Roman was nervous and this definitely didn't help his situation. Dean slept peacefully. Since Saturday, Dean and he were practically living together. The teenager had just returned home for clothes and school stuff. Even his bike was parked in Roman's garage.

However Roman knew well that this ended today. Sarah was about to return and her things were still in the house. In addition they would have an inevitable discussion because Roman was going to end their relationship, Dean needed to return to his house at least for a while until Sarah calms down.

But Sarah was the least of the problems.

Police would sooner or later find that Dean was the responsible for the destruction of Mickie's car. Roman felt he had a knife hanging over his head. Police had already spent three days investigating, questioning students and teachers and collecting evidence.

Roman was feeling uneasy. He looked at Dean, he looked so vulnerable, innocent, and almost angelic. The teenager was clinging to him. It was the only way he could sleep by wrapping himself in Roman's body.

The teacher wanted to walk a little and dissipate his mind. He tried to untangle his body from the teenager and heard a groan. Dean clutched him harder. The young man was deeply asleep and yet he could feel that he was being separated from Roman.

"I love you so much," Dean mumbled in his dreams. "Don't leave me".

And this froze Roman's blood. Dean was too possessive. The teenager demanded all his attention and all his love and they were getting to a point where Dean showed disgust and annoyance by anyone who approached Roman. Even if Roman was sure that Dean was not the one to blame for Mickie's death, he knew Dean was capable of hurting someone if he got too close to him.

Roman loved this boy and that was out of the question. But Dean's instability sometimes terrified him. Dean didn't measure the consequences of his actions. In addition to his addiction to cocaine he had not been able to quit. The icing on the cake, Dean lied if he thought it necessary.

Because of the status of their relationship, Roman should not demand sincerity, but they were so drowned in this forbidden relationship that they needed to trust one another and be honest with one another.

However I have not told the whole truth. Roman thought.

No, they were not sincere. Roman thought about how long they could sustain their love if they kept lying to each other.

My only hope is that the police will find the person that killed Mickie before they find the responsible for the destruction of her car.

Roman stroked Dean's messy hair. The teenager smiled in his dreams and purred. At times like these, Dean was just a teenager in love, hopelessly in love with his teacher.

Roman gave up on his idea of leaving the bed. He wrapped his arms around his young lover's body and smiled at him. He loved this boy madly. The professor closed his eyes and tried to sleep. The morning would bring more problems like the fact of his fight with one of his students. Although Baron had not appeared by the school in several days.

...

At dawn Roman and Dean had breakfast.

"I'm going to break with her today, you cannot be here." Roman said as if nothing.

Dean rolled his eyes. "I'm staying. I'm going to hide inside the house, because I want to be sure that you're really going to get her out of your life. I don't want you to find an excuse on why you couldn't dump her."

Dean was showing his possessiveness at its best.

Roman narrowed his eyes. "Looks like you're giving me an order."

Dean stared at his teacher. "I just want to be sure that you're going to do as we agreed. She's just like her brother and she's will try to manipulate you."

Roman wasn't very convinced of Dean's reasons, "You're not going to be here. I want to work this out on my own, it's my business to fix."

Dean frowned visibly unsatisfied by Roman's refusal "When will I be able to return?"

"For now it's better not to see each for a while. I don't want to do anything that raises suspicions."

Dean grunted. "We won't do that, Roman, I refuse."

"We can't keep so bold. We need to use intelligence if we want this to work." Roman tried to reason.

"I'll be more careful, but not seeing us is out of the question! Are you tired of me already?" Dean complained.

Roman didn't know what to answer, especially since Dean's response took him by surprise. Was it so difficult to understand that they were taking too many risks?

"Dean, can you act with maturity or at least try?" Roman said angrily. "We must do this well or else I will end up in prison that seems to be your desire since you don't want to help me."

"I would never do anything to hurt you! But I... why do I always have to lose?"

Roman was confused. "What are you talking about?"

"You're my first love and this is the damn first time I feel happy inside a house and it's because I'm with you. I can't believe that I've almost believed this pantomime of domesticity. We both living here, happy, with you that you love me and protect me and..." Dean's voice cracked.

Roman was frozen. He had not thought about the consequences of letting Dean stay in his house for so long.

"Have you wondered why in more than a week no one has reported my disappearance or at least asked where the hell I am?" Dean was visibly upset.

Roman opened his mouth trying to say something but nothing came out. Dean had a good point here.

