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Chapter 5:

RPOV

As I was about to round the corner I ran into a brick wall, or I think it was. Their arms shot out and steadied me. And then the smell of aftershave hits my senses and I immediately know who it I look up at the face that i've been waiting to see for 2 years.

"Oh my God, i'm so sorry, i didn't see...", Dimitri trails off as soon as he see's who he ran into.

"Roza...?", he asks as if believing it really isn't me.

"Dimitri!", if everyone was sleeping before they are surely awake now. I quickly close the distance between us and jump on him. He immediately grabs me in a hug and starts swinging me around. We are both laughing and smiling like idiots. He then puts me down but his head is still buried in my neck and mine is buried in his chest.

" Roza, oh Roza." I hear him repeating my name like a prayer. I just giggle.

When we finally pull back we are still at arms length, or closer. His hands are cradling my face while mine rest on his upper arms.

" I thought you weren't coming back." he whispers, he looks so broken. My hand instantly touches his cheek.

" Hey, I told you it was only two years!" i tell him smiling.

"Well it felt like forever." he replies playing with a lock of my hair.

" I know it felt the same for me." i give him a crooked smile. Changing the subject I say, " So comrade, did you loose your sense of direction since i left cause you almost tackled me to the ground!"

He lets out a laugh,God I missed his laugh, and said," No Roza, I haven't I was just out for a run and was lost in thought."

" Ahh, well are you done running for the day? Cause I really would love to see Olena, and the girls." I say. He just shakes his head smiling and says," Well your in luck cause I just finished I was just jogging home."

"Well Comrade, lead the way!" I say smiling. He nods and we start walking up the street. I wanted to ask him why he never replied to one of my letters but he said something before i could.

"So did you just get back in Baia?" he asks. I nod,"Yepp"

"Have you seen your parents already?" he says raising and eyebrow." Well, about that.."

"Roza, why haven't you seen you'r parents?"I let out a breath and say," Well they never visited me," I say with a shrug,"In the two years I was there they never once visited me, not for Christmas, or Thanksgiving,or my birthday, Hell they didn't attend my graduation."

"What!? That's so messed up! Why didn't they visit you?" he asks. "I honestly don't know, though I suspect that sending me away wasn't for my own benefit but for their own, i mean two years without me, it must have been paradise for them."

"Paradise for them, Hell for me." he say's quietly. I look up at him and smile," Well i'm here now." I grab his hand in mine. His smile slowly drops as if he remembers something. "Roza...", he starts but I interrupt him because we finally got to the door of his house. "How should i go in!? Should i ring the doorbell? no that doesn't make sense your with me, Should i sneak up on the, no olena is probably cooking she would most likely hit me with the pan.." "Roza calm down!", he says laughing at me,"How about we walk in together." He says slowly making fun of me as if i didn't understand. I narrow my eyes at him and mutter, " smart ass".

"Did you say something Roza ?" he asks raising an eyebrow. " Me!?No! of course not!" i say faking innocent. He just rolls his eyes and opens the door to his house. We walk in slowly and he shuts the door behind us. We walk into the kitchen were Victoria, Lissa, Sonja, and Karoline are siting with Olena at the stove, as I predicted. The girls look up at us and freeze, Lissa drops the piece of toast out her laugh, Victoria chokes on her scrambled eggs, and Sonja and Karoline just look like fish out of water. I hold back a laugh at their reaction then Dimitri and I both press a finger to our lips to silence them.

Then Dimitri says " Mama, there's someone here who wants to see you.

" Who is it Dimitri?" she says cleaning her hands on a rag and turning around. She immediately drops the rag lifting her hands in the air gasping."Roza!" she screams running towards me, I run to her to and embrace her."Oh my little Roza" I hear her mutter. This women has been more of a mother to me than my real one. She basically raise me and if I was to be honest I fell more motherly love towards her than my real mother. Hugging her brings back memories of how she took care of me as a child. I feel her start trembling and know she is crying, and that's when i realize I am too.

She pulls back and holds my face even though she is was shorter than me. " My daughter oh how I missed you. I laugh wiping away tears," I missed you so much Olena." i say smiling we embrace once more before I turn to the girls. In that instant all four of them jump on me making us all land on the floor. We lay there laughing our asses off on the floor in a group hug.

I hug Karoline then Sonja and then Victoria. When I finally get to Lissa she was crying. I pull her towards me and hug her. " I missed you so much Rose." " I missed you too Liss."

"You don't know how much it hurt to hear you were sent away, right when I needed you the most." she says sobbing in my shoulder.

"I'm so sorry Lissa, I had no choice in it, if I did I would've stayed without a doubt Liss, but im here now and that's all that matters." she nods and pulls back.

" Roza, are you staying with your parents." Olena asks.

"Um, actually no, I honestly don't know where i'm staying." I say laughing. " I guess i'll rent out a hotel room for a while I look for a house."

Dimitri's head shoots up," You're staying?" he asks. I look at him as if he were and idiot and say," Of course!" i reply laughing.

" Roza you shouldn't stay in a hotel though you know the only hotels are around the bad part of the city and there's a lot of crime there! I would let you stay here since Dimitri and Lissa moved out but Paul and Zoya occupy there old rooms." Lissa moved out? I assume she moved in with Christian.

"Really you don't have to worry.." I begin but then Dimitri cuts me off.

"Roza you are not sleeping in the part of the city God knows what'll happen! You can stay with me." he tells me.

"I don't want to intrude." i tell him. He laughs, " Trust me your not intruding and your not sleeping in one of those hotels, your staying with me and that's that." i laugh and roll my eyes at him.

"Thanks Comrade." I grab his hand in mine smiling. He looks a bit nervous though so i give hima questioning face. I look up at the rest of the group and they're oddly quite staring at our hands.

"Okay, Whats going on."i ask. They all open their mouths about to talk but get interrupted by a door slamming. I let go of Dimitri's hand to turn around and see who it was. It was Tasha Ozera. God I hated her she used to always throw herself at Dimitri but then act all innocent, when in reality almost everyone knew she was a whore, even Lissa saw it and she was a freaking saint.

I move to stand next to the girls. I let out a groan and roll my eyes and say, " What's that whore doing here?" I ask quietly only loud enough for Dimitri and the girls to hear. Yet they all look at me in sympathy.

Tasha finally makes it into the kitchen and before she can even notice me she says " Good morning baby. " and pulls Dimtiri into a passionate kiss.

And I stand there in shock. Now I know why they were giving me looks of sympathy...