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Chapter 20
RPOV
I awoke at the sound of my phone ringing, continuously. Stupid, annoying, piece of- oh wait, it stopped.
I relaxed once more, with a pair of arms wrapped around my waist, pulling me closer to him. I grinned and turned to face Dimitri.
Apparently he was still sleeping, his breathing still even. I looked up at him, reaching up to brush the hair out of his face. I felt his body move, legs stretch, and arms tighten.
He blinked continuously, and relaxed when his eyes met mine...only to tense up again when his eyes travelled lower to...whatever was in contact with his skin. Which was, well, practically almost everything.
I laughed at his innocence once again. Honestly, you'd think he's a hormonal fourteen year old seeing someone naked for the first time. That most certainly wasn't the case a few hours ago. I bet he probably knows every little freckle of my body after our...activities.
I reached up and kissed him on the lips. It was supposed to be a good morning peck, but as usual, it escalated into something more. He pulled me closer, feelings from yesterday coming alive once more and trust me when I say, that wasn't the only thing I felt 'come alive'.
Oh, come on people. We're alone in a big house, on a bed, naked. What else are we going to do? Clean the house? Actually, that's not a bad idea since it's a little dusty, or we could get something to eat. I'm starving, OH DONUTS! Especially the choc-ROSE, FOCUS.
I deepened the kiss, wanting more...until I want nothing more than to murder the idiot who created alarm clocks in the first place.
I heard an annoying beeping sound. Instinctively, I groaned a very, very bad word and slammed the alarm clock. It didn't stop. What the heck? Alarm clocks are rebelling now?
I sat up unwillingly and saw the light emitting from my phone.
"Who is it?" Dimitri asked.
I took the phone and checked it. "Adrian."
"Ignore it." He answered almost immediately, knowing if there's an emergency, Alberta or my mother would call instead. Or Lissa. Through the bond. My head is awfully quiet now, without any thoughts from Lissa...I LIKE IT.
Dimitri pulled me back down when the phone stopped ringing. As we started to pick up what we left off after being rudely interrupted by the stupid phone, it interrupted us again. Dimitri groaned.
"Hit the button."
"There's no snooze button on Adrian." I told him.
"I was talking about the phone."
Oh yeah. "There's no snooze button on that too."
"There's an End Call button." I knew he was right but he's just going to keep calling so I reached over and screamed "WHAT?" into the phone.
"Roza, you have to actually answer the call before speaking." Dimitri chuckled.
"I knew that."
"Of course you do." He kissed my forehead as I answered the call before finally screaming "WHAT?"
There was sort of like a ruffling sound before I heard Adrian screaming, "She's still angry!"
I heard the phone being passed around until Lissa said, "Rose?"
"This better be good." I said through my teeth.
"Rose, are you okay? Is Dimitri there with you?" She asked franticly.
"Yes, he's here with me, yes you're interrupting something and no, I'm not okay because you interrupted something." I swiftly answered her.
I heard another ruffling sound before Lissa screamed to…whomever, "HE DID IT!"
She held the phone back up and said, "I'll leave you two to do...stuff now. Come back soon!" She quickly ended the call. Good choice.
I threw the phone back on the bedside table and went back to Dimitri. He smiled as he pulled me back...until the phone rang again.
"Son of a b-" Dimitri kissed me on the lips to shut me up before answering the call.
"Hello? ...No, she's here...this is Dimitri...she's busy..." He paused.
"Here, it's Noah." He passed me the phone.
"What?" I said into the phone.
"You're supposed to be here half an hour ago to sign the last few papers! What is Dimitri doing there?" He questioned.
"The engagement's back on."
"What?"
I groaned. "Me getting married. Me no guard kid. Me guard Lissa with future husband. Get it?" I simplified for him. It's like talking to a two year old.
