Chapter 2

I woke to my alarm blaring in my ear, in all honesty after

reading that message last night I had completely forgot I had set an alarm to

get up early to maximise my time today. I slowly got up I mean it was 6am after

all and changed into some old clothes before walking out to the kitchen to grab

some breakfast, luckily there was a box of cereal in the box I opened last

night and I was smart enough to grab some milk after leaving Eddie’s yesterday

morning.

As I ate I started writing a list of things to do and in

what order. I’d decided yesterday I would start on my room before moving to

start organising and setting up the lounge room and then the kitchen before

going out to run my errands. After that everything could pretty much wait and

slowly be done.

I dumped my rubbish in the bin, thank god for plastic bowls,

plates and cutlery right now, I grabbed the drill and started putting my bed

together. Damn putting a bed together by myself was so much harder then I

thought I would be.

Within an hour my bedroom furniture was all built and set up

where I wanted it, I spent the next 2 hours unpacking most of my boxes as well

as writing a list of supplies I needed for classes before moving the lounge

into position in front of the tv unit and tv. By lunch time the lounge room was

mostly set up apart from a couple boxes and almost all boxes from the kitchen

were unpacked.

I made sure I wrote a list of things we’d need for the

kitchen as I unpacked as well as a list of shopping, I was glad Lissa had left

her spare card hidden in my overnight bag because we needed a lot.

I grabbed the lists, my wallet, Lissa’s card, my phone and

keys and headed out the door, as I reached my car Adrian was walking towards

me. “Hey Adrian, didn’t think I’d see you today.”

“I thought maybe you might want a hand unpacking, but I take

it you’re going shopping.” “Thanks but pretty everything that needs to be done

right now is unpacked, did you want to come with me? I mean I have to go to the

campus bookstore to grab my books but after that I’ll be going to the

supermarket.” “Shopping’s not my thing but for you Rose, I’ll come with you.

Plus you’ll need me to carry it all for you.”

I laughed at him, before unlocking the car and getting in.

The drive to the bookstore was actually quite quick, I didn’t realise how close

campus actually was to our apartment. I was in and out within 10 minutes since

it was pretty quiet in there today, and we were off to the supermarket.

It was like 2 hours later Adrian and I had finally finished

grabbing what was on the list, it was actually one of the best shopping trips I

ever been on because he made it fun. We were putting the shopping in the back

of my car when Adrian grabbed my arm to stop me picking up another bag, “Rose,

can I take you out tonight?” I looked up at him, he looked a little nervous

which I had to say was actually pretty cute. “I’d love to go out tonight.”

He broke out in a huge grin, “I just can’t wait any longer

to take you out, you’re so beautiful. I’ll help you take the bags up to your

apartment and then I’ll go so I can organise our date, I want it to be as

prefect as possible, oh and wear something really nice.”

I couldn’t help but smile, the drive back to my apartment

was short and within 5 minutes the car was unloaded and Adrian left. About 10

minutes later I realised I had left my textbooks in the car so I raced down to

grab them only when I was coming back inside the building I wasn’t looking

where I was going and ran smack bang into something hard and fell on my ass.

I looked up to see the back of a really tall man, “I’m so

sorry I wasn’t watching where I was going”, as he turned around my jaw almost

hit the ground, this guy was tall, had shoulder length hair tied at the back of

his neck, his eyes were like a chocolate brown, he was full of muscles and boy

was this guy hot. I mean like smoking hot.

“It’s okay I shouldn’t have standing in the walkway”, he

reached his hand down to grab mine and help me up before picking up my bag of

textbooks. His hands were soft but I could feel he was hardworking, his smell

was so intoxicating and I wasn’t even standing that close to him but what stood

out the most was the shot of electricity I’d felt when his hand had touched

mine. If he felt it he gave nothing away.

“I’m Rose, I just moved here.” I noticed then that he was

holding paperwork that looked the same as the forms Lissa and I had been given.

