Seth had just checked into the hotel and stood waiting by the elevator on the ground floor. It finally arrived and he was happy that no one else was going up that moment. He stepped inside and pushed the button for the third floor. The door started to close but someone grabbed it to get in as well. He was surprised to see Petra.
"We need to talk," she said.
"I tried to talk to you the last two days. I must have called you fifty times. If you wanna talk, you should start by answering your phone," he said.
"I know. I'm sorry," she said. "Can we not do this in here? I wanna talk to you, Seth, but not in a fucking elevator."
The elevator stopped on his floor. She looked at him and waited for his response. He held out his hand to signal that he was okay with it. She followed him to his room. He unlocked it and stepped inside. He was happy to see Roman hadn't arrived yet. She closed the door behind her, and he turned to look at her.
"Dean ruins everything," she said.
"Stop using him as an excuse," he said. "If you don't wanna be with me, it's fine. I didn't expect you to be in love with me or anything, but I wasn't prepared for you storming out like that either."
"But I do. I do wanna be with you, and I do have feelings for you. I ran because I'm scared, Seth. I'm scared what Dean will do when he finds out, but that's not even the worst of it. I'm scared that you'll leave me too. Everyone leaves me. I don't want my heart broken by you. I can handle everyone else, but not you, Seth. Not you of all people," she said.
He stepped up to her and took both of her hands.
"It almost sounds like you're in love with me," he smirked.
"Clown," she said.
"Your clown?" He asked.
"My fucking clown," she answered. "Kiss me before I knee you in the balls."
"We need to have a conversation about your ways of communicating," he chuckled.
He leaned down and kissed her. She wrapped her arms around him and held on as tight as she could.
"I won't leave you," he mumbled between kisses. "Nothing he can do will ever make me walk away."
They heard a key card being inserted in the door and immediately broke apart. Roman opened the door and stepped inside. He looked from Seth to Petra and then smirked.
"What did I just walk in on?" Roman asked.
"Nothing," Seth said.
"Nothing? It doesn't look like nothing. You're both red in the face," Roman said. "You two fucked each other, didn't you?"
"Not today," Petra said.
"There's still time," Seth smirked.
"Okay, I'm gonna need some details," Roman chuckled. "Speed round, please, since we need to get to the arena."
Seth looked over at Petra who shrugged in return.
"At this point I don't care. Tell him whatever you want. I need to go check in," Petra said.
"You didn't check in yet?" Seth asked.
"No, I saw you enter the elevator and I ran to catch you. We had to talk," Petra said.
"I'm sure you talked a lot," Roman chuckled.
"Clown," Petra said.
"Hey, that's my word," Seth said.
"Do you want me to call him master then?" Petra asked.
"Okay, someone tell me what the fuck is going on," Roman laughed.
"I'll see you guys later," Petra said.
Petra hurried out of the room and closed the door behind her. Roman looked over at Seth and smirked at his younger friend.
"Talk," Roman said.
"I think I just got a girlfriend," Seth said.
"You think?" Roman laughed.
"You couldn't have waited 5 more minutes before arriving?" Seth chuckled. "I'll fill you in on the way to the arena. A few things have happened."
"And Dean?" Roman said.
"Dean doesn't need to know so don't go fucking tell him," Seth said.
Seth walked past Roman and over to the door.
"Dean's an idiot," Seth said.
"I know," Roman said.
"I know you two are close," Seth said.
"Not like we used to be," Roman said.
"You know he's been using her," Seth said.
"I know," Roman said.
Roman walked over to Seth and placed a hand on Seth's shoulder.
"Is she over him?" Roman asked.
"She has been for years. Apparently none of us picked up on it. She's sad for other reasons. She's alone, Roman. Or she feels alone inside. Everyone leaves her," Seth said.
"Not us," Roman said.
"I've been trying to tell her that," Seth smiled sadly. "You know how I feel about her. Dean knows too. I never told him but he fucking knows, and he doesn't like it."
"Fuck him," Roman said. "He doesn't own you or her. If you're happy together, mentally stomp him so far down in the ground that no one will ever find him again."