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Roman stood there, staring at Seth. It felt like his heart had been shattering into a million little pieces after what he had just seen - Seth was kissing Dean! He tried to speak more than once, but nothing came out of his mouth although he wish something did. Roman bent down to grab the keys, then walked away from Seth, trying to find the house key and open the front door but his hands were shaking too much.
Roman could hear behind him footsteps, Seth saying Roman's name multiple times. He opened the door, trying to shut it behind him but Seth caught the door, walking into the house. It slowly shut while Seth followed Roman upstairs.
"Roman, please say something." Seth begged, "I don't - "
"Just leave me alone, Seth!" Roman yelled.
Roman went into their bedroom, Seth shutting the door behind him. Leaning against the door, he watched Roman take off his jacket, not turning to look at him and instead just looking out the window which Roman had noticed showed a room in Dean's house. Just thinking about Dean right now angered Roman, finally turning around.
"How long has this been happening?" Roman yelled, eyebrows raised.
Seth shook his head, "You don't want to know, it - "
"I want to know!" Roman cut him off.
He crossed his arms over his chest, watching as Seth lowered his head, looking at the ground. Seth couldn't see how hurt Roman would be after his response.
"We've been seeing each other for a little over a year. You remember that Mets game that I bought tickets for but you didn't want to go and instead I went with Nikki Bella? It was against the Cincinnati Reds?" Seth recalled, looking up to see Roman nodding his head. "That's where I met him. We bumped into each other accidentally and he apologized... Later that night, I ran into him again and he gave me his phone number. I told Nikki I threw his phone number out because I'm with you but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. When we got together, I would drive down to Ohio to stay with him for a few days and then come back because when we met he was only visiting New York for a few days. I felt it was exciting to be with him, and I still feel that way."
Seth noticed Roman turn his head, his jaw clenched. Roman thought back to that night they were having dinner, when he asked Dean how he met his boyfriend... And he told the same story. Shaking his head, he uncrossed his arms.
"I'm such an idiot!" He thought out loud, exclaiming, "How could I not have known? It was so obvious!"
"You're not an idiot, Roman! You had worries about it - "
"Yes, I am! My neighbor and my boyfriend were sleeping together while I went to sleep peacefully?" Roman lowered his voice. He thought of something, pausing and then pointed at him, "Wait, you said he was from Ohio - Why did he move to New York then, if you traveled all the way down there just to see him for a few days?"
Seth decided to sit down on the bed, motioning for Roman to sit down as well but he backed up. He didn't want to be near Seth right now.
"The week after the Kelly family told us they were moving, I was in Ohio to spend some time with Dean. Of course, I told him that I was upset they were moving because they were our neighbors since we moved in to our house..." Seth trailed off, "... Then he suggested that he should buy the house, that way I wouldn't have to spend hours driving to and from there every few weeks. I agreed to and I bought the house for him since he was having some financial trouble at the time." He went on, pausing to see Roman biting his nails. "I took the money from my account but I loaned him some money a couple months ago because he needed help paying for some things, which I took from our joint account because I didn't have the money in mine."
Roman thought back to seeing that letter from the bank that mentioned money being taken out of their joint account. He had asked Seth about it that night but he didn't say anything. Everything made sense now.
"Why did you react so badly when I kissed Dean, huh? If you've been screwing him for the last year, why did you call me a hypocrite and make me sleep on the couch?" Roman asked.
Seth bit his lip, he shrugged his shoulders. "I can't tell you - "
"Tell me, please. After all, what's worse than finding out your partner has been cheating on you right next door?"
"Fine, but I know you aren't going to like the answer... The day after you guys met, he was at my office and we... Had sex, but afterwards he told me he met you and that it was weird because you were asking him if he was in a relationship. He told me he kissed you and I reacted the same way I did with you." Seth explained.
Roman scoffed, "What about Julian? We've been talking about and going through the process to raise a child for three years now. You wanted marriage a year ago - "
"I told you I've changed since then. That was before I met Dean, okay? I stopped wanting marriage when I knew I wasn't being completely honest with you." Seth explained, "I want to raise Julian with you, Roman. Trust me, I do - "
"Well you won't." Roman interrupted.
"W-Why not?" Seth asked.
Roman went over to the nightstand, picking up a frame and threw it over to where Seth was sitting. He grabbed it, looking at the picture to see it was both Roman and him at their friend Natalya's wedding, Seth holding Roman's hand. Just seeing the picture hurt Seth.
"Because I'm going to raise Julian on my own," Roman decides, "Go, be with Dean."
Seth sat in shock, looking down at the photo again - He didn't want to let Roman go.
"But we can work this out, Roman, we can - "
"What if I don't want to work it out? How can I trust you? How am I supposed to know whether or not you are still sleeping with Dean? Seth, we were about to sign the papers that allows us to raise Julian..." Roman pointed out, "If we do this and we end up separating, do you really want to bring a child into that?"
