THE OTHER WAY ROUND
Chapter 21
(DICLAIMER- I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THESE CHARACTERS. THE AMAZINGLY TALENTED RICHELLE MEAD DOES)
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previously on The Other Way Round…
Rhea: "so rose…what about your marriage?"
Rose: "I have a job. And it is to protect lissa. What should I add in it? A wedlock? Im never going to get married, so you guys better get that thought out of your head"
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Mason: "well, rose always liked someone younger than her."
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Lissa: "andre… I don't really care about your stupid relationships. but what you did all those years ago was very very wrong!"
Andre: "Lissa I-"
Lissa: "all these years we've just been going like nothing wrong happened with her!"
Rose: "liss please don't"
Andre: "lissa I had my reasons"
Lissa: "oh yeah? And what was that? just for some filthy money!?"
Andre: "not just some money! I never meant to do that to Rose okay!"
Rose: "stop it! BOTH OF YOU!"
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Dimitri: "you shouldn't be alone right now."
Rose: "being alone is all I need"
Dimitri: "no you don't. ill always be there for you."
Rose: "I said that to you"
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She went to say something but I interrupted her…
By placing my lip on her.
This was the best feeling ever!
It was magical… the best thing ever.
Dimitri: "I- I'm so sorry"
Im in love with my mentor…
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RPOV-
Oh dear sleep… come to me!
JUST BLOODY COME TO ME!
"huhh!" I groaned and threw my blanket off my body and sat upright on my bed.
Why cant I sleep?
Im so fucking tired, my body hurts but I cant sleep!
And when I cant sleep… I think.
I think about anything and everything… and right now im thinking about those soft lips…
The lips which kissed me…
The lips which felt so good against mine…
The lips which treated mine just perfect!
The best kiss I've ever had…
Huhhh! Stop it!
Just stop!
I tried getting the thought of him out of my mind but when does my mind even listen to me?
Frustrated and tired, I laid on the bed again and closed my eyes… and as soon as I did it, his face came just in front of my eyes.
He looked gorgeous as ever…
I watched him leaning in and capturing my lips with his… I was shocked at first but soon started kissing him back.
The feeling was beyond awesome! It was fucking good. He tasted so good…
I felt him pulling my body towards his, our fronts were pressing together… his other hand was freely roaming in my long curls, which he pulled open.
My hand found its way to his soft hair, i mindlessly started scratching his scalp gently, which im pretty sure made him shiver… its an effective old trick
He started licking my bottom lip begging for entrance which I gladly gave after some moments.
Sure I imagined kissing him back at dinner…. But this one was different from my imagination…
This felt real… it felt amazing!
it was perfect…
I lov-
I quickly opened my eyes.
"oh fuck!" I muttered pulling my hair.
I was dreaming about it too now…
This is not suppose to happen…
My mind went back to when he pulled away… it felt like cold water splashed on my face.
I stood there, confused… he mumbled 'im so sorry' and practically ran out of my apartment.
He was sorry… he regretted it… he regret kissing me… he doesn't even like me that way!
Im such a fool!
I shouldn't have let him do that… im his mentor. I- Im going to hell for this.
Yeah! But you don't care about hell, do you? You just care about your student… you liked- no scratch that- you loved it when he kissed you…
Oh just shut the fuck up! These inner voices really need to stop right now…
Why did he even kiss me?
Maybe because he felt sorry for me?
Maybe because he likes you…
Maybe because it was just the heat of the moment?
Maybe because he likes you more than a friend…
Maybe it was pity.
Or love?
No not love… he cant… he shouldn't…
"when did my life get so fucked up and confusing?" I asked to my ceiling…
I turned to my side and extended my hand to grab my phone and earphones from the nightstand.
Music makes you forget everything, right? lets give it a try then.
I plugged my earphones and clicked on 'Apple music'.
After clicking on a random playlist I threw my phone on my side and closed my eyes listening to the song…
The first song was 'Perfect by Ed Sheeran'
Well I found a woman… stronger than anyone I know… she shares my dreams, I hope that someday ill share her home…
I found a love… to carry more than just my secrets…to carry love, to carry children of our own…
Okay! That's enough "love"! I picked up my phone and skipped to the next song.
