Rose and Dimitri Love Story: Hidden Love

Chapter 2: Practice

“You’ve been gooey-eyed all week.  What is going on?”  Lissa asked me.  I was sitting on the couch in our dorm.  She came up and shut my laptop closed then sat down next to me.  “Seriously? You haven’t really seemed yourself lately.” 

I cracked a smile.  I knew I could tell Lissa anything.  “Well…” I made some weird expression with my teeth.  I tend to do that whenever I get nervous.  Letting out a sigh, “Remember how you felt with Christian.  I guess I kind of am beginning to feel that way about… Dimitri.” I whispered faintly. 

At this point Lissa was up and bouncy around.  “Oh my god! You love Dimitri!” Before I was able to protest she began asking about a million questions, “Have you said anything to him yet?  Does he feel the same way?  What if you marry him and have little babies?” She gasped, “Have you fantasized about him yet?" 

“Shut up, Lissa! No, I haven’t and I’m not in love with him.” She raised an eyebrow.  I groaned, “Fine! Okay so during practice he glistens like a god.  Ooh and sometimes when he puts his hair back, you can see his molnija marks and for some reasons it makes me feel so secure.  He is ripped! Like when pins me down on the mat and is overtop of me telling me everything I did wrong.  I can smell his cologne and it’s like I died!”  I continued to babble on about Dimitri to Lissa for the rest of the night.  It doesn’t really make sense to me why I feel this way.

Lissa said that I’m in love, which I highly doubt because I never date anyone.  I normally just do little hookups with guys, but never a serious relationship.  All I know is that I just want to kiss him whenever he’s around.  I guess I just find him extremely sexy.  Is it weird I kind of want him in my pants? Yep, too far; god I need to stop talking to myself.

It didn’t help either that I have training with Dimitri in the morning.  I decided to push these feelings for him aside at the moment.  Being Lissa’s guardian is the most important thing right now.  She comes first.

Dimitri was in the process of crunches when I walked in.  He had on a grey tank top with his hair pulled back.  There were bullets of sweat dripping off his shoulders.  Each time he came up, you could hear a heavy exhale. 

He glanced over at me once when he came up and stopped.  With a quick step, he was up on his feet and grabbed a towel from the bench.  He had it hung around his neck and began walking towards me.  

“Today, you will show me your endurance.” Dimitri said with a raspy voice.  This was the first time I’ve heard him in this tone.  I guess he had a long night on watch duty.  The lack of sleep tends to make him grumpy, which means that he will be harder on me during workouts.  Great. 

“Start with 50 laps then 50 reps of push ups.”  Dimitri said in a thick Russian accent. 

“Are you fucking kidding?” I blurted out.  No filter what so ever. 

He raised an eyebrow and nodded.  With that I started my 50 laps and I began thinking about Dimitri’s hot thick accent: worth a shot to ask. 

“So,” I started up, “What’s with the voice?  It sounds like somebody had a rough night.”  I caught a slim smirk leave the corner of his mouth. 

With his arms crossed and watching me take my laps, he answered. “Now that the princess is beginning to become better known, there will be more out there trying to hurt her.  That’s where we come in.”

“We?” I asked him cocking my head up after my 28th lap.  “Last time I checked, I was Lissa’s guardian.  Not you.”

“You are a novice.  I am a guardian.” Dimitri fired back. 

I was starting to simmer in my shoes.  As hot as his, he can really piss me off at times.  “What the hell do you think I’m doing?  Sitting on my ass twiddling my thumbs?  You’re supposed to be training me to be a guardian.  This is what I’m born to do.  I’m not about to let you trample over me.  Lissa is my Moroi, not yours.” 

There was silence for a while.  At this point, I wasn’t running anymore.  I was standing right in front of him, staring up at his sexy brown eyes that were now black.  When he glared down at me, his eyebrows folded a little which added onto his god-like appearance.  You could practically feel the sexual tension between us, or atleast I could. 

“I always admired you for that.  Being able to stand up for what you want or believe in.  I find that very special.  Not many people have that.  Rose, you are the most real person I know.”  Dimitri finally responded. 

Now I was completely turned on and had so much lust for him.  I just wanted him so bad.  I wanted to kiss him right then and there.  I wanted him to grab me by the neck and pull me into him.  

“You know I can do more than just fight for what I want.”  I let out a little wink towards him.  This sent him into a frenzy anyone could tell.  Ever since the whole love charm incident with Dimitri, we have left off in an awkward status.  It was obvious there was some connection between us and we both knew deep down that we wanted to pursue it. 

We were both starting to inch closer to each other.  Right before we kissed, he pulled back.  “I’m sorry.  After what happened,” he trailed off, “We can’t be together.  At your age, you should just worry about being a teenager and partying or whatever they do.  I need to focus on protecting Lissa and guarding everyone at this school.  Besides, it’d be weird; I’m a teacher and you’re a student.  You couldn’t have possibly seen something happening?” 

I looked down at my feet after it seemed like I was being scolded.  Then I realized that I’m a badass bitch and I’m not afraid to stand up for something I want.  “If you really think that explain what that was just a minute ago?  Or when we were under the charm?  There had to be some lust between both of us for it to work.” 

For once he was speechless.   I grabbed my gym bag and faced him once more.  “Don’t be an ass about it.  I’ll see you tomorrow.”

It made me mad that he was just denying everything that is obviously there.  I mean I get where he’s coming from, but I just can’t believe that the man I love refuses to admit it.  There were so many more questions I wanted to ask.