Well this time I don't have a super long authors note. The reveal will probably next chapter unless something else comes up…or at least the beginning of it depending on how long I decide to make the chapter. I'm thinking about doing a short DPOV for the bit at the end, let me know what you all think. Oh I forgot to ever say who it was behind Rose dancing (sorry I was tired) I hope some of yall figured it out but if not it was Adrian. I had originally planned more interaction between them but it didn't ever happen so I forgot to tell you who it was so, sorry about that.

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And, XxXLost-In-The-CrowdXxX for reviewing the last two chapters, I hope I got everybody, I'm pretty sure I did but if I didn't I'm really sorry.

A special thank you to RozaRocks who read through the chapter to make sure everything was good. Another special thank you to lovingbites for her awesome idea.

Well here's the next chapter. You'll probably be mad at Dimitri in part of it but I think he makes up for it later :) as always please Review!

The next morning during our little training session, Dimitri was unusually cranky. As we were finishing I confronted him about it.

"So who peed in your cheerios this morning?"I asked before turning around to grab my water.

"Last night at the bar, who really hit you?" he asked. Well shit, this is not a conversation I wanted to have. "I have a pretty good suspicion on who it was so please don't try to lie to me."

"I didn't know I lied the first time," I said as innocently as possible turning to face him.

"Cut the crap Rose. Who was it? And remember I can read you like a book," he warned.

"Fine! It was Tasha ok. How'd you find out?" I asked.

"Oh just a very interesting picture I got this morning," he said. I gasped wondering how he could have gotten the picture when I was the only one who had it.

"Who sent it to you?"

"Does it really matter? Why wasn't it you who showed it to me? I'm guessing you're the one who took it seeing as Ivan's phone is in the picture and the only one alone with Ivan, besides Mia who had no motive to take it, was you," he said looking pissed.

"Before you get mad can you let me explain?" I asked. He nodded so I continued. "I was at the bar with Ivan when we spotted Tasha, I took the picture so I could show you, then I confronted her. We got into an argument as usual me calling her a liar and her calling me a whore to put things nicely, I pissed her off so she slapped me then stormed off.."

"You didn't hit her back?" He interrupted looking shocked.

"Why is it so hard for everyone to believe I can actually restrain myself from hitting a PREGNANT chick?" I asked getting kind of frustrated with everyones shocked reactions.

"It's just not normal for you to think before you act, and who is everyone?" he asked. I didn't want to let him know Viktoria was in on all of this so I lied.

"Well even I have limits and pregnant women are pretty high on the list of people not to hit no matter how much they deserve it. And just Ivan. Anyways, after she stormed off you found us, then you apologized and I didn't want to ruin the moment so I figured I'd tell you late but then the more I thought about it, the more I didn't know when to tell you because I knew it would hurt you. I figured I'd show you today. Now will you please tell me who sent it to you? I want to know how they got it when I didn't send it to anybody."

"It was Ivan, but it should have been you."

"I planned on telling you, I just wasn't sure when the right time was," I defended.

"There was never going to be a right time! You should have told me when it happened!" he said looking really mad.

"I didn't want to ruin the night, we had just started talking again and I didn't want to immediately burden you with that why are you yelling at me instead of storming her house yelling at her?"

"Because you're my supposed best friend and should have told me instead of hiding it from me! You should have never even tried to confront her and just let me handle it!" he half-yelled.

"Wait she is the one who lies to you and SLAPS me for trying to protect YOU, yet I'm the one getting yelled at? Get your freaking priorities straight. I didn't tell you because I didn't WANT to hurt you! She lied because she WANTED to hurt you! Consider that!" I said before storming inside. Did he have a right to get pissed? Yes definitely, but he also shouldn't be yelling at me for trying to protect him. I hurried up and took a shower before storming into Vika's bedroom.

"Viktoria Belikov or should I say Benedict Arnold! Wake the hell up! NOW!" I half-yelled at her trying not to wake the whole house up.

"What?" she asked groggy.

"What? That's what you ask! You should be asking for my forgiveness. How did Ivan end up with the picture that was on MY cell phone, yet I didn't send it?" I asked her pissed off.