“I’m Dimitri, funny you say that so did I.” He was about to say something else

when the real estate lady came walking back out. “I’ll leave you to it I’ve got

shopping to put away, see you around Dimitri.”

I shakily walked back up to my apartment, it took me an hour

just to put away the shopping before I could even start organising my class

supplies and textbooks. I looked up at the clock to see it was nearly 5:30pm

and I knew Adrian would be picking me up soon since we were going to dinner, so

I quickly jumped in the shower, blow dried my hair, put a little bit of make up

on before walking back to my room in my underwear and looked for a dress.

I decided to wear a black almost skin tight dress Lissa had

brought me for Christmas and 5 inch black heels to complete the look. I thought

I was looking hot I mean I always did. There was a knock at the door and when I

looked through the peep hole it was Adrian, I grabbed my things and opened the

door to see he was holding a rose, I mentally cringed I hated roses because of

my name but I still smiled and took it.

As we were walking out the front of the building I noticed

Dimitri unloading a car, but when he heard us coming out he looked up and I

could have sworn he was checking me out but with a blank expression on his face

it was hard to work out what he was thinking.

The drive to the restrauant was short and although it was beautiful

there were quite a few stares, more so towards Adrian. He’d clearly been here

before. Dinner was amazing and we chatted while we ate but I couldn’t really

enjoy the conversation with him, I began to realise we were only going to be

friends because any sort of relationship would never work between us. But I was

still willing to give him a chance anyway.

Once back at my building he walked me to the front door

before leaning in to kiss me, I’d been kissed before but nothing like this, it

was sweet and I instantly reacted to it however I was really into it.

“Goodnight Rose” Adrian smiled. “Goodnight Adrian, tonight was nice.” I watched

as he walked back to his car before walking inside, Dimitri was standing near

some boxes with another guy having a conversation but his eyes were on me. My

eyes locked his and it looked as though he was a little jealous but I couldn’t

be sure because he was hard to read.

I made my way to the stairs, dreading having to walk up them

to the third floor given how much I had drank through dinner. I was pretty sure

I was drunk. As I tried walking up them, I nearly fell but felt a warm hand

reach out and steady me. I looked sideways to see Dimitri, the other guy was

loading the boxes on top of each other on a trolley to be moved so he was too

busy to notice me.

“How much did you drink tonight Rose?” “I didn’t think it

was that much I only drank during dinner but clearly it was since I can’t even

walk up the stairs” I slurred. “Where abouts is your apartment? I’ll walk you

to the door” “I’m on the third floor, ugh can the world stop spinning?” I heard

him chuckle and next thing I know I’m up in his arms being carried up the

stairs. Mmm he was so warm, I suddenly got the urge to rip his shirt off, the

things this man was doing to my body and I’d only just met him was crazy.

We reached the third floor and I pointed to my door, I

hadn’t realised I was sort of dozing off until he unlocked the door and walked

to the kitchen, he sat me on the counter top before finding a glass and filling

it with water and handing it to me.

I started drinking it but it made me feel sick, he put the

glass in the sink, I was almost dozing off again when he walked to stand in

front of me and carefully started shaking me awake. He was standing so close

before I could register what I was doing I leaned forward and kissed him. I’d

caught both of us by surprise but especially him. He went stiff for a couple

moments before responding to the kiss, his lips were so soft.

The kiss intensified quickly and before I knew it I had my

legs wrapped around his waist and was being carried to my room, he laid me on

the bed and climbed on top of me but when I started undoing his shirt he

groaned, untangled himself and got up.

“I’m sorry Rose I can’t do this, especially while

you’re drunk i’m not taking advantage of you. And I can’t do this when you were

out on a date with another man.” I felt like I was going to cry, no guy had

ever rejected me when I was drunk. “Please Dimitri, after everything I’ve been

through the last few months I need this.” “Get some sleep Rose.” And with that

he walked out.

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