Chapter 10

"I see that they made up," Vlad whispered as he pointed at Pooka outside the door sleeping.

"Vlad! Get back down here! Marie's just grabbing her things and we're leaving again!" Sophie whispered.

"Alright, alright!" he whispered sneaking down the stairs and out the door, after a minute Grandmama followed them and left.

We woke up about an hour or so later.

"Good mourning gorgeous," Dimitri whispered as I woke up.

"Good mourning stubborn," I joked as I opened my eyes more.

He laughed a bit and then said, "Aw you know me too well... I've been wanting to ask you about something."

"Ask away."

"I already think I know the answer but I just want to make sure. I've been watching you lately, you've been acting differently the past few weeks and I've felt like you've been hiding something from me. But last night, when you said we were having a baby, it no longer felt like you were hiding anything. That's why you've been different lately, isn't it. That's why your eating habits have changed, and why you have had those migranes late at night, and the pains in your chest."

"How did you know about the migranes and my shortness of breath or anything like that? I haven't told anyone about them."

"Late at night when you would sit awake in bed or pace our apartment, I wasn't sleeping. I pretended to sleep because I worried about you. But you didn't answer my question, is the pregnancy what's causing all this?" He said looking into my eyes.

I wanted to tell him the truth then and there but I couldn't, I loved him to much to hurt him like that. So I lied straight to his face, to protect him. "Yes, of course!"

He gave me one of his signature smiles as I curled up next to him and he put his arms around me but I saw something in the corner of my eye on the dresser next to his side of the bed.

"What's that?" I asked quietly.

He looked over to the dresser and said, "Huh, I hadn't even see it, looks like a letter. Let's take a look," he said taking the letter and reading it aloud.

"Dimitri and Anya, We are spending a day in the country so you two will have to find something to do today. Love, Grandmama, Vlad, and Sophie. P.S.: Dimitri, take the money I gave you and buy yourself and Anya something nice. And sorry about yesterday. Sincerely, Vlad. P.S.: Anya, Good job! You listened to what to Dimitri had to say and obviously accepted his apology. Love, Vlad."

"Why obviously? For all he knows you could have snuck in here late last night and crawled into bed or something," I asked funnily.

"Well, in order to get the letter in here, he had to come in here. So he saw us together. You were smiling as you were asleep, you looked so peaceful and sweet, and I would imagine that I looked the same way, so yeah," Dimitri answered.

"Hey, there we go. If you people to think that you are all: sweet, and innocent, and all that then just sleep and they'll see," I laughed.

"Good idea, but there are two problems with that: one, I would have to do a loooooooootttt of sleeping, and two I'm only happy when I'm sleeping next to you."

"You are such dork! But I love it!" I laughed.

"I am not a dork!" He said as he changed his voice to sarcastically serious, "I am a very mature person thank you very much."

"You have your moments," I giggled.

He then grabbed an extra pillow off the floor and then said still talking funny, "I have a lot of mature moments! Like this one," he said as he playfully hit me with the pillow.

"So that's how you wanna play," I said seriously.

He nodded his head yes, and I said, "Well then, Dimitri, let the games begin," as I grabbed a pillow and smacked him with it.

We both laughed and ran around the room throwing pillows at each other, after a minute Pooka heard us and started barking outside the door, he never missed a game.

Dimitri opened the door and Pooka rushed in hyperly, "Come on buy lets get her!" as he picked up another pillow and chucked it at me.

"Pooka would never do anything to me! You're the one he didn't like at first!" I said dodging a pillow.

Pooka was in heaven! He attempted to drag a pillow to Dimitri, "Hah! See he loves me!" Dimitri yelled sarcastically. But then Pooka ran over to me and did the same thing.

"Look at that he loves me too!" I exclaimed.

"I thought you were my friend Pooka! My one loyal companion!" He said acting the words out drastically. "But no, you played both sides, I can not even stand to look at you!" He said turning around.

I was laughing uncontrollably! "First rule of combat buddy boy! Never turn your back on the enemy!" He turned around as I throwed a huge pillow; it hit him right in the head!

"Oww!" He said in pain as he spun around and landed on the bed, "God! That really hurt! You don't know your own strength," he laughed.

"I do know my own strength, very well!" I laughed as I jumped next to him; Pooka followed and went up to lick his face.

"Awwwww!" I said watching Pooka.

Dimitri laughed, "Why thank you Pooka!"

"Sorry 'bout your head," I said sweetly fixing his hair.

