A/N: I just wanted to let all of you know something is revealed in this chapter. Its way out of character for both characters it concerns but it needs to happen in order for the sequel to work the way I want it too. Sorry if you don't like it but oh well.
RPOV
"Mia get your ass out here! It's girl's night!" I yell into Mia and Eddie's room. Mia comes walking out the door with murderous eyes and by the looks of her hair her and Eddie were getting into it. Mia's hair is sticking up at weird angles and her clothes are distorted. The button on her shorts is unbuttoned and her tank top is half way off her shoulder.
Mia's voice matches her expression very well. "I'm going to fucking kill you Rose!" Her eyes are in tiny slits and I wonder how she can even see me.
"Oh come on, you get Eddie all the time. Lissa's going to get snacks and she needs Eddie anyways to go with her. If you want you can tag along just make sure Christian goes so Lissa isn't the third wheel." At that Mia's slits open a little more making her not so murderous looking. Trying to make the slits disappear altogether I say, "There's big news!" I draw it out making it seem more interesting. When I notice Mia's going to open her mouth to say something, her face full of confusion as she thinks of what the news could be, I turn and walk away heading towards Dimitri and Sydney's room.
I would have gone to Viktoria and Zac's room next but they went to Russia with my mom and dad to visit with Yeva and Oksana and all the Belikov sisters.
When I make it to Dimitri's door I knock politely. I'm not as demanding with Sydney or Dimitri because one, Sydney is afraid of a lot of the people she's with and two; I would never tell Dimitri what to do.
The door opens just then pulling me out of my thoughts. "Rose hey." Dimitri's the one who answered the door. He holds it open so I can come into the room and when I'm in he closes it behind me. "What's up?"
I look around the room looking to see if Sydney's anywhere in earshot. Not seeing her I double check with Dimitri to make sure. "Where's Sydney?"
Dimitri raises one of his eyebrows at me questioningly. "The shower."
I let out a little squeal as a smile spreads across my face. "Good she won't be able to hear this."
Dimitri's looking at me quizzically now. "Hear what?"
I hold out my left hand that has my engagement ring on it a big smile on my face. "Adrian proposed!" A flood of emotions flow across Dimitri's face. At first it's shock, then anger, then sadness, then regret, an emotion crosses that I don't catch and finally there's happiness.
Dimitri opens his arms and pulls me into him for a hug. "I'm happy for you Rose. Like I told you on the plane, you two are good for each other." It's comforting to know that I have Dimitri's support even after everything we've been through.
I let out a breath I didn't even know I had been holding and lean into Dimitri a little more. "Yeah, we are aren't we? I'm glad you're okay with this." I pull away from him so I can look at him.
A small smile forms on his face. "Rose, I love you and I know you love me but you love Adrian even more and he makes you happier. I've already told you I see the old you come out when you're around him. The you before Mason died. The free-spirited young lady that I first fell in love with." I smile at his words. "And besides I think I'm falling for someone else."
At first I was confused. Who could it possibly be and then as events run through my mind of the past couple of weeks I know instantly. I turned towards Sydney's room as a smile spreads back across my face. "You two are good for each other." A small smile appears on his lips. "Besides from the way you two have been acting the last couple weeks I would think you're secretly dating." Dimitri's face turns slightly pink. "Oh my god, are you two?"
Dimitri shakes his head slowly. "We're not dating but" he pauses here and takes a deep breath. "But um that night we got back, we were both um…" I've never seen Dimitri have this much trouble with his words.
I raise my eyebrows and cross my arms across my chest looking at him accusingly. "What did you two do?"
Dimitri adverts his eyes and spits out real fast and real quiet. "Weslepttogether."
I scrunch my eyes up accusingly. "What was that?"
Dimitri lets out a deep breath. "We slept together." I'm pretty sure my jaw fell to the floor I was so shocked. Dimitri starts talking again almost like he's justifying what they did. "I don't know how it happened it just did. One minute we were watching TV in my room and the next thing I know I'm waking up in my bed with her wrapped in my arms, both of us naked."
I try my hardest to shut my mouth but it just falls back open as I say, "Holy shit."
Just then a door closes and I turn around and see Sydney walking into the room where Dimitri and I are. My mouth is still open and my eyes are wide. Dimitri must be looking at her too because when she notices us she stops walking. "What? What's wrong?"
"Holy shit," I say again. I just can't wrap my mind around this.
"What?" Sydney says her hands going to her hair like there's something wrong with it.
"Holy shit," I say again.
Sydney looks over my shoulder at Dimitri. "What?"
"Rose just came over to talk to you about something. Right Rose?" I turn my head so I'm looking at Dimitri.
He's trying to snap me out of it with his eyes but that doesn't do anything. It's the door that leads into their suit and seeing Adrian standing there that snaps me out. I shake my head to clear my mind. "Right, um girls night. Are you coming over?"
Sydney looks between Dimitri and me a questioning look on her face. "Sure," she draws out slowly.
"Dimitri we're just gonna chill in Christian's room if you want to come over sometime," Adrian interjects. I'm still looking between Sydney and Dimitri but I catch Adrian looking at all of us quizzically. "Actually," he says. "If you two want you can come over now and hang out in our room until the others get back."
Dimitri's eyes flick to me quickly. "That sounds like a great idea." Dimitri doesn't even wait for the rest of us. He walks past me takes a hold of Sydney's wrist pulling her out of the room leaving Adrian and me alone.
I stare at the two of them my mouth slightly open as they leave. "Rose!" I'm snapped out of my focus on the now vacant door. Adrian must have been saying my name for a few minutes because he's looking at me worried. "Are you okay?"
I slowly turn my gaze towards him shaking my head slowly. "Dimitri and Sydney…holy shit."