Seth shook his head, still looking at the photo. He always imagined raising a child with Roman, even during the bad times, but right now he wasn't so sure about that. Roman sat down on the bed but kept as distance as he could from Seth, staring at him, wishing that Seth would say something. Roman watched Seth put the frame down and look up at him, noticing tears coming down his face.
"I don't want to lose you." Seth said, his voice cracking, "but I don't want to lose Dean either."
Roman checked his watch before running his hand through his hair, sighing. All of this couldn't be happening, but it was. Seth wiped the tears away, Roman noticing a hickey on Seth's neck, turning his head towards the window to see the light in the house next to them, suddenly the light turned off.
"You've already lost me, Seth." Roman says, "Maybe we just weren't supposed to be together for long, it isn't our time anymore." Roman didn't know it could hurt so much to say one thing but it did.
"It could still be our time - "
"No, it can't be." Roman denied, "I'm sorry, but I think we should break up. Pack your things and I want you out by tomorrow morning."
"Come on Roman, please - "
"No, Seth! I'm sorry but you lied to me about something important. Not only that, but I asked you on many occasions if you were cheating on me and all you had to say was that you were! At least then you would've been honest but you weren't. You made me feel guilty for kissing Dean but yet you were doing other things with him. That's not fair to me."
Roman stood up and left the bedroom, leaving Seth alone. He went downstairs, into the living room, sitting down on the couch. Just sitting there for a few minutes, Roman collected everything that had happened... Laying down on the couch, Roman felt the tears starting to form but he bit his lip, fighting them back. Closing his eyes, the last thing Roman remembered was hearing movement upstairs.
Dean was sure that someone knocking on the door was apart of his dream but as it got louder, he knew it wasn't. Groaning as he got up, putting on a pair of boxers, he saw the clock read in big red letters 2:28 AM.
This better be good, he thought to himself.
Once he was downstairs, Dean turned the light on in the hallway, his eyes trying to get used to the bright light. Opening the door, his eyes widen to see Seth with a suitcase in his hand and two behind him. Glancing around the neighborhood, there was no lights on but the street lights, he looked back to Seth.
"What's going on?" Dean asked.
"Roman and I finally broke up and I was wondering if I could stay with you..." Seth asked, "I know it's last minute but - "
"No, come in. It's alright, you can stay here for as long as you'd like." Dean cuts Seth off.
Dean waved Seth into his house, helping him carrying in the suitcases. Shutting the door, Dean found himself being pulled into a tight hug from Seth, awkwardly rubbing Seth's back.
"Thanks for being so nice." Seth whispers, "I love you so fucking much."
Waking up the next day, Roman was sure he didn't want to go to work and be around anyone but somehow he found the energy to get up and into the shower. After going into his room, seeing that everything that belonged to Seth's was gone, it felt empty but he continued to dress himself before grabbing his keys and headed to the car. Out of the corner of his eyes, Roman noticed that Seth's car was now in Dean's driveway. Trying not to react, Roman got into his car and drove to work.
Roman sat with Veronica Lane and Lana as they ate breakfast together in the teacher's lounge, Veronica and Lana discussing the date that Lana had gone on the night before. Lana told a joke that had Veronica bursting out into laughter. Roman saw Mr. Roberts say hello to everyone in the lounge, getting a cup of coffee and a bagel before leaving the room.
Roman quickly got up from the table minutes before the bell rung, throwing away half of his breakfast. He walked down the hallway to get to his office without saying hello or waving to any of his co-workers, just wanting to go home. Opening his office door, he left it open just in case someone needed to talk to him, going over to his couch and grabbing an empty box. Carrying it over to his desk, Roman began to put his things into the box when he heard a knock on the door. Looking up, he saw Mr. Roberts standing in the doorway.
"You okay, son?" He asks.
Roman put his notebook into the box, "Where do I begin?" Roman let out a chuckle, "Um, well... I proposed to Seth and he said no because he had changed over this last year, which I didn't think anything of..." He began, pointing to Mr. Roberts, "Do you remember the worry that I had that Seth was cheating on me? Well, I found out he was cheating on me with the neighbor I told you about, the one I kissed. And we broke up last night."
Mr. Robert's eyes widen, shaking his head. He crossed his arms over his chest, leaning against the wall.
"I'm sorry to hear that, is there anything I can do?" He asks.
"Yeah, give me back the last year that my boyfriend has been lying to me." Roman responded.
"What are you going to do about raising Julian?" He asks.
Roman shrugged his shoulders, grabbing a picture frame and put it in the box face down. "I'm going to raise him alone," Roman informed. He cleared his throat, looking down to the box.
Before Mr. Robert's could say something, someone called for him. Sighing, "I'll be back by the end of the day, okay? We'll continue this conversation then." He said, walking away.
After cleaning up his office and going to the graduation ceremony later that day, Roman began congratulating all of the students and hugging them One of the students had taken him off to the side and thanked him for all the advice he'd given the student the whole school year and for listening to him, which Roman became speechless. This was the kind of stuff that made him love his job. All he could do was smile and hug the student.
