Chapter 15

Rose

When I noticed my naked breasts I covered myself up and Dimitri's eyes flashed from my chest to my eyes. I didn't know what to do in a situation like this where I couldn't remember a damn thing, so I ran away. But Dimitri wouldn't have that. He had me before I couldn't really escape and threw me back on the bed. This time Dimitri hovered over me, keeping my arms over my head so he could stare at my body.

I blushed, yes as stupid as it is, I blushed and tried to wriggle out of his hold, but he was too strong for me, so I couldn't do anything.

“Stop it” I pressed.

“No”, he replied huskily.

And then suddenly my eyes widened and I looked behind Dimitri.

“Oh my gosh! Adrian!”, I shrieked.

Dimitri immediately jumped and tried to cover my body with his. It took him too long to realize that nobody was there and I tricked him, but it was long enough to let me escape to the bathroom.

For a while I just stood there with my back to the door and tried to even out my breathing. What the hell?, I thought. I had the worst headache ever and I couldn't remember a damn thing from yesterday! What the hell had happened. Okay, one step at a time. I was training with Dimitri, yeah, that's right, we were training! Then the guys came over and a few girls. Lissa, Jill, Mia and … Sabrina? No, that wasn't her name, something with S … Samantha? Sarah? Argh, I couldn't remember!

I went to take a shower, maybe that would clear my mind somehow or at least make me feel a little better. When the warm water cascaded down my body I felt a burning sensation. I was sore, everywhere and I mean everywhere. What had happened yesterday, please don't let it be what I thought it was! I had the sudden urge to cry or scream, I didn't know which would have been better and in the end I did neither. I just got out of the shower and put a towel around me. When I exited the bathroom, Dimitri was sitting on the bed, reading a book. He heard my arrival and glanced up at me. He smiled bemused and I felt my cheeks burning.

Dimitri put his book aside and stood up from the bed. He walked into the bathroom, but the moment he stood right next to me, he stopped. He grabbed my chin and gave me a small peck on the lips, then winked and disappeared into the bathroom.

I hated to admit it, but I stood there dumbfounded for at least two or three minutes. After realizing how dumb I stood there with only a towel and my wet hair ruining the floor, I moved around the room and got dressed as quickly as possible. I just threw on some underwear and a light sundress. My hair was still wet, but it looked like a warm sunny day, so I let it open and hoped it would dry before I got to school. The moment I wanted to get to the kitchen, Dimitri came out of the bathroom and called me back.

“Wait a second”, he said and got dressed himself.

So I waited – my eyes of course not on Dimitri – until he was dressed and together we made our way down to the kitchen. But before could go there we noticed a few other things.

“What the hell?”, I asked no one particular.

On the floor to the stairs and on the staircase were shattered glass, feathers, some leaves, pieces of paper and clothes. There were things written on the floor or on the walls with lipstick and marker in all colors. A cat was laying on top of a stuffed teddy bear and was sleeping peacefully, even with a red ribbon around her tail.

“What did we do last night?”, Dimitri asked.

“I have no idea”, I said shaking my head.

Without another word Dimitri and I made our way downstairs and it all got worse. Downstairs was pure chaos, the furniture was all over the place, sometimes upside down or on the side or just in the wrong place. A few were burnt. The walls were smeared with a lot of things, every plant we had was thrown somewhere, drinks were all over floor and ceiling, lamps were broken, feathers from pillows lay all around the room.

“Oh my gosh!”, I shrieked, when I saw the worst thing.

Lissa and Christian were laying on our coffee table on top of each other and butt naked! Both with pale white skin laying there, a side I never wanted to see.

“My eyes!”, I cried.

I threw myself in Dimitri's arms and nuzzled my face into his chest so I didn't have to see Christian's pale ass with the words 'Lick me' on it. But I knew that this picture was going to be branded into my mind for life.

“Oh my God, Rose!”, Lissa shrieked. “Dimitri!”

I heard Christian mumble something, before he cursed and I heard shuffling. I hoped that meant they both were getting dressed.

“I am so sorry Rose!”, Lissa apologized. “So, so sorry.”

