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Sicily's Point of View:
"So you and Damian have been spending a lot of time together lately, in fact I think he's been at your house a lot more than normal lately, what's going on there?" asks my sister Jordyn as we are out having lunch while shopping for something for me to wear to Wrestlemania, she's not going to Mania this year because her husband Seth is out on paternity leave after they had their baby Josiah a few months ago, back in December.
"What do you mean?" I shrug as I take a bite of my burger.
"You know what I mean, Sicily," she says, "you and Damian have been spending a lot of time together lately and now you're going to Wrestlemania to see him wrestle?"
I shrug, "How do you even know I am going to Wrestlemania to see him wrestle? And how do you know we are spending more time together?"
"Who else would you be going to see wrestle at Mania other than Damian?" she asks, "Seth isn't wrestling and you're like me, you don't care for WWE unless you're invested into something or someone, so what's going on."
"Seth may not be wrestling but Ben is wrestling," I say, "maybe I just want to see my big brother wrestle for the tag team championships."
"I would believe that if you had ever attended a Mania before, the only time you attended a Mania was when you went last year because of Dad getting inducted into the Hall of Fame, so why are you going to see Damian wrestle?" she asks me again. I almost forget how good Jordyn is at reading people, she has a really good sense of people and who they are, she knows when they are being truthful and when they are lying. I don't know why I thought I could hide my relationship with Damian from her. After all, she was the only one that was correct about Dean Ambrose being too obsessed with her best friend Tayla and not being able to trust him, and it turns out Dean couldn't be trusted, and he planned to have Tayla abducted.
"Because Selena wants to go see her dad wrestle and I can't just let her go to Mania by herself and sit in the audience by herself at 3 years old," I say letting out a sigh.
"That's still not the whole truth, Sicily," she says, "I know Selena wants to see her dad wrestle, but I also know that you do too but I'm not sure why."
"What do you want to know, Jordyn?" I ask.
"The truth, Selena said that lately Damian has been spending a lot of time at your house and spending the night, so what's going on? Is it true that Damian has been spending a lot of time at your house and a lot of nights there?" she asks as she holds her son Josiah in her arms.
"Well, she's not lying," I say, "Damian has been spending more time here in Tampa and staying at my house when he does."
"And you have been going to Orlando nearly every weekend, what's going on there, isn't that where he lives?" she asks as she gives Josiah a bottle.
"Yes, I go to Orlando quite often lately and yes that's where he lives."
"Sicily?" she asks.
"Fine," I say letting out a breath, "Damian and I are giving it another try," I say. "That's why he's spending so much time in Tampa, and I am spending so much time in Orlando."
"So finally, the truth," she smiles, "I always liked Damian, so I am glad you two are giving it another try. He's a great dad to Selena."
"Tell me about it," I say with a smile. "He's a great dad to her and I love the time they are getting together."
"It's definitely good for her," she smiles.
"I agree."
"And it seems to be good for you too," she smiles.
"I mean, I don't have any complaints," I smile.
"Apparently not," she says, "I didn't know you two were back together neither of you really posted anything on social media."
"Because Damian doesn't want to put me out there, just like he doesn't want to put Selena out there. I like being private and I am grateful that I came after Dad's movie career and all of his fame. I got to enjoy a more private life than the rest of you."
"That's true too," she says. "But you are still Dave Bautista's daughter, so you are still famous by that right."
I let out a sigh knowing that I have kept myself out of the public eye for most of my life other than a few tabloid pics here and there, also getting a newspaper article and numerous internet articles after my birth for being delivered by my father on the side of the road on Christmas Eve in the middle of a snowstorm, and then a few articles after my dad was shot a few months after I was born and of course the big Dave and Alex separation when I was just born when my paternity came into question and a lot of people speculated that I was the security guard's baby rather than my dad's baby because how can two brown eyed people have a blue eyed baby together. I roll my eyes at the thought of all the drama that surrounded an innocent baby and then after my dad got shot, spent time paralyzed, recovered and we moved to Phoenix the fame died down and I was able to grow up a little more privately than Chelsea and Ben, and of course Jordyn and Kaylee both of which had their own drama surrounding them. Then about 4 years ago my brother Josiah died in a car accident and the spotlight came back but still I managed to avoid the public eye. I would love to remain living a private life and making sure my daughter has a private life as well. Damian does respect that and always has by not putting her on social media and posting pictures of her other than a couple pictures of her back, them standing on the beach a couple days ago, their backs to the camera, holding hands as they stood in the ocean together but never mentioned she's his daughter or her name. I am grateful to his respect. "I know but I am going to keep our lives private, Damian respects that too."
