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Chapter Two: Rose/Dimitri ~ Wishing on a Star.
Rose was leaning on the window sill, looking, unblinkingly, at a bright star in the sky. Dimitri came up behind her and wrapped his arm around her. "What are you doing Roza?"
"Wishing for the impossible on a star," Rose muttered darkly.
"Oh Roza," Dimitri sighed. "There's always adoption..."
"What?" Rose looked at Dimitri, shocked. "I'm not wishing for a child Dimka, I'm wishing for my parents to leave right this minute."
Dimitri laughed. Janine and Abe had appeared this morning at Rose's and Dimitri's doorstep, telling them that they were here to spend Christmas with their daughter. Dimitri had thought that it was rather sweet, but Rose was horrified and wanted them gone.
"I just wanted a nice, quiet Christmas in," Rose sighed. "Stay at home and curl up on the couch watching corny Christmas movies with cheesy Christmas music. Then on Christmas Day, go over to Lissa's, pretend we are being nice visitors and give her a gift and then steal Sparky's dinner. But no, my parents had to arrive." There was a clatter of pots in the kitchen. "And now they are attempting to prepare a dinner for tomorrow afternoon. I won't survive," Rose moaned. "I'll die of embarrassment!"
"Rose," Dimitri laughed at her dramatics. "They are only trying to be nice and give you the family dinner that you've been missing out on for your whole life."
"Look Dimitri, I thought that I wanted a family Christmas dinner all my life, but I realise that I was wrong. All I need is you, Lissa and Sparky. Maybe Jill will be there. Maybe Adrian and Sydney will make a surprise appearance, who knows, all I can tell you is that I want my parents gone as soon as possible, before I kill them, or worse, they kill each other."
Dimitri heard the raised voices in the kitchen. "That turkey is too small Janine!"
"There are only four of us Abe!"
"Your point?"
And the two adults in the kitchen kept on arguing like that for quite awhile.
Rose stared out of the finger and crossed her fingers and legs, and probably her toes. "They need to leave, like, now. As much as I love them, this is not a surprise Christmas present, this is a surprise Christmas punishment that admittedly I deserve because I'm not exactly an angel, but still, this is overkill."
"Rose!" Janine called from the kitchen. "Where is your Christmas Tree?"
"Doesn't have one," Abe muttered disapprovingly.
"You don't have a Christmas Tree?" Janine screeched. "What is wrong with you two and Christmas! No Christmas Tree, no decorations, no dinner, thank God we arrived when we did."
"I thought my parents were cold, distant and horrible, unseasonal people," Rose muttered. "But apparently even they feel the Christmas spirit. Who would have thought it?" Dimitri figured that it was a rhetorical question, so he didn't answer.
Just then there was a sound of phones ringing in the kitchen, and Dimitri heard Janine say: "Now? Right now?" and Abe say: "Is it really that urgent?"
"Rose, I have to get back - I have work tomorrow," Janine called.
"I have to go too," Abe said loudly. "Business deal."
Rose's eyes lit up."Yes, yes, yes! Christmas miracle really are real." Then she walked into the kitchen with a convincing sad face. "Do you really have to go?" Rose said sadly.
"We do, sorry," Janine said sadly. "Oh well, there is always next year, I guess. I'll get the week off next year and we'll decorate the house and get a tree and we'll have a feast and invite everyone round." As they walked out of the door, Rose's eyes were wide with panic.
"Dimitri," she hissed. "Next year we are skipping the country and gaining new identities!"
"Dimitri laughed. "We'll just have to make sure that we are on duty all next year. Now, how about those corny movies."
"I'll get the popcorn ready," Rose announced.
