The couple was rudely awaken by a knocking at the door they'd tried to ignore it but whomever was at the door was very persistent. Colby finally got up stumbling over to the drawer and found some pajama pants to put on and after some difficulty he managed to get them on and went to open the Dominic had rolled over and went back to he tried anyway ,Colby came back in a short while later.

"Dominic,get up"

"why?"

Dominic responded groggily they hadn't gotten that much sleep and was officially convinced the universe didn't want him to.

"my mother stopped by to say hello ...and to meet you"

He left out the part where she had noticed the ring almost immediately and demanded to meet the man who as she put it ' didn't even have the decency to meet her before taking her baby away'. Dominic checked the clock on the side table which read '7:30'

"Tell her to come back at a reasonable hour"

"Why don't YOU tell her yourself? she's right here"

Dominic sat up wide eyed being mindful to keep the sheets above his waist and smiled sheepishly at the duo standing at the foot of the between the two he was amazed at how much Colby actually looked like his mother they even wore identical scowls on their faces he made a mental note to tease him about it later but for now he had to focus on the situation at hand.

"so what were you saying Dominic"

"Hello Mrs. Lopez how lovely to finally see the beautiful face behind the lovely voice" The look on her face told him to quit while he was ahead.

"yeah...I'm gonna go get dressed"

Dominic carefully got up wrapping the blanket around his lower half and all but ran into the closet and threw on some when he walked back into the room that was thankfully empty but, he could hear voices coming from the living room he took a deep breath knowing he had to walk past them to get to the bathroom.

Once Dominic got showered and dressed he ventured back out into the living room to join Colby and his mother who were deep in conversation.

"Hey, what are you two talking about?"

two sets of deep brown eyes landed on Dominic who walked over and made himself comfortable in the overstuffed chair in the corner of the small yet cozy space.

"We were actually talking about you."

Colby smiled putting the older man at ease.

"Well I certainly feel better "

Dominic deadpanned

"It was but, if you pull another one of THOSE stunts and hurt him again like you did you will not like what I do to YOU"

"yes ma'am"

Dominic knew their was no reason to argue ,he understood her motivations she was being a typical mother who was protecting her child.

"No that we've got that out of the way Mr. King I noticed Colby's sporting a bit more jewelry now."

Dominic nodded and smiled Vanessa could see the love in his eyes and knew without a doubt that he loved her son and held deep regret for ignoring him for those two weeks. She looked over at Colby who seemed engrossed with his ring and smiled he was truly happy and she could only smile.

"Yeah, I couldn't find the perfect ring so I had that custom made I kind of got the idea from Our Boss."

"How about I take you two out for breakfast , to celebrate the engagement"

"Sure, let me go get dressed"

Colby got up and quickly headed off to get freshened up he re-emerged a short time later in yet another pair of skinny jeans that fit so snug Dominic was convinced were 'Jeggings' and a button down shirt and soon the trio was on their way to a local diner.

"So the last time Colby and I really talked he said you were thirty five but he ALSO said you had a birthday coming up he never said when though."

They sat at a table at 'shakey's' Diner waiting for their food to arrive and Vanessa had suggested small talk which quickly turned into Dominic basically telling her his life story. Colby sat between them not really paying attention ,too busy playing on his phone he'd thought he heard the camera go off a couple times and knew in the back of his mind that within moments the entire world would know that they were engaged.

"he's not really big on conversations that aren't about him. My birthday is the twenty first." Vanessa chuckled

" sittin RIGHT here" Colby cut in indignantly but, his protest fell on deaf ears.

"I know he's always loved being the center of attention,wait...this Thursday?"

Dominic nodded

"yep I'll be thirty six"

"Excuse me"

The older pair looked towards Colby and dominic noted the annoyed look on his face.

"are we here to celebrate or are we gonna spend the whole time discussing how self absorbed you two think I am?"

Dominic bit his tongue to hold in the sarcastic remark his mind had conjured up.

