*The Next Morning*

*Roman's POV*

"Roman!" I heard Dean's voice coming from behind me in the hallway of the hotel. I stopped and waited for him to catch up with me, "you going to breakfast?" He asked. "Yeah," I said as we continued down the hallway. "Good," he said, "that'll give us a chance to talk without Seth." We continued the walk to the hotel lobby in silence.

"So," Dean said once we'd both gotten our food and sat down, "were you able to get anything else out of Seth last night?" "Yeah," I said as I thought about the best way to approach this conversation, "and he was that out of sorts just over having a crush on someone. Poor kid was really beating himself up over it." "Why was he beating himself up so bad?" Dean mumbled around a mouthful of food. "Well long story short, it's someone that he doesn't think would like him back or whatever." I said before taking a bite of my food.

"Well that's just ridiculous," Dean said, "he can't spend all of his time worrying over what if's! Tell him that he should just tell whoever it is how he feels!" "Yeah that's pretty much what I told him. But I also told him I would talk to the person for him and try to subtly feel out the situation." I explained casually. "Who is it?" Dean said excitedly, "I could help out to!" "Dean you're about a subtle as an elephant." I laughed. "No! I could do it!" He protested. I narrowed my eyes at him, "Dean," was all I could manage to say. "Yeah you're right." He said, "anyways can you at least tell me who she is." I shook my head and continued eating. "Come one Rome please I won't tell anyone. Who is she?"

I looked him in the eye this time as I shook my head, "trust me." I dropped my gaze back down and continued eating. "Well it is a girl right?" He asked. I froze unintentionally, 'shit. I shouldn't have reacted so obviously.' I glanced up at Dean, looking for some sort of reaction, hoping he hadn't noticed. "Roman I don't care," he said. I relaxed some, "I know you don't man but it wasn't a question that wasn't right for me to answer you know. It was Seth's secret to tell." "Yeah I guess you have a point. I'll just pretend I don't know, it really isn't something that affects me at all." "Yeah..." I said as I went back to eating my food.

"Roman what was that supposed to mean?" "Nothing I was just agreeing with you." I stated through a mouthful of food. "Roman don't you lie to me that didn't sound like just agreeing that sounded like there's something that you know that I don't and you aren't telling me." He demanded. "Dean I need you to trust me. Okay?" I asked as I looked him in the eye, "I promise you'll find out eventually, just not now." He narrowed his eyes as if he thought he could read my mind if he tried hard enough. "Fine," he said breaking the silence, "but this better not be some sort of prank or anything. You know I'm a very sensitive guy, I don't like people fucking with my emotions." "Dean there's no prank," I said, "I don't know about that whole sensitive guy part, but I promise there's no prank."

"I'll have you know that I am very fucking sensitive!" He said as he pointed his fork at me. "Okay Dean." I said, "now if you don't mind, Mr. sensitive, I'm going to call Seth and see if his lazy ass is awake yet." I pulled my phone out and dialed Seth's number. After a few rings his groggy sounding voice came over the phone. "Oh good you're up!" I said cheerfully. "Yeah now I am. Thanks a lot." He mumbled. "Oh, you're welcome. Why don't you come down to the lobby and join me and Dean for breakfast?" "Sure man," he said, "I'll be down in a minute." I hung up the phone and looked at Dean, "five bucks says he rolls over and goes back to sleep and never makes it down here."

**Dean's POV**

"Give me your room key," I said as I held my hand out toward Roman, "I'm going to go make sure he gets his ass out of bed." Roman dug in his pocket for a minute before pulling out the key and putting it in my hand. I stood up and started towards the room. Grinning to myself about getting to kick Seth out of bed. I unlocked and opened the door and found Seth curled up in a ball with the blanket over him. He looked so adorable I almost didn't want to wake him up, almost. "Time to get out of bed lazy ass!" I shouted. He groaned and pulled the blanket over his head. "Come on!" I shouted before clapping my hands, "let's go!" This time he didn't budge.

