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"So how is everything with you and Roman?" asks Zahra as we are sitting in the diner eating lunch together before we go back to our apartment. "You two seem to be spending a lot of time together."
"Just as much as you and Seth spend together," I say, "but everything with Roman and me is good. We told my dad a couple days ago."
"How did that go?" she asks.
"Not very well, he wanted me to choose between him and Roman. I thought it was childish. He wasn't happy about it to say the least. He didn't even give Roman a chance."
"Why? I don't understand that. Roman is a really good guy. There are worse guys out there," she says, "you found one of the good ones. Why would he be so against Roman just because he's a wrestler?"
"He thinks Roman is going to hurt me," I say dipping a fry into my ketchup. "He thinks he's going to cheat on me. I told you my dad is damaged from all his unfaithful lovers. I'm sure my dad had a fling or two with some women on the road I'm not holding him on a pedestal but I don't think Roman would ever cheat on me."
"Roman has a really good family ethic and he's a really good guy, he's not going to cheat on you. He might wife you up but he's not going to cheat on you."
"Wife me up?" I ask.
"Yeah, don't act like you haven't thought about possibly marrying him someday. He's crazy about you. He went through a lot of trouble just to get a date with you."
"I know," I say with a smile. "Honestly, I haven't thought about marriage. I'm not one of those people that think about the future. I like to live in the here and now. I like to let life happen the way that it should. I don't like to rush it or miss any parts of life making plans," I say, "You know if you spend so much time making plans for your future you never get to enjoy the present. Life is about living every day to its fullest which I do. I don't want to die wondering what could have been and what I could have done, I want to die knowing that I lived my life the best that I could. Life is going to happen for everyone there is no need to sit and make plans."
"Wow," she says, "that was deep."
"I know, I should be a poet," I say with a smile. "How are things with you and Seth? I saw some of the controversy going on," I say.
"Don't even get me started," she says, "I didn't know my nudes were going to get leaked to the world and I didn't know that Seth's fiancée or ex-fiancee was going to post his nude pics to the world. That was crazy."
"I told you keeping secrets isn't good. She found out in the worst way possible. Imagine sitting on Twitter and seeing a naked girl pop up on your fiancee's page. I don't think she was very happy. I can't say that I blame her. I probably would do the same thing if it happened to me. I told you it's not a good idea to cheat but you insisted on cheating with Seth and sneaking around behind his fiancee's back."
"I guess," she says letting out a deep breath. "He asked for a little bit of distance for now. He's trying to fix things with her."
"Wow that's an asshole move," I say. "He wasn't worried about fixing things with her while he was sleeping with you. I hope you don't take him back when things don't work out with her."
"You don't think things are going to work out with them?" she asks with hope.
"Probably not, his fiancée is hardcore and besides she's too good for him and far too good to be made a fool out of. He doesn't deserve her."
"You're harsh."
"No, I'm just honest," I say. "And that's just me."
"Okay," she says. "At least you're honest."
"I try to be," I say. "And now WWE is telling everyone in the company to delete any controversial pictures from our phones in case we get hacked like Seth did. I don't have any controversial pictures on my phone so I'm not worried about it. The most they are going to get from my phone are pictures of Roman and me hanging out or pictures of my family nothing bad or anything to generate some craziness."
"You and Roman don't sext each other?" she asks.
"Yes," I say, "but we always delete the pictures because neither of us wants to get hacked or have someone find those pictures besides I want to be the only woman to be seeing Roman's goods," I say with a smile. "They are for my eyes only."
"So I take it the sex is awesome then?" she asks.
"Maybe," I say with a smile. "Okay it's great."
"I know it has to be. I can hear you two into the morning hours when he's at the apartment. I keep asking myself how he can keep going and how you can keep going. Then just when I think you two are done it starts up again. You two are so loud."
"We're not loud the walls are just thin," I say biting my lip. "And I'm sorry you have to hear that. It's not like I haven't heard you and Seth before," I say.
"Point taken," she says with a smile. "Are you two using protection? You two are really active."
"I have the IUD inserted in me. I'm not getting pregnant for 5 years well 3 years now but as soon as this one is done I'm getting another one put in."
"Why the IUD and not the shot or the pill?" she asks.
"Because the IUD is good for 5 years and it just gets inserted and you don't have to deal with it till the 5 years is up. I don't trust myself taking a pill every day because with traveling I have to figure out time zones and stuff it's not worth the hassle and I have no time to get the shot. I like the IUD. It's in there and I'm good," I say.