"Oh I sent it to him," she said all nonchalant before rolling over.

"Really that's all, you're not even going to explain?"

"UGH!" she said sitting up. "You weren't going to show it to him anytime soon. I know it and so do you so don't deny it. You're too worried about hurting his feelings but he needed to know! Ivan isn't scared to hurt his feelings so I knew he'd send it to Dimitri."

"Yea well all you accomplished was getting him pissed at ME, not HER! He just was seriously yelling at me downstairs and said I was his supposed best friend! So thank you Viktoria. As if we haven't been getting in enough fights without you interfering!" I told her pissed.

"I'm sorry. I didn't think he'd really be stupid enough to get mad at you instead of her. He's an idiot…Are you sure you love him because it seems like as more time passes he keeps getting further and further beneath you, and not in the good way," she said the last part with a wink. "In all honesty you seem way too good for that idiot."

"Whatever, if anything he's too good for me. Idiot or not. What do we do now?" I asked flopping down on my back beside her on the bed.

"We wait till Tasha slips up again like she usually does, we just have to pay extra attention to her, then we reveal her for the skank she really is and then my moronic brother will finally realize he's in love with you and you will live happily ever after! Until then you and your mom or whoever is taking you, have to go pick up Lissa from the airport while I attempt to go back to sleep," she said. Laying back down and rolling over. I seriously doubt her whole happy ever after plan but I had forgotten about Lissa. I hurriedly went down stairs to find my mom and Dimitri in the kitchen.

"Mark and Oksana invited us to go somewhere with them today so I can't take you to the airport but Dimitri offered to drive you! I'm taking our car so you'll have to ride in his truck."

"Great," I muttered. She didn't hear me but Dimitri did. He looked at me and gave me an apologetic look but I just shook my head. "Come on, we have a long drive ahead of us."

Unfortunately the airport was an hour and a half away so that meant I was stuck in a truck with him for an HOUR AND A HALF! I grabbed my satchel purse and headed to the truck.

"I take it you won't let me drive?" I asked already knowing the answer.

"Nope," he said getting in the passenger seat. Yet again unfortunately it was a 1997 Ford F150 hunter green SINGLE cab, meaning no backseat. Now when we picked up Lissa I'll unfortunately have to sit in the middle in between them. About 15 minutes down the road Dimitri spoke up.

"I'm sorry for yelling at you. I was just taking my anger out on you and I shouldn't have. If I'm being completely honest yes I was pissed that she had lied, but I had already knew she lied I just didn't figure she would be out at a club. What I was the most frustrated about was that she hit you for defending me and I wasn't there to stop it. I am proud of you for not hitting her back but I know it must have taken a lot of will power. For that I am grateful."

"No matter how horrible she was or how much she deserved it, your baby didn't deserve it, no baby does." I told him honestly. "I am getting tired of these constant apologies though."

"I know and I'm sorry for that too, I told you I haven't been handling my confusion very well. I know that's absolutely no excuse but it's the truth. Like I said though I am mostly pissed about her hitting you. She should have never done that, and I should have never left your side long enough for you to find more trouble," he said the last part smiling at me.

"Hey I'll have you know, I can handle Tasha pregnant or not!" I said with a laugh.

"Glad to see you so confident," he said with a smile but I knew what he meant. Usually I wasn't very confident at all.

"Hey we all have our moments," I told him honestly. I waited a minute or so before speaking up again. "Don't be upset you weren't there to protect me from Tasha. You can't protect me all the time. That's something I have to learn for myself, just like I told you last night."

"You know I wish I could always be there to protect you,"

"Please don't say things like that. I wouldn't want you to get hurt trying to protect me, especially not like Aaron did…" I said remembering how Aaron had been put in a coma trying to protect me from Jesse and Ralph…I quickly shook my head trying to expel the thoughts of that night.

"Hey come here," Dimitri said pulling me to him and wrapping his arm around me in a side hug. I laid my head on his chest. "You know he would do it all over again even if it wasn't you. It was not your fault. He made the choice to go in there using his own free will. Plus he's fine. He made it out alive and all is well now."

