Chapter 2...

I walked into the already full classroom. I was already fifteen minutes late. "Well, Miss Hathaway, how nice of you to grace us with you presence." Stan said sarcastically.

I just smirked. "I knew you appreciated me really Stan." I said in the same sarcastic tone.

I could see Stan's face heating up and the rage in his eyes. God, he really must hate me, I wasn't even being as bad as usual today!

"Miss Hathaway, I do not think that tone is appropriate." he said trying to sound as calm as possible but you could here the venom in his words.

"I don't think you think any tone I use is appropriate." I retorted.

Stan turned even redder - I didn't even know that was possible. "That's is Hathaway! Get out of my classroom!"

He gestured to the door and I just shrugged, picked up my bag and headed to the door. I noticed the familiar smell of aftershave as Dimitri slipped out behind me. I hadn't even realised he was there during my argument with Stan.

"You know I swear he hates me." I said to Dimitri once we were outside.

Dimitri just laughed. "I think you might actually be right."

I just stood there shocked. "Did you Dimitri Belikov just admit that I Rose Hathaway was right. When I insulted a teacher as well!"

He chuckled that gorgeous chuckle, and it made me laugh as well. "Come on," Dimitri said as he started to walk away. "Let's get out of here. I've got someone I want you to meet."

I gave him a confused look and he smiled. He sure did seem happy today, I wonder who could have such a good effect on him. Tasha. My jealous thoughts said. I just shoved that thought away. But I was still curious as to who it was. I realised that we were walking towards the guest housing. At least that meant it couldn't be Tasha, because she always stayed at our cabin.

When we got there Dimitri knocked on a door and a woman in her forties opened it. "Dimka!" She shouted when he opened it. I suddenly knew who this was. It was his mom. She didn't look like him that much, but you could see their family resemblance. She hugged him tightly. I realised that this must be the first time that he had seen them since they had come because he had been at training with me all morning and then must have gone straight to Stan's class. She was still hugging him when an older woman came to the door. This must have been his grandma. He let go of his mother and hugged the frail woman lightly. She had gray hair and looked very old.

Just as he was letting go of her a small boy jumped on him. "Uncle Dimka!" he shouted loudly. He was the double of Dimitri and looked about ten. He had the same eyes and face shape, but younger. He was still shouting 'Uncle Dimka' and Dimitri was trying to calm him down.

While all this was going on I just watched and smiled. Dimitri seemed so relaxed and carefree around his family and it was nice to see him without his guardian mask plastered on his face.

"Everyone, this is Rose Hathaway, my student." Dimitri said gesturing to me.

"Hello Rose." Dimitri's mum said hugging me warmly. I smiled.

"Hello Mrs. Belikov." I said politely.

She just scoffed. "Please, call me Olena." She said.

I laughed gently. "Okay Olena."

Dimitri smiled warmly at me. "This is my grandmother Yeva, and my nephew Paul." He said pointing to his grandma and the small boy. I said hello to both and then turned to Dimitri.

"I thought you had three sisters?" I asked him.

"I do, but Viktoria is at St. Basil's and Karolina is at home looking after her baby and Sonya is too pregnant to fly." He explained to me.

"You know you could have cancelled my training this morning to see them." I said to him.

He shook his head. "They didn't arrive until half way through Stan's class so I didn't bother." he said to me.

"Why were you in Stan's class then?" I asked.

"Well I figured you would get thrown out, and I wanted you to meet them, so I thought that if I went there, I could sneak out and let you meet them then." He said smiling.

"Wow, Comrade, you know me so well." I said laughing. He just laughed with me.

We spent some more time with Dimitri's family until I had to go to my next class and Dimitri had a shift. They didn't know about us, I didn't think. I decided I would leave it to Dimitri to drop that bombshell.