"Hello sir." I heard the familiar Russian accent. I was up have the night wondering if what Tasha said was true and came to the conclusion that, Dimitri would ever lie to me like that.
"I'm ready!" I sang and walked into the living room and smiled at my boyfriend. I grabbed my bags and threw them over my shoulder.
"Ready to go?" Dimitri asked me. I smiled and nodded.
"Bye daddy." I said and gave him a hug and then I did the same to my mother. Dimitri opened the door and I gave one last wave and shut the door. When we finally got in his car I sighed. "It's like I'm moving out for life." Dimitri chuckled and started the truck and we pulled out of the driveway.
"They're just looking out for you."
"Yeah, you're right." I agreed. "But soon enough I'm going to New York wow, I'm going to New York in like, three weeks."
"Yes you are." Dimitri agreed. "Wait I thought you we're going to go to Stanford?"
No, I'm going to New York, to Colombia it's my home and you're going to Afghanistan…are you going to come visit me in New York when you get back?" I asked him, my voice cracking and tears threatening to spill out form my eyes.
"I'm going to come live with you when I get back." He replied and I could have fainted. "I mean if that's okay with you?" He asked me. By the tone of his voice you could already he was grinning.
"I would love it if you moved in with me." I said feeling giddy.
"Good. Wait you're not living in a dorm right? 'Cause they're not going to allow that."
"No I am not living in a dorm, it will probably some shoe-box apartment."
"Nice." He replied.
"It's scary we've been dating for like 5 weeks and you're going to move in with me." I smiled and giggled.
"Technically well be dating for 8 months when I move in with you." He said and my smile dropped. I could have started crying, he was going to leave two weeks after I go to New York.
I cried every time I thought about him not being with me. He was going away for eight months and the possibility the he could leave permanently-
I shouldn't think that way.
"Hey, I'm going to be fine." He promised. No matter how many times he says it I'm still not going to believe it.
"Okay." I whispered.
"Actually about the whole moving in thing your Dad might kill me." Said Dimitri.
"I'll talk him into it." I laughed. "Deal?"
"Deal."
"Rose, Dimitri you made it." Lissa exclaimed as we got out of the truck. I smiled and she wrapped me in tight embrace.
"Yeah."
"Motherfucker." I heard Dimitri shout- whisper. I gave Lissa a puzzled look and went to where he was. Then the was a crash and I saw a flash of blonde and Lissa took off.
"What happened?" I demanded. Dimitri was bent over picking something up.
Pills.
There were pills on the ground.
"Dimitri why do you have pills?" I demanded.
"Look Roza don't worry about it." He said picking the up off the ground and into his hand.
"Well I'm worrying, what are they for?" I asked. He gave me a look, just drop it. "Please."
"There sleeping pills I get nightmares." Dimitri said now standing. He turned around and started getting all our stuff off the truck.
"Wait a minute, nightmares? About the war?" Dimitri didn't answer. "Dimitri?" I all but yelled.
"Rose, we'll talk about it later." Dimitri said.
"Dimitri! I'll help you set up your tent." Christian broke me and Dimitri's tension.
"Go," I snapped. He glanced back at me and then took of the tent and Christian came and they were setting it up. I leaned back ad rested my head against his truck. It was warm against my head and I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I didn't like that something was scaring him so much that he couldn't sleep.
"What are you doing?" Liss asked startling me. "Sorry, you look like your about to cry." She explained.
"No, no. Do you need me to do anything?" I asked brushing aside my feelings.
"No, that's the boys' jobs." She teased. "So what's been up?"
"Nothing much, how about you-?"
"Christian proposed to me." She said. I gasped and squealed a little, and let me tell you something I never squeal.
"Wow…what did you say?" I asked. As much as I was happy I don't really approve of getting married at eighteen. I think you don't really know who you are. I do now that I would love to spend the rest of my life with Dimitri but our relationship needs to grow. Obviously Christian and Lissa have been together longer but till.
