Chapter 68 - Her Secret (2/2)
Dmitri shook his head in amazement. He had to come to terms with the fact. Adrianna gazed at his perplexity and asked, ”Do you still want to marry me?”
”Yes, I do,” he replied after a short pause. He doted on this girl to the extent that this small thing wasn't as issue. ”I would marry you right away if you wanted to, so don't question my determination.” He stopped and then added, ”I will come to take you in a week's time Adrianna. Be ready.”
Adrianna nodded. Then all of a sudden she said, ”I will not stop going to college.”
”No, you won't. We will both go to college together,” he said with his trademark lopsided smile.
Happy that he wasn't stopping her from going to college, she became quiet. That was the only thing that cheered her up. She nodded.
She suddenly remembered that her new pet baby bear Dmitri had run off and shrieked in fear with her hands on her face. ”Where is my Dmitri?”
Dmitri looked at her with a wide grin. But she hardly noticed him and ran outside towards the jungle to find him. She felt disgusted with the fact that in her mental tussle, she had left him on his own. Poor little guy! Was he even alive? She heard whispers.
'See she forgot about him.'
'Poor baby. He must have died by now.'
'I wanted to tell her, but she had already left.'
'I saw him running towards the lake.'
Adrianna wondered where those voices were coming from as she continued to call out for her pet. She made her way towards the lake, but only to find him sprawled out beneath a bush sleeping like a baby before she even reached the lake. She chided him mentally and to her surprise, he started crying.
”Okay, I am sorry. Come on. I was scared that I had lost you,” she said before going to pick him up. He was heavy but he clung to Adrianna like a koala.
Dmitri watched the two of them and smiled at their affection. The baby bear saw Dmitri and growled as he clung tighter to Adrianna, ignoring his presence all the way back home.
”Adrianna, you have to give him a different name,” said Dmitri from behind.