AN: Thank you all for all the reviews, alerts, favorite story and favorite author adds! It means a lot and I greatly appreciate it.

To anybody who reads my other story I am so sorry it's taking forever, yet again I'm having a little writers block so please forgive me and I promise I am working on the next chapter for it now.

If you do or even if you don't read my other story, I would really like your help. I need 2 songs. One that Tasha could sing to piss off Rose and one that Rose could sing in response. I have 2 songs picked out but they're just not flowing that well so any ideas would be awesome! Now back to this story.

Well I guess yet again I forgot the disclaimer but this will be the only time I will most likely remember so here it goes"

I do not own VA, any of its characters, or any music or songs I might add later in the story.

Now that that's done here's the next chapter. Please Review, whether you it's just to say you like it, hate it, have suggestions or whatever. I always love constructive criticism, helpful hints, or ideas that any one might have! :D

The next morning I woke up and looked at the clock. It read 6:30 am! I guess that's what happens when you go to bed at 6 pm. I tried to lay back down and sleep a little longer because Rose Hathaway NEVER gets up that early but it didn't work. So seeing as I couldn't go back to sleep and no one was awake yet I threw on some workout clothes and went for my morning run. After running about 3 miles I decided to call it quits for the day.

I snuck into the room careful not to wake up Viktoria, grabbed some clothes and headed to the shower. When I was done I was putting on my clothes I started walking back to Viktoria's room but voices in Dimitri's distracted me. I tiptoed over there to make sure he didn't hear me.

"She's going to hate me." Said Dimitri. Who's going to hate him and what did he do to make someone that mad?

"You need to tell her Dimitri. She's already going to be pissed enough that yu waited this long" Said Viktoria.

"I will" he answered

"When?"

"When the time's right."

"Dimitri the time will never be right. You have to look at it from her point of view. You're her best friend. Even though you've only known each other for a year, she tells you everything and she thinks you do the same, so you need to grow a pair and tell her before you prove her wrong! Get what I'm saying?"

"Yes but she hates her, she's going to be soooo mad at me, I'll be lucky if I get to keep my 'pair' as you like to put it." I imagined that he put air quotes when he said pair. I realize they were talking about me and I know I shouldn't keep listening but hey they were talking about me and I was very curious as to what he did that's going to piss me off and who the other 'her' was.

"Your right you will be lucky if you do but only because you've waited so long to tell her!"

"I'll tell her sheesh aren't you supposed to be there FOR me and not to yell AT me.?"

"Not when it comes to stuff like this." I could tell that most likely they were done talking about it so I went to go back into Viktoria's room but as luck would have it the moment I took a step the floor squeaked. Instead of being, then I did the stupidest thing I could have done, I ran back to Viktoria's room all in an attempt to not get caught and shut the door as quietly as possible. I ran over to her mirror and started to brush through my hair again to make it seem like that's where I've been this whole time.

A few minutes later I heard foot steps, and Viltoria's door open and close but I was afraid to look and see who it was.

"I know you were listening" asked Dimitri , he sounded off. Kind of a mixture between pissed and worried at the same time.

"What are you talking about?" I said not looking at him.

"Rose." He said sounding somewhat irritated

"Hmm?"

"Look at me." I turned and looked at him.

"How much did you hear?" he asked looking slightly mad. His expression kind of pissed me off. Shouldn't I be the one that's upset? He's the one hiding something from me.

"Enough." I said shortly.

"Like?" he asked now looking a little worried.

"Enough to know your not telling me something, and from the sound of it, it's pretty important."

"I guess you could say that." He muttered. I looked at him pointedly waiting for him to tell me but he just stood there.

"Well….?" I asked.

"Well what?"

"Are you going to tell me?"

"Do you remember Tasha?"

"The bitch from last summer? Yea but what does she have to do with anything?"

"If you'll wait I'll tell you." He said but then he went silent for a minute. "Please don't get upset at me for not telling you sooner but….me and Tasha are engaged."

"WHAT? Really your engaged to her? But she's so ugh!" I said trying not to be too mean. When in all honesty just hearing her name made me want to punch something. Her and Dimitri were dating last summer, but he had quit talking about her so I had kind of hoped they had broken up.

"There's more." He said looking at the floor.

"She's pregnant." He muttered. It was so low I could barely hear him and I was hoping tat I had misheard him.

"Say what?" I asked.

"She's pregnant." He said a little louder.

"How far?'

"5 Months."

"And how long have you known?"

"About 4 months ago."

"And when did you pop the question?"

"3 and a half months ago." I just stood there for a minute looking anywhere but at him. I walked up to him until I was about a foot away, and fought the urge to slap him. I looked at him but he was staring at the floor.

"Dimitri Belikov, look at me." I said sternly. He looked up. "We talk on the phone almost everyday and email all the time, why didn't you tell me all of this when it happened?"

"It never came up" he said trying to sound innocent.

