*So here is my Seth Rollins story. A few people that have read my Tayla and Roman Reigns story have been asking for my Seth and Jordyn story. I hope that you enjoy it.*
"So you're going on a date tonight?" asks my Grandma as I am fixing my hair in my bathroom, straightening out my light brown curls.
"Yes, Nana," I say, "I'm going on a date do you mind watching Jonah for me or would you rather me ask Tayla and Roman to do it? I'm sure they would be willing to babysit," I say speaking for the two people that helped me raise Jonah. They raised him from the time he was a baby until he was 2 years old before I felt that I was ready and stable enough to be a mother given my past. I wanted a safe and stable environment for Jonah and my sister Chelsea told me about her best friend Tayla and her husband Roman and how they were trying to conceive a child of their own but were having problems. I asked her to ask if they were willing to take care of Jonah for me until I was ready. We signed the paperwork through Tayla's dad who is a lawyer and they had custody of him until he was two years old and ever since it has been Jonah and me. He is my entire world, my life, my motivation. He is the reason I am trying to be a better person and fix myself from my past. I made a lot of mistakes in my past but Jonah was never one of them even though I became his mother when I was just 15 years old. There's a backstory on that but I will get to that later right now I need to focus on getting ready for my first date ever with the man that has become one of my best friends; Seth Rollins.
"No, Jordyn I'm fine watching Jonah tonight. I'm just surprised you're going on a date tonight. This is your first real date of your life?"
"You can say that," I say before I start to put on my mascara. "I'm nervous. I never really went on a date before or had a real boyfriend. I don't know if I am ready for all of this, Nana."
"I'm sure you'll be fine," she says with a smile. "Who are you going on a date with? A boy from school or someone else?"
"I'm going on a date with Seth," I say with a smile. It isn't that I don't like Seth because I do. I have liked him for a long time to be exact but I haven't been ready to be more than friends with him. He's been a good friend to me and an amazing father figure to Jonah. That's the reason I like him so much just seeing him with Jonah melts my heart. He treats him well. Seth and I met through Roman and Tayla. Roman and Seth are best friends and they are training together to be WWE superstars. We met each other at one of their cookouts and we started talking and after that we started talking more and he started to hang out with Jonah more and he has been asking me to go on a date with him for a while now but like I said I haven't been ready. I'm ready to give it a try now.
"It is about time," she says with a smile. "I have been waiting a long time for you to finally say yes about going on a date with him. I like Seth. He seems like a good guy and Jonah loves him. He's really good with Jonah. I would like to see you two together and hopefully everything works out and one day you're married. I really want to see you happy, Jordyn. You have been through a lot and you're getting your life back together. I'm proud of you."
"Let's not go that far it is only a first date. I want to try it out and see how it goes. I'm not ready for anything too serious yet, Nana. And thank-you, I just want to be the best mother for Jonah I can be even if it means studying all night, working all day and spending time with Jonah in the evening. I just want to make him proud and give him a good life."
"I know you do," she says with a smile. "I know you do."
A couple minutes after I am finally ready I make my way downstairs to see Jonah sitting at the living room coffee table coloring in his coloring book. "Mama is getting ready to go," I say to him as the doorbell rings.
"Where you going?" he asks looking at me with his large dark brown eyes. He is my twin with my curly brown hair, light brown skin and dark eyes. As much as I love him I am glad he looks nothing like his father so I don't have to be reminded of the man that donated his sperm to me to make me a mother at such a young age.
"I'm going out with a friend, I'll be back soon," I promise him.
"You look pretty, Mama," he says making me smile.
"Thank-you, Baby," I say with a smile as I see his brown eyes leave me and set upon the man that walks into the living room.
"SETH!" he yells out before he runs over to Seth.
Seth smiles and scoops him up into his arms. "Hey, Jonah, how are you doing, Buddy?" he asks.
"Good. Can we play cars?" he asks.
"Not tonight, Buddy," he says. "I'm taking your mama out to do dinner."
"Please?" he asks puckering out his little lip into a sad face. "Please, Seth?"
"I'll tell you what, how about tomorrow after I am done training I come over and we play cars tomorrow, how does that sound?"
"Okay," says Jonah with a smile on his face. "You be the red car and I'll be the blue car."
"Absolutely," he says with a smile before he kisses his cheek. "And how are you?" he asks me directing his attention to me.
"Good," I say with a shy smile.
"You look beautiful tonight," he says with a smile.
"Thank-you."
"You're welcome. Are you ready to go? I didn't choose anywhere too fancy because I'm on a budge with wrestling and everything. I hope that's okay." I'm glad he hadn't chose anything fancy because I am not dressed to eat at a fancy restaurant as I am wearing jeans with holes on the knees with a black layering t-shirt. I have gone to fancy restaurants all my life but I'm not really into it.
"It's fine," I say with a smile as I take Jonah from him. "I'm not too fancy anyway."
"Okay," he says with a smile as I say my goodbyes to Jonah.
"Jonah, you listen to Nana. Mama will be home later tonight. I love you," I say.
"I love you, Mama," he says giving me a tight hug as I squeeze him back. I kiss his cheek before I put him down on his feet. We say goodbye to him before we head out the front door to go on our date. I can't help but feel a little nervous about the whole thing.
We walk to Seth's car and he opens the door for me before he closes it and makes his way to the driver's seat. The car ride to the restaurant is done quietly. We don't talk too much because I don't know what to say and I can tell he is just as nervous as I am so he eases the tension by playing some music on the radio as he drives to the restaurant. Seth pulls into the parking lot of one of the best burger places in Tampa and parks the car. "This is one of my favorite places to go," I say with a smile.