"So no condoms or anything?"
"I hate condoms," I say, "do you?"
"No but I'm also on the pill," she says
"That's good," I say, "more power to you. I don't have the energy to figure out time zones so that I'm taking it at the same time every day. I have never had a pregnancy scare either."
"Neither have I," she says, "if I were to get pregnant I would cry. What would you do?"
"I would have a breakdown. I don't want any kids."
"Does Roman know that?"
"Yes," I say, "we have discussed that. I was honest with him from the beginning. I don't want kids. I love kids but I don't want any of my own. I'm focused on my career. He has a daughter and he has said she's it for him. I am okay with that."
"What if you did get pregnant then what?"
"I don't know but I do have to talk to you about something," I say changing the subject. I know that birth control isn't 100% but I never plan to get pregnant so I don't want to talk about what if it happens.
"What's up?"
"Well, Roman and I have been talking lately and we're moving in together," I say, "I'm going to be moving out of the apartment into his house."
"This soon?" she asks. "You two haven't been together that long," she says.
"But think about it," I say, "we travel together, when we're home he's either at the apartment or I'm at his house so we already technically do live together just not officially."
"That's not living together, that's staying at each other's places," she says, "are you sure you want to do this?"
"Yeah," I say, "I really want to move in with Roman. I love him and I love spending as much time with him as I can."
"That's a really big step," she says, "what if he has habits that annoy you or something and you realize that you don't really like him."
"I'll learn to deal with them. I'm sure I'll have habits that will annoy him also. You just learn to live with them. It will be a test of our love," I say.
"Okay," she says, "so what's happening to the apartment?"
"About that," I say, "My dad told me he will no longer pay the rent if I'm not living there so either you're going to need to step up, pay the rent, put your name on the lease or find a new place to live."
"So you're just going to leave me like that?"
"I'm not leaving you exactly," I say.
"You're going to live with your boyfriend, call it what you want, Willow but you're leaving me."
"I'm not leaving you. I'm just going to live with my boyfriend."
"And leaving me behind so I have to move?"
"Unless you want to start paying the rent and utilities," I say. "My dad isn't going to be paying the rent if I am not living there anymore. He already said that and I don't blame him. He doesn't need to pay an expense that doesn't benefit any of us."
"When did you decide to move in with Roman?"
"A week or so ago," I say.
"And you're just now telling me? Willow, I thought we were going to live together while we were training?"
"I'm not training anymore," I say, "and besides I want to be with my boyfriend. I want to be able to spend more time with him."
"You spend enough time with him. You two practically already do live together. He's always at the apartment or you're at his house. You two spend too much time together."
"No we don't and even if we do we enjoy each other's company. I love hanging out with Roman."
"So you're just going to leave the apartment and leave me to find a place to live by myself. Thanks, Willow."
"So you're upset with me?"
"Yeah," she says, "because you're pulling this out of the blue for me, telling me that you're moving in with Roman."
"There's no need to be upset with me for moving in with the man that I love. We weren't going to live together forever, Z. You're still going to be my best friend. It's not like it's going to change our friendship."
"It already has, you never have enough time for me."
"I travel over 5 days a week, Z. I only get a couple days home to do what I want to do. I can't help that I don't hang out with you as much as I used to and besides until the nude pic scandal you were too busy sleeping with Seth to give a shit about me or our friendship. Now that he went back to try to fix things with his fiancée now I matter again, Z I want to move in with Roman and that's what I'm going to do. I don't care if you like it or not. I know it's sudden but it's what's happening. I'm going to start packing up my stuff and start moving things to his house in the next week or so. We can still hang out and we can still have our girl talks on the phone but if you're going to act like this then maybe we shouldn't be friends," I say.
"Is that what you want?" she asks.
"It's not what I want but it's obviously what you want."
"I never said that, Willow, you're putting words into my mouth."
"But you're upset because I'm trying to be happy."
"I'm upset because it's like you've forgotten about me and our friendship."
"I have not, Z but you're pissing me off," I say, "because I'm just trying to do me and you're here talking about you. I don't like it."
"I'm worried about me?" she asks with a laugh. "Please, Willow it's ALWAYS about YOU. It's never about anyone else. You're selfish and you know what one day Roman is going to see that and you're going to lose him. It's always been about you. It was about you in training and it's about you now. You weren't even humble when you got called up to the main roster. You talked and bragged about it for weeks because you think you're so amazing. Humility isn't your strong point."
