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*A few days later*
I was outside pushing Jess on a swing. Ever since the confrontation between Roman and Aaron it's been a few quiet stress free days that I couldn't be more grateful for. Seth was at the airport to pick up his girlfriend. He told her he wanted to talk and she insisted on flying over so Seth wasn't going to be staying at Roman's anymore. Dean was out with a few NXT guys and Roman was taking a shower. After a few more minutes swinging I took Jessica inside to watch a movie while waiting for Roman. We decided to watch Winnie The Pooh and Christmas Too.
About 15 minutes into the movie Roman came downstairs freshly showered wearing a fitted dark gray t shirt and dark jeans, with his hair in a low bun.
"Hey baby girl." Roman said walking in and kissing Jessica on the head.
"Hey daddy. Want to watch Pooh with us?"
"Sure." Roman laid down on the floor in front of the tv and Jessica walked over to him and cuddled up next to him. It was a heartwarming sight.
When the movie ended Jessica sat up and looked at Roman. "Daddy how much longer until Christmas?"
"3 more months baby girl."
"That's so far!" she exclaimed.
"You get Halloween next month, and thanksgiving after that. The time will go by fast okay?"
"Is Rox spending Christmas with us?"
"I hope so."
"Yay." Jessica stood up and walked over to the bathroom while Roman got up and walked over to the couch and sat next to me putting his arm around me and kissing me on the temple. I breathed in his scent, smiling while leaning into him.
"Do you know if Dean is still going to stay here?" I asked.
"Yeah. He said he's going to be back late tonight though."
"Oh."
"You okay?"
"Yup."
"Rox, talk to him okay? You two don't need to be fighting."
"He was mean! He should have to apologize to me."
"You are both stubborn and we both know you're the one who is going to have to talk first so just do it tonight or tomorrow and get it over with okay?" I huffed and Jessica came back up and crawled on Roman's lap.
"Guess what Jess?" Roman said smiling at her.
"What?"
"Grandma and Grandpa are coming over for dinner tonight." Roman said. I looked at him shocked and began to feel nervous.
"Yay! I miss grandpa and grandma." Jessica clapped her hands.
"They'll be here in an hour."
"Okay! I'm going to go clean my room. Grandma always tells me to have my room clean." Jessica said then ran off.
"Uhmmm what?" I said leaning back and looking at him.
"What?"
"You weren't going to tell me your parents are coming."
"No. Knowing you babe you would have tried to make a run for it and they really need to meet you."
"Parents tend to hate me Roman."
"Mine won't. They have no reason to, besides knowing Jessica accepts you gives you the edge with them. Don't worry about it and come help me cook." He said grabbing my hand and pulling me up with him.
We finished cooking dinner, with a little help from Jessica, a few minutes early. The door bell rang and Jessica jumped up running to the front door.
"Wait for me young lady!" Roman said following her out of the kitchen. I took a deep breath and walked out of the kitchen and a little bit behind Roman.
Roman opened the door and his mom and dad were standing there smiling.
"Hey son." Sika said giving Roman a hand shake, his mom engulfed him in a huge hug and kiss his cheek.
"I missed you Roman."
"I missed you too ma." Roman said hugging her back.
"And there's my little angel." Sika said smiling reaching out and picking up Jessica.
"Hi grandpa!" Jessica smiled hugging him around his neck.
"How are you beautiful?" Sika smiled at Jessica.
"I'm great!"
"Stop hogging my grand baby." Roman's mom said taking Jessica out of her arms. Jessica and Patrica hugged and Jessica reached back to Sika. She is definitely a grandpa's girl.
Roman stepped aside and let them in and I felt my hands getting sweaty.
"Hey guys I would like for you to meet my girlfriend Rox. Rox these are my parents Sika and Patrica."
"Nice to meet you." I said.
"She's awesome grandpa!" Jessica said still in Sika's arms. They all laughed and I smiled a bit.
"Nice to meet you too. I've heard a lot about you." Patrica smiled walking up to me and giving me a huge.
