We sat like that what for a second, a minute, an hour. I really don't know how long it was but it felt so good to be in Dimitri's arms again.

"Rose, why didn't you come to me before?"

"I….thought you didn't want to see me"

He slowly pulled me out of his embrace and looked in my eyes. Searching for something.

"Why would you think that?"

" I don't know, maybe because you haven't come to see me since we got back. And you cancelled practice. So I took it as you just didn't want to see me."

"Rose, I never meant it like that, I knew that you needed time to recover from everything that has happened."

I just looked away, and stared at the wall.

" What" He said putting his finger on the side of my cheek to make me look at him.

" Are you going to take Tasha's offer?"

He raised and eyebrow at me," With everything your going through your worried about me leaving?"

"well.. Ya"

"Oh, Roza…..Roza" He said with a slight chuckle.

Did I say something funny? I thought to myself.

"Roza, I'm not laughing at you, I just can't believe how unselfish you are that's all"

"Well you know me, the unselfish one' I said shrugging my shoulders.

Dimitri let out a laugh" Ya, and I do"

"Huh" I said looking down at my hands.

"And Roza" He said rubbing my cheek with his thumb" NO, I did not except Tasha's offer"

"What? why not" I said surprised

He looked away for a second and then back at me.

"Tasha's offer was great, once in a life time offer, but " He said looking at me with a glow in his eyes.

" I can't except her offer when my heart belongs somewhere else" He said with a small smile on his face.

I almost started crying again. " But you always go on about how I act so young"

" That's because you are young, but in a lot of ways you are more grown up than guardians my own age." At that moment I was speechless, well more like dumbstruck. Dimitri just told me that he couldn't take Tasha's offer because he was in love with MEEEE!

" You were right, I do fight to stay in control. Only you have ever seen that in me. No one else has ever figured it out."

" Why don't you want anyone to know?"

" Whether or not they know doesn't matter. What matter is that you know, you know me, better than anybody else."

"Huh," was all that I could get out of my mouth.

Dimitri shifted in his chair to look at me better. " When a person can look into your soul, it's hard. It forces you to open up. To be vulnerable. And you do this to me Roza"

"So… what now?" I asked waiting for the famous Zen lesson from Dimitri Belikov.

But instead he leaned in and kissed me. It was a sweet kiss, nothing like the one we had in the gym before we went to the ski lodge. This kiss was different. It wasn't filled with anger or jealousy, instead it was filled with love that we both shared for one other.

I didn't want this moment to end. I could stay like this forever, but just like on cue he broke the kiss.

" I think it's time to head back Roza." All I could do is nod in agreement.

We both stood up, I walked over to the couch and grabbed my sweater. It was still soaking wet.

" You know, if you would have hung that up, it would be dry by now." Dimitri said putting on his DRY duster.

" That's not how I do things Comrade" I said with a wink. He shook his head, rolling his eyes. "Of course it's not" He said openening the cabin door waiting for me to step out.

We walked back to the school, not saying anything to each other. It was a comfortable silence though. We reached my dorm doors, I was utterly surprised to see Dimitri still walking behind me when I opened the doors, but then I remembered that it was way past curfew and he had to escort me to my room.

"Guardian Belikov! " I froze, someone sounded really pissed off!