New Beginnings
Christina was happy as she could be. Life was great at the Golden Ring Casino. She was making money and being close to Vegas felt great as well. She wore her waitress dress with a smile on her face as she waited on various tables in one of the casinos finest restaurants. The tips kept on coming and the money that she was making felt so right. Between being a big time wrestler and one of the best looking waitresses’ that the casino had to offer fans, millionaires, and customers alike couldn’t help but give Christina the best of tips. This had been perhaps the best decision that Christina had ever made in her life. Christina smirked as she truly looked like something from Jane the Virgin as she waited on table after table. The money was flowing rapidly as she placed it into her apron. Things were going okay until a fellow waitress named Melissa called out to her. Christina eagerly smiled at her.
“Melissa do you see all of this money that I am making, I never knew that waitressing could be so fun. You ever see the movie La La Land where Emma Stone is a barista and yet she does everything she can to be the best actress in the world but she never gets a call back…”
“And yet Ryan Gosling swoops right in and gets her motivated to the point where she becomes motivated and reaches for her dreams?! Yes you told me a million times how Emma Stone won an Oscar for that role and that’s how you feel being here… Look we can talk dreams and fantasies but Dani Weston wants to speak to you…”
Christina’s eyes opened wide up as she glanced back at her fellow waitress.
“What do you mean Dani wants to speak to me?! Did I do something wrong. Last time I checked I was making so much money for this casino. I am getting the customers to order expensive food and order drink after drink which results in them wanting to spend more money in the casino so they can eventually see my pretty face…”
“Look I don’t know what Dani wants but you really should go see her. She is nice but she doesn’t like to be kept waiting…”
Christina could only sigh in return as she walked to a different part of the restaurant. She sighs as she sees Dani Weston behind a bar and looks at her.
“Hey Dani did you want to talk?!”
Dani nods her head at Christina as she smirks in return.
“I did want to speak to you. I just want to say you have been doing an amazing job here. All of your customers seem happy but Daniel Morgan wants to have a word with you…”
“A word with me about what exactly I really didn’t do anything…”
“Look all I know is that he wants you to take that waitress dress off…”
Christina raises her eyes in return.
“Look I don’t know what he is trying to pull but that sounds foolish. I am not going to get undressed. That’s not even modest and…”
“Christina I am trying to say this as nice as possible but”
Dani sighs as she takes a long deep breath.
“You know what why don’t you just go speak to Daniel… He is waiting for you anyway. He told me to do it but I just don’t have to heart to do it to you…”
Christina shakes her head uneasily as she walks towards Daniel’s office. She had no idea at what was going on. She didn’t know what to make of any of it but she wasn’t going to keep Mr. Morgan waiting especially after his big meeting during the morning. She quickly walked to his office as she creaked the door opened and walked inside.
“Did you want me Mr. Morgan?!”
“Daniel… You can call me Daniel and I told Dani to tell you but obviously the message didn’t get through. I asked her to tell you to take that waitress dress off. There’s a huge event coming tonight and our client requested that you shouldn’t be working tonight…”
“Wait a minute your client knows me?!”
Daniel shakes his head.
“We have a huge event in the ballroom tonight and they requested for you not to work. It’s a shame considering you know it’s going to be a huge event when you request to do something in the ballroom but tonight they didn’t want you there. I tried to tell them that you are my best waitress but they didn’t want to hear anything of it…”
Christina could only sigh in return as she glanced back at Daniel.
“I know you wanted me to change but could it maybe wait until I got home. I really didn’t bring another change of clothes…”
“Actually I wasn’t really asking you Christina I was telling you… I need you to get out of that outfit now. I have better plans for it. If you need something to wear I do have something you could wear. A woman of your tastes could do with something fancy from one of our stores…”
With that he snapped his fingers and almost on cue a woman walked into the room holding a gorgeous dress. Christina flared at it as her jaw dropped to the floor as a pair of red bottom Louboutins were brought in to go with it. Christina nodded as she nodded her head in agreement. She wasn’t going to argue what her boss wanted. She would do anything to keep her job which meant she was going to obey what he wanted. She slowly grabs the dress as she walks to the bathroom and changes into the dress and returns back with her waitress dress.
“There how do I look?!”
“Fantastic… Look Christina I assure you this isn’t my doing. Our client tonight is very persistent and well she isn’t the most loud spoken person but when she told me what she wanted to use the ballroom for I told her we would just do it free of charge. Use it as a write off…”
Christina’s eyes open wide up.
