Rose's parents

"Finally," Janine said as she throws open the door and rushes us inside. "What took y'all so long?"

"Oh, nothing," I say smiling up at Dimitri.

"Never mind. I don't care. At least you're here now. Okay, so sit down already. We have business to discuss." As we sat down at the table with Abe, who's grinning at both of us, Jill rushes in saying that she's sorry for being late. "At last, we can begin. So we all know that Lissa and Christian's wedding is in two months. So we have a LOT of things to do. We have to do flowers, guest list, seating arrangements, cake, dresses and suits, and decorations. Am I forgetting anything?"

"Yeah, me," Adrian says as he pushes his way into the room. "I think you got everything, if not we'll think of it later." He sat down across the table from me, not once acknowledging that I'm in the room.

"So who wants to do what?" Janine asks while looking at us all. "Abe and I will do the guest list and seating arrangements. So Jill and Adrian can do flowers, while Rose and Dimitri does decorations. Then we'll all help Lissa and Christian with the dresses and suits. Is that all okay?"

"That's fine by me," Adrian replies as he winks at Jill, making her blush.

"Yeah that seems fine," I say, acting like I didn't see Adrian. "So the colors are green and gold. Shouldn't be a problem, right Dimitri?" I look up at Dimitri, trying real hard to keep my mind off Arian and Jill. I still love Adrian and all, but not as much as Dimitri, but seeing him flirt with Jill, when I know she has a crush on him, is a little much.

"Yeah," Janine went on, "So get some streamers, balloons, anything that you think they'll like. And Adrian, try to get some goldish flowers, if you can't find some, then some yellowish ones." We all started looking through some wedding magazines as Janine and Abe made list of everyone they knew that Lissa and Christian wouldn't mind to be at their wedding.

About two hours later, Jill and Adrian left to go to the training session. As we started cleaning up, my mom brought out some ice cream for dessert. While we ate, I started feeling sick, so I got up to go to the bathroom. But when I stood up and took a step, I got dizzy and had to grab a hold of Dimitri's chair to steady myself. Dimitri started to get up, but I told him I was okay as I headed into the bathroom. As I shut the door, I felt like I was going to gag. As I rushed to the toilet, I made it right on time as I puked my guts out. My eyes got all watery as I wondered why I was getting sick. I've felt fine all day, so what could it possibly be?

After I flushed the toilet and washed up, Dimitri was knocking on the door, asking if I was okay. When I opened the door, he looked right at me and knew something was wrong. But I just walked right past him to the kitchen to get a glass of water.

"What's wrong Rose?" Dimitri asked as he followed me. "I know there's something wrong with you, I can see it on your face, so don't even say nothing."

"I don't know. But I'm fine now," I reassured him. "But I think I better go now mom and Abe. I got to go lie down for a bit. So I'll see you guys later." I put my glass in the sink as they said bye. Dimitri put an arm around my waist and walked me back to my room, not saying anything the whole way, but looking worried.

After I took a shower and got dressed for bed, Dimitri came and felt my head, still looking worried. "Well you don't have a fever. But you still look a little pale," he said worriedly. "Do you feel better?"

"Yeah Dimitri," I said. "I feel better. I just got sick, I don't know why. But I swear I feel better." Trying to make him feel better, I put my hand to his check and kissed him. "Are you really that worried about me comrade?"

As he smiled a little he says, "I'm always worried about you Roza. I love you." He kissed me back before getting up and heading for the shower.

"And I love you," I said as I laid down and closed my eyes.

Dimitri crawled in bed a little later, waking me up as he pulled me to him. "Hey comrade! Are you going to do what you said we could do again tonight?" I ask as I put a hand in his still wet hair.

"That depends, are you sure your feeling better?" He looked in my eyes, trying to make sure I'm really not sick.

"I feel much better now," I responded as I got on top of him and kissed him deeply as his groaned low in his throat. He wraps his arms around me, pulling me all the way to him, kissing me right back just as hard. As he moves a hand to my hair and pulls slightly, I jerk away, pulling a hand to my mouth. With a worried look on his face, Dimitri starts to get up as I fling myself off the bed and rush to the bathroom. Dimitri's right behind me as I puck into the toilet, holding my hair back.

"Roza," he whispers as he reaches for a towel to wipe my face for me. I take the towel from him, turning away so he doesn't see me like this, it's disgusting. Put he pulls me to face him as he takes the towel back. "Are you sure you're okay?"

"I thought I was," I sob. "I was fine one moment, and then the next I feel sick. I don't understand. Why is this happening to me?" I ask as I sob into his naked chest.

Brushing my hair back he says, "I don't know, but we'll find out tomorrow. You're going to be okay." He picked me up as I still sobbed in his chest, taking me back to bed. We laid there for a while, holding onto each other, trying to go to sleep, but couldn't. By the time I finally did drift off to sleep, I had a dream about Lissa and Christian's beautiful wedding that Dimitri and I are going to be decorating, which of course looked great.