“Just shut up and get dressed”, I said.

“You okay, there?”, Dimitri chuckled and looked down.

“You want to tell me you like looking at Christian's pale ass?”

“Shut up, Rose!”, Christian snapped.

“Careful Chris!”, Dimitri warned. “I told you to keep it in your pants and you didn't, you're not exactly on my good side.”

“Come on, bro”, Christian whined. “Like you didn't get laid last night.”

“Why are you all so damn loud?”, a new voice groaned.

I turned around in Dimitri's arms and saw Ivan tumbling into the room, a hand on his head only in his boxers with a shirt drawn on his body with Cyrillic writing on his naked chest. He plopped down on a near by couch and glared at all of us.

“It's too early”, he groaned.

“Yeah well there is this thing called school that awaits all of us”, Mia said chirping and danced into the room.

When I saw I burst out laughing.

“M- M- Mi- ia”, I laughed. “What the h- hell are you w- wearing?”

“I think I look pretty”, Mia grinned and did a pirouette.

“I think you look sexy as hell”, Ivan grinned, his headache suddenly forgotten.

Mia smirked, she clearly loved the attention she was getting. Mia wore a tight fitting latex dress and neon pink. It showed a lot of her cleavage and barely covered her ass.

“Where did you even get that?”, Lissa asked.

“Better in latex than in nothing”, I mumbled rolling my eyes.

“No idea”, Mia said at the same time. “But it's better to wake up in this than in nothing, huh?”

Mia winked at Lissa, and Lissa blushed furiously. Christian just rolled his eyes, draped an arm around her waist and whispered something only for her ears to hear. Her blush became even darker, but a small smile graced her lips.

A while later Rachel had made breakfast for all of us and after Ivan went around shouting for everyone to wake the hell up, we were all set in the living room with breakfast and a cup of coffee to wake us all up before school, at least a little bit.

Dimitri and I … We kept a certain distance between us, I think it was because of the encounter this morning. It was only embarrassing for me, but he seemed to respect my wish for a little distance.

“What's up with you guys?”, Ivan asked, when he noticed our distance.

“Nothing”, I said. “Why are you asking?”

Everybody except Dimitri and me began giggling or chuckling behind hands. Frowning I looked at Dimitri, but he looked as clueless as me.

“What?”, Dimitri snapped.

“Last night you couldn't keep your hands off of each other”, Ivan explained. “You had to touch somehow all the time and we couldn't separate you for the life of God. And now this big gap between you? What happened?”

“Didn't satisfy your wife last night, Belikov?”, Adrian teased chuckling.

“Adrian!”, Sydney shrieked and hit Adrian's shoulder.

“What? You got a better explanation for their odd behavior?”

Sydney mumbled something nobody could understand and avoided everybody's eyes. While most eyes were on Sydney, my eyes were on Dimitri. He rolled his eyes, stood up and walked over to me. He then picked me up, plopped down in my place with me in his lap.

“Everybody happy now?”, Dimitri asked.

“No”, Adrian said. “I didn't get an answer.”

Adrian wiggled his eyebrows and made kissing noises. Really annoying! I wanted to do us all a favor, so I threw a pillow at him, so I didn't have to see his face anymore.

“That's your answer”, I snapped. “Stay out of our business!”

“Snappy, yeah, I got my answer”, Adrian said smirking evilly.

God, this guy really was something! But at least he was smart enough to back off now. Or well, for now.

“Mr. Belikov?”, Rachel asked.

“Yes, Rachel?”, Dimitri asked, looking around me and holding me a little tighter against him to do so.

“I found these pictures in the sink and the fridge”. Rachel said and hold a few Polaroids up.

Dimitri frowned and reached a hand out for the photos. Rachel stepped forward and gave Dimitri the pictures, he thanked her and Rachel left again. And because I was sitting on Dimitri's lap I could look at the pictures, too. I leaned back into Dimitri's chest and he repositioned me so we could look through them together.

“Damn”, Dimitri chuckled, looking at the first photo.

“Oh my gosh!”, I screeched.

I wanted to bolt upright but Dimitri's arms kept me in place and locked on the spot and in his arms.

