Chapter 26

Roman took a quick shower and threw on a black t-shirt and a pair of basketball shorts before walking out of the bathroom and sitting on Melanie's bed. Seth and Sasha had both already done the same and were cuddled up on the bed in their pajamas as they waited for the pizza to arrive. He placed his clothes back in his garment bag and without looking up he asked.

"So neither one of you were going to tell me that her God father was THE Shawn Michaels?"

Sasha laughed and shrugged her shoulders "Wasn't my business to tell." Roman just looked at her and shook his head.

"When has that ever stopped you?"

Sasha threw a pillow at him but he ducked and watched as it hit the window instead. He laughed as he turned his head over his shoulder to look at his best friend.

"What's your excuse Seth?"

"I don't have one I just wanted to watch you sweat. If you think that her God father is a big deal wait until you find out who her dad is" he chuckled

"Well I will wait for her to tell me who he is. I know you two jack asses aren't going to tell me, and besides I feel like when she does finally tell me, that means that she really does trust me."

Sasha smiled "Now you're getting it."

Roman smiled, thinking thoughtfully before saying "I won't pressure her to say or do anything she doesn't want to do, I will wait until she is ready to open up to me in her own time, I want her to come to realize that I will be here for her whenever she needs someone."

Sasha looked at him with a blank look on her face "Why do you choose to frustrate me so?"

Roman's forehead knitted together in confusion "What do you mean? What did I do now?"

Seth shook his head but didn't look away from the movie he was watching as he mumbled "That's a loaded ass question Bro"

"You insist on wasting your time with that poor excuse of a human being, Evelyn." Sasha said in aggravation.

Roman sat down on the bed and looked up at Seth who was silently urging him to change the direction that the conversation was going.

Sasha turned her body so that she was completely facing Roman "Hear me out, I just want to ask you three questions, and if any of those questions are a yes, I will drop the whole subject."

Roman starred Sasha in the eye "Three questions and you will let this go?"

"Yup three questions and like I said if you can honestly answer yes to any of the three, I will drop the entire subject for good, you have my word."

Roman could see Seth shaking his head 'No' behind Sasha.

"Fine but you only get 5 minutes, and 5 minutes only, I need to call Jo."

Sasha gave a little smirk and nodded her understanding; she had him right where she wanted him. "I won't even need that long, I will be quick and to the point. First question, do you love Evelyn, and by love I mean you can't imagine your life without her, she is the woman you want to come home to at the end of every day, she is the first person outside of JoJo that you want to see when you get home?"

Roman was stunned into silence, he looked up at Seth "Uh huh, don't look at me now, I tried to warn you, go ahead and answer the question Ro, it's not like we already don't know the answer anyway." He said as he leaned back against the headrest of the bed and crossed his arms along his chest.

Roman inwardly groaned he should have heeded Seth's warning when he had the chance, now he had two options, either answer Sasha's three questions or refuse and face her wrath. He pinched the bridge of his nose and looked at Sasha who was sitting on the bed, patiently waiting on an answer that he knew that she already had. He cursed under his breath before biting the bullet "No, she is not."

"Second question, even though I know you want to have more kids and JoJo wants a baby brother or sister, do you see yourself purposely having more kids with Evelyn?"

"No"

"Okay last question do you trust Evelyn?

"What is the point to this Sasha, you are clearly asking me three questions that you already have the answers to." he said as agitation started to creep into his voice.

Sasha arched her eyebrow at Roman's little outburst but she remained calm "Answer the question Ro"

Roman felt a headache coming on as he proceeded to rub his temple. He shut his eyes and answered her quietly "No, I don't trust her"

"To answer your question the point of this was to get you to verbally say what we all know" she said as she used her fingers to list off the things they had just gone over "You don't love her, you can't see yourself having more kids with her regardless of the fact that we all know you want more kids, and you don't trust her. So the question is why in the hell are you even going to try getting back together with her, and don't you give me that bullshit about it's what JoJo wants because have you asked JoJo what she wanted? Did JoJo specifically tell you that she wants you and her mom back together? I mean seriously Ro you are an amazing dad, but I need you to pull your head out of your ass for about 2 minutes here. You and I both know you are jonesen for Mel, and by entertaining this moronic possibility with Evelyn, you will be forced to walk away from the best thing that could ever happen to you and JoJo." when she saw Roman was going to try and dispute her statement she flung her feet over the side of the bed and crossed her arms over her chest and narrowed her eyes at him.

