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Chapter 24

Rose pov

"Where is he?" a male voice boomed from behind Lissa.

The voice sounded oddly familiar…like, I knew it from somewhere, but I didn't know where. Maybe that was one thing that I needed to remember. That voice.

Lissa and Headmistress Kirova looked stunned and shocked, but Dimitri…Dimitri looked so scared that he was probably about ready to pee himself. Well, that's how he looked; that he would want to be anywhere but there.

Lissa turned around and saw Janine, who I think they said was my mother, standing behind a man. He had a black beard, black hair, and his ears were pierced. I was surprised that he didn't have a matching eye patch and parrot sitting on his shoulder. He looked like a real-life pirate.

His eyes landed on Dimitri and, in an instant, he walked over to Dimitri, picked him up by the collar and said, "Are you Dimitri Belikov?"

Dimitri nodded.

"Come with me," the man said, setting Dimitri down on his feet. For a Moroi, he sure was pretty strong.

"Abe, this isn't that way to go," Janine said, trying to reason with the man, who I now know is Abe.

"Any guy who knocks up my daughter is a guy who I want to have a nice little 'chat' with," Abe stated. The word 'chat' had air quotes, I'm guessing.

"Rose wouldn't want you to do this to him," Janine reasoned. "She needs him right now."

"And we have more information on Rose, too," Lissa added, calming the tension down further.

"You do?" Abe and Janine asked in union.

Lissa and Dimitri nodded while Headmistress Kirova added, "She's gaining her memory back."

Janine looked relieved and Abe looked like he could fly.

"Thank God," Abe stated. "When I heard that Rose had amnesia, I didn't know what to do. I haven't been in her life, although I wanted to." He looked at Janine.

"Sorry, but I had to do what I could to protect our daughter," Janine said rationally.

That's when I got it. Abe was my father. Oh God, I thought, I have a mobster for a father…I guess that makes me a baby mobster.

What I wanted to know was why Janine wouldn't let Abe into my life. Out of everything Lissa and all of them told me, Janine was barely in my life, let alone Abe, who they never even mentioned. Come to think of it, they never even mentioned anything about me having a father. Up until now, I would've thought that I was adopted, because no one ever mentioned a father.

While I was reminiscing, Headmistress Kirova, Lissa and Dimitri were explaining to Janine and Abe, mom and dad (I don't think I can get used to that), what they had found out regarding me.

"Are you sure?" Janine asked, pleased.

"We're positive," Lissa said. "We will be keeping close eyes on her until she fully recovers."

Great, I thought, stalkers. Not what I need right now.

"Good," Abe said, hesitating. "Can I go see her?"

"If you like," Lissa answered.

Abe was about to say something, but someone knocked on the bathroom door, pulling me out of Lissa's head.

"Rose, you okay in there?" Eddie asked through the door.

"Yeah," I called. "I'll be right out."

I got up from the toilet seat, and went over to the mirror, checking my appearance. I concluded that Abe and I looked kind of alike. I have somewhat his color hair, his nose and lip shape, and somewhat of his skin complexion.

I took a deep breath and opened the bathroom door, turning the light out.

"You were gone for so long, I thought you had fallen in," Adrian joked.

"Har har har," I said sarcastically. "Real funny."

"At least we know that you're coming back," Mia said, "at least somewhat."

I rolled and eyes, chuckling. A few moments later, the door opened. In came Abe, Janine, Lissa, and Dimitri.

Abe looked at me for a few moments before saying, "Hi, Rose."

I looked at him and did something so surprising that even I was shocked.