"Oh Colby calm down ,we're just teasing"

Vanessa pinched his cheek and laughed she really was a wonderful woman and Dominic was beginning to like spending this time talking with her , she reminded him a lot of his mother. He couldn't wait to introduce them,He knew they'd get along great.

"Cut it out mom"

he gently pushed her hand away and looked towards Dom who seemed to be getting kick out of this and he didn't like it one food came a short time later and they began to eat making small talk the entire time .Dominic noticed some serious attitude coming from Colby towards him the entire time and hoped he wasn't mad but, knowing his luck that was most likely the they had arrived back at Colby's place after breakfast it was confirmed.

Colby walked in and slammed the door in Dominic's face who took a deep breath before entering the war zon- apartment to find Colby sitting on the couch flipping through channels on the TV. Dominic walked over and sat next to Colby, he tried to place his hand on the younger man's thigh but, a hard slap to the knuckles with the remote caused him to yelp in pain , even worse that was his bad hand he cradled his tender arm to his chest and waited for the pain to ease up.

"what the fuck is wrong with you?"

Colby looked over at him as if he'd grown two heads.

"were you even LISTENING to the way you were talking about me earlier. 'he's not really interested in conversations that aren't about him' 'he's always loved being the center of attention' 'he spends over an hour doing his hair in the morning' "

"what?...we were Joking"

"It didn't sound like it"

"babe I'm sorry if i hurt you but, if I really felt that way would I have asked you to marry me? Trust me and believe me when I say I love EVERYTHING about you."

He could see the emotions swirling in Colby's turned so that he was facing the younger man and taking another chance he reached out to him and cautiously wrapped his arms around Colby and tried to pull the younger man into his lap to no stood up and Dominic hung his head in defeat until Colby spoke.

"Lay down"

"what?"

Dominic looked up his face turned to one of confusion.

" ,this is a really good movie and I wanna watch it... unless you don't want to cuddle with me"

Dominic caught on and laid down on his side making himself comfortable moving his arm so Colby could lay down as well. He shifted around for a moment scooting back until he fit perfectly into the curve of Dom's little fluff ball known as Kevin soon emerged from the kitchen and jumped onto the couch with them settling himself on the arm of the couch head and laid down. Dominic wrapped his arm around Colby and soon the couple were enjoying the movie.

*buzz,buzz*

The constant vibration from Dominic's cell phone was ruining the movie for Colby and that did not sit well with him as he had been wanting to see it for a while now but his schedule prevented it.

"Either answer the damn phone or cut it off"

"I would but, your ass is on it"

Colby scooted forward a bit and reached back into Dominic's pocket and grabbed his phone handed it back to him and scooted back against him.

"now answer it and shut up"

Dominic unlocked the device and was met with a staggering amount of instagram notifications which wasn't too odd he'd only gotten the account because Victoria set it up for him. Most of his followers were wrestling fans and friends of his sister (Devin included as well)since he and Colby got together some of them were delusional fans who refused to believe that Colby was gay and actually thought they had a chance. But he'd never gotten this many notifications...ever. curiosity getting the best of him he opened instagram to see what all of the buzz was about and sure enough there were several 'Congratulations' and upon further investigations he found the original photo from Colby complete with a photo of the ring.

"hey Lopez"

"WHAT!"

Colby was pissed , he was never going to get to see this whole movie.

"do you have anything to tell me?"

Dominic was purposely being vague hoping that the younger man would come clean.

"Yes, Shut up so I can watch this"

Okay if Colby didn't want to do it the easy way then so be it.

"Did you AT LEAST tell Devin before you announced it to the world?"

"YES, while you and my mother were busy discussing how selfish I am she sent me a text asking me what we wanted and I told her... in case you were interested she's very happy and looks forward to helping us plan the wedding."

Dominic rolled his eyes but didn't say another word on the subject so Colby went back to watching his movie.