Here's chapter 20. Thanks for waiting everybody, I've had a lot to do. I was going to update yesterday, but my mom made me stay home and clean. (I don't have internet at my house.)

To ItaSaku1: Her memory will be coming back, but not for a few more chapters. To VampireAngelRanger: Thank you. To olivia williams: Thanks for the idea, i might just use it. To amanda, READandWRITE11 and roma123: Rose and Dimitri are DEFINATELY going to end up together. I'm a huge RosexDimitri fan.

Here's chapter 20. Enjoy :)

Chapter 20

Rose pov

When we got to Adrian's room, I went and sat on his couch. Everyone followed my lead. Some sat by the TV while the others sat by me.

"What do you supposed we should do?" I asked.

"I have something," Lissa said, taking out a photo album from her bag.

"What's that?" Eddie asked.

"Well, do you remember when we were little and my parents had always taken pictures of us?" Lissa asked.

Eddie and Mia nodded.

"Well, after the accident, I started making a photo album of every picture that my parents ever took of us," she explained.

The cover read, 'My best friends' and I wondered what pictures would be in there.

She flipped open the first page and I saw her and someone with dark brown hair and brown eyes. Someone that looked like, well, me.

"Is that me?" I asked her.

She nodded. "When was it taken?"

"A couple years before the accident." I wondered what accident she was thinking of. "We were at my parents' house during summer vacation."

The next picture on the page was us again, but this time, there was a male that kind of looked like Lissa.

"And that one?" I pointed to it.

Lissa was starting to get a little teary-eyed. "That's us, obviously. And also that guy right there," she pointed to him, "is Andre. My brother." She bit her lip. "Well, my dead brother."

"How did he die?"

Christian came over to comfort Lissa. He whispered something in her ear that I couldn't hear and she nodded. She looked at me and took a deep breath. "Andre was in a car accident, along with my parents…and us. He and my parents had died….you as well."

I gasped. My eyes must have held so many questions because she gave me a little smile. "Do you know the four elements?"

I nodded. "Earth, Water, Air and Fire."

"Well, there's this fifth element. It's called Spirit. That's what I specialize in. there's many things you can do with Spirit. You can heal, dream walk, use major compulsion, there's a lot of things you can do."

She gave me a minute to take all of this in. All this talk was, like, making me start to remember some things. Then I got it. I looked over at Lissa. "You healed me the night of the accident, didn't you?"

She nodded, meaning that I had gotten it. "I did. It was a really dark night, probably around eleven or so." She had this distant look on her face. "We were coming back from the fair. We had stayed probably 'till around ten. We were almost home when my dad had swerved the car, trying to avoid hitting something. But since it was so dark, he couldn't see where he was going. The car hit a tree. So hard that it wrapped itself around it. I was the only one who had survived. Well, technically speaking. I was yelling so much that night. Yelling at my parents and Andre to wake up. Yelling at you to wake up. You're the only one that did.

When the ambulances got there, they said that you shouldn't have survived. They said that I should've been the only one since I was the only one in a secure place. But both of us got away with only minor cuts and bruises." She looked over at me. "We found out about a year ago that the only reasoned that you survived was because I had healed you. I brought you back from the dead. You're shadow-kissed, Rose. You can feel whatever I feel. See whatever I see. Know whatever I know and think. It's all part of the bond. A bond that has made us closer. A bond that we can never get rid of. A bond that is between true friends."

I was speechless. I didn't know what to say. Nobody else did for that matter, either. I looked around the room. Christian was comforting a sobbing Lissa. Eddie was comforting a silent-crying Mia. Dimitri looked deep in thought. Adrian, on the other hand, was looking at me intensely. I felt nervous under his gaze. I looked away from him. For the first time in a long time, I somehow felt like all the pain has come onto me. For the first time, I felt dizzy. For the first time, I felt like there was a spark in the back of my brain, telling me that it wouldn't be long until I got my memory back.

From everything that had come down onto me today, I felt really dizzy. Then everything went black.

How was everybody's Christmas?