I don't think I ever realized how happy reviews make me I went to sleep with a smile and woke up with one too Well thank you and on to chapter 5!
But they weren't screams of fear, they were shouts of happiness. Viktoria stood there screaming things like "I can't believe-" "Are you-" "you are really-"
I laughed and walked towards her. "Calm down Vik. Make full sentences."
But when I said that, I regretted it for the next five minutes because she wouldn't shut up. "Oh my god, Rose, we thought you were dead! You just disappeared after that and then we heard that you were with the unpromised people and then they came back and said you had just disappeared one day and we thought you were dead and-" She looked into my eyes. "I am SO sorry Rose, about that night! I came home- well Abe's men took me home- and asked Sonya about Rolan and she told me it was him and then I realized that you were right and I felt so terrible and I thought it was my fault that you disappeared, I locked myself in my room for the first day! And Dimitri, is that really you? Wow Rose you are awesome! You brought my brother back to me-" She caught herself again. "I didn't mean what I said about you not loving my brother, I know that you love him and right then I only wanted to hurt you- I am so sorry!"
She had to pause and take a breath so I clamped my hand over her mouth while I could. "I think there was three periods in that." I said astonished. I heard two laughs from behind Viktoria. I looked over her shoulder and saw Olena, Karolina, and Yeva. Yeva just stood there grumpy as ever but Olena and Karolina's faces were bright with happiness. They walked past a still stuttering Viktoria and up to us. Olena stood in front of me and studied the sight before her.
"What are you?" She asked. "I can see that you have fangs- I saw them when you smiled. I can see that you are pale and the sun must bother you because you have a parasol and Dimitri has a hat."
I nodded and motioned for Dimitri. "We don't know what we are. We haven't been this way for even a full 24 hours."
"Oh. Well then come inside and tell us the story that coincides with this." She ushered us in to the living room Where the Sonya already sat.
"Where are Paul and Zoya?" I asked.
"They are still asleep. Not really early birds." Karolina said with a smile.
Dimitri chuckled. "Neither were you, Karolina." He hugged her. "I always had to tear you out of bed for Mama."
She squeezed him and started to silently cry. I smiled to her. She has her brother back. They pulled apart and we all sat down. I sat next to Dimitri and touched his hand signaling for him to start. He took a deep breath and started with what happened first. "Roza had escaped from where we were holding her-" The room gasped.
"You were the one to take her?" Olena asked. He nodded and went on.
"She had escaped after staking me with a chair leg and had gotten pretty far away. We had run through the gardens that surrounded the house and a small forest when we came to a bridge." He paused. He looked at m and I took over seeing he was scared of what his family would think of him.
"I was halfway over the bridge's edge." I started. "I had excepted that I might die and threw myself off. But Dimitri caught my arm. He pulled me half way over the bridge and I had a firm hold on my stake." I paused recalling when I told him I loved him. "I swung my arm out at him but he dodged it while pulling me over the railing all the way and dragging me to the ground. His intention was to turn me so we could rule the Strigoi world. He told me that he loved me and we had our hand together so he touched the ring." I lifted my hand up to show them Oksana's spirit ring. "Right before he bit me, the color of his eyes changed. It was amazing… I don't remember much after that." I turned to Dimitri.
"I lifted her up and walked into the forest and laid her on the ground. I lay next to her prepared when she would wake up. I found myself get really tired-"
"Strigoi don't sleep though." Viktoria piped in. I nodded to her and Dimitri continued.
"Yes, and I didn't know that I wasn't a Strigoi. It finally became too much and I fell asleep." He paused again. "I woke up to Roza shaking me; we noticed each other eyes at the same time."
I started talking again. "I thought about it and came to the conclusion that Spirit had saved us." I played with the silver band on my finger. "I took the ring off and I became completely Strigoi." I looked at Dimitri and squeezed his hand. "Luckily, Dimitri was there to put my ring back on me. He got it on and I was this again. The closest Spirit user to use was Oksana so we made up our minds to come here. To see if Mark and her had an explanation for this."
"Wow. I can't believe this." Viktoria said.
"What are your Strigoi traits?" Olena asked.
"A thin red circle around our pupils." Dimitri answered.
"And then rest is Moroi and Dhampir?" Sonya chimed in.
"Yah. We don't know about the whole blood thing yet though. We have no idea about that." I said.
"We'll get to that when it comes." Olena smiled at me. "We are in this together now. We are here to help you both."
I smiled and got up to hug her. She held me. She was like a step mother to me. Olena could never replace my real mother, but she would hold me like my mother hadn't.