"I have eyes, and so does everyone else that has seen you with Mel, we have seen the way you look at Melanie, the way you talk to her, the way your eyes light up when she is in the room, the way you touch her when you think no one is paying attention. You want Melanie Joe, and not just physically, you want to be in a relationship with her, a real emotional just the two of you against everyone and everything type of relationship."

Roman knew that Sasha was right and he wasn't dumb enough to lie to her face and tell her that she was wrong. So instead of trying to defend himself he said nothing.

"Exactly! But getting back to my point, by going forward with this stupid arrangement, you're setting yourself up to have a completely miserable life."

"Sasha I know you don't agree, but I need you to at least try and understand that Evelyn and I need to try and make it work, it's what's best for JoJo."

"Okay I am going to ignore the fact that you completely sound like the PG version of the Authority right now, but since you seem to have all of the answers tell me, what happens if Evelyn cheats on you again or does something else that is unforgivable, are you still going to stay for JoJo's sake?"

Roman exhaled loudly through his mouth "Mercedes to be honest I have no idea what I would do if that actually happens, I just have to hope that Evelyn is true to her word when she says she wants to work it out. It's not like we are going to be back together tomorrow or hell not even in the next few weeks or months. I barely like her, let alone love her the way I would need to, to get into a serious relationship with her again, but I know in order to try, we have to work out as many of our problems as possible. So I am going to follow Mel's advice, we are going to go to counseling first and try to work out our past issues, and then from there we will just take it step by step."

Sasha just shook her head at him. "Unfuckinbelievable, so you are going to follow the advice of the woman that you are 100% interested in, in order to get with the woman that you don't even like. Yup that makes a lot of sense Joe."

"Listen I know it sounds crazy but Mel understands why I need to do this."

Sasha looked at him as if he had lost his mind.

"You are a damn fool, of course she does Joe! If you hadn't noticed she always thinks about other people first, you saw what she did at the meet and greet today. The meet and greet was scheduled for 3 hours, messing around with Mel we were there for 5 because she checked the security guard for trying to cut the fans off early. Regardless of the fact that it meant that we would be there longer than everyone else, she didn't care because it was about the fans to her. But let's say we don't even use that as an example, she is a Daddy's girl through and through. You know that! You saw it with your own two eyes with the way that she talks with him over the phone, and the way that she talks about him in conversation. Of course she is all aboard with a father doing what he thinks is best for his daughter Joe. I swear I thought you were smarter than this." She said in frustration.

Roman didn't have time to respond, because they were interrupted by a ringing on his laptop. He turned to see Evelyn's emoticon pop up on his screen.

Sasha rolled her eyes "Speaking of the devil."

Roman ignored her comment as he answered the call "Hey Evelyn what's up?" She did not look pleased and Roman was about to find out the exact source of her displeasure.

"Joe...do you want to tell me why you let my daughter talk to one of your little whores yesterday?"

Roman was taken aback as confusion set in "Okay first of all she is our daughter but do you mind telling me specifically what the hell you are talking about?"

"Some bitch named Melanie." she spat

Seth's head snapped up and his eyes went wide as he slowly turned his head to look over at Sasha knowing that if he heard it she did too.

Sasha turned her head to look at Seth "Did she just call my best friend a bitch and a whore?!" she whispered still in shock.

"Evelyn you need to stop it, Melanie is not a whore and she is not a bitch." Roman stated as he tried to keep his aggravation in check.

