Chapter 23:
4 Months Later
I was walking through the market buying food for dinner tonight. Being 7 months pregnant was making life way more complicated than I expected.
I turned the corner into the section with freezers. I rolled my cart down the aisle till I reached the milk. I was looking through the milk to see what type to get when I hear someone call my name.
"Rosemarie?"
I look up and see both of my parents with a cart of their own. I haven't seen or spoken to them in 7 months. Which was actually quite surprising considering the fact that Baia was a relatively small town.
"Um Hi, Mom ... Dad." I say.
"How are you?" my mom asks.
"Um, fine... you?" man could this be more awkward.
"We're good thank you." my dad answers.
I smile politely and walk away from my cart to pick up the milk. I hear a gasp and turn back around. My parents were staring wide-eyed at my stomach.
"You're-You're pregnant?" my mother asks shocked.
"No, I'm just bloated", I say sarcastically rolling my eyes.
"Where you ever going to tell us?" my dad asks in disbelief.
"Eventually." I say simply.
"We're the grandparents, we have a right to know." my mother asks, her voice sounding a bit hurt.
"You have the right to know shit, after the way you guys raised me it's hard to belief you would be any better to your grandchild." I say angry, damn these mood swing. But then something shocked me, they said nothing. They didn't disagree they just looked down.
"How far along are you? 9 months? " my father asks quietly.
"7 months." I reply.
"That's not possible you're to big for 7 months." my mom says.
"Yeah that's cause I'm having twins." I tell them, a genuine smile on my lips.
My mom and dad actually smile back," girl or boy?" my dad asks.
"Both." I reply.
"Congratulations." my mother says.
I nod,"I have to get going, Dimitri's going to be home in a while and I have to make dinner." I say starting to push the cart.
"You can cook?" my dad asks shocked.
"I learned." I say shrugging and pushed my cart past them and then stopped.
Without turning around I say, " I guess I'm not such of a failure as you made me out to be, huh?"
I wait 5 seconds and they don't reply. Feeling satisfied I continue walking towards the cashier. I pay for the food and drive back home. Parking outside of our house I see Dimitri's car. What was he doing home so early? He doesn't get off till another hour.
I open the car door and grab the two paper bags of food. I walk to the front door and notice I couldn't open it because my hands were full. Grunting I kick the door two times. I hear someone walking toward the door and then it was pulled open.
"Hey!" I say smiling.
Dimitri immediately grabs both of the bags and the kisses me on the lips.
"Hey" he say smiling.
I walk inside and close the door, I then notice that he is dressed in some dark jeans and a dress shirt.
"Where are you going?" I ask trying to raise an eyebrow.
"Where are we going." he states correcting me.
"Okay, where are we going?" In say rolling my eyes and walking towards the kitchen following him.
"We're going out to dinner, remember?"
I bite my lip and smile innocently.
"No, of course you didn't" he says rolling his eyes laughing, "We're going to dinner with my mama, my sisters, Christian and Lissa."
"Oh yeah! I know, pshedd." I say
"Sure. Go get dressed I'll put the food away." I nod and walk to our room. I look through my closet and find a simple turquoise maxi dress and some strappy gladiators. I slip the clothes on and then go to the bathroom. I quickly curl my hair in beach waves and apply minimum makeup. I looked pretty good but to finish off the outfit I put a statement necklace and diamond earring.
I walk back into the bedroom and grab a sweater and my clutch. I walk back to the living room and see Dimitri waiting there.
"Roza, you look beautiful." he says smiling.
"Thanks, let's go we are probably going to be the last ones there."
We walk to the car and hope in.
"I ran into my parents today at the store." I tell Dimitri.
"Really?What did they say about the baby." he asks.
"They said...congratulations.."
"What?!" he says shocked.
"Yeah..."
"Wow, that's different." I laugh.
"Yeah, I know... I want to invite them tonight.." I say.
Dimitri raises an eyebrow.
"We actually got along sort of today, and I hope that.. If we spend more time together maybe we'll get closer." I say looking down.
Dimitri hold my hand,"Invite them then."
I smile at him and then pull out my phone and text my mother the details. She said that her and my dad would come.
