'Cause it's you and me, and all of the people, and I don't know why, but I can't take my eyes off of you.

DPOV

'When he and I first met every time I saw him I wound end up bumping into him and falling on my ass.' It was Roza. My Roza. Rose Hathaway was Kit. She had to be, if she wasn't than someone else was living our life. Rose was Kit, and she was falling in love with me.

"Still mooning over your candy bar?" Christian asks from his place lounging on my couch. I had gotten home about 10 minutes ago, and saw that I had an email. Instantly I opened it. As I read it, I could not keep the smile off of my face. Seems that my love problem wasn't much of a problem after all.

"Hey, don't be an ass just because your girl is nick named after a horse. You gave her that name." I told him as I leaned back in my chair. This morning, when Roza kissed me, I thought I had died and gone to heaven. For as long as I can remember I have dreamt of Rose, only I didn't know it was her. In my dreams she was always just a dark haired woman. That's all I could ever remember, dark hair, stunning brown eyes and the scent of….Roses. Wow even my dreams had been telling me about her long before I knew what they meant.

"OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!" my sister screamed from the end of the hall. Getting up I rushed to the door, thinking something was wrong with my mother or grandmother. "Vika, what's the matter?" I ask walking over to her and looking over her shoulder to the tablet she held in her hand. Her friend Nicole stood next to her, her green eyes sparkling with gleeful mischief.

"Look!" my sister thrust the tablet at me, pointing to a post from one of her other friends on Facebook. The post was a picture of Rose at the dance yesterday, with Mason's arm around one side of her, Eddies the other Andre kneeling in front of her, and myself behind her. The caption below it read "when you're the most popular chick in school, it's no wonder Rose has whole lot hanging on her every word. What we wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall at her place when they are "hanging out" ;) '

Taking the tablet from her, I went thought other post from that group. It seemed that all day they and other people had been posting about Rose all day. Calling her everything from a slut to a home wrecking bitch. None of which were true. "Who runs this page Vika?" I ask, hitting the REPORT PAGE link on the page and reporting it as cyber bullying.

"It's like the schools version of the school newspaper so I guess there is a group of people that do. Why? Pissed off they are talking about your little girlfriend?" Nicole said, taking the tablet out of my hands, making sure that her hands rubbed against mine as she did. Viktoria and Nicole had been friends since they were in middle school and she had never tried to hide the fact that she liked me. When all I saw her as was another little sister.

"Nicki will you please stop. All this stuff they are posting about Rose is not true." I told then, shaking my head before walking back to the room and grabbing my phone. I had to warn Rose before she got online.

*1:30*

"Hey Elizabeth, sorry I am late, I had to stop at the gas station and it took forever." I called out to my boss as I walked into The Last Word books. I had gotten a job there when I turned 16, Liz, the owner like me instantly. (I think it was because even at 16 I was tall and could stack books on the top shelf without a latter) though whatever the reason was I loved my job. I was the manager and basically did everything there was to do there while Elizabeth just sat in the corner reading whatever new J.D. Robb book came out.

"It's alright honey" she said as she rang up the last costumer before picking up her coffee and taking a long drink. "did you get me coffee?" she ask laughing, she and I had an arrangement, if I stopped at the gas station and got her a coffee, she would over look my texting between costumers.

"Do we sell books?" I ask laughing as I held out a cup to her. "Extra cream and 4 sugars." Walking into the back I pulled my Rock Stars out of the bag and put them into the fridge in the back, and walked back out to the front. Just as the doorbell jingled and who should walk in but Adrian Ivashkov. Muttering under my breath in Russian I walk over to a cart of books and push them to put them away.

"Hey Comrade, are you going to help me or just stand there looking like the oaf you are?" he sneered at me, and it took all my strength not to punch him in the face. Schooling my face into blankness I walked over to him.

"What do you need?" I said though gritted teeth, when he just handed me a list I looked at it and sighed. Can I PLEASE hit him? Just once? That's all it would take. Looking over at Liz I saw her watching me, her bright blue eyes interested. "Let me guess, you want me to find all your books while you go and flirt with the owner?" I said looking back at him.

"That's the plan. Now get to it" he said waving his hand dismissively and I watched him walk over to where Liz was sitting. He was going to get the shock of his life when he found out that she was already dating the new teacher from school, Stanley Pepper. He was 23, with the body of pro football player, and a wallet to match.

