"This place is nice," Alexa said as she and Dean were led to their private booth.
Dean slid in across from her, "Yeah, Seth took Leighla here a few weeks ago and told me it was great." The two took their menus from the hostess and began looking over the wide selection of food and drinks.
"These mixed drinks look so good right now," Alexa said as she scanned through the drink pages of the menu.
"Sorry," Dean smiled. "You got four more months before you get to order one of those again."
Alexa smiled at Dean before looking back down at her menu, by the time the waitress came back the two were able to place their drink and dinner order. They handed their menus to the waitress before she made her way to put their orders in.
"So, I know I haven't seen much of you these past few weeks – aside from work," Dean said.
"Yeah, but things have been good between us," Alexa smiled up at Dean. "You've managed your anger very well and I haven't even had a chance to be a bitch to you."
"I've been thinking," Dean raised his hand and scratched the back of his neck – something he did when he was nervous. "Since friends seems to be going well for us, maybe would could take that next step."
Alexa took a deep breath, "Being together is a big step Dean, and it makes it easier for you to hurt me."
"But just like I promised you I could change, I promise you I'm not going to hurt you," he said. "We had a rough start but I got my shit together and things are going pretty smooth now."
Alexa looking down at the table, picking up the wrapped to her napkin and balling it between her finger as she took in Dean's words. "If we do this there are going to be some rules," Alexa took Dean's silence as her queue to elaborate. "I want us to actually date, go places together and do things as a couple, you can't get mad if I want to go somewhere with just the girls, and we can't room together anymore."
"Alexa, we've been rooming together," Dean said.
"Yeah but regardless of this," Alexa leaned back and pointed to her stomach. "I want us to date the right way. It won't last long, I feel so secure at night just knowing you're in the room with me but I want to at least attempt to go about this the right way," she said.
Dean leaned back in the booth, "The dates I can do, I want nothing more than to take you out and spoil you." Dean ran his hand through his hair, "The going out with the girls I can do also, but I'm not going to promise you that I won't get upset with it. The thought of you going out alone and being touched by someone else or another man looking at you drives me mad," Dean unclenched the fist he had resting on the table. "And I'll even do the room thing, I'm going to miss you and I'll probably be blowing up your phone all night but at this point I'll do anything if it means you'll be mine."
"Well, I guess I'll be changing your name in my phone from 'asshole' to 'boyfriend'," Alexa smiled.
Alexa walked down the hallway of the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a smile on her face. After she and Dean's amazing dinner the two went to the lake and walked around while talking about their future together. The days that followed were spent doing random things like attending movies, going out to eat, or just staying at one of their homes and cuddling on the couch with junk food and a movie. The one thing the two had not done was share a bed, or the same room for that matter.
"Well, judging by that smile on your face I'd have to say the rumors are true."
Alexa stopped in her tracks, wiping the smile off her face, "Leave me alone Corey."
Corey smiled as he pushed off the wall he was leaning on and made his way toward Alexa, "I'm not here to hurt you, it's nice to see you so happy. I'm glad someone had finally made you happy."
Alexa shook her head, not believing a word that came out his mouth but she agreed anyway, "Thank you Corey, I'm glad you can see that I'm happy and I've moved on."
Corey moved closer to Alexa, causing her back to collide with the wall behind her. Corey moved his face in closer to Alexa as he placed his right hand on her stomach, "You're happy and you've moved on for now. But Dean will fuck up Alexa; you know it as much as I do. He's not going to be able to keep his anger in and you won't be able to stay with him once he snaps. Then you'll find yourself back where you belong." Corey leaned in closer to Alexa, his lips barely touching hers, "With me," Corey gave Alexa a sadistic smiled as he slowly backed away from her.
Once he round the corner Alexa let out a breath she hadn't realized she been holding and with it came the tears. She continued on her way to the locker room, wiping her eyes quickly so that the guys wouldn't get pissed and go after Corey. She knew she had to tell Dean about this but she also knew that this would be his breaking point – he couldn't hold back his anger when it came to Corey. Alexa pushed the door to the locker room open and saw Colby and Joe sitting on the couch, watching the match that was currently taking place. Alexa let out another sigh of relief as she remember Dean was in the ring right now; thankful that she didn't have to fight the urge to tell him right away she plopped on the couch.
"Okay," Joe spoke when the television cut to commercial. "What happened?"
"What do you mean?" Alexa said, internally cursing herself for thinking she could hide anything from these two men. "I'm fine."
"No, you're not," Colby said.
"You came in here without saying anything," Joe added. "Any other time you're loud as hell when you walk through that door."
"I'm okay guys," she said as she rubbed her stomach. "My feet are bothering me and I've got a headache."
"Do you want one of us to take you back to the hotel?" Colby asked. "Joe and I are done for the night and he has another ten minutes out there," Colby motioned to the television where Dean versus Randy Orton was back on.
"Would you please?" Alexa said. She could go back to the hotel and sort out how she was going to tell Dean about Corey. "I'd really like to lie down," Alexa had to fight the urge to cry from the fear of telling Dean.
"I'll take you back," Colby said as he stood up from the couch, Alexa now noticed that both Colby and Joe were wearing street clothes instead of their all black Shield uniform.
Alexa thanked Colby for taking her to the hotel before shutting the door behind her. She made her way to her suitcase and pulled out a pair of yoga pants and a pink t-shirt. She stripped herself out of her Coral skinny jeans and white razor back tank after taking off her white wedged shoes. Alexa slipped into the comfortable clothes she had pulled out and plopped down on her bed, rubbing her stomach.
"Guys I hope we don't lose your daddy tonight," she said, the fear of Dean flipping and speaking to her the way he ad in the past scared her to no end. As much as she wanted the two of them to work out and be a family she knew that, mentally she wouldn't be able to handle another Dean Ambrose explosion.
Alexa was brought out of her thoughts by a knock on her door, glancing over at the clock on the side table she realized that forty five minutes had passed. She slowly got out of bed and opened her door, revealing Dean leaning against the door frame.