I'm sooo outta practice, but I'm gonna try to do a little something before I attempt to jump back into my other unfinished stories. This song that's the name of the fic has been stuck in my head for like a week and I figured why not write a thing with Ro. He was soo good to me last year. Met him, he noticed my sign at a show and he noticed me again after the show, got his autograph, and he replied to me on Twitter so I love him a little more lately than usual. This turned out to be way longer than I expected it to be honestly so I'm splitting it in two parts. BTW it's an old song but new to me it's called Pretty Girl by Jon B. (I didn't intentionally make that rhyme I swear!)
Roman Reigns. When people spoke his name many things would be brought up. His family legacy, football, The Shield, and even his "pretty boy" looks. He was this big 6'3 Samoan bad ass and nothing could stop him. That was until he met Brenda. Never in all of his thirty one years has Roman Reigns ever been turned into a stuttering nervous mess, but in walks Brenda Davis and things change. Just hearing her name would make his pulse race and his heart beat a little faster. She'd started working for WWE about a year after he got called up with the Shield and every time she was near him he'd be worse than a teenage boy with his first crush. It didn't help that she'd all but been implanted into his inner circle thanks to his cousin's wife, Naomi, the two quickly became close friends and before he knew it everywhere he turned she was there. Home having a little get together, there she was with her gorgeous laugh. On the road sharing a car, sleeping beautifully against his shoulder. She was driving him crazy without her even knowing it.
"Hey Nao? What's wrong with Ro? Every time I come around I feel like he just shuts down and isn't himself. I thought we were cool?" She frowned as she watched him quickly backtrack when he saw her walking down the hall.
"Bren, I swear you have to be the most blind person I'd ever met in my life. You still don't see it do you? It's been how many years now and you still don't notice? If you can't see it for yourself I'm not about to help you. All I can say is ask anybody backstage, hell ask Ro himself. He has all the answers you need." With that Naomi walked away towards catering.
For whatever reason Roman was always a little standoffish when it came to Bren, but she figured it was because she was someone new to the crew so she always just rolled with it. One time when they were all at a party at Jimmy and Naomi's house he got a little tipsy and opened up around her, and was even little flirty. But she figured it was because of the liquor. There was honestly no way in the world he'd be interested in her. She was just a regular short black girl with way too much extra padding around her thighs and stomach if she was honest. What the hell could he possibly see in her? "Nah." She shook her head and went back to the seamstress room to finish off her work for the night.
She had the lightest workload for the night. All she had to do was a few alterations, bring a few of the guys and girls their gear. "Bren you need to teach me how to be as efficient as you are with your stitching! I can never get mine this good." Mikaze said as he playfully frowned at her. She just laughed and shrugged her shoulders. "I honestly don't know. I just always watched my grandma when I was younger and picked it up over the years. Maybe I'll teach you my tricks of the trade one day. But while you marvel over how beautiful my stitching is I need to go run these clothes to their owners." Walking out with and arm load of clothes wasn't the easiest thing to do when backstage was already a mess. She knew that she could've made two trips, but no two trips were for the weak! She regretted her decision when she walked into someone and dropped everything in the middle of the hall.
"Shit! You'd think these fuckers would see my short ass since I'm literally a walking pile of gear right now." She rolled her eyes as she went about arranging them by owner once again when she heard someone clear their throat.
"You alright down there? Need some help?" She turned to see Roman leaned against the wall giving her an amused grin at her grumbling.
"Well damn you're actually using your words today. I'm shocked." She smirked at him when all he did was raise a brow. "I'd greatly appreciate the help, but the show starts soon don't you have stuff to do?" She asked as he held the bigger pile of clothes for her.
"I'm not on until the main event. You should know that, and besides I'll always make time for a pretty girl." The look she shot at him made him chuckle. "So where are we dropping all of these? Lead the way." Shaking her head and walking ahead of him she tried to not show that she was flustered. Someone would have to be blind to not see how sexy that man was, but it still didn't necessarily explain why he was suddenly helping her. She wasn't dumb enough to deny his extra hands either though.
"Okay so I have Alicia's gear, Lana's jacket, Jericho's jacket, Seth's pants, Nao's shorts and Gable's singlet. I just need to find everybody I'm hoping most of them are in catering that way I don't take up too much of your time and I can finally relax for the rest of the night." Roman looked impressed as she rattled off the things she had.
"Wait. So you fixed all of these yourself? That's a pretty big work load for yourself. But then again you're talented as hell so I shouldn't be surprised. But on another note any way you can let me fuck with Rollins a little bit?" He asked only to pout when she shook her head at him.
"You are not fucking with my work, Ro. I don't give a damn how cute that lil pout is. That's like me asking can I fuck with your conditioner or something!" She outright laughed at the look he gave her. "Yeah now you get it." They made quick work of getting the gear to their rightful owners saving Seth and Naomi for last.
