For those who stuck with me for those three years. Thank you, this is for you. xx

POV: Third Person

Story: Rose and Dimitri's Happy Ever After.

Summary: Life after the official ending.

After The End

'When you get to an ending of a book, you always expect it to be filled with happiness and sometimes it is, then there are the times when it ends in tragedy. This one has both.

You see the happiness is what came first; I had an amazing family; two sisters and a brother and two badass parents. We weren't like your typical family; yes we had our fights, but when I say 'typical' I mean we're not exactly human, we might look it that's because we're half human, the other half of us was part Moroi vampire; Mortal vampire's who can die, which makes us Dhampirs; we don't need blood in order to survive. See, not your ordinary family, not even close. My oldest sister; Lacey, she ran a Fashion house in Paris. Then there was my older sister; Arianna, who was a Prima Ballerina in a Russian Dance company. Then there is me and my brother Liam; he wanted to be guardian, like me, like our parents; and he would have made an excellent one at that, he was passionate about it.

This is where the tragedy comes into the story; though you probably have already guessed what had happened by now; but for those of you who haven't you better prepare yourself for this. Are you prepared? Alright good.

You see, this one morning Liam and a few of his friends had permission to go off campus for the day. I admit I was a little jealous that he hadn't asked me if I wanted to go like he had the other times before. They all had used the excuse of going to see a movie, which made me suspicious because those boys could never sit in front of a screen long enough to watch a movie; to play some type of video game they could spend all day in front of one.

It wasn't until that night a few hours after the time they had said they would be back by that the guardian who was sent with them came back and told us that Liam and his friends never came out of the movie theater nor did they ever go in. At that point my Mother was in hysterics; I could tell my Dad was holding back his emotions for our benefit.

My mother had refused to believe he was missing, not until a few months; almost a year had passed. After that we held a small memorial for him, my older sisters had flown in. Lacey bringing her four year old son; Chase, along with her. Our family never really had closure with what had happened to Liam but we learnt to continue with our lives.

Then the happiness came again when Arianna had announced she was getting married. I had met her husband-to-be when the family flew to Russia when Aunt Viktoria had her daughter. But along with the wedding announcement came one that she was also expecting. The whole year was filled with plane flights, phone calls, dress fittings. But it was worth it, the wedding ceremony was beautiful. My sister was stunning in the white dress she had picked out, it outlined the baby bump perfectly. A month after the wedding, Arianna had went into labour; a baby girl was added to the family; Liliana Jamie.

Everything was good again; but we all had our down days where we thought of Liam and where he might be, and why hasn't he tried to make contact with us. But we did look back on all the good times we had with him to get out of that mood.'

"Kayla, hurry up or you'll miss your graduation!" Come a voice from the other side of the door. Dropping her pen, she shook her head.

"Coming Mom!" She called back, picking up the pen again pressing it to the final page in the journal.

'Today is a good day; I'm graduating, finally! Wish me luck.'

Signing her name, she closed the book up and placed it into the draw of her desk and picked up the graduation robe pulling it on before bounding out of the room to meet up with her family.