"Same with Seth as far as we go, and the kids go. We never post our children on social media unless their faces are blocked out or it's of their back, they deserve normal lives. So, how's it going with Damian, I am glad you decided to give into your heart because you were single for 4 years after breaking up because you still loved him. I was waiting for this to happen how did it start?"
"You're right, if I wasn't with Damian, I wasn't going to be with anyone. I don't know, one night I went to Orlando for Lily's bachelorette party, I drank too much and ended up at his house, then after that my feelings came back stronger than ever before. We tried to do the friends with benefits but then I started thinking that Damian is a gorgeous man, he's talented so now the world is seeing him, which means other girls are seeing him, I didn't want to lose him and let another girl have him, so I spent a day with him and Selena, decided that we should try it out again. I have always loved him, Jordyn. Then I guess Matt tried to tell him I only want to be with him for his fame and because he's in WWE but that's not true at all. I have loved him since we broke up 4 years ago, it's just I needed to find myself and find my way without him but I never stopped loving him. I am sure we would have ended up back together whether he was in WWE or working as a bouncer in the club. It was inevitable."
"Matt," she says rolling her eyes, "him and his wife always starting trouble, worrying too much about things that are not their business. Just like his wife spent too much time worrying about my past and the things I did. I came back, I'm stronger now and I am proud of that."
"I know right, I let Damian know about that situation. He said he's trying to distance himself from Matt because he knows that we don't get along, that I am offended by him and half the stuff he does."
"I think the world is offended by half the things he does, you know like those sexual assault allegations, that he says weren't true, but he did have an affair with the girl. He still cheated on his wife which is still just as bad but again not my business, not my place to talk about that."
"Well, I mean, I don't want him to influence Damian to be that kind of man," I say, "do you think Dad will be upset that Damian and I are back together?"
"I think that dad probably expected this to happen, I know he wasn't happy that you and Damian had a baby together but broke up. I know he didn't like the fact he worked in a bar as a bouncer, but I don't think he liked Damian at all."
"Tell me about it, and wasn't dad a bouncer before in a club, didn't he have a wild life before he was with mom, and even a wild life after he married mom?" I ask.
"Yes," she says, "from what Chelsea tells me."
"Dad never likes any of us with wrestlers," I say with a shrug, "he'll grow to like Damian."
"Pretty much," she says. "So, are you happy with him?"
"Yes, I'm very happy with him. He's a good man," I say with a smile. "I just don't know how this is all going to work. One of us going to need to relocate eventually, we can't keep going back and forth between Orlando and Tampa. I also don't want to take Selena back and forth between Orlando and Tampa. One of us will need to relocate and honestly I don't want to leave Tampa. Not with you, Nana, and Chelsea here."
"Have you two talked about living together? I know that you two lived together once before but what about now, have you two talked about it?"
"Not really, we have really just been going with the flow of things but I know eventually the world is going to settle down, WWE is going to go back to normal and he will be going back out on the road. I just know that going back and forth is kind of ridiculous. I would say it is all too soon since it has only been 3 weeks since we got back together but it's not like we didn't live together before. I think it's something we should talk about."
"Living together?" she asks.
"Yeah," I say, "I think it wouldn't be a bad idea if we did live together. I don't want Selena to get confused as to why we are always traveling back and forth, not to mention why her Papi is spending the night with mommy so much. We are technically a family."
"Seth and I moved in together when people thought it was too soon because I mean honestly we knew each other for years and were best friends before we ever got together. It worked out perfectly, then we got married, everyone thought we did it all too soon but they always forget that Seth and I were best friends for 3 years before we started our relationship. He was also the father in Jonah's life, but I look back now and realize that if we had listened to what everyone was saying we wouldn't be here today. We're still going strong, 3 kids later and 7 years of marriage later. There is no time frame on how much you love someone and what's best for a relationship. If something isn't meant to be it won't be, if something is meant to be there's nothing that will break it apart. I learned that and Seth and I were doing our thing, it was no one's business but our own."
"You're right," I smile. "What we do and what we decide is no one's business but our own."
"I just want you to know, I stand by you two and whatever decisions you make, then you can give me another niece or nephew someday."
"Whoa, let's not rush all that. Selena is a feisty, aggressive little soul, it's probably going to be a long time if ever that I have another baby again. Plus, Damian is 38 years old, he probably doesn't even want another kid."
"You sound like me," she says, "I thought Jonah was going to be it, then 6 years later after 2 years of trying came Meilani, then she was going to be the last one but I had to be a surrogate for Ro and Tay, then I got hit with baby fever now we have Josiah."