"I said I'd think about it." Lissa replied. A wise decision her part. "I mean I love him but marriage? What would you do?"
"I'm not sure, like, personally, like," I giggled at my lack of words. "If it was my friend Sydney I would not let her sit back and ruin her life my marrying Adrian but I love them and in the future if that's what they want but I know a lot of teen marriages don't end well. Maybe you could move I together see how that works." I suggested.
"If it was that easy. My parents think it's horrible to live with your boyfriend before marriage." Lissa said.
"Really?" I said probably cutting of further words. "My parents would kill me if I got pregnant or like didn't go to school for a guy but I he wanted we wanted to move in together, which we're planning on, they would probably be okay. Well my dad would try to act all tough but…"
"I just don't know what to do." She said and faked a smile.
"Listen, I don't know, like will he dup you if you said no?" I asked. She shook her head.
"He loves me too much, I have full confidence in him." She said. Well good for her.
"Do you want to marry him?" I asked and her face lit up, he green eyes brighter and he curls blowing in the air.
"Yeah, but in the future….not now, I was so surprised." She said calmly although you could tell she was really giddy. "I mean I have to go to school, to Harvard!" She exclaimed. "But I love him."
"Well tell him that, maybe you guys get married after school, you know?" I offered. She groaned.
"Tents up, babe." I heard Dimitri shout. I rolled my eyes.
"Trouble in Paradise?" Lissa asked sitting up from leaning her back up against the truck.
"No we just need to talk and he needs to like have sex with me." I confessed and she laughed.
"Oh dear." Lissa said. "We'll talk later." She said and the walked off to the direction of Christian.
"Hey, do you want to help me carry our crap in the tent?" Dimitri startled me.
"Sure." I said and walked to the back to the truck and grabbed our crap. It was heavier than I expected.
"Finally!" I sighed putting down the last bag. "Damn that was heavy."
"Yeah." Dimitri replied. The sun had almost set and the air was cooling down. I was digging in my bag looking for a sweater.
"Shit." I cursed. "Ahhhh!" I groaned. I rolled my eyes and kept looking through my bag.
"What?" Dimitri asked. He was kneeling down because he was too tall to stand in the tent and I was bent over with my butt in the air. I turned and I noticed Dimitri appreciating the view. He laughed when he saw that I noticed.
"I don't have a hoddie." I said. Dimitri faked gasped.
"Say it ain't so." I made a face at him. Dimitri unzipped his bag and grabbed a black piece of clothing and through it at me and it smacked me in the face. "That I my favorite hoddie so I'm allowing you to borrow it." I held it up and observed it.
"St Basil's Academy." I turned it around. "Belikov. Nice I like it." I through it over my head and it fell to mid thighs.
"It's my favorite."
"It's really comfortable." I admitted. He nodded his head.
"Dimitri! Rose! We're going to roast marshmallows." Eddie's voice broke through the very brief silence between Dimitri and I.
"Let's go."
"I ate too many marshmallows." I groaned. It was around four in the morning when we came back to our tent. I was in my sweats and Dimitri's sweater and I crawled into the huge sleeping bag, meant for two. Dimitri came in beside me.
"Are you going to be okay? Do you feel sick?" He asked I nodded my head.
"I just have to sleep it off but, I can't believe that you let me eat that much." I yawned and he laughed silently.
"Rose I love you so much." Dimitri whispered, I was lying on my back and then Dimitri but his hand on my stomach and started rubbing my stomach.
"And I love you." I replied. That was the most honest thing I had ever said. "I will miss you so much when I leave. Wait before you go to bed, you have to take your pill." I smirked.
"I did, look the nightmares are about the war and just random stuff, okay? I'll talk to you tomorrow when we're more awake." Dimitri told me. I loved hearing him talk to me, I loved his voice.
"Write to me every day. I just- I can't even rap my head around not being with you." I demanded starting to close my eyes.
"You know that they have Skype to?" He teased, I didn't even say anything because I fell asleep. I dreamless sleep. I hope that it's for the same thing for my boyfriend.
