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A few days later Tayla was meeting with her mom to have lunch with her and to work things out with her. She wanted her mom to be part of her child's life but only if she wasn't so judgmental and controlling like she had been all of Tayla's life. She wanted her to be happy for her and Roman. Roman and Tayla had already told Tayla's dad the news a couple days earlier and he was absolutely excited. Tayla had been sick the last few days but the medicine the doctor had given to her helped with the nausea a lot. Tayla walked into the restaurant she was meeting her mom at and walked up to the hostess. "Rodriguez," she said.

"Follow me," said the hostess as she led Tayla to the table her mom had already been sitting at.

"Thank-you," said Tayla before she took a seat. "Hey, Mama," she said.

"Tayla," said Tianna, "thank-you for having lunch with me."

"You're welcome," said Tayla. "I thought that it was time."

"I am really sorry, Tayla for not coming to your wedding. I know that you were really hurt by the fact that I chose not to be there. It was a selfish decision and I am sorry. I should have been there even if I don't like Roman. You're my daughter; my only child and I missed your wedding. I feel so horrible for not being there and not having any part in it. I heard that it was absolutely beautiful and that you looked absolutely beautiful. I am sorry I didn't go. I should have been there."

"It did hurt me, Mama," said Tayla as she looked over the menu for something to eat. "It hurt me a lot. You're my mama and you should have been there. I wanted you to be there so badly. I wanted you to be there when I got my dress and I wanted you to be there to see me marry the man that I love with all my heart even if you don't like him. I do. I love Roman with every part of my body. He makes me so happy. I wanted you to be a part of our happiness and when you didn't show up I was crushed. It hurt me so much." Tayla was trying not to cry because while the medicine helped with her nausea it did not settle her hormones and she was very emotional still. Everything made her cry lately.

Tianna heard the hurt in Tayla's voice and felt her heart break a little more. She never intentionally meant to hurt her daughter. She loved Tayla and it was never her intent to make her cry or to hurt her so badly. "I'm really sorry, Tayla."

"It's okay. It's over with now. It was a year ago and it was the past. The past is what it is the past. You can't keep holding onto things that hurt you. It's time to live in the present and hope for the future. Today we can get a new start and start over. I just need you to promise me that you will be nicer to me. I can't have you trying to tell me how to live my life even if you don't agree with the choices I make and I can't have you judging me for every decision I have to make or have made. I need you to be supportive. Dad is very supportive of me and he's very supportive of Roman even if he may not agree with our choices he still makes sure he supports us no matter what."

"I will be more understanding of your decisions and I will be more supportive of the choices you make. I just wish you would go back to school. You're so smart, Tayla. I don't even care what you go to school for I just wish you would go back to school and get a degree. You're too smart to let it all go to waste. You're better than that, Tayla. You know that and I know that. You can be a teacher, you can be a nurse, you can be a journalist whatever you have the power to be anything you want to be but you have to go back to school. I want to see you go back to school. I'm not judging you. I'm just encouraging you to make the right choice and get your education. Like I said you're too smart not to."

"I know, Mama," she said. "And Roman keeps telling me I need to go back to school but with me being the only one working and working 10 hour shifts I don't have the time to go to school."

"They have online classes you can do and then you can do it whenever you want. I just want to see you do something other than be Roman's wife," she said as the waiter came over to take their orders. After the waiter left Tianna went back to talking to Tayla. "It's just you're so smart."

"Thanks," said Tayla. "I'm thinking about going back to school. I just don't know when."

"I hope soon. You're only 23 years old. You still have plenty of time to do the last year or so of your education and still be done before you're 25 or 26 years old."

"I know, Mama," she said.

"Then go back to school," she said. "I love you, Tayla, and all I ever wanted for you was the best. You deserve to have the best in life and deserve to be happy."

"I am happy," she said, "very happy."

"Okay," said Tianna before taking a drink of water. "So why are you the only one working? What happened to Roman's big football career?"

"Football didn't work out for him. Right now he is busy training to be a wrestler."

"A wrestler?" she asked. "Why didn't he use his degree to do something?"

