Helloooo! This is officially the last chapter of I Guess It Happens. *Cries* Thank you so much for being a part of this whole journey, through the ups and down, hopefully more of the ups.

This chapter almost his 4K words, which is the longest I've wrote for a chapter in this story.

My super important AN and long, will be after this chapter, so without further ado, I give you the last chapter of I Guess It Happens.

Usual Disclaimers

Chapter 22

This is it. It's finally time for the wedding. I've been feeling nauseas. Not because of Lissa's baby but because of this wedding. I was all smooth sailing…up till now. Now I feel the pressure. Well, better late than never right? WRONG. In this case, never is good. Never is very, very good.

I was in the off-white elegant wedding gown; passed down from woman to woman in Dimitri's family, ready to walk down the isle. My father is here to walk me down the damn isle. You should have seen his face when I told him that I was getting married. To Dimitri. It doesn't help that he already knows the Belikovs and I'm becoming one now. He threatened Dimitri, ohhh, and I really mean threatened. It made my mother's threat sound like something given by a playground bully when you were in kindergarten. Dimitri was horrified, to say the least.

I did catch one bit of the conversation though.

"What if someone comes at Rose with a gun, what would you do? Put yourself in between the gun and her body?" My father asked.

"No sir, I can do more than that-" Dimitri started to answer shakily until he was cut off.

"Oh, so just because I mentioned Rose's body, you decided to tell me about your se-"

"No! No, what I meant was that I-" And that was all I caught since my mother pulled me away.

I begged Dimitri to tell me what my father told him but he refused. He simply told me that the nicest thing he said was "I know you'll be good for her." Well, that and "I will hunt you down in your sleep and I will personally cut your balls off with a spoon." Even I covered my area.

The wedding is small, in the backyard of Dimitri's home, in the snow. The altar is situated under the unfinished tree house. Yes, it is still unfinished and we're okay with it. Okay, maybe not so much. Laziness has a lot to do with why it is incomplete. Fine, laziness is the reason why it is as it is.

We invited Noah, *barf*, my parents, Alberta, Dr Olendzki, Kirova, some of my old teachers –slash-Dimitri's ex colleagues and a few of the Belikov's close family friends. Even Tasha was here. Awkward? Very. I'm marrying her ex, a guy who she's still in love with. How can it not be awkward?

How they managed to get Kirova, Alberta and Dr Olendzki away from their busy schedule to witness my wedding is incredible. Maybe it was the idea of Rose Hathaway and Dimitri Belikov, the pair who swore to kill each other no matter what, is getting married. To each other. I think they each have a camera to record this as evidence. I bet all the other guardians at the Academy will be equally shocked.

Alright Rose, focus. It'll be fine.

Inhale, exhale. Easy. All I have to say is I do. That's all. Oh yeah, and vows.

My father stood beside me as I heard the wedding march playing. Oh shit. I turned around to run away but my father grabbed my arm and yanked me back. Well, damn. It's too late to run now. They've seen me.

My father and I walked slowly towards Dimitri. I think he had the biggest smile on his face since…well, ever. He was beaming, smiling, no, more than that. I think his smile could light up the whole city. He was so happy, and I could see it in his eyes. How could I not mirror that? Today's one of the best days of my life. And I'll be happy. I think happy is an understatement. I'll be ecstatic, I feel like I'm walking on air, I just feel…amazing. You know, everything that everyone ever said about what they're feeling during their wedding day, the feelings, the surreal feelings? Well guess what? They aren't lying.

~IGIH~

Everything surrounding us wasn't there. Every sound was muted, everyone and every thing was blurred, and all I could see was Dimitri. Heck I could even barely hear the priest.

"You may now kiss the bride."

His brown orbs were deep, endless, full of emotion. Happiness, love, excitement, everything.

"Ahem, you may now kiss the bride."

All I could see is him. But I could hear this weird mumbling at my side. What the heck is that?

The priest shook Dimitri's shoulder. "You can kiss her now."

"Oh. Oh! Okay. Alright. Here we go, I mean, here I go. Here goes noth-" Dimitri mumbled. I don't think I can wait anymore. I simply pulled him and kissed him. The first as husband and wife, the first of much, much, much more to come. That I can guarantee.

