Heyyya everyone. Sorry about not updating on the weekend. Everything was all over the place. Expecially my school work. I had three assignments due and couldn't really sit down and finish them.
I was alos going to update yesterday when I finished writing this chapter but my internet wouldn't let me do anything so here we are. Wednesday.
So there will be a lot going on in this chapter but I think I pretty much explained it all.
I hope you like it.
ENJOY
Chapter Three
I shoved my head deeper into the pillow and sighed. Work had gotten to me today and I was exhausted. The children and babies screaming and demanding more when they had enough. "Rose?" I threw the blanket over my head so I didn't have to listen to Dimitri lecture me about the state of the house. I heard him sigh. "Rose you know the rules." I peak out of the top of the blanket to see Dimitri standing there. I frowned. There was ash on the side of his face. "You have to-" I cut him off by leaning up and wiping it off his face.
"Hard day at work?" I asked him and he narrowed his eyes at me.
"You're not getting out of it. Come on. I'll help you." I pouted and he yanked me up by my arm. I walked over to where I had dropped my shoes and picked them up so I could throw them in the closet. The buzz of Dimitri's phone went off in his coat that hang on the coat hanger. I turned to see Dimitri slinging the blanket over his should and the pillow. I frowned at him as he took them up the stairs. I grabbed the phone and flipped it open.
"Hello?"
"Dimitri's not here right now. Who is this?"
"Just tell him Tasha Ozera called." I glared at the phone.
"How did you get this number?"
"Excuse me?"
"Answer me now."
"I don't see why it's any of your busine-"
"Oh shut up."
"I found him in my nephew's phone." I heard feet coming towards me and I snapped the phone shut. I turned around to see Dimitri standing there with his hands crossed.
"Rose? What are you doing?"
"I'm was just-" He held his hand out for me. I handed him his phone with a sigh.
"Why were you using my phone?"
"My phone ran out of credit?" I told him. It sounded more like a question than a statement. He rolled his eyes
"Why am I not surprised? Your always on there."
"Am not." He chuckled and leaned forward to kiss me.
"How about I make you some dinner and you clean up the rest of the house? Good deal or not?" I nodded and grinned at him.
"Good deal." He smiled and pecked my lips before walking back into the kitchen where he had just come out from. I sighed and went to clean the rest of the house up.
I swallowed the rest of the pasta and leaned back in my chair. Dimitri watched me grinning. "Hungry?" He asked me and I nodded.
"More than you know."
"Well you are eating for two." He told me placing his hand on mine which still rested on the table. I smiled weakly at him.
"Yeah." I muttered. I bit my lip. I had to ask "Hey Dimitri. I have a question. A friend who works at the café well she lied to her… fiancé."
"Oh?" He said placing another mouthful of food into his mouth.
"Yeah. She asked me what I should do but I couldn't really answer it."
"What was the question?"
"Well she lied about having a child… She said she was pregnant but she really isn't. Now she's scared that her fiancé would leave her all alone." He sat there for a moment studying me "She asked me today since I am actually pregnant and she's well… not." I watched him swallow and smile at me.
"The answer is clear isn't it?" I frowned and shook my head. "She should tell her fiancé that she isn't pregnant. I'm sure if he loved her he would accept what she did-"
"Yeah but what if her fiancé really wanted a child. W-what if that she didn't want to tell him the truth because she knew how much it would hurt him." He studied me again and then sighed.
"Then she should still tell the truth. Pressure or not. It's the right thing to do."
"Okay."
"If this going somewhere Rose?"
"Dimitri I-" The doorbell rang and I sighed before getting up and heading towards the door. I opened it a tad to see who it was. Lissa was standing there looking like a grumpy hippo that didn't get dessert. I pushed the door open all the way and she stomped in.
"I hate Christan." She told me and I raised an eyebrow.
"You do?"
"Yes. Do you know what he did?"
"No I don't know-"
"He didn't get me any freaking ice pops in peanut butter. Doesn't he know that a pregnant woman craves this stuff."
"No?"
"We've had two kids already and he won't get me any freaking ice pops in freaking peanut butter. Sorry baby." She muttered rubbing her stomach before making herself at home on my couch.
"Of cause you can come into my house Lissa." I told her rolling my eyes.
"Do you have any ice pops with peanut butter?" She asked me "I'm starving and it's the only thing I'm craving for."
"Sure…" I said going into the kitchen. Dimitri was still sitting there in thought. I frowned at him. "What?" He looked up at me and then down to my stomach.
"Rose. Are you pregnant?"
"Of cause-"
"No Rose. I want the truth. Are you or are you not pregnant?"
"I'm-"
"ROSE." Lissa screamed from inside the lounge room "Where's my peanut butter ice pops."
"Coming." I shouted back before turning back to Dimitri. He was there anymore. I sighed and headed over to the fridge and grabbed the ice pops that Dimitri normally smothers in chocolate and whipped peanut butter on them before heading back to Lissa.
