Rose
It turned out that this school was way bigger than it even looked from the outside. I think I got lost three or four times. When I finally found my first class, I was half an hour late. I knocked timidly on the door.
“Yes?”, I heard a man call.
I opened the door and peaked into the room. On the black board stood “Biology II - Mr. Fillips”. Okay, this was definitely my class.
“Hello Mr. Fillips. I'm sorry I'm new here and couldn't find the classroom”, I apologized.
“Name?”, he asked.
“Rose Hath -”, I stopped. “Rose Belikov, Sir.”
Some of the students gasped and whispering began among them. The teacher seemed to scrutinize me with his eyes, some of the girls began glaring at me and the guys looked me up and down, wondering what Dimitri saw in me to marry me. If only they knew.
“Of course Mrs Belikov.”
By the mentioning of my last name his whole demeanor changed. I didn't know why, but I didn't care, because he seemed to be intimidated by it and didn't give me hard time for being late.
“I think an introduction is not necessary, so please just find a seat.”
I nodded and went to the back, to the only available seat. It was between a two blond girls. Both did something on their smart phones, writing texts, playing a game, I don't know and I didn't really care. But I honestly was a bit surprised that the teacher let them do whatever they wanted. I mean sure, their parents payed the teacher and so on, but I still thought it would be more about the studying, not gossiping.
Both girls ignored me when I sat down an I was happy for that. I pulled a notepad out of my bag and began taking some notes. The teacher was actually good, he didn't ask any question, just talked on and on about sun and shadow flowers. I took my notes and sooner than I thought the bell rang again.
Next I had Math by Mrs Kent and again, I had no idea where I had to go. I decided to ask someone this time, instead of trying to find it on my own. The girl to my left was already gone, but the one to my right sat still there.
“Excuse me?”, I asked the girl.
She turned around and looked questionable at me. The girl had straight blond hair and bright jade green eyes. Her skin was like porcelain and she looked at me with no emotion, raising an eyebrow.
“Sorry. Do you know where Math by Mrs Kent is?”
“Yeah, follow me”, she said.
“Thank you”, I smiled.
The girl frowned at me. What? Did I have something on my face?, I asked myself and touched my cheek absently.
“Let's go”, the girl mumbled and began walking.
She was a lot taller than me and could walk better in her high heels than me, so I had a hard time keeping up with her.
“Hey, hey, sorry, could you walk a little slower please?”, I called after her.
“Why?”, she asked still walking as fast as before.
“Because you have longer legs and this is the second day I'm wearing high heels. They are killing me and I really can't keep up with you, because you are way to fast for me, so please walk a little slower.”
Abruptly the girl stopped in front of me and I almost collided with her back.
“Second day?”, she asked looking at me over her shoulder.
“Yeah”, I sighed, glad for the short pause.
“You aren't used to heels, which means you can't be used to the rich world or you come from another country, because no New Yorker child that goes to this school can go out in public without heels.”
She looked me up and down for a while and tapped her chin.
“Your clothes and shoes are expensive, as is the ring on your finger.”
“Yes”, I admitted, not knowing what she wants to say.
“But your attitude doesn't fit your look”, she went on. “I mean you're not snobby or arrogant.”
“You aren't either, so why should I be?”
“Well then”, she chirped.
Almost instantly the girl changed her attitude towards me. Her neutral face broke into a smile and her eyes become an happy glint. She hold her hand out to me and grinned.
“My name's Lissa.”
“Nice to meet you?”, I smiled back a little unsure.
“Oh yeah, sorry.” Lissa pulled her arm through my arm and dragged me with her down the corridor. “you have to know most of the girls here are back stabbing bitches. If you are different, you are a target, so I try to stay out of the ways of the bitchy girls. It's easier to be cold to others, not nice and not bitchy, just neutral, you know?”
“Sounds … lonely”, I commented.
Lissa sighed.
“It is most of the time. When you're rich you don't know if people are your friends because of yourself, or because of your money and when you are friends with equally rich people, they mostly want to humiliate you in public, so you get a scandal and the other one looks better in front of the press. It sucks.”
“Sounds like it”, I replied.
“But you seem nice, I mean don't get me wrong, I don't trust you, but I'm desperate for a friend, so I will give you a chance”, Lissa chirped.
She was strange, really strange, but maybe we could actually become friends and so I would know at least one girl in this school. A friend couldn't hurt, I just hoped she really wasn't one of those snobby girls she talked about.
“Hey, you want to eat lunch with me and my boyfriend?”, Lissa asked.
