"Hey ladies!" Nikki says sitting down. I smile while chewing my food, "Hey girl."  Cameron says fixing her hair.

"What took you so long?" Aj asks. "I was working out with, Seth. By the way why weren't you with, Dean?" She asks, "He knows I don't get up that early to workout."

"Whatever." She says with a chuckle. She walks over to get her food and as she's coming back Emma walks through he door.

I haven't talked or seen her since last night. She's grinning from ear to ear and I'm sure I know why.

She sits on the table beside me and keeps grinning. "Why so happy?" Eva asks raising her eyebrows. Emma grins more and then squeals, "Roman asked me on a date!"

The girls go crazy and they're all squealing now. Great. Just great. I cover my ears annoyed.

Aj looks at and I quickly force myself to smile. I don't want her or anybody else to think I'm an ass and that I'm not happy for Emma because ... I am.

"What? How?" Natalya asks, "Did he kiss you?!" Naomi squeals, "Did he held your hand?" Cameron screams, "Where did y'all go?!" Eva says, "Is there going to be a second date?" Nikki asks covering her mouth.

I start poking my food, suddenly I'm not hungry anymore. Weird. I look up from poking my food and see Roman walk in, he's with Seth and Dean of course.

He glances at me and smiles and I smile back, I don't know why. It was out of instinct. He simply makes me smile.

But then I get elbowed by Emma and reality slaps me in the face. "There he is! How do I look?" Emma asks me, "You look gorgeous." I say. And I'm not lying.

Emma is stunning. She's the definition of beautiful. Her skin is the perfect tone, not too pale and not too tan.

"Good." She says smiling and waving at Roman, he waves back and I look at Seth and Dean. They start walking to our table.

"Good morning love." Dean tells aj kissing her forehead. She grins happily, "Good morning, Deanie."

"Why don't y'all get a table and put it beside ours?" Emma asks staring directly at Roman. They move a small table beside ours.

Roman ends up sitting beside Emma, Aj and Dean are beside me. So now I'm stuck between two couples.

"Are you guys ready for Des Moines, Iowa?" Seth asks, we all nod. Today after the live show we leave and go to Iowa for smackdown.

Everybody is talking about what's happening with their storylines and stuff. I stay quiet looking at my food. When I glance up I catch Aj staring at me, she's giving me a look like "are you okay?"

So I smile, she smiles back after a few seconds and turns to Dean again. "Be right back." Roman says getting up.

"Oh my gosh, he sat beside me! Do you think this is going to lead to something else?" Emma whispers to me, "I don't know. Probably."

"Why didn't you text me back last night?" She asks, "Oh..I was with Kevin, I didn't want to be rude."I say. "Well now I can tell you all about it. He told me I looked beautiful, and he was such a gentleman!" She gushes with blushed cheeks.

"I really, really, really like him! Like so bad, and I want him to ask me out. Do you think he will ask me out?" Before I can answer she cuts me off, "But I'm sure he will ask me out, otherwise he wouldn't have asked me out on a date last night. Right?"

"Well yeah but-" she interrupts me again, "And plus he was being sweet and nice and funny and he came to sit beside me!"

"Yeah, Emma, but-" she starts talking again and I start to get angry. "Okay! I get it!" I scream, the whole table goes silent and Emma is looking at me with a shocked expression.

I feel like screaming at Emma again but I don't. I get up from the table with my plate. "I'm not hungry anymore." I walk away from the table and throw the leftover food to the trash.

I'm about to put the dirty plates where they go when Roman comes up behind me. "Why leaving so early?" He asks. "Not hungry." I say putting the plate down, I try to get by him but he stands in my way.

"Are you okay?" He asks looking down at me. I roll my eyes, "That's all you do Roman, you always ask me if I'm okay." He clears his throat with an embarrassed look and I suddenly few really bad.

I hate acting this way. And I don't know why I do it. "Well, I care. Is that bad?" He says, I shrug my shoulders and look ahead.

"Okay." He says after a while, "Okay." I repeat looking in his eyes. We stare at each other for a while, he doesn't move just stands still.

I start feeling nervous and embarrassed and feel my body get hot. He smiles and I fee my body get hotter. "I like making you blush."

"I'm not blushing." I say focusing on the wall behind him so the stupid blush disappears. "If you say so." He says with a grin.

I start to panic when I see from a distance Emma get up, she's probably coming to look for Roman. "Yeah, well great talk. Bye." I walk by him and run out the room.

*•*•*
"What's wrong, Paige?" Nikki asks as she is finishing packing. I close my suitcase and turn to face her, "Nothing why?"

"Because you've acting weird lately. And this morning you screamed at Emma." She says, I look at the floor ashamed.

"I know. I apologized to her and she said it was okay." I shrug sitting on my bed. "What was she even saying?"

"She kept talking about her date with Roman, and she wouldn't let me talk. And now it's all about Roman, Roman this, Roman that. The world does not fucking revolve around him." I didn't realize how mad I sounded until Nikki gives me a look.

"Paige," she begins saying, "Remember a while back when I was going on my first dinner with Seth, you told me you were getting feelings for somebody, and that I was going to be he first to know?"

Of course I remember. I remember it like it was yesterday. "No." I lie, "I know you do." She says waking over to me, she sits beside me. "Was that guy, Roman?"

I get up from the bed, "What? Are you crazy? No. Of course it wasn't him!" I say little loud, usually when I get nervous I speak louder than usual. "Are you sure? You seem jealous that Roman and Emma are talking or whatever."

"Jealous? Ha. Please." I roll my eyes and cross my arms. "You know I won't tell nobody. It might help if you talk about it." She says softly.

Nikki is so sweet. She's a very caring person. Sometimes I wish Emma was more like her, because Emma is my best friend but it feels like she only wants to flak about her feelings.

She never asks me how I feel. She never asks me about my life, my feelings.

"I- I used to have a little crush on him." I whisper afraid somebody will hear even bough it's just Nikki and I in the room. "So it was him?"

"Yes.. But I use to only think he was cute. I wasn't in love with him or anything. And I'm over it now. Plus Emma likes him, she liked him before."

"Are you sure about that? Or are you just telling yourself that because Emma claims him?" I sit back down on the bed and run my temples, this has given me a headache. "I don't know."

"Do you still like him?" She asks, "I don't know." I repeat, she puts her arm around me and squeezes me. "It's okay, Paige."

But it isn't.