Requested by nathanarniell1

I am so so sorry that this took me so long to write!  I have been so busy with stuff outside of Wattpad (school + work), and even my books here on Wattpad have had me sidetracked.

My goal right now is to get my other requests written and published before the month is over.  Fingers crossed I reach that goal.

I do hope you like it, and now seems like a good time to say that I am in love with Peyton's short hair. 

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Cold Water - Justin Bieber

She had sent him a heart emoji.

He had just finished wrestling one of his final NXT matches, and upon arriving backstage, Tye had checked his phone to see a text from Peyton. It was simply a heart emoji; she had told him a few weeks ago (they'd been dating for about two months now) that she would randomly send him a heart emoji sometime during the day to remind him that she loved him.

He couldn't put into words how he felt about her - how much he loved her. It would always take him a few minutes to type back a response, and most of the time, it ended up being a matching heart emoji.

He didn't have long to ponder over his words, though, as people soon began approaching him, and he was receiving a mix of "goodbye"'s and "congratulations."

Tye had been in NXT since the very beginning, so he had gotten to know everybody who walked through those doors: from Seth Rollins to Charlotte Flair, Bo Dallas to Finn Balor, and even those who didn't last long in the Performance Center.

He was on SmackDown now, and while he was incredibly grateful and very excited to be on the main roster again, there was one person he was leaving behind in NXT.

Peyton Royce.

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After talking with (nearly) the entire NXT roster - Triple H even stopped by to send him off - Tye finally had a moment to himself.

He wanted to spend that moment with Peyton.

He began searching for her, not even changing out of his gear. He soon found her where he'd left her with Billie, though her iconic partner was nowhere to be found.

She was standing, her back turned to him, though she must have heard him come in, because she began speaking.

"Will you tell me something?"

"What?" He asked, tilting his head in confusion.

She finally turned to look at him. "Do you love me?"

"Of course." He began walking toward her, but stopped when she brought her hand up.

"I'm not trying to sound crazy or irrational here," She said, "but you always take a long time to reply to my texts, and you haven't even responded to the one I sent 20 minutes ago."

"Oh."

"Oh?" She frowned.

"I'm going to try my best to explain this," He told her. "First of all, I love you." She smiled a little bit. "I love you so much that I don't know how to put it into words. I'm not poetic, or good at putting my thoughts into words.

"But whenever I unlock my phone and see a heart from you, I stop and trying to type everything - my feelings, I guess - down, but I always come up blank. So I just send you a heart back."

"Oh..."

"Oh?" He teased, and she just pursed her lips to keep from smiling. "I love you, Peyton Royce. Don't ever think for a second that I don't."

She sighed. "I'm sorry. I just didn't know how to ask you about this, and Billie told me I should just confront you about it."

"I thought we already learned not to take advice from Billie."

She rolled her eyes. "You say we, but I know you mean me."

"Hey, you said it, not me."

She laughed. "You suck, Tye Dillinger, but I still love you anyway.

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"And if you feel you're sinking, I will jump right over into cold, cold water for you. And although time may take us into different places, I will still be patient with you. And I hope you know, I won't let go."