~Ashley's (POV)~
I woke up from the sound of a hair dryer. I sat up rubbing my eyes and looking around. I was in bed with all of my clothes on. I must've been mad tired if I didn't change out of my clothes. I can't even remember how I got up here.
"Hey." Becca said while coming out of the bathroom.
"Hey, by chance do you remember how I got up here because I can't remember anything that happened after I passed out." I said as Becca laughed at me.
"Um yeah, Dean carried you up here and plopped you down on the bed." Becca explained.
"Are you kidding me?" I said as Becca looked over at me in confusion. "He could've hurt his hand even more, he should've woke me up." I said as Becca rolled her eyes.
"He tried to, you weren't having it." Becca said as I got up and grabbed my phone. "What're you doing?" Becca asked.
"I'm gonna text him." I said as Becca shook her head.
"Whatever, I've gotta go. I'll be back by 4 or so." Becca said, I nodded as she left the room.
Hey big guy, what's your room number?
Who's this
I thought big guy would've given it away, it's Ashley .
Oh my bad, 306.
K, I'll be there in a few.
Why?
I can't come see my favorite guys?
That's not what I meant.
I know :) see you later.
I threw my phone down onto the bed and got up to take a quick shower. Once I dried myself off I went over to my suitcase and pulled out a pair of leggings and a t shirt. I threw them on and put on a leather jacket over it and grabbed my black boots before putting them on and heading out the door.
Once I made it to their hotel room I knocked on the door "Hey." I said as Seth opened the door.
"What're you doing here?" Seth asked as I walked into their hotel room.
"I can't just hang out with you guys?" I said sitting down on the couch.
"We aren't doing anything exciting today." Seth said as I shrugged.
"Oh she's here." I looked over to see Dean coming out of the bathroom.
"I've got a bone to pick with you." I said while getting up from the couch.
"What'd I do?" Dean asked as I scoffed.
"You carried me back to my room! That's what! You could've hurt your hand even more!" I said to Dean as he just smiled.
"My hand is absolutely fine." Dean said as I rolled my eyes. "Seriously it is, I just re wrapped it and the scratches are almost gone." Dean explained as I sighed.
"Just wake me up next time, I don't want you hurting yourself." I said as Dean chuckled.
"Whatever kid." Dean said as I smiled.
"Come here idiot." I said as I brought Dean into a hug.
"Your hair is wet." Dean said as he pulled away, I laughed at him.
"Yeah that kinda happens when you take a shower." I said as I sat back down on the couch. "Where's Roman?" I asked as Dean sat down next to me.
"He's still asleep." Dean said as I scoffed.
"I'm gonna wake him up." I said with a mischievous smile.
"You're gonna regret that..." Seth said, I shrugged him off as I walked into Romans room. Damn their hotel room was huge.
"Just a fair warning he might hit you." Dean said as he leaned against the door frame.
"Only one way to find out." I said as I jumped onto Roman shaking him around.
"What the fuuuck!" Roman groaned out while trying to sit up.
"It's time to get up." I said while smiling at him.
"What the hell are you doing here Ashley?" Roman said as he rubbed his eyes.
"Everyone of you is an asshole for asking me that. But I just wanted to hang out since Becca's out on a date." I explained as Roman chuckled. He pushed me off of him as he stood up and stumbled over to his suitcase.
"We aren't doing anything today." Roman said as I tried getting up off the bed.
"I didn't expect you guys to be doing anything, I just wanted to hang out." I said as Roman nodded while putting on a shirt.
"Actually, I was thinking about going out for lunch." Dean said as I smiled.
"With who? You got a date too?" I asked excitedly. Dean laughed at me, I frowned. "So that's a no?" I asked, he needed to get out.
"No kid, I don't have a date. I was suggesting that we all go out to eat." Dean explained as I nodded my head.
"Oh, sure. I haven't eaten yet so I'm pretty hungry." I said as I went back into the living room.
"What time do you wanna leave?" Dean asked.
"We can leave after I grab something from my room." I said as he nodded.
"Okay, meet us down in the lobby." Dean said as I headed out the door and back up to my hotel room. I put on my glasses before putting my hair up in a messy bun. I grabbed my phone and wallet before going down to the lobby.
"Hey." I said seeing the guys all ready.
"Nice bun." Roman said as I smiled.
"Same to you." I said looking at Romans hair. "You too, Seth." I said seeing that he had his hair in a bun too.