Dimitri stifled a laugh as he grabbed the phone and said, "Noah, the deal's off. She's guarding Lissa with me...She didn't sign the last few documents didn't she? So it's not official...She's not guarding that kid and she'll be marrying me, what else can you not understand? ...Yes...Yes, thank you." He ended the call and shifted his attention to me. "He wants to witness the wedding."
I shrugged. "We'll just give him a crappy invitation." I took the phone and placed far far far away.
"Now that we don't have any interruptions..." He hinted.
"Oh, yes we do. I need to pee." He swore and I laughed. I kissed him on the lips before rushing towards the bathroom.
After releasing pee, I screamed, "Hey, I'm going to take a shower!"
I turned on the water and stepped inside, drawing the curtain. I heard the door open and close again, suddenly feeling a pair of strong arms wrap around me.
"What exactly are you doing?" I asked.
"Well, I figured since I need a bath, you need a bath, why not. Plus, we'll be saving water this way, wouldn't we?" He raised an eyebrow and I laughed once more. He had a very good point.
~IGIH~
"What are we going to do now?" He asked as we sat on the bed.
"I thought of going back to Russia, plan a Christmas wedding...stuff like that." I grinned.
"Well, in that case…" He leaned in, I closed my eyes, waiting…but nothing happened.
What the? I opened my eyes and saw Dimitri standing with a huge grin plastered on his face. "In that case, I'll go book us a flight."
His smile grew wider has he swiftly turned and around, laughing. I managed to throw a pillow towards his head before he left, accusing him of being a tease…, which made him laugh even harder.
I raced after him, jumping onto his back.
He caught me with an "Oomph" as he steadied himself and I wrapped my legs around him, carefully trying not to hit the family jewels. Hey, you might never know…
"You're a little heavier than the last time I carried you." He commented.
"Did you just say I gained weight?"
"Well, I didn't say that directly…"
I kicked him in the stomach. I pointed towards, well, I've no idea actually. So I just pointed forward and kicked him again, lightly this time like on a horse, saying, "Go forth."
He didn't move. "What's the magic word?" He was playing with me.
"Giddy up."
He shook his head.
"Go."
Nope.
"Now."
Still nothing.
"My feet are dangerously close to your manhood and I have absolutely no problem adding force to it." I threatened.
He laughed. "I don't know, judging by what we did, I think it's more of a loss to you than to me…"
"Shut up and go." Sheesh. When did he get to smart and witty.
~IGIH~
We booked a flight, took all my stuff and pissed off Noah, okay fine, I pissed off Noah but Dimitri wanted to do it badly as well.
In a God knows how many hours, we were back in Dimitri's house, surrounded by everyone, and finally telling them the truth.
"So what you're saying is that everything was fake? In the beginning?" Viktoria asked.
Dimitri, whose lap I was sitting on due to the lack of space in the living room, and I nodded.
"Yup," He said, popping the 'p'
Paul's eyes widened and his head whipped around to look at his grandmother. "Uncle Dimka just told a really fat lie. Is he going to get in trouble?"
Everyone laughed. "No, Paul. He learned his lesson and set it right in the end."
Paul whined. "But when I lie and learn my lesson, mama still punishes me."
I laughed and said, "It's okay. I think Uncle Dimka has suffered enough."
Paul looked confused but shook it off.
"So...you're getting married, right?" Sonya wanted to clarify.
"Yeah, about that..." I started.
Christian was already way ahead of me. "Oh great. I knew there's going to be a twist in all this."
I rolled my eyes at him. "We thought of getting married here. In the winter. When it's snowing." Dimitri informed them.
His family was gleeful about it, his mother especially, was ecstatic.
"That's a wonderful idea!" His mother screamed happily. "Janine, if you don't mind, we would like Rose to use Yeva's wedding gown. It's a Belikov family tradition, it just skipped me."
My mother simply smiled and nodded. Olena said something in Russian that made her family laugh. I felt Dimitri's chest rumble in laughter as well.
I turned to him, asking, "What's so funny? What did she say?"
