So I totally have a legit reason for not having UD'ed in god knows how many months. My son had broken my pc and I had finally managed to buy a new one. Sorry ya'll.

PS. Looking back through a few of the chapters yesterday, I realized I mixed up Eddie and Masons' names a couple of times, so I'm sorry about that and do plan to fix it. I hadn't meant to confuse ya'll with that.

"Disclaimer, disclaimer, disclaimer."

"Okay, yeah. Just set it down right there." I told Christian and Eddie, as they sat the couch in the middle of the room.

We were arranging my house, and all the funiture in it. Mason and Dimitri had banned the whole group of us from leaving the house as they went back to Lissas' this morning. I guess they were going to try to get some clues as to what had happened last night. I'm still completely embarrassed as how I had acted, everyone says it's normal. My freak out that is. But I've been telling myself, "I'll be strong. I won't be scared. Stronge. I just have to stay stronge." and yet...when it came to last night, I cried. I screamed. My weakness bothers me, and I don't want it. I don't want to be so weak and afraid, so it being normal, isn't exactly okay for me. Even if I am a mental mess, I don't want my friends to know I am.

"You won't live much longer."

I forced back a shutter as I remembered the message. It's so wrong, this person. This crap. None of it is right. I shook my head and focused on Lissa, she was trying to find the "perfect spot" for the Tv.

"If we have it in the corner here," She walked to the end of the room, and made a gesture, "it'll line up exactly with the couch. But then who ever would be on the chairs won't be able to see as well."

The boys just stared at her, probably worried she'll make them move the giant flat screen multiple times over. They should be worried. I snickered at them, deciding to come to help them out a bit.

"Okay, so if we just turn the couch and chairs to angle to the right, and have the Tv over here, " I gestured as I spoke, trying to give her a visual of what I meant, "then you'd have a perfect view no matter where you sat."

She came to stand next to me, nodding her head. "Perfect! Okay, so let's move this over Rose. And Christian, you two can put the Tv exactly where she said. The lamps and tables should be in the middle of everything, so whatever you're on you can use it."

As Christian and Eddie did as they were told, Lissa and I went on to move the chairs and turning everything in just the right way.

Lissa was nothing if not picky about appearance.

"So Rose." Oh god I know that look. Devious. "I couldn't help but notice Dimitri coming out of your room this morning...Anything you wanna talk about?"

I looked over at the boys, they weren't paying attention. I spoke softly to Lissa, "I feel safe when he's around. And last night I asked if he'd stay with me until I fell asleep, I guess he ended up falling asleep too. It was really late anyways, he must've been tired."

I knew she didn't think we actually did anything, with my body still not in top shape and what not.

"And do you feel this way with Mason as well?" I hadn't given her the answer the she wanted, and she's digging for it.

The truth was better then a pointless lie. "Well yeah. But...it's not the same. It's not just feeling safe, but it's also that I'm more relaxed around Dimitri-Don't get me wrong, I am comfortable to Mason." I let out a sound of annonance and Lissa laughed.

"No, it's okay. I get it." I smiled thankfully at her.

It's not like I don't like Mason, he's really nice and sweet and seems the type to be the All American Boy type...but if I had to choose...I'd rather Dimitri be the one to spend those scarey nights with me.

We spent another two hours making the house feel like a home, hanging curtains, place mats, getting the bedrooms together and just about everything else we laid our eyes on. By the time we were down the 4 of us fell on the couch, ontop of one another, completely exhausted.

"Well that was fun." Christian said with a eye roll, "What's next?"

"Actually I'm going to call Mia, I thought she was suppose to come over." Lissa made a show of getting up with great effort, then went into the kitchen for privacy.

"Yeah, I had spoken to her, she said she had somethings to do, but that she'd be right over." I didn't bother moving, I was lying across both Eddie and Christian. I nudged Eddie, "Call Tanner dude."

He nudged me back, "You'd have to get off me, my phone's in my pocket and I can't get it with you on me."

Closing my eyes I pretended I was sleeping, not wanting to get up.

"Can you be any lazier Rose?" Christian's always lovely sarcastic tone. Nodding my head to tell him, yes I can be, without opening my eyes or making a noise I continued my fake sleep.

Eddie chuckled, lifted his back side up in the air, my upper body going up with his. I nearly fell off when he righted himself and sat back down, then I opened my eyes.

"See? I didn't need to get up." I looked to the phone in his hands and smiled. "Wasn't that hard was it?"

He just gave me a funny look as he put the phone to his ear, listening to it ring, a few seconds later he started talking, "Mikhail, hey, what're you doing?"

I boredly nudged Christian in the shoulder with my shoe, he knocked my foot away, seeming to want to take a nap. I continued to nudge him, though he ignored me after the second nudge.

Eddie continued to speak, "How much longer you think it's gonna take? Rose and Lissa want you here." A pause. "Yeah, well you know how it is..."

"Oh!" A sudden brilliant idea came to me, "Ask him to bring some of his instruments!"

Eddie relayed my message to Mikhail, nodding to let me know Mikhail will do so. They spoke briefly about some kind of guy stuff while all I heard was alot of "Mans"and "Dudes" occasionally a few "Brothers'".

Lissa came back into the room, seeing Eddie on the phone, she spoke to Christian and I quietly. "She just got side tracked-"

Eddie heard her, laughter in his voice he interupted, "Told ya so."

"-So she should be here within the next hour or so."

I nodded my head, feeling much better now. "So what are we suppose to do now? I'll go insane if we just sit in this house all day looking at the walls."

"Well Dimitri and Mason don't want us to leave the house, so why not go walk around and check out the scenery? So long as we don't actually go anywhere, I don't see the problem." Lissa shrugged, "That is, if you're up to it. You've been on your feet all morning, I'd understand if you'd rather rest some more."

