"How did you become a doctor?" Dimitri asked Rose as he helped pack up her things into varies boxes that littered the floor to her bedroom as Sofia, Janine and Lissa packed up Arabella's room and Alessandro, Eddie, Abe and Dante started to bring the full boxed down and into a van. Rose looked up at Dimitri. "You wanted to become a doctor when you were 16. You were always studying, not just your high school work but also some 'doctor shit' as Christian used to put it." Rose smiled.
"I don't know really. When I was in the accident and came round, they said that I was able to help myself. They said it was as if I was a doctor before I got into the accident. They said that when someone is in a coma for as long as I was, their brain started to change or something, and they think I just became incredibly smart. It was like how, remembered on the news years ago there was a kid that was in a coma, and when he woke up he was fluent in like seven different languages? Yeah that." Dimitri looked on in amusement as he watched rose explain. "They allowed me to go into medical school here and with all the class tests, they kept making me skip some years, they thought I have already studied everything, so basically I spent two years studying and have been working here since."
"You know, you were already studying to be a doctor when you left." Dimitri said as he continued to fold clothes and out them in their respective boxes, shirts with shirts, jeans with jeans and so on. Rose looked up at him.
"Really?" Dimitri nodded.
"You were studied for about three years; since you were 17- as soon as you graduated you were accepted to study." Rose stopped putting things in a box and looked up at Dimitri.
"I was a doctor?" Dimitri nodded.
"In some ways, you finished three years by the time you left. I left in the summer so you just completed the third year. I thought if I gave you the summer to get used to me being gone for the year then you would be able to finish. You started to spend more time with me rather than on your studies so I thought it was best to leave and make a life for us so when I came back, you would just have to spend a couple of years doing your residency training and then get a licence to practice."
"What do you do then?" Rose asked Dimitri when he had finished and started to put photo frames into a new box.
"I buy and sell property. It's my own business." Dimitri explained. "I have two guys that help me, so while I'm here, they're looking after things." Rose nodded.
"That doesn't sound hard."
"Oh, Roza, on the century." Rose gave a little giggle and Dimitri smiled over to her. By then, they had finished packing everything out of Rose's room and taken all the boxes down to the van. Lissa, Janine and Sofia followed with Arabella's boxed and started to load them into the van. As soon as her cot-bed was put into the van, it was closed and driven to the airport so it could be sent to America head of them. Rose picked up Arabella from the neighbours at dinnertime and everyone ate dinner together.
There was light laughter where Dimitri was sharing stories about his time with Rose while Janine talked about Rose's childhood. Even though she couldn't remember anything that they were saying, apart from Dimitri's, her heart still burst with joy at the thought of finally being able to find out who she really was. It scared her, but she had to do it for herself. She had to let Arabella be with her father and she had to remember her own family. Dante, Sofia and Alessandro already booked a holiday to come and visit her while she was out in America so they could get to see her and Arabella. Janine knew it wasn't fair to take Rose away from this family after all they had accepted her and looked after her when she couldn't and she knew that her daughter was loved by these people.
The next day was a day full of tears. Alessandro, Dante and Sofia drove to the airport with Rose and Arabella and walked into the airport together. Once they got to the gate, they gave Roe a tearing goodbye while Dimitri held his daughter in his arms and gave her to the Italian family so he could hug Rose and tell her that everything was going to be okay. They watched as they boarded the private jet to bring her to America-to her home. Rose looked out the small windows with Arabella on her lap as the plane took off. She could see her second family, smiling and waving as she took on the next part of her journey home. They knew they were going to see her in a month, but it still didn't get rid of the hurt that they felt in their hearts as they watched the plane fly into the sky and out of eyesight.
Rose looked out the window as the plane left Italy and started to fly over green lands and blue waters until it would finally stop in America in 23 hours. Rose fell asleep as Dimitri massaged her back and held his sleeping daughter, before he fell asleep himself with his family by his side.
