*Seth's POV*
It was Monday and I walked backstage heading to Hunter's office. He left me a message this morning asking me to meet with him about the current storyline. I knocked on his door and after a few seconds he opened it.
"Rollins! I was wondering when you were going to get here. Come in." He said shaking my hand and moving aside so I can walk in. I sat down in the chair in front of his desk as he shut the door and walked to his seat.
"I'm sorry about the whole Rox situation but we did find a perfect person to replace her. Paige. You two had that whole thing in FCW and we think your styles match well together so she will be your new love interest. Fans have been wanting to see new champions for a while and the two most picked divas were Rox and Paige so it makes sense for her to replace Rox. You two won't start your storyline until after the ppv and we'll start a new power couple. We're putting you and John in a last man standing match this Sunday since Cena in a last man standing match makes it seem clear he will win it'll be a good shock value when you do. We'll announce it tonight on Raw and have you both cut a promo and have a match. So you should go meet up with him and you two can start working on spots for your match and next Monday you'll be the new WWE World heavyweight champion." he said with a big smile on his face.
"Thank you for this opportunity and I won't let you or this company down." I said standing up and shaking his hand and leaving to go find Cena to talk about what we could do for our match.
I worked with Cena for a couple hours before the show, we had our promos planned and pretty much everything for Sunday. He was really wanting to put me over and have a back and forth match instead of me getting beat the whole thing and pulling out a miracle victory which I thought he was going to do. I walked to my locker room to relax for a bit before the show started. I picked up my phone to call Rox to fill her in. I was so excited. A decade of hard work would be paying off this Sunday. I needed to share it with someone I knew cared and would be excited with me. I dialed her phone after a few rings it went to voice mail. I hung up and got dressed and got some food from catering and tried calling again after 20 mins. Still no answer. I sent her a text telling her to call me before Raw started. I knew she wouldn't be watching since they were in the mountains so I wouldn't be spoiling anything.
An hour went by and it was 20 mins til Raw started. I picked up my phone to see if I missed a call or text but I didn't. I put my phone in my bag in my locker and let out a sigh. Here I was with this amazing news and no one to share it with. I looked around at my empty locker room and ran a hand through my hair. I missed Rox but I also missed Dean and Roman. It was so different without them. Yeah we were all friends backstage but everyone still had their little groups they hung out with and traveled with and mine was gone. The worst part of it though was it seemed they didn't care. They were going out of their way to fix things with Rox while they gave zero effort with me.
I walked out of my locker room and down the halls just to see everybody in their groups. Brie, Bryan, Nikki and Cena. The wyatt family. Cesaro, Regal and Heyman. Paige, Emma, Renee and Summer. I felt like the outcast and it was weird. Who knew living your dream could ever be so lonely?
*Rox's POV*
We got to Wyoming about 3 days ago, on Friday. It was just what we needed. For the first time in a long time there was no tension, no stress, no drama, nothing. We were just us, laughing, joking, talking, and being normal again. We went swimming in the lake, played hide and seek with jessica, had a bon fire, a bar b que, and even got Jessica a little caught up on school work.
Roman got us this huge cabin. It was two floors and 3 bathrooms. 2 master bedrooms and 2 normal bed rooms and a rooftop patio. There was a fire place in the living room and in our master bedroom. Each bed room had a huge TV and king sized beds, except for Jessica's, Roman made sure her room was more kid friendly.
We all spent the past 3 days together but tonight Roman and I were going to have a late dinner date. Instead of having Dean watch Jessica for us to have alone time we just waited til she went to bed after her and Dean ate dinner.
We put Jessica to sleep and Roman told me to make myself busy while he prepared our dinner and everything. I've been watching Cops for the past hour and a half before he walked into the bedroom and grabbed my hand.
"Come on Rox." I shut off the Tv and got up following him. He started walking to the roof patio and I raised an eye brow.
We got onto the patio and my jaw dropped.
Roman set up a little table with candle light, wine, water, and rose petals. A little further away was more candles lit next to an area he set up. It was a huge new comforter laid out with dozens of pillows on top of it and another blanket.
"Do you like it?" He asked, kissing my hand.
"I love it. It's beautiful Rome." He smiled and led me to the table and pulled out my chair.
"Are we sleeping out here?" I asked pointing to the blankets and pillows.