"We'll see what the future holds, right now I'm just enjoying Selena and being back with her father. Is Josiah the last one or will you have another one?"
"I'm thinking about it, I kind of want to even it out by having 4 kids but I would be fine with these 3, I enjoy having one girl, and two boys. Meilani is me, I can only deal with one mini me, with my attitude," she says.
"Same with Selena," I say with a smile. "Some days it's like arguing with a mini version of me."
"You nailed it," she says before we continue eating before we get back to shopping for the afternoon.
Later that day:
"It smells good in here," I say as I walk into my kitchen from the garage.
"Mommy!" yells Selena as she comes running over to me as Damian is cooking. I pick Selena up in my arms.
"How was your day with Papi?" I ask.
"Good," she says, "Papi is making you dinner."
"It smells like it," I say with a smile as Damian smiles at me. "Hey, Gorgeous," I say walking over to him greeting him with a kiss.
"Hey, Baby," he says with a smile, "did you enjoy shopping with your sister?"
"I did," I say with a smile, "and we had a nice conversation about us."
"About us?" he asks as he works on his empanadas and Spanish rice he's cooking for dinner.
"About us," I smile.
"So she knows about us?" he asks.
"Yes," I say, "she knows about us. I have been thinking," I say as I continue to hold Selena in my arms which isn't an easy task as she is a little heavier than most children her age, she's well fed in other words.
"Oh yeah, thinking about what?" he asks.
"I don't think it's necessary for either of us to have to travel back and forth to Orlando and Tampa, WWE films Raw and Smackdown here in Tampa, so you're just coming to Tampa for now and I enjoy having you here, spending the nights with you, having you in my bed," I say as Selena looks at me but not understanding fully what I mean.
"I like being in your bed," he says, "so what's up, that's what you were thinking about?"
"I'm getting to it, what if you moved in here, and we lived together like we did before. Would you be down with that or is that too much too soon for you?"
"You want me to move in with you?" he asks.
"I would love it if you did," I smile. "Do you want to, you don't have to, we can keep things going the way they are, spend the weeks here in Tampa, then the weekends in Orlando when I am off, what do you think?"
"People don't even know we are together and you want us to live together, I'm sure your dad will like that, you know after all I have always been his favorite," his voice dripping with sarcasm. I still can't figure it out why my dad doesn't like Damian and why he never supported our relationship before. Damian isn't a bad guy and he actually treats me pretty well, I am the one that wasn't ready for marriage and truly didn't want to have a baby. Damian wanted to be a family and wanted to marry me, I walked away. "Besides, don't you think you think people will think it's too soon if we are living together?"
"I honestly don't care what people think, it's not like we weren't together before and didn't live together before. I just think it would be easier if we lived together, you didn't have to travel back and forth, not to mention it's easier for Sel. So what do you think, do you want to live together or keep things the way they are?" I ask. "There's no pressure."
"I don't feel pressured," he says with a smile that hits me hard, his smile is so gorgeous. It makes me happy that our daughter's smile is identical to his. He ponders on it for a little bit before he says, "Okay."
"Okay, you want to move in, live together?" I ask.
He smiles again, "yes, Sicily, I want it all with you. You already know this, I'm just taking everything one step at a time. I would honestly marry you tomorrow if you wanted to. I think us living together would be good. It does save a lot of travel time, it gives me more opportunity to be here for Selena, I can keep her during the day or at night when you're working. You can come home to me every night and I can come home to you. Let's do this," he says making me smile.
"Let's do it," I say with a smile before we share a soft kiss as Selena giggles as I hold her. "I love you, Damian," I say with a smile.
"I love you too, Sissy," he says making me smile. "Princessa, what do you think? Papi is going to live here is that okay with you or no?"
"YES!" she says with excitement.
"The princess has spoken," says Damian, "it's official, we are doing this, we're living together."
"It's official, we're official," I say with a smile as I watch him cook. I kiss Selena's cheek before I put her down. "I'm going to go put my new clothes away, let me know when dinner is ready."
"Okay, Baby," he says with a smile. We share a quick kiss before Selena and I head upstairs so I can put my things away. I didn't expect him to say yes but I'm glad he did, this will be good for both of us but most importantly for Selena. I want her to have the family she deserves and the life she deserves.
A/N: So what do you think? Is it a good idea for Sicily and Damian to live together, or is it all too soon? What do you think of Sicily valuing her privacy and Selena's privacy? Please review and thank you for reading.
