"What did Regal want from you?" She asked as he drove them home and he shrugged.
"He was just checking on me, seeing how I was doing, shit like that." She nodded and started playing with the radio. "I really hate your car."
"You said that you wanted to drive it." She teased and he rolled his eyes.
"Mine is low on gas, and I know you're OCD about your gas tank. Are you flying back to Florida for your training shit while we're gone?" He asked and she nodded.
"I will for Tampa days. DeMott doesn't want to overwork me. He still hasn't understood that I thrive on being worked. Regal gets me, though, so I'll be surprising DeMott on Wednesday."
"We have a press day."
"You guys have a press day. I have a phone interview with Bleacher Report at noon. I can do that from Orlando, and then I'll be in Tampa Thursday, and Friday I'll be at the house show and the signing with you and the guys." She explained and he nodded.
"You're going to run yourself ragged, babe."
"Money is money, and we're not going to know if I can handle it unless I try." He sighed and she looked over at him. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing. You need to expand what you're doing so that way if something were to end your wrestling career, you could still do stuff related to the company without stressing about being new to it."
"You don't like it, though." She mumbled and he shrugged.
"I'm not always going to like what you have to do, and I know that tables will be flipped in the future. It's just part of our jobs. Work is work and money is money. We do need to start investing more in our future, house and kids, shit like that. Money is a key part of investing."
"House and kids?" She repeated, not expecting that from him.
"I said forever and I meant it. A house and kids are part of forever, Case."
"Can we get a dog?" She asked with a smile and he looked over at her as he stopped at a red light.
"A dog?"
"Like a pug or something cute like that." He grinned at the thought of them owning a pug, of all things.
"I was hoping that we could get a big dog."
"We can do that, too. They can be our kids before we have kids." She suggested and he nodded as the light turned green and he held her hand in his.
"We'll have to get a bigger place and a more steadier schedule for that, babe."
"That'll be a while."
"I promise you that it'll happen, Case." He assured, bringing their joined hands to his lips and kissing her knuckles.
"You promise?"
"I promise."
"I love you, Dean." She mumbled, leaning over and kissing his cheek.
"I love you, too, Case."
"JBL calls me the soon-to-be Mrs. Ambrose." Casey mumbled as she met up with Wade and Brad for lunch and the two men laughed.
"What do you expect, you're with him almost twenty-four seven." Brad chided and she rolled her eyes. "But we're glad that you have him." He added, lightly patting her hand before going back to his menu as she sipped her shirley temple.
"What's he doing, anyways?" Wade asked and she shrugged.
"Seth told me that they had to go do some guy ritual that they've been doing together since they were all in developmental. I dunno, and I don't really care. He's a big boy." Casey explained and her two friends nodded.
"Seth and Roman are pretty cool. Intimidating, but cool." Brad complimented and Casey rose an eyebrow.
"Aren't you technically our boss?" She asked and he shrugged.
"What's your point?"
"Why the hell are you afraid of people who are technically beneath you on the corporate ladder?" Wade asked and Brad looked between his two friends, cup of Pepsi in hand and the straw was barely between his lips.
"Fuck you both, okay?" Wade and Casey burst into laughter, not caring that they weren't the only people in the restaurant they were having lunch at. "I'm going to beat you both up."
"You can't even take Ryback, you think you can take me on?" Wade asked and Casey nodded as Brad tried to glare her down.
"Dean fights my battles for me." She stated simply with a smirk on her face.
"Fuck."
"Just keep being the general manager. I feel like your life would be easier." Casey suggested and Wade nodded in agreement.
"And your body would be intact."
"I do have a nice body." Brad winked at Casey suggestively and she rolled her eyes.
"I like Dean's more."
"I'm taller than him!" Brad argued and Casey scoffed.
"By an inch!"
"I'm six seven." Wade mumbled and the two looked over at him from where he was leaned back in his chair, drinking his Pepsi in amusement.
"Nobody asked you, Barrett." Brad muttered and Casey sighed.
"Bad news Barrett." She muttered before they all started laughing again. "Brad, do you know if I have a match for Main Event? Somebody mentioned me stepping in for Layla, but I haven't heard anything else about that."
"No. Vickie put Natalya in Layla's place as per the request of The Authority. But there will be a poll on the app to see who your tag partners are going to be on RAW next week."
"Tag partners?"
"Twelve man mixed tag. You and the rest of your band of thugs and the choices are your sisters, The Funkadactyls, or AJ Lee and Tamina Snuka."
