Never Say goodbye, goodbye means leaving. And leaving means forgetting.

OCTOBER

{AYDINS TRIAL}

RPOV

"Ms. Hathaway, do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god?" the bailiff ask as I held my right hand on the bible. It was my turn to testify against Aydin, and I had to admit I was scared out of my mind. Even though I knew that he couldn't do anything to me.

Taking a deep breath, I looked to the man sitting in the front row with all of my family. My Fiancée, Dimitri nodded at me encouragingly. "I do" I told the man with the bible and he nodded and took the book and walked to stand next to a door that I assumed lead to the Jury room or whatever it was called.

"Ms. Hathaway, can you walk me though what happened on Prom night?" the attorney that my father had hired, William, ask me. We were told that Will was one of the best in the state, if not the whole country. And I was just told this morning that thanks to dad and his lawyers, the Turkish cops had agreed to let Montana file charges and prosecute Aydin for what he had done to me when I was a kid, so that they didn't have to worry about extraditing him.

"First off, its Rose, Ms. Hathaway is my mother. And you know that" I told him, even though I was scared out of my mind, I was not going to act like it. With that in mind, I took a deep breath and told them what happened. Now and back when I was a kid.

BANG, BANG, BANG. "I call for a recess, court will continue tomorrow morning at 9 am." The judge called as I made my way back to where I was supposed to be sitting with my family. I had been on the stand for nearly 4 hours, and it was brutal. My ass hurt from that extremely uncomfortable chair, my head hurt and I was tired as hell. I wanted nothing more than to go home and sleep. But no, would Lissa let me do that? Hell no. she had taken on the role of Wedding Planner and was loving every moment of it. More so because Abe had told her that there was an unlimited budget.

"Rose, we have to meet Sonya, Karolina and Viktoria to look at bridesmaids dresses." She told me as she, Christian, Dimitri and I all climbed into my car. Hearing her talk about anything other than my bed made me hit my head on the steering wheel.

"Dimitri, tomorrow, me and you are running away. We will elope and be done with it." I told him, and then laughed when I heard a growl come from Lissa. "Have I ever told you that I hate you Lissa? Because I do. I am not doing anything other than going home tonight. If you want to do the wedding thing fine, I don't care. You guys will be wearing the dresses anyway. I want to go home, have sex with my future husband and go to bed. That's it." I told her before starting the car and pulling out of the parking lot.

"But Rose! It's your wedding. You have to have a say in everything. Dimitri! Tell her!" she wined from the back seat, and when I looked in the rear view mirror to check traffic, I saw Christian shake his head at his girlfriend.

"Lissa! What part of I don't care do you not get? I don't give a fuck if we get married in fucking pajamas! You want my input? Red. That's all you are getting from me. And if you say another word about it I will stop somewhere and throw your ass out of the car! I am already under enough stress with this damn trial, or did you forget that I have to look at the man that molested me for years and tried to kill the love of my life day after day? Right now I could fucking care less about the wedding." I yelled at her.

I knew that I was being a bitch to her and she would be mad at me bit at the moment I didn't care. I was not at all worried about the wedding like she was. I mean we had 8 months to plan for it, it's not like it was tomorrow. We had decided on June 17th, that way I could finish school. I knew that I would have to apologies to Liss and make it up to her for being a bitch, but after the trial. After, I would let her drag me to all the girly wedding stores she wanted to. But right now I just couldn't deal with it.

After my outburst in the car everyone had shut up until we got back to my house. The house that had been my mom's she had given to me and Dimitri, signed over the deed and everything. And no idea why, but dad insisted on still paying all of the bills. I told him that me and Dimitri would get a job to pay for everything but he got mad when I said that. Only thing we had to pay for was stuff for the dogs, but I was ok with that since they were MY dogs.

A WEEK LATER

"In the case of the state of Montana against Aydin Kent, how does the jury find?" the judge ask as an older man in his late 50s stood up. The foremen, I think.

