Chapter 37: One Last Kiss

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Sorry for the wait. I hope it's worth it=) I have never been to Disneyland, but have done my best to research it. I have been to Disneyworld many many times so if I confuse the two be a dear and pretend I didn't=)

DPOV

I woke to the alarm on my phone around six-thirty. I smiled as I caught sight of the beautiful woman lying next to me as I reached to turn it off. She stirred, but didn't make a move to leave the comfort my arms provided.

I nestled my face in the back of her neck inhaling the glorious scent of her shampoo. Last night was the most amazing night of my life thus far. Waking up next to her was something I'd been dreaming about since the moment I laid eyes on her. I truly hadn't planned on letting it go this far. I'd arranged it with her friends so that she'd be left without a room so I could lure her up here with me. It had been all too easy to convince them. They were eager to spend time alone with their own boyfriends, but none of them would ever have left her without a place to stay.

Mia thought the idea was a little mean, but agreed to play the bad guy anyway so I could spend her birthday alone with her. They already knew I had planned on taking her to the concert. I thought we'd come back here and talk and kiss like usual and then fall asleep together. I was not prepared when she offered herself to me completely. I will tell you that no straight man on the planet would have been able to turn her down. Even though my mind was screaming at me that I shouldn't be with her like this until she knew the truth, I couldn't help myself. I wanted one perfect night with her untainted by the bomb I was going to drop on her in a short time.

Being with her that way and loving her with everything I had made me question whether or not I wanted to open that envelope. Oh how easy it would be for me to tell Abe that I hadn't found anything and pay him back his money. Then Rose and I could run away together. I sighed at the impossibility of it all.

How in the world did I manage to do the one thing that would hurt her the most? I'd taken her love and her purity without revealing to her that I wasn't who she thought I was. I was in fact the person that would shatter her perfect life. I rationalized that the only two things I had lied about were my age and my profession, two things that many men did not disclose to their lovers right away. I mentally slapped myself for even thinking that things would be okay once she found out.

Now thanks to me, not only would she lose her parents and her siblings, but her first love as well. She didn't have to lose me though. She could forgive my lies and debauchery and we could still be happy together, I mused. That is until Abe finds out that I deflowered his precious daughter and has me beheaded or castrated. I shivered a little at the thought of what was going to happen in the next few days. I had two days before I had to open that envelope. Two days before I had to make the decision to either blow the woman I love's life apart and lose her forever or take matters into my own hands and lie to protect her and myself.

Either way someone would get hurt. I wrestled internally with the thought of the repercussions of either decision. Someday somehow Abe would find someone who would track her down and it would be worse. I had no choice. I had to tell him the truth. He deserved to now his daughter was safe and she deserved to know her real family. I was going to be the biggest loser in this whole thing, but it was my own fault. I should never have let myself fall for her, but how do you give up on the best thing that ever happened to you?

Her phone buzzing brought me back to reality. Her eyes fluttered open and at first she seemed a little confused as to where she was, but smiled as her eyes fell on me.

"Morning Comrade," she greeted stretching her arms up above her head wincing in pain. I knew I hurt her last night. I tried to be as gentle as possible and after a few minutes she had begun to relax. I hated putting her through that, but the thought of her having been with another before me made my blood boil so in a way I took pleasure in her pain. I wanted to be the first and only to ever make love to her. That was highly unlikely due to the fact that in a few days she would quite possibly never speak to me again.

"Dobre Utro maya Roza," I greeted her capturing her lips in a good morning kiss.

"How are you feeling?" I asked hoping she wasn't too sore.

"Never been better," she said curling her still naked body into mine. I allowed myself to revel in the feeling of her hot flesh pressed up against me for a few seconds flashing back to last night and the way she looked splayed out on the bed as I hovered over her worshiping her exquisitely perfect body. I couldn't wait to repeat it, but was saddened by the reality that I would never have another chance to be with her that way.

"Your phone buzzed," I told her breaking the comfortably silence.

"Mmm," she said not making a move to look at it.

"We should really get up," I told her looking back at the clock. It was nearly seven and we had to meet her friends downstairs at eight for breakfast. Lissa had booked a character breakfast with Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy and Pluto for Rose's birthday. It was a private room and all her friends, myself and her father had chipped in.

"It's a text from my mom. She wants me to call her. She's sad it's my birthday and she'd not here," she said yawning as she placed her phone next to her on the bed.
"I don't want to get up," she moaned. "Last night was perfect. I want to stay just like this for the rest of my life."

