The New Girl (WWE FanFic) #WATTYS2015

Chapter 16 - Relationship Talk

Everyone was sleeping except for me. I couldn't. My brain was in overdrive and every possible thing I could think about swum around in my head; Roman and his secret news, Seth running to my aid, Roman not wanting to kiss me, Seth and me gazing into each other’s eyes, Frenzy and Summer Rae's feud and Dean and Paige's relationship... There was no way I was sleeping any time soon. 

"Are you awake?" Roman whispered, I heard a small movement which I assume was Roman looking over to me. We were sharing the bed but were at complete opposite ends, practically hanging off the bed.

"Yeah." I said. There was no point in lying, I wasn't sleeping any time soon.

"What time is it?" Roman said, his voice husky because he'd just woken up. I looked over to my phone and checked.

"Three fifteen."

"Oh god." He groaned, turning over in the bed. "Go back to sleep."

"I never got to sleep." I said monotonously. I love how he thought it was that easy, he’s obviously never had too much on his mind and has never stayed up thinking about it all.

"Because of me?" Roman asked carefully. I wanted to reply with 'aren't you full of yourself' but I didn't think now was the time for jokes.

"Nah, my brain just wanted to think about everything..." I didn’t want to say anymore because yes, part of it was to do with him but the rest wasn’t. There were many other things going on in my life that weren’t to do with him.

"Try and clear your head. You need sleep. We have a big day ahead of us." I looked over to him with my eyebrow raised but then remembered he couldn't see me.

"We do?" 

"Yeah, training and storylines. Remember?" Roman said as if I was stupid to forget it.

"No." I said bluntly. "Noone tells me anything." I heard Roman let out a small laugh.

"In all fairness I think it was me that was meant to tell you, but I got distracted. Sorry." Part of me thought I would feel better if I kicked him off the bed but the other part of me thought that just getting on with it could mean we could go back to how we were quicker.

“It’s fine. Just going to be there feeling ridiculously tired and unprepared.” I said, half joking, half serious. “Well, it’ll most likely be the storyline with Paige anyway so it shouldn’t be too difficult. I learnt the other one in a day.” I said, realising I sounded full of myself.

“I wouldn’t get too cocky if I were you.” Roman warned. “It’s not always as easy as you think.” I shot him an evil glare but realised once again that it was pitch black and he couldn’t see me.

“It’s ok, I think you trashed most of my self-confidence anyway.” I said, anger consuming my body. How could he of all people tell me not to get too cocky when I’m the most down to earth, helpful person he hangs around with?  I’m the one putting my career on the line to chase Seth and Leighla, Dean and Paige and Frenzy round all the time. I cursed under my breath – Frenzy! I hadn’t spoken to her in days! She tried to call me when I’d completed my debut but I was so caught up with The Shield and this damn party that I completely forgot to respond! Please say I remember when I wake up!

“Ouch.” Roman said, sounding disheartened. My heart sunk a little and guilt took over me. Maybe I was being too harsh on him. He said there was a reason and really, there isn’t anything between us anyway… I don’t have any feelings for him so why am I so upset about what happened?

“I’m sorry.” I whispered. “There’s just a lot going on…” I tried to justify.

“I know. Me too.” Roman replied. There was silence in the room and I finally began to feel like I could fall asleep. My mind had thought about everything enough, I think it was finally as tired as I was. My eyes were getting heavier with every blink and I hardly had enough energy to fight it. I was finally going to get some rest. My body felt thankful. My eyes were shutting and I was dozing off to sleep. “I have a girlfriend.” Roman suddenly said, breaking the silence and my ability to sleep. I jolted awake in the bed, my eyes wide and my body frozen. “I haven’t told anyone about her because I don’t want them to know. They’ll only ask all these questions, get all the info they need and then not give a crap about her.”

“You do?” I turned so my body was facing him. I breathed a sigh of relief that it was a simple reason he embarrassed me, but also knew he wouldn’t want me to tell Dean, Paige or Seth. “That’s great news. Has it been a long relationship?”

“About six months. She’s really nice. You remind me a lot of her actually! You guys have the same traits.” I could tell he was smiling as he spoke about her. “Her name is Mila.” I didn’t know what to say. I wanted to ask about their relationship but then I’d just be doing what he spoke about before.

“Is she ok with the amount of time you’re away?” I asked. “I know that’s one of the most difficult things.”

“Well, I think so. I haven’t actually skyped her in quite a few days, I’ve been too busy and there’s always been you guys hanging around with me so I couldn’t.” He said, realising what he said didn’t sound good.

“Well she sounds like a really nice girl!” I said, trying to be the good friend Roman needed. He got his phone off the bedside cabinet and unlocked it. The screen lit up his face and illuminated half of the room. I squinted at the screen as he brought up a picture of her and showed it to me. A brown haired, blue eyed girl with a colgate smile and a svelte body. There was no way I could compete with that. “Wow. And she’s really pretty.”

“Thanks. She’s the first girlfriend I’ve had in a while. When my last girlfriend and I finished it didn’t end too well. She revealed a lot of secrets that night and it crushed me.” Roman feeling crushed? This guy? A 6ft tall, muscular built wrestler who roars at crowds and superman punches people actually felt crushed at some point because of a girl? My heart broke for him, imagining just how badly that must have affected him. “And all my friends knew about her so I had to keep talking about her.” So that’s the reason no one knows about this one! He doesn’t want it to end badly and him have to explain what happened to everyone.

“That’s fine. I’ll keep it quiet and we will only talk about her if you want to.” I said back, he aimed the phone’s light at me and smiled.

“Thanks, Lucy… and sorry about earlier.”