William Regal smiled as the young, hopeful people came in next day, the young people he mostly referred to as his children. This day, however, he needed five of them to come with him.
"Bo, Curtis, Hannah, Paige, Jinder," he said as he approached them. "Come with me, please."
"What is it?" Paige asked.
"We got a couple of new signees who just joined and since you have an available room in your house, I wanna introduce you to your newest roommate," he answered.
He started moving into the room where they were all training and the five people followed him. Hannah stopped dead in her tracks as she locked eyes with the one person she never wished to see again. She always knew there was a chance of this happening since he was wrestling too but she never wanted it to happen. She wasn't ready to face him again and she didn't think she ever would be but there he was. His eyes looked so sad and strangely hopeful as he stared into hers.
"This is your new roommate Seth Rollins. And Seth, this is..." William turned around to introduce the five people that suddenly had been cut down to four. "Where's Hannah?"
"Did you say Seth Rollins?" Bo crossed his arms.
"Yeah, you probably know him from the indie scenes. He made quite a name for himself there," William said.
"No, I couldn't care less what he's done out there. I know him from Hannah," Bo stared Seth down. "And that piece of shit shouldn't be anywhere near her."
"Bo, you know better than to get an attitude here," William warned him.
"Whatever!" Bo spat out.
He turned around and walked out of the room. If he stayed, he would separate Seth's head from his body. He knew this man, or he knew of him, with everything Hannah had told him.
"Is there something I should know about you and Hannah?" William looked at Seth again.
"We have a past," Seth said.
"What kind of past?" William asked.
"We used to date and then there was an... accident," Seth answered.
"What kind of accident?" William drilled further.
Seth didn't wanna tell William what had happened. He didn't even know what word to use other than accident even though he knew it was no such thing.
"I don't feel comfortable telling you that. Not without her permission," Seth said.
"Alright, I can respect that. But you two figure it out and leave your past at the door. When you're in here, I want you to be professional," William said.
"Of course," Seth nodded.
Bo and Hannah stayed away from training that day. Someone saw them in the parking lot with William and they knew he had given them the day off. Seth stayed and trained the entire day, dragging out having to go to the house, his new home, scared of what might await him there when he did. Around 9.30 that evening he finally entered the house, dragging two bags after him.
"Hey there, handsome," a girl came out to greet him.
"I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name," he said.
"Paige," she licked her lips as she eyed him up and down. "You're just a fine piece of ass, aren't you?"
"I suppose," he said awkwardly. "Can you tell me where my room is?"
"Down the hallway. Last room to your left," she said.
"Thanks," he said.
"My room is next to you, you know, in case you need something during the night," she winked at him.
He nodded, not knowing what to say, moving away from her, hoping his room had a key in the door. She was coming on to him too strong and he had no interest in her. He stopped as he came to an open door and saw Hannah sitting on the bed with a book in her hand. There was a girl he had interest in. A girl he already had been with. Also a girl he had lost. He put his bags down and took a step into her room.
"Hannah?" He said softly.
Her head shot up fast and she stared at him angrily.
"Get out!" She growled.
"Can we talk, please?" He asked.
"Get the fuck out!" She shouted.
She threw the book at him and he quickly moved his arm up to prevent it from hitting him in the face. Two seconds later someone grabbed him from behind and yanked him out of her room, making him stumble over his own bags. He looked up at Bo and then a loud slam sounded that made both of them look at Hannah's now closed door.
"You got a lot of nerve!" Bo sneered.
"I just wanna talk to her," Seth got back up.
"You stay the hell away from her!" Bo pushed Seth up against the wall. "After what you and your little buddies did to her, you don't ever go near her! You hear me?"
"What I did to her? I don't understand," Seth tried.
"You hear me?" Bo shouted louder and pushed Seth into the wall again.
"Yeah, I hear you!" Seth shouted back.
"Good," Bo let go off Seth and disappeared into his own room.
Seth couldn't fall asleep. Too much had happened on his first day. Things hadn't gone down the way he had imagined it inside his head. From the day Hannah popped up on his TV screen on an NXT show, he had been working his ass off to get to the company to connect with her again. In his own childish fantasy he had imagined her smiling and throwing herself in his arms, maybe shedding a few tears. He had no idea what had gone wrong. He gave up on falling asleep and walked out of his room. He looked at her door further down as he started hearing whimpers. He was just about to run to the door to get to her when Bo's door opened and he ran to her room, slamming the door behind him. Seth walked over to the door and listened.
"Hannah, wake up!" He heard Bo's voice.
Seth listened as he heard her crying. She was mumbling something but he couldn't make it out. Bo was comforting her and Seth felt jealous. He wanted to be the one in there with his arms around her. Shortly after their voices died and Seth took a step back, waiting for Bo to come back out. He waited for a couple of minutes until he realized that Bo wasn't coming. He was in there in her room, probably in her bed with his hands on her. With a sigh Seth went back to his room. Of course she had moved on. It had been four years. He should have figured it out when Bo puffed up his chest earlier both in the arena and when he arrived to the house.
