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Later that morning I woke up to Dave laying next to me with his arms wrapped around my waist and his leg draped over mine. I moaned as I turned around to face him. His eyes blinked open and a smile came across his face. "Good morning."
"Morning," I said with a smile of my own. There was just something peaceful and comforting about waking up next to Dave. Like us sleeping together it felt so right even though it was so wrong. "I think I should go," I said as I ran my finger over his firm chest.
"Let me make you breakfast," he said.
"No. I should really go," I said.
"Come on, Tessa, just a little breakfast and then you can go," he said as he gave me a sad puppy dog face.
I could not say no. He looked too cute so I said, "fine. I'll stay for breakfast but how do you get a kitchen and John gets a crappy hotel room?"
"Simple because John settles for less than the best and I settle for more than best," he said sitting up.
"I guess that's true," I said as I sat up with him. "So do you make all your women breakfast after you sleep with them?"
"Depends," he said with a smile as he got out of bed.
"Depends on what?" I asked.
"How I feel about them," he said as he stretched. I had no idea what that meant for me but I decided to ignore the statement.
I responded with, "okay," as I got out of bed too.
"So do you like eggs?"
"Eggs are good," I said.
"Scrambled, sunny side up… what?"
"Scrambled," I said.
"All right," he said with a smile. "I can do that."
"Thanks," I said as I started to gather my things. I wanted to get out of there as soon as I was done with breakfast. I knew John had probably called my cell phone numerous times and was probably upset that he hadn't heard from me yet so as I was gathering my clothing that was thrown through out Dave's hotel room I grabbed my cell phone. I was not surprised when I saw I had 17 missed calls from John so I sent him a quick text telling him I was okay and I would be back after breakfast with the girls. Then I put my phone back in my purse so I didn't get his response. I grabbed my clothes and went into Dave's bathroom to change back into my work clothes. I then made my way back out to the kitchen and watched Dave make our breakfast. At that moment I could honestly say I had no regrets with what happened the night before or earlier that morning.
When Dave finished the eggs he laid a plate down in front of me before serving himself. "Here you go. Would you like some orange juice?"
"Sure," I said with a smile before I took a bite of my eggs. They weren't too bad surprisingly. Another surprising fact about Dave was he could cook. John on the other hand could not even boil water but I wasn't really in any position to talk because I could barely cook a meal. I could handled grilled cheese and scrambled eggs but nothing else. And we all know in life you can't get by on just those things which is why John and me went out most of the time for dinner and ate TV dinners. We probably had the worst eating habits you could imagine. "These are really good. I had no idea you knew how to cook."
"Oh yeah," he said. "I am a big chef. I just don't have time to cook for anyone. I guess that's life on the road."
"Yeah," I said because basically when you were on the road you didn't get home cooked meals. All you could get was take out, restaurant food and catering. It was a life we had all grown accustom to.
"Do you cook?" he asked as he sat down with me after giving me some orange juice.
"Not really," I answered.
"Now that's a surprising fact. I would have thought you were like Betty Crocker or something."
"Nope. Not at all."
"Interesting," he said. "Is Romeo flipping out?"
"I don't know. I have 17 missed calls from him and 10 new voice mails."
"Damn," said Dave. "Does he not trust you?"
"Should he after what happened between us this morning?"
"He thinks you're with the girls right?"
"Right."
"Then he obviously doesn't trust you if he called you 17 times, Tess."
"I guess. I don't know. I just sent him a text telling him I would be back after breakfast."
"Okay," he said.
We continued to eat breakfast together and talk but we never brought up what happened between us or why it happened. I guess it was all better left unsaid and I knew for one I was not ready to talk about it. I needed to figure out how I could talk to John without him knowing something was up because he could always tell when something was wrong. John could read me like a book just like Dave could. When breakfast was over I said, "I should really get going. I will talk to you later."
"All right," he said getting up to walk me to the door. "I had a good time last night."
"Me too," I said. "It was fun. Thank-you."
"You're welcome," he said as we reached the door. "Have a good day."
"You too," I said.
Just as I put my hand on the doorknob he leaned in and kissed my lips softly but quickly. "Bye, Tessa."
"Bye, Dave," I said before walking out of the room. I started to dig in my purse outside his door for my hotel room key only to be startled by a familiar voice.
"Tessa!" said Natalya as she came up beside me. Natalya was one of my really good friends. She had recently been traded to RAW because one of the other divas had been injured in a match.
"Hey, Nattie," I said as I pulled my key out of my purse.
"What were you doing coming out of Dave's room?" she asked.
"Oh. We were just going over some stuff," I said lying.
"Really? Because you're in the same clothes you were in last night."
"Really. I went out with the girls last night. I didn't get home till this morning and then went to visit Dave."
"I heard about the girls," she said, "so what were you really doing?"
"How did you know?" I asked.
"Because your boyfriend called me asking where you were. He told me you told him you were out with the girls. And since I'm your best friend and you weren't with me I knew you weren't out with anyone else so where were you, Tessa?"
"Did you tell him I wasn't with you?"
"Of course not. I lied for you. I told him you were sleeping."
"All right. Well, we had breakfast this morning in case he asks."
"What happened, Tessa? Were you with Dave last night?"
"I was. Please don't' tell John. Look. I will tell you about it some time but right now I have to go talk to John."