I faintly heard everyone cheer and clap their hands, I was vaguely aware that most of them stood up. I know that Dimitri said that nothing was perfect, but right now, this moment, yeah, I would say that it is perfect. Absolutely, positively perfect. Wouldn't change a thing.

Dimitri broke the kiss and I groaned. Literally groaned. He laughed and motioned towards the crowed of people applauding. Oh yeah. I forgot about them. I couldn't possibly be…vigorous with Dimitri in front of all these people. Especially the kids. Poor Paul. He may be a little heartbreaker now with his, and I quote his mother, "devilishly good looks" but he's still, I quote his grandmother, "as innocent and as clueless as his uncle at that age."

I turned towards them and grinned.

~IGIH~

I woke up hearing a knock on the door. Scratch that, not a knock, many knocks. Knocks that are on constant repeat. Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, kno-okay, you get the point.

I groaned something incoherent into my pillow and patted the space beside me until I found Dimitri's cheek. The one on his face, not his butt cheek. Actually, I wouldn't mind the butt cheek. I would prefer the butt cheek actually, so that I could have a- Rose, focus. Annoying person outside. Alright.

I slapped Dimitri lightly on his cheek to wake him up. "You go get the door."

He grumbled but got up anyway. I think we may have slept too late last night. We may or may not have too much fun.

I felt the bed move as he got up, put on a pair of pants and answered the door. I heard Viktoria's voice as she complained how we overslept and completely missed breakfast.

"Alright, alright. I'll go get something to eat later. Goodbye Viktoria." Dimitri closed the door despite his sister's protests.

I felt him sat on the bed, beside me and felt his hand in my fair. "As much as I want to stay, I'm hungry."

I rolled my eyes at him.

"What do you feel like eating?" He asked.

"Those long yellow things, what's that again?"

His eyes widened. "Rose, I think Christian already used all the condoms…"

"Oh my God, no no. I was talking about bananas. Not condoms used by Chris- Okay, ew, I don't feel hungry anymore. Thanks, Dimitri. Really." He laughed as I thought, bananas, bananas, bananas repeatedly, trying not to think about Christian's used condom and me eati-BANANAS, BANANAS, BANANAS!

Dimitri laughed as he said, "How about after a shower, we go get chocolate glazed donuts?"

I grinned. "I love that idea. But I get dibs on the bathroom. I have business to attend to."

I rushed towards the bathroom. After a few minutes, I heard Dimitri knock on the door.

"Rose, are you done?"

"Dimitri, I'm peeing. You can't rush nature."

"Oh, I was thinking about saving water and joining you in the-"

"Oh would you look at that! I'm done!" I heard him chuckle as I opened the door and had the almost perfect morning. Technically because it's not morning and the knocking totally ruining the first thought in my mind which was something not intended for younger ears and after the banana conversation, I thought of something worse. Christian.

~IGIH~

True to his word, Dimitri and I went out and came home with Chocolate donuts. Yum.

While we were at the bakery, I saw the girl at the counter smile at Dimitri. Smile!

I think I let out a low growl that Dimitri caught and asked me what's wrong.

"Doesn't she see that gold band on your finger?" I whispered angrily at him.

"She's just smiling, Rose. I think she can figure out that I'm happily married to you." He kissed me on the lips and I saw it in his eyes that me begged me to shut up.

As he paid for the donuts, I glared at the girl. I swear she's eye stripping Dimitri. Honestly, who wouldn't but back to the main topic, she's not supposed to do that. Ever.

Dimitri frowned when he saw me glare at her and gave her an apology smile. I glared back at him.

As we walked out of the bakery, I turned and stuck my tongue out at her like a five-year-old child.

Once we were home, I sat the box of donuts on the kitchen counter as Adrian stepped in and said, "Give me a donut or you'll never see them again."

I smiled at him. "Go away or you'll never see anything again."

"Don't have to be so threatening, sheesh." He stepped back and walked away. I bet a hundred bucks that if I turn around and come back after a few seconds, at least two donuts will be mysteriously disappear. So will Adrian's most precious fruit in the middle of the night. Or maybe I'll do a little ballet. They don't call it the nutcracker for nothing.