"No. I just remember when we first became friends it was in New York and you hated New York because of all the lights. Then I realized in every busy city we were in you didn't like it. But you only didn't like it at night. I remember asking you about it and you said because you couldn't see the stars."
"And you told me, unless you were far away from the city I never would. That no matter how many little stars I saw I never would fully see them."
"Then you gave me attitude." he chuckled. "But I know you really like stars. And I know you haven't ever been this far away from lights where you can just truly see the night sky so since I know how much you want to, we're going to after we eat."
"That's really sweet Roman. I can't believe you remembered that." I said biting into the homemade chinese food he made.
"Well no one's ever really said anything like that around me. No one ever really just wanted to stop and look at the stars so it really stood out to me." he said pouring us wine.
I watched him and smiled. The way his long raven hair was pulled back into a ponytail, his muscles showing through his shirt, the way he smiled, and the intensity of his grey eyes when he looked at me. He was perfect.
We finished eating and we walked over to the blankets and laid down on the comforter while he put the other ones over our legs. I looked around us from the rooftop and let out a breath of content.
"This is all beautiful. The quietness, the lake, the breeze, the mountains.."
"The stars." Roman said pointing up and laying down. I laid down next to him and looked at the night sky. It was so amazing. It was so dark around us but the stars shine so bright and there were so many of them. There was a full moon and they were shining so bright. The light breeze added to the atmosphere. Two weeks ago I never would have thought I would be here but it was perfect. Roman made me feel so special doing all this for me and remembering something I said so long ago. I nuzzled up next to him and he put his arm around me rubbing his hand up and down my back. We sat there in a comfortable silence just looking at the sky.
"Rome look!" I said pointing.
"A shooting star..make a wish babe." he said. I closed my eyes and thought about it.
I opened my eyes and looked up at him. "What did you wish for?"
"I can't tell you."
"Aw come on don't tell me you believe that superstition." he pouted. I giggled and nodded my head. "Fine I won't tell you what I wished for either." he said in a playful tone.
"How am I ever going to deal with that?" I dramatically said. We both started laughing and he pulled me on top of him and held me.
After a few minutes I sat up straddling him and smiled down at him. "Thank you for all of this Roman. It's the nicest thing someone's done for me. It actually made me feel so special that you remembered what I said and actually did something showing that you did. It makes me really happy."
Roman sat up and put his arms around my lower back "That's all I want Rox. You to be happy."
I looked down at his lips then slowly back up to his eyes. I felt the butterflies in my stomach again. Roman slowly leaned in and kissed me softly before pulling away and looking at me. We stared at each other for a few seconds before I put my hands on either side of his face and kissed him hard. I put as much passion as I could into it and felt Roman do the same. Our lips were locking and unlocking before he bit my bottom lip. I let out a quiet moan and felt his hands on my ass. He kissed me again and I licked his bottom lip and he gave me what I wanted immediately. Our tongues tangling with each other while I slowly started to grind on him. I felt him squeeze my hips and start moving his hips below me. I let out another moan into his mouth and his hands moved to the front of my pants and went to undo the button but I pulled away and grabbed his hands.
"Rome.." i said breathless. He looked at me. "It's not that I don't want to because I do, it's just that..you know.. um" I stuttered trying to find the right words.
"Shhh, it's okay babe. I get it. We don't have to do anything okay?" He kissed me lightly again and put his hands back behind my back. I smiled and hugged him tight putting my head on his shoulder.
"You ready to go to bed?" he asked.
I looked up at the stars and shook my head, "A few more minutes?"
"Of course." he smiled.
*Seth's POV*
This week went by extremely slow. Rox never got back to me so they had no idea what was going on. I tried not to let it bother me and tell myself that she probably had no signal. I told myself I had no reason to be upset and I know I didn't. I just really wanted to share the news and I had no one to tell. My family we have a good relationship but they don't support me wrestling. So they want to hear nothing about it. I shook the thoughts from my head and focused on getting ready for tonight. I just watched Paige win the divas championship and she had tears running down her face. That's when it hit me that this was real. I was winning the championship tonight. I was going to be the face of WWE. I got in my gear and started pacing back and forth feeling my heart beat fast and my hands get sweaty. These were the good nerves. This is what I've waited my life for. I made my way to the curtain and heard my music hit. This was it.
