Chapter 18:

DPOV

"Hello?" I say

"Hello, Do you know a Miss. Rose Mazur?" I immediately sit up.

"Yes, who is this? Is something wrong?" I was starting to get worried

"It seems Miss. Mazur has been in a severe accident." she says calmly like nothing in the world was wrong.

And yet I felt like my world was falling apart.

"Where is she? Was she hurt? Is she okay? She's pregnant! Is the baby okay" I say all at once.

"She is at Baia Regional Hospital." is the only thing the woman said.

I hung up and looked around for anyone who can take me. I see my mother and sisters about to leave.

"Mama!" I yell. People turn to stare but at that moment I could car less, I ran up to her.

"Dimitri what's wrong? You can't be screaming like that at such a formal event." she says calmly.

I ignore her and say, "Rose is in the hospital! Can you take me?"

My mother and sisters gasp, "What happened!?" they asked.

"I don't know they just said she was in a severe accident! We have to go now!" I yell at them.

I never raised my voice at any one of my sisters or my mother. I thought I was going to get scolded at but instead they all nodded and started speed walking towards the door. I guess they can hear the urgency in my voice.

We all pile into my sisters car and fall into a silence. Well it was silent until Viktoria spoke up.

"Why couldn't you take your own car? I saw you come to the wedding in it." she asks.

I run my hand through my hair, "Rose took my car." I say simply.

Sonya knotted her eyebrow together,"Why did she take your car?"

I take a deep breath," We got into a fight and she left in a hurry."

"What did you do Dimitri!?" Karoline yells at me.

"I didn't do anything! on purpose..." I trail off. This was all my fault. If it wasn't for what happened Roza wouldn't have left the party in the first place.

"What happened?" my mother asks.

"Tasha." I say my voice filled with disgust.

"Aw shit, what did that bitch do now?" Vika asks.

"VIKTORIA LANGUAGE" My mother warns.

"She told me she needed to talk to me about something important and being the idiot I am I believed her, she caught me off guard and kissed me right when Roza walked in." I say looking down disappointed in myself.

"Dimitri that's not your fault." my mother says soothingly.

I shake my head,"It is, I should have know better, I know how Tasha is, and now because of that Roza's life is at risk, so is..." our baby's life.

"So is what Dimitri?" Sonya asks.

I shake my head bury it in my hands, my mother is going to be disappointed in me.

"Dimitri?" my mother asks.

I take a deep breath and pull out the pregnancy test out of my pocket. My mother, Viktoria, and Sonya gasp.

"What! What is it?" Karoline asks from the drivers seat.

I look down at the test,"Roza was in such a good mood, she was asking me about our future and I told her that I wanted everything with her. She was so happy she told me to meet her in the garden because she had something to tell me. That's when Tasha came. She kissed me and Roza saw and she probably thought I was cheating on her and that I didn't mean what I said. She was going to tell me I was going to be a dad, and now she is at the hospital fighting for her life and the life of our baby. Because of me." I say burying my head in my hands when I felt the tears come out.

"Dimitri, this isn't your fault. It is all a horrible misunderstanding." my mother says wrapping an arm around my shoulder and softly stroking my hair.

"Yeah Dimka, once you tell her what happened she'll understand." Viktoria says.

Karoline pulls into the driveway of the hospital and before the car can come to a complete stop I'm already out and running towards the door. I walked straight to the front desk where a nurse sat behind reading a magazine.

"Excuse me, what room is Rose Mazur in?" I ask.

She puts down the magazine and types something in the computer. She then looks up and says,"Room B413" and turns back to her magazine.

"Um, where is that?" I ask

" Wing B, 4th floor, room 13." she says not looking up from the magazine.
I mutter a thank you and start speed walking through the hospital. When I finally make it to the B wing there was a door that can only open with a pass card.

I look around and see a doctor, "Excuse me, I need to get into the B wing."

He looks at me and says, "I'm sorry B wing is ICU you need permission to enter." My heart drops, Roza was in the Intensive Care Unit

"Well can I go in? My girlfriend was in an accident. Please, I need to see her." I beg

He raises an eyebrow and says,"What's her name?"

"Rose, Rose Mazur." I answer immediately.

He looks at his clipboard and says,"Lucky for you, I'm her doctor. Follow me."

He swipes his card and the door opens.

"What happened to her, no one told me anything just that she was in an accident." I ask him.