"Rose what happened?" Adrian asked worry evident in his eyes.
"They," I start but need to restart because it's hard to say it out loud. "They slept together."
Adrian's eyes widen and his mouth falls open. He looks like how I picture myself looking when Dimitri first told me. "Holy shit."
"That's what I keep thinking!" I exclaim.
"Well, I guess we can't really leave them alone in our room. We better go, but Rose?" Adrian says wrapping his arm around my shoulder leading me out of the suit.
"Huh?" I ask looking up at him.
"Try to act normal. You're scaring Sydney." Adrian chuckles pulling me closer to him.
"I'll try but seriously Adrian, that's so weird!" Adrian just chuckles again and opens the door to our suit for me.
Just before I step into the suit something by the end of the hall catches my eye. I quickly turn to see what's there. I'm surprised. I didn't think I would see her again or at least this soon. Rhea is standing by the doorway to Lissa's suit. She signals for me to come closer to her. I turn back around and Adrian's looking at me confused.
I open my mouth to say something and then close it. I look back down to where Rhea is double checking that I'm not just seeing things. Nope she's still there. Turning back to Adrian I say, "I'll be right back. Just give me a minute." I turn and head towards Lissa's room without waiting for a reply. When I reach Rhea I lift my eyebrows in confusion. "What are you doing here?"
Rhea holds up her hand. "Shh, Rose not here. Follow me." She walks towards the elevator and somehow pushes the button. The elevator doors open and we get in. Again Rhea hits a button taking us up to the roof. When the elevator door opens I follow Rhea out onto the roof of the hotel where there's a giant garden. Rhea leads me to the other side of the roof and sits down at a secluded bench.
Once we're sitting I turn to Rhea. "Now will you tell me what you're doing here?"
Rhea turns to look at me. She takes my hands into both of hers. "Rose, Andre is right. You need to open the box. It holds important answers that you need to know. The box is yours Sweetheart. You know how to open it. Just take a second to think." I tilt my head sideways looking at Rhea puzzled. "Think about the lock. What does the lock look like?"
I take a second to think and that's when it hit me. A memory flashes in my mind and I know how to open the box.
"Oh my gosh! Andre it's beautiful." I kiss Andre on the lips excitedly. It's Christmas and I just opened the presents he gave me. It's just the two of us in his room huddled together on his bed. Andre had gotten me a beautiful intricately designed box with a secret lock that seems like it would be impossible to break. I got two necklaces also.
The first necklace I had opened was a silver chained necklace with an interchangeable marble. There was a red marble in the necklace and Andre had told me to never change the marble. The other necklace was a locket, but it wasn't one of those cheesy heart shaped lockets. This one was an oval shaped locket pendant. The chain was sliver just like the other necklace and the locket part was a ruby. The silver laced its way elegantly around the ruby. It was the most beautiful necklace I have ever seen. Inside the locket was a picture from when Andre and I we're about 5 and 7.
"Open it," Andre said after I pulled away from him. There was the same smile from when I first came into his room plastered on his face.
"I don't have the key," I say a little depressed.
Andre picks up the necklaces and holds them out to me. "You'll always have the key."
It takes me a few tries to get the necklaces to open the box but eventually I figured it out. When I opened the box I found a small leather notebook. I pull it out and look questioningly at Andre. "It's a journal. This one is mine but you have to promise me you won't open it unless I tell you too or unless something happens to me."
I raise my eyebrows in confusion but nod my head anyways. "I promise."
Once I say that Andre reaches behind him and pulls out another wrapped present. I open it slowly and inside the wrapping paper is a journal that's similar to the one I found in the box but this one has writing on it. It says, "Secretele de Rose."
When I look up from the journal Andre is looking down almost embarrassed. I take his chin into my hand softly and tilt his head so he's looking at me. "Thank you so much." I bring Andres face to mine and I kiss his lips softly.
When I pull away Andre still looks slightly embarrassed. "I figured it's a box for secrets so why not have it hold your own. The journal says, "The Secrets of Rose," in Romanian." Romanian is Andre's origin.
"I know how!"
Rhea smiles. "I knew you would. Now go open it."
My happiness soon fades as I realize something. "There are too many people in my room and Lissa has the other half of the key."
Rhea lets go of my hands and holds my face in her hands gently. "You need to open that box Rose. You need to remember." Just then Rhea starts to disappear but before she's completely gone I hear her say, "Congratulations, from all of us Rose. We love you."
At first I don't know what she's talking about congratulations but then I realize she means with the engagement. I say a silent I love you back before heading back towards the elevator.
When I make my way back to my suit Lissa and Mia and Christian and Eddie are back and in there as well. Adrian and Lissa hurry over to me as soon as they seem me.
"Rose we need to talk. Like right now." Lissa says grabbing my arm and pulling me out the door I just came in.
I look back at Adrian who's following behind us. "Everything okay?" he asks quietly. I just nod my head at him telling him I'd tell him later.
Once we're in Lissa's room, which is where she dragged me before she gets a chance to speak I speak first. "Do you still have the marble necklace I let you borrow?"
Lissa and Adrian both give me confused expressions. "Yeah, it's in my room. Why?"
"We're opening the box later." Lissa's mouth falls slightly open but she closes it regaining her train of thought.
"Rose we have some news." Adrian says looking between Lissa and I confused but still focused.
"Dimitri and Sydney slept together," Lissa says. I'm shocked but not at hearing that mainly at hearing that Lissa knows.
Adrian looks at Lissa. "I already told you she knows this. Get to the big news Lissa."
I look back and forth between Adrian and Lissa wishing one of them would just tell me the damn news already. "Sydney's pregnant."