*Dean's POV*
We made it home just in time for the PPV. Last thing we heard was Seth and Rox were going to be winning the titles tonight but since Rox wasn't there anymore we had no idea what was going to happen. We picked up some food on the way home and got settled infront of the TV. It was finally time for the main event and Jessica insisted on staying up to see "uncle Seth."
Roman and I were sitting on the couch while Rox and Jessica were laying on the floor.
"The next match is a last man standing match, the first contender to make it where his opponent cannot answer the count of ten wins and will be the WWE World heavyweight champion!"
"This is bullshit." I grunted.
"What is?" Rox asked looking back at me.
"Seth gets his shot and it's against Cena in a last man standing match? Fucking John is winning tonight."
"Don't go against my Uncle!" Jessica said in a stern voice glaring at me. I held my hands up in defeat and Roman chuckled.
Seth's music hit and Jessica squealed with excitement and clapped her hands.
I was hoping Seth could pull it off but I knew this game all too well.
*Rox's POV*
Seth and Cena had a good back and forth match. I figured they changed the plans on Seth and agreed with Dean that Seth wasn't winning. The match was going so fast when Seth hit a crazy move busting Cena wide open. The ref started counting.
When the ref got to 7 Roman and Dean leaned forward and Jessica and I sat straight up staring at the screen with my fingers crossed.
"9...10 ring the bell!" the ref called.
"Here is your winner and the NEW WWE world heavyweight champion Seth Rollins!"
We all jumped up screaming and clapping. I watched the ref hand Seth the belt and raise his hand. Seth had tears in his eyes and I thought of when he won the NXT championship.
"Uncle seth did it! he did it daddy!" Jessica said running and jumping to Roman who caught her and high fived her.
"Holy shit!" Dean exclaimed.
"Let's call him." Roman said smiling.
We waited for about 10 minutes after the ppv ended giving him time to get passed everyone and to his locker room before we called. I dialed his number and put the phone on speaker. After a few rings Seth answered and you could hear the smile in his voice.
"Hello?"
"Congrats Ninja!" Dean said. Seth chuckled.
"Thanks man."
"Good job Uncle Seth! You did sooooooooo good!" Jessica said while clapping her hands.
"Thank you Angel! I thought you would be asleep by now."
"She wouldn't go. She had to make sure she saw you. Seriously congratualtions Seth. You deserve this so much." Roman said.
"He's right Seth. You put on hell of a performance tonight and you deserve to be champion. A decade in the making." I said.
"Thank you Rox. Thank you all of you." He said his voice full of emotion. Dean, Roman and Jessica said you're welcome. Jessica told Seth good night and Roman took her upstairs to put her to bed.
"When you get back we gotta take you out for some drinks or something." Dean said.
"Sounds good Ambrose." Seth said. Dean smiled and walked into the kitchen so I took Seth off of speaker.
"I was so worried they were going to take this away from you Seth. But i'm so glad they didn't. I'm so fucking proud of you." I said.
"There was a time I thought this would never happen and here I am. The face of the company. I just beat John Cena in a last man standing match."
"Damn right Seth! Go out and celebrate. This is amazing." I smiled.
"I think i'll just go back to the hotel actually." he said the excitement dropping from his voice.
"What? Why?"
"I don't want to go out and celebrate alone."
"Invite your friends."
"What friends? My friends are gone."
"Seth...you have other friends."
"Work friends. Not real true friends who care enough to go celebrate."
I heard the sadness in his voice and frowned. "You'll be back here Thursday and we'll celebrate like there's no tomorrow. I promise!"
"Okay Rox. Listen I'm going to go shower and head to the next city. I'll talk to you tomorrow."
"Seth, you know I'm still your friend right? If I could be there for you I would be okay? Don't sound so sad. Your dream just came true. You're not alone. I swear."
"Okay." and with that he hung up.
Roman and Dean walked back into the room and looked at me.
"What's with the frown?" Dean asked.
"Seth. He feels alone. Like he has no friends. You two have got to fix it with him." I said a little sad.
"I know we do." Dean agreed. "We'll figure out how to make it up to him okay?" Dean said.
I looked at Roman and raised an eye brow.
"We'll fix it with him Rox. I'll think of a way to show him we're sorry. It'll all work out."