“WRITE OFF?! The casino is going to host a free event?! That doesn’t even sound right. Look I love being here but I want to make the most money possible, and I still don’t fully understand at what is going on. I love wearing this outfit but I want to go to this event. I want to know who would cause you to do a pro bono event here…”
“In due time Christina but stay here. The reason why you aren’t working the event is because you are going to be the client’s personal date for this big event they are hosting. They actually asked for it. So the staff will leave you with whatever make up you need and in due time it will all make sense…”
Christina stands there dumbfounded as Daniel smirks.
“But don’t worry you aren’t in trouble for anything. You are going to enjoy what’s coming your way. I meant what I said in my meeting earlier and to be honest you are one of my best workers here. You really have a way for this entire waitress thing. I want to give you an early Christmas gift. After the break in January the casino is going to host one of those big comic convention and video game tournaments. I was wondering if you would maybe take point on it. it would be a chance to branch out from the waitressing role and…”
“YES I WILL DEFINITELY DO IT… IT’S GOING TO BE SUPER EXCITING AND I CAN’T WAIT FOR IT!!!”
Daniel smirks as he looks at Christina.
“Good that’s what I like to hear. Anyway you enjoy yourself and I am sure I will be seeing you later…”
With that Daniel left as Christina was left in the room by herself. An hour went by and there was a knock at the door. Christina opened the door and standing there wearing a gorgeous dress was none other than her wife Seleana. Seleana was dressed in a nice dress that showcased her curvy legs. She smirked as she greeted her wife with a kiss.
“Hey Estrellita you ready for the big event tonight?!”
“Wait you are the big client that rented out the ballroom?!”
“Si… There’s something I want to show you…”
Seleana grabbed Christina’s arm and held her arm and arm. They slowly made their way to the ballroom as Seleana was all grins standing at the entrance of the ballroom.
“I love you Star. You are everything to me and you have put in so much work into everything you do. I love you more than you could realize and I know it might be tough to go back to Los Angeles this weekend but I wanted you to feel at peace. It doesn’t matter if we are in Los Angeles, or even in Vegas. Home is where the heart is and when I am with you I always feel at home. Here you go babe…”
Seleana hands Christina an envelope and she doesn’t waste any time opening it. Inside the envelope is a piece of paper that reads about Rose Productions Studios stocks.
“These are stocks from the company. I have been saving up and playing the market so you could get what you lost. I won’t allow people to take advantage of you and I just want you to know we are a team, and I am right here on your side. It’s unfair that your birthday is the day before Thanksgiving so I figure we get this out of the way. Happy Birthday sweetie…”
With that Seleana opened the door and the staff from the casino were all inside. They all immediately yelled out to Christina.
“HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!”
Christina was full of tears. She didn’t know what to think as she glanced at Dani, Danielle, her Zdunich sister in laws, and the rest of her family and friends. She glared at her wife hugging her tightly. It felt good… This is what she wanted… This is what felt like home to her she said as we slowly fade out on the image.
On Camera
Everything comes into focus and as it does we are treated to the sight of Christina Rose sitting down on top of the famous Hollywood sign. Her eyes gaze out onto the beautiful city in the horizon. She smiles as she remains seated and just glances at everything that is off in the distance. Today she is clad in a Los Angeles Lakers Jersey. She crosses her arms as she begins to speak.
“As I sit here on this hill gazing out at the beautiful scenery that is Southern California it feels weird to be back here. As all of you know I am a Detroit girl born and raised and I have spent a year training under my father in Mexico. That is my life in a nutshell and I have lived in so many different places, such as being tied to my birth place in Michigan, being the hero of a gym in Mexico City, being tied to the Williams family in that of New York. Yet as many places as I have been the one place that has truly felt like home for me for the past 15 years has been that of Los Angeles. It has been this city, the land of Hollywood. This is my life and it is the place where I raised my daughter. It feels weird to be back now. I would have never imagined that everything that felt so close to me in the form of money, in the form of my relationship with my daughter, in the form of my movie studio would slowly fade away from me and I would be left with nothing….”
Christina lets some tears flow from her cheek as she continues to speak.
“Las Vegas has been the place where I have had a rejuvenation of my livelihood among has brought a new meaning to my career. With the work I have been doing at the casino I feel like I have been building myself back up. I feel renewed but as great as all of that sounds it looks like I am back to Los Angeles for this huge edition of Climax Control and I am not going to let this opportunity to take top billing go to waste. I love being spotlighted in the center stage and to share it with one of my best friends in the form of Roxi Johnson sounds absolutely amazing.”
