So this is just a really playful chapter with a little bit of drama. It's really short and for that I'm sorry but I promise to update again pretty soon! I was just feeling really bad about not posting for a while so I decided to go ahead and post this to give all of my amazing, awesome readers something!

As always please R&R and tell me what you think!

"I don't know what he means," defended my mom.

"That guy is really strange. But hey he saved my life, I guess I can get over his weirdness." I said grabbing a bagel and heading towards the back door. "Anyone else coming?"

"Oh yea I'll be there in a sec," said Dimitri. I headed outside and found Paul playing on his jungle gym pretending to soot some unknown enemy.

"Who are you fighting little buddy?" I asked climbing to where he was.

"Bad guys, duh!" he said continuing his shooting spree but then all of a sudden paused and kind of glared at me. "I'm not little!"

I gave a chuckle and glared back playfully then charged at him and picked him up like a baby while he started fighting trying to get free so I started tickling him.

"See your little compared to me!" I told him.

"Only because you're a grown up! Grownups are supposed to be big!" he hollered. By that point I was getting tired of tickling and fighting him for the moment so I let him down.

"One day I'm going to be as big as uncle Dimka! Maybe even bigger!" he said proudly.

"You want to know a secret Pauly?" I asked and he excitedly shook his head yes. "Are you sure you can keep it?"

"I won't tell anyone Aunty Rose!" he said determined.

"I think you might even be cuter than Uncle Dimka, you'll have to fight the ladies off with a stick!"

"Ewww Aunt Rose! Girls are gross and have cooties!" he said wrinkling his nose.

"Well I'm a girl and I don't have cooties," I said.

"You don't count," he said.

"Why not?"

"Because your cool! And you like boy stuff also not just girly stuff," at the mention of girly stuff he made a disgusted face again.

"Alright I'll take the compliment...I think. But not all girls are bad, one day you'll see what I mean."

"He better not!" interrupted Dimitri coming to stand beside us. We were sitting on the edge of the jungle gym, I was in the corner leaning against one of the walls with Paul still in my lap so of course Dimitri just happened to scare us. He started cracking up and Paul just glared at him, I decided to play along and glare back. I went to the entrance and squatted with Paul beside me. I turned to him and nodded. As soon as I nodded we both leaped out at Dimitri. I purposely didn't tackle him fully not wanting to injure him but I tackled enough to cause him to stumble.

"Hey what was that for?" he asked.

"For scaring us," said Paul at the same time I said "Eaves dropping."

"Well it's a good thing I was eaves dropping. Paul stay away from girls, they are nothing but trouble!" he told Paul.

"What about Tasha she's a girl and you're with her?" he asked with an annoyed face at the mention of her name.

"Especially stay away from girls like Tasha!" he said seriously.

"Take it you are in a fight because you're not catering to her every beck and call today?"

"You have no idea," he muttered then towards back to Paul. "If you must be friends with a girl then choose a girl who's nice, pretty, and likes what you like."

"So a girl like Aunty Roza. She's pretty, and nice, and likes to do stuff like we do!" he replied. Dimitri paused. My heart started racing in anticipation to see what he was going to say, but soon it was clear he was at a loss for what to say. I decided to end his struggle and spoke up.

"Who's up for a game of tag?" I asked.

"Oh ME!" Paul shouted, successfully distracted. "Who's it?"

"NOT ME!" I shouted running off.

"ME EITHER!" he shouted running off also leaving a still frozen Dimitri. Dimitri quickly shook his head and looked around.

"Not fair!" he said.

"All is fair in love and tag," I said purposely misquoting the popular phrase before searching for a place to go so he couldn't easily tag me knowing he'd come after me first.

The morning flew by with us playing quite a few games before pausing to go eat lunch. We had to pause the game frequently because Tasha kept calling and Dimitri just couldn't ignore the calls. I think the total has been 35 times in the last 3 hours. Currently Dimitri and I were sitting at the table eating some sandwiches and black bread that Olena had made while Paul was already back outside having devoured his food. Dimitri's phone was pretty much right in the middle of us on the table, I anticipated her calling soon so I started inching closer and closer to the phone so when she called I quickly grabbed it before Dimitri.

"Dimitri is busy having some family time with his nephew. If this is an important call please leave a message after the tone. If it's a crazy, psychotic, overbearing girlfriend please hang up and try again tomorrow," I said mimicking the usual voice mails voice. I quickly heard "You little bitch!" before quickly hitting end and turning his phone off.

"That wasn't nice Rose. give me my phone back so I can attempt to calm her down."

"No Dimitri what's not nice is not letting you get to enjoy your day. What's not nice is punishing poor Paul because we have to keep pausing our games so that you can reassure her for the billionth time that your being a good little boy as if you're a flipping dog on the world's tightest leash. She's mad but she'll either get over it or she will stay mad, but either way you're not getting this back for a while."

"Rose give me my phone," he said reaching his hand out.

"Nope." I said popping the "p".

"Don't make me take it away from you," he warned. At that I pretended to hand it to him but before I made it all the way it 'slipped' from my hand into his glass of water.

"Damn it Rose!" he growled before hurriedly grabbing it out. He tried turning it on but it wouldn't work.

"Relax comrade, I know how to fix it but it will take a few hours. Does your mom have any rice?" I asked.

"Really you're hungry again? You just ate and what about my phone?"

"No you idiot, the rice is for your phone. The rice will pull the moisture out." I said offended.

"Oh sorry…Tasha's going to be so pissed," he said grabbing some rice and a bowl and bringing it to me.

"So let her be. You're going to enjoy the rest of the day with your nephew and you're not going to worry about her. You can get back on your leash tomorrow, for now enjoy the freedom," I said pouring the rice in the bowl then submerging the phone in the rice.

"Now come on, how about a game of hide and seek?" I asked grabing his hand and attempting to pull him out the door.

"Fine, but you need to tone it back. I know you won't admit it but you're in pain and need to quit being so rough." He said. Like he had mentioned, I wouldn't admit it but my body was aching all over. Yet again, it amazed me how well we knew each other.

"I'm fine come on," I said tugging his hand again.

"I'm serious Rose. Take it easy or I'll make you go to bed and stay there the rest of the day," he said sternly.

"Aye Aye captain. Now can we go?" I asked tugging again. This time he let me actually drag him outside.

After a few rounds of hide and seek I was running out of places to hide. Dimitri was now the seeker and Paul had already hidden in the same spot he'd hidden in 5 times now. Suddenly I got a great idea. On the back of the Belikovs' house, there was a part of the roof that formed the roof of a small patio, but that part of the roof was flat. I quickly ran to the front of the house and went inside knowing Dimitri couldn't here that door. Then I ran up to Vika's room and quietly opened the window. Fortunately her window was only about a foot or two above the flat part of the roof. I quickly jumped down and laid down right in front of the window against the house knowing that Dimitri wouldn't be able to see me from here.

I was right and about 20 minutes they still hadn't found me. suddenly there was a noise at the window from the inside.

"Rose what are you doing out here?" asked Vika.

"Ssshhh!" I whispered. "We're playing hide and seek and Dimitri hasn't been able to find me yet."

"Oh," she said. Suddenly her face brightened up. she started slowly closing the window. "That gives me a great idea!"

"What are you doing?" I asked curiously.

"If you're locked out on the roof then you'll have to jump into prince charmings awaiting arms!" she said as if that was the most obvious thing ever.

"I am not about to jump off the roof!" I hissed.

"You have no choice!" she said quickly shutting the window and locking it.

"Well shit," I muttered.