A/N: HELLO HELLO! I'm glad you guys like the last chapter :) Writing it made me want to call my friends and have a Girl's Night In haha...now about this chapter...This one and last one are kind of fillers...like just some relaxing, fun fillers...I HOPE YOU LIKE IT!

Soooo...I finished reading The Golden Lily (took me like two days to read it...I had it in my closet longer than I had my nose in it haha)...now I want the next one and the one after and the one after...

Disclaimer (yes I remembered): I don't own anything Vampire Academy

"Hello?" I said as I put the phone on speaker so I could finish getting ready.

"Roza? Are you busy today?" Viktoria's voice bounced around my room.

"Uh yes and no. Why?"

"Well I was hoping we could go to the mall or something. Karo was going to go with me but something came up with Paul's school and she said she'd drop me off and then Dimka could take me home after his shift."

"Oh," I said faltering in my steps as I was about to walk out my room. Quickly I went back and grabbed a few things. "Well Lissa and I were going to do some things for her wedding, give me a second." I put her on hold and dialed Lissa.

"You better not be just getting up. You promised you'd pick me up in 30 minutes."

"Bitch calm your tits, it's 11 I've been up for an hour."

"Oh then why are you calling?"

"Can Viktoria come along? I know you just met her last week, but she wants to hang out in the mall and unless I go with her she'd b going alone. What kind of friend lets her friend shop on her own?"

"Yea sure. Actually that works out cus Mia has an interview and can't come."

"Great! Thanks Liss! I'll be there in like 20 minutes." I hung up and went back to Viktoria.

"Would you like to join Lissa and I and then the three of us can go to the mall?"

"YES! OH MY GOD THANK YOU ROZA!"

I laughed. "Ok great! I'll be there in like 5 minutes."

"I'll be outside waiting."

When I hung up I zipped up my workout bag and went to my car. I threw my bag in the trunk and then when I sat in the driver's seat put my purse in the passenger seat. In no time Viktoria, Lissa, and I were on our way to a bridal boutique.

"Lissa," Viktoria said tentatively. "Where's Rose?" I held in my snicker.

"I...uh...I don't know," Lissa said. I could imagine her looking around. Just a few more steps, I thought.

I heard their steps going from the side of the wall I was behind to in front. A few steps more and they were in front me. I counted to three and jumped out.

"AGH!" I growled behind them.

"AHHHHH!" they both screeched when I jumped out. They leapt into each others arms, holding on to their dear lives, causing me to go into a fit of laughters, tears and hunching over included.

"ROSE!" they said in unison. I tried composing myself but seeing their pissed off expression made me go into another fit.

"Don't. Do. That!" Lissa said. Seeing that she actually was mad sobered me enough to respond.

"C'mon Liss I'm just having fun. Plus, wouldn't it have been weird if I didn't take advantage of the fact that you two are the world's slowest walker?"

"I guess," she mumbled.

"Good. Now let's go get food!"

DPOV

"I'll be right with you," I said to the person who just walked in. I was cleaning up from my last class, so I had my back to the door.

"I can wait," said a familiar voice. I stopped what I was doing and turned around.

"Tasha? What are you doing here?" I tried to keep the annoyance out of my voice.

"Nice to see you too, Dimka. Actually I came to ask you to do me a favor."

"Which is?"

"Will you go with me to this party I have to go to."

"As your date? I don't know Tasha, I don't want you to think—" She waved her hands, cutting me off like she knew where I was going.

"As a friend, Dimka. Like what I did for you in Russia." I flinched. I knew that would come back and bite me in the ass. "It's just a party that I have to go to and I don't want to be alone."

I wasn't too keen on going. I was hoping to go to dinner with Roza this weekend. It's been two weeks since I saw her. Yea we text and talk on the phone, but I really want to take her out on an official date. She didn't mention having any plans this weekend so I hopefully she'd say yes when I ask tonight and then I can politely turn Tasha down.

