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"I just don't understand. I mean, we were fine and then he just…I don't know." I sigh, taking a sip of my beer.
I was currently sitting in a bar in Roman's home town. I had been here for 3 days. Seth was here too, he had come to visit when Roman told him what happened between me and Dean. Surprisingly, I had told Roman everything about what happened between me and Dean.
"So, he just asked you to get out and you did?" Seth asks furrowing his eyebrows.
"Well, yeah. I didn't want him to get angry, and I didn't want him to see me cry over him."
"He made you cry? I'll kill him." Roman says, wringing his fists.
I look at him. "Of course, I cried. You guys know how emotional I am."
They look at each other but nod in agreement.
"So, uh…can we talk about something else? I don't even want to think about him."
"Can I ask you one more question about him?"
"I guess."
"What are you going to do when you have to see him? You have the show tomorrow and then the release party later during the week."
"Seth, that's only two days. I'm sure I can avoid him."
"Really? Not to sound rude Elle, but you only hang out with us. And Dean is usually always with us." Seth points out. It's true, I had only ever spoken to the guys and I talked to CM Punk once, but that was with Roman. I had never bothered with the rest of the roster.
"I'm sure Mike would love to keep you company." Roman smirks.
"What?" The guys had been making these passive remarks about Mike-or 'The Miz'- for a while now and it was confusing me.
"He's like in love with you, Elle."
"Oh, please. Mike hasn't ever said a word to me."
"Only because Dean scared him shitless." Roman says rolling his eyes.
"What do you mean?"
"Dean overheard Mike talking about you in lockeroom-"
I cut Roman off "What was he saying?"
"He was saying how beautiful you were and how he was going to ask you out for drinks or something."
"Really?" I say, pushing a piece of hair behind my ear and blushing slightly.
"Yeah, a lot of the guys would actually ask about you. But Dean would scare them away. That's why everyone thought you guys were dating."
I furrow my brows. "When was this?"
"During the beginning of your first week. When you and Dean still hated each other, that's when me and Seth got the inkling that he was up to something."
"Well, we all know what that something was." I say with a sigh looking down into my beer bottle.
Roman throws his arm around my shoulder and Seth follows suit.
"You'll be okay." Roman whispers. It's comforting, but I wish I believed it.
~x~
I was currently wandering around the arena for the taping of RAW, just to get familiar of my surroundings.
"Oh my god! Elle!" Someone squeals my name from behind me. I turn around to see a dark-haired girl hurling herself at me.
The girl hugs me and when see pulls back I see who it is. Katherine.
"Oh. Kat, hey." I say with not much enthusiasm at all. She goes on telling me how great I looked even though; I hadn't changed a thing about myself since I last saw her.
"What are you doing here?" I ask, even though I already knew the answer.
"Dean finally called! He apologized for not calling and all that, and now we're officially a couple!" She says her voice turning into an annoying squeal again.
"That's great!" I say putting a fake smile on my face. I was trying my hardest not blame Kat, or get rude with her. I hadn't told her about what happened between me and Dean, and I doubted that he did. It wasn't her fault he was an asshole that did everything in his power to get what he wanted, not caring who got hurt in the process.
I don't listen to her, but I make sure to nod at the appropriate moments.
"Speaking of the devil! Dean! Over here!" She says waving her had at someone-Dean- behind me.
I have to swallow all the horrible things I want to say to him when he comes over and places his arm around her shoulders.
'Control yourself' I think to myself.
"Dean." I say, trying my hardest to be civil to him.
"Elle."
"Oh, are you still not being nice to each other? I think you guys should start now. I mean, Elle you're my friend, and Dean you're my boyfriend. And you'll have to see a lot of each other."
I try not to show my confusion at Kat's words. Yeah, we were friends but we never hung out. And she seemed to have pretty high hope for her and Dean's relationship. 'Good luck' I think to myself.
Kat continues to go on about how Dean and I should be friends but I don't listen until she says
"You guys need to hug it out!" Dean smirks at me when I visibly stiffen.
I don't register what's happening until Dean walks towards me and wraps his arms around my waist. I stay stiff until Kat forcefully grabs my arms and places them around Dean's waist. He leans down, so his lips are level with my ear.
"She'll never amount to you." He whispers.
I quickly break away from him, staring into his eyes. I think I see a wave of guilt but I remind myself that Dean did this to himself and is probably not even capable of guilt. That would mean he had to care.
I bid Kat goodbye before making an excuse about having to find Seth. Which isn't really an excuse considering when I find him, I dive into his arms and cry for a good 5 minutes, explaining what had happened.
Seth had weirdly become like a gay best friend that I could tell anything too. And usually I did tell him everything.
"Hey," he whispers after my crying had subsided "Roman wants us to meet him in catering. Are you up for it?"
I nod, wiping my tears. Seth helps me up from the floor where we had taken a seat for my venting session.
~x~
When we arrive in catering, Roman spots us and immediately hugs me tightly. Seth must have told him what happened.
We get a table in the corner of the room, away from everyone else. We fall into an easy conversation, avoiding anything having to do with Dean.
Then the one person we were avoiding talking about walks in hand-and-hand with his new found girlfriend. Our eyes meet, and we continue to stare at each other until Kat says something bringing his attention to her.
A silence falls at our table. I'm sure Roman and Seth can tell how awkward that was. I tried to focus my eyes on something other Kat and Dean.
My eyes fall on the man at the salad bar in catering, and I smile softly.
"You know, guys, I think I'm going to get a salad." I say, standing up from the chair.
"Um. Okay." They say, but when they look over to the salad bar, and who's at it, they smile widely.
"Hey, Mike." I say while grabbing a bowl. He turns around to see who's talking to him, when he sees it's me he smiles adorably.
"Elle, how are you doing?"
"I'm well, Mike. Thanks. You?"
"I'm great, now that I'm talking to you. I don't think we've actually ever had a conversation."
I blush at his kind words.
"Dean's not going to kill me for talking to you is he? He's already glaring over here." He says looking over my head. I turn around and sure enough Dean's staring daggers at us. I roll my eyes at him before turning around to talk to Mike.
"No. Dean's not my keeper, I can do as I please and he can't do a thing about it." I huff.
We talk some more but I know we'll have to stop, considering he'll have to get ready for his match.
"You know I'd love to keep talking, but-"
"You have to get ready for you match. I figured as much." I frown.
"Well, how about we go out for drinks after the show?"
I smile. "I'd like that."
"Great." He says before kissing my cheek, and walking out of catering.
As I make my way back to Seth and Roman, I can feel Dean's eyes burning holes into my head. I couldn't understand what his problem was. He chose for it to be like this. I was more than happy to let him be the one to take me out and kiss my cheek, but he ruined that we he kicked me out of his house.
He had made his decision. Now he had to deal with it.