Monday Morning.
DayAnna got off the elevator with Starbucks in her hand. She had flown back to New York last night as Roman flew to Raw. He was gonna be coming to see her in a few days for the family dinner. But right now she needed to face her boss Shane McMahon.
"Hey DayAnna how was the weekend with the boyfriend?" Nate asked coming over to her desk. As she put down her bag and took off her jacket.
"It was great better than I could have hoped for. Rome's mom is so sweet and his dad was so funny. They are just a sweet family." She smiled.
"See nothing to worry about told you they would like you." Nate smiled as he noticed DayAnna looking towards Shane's office door.
"He's not here yet." He told her taking his coffee from her.
"Oh. Really?" She said looking at the time. "On a scale of 1 to pissed off. How mad do you think he was Thursday?"
"Pissed off. IF dude could blow smoke out his ears he would have. He called Mr. Yang and changed the dinner meeting and then he kind of shut down the whole way back to the city. I've never seen him that quiet I mean usually he blows up and like yells well not yells but gives us that stern McMahon voice. Not this time he was just quiet." Nate explained.
"Oh." DayAnna said again. "Well I brought him his favorite coffee and I got him his favorite breakfast burrito from that place a few blocks away."
"Think that will help?"
"Just trying not to get fired." She said as the elevator and Shane headed their way.
"Day my office now!" He stated as he went right into his office.
DayAnna took a deep breathe as she glanced at Nate.
"He wont fire you but just encase don't forget his coffee and breakfast burrito." He said handing her the coffee and the bag she had placed on her desk. "And good luck."
"Thanks." She said as she went into his office.
"Door shut!" Shane said as he had the blinds closed to his windows as well. DayAnna closed the door and walked over towards his desk.
"Shane I got you a coffee and those breakfast burritos you like." She said handing him the bag.
"The ones from that diner a few blocks away?" He said trying not to smile seeing the back.
"Yes. The ones you never get yourself because you say they are to bad for you." She said handing him the bag.
"Thanks." He said getting one out of the bag and taking a big bite. "Sit please."
"Shane listen I'm sorry about the meeting with Mr. Yang. I never meant to make you or this company look bad in any way. I hope you know that." DayAnna explained.
"I know Day. I just needed you to be a team player and help me out. You chose to go to Florida and hang with Roman."
"Shane it wasn't like I just left. I requested this time off over two weeks ago. You agreed. You told me that after the charity golf thing was done then I would be good to take a day off. It was one day. But Shane I have another issue and it's more personal." DayAnna said.
"Is everything? Did you and Roman break up?" Shane asked.
"No nothing like that. I met his parents they were super sweet and things are great with Roman. This is about you calling my Dad." DayAnna said. "Shane I know I was ignoring your calls but I knew you were mad so I was giving you time to clear your head before we talked. You called my dad who called me and you know exactly how he gets."
"Day I am sorry. I was just mad at you for leaving and going to be with Roman." Shane admitted as DayAnna looked at him. "I mean I was upset that you left and didn't go to that business meeting with me. That is what I meant."
"I am sorry Shane next time we just need to be better at communicating and just respect the time I asked for off." DayAnna said.
"I am sorry too. I never should have called Will it was a bad move and I am sorry you got the brunt of that." Shane said as he looked at her.
"It's what my father does I am use to it. But now I have to have dinner with my family this Thursday. So YAY me." DayAnna said with fake excitement in her voice.
"You'll be fine. You've always been able to handle them." Shane chuckled.
"Yeah it's Roman I am more worried for." She smiled.
"Wait Roman is meeting the Foresters?" Shane questioned.
"Yes Thursdays family dinner."
"Good Luck Reigns." Shane said.
"That's what I told him. So want to go over the agenda for the week?" DayAnna asked.
"Sure it is Monday. Damn these are so good always taking care of me." Shane said he took another big bite of the second burrito as he had already eaten the first.
Started going over the weekly agenda and what town Shane would be in for Smackdown he said he was flying in and out the same day so DayAnna could work out of the office on Tuesday.
"Friday evening dinner with Mr. Yang at 6 and the Broadway show at 8 pm." Shane said.
"You and Marissa?" DayAnna asked as she was putting that on his weekly schedule.
"No. Me and you."
"Oh Shane I just thought …." DayAnna began to say.
"I know you think this isn't your job and you are right this isn't something I would normally I wouldn't as my assistant to do this. But Day I trust you and I want you there with me. So please tell me that you will be there." Shane asked reaching over his desk and taking her hand.
DayAnna looked looked at him and thought a moment. Then her father's words rang through her head.
"What are we seeing?" She asked.
A smile appeared on Shane's face. "Shrek the musical."
She couldn't help but smiled.
"Really? I've really wanted to see that!"
Shane smiled. "I know. So this Friday."
"This Friday."
A few days later Thursday.
"Here let me fix this suit jacket." DayAnna said as she used her hands and ran it over Roman's suit jacket. He was wearing a nice pair of black pants with a button up shirt and a nice suit jacket.
They were standing on the porch of her parents large Connecticut home.
"Better?" He asked looking at his girlfriend.
"Yes sorry. You always look good to me." She smiled looking up at him.
"Parents usually love me I've got this. No you can relax and I must say you are looking really good in this skirt." He smiled putting his hands on her waist.
"Rome." She giggled as Roman's eyes scanned her body.
