A/N: Thank you so much for all the reviews, favorites and follows so far. I'm so happy y'all are enjoying the story.

~Amber

Scott extended his hand out to shake Roman's hand and Roman wanted nothing but to punch that smug grin off his face. Roman looked at his hand and back to Scott as Scott put his hand back down.

"You look good, Micah. But aren't you still a little too big for that skirt?"

Before Micah could even process the words Roman had already punched him in the face. She knew she should probably try and calm Roman down a bit but she decided against it. She watched as Roman punched him again and saw the blood pouring out of Scott's nose.

Roman grabbed him by the collar and made sure Scott was looking at him before he spoke. "Don't you ever talk to her like that again? You got it? " He shoved him to the ground after he saw Scott nod in agreement."

He turned and saw Micah as she looked at Scott with disgust. He put an arm around her and guided her away from the bar and towards her car. When they got to her black SUV he could tell she was trying to keep it together in front of him. He pulled her into his embrace and hugged her as she started to cry.

"I hate him so much," she choked out as she continued to sob into his chest.

"I do too, Micah. I do too."

She pulled back a bit and looked up at him. "I'm sorry."

He looked at her quizzically, not understanding why she was apologizing to him.

"Why are you apologizing?"

"I'm just sorry you had to run into him."

He shook his head at her as he raised her chin to make her look at him. "You have no need to apologize to me. I'm sorry that you ever had to deal with that piece of shit. You don't deserve that in the least bit." He looked into her eyes before speaking up again. "Are you okay?" he asked as he ran a hand through her hair.

"I'll be okay. But thank you for that. I got a sick sense of enjoyment seeing you punch the hell out of him," she admitted as she let a small smile tug on her lips.

"No problem. It felt good to be honest," he replied as he cupped her cheeks. He placed a kiss on top of her head and saw the enjoyment of that on her face. He honestly wanted nothing more than to kiss her deeply and make her forget about everything.

She all the sudden felt exhausted and wanted to do nothing but go home.

"I guess I should get out of here. Thank you again for everything."

"Not a problem Micah," he answered as he opened her car door. "I see you Monday. Enjoy the rest of your weekend."

She nodded at him and before pulling out of the parking lot.

"He said what?" Nicole all but screamed, dropping her bacon back on the plate."

Micah was happy they were in the back of the restaurant so no one heard her friends outburst.

"And Roman punched him afterwards."

"Good. I wish he would have beat the shit out of him."

"I wish he would have too. Probably wouldn't have gotten the texts I've received if he had."

"Timeout. Scott's been texting you?"

Micah nodded slowly. " Yeah. Basically just talking shit. He told me that Roman wouldn't want anyone as fat as me and all that fun jazz. Sadly, he's right."

"He is not right, Micah! Fuck Scott and you need to stop believing anything he says to you. You're beautiful, you got that?"

Micah just nodded slowly before returning to her food.

"I'll never know what you saw in him to begin with."

"Me neither."

When Roman got home he saw Dean and Nicole in the living room and decided to join them. They talked for a bit before Roman decided to ask Nicole about Micah's past relationship with Scott.

"So Nicole, can you tell me about Scott and his relationship with Micah? I can tell that's something she's not really gonna want to discuss with me but I want to know."

"She can be stubborn when it comes to discussing things she doesn't want to deal with. He's an asshole and that has been more than established at this point. He just wasn't the guy he appeared to be. He had us all fooled." Nicole gave a frustrated sigh at the thought of Scott and all he put her friend through. " He couldn't handle the attention she got so he started belittling her."

Roman just couldn't understand why Scott felt the need belittle Micah in any way. So what if she gets attention, he should have been proud to show her off.

"What an idiot."

"You got that right," Dean muttered under his breath.

"It started out him saying things about the way she was dressed and he said it in ways that made her second guess things and then he started to just outright insult her after he felt that her confidence was completely shattered. He'd tell her she was fat and ugly and that she should be grateful that someone like him wanted to be with her."

"If I didn't know he was a piece of shit before, I know now. I hate that he put her through that. She deserves to be treated like a queen and to be told she's beautiful because she is."

Nicole had the biggest grin on her face after hearing Roman talk about her friend like that. She also slapped Dean on the arm after he said something sarcastic to Roman.

"She really does deserve to be loved and treated like that. She's one of the nicest people I've ever met and I hated seeing her like that. I hated seeing Scott break her and lose who she was. She stopped doing things that she always loved to do because he was such an insecure bitch."

Dean nodded in agreement with his girlfriend as he rubbed her back. "She's like my little sister and I hated seeing like that. We've known each other for so long and there was a period Scott didn't even want her to be friends with us." The mere thought of Scott caused him to let out an angry growl. "We had to have some long, hard conversations with her not too soon after that."

Nicole nodded in agreement with Dean. "Yeah it was just so hard to see her go through all of that. It was frustrating see her stop doing things she loved because Scott was an insecure asshole and didn't want her to do anything that would get her attention or confidence."

Roman ran his hand through his hair trying to process the things he was hearing. "What type of stuff did she stop doing because of him?"

"Dancing. She's an amazing dancer Scott hated it because it was a source of confidence for her. She used to teach a while back and he'd complain about how she was flirting with the guys in her class and just all kinds of bullshit. She just eventually stopped doing it. That was when I had to start talking to her because it made her so happy and she had seemed so lost at that point without it. She's slowly starting to get back into it. It's taken forever. "

"I would like nothing more than to strangle him."

"If you do, I want to watch," Dean replied honestly.

"Are you up for that challenge though, Roman?" Nicole asked.

"You're damn right I am," he proclaimed.

"Last one Micah. You can do it," he encouraged as she finished her last pull up.

They sat there for a moment and just enjoyed each other's company.

"I'm not being charged extra for this flirting am I?"

He chuckled a bit. "No way."

"Good. Can't have you getting too expensive on me."

"Umm... so I know I tried to ask you about Scott before and you never really told me about that so I kinda went to Nicole and Dean."

"You what? You went to them because I wouldn't tell you about my past shitty relationship?"

"I'm sorry Micah but I just wanted to know and you wouldn't—" he stopped talking when he saw her get up.

"Because I don't want to talk about it, Roman! I don't want to relive that and I'd rather not deal with it and move on."

"But how can you move on if you don't deal with it, Micah? You need to deal with it so people who want to get close to you don't have to pay for his mistakes."

She looked at him for a moment. She was mad he went behind her back to get information about her past; she was caught off guard by what he said about someone wanting to get closer to her. She still wasn't quite sure at times if he really wanted to get closer to her in that way or not. It was too much and she needed to get out of there.

"I'll see you tomorrow, Roman." With that she walked out of the gym with not even a glance back.

"Fuck!" Roman groaned as he ran a calloused hand down his face. He messed up big time.

A/N: Uh oh. Do you think Micah may have overreacted?