"On the count of attempted murder, we find the defendant guilty. On the count of assault with a deadly weapon we find the defendant, guilty. On the count of child molestation we find the defendant, Guilty. On the count of Stalking, we find the defendant guilty." The man read from the little card and turned to me and gave me a small smile, as if saying you're safe now.

"On the behalf of the state of Montana I want to thank the jury for their time. You are dismissed. Bailiff, take the defendant into custody. He will be held at the state prison until sentencing." With a final bang of the gavial, the case was closed and I let out a happy sigh.

"It's over." I breathe as I hugged my mother and father. "It finally over" after hugging everyone I grabbed Lissa and pulled her to the side. "Liss, I'm sorry about how I acted last week, I was stressed and I didn't mean to take it out on you. Can I make it up to you?" I said all in a rush, and bit my lip as I played with the simple ring on my finger.

"Oh, Rose, I know you were stressed, I was just trying to take your mind off of it. I know that even though you won't admit it that you are super excited about getting married." She told me as she wrapped her arms around me. "I mean we have been talking about this since we were kids. And now it's happening."

"How about this, tomorrow is Saturday, get all at the girls together and my mom and we can go dress shopping to make up for me being a bitch. Sound good?" I suggested and she gave a loud squeal and nodded before hugging me again. God, what have I just gotten myself into?

The next morning I was woken up by the dogs barking at the door. Groaning I elbowed Dimitri in the side. "Go see who it is. I am sleeping." I told him before rolling over again. When the dog kept barking I turned to look at the Russian next to me. "What's that look for?"

"It's Lissa Rose. You told her that you would go dress shopping today." He told me, laughter in his voice that I knew he was trying to hide. When I looked over at the clock I groaned. It was only 8:30.

"Its 8:30. It's too early to be awake. Make her go away and I will make it worth it." Smirking I ran my hand over his chest and felt him groan. "Please baby?" I gave him the puppy dog eyes; I knew he couldn't resist me if I gave him puppy dog eyes.

Or so I thought.

"Roza, my love. Nothing you could ever do would be worth facing the wrath of Lissa. Do you remember when she told me that I needed to go with her ring shopping and I told her no? She made my life hell till I agreed. She called every hour, text me every half hour, sent Christian, Mason, Eddie and Andre over to bitch at me. She even broke into my car a dozen times. No, I am not telling her no. now get your beautiful ass out of bed and go shop for a wedding dress." His accent was thicker than normal, meaning that even though he was scared of my best friend, he wasn't unaffected by me. Which was always a good thing.

"Fine. But you're sleeping in the guest room tonight buddy. I don't love you anymore." I told him with a smirk. He knew that no matter how much I said that or told him he was not sleeping with me, he always would. I could not sleep without him.

"Lissa, believe it or not, I want a big dress. Hey, we have been planning this forever right, and I am only getting married once right?" I tell my best friend as she held out a small simple sheath dress. No matter what I said before, now that the stress of the trial was behind me, and I was in the shop with all of my girls I was really excited.

For my bridesmaids I had decided on Lissa (maid of honor) Viktoria Sonya, Karolina and…..Sydney. I know what you're thinking, why the hell Sydney? But she and I are friends again. I mean her taking Adrian was probably the best thing to have happened. It left me free to be with Dimitri, something I couldn't have done if he and I were together. Besides, they were happy together.

FLASHBACK

2 weeks after Roses birthday

I was sitting in the living room with Dimitri watching Doctor Who, (what? I LOVE Matt Smith, he is so funny) when there was a knock on the door. "This better be good, River and the Doctor are about to get married." I said as I paused the show on the Xbox and got up to answer the door.

When I opened it, after pushing Lacey, Copper and Todd (the new puppies I had gotten a couple weeks ago, they were 14 week old boerboels. Copper was a tannish color and Todd was black with brown flacks though out his coat) out of the way. When I opened the door, I was shocked to see Sydney standing there, her huge belly sticking out in front of her. She had to be due to pop soon.

