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Freedomwriter2010

Chapter 024.

RPOV

The sound of the water is what brought me to wake the next morning. I could hear the light waves crashing against the shore, and a light breeze against my face, but it wasn't just that brought me to consciousness. Light trails of fingertips over my back caught my lips to turn into a grin.

"Do you like to touch people while they sleep?" I asked with sleep filling my voice. Rolling over I turned over to see tousled hair on a man that stared at me smiling.

His laughter rumbled us on the bed and his arm draped over my waist, only then did I realise I was naked as he pulled me to his body again.

Trying to wrap the blankets around me all he did was chuckle, making me shake my head. " Don't get use to this Comrade." And that only made him laugh louder. Silence enveloped us as he nuzzled his face into the crook of my neck, until he spoke.

"That scar on your back, it looks pretty crazy. Care to elaborate?" He asked pulling his face away, and tucking a piece of hair behind my ear.

Sighing I closed my eyes and nodded. Sensing my sudden change in emotion, he rubbing soothing circles on my waist, his arm draping back onto it. "Is it a bad one? Sorry to ask, maybe it isn't such a appropriate talk for the m-" I kissed his lips and smiled.

"No, no its fine. Actually it involves Lissa as well and Andre. When I was sixteen we had gone out to a house party during the summer, and it got pretty intense. I was a little more intoxicated than I should have been and a guy name Jesse started touching where he shouldn't have. Andre went after him and they both got into a brawl, both taking beer bottles and smashing them, making weapons. Andre was seriously protective of me and well..He went after this guy Jesse, but in the process when Andre shoved me back from him, I fell, and I landed back on the broken glass. I had a 3 inch piece of glass lodged into my back, and I had been lucky because it missed major nerves in my back. It's hard to talk about, and it kills Andre even to this day, so usually its best not to bring it up. But if you're wondering, Jesse did get his ass kicked." I smiled at the memory. I intook a large breath after finishing my story staring at Dimitri.

"Bad things happen to good people Milaya, Im sorry for that. " He leaned forward and kissed my forehead, and in that moment my stomach broke the silence, growling quite loudly.

"That wont change will it?" He asked chuckling once more. I shook my head. "Let me cook something for you." Flipping the covers off and onto me, he sat up grabbing clothes from nearby and slipping them on. Naturally I had to look away, a blush covering my face.

"Ill be out there in a minute" And with that he gave me a warm smile before disappearing through the doorway. Sitting up in bed, I clutched the sheets to my body, thinking about everything that had happened last night, letting the memories flood through my mind making the chills run up my back.

I had lost my virginity. To Dimitri Belikov. Just the thought made my spine shiver. It also, even as many times as he had said it last night – that I was beautiful, it made me very self-conscious and the thought popped in about the woman he had been with.

Suddenly my mood was sour as that thought came in. Was this a personal challenge to him that I had willingly gave to him? If that was all I was good with now, I really hoped not. Maybe I was overthinking too much, but now that I had thought about it the more anxious I was again.

Swinging my legs over the side of the bed, I made sure the sheets were around me before making my way to the bathroom. Maybe a shower would calm my nerves and help sooth the ache that was between my legs. This morning we hadn't been awkward but thanks to my overdrive mind, I would have the nagging question "Was I just like those other girls" Was all of this a lie? The doubt was real.

Stepping into the shower, I turned the water on and indulged myself in the warmth of the shower. It felt good to have my body washed, especially after last night. The sweat gone and making me feel rejuvenated again.

I don't know how long I had been in the shower, but suddenly the door came open, and a deep voice brought me from my thoughts.

"Rose, are you okay? I thought you were coming straight out?" Dimitri asked, come closer to the warped glass door. Clearly he'd be able to see my silhouette but nothing more.

"Have I been in here for long?" I asked unsure of my voice with him.

"You've been in here for fourty five minutes Rose. I thought you had fainted or something." He told me, worry clear in his voice.

Silence consumed us once more.

"So are you alright? You sound off a little bit…." I could hear him close the toilet seat and sit down.

"Are you regretting last night.." There it was, he was the first to ask me..

"I –I don't know what to think to be honest.." I said my voice gone quiet. " After you left the room It got me thinking, you finally got me in bed, and I was the one who initiated it, but is all of this real? Do you truly love me? Not just the sex? I keep thinking about those other woman, other girls.."

His voice hardened and then his figure was standing at the glass door and opening it. When his face came into view, I could see the hard features on his beautiful face. And then he stepped in.

"What are you doing!?" I asked trying to shield myself, but all he did was grab me, and step into the water with me naked, and him In his clothing.

"Those other woman, they meant nothing. But you, there was something that attracted me to you the first time I saw you." He kissed my cheek.

"You brought me happiness and a relationship that I never imagined I would have. Don't you EVER compare yourself to those other woman. I'm not proud of what Ive done, and to be honest I didn't know if you and I would get that far. But we did and I don't regret it and I don't want you to regret it." He looked at me the water dripping down his face soaking his clothing.

Smiling, my eyes teared up and I hugged him closer, laying my head on his chest. I was glad that we could have this conversation.

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Sitting at the dining table, I wore a red chiffon maxi dress, let it flow with the light breeze coming through the open door sitting there eating a plate of fruit. The island fruit actually tasted delicious, not having it imported.

"So Comrade, what should we do today" I asked stuffing pineapple into my mouth.

"I was thinking maybe scuba diving in the reef today, I thought it would be new and interesting, or we could go hiki-" just as he was finishing his sentence his cell phone started buzzing around the table. Something that hadn't been happening for us for the past four or five days.

Gesturing for him to get it, he picked it up.

"Privet." He said taking his fork and stabbing strawberries putting a couple in his mouth. Smiling I took his coffee cup and my empty plate to the sink to refill his glass and rinse my dish. I was standing there when I heard his fork clatter down onto his plate.

Turning around abruptly I walked over smiling, I was always clumsy like that, I was smiling until I saw his face. MY face mirroring his, I waited for him to put his phone down.

As soon as his phone went down, I bombed him. "Whats wrong? Why are you like this?" I asked coming closer to him. It was then that I noticed his eyes glossing over.

"M-my father…" cupping his cheek in my hand I urged him forward. "What is it Dimitri? Tell me. What about your father." He dropped his gaze to the floor.

Picking his eyes back up to mine he then said the most heartbreaking sentence. " My father had a stroke.." A tear fell down his cheek.

"Rose, my father passed away last night."

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