Hello my darlings! I am so, so sorry for the extremely long wait for this chapter! I've finally managed to get my hands on The Ruby Circle, and by God I could not put it down! I've only finished it just now, and I really hope Richelle writes more! Ok, so before I let you read in peace, let me just say this. You guys are absolutely the best readers ever! Thank you so very much for all of your amazing reviews, to those of you that are now following me and or this story, you are totally awesome! Thank you!

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I didn't know what love was until I met you.

Chapter 38.

I remember thinking on my first day of high school that I was going to be there for a while. Back then, 4 years felt like an eternity to me, but suddenly, in the blink of an eye, 2 whole years had gone by. I was half way done with high school, how the hell had that happened and, so fast?

"See you soon, Rose!" Sophie called waving and climbing into her mom's car. I waved back, Christian and me scanning the parking lot for our mom's car.

"Where on earth is she?" I complained leaning casually against the wall. "I'm more than a little ready to get this summer started." Christian shook his head, eyes still looking every which way.

"Kids!" We turned our heads at once, our faces breaking into brilliant smiles when we caught site of who was waving us over.

"Olena!" I said eagerly, flinging my arms around her. Anyone looking on from the outside would swear we hadn't seen each other in ages though I'd seen her just this morning. Her reaction was jjust as enthusiastic and I was glad that even though my relationship with her son was pretty much none-existent we were still very close. It was the same way for me and his sisters, too.

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From the moment I'd seen the flier for the summer camp, something about it had appealed to every one of my scenses. The excitement had set in almost instantly and, if the fact that it was taking place on a little island in the Caribbean wasn't enough, the activities and fact that the hotel bosted a huge ass swimming pool made it just short of paradise.

Mom and dad had set up a Skype call for me to meat with the councilors and other campers once we had been accepted to attend. I'd noticed him the moment the call connected. His familiar devil may care smile was just as warm and as bright as I'd remembered. At first, he didn't notice me. He was too busy talking with someone out of the camera's view. I used that time to send a message to Lissa. She was going to the camp as well and was also on this call. Someone called his name and he turned to leave, but something caught his eye and he froze.

"Rose?" He said, eyes going wide and face breaking into a huge ass grin. "Oh my god, Little Flower, is that really you? You look so grown up!"

"Of course it's me Ivashkov," I stated. "You don't look half bad yourself." In fact, he looked really, really good. If I thought he was hot before well he was scorching now. Our eyes met through the cameras and for a few seconds, it was as though the world faded. I was lost in pools of emerald, but we were soon brought back to Earth when someone, probably the same person from before called his name. He was quick to wave bye before he disappeared from my view and someone else took his place.

I didn't see Adrian for the rest of that meeting, but the fact that he may have been going to the camp made me even more excited. I could not wait for the day we took our flight. When Lissa and her parents arrived at our house a couple days later, the camp was all we could talk about.

"Will you 2 please shut up about that?" Christian snapped. We were in the middle of a domino game and again our conversation had gone back to the up coming camp.

"Seriously," Andre agreed dropping a domino on the table. "It's getting really annoying!"

"Oh shut up," I said. "You 2 got the chance to come, you just decided not to so don't complain now that we're totally excited."

"Whatever," Christian said. "We're going to have a lot of fun here doing guy stuff."

"Whatever you say," Lissa said. Her jade eyes lifted from the dominoes to stare into his briefly.

"Ug, Liss will you please play?" I demanded. "And for the love of god, stop doing that!" Their gazes snapped back to the game and they chuckled. The rest of our game was spent making light hearted conversation, something which we all enjoyed.

Sitting around the dinner table that evening, I realized that I loved having the Dragomirs around. It was familiar and reminded me of how it use to be before they moved. It was always amazing to me how our parents still conversed with the ease of a friendship built over a long period of time. I hoped that was how it would be for Liss and me in the future. As I met her eyes across the table and she smiled, I realized that I wasn't the only one having these thoughts. Lissa was thinking just like me.

"We'll make sure it is exactly like this," She mouthed and I nodded. I honestly couldn't see it being any other way.

Awe, aren't Rose and Lissa absolutely cute? So, Adrian is back and Rose already likes what she sees. Will that be enough for her to let go of what she feels for Dimitri? Has Dimitri seriously fucked up? Let me know my darlings! I'll get writing the moment I've gotten the first review!

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Roza