Christina begins to let a smile emerge through her tears as she continues to speak.
“This main event match is absolutely amazing and what makes it even more special is the fact that we both have qualified to be in the big main event match at December 2 Dismember. I am going to be brutally honest I don’t feel accomplished with how my career has been going on in SCW lately. We can eve go back to the past two years and I don’t feel accomplished. When SCW first came to a halt I ended the company as being an Internet Champion. I held the title with honor and when it rebooted I was able to muster some defenses under me and I even beat Mikah to unify the belt with the World Bombshell Championship. It felt absolutely amazing to be at the top of the world. Yet that reign quickly came to an end and I just wasn’t fit to get over the Mikah hump. After that I struggled for a bit losing match after match. I eventually found my way back up winning some contender matches here and there but I never really did anything to solidify myself in the spot that I really wanted to be in…”
Christina takes a long deep breath as she sighs.
“I betrayed my wife. I took shortcuts and yet it never really gave me the type of satisfaction I was longing for. The only thing my evil antics really got me was being estranged from my wife, and being much further from reality than I needed to be. I felt empty on the inside and because my focus was on so many different things it allowed Kate and Teddy Steele to sneak right in and take something that belonged to me. They took away my studio and I felt broken on the inside. There has been times when I felt I should just give into the demon that is Crystal Hilton so she could solve all of my problems. However you can’t always solve a problem by being a mean bitch to those around you. It simply doesn’t work. I rather not go down that path of alienating myself from everyone around me. I need to be better than that and not all fights have to happen in a ring or even with fists. Sometimes the biggest fights happens within oneself and right now I am doing everything in my power to show that what I am portraying is for real. This is me and I don’t’ plan to ever tap into the darkness despite what others say. This match with Roxi Johnson means everything to me and as I said before we both have qualified to be in this big match. Although I take more excitement in my wife qualifying than I do…”
Christina sighs as she speaks some more.
“For some reason I just don’t feel accomplished yet. I went into the ring with Bobbie Dahl and I gave her everything I had. Yet my first major win in months comes at the hand of some theme music playing and because of such my win is tainted. That’s not how I wanted to establish myself but it can’t be undone. What I can do however is focus on the next match ahead of me and Roxi that means it is you and I facing off against each other. Roxi I just want to say from the bottom of my heart that I respect you. I always have and I always will. You are one of my best friends and that won’t ever change. I will admit I did get a little pissed off when you came back into the company and immediately was handed a title opportunity. I know you are better than that and deep down that’s not what you wanted. The way it ended up working out however is that you fell short in our quest to beat Alicia just like I did. There’s no shame in that but where we are now is the way you wanted things to be. Because now your next chance at the champion will be a match that you earned…”
Christina begins to grin as she continues to speak.
“You wanted to gain that shot with a major win and now we are both here. You have done so much in this company among other companies I just don’t understand how you manage to do it at times. How do you remain calm, compassionate, and unchanging?! You don’t seem to change no matter what gets thrown your way. You still remain the same old you and that’s an amazing thing. I can’t say the same because I have went through so many changes, alignment changes, and bottles of hair dye to figure out who I am as a person. I feel like I am caught up in a majority identity crisis and Christina Rose is who I want to be. It is where I intend to be and I guess a part of me is excited about this match with you because I know that deep down what I want to do is channel a bit of you. That always ready to fight attitude but at the same time stay true to oneself and fight for your friends. That is completely amazing and what you said about me and how Alicia barely keeping her title made me feel good too…
Seriously I feel honored to have such a wonderful friend but this is when I feel the need to put my game face on. As much as I treasure others stepping up for me and doing what you did to make me feel great about myself. I just want you to know that I can fight for myself. I always could fight for myself and sometimes I just couldn’t find the ability to reach deep down and do it myself. I know I was born in Detroit and technically this match might be billed as me being this hometown hero for Los Angeles but the only reason that is the case is because I ran away from Detroit when I was pregnant with my daughter and I didn’t know how to handle a teenage pregnancy with all of my former classmates calling me everything under the sun. In the same way I ran away from Mexico because I didn’t like my father correcting me when I was learning this craft of wrestling. Just like I ran away from the Williams, the Millars, and everything else because I didn’t appreciate the feeling of being cheated on…
And yet as much as I ran away to deal with those problems on another day I slowly became that problem. I slowly became everything that I ran away from. I became the bully, I became the envious wife to Seleana, I became that attitude spotlight stealing woman that would do anything to get her shine. It might have gotten me the accomplishments, and the acclaims from the wrestling world, but the more I sold myself to the highest bidder doing whatever to get that attention the more I lost respect. I won 14 World Championships throughout my career and yet I still feel a void. I still feel this emptiness in my life because I am not happy. I don’t want people to think I am this weak woman who becomes everything she vowed not to. I need to be better than that. I need to break this cycle and be the woman I was meant to be…”
Christina nods her head with a sigh as she continues to share her heart.