"Yo Rollins! Special delivery." Bren called out to him when she saw him making his way down a hallway. He turned around and caught his pants that she flung at his head. She crossed her arms and smirked while he inspected the spot where the tear had been.
"You never fail to amaze me Bren, but I see you have a little errand boy helping out today." He let out his cackle when Roman flipped him off. "I'll see you guys later." Seth shot Roman a look and then looked at Bren and wagged his eyebrows before he walked away.
"What was that all about?" Bren frowned at the back of the retreating Seth before she turned to look at Roman. He just shrugged his shoulders and avoided making eye contact.
"You know as well as I do that Seth is weird let's go find Naomi before she gets worried." He said quickly as he took off down the hall.
"Yeah because your ass ain't acting weird at all or anything. Why would Naomi be worried anyway? She knows I'm the only one to take care of her gear and I'd never do anything to fuck her up. You know that's my girl. You know, what wait a minute. Why do you always act so weird around me? We run in the same circle and I honestly think this is the most you've ever spoken to me at one time. I mean damn man I've even been in your house! Do I rub you the wrong way or something? Did I fuck up something of yours? Because I find it a little weird that I'm literally almost always in your face, but we barely know each other." Roman just stood there looking at her. His mouth moving but no words came out.
"I gotta go." And with that he stalked off down the hall.
Shaking her head Bren went looking for Naomi. After what felt like an half hour looking she finally just decided to go to catering and text her. She would be lying if she said the whole Roman thing didn't bother her. From the day she started working for WWE as a seamstress she was taken in to their little squad. Naomi had quickly become her closest friend and the twins loved to pick on her and treat her as their little sister. When she was first introduced to Roman she was told that he was the twins cousin, but was practically their brother, and even when Dean and Seth were around she was their favorite person to lovingly pick on. But Roman always seemed to turn into his character around her. Silent and observant. If she could remember right he probably hadn't spoken to her until three months after her arrival. It honestly left her confused.
"Hey hey girl! Why you sitting here like you have ninety-nine problems?" Naomi bumped her shoulder with her own. Her bright smile dropped when she noticed it wasn't returned. "What's wrong, Brenda?"
"Why does Roman hate me? Did I do something I don't know about? Because I damn sure don't know what I did, but I wanna fix it. I feel like whenever we all get together there's this awkward tension between us and I can't stand it anymore. Before you even think about telling me to ask him I did and he damn near sprinted down the hall. Like, what the fuck did I do to that man Nao?" She scowled at her friend when she started laughing at her. "And what the fuck exactly is so funny? I have legit ass questions and you over here laughing!"
"Oh Bren. Babe you're too damn precious for your own good sometimes. That man does not hate you at all. Far from it actually. Hold on. Hey Jey, come here for a second." She said as she still tried to contain her laughter.
"Wassup, sis?" He said as he sat next to Bren and stole a strawberry from her.
"Our lil Bren here thinks Ro hates her. What do you think?" Naomi asked as she was barely able to keep a straight face. Bren jumped in her seat when Jey let out a huge belly laugh.
"What makes you think that Bren?" He was barely able to ask while he tried to reel in his laughter.
"Because every time I'm around he just shuts down and today was the first time since I've known him to actually speak more than a few sentences to me. I'm just trying to figure out what the hell the problem is and both of y'all asshole keep laughing at me when I'm being serious!"
"Bren that man loves you that's why. For whatever reason he got it in his head that he can't tell you his feelings so he basically shuts down every time you come around. You can't tell me you never caught that man staring and shit after all these years. I know you're younger than us, but you ain't dumb lil sis."
Bren looked at Jey as if he grew three heads. What in the fuck would Roman love her for? None of that made any sense and he clearly didn't know what the hell he was talking about. How could he love her when he's never even gotten to know her honestly. She looked at Naomi who was nodding her head in agreement. They were both clearly on some other shit and she hoped that they didn't have to get tested for it soon. She wondered if Jimmy knew his wife and twin were on something.
"Whatever the hell it is that both of y'all are on imma need you both to get it out your systems before they try and piss test y'all." She shook her head and went back to her area of the arena and began packing up her things since the show was almost over. Roman Reigns in love with her? Yeah the fuck right. Once the show was over she packed all of her things and went looking for Naomi only to find that she and both Jimmy and Jey were gone. She took out her phone to curse her out only to see she had a text from her friend with an attached picture. We decided to leave a lil early tonight but we ain't leave you stranded! You're riding with Ro :) Loooooove you p.s. don't do anything I wouldn't do ;) and attached was a picture of all three of them giving her a corny thumbs up. When she saw those three all hell was gonna break loose.
Alright so that's all I'm putting up for the night. Let me know if y'all like it and I'll upload the second part tomorrow! The song doesn't really come into play until the second part but still listen to it (if you want, no pressure!) He's basically asking for ass, but it's done over a beautiful beat and I love his voice so I loved it haha. Review so I'll know to post the 2nd part! Please?
