This is my longest chapter that I have written ever!

Somethings from the conversation between Yeva and Dimitri start to show their heads in this chapter... Thanks to all my readers, past, present and future. Please enjoy and remember to read and review. Thanks :)

Camping Trip

DPOV

I couldn't quite wrap my head around what Yeva had told me. She said her piece, then got up and left without another word. I loved some of the things she said, but hated that there was a darkness coming that was going to test Roza and My relationship.

After a few more minutes of being alone I got up and went back down stairs to rejoin everyone. Momma was in the living room talking with Roza and Sonya, Karolina, Vicktoria and Yeva were sitting at the table having a coffee.

Walking into the kitchen I asked, "Where is Paul?"

"He went out in the shed to see if the camping gear was in there.", Karolina replied.

"Camping gear? Who's going camping?", I asked a little confused.

"I will let your Nephew explain.", Karolina said with a laugh.

I raised one eyebrow at my sister, then left the room to go see what Momma was talking to Roza about.

I could hear them laughing before I could see them. Roza's laughter was like music to my ears. I loved her laugh. Her laughs started from the soles of her feet.

I poked my head around the corner and seen Roza with a photo album opened on her knees. Momma was pointing to a certain picture and Roza was losing it laughing.

"Momma, what are you showing Roza?"

Momma looked up to me with a smile and said,"Pictures of you grown up."

I rubbed my hand over my face."Momma, those are embarrassing!"

Roza peeked up at me and bust out laughing again. "You..*Giggle*...You...*Giggle*..Never told me you are a married man..." She roared with laughter, tears started rolling down her cheeks.

I walked over to look at the picture of the memory I wanted to forget. You see, when I was about five or so, my sisters were into playing with barbies. They didn't own a Ken doll, so when they were playing Barbie's Getting Married, I would be made to be the groom, to each and every barbie doll that they owned. The picture Momma and Roza were currently looking at was one of those wedding days.

To join in on the fun, I took the album from Roza and sat it on the coffee table; I sat down and pulled Roza closer to me and said, "Roza, those girls were too plastic for me. I would rather the real thing." I tilted her chin up with one finger and placed a sweet kiss on her lips.

I could hear a tiny giggle, I broke the kiss and looked up to see that Paul had come into the room.

"Eewwww..Auntie Roza has Uncle Dimka's cooties now..Grrroosss." Paul said scrunching his facial features. This made us all laugh.

Putting a serious face on, Paul walked over and sat on my knee. He looked up at me with big brown puppy dog eyes. I knew I was in for it. He put his head down and started to play with a loose thread on his shirt, he asked, "Uncle Dimka and Auntie Roza..I was wondering...When was the last time you were camping?"

Roza answered with a smile, "Hmmm..The last time I was camping was about three years or more ago.. What about you Dimitri?"

"The last time I was camping was before you were born Paul, actually your mother had just found out that she was pregnant for you. So that was seven years ago...Why do you want to know?" I looked at him with a smile. I loved this little boy with all my heart.

Looking up at me with those big brown eyes and a grin missing a front tooth, he said, "Well, you see I never stayed a full night in a tent camping outside. I tried once with Momma, but I got scared and came inside. But..I would not get scared if two (he put up two fingers)people stayed with me and since you Uncle Dimka and Auntie Roza haven't been camping in like a million years, I was wondering if you would sleep in the tent with me tonight?"

RPOV

I spoke first before Dimitri had the chance to. "I would love to go camping with you and Dimitri tonight." I opened my arms to catch Paul jumping onto my lap. "What do you say Dimitri? Are you up for some camping tonight?" Paul and I both put pouts on our lips and gave Dimitri the biggest puppy dog eyes we could manage.

Dimitri's answer came in the form of a huge grin on his face. Paul, being so excited, outstretched his small arms wide, pulling Dimitri and I into a group hug and kissing us each on a cheek.

Jumping off my lap and running out of the room, Paul screamed to his mother, "MOMMA! UNCLE DIMKA AND AUNTIE ROZA SAID YES!

Olena, standing up, laughed and patted my leg. "You just made that little boys day." Then she walked out of the room.

Dimitri stood up and stretched his strong hand to me, "You know, if we are going to be camping tonight, we have to do it right...We need stuff for smores..."

"Dimitri, you had me at smores...Can we take Paul with us back to the store? I think that he would love it if he helped."

Dimitri leaned his tall frame down to my level and kissed my forehead. "He grew on you already.", he said with a slight laugh.

RPOV

Paul was super excited when we asked him if he wanted to come with us back to the store, so we could get some snacks for tonight.