"She was in a car accident, a drunk truck driver hit her from the left side of the car so she got most of the impact." Oh, my Roza.

"But by some miracle she has no broken bones, she has some internal bleeding and bruises and scratches. The most serious is that her head took most of the direct impact so she might have some head trauma, we're not sure yet, we have to get her scanned."

I freeze.

"Wait but she's pregnant." I say

"I'm well aware, the baby is fine, like I said her head took most of the impact." I nod.

We finally make it to her room.

"She is currently in a coma, it might take a couple of hours, days, weeks, and in many cases months." he says.

"What can I do?"

"You can try to get a reaction out of her, talk to her, hold her hand, if your her boyfriend as you claim, it might not take long." I nod.

He pats me on the shoulder and walks away. I turn the handle of the door. Walking in the sight makes me catch my breath. My beautiful Roza laid there connected to a bunch of machines, her arms were filled with a bunch of bruises and scratches, she had a deep purple bruise on her cheekbone and she had a busted lip.

I walked over slowly and pulled a chair from the corner of the room right next to her bed. I grabbed her hand in mine and stroke her hair softly. I kiss her hand and place it against my cheek.

"I'm so sorry my Roza, I love you so much, you and our baby." I place a hand on her stomach. There wasn't a bump there, and I really didn't expect one, it's only been a month.

My family walks in at that moment with the doctor.

"There's too many people in here one at a time please, she might get overwhelmed."

I stand up but then my mother raises her hand and shakes her head, "Don't worry, we'll wait in the guest room, we just wanted to see if she was okay."

The doctor nods. My mother walks up and presses a kiss to Roza's head. I hear her whisper,"Get well my daughter for his sake."

She gets up and walks back to the group, my sisters follow her doing the same thing, a kiss on the head and walking back. Eventually they all go to the waiting room.

"I have to take her to check for brain damage." I nod.

A couple of other nurses walk in and help move Roza out into the hallway.

I must have fallen asleep because before I notice it they came back. While the nurses where hooking Roza back up to the machines the doctor asked to speak to me in the hallway.

"Do you know where Miss. Mazurs parents are? We can't seem to get a hold of them." he says. Of course, this is typical for them, their daughter is in a hospital and they don't care.

But instead of saying that I just say, "They're estranged."

He nods," Well we got the result of the scan." I start to assume the worse.

"It seems she has just a bit of swelling but nothing at all serious." he says. I let out a breath that I didn't know I was holding.

"So when is she going to wake up?" I ask.

"Like I said before it is unpredictable. She can wake up any minute now or she can wake up 6 months from now." I don't think I can live that long without my Roza.

I just shake my head looking down.

He sighs, "Just do what I told you to do, it's all you can do."

"Okay," He turns around and walks away.

I run a hand through my hair and walk back inside the room. I sit down in the same seat and grab Roza's hand in mine. Well here goes nothing.

"Roza you have to wake up, try please." no movement.

"I need you Roza, Mama needs you, Vika, Lissa, Karo, Christian, Sonya, they all need you." no response. I feel my eyes fill with tears.

"Roza please I love you." not a single thing. The tears flow down my face freely now.

In a strained voice I try again," Roza do you remember Christmas when we were 5. I remember we were decorating the tree at my house because your parents didn't want to buy one." I wipe a tear and continue," I remember we made the decorations, mama even bought construction paper and glitter. I got a piece of glitter and threw it at you. That had to be one of the stupidest things I've ever done because instead of throwing one back you threw the whole bottle at me!" I chuckle through the tears." It took weeks to get all that glitter out of my hair, and you just said that now I was as pretty as the tree."

"I also remember the 8th grade dance, we went in a group with Lissa, Christian, Eddie, Mason, and Mia. It's funny how now all the girls and boys in that group are together. Do you remember how everyone was being a wallflower and just stood in the corner, I mean no one at all was dancing. But then you got up and started dancing by yourself. You were laughing and having fun even if it was by yourself. Then soon enough, one by one everyone got up and started dancing. It was all because of you, you were always so special everyone saw it, you were like the light in a room, everyone was drawn to you. I was drawn to you, like a moth to light. You were my light. My hope."

I was full-out sobbing now. I cross my arms on the bed and bury my head in them crying.

I must have been crying for an hour and the tears wouldn't stop.

I feel a hand on my head.

"Dimitri...?"