Wedding in Baia

Wedding in Baia Chapter 1

A/N:Rose decides to marry in his hometown. The idea wouldn't leave my mind until I wrote it. Leave your comments and critiques. Love you Enjoy! -Sabrina
I woke up looking at my engagement ring. I still couldn’t imagine I was engaged to Dimitri. This all seemed like a dream. I looked over at a sleeping Dimitri and smiled as I heard him murmur something in russian. With Lissa going to Leigh again this year I had been going to classes with her and trying my hardest to keep up in the classes, which as I was never good at some classes in St. Vlad’s was hard enough. However for my job I had to keep my grades up to stay with Lissa in school and keep her protected. I did something even crazier, I told myself I wanted to learn more Russian. I always loved when Dimitri spoke to me in the language but I wasn’t the best at learning forgien languages so I hadn’t been making much progress until I asked Sydney for some help and she, being the amazing woman she was, came up with a whole class for her to teach me russian, complete with daily homework assignments.
I kissed Dimitri’s head and reached over to my nightstand and grabbed my laptop and signed in and pulled up my russian assignment from Sydney and a few others just in case Dimitri woke up. I know we told each other that we weren’t going to lie but I wanted to surprise him with my Russian at our wedding. It seemed kind of silly that I wanted to keep my learning Russian a secret from him but I wanted our wedding day to be as perfect as possible.
Once I finished the Russian assignment I sent it to Sydney in an email and I kept working on other homework. I swear Calculus was my worst nightmare, way worse than Strigoi. Thankfully my best friend Lissa decided for our cover to not be blown she would help me with my homework and tutor me. After I got all my homework done I opened a locked document on my computer. Lately I had ideas for my wedding vows but I could never get anything that sounded perfect. I kept these drafts in a document on my computer, locked so Dimitri couldn’t read them. When he asked about it out of curiosity I told him I was journaling and he didn’t press the topic further. I wrote a few things down before I started to see him stirring next to me. So I saved the document and put my laptop on the nightstand before nuzzling into Dimitri.
“Morning Roza. You are up early.” He said as he kissed the top of my head.
“Yep, I just wanted to get my homework for the day done so I don’t have to worry about it later.” I smiled, kissing Dimitri’s nose.
“It’s Saturday, you don’t have school today.” He said pulling me tight to him.
“Yes that’s true Comrade, but I do have a wedding to plan with Lissa and the old man wants to go all out for this crazy wedding.” I  said as I looked up at Dimitri with his messy brown hair and his deep brown eyes that I could gaze into for an eternity. There was no doubt Dimitri was the only man I wanted in my life, he was my home. I made a mental note to write that in the vow journal.
“If you don’t want a big wedding just tell your father Roza, he just wants you to be happy and your day to be perfect.”
“It’s not just my day, Comrade, it's also your day.” I laid my hand on his cheek. I knew he would never say it but as I didn’t have many family traditions I wanted to incorporate some of his family and culture’s traditions.
“As long as I am married to you Roza, I don't care what else happens. I could marry you right now.”
“In your t-shirt and underwear? I think something more than just underwear might be needed for our wedding.” I said slyly. “Plus, all you are wearing is boxers.”
“ Okay fair point.” He said conceding.
“Don’t worry I won’t make our wedding too painful. My dress however, is going to be the most beautiful dress I’ve ever worn.”
“Of course it will be Roza,”
I smiled as I sat on Dimitri’s stomach as I reached down and kissed him passionately, our tongues fighting for dominance until we both ran out of oxygen. “Alright, time for me to get up to meet Liss for breakfast. Do you wanna come with me?” I said as I stayed sitting on Dimitri’s stomach.
“Are you going to be talking about your dress?” He looked at me seriously.
He didn’t want to know the details. He was so serious he didn’t even want to know how much my dad offered to spend on a dress, which was a lot. Being a mob boss gives you ridiculous amounts of money, like crazy amounts. Given that I was having my dress made by one of the best seamstresses on court meant it was going to be expensive, even if it was a pretty casual dress but my dad got used to spoiling me when it came to clothing. Most of the money I saved for the future if Dimitri and I ever wanted to move out of court and have our own house or for if we had kids someday.
“No Comrade, we are going to have another appointment with the seamstress to nail down the design but she won't even think about mentioning it in front of you.” I smiled as I slid off the bed and started to get dressed, throwing jeans and a bra on and a clean black t-shirt on before I grabbed a pair of socks and grabbed my phone and my wallet from the nightstand.
“Okay, I’ll come,” He said as he dressed as I headed to the living room to slide my shoes and leather jacket on. “I need coffee and breakfast anyways.”
“Okay Comrade, if you don’t hurry I’ll beat you there.” I smiled as I stood at the front door. He appeared in a grey t-shirt with jeans on and all he was missing was his duster and his shoes. “Maybe we can get some sparring in this afternoon.”
“I always love sparring with you Roza, gotta keep our skills sharp.”
“Yeah, because there might be another dhampir that gets another 5 molina’s and takes the title of being the second best guardian and best guardian. I still have you beat babe.” I said smirking, I knew it was a little bit of a low blow because I killed a bunch of Strigoi when he had been one.
“That’s because of the time I lost. Remember I killed some when I was lost, I just didn’t get molina’s Roza,”
“Yep, but according to our necks I out-beat you, probably because I was taught by the best.” I giggled and winked as I started to run towards the diner we always met up at. I knew Dimitri would be behind me in seconds but I used every second of my head start from him and I laughed as I saw him trying to catch up and it just pushed me to run faster and harder.
“Roza,” He yelled and with that I started running as fast as my legs could take me as I laughed hard and I reached the dinner halfway across court in just a few minutes. I took a moment to slow my breath and I saw Dimitri come up as I waited at the door. “Why do you make me chase you Roza?” He asked, his eyes filled with seriousness.