"Wow." Dean said, I rolled my eyes at him.
"Grow your hair out then you can be apart of the club." I said as Dean shook his head.
"I ain't going down that road again." Dean mumbled as I laughed. "I never knew you wore glasses." Dean said looking down at me.
"Considering I haven't known you that long that's not a surprise." I said as Dean shrugged "Are we walking?" I asked as we headed outside. Roman nodded.
"Yeah, it's just down the road." Roman said as we started walking down the sidewalk.
"Those glasses look cool." Seth said as I looked at him.
"Oh thanks." I said smiling at him. "Hey!" I said running after Seth who had taken off my glasses. "Come on dude it's not funny!" I said when I had caught up to him. "Give them back!" I yelled at him while laughing. I reached up to grab them but he moved out of the way.
"Come on you're gonna have to try harder than that!" Seth yelled as I frowned crossing my arms.
"Dean?" I said looking behind me. He looked at me with his eyebrows raised.
"Can you get my glasses from him?" I asked as he chuckled.
"Sure." Dean said as he ran after Seth tackling him onto the ground and wrestling till he retrieved my glasses.
"That boy is in love with you." I looked up at Roman who was shaking his head.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Look at them, Seth stole your glasses to get your attention and then as soon as you told Dean to go get them he did." Roman explained as I became more confused. "It's weird, especially for Dean. He was such a different person before you met him." Roman added on as I crossed my arms.
"Seth's like a brother to me...and Dean, well he's just Dean for crying out loud." I said as Roman nodded.
"I know, They're both clueless to how you feel. Dean denies liking you at all. He could be telling the truth, but even if he isn't it's just the way he acts around you. You've definitely got an effect on him, whether it's because he likes you or because you're really good at making people listen." Roman said as I just shook my head.
"What am I supposed to do than?" I said in confusion. Roman looked down at me.
"I'd wait it out for now, if it gets more obvious come to me. We can talk whenever you want to." Roman said as I smiled softly.
"Thank you." I said as I gave Roman a side hug.
"No problem, I'm just telling you so you're aware and if one of the fuckers just kisses you out of nowhere." Roman said as I laughed.
"Here you go kid." Dean said as he approached us. He handed me my glasses and I put them back on.
"Thanks big guy." I said as Dean smiled
"Sorry Ashley." Seth said with a grin on his face, I laughed at him.
"It's whatever, next time you do that I'll send Roman." I warned as Seth chuckled
"Oh hell no, this old guy can't run for shit anymore." Roman said as I laughed.
"Fine, I'll tackle you next time." I said shrugging as Dean and Roman chuckled. "What?" I asked
"I'm not sure you could sweetheart." Seth said as I rolled my eyes.
"I'm almost a hundred percent sure I could kick your ass." I said crossing my arms glaring at Seth.
"I've been advised by her not to piss her off, Becca says it isn't pleasant to deal with." Dean said from behind me. I couldn't help but roll my eyes at that.
"She seems like the person that could raise hell." Roman commented as I broke out in a smile.
"He's not wrong." I said finally easing up. "Can we go eat now?" I asked as Roman nodded. "I can't believe Becca deals with you guys." I mumbled as Dean chuckled.
~
"Thanks for lunch guys." I said as we headed back into their hotel room.
"No problem baby girl." Roman said
"So what're you guys gonna do now?" I asked.
"I'm gonna go work out." Roman said grabbing what I assumed was a gym bag before he headed out the door.
"I'm going to the bar later tonight, you're free to come." Dean said as I smiled.
"I'm going to the arcade down the street." Seth said as I nodded my head. "Of course you can come if you'd like." Seth said as I smiled softly.
"Drinking or games..." I said to myself. "What a great selection." I said while they chuckled.
"I think I'm just gonna hang out in my room for the rest of the night, you know some good old rest and relaxation." I said as they nodded.
"Bye guys." I said as I headed to the door.
"Bye, text me if you change your mind." Dean said as I nodded before leaving and heading to my room.
Once I got to my room, I took off my shoes and plopped down onto my bed. I took out my phone and looked at the time it was almost 6, Becca should've been back by now. I decided to text her.
Hey you alright? It thought you were going to be back by now.
Yeah, I'm great! The dates going well. I'm gonna go back to his place ;)
Fucking get it!!!!!