Unfortunately it was 'Heaven by Julia Michaels' … now don't get me wrong… I just love the 'fifty shades trilogy' and but this song always gives me certain vibes…
But for some reason I let it playing…
Love's my religion but he was my faith, something so sacred so hard to replace… falling for him was like falling from grace…
I suddenly remembered my first meet with Dimitri… how one day I just met someone so important… out of nowhere… I trusted a lot of people… my parents, my friends… but I had faith in him… just that one person…
All wrapped in one he was so many sins… would've done anything, everything for him… and if you ask me- I would do it again..
The day I gave him my phone to call his mom, that day I broke a rule… and ive been constantly breaking them ever since… giving him my phone to call, not informing kirova about his midnight makeout with Natasha… giving him freedom… I have let him cross his boundries and im not even feeling sorry… I know I would do them again and again… I would do anything for him…
No need to imagine… cuz I know its true. They say all good boys go to heaven but bad boys bring heaven to you… its automatic… its just what they do…
Dimitri was a calm- gentle man kinda guy but he's also ruthless and impulsive… a total badass… he always manages to make me feel so special… so important… there's this thing about him which automatically attracts me towards him…
Every minute I was slowly- slowly falling for him… and I didn't even know…
I felt something hot and wet on my face…
I didn't even realised tears were flowing down until the song stopped. I slowly licked my lips… I could still taste Dimitri…
When did I became so vunerable? Before I met him I didn't even knew what crying was… and now im crying thinking about a guy!
Im The Guardian Hathaway Mazur… the best of my age, killer of about a hundred of strigois… and im crying over someone.
this is wrong… this is so wrong!
I plucked out the earphones and threw them away from me, I wanted to do the same with my phone but I resisted- well cuz its very expensive….
My gaze fell on my alarm clock. It was 5:30 am (pm for the human world)
I turned over and hugged my pillow closely to me and my waterfall of emotions started falling again.
I cried myself to sleep.
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I didn't woke upto the sound of my alarm clock… which was a change, I guess.
After a lot of groaning and shuffling on my bed I finally managed to open my eyes.
my eyes insantly fell on the alarm clock. It was 7:15 in the morning… 7? I woke up so early? How?
My body was still tired but I knew that I wasn't going to get any sleep.
Unfortunately I don't have memory loss… I still remembered every single detail of what happened yesterday…
I picked up my phone and saw 17 missed calls and 43 texts as soon as I clicked it open…
I unlocked it and saw 11 missed calls from lissa, 3 from Christian, 1 from baba 1 from mom and 1 from…. Andre?
Why the hell was he calling me?
Wasn't yesterday's drama enough for this Dragomir sibling duo?
I let out a frustrated groan and got up from my bed, and went straight in my bathroom.
"holy shit…" I muttered as I saw my reflection in the mirror…
My face was stained with dry tears, my dark brown eyes were bloodshot and my long hair was a rat's nest!
Im so fucked up…
Without taking another glance in the mirror, I stepped in the shower and turned the knob.
Warm water fell on my skin… the weather was surely getting cold these days. I never loved montana's weather, its always winter here! Probably gonna start to snow in the next few weeks…
Couldn't lissa just teach some school in califonia… the weather there is so nice and warm… beaches and bikinis, clubs and shopping sprees…
I let out a deep sigh… my shower thoughts arent exactly what friendly to my job. I get 'what-if' kinda thoughts.
What if I was a 'full' human not 'half' ?
What if I didn't went to st. Vladimir's?
what if I didn't met lissa?
What if I didn't chose this profession?
What if I wasn't lissa's guardian?
That all would've been nice… I could've gotten a normal 9-5 job, I would've atleast have a chance for a family of my own… but I knew for one that I wouldn't have been happy… not as much I am right now.