We had decided to walk to the store this time, because it wasn't too far away and Dimitri wanted to show me the area some more. We took Paul's wagon in case he got tired of walking and to carry our snacks back in. If Paul could eat like Dimitri, we might need a second wagon to bring everything back.

We were walking through Baia all holding hands. Paul was in between Dimitri and I, Dimitri was pulling the wagon along. Everytime we would come to a puddle, Dimitri and I would sort of swing Paul over it. Paul got a real kick out of that.

On our way back home, I couldn't help but day dream about Dimitri and I and our own little family.

I day dreamed that our little family was here in Baia visiting. We had to little girls, one was four and the other was three. Both girls had my naturally tanned complexion and long dark brown hair. But their eyes were just like Dimitri's, big, beautiful and the perfect shade of chocolate brown.

"Roza..Are you ok?", Dimitri asked with a concerned look on his face and snapping me back to reality.

By this time, we had stopped walking.

"Oh..I'm sorry..I was just day dreaming.." I answered with a slight embarrassed smile. Paul let out a cute little giggle.

Dimitri's loving smile returned, when he found out nothing was wrong.

"Prey tell...What were you day dreaming about.?" he asked while raising one eyebrow.

I looked away from Dimitri so he wouldn't see the embarrassment on my face. He let go of the wagon's handle and with his now free hand he cupped my chin and turned my face to face him.

Noticing my embarrassment, Dimitri said, "Don't be embarrassed about day dreaming. I know I do it all the time."

I took a deep breath and let it out. "I was thinking about how we are with Paul right now and I started to day dream about us visiting Baia...But...We had two little girls of our own with us."

"Were they as beautiful as their Momma?"

"No...They were beyond beautiful." My eyes lit up as I started to tell Dimitri about what our girls had looked like. "They were three and four years old, they both had my hair and tanned complexion, but they had your beautiful eyes." While I was telling my dream to Dimitri, I had this warm feeling over come me.

When I finished, Dimitri and I just stared into each other's eyes and everything just seemed to click together.

"So, I'm going to have two baby cousins?", Paul said interrupting our moment.

"One day you will, but not at this very moment." Dimitri said, while he roughed up Paul's hair. Something also flashed in Dimitri's eyes, but I couldn't place it.

"Uncle Dimmkkaa! Now you messed my hair.." Paul said while he tried to fix it back into place. This made us all laugh.

Dimitri picked up Paul in his arms and gave him a hug. Seeing Dimitri with Paul like this, I knew that if we did have kids, he would make a great Dad.

When we got back home, Dimitri and Paul headed to the back yard to start setting the tent up and I took our snacks inside.

When I got inside, no one was around but Yeva. She never spoke a word to me, all she did was nod her head and went into the living room. I was going to follow her, but Karolina came into the kitchen.

"So what did my son make you tet for snacks?"

"We got some chips, dip, cookies, candies, stuff for smores and water, because he said that pop was too full of sugar bugs." We both laughed a little at that.

"We told Paul that because he was starting to drink too much of it and now we have to sneek it into the house if we want any." Karolina explained.

DPOV

Paul and I had the camping gear setup within the hour. We even had the fire pit going. While Paul and I were setting up, I couldn't help but think to Roza's day dream. I wanted to tell her that I had the same dream all them time. But in mine, it was two boys and a girl. I was also debating on telling Roza about the vision Yeva had had about our children.

When we were all done setting up, Paul went inside and gathered the entire family. I wasn't totally surprised, when Roza came out with Paul in her arms.

We all sat around the fire for a few hours laughing, joking and telling stories. I swear my sisters and my mother were out to get me. Conveniently, the only stories they could remember were the ones that were embarrassing me the most.

When Yeva came outside, which surprised us all, Roza automatically got up for her seat and offered it to Yeva. Yeva never said a word to Roza, she just took the seat and smiled at me.

Roza came and sat in front of me on the ground, in between my legs. I could sense Roza was a little bothered by the lack of conversation with Yeva, I leaned forward in my chair and absent mindedly started to twine a lock of Roza's hair through my fingers. She was going out of her way to do anything to please Yeva, but Yeva wasn't giving her anything in return. They only reason why I wasn't saying anything to Yeva about how she was treating Roza, was because of the conversation Yeva and I had earlier. I knew that Yeva was testing her, testing to see if she was worthy of being my girlfriend and the mother of my future children. I knew Roza was, but I wanted to humor Yeva.

One by one, everyone started to retreat back into the house, leaving only Roza, Karolina, Paul and myself left outside.

"Ok Paul, come give Momma hugs and kisses before you go to bed." Paul jumped down from his chair and jumped into his mother's arms, showering her with hugs and kisses.