"I would love nothing more than to spend every waking hour in bed naked with you my love, but your friends and father will be waiting for us," I told her reluctant to release her from my embrace.

"Aren't you hungry?" I asked.

"When am I not hungry?" she asked laughing.

She pulled out of my arms and as she stood in all her glory, I realized for the first time that we'd skipped a step last night. I berated myself mentally for not thinking to protect her before we made love.

"Roza," I said slightly timid to broach the subject after our wonderful night together.

"Mmm?" she asked turning to face me. I momentarily lost all train of thought as I took in her beauty.

"You were saying something?" she asked waving her hand in front of my face.

"Oh, uh yea," I stuttered.

"Last night we weren't exactly safe," I rushed out hoping she didn't have a bad reaction. I waited for her to gasp or cry or something, but she just shrugged. I didn't know if she was just trying to be casual about it or if she was one of those girls who were naïve enough to think that they wouldn't get pregnant their first time. I was about to open my mouth again when she sat down on my side of the bed placing her finger over my lips to hush me.

"Don't worry Comrade. I've got it covered," she said with a wink.

"You have it covered?" I asked dumbly.

She looked a little nervous, but continued.

"After the cabin, I realized that I wanted to be with you that way someday so I asked Tasha to take me to the doctor. I started taking the pill last month," she admitted.

I sighed in relief. "You really are something," I said kissing her softly. I don't know why I'd been so nervous. Roza was a smart girl, too smart to leave herself unprotected.

I let her have the first shower so she could call her mother after.

"Uh, my clothes are in my other room," she said coming out of the bathroom in just a towel.

I wanted to scream who needs clothes drop the towel, but my rational self decided to show her the bag Lissa had dropped off last night while we were at the concert.

We made our way downstairs just as the rest of the gang came out of their respective elevators.

"Happy Birthday Rose!" Lissa and Mia squealed at the same time rushing forward to embrace their friend.

"Did you have a good night?" Lissa whispered.

Rose gave her a look that said not now and it was a good thing because her father was right behind us.

"Rosie! Happy Birthday to my last little birdie," he said lifting her off the ground in a giant bear hug.

"Thanks Daddy," she said slightly embarrassed by his grand gesture.

"Did you call your mother yet?" he asked.

"Yes, and she cried," she said rolling her eyes. Now seriously this did not sound like a family who had stolen a child or was harboring a nasty secret. What the hell had happened, I wondered watching them interact.

"You ready for food?" Christian asked hugging her tightly.

"Oh yea," she said smiling.

"Hey, Eddie, are you hungry?" Mason asked with a smirk on his face.

"Oh yea, I'm real hungry," Eddie responded with a similar smirk.

"Oh no!" Rose cried right before the two of them ran at her.

"It's time for a Rose sandwich," they cried smashing her in the middle while they hugged her tight.

She screamed as they began tickling her.

"You guys!" she cried. "Stop!" Tears were running down her face she was laughing so hard.

"Enough!" Adrian cried causing them to cease fire.

"I want to hug the birthday girl," he said grabbing Rose and twirling her around in a circle.

"Happy Birthday Little Cupcake!" he said placing a kiss on her cheek. It killed me that he didn't know that he'd just hugged the sister he'd been looking for his whole life. I felt guilty for keeping it a secret, but I couldn't drop the bomb on her while we were here. She needed one last thing to be normal before it all went to hell.

"Let's get this party started!" Mia whooped as we all headed to the private room Lissa had booked.

"Oh my God!" Rose cried when she saw the craziness that Lissa had planned. There were Mickey balloons and confetti and streamers. There was a huge cake in the shape of Mickey Mouse.

"You guys are awesome!" she cried heading towards the buffet table. She placed two Mickey Waffles, scrambled eggs, three pieces of bacon, two sausage links and some grapes on her plate. She then poured and entire bottle of syrup over everything.

"You think that's enough sugar? Christian asked wrinkling his nose.

"Nope!" she said adding some powdered sugar to her waffles.

"I'm with her," Adrian said plopping down across from her. His plate looked similar.

I grabbed some eggs and bacon and took a seat next to the birthday girl.

"Sheesh Comrade, make me feel like a pig with that tiny plate you have," she said her mouth full of waffle.

"I don't like to mix my foods," I told her honestly. "I will have seconds."