During the day I learned that Lissa was actually Vasilisa Dragomir, daughter of Erik and Rhea Dragomir. Her family owned hotels all around the world, all five star hotels. She had a brother: Andre. I saw some pictures from her and her family and they all looked the same. All had platinum blond hair and the same jade green eyes. They all were tall and skinny and looked gorgeous. I also saw one picture of her and her boyfriend, but I couldn't remember the name of her boyfriend. All I knew was that he had jet black hair and bright blue eyes.
“I don't know”, I said a little unsure.
I didn't know if Dimitri expected me to sit with, because of the whole 'pretending to be a happy married couple in love in public'-thing.
“Wait a second, okay?”, I asked her.
Lissa smiled at me and waited a moment for me. While she waited I searched for my phone and sent Dimitri a text.
Lissa Dragomir wants to eat lunch with me. That okay or do I need to sit with my husband? - Rose
“Let's go”, I said to Lissa.
She again took my arm and we both went to the cafeteria. It was nice to not be alone at school and to have a girl to talk to. At my last school I didn't have one single friend, so I was more than glad to have an almost friend now at this school. And Lissa really did seem nice.
Lissa lead me out of the school building and I was shocked to see what the cafeteria was. It was a big building made out of glass behind the school building. It was new and looked futuristic. You could see the trees and other plants in the glass of the big cube. It looked strangely fitting. My phone beeped and I looked at the text from Dimitri.
I'll be there in 5 ;) - Dimitri
“Dimitri?”, Lissa asked.
“Yeah”, I nodded. “He says he will sit with us, that's okay, right?”
I was a little unsure. Maybe I should have asked Lissa first if it was okay with her, but she didn't seem to mind and nodded.
“Hey, I will just need a minute. Just go ahead okay?”, Lissa asked me and went off without waiting for a response.
I don't know why but I told myself she was in a rush, so I didn't feel like she was leaving me hanging. I had this bad feeling in my stomach that something was up with her. Maybe Lissa wasn't the nice girl, she told me she is. Maybe she was what she told me she was not. Was she trying to humiliate me in public, in front of the school maybe? Was I falling for some kind of trap?
Shaking my head I tried to think of something else.
I stood in front of the big glass cube and saw my reflection in the double doors.
Was I any different?, I asked myself. Lissa told me I looked rich, like I belonged in this world. Did I look any different now? Did I change? Was I a different person now that I was Rose Belikov and not Rose Hathaway-Mazur?
The guys certainly gave me more attention than ever. In my old school I was invisible, nobody gave me second glance, everybody had my fun of me, about my too wavy hair, my curves, called me fat and so on and on.
I felt different if I was being honest but I wasn't sure if it was a good or a bad different. In the glass doors I watched my reflection's forehead crease into a frown, while I thought about all of this.
Suddenly I realized that a guy on the other side of the glass was glaring at me. Shit, had I been staring straight at him? I felt a blush rise on my cheeks and gave the guy an awkward half smile. Damn it, I acted like an idiot!
“Who are you smiling at?”
I jumped. Holy Shit! Dimitri scared the crap out of me! He had suddenly appeared behind me and leaned on my shoulder with his chin. Dimitri stared through the window and I saw his reflection frown slightly. While I looked at him I tried not to notice how cute he looked, when he frowned or how his hard, lean muscles pressed against my back. I breathed in the cologne of Dimitri. Damn, he smelt amazing!
“Dimitri!”, I chastised. “When did you -?”
“Are you cheating on me?”, he interrupted me.
“What?” I asked confused. “With who?”
Dimitri's dark brown orbs glared at the doors in front of us and pointed at the guy behind the glass front. I turned back around, my eyes focusing on the man Dimitri was pointing at, who had glared at me.
“The middle aged balding man?”, I asked him and he nodded. “Of course I am!”
Dimitri didn't found it funny and stared me down.
“Are you kidding?”
“Yes!”, I cried. “What the hell is up with you? Why do you even care?”
He gritted his teeth, his eyes flashing with anger.
“I just don't want to be married to some slut who flirts around with any other guy she lays eyes on!”
How dare he says something like that to me?! I've only ever kissed one guy in my life so far!
“You are the one who sexually assaults random girls after some party night, ending up in the magazines the next morning!”
Dimitri bit the side of his cheek as I stalked away towards the entrance of the cafeteria. Was that me or did I just win that one? Apparently not, since about a second later Dimitri#s fingers were wound into my hair.
“You're cute, Roza”, he said laughing, ruffling my hair like I was some kind of puppy. “Especially when you're angry.”
I flushed bright pink from anger, pushing him away. He kind of liked my hair a lot, I realized, because his hand was still running through it.
There was actually a doorman at the cafeteria, who opened the door for me when I came storming in. He smiled when he let me in and I smiled back at him. He actually blinked, shocked that someone would smile back at him. He seemed really surprised someone who went to this school would bother to smile back at him.
