Chapter 6

I feel someone shaking me " Rose wake up " and I feel myself reluctantly getting up but getting up ultimately. " What?" I said groggily while rubbing my eyes and I hear Damien chuckling " The plane's about to land we need to put on our seatbelts. I slowly do what he says and try and wake myself up. Suddenly I remember the reason I was sleeping and look down and don't see the neckless, before I had the chance to panic Damien said " Don't worry I put it away I'll give it to you when we get to aunt's house. I instantly relaxed and nodded.

We're waiting for our ride, apparently aunt Elena is suppose to come and get us but our plane has landed over an hour ago. " Arthur said she was always late but this is just ridiculous " Mom said losing her patients, would you believe that this is the same woman who said just a few minutes ago " She must be stuck in traffic that's the only way she can be so late" now I ask you where would there be traffic in Alaska? I wearing a black Jean with a long sleeve black T-shirt and a white coat with a white boot. Damien is in all black with a black T-shirt and Jean with a black boots and a black jacket. Mom is dressed similarly to me and only has a black sneaker on and even though it seems like I'm dressed the most warm for some reason I was the coldest. I mean from time to time I shivered but these two is acting like temperatures of 2° is nothing! Finally after 1 and a half hours if waiting and feeling as if I'm going to die of frostbite aunt Elena finally arrived.

" Family!" She yells as she stepped out of the car. Aunt Elena looks like the female version of dad she is tanned ( in Alaska?) with long sandy brown hair and dark brown eyes that looks like it has a lot of knowledge in them and a fixed simile, she is wearing a black sports tights and tank top with a and black over coat. Jeez don't these people get cold I think to myself. My mom goes and hugs her and it looks like they were old friends and I smile to myself and walk over to them with Damien and our bags "Hey Aunt Elena " I say since it looks like Damien won't be saying anything any time soon. The sound of my voice alerted her to our presence "Oh my Gosh!!!!" She yells looking at us, well mainly at Damien " You look so much like your father. Its like Art when he was younger. She jumps up and down and all I can think is 'Its like she drank a whole lot of bottles of energy drinks before coming to get us ' and I start to feel bad for Damien as she hugs him tightly and says how he wished the moon goddess blesses him and that he lives a long fruitful life, you know the usual things. Mom had to pry Aunt Elena off of him and says " And this is my daughter, Rose " she says gesturing to me and as soon as her eyes land on me the huge smile she had and the sparkle in her eyes, disappeared replaced by a look that looked like disbelief, surprise and astonishment with...fear? Why would she be afraid of me? " Hello " I say starting to feel uncomfortable under her gaze. She looked at mom with a questioning gaze and my mom, ever so slightly, shook her head making me wonder what was going on here. " Hello my lovely niece" Aunt Elena says but I can't help but notice it's not with the same warmth or enthusiasm that she greeted Damien with and I think this was done to quench the suspicion but all it did was intensify it. I looked over her shoulder to see Mom and Damien share awkward looks 'okay so he is in on all this ' I think to myself as Aunt Elena pulled back from the hug. There was a moment of awkwardness " Well we should go " says Mom to break the silence but all that was on my mind was 'what's with all the whispering and secrets and why I not in on it ' I think to myself and make a promise to myself that I will find out what my family is hiding from me.

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We drove for 3 hours easily and for 2 of those hours we were in the woods, the woods? We start entering what looks like a compound with a lot of houses, and I mean a lot we drive up a path people start looking at the car. We enter a garage with tons of other cars all ranging from Aston Martins to Lamborghinis to Porches and there is a Black Neiman Marcus in the corner and can't help but admire the bike in all of its 11 million glory 'damn these people have serious money ' I think as we move out of the garage 'Why are these people even living in the woods ' I think as we turn to see all the people looking at us with curiosity but are too cautious to approach us. We walk to the one of the bigger houses, but as were passing easily the most amazing house I have ever seen, I freeze I see a face I never expected to see before especially not here, my ex boyfriend, Dimitri Mikealson, and soon enough everyone stopped and I looked wide eyed at the following words " Roland honey, meet my brothers wife and kids " said Aunt Elena to him 'Roland? Who am I kidding everything he told me was a lie why not his name as well?' I ask myself and I advance toward him with the rest of my family and he had a smile on his face, the smile I fell for one to many times" Hello Roland, I'm Aurora and these are my children Damien and Rose" mom said polite as ever and his eyes go to Damien and they finally rest on me and astonishment takes over his features. Dimi....Roland is 6.2 with hazel eyes and light brown hair that has natural highlights and a round face with a little facial hair and is lightly tanned. "Rose" he breaths when he remembers how to breath and I'm sure I'm also holding my breath, my expression, that I think matches mine, frozen in place. I think the others sense the tension hanging in the air cause Aunt Elena says " Come on guys I'll show you around the land" and I faintly see the others moving away 'How did she convince mom to leave?' I wonder " Rose how are you" he says once our families disappeared from view and I did something not even I expected, I slapped him... Hard. I could hear the eco of the slap and I turn to go and find an alternative route to get to my family not wanting to stay there but he caught my arm and turned me around to face him ( which is the last thing I wanted to do) "At least listen to me" he said I can't believe him right now " Listen here Roland I don't have to anything you have to say so stop wasting your time and mine" I said with as much venom as I can manage, which is not hard considering the situation. "Please Rosey" he said with a pleading expression 'don't fall for it Rose, remember what he did' I say to myself as I close my eyes and remembered all of it and opened my eyes again to look him straight in his and saw him visibly flinch "You don't get to call me that, you lost that right when you left 2 years ago with no explanation so let go..." I say and pull my arm out of his grasp "...and leave me alone, do you understand? " I asked looking him dead in the eye. He looked at me and stood back to rub the back of his neck, a frustrated reaction of his and just as he was going to answer I smelt the most amazing smell in the world. It smelled of freshly cut grass and forest in the rain and oh Lord it was amazing and I see Roland freeze in his tracks looking behind me and I realise its the direction of the smell so I turn around to see a guy... Wait not a guy, a man that shouldn't be allowed to live among us mortals. He has black hair that looks so soft that I want to run my hands through it and he has high cheekbones and subtile that makes him look more like a being that would all the Gods in the world run for the hills and keep their wives at home on Friday night he has on a black Jean with a black T-shirt and a black ankle boot and a leather jacket and he looks ...Hot and I took all of this in as I went to look in his eyes and was met by ocean blue eyes that made my heartbeat pick up and soon it sounded like I ran a marathon and I couldn't explain my reaction and his perfect lips formed the next word "Mate"

Faintly behind me I hear Roland say "Oh sh*I"

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What happened between Rose and Roland and why did he change his name when they met for the first time? Does anyone else know about this?

And who will help her uncover the hidden truths that's meant to change her life. There's a new body in Roses life and he will play a major role in her life .... Question is, is he going to be a friend or foe?

Keep on reading to find out what poor Rose is gonna go through and how she copes cause she is about to find out that things can get a lot worse than losing a parent and moving away from everything you hold dear.... But wait she didn't lose everything... Did she ?