"Because he wants to wrestle. It's a family thing," said Tayla. "He's pretty good at it and I know he's going to get into WWE and then our family will be set."

"And what if he doesn't make it?"

"I don't know we'll make life work somehow. We've done it this long. Mama, why don't you like him?"

"Who? Roman?"

"Yes, Roman," said Tayla, "why don't you like him? He hasn't ever done anything to you," she said as their food was brought to them. Tayla started to feel sick at the sight of spaghetti on her plate.

She must have made a face and her mom saw it. "What's the matter, Tay?"

"Nothing. I'm just not feeling well. I've been a little sick lately," she said as she picked up her fork to eat. "So why don't you like Roman?"

"I don't' trust him," she said. "He seems like he's this great guy but there is something about him I don't trust. I feel like once is career takes off and he gets out in the world he's going to see you as nothing and leave you. I don't know. I just feel like he is going to hurt you. You just don't know, Tayla. When men get out in that world and they are on the road all the time they start to get lonely and they have all these different women throwing themselves at them and because they are lonely they do stupid stuff like cheat on their wives or girlfriends. I just don't want that to happen to you."

"Roman would never cheat on me," she said. "No matter how lonely he gets he will never cheat on me."

"I said the same thing about your father," said Tianna shocking Tayla.

"Dad?" asked Tayla. "Are you saying that dad cheated on you?"

"He'll never admit it to you but yes he did," said Tianna. "You know how I am always working at the hospital?"

"Yeah," said Tayla still in shock from her mom's confession.

"Well, because I was never home or am never home he got lonely and he was always working at his office. We never saw each other and we were both lonely. He fell in love with his work. He fell in love with his secretary," she said.

"Heather?"

"Yes," said Tianna. "Heather she fell in love with your father. They started to have an affair with one another until things got complicated."

"What do you mean complicated?" asked Tayla.

"He got her pregnant," said Tianna, "and that's when he told me. I was crushed because after you he told me he didn't want any more children so I got my tubes tied and went back on with my life. I wish I could have had more children but your father never wanted it. I was so upset when he told me that he was having an affair with Heather and that he got her pregnant because it wasn't me. He wanted me to know in case Heather kept the baby because he was going to be part of its life."

"So since I don't have a brother or sister I'm assuming that she didn't keep the baby?"

"No she didn't. She aborted the baby and then moved out of Florida to start new. It hurt me so bad that the man I love with all my heart, the man I thought would never hurt me did. The man I trusted with my entire life broke all the trust and deceived me beyond belief. I was hurt, Tayla. I once thought that your dad would never hurt me but he did. I see those qualities in Roman. I just feel like Roman may hurt you some day like your father hurt me. And I don't want that for you because you don't deserve to be hurt."

"Wow," said Tayla. She couldn't believe that her father had an affair and she never knew about it but the protectiveness of her mother made sense to her. She didn't want Tayla to be hurt the way she was hurt even though Tayla knew Roman would never hurt her like that. "Mama, I know you care about me and I know you're trying to protect me but Roman would never hurt me like that."

"Tayla, I thought the same thing before too and then it all came out. I just want you to always be prepared for the unexpected. Never let your guard down."

"If you were so hurt why are you still with dad?"

"Because we stayed together for you. We didn't want you to be put in the middle of a divorce and because I love him. I love him with all my heart. Sometimes love is worth fighting for. You'll understand."

"I already do," she said. "How old was I?"

"You were young probably about 8 years old," she said.

"Oh," said Tayla, "but like I said you don't have to worry about me. Roman is not the kind of guy that will hurt me. You should really get to know him. You'll love him."

"I don't know, Tayla. I'm not a fan."

"But can you at least learn to be tolerant of him?"

"I don't know," she said.

"You're going to need to learn to be tolerant of him and act civilized when you're with him even if you don't like him because Roman and I are having a baby."

"What?" she asked with a smile. "You're having a baby?"

"Yeah, March 9," said Tayla with a proud smile. "And you two have got to learn to get along so that you two aren't hostile around the baby."

