The two following chapters are on the short side, so I thought I'd do a cheeky double update for the weekend ;)

ENJOY!

Rose

Tasha and Lissa had agreed to join me in the gym before school. We only had a few afternoon classes so it wasn't early in the morning or anything. I told them to meet me inside. It has been two days since that night Dimitri slept in my room. We haven't spoke much since, my mind was so cluttered, I had been on the treadmill for a good half hour before Lissa and Tasha arrived. I have no clue what was happening now with Dimitri. I don't know what the whole thing with my parents was about, but they always knew what was going on, I couldn't hide from them.

The question is, what are we? Are we friends? We did kiss that night. Like a good kiss! I want to tell Lissa but I know how she feels about Dimitri in general and I'm not sure if she will get it. But I still want to tell her, I'm bursting to tell someone!

Appearing next to me with a big smile, Lissa passed me a water bottle, "How long have you been here?"

"Not too long" I smiled panting, slowing down before turning the treadmill off, "I have a lot on my mind and I just felt like I needed to work it off"

"What's wrong?" Tasha asked. Looking over I wanted to groan, she was wearing yoga trousers and a sports bra, the bitch is so skinny she can pull it off, but I'm just not comfortable wearing that, I wish I was, but I'm not.

"Jesus, Tasha don't make me feel bad about myself at the gym, this is suppose to be my comfort zone"

She rolled her eyes, "You look amazing, shut up"

Lissa agreed as she was fixing her shorts, "You do, but back to subject, you were saying?"

They both decided to wear clothes I dreamed to feel comfy to wear at the gym but didn't have the confidence. Sure I could wear a tight dress on a night out, but that was certain dress types and I can wear Spanx! I cannot wear Spanx at the gym..

"I don't know it's-" stopping myself for a minute I didn't know what to say but I couldn't not say anything. "It's just weird with Dimitri"

"Is he still being a ass to you?" Tasha asked shooting me a stern look. "Cause I thought he was laying off?"

"No, no, no, nothing like that. He's just acting, well normal frankly. I just don't know what to make of it"

"It's good that he's acting better" Tasha agreed.

"I still don't think you should fall for it" Lissa said looking guarded, "He's been such as ass to you and what, now he's decided to be Prince Charming for some reason? Christian keeps telling me he's not a bad guy and I know he use to be one of the nicest guys I knew, But I just don't trust him anymore"

Hearing those words leave Lissa's mouth made a lump form in my stomach. Here I am, finally have my best friends back, I might even be about to get the love of my life back and that leaves her lips? I don't want to lie to her and I don't want to not be able to speak to my friends.

This is too weird…

"Let's not talk about that" I smiled nervously, "You guys ready to do some weights?"

"I don't get why we agreed to this Liss, I'm more of a yoga kind of girl" Tasha complained.

Lissa grinned, "We know, you need to stay bendy"

Chuckling I shook my head leading the way to where we were starting. "To keep a man on his toes I need to keep flexible to be able to blow his mind" Tasha said matter of factly, while looking smug.

"Christian thinks I'm perfect just the way I am" Lissa said in her cheesy loving kind of way. Tasha made fake gagging noises and I laughed. Liss is now shooting Tasha a playful glare, I cleared my throat, "Right, bendy or not, we'll start light. Just do what you feel comfortable with, I'm going to keep with my weights just so you know"

"I thought you weren't going to make us feel bad?" Lissa grinned.

Rolling my eyes I smiled, "No That's the two of you skinny girls making me self conscious in your sports bra's and yoga trousers"

"Rose stop, seriously"

"Yeah" Lissa joined in "You've worked hard, you look better than ever and you're wearing tight clothes, they just cover more. Stop being so self conscious, you look gorgeous"

It's hard when they have these speeches because, Yes I know, I have worked hard but when weight is your main problem, you can be one size in your head, which might actually be smaller than it is. It's just something I can't shake off easy.