"I'd prefer my sisters. Can you put in a fix?"
"I doubt it. I'll try, but I doubt it'll work."
"Thanks, Brad."
"What are friends in high places for?"
Meanwhile, Dean was pacing their hotel room while Seth and Roman sat on the bed and watched.
"You're sure she bought your bogus lie?" He asked and Seth nodded.
"It wasn't a bogus lie, but yes, she bought it. She went to lunch with Brad and Wade anyways."
"Why are you pacing?" Roman asked, but was ignored by the blonde.
"I didn't mean that. I just don't want her to find out. I don't even have a plan, yet."
"Ask her to marry you during one of the shows." Seth suggested and Dean shook his head.
"She wouldn't like being put on the spot like that in international television. Not saying that would change her answer, but it might bother her." Roman reasoned and Dean nodded, flopping onto the floor.
"That hurt my ass." Dean groaned and Seth bit back a chuckle and Roman slapped his shoulder. "But that makes sense. Case and I are pretty private people, like she won't even do Total Divas."
"But she's on the show so much." Seth half whined and Dean shrugged. "We could all be stars and land movie deals, does she know what she's holding us back from!? Ow, shit. " Roman smacked the two toned man upside the head and Dean nodded his appreciation.
"She doesn't want the cameras around us all the time. Like, she's fine with being around the cameras when she's with her sisters for their sake, but if we had cameras following us around she'd be uncomfortable and so would I."
"Makes sense." Roman stated. "Why don't you just ask her on your anniversary?"
"I need it to be special, though. I want to ask her then, but I don't think I can hold water long enough, and I should probably ask her parents for their blessing, too. Fuck, guys." Dean rambled, laying back on the floor.
"First you need to relax, Dean. Deep breaths. Do you want one of us to hang on to the ring?"
"Yeah, Casey unpacks my suitcase and I don't need her finding it on accident." Dean mumbled and Roman caught the small box after the blonde dug it out of his pocket. "Thanks, man. I'll figure something out."
"Figure what out?" Casey asked as she entered the hotel room and everything went dead quiet. "Were you guys not done with your ritual thing? Nobody answered their phone and- you guys didn't sacrifice a virgin, did you?" She joked as she shut the door and the three laughed.
"You're good, Case." Roman cleared and she smiled as she stepped more into the room and set her phone on the TV stand as Dean sat up
"Come here, babe." He pat his lap as she slid out of her knit cardigan and she tossed it onto their stacked suitcases before sitting in his lap and feeling his arms hold her close to him. "I missed you."
"I missed you, too. Brad and Wade say hello to all three of you."
"I'll say hi when I see him at the show." Seth said and she nodded.
"What's that box, Rome?" Casey asked and his eyes widened.
"It's- uhm- really embarrassing, actually. It's for my mom."
"Awh, cute!" Casey gushed and the three men shared a look around her as Roman tucked the box away in his sweatshirt pocket. "What did you guys do today?"
"Operation: Get Roman's Mom A Kickass Gift." Dean stated simply.
"And we got lunch." Seth added and Casey nodded.
"I'm glad you guys had fun."
"Yep. We'll let you guys be together alone, we'll see you tomorrow for CrossFit." Seth said, ruffling Dean's hair and lightly slapping Casey's cheek.
"Fuck you."
"Fucker." The couple complained in unison and Seth dashed out of the room, Roman gently patting the couple's heads on his way out as his own silent farewell and shut the door behind him.
"How was lunch with the guys?" Dean asked and she shrugged as she stood up and he stood with her.
"It was lunch with the guys. We laughed and I had a good time. How was your bro time?"
"Pretty good. Some chick tried hitting on me, but I politely ignored her and made my way to the bathroom. And I've been doing some thinking."
"Did you hurt yourself?" She teased with a smirk as she brushed her hair out to correct Seth's fuckery.
"Such a bitch." He mumbled into her ear and she grinned. "Next time we have a couple days off, I was thinking that maybe we could go see your parents?"
"I'd like that."
"I bet you would. Are we going out to dinner tonight?" He asked and she shrugged, wrapping her arms around his neck.
"Did you want to? I thought that you just wanted to order room service."
"Is that what you want to do?"
"I don't care. I just want to be with you." She murmured, pressing her face into his neck.
"We'll stay in for dinner. I haven't seen you all day and I missed your pretty face." He told her, kissing her head and holding her close to his body.