"I know," he says with a smile before we get out of the car and make our way to the entrance where he holds the door for me before we walk up to the counter and order our food. He carries our tray to the table once our food is ready as I carry our drinks. We take a seat at a booth in the corner out of the noise of everyone else on the busy Friday of kids coming in after the local high school football game. "Thank-you for finally accepting my offer for a date," he says with a smile as I put ketchup on my fries.
"You're welcome," I say with a smile. "It feels good to get out of the house for a little bit and have fun."
"I'm sure it does," he says. "How is school going? Everything going okay?"
"Yeah just a lot of work but it's going good. I'm doing well in all my classes. It's just finding time being able to study and being a mom plus working. I have to learn to divide my time. I don't want Jonah to go without time with me because I'm busy with school work. I always try to wait until he's in bed before I do anything else."
"I understand. I went to a community college during the time I started training. I hated it. All the work was ridiculous. I never really wanted to go but my parents wanted me to get a degree just in case wrestling never worked out. I don't know how you do it. What year are you in?"
"Sophomore," I answer before taking a bite of my burger.
"And you're only 18," he says. "How did you get to be so far in your college studies?"
"I dropped out of high school, got my GED and then enrolled in college at 16 to start my studies. I didn't see a need for me to go to high school after I had missed so much."
"That's pretty good," he says. "What are you studying?"
"I'm studying to be a drug and alcohol counselor."
"Wow," he says with a smile. "That's an interesting choice. What made you choose that career?"
"History," I say. "And what about you? What made you choose wrestling?"
"It's just something I have always been into. I used to watch wrestling growing up and I wanted to become a wrestler when I got older. It's something that I love. I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life doing it and maybe one day get into owning a gym and workout stuff but right now I am focusing on getting into WWE."
"It's great when you just feel it in your blood to do something you love isn't it? I love the thought of counseling someone with addiction issues. I want to make a change in someone's life and help them through their problems," I say not giving out too much information on my own past. I don't want him to know my past, not yet. It isn't something I'm proud of and once he finds out I am sure whatever chance we have of being together will be over. "I just want to help people. I think I get that from my mama. She likes to help people too. She does a lot of good work. She has a women's shelter in New York and Phoenix for women and children from abusive relationships. She does a lot of work for victims of domestic violence and she also does a lot of work for those battling breast cancer and survivors of breast cancer. She does a lot of good she took my father's money and put it to good use. I want to do something like that someday, give back and help people change their lives like I want to have a shelter for those addicted to drugs and alcohol that are out of rehab so they have a place to go and a place to live."
"That sounds wonderful," he says with a smile. "Your mama sounds wonderful. What about your father what does he do?"
"I'm sure you know my dad or at least know of him," I say. "My dad works for WWE, he's Batista. He used to work for WWE now he makes movies."
"I never expected that," he says, "so wrestling is in your blood?"
I shrug, "it is in there but I don't want to be in the business. My older brother Ben is training to be a wrestler at my brother in law's gym and my sister Chelsea is married to a wrestler. I just don't want to be in the ring."
"Understandable, what about dating a man in the business would you do that?"
"I would have to like him a lot," I say with a smile, "I would really have to like him and want to be with him. From what I have seen my parents go through it isn't easy unless you really want it. You really have to make it work."
"I've heard that," he says with a smile. "I'm sure it isn't easy."
"It isn't," I say, "but people make it work. I wouldn't be opposed to it but right now I'm just trying to keep my life together with Jonah and focus on him and school. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying I'm not open to the idea it's just Jonah is my number one priority. He is everything to me and I have to do well in school to get a better job than working at some minimum wage job to support him, give him the life he deserves. He is the number one guy in my life, Seth."
"I think you're a wonderful mother for as young as you are. Jonah seems to be a happy and healthy kid. I love him. I enjoy spending time with him."
"I know you do," I say with a smile, "and I really appreciate that you do spend time with him. He needs some type of male influence in his life. I don't really talk to my dad and my brothers live out in Arizona. He needs that male bonding in his life. He enjoys spending time with you. Thank-you for everything you do with him."
"You don't have to thank me. He's a great kid. I love spending time with him. He makes me laugh. What about his father? Is he around? I always wanted to ask but I didn't want to cross any lines."
"No," I say, "his sperm donor is not involved in his life and he never will be as long as I can help it."
"Bad break up?" he asks.
"You could say that, I was 15, Seth. It was never going to last. It was a bunch of carelessness and stupid mistakes but I never regret Jonah. He is the reason I am alive today and the reason I wake up every day and keeps me going."
"I see," he says with a nod. "Like I said you're a great mom to him, he's lucky to have you," he says making me smile. "So what does that mean for us?"
"For us?" I ask. "What do you mean us?"
"Does that mean you're not open to the idea of dating more or is this the only date we will ever have? If you're not ready to date I understand but please just allow me to stay in Jonah's life. I don't want things to be awkward with us, Jordyn."
"Seth, I have to think about it. As much fun as it is tonight I really have to think about it and make sure I am ready to date and ready for more. I've been through a lot and I just want to make sure everything goes slow and I don't want to be hurt again."
"I would never hurt you, Jordyn," he says. "Just think about it. I like you, Jordyn I like you a lot and I would like to continue dating you and see where things go. I want you to give me a chance but I don't want to pressure you."
"I promise, I will think about it, okay?"
"That's all that I ask," he says with a smile.
*A/N: What do you think? Is it a keeper? Should I keep going? What do you think of Seth being so involved in Jonah's life even though he and Jordyn aren't together and Jonah isn't his son? What do you think of Jordyn keeping her past a secret from Seth? When do you think she will tell him the secrets of her past? Do you think Jordyn will accept his offer to date more or will they just remain friends? Please review and thank-you for reading.