“Stop looking at other guys!”, Dimitri growled.
He grabbed my chin and forced it to look forward, so I couldn't see the doorman any longer.
“Then stop touching me!”, I snapped right back at him slapping his hand away.
But Dimitri just wound his arm around my waist instead, much to my dismay. I think he enjoyed this PDA thing more than me. And he liked it to make me blush. Jerk …
A couple of teachers to our left smiled and I distinctly heard someone whisper “Young love”.
I blushed bright red again and heard Dimitri chuckle beside me, pressing me harder against him. I tried to tell myself that I blushed from anger and only from anger!
Dimitri guided me to a secluded area. There was a round table where we sat down. His arm stayed around my waist, when we sat down beside each other.
“Shouldn't we go get some food?”, I asked.
But even before I could finish my sentence two younger students came to our table with two plates filled with food. I looked at Dimitri, and he just smirked.
“You thought we would get it ourselves?”, he asked and raised an eyebrow.
“Well, yeah”, I mumbled and looked at the tons of food before us.
The two younger students looked at Dimitri like he was some kind of God, but he didn't even glance at them. Poor little fans. A few awkward silence filled minutes later came some of Dimitri's friends over.
“Hey bro, that your wife, huh?”, one asked eying me up and down.
“Stop staring!”, Dimitri snapped and threw one of his fries at the guy's forehead.
The guy had light brown hair, styled in 'Just got out of bed' way and green eyes, almost the same color as Lissa's, but his were darker than hers.
“See something you like?”, he smirked at me.
Shit! He got me staring at him! I felt the heat rise into my cheeks again.
“I've seen better”, I mumbled.
“Really?”, the guy asked and titled his head to the side.
“Shut up Adrian”, Ivan said, plopping down beside Adrian. “She's married, so back off.”
“You wanna tell me you didn't hit on her already?”
“I did”, Ivan said without shame. “But I'm the best friends, that's different. And because we are talking about best friends: You Belikov are in deep shit because I couldn't throw you a bachelor party!”
“Bachelor Party?”, a black haired boy asked.
He came to our table and sat down together with Lissa. Lissa sat beside me, smiling kindly and the boy beside her an arm draped over her shoulders.
“Yeah, for Belikov”, Adrian said.
“Oh right, congrats man”, the black haired guy said to Dimitri and nodded at him.
Dimitri nodded back. I never understood the whole 'guy – nodding' thing, but it seemed pretty common around the world.
Lissa gasped dramatically.
“Oh my gosh I never congratulated you!”, Lissa yelled in my ear.
“Ah, Lissa, not so loud”, I said rubbing my ear.
God, that really hurt!
“I'm so sorry!”, Lissa gushed and threw her arms around me. “I'm so so so happy for you two! Congratulations!”
The guys at the table chuckled at Lissa's behavior and I just sat there and patted her back awkwardly. I didn't really know how to react, because she couldn't seem to let go of me. How long was this hug going to last? Finally let go of me and smiled brightly at me. I smiled back at her and actually sat a little closer to Dimitri. Don't get me wring I liked Lissa, but she seemed a bit to enthusiastic.
“So tell me”, Lissa started. “How did you get him to propose to you?”
“What?”, I asked.
“Please, tell me your secret! This dumb ass won't even wear the same color as me at a party”, Lissa said and nodded at her boyfriend.
“Seriously babe, I love you, I really I do, but I'm not gonna wear the same tracksuit as you. We're never gonna be that kind of couple!”, Lissa's boyfriend said seriously.
“Why not Christian?”, Lissa whined.
“No”, he said and glared at her.
“That's my man”, Adrian smirked and fist bumped Christian.
Lissa glared at Adrian, and he hold his hands up in a surrendering gesture.
“Sorry cousin, but he's right”, Adrian said shrugging.
I rolled my eyes, but laughed lightly.
“What?”, Lissa asked me. “You don't want to let the world see you are a couple. It's cute, right?”
“With matching tracksuits?”, I asked her and looked over at Dimitri. “Nope.”
He grinned and I grinned right back at him. It wasn't much, but this moment still felt kind of intimate for me, with Dimitri's arm still around me. Dimitri leaned in and kissed my cheek again.
“See? That's why she got the weeding and you” Dimitri looked a while at Lissa. “What did you got from Chris, Liss?”
“Not funny Dimitri”, she glowered and pouted lightly.
Christian chuckled again and pressed a kiss on Lissa's head, she offered him a half smile in return and everything seemed fine again. It was strangely comforting to have Dimitri's arm around my waist the whole lunch break and every time he kissed my cheek, I blushed bright red and his lips left a burning sensation on my skin.