"What you look hot." He smiled smacking her booty as she laughed when the door to the house opened.
"DayAnna Forester." William here father said sternly.
DayAnna giggled and Roman let go of her quickly and stood up straight fixing his jacket as DayAnna adjusted her skirt.
"Hello Dad." She said kissing his cheek. As they walked into the house. "This is for you." She said handing him the bottle of wine. "Dad this is my Boyfriend Roman Reigns. Rome this is my father William."
"Nice to finally meet you sir." Roman said shaking his hand. "Day has talked about you often."
"Wish I could say the same." He said eyeing Roman.
"There is my girl." Leslie her mother said coming over to hug her daughter.
"Hi Mom." DayAnna said into the hug.
"This must be Roman Reigns. You know Linda and Vince have told us about you." Leslie smiled.
"HI Ma'am. Yes I am Roman Reigns and these are for you." He said handing her the flowers.
"They are beautiful. See Will honey he is so sweet." Leslie said.
William nodded as they went into the front room for drinks.
"Did you get things squared away with Shane?" William asked fixing drinks.
"Yes Dad. We worked it all out and everything is fine." DayAnna said.
"Good. I still think it was unprofessional that you ran off to Florida." William said.
"Dad we talked about this. I talked with Shane it's not a big deal can we move on?" DayAnna said taking the drink and handing it to Roman as she took the other for herself.
"Did the meeting get rescheduled?" William asked.
"Yes for tomorrow evening." DayAnna answered. "Dinner and drinks at 6 and the show at 9 pm." DayAnna said.
"Oh I just love going to see shows on Broadway." Leslie smiled. "What is Shane taking you to see?"
"Shrek the Musical." DayAnna smiled.
"Really? Odd choice for a client." William said.
"It was Shane's choice. Not that I am complaining because I actually wanted to see it." DayAnna smiled sipping her drink.
"Really? Do you have the presentation prepared for the dinner?" William asked.
"Dad I am sure Shane is ready. I uploaded the files and finished that part of presentation. Can we please move on now?"
"Yeah Dad we are suppose to be grilling the new boyfriend not Day." Andrew her older brother said coming into the room with his wife Holly.
"Hey Drew." DayAnna smiled getting up and hugging her brother. "This is my boyfriend Roman. Rome this is my older brother Andrew."
"Nice to meet you. Day talks about you often." Roman said shaking his hand.
"All good things I hope and not the horror stories of when we were teenagers." He laughed. "This is my wife Holly."
Roman shook her hand as well as they all sat down in the front room and start chatting a little bit.
"Mom no Alyssa?" DayAnna asked looking around for her little sister.
"No your sister decided she was going to go back packing through Europe." Leslie said.
"Ah and Dad you are OK with that?" DayAnna asked.
"Well it's not like she stole a car and had Shane bail her out. Then ran off to London for almost a year." He said as a smirk came across his face.
"I didn't steal a car. Logan borrowed it. Besides it's not like we didn't know whose it was." DayAnna said.
"You stole a car?" Roman asked looking at her.
"We borrowed it. It's just well the police didn't see it that way." She reasoned.
"Thank goodness for Shane he really bailed you out of that one. He got old man Henry to drop all the charges on you and Logan." Andrew said.
"Really?" Roman said.
"OK enough about me and the past let's move on." DayAnna said holding Roman's hand.
William nodded but then started to ask about Shane's business and how everything is going on that end.
As dinner was served in the dinning room they began the conversation seemed to switch from Shane and business talk. As William began to flood Roman with questions about his family and what he did before he got into WWE.
"Vince tells me you have a great work ethic?" William asked.
"Yes I like to think I do sir. I respect the business that Mr. McMahon has and he gave me a chance when football didn't and couldn't. I show up every night to fight and entertain the fans."
"You are the US champion right now right?" Andrew asked.
"Yes I am. You a fan do you watch?" Roman asked taking a sip of his water.
"I do off and on. Honestly I watch the Smackdown more no offense just because I like seeing Shane make an ass of himself sometimes. But I have watched a few recent episodes of Raw." Andrew said.
"That's cool man." Roman said.
As they chatted a little more the tension that started the evening seemed to lift over the course of dinner. Her family seemed to like Roman even her Dad after asking him those hard hitting questions every father does. As the evening came to an end they were saying their good byes.
"Well we survived." DayAnna said as Roman was driving back to her place. She leaned over and kissed his cheek.
"We did." Roman stated.
"Rome thank you for being so great tonight about my Dad asking you all those questions. He's a hard ass but he does mean well." She said leaning over and kissing his cheek.
"Yeah he seems to really like Shane." Roman said his eyes on the road.
"He's just known Shane forever. He loves Stephanie too. We grew up with the McMahon's." She told him.
"Yeah."
"Rome what's up?" DayAnna asked as she took his hand and looked at him.
"I don't like that you are going out with Shane tomorrow." He blurted out. "I just have this feeling you can't trust him."
"Listen I know it seems weird. But he is my boss and a friend. This is strictly business. Nothing more nothing less. I am their as his assistant and to help get this deal done with Mr. Yang."
"Day just promise me you'll watch out for him. I don't know why but I just have this feeling there is more to it than that."
"I promise." She said her hand on his leg. "Now let's get back to my place so I can get out of these clothes."
"Oh I like the sound of that." Roman grinned as he leaned over and kissed her.
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