Dimitri POV

The hotel management allowed us to keep the room for a few more days. So when I said thank you I went back to our room.

When I got back I didn't see Johnathon or Rose, so I started to get worried, then I saw the note:

Dimitri,

Johnathon wanted to go to the pool so I took him there. I really am sorry for leaving you without a warning or a valid reason.

-Rose

I don't even care that she left. I would take her back in a heart beat. Because I love her.

When I got to the pool, nobody was there except johnathon and my Roza, looking as beautiful as I remember in her swim suit. Johnathon was swimming and Rose was laying on her back in a chair tanning. I had changed before I came out here so I was wearing a swim suit and a black muscle shirt.

"Why aren't you swimming?" I asked sitting down in the chair next to her.

"I don't want to right now." She replied keeping her eyes closed. Just then Johnathon jumped into the pool and splashed us.

"Johnathon!" She screamed. "Don't do that so close I dont want wet." She reprimanded.

"Sorry, sissy." He appoligized.

"Can I ask you something?" She asked.

"What?" I asked.

"Why don't you hate me?" She asked finally opening her eyes and looking at me. The question hurt. Does she want me to hate her? Does she hate me?

"Why do you ask that?" I said trying to hide the hurt in my voice.

"Don't lie Dimitri. You have every right to hate me. I left you without saying anything or giving any sort of warning. Tell me that I didn't hurt you when I left. Tell me that you could ever love me after that. Our love was strong, but it wasn't that strong." She said.

"I could never lie to you Roza. It did hurt when you left, but I could never hate you, because I never stopped loving you." I said, and it was true. I will never stop loving her. She was about to say something else when Johnathon spoke up.

"Dimitri, come swim with me. Sissy won't get in." I smiled then nodded. Rose closed her eyes then went back to tanning.

I looked over at the open supply closet and saw a clean empty bucket. I handed it to Johnathon and whispered.

"Throw some water on her." I smiled. He nodded then complied.

When he threw the water on her, she jumped up screaming, so I took the chance to grab her and toss her into the pool while she thrashed and screamed.

"You are so dead." She said to me. She chased me around the pool until I turned and caught her.

"You have the perfect chance to kill me now." I whispered to her.

"You can't hurt someone you love. Not on purpose anyway." She said as she looked longingly at me. I knew she never wanted to hurt me. I knew she was trying to protect her family. I don't only protect her because I love her, but because I know she doesn't try to do it herself. Her protection is only for the ones she loves. I don't know why she left, and I don't care. All I care about is that I have her back. That's all that matters.

So instead of saying something back, I kissed her.

At first she was suprised, but then as the kiss deepened she wrapped her arms around me and I tightened my arms around her waist. Her small, beautiful, soft waist. The kiss would have lasted longer but Johnathon went under water, grabbed Rose's legs and pulled her under with him.

When we were all done laughing it was getting dark and Johnathon said he was getting cold. When we got back to the room Johnathon fell asleep instantly.

"Two arms that work perfectly fine, and you can't seem to put yourself under the covers." She muttered as she lifted Johnathon up and placed him under the covers.

"I want to talk to you." I said sitting on the edge of the bed.

"Ok," She said walking to lean on the wall in front of me "What do you want to talk about?"

"Why didn't you take Chelsea with you?" I asked.

"Lissa wouldn't let me." She said.

"Why did that stop you?" I asked trying not to upset her.

"Lissa said that if I was going to come back then I shouldn't have a problem with leaving Chelsea there. I knew I would eventually. I just didn't know when. I hated the thought of leaving her and you. I thought that I would have been back sooner, but... Well you saw Chris this morning." She said. She was on the verge of tears, I could hear it in her voice. "I didn't want to leave you, but I had to. I hated it, every moment I was gone I wanted to come back and be with you I loved you, I still do." She was crying now.

God, why didn't I go look for her? I should have done more to try to bring her back.

I got up off the bed and walked over to her. I wiped the tears away gently.

"I hated it more then anything when you left. I wished that you wouldn't have left without telling me why, but I will always love you, and I will never stop. Not even if you beg me." I smile.

"I love you, Dimitri."

"I love you too, Roza. So much."

"I'm sorr-"

"Don't." I cut her off. "I'll be fine, but please don't ever do that again."

"Ok."

"Come on. Let's lay down." I said pulling her towards the bed.

As soon as we layed down I turned the lamp off making the entire room dark. Rose, in my arms, turned on her side facing me only to make her hold on me stronger, and I could tell that there was something on her mind.

"Dimitri?"

"Yes, Roza?"

"Can we go to the cemetary tomorrow?"

"Sure." I said, but her question puzzled me. Why does she want to go to the cemetary?

But before I could ask she fell asleep. My beautiful, peaceful Roza. My love. My life. I can't live without her.