"It never came up?" I said raising my voice a little. I had been trying to remain calm, something Dimitri had tried teaching me last summer so I could attempt to stay ungrounded all year, it had for the most part stuck minus a few exceptions. It looked like this would be one of those exceptions.

"When did you expect it to come up? HOW was it supposed to come up? Was I suppose to just randomly say 'Oh hey Dimitri have you gotten engaged or I don't know knock someone up since I've been gone?' I mean come on Dimitri, really?" I said, my voice getting louder and louder as I talked.

"No." he said

"No? No what?"

"No I didn't expect you to say any of that."

"Then how did you expect it to just randomly come up in one of our conversations." He ran a hand through his hair and went to sit at the end of Viktoria's bed, and again looked at the floor.

"I don't know." He said softly.

"Look I need some air so I'm going to go for a walk. We'll continue this later." I said knowing my anger was not going to get us anywhere. I turned and started to walk out the room, but as soon as I opened the door I saw Viktoria jump back and try to act as if she wasn't listening through the door.

"Hear anything interesting?" I asked with a smirk.

"I…I…I was just coming up to tell you all that everyone's gone for the day. Mama, Janine, and Yeva went shopping with Paul for some school clothes, and Sonya and Karolina are at work." She said trying to cover it up.

"Mhmm….well I'm going to go take a walk you two do whatever." I said walking towards the stairs. Before I got all the way there I heard Viktoria say "You Idiot!" and heard Dimitri say "Ow what was that for?" so I figured she hit him upside the head, since I didn't hear her slap him. Even though a part of me wanted to stay and see exactly why she was calling him an idiot, I decided to let them talk, and kept walking.

Once I got outside my thoughts ran wild. I knew I shouldn't really have gotten so angry, it just upset me that he wouldn't tell me something that huge. I mean I know it's weird that we became such close friends after only knowing each other for a month, and that we've stayed such close friends after almost a year of not seeing each other face to face. But I don't know with Dimitri it's different. After knowing him for a week I felt like I had known him my whole life. When I was with him I felt comfortable telling him everything, even things I would never tell Lissa. It hurt to know that he kept this from me and thought that he couldn't tell me without me getting mad.

In a way I understand why he didn't tell me, because I am mad, but not at him. He's probably only marrying her because she's pregnant and the little she-devil probably purposely got pregnant to make him stay or cheated on him and is saying it's his so she doesn't get caught, and so he'll stay. My guess is the second choice, I've seen her when he's not around.

The strangest part of it all is when he told me I felt something I hadn't felt in a long time, jealous. But that's just crazy. Dimitri and I are JUST really good friends, nothing more.

'I don't even like him like that…do I?' I thought to myself. But I just shook my head as if to clear the question out of my head. No, there is no way I actually like Dimitri like that, 'we are just really good friends, that's it nothing more and nothing less' I answered myself.

By this point I had pretty much walked around the entire block, so I decided to go back in and finish talking to Dimitri.

When I got inside the house, I smelled an amazing smell, so I walked towards the kitchen. I found Dimitri in front of the stove cooking what looked like blini, Russian type pancakes.

"Hey, smells good" I said a little soft so he'd know I wasn't angry anymore. As I was talking I walked over and sat down at the table.

"Thanks, I figured you would be hungry when you got back." He said not turning around.

"Right you are" I said with a grin, as soon as I finished talking my stomach growled as if in agreement., causing Dimitri to chuckle. It was an amazing thing to hear. For some reason he always trys to make everyone believe he's some hard ass that never smiles or laughs, but if you get lucky enough to know the real Dimitri, you find out that he's actually a big softy on the inside.

"Here," he said handing me a plate of food, "Now tell that thing to shut up"

"I'm going to pretend you didn't say that." I said as he started walking back towards the stove to finish making his. I immediately dug in and actually moaned when I first tasted it. Dimitri turned and raised an eyebrow at me.

"What? It's amazing!" I said defending myself.

"So you moan?' he questioned, but seeing as I had already shoved another forkful in my mouth I just shrugged. He finished cooking his food, made a plate and sat across from me at the table. We ate in silence and when I was done I started washing my dishes. Soon after Dimitri came over and put his in then started drying the dishes for me. When we were done I dryed off my hands, faced Dimitri and leaned back against the counter.

"I'm sorry I got so mad at you earlier I was just hurt that you waited so long to tell me and still wouldn't have told me if I hadn't heard you and Vika talking"

"I would have told you soon I just didn't want you to be mad at me."

"Dimitri, I may not be able to stand Tasha, but I'm going to support you. I don't think she's right for you, but it's your decision not mine. I know your just trying to do the right ting by marrying her" he went to say something but I raised my hand to stop him, knowing what he was going to say, and kept talking, "no matter what you say. I know you and I think it's very noble of you. I just want you to be happy, if you think being with her and creating a family is what will make you happy then i'm not going to get mad at you or hate you. Just in the future I would like to be told about major stuff like this when it happens. I don't like secrets or being kept in the dark. Got it?" I said pointing my finger at him at the last part.