"No one cares, I could disappear right now and no one would notice it. And now I must go back to live alone in that house that is falling apart or worse, probably mom has already returned and there are some loser living there and they're both begging me not to come back. Maybe they won't even let me in." Dean was angry and sad, "Or maybe daddy number 11 would want a blowjob to let me into my own damn house!"

"What are you talking about? Your mom's boyfriends..." This froze Roman's blood.

"Is it so surprising?" Dean got to his feet and began to walk desperately. "Do you want to know how I lost my virginity? How old was I? You want to know how horrible it was and so have a good reason to despise me and get rid of me!"

"For God's sake Dean!" Roman walked to his student and wrapped his arms around him. "Forgive me I... Listen if you want to talk about it I'll listen to you but... not like this. Not because you're angry with me Dean. I love you and this is not a pantomime You have no idea how much I want to have you here next to me and make sure no bastards ever hurt you again."

"And yet you send me back there." Dean tried to get out of the embrace.

"No, you're not going to go there, no..." Roman was now stroking the back of the altered teenager and it seemed to work, Dean was no longer so stiff. "I can't even give you money to stay in a hotel, you're still underage."

"I have no friends, Seth has not spoken to me for days, and you know he's jealous because you love me." Dean said softly. "I have nowhere to go, just my mother's house."

Dean released the hug and went to pick his backpack, he walked to the door without saying anything.

"Dean, it's still early," Roman stopped him.

"It's better if I go on my own. I have to take my bike or your fiancée might suspect you're cheating on her." Dean said coldly.

Roman could not, he just could not leave Dean helpless and at the mercy of his shitty family.

"Don't go, I'll hide your things and your bike, you can stay in the attic until Sarah leaves," Roman knew how risky this was but had no choice. "We will look for the way that nobody notices that you live here."

When Dean heard that his expression changed completely, the teenager smiled sweetly.

"Nobody's going to notice, I'll be very careful! Anyway, don't worry about it today, I want you to be calm so you can get rid of that bitch. I'm going to walk around, I'll be back at midnight," Dean was smiling now.

"What are you going to do?" Roman was worried.

"I'll go home and pick up the things I left there. I'll sneak inside and then I'll go out, no one will notice," Dean said cheerfully. "I cannot believe we're going to live together."

"We must be careful, Dean." Roman was worried but he couldn't help smiling at Dean's joy.

"We will be!" Dean clung to Roman, "You'll see that you won't regret it. I love you so much."

Roman was sure that this decision would be his disgrace and yet he could not say no to Dean. Besides, how could he leave him helpless at the mercy of his horrible family? He was hopelessly in love with this boy, his duty was to take care of him, although this was very risky.

…

When Roman arrived at the school everything was a chaos. The police were all over the place and several people shouted. Roman always left Dean to several streets away of the school so he entered alone.

The professor stepped into the crowd of screaming students and teachers. The scene he saw almost shocked him.

His father-in-law was screaming and his mother-in-law was crying. The police had handcuffed Seth who also cried.

"But what are you doing?" Roman shouted. "Why are you doing this to him? Seth is just a kid!"

One of the cops approached the teacher, "Are you Roman Reigns?"

Roman was nervous. "That's right, what's up?"

"This kid is the prime suspect in Miss James' death. We found several menacing notes among Miss James's things. Checking the student lockers we found some of those notes in Seth's locker."

"And what does that have to do with me?" Roman was puzzled.

"You are the reason for the threats," the policeman indicated and taught a series of drawings, all of Roman.

Roman looked at Seth almost in shock. Seth looked back at him in a sea of tears. "The drawings are mine, but I don't know how those notes came to my locker, someone is blaming me."

Roman's world was crumbling. Not only because he really loved Seth like a little brother and it hurt to know that the boy could be responsible for the death of his co-worker. He felt despair thinking all this was somehow his fault.

Seth was doing this for him.

"Who do you think would want to blame you, boy?" A policeman asked Seth.

And at that moment Roman lost the notion of what was happening, because the only person who could blame Seth was... Dean.

If Seth accused Dean, the whole truth would come to light and no matter who was to blame, Roman was going to end up in jail. Roman knew he was committing a crime, this was illegal. And even if the truth didn't come to light, if any of the teenagers ended up in prison that would kill him.

Roman felt that everything was unreal, had endured too much pressure and now the whole weight of his actions was falling on his conscience. His mind was clouded.