"Eh, it's all going to the same place," she and Adrian chorused at the same time. Everyone at the table laughed as they high fived each other.

Avery just looked between the two with wide eyes and then gave me a pointed look saying see, I told you they were related. I looked down at my food trying to avoid her gaze.

Halfway through the meal the person dressed as Donald Duck came over just as I was sitting down with my second plate of food. He proceeded to sit on my lap with his arms around my neck.

I didn't know what to say and I didn't want to be rude so much to the amusement of the entire room, I ate my pancakes while Donald stroked my hair.

"Hey you silly duck, that one belongs to me," Roza said tapping him on the shoulder.

Donald shrugged and clutched me tighter much to my chagrin. Why did people always have to mess with me? I think it was because I was so tall. They thought it was funny.

"Aww I didn't know you swung that way," Eddie teased while the rest of the crew snapped pictures.

"You know they only harass you to be funny," Rose said trying to make me feel better. Finally after I'd be sufficiently embarrassed Donald gave me a kiss with his giant duck bill and vacated my lap just as Lissa beckoned Mickey Mouse over. He was holding Rose's cake and everyone began to sing.

"Best birthday ever," Rose said blowing out her candles.

"This is awesome!" Rose screeched as we boarded Space Mountain. It was by far the fastest roller coaster I'd ever been on. It was strange though because it was entirely indoors. We'd spent the majority of the day on the rides. Rose seemed to enjoy them all. She even made me ride the teacups that spun in circles until even the manliest man wanted to lose his lunch.

Thankfully I didn't, but she immediately dragged me over to the one ride that the guys had told me to dread. At first I couldn't see what all the fuss was about. It was just a slow boat ride with dolls from all different countries.

Thirty minutes later as the boat sat stuck in the middle of the ride after a brown out shorted out the controls, I knew exactly why they'd caused such a ruckus. Being trapped in a room with hundreds of singing dolls all singing the same annoying song over and over was a nightmare.

"See, I told you we shouldn't have gotten on this one," Andree griped.

"Yea, who's dumb idea was this anyway?" Mason chimed in.

"It was mine," Jill said indignantly.

"No one ever let's me have a say. Now you're all being punished," she said with a gleam in her eye.

I chuckled at little Jill all puffed up.

"Is it really that bad?" Lissa asked.

"Yes!" we all groaned.

"I don't mind being stuck on a boat with you," Rose said smiling at me. We were in the back row of the boat and no one was paying attention to us so I took this opportunity to lay a kiss on her. We sat there making out to the music of 'It's a Small World until the boat lurched causing us to break apart as we began moving again.

"Oh thank God," Eddie cried. I for one wasn't in a hurry to get away from my Roza.

"Where to next?" Mia asked eagerly.

"Hmm our fast passes for Splash Mountain are good right now. How about we do that?" Rose asked.

It was nearing dinner time so I figured going there first would be better so we wouldn't have such a steep drop immediately after eating.

"Sounds good," Eddie replied and we all followed her to Critter Country.

"This is so cool," Jill commented from behind us. It was eight to a log and Rose and I were in the front row with Jill and Mason behind us, Adrian and Avery behind them and Christian and Lissa brought up the rear. Even I had to admit that the animatronic animals that were telling the story of br'er bear, br'er fox and br'er rabbit were pretty darn amusing.

"Uh oh here it comes," Lissa shrieked as we began the climb that would lead us to the fifty-two foot drop at a forty-five degree angle or at least that is what I read online.

"Are you scared?" I asked as we were nearly at the top.

"Nope and I'm not holding on or closing my eyes either," Rose said taking my hand in hers as we reached the final point before we would plummet into the briar patch.

"You ready?" She cried lacing her fingers with mine throwing our arms up in the air as we pitched over the edge.

I could hear her scream in delight as my stomach dropped out from under me. As we splashed down into the pond water sprayed up over the edge drenching us. I spat out the water that had sprayed in my mouth.

"That was the best ride ever! Let's go again!" Rose cried.

"No!" Lissa, Christian and Jill responded.

"You guys are wimps," Rose teased as we looked at the photo they snapped of us as we were falling.

"That's a great photo of you Sparky, I always knew you were a scaredy cat," she teased as Lissa handed the man her credit card purchasing the photo.

"Haha you're so funny," he muttered.