"It's this Saturday night," she said when I didn't respond. "Formal attire." I hadn't even said yes! I didn't respond as I turned back to finish what I was doing. I head the door burst open then slam close. Someone's mad I didn't say goodbye, I thought.

"Can we look for one more thing?" I asked as we finished our food.

"Sure, what do you need?" LIssa asked

"A gift for my brother?" Viktoria said with a wink. I could feel a light blush spread across my cheeks. Of course she would say that. Honestly, though, I don't even think Dimitri wants to date me. Ever since he dropped my bags of at the Dragomir Estate, the most we've done is talk on the phone and he hasn't once hinted about wanting to take me somewhere. I mean I've made it know that I do nothing on the weekends, I just hope he doesn't ask me out this weekend. I pray, yes pray, that he doesn't.

"No," I said with a smile. "I don't have anything for Saturday."

"HOW DO YOU NOT HAVE ANYTHING!" Lissa shouted as she hurried off to the first store.

"Yea well I thought I had something, but I don't like it right now."

"What's Saturday?" Viktoria asked while we waited for Lissa to do her thing.

"My engagement party," Lissa said over her shoulder as she threw dresses into my arms. "You should totally come! And bring that guy you told us about!"

"Yea!" I said as I walked into the dressing room. "I won't be alone!" Viktoria laughed and said she would come.

After going to three stores and trying on 18 dresses, all I can say about 17 of them is that they were nice. They were the right attire for the event, they looked beautiful on me, but all I could say is they were nice. If Rose Hathaway wears a dress then it has be more than nice. It has to jaw dropping. It has to be exquisite. It has to make the eyes darken with hunger. All the while being appropriate for an event with a lot of old people.

That's exactly what I felt when I tried on the last dress.

"Oh. My. God," Lissa said when I came out.

"That's beautiful, Roza," Viktoria said.

"It's more than beautiful. It's the one," I said wistfully as I looked in the mirror. I twirled, bent over, jumped, shimmied, and did every other kind of test you can do on a dress to make sure it's perfect. And it was. Quickly, I went back to get out if it and then bought it.

After that we called it a day. Lissa said that Christian was waiting for her to go have dinner, so that left me and Viktoria.

"When does your brother's shift end?" I asked while waiting for our ice cream.

"In 20 minutes, but sometimes he gets off early."

"Oh. Is it close by?"

"Yea, let's go right now and bug him," she said with a cheshire cat grin as she handed me my cup of ice cream.

When we got there, there wasn't anyone around. No one waiting for a class or one-on-one. No one ready to help any drop ins like us. Not a soul.

"Maybe he already left," I suggested as I threw away my trash.

"But his truck's still here," she said before her face paled. "What if something happened to him? What if he's in trouble?"

I scoffed and said, "Have you seen your brother? Not even a giant would want to mess with him. I'm sure he just stepped out for a moment."

Then we heard movement coming from the door in the back. I felt Viktoria freeze next to me and I pulled her behind me. What surprised me was seeing Dimitri coming out from behind the door with a clipboard in hand. We both let out a sigh of relief, causing him to snap his head up and look at us.

"Vika, what are you doing here?"

"We were having some major girl time and then I remembered you owe me a self-defense lesson so I made her bring me here," I said, crossing my arms.

"Oh really now?" he said, raising his eyebrow and putting away the clipboard, a smile fighting to break out.

"Yes."

"No," Viktoria said trying not to laugh and in one breath she said, "Karo and I were suppose to come shop for Sonja's baby shower, but she had to go to Paul's school. I asked Roza if we could go shopping and she said yes. After picking the catering and flowers and narrowing down the invitations, Lissa, Rose, and I came here and went shopping."

I shot her a glare and her face paled, but then we looked at Dimitri's stunned expression and broke into laughter.

"V, I think we broke him."