“Look at my wife”, he chuckled in my ear.

On the Polaroid was our coffee table, with me on top of it. I was wearing cowboy boots and a cowboy hat, short jean shorts than ended right after my ass and an open checkered blouse, so you could see my black lacy bra. My hair was down and I hold a bottle of Jack Daniel's in my right hand. It looked I was dancing for my husband, who sat right in front of the table and looked with an awed expression up at me.

“This is so embarrassing”, I said and hid my face behind my hands.

“Let me see!”, Adrian demanded and went to grab the picture, but Dimitri was quick to put the photo into his pocket.

“My wife, for my eyes only”, Dimitri grinned.

“You're no fun, Belikov”, Adrian grumbled.

“Oh, Adrian, but you are”, I laughed, seeing the next photo.

It was Adrian laying on the bathroom floor, Mia was shaving his legs and Adrian made a kissing face towards a hand mirror in his hand. He had make up all over his face, he probably did it himself it looked that bad, and wore a pink fedora, as well as a neon green shirt with big holes in it. All in all he looked … I don't even have a word for it!

Dimitri looked over my shoulder and burst out laughing seeing Adrian on the picture. While Dimitri and I laughed, Adrian snatched the photo out of Dimitri's hand and looked at it himself.

“I don't know what's wrong with you”, Adrian said. “I'm pretty.”

The photo made its way around so we all had something to laugh. We went through the rest of the photos and looked like there were a lot of things we did last night. We all got costumes to the apartment, more alcohol, some other people I've never seen in my life and whatnot.

And the guys were right, Dimitri and I were always together, somehow touching in some way. Holding hands, arms around each other, kissing in a corner, making out on a couch or the floor, piggyback riding or dancing. We looked … happy, young and carefree.

I actually liked the way we looked in those pictures and how we looked at each other in those pictures. I wanted it to be like that without alcohol involved. I wanted it to be normal. And I had this nagging voice in the back of my mind that said things like 'someday' in a hopeful … maybe even wishful sigh. And another said 'You can have that, just go get it!'.

I heard the voices around me, talking, mumbling and whispering, but my thoughts kept me too occupied, so I didn't hear anything. I just stared a picture of Dimitri and me in each others arms, we didn't look drunk or anything, we looked normal – still dressed – and happy. We looked like the perfect couple, like the couple I wanted us to be, or try to be. But somehow I knew that something like that would always be a dream.

And then somehow I was being kissed. At first I didn't even realized Dimitri kissed me, and before my head could wrap itself around the thought alone, my body already reacted to his touch. And we kissed, a kiss filled with passion and a bitter sweetness that would have brought me to my knees, weren't it for Dimitri's arms around my waist keeping me upright.

And as fast as it came it ended and Dimitri's warm lips left mine.

“Is that the only way to get your attention?”, Dimitri asked smirking and laughed lightly.

“Huh?”, I asked dumbly.

People around me laughed – and I think at me, not with me – and shook their heads at me.

“What?”, I asked. “What did I miss?”

“Oh nothing”, Christian said and shook his head. “We just called your name for the past five minutes, that's all.”

They did? I blushed and looked down. Had I really spaced out? Was I really that far out of it?

“Don't we have school or something?”, I grumbled.

-o-o-o- Thrown Into His World -o-o-o-

We sat around our usual table during lunch. There was so much food on the table that no one wanted and at least twenty cups of coffee for all of us to drink. We actually inhaled it, we needed it to survive this day in school.

“I swear my head is going to blow off every second”, Adrian groaned.

“Shut up”, Christian grumbled and massaged his temples.

It was hard to keep my eyes open and to actually listen, all I wanted to do was sleep and try to sleep the headache off. Sadly I couldn't do that and I had to stay awake, but it was so damn hard. My head fell onto Dimitri's shoulder and my eyes dropped closed.

“You have to stay awake, Rose”, Dimitri mumbled and shrugged a little, but didn't shrugged me off.

“I know”, I groaned.

I could hear a light chuckle from Dimitri and felt his lips kiss my head. And then suddenly it was like I was thrown back in time and had some sort of flashback.