It took me all of 10 minutes to get all the books on the list and ring them up. Going out of my way do what I could to ring up the bill. Out of the 'kindness' of his black heart he donated $75 to the REACHOUT AND READ, one of the charities we helped out with in the store. So after his 'donation' his bill that should have been only $97.43 came to $172.43. Hey at least my fucking with him would benefit someone right?

When he checked out and walked out with his books, I leaned against my chair and sighed and sent an IM to 'kit' "is it a bad thing that I donated $75 of someone else's money to charity? This guy came in and he had been nothing but an asshole to my friends and me for the last 2 months, and I kind of added a $75 donation to his bill."

Over the next 7 hours I rang up books, talked about new upcoming title releases. Answered phones and even booked a signing with Richelle Mead for that June. She was apparently some big urban fantasy writer. I have never heard of her though. All in all, I had an awesome day. Not to mention I had talked to Rose on the phone twice, and had been messaging 'kit' all day.

Whenever my phone would tell me I had a message from her, I wanted to tell her that I knew who she was. But I couldn't bring myself to. I didn't want to hide from her, but I didn't want her to feel like she couldn't talk to 'Penn' she talked to him like she could never talk to me. That in itself upset me. About half an hour before I was set to leave, I took out my phone and rather than IM her like we had been doing all day, I sent her an email.

Dear Kit,

If you are falling for your friend, than be with him. Until the end of the year when we can meet, I am just an idea. I love you, I truly do, and that means that I have to do what is best. And as much as it pains me, what is right for you right now is fallowing your heart. If it means being with him and having someone can hold you and kiss you, or being with me and having nothing more than words. Do whatever makes you happy

And as for your dreams, have you ever thought that maybe your dreams are not dreams? Maybe they are memories? Maybe these things you are seeing are memories that were too painful for you to remember and now that things in your life are getting better they are coming back to you?

Waiting to hear from you,

Penn.

After I sent the letter I let out a small sigh and ran my hand though my hair. I know what when Rose finds out that I am Penn, she is going to be pissed. I just have to do my best to be ready for the Wrath of Rose.

Half an hour later I was closing up the store when there was a light tapping at the window. Looking over I smiled when I saw the most beautiful face smiling at me. Rose was standing outside the door holding a bag from subway. I had complained to her that I missed dinner and my mother had made favorite meal.

Walking over to the door I opened it and let her in. once she was inside she put the bag down and leaned up on her toes and kissed me. The way her lips felt pressed to mine is something I would never tire of. Slipping my arms around her I pulled her closer to me and kissed her back.

When she pulled away a moment later she smiled at me. "Hi" she smiled and laid her head on my chest. She felt so right in my arms. Would she hate me when she found out that I was Penn? I really hoped not, I could not bear to lose her. I knew without a shadow of a doubt that whether we were just friends, or more than that she would always be in my life.

"Hi yourself. How are you? I know today was hard on you." I told her, running my hand over her back, and kissing her head. She had heard about all the rumors flying around about her before I had called her that afternoon. Not to mention that her mother was in town and was no doubt doing anything she could to make Rose's life hell.

"I'm ok, better now though. Thank you. For being around, for being an awesome boyfriend." She told me, her face turning red as she said the last part. For being an awesome boyfriend. Is that what she saw me as? I couldn't hold my smile back as I kissed her head.

"Boyfriend huh? Well its easy being awesome when I have the most amazing girlfriend." I told her, putting my hand under her chin and kissing her again gently.

AN: sorry for the late update, I was waiting on someone *cough* my mother *cough* to answer me so I could pin down her character in here. Plus I had to eat dinner. MMMMMM TACOS! XD

SOOOO DIMITRI KNOWS! How many of you saw that coming? Lol tons I know ha-ha. Now it's just going to be the problem of keeping it a secret that he knows. And not using information Rose has given him as Penn.

So the next chapter I do will I am thinking will be closer to thanksgiving. I can still use ideas on what to everyone can get each other; I only have like 3 gifts set out. Ha-ha

Now, onto something more serious. In here I mentioned Cyber Bullying. And at the risk of sounding like an afterschool special, it's something I have to touch on. I am sure that everyone reading this has, or knows someone who has been a victim of bullying in one form or another. It's not something that's fun. If you see it happening, or it's happening to you, tell someone. The longer it is kept hidden, the worse it gets, and the more power the bully gets. And remember, bullying can be as small as talking about someone's pants to threating their life. Just don't do it, and IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING!

For more information on cyber bullying there will be a link on my profile. Please take a read. Its worth it.