“Hell even Seleana is fighting my battles slowly trying to get the movie studio back that the Steeles took away from me. Yet I could jump through the extremes I could do everything but some wars need to be won one battle at a time. The first battle is figuring out who I am and that’s why I went to the casino and became a waitress. That’s why I am slowly working my way back up because I want people to see that I am for real and I want to prove something to you Roxi just like the entire division. Everybody on the roster constantly calls me fake. I hear it all the time and the old me would have whined and cried about people not seeing it my way but to be honest I don’t care. Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither is my redemption story. I just need to take it step by step, day by day. When we meet in the ring Roxi I am going to do the one thing I haven’t been able to do in my career and that’s beat you in the ring. The last time even you stated that you felt like you always ignored who I was and you didn’t let it bother you. You were going to beat me because you felt like I deserved it.
Maybe all of those years of having to deal with me as a friend and all of the flip flopping got to you and I will admit that I deserved the beating from you a couple of months ago but this time is different. I have so much to fight for and I need this momentum more than you could realize. I want everybody to know that I am the most hungry and most ready competitor out of everybody that will be fighting for the title. The more people say I suck or call me trash is the more that I get propelled to prove them wrong. I will be champion at December 2 Dismember. That isn’t me being full of it but that’s a guarantee. I mean there was a time I was a World Champion and I had to defend in a six way elimination match and I left as the champion. A lot may be on the line but I have already been in this position once before and I have the experience to do it again.
I am surely ready for it and I am the type of person who after loses to somebody always comes back to beat them in the next go around. It’s happened with Sam Marlowe, it’s happened with Mikah, and it will happen with Alicia Lukas. I may be talked down but I was part of the feud of the year. I will always give a fight even if it’s a losing battle but nobody will ever get the best of me because I refuse to stay down. Whether you call me Crystal, Christina, or whatever layer of fakeness you think is present within me. The one rue constant is that I will always fight. I will keep on fighting I just have to do things in my own time. Now is the time to fight and I will give you everything I have to showcase how much I am willing to fight. When I first came to Los Angeles I was hoping I could be just like everybody else. I was hoping I could be a woman who could get by on acting and make it big.
Yet unlike everyone I might have had it easy. Whereas so many people come to Hollywood in hopes of auditioning to get their one big break that could fix their entire lifestyle I simply skipped ahead past that. I had a Tony Stark for a husband who basically just bought me a studio so I could make my own rules. I skipped the auditioning and getting sent home by rude auditions where people don’t get a part. I simply went past all of that and it might have spoiled me.
But now the prodigal daughter returns broken and humble. I am ready to slowly ascend like I am supposed to. To showcase humble beginnings and to work for what I believe in. Roxi I am not the same woman you fought months ago. I have evolved and I will continue to evolve. We will face one another and I want to bring the best out of you because I know you will do the same. Whatever happens let’s make it where we are the clear cut favorites to walk away at the last Super Card with the title around one of our waists and of course there’s my wife too. No matter what let’s showcase that all of Alicia’s trash talking is bond to catch up to her. One can only stay at the top for so long but eventually someone is bound to knock you off. For me it was a Melody Grace, an Evie Baang, and a Mikah… But I know one of us will do it to Alicia…
She needs to be brought down a peg or two, but on Climax Control I won’t lose. I just can’t I have so many people depending on me and I have to send the hometown crowd happy. Best of luck friend but on this occasion Vanessa Jones escapes Jason, the call has been made. The cops are coming and I am taking that mask. That mask that you are better than me. On Sunday that won’t be the case because I will walk away with my hands raised in victory…
See you there and best of luck my friend…”
With that Christina just continues to sit there gazing out at the city of Los Angeles as we slowly fade out on this image.