I've worked as a guardian for about 6 years now… I had managed to climb my way to the top with my sassy but ambitious attitude and rock-hard mindset. whenever there's been a strigoi infront of me, I only saw red. Nothing could break me, let alone just break through to me. pain was what it was… it stopped eventually. But I didn't, because if I did, that would mean quitting… and I don't quit. My dedication to keep my charge safe was unlike anything most people had seen.
How much ever dangerous and risky it is… its all worth it because its who I am.
That's how I got the best and the most dangerous job in our world, because I was good and because I loved the danger and risks.
Okay! Enough thinking for one day!
I turned off the warm water after I was done bathing. I wrapped a towel around myself and quickly went outside and started rummaging stuff in my wardrobe.
As much as I hated the weather in Montana, I really needed the sharp cold air on my face. I needed to wake up, mentally.
Without any further thinking I got dressed in my black nike running shorts and a powder blue nike sport's bra with had thick black 'nike' straps running criss-cross on my waist aswell on my back.
The weekends were my favourite days… it was the day for us guardians'
The junior guardians would have their day off on Saturday and us seniors will have Sunday as a holiday.
Most of the students don't wake up until 11, so we guardians have the gym and the academy ground to ourselves for running or exercising. Students are allowed to join us but most of them don't prefer spending there only 2 days of "freedom" doing exercise.
I on the other hand am very happy for finally being able to just run around the academy grounds… I just need to take everything out of my system! No moroi bff and No sexy student for the next 2 hours!
I strapped on my arm band on my right arm after fixing my phone inside it and plugged the earphones in…
I picked up my black nike jacket as I made my way out of my bedroom and quickly slipped on my grey and blue shoes… which are also from nike. Im honestly looking like a 'nike brand ambassador' right now!
A gush of cold wind kissed my face hard as soon as I opened the door. The weather is just perfect! Lets go run, shall we!
I quickly hopped down the stairs as I made my way out of the guardian building.
As expected, guardians were present. Some of them were running across the ground, some were excersising, some people seem to be already done with their work out.
As I made my way towards the ground, a lot of guardian wished me goodmorning or threw a smile towards me, I politely returned back the gesture.
Its time…
Hard rock music? ON.
Maneskin in the playlist? CHECK.
Ready? Absolutely!
And I began my marathon.
DPOV-
Where is mike? I've been waiting for him for the past 20 minutes!
It was his idea to go to the gym early in the morning and work on our forms… and now he's not even here, and im standing infront of the novice building looking like a fool. just great!
It was Sunday, which means the senior guardians' day off…. Roza's day off…
Nooo don't think about her! You're thinking her since you woke up!
Sometime these inner voices are actually frustrating…
It was very chilly here in the morning. I was dressed in my black gym pants and grey tshirt and a winter jacket on top of it cuz it was freezing as hell!
I stuffed my hands in my pocket and decided to walk around a little until mike shows up…
As I was walking around the building, a wave of long dark hair came in my view…
She was running faster than a cheetah…
God-knows-why, but I walked upto the ground where she was running, to get a closer view of her…
When she slowed down and started to jog I could see her clearly…
She was wearing black nike running shorts with showed her perfect toned legs with a black jacket, her phone was attached to a arm band with her earphones plugged in.
Rose looked beautiful… as always…
Her hair was up in a tight ponytail, a few hairs were falling down framing her beautiful face.
She stopped abruptly to catch her breathe.
Her body was bent, hands on her knees, breathing heavily…
I just stood there looking at her… she really is a beautiful piece of work…
She straighten up and pulled down her jacket zipper. My breath hitched when I saw the blue sports bra she was wearing underneath the jacket, little beads of sweat were all over her light tanned chest… flowing down to her valley…
With one swing, she took out her jacket, giving a perfect view of her amazingly toned body… her sports bra had black nike straps running all over her waist… she looked hot!
Rose had her hands on her hip still breathing heavy, unaware of all the glances the male guardians were stealing… they were literally filled with lust, undressing her with there eyes…
I was suddenly fuming with anger, I wanted to go upto those guardians and warn them to keep there gazes to themselves.
