Green Green Dress
Part of my coffee shop AU check it out #howdys coffeeshop or #dianawrites - wanted to get something done before the new year and what a coincidence! this is set at a New Year’s party! songfic to green green dress from tick tick boom while I get more comfortable writing longer pieces. I reserve the right to retcon this as I finish the AU but Happy New Year besties!
Last time on Cool Beans: Rose has been working at the cafe since the summer. Rose and Dimitri have been secretly dating since Thanksgiving. This is them at the Belikova's New Year’s party.
Dimitri should not have been nervous. They’ve managed to keep it to themselves for weeks, enjoying the new relationship in private.
What he wasn’t prepared for was that dress. That green, green dress. It was kryptonite.
Rose had just entered the Belikova home for their annual New Year’s party. The living room was filled with families from the neighborhood, all wanting to celebrate the past year. Dimitri was making his way through the crowd but Viktoria beat him to the door.
“Rose! You made it!” Viktoria squealed as she hugged her.
“Wouldn’t miss it,” Rose replied, hugging Viktoria back in return. Rose only met the youngest Belikova when she returned home for the holidays but they were becoming fast friends.
Dimitri finally made it to the entryway when he overheard his sister.
“You look gorgeous! You must tell me where you got that dress?”
Rose turned around almost sheepishly from hanging her coat on the rack.
“It’s not too much, is it? There weren’t many options at the thrift store,” Rose glanced towards to crowd inside, sighing in relief when she noticed she wasn’t the only one dressed to the nines.
“It’s thrifted? It looks like it was made for you," Viktoria continued with her compliments.
Hearing the pause, Dimitri took the chance to enter the conversation.
“I have to agree with that sentiment. You look beautiful, Roza.”
Deep, dark velvet hugs your silhouette Black silk stockings, you're my Juliet
The dress was emerald green velvet. A halter neck with twenty buttons down the back. Rose wore it with black silk stockings and a pair of low black slingback heels.
Rose shot Dimitri a devilish grin. “You don’t look too bad yourself, Comrade.”
This was as dressed up as Dimitri would get in his family’s home. A navy turtleneck paired with crisp black slacks. He ran his hand through his hair at the comment. The movement drew attention to a new accessory, a silver chain with a cross. A Christmas present from Rose.
Sensing the shift in tone and the longing looks the pair were giving each other, Viktoria mumbled an excuse about finding her baby niece and excused herself.
Dimitri guided her through the living room to the kitchen where his mother was stationed at the island. “Rose! So glad you could make it! Please help yourself to anything you like,” said Olena.
They left the kitchen with heaping servings of Olivier salad and sparkling wine.
They mingled and danced for hours. Fireworks were set off in the backyard. Many shots were drunk. They wanted to be subtle but the dress proved to be too much. Dimitri could not keep his hands off her and Rose relished in the feeling.
Unlike the New Year’s parties of her past, most of which she was just accompanying Lissa, Rose did not feel alone in the crowd. She didn’t feel like an outsider intruding. The Belikova’s had insisted she be a part of the family photo. With her arms around Karolina and Dimitri, she couldn’t help but feel like she was home somehow.
It felt like not long after the party had started, it had quieted down. Midnight had come and gone and it was a brand new year.
Let's find a chair where we can sit and talk Or get some fresh air, maybe we could take a walk Tell me what you're thinkin', talk about your day Tell me what to do, I'll do anything you say
Most of the guests had returned home and the younger children were put to bed. Rose and Dimitri had finished cleaning up a while ago but they were hesitant to leave immediately after.
They went out to the patio for some fresh air, hoping to cool off from the alcohol. Dimitri held Rose close as they swayed to a soft 80’s pop ballad he had saved on his phone, listening through a pair of wired earbuds.
Dimitri stopped suddenly when he noticed something on the ceiling.
“I thought Adrian had taken down all the Christmas decorations.”
Rose looked to where Dimitri was and spotted the mistletoe decorated with red and gold ribbon.
“Just kiss me, Comrade. I’ve been waiting all night."
With a request like that, Dimitri had to oblige. They met in the middle for a soft kiss.
“Maybe, we could do a little more than just kissing,” he whispered as he leaned down to kiss her neck.
Rose’s eyes widened as she remembered where they were. On the patio of his family home and his family still inside.
“Who are you and what have you done with Dimitri?”
“You asked me what my resolution is. I want to open up more. I don’t want to hide what we have.”
Rose was taken aback by this declaration, albeit a slightly drunken one, but a declaration nonetheless.
“I need to know what Vika snuck into the wine to get you this affectionate.”
“Nothing at all. It’s you, Roza. It’s always just you. You don’t know what you do to me sometimes.”
Rose wasn’t blind, she could see the look in his eyes whenever she teased him. She knows the effect she has on him. However, it was nothing compared to the desire that grew in her that only his words of adoration could bring out. He wants her but he also wants all of her. Not just her body but her soul as well. That’s why she loves him.
“I believe you have another present to unwrap.”
They managed to make it to his car before the buttons were completely undone.
The green, green dress What a pleasure to unwrap Green dress, oh, what it can do What the green, green dress does to me on you Me on you