"Oh no! How will I ever live with a brother!" We broke into laughter again, ending up on the floor rolling around with tears in our eye.

Next thing we knew, the light was blocked off and Dimitri was standing over us.

"That doesn't explain how you two ended up here."

"Quite simple really, Comrade. We have these things called legs and when you thing really really hard, they can take you where ever you want to go to," I responded with a cheeky smile. He just shook his hand and held his hands out for us to get up.

Once up, Viktoria's phone rang and she ran out to take it. When she came she said that Karo's here to pick her up. My jaw dropped and my shoulder's sagged as I looked at her, appalled. That conniving little girl! She gave me an apologetic smile and ran off. Leaving Dimitri and I in an empty room. Great, I thought

"Uf! Isn't this suppose to be a chance for me to beat you up, not the other way around," I said, getting another slap to the head.

"Maybe if you spent less time attacking with your words and more time attacking with your fist, you'd land a punch or two on me," Dimitri retorted. After showing me some basic moves, which weren't all that hard to lear, he brought me to the sparring ring mat.

Anger flared through my eyes like fire sparks, and with a tight lips I sent rapid punches and kicks. I probably landed about 25% of them. He, on the other, landed every one of his hits on me. He didn't throw them very often but when he did, did it hurt.

"Ok, Roza, I'll make a deal. Land three solid punches and we'll end this match with a victory for you."

"What's one pity victory to the two you've won? If I hit you three times I get the victory and you lose one," I said with a smirk

"Fine. But if you can't punch me three times by the time I hit you once, then I get to take you to dinner."

What? I thought, my steps faltering a bit. "Fine," I said with determination.

30 minutes later…

I still haven't been able to punch him three times. I've gotten one good hit. On the plus side, he hasn't give me one either. He went for one, but I blocked it. I tried to hit him on the side, but he blocked it. Got him, I thought as I went to hit the other side and landed my second hit. I took a moment to do a victory jump. Dimitri didn't hesitate to take advantage of that and punched me right in the gut.

"UF!" I groaned as I hunched over, more for losing than the actual pain.

He chuckled and patted my back before going to the other side.

"It's ok. Maybe next time," he said over his shoulder. "Here." He threw a water bottled to me, I caught and guzzled down half of it.

"Thanks, Comrade. And you can bet your ass about next time." He flashed me a half smile which made me smile back.

He told me to do some cool down stretches and while I did those he went about packing his bag and making sure everything was ready for closing. By the time I was done he was walking towards the front door, his back to me. Perfect opportunity. Time to carpe diem this bitch. I ran towards Dimitri, hoping to catch him by surprise. What I didn't expect was him turning around in lightening speed, catching me, and pinning me down on the mat again. Our chest pressed against each other, his hands pinning down mine, his legs intertwined with mine. I wasn't just breathless because of the wind, but because I realized how close we were. Our eyes never left each other.

"Next time," he whispered huskily while his eyes quickly lowered to my lips and then back up to my eyes. "Don't give a battle call."

My cheeks blossomed a hot pink and I sheepishly smiled, making him smile back but his smile was different. I couldn't explain it but his smile said one thing while his eyes said another. My cheeks darkened. I tried to say something, but my mind was clouded with lust and I couldn't think anything besides how Dimitri was on top of me, so forming a sentence would have been out of the question. Slowly his hands let go of mine and trailed down until they rested against my hips. I ran my hands up his arm and let them rest against his neck. The closer he leaned in, the stronger his aftershave got, and with every heavenly whiff the dizzier I got off it. I'm not gonna say his aftershave is like a drug for me, but if I could bottle it up so I can smell it whenever I want to I most definitely would.

He leaned down until our nose were touching, giving me time to back out. Not even brainless would I back out! Gruffly he said, "Roza go to dinner with me Saturday."