It was actually funny to sit with the guys and Lissa at lunch, conversation seemed to flow easily and Dimitri and I seemed to look like the perfect couple.
“Mrs Belikov?”, a woman suddenly asked behind us.
A moment of silence fell, because I still couldn't wrap my head around the idea of having another last name.
“Yes?”, I asked the lady.
She was in her mid-forties, had gray hair, and gray-blue eyes with big glasses. She hold a folder in front of her and looked at me.
“I need a few more information about you”, she said. “For example your -”
“Another time Mrs Clark”, Dimitri interrupted her.
His voice was full of authority and he didn't even look up from his plate. His whole body demeanor was still relaxed and he looked like he didn't have a care in the world.
“Mr. Belikov, just because you -”
“Not. Now.” Dimitri repeated and glared at the woman in front of our table. “My wife is busy right now, she is enjoying her first day at school and I won't allow you to ruin that for her. Leave. Now!”
The woman glared at Dimitri, but still left our table and walked away. If it was possible, I bet smoke would have come out of her ears right now. The whole table looked at Dimitri with open mouths. I didn't want him to be in the spotlight, just because he helped me not to answer some stupid questions about my personal life in front of people I didn't even knew.
“Thank you”, I smiled at Dimitri and kissed his cheek.
He looked a bit surprised at me, but smiled none the less. I smiled back and went back to eating. Dimitri pulled me a bit tighter and kissed my temple, his lips lingering on my skin just a little longer and I felt him smirk in my skin.
Yeah Dimitri, I kissed you, get over yourself, I thought internally rolling my eyes. But I knew he would mention it again later on, just to tease me saying things like 'I couldn't resist him'.
“Awww”, Lissa said and titled her head to the side. “You're so cute.”
She smiled at us and I smiled a little forced back at her, but it seemed like she couldn't make out the difference.
“Christian!”, Lissa screeched. “Why aren't we as cute together as they are!”
Christian looked incredulously at his girlfriend, while all the others boys and I laughed at her outburst.
“What?!”, Lissa screeched and looked at all of us. “I'm serious! I want what they have, Christian!” She pointed at Dimitri and me. Oh trust me Liss, you don't, I thought. “I want a man who defends me and fights for my honor and protects me and all that romantic crap! I want a freaking Prince Charming and I want -”
Christian interrupted her by pressing his lips on hers and she instantly wrapped her arms around his neck. It looked like Lissa forgot everything around her and just focused on Christian. I think otherwise she wouldn't have climbed on his lap and straddled him in front of the whole school.
“Hey Rose”, Adrian called. “Can you do that, too? I would like to see your ass in that position”
Adrian waggled with his eyebrows and smirked at me.
“Careful”, Dimitri growled and glared at Adrian hatefully.
“What? I didn't ask her to straddle me, bro. Come one? Don't I get credit for that?”
“No”, Ivan chuckled.
“Ah, bite me”, Adrian grumbled.
“Just tell me where, Sugar”, a girl that went past our table said and winked at Adrian over her shoulder.
“My cue to leave, ladies and gentlemen”, Adrian grinned happily.
He stood up and caught up to the girl, wrapping his arms around from behind.
“200 he is getting some”, Ivan bet.
“Nah, 200 against”, Dimitri said and they both shook hands.
“You're seriously betting?”, I asked. “How old are you?”
“We're older than you”, Ivan said offended. “Behave like it.”
I laughed lightly and smirked at Ivan.
“200 she slaps him”
I hold my hand out for Ivan to shake. He looked at it a little sceptically and seemed to ring with himself, before he finally gave in and shook my hand.
“I'm so going to regret this but okay, I'm in”
In this moment Lissa decided to stop eating Christian's face off and turned to the table again. Christian and Lissa both looked a little flushed, but both grinned happily and looked like they were glowing.
“In what?”, Christian asked.
He and Ivan began talking about Adrian and his former girls, but I didn't listen, because Dimitri leaned closer to me to whisper something in my ear.
“Where do you think you get the 200 bucks from? Got an account on the Cayman's I don't know off?”
Dimitri's breath tickled my ear and gave me goosebumps all over my skin. Every hope he didn't notice, threw out the window, when I felt his lips on my ear form into a smirk and his hand on my hip bone tighten a little. His thump began forming circles and I involuntarily shivered. Stupid jerk! Stupid body for reacting this way! Stupid, stupid, stupid!
“Maybe Adrian's idea wasn't so bad”, Dimitri continued in a low, sexy voice. “I could give you the money and you could pay me back that way. I would really like to see you above me.”