"Oh so you are defending her?! How dare you let your little ring rat talk to my daughter!"

"Seth I swear to God I'm about to beat her ass through that computer screen" Sasha said as she stood up and started to stretch before putting her hair into a ponytail.

"Take a seat slugger" Seth said as he pulled her back down and into his side.

"You're damn right I'm defending her, Melanie isn't any of those things, not a bitch, whore or a ring rat she is a wrestler and a damn good one who happens to be JoJo's favorite. Not to mention she is Sasha's best friend and she is becoming my friend and I fully expect for you to respect her, because she isn't going anywhere. Now have I made myself clear?"

"Don't you talk to me like I am your fucking child!"

"Then stop acting like one!" he retorted

"You are full of shit Roman, your fucking her! And if you aren't fucking her you want to. Don't think I didn't see the picture of you two that's floating around the fucking internet, do you know how embarrassing it is to have your boyfriend get caught with his mistress."

Roman snorted. At this point he didn't give a shit what Evelyn thought, but what he knew for sure is that she wasn't going to disrespect Melanie because she had a stick up her ass about her talking to JoJo. There was nothing wrong with it, and as long as JoJo wanted to talk to Melanie he wasn't going to stand in the way.

"There are a lot of things wrong in your sentence so let me clear a few things up for you. Number one I'm not even your friend let alone your boyfriend, and you seeing a picture circulating of the father of your child embracing another woman in a picture that was taken without either of our consent, can't possibly be more embarrassing than me coming home and finding my fiancé in bed with another man in the house and bed that I paid for."

"Mmmm preach!" Sasha said from her place on the bed as she snapped her fingers in the air.

"Oh hear you go with your whoa is Joe sob story. I said I was sorry what else do you want?! And what do you mean you aren't my boyfriend I thought we agreed..."

"No, no, no, we agreed to try...emphasis on the word try and by try that didn't mean that we were back together as a couple we have a hell of a lot of work to do before we can ever get back into a relationship. And tell me Evelyn when were you sorry, the first time you cheated on me? Maybe it was the second time, oh how about the third or fourth time?!

"You know what; it is pointless to have a conversation with you."

"Well will you look at that, finally something we agree on."

Evelyn glared at Roman. He knew if they were in the same room she probably would have thrown something at him by now. "You're a piece of shit Joe."

Roman sighed heavily remembering that this was one of the many reasons why he didn't like her. She refused to have a conversation like an adult. He was getting a headache and it just wasn't worth the aggravation. Especially since all he wanted to do was talk to Jo, eat some pizza, wait for Melanie to come back from her dinner, and go to bed. He exhaled loudly before wiping his face with his hands.

"Where is JoJo? I promised her I would talk to her tonight when she got back from dance class."

Evelyn rolled her eyes she knew that was his way of ending their conversation "She is with your parents for the night so you are going to have to call them in order to talk to her."

"Why is she with my parents? It's a school night she should be home with you."

"Yeah well what can I say I needed a break." she snapped

Roman stared at her and wondered what in the hell he ever liked about her.

"I will talk to you later I need to talk to my daughter." He didn't even wait for her to respond he simply disconnected the line and sent a text to his mother to have JoJo skype him.

A/N

Here is the Deal my pretties, as of today this site and the other site are 100% in sync and caught up with each other so every chapter that will get posted from here on out will be new on both sites! :) Exciting for me since now I wont be re-editing edited chapters that I have already posted (not all but some of them I changed/updated...you know whats 600+ additional words added into chapters amongst friends lol) I cant help it I am a little obsessive that way. Either way there is a downside to both stories being in sync...I will only be updating once per week now. I was hoping to be able to update Chapter 27 tomorrow but I had some technical difficulties...mainly the more I read the chapter the more I hated the chapter so I revamped it completely and am working on making it flow the way I want so it may not get posted until Monday night or Tuesday morning before I leave :)

With all of that being said I hope you all enjoyed this update Talk to you all soon!

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