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Extraordinary

Chapter 24

"Rose!" Maybe if I hide she won't find me. "ROSE!" Oh god she's getting closer. "ROSE where in hell are you?!" Oh no now she was mad. I just had to hold my breath and hope she did not open the...

"Oh hi Liss were you looking for me?" She had opened the door to find me hidden in her bedroom closet, trying to get away from her demands. It was Christmas Eve morning and according to her we had a lot to get done. Most of it in the kitchen. I obviously wanted nothing to do with it. I mean seriously she should know by now I only went in the kitchen to eat, not cook. Dimitri did all the cooking, I could barely boil water. Trust me Dimitri had found out the hard way.

"Why are you hiding? I only asked you to make cookies." She had her hands on her hips and the look she set on me screamed, DO NOT FUCK WITH ME.

"Lissa you know I cannot cook. I will just end up ruining them and then you will have to redo them. Why don't you ask Christian to help, he can actually cook?" I was trying to reason my way out of this. I did not want to go into that kitchen with her. She was aiming for perfection and I could not give that to her, well not in the kitchen.

"How about you just keep me company and I will make them?" She lifted her brows and I knew it was this or nothing. I let out a sigh and got up from the corner of her closet. She smiled when she saw my surrender. The Christmas Nazi had won this battle.

"Ok fine... But I get to eat the batter."

We spent the rest of the morning making cookies. Lissa wanted to bring some to the neighbors, and she had to make sure they were all perfect. The only thing I liked was that if they did not pass the Lissa inspection I got to eat them. And let me tell you this girl made some delicious cookies. I swear she made like 10 different kinds and each was better than the last. By noon we had finished the cookies and put them in gift baskets. Lissa and I handed them to our nicer neighbors and we headed home to prep for our Christmas Eve dinner. We had decided we would feast Christmas Eve and Christmas night. She had an amazing menu set and my mouth just watered from only reading it.

I had no idea what the boys were doing while we, I mean Lissa cooked, but I was hoping they were bonding. Ever since Dimitri told me he loved me, they had been best buds. I also had a sneaking suspicion that they were up to something, because in the last week they had gone to the mall about 10 times, and they both hated the mall. When dinner was done they both magically appeared and ate the food made. They both even had seconds. I of course tried to take credit for the food but Lissa shot me a disapproving glare. We all laughed at her. We all knew she was the reason everything was so perfect. But I liked messing with her. Lissa made a wonderful Christmas Nazi, though none of us dared to call her that to her face, Dimitri had mumbled it once and I almost thought he was going to lose his head.

By mid night we sat around her tree and we all opened one present. Lissa opened hers but it was an empty box. She looked at Christian in confusion. He looked super nervous and I could not help but laugh. Was Christian really going to do what I thought he was. I mean he was nervous, but seriously I knew he cared but he must care more than I thought. He slowly walked up to here Lissa was sitting and dropped to on one knee. OMG HE WAS.

"Lissa I know we have known each other only a matter of months, but I have known from day one that you are the one for me. I have never felt this way before, I love you Lissa. Will you marry me?" By then end of this he was shaking and I was afraid he was going to drop the ring he was holding. Lissa was staring at him with a look of pure shock, I thought she was frozen and was maybe even going to run off until the squealing took over and she pounced on Christian. My ears were going to hurt for days to come. That squeal of hers was deadly.

"OMG! YES! YES! YES a million times over!" Christian slipped the ring on her finger and she gasped.

"Christian how did you get this?" She looked at the ring in wonder.

"I have some connections. I talked to a few people and they said your mother had said she wanted you to have her ring." I was touched that he had done that.

"Christian this ring has been in my family for centuries. You are amazing. This means so much to me! I cannot believe I'm going to be your wife."

After that Dimitri and I left, and I wore a huge smile. I was so happy for them, I knew Lissa would soon recruit me to help her with planning a wedding and oddly enough I was excited. They both deserved to be so happy, and I was even happier that they had found each other. Thinking back to the end of the summer it was hard to believe that not so long ago. It felt like we had all been here together and happy for years. It was a wonderful feeling. It filled me with that ache that felt so good again. This is what I was meant to do. My life was meant to be like this forever. I had never felt this happy before, life was perfect.