It turned out that this school was way bigger than it even looked from the outside. I think I got lost three or four times. When I finally found my first class, I was half an hour late. I knocked timidly on the door.
“Yes?”, I heard a man call.
I opened the door and peaked into the room. On the black board stood “Biology II - Mr. Fillips”. Okay, this was definitely my class.
“Hello Mr. Fillips. I'm sorry I'm new here and couldn't find the classroom”, I apologized.
“Name?”, he asked.
“Rose Hath -”, I stopped. “Rose Belikov, Sir.”
Some of the students gasped and whispering began among them. The teacher seemed to scrutinize me with his eyes, some of the girls began glaring at me and the guys looked me up and down, wondering what Dimitri saw in me to marry me. If only they knew.
“Of course Mrs Belikov.”
By the mentioning of my last name his whole demeanor changed. I didn't know why, but I didn't care, because he seemed to be intimidated by it and didn't give me hard time for being late.
“I think an introduction is not necessary, so please just find a seat.”
I nodded and went to the back, to the only available seat. It was between a two blond girls. Both did something on their smart phones, writing texts, playing a game, I don't know and I didn't really care. But I honestly was a bit surprised that the teacher let them do whatever they wanted. I mean sure, their parents payed the teacher and so on, but I still thought it would be more about the studying, not gossiping.
Both girls ignored me when I sat down an I was happy for that. I pulled a notepad out of my bag and began taking some notes. The teacher was actually good, he didn't ask any question, just talked on and on about sun and shadow flowers. I took my notes and sooner than I thought the bell rang again.
Next I had Math by Mrs Kent and again, I had no idea where I had to go. I decided to ask someone this time, instead of trying to find it on my own. The girl to my left was already gone, but the one to my right sat still there.
“Excuse me?”, I asked the girl.
She turned around and looked questionable at me. The girl had straight blond hair and bright jade green eyes. Her skin was like porcelain and she looked at me with no emotion, raising an eyebrow.
“Sorry. Do you know where Math by Mrs Kent is?”
“Yeah, follow me”, she said.
“Thank you”, I smiled.
The girl frowned at me. What? Did I have something on my face?, I asked myself and touched my cheek absently.
“Let's go”, the girl mumbled and began walking.
She was a lot taller than me and could walk better in her high heels than me, so I had a hard time keeping up with her.
“Hey, hey, sorry, could you walk a little slower please?”, I called after her.
“Why?”, she asked still walking as fast as before.
“Because you have longer legs and this is the second day I'm wearing high heels. They are killing me and I really can't keep up with you, because you are way to fast for me, so please walk a little slower.”
Abruptly the girl stopped in front of me and I almost collided with her back.
“Second day?”, she asked looking at me over her shoulder.
“Yeah”, I sighed, glad for the short pause.
“You aren't used to heels, which means you can't be used to the rich world or you come from another country, because no New Yorker child that goes to this school can go out in public without heels.”
She looked me up and down for a while and tapped her chin.
“Your clothes and shoes are expensive, as is the ring on your finger.”
“Yes”, I admitted, not knowing what she wants to say.
“But your attitude doesn't fit your look”, she went on. “I mean you're not snobby or arrogant.”
“You aren't either, so why should I be?”
“Well then”, she chirped.
Almost instantly the girl changed her attitude towards me. Her neutral face broke into a smile and her eyes become an happy glint. She hold her hand out to me and grinned.
“My name's Lissa.”
“Nice to meet you?”, I smiled back a little unsure.
“Oh yeah, sorry.” Lissa pulled her arm through my arm and dragged me with her down the corridor. “you have to know most of the girls here are back stabbing bitches. If you are different, you are a target, so I try to stay out of the ways of the bitchy girls. It's easier to be cold to others, not nice and not bitchy, just neutral, you know?”
“Sounds … lonely”, I commented.
Lissa sighed.
“It is most of the time. When you're rich you don't know if people are your friends because of yourself, or because of your money and when you are friends with equally rich people, they mostly want to humiliate you in public, so you get a scandal and the other one looks better in front of the press. It sucks.”
“Sounds like it”, I replied.
“But you seem nice, I mean don't get me wrong, I don't trust you, but I'm desperate for a friend, so I will give you a chance”, Lissa chirped.
She was strange, really strange, but maybe we could actually become friends and so I would know at least one girl in this school. A friend couldn't hurt, I just hoped she really wasn't one of those snobby girls she talked about.
-o-o-o- Thrown Into His World -o-o-o-
“Hey, you want to eat lunch with me and my boyfriend?”, Lissa asked.