After he left, I happily dug into my donuts. I'm like that creature, thing, whatever, from Lord Of The Rings. MY PRECIOUS…(strokes donuts)

"Rose, are you okay?" Eddie came in and asked me once he saw my stroke my donuts. Wait, I just realized that sounds wrong. You know what else sounds wrong? If I stroke Dimitri's apples and banana. But seriously, he has a post it beside the fruit basket containing two apples and one banana left saying "I have dibs." Isn't there a Barney song apples and bananas? "I like to ate ate ate apples and bananas!" Or something like that. Oh my God, Barney's disgusting. Even the universe agrees with me. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. WTF. What The Fuuu-

Hold on, what did Eddie say again?

"Rose?"

"I'M NOT TOUCHING YOUR BANANA!"

He was surprised at my sudden outburst. Wait, why would I want to touch his banana?

"Okay. You don't have to touch my banana…"

"I'm not crazy!" I screamed.

"Alright! You're not."

And then, I started to cry. "I don't know what's wrong!" I sobbed. "I feel so happy and then MY DONUTS! And then the stupid banana and apples song appeared, why can't I think of a happy Barney song like 'Mr sun, sun, mr golden sun, something something light on me!' I think I've been watching too much Barney, Eddie! Help me, I feel so sad now, and…and… DAMN THESE HORMONES!" I rambled.

"Uh, Dimitri! Rose needs you!" He hollered.

No answer. I cry more.

"DIMITRI!"

Silence.

"DIMITRI! COME HERE DAMN IT!"

I covered his mouth. "Shh! Don't curse in front of the baby!"

"But Zoya's asleep!"

"I was talking about the unborn one!"

"Lissa's outside in the back yard with Christian."

"I'M NOT LOONY!"

"DIMITRI!"

I heard Dimitri running into the kitchen asking frantically, "What happened?"

"Rose is going craz-" I gave him a death glare.

"She needs you." With that, he ran away. Practically flew away actually.

"Are you okay?" He reached over to hug me.

I nodded and whispered, "I want your banana." I felt him stiffen. "The edible one." Andddd relax.

He reached over to the basket and took a banana that I happily munched on.

~IGIH~

Guess what? I threw up again.

I've been throwing up more and my mood swings are getting worse. I asked Lissa if she's sure she's having one baby and not, like six. You can't blame me for asking. According to how often she and Christian do it, you won't be surprised if she ends up with fourteen babies.

I get sad and angry a lot too. I know I have a short fuse but apparently, it's shorter now. Plus, I've been craving their weirdest things like apples in burgers and yogurt on top of donuts. And I dip all my fries in ice cream. All of them.

Poor Dimitri has to run back and forth from the store to get me my food.

Lissa seemed very concerned with me.

"Rose, I think you should go to the doctor." She suggested.

"Why?" I asked, mouth full with ice cream coated fries.

"Your behavior is…odd. A normal pregnant woman doesn't act this way."

"Maybe you're having twins or triplets or quadruplets or something."

She shook her head. "Rose, I'm just having one child."

"So?"

"I'm saying that you might be pregnant yourself." I think I dropped all of my fries. Damn, that was a waste.

Kinda think of it, that may be a possibility. I mean, I almost didn't realize that I'm late. As in, late. I practically ran to the store to get pregnancy tests. I wasn't possible, but I've heard of stories that some Dhampirs really do have children with other Dhampirs.

I peed on three sticks. I grinned at the results.

~IGIH~

I walked into our room and found Dimitri lying on the bed, reading a western novel.

"Dimitri, I'm late." I informed him.

He raised an eyebrow. "Late for what?"

"I'm late. That and I peed on three sticks."

He was still clueless.

"Dimitri, listen to my words carefully. I'm LATE. I peed on STICKS."

I counted exactly five seconds before his eyes widened.

"Do you- I mean, are you- Are we-" He stumbled out the words and off the bed, towards me.

"Dimitri, breathe. Inhale, exhale…" I instructed him.