I giggled like crazy, I had no idea why, but something was really funny, I just couldn't remember what. The living room was still full and loud music was blasting, Chris and Liss were dancing, Ivan and Mia were making out and the others weren't in the room. I was sitting on Dimitri's lap and we were making out like crazy, at least until I ruined it with my giggling.

“What?”, Dimitri asked.

“Nothing”, I giggled and shook my head, trying to kiss him again, but Dimitri pulled away and frowned.

“Tell me”, he demanded.

“No”, I pouted. “I don't wanna talk, I wanna kiss.”

Dimitri laughed at me and used his fore finger to stop me from pouting, but I used the chance to bit his finger. His eyes went darker, but he still took his finger away from me.

“You're awfully naughty tonight”, he said with a certain twinkle in his eyes.

“What are you going to do about it?”, I asked smirking.

Dimitri shook his head smiling, grabbed my ass and held me on top of him while his lips found mine again.

And then somehow Dimitri was carrying me upstairs. I knew I was drunk, and I knew that something was wrong about this situation, but my drunk mind didn't care.

“You smell good”, I blurted out.

Dimitri's chest rumbled from his laughter.

“Thank you”, he said.

“Hmm”, I purred. “I love your voice.”

My eyes dropped a little and I let my head fall on his shoulder.

“Your skin tastes nice and God your body”, I moaned.

And then I was dropped on a bed and I looked up into the black lust filled eyes from Dimitri, standing on the edge of the bed.

He jumped on me and began kissing me hungrily, his hands roaming my body all over again and I moaned into his open mouth. He seemed even more aroused and pushed his hips firmer into me. And then he bit my lower lip and I moaned louder. Dimitri was encouraged and did it again, but this time he bit too hard and my lip began bleeding. I made a hissing noise and pulled away.

“What's wrong?”, Dimitri asked breathing heavily.

“You bit me too hard”, I answered. “I'm bleeding.”

“Shit!”, Dimitri cursed. “I'm sorry, you okay?”

“It stings a little”, I replied. “But I will live.”

Dimitri looked unsure and worried. I didn't like that look on him so I tried to lighten the mood.

“Wanna suck it better?”, I joked.

Dimitri frowned a little.

“You're into all this vampire crap?”, he asked. “Really? That turns you on?”

“Take it or leave it”, I said rolling my eyes.

I really wasn't into the whole vampire thing, it was too much with all the fangs thing, the blood sucking and the 'sparkling in the sun'. Of course he took it and began sucking on my lip. God, that felt amazing!

“Rose?”, Lissa asked. “What is it with you today and the whole spacing out?”

“Hmm?”, I asked and pulled my head away from Dimitri.

“What's wrong with you?”, Dimitri asked and took my hand, but I pulled my hand away and avoided his piercing gaze.

“I'm fine”, I said in a hurry. “See you later, guys.”

I picked up my cup of coffee and fled from the table. Oh my gosh did that really happen? Had I really said that to Dimitri? Did he remember like I did? This was so embarrassing! I hoped Dimitri was going to keep his blank mind and won't remember anything!

While I was walking around the school my mind was everywhere but I with me, so I – of course – walked into somebody and fell flat on my ass.

“Great”, I muttered. “Just great.”

“You really have to stop walking into me like that”, the other one on the ground said.

I looked up and saw the boy sitting on the floor like me, rubbing the back of his head.

“I'm sorry”, I said a stunned.

He talked to me! He really had talked to me, I thought. Last time he ran away and now he talked to me, maybe he would tell me now what was wrong.

“Forget about it”, Mason said. “Don't make a habit out of it, okay? It starts to annoy me.”

Mason stood up and again went to walk away. I scrambled of the floor and caught up to him.

“Wait!”, I called. “Why are you being like this?”

“Let go of my arm, Rose”, Mason growled.

“Tell me what the hell is wrong with you!”, I snapped. “I thought we were friends and you're treating me like the plaque! What did I do?”

“You really have to ask?”, he growled.

“YES!”, I screeched.

“You cheated on me!”, Mason screamed.