I Am Either Nexus… or Against Him?

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Chapter Eleven: You and I Against All Odds

As a knock hit the door, I grabbed my jacket from the chair and threw it over my shoulders, I didn't know if we were staying in or going out but taking the risk of getting sick wasn't the brightest idea.

"You'll be okay?" Clarissa asked. She looked overly tired, as she had stayed up with me, while Ted was asleep on their bed with the remote still in his hand. "I'll stay up, if you need me,"

"I'll be fine, don't worry," I insisted. "And don't stay up; you have been up since five-thirty this morning, get some sleep."

"Here," she holds out her phone, covered in her Hello Kitty casing. "Call Ted's phone if you need me, we will come and get you," I was hesitant in taking it, considering that I didn't know what to expect. "Please, I don't want to be worrying about you all night,"

"Thanks." I stuffed it into my coat pocket before Clarissa actually opened the door. I am grateful to have a friend like her, I understand her worry within the situation; I am over the edge with fear on how this will all turn out.

When the door opened, the only thing I could notice about Stu was the red, bruised mark in the crease from his nose on the right side of his face; Evan got him good, unintentional but hard enough to leave a mark.

We didn't say two words to one another; we just began to walk down the hall. I really didn't know what to say just yet, I had formulated everything in my head and went over it a dozen times or so and yet now my mind was blank; so blank that it was beginning to make my head hurt.

Stu and I literally began walking around the building, we didn't bother to take the elevator, instead the stairs were the best option, and it wasn't until we were walking for almost ten minutes that we began to actually talk.

"I didn't know how to tell you," I started. "I've been frustrated because our work lives have been cutting into our personal ones, but I didn't know about the pregnancy when I left you that letter," I explained, our eyes never met, in fact, they stayed glued to the floor below us as we went up and down hotel hallways and then down flights of stairs again.

"I know that your career is important, and I understand that it involves a lot of your time, but everything about you just began to change; you've been moody, and restless and you were never around; you were always out drinking or training and it's really depressing when the only person I want to spend time with is never there,"

He didn't say one word, I'm guessing he figured I had a lot on my mind; still we walked in sync with our hands stuffed into our pockets and our eyes looking toward the ground. "I didn't find out that I was pregnant, until I realized I was late,"

"Clarissa and I went to the store, and when we found out through the test, I wanted to tell you, but I hadn't heard a word from you after I had talked to Otunga the first time, so I figured you didn't want to be bothered…"

Stu's eyes shot up and his steps began to slow down too, my eyes immediately went from the floor to him. I waited for a moment, as I struggled to read his reaction to everything I had just said. "David Otunga?" he questioned.

"Yes," I replied. "He came to my dressing room weeks ago, saying all the things I already knew; that you have been overwhelmed and stressed, and I know these things. I told him when you were ready to talk to me, that you could call or text me,"

"When I was ready to talk to you?" he asked. "I was waiting on you to come to me, I had no idea why you just up and left out of nowhere. I figured you were the one that didn't want to be bothered with me, so I just left you alone."

David never told him. It frustrates me slightly but that is not my biggest worry at the moment, I brushed it off instead and let myself speak again. Somehow, without even realizing it, we made it downstairs and into the dining hall, we decided to sit down at a booth, still awkwardly silent from what Stu had said before.

I sighed, as my eyes met his. "I don't know how far along that I am but Clarissa and I scheduled to see our doctor when we're back in Florida for the pay-per-view," I clarify. "Clarissa said she would go in your place, if you didn't want to go, but I would really appreciate it if you would." I confessed, laying my hands on the tabletop.

"We won't be able to see a sonogram of the baby just yet, but I'm just going into confirm the pregnancy, the sonogram would come later on, in the next appointment."

He said nothing, I don't think he knew exactly what to say, it is a lot to take in, that I know; it was a lot for me in the beginning. "Listen, if you really don't trust me, we can do whatever it takes; paternity test, lie detector test, anything but I would never lie to you, this is our child."

"No, we don't need that," he said lowly, the softness in his voice surprised me, this was not the Wade Barrett that I had been in fear of for over a month to confront, instead it was Stu, a part of him I have not seen in quite some time.

"I want to be there with you," he declared. "I know that you're being honest when you said that this child was ours, I know you better than anyone Kat, you should be familiar with this," he says. "You have this look in your eyes when you're telling the truth,"

"I know, Stu, I wouldn't lie to you. I love you and I want to make this work between us, but in order for that to happen, we need to do this together," I replied. "I willing to work with you, on this but the thing is, are you prepared to work with me?"

His green-gray eyes came back up to me. "I don't have a choice, now do I?" he asked me, I knew deep down he was being serious.

"You always have a choice Stu," I responded. "Listen, if you need some time to think about then just let me know when your head is finally clear."

His brows narrowed. "No," he answered back. "I don't need any time," his right hand, leaned across the table and rested gently entangled in mine. "I'm Wade Barrett; I never back down from anything," he smirked, and in his eyes I found that look of comfort that I have been searching for.

"Even if that means Wade Barrett becomes a daddy?" I smile slightly, not sure of how I should truly react.

"Yes." I sensed the honesty in his tone, it was something heartfelt, and it created this warm feeling to my chest. It overjoyed me so much that it made the tears weld up in my eyes; the one thing I have always dreamed about was a family, a family with this man, and before now that was the only thing that haunted me, but at this moment, I feel like things may start to make a huge twist.

Welcome back, Stu Bennett, I have missed you.

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Shelly