I'm so sorry that I couldn't update last week. It was moy moms birthday and I wanted to spend the day with her.
Thank you to Lena1997, ItaSaku1, dancerrek3 and wannaplay101 for being my only reviwers for this chapter.
To ItaSaku1: Thank you. To wannaplay101: You'll find out in this chpater.
Chapter 25
Rose pov
I looked at him and did something so surprising that even I was shocked…
…I ran up to him and hugged him, hiding my face in his chest. I gave him a great big bear hug. "Daddy."
I didn't mean to call him that, but it accidentally slipped out.
I felt him smile. "Hi Kiz."
It felt like forever since I began hugging him. No one even cleared their throat or anything. Some might have been shocked, but others weren't. For instance, Dimitri wasn't shocked. For some reason, I thought that he would have been, but I guess I was wrong.
Mom wasn't shocked either. For that, I didn't know why. She had kept my father from me for – what I heard – my whole life. She should have been shocked that I would do something like this. But I guess I was wrong with that as well.
It was a few minutes before someone said anything. "Wow. Rose has a mac-daddy. Who knew?" Christian asked.
Everyone laughed, including me and Dad (I guess I'm allowed to call him that). We pulled apart and Dimitri automatically put his arms around my waist. I felt comfortable, safe, and, most importantly, right. Being in his arms felt right. Like that there was no place I would rather be.
I looked over at Dad, and him and Mom looked the same as Dimitri and me…his arms were around her waist. They looked like they belonged there – she fit in his arms perfectly…like they were meant to be.
That made me wonder a lot of things, like…If they looked so in love, why would Mom keep Dad from me? Why didn't Dad even try, from what I heard, to contact me when he could've? What was going on with their love life? Was there something that I didn't know?
It took up a lot of time contemplating all of my questions that, five minutes later, I faintly heard someone calling my name. "Rose!"
I shook my head. "Huh?"
"I've been calling you for the past three minutes," Lissa chastised. "What were you thinking about so intently?"
"Things," I said, not wanting to elaborate.
"Oh," was all she said.
There was a brief moment where there was a complete awkward silence. Nobody knew what to say, nobody knew what to think. It was all so awkward that I felt like running out of the door crying because of it.
"So…" Eddie said, trailing off.
"So," Adrian said, "who's up for a game of truth or dare?"
"Don't feel like it," Lissa said. "Not until we get the old Rose back."
"Yeah," Eddie said. "It's so much more fun when Rose is doing the dares."
"What did the old me do for such dares?" I asked, speaking up for the first time since I started hugging Dad.
"Well," Mia said, hesitating. "You would do stuff, like, dare Christian to make out with Eddie or something. You were always really twisted when it came to truth or dare."
"Wow," I said, astonished. "Why can't I remember that? It must have been hilarious."
"Not for me, it wasn't," Christian muttered.
Adrian laughed. He must have remembered something from that time. "I remember how Eddie went and rinsed his mouth out with soap afterward and how Christian used dish detergent to rinse his mouth out."
"Wow," I said. "I was so mean."
"Because you're Rose," Christian said. "You wouldn't be Rose of you didn't have a mean side."
"Ah," I stated. I didn't know what else to say…it was all so surreal.
Just then, a woman came in the door. From the way she looked, she was most likely in her mid to late forties. She was short brown hair that came to right under her ears. "I heard Rose talking and I wanted to come in and say to you guys that curfew is in less than half an hour."
Who this woman was, I didn't know. But I vaguely had a sense in the back of my head that said that I've known her my whole life, I just can't put a finger on it.
"Thanks Alberta," Mom told her.
"Wait, where's Rose going to sleep?" Lissa asked. "I don't want her all by herself in her room all alone."
I didn't know that somebody would care so much about me.
"She can stay in my room," Dimitri piped up from behind me.
Mom, Dad and Alberta all gave him looks of disappointment…like they didn't want me to stay with him.
"Don't worry," he defended. "Nothing will happen. I promise."
It was a few long, agonizing minutes before anyone said anything. "Okay," Alberta said at last.
Sleepover with my apparent boyfriend. This is going to be fun.
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