Prologue:Meeting.

I was three at the time I first met Dimitri Belikov, he was the new kid in town. Avery, my best friend and cousin at the time wanted to meet him.

So, we went to his house. And I was... Not disgusted but surprised. Did people really live like this?

It wasn't a bad house, it just wasn't my type of house. I was the rich girl and he was the poor boy.

Avery knocked on the door and a five year old kid answered it. His hair was tied in a ponytail.

"Who are you?" he asked. His voice sounded funny.

"Rose Hathaway and that's Avery Lazar," Avery and I had practiced saying or full names correctly.

It took hours to finally get it right.

"Dimitri Belikov," what kind of name was that?

He strecthed out his hand. Avery and I looked at each other.

"Don't you have cooties?" Dimitri laughed at my question... or at me, he never told me.

"Nope," Avery was still unsure, but not me. I shook his hand, the way adults always seemed to do.

"Want to go to the river?" Avery asked him. It was then that I noticed he had my basket ball... That had gone missing two days ago.

"That's mine!" I exclaimed. He blushed a little, but I was too mad.

"Give it back," he did give it back, but he seemed sad about it. I was too naive to know his family was too poor to but him one for himself. Seeing him sad diminished my anger.

"Do you want to play?" I asked him.

He nodded his head and we ran towards the small basketball court.

What I remember the most of that was was that Dimitri had brown eyes.

Not just any kind of brown eyes.

Chocolate brown eyes.

Staring into the eyes of this five year old, I knew my life was going to change.

And, boy, was I right.

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So, this one won't be too long, maybe 15 chapters.

:) Review.

And it is the prequel to Goodbye.