"Uh, hi Rose. Can we talk? Just me and you?" she as, her hand rubbing her belly. Why would she want to talk to me? To tell me that Adrian had dropped charges against Dimitri from when he beat the hell out of him last week for saying something about me? I knew that the charges had been dropped, so I wonder what she wanted. Nodding my head I told Dimitri I would be right back and stepped outside.

"When are you due? You look ready to pop" I said, trying to be friendly. Thinking about it, I really didn't hate her anymore. In fact, I was ready to forgive her and become friends again. How could I hate her or even Adrian for doing something that ended up bringing me to who and where I am now?

"A week ago. She seems to like her comfy bed. But that's not what I came to talk to you about. I wanted to say I'm sorry. Sorry for all the shit that happened this year and how it all played out. I really never wanted to hurt you. I had been telling him to tell you, but well you know Adrian. Thinks he knows everything. Is there any way you could ever think of forgiving me?" it seemed that the baby agreed with what she said, since she winced and rubbed her side as if the baby had kicked.

Reaching my hand out I rubbed the spot where her hand was. "Syd, I forgave you a while ago. Was I happy at the time about what happened? Hell no I was pissed. But now? Now I realize that it was meant to happen. If I had still been with Adrian than I would never have fallen in love with Dimitri. And I cannot imagine my life without him. Plus you and Adrian are happy." Since when had I become all wise and noble acting? Damn, must be all the sex with Zen Master in there, its seeping in.

"Really? You forgive me?" she ask, smiling hugely, than when a glare from ring on my hand shined in her eye she looked down and let out a loud squeal and grabbed my hand. "Oh my god, you're getting married? I am so happy for you!" she told me before pulling me into a hug.

END FLASHBACK

"You want a big dress? Like how big? Oh come look." My best friend said, grabbing my arm and pulling me to where all the dresses hung. There were hundreds of dresses, how the hell was I going to decide? "ok rose, look at these, which style do you like better?" she ask holding up one with a tight top that came to about the knees and puffed out, and one that had a bunch of like folds in it. It looked like feather blanket.

"Neither. You remember the movie A Cinderella Story? With Hillary Duff? Remember the dress she wore to the dance, the one that was all tight and sexy on top, but the bottom was all fluffy and she had to hold it up? That's what I want. So find me something like that. I see color I am looking at brides maids dresses." I knew that if anyone would find a dress like the one I wanted, it would be my life long best friend.

Walking over to the bridesmaids dresses I saw a lot that I liked, and the good thing about having all of my party here was they could all tell me what they like and what they didn't. "Guys! Come on, look for your dress! I want red. And not just any gross red, like this" I held up a bright red dress that looked like it got into a fight with a bag of twislers, and lost. "I want darker, like almost a blood red"

It took nearly 2 hours but we were all able to decide on a dress. And I must say, I LOVE it. I would have worn it with pride. It was a blood red, with a halter around the neck; the bodice was…..what did Lissa call it? A line? It had kind of like folds pulling the dress to the side where it was all pulled together, than around the knee it let out into a little flair that I think was called a mermaid. It looked amazing on all of the girls, bringing out their figures in ways that I am sure everyone will love.

My dress was a little harder to find, but when we did, it was amazing. We….well I, tried on like 8 dresses and they were nice, but just not what I wanted. Either too much bling, not enough, to puffy or not puffy enough. Hell, with as much as my dad was spending on this wedding I had the right to make a small fuss about my dress. It was the only one I was ever going to wear and of that I was 100% sure.

It was the last dress we tried on that I knew was IT. I put it on and it made me feel like I am the most beautiful woman in the world, like I was made to wear this dress. When I walked out and showed my family, they all agreed. We all cried like babies. And the sales woman weep with joy.

