The reviews I got motivated me to write another chapter so 2 chapters in 1 day! You get a little of Roman's pov in here I don't know if putting his POV is good or not so let me know if it should be a one time thing or I should do it more. This chapter is kind of long. Please review :)


"Roman.." I sighed.

"Answer the question." He stated while staring right at me.

"Seriously though it really doesn't matter."

"Oh but it does. More than you know. Tell me."

Just then his phone started playing music and it was Brittney calling to face time him. He groaned and grabbed his phone.

"I'm going to go shower."

"This conversation isn't over." He said as I walked into the bathroom and he answered the face time.


"Hey Brittney" I said while putting on the most convincing fake smile I could.

"Really Roman? I don't even get a babe anymore?" Brittney asked. Already irritating me.

"How is Jessica, babe?" I was trying not to sound sarcastic but I couldn't help it.

"Wow thanks I'M fine." she rolled her eyes and I laid back on the bed groaning. "Our daughter is fine except she misses her dad but it's not like he cares."

"Cut that shit out! I'm serious. I love Jessica and you know it!" I shouted at the phone.

"Oh really because you're never here to show it."

"I was just there Brittney! I'm kind of the one who took you two to Disney World and spent the whole day and night with my daughter. Did you forget or were you to black out drunk from your 'girls night' to even remember? IF it was even a girls night"

"Don't question me Roman! Learn to trust me. Seriously insecurity looks bad on you. Man up."

"Where's my daughter?" I said while clenching my jaw. Oh how I wanted to rip her a new one.

"She's in the living room."

"Put her on."

"I don't think so."

"Either put her on or I'm hanging up."

"Wow." I heard her call for Jessica and soon my baby girl's face was on my screen and all my tension left as soon as I saw her smiling face.

"Hey baby girl!" I said while waving at the phone.

"Hi daddy!"

"How are you?"

"I'm good! I'm watching Monsters University. The one you took me to see" she said excitedly.

"That's great. I wish I could watch it with you." You'd think being on the road so much I'd be used to being away from her but it hurt more than anyone could ever know.

"I wish you could too daddy. I miss you." She suddenly got a frown on her face and it tore at my heart strings.

"Wipe that frown off your face Jess. I miss you too but remember when I come back I'm coming straight home to you and we're going to do whatever you want to do okay? And I'm going to face time you every night to say good night and you can have your mom face time me when you have something to tell me. Smile. You have a beautiful smile baby girl."

She smiled at my screen and instantly lifted my mood.

"I wanna go to the park, and the movies and to grandpa's house and eat pizza when you come back!"

"Tell you what, write down everything you want to do when I get back and we'll do it all. No matter what it is."

"Okay. Hey daddy?"

"What is it baby girl?"

"When do I get to come to another show? I miss Rox." Suddenly Brittney's face showed up.

"Jessica, you need to start getting ready for bed. We'll talk about going to the next show when he gets home."

Jessica looked up and frowned at Brittney then back at the screen "Good night daddy, I love you."

"I love you too princess sleep well okay? I'll talk to you tomorrow." I saw her run off and then Brittney looked back at the screen pissed.

"Why the hell would she miss Rox?!"

"How should I know? It's not like they spent time together."

"HA! Right. You probably took her to see Rox behind my back!"

"Let's get something straight right now okay? She's MY daughter too. If I want to take her to see a friend I don't have to do it behind your back alright?"

"You know Roman you've really changed."

"Yeah so have you sunshine."

"We're not going to another wrestling event."

"No no no YOU aren't coming to another one, she is."

"You can't force her to like wrestling Roman!"

"Did you not freaking hear her?! She asked when she gets to come back."

"Because she wants to see you not because of wrestling."

"No matter why she wants to come she does, so she's going to."

"I don't think so Roman I said no so it's a no."

"I don't give a fuck what you say. You can try to take my house and my car and my money but if you think I'm going to sit back and watch you try to take my kid you're in for a shit storm."

"I'm not trying to take anything away from you! I just want my fiancee back!"

"You're threatening to take everything!"

"I just don't want you to leave Roman!"

"I'm not leaving. But don't be mistaken i'm not leaving because my daughter deserves two parents not because of you."

"I love you." she said while she had tears streaming down her face.

"Yeah well...if that was true, there never would have been another guy in my bed. Good night Brittney." I hung up the phone and threw it across the room.


