What's Wrong With You?

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"You hurt me real bad and then you come up with a big fat apology, expecting me to forgive you no matter what you do. Yes, I've come to take my things with me." said Seth glaring at Roman.

"Are you fucking serious!?" growled Dean sitting on the bed.

"Yes, I am. All that while, I had been keeping quiet and had been accepting all of your apologies no matter how bad I was hurt."

"Seth, stop!" said Roman but Seth continued anyhow. "I know you both have always treated me as a problem but never told it to my face."

"Hey you. Pack up your things and leave." said Dean as he jumped out of the bed and walked up to Seth. "And if we had really thought of you as a problem Roman wouldn't have tried so hard making things even for you. Do you even know what it takes to admit your fault and apologize?"

"Roman tried to make things even for me? Don't make me laugh." taunted Seth.

"Hey man, do you even know what you're saying?" asked Dean, eyebrows curled.

"No, just wait, Dean." Roman interrupted Dean. "According to him, I've never tried to make things even for him. Well, that's okay. Speaking about the apologies, I've always apologized to you for my mistakes because I owe you them and I've never learnt how to back off of my responsibilities. Well, this is what makes me a real man and most importantly a real brother. I've always thought of you as my own and I've always taken responsibilities for you. I've always believed that trust and mutual understanding are the things that kept us together but you know what,"

Roman then took a step closer to Seth and continued, "We had built a wall of trust together, and you just shattered it."

Seth stared intensely into Roman's eyes and then said, "If you knew what your responsibilities were, you would never have taken me for granted. Okay, trust was the thing that was supposed to keep us together, right? It doesn't really mean you keep treating me like trash all the time and I keep forgiving you endlessly."

Dean grabbed Seth by his hair right then and said, "What did you say? Is this really what you've been thinking of us!? I fucking can't believe you right now, Seth. You think it was intentional of him to have hurt you in this manner?"

As soon as Dean swung his hand towards Seth to punch him on his face, Roman stopped Dean catching hold of his wrist. "Why!?" Dean shouted at Roman.

"This is not how you deal with people like him." said Roman and then let go of Dean's hand before he walked away to get something from his bag. Dean and Seth stared at Roman confusingly. Roman took a black box out of his bag. He opened it and took out the thin gold chain with the platinum locket attached to it, which he had bought for Seth the day before.

He then walked up to Seth once again whereas Seth wasn't even sure what Roman was holding in his hand. Roman stopped walking when he was standing right in front of Seth. He held the chain up with both his hands and finally ended up putting it around Seth's neck. Seth's face had a look of concern as soon as Roman put the chain on his neck. He was beyond surprised as he came to know that Roman had bought him a new chain and a pendant. Roman studied the look on Seth's face. He then drew himself closer to Seth and glared intensely into his eyes as he said, "Now, it's up to you whether you throw it away or keep it with you or do anything with it. It doesn't have to do anything with me cause it's yours now... You said you were always ready to listen to me? Well I have said what I was about to say before Triple H and Orton showed up yesterday."

Seth felt his own jaw drop as the whole thing got him very much astonished. He stared at Roman as Roman pulled back and then made his way towards the front door. "I've done the last thing I had got to do with you, and that was to give you the chain and the locket. You and I are over, Seth Rollins. You really have disappointed me." said Roman before he left the room, closing the door behind him.

As soon as Roman left the room sad and disappointed, Dean grabbed Seth by his shirt and pulled him close. His body shook with anger as he kept himself from landing a punch on Seth's face. "We've always cared for you and had your back, yet you have to say we've been thinking of you as a problem. Well thanks for letting us know how volatile you actually are." hissed Dean before he pushed Seth away from him and walked out of the room.

Seth turned back to face the front door of the room right after Dean had left. As soon as his eyes welled up with tears, he again turned over, taking a look at the empty room. The room had two beds. One of them was all messed up. The other one was quite neat- it was the one where Seth had slept in on the night before the previous night. Tears rushed out of his eyes as he realized how lonely he was going to be from then onwards as Roman and Dean would never forgive him for his doings.

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5 PM.
Seth had an appointment with Stephanie at her office. "I...," said Seth and sighed. "I know I've always been the best in this company but I could never be a good brother." Seth hung his head down. He closed his fist tight under the table as he was holding the chain and the locket in his hand.

"Seth, I know my husband is very much business oriented. When he explained you the reasons why you must break up The Shield, he might have spoken to you about the opportunities you'll be given as an individual, but there are many other reasons why you actually needed to separate from them. Seth, you have the right to feel what you've felt for them. If they really had loved you, you would never have felt so ignored." counseled Stephanie. "I can say it out of my own experience. You know how things are like between me and my brother Shane."

"Steph, no. I guess they never tried to ignore me. They've always taken care of me but I was the one who never actually could realize it." said Seth and then placed his hand on the table. He opened his fist revealing the chain and the locket in it and then said, "Yesterday, Roman was about to apologize to me in front of the whole world and give me this. I can't believe he had actually bought it for me yesterday... -"

"To compensate for something that belonged to your late grandparents? Wow. Seth, nothing can compare to what actually belonged to your grandparents, okay?"

"I know! But he cared to make things even for me. Even though it can't compare to what actually belonged to my grandma, he was trying his best to make things better between us. And... I never could realize it." sighed Seth.

Stephanie stared at Seth for a while and clicked her tongue. "If he really had cared for you Seth, he wouldn't have lost it, in the first place." said Stephanie.

This broke Seth's heart. He knew he was defending Roman at that moment but he didn't know how to disagree to what Stephanie said just now. "It's nothing as great as you think. Anyone can buy you gold or platinum."

Stephanie then bent closer to Seth who was sitting at the opposite side of the table with his head hanging down. She placed her hand over Seth's shoulder massaging it gently, and then said, "I didn't want to hurt you Seth but I just wanted to tell you the truth.
Because I want you to do good in life and forget about all those who are umm... temporary in your life. Don't you now think that you're lonely. Randy is like your brother. And I'm always here to help you out when you need me."

A/N: Evil. EVIL STEPH 😡 I'm sitting at the 2nd last bench of my class now, updating this for you. Anything for you.😘😘❤️