What's Wrong With You?

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Dean buried his face into Roman's neck. He started to weep. No one had ever seen Dean crying. He had never cried in the two years of his WWE career. Roman was not surprised to see him cry as he knew he was about to cry when he saw him opening his heart out to his precious "mom".

"I'm sorry, Ro," said Dean, with his mouth pressed against Roman's neck. "I don't mean to cry in this manner."

"It's okay to cry sometimes, Dean." said Roman in a gentle soothing voice. "If i was there at your place, I'd have cried myself to sleep. When you cry the tears of a man, you won't call it as the sign of weakness. So friggin, cry."

Dean could feel hot tears running out of his eyes. Roman clasped Dean in his arms tighter. Roman started to speak in order to make Dean feel comfortable. "You know what Dean, I'm so happy that you'll get to see your family tomorrow," said Roman, stroking Dean's head. "Trust me, Dean. This is the best decision you can make in this situation."

"Uh-uh," said Dean, getting his face off Roman's neck and looking into Roman's eyes. "I'll get to see my mom, tomorrow. And, the rest of my fam is just you and Seth. You three are the only ones who care about me. You three are the only ones I look forward to." Dean then lowered his eyes and placed his hand on Roman's chest."Roman, you mean a lot to me. My mum- I love her to the core but you know, there are a lot of things that I can't share with her. I'm lucky that I have someone who I can open my heart out to," said Dean and rested his head on Roman's shoulder, closing his eyes. Roman was speechless. His eyes widened as he did not know he was the one who Dean could actually rely on. He knew Dean liked him a lot ever since they had formed The Shield but he had always thought of Dean as a person who never liked to lean on someone in order to move on. His heartbeat went faster when Dean started to massage Roman's back gently. Roman rested his head over Dean's neck and continued to comfort him for another minute.

"Hey, Seth! Seth!" said Dean shaking Seth gently who was lying asleep on the bed. Seth groaned in his sleep and turned away.

"Don't wake him up," whispered Roman."He must be too tired to remain awake."

Dean clicked his tongue and covered up Seth's body with a cover lying beside Seth in a random position. Dean is surely a warm person with a good heart underneath his tough and rebellious exterior. Roman had always seen him as a person who was pretty unstable and over-explicit when it came to feelings. But that day was the day when he found out that Dean had a lot of emotions hidden inside him like a closed chapter.

That night, Roman slept next to Seth on the bed whereas Dean had to bed down (right beside the bed where Roman and Seth were sleeping in) on the floor. Roman kept staring at the ceiling and so did Dean.

"Hey Dean," said Roman, softly.

"Mhm?" responded Dean from below.

"You wanna sleep on the bed? I can just go bed down on the sofa," said Roman.

"No, I'm pretty much comfortable here. You can have the bed. It's fine," said Dean in a sleepy voice. Both of them wanted to talk about the hugs they had shared at the balcony but were too shy to bring out the topic first. "You don't like your dad as much as your mom. Am I right?" asked Roman.

"He is annoying. He disgusts me." Dean clicked his tongue. "When I told him I wanted to become a wrestler, he told me to dream something big. It's because of my mom that I am what I am now."

There was silence in the room for a while. "When did you cry last time, Dean?" asked Roman.

"Wh...- What? Is it an interview? Or, a talk show? Do we call it 'Roman Reigns Live' or 'Coffee with Roman' or simply, hash-tag 'Ask Reigns'?" laughed Dean.

"You tryin to avoid me, dude..." sighed Roman.

Dean let out a heavy sigh. "It was that day itself when my dad told me not to think about being a wrestler and set a bigger goal for myself. I did not cry but... my mom saw me when I stomped into the veranda and sat there all by myself. She followed me to the veranda right then because she knew i was mad for some reason. And, when she tried to coax me to go inside eat the cookies she had made for me, I behaved like a perfect asshole."

"I get it, man. That was not your fault." said Roman in a soft voice.

"I told her to mind her own business and go feed her guests. I ran out of the house... There was a field nearby. I went there, sat under a tree, made sure that no one was around, and cried my ass out right then. But that was long ago, dude. I was just 18."

Roman wanted to roll down the bed and hug Dean instantly but instead he said, "I'm sorry that I reminded you of it , Dean. I'm sure your mom knows how much you love her."

Dean released a sigh. "I never knew I would get this mad when she told me about her injury. This was all so spontaneous..."

Seth opened his eyes but remained still in his position. "Sorry to hear about your mom, Dean. Hope she gets well soon. Take care, bud," he spoke in his brain and went back to sleep once again without letting Roman and Dean know that he had been awake since a while.

Seth woke up a little bit over 6 although he did not want to wake up. It was dark outside. He sat up and yawned. He had his body wrapped in the cover as he felt too cold get out of the bed. He looked around. He was all by himself.

"Why are you up so early, Seth? We still have got time." said Roman as he entered the room with a cup of coffee in his hand. Seth looked at Roman behind his droopy eyelids. Roman looked all fresh and clean and had his hair tied up in a bun.

"Dean had to leave immediately this morning. His mom's got a head injury so," said Roman sitting on the bed. "I woke up as well and helped him pack up his things. And now I'm wide awake."

"Why didn't you wake me up? I could of told him to take care before he left." said Seth.

"Cause Dean asked me not to," replied Roman.

"He won't be joining us in today's event? Did he leave for Cincinnati?" asked Seth.

"Yeah," sighed Roman. "And we've to leave at 10. Get freshed up." Seth nodded sleepily while Roman walked out of the room. "Holysh..-" gasped Seth, looking up wide eyed. "IS IT JUST ME AND ROMAN NOW?!?!"