"Thank you, I know I've worked hard, I'm just not comfortable showing my stomach"

"Well suck it up" Tasha said playfully pushing me, "Now show me what to do"

I saluted her before I started to show them the first exercise. It was funny to see them do what a usual leg day is for me. It was hard and I always felt absolutely dead afterwards but the burn is so worth it!

Tasha was moaning through most of it, the lunges she found fun but the rest she was mainly complaining. Lissa suffered in silence but I could tell she was struggling.

Panting Lissa was laying on her back, "I'm not sure I will be able to stand again"

Chuckling I shook my head, "We've done two exerscices, we have three left"

Tasha groaned, "I'm reconsidering our friendship"

"Funny" I said crossing my arms over my chest, "We're squatting now"

"Oo" Tasha said as her face lit up, "I wouldn't mind looking a little bit more like those Instagram girls"

Lissa chuckled, "I'll film this and put it on there if you want?"

"Can you put my face on Roses body then sure!" Tasha joked.

Showing them the proper way on how to do a squat, step by step, as we were waiting for a guy to finish up with the bar.

"Do you want me to put the weights away?" He asked as he had finished.

I smiled, "No it's fine I'll use them later, thank you though"

The guy gave me a weird gaze looking at the hundred pounds worth of weights that he had just bench pressed. "Suit yourself"

"Just take your time" I smiled standing behind Lissa, starting off them both just used the bar to find their balance.

"This is fun" Lissa grinned as she was on her second set.

"No wonder it's your favourite exercise" Tasha said as she was stretching. "How heavy do you lift?"

"It's taken me a while but it's gotten quite heavy lately to be honest" I smiled towards Tasha as Lissa was finishing up reaching for her water.

"You go, impress us" she teased.

I do love my squats, it had taken me months to perfect it but it was an amazing feeling knowing I could lift as heavy as I did with out too much trouble. Adding my weights on I was nearly done as I reached for my water.

"Are you guys nearly done?"

Looking over my shoulder at his familiar voice I felt my stomach drop a little. Fuck he looked good. Dimitri was wearing a fitted grey t shirt along some long gym shorts. Just seeing the fabric stretch over his broad chest made me want to rip his shirt off and run my tonuge all over him. His hair was up in one of those man buns, I haven never been one to like them but damn. I had to be careful not to drool seeing his biceps flex as he was cracking his knuckles.

Clearing my throat I tried to clear my head from all the dirty things I wanted to do to him. I moved some hair out of my face, "I'm just gonna do some sets and it's all yours"

For some reason I was having trouble looking at him and act normal when I knew Lissa was near by probably studying my every move.

Testing my grip on the bar I was about to get into position when his voice rung out, "Isn't that a little too heavy for you?"

I bit my lower lip in order to stop myself from snapping back at him. Looking over my shoulder I tried not to sound too bitchy, "This is my warm up set"

His brows rose and I could tell he thought I was bullshitting him.

"It does look quite heavy Rose" Tasha said next to Lissa who looked concerned. "How heavy is that?"

"Hundred pounds" I said still meeting Dimitri's look. Before either of them could say anything I turned my back to them, positioned myself under the bar, closed my eyes like I usually did, taking a moment to prepare myself.

Lifting the bar of the stand I pretended I was on my own like usual. Fifteen squats later I put the bar back down, moving my shoulders around after the added weight made me slightly stiff. Taking my water bottle I turned around to see Lissa and Tasha looking surprised and a stunned look on Dimitri's face.

When he noticed I was looking he cleared his throat, "Um, how many sets do you do?"

"Four" I said calmly slightly out of breath.

Nodding he was biting his lower lip, his eyes running down my body. I frowned as I studied him, what was that about?

"Did you want something Dimitri?" Lissa asked after a few seconds of us just staring at one another.

"Yeah, I wanted to have a word with Rose" he said looking over at her before meeting my gaze again. Crossing my arms loosely over my chest I shrugged, "I'm all ears"

Dimitri looked between me and the girls before he said, "Alone?"

