A Little Too Much, A Little Too Deep

Chapter 21

After speaking with Abe and Tatiana about the risk of disclosing my pregnancy to Lissa, they both agreed that she could be trusted. After making sure everything was loaded up and ready to go, Dimitri and I drove down to Lehigh to see Lissa before heading off to Canada. Notifying her guardians before we left, we anticipated that we would have very little delay in getting to see her.

"Rose, you are shaking the car with the amount of bouncing you are doing."

I couldn't help it; I was excited to tell Lissa. I was practically bouncing right out of my seat with glee. Knowing her, she would probably start squealing and shrieking with happiness, so that was making me even more elated.

We pull up to her dorm and I burst out of the car to meet Dimitri at his side before he has put the car in park. He flashes me a radiant smile before shutting the door and taking my hand, guiding us to the building. We proceed to the floor Lissa is on and we see Guardian Mills standing in the hall, nodding to us as we approach.

"Guardian Belikov, Guardian Hathaway good to see you both. The Princess is inside along with Lord Ozera and Lady Ozera."

I frown hearing this, we weren't told there were here when we called.

"They arrived a few moments ago to surprise the Princess," Guardian Mills explained after noticing the look on my face. I muster a smile and proceed to the door and knocking on it before opening it.

"Lissa!" I say as I walk in and she pops up from the couch and runs to me, crushing me in her thin arms.

"I didn't know you were coming!" she squeals into my ear and I hug her back tightly.

"Kind of a last-minute thing."

She smiles and lets go of my arms to greet Dimitri with a hug as well and Christian stands up and greets us too.

"Rose, you got to lay off the doughnuts, your starting to look a little pudgy," he jokes and I can feel my whole body tense up before my face gets hot.

"No, no. It's just the shirt, it's a little bulky," I say dismissively with a tight smile. He laughs and greets Dimitri while I turn my attention to Tasha who looks far from impressed to see me.

"Recovering well?" she asks and I simply nod to her. Dimitri greets Tasha with a friendly hello and she starts yacking away about how he never called her after she left court. I roll my eyes and ask Lissa how she is doing so far in her classes and we sit down on her bed, Christian perching himself on the bedside table and joins our conversation. Getting caught up on how her classes are and how she is enjoying college life, Tasha's phone rings loudly and she looks down at it before excusing herself from the room.

"Ok, so now that we have you alone, we need to tell you something," I say as I get up to sit next to Dimitri on the couch, grasping his hand in mine tightly with a smile on my face.

"What, are you getting married?" Christian asks jokingly and Dimitri and I look at each other with a laugh. "No, no not that. Um... well, we are having a baby! Twins, I'm coming up to my second trimester!" I say excitedly. Lissa and Christian both stare at us, Lissa blinking a few times and her mouth opening and closing a few times.

"Your...what?" she stammers out.

"Oh crap. I just called a pregnant lady fat!" Christian groans, hitting his face with the palm of his hand. He stands up and walks over, leaning down to wrap me in a tight hug and I hug him back with a face shattering smile.

"Wait, I'm confused. Did you guys plan this? Who?" Lissa stumbles out her words as she tries to wrap her head around what I just said. Dimitri places his arm around me and pulls me to him and kisses my temple.