Seth and his parents realized what was happening with Roman.

"I don't know who would want to blame me," Seth said resignedly as he looked at Roman sadly. "I just know I'm innocent."

Roman wanted to scream, he wanted to cry, he wanted to say something but his body and mind were disconnected. Maybe Seth was sacrificing for him... or maybe he was a murderer and couldn't really blame anyone else.

Once more Roman was trapped inside his own mind.

Is this real? It is a dream, a nightmare. This was a mistake from the beginning. It is not real, nothing is real, this is not real. Dean, Seth... Wade... nothing is real.

What the hell am I doing with my life?

Roman needed something to hold on to, something that would provide him security. He felt that this time his mind couldn't return to his body. This time he was going to lose his mind completely because anything was better than reality.

"My name is Sarah Rollins, I am Seth's sister and Roman's fiancée." Apparently Sarah had returned earlier. "I will escort Roman to the police station."

Roman felt Sarah embrace him, it was a familiar feeling. Sarah knew how to deal with these situations.

The teachers were trying to reassure the teenagers. Roman thought saw Dean in the middle of the students who had crowded into the yard. But it was like seeing a mirage, Dean was there and he was not there just as the rest of the people in that place. Roman didn't want this and decided to block his mind, and nothing else mattered.

…

"Roman... Roman..." Sarah's voice was soft. "I arrived on time, I cannot believe my brother was capable of this."

Sarah and Brie sat Roman on the couch in the Samoan's office.

"What's wrong?" Brie was worried.

"Nothing a teacher can understand," Sarah said with disdain. "I am a trained psychologist and I have everything under control."

"Roman is my friend and I'm worried. Above all because I know he appreciates Seth and..."

"Seth was always a problem, he's been always weird and I'm not surprised he's done something like this. But this is private business just like what happens to Roman."

Brie looked at the woman in horror. "Seth has always been a good kid, something shy but nothing that was out of control. Having a crush on Roman is not rare, Roman is handsome and Seth always sees him. What is hard for me to digest is that Seth is a murderer and much more than his own sister speaks of him with disdain."

"You can't know more about my brother than me, much less about my fiancé." Sarah looked at the woman as if she were inferior to her.

Brie smiled. "You can be a great psychologist and I a simple teacher. But empathy is not something you learn in college. You don't know your own brother and you don't seem to mind about him. And obviously you don't know Roman as you think you do, if you haven't even noticed why he no longer wears the engagement ring".

Sarah looked at Roman's hands in dismay. Brie smiled.

"And the fact that you say you have Roman under your control makes me worried." Brie stated.

"You have no right to talk to me that way, much less to get into personal issues. I beg you to leave this office, Roman is my fiancé and I will take care of him!" Sarah was angry.

"I have to leave because I have to work. Not all of us have millionaire boyfriends that we can keep under control while we enjoy their money." Brie slammed the door.

Sarah was livid.

"The nerve of this slut." Sarah looked at Roman with disdain, "Roman, Roman. Your parents thought that after the awful incident with Wade Barrett they wouldn't see you involved up in another mess of this kind. When you get back to reality you're going to be an obedient boy, right Roman?"

Roman could hear that, Sarah knew all about Wade, but even he didn't know what had happened... maybe this wasn't real.

"This episode is going to end, you never stay that way forever, even if you want to. Inevitably you're going to return, Roman. Just like you came back after what happened with Wade Barrett and honestly I don't know how you did it. How you have been able to overcome that kind of trauma. God, you always manage to get into such atrocious things. I read all your files, your doctors and the police gave them to me, remember that I am the person in charge of your life. Not you Roman, never you, you're not able to take care of your own ass. I own you and mommy and daddy pay me very well for that. We'll sit here very quiet even if that take the whole damn day until you come back to reality."

Sara sat next to Roman on the couch. "Your parents will have to increase my credit card quota when I let them know about your latest antics. They need again to take care of the consequences."

Roman was still while Sara texted on her cell phone with a confident smile on her face.

I'm writing a new story, is called "Nowhere Fast" and is loosely based on the movie Streets of Fire. It's ambreigns but it's also rolleigns, it's both.

That said, I want to apologize for being late in updating, I've been finishing my thesis. Luckily I already did and I can update as always. You already know that I am updating all my fics once a week. I am grateful for the support shown to this story. Let me know your opinions about this episode with a review.