"Thank you Rose it means a lot to me. I promise from now on no more secrets." He said coming over and giving me a hug. I loved it when he gave me hugs, something about them always puts me at ease.

"Hey what are best friends for?" I joked, reluctantly pulling out of the hug. He smiled and I knew everything was ok once again.

"Where's Viktoria?" I asked suddenly realizing the house was a little too quiet.

"She went out with a few friends."

"Oh well whats on the agenda for today?" I asked but as soon as I did his face kinda fell and he looked a little nervous.

"You already have plans don't you?" I asked

"Yea." He said reluctantly

"I'm guessing with Tasha?" but my question was answered by a high pitched voice coming through the door.

"Dimka!"

"Oh goody!" I mumbled sarcastically. I tried to say it low enough that Dimitri didn't but with him being so close he did. He shot me a look as if to say be nice, and I held up my hands in a gesture as if to say 'ok, ok'.

"In here Tasha." He somewhat hollered to Tasha. I heard her start to walk into the kitchen, and immediately I started to get annoyed, its just the effect she has on me. She entered the room and ran straight to Dimitri and gave him a huge hug and an extra long kiss, acting as if I wasn't in the room but in all honestly I knew she was putting on a show just because I was here. It started to get awkward so I cleared my throat and Dimitri pulled out of the kiss. Tasha immediately put a pouty look on her face, or at least I think that's what it was supposed to look like. Then she pretended to notice me for the first time.

"Oh you're here." She said coldly.

"Nice to see you too Tasha." I said with a fake smile on my face. "I guess congratulations is in order."

"Thank you."she said grabbing onto Dimitri's arm possessively. She turned to look at him, "Dimka are you ready?"

"Yea let me go get my duster." He said starting to walk towards his room.

"God forbid you forget your duster, even if it is 100 degrees outside." I said with a grin, turning around to grab the wash rag I used to do the dishes and put it in the laundry. As soon as I turned around he walked by me playfully hitting me upside the head.

"Hey now! Watch the hair!" I joked, as Tasha made a disgusted noise. I ignored her and turned towards the stairs as he walked up them.

"Don't worry paybacks a bitch, nobody messes with THE Rose Hathaway!" I yelled after him. I turned back around to grab the rag and tried to ignore Tasha's presence in the room, but yet again luck was not on my side.

"Listen you little whore, stay away from Dimitri." She said coldly, but I just laughed. "I'm serious he is mine, we're getting married and starting a family. For some reason he actually likes being around you, one of his major flaws, but don't worry I plan on taking care of that soon. So just back off and stay away and you won't get hurt."

"First off, I'm not a whore and who are you to call anyone that, if that's' not a hypocrite I don't know what one is. Secondly I'm not scared of you no matter what you threaten. And thirdly bring it honey, I'm not going anywhere." She glared at me and went to say something back but as soon as she opened her mouth we heard Dimitri walking down the stairs.

"Bout time." I muttered. She turned and glared one last time before he entered the room. I swear he purposely took forever, I mean seriously it doesn't take that long to go grab a duster and come back down.

"Are you ready?" he asked Tasha.

"most definitely" she said giving him a huge smile, and yet again possessively grabbing onto his arm.

"Are you ok here by yourself?" Dimitri asked me.

"She's a big girl" Tasha said before I could respond. "Plus I'm sure there's still one or two guys she hasn't slept with that would be more than willing to occupy her time."

"Oh Tasha has being pregnant affected your memory too? Because I think you have me mixed up with yourself." I said innocently.

"You bitch!" she spat.

"Why thank you!" I said with a smile. Dimitri sighed and looked at me.

"Rose?" he said trying to get me to answer his original question.

"Yes I'll be fine. I'll probably go catch up with Vika or go say hey to Adrian. I told him I'd let him know when I came into town again." I said with a wink. Dimitri didn't like Adrian, they graduated together and Adrian had the reputation of a womanizer. I've never slept with or even dated him, not that he wasn't interested, I just don't like him like that.

"Ok well be careful and let me know if you need anything I have my cell on me so you can get ahold of me if you need to." He said pulling his arm out of Tasha's death grip and came over to give me a hug. I couldn't see Tasha's face but I'm almost 100 % positive that if looks could kill I'd be dead. So I did what most would expect me to I pulled him even closer and kissed him on the cheek, in a friendly way of course. He just chuckled and shook his head, knowing exactly why I did it. He walked over to Tasha and she resumed cutting the blood flow off to his arm.

"Have fun." I said as they started to walk off. "Oh and Tasha his fingers are turning purple so you might want to loosen up your grip unless you want him to lose it. He's not going anywhere." I said trying to sound helpful. She went to turn around to smart off to me, but Dimitri cut her off.

"Come on babe, we don't want to be late. Bye Rose." He raised his voice on the last part to make sure I heard.

"See ya!" I hollered back at him.

Well what to do now?