use some beer though."

She nodded. "Sure. There are some in the fridge."

He nodded walking there.

A while later he left her to have some rest.

The next day Rose was feeling better so she went to her classes.

She left after her second class to the café to have something to eat when a guy came putting a bouquet of red roses on her table and left fast. "Seriously?"

She sighed looking at the bouquet. She saw the card between the velvet petals. She took it and read.

[Glad that you feel better.

I'll see you soon.

Adrian Ivashkov.]

She sighed. "I hope not." She murmured while looking in her bag for her book.

But she wasn't that lucky. Someone pulled the stool in front of her and sat to the same table. She looked up to see Adrian grinning at her she sneezed right away. "Oh. C'mon."

"Great. Now I'm allergic to you. Can you leave me alone?" She asked.

He shook his head. "Not likely. We missed you around here."

She snorted. "Yeah, right. Even when I was sick I couldn't have a day off from you."

Adrian frowned. "C'mon, I was trying to help."

"And I'm grateful but maybe you should leave me alone." She told him.

"Let's go in a date and I may leave you alone." He told her.

"Lair." She said before biting from her sandwich. "After what you did I'm sure you're not going to give up after one date."

He laughed. "At least you would try. Maybe I'll show you how much I've changed."

Rose put her sandwich away resting her forehead on the cold table. "Adrian, leave me alone. I've enough headache without you being added to it."

"Maybe you should change your glasses." He told her smugly.

"Maybe I should change my stalker." She told him. "Did you know they put stalker in jail or in mental institution."

"C'mon, I know what does stalker mean. I don't call you at midnight or scare you all the time. I'm harmless for you, Rosie."

Rose sighed. "It's Rose."

Adrian shook his head. "It's your new nickname."

Rose just rolled her eyes. "Look, I got that you want to follow me around 24/7 but can you do it silently. At least I can pretend that you're not here."

Adrian shook his head. "How am I supposed to show you my changes while I'm silent?"

"Maybe you can show me that you changed your habit in talking all the time." She told him.

He looked at her and burst out laughing. She threw the box of the napkins at him. "That's not funny."

He shook his head. "It's not funny. I'm just amazed by you. You're pulling me to you every time, with every word you say. With every sarcastic comment you say. With your beauty and your intelligence. Now are you going with me in a date?"

Rose sighed. "And you'll leave me alone after that?"

"I'll try." He told her sincerely.

She sighed. "Adrian.."

But he cut her off. "I'm serious Rose. It's hard to just let you go. I was looking for you since I saw you last year, then when I found you I tried to seduce you. Do you know what happened? You seduced me. You pulled me to you and now I think I'm in love with you. Now that's not an easy thing to do."

Rose looked at him and laughed. "You, Adrian Ivashkov, love me? Yeah, right. Maybe you should find new lines." She said and walked out of the café.

Adrian looked at her with sad eyes. He poured his heart for her and she laughed at him while stepping over his feelings. His everything.

He sighed getting up to leave to his apartment. He was exhausted from chasing his Rose.

"What's going on, Rose?" Lissa asked Rose when she saw her daydreaming while playing with a red rose.

"Adrian told me he loves me." She said automatically.

"What?" Lissa felt like someone had slapped her on the face. "Adrian Ivashkov?"

Rose nodded. "Yes, Adrian Fucking Ivashkov."

"And what did you tell him?" Lissa asked.

"I laughed at him and told him not to use his lines with me, or something like that. I don't know, I'm tired I'll go to bed." Rose said and walked to the stairs.

Rose was riding her bike back to her house when she asked herself why Adrian didn't show up for the past two days at all. She didn't hear about him or got anything from him which was so weird.

She used to him running and walking around her. Sitting next to her in the class, annoying the shit out of her. But still..

She thought that he might be partying heavily and that he'd be showing himself tomorrow.

Surprisingly Adrian didn't show up the next day.

When it was the fourth day and Adrian didn't show up till lunch Rose felt worried.

She saw George walking around and ran to him. "Hey George."

"Hey Rose. How're you?" He said hugging her.

"I'm fine. How're you?"

He grinned and nodded. "I'm okay."

"Hey I want to ask you, did you see Adrian?"

George shook his head. "No. He didn't come to the campus for four days. I think he's sick or something." He told her.

"Do you know where he lives?" She asked him.

"Yeah, let me right the address for you." He told her while writing something in a small piece of paper.

"Thank you George." Rose said and he smiled to her.

"You're welcome." He said.

She walked to where she parked her bike and rode it to Adrian's apartment.

She knocked on the door. "Open up, Ivashkov." She called but didn't get any answer.

She knocked again and again till she became tired of knocking. "What the hell?" She was sure he was there since his car was parked in front of the building.

She went to the janitor. "Excuse me sir."

He turned to her and smiled. "Yes, what can I do for you, Miss?"

"I was wondering, is Adrian Ivashkov left of something?" She asked.

He shook his head. "No, he didn't."

"Is something wrong with him? I kept knocking on his door but no answer."

"I'm not really sure."

"Can you check on his for me. Please. He didn't come to the college for four days and I'm worried."

He was thoughtful for a moment but when he noticed how worried she was he nodded. "Okay. Let's go." He said and they went to Adrian's door.

He took his keys out and opened the door. He stepped inside for a foot only. "Mr. Ivashkov."

But no answer and he looked at Rose. "Can I've a look? Maybe he's in his room or something."

He nodded and they walked to his room. It was a total mess but Adrian wasn't there.

She wasn't sure but something told her to look in the bathroom, she did and she found Adrian passed put next to the sink with a very pale face.

She gasped. "Oh my god. Call 911." She shouted at the janitor and ran to hold Adrian. "Oh my god. Adrian. Adrian, are you okay?" She laid his head on her lap. "Adrian answer me." But Adrian wasn't there.

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