“Cuz you made me run when we were back at St. Vlad’s. Payback Comrade.” I winked as I slid into the dinner and smiled seeing Lissa and Christian. “Hey Lissa, so I was thinking of a black wedding dress.” I said a little louder than I needed to.
“Oh Rose, you’re funny.” Christian looked at me and waved to us. “I’ll tell Dimitri what the real dress looks like.”
Lissa giggled and smacked Christian. “No he wont Dimitri he has no clue.”
“It’s going to be a tight dress that barely covers her. One that god would smite you for wearing it into a church.” He laughed and then Dimitri laughed as we sat down.
We ordered our drinks and food right away given we all knew what we wanted. We always got the same things. As we ate Dimitri’s left hand found my leg and he just laid it there while we ate. Once everyone was done Lissa looked at Dimitri smiling.
“Now that we’ve had breakfast I need to take your fiance to go dress shopping and talk about what wedding traditions to include in the wedding.”
“Of course Lissa,” He nodded. “I love you Roza, have a good day. Let me know when you want to meet up at the gym later?”
“Yep,  I love you Comrade.” I kissed him softly before I got up and linked my arm around Lissas as she said goodbye to Christian and we started walking out together.
“You’ll be a professional wedding planner before Christian even asks you.” I giggled as we headed towards the seamstress.
“Maybe, we’ll see?” She blushed. “So, I looked up some russian wedding traditions. There's one you might not like, but it's quite funny.” Lissa said as she pulled something up on her phone showing me some of the most common traditions. The first tradition showing on the phone was called ‘The Ransom’
“Wait, ransom?” My eyebrow raised curiously studying Lissa. She couldn’t be serious, holding me ransom for money from what Dimitri got paid would be crazy. He’s not the one paying for the wedding.
“No, but another common one instead is this showing Dimitri a napkin with all of the bridesmaids lipstick prints and he has to pick yours, if he gets it wrong he has to pay something.”
“That could be funny.” I smiled and we looked at the rest and I saw the word ‘Crowning’ and I blushed. I’ve never thought of myself as a person who wears a crown. “I’d be okay with the bride-napping one during the reception and the toast one, and the bread one. I like food.” I smiled big.
“Okay, I think it’d be funnier if the bride-napping one was a surprise for Dimitri.” She giggled.
“Oh absolutely,” I giggled as we made it to the seamstress. We just had to pick out details about the dress and I sighed seeing Abe in the store already talking to the seamstress. He wanted me to have literally the biggest and most expensive dress I could. I swear if it was up to him I’d be covered head to toe in diamonds.
“Old man, what are you doing here?” I sighed looking at him as we sat down at a table with the seamstress.
“I want to help my daughter pick out her dress.” He said grinning before the seamstress cleared her throat and asked my thoughts about a few designs set out on the table. I picked up one drawing that was tight to about mid-thigh and flared to look like an A-line dress. The top was a sweetheart with a bit of a plunge to show off some cleavage and a little skin but not too much. She had what looked like some dotted lines to make it look like it was an illusion top, so I knew it would be invisible with jewels spaced along the top to add a little sparkle. The boobs of the dress and a very beautiful amount of jewels and lace  and there were a few more smaller designs along the dress down the sides and the hips. The back was low cut showing off most of my back and the whole thing had little dots for jewels. The dress was just at floor length which is what we talked about. I did not need a train, I couldn’t fight very well in a wedding dress, let alone one with a train. I smiled and then I looked at the others, but this was the one.
“I love this,” I said looking at the seamstress. “The top of this is see-through right?”
“Yes, I can take it off if you’d like though, I thought I'd show you the idea with it on it and as we build the dress we can decide if we want to do it or not.”
“Okay, I don't know how I feel about that part, but the rest of it sounds amazing.” I smiled looking at Lissa and then at the drawing of the dress.
“We just need to get your measurements and we will make a mock-up dress and I’ll email you when I need you to come in for some fittings and then once we make the dress we will need a fitting or a few depending on if we have to change any measurements.”
“Okay. I have my dress done.” I said looking at Lissa smiling.
“Yep, one more thing off that list, or at least mostly.” She smiled and then the seamstress took me to a changing room for me to strip to my underwear and she took my measurements and wrote them down on a pad of paper.
“My Rose, you will look beautiful in that.” My dad smiled as I saw a tear in his eyes.
“Old man, don’t get soft on me now. I have to tell you a secret, it's a russian tradition we are going to do at the reception.” I said as he started to raise his eyebrow.
“Mr. Mazur, there’s a tradition saying that during the reception people are able to “bride-nap” Rose until Dimitri pays a ransom basically.” She smiled and I saw the biggest grin take over my father’s face. He was totally up for this.
“Really?” He asked. “I can help with that.” He grinned and I saw a sparkle in his eye.
“Yes but it’s going to be a secret to Dimitri.” Lissa said clearly excited over this idea.
“And I’ll even be in on it, sorry Dimitri,” I said, shrugging. “However Dimitri doesn’t have much money. I'm sure he’ll pay you back in whatever way you want. He might even let you land a few punches at the reception.” I giggled. I knew my dad probably knew how to at least throw a punch correctly but I knew he wouldn’t be able to hurt Dimitri.
We headed out of the store and my dad wandered off to god knows where and we kept going towards the palace. “Hey Rose, are we still having game night tonight?” Liss said smiling.
“Yeah, Dimitri and I will be there.” I smiled and realized I needed to text Dimitri about meeting at the gym. “We were gonna go work out and maybe spar for a few hours before coming over.”
“Okay, have fun with your ‘sparring and workout’.” Liss said, rolling her eyes.
“Hey, we are going to be at the guardian gym, not at our place.”