"I will be civilized for my grandbaby even if I don't like its father. Congratulations, Tayla. I am so happy for you."

"Thank-you," said Tayla. "We're both really excited. I can't wait to be a mommy."

"You'll make a good mommy," said Tianna with a smile, "but this is all the more reason for you to go back to school."

"I know," said Tayla.

"I am so excited," said Tianna. "I can't wait to spoil it."

"Me either!"

"Do you two have any names picked out?"

"Roman's dad will probably name it due to their family tradition but I like Josiah for a boy and Jocelyn for a girl. We don't know yet but we are both really excited."

"I can tell," she said. "I'm happy for you."

"Thank-you," said Tayla with a smile.

After she finished having lunch with her mom Tayla went back to her apartment. She was surprised to see Roman's car parked in his spot when she arrived. She smiled as she made her way up to their apartment and smiled when she walked in to see Roman sitting on the couch reading a book. "Hey, Beautiful," he said with a smile as he looked at her with his bluish green eyes. "How was lunch?"

"It was good," she said as she took a seat next to him. "My mom is really happy about the baby."

"I'm sure she is," said Roman with a smile. "I know I'm happy," he said as he placed his hand on Tayla's stomach with a smile. "Hey there bean! This is your daddy! I'm so happy that you're in your mommy's tummy and I can't wait to meet you."

"I don't think it can hear you yet," she said with a smile but she thought it was sweet that Roman was so happy about the baby.

"I know. I just wanted to talk to Bean."

"Bean?"

"Yeah. I like calling it bean till it has a name. You know since it is a little bean."

"That works for me," she said smiling.

"So how are you feeling? Are you sick or anything?"

"I'm feeling all right," she said. "The spaghetti made me sick but I'm all right. I don't think Bean likes sauce."

"Probably not since that's the thing that makes you sick," he said.

"Yeah," said Tayla. "What are you reading?"

"A book about being a dad," he said as he wrapped his arm around her shoulders pulling her close to him allowing her to rest her head on his shoulder. Tayla took his hand and laced their fingers together. He smiled before he kissed the top of her head. "I'm reading up to see what all I need to do as a father and what to expect these next few weeks. It's pretty interesting."

"I'm glad you're reading up on being a father but I'm sure you're going to be a great dad."

"I hope," he said with a smile. "I love you, Tay."

"I love you too," she said before Roman leaned down and kissed her lips. "So you know what my mom told me?"

"What?"

"That my dad had an affair. That's why she doesn't like you."

"Wait, she doesn't like me because your dad had an affair? How is that my fault?"

"It's not she just feels like you might hurt me like that when you go out on the road."

"Tayla, you're my one and only and you will always be my one and only. I would never cheat on you or hurt you in any way. I love you way too much."

"I know," she said. "but she is convinced that you might."

"Eh," he said, "I won't. I never will. I'm not that kind of guy."

"I know," she said, "and she was talking to me about going back to school."

"Oh yeah? And?"

"I think I want to go back to school. I think I will do some online classes to at least get my degree to be a teacher."

"You want to teach?"

"Yes," she said. "I want to teach. Are you okay with me going to school? Because that means I'll have to cut back on my hours at work which means there will be a cut of income coming in which means you're probably going to need to get a job of some sort to help out. Are you okay with that?"

"Tayla, I'm just glad that you're going back to school. I don't care what I have to do to make sure you finish school and get the degree you want. I don't mind working a few hours a week. I'm so happy for you."

"Thanks," she said with a smile. "I'm excited about going back."

"Good. It's about time. I'm happy for you, Tayla. This is the best thing you can do."

"Thanks," she said. She loved how Roman was supporting her now like she had been supporting him for the last year or so. It was her turn to be supported by her husband.

*A/N: So what did you think? Did your opinion of Tayla's mom change? Does she make more sense as to why she isn't sure about Roman? And what about Tayla's dad having an affair? Would Roman ever be capable of hurting Tayla that way? And how cute was Roman when he was talking to the baby as well as reading a book about being a dad? And Tayla is going back to school! Or she says she is. Do you think she really will or not? Please review and thank-you for reading.

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