He laughed and replied, "She said she has to alter the...umm, chest size area since Yeva's was bigger than yours at that time."
His face turned red, and knowing me, I automatically said, "Her boobs were bigger than mine?"
Dimitri chuckled, but then stopped. "Roza, I'm not going to compare your package with my grandmother's."
Hahah, oh yeah. That'll be freaky. And disgusting. Imagine when we're doing it and he just goes, "My grandmother's boobs are bigger than yours." Oh God, Ew. Okay, I didn't need that mental scene since we have actually done it. Scrubbing mental scene from brain...now. It'll be a total turn off.
Dimitri laughed at whatever expression I had and then I realized something.
"You still can't say the word boob or boobies!" I blurted out. Everyone burst out laughing.
"Yeah, he can't say it without blushing furiously. You have no idea how many replacement words he came up with when he went through puberty." Karolina informed us. That made me laugh even harder.
"You're still so innocent." I said to him.
He tried to defend himself by saying, "Well, not really. Considering the events that happened on the bed-"
"Oh God, we don't need that mental image, thank you very much." His sisters complained as they covered their ears.
Viktoria sang, "Lalala! You're my brother, I don't need to know what you do in bed. Whatever you do in your room, STAYS THERE. LALALA!"
Everyone laughed at his sisters.
Then, Adrian just had to ask, "Are you guys going to be all love-y dove-y and shhh-" He looked at the innocent face of Paul before changing his last word to, "Ships?"
Adrian has always been horrible with finding replacement words to save his ass. Scratch that, he's horrible at saving his ass, period.
"Ships? Adrian, seriously?" Eddie raised an eyebrow.
"I can't spell it out! It's not like Paul doesn't understand."
"Adrian," I butted in. "It's not that Paul could understand or not. It's the fact that Christian can't understand."
"Watch it, Hathaway. My spelling is perfectly fine."
"Really? Spell lingerie." I challenged him.
"L-O, no wait, L-I-...Houn-zhuh-ray" he pronounced that last few syllables.
"HA!"
"Roza, you can't spell that either."
"Damn it, Dimitri! You're supposed to be on my side!" I smacked his arm. Some fiancé.
Everyone chuckled. "Talk about public display of affection." Adrian joked.
"We're more than capable of showing affection, thank you very much." I told him. I shifted in his lap and stopped suddenly when I felt something hard poking me.
"Dimitri, don't poke me."
He gave me the weird look. "My hands are here, Roza."
Everyone's eyes grew wide once they realized what was 'poking' me. Cue awkward silence.
Everyone mumbled different excuses to leave at the same time.
"I have a wedding gown to locate" Olena mumbled.
"I have homework to do." Viktora dashed out.
"I have kids to take care of." Karolina pulled Paul
"I have a kid to deliver...sometime later." Sonya walked slowly, hand on her huge belly.
"I have a thing-a-abob to do." Lissa mumbled.
"Too much affection." Adrian complained.
"I have to pee." Eddie whispered.
"I'll follow." Christian murmured.
"What?"
"Just go."
My mother, Yeva and Alberta just left without a word.
Weird.
~IGIH~
I was sitting in the kitchen with Dimitri when Christian and Eddie walked in, bickering like an old married couple.
"Dude, you said you wanted to follow me." Eddie said.
"I needed an excuse!" Christian defended himself.
"Yeah, but you don't have to indirectly mention that you're going to be there when I pee!"
"I don't even want to watch you pee."
"I can't pee with anyone looking at my...package."
"Dude, I don't even want to listen to you pee."
"It's the same noise you make when you pee, idiot. Don't tell me yours jingle when you have a tinkle."
"Why are we talking about this?"
"I have no idea."
They exited the kitchen in separate ways and I don't think they're going to have a 'tinkle' for a very long time. Or maybe until their bladder starts to burst. Or have kidney failure. Or die. But it'll be weird to have corpse full of pee, I mean what if someone accidentally adds pressure to his bladder and the pee just- I'M HUNGRY. Oh, I'm in the kitchen. How convenient.