I mean I was looking at her, but not with lust… I was looking at her in awe. She is the most beautiful creature I've ever seen… just perfect! I still couldn't believe that I kissed this beauty last night…
"earth to Dimitri" I heard someone say. My head snapped in that direction. I saw mike standing next to me, grinning.
"huh?" I managed to say
"i called you like 5 times Dimitri!" mike exclaimed "you zoned out!"
"no I-I was just-"
"checking out Guardian Mazur?" he said smirking… a little too loud.
I felt blood rush up to my cheeks, my head whipped in rose's direction.
She was looking at me with wide eyes… her cheeks were red now…
She heard it!
Oh fuck…
Just kill me already.
"no I wasn't" I said gritting my teeth at him "and anyways, why are you so late?"
"my alarm didn't go off" mike said "cmon! Lets go!"
He tugged my arm and dragged me towards the gym while I mentally cursed myself for looking at rose like that.
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"no offence Dimitri… but you're sweating like a pig." I heard mike say as he pulled the 20 kgs weights upto his chin. He sure is muscular and has an amazing stamina… unlike me…
It hasn't been even 30 minutes since we started the workout and I was covered in sweat. I threw my 15 kg dumbbell on the mat, gasping trying to catch my breath. I'm lacking stamina!
How will I fight a strigoi when I cant even lift up 15 kg weights?
Me and mike were doing some weight training in the gym, there were a few guardian also present doing there thing. Luckily rose didn't show up, cuz Im not even sure I can stand in the same room as her after what happened last night.
"you know…" mike dropping his weights on the mat which brought me back from my thoughts "you should ask Guardian Mazur to help you build up your stamina."
He was right. I should ask her to help me with that, but after the stunt I pulled last night I cant even look at her without being embarrassed. Ill not even be surprise if I get a call from Kirova saying that Rose has rejected me as her student and that now im expelled…
What I did… was not good. I kissed her without her permission, even though she kissed me back…
No! she was at a vulnerable state, because of the chaos at the dinner party. and I had used her… I had taken advantage of her vulnerability by kissing her… huh! Im going to explode!
Just because I was falling for her doesn't mean she would feel the same about me… im so stupid!
I just nodded at him. mike is a really good friend, I mean- don't get me wrong. Ivan is my best friend but mike is someone I can rely on, and ask and do certain novice stuff with…
Suddenly the gym doors flung open and a tall guardian walked in a black suit, his eyes were searching for someone but it came to rest when his eyes fell on me.
As if this day couldn't get any worse… Guardian Bonville walked up towards our direction.
"Novice Belikov" he started
Don't punch him Dimitri! control… breathe in… breath out… control.
"Guardian Bonville"
"Headmistress Kirova would like to have a word with you in her cabin" he said, clearly amused with the information he just shared.
I froze.
Did Rose really complained to Kirova about me?
Ofcourse she would've, you stupid!
No- no… rose wouldn't do this to me…
Yes she would! You used her!
Im done… im so done!
"shall we go?" Guardian bonville's voice snapped me back to the room.
I looked back at mike, he was giving me and encouraging nod.
I could just nod at the man standing infront of me.
With that we walked out of the gym, straight to Kirova's cabin….
And here's comes my doom…
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Author's note-
Well wasn't that a very emotional chapter…
I know it didn't had many major plot twists and stuff because this chapter was about rose and Dimitri trying to understand the aftermath of their little moment.
By the way, when I first heard the song 'Heaven by Julia Micheals' Rose and Dimitri instantly came in my mind. It a perfect #romitri anthem! All of you creatures of the night who havent heard of this song I request you to please give it a chance.
And for the main part…
The upcoming chapters with have toxicity, excessive use of foul language, lemony scenes and a lot of blood…
The chapters will have special headlines in the start, as warning.
Now that Kirova has called Dimitri to her cabin for a "word", little does the poor guy know, his lady love will be there…
Sure, there will be doom… but not of the person we thought…
If you wanna know you gotta keep reading…
Until next time…
~K