During the day I learned that Lissa was actually Vasilisa Dragomir, daughter of Erik and Rhea Dragomir. Her family owned hotels all around the world, all five star hotels. She had a brother: Andre. I saw some pictures from her and her family and they all looked the same. All had platinum blond hair and the same jade green eyes. They all were tall and skinny and looked gorgeous. I also saw one picture of her and her boyfriend, but I couldn't remember the name of her boyfriend. All I knew was that he had jet black hair and bright blue eyes.
“I don't know”, I said a little unsure.
I didn't know if Dimitri expected me to sit with, because of the whole 'pretending to be a happy married couple in love in public'-thing.
“Wait a second, okay?”, I asked her.
Lissa smiled at me and waited a moment for me. While she waited I searched for my phone and sent Dimitri a text.
Lissa Dragomir wants to eat lunch with me. That okay or do I need to sit with my husband? - Rose
“Let's go”, I said to Lissa.
She again took my arm and we both went to the cafeteria. It was nice to not be alone at school and to have a girl to talk to. At my last school I didn't have one single friend, so I was more than glad to have an almost friend now at this school. And Lissa really did seem nice.
Lissa lead me out of the school building and I was shocked to see what the cafeteria was. It was a big building made out of glass behind the school building. It was new and looked futuristic. You could see the trees and other plants in the glass of the big cube. It looked strangely fitting. My phone beeped and I looked at the text from Dimitri.
I'll be there in 5 ;) - Dimitri
“Dimitri?”, Lissa asked.
“Yeah”, I nodded. “He says he will sit with us, that's okay, right?”
I was a little unsure. Maybe I should have asked Lissa first if it was okay with her, but she didn't seem to mind and nodded.
“Hey, I will just need a minute. Just go ahead okay?”, Lissa asked me and went off without waiting for a response.
I don't know why but I told myself she was in a rush, so I didn't feel like she was leaving me hanging. I had this bad feeling in my stomach that something was up with her. Maybe Lissa wasn't the nice girl, she told me she is. Maybe she was what she told me she was not. Was she trying to humiliate me in public, in front of the school maybe? Was I falling for some kind of trap?
Shaking my head I tried to think of something else.
I stood in front of the big glass cube and saw my reflection in the double doors.
Was I any different?, I asked myself. Lissa told me I looked rich, like I belonged in this world. Did I look any different now? Did I change? Was I a different person now that I was Rose Belikov and not Rose Hathaway-Mazur?
The guys certainly gave me more attention than ever. In my old school I was invisible, nobody gave me second glance, everybody had my fun of me, about my too wavy hair, my curves, called me fat and so on and on.
I felt different if I was being honest but I wasn't sure if it was a good or a bad different. In the glass doors I watched my reflection's forehead crease into a frown, while I thought about all of this.
Suddenly I realized that a guy on the other side of the glass was glaring at me. Shit, had I been staring straight at him? I felt a blush rise on my cheeks and gave the guy an awkward half smile. Damn it, I acted like an idiot!
“Who are you smiling at?”
I jumped. Holy Shit! Dimitri scared the crap out of me! He had suddenly appeared behind me and leaned on my shoulder with his chin. Dimitri stared through the window and I saw his reflection frown slightly. While I looked at him I tried not to notice how cute he looked, when he frowned or how his hard, lean muscles pressed against my back. I breathed in the cologne of Dimitri. Damn, he smelt amazing!
“Dimitri!”, I chastised. “When did you -?”
“Are you cheating on me?”, he interrupted me.
“What?” I asked confused. “With who?”
Dimitri's dark brown orbs glared at the doors in front of us and pointed at the guy behind the glass front. I turned back around, my eyes focusing on the man Dimitri was pointing at, who had glared at me.
“The middle aged balding man?”, I asked him and he nodded. “Of course I am!”
Dimitri didn't found it funny and stared me down.
“Are you kidding?”
“Yes!”, I cried. “What the hell is up with you? Why do you even care?”
He gritted his teeth, his eyes flashing with anger.
“I just don't want to be married to some slut who flirts around with any other guy she lays eyes on!”
How dare he says something like that to me?! I've only ever kissed one guy in my life so far!
“You are the one who sexually assaults random girls after some party night, ending up in the magazines the next morning!”
Dimitri bit the side of his cheek as I stalked away towards the entrance of the cafeteria. Was that me or did I just win that one? Apparently not, since about a second later Dimitri#s fingers were wound into my hair.
“You're cute, Roza”, he said laughing, ruffling my hair like I was some kind of puppy. “Especially when you're angry.”
I flushed bright pink from anger, pushing him away. He kind of liked my hair a lot, I realized, because his hand was still running through it.