Sika just nodded his head in my direction and walked past me into the kitchen.
"So what's for dinner son?" Sika asked sitting Jessica in her seat and taking the seat next to her.
"Palusami Lu'au Rox and Jessica helped me make it. We made Fausi for desert." Roman smiled pulling out my chair and sitting next to me as I sat down. Patricia sat down next to me with a huge smile on her face.
"I'm happy to hear that. So Rox, you're interested in Samoan cultural and heritage?" Patricia asked smiling at me.
"Yeah very much so. The whole reason Roman and I started talking was because of his tattoo. I really like how the samoan tribal tattoos look."
"And she asked me about Usos entrance. I'm going to go get the food." Roman said standing up.
"So are you close to Jimmy or Jey?" Patricia asked.
"Not really. I'm shy so I usually keep to myself but I do talk to Jey a lot. He promised to teach me all about their entrance." I saw Sika looking at me for a second then look away.
Roman walked back in with the dinner and Patricia said a pray before we all ate. The dinner was going good. We talked about Jessica, being off the road and taking a break from wrestling, and little stories Jessica had. It was a nice dinner but Sika didn't talk to me or even look at me the whole time.
"Can we go play outside?" Jessica asked looking at Roman.
"Yeah you guys go on and I'll clean this up."
"I'll get Rome." I said.
"It's okay babe I got it."
"I can get while you spend some more time with your family." I said getting up and picking up plates.
"She's our family now too grandpa." Jessica said as Sika stood up. Sika looked back at me as they walkd out of the door with Roman in tow.
"Let me help you with all this sweetheart." Patricia said standing up and grabbing some dishes.
"Oh it's okay you don't have too."
"I want to."
Patricia and I walked into the kitchen and started cleaning everything up.
"Excuse my husband. He has a difficult time accepting Roman being with someone. But I can tell you make Roman happy. I haven't seen him this happy in a while and I'm glad to finally meet the reason. He used to talk about you non stop to me."
"Really...?" I said a little hesitant.
"All good things. He called me one time, I suppose you two got in a fight. He just seemed so down and he wouldn't tell me why. I asked if it was a girl and he tried to laugh it off and that's how I knew it was. To be quite honest I never liked Brittney. She never seemed honest to me. I don't think she loved Roman for Roman. But I know you do. I see the way you look at him and he looks at you. Give Sika some time okay? He'll come around."
I nodded my head and we spent the rest of the time joking and washing the dishes.
We were all outside watching Jessica play with some toys in the grass and I decided I needed to do something.
"I'm going to go get dessert, Sika can you help me?" I asked standing up looking at the elderly man.
He looked at me then back to Roman then at Patricia. Patricia nodded her head and Sika got up and walked with me to the kitchen.
I grabbed the dessert from the fridge, some napkins, 5 plates and 5 cups.
"Can I talk to you for a quick second? Please?" I asked looking at Sika after putting everything on the counter. He shrugged his shoulders and I took that as a yes.
"I just want to make sure I tell you that I'm not with Roman to get something from him. I genuinely love and care about him and want only the best for him. I can tell you're not too open to accepting me and I can understand but I just want to make sure you know that i will try my best to never hurt him and be the best I can possibly be to him."
"Look Rox, I'm sure you're great. Jessica seems to love you and my wife seems to like you but it's harder for me. And it's nothing against you. It's just that is my son, my best friend and I watched as he brought this girl in for 8 years and then watched as she hurt him and screwed him. We opened up our family to this girl, we let her become part of our family and she hurt my son and I'm not so open to the idea again. Especially so soon."
"I understand. I truly do. I hate what Brittney has done to Roman and if I could fix it and make everything perfect and give him the life he always wanted I would in a heart beat. I don't ever want to see him get hurt. I can't promise that I will never hurt him but I can promise it will never be intentional or how she did it. I will never cheat on him or lie to him or use his money or anything like that. I just want him. And i can see where you're coming from I would probably be the same way. I just wanted to pull you aside and let you know I love Roman for Roman not for the things he has but for the amazing guy he is."