"Oh heck breathing! Are you really pregnant?" He asked, eyes full of hope.

I nodded. "But we have to get a doc to check and confirm, I don't want to have false hopes… Do you think I should have peed on more sticks? I mean, I think I can try other brands to see if the results all-" Dimitri cut me off by kissing me hard.

He grabbed my face and attacked me.

"Wha-? Honestly, now you learn when it's time to shut up and kiss me. You couldn't learn that when you were mumbling during our wedding or when you propose? Men, I'll never understand them. Especially you. You and your weird fascination with Western Novel and-"

"Rose?" He interrupted me.

"What?"

"Shut up."

With that, he kissed me once more and carried me to bed for the others.

~IGIH~

"Congratulations Mrs Belikov, you are indeed, expecting." The doctor grinned. I was so happy I think I had tears in my eyes. I swore Dimitri cried. He denies it but I know what I saw.

Turns out, I'm about eight weeks along now. Seven months to go. About two hundred and thirteen days. Approximately five thousand, one hundred and twelve hours. Damn it, why wasn't I this good at math in school? That would have been so helpful.

Dimitri kisses me and my belly repeatedly every opportunity he gets. Even when we're in the car and we're at a red light. I know that inside that little head, Dimitri's planning names, the nursery and I bet he's planning a party for the baby's first month and first birthday. I think he's already planning to get a book and a camera to record our child's first.

Our child. I like the sound of that. I smile and so does he.

We were so happy that we forgot the most important question. How?

Once we reached home, we went straight into the room, not wanting to tell anyone the news yet. We headed straight to the bed to sit down and called Dr Olendzki.

We had her on loudspeaker but soft enough so that just the two of us could hear.

"Rose?" She asked.

"It's Rose and Dimitri." I corrected her.

"What can I do for you?"

"We just want to know if it's possible for Dhampirs to reproduce…you know, with each other." Dimitri asked.

I heard her take a deep breath and finally replied, "I know you've learnt that it's not possible but there are a few rare cases that I have heard off from other doctors, about Dhampirs having children. I haven't actually seen one personally, only heard of it. It's a very small and rare population, I don't encourage you to try it that much. I don't want the two of you to be disappointed with the results…or lack of."

It was silent for a while.

"But could you just tell us how it is possible?" I inquired.

"Well, Rose, haven't you heard of human who are different from others? Like Albinos for example. They're still humans but they're slightly different then the others. Or like some of them couldn't reproduce." (No offence to anyone!)

I nodded, even though she can't see.

"It's the same with Dhampirs. Some Dhampirs are different from others. They have a…different DNA combination sort of. Some can actually have children with other Dhampirs. But it's very, very rare." She explained.

"Well Doc, we have some news for you. I'm part of that small percentage of Dhampirs." I grinned.

I bet she's shocked at this moment which explains the silence.

"Rose?"

"Yes?"

"Are you really sure that you're…pregnant?"

"Yeah, we just went to the local doctor who confirmed it!" I exclaimed merrily.

"Congratulations!" She screamed into the phone.

"What's going on there?" I heard Alberta faintly say on the other line.

"Go ahead! Tell her." Dimitri informed her.

"Rose is pregnant!" Dr Olendzki said to Alberta. I swore I heard someone fall or something. I heard stumbling and some stuff being shifted around.

"What?" She asked.

"Here." Dr Olendzki passed the phone to her.

"Rose?" She asked.

"My ID says Rosemarie Hathaway so yes, this is her. And Dimitri, last time I checked." I joked.

"Are you really expecting?"

"AWESOME HUH!" I was on my high mood.

"Congratulations then!"

"Thank you, thank you." Dimitri chuckled beside me.

"Alright, I shall leave you now. Goodbye."

"BYE! BYE BYE! BUH-BYE! BYEEEE! GOOD-" Dimitri interrupted me saying, "Rose, I think she already hung up the phone."

"But she didn't say bye!"

"She did."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

"I need to pee."

~IGIH~

We sat everyone down in the living room with my parents on the phone, on loudspeaker.

"We have some news to tell you." Dimitri started.

