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Rose's POV

I woke up the next morning in Dimitri's arms. I was really sore and at first I couldn't figure out why. Then the events from last night came crashing down on me.

I felt a goofy smile spread across my face as heat flooded my face.

"You look beautiful when you blush," Dimitri whispered to me.

I smiled as I turned to him. "I didn't know you were awake," I told him.

"I woke up a couple of minutes ago," he admitted. "I just didn't want to wake you up. You look so peaceful while you sleep."

I grinned at him. "I don't know if I should be creeped out or happy that you were watching me while I slept," I told him jokingly. His chest was completely exposed to me. I couldn't help but drink in every inch and every muscle.

"Obviously happy. I mean it's not like I snuck in your window. You knew I was here. I just didn't want to wake you up," he pointed out. He gave me one of his rare full smiles and I felt my heart skip a beat. I don't know how he can still affect me like this, especially after what we did last night. I would have hoped I got some of it out of my system, but no luck.

"Yeah. Though not going to lie, I'm pretty sure it would be hilarious to try and see you get in a third floor window," I told him with a giggle.

"I could do it," he said with a straight face. I got a mental image of him climbing in my window and couldn't stop my laughter.

"What's so funny?" He asked me.

"Your just so much bigger than my window. It's funny picturing you climbing in it," I told him.

"I'm not that big," he said pretending to me hurt.

I glanced at his chest again. "You're huge. Muscle everywhere," I said without thinking. Looking at his chest, I wanted him as much now as I had before. I might actually want him a little more, because now I know what I've been missing. I blushed again as that thought passed through my head.

"Why are you blushing again?" He asked me curiously.

Well I can't very well tell you that I'm blushing because I can't stop thinking about what we did last night and how amazing it was and how much I want to do it again. I blushed a little more as I thought that. Last night was without a doubt the best night of my life. "I…" I started.

Dimitri chuckled. "You do know you said that out loud right?" He asked amused.

"How much did I say out loud?" I asked him nervously. I was praying that I only said the last part out loud.

He didn't answer me. Instead he pulled me closer to him as he sat up. I leaned my head on his bare chest. "I can't stop thinking about it either and I agree with everything you said. Last night was the best night of my life too," he whispered to me.

I turned to him horrified. "I didn't mean to say that out loud," I told him in a small voice. That was embarrassing.

He kissed my forehead then turned so he was facing me. "You should never be embarrassed to tell me what you are thinking," he told me seriously. "I would never make fun of you or laugh at you for anything you were thinking," he told me.

"Well, do you know what I'm thinking right now?" I asked him with a small smile.

"What?" He asked me curiously.

I leaned in and kissed him. "I'm thinking we could be doing something very fun right now," I told him, my grin getting bigger.

"I'm thinking I agree," he said. He kissed me passionately. "But I'm also thinking that Lissa and Viktoria might not be willing to give us all morning to be alone when they gave us last night."

My eyes widened as I looked around, realizing for the first time that they were not here. I was a little ashamed that I hadn't missed their presence earlier. "Where are they?" I asked confused.

"They were giving me the opportunity to give you your birthday present," he told me.

I blushed. "They knew?" I asked him a little horrified. I mean I had been planning on telling them, but the idea that they were in another room with the knowledge I was having sex? Weird.

"Viktoria did. She's the one that pretty much told me I would be an idiot not to," he explained.

"You had sex with me because your sister told you too?" I asked him confused.

"NO!" He practically screamed. "She just helped me realize I was being an idiot. I really wanted to, but when I looked at your record on file, I thought you would be turning eighteen. I didn't realize until we got to your party that you only just turned seventeen. I realized that what we did… well it was illegal. Viktoria told me it didn't matter. No one was going to find out," he told me. Something flashed across his eyes.

"What else did Viktoria tell you?" I asked him.

He blushed. "Nothing important," he told me.

"Right. That's why your face looks like a tomato right now," I said sarcastically. I lifted my hand up and put it on his cheek. "You should never be embarrassed to tell me what you are thinking," I told him, echoing what he said earlier.

He closed his eyes. "I might have had another concern," he admitted.

"Which was?" I prodded.

"Well… I knew you were a virgin and I sure as hell didn't know anything about having sex. I mean I had probably known a little more than you," he said. His eyes widened and he blushed when he said that. I didn't have time to ask him what he meant, because he hastily continued. "But anyway. I wanted your first time to be amazing and I was worried that I wouldn't be able to make it amazing because of my lack of experience."

He wouldn't look at me. It took all of my self-control not to laugh. I knew he had been legitimately worried about this and I wasn't going to make fun of him for it. I pulled his head down so he had no choice but to look at me. "Dimitri Belikov," I said to him gently. "You had absolutely nothing to worry about. It was absolutely perfect, because I was doing it with the perfect man." I shook my head lightly. "Wow. How cheesy was that?"

"Somewhere between mozzarella and cheddar," he joked.

I rolled my eyes. "Speaking of cheesy," I muttered.

He chuckled, then turned serious. "You mean that?" He asked me uncertainly.

"Yes. Your joke was very cheesy," I told him, knowing that wasn't what he meant.

"Rose," he told me seriously.

I blushed a little. "Dimitri, I can't explain how amazing last night was," I told him seriously. "It was the best birthday present you could have gotten me. The best birthday present I've ever gotten."

"You can't say that, because you didn't open your other presents," Dimitri pointed out.

"You're right," I said to him. I saw his face fall. "I should have opened all my presents before we slept together, because now they have too much to live up to."

He chuckled. "Do you want to open them?" He asked me.

"If we're doing presents, I can think of something I really want," I told him suggestively.

He leaned down to kiss me. I think he would have given in if someone hadn't knocked on the door.

I groaned. "Go away," I muttered under my breath. Dimitri chuckled as he got up to open the door.

"Where's your shirt Dimka? You sleep in one when your home," Viktoria asked him. Viktoria ran in the room and jumped on the bed. She giggled when she saw me. "I guess that answers my question."

"You caught me. I didn't want to disturb you two last night, so Dimitri gave me his t-shirt to sleep in," I told her. It wasn't exactly a lie. Dimitri didn't give me his t-shirt, but I did sleep in it.

She turned to Dimitri and slapped him. "Did you really not have sex with her? Dimka, you are an idiot!" She yelled at him. "I tortured myself all night, thinking my brother was a couple of rooms down having sex with my friend. Now I find out I lost sleep over nothing?"

I straight out laughed. I hadn't thought Dimitri was being serious when he told me Viktoria wanted us to have sex. "You should leave now. Give us the chance to do it now since he didn't do it last night," I said innocently.

I felt Dimitri's silent chuckle next to me. Viktoria looked at me and groaned. "You guys did have sex last night," she said.

"What makes you say that?" I asked her, playing dumb.

"Well aside from the fact that you have sex hair, Dimka doesn't look horrified that you just asked me to leave. That means he had sex and it was indeed amazing like I told him it would be," Viktoria explained.

"Okay. It's really weird that you gave your older brother advice on having sex," I said as I shook my head.

"That's what family is for. He's my brother and you're practically my sister," she said.

"So you helped your brother have sex with your sister?" I teased. I felt a surge of joy when she called me her sister.

Viktoria rolled her eyes at me. "What else is family for?" She retorted.

"One big happy family," I muttered quietly.

"One big happy family," Viktoria agreed. I grinned at her and snuggled closer to Dimitri's chest. This is what having a loving family is like, I realized. I felt complete.