Confessions Of A Wrestler || Roman Reigns

It's My Birthday

I sighed in frustration and just shook my head, "When the hell did you and Randy become such good friends? I thought you didn't like him? Why would you invite him here?"

She looks at me like I'm crazy, "I'm not talking about Randy, I'm talking about Joe."

"Oh." I smile and begin to look for him, "He's here?"

"Yes, he's here and please don't be mad at me but he brought your sister."

"I've been meaning to call her. It's a good thing they came." I lean in closer to her so no one else would hear me, "Has he said anything about me?"

"Just the usual, he misses you and still loves you. Why what else would he say?"

"Nothing, don't worry about it." I see Roman and my sister walking over to us. As soon as my sister and I lock eyes we run over to each other and hug.

"I'm so sorry." She says

"No I'm sorry, I shouldn't have let Randy talk to you that way and I shouldn't have gotten mad at you, you were only trying to help."

Nikki smiles, "That's so cute!"

Joe goes over to Jon, hugs him, hugs Trinity and everyone else and waits for my sister and I to stop talking. Once we were done, he walked over to me smiling with a birthday bag in his hand. He hugged me and kissed me on the cheek, "Can I talk to you for a minute?"

"Yeah, sure." We go outside of the club. "What's up?"

"I know we haven't talked in a month. I wanted to make sure everything was okay. I didn't mean to put you in a sticky situation with Randy but I stand by everything I said and did. I also stand by my feelings for you." He says

"It's okay Joe I know. You gave me a lot of things to think about and I have definitely been thinking about them but tonight, I don't want to think or talk about Randy. As you probably noticed, he's not here. So let's just forget about that. I'm happy you came though." I say smiling.

"Good, I am too. Happy birthday!" He gives me a small gift bag and I open it.

"Joe, you didn't have to get me anything."

"Yes, I did. I don't care what you say, I'm always going to get you a gift any chance I can." He says

I just laugh and open the bag. It was a simple gold bracelet that had the date we met engraved on it (March 4th 2016) and it also said, "I love you always"

"There's more in there." He watched as I pulled another box out of the bag.

It was a pair of rose gold diamond earrings they looked to be about one and a half carats. They were gorgeous.

"Do you remember those?" He asks

"These are the earrings I was looking at the very first time I came to Tampa, on our one year anniversary." I say

"Yeah, I was never able to give them to you. All that baby stuff happened with Galina and you wanted to leave me. I just never got around to giving them to you." He says

I say smiling and looking at them in there box, "So you did get them."

"I knew you really wanted them the way you were looking at them."

"Wow, Thank you. I can't believe you did that, you're so sweet."  I kiss him on the cheek.

"You're welcome. There's also one more thing in there." he says

I move my hand around in the bag and I feel folded up papers in the bottom of the bag. I pulled them out to look at them. The top of the paper said, "Residential Purchase Agreement" and his address on it.

"Why are you giving me these, isn't this the contract for your condo?" I ask confused

"Yes, when I purchased that condo, I was able to get your name put on it as well. Don't ask me how. Yeah it was a little illegal but I was able to do it and you own it." He gives me the key.

I take it and look at it, "What? I am so confused." I laugh at myself for a second, "You had my name put on the condo and we had only been together a few months?" I say

"Yes, when I was trying to get you to move to Tampa with me. I felt that you wouldn't move if you didn't have something for yourself. You know how you are, all independent and stuff." He says and we laugh, "I wanted you to feel like that was yours and I wanted you to be comfortable enough to make that your home. It was supposed to be this grand gesture to show you how much I cared about you but all of that fell through when you came." He says

I smile and shake my head as if all of the clues are coming together in this puzzle, "That's why you kept asking if I liked the place." I stand there looking at him for a minute, "You know, I'm actually starting to see how much you really did care about me. I knew you loved me and I knew you wanted to be with me, but I never knew that you did this. I never knew that you went out and bought the earrings without me knowing to surprise me. That was really nice of you to do and you didn't have to do any of it. I am so so sorry that all of this happened." I say starting to feel stupid.

"I know you are and I don't mean to bring you down on your birthday but I just thought that these are things that you needed to know. We have been through so much together and I thought you would be my wife by now but things happen and paths change. I honestly, from the bottom of my heart, want you to be happy even if it's not with me but I know if you continue down this road that you're going down, you're not going to be happy and I know it could possibly end very tragic." He says with a serious face

Tears fill my eyes, "I'm starting too see how dumb I was."

He grabs both sides of my face and tries to stop the tears with his thumbs, "No no, don't start crying, you'll mess up your makeup." He smiles and daps my tears with his thumbs.

I laugh, "You're right."

"Gia you're not dumb, don't say that. You just made a wrong decision and as bad as it sounds coming from me, I'm just here to tell you you did. I always put you first, I always thought about you and I still do. I shouldn't have left you after we lost the baby but I didn't know how to comfort you in that situation. It killed me to see you how you were and I was going through it as well but I couldn't let you see me like that because you needed me. I didn't want to show weakness because I had to be strong for you. I should have took off work and I regret leaving you that day you told me to. I handled Galina the best I could and clearly it wasn't enough. I could have done better. I got her pregnant and I gave her a reason to make your life hell. But you see all of her games did not work because I'm still standing here trying, a whole year after we've broken up. Lindsay doesn't mean anything to me. She was just good company to be around. We've never had sex, we only went out on a few dates. I was too caught up on you and she knew that. Gia you're the only person I've had sex with in 3 years. Well, Galina too but that doesn't count. You know what I mean. I don't want anyone else, I only want you." He says

I didn't say anything, I just hugged him. I was in shock with all of this information but I had a better understanding about everything. And honestly, I felt stupid.

We went back into the club and continue to celebrate my birthday.

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