"He shouldn't have had to make that decision. If I hadn't been so stupid he never would have had to."

"Will I ever get through to you that, that night was not in any way your fault?" he asked rubbing his hand soothingly on my upper arm.

"Probably not considering that's not true." I told him honestly. I felt him just shake his he and we both went silent for a few minutes until my stomach grumbled breaking the silence.

"Was that seriously your stomach? It sounded like a monster from a movie!" he exclaimed.

"What I didn't eat breakfast!" I told him. "Can we stop by a donut store?"

"Well we're in the middle of nowhere right now so you'll have to wait a little while the next town's not for a while and I'm not sure they have a donut store." He told me. I just groaned.

"Well then I guess its naptime." I told him snuggling into his shoulder. in no time I was out.

"Can..get..donuts…chocolate milk…thank you." I heard Dimitri talking. Am I dreaming? Suddenly I smelt the delicious aroma of chocolate covered glazed donuts. My eyes snapped open and a smile spread across my face. I looked up at Dimitri.

"Now you wake up. I tried waking you up several times but you didn't even budge. You smell donuts and immediately wake up! You didn't even notice when I had to move you to switch gears" he said surprised.

"Hey it's food what can I say?" I told him sitting up. I grabbed the box of donuts and started eating.

"I will never understand where you put all of that…" he muttered. I just shrugged and kept eating.

"So where are we?" I asked.

"About 15 minutes away from the airport," he said grabbing a donut.

"Hey!" I said pretending to be pissed.

"Did you seriously think I got a dozen donuts all for you?" He asked with a smirk. I glared at him.

"I guess I can share this time, but don't expect the same result next time," I warned him.

"I'll take that in consideration next time." He told me.

Pretty soon we were at the airport and sitting in the waiting area where the people came out. thanks to the security stuff we had to wait by the luggage area instead of at the terminal exit like people used to. Pretty soon I saw Lissa's Platinum blonde hair weaving through the crowd.

"Liss!" I hollered at her. She looked up and when she me started walk/running towards me.

"ROSE!" she squealed hugging me like we hadn't seen each other or spoken in years.

"Chill girl, it's only been like a week and a half!" I told her laughing. She pulled away then.

"Sorry I got excited!" she said with a laugh.

"I know. You usually do," I told her with a laugh. "Lissa, this is Dimitri. Dimitri, Lissa."

"Nice to meet you Dimitri. I've heard a lot about you. Nice to meet the face behind the name," she said politely shaking his hand.

"You too Lissa, I hope it's all been good," he told her with a laugh glancing at me.

"I think it was," I told him laughing. I grabbed Lissa's arm and started pulling her toward the luggage area. "Let's go get your bags."

"How many clothes do you need?" I asked amazed that she had 4 full suitcases. She had packed more than me and I planned on staying indefinitely. She was only staying a week…as of right now at least.

"Hey you never know what you're going to need!" she defended.

"That argument sounds vaguely familiar," Dimitri said looking at me while grabbing two of her bags, she grabbed 1, while I grabbed the last one.

"Hey I didn't have this much. Good thing you brought the truck." I told Dimitri. We quickly loaded the truck and hopped in. The ride for the most part was uneventful. Lissa talked most of the time telling me about "everything I had missed" in the last week and a half. There were a few awkward moments because his truck was a standard and thanks to the limited seating, the gear shift was in between my legs but either he or I would make a joke or ignore it as much as possible. Luckily he didn't have to shift very much since it was mostly the same speed the whole way. When we got to the house, Lissa and I decided to have Dimitri take us to the mall while he went to talk with Tasha. He was reluctant at first but finally agreed thanks to my amazing persuasion abilities.

We went from store to store, Lissa buying something in everyone until I finally decided it was time for food. Luckily she agreed so I didn't have to argue very much. We quickly got food and were eating when Lissa asked a question I had been dreading.

"So what's with you and Dimitri? You seemed pretty cozy with him earlier."