I laughed as I set my phone back down. I ran some bath water and put on my favorite TV show before pouring myself a glass of wine. When my bath water was done I took off my clothes and slipped into the bathtub, which I lit a few candles around. I didn't mess around when it came to my downtime. About 20 minutes into my bath I heard a knock on my door. I got out of the bath confused as ever.
"Just a sec!" I yelled while wrapping a towel around myself as I opened the door.
"Hey Ashl-" It was Dean. "woah sorry." Dean said as I shook my head.
"It's fine." I said as I let him in. "What's up?" I asked as Dean sat down on the bed. "I thought you were going to the bar." I said as Dean shrugged.
"I didn't feel like going anymore, and now Roman and Seth are going to the arcade together." Dean explained as I nodded.
"Why didn't you go with them?" I asked while grabbing my robe from my suitcase.
"Because...I wanted to talk to you, I don't know..." Dean trailed off, I looked at him a bit longer. Something was going on with him. He needed comfort and I guess he trusted me enough for that.
"Don't peak." I said making Dean glance up at me. I looked at him until he closed his eyes. I dropped my towel and put on some underwear and a bra before putting on my robe. "You can open your eyes now." I said as Dean opened one making sure it was okay before opening the other one.
"Can we talk?" Dean asked as I sat down on the bed next to him.
"Of course we can, are you okay?" I asked as Dean nodded his head slowly. "No you're not..." I said as I frowned.
"I don't know what happened Ashley..." Dean said as he rubbed his hands over his face.
"Well try and explain to me the best you can." I said as Dean nodded
"You can't tell the guys or Becca about this, okay?" Dean said as I shifted on the bed.
"I won't." I said as Dean sighed before talking.
"I feel like something is missing...I just don't feel complete. And it's driving me crazy because I've never felt like this before." Dean said as my heart broke for him.
"Do you know what you're missing?" I asked as Dean stayed silent.
"I'm not sure, I have an idea but it makes no sense..." Dean said as I tilted my head.
"And what's that?" I questioned as Dean shifted onto his side.
"I think it's something to do with not having a girlfriend. Which doesn't make any sense because I've never cared much about it before now." Dean explained as I tried to think of what to say.
"Well, from what I've heard you're not the guy you were years ago. Things change. Maybe you need to go on a date with a girl, test the waters." I said as Dean nodded.
"But who would I go out with?" Dean asked as I chuckled.
"Anyone, not every date you go on is gonna result in a relationship." I explained as Dean gave me a look.
"You've been in a relationship before, right?" Dean asked I rolled my eyes at him.
"Yes." I said
"What's it like?" Dean asked, I sighed. "I mean I've been in a few before but never a serious one, they never lasted longer than a month." Dean explained as I nodded my head.
"Well...I've only been in relationships with women..." I said as Dean looked at me with a soft smile.
"You're a lesbian?" He asked as I smiled.
"No, I'm bisexual. I like men and women, i've just never been in a relationship with a guy yet." I explained as he nodded.
"Well this is even better because you really understand what being in a relationship with a woman is like." I laughed at Dean, I'm glad he didn't care that I was bi.
"You can't tell anyone though." I said as Dean looked at me, his eyebrows were furrowed. "Nobody else knows." I said explaining. Dean continued to look at me.
"Not even Rebecca?" Dean asked, I shook my head no. "Why'd you tell me then?" Dean asked as I shrugged.
"You trusted me with something personal, I thought maybe I could tell you something personal about me." I said as Dean smiled.
"You ever plan on telling anyone else?" Dean asked as I smiled softly.
"I'm not sure, if they ask I'm not going to lie, but I don't think I'm gonna go and tell people as of now." I said as Dean nodded. "I'm gonna go change really quickly. I'll be right back and we can talk more, okay?" I said as Dean smiled nodding. I grabbed a pair of sweatpants and a white crop top and headed into the bathroom.
"Ashley?" Dean said as he knocked on the bathroom door.
"Yeah?" I asked as I put on my top and opened the door coming out.
"Thank you for talking to me, you're the first person I thought of." My heart melted at his words, I was glad that Dean trusted me. I might've hated this guy a few short months ago but I couldn't ever imagine him being hurt and having no one to talk to.
"You're welcome, we can talk whenever you need big guy." I said as I embraced Dean into a hug.