"I appreciate you making the effort. I can tell what you just told me you meant. I can't accept this over night because I'm worried for my son but I can see how happy you two make each other so I will work on it just please don't hurt Roman."
"I won't Sika."
Sika nodded and squeezed my shoulder before grabbing plates and cups and walking back outside.
*Romans POV*
I was lying in bed waiting for Rox to get out of the shower. It was about 9 pm and Jessica was sleeping and my parents left a while ago. The way my dad was acting at the beginning of the night had me worried but after Rox asked him for his help he seemed more at ease. He talked to Rox more and seemed to have a good time.
Rox came out of the shower wearing only a towel.
"Damn babe." I said looking her up and down and she looked down and blushed. I loved making her blush.
"Rome?" she said looking back at me from her bags.
"Yeah babe?"
"I forgot to do laundry..." I felt bad for Rox. Ever since dropping everything to come back with me she was living out of luggage.
I stood up and grabbed a t shirt and gave it to her while i took all her clothes to go start a load of laundry for her. When I came back she was snuggled under the covers looking at me.
"Your parents are nice." She said as I crawled into bed next to her.
"Yeah, sorry about my dad earlier.."
"It's okay Rome. He's just worried about you."
"What did you say to him in the kitchen? His attitude seemed to change afterwards." I rolled over onto my side and looked at her.
"Just that I don't promise to never hurt you but I promise to try not to and that I love you for you." I loved this girl more than she would ever know. I kissed her on the lips and pulled back.
"Are you going to talk to Dean when he gets home?"
"Roman.."
"Don't Roman me."
"I will tomorrow promise okay?"
"Kay."
"How long is the laundry going to take?" She asked pushing my hair back.
"A couple hours I think." I said shrugging and looking at her. I've seen that look in her eyes before. Pure lust.
"I know a way we can kill time." She said smirking at me and pulling me on top of her.
*Roxs POV*
Roman got up and kissed me on the forehead as he left to go get my laundry. I rolled onto my back, smiled and ran a hand over my face. It's been so long since me and Roman have gotten intimate that I thought I was going to explode. His touch was amazing. It was like electricy from every touch. He made me feel so safe and sexy. Before tonight I was too afraid to do anything with him in fear of Jessica waking up but if I didn't get him soon I was going to go crazy. We were definitely having a round 2 when he got back up.
As soon as he walked in the room his phone started ringing. Who would be calling this time of night I thought as he walked over and got it. I watched his face go from confused to shock and fear fast.
"WHat happened?! Is he okay? WHAT?! We're on our way!" Roman said to whoever was on the phone.
"Roman wh-"
"Get dressed I have to get Jessica." He said grabbing his phone. He walked off into the hall way and I heard "Mom thank God you're awake I'm bringing Jessica over, it's an emergency."
I got up and threw on some black sweat pants and a black t shirt as Roman came back. Jessica was in his arms and he grabbed the keys off the dresser. "Let's go!" He said in a panicky voice.
The car ride was tense. I didn't say anything because I didn't want to wake Jessica.
"Stay here I'll be right back." Roman said as we parked in his parents drive way and he got Jessica out. Patricia met him on the front porch and took Jessica as Roman ran back to the car.
"Roman what's going on? You're scaring me." I said looking at him worried.
"We're going to the hospital." He said speeding out of the drive way.
"What why?" I asked confused.
"Dean was in an accident. Someone ran him off the road."
Aaron I thought as we drove.
I started shaking my leg out of nervous habit and Roman put his hand on my knee and squeezed. It felt like an eternity but was really only 20 minutes before we got to the hospital. We ran in and Roman got the room from the nurses. We got in the elevator up to the fourth floor and told them we had to see Dean.
"I'm warning you, it's not pretty. He is really banged up and you need to be prepared for what you're going to see." one of the doctors told us as we followed him to the room.
