Transforming Tradition (AKA What Happens Next)

Chapter 22

Chapter 22

The rest of the week coming up to our doctor's appointment, we were busy pretty much from sunset to sunrise every day. We had a dinner the night Adrian, Eddie and Mia came to introduce them to our friends and family in Russia. Adrian and Eddie were already getting close to Dimitri and Maxim and Mia was welcomed by the girls from the Belikov family. The next four days were filled with endless hours of researching. Some of us went to the library that Oksana had mentioned at her house while Maxim had used his connections with St. Basils academy to learn what he could there. Thankfully, Lissa and Adrian alternated dream walking with me at night so I could get some sleep after the exhausting days we had.

As I lay in bed that morning my stomach was filled with butterflies from excitement because today was the day. Dimitri and I were going to finally find out the sex of the twins. I rolled over on the bed and leaned in to give Dimitri a kiss. He was still asleep, but within moments his lips responded and his eyes sleepily opened. He grinned tiredly before speaking.

"This I definitely my favorite wake up call." He said his voice groggy from just waking up.

I grinned and kissed him again.

"Guess what today is?" I said giddily. His eyes widened when he realized and he shot up in bed.

"We get to find out if we're having boys or girls!" He said excitedly. I smiled sadly.

"Or a boy and a girl." He sighed and lowered himself to look me in the eye.

"That would be amazing too. Don't worry Roza; everything's going to be okay." He kissed me softly. I pulled back and gave him a week smile.

"We should get up and get ready. Our appointment is in an hour." I got up and headed to the shower and looked over my shoulder and smiled when I met his eyes.

"Oh and don't forget about our date after, Comrade." A smirk appeared on his face and he got up, probably to follow me into the shower. As he got closer I stopped him by putting my hands on his well-defined chest. Ugh! These thoughts were not helping me not to give in!

"Not happening Comrade. Remember last time? A fifteen minute shower turned out to last more than an hour, we don't have time for that this morning." He lowered his head and gave me sad eyes. Don't look at the eyes, don't look at the eyes, I told myself tearing myself from his gaze.

"Please Roza, I promise to behave, we can even stand back to back." I scoffed and crossed my arms over each other.

"Yeah right, that's what you said last time, go use your sisters shower," I looked down at him and smirked when I looked back up. "And make sure it's cold, we don't want to scare the nurses." I laughed at his expression and turned to go take my shower. I relished the warm water cascading down my back while quickly showering. I walked back in the room with a towel wrapped around me and saw Dimitri sitting on the edge of the bed fully dressed, his wet hair in a low pony-tail. By the look of it he was still pouting.