"You're a really good hugger." Dean commented as I pulled away with a smile. "I'm gonna have to introduce you to Bayley. She loves hugs, it's kinda her thing." Dean said, I laughed as we walked back over to the bed. I hopped onto the bed as Dean plopped down next to me. His head resting on my leg.
"Your hair is amazing if you didn't know." I said as I ran my fingers through his hair.
"It's nothing special." Dean said shrugging me off.
"I like it though." I said smiling.
"Okay kid. I've got a question." Dean said looking up at me.
"I might have an answer." I said making Dean smile.
"What do you think makes a good relationship?" Dean asked as I thought for a second.
"I think the most important things are Communication and Trust." I said as Dean grunted. "Nobody is gonna know something is bothering you unless you tell them, there's only so much guessing you can do. And trust, I know if I don't trust someone I'm not gonna be with them for long because I shouldn't even have a second thought that they aren't being faithful." I explained as Dean nodded.
"That's it?" Dean asked as I rolled my eyes.
"No, there's a lot more to it but I think those are really important parts." I said as I played with Dean's hair.
"Oh." Dean said as I laughed.
"You should stay over." I said as Dean looked up at me.
"Don't you share this room with Becca?" Dean asked as I nodded.
"Yeah, but she went back to the guys place she was on a date with. I think his names Austin or something like that." I explained as Dean gagged. "I know right, I'm just happy she's happy." I said as Dean shrugged. "What time is it?" I asked as Dean looked at his watch.
"Almost 9." Dean said.
"You hungry?" I asked as Dean shook his head.
"Well if you want something to eat I have leftovers in the fridge." I said as Dean nodded.
"You know, you're a really cool chick." Dean said making me smile.
"Thank you." I said
"Like I've never met a girl that likes wrestling, marvel movies, music, cooking, and alcohol." Dean said as I chuckled.
"Yeah, I guess I'm a bit different." I mumbled.
"It's not a bad thing, a bunch of guys are all over you at work." Dean said as I rolled my eyes.
"Tell me about it, they just don't understand that I don't want to talk to them, like at all." I groaned out. "That Paige girl is cute though..." I said laying down on the pillow.
"She's married, although I think you guys would be great friends." Dean said as I shook my head.
"Damnit everyone hot is either taken or not interested in me." I said as Dean chuckled.
"Hey! I'm right here..." Dean said pointing a finger at himself looking up at me.
"Yeah, you aren't hot though." I said, I laughed as I saw Dean's mildly offended reaction.
"You are." Dean mumbled as I shook my head.
"I am not. Oh by the way, most girls from what I've noticed prefer beautiful or gorgeous over just hot." I commented.
"Noted. You're still pretty gorgeous." Dean said as I rolled my eyes.
"Whatever." I shifted myself in the bed so Dean's head rested on my stomach now.
"It's true, I never understood why people try and sell themselves short of what they really look like." Dean said as I shrugged.
"Confidence and self esteem issues play a part in that." I said as Dean nodded.
"...you're pretty confident though." Dean said as I smiled softly.
"In some situations I guess, I think my insecurities come from people in my past telling me what was wrong with me." I explained, Dean made a face at me.
"Absolutely nothing is wrong with you, and the people that say there is can go fuck themselves." Dean grumbled out lowly.
"I'll make sure to tell them for you." I said with a smile. Dean rolled his eyes at me. "You gonna go change?" I asked as Dean shook his head.
"I can sleep in this, I'll sleep on the couch so you don't have to." Dean said as I looked at him confused.
"You don't have to sleep on the couch." I said, now it was Dean's turn to look at me confused. "The bed is big enough for both of us." I said. Dean continued to look at me.
"I just thought you'd be uncomfortable..." I rolled my eyes as Dean tried to explain himself.
"For heaven's sake, I sleep with Becca almost every night. Despite what you may think I've never wanted to have sex with her because we've slept in the same bed." I said as Dean laughed. "People find it hard to believe that a man and women can just be friends." I said as Dean moved off of me and slid over to the side of the bed. I looked at what he was doing, he was taking off his boots.
"Your boots are old." I stated as Dean nodded.
"I've had them since I started my wrestling career." Dean said as he slid back over to me, this time I was the one resting my head on his chest.
"You know, I'm still mad at you for carrying me instead of just waking me up." I said as Dean rolled his eyes chuckling.
"I'll make sure to scream in your ear next time." Dean said as I laughed.
"Okay maybe don't do that, I'm sure I'll wake up if you shake me enough." I said as Dean looked at me.