"And class isn't yours," I say, "you know what I think I'm done here. Have a good day and don't worry I'll have my stuff out of the apartment as soon as I can. I won't be home tonight so don't worry about me. I'll be at Roman's house."
"Of course you will," she says as I stand up "You are running from the truth like you always do. You're selfish, Willow. You've always been selfish. See how much Roman likes that when he sees your true colors."
"Whatever, Z," I say as I grab my purse to leave. "I'm not the one being selfish here."
"Sure you're not, Willow," she says before I leave to head to Roman's house. Zahra and I have fought before and made up. Hopefully we'll make up after this fight too but it feels different. A lot of things were said and a lot of feelings were stirred up. We'll see how it goes.
About 15 minutes later I pull into Roman's driveway and park my car. I make my way to the front door and ring the doorbell. I wait a minute or two before he opens the door. "I can't wait to see you too," he says with a smile on his face as he takes my hand leading me inside. "It's going to be great. We can go to the zoo or do whatever you want to do," he says as we walk to the kitchen where he gets us each out a beer. "All right, Sweetie, Daddy has to go. I will see you soon. Okay?" he says making me smile. "I love you too. Bye." He hangs up the phone with a smile and puts it down on the counter as I open my beer as he wraps me up in his arms. "That was my daughter, Alani," he says.
"I figured," I say with a smile before he kisses my lips softly.
"When we're in California this week I'm going to visit her. It's her last week before she goes back to school and I want to spend some time with her. I haven't seen her since June. I can't wait to see her. Would you like to hang out with us?"
"I don't know if that's a good idea does she know about me?"
"She knows a little bit about you. She knows I have a girlfriend named Willow. I'm sure she wants to meet you. You don't have to meet her if you're not ready but she is the other number 1 girl in my life so I would like to have you two meet and get to know each other," he says.
"All right," I say, "I hope that she likes me."
"I'm sure that she will. She's a really sweet girl. She can be a little hyper at times but she's a really sweet girl. She's my little princess," he says with a proud smile.
"You're so sweet when you talk about her," I say with a smile. "I'm sure you're a great dad."
"I try to be. I wish I could see her more but my job is what it is and I see her when I can and talk to her as much as possible. I love talking to her. You'll love her."
"I'm sure," I say with a smile. "I told Z today that I was moving out."
"And how did that go?" he asks.
"Not so well. She's upset with me. She told me I was selfish and everything is always about me. I think she's jealous that I have you and how everything is going so well with us. Seth left her."
"Was he even with her to begin with?" he asks leaning against the counter.
"He slept with her a lot," I say. "And I'm sure Z caught some feelings. You can't just be intimate with someone for so long and not develop feelings for them. It's inevitable. I think she truly likes Seth. And after this scandal with the naked pictures he told her he was going to try to fix things with his fiancée so he pretty much left her high and dry. I told her things probably wouldn't work out between them and she sounded hopeful that they wouldn't. I think she really likes him."
"She might but that whole situation is a mess. So do you think you two are going to work it out?"
"I don't know maybe. We have fought before and worked it out. This is probably no different," I say. "I don't want to lose one of my best friends but if she can't be happy for me then I'm going to need to."
"Have you talked to your dad lately?"
"Nope, I haven't heard from him. He's still upset with me."
"Have you tried to call him?"
"No," I say. "We both need our time to get over this argument too. It's just how we are."
"I see," he says, "so when we have a fight it's probably going to take a few days before we are back on track."
"Probably but that's if we have a fight."
"All couples fight at some point it's about getting through it that matters."
"I guess so," I say, "I just want to relax today and hang out."
"Me too," he says with a smile. "Want to watch movies and drink?"
"Sounds good to me," I say with a smile. "The perfect afternoon."
"I couldn't agree more," he says with a smile before he kisses my lips softly before we head to the living room where we spend the afternoon and most of the evening watching movies together and drink beer. I couldn't have asked for a better afternoon with him especially after my fight with my dad and Zahra. It's great to find comfort in this man.
*A/N: What did you think of Zahra's and Willow's conversation? Do you think Willow is selfish? Is Zahra jealous of what Willow and Roman have because Seth left her? Do you think Z and Willow will work this out? What did you think of Roman asking Willow to meet his daughter? Do you think Willow is nervous about it? How do you think that's going to go? Do you think they will like each other? Please review and thank-you for reading.