Sorry it's been so long. I just started college and everything is kinda crazy. This one is a bit short and not super detailed but I wanted to get an update in. Please be patient.

Not edited so sorry for mistakes

Disclaimer: I don't own VA

RPOV

Even though I was excited to visit with Lissa and my other old friends, Dimitri's offer to stay in my hotel room was tempting. I forgot how amazing sex was, especially when it comes to sex with Dimitri, even though I've never been with anyone else. Five years is too long and one of the days this week I'll be sure to spend in bed with Dimitri.

Sure enough, we were about 20 minutes late to dinner and Lissa was not very happy. "I don't even want to know why you are late, just come in and have a seat at the table. Everyone is already in there," she said when she opened the front door. I walked in first with what I'm sure was a huge shit-eating grin on my face. "Was it at least good?" Lissa whispered to me, knowing exactly why we were late.

"You have absolutely no idea," I said smirking. Dimitri let out a chuckle behind us and Lissa let out an exasperated sigh.

As we walked through the front room where the stairs and the front door were, I looked around. To the left of the stairs and door was a spacious living room and straight ahead of the front door was an open door way leading into the kitchen. To the right of the door was the dining room where we were heading.

When we walked into the dining room, everyone turned to look at us. "Sorry we're late guys. You know Dimitri is incapable of being anywhere on time," I told them. Out of the corner of my eye I could see Dimitri roll his eyes and everyone else laughed knowing that was completely untrue.

The table was filled with couples. Mason and Mia, who had apparently been dating since freshman year of college, Eddie and Jill who started dating a month after graduation, Sydney and Adrian, and Christian and Lissa. The last couple was an extremely surprising one; Ivan and Viktoria. My mouth popped open when I saw them sitting together with her hand on his knee and his arm around the back of her chair.

"Rose!" Viktoria squealed as she got out of her chair and came to hug me. "I'm so glad you're here! Oh look at you! You look beautiful!" She gushed with her Russian accent like Dimitri's.

"Vik, I'm so happy to see you! What are you doing here?" I said with a smile.

"I'm here with Ivan. Didn't Dimitri tell you? We've been dating for a year and a half," she said with a wide smile as she turned to back at Ivan. Ivan was absolutely beaming at her. I had never seen him so infatuated with anyone. Viktoria was a year younger than us and I had never even thought about her and Ivan as a couple. Now that I think about it though, they make a great one.

"I'm so happy for you guys. I can't believe you didn't tell me last night Ivan! I even joked about who your flavor of the week was and you just laughed," I said. It's true, Ivan was a player in high school, but I could always tell that he wanted to settle down and that he just could never find the right girl. Unlike Adrian, who I thought would be a player forever and never settle down.

Ivan just shrugged and Viktoria laughed. Viktoria sat back down at her seat and Dimitri and I sat across from her in the only open seats left at the table. The center of the table was covered in food and my stomach growled at the sight. Everyone laughed and I just shrugged and started putting food on my plate. Lissa let out an exasperated sigh because I'm sure she wanted to give some big toast before we started eating. Instead she just waved her hand for me to continue piling food on my plate.

"You cook Sparky?" I asked Christian, knowing how much he loved to bake in high school.

"Of course I did. Some of us have basic culinary skills unlike you," he smirks.

"Okay, in my defense, I told the teacher not to let me operate a stove. It's her fault I almost burnt down the room," I said.

"And you call me Sparky," Christian remarked.

"I lit one fire on accident once. You would light fires in chemistry once a week on purpose because you said that was what experiments were for," I said rolling my eyes at him.

"Yeah well now I teach it and I still light fires once a week for my students to see."

"Yeah you're a real role model there Sparky."

"Okay, enough you two," says Lissa, always the peacekeeper between the two of us.

The rest of dinner went well. We all caught up about everyone's lives. Eddie and Mason were now both local cops. Jill and Mia have their own little boutique in town where they design and make clothes to sell. Adrian told us about this little boy in his art class that was a foster kid named Declan that he and Sydney were considering adopting.

We also discussed Lissa's baby shower. Jill and Mia would be doing decorations and Sydney was in charge of organizing the caterer and other small details. I had asked what they wanted me to do, wanting to be part of it, but they said that all I had to do was show up on time. It made me sad to think that I wasn't doing anything for it since I had missed so much but decided to just smile and forget about it.

At about eleven o'clock, everyone started to go home because they had work the next day since it was Sunday. I wasn't exactly sure what I was going to do all day tomorrow but Lissa had mentioned me coming over for some private time since she was out on maternity leave because she couldn't work so late into her pregnancy.

Dimitri drove me back to the hotel so that I could gather my stuff and check out. We had decided that I was just going to stay with him for the week since my hotel room was only booked through tomorrow morning.

By the time we reached Dimitri's apartment, I was dead tired. I took a long shower, one that Dimitri joined me in half way through, and fell asleep in the arms of the man I love. If only it could be like this forever was my last thought before drifted into oblivion.