"Cozy? We were crammed in a single cab truck, it's kind of hard not to seem cozy with one another." I told her trying to get her off the subject.

"You know what I mean. Plus you've been really quiet which means you're thinking about something or hiding something. Either way spill!" she told me leaving no room for arguments. I quickly filled her in on everything that's happened since I got here.

"Oh my gosh! Why didn't you call and tell me about all of this?" she asked surprised.

"I figured I'd tell you in person," I said shrugging.

"Wow. All this has happened in less than a week? So what's the plan?" she asked. I told her parts of Viktoria's plan, leaving out the happily ever after part. When I finished we sat in silence for a minute while she let everything sink in when all of a sudden her phone chimed.

"Oh my gosh! It's Christian. He wants to know if we can go out tonight…like on our first date. Would you mind? If you do it's fine I promise I won't get mad," she told me.

"It's fine go ahead. You should get to finally meet your boyfriend in person," I told her with a laugh. I quickly dialed Dimitri knowing what was coming next.

"We need to hurry up and get back to the house so I can get ready!" she squealed standing up and gathering her bags. I told Dimitri that we were ready and he said he'd be there in 5-10 minutes. When he got there I noticed how tense he was. while Lissa was putting her stuff in the bed I gave him a questioning look.

"Later," he said with an annoyed sigh. This time I knew it wasn't me and it kind of felt good not be the reason behind it.

We got to the house and I helped Lissa get ready. Halfway through Sonya hollered at me.

"Can you and Dimka babysit Paul? Mama and Janine are still at Mark and Oksana's, Karo's at work, and Vika's who knows where and I just got called in last minute."

"Yea sure. I mean I can't answer for Dimitri but I'd love to. I like hanging out with him." I told her.

"Thank you! You are a life saver!" she said before running to go get ready. Pretty soon I heard a doorbell and hollered at Dimitri to answer it. I went to check on Lissa.

"Oh my gosh Rose! What if everything goes horribly? I can't do this!" she said letting her nerves get to her.

"Calm down. It's not like you don't know each other. You've been talking for a year now. He's not a stranger and completely head over heels for you. So just go be yourself and it will go great!" I told her.

"You're right we do know each other so it won't be too awkward." She said.

"Good now come on he's downstairs waiting for you," I told her. She broke out in a huge grin and headed out the door. I got downstairs and saw her go over to him.

"You look ten times better in person and look beautiful tonight," he told her.

"Aw thank you! You look pretty handsome yourself!" she told him. I cleared my throat and they both looked at me. I made my voice kind of deep and decided to mess with him.

"Now you better have her home by 8:30. No later! No funny business and if you even think about hurting her I'll have Dimitri over here take you out back and show you how hurt feels and then I'll…" unfortunately I didn't get to finish.

"Rose just let them leave!" Dimitri told me with a laugh.

"Do you always have to ruin everything?!" I told him playfully slapping his arm. Christian and Lissa turned towards the door. Lissa turned and said bye.

"Bye Liss, See ya Sparky. Remember what I said!" I called after them. Dimitri just laughed. By then Paul had entered the room and started begging us to play games. We of course said yes and spent the rest of the afternoon playing with him.

When it was almost time for bed, we put on the movie 'The Lion King' in the living room. Dimitri was propped against arm rest of the couch Paul beside him and me beside Paul. Pretty soon Paul laid his head in my lap and put his feet on Dimitri. I put my elbow on the back of the couch and leaned on it. Next thing I knew I was out. A little while later I woke up to find Paul gone, the tv was blue signaling that the movie had been off for a while, and Dimitri was asleep. Maybe it was the masochist in me or maybe I was too tired to walk upstairs but I wrapped the blanket that had magically appeared on me around Dimitri and I and laid on his chest bringing his legs up on the couch to make him more comfortable. I was now on my side laying on Dimitri who was propped up in the corner of the couch with his legs beside me. without realizing it, he dropped his arm off the couch and wrapped it around me.

Maybe I was just tired or maybe it was because of who was laying beside me, but I quickly fell back asleep and had one of the best nights of sleep I have ever had.