I finished my shower a while ago but heard Roman yelling on the phone. I didn't want to interrupt or somehow cause more problems so I stayed in the bathroom after I changed and just sat on the counter waiting for him to be done. Suddenly I heard a crash like something hit the wall and I opened the door and looked out. I saw his phone lying on the ground and him lying on his bed breathing hard with his hands covering his face.

"Rome..." I whispered and walked closer to his bed. He sat up and patted the spot next to him. I sat down and we both remained silent for a few minutes. I started rubbing my hand up and down his back soothingly and he let out a shaky breath.

"Anything I can do?" I said while still rubbing his back. He turned to me and nodded. He laid back and pulled me down with him.

"Roman."

"Please just lay with me I just need a friend right now okay?" I nodded and he pulled me closer to him where my head was on his chest and his arm around my shoulders. I started running a finger over his abs just listening to his heart beat.

After a while of laying down I sat up and looked down at him but left my hand resting on his abs. He opened his eyes and looked so tired.

"Are you and Brittney okay?" I asked slowly, kind of testing the waters to see how he was going to react.

"No" he said and closed his eyes again.

"Are you going to be okay?"

"Doubtful."

"Roman...you don't seem happy anymore."

"Probably because I'm not."

"Then why stay with her? You deserve to be happy."

"And my daughter deserves to have parents who are together."

"You can't stay together just for Jessica, Roman. That's not good for her."

"How would you know? It's harder when you're actually going through it."

"Because my parents stayed together for me and my siblings. It just made growing up horrible. There was always fighting and tension. For the longest time I thought that's how relationships were supposed to be ya know? That when you were together even if you were miserable you stayed and it effected so many of my relationships and i put up with so much shit that i now know wasn't okay but I did because I learned from my parents.."

"So you think I'm going to fuck up my daughter?!" he scoffed and kind of pulled away from me.

"Roman no! I would never say that. You are the best dad that little girl could ever ask for. I'm just saying you deserve to be happy and she should know her happiness is important and if you're not happy to leave what's making you unhappy. And she needs to learn that from you."

"I'm done talking about this."

"Ro-"

"I said I'm done!" I nodded my head and he flipped on the tv to some random channel. I went to get up from his bed and he grabbed my hand. He sat up and looked me in the eyes. It felt like he was searching for something so much deeper into my soul than I was ready for. I got nervous and looked away.

"Rox?"

"Hmmm?" I said while still looking down.

"You never answered my question."

"I know."

"I'm sick of these games Rox. Look at me." He said sternly and I knew he was serious. I slowly looked up to him and my hazel eyes met his grey ones.

"I let you avoid my question, both of them, before. I'm not letting you anymore. Tell me the truth."

"I don't know what to say Roman."

"How you feel about me."

"I feel you're an amazing friend" I said.

"You know what I mean."

"Roman.. I feel like you're an amazing friend.. that's all...I'm with Jason." I looked down and he put his hand under my chin and forced me to look at him.

"If that was completely true, you wouldn't have to look down. You'd be able to look me in the eyes. Rox let's be real right now. Let's lay all the cards on the table."

"Roman we're friends I don't know what you expect me to say."

"You think I'm an idiot?" Roman asked while studying my face.

"Of course not."

"Then you know I'm not buying that for a second. I'm not saying something needs to happen okay? But I know I've been holding stuff back for months..stuff I didn't even know I was hiding til you walked away. I know I'm not the only one so just tell me okay?"

I took a deep breath and ran a shaky hand through my hair. "Fine but don't look at me."

"Seriously?" Roman asked me while looking confused.

"Yes."

"oookay" he said while turning to the side and looking at the wall while I sat behind him.

"If I tell you.. are we still going to be friends?"

"I'm not going anywhere Rox.. all up to you."