"I'll be fine. I've been hit in the head so many times that I just shake it off every time now, and most of the time it been you doing it!" he joked, "Let's see here, the first time was on the train, then there was when I you thought I was dead, then in that store in St Petersburg when you thought you saw Vlad in the Marketplace, the time you—"

"Okay, okay, I get it!" I laughed.

"I think we should do what Vlad suggested."

"Really?"

"Yep! Just you, me, and her or him I mean it, actually buying things, not just looking, and then we can go out for a nice dinner tonight. How does that sound?"

"Sounds like a plan!" I laughed.

"Alright," he said jumping up, "Well, let's get up and go! It's almost eleven and we don't want to be in a rush!"

I was in aw of him, I smiled and he ran to the bathroom to get dressed. I waited a minute and then did the same in the bathroom across the hall.

"Almost ready?" He said knocking on the door fifteen minutes later.

"Just about!" I hollered.

"Okay well I'm gonna go downstairs."

"Okay, don't forget to give Pooka some water and food!" I said as he walked away from the door.

"I will," he laughed, "Come on Pooka!"

I then heard them go downstairs. I was almost finished getting ready when I suddenly got a horrible pain in my chest, it was hard to breathe, I sat down on the chair in the small bathroom for a minute to catch my breath. Probably just the baby, I thought and hoped. After a minute the pain finally passed and I was able to stand up again, I looked at my face in the mirror, I was a shade of white I had never seen before.

After a few minutes, I was ready, I yelled downstairs as I turned off the light, "Dimitri! I'm ready to go!"

He then ran to the bottom of the stairs and as he looked up he said, "Let's g—" he stopped and just starred at me for a moment and his facial expression was priceless! I called it the Dimitri Stare, in other words he was blank.

"Are you okay?" I said looking at him concerned.

He snapped out of it and said, "Yeah, yeah, sorry I just… You look wonderful," as he smiled like a child.

"Thank you!" I said almost skipping down the stairs, I was still a little out of breath.

"Be careful! You wouldn't want to be getting hurt!" He said concerned as he took my hand and we went out the door.

"Gosh, now your starting to sound like them!" I joked.

"Don't worry, for the next nine months I will be your personal body guard! Making sure that you two stay safely out of harms way!" He said sweetly.

"Really? Because I imagine that you'll be the one needing a assistance, maybe you haven't realized it but I'm a little bit more, what's the word?...Graceful than you."

He then looked at me and started walking facing me, not paying attention where he was going and started talking, "Well, I must disagree with you. I'm not that clumsy! I mean I don't always get hurt it's just that—" just as he was saying that he tripped over a bush and went flying into it.

I looked down at him in the bush with a smirk and said, "You were saying oh so graceful one?" as I put my hands on my hips.

He started to talk but stopped himself, he knew that he couldn't save himself from this one. I put out my hand and helped him up and we continued walking.

"I could have easily gotten out of that bush myself, you know you're gonna have to start talking it easy for the next few months, you can't be doing all your usual stuff—"

"Oh you mean helping you out of your predicaments?" I joked.

"No... or yes. What I'm trying to say is that you have to be careful, take it easy, I don't want either of you two to get hurt," he said sweetly.

"Awwwww, don't worry." I said taking his arm, "I'll… try, to settle down, okay happy?"

"Yes, very happy!"

I then hugged him forgetting he was still sore from his little fall in the park the other day.

"Oww!! That's what I'm talking about it! At least I have you to protect me," he joked.

"Got that right!" I joked.

"Now where should we go?"

"Weellllll, I was thinking that we could get something to eat first!"

"Alrighty, your pick! Anything you'd like!"

"Really? Anything?"

"Yep! Anything!"

"Hmmmmmm, ice cream sounds good, but so does pancakes, oh or maybe those little cookie thingys with jelly in the middle!"

"Good god you are pregnant!"

I playfully hit his arm.

"Hey! What did I say?"

"Sooorrryyy," as I kissed his arm where I hit it.

"Thank you, now I feel all better," he smiled joking, "So you want all of that?"

"I didn't even think of that!"

"Oh boy."

"Or girl!" I joked.

Suddenly, as we were walking and I felt a rush of dizzyness come over me again. this time it was worse, much worse. "Dimitr--" I said with no breath left in me as i feel to the ground.

"Anya!" He exclaimed catching me in his arms.

Everything was moving around, I could barely hear Dimitri's voice as he kneeled with me in his arms on the sidewalk. He was saying something, yelling trying to get help. He kept just saying, "Anya! Stay awake honey, come on keep your eyes open!"