"I don't want a pissed off barely awake Ashley coming for me." Dean said as I broke out into a grin.
"I wouldn't do that to you." I said nudging Dean as he chuckled.
"What do you wanna do now?" Dean asked as I paused thinking for a second.
"Wanna watch old wrestling matches?" I asked as Dean smiled wide.
"See what I mean, no other chick would want to do this in their free time." Dean said as I smiled.
"Popcorn is in the cabinet." I said as Dean got up and put some in the microwave. I grabbed my laptop off the side table and pulled up my account on wwe.
"Want the popcorn in a bowl?" Dean asked from the kitchen.
"I don't care, get your ass over here." I said as Dean chuckled bringing over the popcorn.
"What matches are we watching?" Dean asked as an idea popped into my head. I opened another tab and pulled up an old HWA wrestling video. "Turn that off." Dean said trying to exit out of the match of him and some other dude wrestling.
"No!! I wanna watch you wrestle." I whined as Dean finally stopped trying to grab my laptop.
"You can watch recent matches of me wrestling ." Dean mumbled as I smiled rolling my eyes.
"Yeah but Jon Moxley was so much better, I mean come on look at that hair!" I said as Dean scoffed at me.
"Trust me, Jon Moxley was a crazy mother fucker." Dean said as I paused the match.
"Yeah, you really do look like a Jon though." I commented as Dean grunted. "Does anyone ever call you Jonathan anymore?" I asked, Dean shook his head.
"Not anymore, no. I like Dean too, I don't care if people call me Jon though. It just gets confusing because it's a really common name." As Dean explained I leaned into him making myself comfortable.
"Well since we're watching you wrestle..." I trailed off as I went into my saved files and pulled up an old video.
"What's this?" Dean asked as I hushed him just telling him to watch. As the video kept playing Dean finally realized what it was. "You wrestled?" Dean asked as I nodded sheepishly.
"Yeah a long ass time ago, after I stopped I kept training and stuff I just never signed with a company." I explained as Dean gave me a look.
"That's cool, do you still know how to wrestle?" Dean questioned as I nodded my head before speaking.
"Really well actually, like I said I never stopped training, I just didn't find the time to get back into it." I said while eating some of the popcorn.
"But you became a journalist instead?" Dean asked while he scooted closer to me.
"Yeah, I love writing and telling stories, don't get me wrong though, wrestling will always have a special place in my heart." I explained to Dean. "Nobody knows that either, so zip it bud." I said as Dean chuckled.
"Wow, I know so many secrets about you." Dean said as I laughed.
"Nobody cares to ask me these things, plus usually during the night I'm way more likely to tell people things, it doesn't help when I've had a glass of wine or two either..." I said while going back to my wwe account.
"How does Rebecca not notice you going to the gym and training?" Dean asked as I thought for a second.
"We don't go to the gym together, and when we do I'll do weight training or some cardio." I said as Dean grunted.
"Do you not want her knowing?" Dean questioned as I stiffened up.
"It's not that..." I said while sighing "...it's just wrestling has a lot to do with my past, and I don't really want to bring it up again. Especially to Becca because she'd be all involved probably forcing me to get a tryout with wwe or something." I said while running a hand through my hair.
"Don't hate me for this, but what if all of us went to the performance center and we wrestled each other?" Dean suggested as I tilted my head. "It'll be mad funny, because they'll all get their asses handed to them by you. They'll be confused as fuck, and I'll get to see how you've improved since the match you showed me, which I'm pretty positive is from over ten years ago." Dean said while I scooted my laptop off my lap to look him in the eyes.
"I think that sounds amazing, but we can't tell anyone that I've wrestled before." I said as Dean broke out in a grin.
"Deal, if they ask just tell them you watch a lot of wrestling and picked up some of the moves." Dean said as I sighed nodding my head.
"Sounds like a plan big guy, I'm gonna demolish your ass." I mumbled, Dean scoffed at me.
"We'll see about that..." Dean trailed off. I pulled my laptop back up to me and put on a playlist of old wwf and legendary matches. Both me and Dean settled down after awhile and just watched the videos together while adding comments every once and a while.
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Holy fuck that was a long chapter. My hands hurt from typing. I'm gonna let them rest for a bit lmao. This chapter was written s bit ago and I'm having a crappy day rn so I hope y'all are doing better than me :/ Happy Reading! 💕
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