She was rubbing her belly impatiently. I handed it over to her and she snatched it from my hands before she started to suck on it moaning in delight. I nearly threw up in my mouth.
"Gross." I muttered.
"You know Rose… When you start showing you'll be as big as me at one point."
"Right. Anyways are you staying the night?"
"No way hunny. I don't want to hear you and Dimitri having S E X." She said laughing at her own joke. I rolled my eyes.
"So where are you going?"
"Home."
"But I thought-"
"I have to go tuck my kids in and then they kiss my tummy. It's the routine."
"But I thought you hated Christan…"
"Pshhh I'm pregnant." She waved her hand at me "I say all kinds of stuff. I'm allowed to."
"So I'm allowed to say you used me? I hate you Lissa." She gasped and covered her belly like it had ears.
"It's okay Baby girl. Mummy's not a user."
"Aww you're having a girl?" I said sweetly caught up the moment. Lissa smiled at me.
"Yeah I am- Hey wait a minute." I chuckled.
"I don't hate you Lissa. I just don't appreciate that you come to my house late at night went me and Dimitri are trying to have your special time together." She pouted.
"But I'm pregnant." She wailed and I chuckled.
"Come on Lissa. You better be getting home." I told her grabbing her arm and leading her towards the door.
"Okay. I'm tired anyway. Plus I don't need your ice pops. I have my own." She told me before fake flicking her hair behind her shoulder dramatically. I sniggered and pushed her towards my door.
"Goodbye Lissa. Drive safely." She smiled at me as she left to get into her car. I softly closed the door and walked up the stairs towards mine and Dimitri's room. I opened the door to see Dimitri lying in bed.
He lay there lazily like he slept like that all the time. I rolled my eyes and made my way over to my side of the bed. I grabbed my pj's from the bed and got dressed into them. Dimitri watched me closely and I crawled towards him.
"So about my question earlier-" He shook his head.
"Doesn't matter. I was listening to your conversation with Lissa. I was just a little confused by your story. It doesn't matter because I knew you would never lie to me over something so important." He leaned over and kissed me. He rolled over and snuggled up under the covers. I frowned.
"Hey. You're not leaving me hanging." I pouted and he chuckled rolling over toward me.
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I swung my legs over the side of the bed and yawned. "Roza." Dimitri groaned rolling towards me "What are you doing?" I turned to him.
"Getting dressed…" He shook his head and pulled me back down towards him.
"No you're not." He growled softly before snuggling up to me "It's our day off and you're staying in bed with me all day." I smiled at him.
"I can't. I things to do today." He frowned and pulled me closer towards him.
"Like what?"
"Well Lissa said that I have to go shopping with her today." He sighed and nuzzled his face into my neck.
"Don't go." He whined and laughed.
"I just 'not go'. Lissa would kill me with all her raging pregnant hormones."
"You have a point there." He muttered and looked behind him to see the time. "How early are you going out?"
"She'll probably-" There was a banging at the door and I sighed. "Be here now." Dimitri pulled away from me and lay back on the bed with his arms behind his bed as I struggled to pull on clothes. I walked over to him and gave him a peck on his nose. "See you in a couple of hours." I told him before giving him a proper kiss before grabbing all my stuff and meeting Lissa at the front door.
She was standing there tapping her foot while waiting for me.
"Too you long enough to say goodbye." She told me and I smiled at her.
"He wouldn't let me out of bed." I said with a shrug. She rolled her eyes and linked her arm through mine.
"I remember when Christan wouldn't let me out of bed. The good times." She sighed in happiness remembering when they were younger. I rolled my eyes and slid in beside her as we sat in the car.
"So…. Where to?" She grinned.
"To the baby mall." She shouted making me groan and lean back in my seat.
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"Lissa." I groaned as I dropped into a nearby chair. "Can we stop? My feet hurt and we've been shopping for hours." She turned to me as she placed a small dress on her large tummy.
"What do you think? Yes? No?"
"It's fine Lissa-"
"You know when you get as large as me you'll be all cute like this and then you'll have to take Dimitri because I won't be coming." I shrugged.
"Suits me." She narrowed her eye's at me and huffed before throwing her arms up.
"FINE. I'll come with you." I grinned at her.
"Thanks Lissa." I told her with a grin "You're the best." She narrowed her eye's at me and huffed as she turned away to go and pay for her things. I leaned back on my seat and let out a huge groan.
I hated Lying to Lissa but the pressure got to me. I ran a hand through my hair before getting up to my feet and stretching. "Rose." I heard Lissa screech from the door and I ran over to her. We walked in silence for a while which was unusual for us. The phone call from yesterday popped into my mind.
"So… I didn't know that Tasha was here."
"Tasha? Oh yeah she visited us the other day to see the kids."
"Yeah. She also managed to get Dimitri's number." Lissa thought for a moment.
"I didn't know that…"
"Yeah well I really don't appreciate-"
"She had a kid." Lissa blurted out. I frowned and stopped in the crowd passing by. Lissa turned back to look at me.