After what seemed like a meeting that went on forever, Roman stood up from the chair and shook Mr. Piper's hand, smiling widely. He let himself out of the office, Mr. Piper following behind him. Roman found himself being taken to a big room with three people in the back putting away files, typing something up on the computer and talking to someone on the phone.
Mr. Piper brought Roman over to a bench with a boy sitting there reading a comic book.
Roman looked at Mr. Piper, pointing to the little boy, "Is that him?" He asked.
Mr. Piper nodded his head, Roman walking up to him and sat down next to Julian. He was staring at Julian with a smile on his face, Roman felt the tears most forming.
"What are you reading?" Roman asked. Julian looked up to Roman, closing the comic book and showed him it was an Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Box issue. "Do you like it?" He wondered, Julian nodded his head. "Do you know who I am?"
Julian shook his head, putting the comic book next to him on the other side of the bench, looking back up at Roman. "Are you going to be my new dad?"
"Yeah, I am." Roman said, running a hand through his hair, "I have a room for you at my - I mean our house. I wasn't sure what kind of stuff you liked, so we can go shopping anytime to buy anything you like, okay?"
"They told me I was going to have two dads," Julian says.
Roman shook his head, "No, just me. Your other dad is... He and I went our separate ways." Mr. Piper came back with a bag and handed it to Roman, who took it and stood up. "It's getting late, why don't we go home and you can get some rest?"
Julian stood up and started walking with Roman out of the building, Roman noticing that Julian stopped to turn around and look at the building he'd been staying at for a long time before they walked over to Roman's car.
Seth was laughing at a joke Dean had told as Seth walked out of their house and put the beers on the table on the deck, Dean coming out with two plates. He handed Seth his plate, both sitting down. It had been two weeks since Seth came to Dean's house in the middle of the night, barely giving any details of what happened that night.
"So I've been thinking... Maybe we should buy a house somewhere else, you know, now that we are living next to your ex-boyfriend." Dean said.
Seth shrugged his shoulders, picking at his food, "I never thought of that. Yeah, we should, I've been keeping my eyes on a really nice house that's twenty minutes away from here."
Dean smiled, "Really?"
"Yep. Two story, four bedroom..." He trailed off as something was thrown into their backyard. Both turning their heads to the left, they saw a baseball that looked like it came from Roman's backyard.
Dean heard Seth sigh, getting up from his chair and picked up the ball, standing there for a second until someone unfamiliar appeared at the fence. It looked to be a boy of seven, eight years with black hair and brown eyes, Seth knowing he looked familiar.
"Is this your ball?" Seth asks.
The boy nods his head, Seth handing it back to him. He thanked Seth, running back to the other side of the backyard. He saw Roman in a tank top and a pair of jeans walk by the backyard, Seth calling him, Roman walking up to the fence.
"Can I help you? It looks like you and Dean are in the middle of something important... And so am I."
Seth pointed to the boy, "I-Is that Julian?"
Roman nodded his head, "Yep. You're missing out, he's a great kid."
"Hey, dad, I'm going to get something to drink." Julian said.
Roman and Seth turned to look at Julian who was going inside the house with the ball in his hand, Roman turning back to Seth. He saw that Seth looked happy to see Julian but seemed a little upset by that as well, looking down to the ground.
"He's been living here for two weeks, the first day he slept until noon." Roman recalled. Seth looked up to see Roman smiling from ear to ear and his eyes lit up, "Julian told me that he's always wanted to play baseball and we decided to when it got a little more warm... So how's the happy couple Dean and Seth?"
"We're doing good, happy." Seth replies, "It's nice to see you with Julian, you look very happy to be raising him."
"I am." Roman says. Roman looked over his shoulder to see Julian coming out of the house, a cup of soda in his hand, looking back at Seth, "I've got to go, have a nice night."
Seth watched Roman walk away, Julian throwing the ball to Roman and them going continuing their game of baseball. He smiled at the sight of the two smiling and playing baseball, walking back to where Dean was already eating his dinner. When he sat down at the table, Dean wiping his mouth with a napkin.
"Everything okay?" He asked.
"Yeah, I was just asking Roman some questions about Julian. He said that he's a great kid, I'm happy for him." Seth replied, waving it off. "So, where were we? Oh yeah, a two stories, four bedroom..." Seth found Dean's hand, smiling wide. He saw a grin on Dean's face, "... Also did I mention the house had it's own pool? That's what kind of sold it for me, but..."
Hey everyone! I hope you've enjoyed the last chapter of You're the One, which I wish could've been longer, but I had a lot of fun writing this story! I do have another story I am writing, Aftermath, which will be updated soon!
I know I may say this a lot but thank you to everyone who's read, favorited, followed and reviewed all of my stories. I love hearing from you guys, it makes my day. You guys are the reasons why I continue to write fanfiction, no matter how emotional and crazy they are, haha.
Love, Ryan (Lizzie)