It really was a hilarious photo. Rose and I both had our eyes wide open and our hands tangled together in the air. Jill held on for dear life as she hid her face in Mason's shirt.

Adrian and Avery were in much the same position as we were with smiles on their faces and Lissa's mouth was open in a scream while Christian's face was frozen in terror as he clutched onto her tightly.

"I can't believe you bought that," Christian moaned.

"I got mine on keychain," Adrian bragged handing one to Rose as well. She laughed her butt off as she hooked it onto her backpack.

"So where are we eating?" Sydney asked. She and Andree and Eddie and Mia had opted out of Splash Mountain and had ridden the train around the entire park. Sydney had wanted to take some pictures and according to Rose Mia had intense rabbit phobia and refused to go on anything with bunnies which I found utterly ridiculous.

"I think I have reservations at the Blue Bayou. It's Cajun. After we can go on Pirates of the Carribean," Lissa said checking her phone for the reservation.

"Yep, the Blue Bayou," she confirmed.

"Sounds good to me. I'm starved."

"You're always starved," Adrian laughed.

After dinner we did in fact ride Pirates of the Caribbean, Snow White's Scary Adventures and the Indiana Jones Temple of the Forbidden Eye.

"Where to next?" Eddie asked.

"It's almost time for Mickey's Soundsational Parade and then we need to line up for Fantasmic," Lissa said again consulting her phone.

"I think we have time for one more thing," I told Rose pulling her away from the rest of the group.

"What do you say to a chilling thrill in the Haunted Mansion?" I asked in a spooky voice.

"Ohhhhhhhh that sounds like fun Comrade," she said taking my hand as we ditched the rest of the group.

"Fill in all the dead space," the attendant who was dressed like an old fashioned maid with a feather duster said with a flat affect as she ushered us inside.

They put us in a small room the seemed to grow taller as we stood there. Finally we boarded black motorized seats that moved slowly through the mansion.

"Are you scared yet?" I asked.

"No, but I'll pretend to be if it will make you hold me close," she said with a wink.

I looked around. No one was in the next cart since everyone was lining up for the parade. I took this opportunity to pin her up against the seat kissing her with fervor.

"Mmmm Comrade," she murmured throwing her arms around my neck pulling me closer to her. There was only so far I could maneuver within the restraints of the lap bar, but my hands were free as I slid them up her back tangling them in her hair as we continued to make out like horny teenagers. I will admit that I loved every minute of it.

We were broken apart by the attendant at the end of the ride clearing her throat loudly.

Rose giggled as I pulled her to her feet and we raced out of the building.

The parade was fun and before we got in line for Fantasmic, Lissa decided we had to stop in a souvenir shop.

"Is there anything you'd like?" I asked Rose as we browsed through a massive amount of Disney paraphernalia.

She grinned pointing at the top shelf.

I stared for a minute perplexed at the fuzzy blue stuffed toy she'd pointed out before pulling one down off the shelf and handing it to the cashier.

"What is it?" I asked as Rose snuggled the little blue creature against her face.

"It's Stitch," she said eying me curiously.

"Oh yea, I forgot, you live under a rock," she laughed.

"Lilo and Stitch," she said like that was supposed to mean something to me.

"It's a movie for Pete's sake," Adrian piped in holding up a DVD.

"Did you have a good birthday my love?" I asked as I practically carried her back to the hotel. The Fantasmic show was a lot of fire and tons of special effects and everyone enjoyed it a lot, but it had been a very long day and Rose was exhausted.

"It was fabulous. Thank you everyone for making my birthday the best ever," she said.

"Glad you had a good time," Lissa said yawning.

"Oh and we had them put your gifts in your room," she added as we split up.

"Gifts?" she asked.

"For your birthday silly," Sydney said rolling her eyes.

"Oh yea, I almost forgot. Thanks again."

"Goodnight Little Cupcake," Adrian said kissing her cheek.

"Yea night Rosie," Christian said patting her head.

I opened the door to our room and placed her gently against the pillows on our bed. I proceeded to pull off her shoes.

"Do you want to sleep in your clothes?" I asked.

"No, just my tank top," she said pulling off her shorts and somehow pulling her bra out of the side of her shirt.

I stripped down to my boxers and climbed in bed beside her clicking off the lamp.

"Promise that every day will be as good as today," she whispered snuggling into my arms.

"I wish I could Roza," I told her stealing one last kiss thinking of the envelope that was burning a hole in my pocket.

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