Stay With Me (Roman Reigns)

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SmackDown was awesome. Roman and Dean helped out Daniel in a six man tag team match against Kane, Big Show and Seth and it was definitely a fight. But then Roman and I weren't needed for Raw so we decided to do a couple things for our wedding. We had to fly to Florida and check out which beach we wanted the wedding at and then the reception hall. There was a lot to do. But then we also had to go over to his parents' house and learn that Samoan dance. I was actually pretty excited about this.

We pulled up to the house and Roman shut off the car. "Roman, wait." I said causing him to look at me.

"What's wrong?" he asked as he settled in the seat again.

"Nothing." I said. "I wanted to talk to you about the dance. I still wanna do this but I was thinking that maybe this might not be our only dance. I don't know what your traditions are but when I thought about my wedding growing up I always that I would dance the waltz with my husband. And I don't wanna go against your traditions if that's not allowed but if it's not I need more time to think about this."

He chuckled. "Baby, of course that's allowed. Look, we'll do this one and whatever other one you wanna do. You see, at our wedding, I doubt we'll only be dancing once in the entire night." he told me. 

I smiled. "Gee, when you say it like that it makes me sound crazy. I really worried about this." I said. 

"I know." he said. "But it's all gonna be okay. I promise. We'll have our dream wedding. Your dream dance. It's all gonna be perfect."

"Thank you." I said. "Let's go get this dance learned." He smiled and then we got out of the car before walking into the house. His mom was so excited to see us and so were his sisters. They pulled us in for hugs immediately while his dad hugged him and kissed my hand.

"What brings you guys here?" Sika asked as we all sat down in the living room.

"Well, Katie and I have been talking about the wedding, making plans and we wanted to incorporate some Samoan traditions and we've already talked about which ones and we decided on the cakes idea and the first traditional Samoan dance." Roman said.

"Oh, my boy, that makes me so happy." Sika said. "Your heritage is strong and a good foundation for your marriage. It's always good to let it flow into the wedding."

"Well, Katie has been very gracious when it comes to that and I couldn't be more thankful for her generosity and kind heart." Roman said smiling at me. He turned back to his family. "There are, however, things that we want to do that have nothing to do with our heritage."

"Okay. Like what?" his mom asked.

"Well, we know there's a Samoan tradition for the wedding dress but Katie wants to pick out her own and I want that for her. And typically, there's only one first dance but we're gonna do two." Roman said.

"If you don't want to do the Samoan dance, you don't have to." his mom said.

"Oh it's not that." I said. "I would love to do the dance. I know how important it is to you guys and to Roman and I wanna do it for him. It's just that, ever since I was a little girl I had this dream of dancing the waltz at my wedding and I really wanna keep that."

"The waltz is a really pretty dance." Summer said. "Are you sure you're gonna be able to get my brother to do that with you? I mean, he's kind of uncoordinated."

I chuckled and Roman just looked at his sister. "Trust me, Summer, I will learn and I will get good at it before my wedding day." he said.

"Well, if you guys gotta learn two dances in two months, we might wanna get started on this one." Vanessa said. I smiled and then Roman and I followed his family out to the backyard before the girls of his family started teaching me the dance. It ended up not being so hard and I caught on really fast.