There was actually a doorman at the cafeteria, who opened the door for me when I came storming in. He smiled when he let me in and I smiled back at him. He actually blinked, shocked that someone would smile back at him. He seemed really surprised someone who went to this school would bother to smile back at him.
“Stop looking at other guys!”, Dimitri growled.
He grabbed my chin and forced it to look forward, so I couldn't see the doorman any longer.
“Then stop touching me!”, I snapped right back at him slapping his hand away.
But Dimitri just wound his arm around my waist instead, much to my dismay. I think he enjoyed this PDA thing more than me. And he liked it to make me blush. Jerk …
A couple of teachers to our left smiled and I distinctly heard someone whisper “Young love”.
I blushed bright red again and heard Dimitri chuckle beside me, pressing me harder against him. I tried to tell myself that I blushed from anger and only from anger!
Dimitri guided me to a secluded area. There was a round table where we sat down. His arm stayed around my waist, when we sat down beside each other.
“Shouldn't we go get some food?”, I asked.
But even before I could finish my sentence two younger students came to our table with two plates filled with food. I looked at Dimitri, and he just smirked.
“You thought we would get it ourselves?”, he asked and raised an eyebrow.
“Well, yeah”, I mumbled and looked at the tons of food before us.
The two younger students looked at Dimitri like he was some kind of God, but he didn't even glance at them. Poor little fans. A few awkward silence filled minutes later came some of Dimitri's friends over.
“Hey bro, that your wife, huh?”, one asked eying me up and down.
“Stop staring!”, Dimitri snapped and threw one of his fries at the guy's forehead.
The guy had light brown hair, styled in 'Just got out of bed' way and green eyes, almost the same color as Lissa's, but his were darker than hers.
“See something you like?”, he smirked at me.
Shit! He got me staring at him! I felt the heat rise into my cheeks again.
“I've seen better”, I mumbled.
“Really?”, the guy asked and titled his head to the side.
“Shut up Adrian”, Ivan said, plopping down beside Adrian. “She's married, so back off.”
“You wanna tell me you didn't hit on her already?”
“I did”, Ivan said without shame. “But I'm the best friends, that's different. And because we are talking about best friends: You Belikov are in deep shit because I couldn't throw you a bachelor party!”
“Bachelor Party?”, a black haired boy asked.
He came to our table and sat down together with Lissa. Lissa sat beside me, smiling kindly and the boy beside her an arm draped over her shoulders.
“Yeah, for Belikov”, Adrian said.
“Oh right, congrats man”, the black haired guy said to Dimitri and nodded at him.
Dimitri nodded back. I never understood the whole 'guy – nodding' thing, but it seemed pretty common around the world.
Lissa gasped dramatically.
“Oh my gosh I never congratulated you!”, Lissa yelled in my ear.
“Ah, Lissa, not so loud”, I said rubbing my ear.
God, that really hurt!
“I'm so sorry!”, Lissa gushed and threw her arms around me. “I'm so so so happy for you two! Congratulations!”
The guys at the table chuckled at Lissa's behavior and I just sat there and patted her back awkwardly. I didn't really know how to react, because she couldn't seem to let go of me. How long was this hug going to last? Finally let go of me and smiled brightly at me. I smiled back at her and actually sat a little closer to Dimitri. Don't get me wring I liked Lissa, but she seemed a bit to enthusiastic.
“So tell me”, Lissa started. “How did you get him to propose to you?”
“What?”, I asked.
“Please, tell me your secret! This dumb ass won't even wear the same color as me at a party”, Lissa said and nodded at her boyfriend.
“Seriously babe, I love you, I really I do, but I'm not gonna wear the same tracksuit as you. We're never gonna be that kind of couple!”, Lissa's boyfriend said seriously.
“Why not Christian?”, Lissa whined.
“No”, he said and glared at her.
“That's my man”, Adrian smirked and fist bumped Christian.
Lissa glared at Adrian, and he hold his hands up in a surrendering gesture.
“Sorry cousin, but he's right”, Adrian said shrugging.
I rolled my eyes, but laughed lightly.
“What?”, Lissa asked me. “You don't want to let the world see you are a couple. It's cute, right?”
“With matching tracksuits?”, I asked her and looked over at Dimitri. “Nope.”
He grinned and I grinned right back at him. It wasn't much, but this moment still felt kind of intimate for me, with Dimitri's arm still around me. Dimitri leaned in and kissed my cheek again.
“See? That's why she got the weeding and you” Dimitri looked a while at Lissa. “What did you got from Chris, Liss?”
“Not funny Dimitri”, she glowered and pouted lightly.
Christian chuckled again and pressed a kiss on Lissa's head, she offered him a half smile in return and everything seemed fine again. It was strangely comforting to have Dimitri's arm around my waist the whole lunch break and every time he kissed my cheek, I blushed bright red and his lips left a burning sensation on my skin.