I don't know what he was up to, but I wanted to know. Feeling Lissa's stare on me I didn't break his gaze. "Anything you want to say you can say in front of the girls"

"We'll just go get some more water" Tasha said suddenly tugging Lissa along before she could object. Dimitri's gaze followed their decent before looking back at me. I raised my brows at his strange behaviour before shaking my head turning around to prepare for my next set. When not a word left his lips I got started with my set. Trying not to think about his eyes on me, feeling like they were burning right through me, finishing up I turned around. His eyes were on me and he didn't show any shame by looking away.

Clearing my throat I prayed that I wouldn't start to blush. "You wanted to talk to me?"

Going from looking confident one second to suddenly scratching the back of his neck looking slightly out of place he said, "Um, How are you?"

A ludicrous smile painted my lips as I chuckled, "You could have asked that when the girls were still here"

"I don't like an audience"

"They are my best friends, they're not a crowd" I said shooting him a side look. "What do you really want Dimitri?"

When he didn't ask straight away I moved over to the bar again to do one of my final sets. When he finally asked, "Are you coming out tonight?"

Looking over at him in surprise my reply was, "Who's asking?"

"Does it matter?" he asked looking at me as I was annoying him.

"Yes"

Sighing, he cupped his chin, running his hand along his jaw, "I'm asking" he said after a while.

"I didn't know we were going out" I said before lifting the bar and continuing with my set.

"Christian is taking…." he trailed off. After a few squats I nearly put the bar down to check if he was ok when he contiued "Christian is taking Lissa out for a chilled night out, he asked if Ivan and I wanted to join"

He fell silent again for a moment before groaning, running a hand across his face before speaking again, "Could you not do that when I talk to you?"

"Why?" I panted, not stopping.

He sighed, "It's distracting"

Putting the bar down again looking over at him, "Then don't look" I said simply shooting him a smug look. I could tell he wanted to say something back but kept his mouth shut.

"It's all yours" I said picking up my water bottle getting ready to leave when I felt his hand touch my wrist. It was like a current shooting through me as I felt his warm skin against mine. My head snapped up as he suddenly was much closer than I thought he was.

Our eyes met and I suddenly felt hot all over. Licking his lips my eyes moved to his lips without my permission. Thinking about the kisses we shared in my room only a few days ago.

"You still haven't answered my question" He said lowly studying me. I gasped slightly as he reached up moving a strand of hair out of my face. I was sweaty and some heair was sticking to my face. To be honest it was a bit disgusting but I didn't seem to faze him. I was at a loss for words. It wouldn't be weird because Ivan, Christian and Lissa would be there. I'm quite sure all of us would, it was just the way he asked me to be there.

Clearing my throat I was fiddling with my water bottle, "I'll be there"

A confident smile reached his lips as he let me go, I was about to turn when all I heard was "See you later"

Dimitri

She looked incredible. Fucking delicious if I could say so myself. Watching her across the gym as she was working out with Tasha and Lissa I couldn't keep my eyes off of her. She hadn't been the one to likegoing to the gym back in the day, but seeing that girl squat sure did things to me. I could barely get a word out before my eyes went straight to her ass, hell seeing the weights she was lifting turned me on.

I must look like a complete creep staring at her across the gym, I didn't even know she went here, barely knew she went at all. It was out first run it, but I was sure there would be many more.

Every now and again, as Tasha or Lissa was mid set, Rose gaze would travel across the gym and I knew exactly what she was searching for. Because as soon as her gaze fell onto me it was almost as if her whole body reacted to me, not just her eyes.

At first she would just look away as she noticed that she'd been caught, but after a couple of glazes she held mine for a good minute before looking away.

Lifting up my weights again I continued forcing my gaze to stay focused before it went traveling searching for her again. I know she's coming tonight, that's all I needed. Not sure what it would be like, not sure what she would be like but I knew something's changed. Maybe it was my attitude, maybe it's hers. I don't know.

But I know it's different and tonight will only tell me how different. Becasue got knows I still love that girl.

How are we feeling about Dimitri now? He's clearly trying to make an effort, not going as smoothly as he might like, not does he really know how to act... Should Rose take this as he's really trying to better himself and forgive him, I mean that kiss they shared as pretty darn good!

Let me know xx