"Night Momma, I love you." Paul said as he let out a big yawn.

Karolina replied, "Night Bug and I love you too."

After Karolina went inside the house, Roza, Paul and I went inside the tent to go to bed. My position was by the door, Roza was in the back and Paul was cuddled up in between us both. Roza and I stayed up a bit longer, while Paul feel asleep almost immediately. Roza fell asleep before me, I cuddled in a bit more so I could wrap my arm over the sleeping Paul and Roza and then drifted off to sleep.

I woke up to someone screaming, immediately my heart started racing. Roza had woken up at the same time too. I looked at Roza and she had a scared look in her eyes. I looked at Paul and he was starting to wake up as well.

I realized all the screaming was coming from inside the house.

"Roza take Paul and go inside the shed. Hide in there and don't come out until I come for you." I opened the tent door and rushed to the house. I glanced behind me and watched Roza carry Paul into the shed and close the door.

As I got closer to the house, I grabbed a long hard piece of wood that had been lying beside the steps. I went in through the kitchen door and headed up stairs to where all the screams were coming from.

As I approached the top of the stairs, I could see two people cowering in the opened linen closet. I rushed over to find Vicktoria and Momma. Momma with silent tears rolling down her, was holding on to Viktoria and Vicktoria had her head in between her knees and was sobbing uncontrollably.

I tentatively reached my hand out and touched Viktoria's hand. Without even looking, she started to lash out at me.

"Viktoria, it's me, Dimitri." I said a little louder than a whisper. "

Once Viktoria realized it was me, she launched herself into my arms, almost knocking me over in the process.

"Dimitri...*Sob*..Two men...*Sob*..Two men came in the house...*Sob*...Dimitri, I'm scared.". She managed to get out.

I stood up with Viktoria and Momma and pushed them back into the closet. "You both stay here, until I either come for you or holler the all clear. Got it?", the words rushing out of my mouth. I was trying not to let them hear the panic in my voice. They shook her heads yes, then I shut the door, enclosing them inside the closet.

Everything had gone quiet, but I could hear things being knocked around in my Momma's room.

I crept by Yeva's room and seen that the door was ajar. I took a quick peek in and seen that Yeva was in the corner with Sonya and Karolina. Yeva was stoned faced and Sonya and Karolina were crying.

Karolina, noticing me, sprang from her position. She grabbed a hold of me and shook me. "Where is Paul!", she screamed.

Grabbing her wrists, I looked her into her eyes. I could see fear in there, fear for her son.

"Don't worry, he is safe. I put Roza and Paul in the shed. I told them not to move until I came for them..He is safe Karolina." I paused, looking at everyone. "Are you all ok?"

Unable to speak through the tears, my two eldest sisters nodded yes. Yeva, not shedding a tear, simply just nodded. I swear that woman was made of stone.

I told them to put the dresser in front of the door when I left and not to come out until I gave the all clear or came to get them.

I proceeded down the hall towards Momma's room, the piece of wood still in hand. I could still hear one man in the room, he was hollering to someone out the window. He was arguing with the person out the window about not wanting to jump out.

With his hesitation on my side, I kicked the door down in one smooth, but forceful kick. I charged at the guy, at the window, and knocked him down. I hit him once with the the piece of wood, knocking him down. He retaliated, by kicking a leg out and throwing me off balance. This gave him the opportunity to get back up and try attack me again.

After we struggled like that for five or so minutes more, the man just stopped struggling and bolted for the window. He didn't hesitate this time before jumping out.

I stuck my head out the window to see if I could see the two men who broke into the house, only to see a three guys jump into the getaway car. I knew by the time I got down stairs and outside, they would be gone.

I quickly went through the entire house, observing the damage and checking to see if anyone else was hidden anywheres.I found no one hiding. I let out a big sigh, I deemed it safe to collect my family from their hiding spots. I gathered all the women in the house and headed back down stairs.

I was first to reach the bottom. I motioned for my family to stop behind me, because I heard the outside door to the kitchen creak open and close. I started to move slowly towards the kitchen, freezing in my tracks less than five feet from the stairs.

I fell to my knees as Paul came rushing into my arm. That boy was sobbing so badly and I seen the fear and tears rolling down his little chubby cheeks before he barreled into me.

I pulled back slightly and looked behind him for Roza. I turn back to the still crying boy, and fear and panic started to reset into me.

"Paul," I said with as much of a nutural face, as I could muster."Where is Auntie Roza?"

Paul started to hyperventilate with his crying.

"They to...They took her..Uncle Dimka...They took Auntie Roza.", My world shattered.

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