It was actually funny to sit with the guys and Lissa at lunch, conversation seemed to flow easily and Dimitri and I seemed to look like the perfect couple.
“Mrs Belikov?”, a woman suddenly asked behind us.
A moment of silence fell, because I still couldn't wrap my head around the idea of having another last name.
“Yes?”, I asked the lady.
She was in her mid-forties, had gray hair, and gray-blue eyes with big glasses. She hold a folder in front of her and looked at me.
“I need a few more information about you”, she said. “For example your -”
“Another time Mrs Clark”, Dimitri interrupted her.
His voice was full of authority and he didn't even look up from his plate. His whole body demeanor was still relaxed and he looked like he didn't have a care in the world.
“Mr. Belikov, just because you -”
“Not. Now.” Dimitri repeated and glared at the woman in front of our table. “My wife is busy right now, she is enjoying her first day at school and I won't allow you to ruin that for her. Leave. Now!”
The woman glared at Dimitri, but still left our table and walked away. If it was possible, I bet smoke would have come out of her ears right now. The whole table looked at Dimitri with open mouths. I didn't want him to be in the spotlight, just because he helped me not to answer some stupid questions about my personal life in front of people I didn't even knew.
“Thank you”, I smiled at Dimitri and kissed his cheek.
He looked a bit surprised at me, but smiled none the less. I smiled back and went back to eating. Dimitri pulled me a bit tighter and kissed my temple, his lips lingering on my skin just a little longer and I felt him smirk in my skin.
Yeah Dimitri, I kissed you, get over yourself, I thought internally rolling my eyes. But I knew he would mention it again later on, just to tease me saying things like 'I couldn't resist him'.
“Awww”, Lissa said and titled her head to the side. “You're so cute.”
She smiled at us and I smiled a little forced back at her, but it seemed like she couldn't make out the difference.
“Christian!”, Lissa screeched. “Why aren't we as cute together as they are!”
Christian looked incredulously at his girlfriend, while all the others boys and I laughed at her outburst.
“What?!”, Lissa screeched and looked at all of us. “I'm serious! I want what they have, Christian!” She pointed at Dimitri and me. Oh trust me Liss, you don't, I thought. “I want a man who defends me and fights for my honor and protects me and all that romantic crap! I want a freaking Prince Charming and I want -”
Christian interrupted her by pressing his lips on hers and she instantly wrapped her arms around his neck. It looked like Lissa forgot everything around her and just focused on Christian. I think otherwise she wouldn't have climbed on his lap and straddled him in front of the whole school.
“Hey Rose”, Adrian called. “Can you do that, too? I would like to see your ass in that position”
Adrian waggled with his eyebrows and smirked at me.
“Careful”, Dimitri growled and glared at Adrian hatefully.
“What? I didn't ask her to straddle me, bro. Come one? Don't I get credit for that?”
“No”, Ivan chuckled.
“Ah, bite me”, Adrian grumbled.
“Just tell me where, Sugar”, a girl that went past our table said and winked at Adrian over her shoulder.
“My cue to leave, ladies and gentlemen”, Adrian grinned happily.
He stood up and caught up to the girl, wrapping his arms around from behind.
“200 he is getting some”, Ivan bet.
“Nah, 200 against”, Dimitri said and they both shook hands.
“You're seriously betting?”, I asked. “How old are you?”
“We're older than you”, Ivan said offended. “Behave like it.”
I laughed lightly and smirked at Ivan.
“200 she slaps him”
I hold my hand out for Ivan to shake. He looked at it a little sceptically and seemed to ring with himself, before he finally gave in and shook my hand.
“I'm so going to regret this but okay, I'm in”
In this moment Lissa decided to stop eating Christian's face off and turned to the table again. Christian and Lissa both looked a little flushed, but both grinned happily and looked like they were glowing.
“In what?”, Christian asked.
He and Ivan began talking about Adrian and his former girls, but I didn't listen, because Dimitri leaned closer to me to whisper something in my ear.
“Where do you think you get the 200 bucks from? Got an account on the Cayman's I don't know off?”
Dimitri's breath tickled my ear and gave me goosebumps all over my skin. Every hope he didn't notice, threw out the window, when I felt his lips on my ear form into a smirk and his hand on my hip bone tighten a little. His thump began forming circles and I involuntarily shivered. Stupid jerk! Stupid body for reacting this way! Stupid, stupid, stupid!
“Maybe Adrian's idea wasn't so bad”, Dimitri continued in a low, sexy voice. “I could give you the money and you could pay me back that way. I would really like to see you above me.”
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