We park and walk inside the restaurant. We are greeted by Olena, Vika, Sonja, Karoline, Lissa, and Christian. The waitress was about to show us to our seats when my parents walked in and everyone went quite. They probably didn't know that I invited them.
I smile at my parents and say,"Thanks for coming." they smile and nod and greet everyone. We all get settled in our chairs and order our drinks. Dinner was actually going good. Everyone was getting along and laughing. I was actually really happy to see my parents getting along with everyone.
During the meal Dimitri clears his throat. "I have something very important to say."
We all look at him to continue. He takes a breath and stands up. He turns to me and gets down on one knee. I gasp along with everyone at the table.
"Roza, I've known you my entire life and I don't think I have a single memory that doesn't include you. You are my best friend, no one knows me like you do. You are the love of my life and even though we've only been dating for 8 months I know with everything in me that you are the only one for me. And now you are not only the women I love but the mother of my unborn child. There is nothing in this world that I would want more than for you to be my wife," he pulls out a ring," Roza, will you marry me?"
By the end of his speech I was in tears," Yes!" I say he puts the ring on my finger and I pull him into a kiss."Yes"kiss"Yes"kiss"Yes!" Dimitri was laughing and had the biggest smile. Everyone in the restaurant was clapping for us.
"I love you Dimitri" I say our foreheads still touching.
"I love you too my Roza." he says.
Dimitri sits back down and Lissa asks to see the ring. I didn't even get a good look at it. So when I show her I look at it too and then gasp.
"Yeva's ring?" I ask Dimitri.
He nods smiling. Yeva was Dimitri's grandmother, she died when we were 10 and it wasn't much of a surprise she was ancient. I remember we used to always play dress up and me and Dimitri used to get fake married. Yeva kept the ring in her dresser. One day we were going to use that as the ring for the wedding but then Yeva caught us and took it away.
I know it was special to her, Dimitri said it was the ring his grandfather gave her. He said they were so in love but then he died and Yeva ended up barley talking since then. I remember what she said the day she took it away."One day when I'm long gone and you've found the purest true love you will give this to her." she winked at him and he blushed. Now I know it was for me the whole time.
I pull Dimitri back into a kiss. I hear Viktoria whistling in the background and Olena telling her to shut it. I pull back and see my parents standing up glaring.
"Is there something wrong?" I ask confused.
"We're leaving" my father says angrily.
I stand up," What? Why? You haven't finished dinner." I ask a bit upset
"We don't want to stay here with these people." my mother says simply.
"What the hell is that supposed to mean." I ask
"Please Rose he can't even buy you a proper ring, I don't understand why you accepted."
"I accepted because I love him!" I say incredulously.
"Well then that was a stupid mistake on your part." my dad says.
"I really don't understand you," I say quietly," One minute you are nice and seem proud of me and the next you are rude to not only me but my friends."
My mother looks at me with distaste," It's not our fault that we had the misfortune of raising a slut that has poor friends."
I snapped," SHUT THE FUCK UP FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE SHUT UP! TONIGHT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SPECIAL NIGHT AND BEING THE IDIOT THAT I AM THOUGHT THAT YOU BEING HERE WOULD MAKE US GET CLOSER. WHEN THE TRUTH IS THAT YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN A PARENT FOR ME OLENA HAS BEEN MORE OF A PARENT THAN THE BOTH OF YOU."
"Rosemarie control yourself." my dad says rolling his eyes as if I were a little kid throwing a tantrum.
"NO YOU CONTROL YOURSELF, YOU GUYS ARE SO FUCKING BIPOLAR ONE MINUTE YOUR GOOD AND THE NEXT YOU GUYS ARE A PAIN IN THE ASS WELL YOU KNOW WHAT! SCREW Y..." I screamed out in pain holding my stomach.
Dimiri was by my side instantly, "Rose! What's wrong?" he asks eyes wide with fear.
I gasp when I feel the pain course through my stomach again, "The babies" i gasp out.
"No, It's too early! It's not possible." he says confused.
"AHHHHHHHHH!" I yell again
"Oh my God Rose!" Lissa yells pointing under my stomach. I feel something wet and place a hand in between my thighs.
When I pull back I gasp.
Blood.
Then everything went black.
Cliffy! Thanks for reviewing I'm going to continue this story !