"You're not disappointed are you?" Dimitri opened the door and I could not tell why he looked so worried. And why would I be disappointed? Life was grand.

"Why would I be disappointed?" I tried to step closer but he seemed to want the distance.

"That I have not proposed?" Did he really think I wanted it badly enough to force him? This man was incredible.

"Dimitri I want you to ask when you are ready, when you want to. Plus I don't need a ring in order to be yours. I would be happy if we spent the rest of our days just how we are now. As long as I have you that is all that matters." He looked so grateful and soon he had me in a tight hug.

"You're amazing. Don't worry someday we will get married. But I want nothing but perfection for you. You will never see it coming. You're beautiful Roza. I love you so much." He leaned down and kissed me and I felt the urgency in his kiss. He needed me in that moment. He wanted to show me his love every way he could.

"I love you Dimitri."

We woke up the next morning to banging on the front door. I looked over at the alarm and saw it was only 8am. We had gone to bed at nearly 3 am. Who would want to wake up this early. I looked over to Dimitri who was staring at me half asleep. He grumbled something and placed a pillow over his head. It was funny to see him like that, he always seemed so alert and awake. He had grown comfortable around me and I loved it. But seriously who the hell was knocking at this time.

"I'll get it, it's probably Lissa wanting to open the rest of the presents." I got up and put my robe on.

"Tell her she's insane." I laughed at his comment and walked down the stair, sure enough it was Lissa at the door and she had dragged a half asleep Christian with her. The Christmas Nazi had arrived, and she was taking hostages.

"Well aren't we such a happy couple this morning?" I looked at Christian putting on a bright smile and he just grunted.

"Good morning!" Dimitri was at the bottom of the steps fully clothed and freshly showered. I still had no idea how he managed to do things so quickly without me noticing. "How about I get some breakfast ready and you take a shower love." He kissed my forehead and I went to shower.

We spent the morning eating amazing blini and opening the rest of our presents. Everyone got wonderful presents, but I somehow felt like I had gotten the best of all. Looking around I felt so at home here. These people were all part of my happiness without them I would be lost and god only knows were. Without Christian my father would have made me his suitor and I could only imagine the horrible things I would have to do to stay alive in his business. Lissa coming into our lives and being with Christian was just what I had wanted for him, he deserved the best for all he had done. And then there was Dimitri, the love of my life. Everything was perfect nothing could ruin this. All of us together could make it through anything.

"So I was planning on having a New Years Eve party." Lissa suddenly cut off whatever Christian was saying to Dimitri. Ha of course she would already be planning another party. But this one caught my interest, I had never really had a real New Years eve.

"Omg that would be awesome Lissa. I've always wanted to throw one. We could invite the co workers and those girls from Kick boxing class!" I was getting even more excited than Lissa was for this. I had never had someone to kiss at mid night and now that I did I wanted to make it the best. This was going to be the best party ever.

Lissa and I spent the next week or so planning our party we invited quite a few people. Most had told us they would show up definitely, and that made the planning process even more exciting. Lissa had volunteered her house for the party, because she had more room since her house was one floor. We bought decorations and party favors. And I had somehow managed to convince Dimitri to buy the booze. I thought he was going to say no because I was underage, but he surprised me by telling me simply the drinking age in Russia was 18.

That afternoon Lissa and I started decorating her house. It was transformed into a futuristic night club. I don't know where she stored all her furniture but she had gotten it all out and we had more than enough room for the 20 people that would show up. When we had deemed the house to look amazing I went over to my place to get ready with Dimitri. I took a long cleansing shower, and dried my hair, applied my make up and was more than satisfied with the results. I was standing in front of my closet when I noticed I had forgotten to buy myself something to wear. I had spent all this time planning the party and buying everything else except the damn dress I wanted to wear. I was cursing and stomping around when I notice a dress bag on the bed with a note. I picked it up and smiled at the sweet words.

I know you have been busy. I thought I'd help you out. I saw this and knew it had been made for you.