We walked in the room and saw Dean. His head was bandaged, he had a neck brace on, his foot was elevated and had a cast on it, he had his left arm wrapped up. He had a black eye that was so bad I knew his eye was swollen shut, his lip was busted and he was covered in bruises and cuts.
"What happened?" Roman asked. I just stood behind Roman staring at Dean. He wasn't even the right color. He was pale.. like death.
"All we know is that he was run off the road. His car went down a hill and hit a tree and a fire started. Luckily someone saw it all and pulled over right away and got him out of the car. His leg was trapped but the person got him out. He has a concussion, his left arm is broken completely and slightly burned, his leg is broken, he has a herniated disc. His has whiplash and a strained neck."
"Is he going to be okay?" Roman asked glancing at Dean.
"We don't know yet. It's...well the odds are stacked against him it's not likely and if he does survive...we don't know if he'll be able to wrestle ever again. You two can stay with him tonight just be careful." The doctor turned and walked out of the room.
I walked over to Dean and broke down sobbing falling to the ground. Roman came up behind me and lifted me up cradling me against him.
"It's all my fault." i cried as Roman tried to calm me down.
"Baby no."
"It was Aaron! We both know it!" I said pulling away from Roman and grabbing Dean's right hand sitting on a chair that was close to his bed.
"Dean.. Dean.." I asked squeezing his hand waiting for some kind of response but there was none. "We haven't talked since our fight..he probably thinks I hate him." I said quietly. Roman gripped my shoulder.
"He knows you love him babygirl."
"Dean.. please..wake up." He didn't move. "Dean please! I need you." I squeezed his hand again. "Dean if you can hear me please squeeze my hand." I hoped and prayed that Dean would squeeze it but he didn't. I started crying harder and gripped his hand and leaned onto the bed. I felt Roman rubbing my back. Dean can't leave me... I can't lose him.
"Rox it's going to be okay.."
"You don't know that!" I snapped I looked at Dean and felt my heart breaking. He didn't even look like him.
"WAKE UP DEAN!" I screamed in between sobs. "You can't leave me! Dean!" I kept screaming. Roman wrapped his arms around my waist trying to pull me into a hug.
"Let go of me!" I said fighting to get Roman off of me.
"You have to fight Dean! You taught me how to fight you taught me to not give up. I swear I won't fight with you anymore. I won't yell or be a bitch but you have to be okay. You need to come back.. Dean.. please.. you're the only one who never left me. You can't leave me now."
I looked back at Roman. "He has to survive..."
"If anyone can it's him baby girl. You know Dean will fight like hell."
"If he does he is going to have to give up his dream.. If he has to give his up I'll give mine up.."
Suddenly Seth walked in and looked shocked.
"Oh my God..."
"I need some air.."
"Roman go with him." I said when Seth turned around and walked out. Roman went to say something but the look I gave him shut him up and he left.
I looked back at Dean and let out a shaky breath.
"Hey God..I know I don't ever come to you unless I need something but please listen. He is my best friend.. He is my big brother and I can't lose him okay? He is amazing and doesn't deserve this.. It's all my fault. I promise I'll be the perfect person if you let him live. You can't take him away.. I won't let you..you can't do this to him! He doesn't deserve this!"
I wiped my eyes and looked at him. A picture of him winning the united states championship flashed in my mind. The day his hard work paid off. Every situation he's been through every obstacle he over came. The smile on his face I'll never forget and now he's here in a hospital bed fighting for his life. I just wanted to trade places with him. I let out a choked sob and put my head on the bed while breaking down.
"Wake up...please wake up.. I can't lose you Dean...I'm so sorry... I love you.. Wake up. I'm so selfish I need you.. you have to wake up." I looked up at him and he looked even more pale. I got scared and I don't know what came over me. I stood up and threw the chair against the wall. "YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME DEAN. WAKE UP PLEASE WAKE UP!" I felt two strong arms came around me and pull me to them.. I turned around and started crying into Roman's chest the whole time whispering for Dean to wake up.