"Nah, Rose needs the excersize, she's getting fat." Christia spoke for me.

"Yeah? Wanna talk, you might wanna lay off the bonbons." I inspected him from where I lay, shaking my head I poked his stomache with my shoe, "Lissa you might wanna think about putting him on a diet or something."

"Ohkay!" Lissa jumped up, ignoring us, "Let's go."

Lissa and I got ready for our mini hike, grabbing a bottle of water each and suitable outter wear. Christian and Eddie had decided to stay here, which was fine by me. We needed our girl time, it seems like years since we've been able to be alone with each other.

Going out through the back yard I looked over to the garden, staring at it as we went. I was wrong when I first seen it, not all the flowers were same. Some had the same colors, blue and purple, orange and a few pinks, but it was much prettier then the one in my dream . I smiled at this and focused on what was ahead of us.

We went into the trees, leaving the back yard and garden behind us. Chatting about inane things as we did, we watched as a few birds land on a tree a few feet ahead of us. It was like the woods were alive, little animal feet crunching on the ground, birds chirping everywhere, the sun shining brightly in the sky. It was really peaceful, beautiful. I felt safe, hidden in the trees, covered by the sounds of the woods. I was able to really laugh freely, without any kind of scary thought lingering in the back of my mind.

Thirty minutes of walking, with a five minute break for me to rest, we past a big bush, landing right infront of a small creek. It was the perfect spot to sit and relax. And that's exactly what we did. I took off my shoes and socks, sat on a big flat rock, and stuck my feet in the water. Lissa followed suit and stuck her feet in. This area never seized to amaze me, everything about it was just perfect and beautiful. It really was my dream home.

"Can this get any better?" Lissa sounded so calm, perfectly at ease with the woods, just as I was.

"I really don't think it can." I closed my eyes, tipped my head back and felt the sun smile down on me. "God this is just what we needed."

"A secret place. Just for us." I could hear the smile in her voice.

I giggled, feeling so energetic, "Just like in school, remember?"

"How could I forget? We were there almost everyday." She laughed, "Jeez we really did a number to those rocks huh?"

When Lissa and I were in high school we managered to find a secret spot, alot like this one, minus the creek. It was just a random spot in the woods surrounding the private school of St. Vlads', but it had alot of really tall, great for climbing trees and big rocks that we always wrote on. Writing a crushes name, crossing it out and writing the new one. The date we first stumpled on it, the date of our last visit. Parts of our favorite songs. Yeah. We really abused the rocks.

"I almost don't want to go back." I could hear the wistfulness in my own voice.

"We can always come back. We can do this all over again tomorrow if you wanna, bring some sandwhiches and have a picnic."

I looked to Lissa, "This is why I love you, you always have great plans." I leaned over to her, laying my head on her shoulder for a few seconds.

She laughed, "Only for the innocent things, you've always got the evil schemes brewing."

I smiled, "Yeahh." I dragged out the word, "But they always worked like magic. And I didn't hear you complaining when we stole your phone back from that evil Stan."

"Well it's not like I could actually go a whole semester without it! He didn't wanna give it back. Plus if you hadn't been texting me he wouldn't have taken it."

"If you had been sneakier with it he wouldn't have caught you using it." I smiled triumphantly, "You need to be a ninja, like me."

She laughed, lightly bumping her shoulder against mine.

Eventually we left our creek behind us, back tracking our way to the house. After walking fifteen minutes I grew tired, but pushed on because the sun was setting. We didn't need to get lost here, that was never a good idea. Another five minutes and I grew impatient.

"Are we lost?"

"No, we're nearly there."

She was confident, but I still had to ask, "How do you know?"

"That tree over there," She pointed to a fallen tree a couple feet to our right, "we past it coming in."

I gave her a skeptical look, "We're in the woods. There's probably tons of trees just like that one."

"You wanna lead then?"

"No way. I wasn't paying attention. I would get us lost." I laughed, "I trust you, but all trees look alike."

Just as I finished my sentence the trees fell away and my yard appeared. Lissa gave me a smug look.

"Yeah yeah. Blind luck." I stuck my tongue at her, pushing her shoulder, "Don't get too cocky."

She reached out to push me back by I quickly side stepped her, laughing as she righted herself before she fell. She leaped at me again, but this time I ran as best I could, trying to get to the house before she could catch up to me. I turned my head, looking back as she ran at me, laughing just as much as me. She managed to get pretty close to me.

"Oh shit!" I stumbled out of her grasp, laughing even harder just out of shear joy of being with my best friend.

"I'm so gonna get you!" She hollered up to me.

"Hell no!" And with that I ran to the door and threw it open, running to the couch and falling onto just as Lissa came through the door.

She looked at me, a brillant smile on her lips. She walked to me, huffing and puffing as I was. I held my hands up to her, laying on my back, still laughing uncontrollably.

"I give I give!" I managed between breathes.

She just laughed and fell onto the couch with me, completely exhausted.

Once we calmed our laughter I spoke, "God that was fun."

Lissa nodded, smiling with her eyes closed.

I turned my head, finding everyone staring at us. I guess Dimitri, Mason, Mia and Mikhail had made their way here while we were out. They were all either leaning on the door way or standing there smiling at us, all seeming just as happy as Lissa and I were. Maybe it was because we actually were happy, and I knew our happiness meant alot to them. I'd even go as far as thinking maybe our happiness meant alot to Mason and Dimitri. Which made me even happier for some reason.

I wasn't sure if anything could bring us down right now, at this moment, and I wish it'd never end.

xXx

So there ya go. Finally a new chapter. Lemme know what you think. Kay, thanks.

Tif,

xo