Dimitri

I opened the bag to see a strapless silver dress. It was flashy and matched the party theme perfectly. And when I put it on it fit like a glove. Looking in the mirror I saw how much the dress screamed sexy. I put on my favorite black heels and spun around. Thinking back to who I was and the woman I had become I found myself proud of myself. I was growing up, becoming the woman I always wanted to be. I could not ask for much more in life, when I had it all here with me now. Strong arms wrapping around my waist startled me and I looked into the mirror to see Dimitri behind me resting his chin on my right shoulder.

"It looks even better than I imagined. You look amazing Rose. Are you real?" I giggled at his silly words, but when I saw he meant them I had to stop myself from crying.

"Thank you. I love the dress. Now lets go party!"

When we got to Lissa's the party was in full swing. I saw Christian in the corner playing shot for shot with one of the new trainers from work, and could not help but roll my eyes. Christian had never been too good holding his liquor and I could only imagine how that would end for him. Before I knew it I had drank 3 drinks of my own and was feeling rather good. Dimitri looked like he had not even drank a drop of alcohol, but I had seen him ripping shots the last hour. We soon ended up on the dance floor, and that is when I knew Dimitri had had his share to drink. He was a dancing feen, and I loved every moment of it. He was so carefree and relaxed and I loved it.

After a while I needed some air so Dimitri and I went into the back yard. He sat on one of their lawn chairs and pulled me onto this lap.

"Are you having fun?" He asked me with a huge grin.

"A blast how about you?"

"I haven't felt this carefree in so long." He laughed and pulled me closer.

"Thats because you're drunk." Although I knew it was a lie. He was feeling his liquor but he was far from drunk. Which was more than what I could say about Christian when I had left he had been doing the macarena, though it was not playing in the background. That boy was going to make a fool of himself tonight.

"Come on lets get another drink then maybe I can actually be drunk." We got up and before we entered we heard a lot of cheering. It seemed like people where chanting Christians name. I became extremely intrigued and pulled Dimitri in and pushed through the crowd.

This was not happening... This was not happening... OMG this was totally happening. I had to close my eyes and open them about 10 times just to make sure that what was in front of me actually was reality and not some sick, messed up, but yet highly amusing dream. I have known Christian for so long now, and I thought that he was predictable but this, this was not anything I would have ever imagined him to do. I was so shocked that I had yet to even start laughing.

And I should have been laughing. Just like Dimitri was, he was almost on the floor, bent over laughing so hard that he was having a hard time breathing. But I had yet to take in the full situation in front of me. First off I wanted to know the back story, what happened in order for him to be like this. I am sure it has something to do with the bottles of beer and alcohol littering the house.. But why was he dressed like that? And dancing. Full out dancing on the kitchen table, while everyone was watching.

Christian was on the table dancing to Apple Bottom Jeans, in a full out Nemo costume. Yet I had yet to start laughing. That was until he started to go low and fell off the table, crashing face first, and now looking like a flopping fish. OMG I was so glad that instead of laughing first I hit the record button on my phone. He was never going to live this down.

Lissa was even laughing at him, so much so that she had yet to move to help him up. Finally Dimitri came to his senses and made sure he was fine. Turns out he was just stunned and he soon got up and walked away dancing some more and demanding another shot. Before I knew it everyone was drunk and the good times were rolling. The timer Lissa had set up soon said we had a minute left of the old year and we all gathered around to count down. As the seconds ticked I spent the last seconds of the old year staring into Dimitri's eyes. He was my future. He was what I would be spending the next year with, and hopefully planning many years to come.

"10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!"

Before everyone yelled one Dimitri's lips were on mine, and I was experiencing my first new years kiss. It was amazing. All the noise and chatter around us was forgotten as we kissed. In the distance I heard a not so pleasant scream, but I was too caught up to wonder what it was. That was until someone pulled me away from Dimitri and not so nicely. It felt like they had dislocated my shoulder. And when I looked up I saw Dimitri fighting something away from someone. Upon further inspection I saw it was a nice shiny gun. But what got me was the symbol on the gun. My father's symbol.

OH NO! Have they found Rose? What is going to happen? What do you think? Review!