Sequel to 'School Uniform'. If you haven't read that then I suggest you do, otherwise this story will make no sense.

Okay so a quick summary:

The vampire academy gang have all graduated and plan on going camping for a week or two. Eddie and Viktoria are having a long distance relationship, since he is guarding Mia and Viktoria is still attending St. Vladimir's. Rose and Dimitri have told everyone about their love for each other and the works of Rose's pregnancy. Rose is a month along in her pregnancy and the hormones are getting the better of her on most days. Rose and Dimitri have been bickering more than Rose and Christian usually do. Lissa is also a month along in her pregnancy and plans to get married in Greece with Christian. Rose and Dimitri have been too busy to organise their own wedding and don't even have time to book an ultra sound. The stress of life is tugging on Rose's mind. Will she and Dimitri fall out?

Our camping trip got delayed a week. The queen insisted on Lissa getting settled in at court first which meant I had a week to settle into my new life with Dimitri. We moved into a casual apartment together and finished unpacking yesterday. Our apartment was a few down from Lissa and Christian's; it was taking them longer to unpack because the queen kept summoning Lissa. Right now, Dimitri and I stood by the doorway, surveying our hard work. My hands were on my hips and I sighed in relief that we were done.

"You know what comrade?" I asked

"Hm?"

"We just unpacked and now we have to find our suitcases and start packing again, that camping trip is only getting closer..." I wasn't exactly warming up to the whole camping idea. Living outdoors like that wasn't really my thing.

Dimitri turned me to face him and smiled, "This is only the start of everything we tried to ignore."

"Yeah but I still got eight months of being fat and pregnant," I muttered.

Dimitri shook his head and sighed. He really couldn't wait. He wanted our child out in the world as much as I did.

I lifted my baggy shirt to expose my small bump, "I think we'll have a boy."

Dimitri placed his hands over my stomach and his eyes lit up in wonder and joy, "I want a girl."

"Want to place a bet?" I asked

He raised an eyebrow at me; something I always thought was cool. "What kind of bet?"

His hand travelled up my side, stopping over my ribs, "Hmm." I said, walking away and pretending to think about it. "If it's a girl then you can do whatever you want with me but if it's a boy..." I turned to face him he had followed me into the middle of the living room, "I can do whatever I want with you."

Dimitri regarded me through narrowed eyes for a moment and then spoke, "deal."

I smiled and he leant down, sealing our deal with a kiss. It was one of his mind blowing kisses that forced me to push him down onto the couch. I looked down at him, he was so vulnerable and his breathing was heavy as he waited for me to climb on top of him. Instead, I padded out of the living room and down the hallway to our bedroom. We had bought a two bedroom apartment so that our child wouldn't be sleeping in the living room.

"Tease," Dimitri called after me. I let out a low chuckle and grabbed my suitcase from the hallway closet.

We left to go camping tomorrow morning which meant I had lots of packing to do. Lissa had told me that we would be switching to a human schedule which made it easier for us to be guarding. Dimitri entered our room with a black duffel bag in hand, closing the door behind him. He placed the bag on our bed beside my open suitcase and we both walked into our large closet at the same time, grabbing piles of clothes and shoving them in our bags.

After about an hour of packing, talking and sharing kisses on the bed, we headed back into our living room and ordered some take-out. Well, Dimitri ordered, I headed down the hall to Lissa's apartment and ransacked some of her DVD's. Christian just stared in surprise as I barged in, took the movies and left. Dimitri and I had been living off take-out for the past week; neither of us had cooking utensils since the Academy had provided us with food. We had planned to go furniture shopping when we return from the camp trip.

I placed the movies on our dining table and went to have a shower. My muscles were sore from unpacking and bending up and down a lot. The hot water helped loosen the aches and I sighed in comfort. Eventually, the hot water ran cold so I stepped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around my body. I'm pretty sure I was in there for at least half an hour. I squeezed the water out of my hair and then walked into our bedroom, searching for something to sleep in.

Once I found my usual long grey pyjama pants and white tank top that was like second skin, showing off my baby bump, I got dressed and brushed through my wet hair, drying it with my towel. A knock on the door alerted me to the arrival of dinner. I wasn't sure what Dimitri had ordered but as I walked down the hall and into the living room, the aroma of pizza filled the air.

I smiled and sat down beside Dimitri, serving some pizza onto my plate. We ate in silence and I allowed myself to let earlier worries about the camping trip come back. I cannot believe Lewis is Lissa's other guardian... I mean, I've had all week to get used to the idea but I just couldn't. We never see him around and yet, he is always there when Lissa needs to leave the wards. It's like he is nonexistent until her safety is at risk. If he wasn't some kind of physcopath stalker then maybe I would appreciate his skills, skills that I knew he had gained from stalking women.

"Okay Rose, what's wrong? You haven't moved in the past five minutes..." Dimitri's voice cut me off from my reverie.

"I'm just thinking," I told him.

"About?" he prompted.

"Tomorrow..." Even though I didn't tell him what was really bothering me he seemed to know anyway.

"I won't let that creep breathe on you, let alone touch you," Dimitri's voice held a fierce note that I hadn't heard since he threatened Victor Dashkov.

I was still worried but Dimitri's words had given me some reassurance. He placed his arm around my shoulder and hugged me as I finished off my pizza.

The rest of the night was spent watching movies, Dimitri went to take a shower and I walked back into our bedroom after turning off all the lights. When I heard the water shut off and Dimitri walk into our room, getting dressed I climbed under the covers. Summer was just around the corner which meant it was too hot to be under a heavy blanket.

Dimitri climbed into bed beside me and reached for my hips to pull me closer. We were silent for a while and I knew Dimitri was waiting for me to fall asleep first, "Do you love me?" I asked.

"Of course I love you Rose. What kind of stupid question is that?" Dimitri sounded astonished.

"Falling in Love means letting yourself fall, even though you could get hurt. You're either going to hit the bottom or he's going to catch you. Either way, we jump." I murmured, Dimitri remained silent but hugged me closer and I drifted off into sleep, dreading our big day tomorrow.

Sorry this is so short but the next chapter is going to be long and I just wanted to get the story started off.

Hope you like it so far :)