"A kid?" She nodded.
"Yeah. Her name is Shireen."
"So?" There was a silence.
"Tasha said it was Dimitri's… That's why she came back but I-"
"Dimitri's? You're kidding me right? There is no way it's Dimitri's."
"But she looks around the age when Dimitri wasn't with you. She's about four maybe five. Remember that two year gap when he wasn't with you?"
"He said that he hasn't seen Tasha since the wedding." Lissa bit her lip and rubbed her stomach.
"Maybe you have to consider that he lied."
"He doesn't lie to me Lissa. He wouldn't…. He's not like that."
"You have to consider that he might actually be the father of this child." Lissa reached for me but I flinched back.
"I knew it was too good to be true." I muttered to myself. My cheeks felt wet and I tried to whip it away. "Tell Dimitri I'm not coming home tonight… maybe not ever."
"But Rose-" I put my hand up to stop her.
"I don't care Lissa. Don't follow me okay?" She opened her mouth to speak to me but she didn't have time to say anything as I disappeared into the crowd.
Dimitri's POV (SURPRISE. I was hoping to get him in.)
I dragged the wet cloth over the counter and caught the small pieces of food in my hand before placing it in the bin. There was a bang on the door that didn't stop until I had to jog down to the door and pull it open. Christan stood there with Lissa huddled under his jacket.
"Where's Rose?" I asked. Lissa suddenly burst into tears. Is my Roza hurt? Does she need me?
"Can we come in?" Christan asked and I nodded stepping to the side so they could come in. I pushed the door close behind them and walked them into the living room where Lissa and settled herself on the couch and was sniffing.
"Is Rose okay? Is she hurt? Where is she?" I started to bombard them with questions. Christan ran a hand through his hair and tried to sooth his hysterical wife.
"Dimitri… We don't know." I frowned.
"Don't know what?"
"Any of the question's you just asked. I wanted to go look for her but Lissa told me not to."
"Why? Where is my Rose?"
"I just told you-" I turned to Lissa.
"What happened? What did you tell her?" Lissa took in some deep breaths trying to calm herself down but it wasn't working. I started to feel myself getting frustrated "Where the F*ck is she?" Christan jumped to his feet.
"Don't talk to her that way."
"I'll do what I want boy." I spat at him. He glared up at me.
"She's my wife."
"I can see that but I can't see MY fiancé."
"You F-"
"No Christan. Stop it." I looked over his shoulder at Lissa with was whipping her nose with a tissue. "I'll tell you everything if you stop fighting with my husband." I nodded my head and she nodded to the nearby chair.
"Take a seat. It's going to be a long story." I slowly lowered myself into the nearby chair and turned my attention directly to Lissa as she started to take deep breaths in and out as she calmed herself again. "A few days ago Tasha came back into town…" Just those few words told me everything. This story wasn't going to be a pretty one.
Rose's POV
I pulled my jacket around me more as I travelled the streets not really knowing where I was going until I looked up at a street sign.
Everything became all too familiar and I squinted as I looked around the street. The house I grew up in was here. I pulled the hood of my jacket further over my head to try and stop the droplets of water from getting in my face.
I glanced at all the numbers on the houses. One, three, five…. Nineteen, twenty-one. I stood in front of the plain brick house as I was trying to debate whether to go in or not. I bit into my bottom lip and pushed open the small gate at the bottom of the small garden. I walked up to the plain wooden door and knocked.
There was shuffling of feet behind the door and then my mother answered. She was dressed in a robe and yawned. "Rose?" I smiled at her and she let me in. "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be at home with Dimitri?" I shook my head trying to not let the tears fall form my eye's again.
"We had a fight." I told her and she sighed and took my hand.
"What about?"
"Lissa told me that Tasha decided to come back and ruin everything." She raised an eyebrow at my words.
"Natasha Ozera?" I nodded.
"Lissa said she brought a child back with her and she's been saying to everyone that it's Dimitri's." I stood there trying to stay strong "I don't want to feel betrayed by the man I love. I want to know that he didn't lie to me and he was telling the truth when he told me the he hadn't seen Tasha since the wedding." My mother sat down on the stool and nodded.
"That's a hard one. Knowing that your fiancé lied and taking charge on it or making it like it was never there." She nodded and someone cleared their throat from behind me. I turned around to see a man that looked way to familiar. I narrowed my eyes at him and then gasped.
"Hey I know you." He grinned at me before winking.
"It's nice to meet you again Rose." I nodded before frowning.
"Why are you here?" He chuckled and nodded at my mother. She smiled and stepped beside him.
"Rose this is Abe." I rolled my eyes. Didn't she know that I already knew that? "He's your father."
MIND BLOWN.
Sorry had to add that in aha.
First I would just like to say... Natasha you stupid cow lol you'll probably be guessing that it's not his child but we'll see...
I guess most of this chapter revolves around Book One but oh well.
Anyway I will try to update as soon as I can. Maybe Sunday since I have to watch the australian swimming on Sat.
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