"All right," she said. "I can't wait to hear about this."
"I know," I said. "I will talk to you soon."
"All right."
"Bye, Nattie," I said as I walked away. She knew. She had to have known. The good thing was she lied for me. It was good because that avoided a fight between John and me. I took the elevator down to my floor and as soon as the doors opened I made my way to out hotel room. I put the key in and carefully opened the door to see John sitting on the bed reading a book. "Hey, Baby."
"Hey," he said putting the book down and getting up to walk over to me. "I missed you," he said before he softly kissed my lips.
"Missed you too," I said walking into the room.
"Did you enjoy your night out?"
"Yeah. It was fun," I said walking over to my suitcase.
"Obviously. You were out all night."
"Because we didn't get back to the hotel till early morning. I didn't want to wake you up. I just wanted to be with the girls," I said grabbing a new outfit to change into.
"Where did you guys go?"
"John, what's with all the questions? We obviously went to the club. Why does it matter?"
"I was just asking," he said as he sat down on the bed.
"So what'd you do last night?"
"Nothing," he said. "I just chilled here in the room. I ordered a movie and waited for you to come home. I told you I wanted to talk."
"So let's talk now," I said as I sat down on the bed with him.
"All right," he said. "I just wanted to tell you that I'm sorry for this past weekend. I shouldn't have put you on the spot like that and I'm sorry. I'm sorry for calling you selfish. You're not selfish I just don't think it's fair you won't have a baby."
"I know, John, but don't you think that should be my decision? It is my body after all."
"I think it should be our decision so can you tell me why you don't want a baby and why you don't want to get married?"
I let out a sigh and said, "because John, I've worked really hard to get where I am today. I am close to getting a promotion. I've worked so hard for this John. I want to be a career woman. I love my job and I know having a baby jeopardizes all my hard work and I don't want that. Babies are a job within themselves and to be honest the thought of childbirth scares me." I guess that could have been hypocritical if he had known I slept with Dave previously risking everything I worked hard for because if Vince found out everything I did wouldn't have mattered. I would be fired in an instance. I felt really guilty about not wanting a baby because of jeopardizing my job but I slept with a superstar other than John jeopardizing my job. "And as for marriage why do we need to get married John? It's just a piece of paper. I love you. I have loved you for the last 16 years and that's not going to change. I think us being together this long is commitment enough. Going through a marriage isn't worth it when we've been together this long. Tell me why it matters so much to you to have a baby and get married."
"Because Tessa, kids are great. I've always wanted one. I just want one. I don't want anymore than that. I want to be able to experience being a dad. I want to take our son to play baseball, to play football or whatever. I want to play catch with him. I want to experience that. Even if we have a daughter I want to play tea party and I'll even play dolls with her. I can teach her how to play baseball too, even football. It doesn't matter. I want to experience being a father. I want to have a child's love and be a child's hero. I know I'm a hero to tons of kids out there but I want to be a hero to my own. I will change diapers, read bedtime stories whatever. I want to do that stuff, Tessa. I will cut my time on the road just to be a dad. Please, Tessa, let me be a dad. Just give me that. Please and I'm 34 right now.. I'm getting older. I want to have a kid before I'm 40 please, Tessa. As for marriage I just want to make you my wife officially. I want to give you my name. I love you so much, Tessa but if you don't want to get married I can accept that.. But I would much rather have a baby. We don't have to get married," he said.
His speech was very touching and I was already feeling guilty for what happened between Dave and me so I felt like giving in. John seemed sincere about why he wanted to be a dad. It was very sweet. It was a true fact and very obvious that John loved kids. He shaped his entire career around kids and what they wanted. I had seen him with some of the other superstars' kids and he loved them too. Maybe he did deserve to be a dad and who was I to deny him that. I guess being in a relationship you have to make sacrifices. Just because I chose to have a baby didn't mean I would lose my job. Stephanie McMahon had three kids and she was still very involved in the creative process. If she could do it there was no reason why I couldn't do it. John had convinced me to do what I thought was impossible and that was have a baby. I took a deep breath and said, "All right."
"All right what?" he asked.
"I'll do it. I'll have a baby with you," I said. And besides who was to say I would get pregnant right away. It took Matt and his wife a long time to get pregnant. Who was to say it wouldn't take us just as long and who was to say I would get pregnant in the next couple months.
"You will?" he asked growing the biggest smile on his face. I remember thinking that if we did have a baby together that it would inherit his smile.
"I will," I said with a smile. "I'll have a baby with you." I don't even know what I was thinking but I had already spoken. There was no turning back now so I pulled out my birth control pills and then flushed them down the toilet. "All gone."
"Good," he said. "Thank-you, Tess. I love you."
"I love you too because if I didn't I wouldn't do this for you," I said, "I hope you meant what you said."
"I did," he said. "Thank-you so much, Tess. I am so happy."
"I'm glad," I said with a smile. His excitement was amazing. He was so excited there was no way I could change my mind about it now. I'm still not sure if I agreed to it because of his touching speech or if I felt guilty. Either way it didn't matter because I had made a promise to him and I was out of birth control. The main thing was he was happy and I just wanted to make him happy. And that's when I realized how weak I really was. I agreed to have a baby because it made him happy but it didn't make me happy. Dave was right I did live my life for everyone else instead of myself.
*A/N: So what do you think? Please review and thank-you for reading. = )