"I hate you right now I hope you know that." I took a deep breath and decided to go for it. "When I got cheated on.. I felt broken like I was never going to be good enough and then you showed up and helped me so much. When you held me that night I don't know..something just changed. I never wanted you to let go. And then spending every day with you made me look forward to every day, it was the first time in my life I woke up and wasn't mad because I knew no matter what I got to see you and that made whatever happened that day okay. I felt comfortable around you like I could be myself, I never had to force a conversation with you it almost came natural and that's...it's just weird for me. I'm always the awkward weird girl who no one wanted to give a chance to, I never felt like I belonged and suddenly I felt like I did. Anywhere you were I felt right being there. When you held me I can't even describe it, it's the first time I ever felt safe. Really safe. You're the only person to not laugh at my fear of sleeping by doors, you're the only one who never demanded me tell you why i am, you never judged me or made me feel like I was a charity case. Even all those nights we'd stay up talking was okay with me, losing sleep and being exhausted the next day was okay with me because it was with you. I don't know if I always had these feelings and you being there after everything brought them out or if that's what made me have feelings for you but I did.. I tried to fight it for so long because I knew if i told you, i was going to lose you. But i mean i guess I lost you anyway. When you ignored me for that week... I could actually feel my heart breaking, my stomach dropped every time you avoided me and it hurt. I just couldn't do it anymore and then knowing Dean and Nikki were right sucked and that's why I walked away. To try to not make you feel any of what I was feeling. I didn't want to mess up you and Brittney. And yeah..when I said I loved you..it wasn't as just a friend. Somewhere along the line I fell for you...and hard. But now it's all over and I have Jason and i shouldn't have told you any of this" I don't think I ever talked that fast in my life. I could hear my heart beating in my ears and my stomach was doing flips. I kept wringing my hands and looking at them the whole time I was talking.

"And Jason..magically made that all go away?" He asked while turning around and I looked back at my hands and started wrining them again. As much as I wanted to say yes it would be a lie. And since it was already all out in the open I decided I should just put it all out there.

"No..." I whispered.

"So you still feel it for me? All of it?"

"I don't know Roman..."

"No. Don't start that now. You do know."

"It's going to take a long time to get over you. You're pretty amazing ya know?"

"Do you want to?"

"What?" I noticed my hands were sweaty and i wiped them on my sweats.

"Do you want to get over me?"

"It doesn't matter what I want Roman.. it matters what I need to do. I need to get over you. You're never going to leave Brittney..you just told me that. And it's not fair to me."

"Rox.. are you still in love with me?"

"Why are you doing this Roman?"

"Because I'm tired of hiding shit. I'm tired of people not telling me everything. I want to know. Are you still in love with me Rox?"

"Yes." I said barely above a whisper. "But it doesn't matter."

"Why not?"

"I'm with Jason. You're with Brittney. It's not fair to them or any of us really."

"For 1 second stop thinking about what's fair because guess what? Life isn't fair."

"Roman I fell for you and I got pummeled and now I found a guy who went after me. Who wants to be with me."

"I'm telling you right now. He isn't who he says he is. We all can see it except you."

"Please don't start."

"Rox... I just don't want to see you get hurt."

"How do you feel Roman? You said you were hiding things too?" I asked and looked up at him.

"Guess it's only fair right? But I want you to look at me while I tell you this. No looking down okay?" I nodded my head and looked in his eyes.

"I don't know where to start but that night something did change. I felt it too. When I saw you crying, God, I just wanted to kill that guy. Anything that caused you pain I hated. I would do anything in this world to make your world alright again. I wanted to spend every minute with you. I think the turning point for me was when Jessica told me she liked you. It's like I got her stamp of approval you know? I missed you like crazy when I was at home but I tried to ignore it. Then I walked in on Brittney and that guy... and I just wanted to call you because I knew just hearing your voice would make me feel better. I wasn't even mad at her for cheating.. For a minute I was actually relieved, that sounds bad right? But it was like, here is my escape here is how I get out of it. But then you walked out and when you walked out I couldn't believe it. I just wanted to beg you to stay but I thought you would be happier and your happiness means a hell of a lot more to me than mine does so I let you leave. You weren't the only one to fall Rox. I fell for you. I just realized it late. Suddenly this douchebag is in your life and I have to deal with that but I love you Rox. I really do." In the middle of him talking he grabbed my hands and now he was still holding them. I felt like I was in a dream this couldn't be really happening. We just kept staring at each other before I decided to finally speak up.

"I guess I love you came to late huh?"

"Doesn't have to be too late."

I saw him looking at my lips then leaning towards me, my head was telling me to pull away or push him away but my body wasn't listening. I started leaning closer to him and felt my heart going 1000 miles an hour. I slowly closed my eyes and felt his lips brush against mine.