At the Anoa'I family reunion
Roman and Seth just pulled up to the park that the Anoa'I family reunion was located and Seth saw all the people walking in, some he remember from watching as a kid. That made him ten time more nervous he was going to see his idols, the people who use to entertain him as a kid most of them were there. He started to twitch a little with thoughts like 'what if I embarrass myself' or 'what if I embarrass Roman?' He felt sick, he couldn't believe his relationship with Roman has been two months, that means Roman has dealt with his nightmares for two months, that means Roman has known about his past for two months that also means Roman has known about his self-harm issues for two months and he was still their only person who was ever there for him like that Marek. Seth felt Romans hand on top of his so he turned his hand around and intertwined their finger. He heard Roman saying "are you okay baby? I mean if you don't want to do this I start the car and we can leave". Seth shook his head he knew how much family meant to Roman and how much it would mean to Roman if he met his family so he would do it because the older man has done so much to help him in only two months meting his family was the least Seth could do.
"Okay if you're sure" Roman says letting go of Seth's hand and getting out the car. Seth sighs taking a deep breath and opens the door he walks over to where Roman is and he can already feel the people looking at his like he does not belong, good thing he was use to that look. Roman takes his hand and smiles leaning over and whispering "it's okay once they know we are together they will have more accepting looks and my aunts and mom will fill you with paifala and keke fa'I with some vaimeleni". Seth nodded biting his lip. But relaxed a little when he saw the Jimmy and Jey coming their way at least he knew somebody here. Jimmy stop when he saw their intertwined hands and smiled grabbing Jey who had yet to notice and pulled him back whispering and Jey saw what Jimmy was talking about and smiled he walked over to Roman slinging an arm over his shoulder saying "did you warn him?" Roman chuckled "of course if I did what kind of boyfriend would I be if I just let him be attacked by them all trying to feed him" Seth tightened his grip on Romans hand and scooted a little closer. Jimmy smiled and put his hand on Seth's shoulder and asked "are you okay?" Seth nods and says quietly "im fine" Roman looked at Seth smiling he knew Seth was a little uncomfortable but he was glad Seth was doing this for him. Seth looked up at Roman and noticed roman smiling at him, he started blushing and lowered his head. Roman leant down and kiss Seth's forehead whispering "it will be okay I promise" Roman lifted his pinky like Seth had done two month's back Seth noticed and remember he giggled and wrapped his pinky around Romans. Jimmy and Jey look slightly confused but they shrugged it off.
It was later in the afternoon and much to Romans promise everyone was starting to give more accepting looks but Seth was still kind of jumpy. At the moment he was in Romans lap eating a paifala as Roman was stroking his hair and was talking to Rikishi. Seth went for another bite but Roman took it and took a bite smiling and chuckling as he look at Seth's pout he took another bite and handed it back to Seth who's face lite up, Roman chuckled again and mumbled "too cute" Seth smiled and looked around he saw Jimmy talking to the Rock and Jey was talking to Rosey Roman's brother .Seth smiled but thought it was weird that he actually felt better around Romans family than his own, well he thought that was sort of acceptable because of how his family is. He looked around more sighing as he felt Roman take his hand he look at Roman who smiled at him and kissed his nose Seth scrunches up his face and giggles. He turned back around and noticed Sika Roman's dad coming closer. He tenses up he wished the ground would just open up and swallow him whole. Roman noticed Seth tense up so he starts rubbing soothing circles right where his hip bone is. He feels Seth start relaxing and smiles. Sika sits in the chair beside Roman and starts talking, Seth tries paying attention but where Romans hand is it's getting hard to pay attention but he heard "do you want to come to a dinner this weekend?" Sika asks Seth nods then Sika says "you don't speak much do you kid?" Seth shakes his head and says "o-only in the ring or in promos sir" Sika smiles and stands up "okay I will see you both next weekend right?" in unison Roman and Seth say "yes sir"
An hour later
Seth starts dozing off in Romans lap, so Roman excuses them and says his goodbyes to his family, he carries Seth to the car bridal style and sets him in the front when he is about to get in the car a woman runs up to his car she kind of looks bad she is stumbling and is pulling a man with he when she gets close enough she calls for Seth and roman looks confused but he wakes up Seth. By now most of his family is staring to make sure everything is okay when Seth sees who it is his eyes go wide and he can see Seth tense up but Seth gets out of the car the woman throws her arms around him and you can see Seth visible flinch and scoot back. The woman looks hurt and says " I promise I changed" Seth shakes his head and says "it doesn't look like it you look the same as when I was eleven nothing looks like it changed except maybe a different man? Or is it a different substance? Tell me what do you think changed" he said with sadness and slight anger evident in his voice her reply was "I went to rehab I got help I tried to fight for you I did but it never worked" Seth shakes his head again " they told me you tried-" she looks a little happier "but they also said you refused to take a drug test it could have been simple mom take a drug test pass and be observed but guess what you were high and you know you were or it wouldn't be a problem to take the test" Roman observes this woman who he now knew was Seth's mother she looked mad that Seth was bringing that up and he actually said that and then what came next surprised him
Seth's mothers slaps his hard across the face like so hard even Romans family could hear it then she screams "you ungrateful little fag at least I tried to get you back while your father left and never came back-" she lowers her voice even though it's still high it's not screaming " want to know why he left? Huh? Do you want to know? He left because he didn't want a stupid fucking kid and neither did I, I never fucking wanted you" by now two of Romans female cousins, his mom and the Usos came over Romans cousins moved Seth's mom away from Seth and Romans mom, Jimmy and Jey where trying to comfort and calm Seth down Roman comes over to where they sat Seth down with an ice pack Romans mom left but jimmy and Jey both had an arm around Seth's shoulder. Roman kneels down so he is face to face with Seth he takes Seth's hand and kisses it and asks quietly "are you okay Babyboy?" Seth shakes his head Roman stands up taking Seth into his arms whispering sweet nothings in his ear. Seth calms down and Roman feels wetness on his shirt but he just lets Seth cry while he strokes Seth's hair. Once Seth calms down roman kisses his forehead then his lips and asks "you ready to go?" Seth nods and they bid their goodbyes and get in the car
On the way back Seth finally speaks "thank you so much because if you and your family wasn't there I would have probably gotten worse and I would have gone back and used they blade but now I have you and I realize I don't need it" Roman smiles and kisses Seth's hand again and says "it's good you don't feel like you need it" Seth stretches out and says "I love you Roman" Roman smiles brighter and say "I love you to baby boy"