He left that day, just walked way not listening to anything she had to stay. He didn't want to hold her back from being everything she could be, whether that be a doctor, lawyer or FBI. She was still young, only 20 years old and he felt like he was holding her back from reaching her full potential. He didn't want to leave her, he never wanted to leave her but he did with a heavy heart. He didn't want to tell her he was going because he knew she would make him stay and he didn't want to do that. He was leaving to better himself so that when he came back, he could provide for her the way she deserved but he also wanted to give her space so she can grow into her own person, not just Dimitri Belikov's girlfriend for more than ten years. Rose did find out, however, so now both of them were standing at the train station.

Rose has tears streaming down her face as she tried to convince him to stay. He gave her a final kiss, not letting her say anything and got on the train. He could see her through the window as the train started to move. She chased after it until the end of the platform, tears still falling from her eyes. She screamed after him, touching her belly and ignored the stares of sympathy and annoyance from everyone on the platform.

Rose walked back to her family home and went around back to her shed, which was her own house. She opened up the door and took out a backpack, packing anything she could into the small bag. She wrote letters to her all her family and friends. She didn't have the heart to tell everything she was leaving, not her best friend Lissa and defiantly not her twin Eddie and then she left. She took no photos, nothing to remind her of Dimitri because her heart would break more.

She drove to the airport and bought plane tickets to Italy. Once she boarded the plane at JFK, she fell asleep for the 8-hour flight. Once she landed, she through her phone into a local bin, walked out of the airport, and rented a car. It was hard to get a car when she couldn't provide a drivers licence but the man let her take the car anyway. She paid cash, just like at the airport. She took out enough money before she left America because she didn't want her family to know where she was. She just wanted to get away for a few weeks and come back with her thoughts together so that she could tell her parents that she was pregnant.

She drove on the unfamiliar roads, not knowing where to go. Her mind wasn't really on the road, although she had her eyes opened and they were fixed on the road in front of her. She didn't realise that a car was speeding coming from the right of a road and even though her light was green, the car slammed into the driver's side of Rose's car, sending it rolling on the road until it came to a stop with the wheels in the air.

Rose didn't know what was happening, she wasn't even conscious enough to realise what was happening. All she knew was when she woke up in a clinically white room that she could remember not only how she got there, but also who she was or even her name.

When she woke up, the lights blinded her and she had to close them straight away until she was finally able to adjust to the bright lights that were streaming through the windows of the room she was staying. She could hear a steady beeping coming from the side and she could see a drip attached to her arm. She sat up slowly, not wanting to move the drip and cause it any harm, it was there for a reason and looked around the room. There was a nurse at the bottom of her bed; writing something on a clipboard and putting it back down again. Rose tried to open her open and speak, but her voice was so horsed and dry all she could do was cough, which got the attention of the nurse who poured her some water and helped her drink it.

"You're awake," The nurse said slowly as she helped Rose drink. Rose looked at her. "What's your name?" She asked after she put the cup of water on the side table. Rose looked at her and shrugged her shoulders. She couldn't remember her name. She looked down at the bed and finally noticed her big belly. She stared at it in shock and placed a hand on it.

"You have been involved in an accident three weeks ago and have been placed in a coma ever since. We've been trying to keep your nutrients up so that your baby could survive." The nurse didn't say anything about Rose not responding when she asked her name, she wasn't stupid. She has seen people lose their memory from car accidents enough to know what was happening, and Rose did get a knock to the head. It was a miracle that she and her baby survived at all.

"Well, I'll go and have them make you up some food, you must be starving." The nurse was about to walk out and leave the room but stopped and picked something up from the bedside table. "They took this off you. According to this, your name is Roza and you're 20. Don't worry about the memories, they'll come back with time, don't stress yourself out. You have a child that needs to you stay calm." Rose nodded and took the necklace from the nurse who left after and turned it over.

Happy Birthday my Roza,

I'll love you always,

20/06/2016

Lissa was worried about Rose and so was all her friends and family. They all knew Dimitri had left and thought she was going to go away for a few days and then come back, but when the days pushed to weeks, they all got worried. No one called Dimitri, no one let him know that Rose was missing; they didn't let Dimitri's family know it either. They searched for their friend, daughter and sister but with no luck. Little did they know, she couldn't even remember who they were, she didn't know their names, what they looked like, nothing. All Rose knew was that she was defiantly not from Italy and she had a child that she had to protect and provide for.

Them three weeks, pushed into three years and finally four years. Rose had a new family, the nurse, Sofia, who looked after Rose when she was in a coma took her in and treated her as family. She gained a friend, a mother figure as well as a father figure, Alessandro, and a brother, Dante. She made a new best friend, Sydney and a daughter named Arabella, meaning answered prayer. The Sofia and her family helped Rose with Ari, made Rose go to school until she finally because of a doctor, four years after coming to Italy. Everyone was surprised with Rose they thought she may have been studying to become a doctor before her accident because she was well advanced and graduated early and only a year later become one of the most respected doctors at the age of 23.

Dimitri came back after four years, the owner of a multi-national company and ready to be a family with Rose. Eddie and Lissa were angry with Dimitri for leaving, but no one told Dimitri that Rose was missing, he found out himself when his family admitted that they had not seen Rose since Dimitri had left. He went to her house and found that they were telling the truth. Dimitri blamed himself for Rose leaving. All he wanted to do was to better himself so that he could provide a better life for him and Rose, but all those dreams were shattered. After months of waiting for Rose to come back, after numerous calls, texts and emails and not hearing back, he gave up. He began a relationship with Tasha, Christian's cousin, someone who had tried to break Rose and Dimitri up in the past.

No one truly forgot about Rose, but they didn't move on. They continued to live their lives and slowly anger towards Rose set within all them, especially Eddie and Lissa. They couldn't believe that she never talked to them about what was going on, that she didn't tell them she was leaving and that she never tried to contact them.

Then, close to Rose's 24th birthday, she remembered something. After seeing the necklace at the hospital all those years ago, Rose put it away and forgot about it, until one day, she found it again and started to wear it again. It was a part of her past, a part that she was not ready to get rid of even though she couldn't remember it. That was until a pregnant woman was brought by air ambulance to the hospital and Rose tried desperately to keep her and her baby alive. It was a similar situation that happened with Rose and when the women woke up a few hours later of being stabilised, she told Rose that she didn't want the help that she was receiving because the love of her life left her. Rose stood back in shock as flashbacks flashed across her vision. The nurse that was with them noticed and brought Rose outside and told her to sit down as she went and got Sofia.

Rose remembered a bar, with twinkling lights, people dancing and singing. She saw the name of the bar and once Sofia brought Rose home after their shift, Rose put her three-year-old daughter to bed and looked up the name of the bar. Rose got up from her room and went down to where her family were sitting waiting for Rose to come down and join them so they could talk about what happened that day. Rose sat down with them and just said three words;

"Ithaca, New York."