The dress was full length, with a fitted corset top. The skirt was a full skirt that had layers and layers of tool which I loved, but it had a kind of lacey net layer over the top that came to the knee. Sounds weird but it's beautiful. On the top, it had some embroidery on the bottom and on the top that was going up and down, to meet in the middle like some kind of hour glass, with crystal flowers here and there, and more embroidery near the skirt in a slivery color. It could be either strapless, or you could add the strap which was kind of a halter but instead of going around the neck it went around the shoulders and it was the same lace that was in the skirt.

After they had gotten all of our measurements, Lissa decided that it was time to find shoes, so we all walked to the store that was down the street and shopped for shoes. The girls each got a black pair with rined stones, and mine were kind of a cream, but what made them awesome was that the bottom was bright red, and the heel was covered in rhinestones.

"Lissa, if we do not stop for food, I will die of starvation and you won't have to worry about a wedding." I complained as we walked by some really good smelling café thing. Laughing Miss Bossy-Pants agreed to lunch and we all walked in and got a table. It was about half way through lunch that I decided to tell them about my surprise. "Hey guys, I kind of have a surprise for you. It's not bad. There is this place a couple streets over that we are going to. We are getting Custom lipsticks made for us. So that we all have something to look sexy for the wedding." When I finished talking everyone was laughing and leaning over to hug me.

The rest of the day seemed to fly by in a daze, and by the time I was dropped off at home I was ready to pass out. When I walked in the door I had to stop and take a picture. Dimitri was lying on the couch, Lacey lying between his legs with her head on his lap, Copper was curled up next to his head sleeping, and Todd was in a ball on his chest. Who would have thought that 3 bad ass dogs and a bad ass guy over 6 feet tall would not hear the car door slam or me open the door.

"If I were an ax murderer, you would all be dead." I called over to him, and sure enough, hearing my voice all 4 sets of eyes snapped open and the 3 dogs jumped off of my husband to be and ran over to fallow me as I made my way up to the room to go to bed.

Ooc: so here is yet another chapter. I know I said there was only going to be like 1 or 2 more. But thanks to my mother and her helpful tips, it has been extended into this chapter, another chapter for graduation and the start of the wedding, one for the wedding itself and then the LAST chapter will be the epilog. All the stuff for the wedding will be posted to the Facebook page for my stories. If you have not gone over there to look at the stuff, you should lol. If you're too lazy to do it, the main thing in this chapter that you want to see is the wedding dress. So I will tell you the name of the dress so you can look it up. It is called BELLE, BY ALFRED ANGELO. I saw it and fell in love with it. Lol

I have two more things to say before I close this, one is a question that I am too damn lazy to look and find the answer for. HAVE I MENTIONED IVAN (Dmitri's former charge before Lissa) in here? I can't remember if I did or not. I don't know if I said he was dead or if he is just living in Russia. So could one of you awesome, amazing, fantastic readers tell me? I will love you forever. Lol

My last thing I want to say is that soon, hopefully within the next month or so I will be posting a new story. The thing is, is that it 100% ORIGINAL. Meaning all the characters, places, things and ideas are coming from me. From the plans I have right now, I think it sounds bad ass.

It's going to be based in the city I live (phoenix Arizona) in an alternate world of our own. Meaning that all the tect and shit is the same but there are some differences. The main catch is that everyone in the world was born with a birthmark, one that matches EXACTLY to that of their PERFECT soul mate. (It's like Imprinting from Twilight, only it's both ways) Once you find your soul mate, you have to stay in each other's life's some way, whither it's as friends, lovers, or even arch enemies. And if you for some reason one of you leaves, you will always find each other again.

The main character has found her mate but refuses to accept it and wants to just stay by herself, but while she is denying the love and protection her mate could offer her, she is being followed by someone, someone who has anything but protection on his mind. Will she give into to what fate has planned or is she too stubborn to let herself be happy?

What do you guys think? Does that sound like a good story? Would you read it? I plan on posting it on here, but idk how much exposure it will get. Oh well I guess only time will tell huh?

Oh, and the quote at the beginning of 21 was from Gone with the Wind.