He didn't give me a chance to respond because before I could comprehend what he was asking, if felt his lips brushing agianst mine, taunting me, challenging me to make the final move. He pulled away slightly, almost hesistantly, like he couldn't believe we were about to kiss. I leaned in, but before our lips could touch the door open.

"Hey, D, I saw you were sti—" the guy who walked in stopped when I'm assuming he saw us. Dimitri groaned and leaned his head down to rest against my neck and then muttered a string of Russian words. I giggled and rubbed his back.

With a frown on his face, he pushed himself back to a kneeling position and then pulled me up into a sitting position. I looked over to see a tall, lean, blonde hair guy. To be honest, he was hot but well…

"Ivan, Rose," Dimitri said pointing to the man leaning against the post-column-thing in the middle of the entrance and then to me. "Rose, Ivan. Now that you know each other, is there something I can help you with, Ivan?"

"Well if you weren't doing anything I was gonna see if you wanted to go grab a drink, but I see that you were busy."

"Emphasis on were," I said as I scrambled up and started putting my things away. "I should get going, have fun you too, but don't drink too much." When I got to the door I turned around to face them and said with a wink at the end, "And Comrade, don't do anything I would do."

"Wait, Roza," Dimitri said, walking towards me. "Are we on for Saturday?"

"Um," I said, looking down at my feet. "I'd really really love to…"

"But," Ivan cut it, earning a glare from me.

"But," I said forcefully. "I have an engagement party to host. I was going to—"

"It's fine," he said with a tight smile. He didn't even let me finish. I was going to ask him to come, especially since his baby sister was coming, but I guess he rather not. "I should have asked you sooner." He looked at his clock and then went to grab his bag. "I should lock up now." I nodded my head and waited for him at the door. Ivan came up next to me and looked me up and down. It wasn't like he was checking me out, well kinda was but more in the sense of appreciating what he's seeing from a completely objective view. Like when you're taken but you still check out the hot guy running shirtless. It was also like he was sizing me up. Well he's weird, I thought.

"You know a picture last you longer," I said without looking at him.

"Good thing I have a photographic memory," he said, winking and giving me a sly grin.

I shook my head and was about to tell him where he could put his photographic memory when he said, "So you're Dimitri's girlfriend."

"Girlfriend?" I said, the hope evident in my voice. "We're just friends."

"Really? Cus from where I stood it seemed a whole lot more then friends. Unless you kids define friendship differently now." I rolled my eyes at him making himself seem like he was ages older than me.

"Yea well let's just say you have perfect timing,"

"Clearly. Lord knows what I would have seen if I had come 10 minutes later...or not seen depending on how fast you guys work," he said giving me another wink.

I rolled my eyes but didn't say anything because Dimitri had just locked up.

"Where did you park?" he asked. And I pointed to my car that was a few spaces away. He nodded and held out his hand. On the inside I was bursting with happiness, but on the outside I gave a small smile and took his hand. Ivan gave me a look that said "yea just friends" but I ignored him and walked with Dimitri to the car.

He opened the door for me and put my bag in the trunk and then came back.

"I'll talk to you later, then."

"Sure," I said with a smile. "You know you should come with me on Saturday. I'm sure Lissa will be thrilled and Viktoria will be there."

He gave me a genuine, but sad, smile, saying, "It's fine, I promise. I'm glad you and Vika are getting along so well. An engagement party should just be close friends and family."

"Yea and I'd like you to be there, but if not at least let me make it up to you."

"Ok, Roza," he chuckled and bend over and kissed me on my cheek. "I'll talk to you soon." Then, he ushered me inside and closed the door. I started the car and gave one last wave before driving off to my new home.

A/N: Y'all should know that while writing the end of the chapter I was listening to iTunes Radio 80's Dance Party Station and Hits of the 80's Station. I got to say two things about the 80's 1. It's a hit and miss with the music and 2. 80's were a bunch of lovestruck saps! I actually felt like having Rose and Dimitri kiss but thought I'd take that band-aid off really slowly :)

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