Dimitri's sister, Sonya then walked in, asking for a little privacy with her brother. I nodded and left.
DPOV
She sat beside me, annoyed at my bouncing knee.
"Will you stop shaking your leg?"
"Hey, I'm beside you, a hormonal pregnant annoyed woman who looks about ready to burst into rage at any moment. Its first instinct is to run." I defended my leg.
She rolled her eyes. "I'm her to give youths sex talk." I sprayed all the water in my mouth that I was trying to drink.
" 'scuse me?"
"I've prepared to give you a bloody sex talk since you reached puberty and I'm going to give it!"
"But isn't that mama's job."
"She wants more grandchildren."
"But Rose is a Dhampir and we-"
"I've prepared this and I'm going to give it no matter who you're having sex with!" She exclaimed.
I gulped.
NOTE TO SELF:
Never piss off pregnant women. Period. But they don't have periods when they're pregnant-FOCUS.
NOTE TO SELF:
Do not relate pregnant sister to time-of-the-months. It freaks me out.
"Now, Dimitri. Do you know where to get a condom?"
I nodded.
"Do you know how to use a condom?"
"Of course I-" She has the scary face. I nodded.
"Do you know that you have to use it no matter what if you don't want kids?"
"But-" She still has the look. I nodded.
"Okay, good talk." She patted my lap and left.
O...Kay. Interesting sex talk.
I walked upstairs to locate Rose with my drinking water in hand and as I walked pass Viktoria's door, I realized I should have just remained downstairs.
Adrian was in the room and Viktoria was on the bed. She patted the bed saying, "Let's do it."
What the fuck? My legs gave in, I fell to the ground, spilling the water, cracking the plastic cup.
Adrian and Viktoria were at my side in a flash. "Dimka? Are you alright?"
I faced Adrian. "You- my sister- bed- I'm going to kill you!" I grabbed his collar. I just went through the sex talk with one sister and I'm going to have to give it to another! She was about to- Oh God.
Adrian panicked as Viktoria explained, "I called him over to the bed to look at my homework and all my notes. He's helping me with my Moroi studies."
She pointed to the books and papers on the bed.
I released Adrian and cupped her face. "You have no idea how happy it is for me to hear you say that."
We all got up and I realized that I wet my shirt. "I'm going to...go. I'll clean this up after I change into something dry." I started to walk back but stopped halfway.
I pointed to her door. "Leave the door open when he's in there. And help her with homework downstairs."
I walked into my room to see Rose on the bed. Her eyes widened at the sight of my wet T-shirt.
"What-"
"I don't want to talk about it." I walked towards the wardrobe. "And if we ever have a daughter, she's not dating. Ever."
She walked towards me, patted me on the cheek and gave me a kiss. "Anything you say."
~IGIH~
RPOV
I felt Lissa call me down through the bond. I walked towards the kitchen to find all the Belikov female sisters and Lissa sitting on the kitchen table. They looked like judges about to give me my death sentence.
I sat down on the chair in front of them as the four of them launched into a conversation. About my wedding.
"Rose, we have to think of a guest list. Do you want a simple wedding or show off to everyone he's already taken?"
"Rose, we need floral arrangements."
"What about invitations?"
"Mama's taking charge of the dress. OH! We need photographers. I want to have physical evidence that my brother got hitched."
Oh my God, I think I prefer the death sentence. It's faster.
There you go!
Firstly, I would like to wish those chinese readers a Happy Chinese New Year!
Loads of people have asked for a sequel so a sequel it is! Just be sure to expect little 'mini-me's for the sequel. I plan on updating the sequel on a weekly basis instead of going MIA like I did on this story which I feel terribly about. But the frequency of my updates will depend on my new school schedule. New school, new stuff, same hatred for studying.
So we have a few chapters left. *sniff sniff*
The planning of the wedding chapter, the actual wedding, honeymoon...stuff like that.
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