I got a running start from across the room and jumped onto the bed beside him. "Seth!" I shouted as I landed. I started throwing light punches that were just barely tapping against his sides, repeating his name each time my fist touched him. Finally, he flipped onto his back and ripped the blanket off his upper body and looked at me. "What?" He groaned. "It's time to wake up," I said with a grin. His scowl slowly softened to a smile. "You're a goofball." He mumbled before kicking the blanket off the rest of the way and rolling out of the bed. My heart skipped a beat in my chest when I saw he wasn't wearing anything but his boxer briefs. He scratched the back of his head and looked around the room. "What the hell happened to my clothes?" He asked out loud.

I started laughing as I got off the bed, "you mean you don't know?" "Listen I was fully dressed when I went to bed last night I'm not sure what happened." He said as he threw his hands into the air in frustration. I started laughing harder. Next thing I knew a pillow was hitting me in the face. "Hey!" I shouted. "Sorry did that hit you?" He said with a smirk, "I was just trying to move it so I could look for my clothes." "You're going to pay for that Rollins!" I laughed as I started towards the other side of the bed. Seth crawled across the bed to get away from me. We stood on opposite sides of the bed both grinning. I started to make my way around the bed and when Seth tried to go over the bed again I jumped onto the bed and grabbed him around the waist. I pushed him over so that he was laying on his back and I was straddling his hips.

"Got you!" I said triumphantly. "Asshole!" He laughed as he tried to wiggle himself out from under me. I grabbed his flailing arms and pinned them above his head, stopping myself just inches short of my lips meeting his. "I'm really glad to see you acting like yourself again." I said before getting off Seth and sitting cross legged beside him, realizing that how close I was may have been making him uncomfortable, "and whoever this person is that you like, you need to tell them. I bet any money they'll like you too. They'd be insane not to." He got up to his knees and wrapped his arms around me, "thanks Dean," he said before breaking the hug, "it really does mean a lot." "No problem," I said as I got off the bed, "now come on, let's find your clothes so we can go eat." Seth and I spent a few more minutes digging through the mess of blankets and pillows until finally we found the shirt and shorts he'd had on when he went to bed. Once his clothes were found he got dressed and we left the room.

As we were walking down the hallway I saw Roman coming towards us. "There you guys are!" He said, "thought maybe you'd gotten lost or something." "No, I didn't get lost," I explained when Roman met up with us, "Seth must've stripped in his sleep and we had to search for his clothes." Roman chuckled, "of course he did." "Shut up," Seth laughed as he shoved Roman lightly. As we continued walking in silence I couldn't stop my mind from wandering. As hard as I had worked to convince myself that a crush on Seth was useless and I needed to move on, as soon Roman had mentioned that Seth had a crush and it was a guy, but he couldn't tell me who. My hopes soared again.

As Seth got his food and we walked back to the table I could have sworn I'd caught Seth staring at me. That couldn't have actually been what I'd seen though, it had to have been my imagination. I brushed it off as something I had seen because I wanted it to be there so badly. "We'll be right back," Seth said as he grabbed Roman by the arm and pulled him away. I sat down at the table, confused by what had just happened.

**Seth's POV**

"Did you say anything to him?" I asked as soon as we were away from Dean. "I told him I figured out more, but I said I couldn't tell him who it was. Why do you seem so freaked out?" "When he came to wake me up it was like he was flirting with me. It was the playful, hyper version of Dean set on overdrive. He was chasing me around the room then he tackled me on the bed and was sitting on top of me and Roman I swear to God Roman if I didn't know any better I'd say he was about to kiss me." "Seth I mean I can't guarantee anything, but I'd be willing to put money on Dean liking you the way you like him." Roman explained. "You really think so Rome?" I asked. He nodded, "yes, and you need to tell him." "Fine," I sighed, "tonight after the Smackdown recording, we can hit up a bar. That way I'm drunk enough not to completely have a breakdown over it." "Alright," Roman said, "but I'm not drinking, someone's got to keep an eye on you two."