Escaping From Our Biggest Problems ch10

Chapter 10 - Rusty Spoon

RPOV

"Food's ready!" Olena called out from the kitchen. I followed Dimitri and his sisters into the kitchen from the living room where we had been getting to know each other a little better. I feel so at home here and Dimitri's family is wonderful, so loving and kind. But I stopped dead when I walked into the kitchen. There was enough food to feed all of St. Vlad's. Dimitri stopped behind me and wrapped his arms around me.

"Mamma always makes enough food to feed an army. That's just the way it is with her. Just eat what you'd like, baby, but eat. You need to get healthy," he whispered in my ear and then kissed my neck softly. I nodded and walked fully into the kitchen and took a seat next to Viktoria and Dimitri sat beside me. He took my hand and squeezed lightly. We made light conversation about my friends from St. Vlad's and about everyone else's lives and then Karolina asked us all to be quiet for a story. So we did.

"So this story is mainly for Roza because everyone else here knows it already," she began.

"Karo, if you tell this story, I swear to God your ninth grade diary will show up in the newpaper," Dimitri threatened his sister.

"Oh! Now I have to know!" I laughed.

"Okay, so when I was eight and little Dimka was six, he always wanted to play with me and my friends," Karolina started her story and I leaned forward a bit, "We let him but there was a condition," by this point Dimitri was blushing a deep shade of red, "We dressed him up, over and over again, and married him off to all of our dolls. In the end, he had about sixteen wives." By this point everyone, even Yeva, was laughing.

"Comrade," I poked him in the stomach, "I don't know how I feel about all these women," I said, trying to look mad, but I ended up smirking. And then Yeva spoke,

"Roza, may I speak to you in private?"

"You speak English!" I exclaimed.

"Of couse I speak English now come with me," she said. I followed her out of the house and sat on the porch swing with her. "Roza, you need to eat more because when the time comes, your child will need it." I was stunned to say the least.

"Ummm, Yeva, I love Dimitri. I would never cheat on him and we're both dhamphirs so it's not actually possible for me to have children," I said, confused as to what she was talking about.

"But you, my dear, are kissed by shadows and the flaw is fixed. You will fall pregnant and it will be my great-granchild. That is all I can tell you for now but I hope it's enough. Tomorrow I will be taking you and Dimka to another like you to speak about technicallities. But you need to get healthy, for you, your child, and my grandson. Now we should go back before someone thinks I kidnapped you," she told me.

We went back inside and finished dinner. After everyone but Dimitri, Olena, and myself went off to do their own thing, I told them some of the things I feared. Dimitri gripped my hand and his and Olena lightly rested hers on my arm.

"Yeva told me because I'm shadow-kissed, I can have children with other dhamphirs," I started. A huge smile broke out on both Olena's and Dimitri's faces but they let me continue, "As great as that is, I have something that will ruin this revelation. Tasha and Adrian will figure out that we're here. They will come and try to ruin everything we are going to succeed in. And he will stalk me in my dreams. They will try to destroy any happiness that we will ever happen upon because they want us weak. We can't let them win," my voice started strong but I whispered the last part.

"Roza, we will all protect you," Olena told me, "I just met you today and already I love you so much. I will not let anything happen to you."

"Mamma's right, my Roza. We will protect you and our future child," he grinned, "But for as long as we can, let's just focus on now. We're together. We're alive. We can have children. And now that I have that, I refuse to lose it."

"Roza! Will you tell me a bedtime story?" Paul ran into the room to ask me. I glanced at the clock, it was ten o' clock at night.

"Of course, Paul," I grinned at him and he returned it. He then proceeded to pull me upstairs and to his room. After telling him about five stories, he finally fell asleep. Dimitri walked in, scooped me up in his arms, and carried me to his old bedroom. We got ready for bed and fell asleep in each other's arms. And then I felt the pull of a spirit dream. Well, why don't you just fuck me with a rusty spoon, I thought bitterly.