"I knew it! They want a divorce because Rose is gay!" Christian screamed. I threw a pillow to his face.

"No, Rose is very much straight. I can confirm that." Dimitri stood up for me.

Adrian laughed. "Oh yeah. I bet Dimitri's 'straight' too." He raised a bet finger and then straightened it and went, "DING!"

"Shut your disgusting thoughts, there are kids here!" I scolded him.

He simply laughed.

"Anyway, we have some important news to tell you." Dimitri repeated.

"In about seven months, there will be another little bundle of joy." I informed them.

"We know, Lissa's due in about seven months or less." Eddie said.

"I know that. I'm talking about another pair of little arms and little hands and little- oh you get my point." I hinted.

"VIKTORIA, ARE YOU PREGNANT?" Karolina screamed at her sister.

"WHOA! NO WAY. DIMITRI! TELL THEM ALREADY!" Viktoria stood up in protest.

"Rose is pregnant." Dimitri told them. Finally.

Everyone was silent. The phones were silent. I think Dimitri's mother wanted to faint. No wait, I think she really did. Thank God she was seated.

"Rose, are you serious?" Lissa asked.

I simply nodded. Then I remembered my parents on the phone. "Yeah."

Suddenly, everyone suddenly burst out screaming, congratulation us. I think Olena practically chocked Dimitri by hugging him. She then chocked me next. I mean hugged me. Hugged.

My mother was so happy even though she didn't really know how to express it. I know she's not a woman with many words where as I have A LOT of words. Most of them are not of the innocent mind. I have cuss words of different languages and I have no idea what most of them mean.

My father was proud, to say the least. He was becoming a grandfather, something he never thought was possible when I married Dimitri. IN YOUR FACE!

Everyone was in a celebratory mood, everyone was happy. At that point, everything was perfect. At that second, everything was perfect. I turned to Dimitri and beamed at him and he mirrored my emotions and the smile back.

Right then and there, perfection. We were all happy, without a care in the world. We have a future. We have a family. Even though we're not related by blood or by marriage like Eddie and Adrian, we're still a family. Even annoying Christian, inquisitive Paul, little Zoya, ridiculous Adrian, 'Eddie the Great' as he calls himself, motherly Olena, the three Belikov sisters, kind of remind me of Charlie's Angels, three strong women, the strongest being Yeva, my sister, Lissa and Dimitri. I think the last two practically spoke for themselves. We're all a part of something great. To top it of, we have more on the way to join us. This moment right now, I want to remember it forever. This feeling, this moment, it's the highest of the high.

The road ahead is unknown, there's going to be ups and of course, downs as well. We can't predict what's going to happen, no one can. But we'll be okay. More than that even. We'll be better.

We have a whole road ahead of us, going through it slowly. No need to make it a highway. It's a long, unknown road, but I have my family with me. I have Dimitri. And I'm ready.

I faced Dimitri as he beamed and mouthed, "I love you." I grinned and mouthed it back.

How I ended up like this? Well, I guess it happens.

Which reminds me, I have to pee. And I'm craving those whipped cream coated cookies. No wait, I mean cookies coated with whipped cream. CHOCOLATE DONUTS!

SUPER IMPORTANT AN:

Thank you to all my readers, especially those who have stuck with this story from the very beginning and to all those reviewers out there! Thanks so much, you have no idea how happy you guys have made me, every time I see a new email saying that I have a review or an alert or a favorite. It's so wonderful.

Secondly, I have put up a poll about the gender of the Dragomir's baby Rose and Dimitri's baby. I know you guys have probably read a billion stories about how this happens and are probably sick of it but I feel that the story isn't exactly complete without that kind of happy ending. I did think of them adopting a child but…well, we'll see in the sequel then. *wriggles eyebrows*

I have the sequel all planned out, not typed out but planned out. I'm itching to start so go to the poll and vote!

The poll will be up for about a week. It will end on the 12th, Saturday. THE POLL IS OPEN TO EVERYONE.

I NEED NAMES PEOPLE. I NEED BABY NAMES. Or maybe I shall just follow the Cat In The Hat, thing one and thing two. Haha but I really do need names

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