Vancouver British Columbia Canada
Cypress Mountain Ski Resort
After putting everything on the line against Mikah in her title defense Crystal needed to just get away for a few weeks. It was a time of really bonding with her daughter and her husband. So she had decided to get away from it all as she and her family had flown to Vancouver British Colombia Canada so that they could go to a ski resort. Crystal had never gone skiing before but it was something that her daughter really wanted to do and she wasn’t going to deny her. It felt good to finally relax but even though they had gone on vacation for Christmas and the New Year there were still some questions that needed to be answered. The main thing being that there were rumors that Crystal would be done wrestling in the year 2017. The same rumors that constantly continued to be brought up over and over again. Crystal needed to get away from them all.
So getting out of the country was hopefully the best course of action to at least soothe some of her concerns. Crystal and Brittany had both sported puffy jackets and they were sitting down on top of a bench with their skis on. Jonathan had already walked up the mountain as he glanced over at his wife and stepdaughter.
“You girls sure you aren’t ready to go down the slope yet?! You both are missing out…” He offered a smile in return as he continued to walk up the mountain but Crystal just shook her head as she glared back at her husband.
“No that’s okay… You can’t rush me Jonathan! When I am ready to go down the slope I will happily go down it… It takes time!” The redhead beauty cried out in return as Jonathan could only giggle in return.
“Sounds like someone is being a chicken… Don’t worry I will show you how it’s done and afterwards maybe you can make me that ham sandwich…” Jonathan finally walks away as it’s just the mother and daughter duo sitting on top of the bench. Crystal pulls her scarf tightly around her neck so that she doesn’t catch cold. Brittany shivers for a bit as she just turns her attention to her mother.
“So can I ask you a question mom?!”
Crystal turns to look at her sixteen year old as she lets a long sigh escape her lips. “Of course you can pumpkin… You know that’s what I am here for…”
Brittany thinks about it for a few moments before she slowly gazes deeply into Crystal’s eyes. “So is it true?!”
Crystal seems befuddled as she shrugs her shoulders. “Is what true exactly?!”
“You know… The rumors about you thinking about retiring and wishing to get away from the business. I don’t understand why you would want to do that to begin with. You have made so many strides within this past year. You are at your prime and at the best that I have ever seen you. You have beaten opponents that I could never imagine you ever beating, and you really have placed women’s wrestling on the map again. It just seems so foolish for you to want to give all of that up especially when you are the center of attention…”
Brittany just sighs as Crystal takes in what she is saying. Crystal shrugs her shoulders as she glances back at her daughter.
“I know Brittany but truly it’s not the fact that I don’t want to wrestle. Trust me wrestling is everything to me but I just feel that I am going to be thirty this year. How ridiculous does it sound that I am going to be thirty and have a daughter that’s going to be sixteen this year? Tells you what kind of woman I have always been in my life. It always has been about having a selfish mentality. Never being able to value anything else important but myself, I don’t want to live like that….”
Crystal just shakes her head as some tears begin to stream down her face. “You think I like living with the fact that I wasn’t even stable enough or in the right mindset to be able to raise you? Do you think I enjoy walking into the arena every night knowing that everyone is going to boo me out of the arena. The worst parts of my life were when I started to be disrespectful to my father. When I walked out of wrestling school and disrespected the wrestling mask he had given me. I thought I knew better than a seasoned man of the sport, and this ideal of being this famous bitch took away from that of actual wrestling…”
Crystal points at herself. “You think I enjoy being the way that I am? You think I like doing the things that I do in wrestling? No of course I don’t because it’s so far off from what my father taught me, and mainly I don’t want the way that I act to rub off on you Brittany. I neglected you for so much of your life I really don’t want to do it again…”
Brittany however listens as she glances back at her mother. “Mom… then don’t be like that… You hate the way that you come across on television? Then change it, it’s as simple as that. Nobody is asking you to act the way that you act, and certainly don’t go about this whole retirement thing just for me either….”
“But… But… That’s what all of this has been about. Being a better mother for you. Showing you that you don’t have to go about doing things the way I did just to get somewhere in this world!”
Crystal cries out but Brittany just shakes her head as she looks back at her. “And what is wrong with the way that you are doing things?! So what you may have become mean to others but you lived your life being up against the wall. You had to live with the thought of being acknowledged as a mistake by your mother. Left on your aunt’s doorstep to be raised by her, you went from rags to riches. Granted some of the things you do might come across in the wrong way by others but you have a story to tell for a reason. So who is anybody to judge the hardships you have been through in your life. They haven’t lived a day in your shoes. They don’t know how it feels to be ridiculed every day about being another teenage pregnancy statistic. And now look at you mom….”
Brittany smiles widely. “You have everything you could ever imagine. You are practically the face of women’s wrestling. You have the fame to go with it, an endless supply of money, and you found happiness in a marriage that you are happy to be a part of. I don’t think it could ever get any better than this…”
Crystal smiles as she points at Brittany. “Actually that’s not all that I have Brittany. There’s something that I value much more than anything else in this world….”
Brittany chuckles as she looks back at her mother. “Oh I know your SCW World Bombshell Championship?! You always seem to bring that practically everywhere that you go!”
Crystal giggles as she shakes her head in agreement. “Well that is very important to me but actually as happy as I am to be a champion. A top notch athlete nothing compares to the joy I have in having you as a daughter. You are the source of all of my happiness…”
“Mom stop… You are going to make me cry….”
“But truly B Brat I mean it. You are my everything even though sometimes I don’t show it or say it enough. I don’t want you to think that anything can come in between the way that I feel about you. Not even wrestling. It’s all about you honey…”
Brittany thinks about it for a few moments as she stares blankly into Crystal’s eyes. “Mom I appreciate everything really I do but I don’t want you to retire or do anything like that because of me. What I enjoy the most is seeing you happy. Is seeing you just work your hardest achieving the things you wish to achieve. No reason to cut any of that short because of me. I want you to wrestle and just be happy. You aren’t even thirty yet so why stop now?!”
Crystal shrugs her shoulders sighing. “I don’t know Brittany… Wrestling seems to be a sport especially when it comes to women for people in their teenage years and early twenties, and considering I just turned 29. How long can I really doing this for?!”
“Is that what this is about mommy?! You are afraid because you think you are deteriorating?! If that’s what this is about… You are thinking too much of things. I say you should just drop this whole retirement thing and just go about your life like you never even mentioned it.”
Crystal shakes her head. “Brittany… Look I just want when I go to have a legacy established. The reason why I would retire is to make room for you. I know you tried to have a wrestling stint but it really didn’t go anywhere because I would always put myself before you. It was always about me and nothing else, and I want that to change. I want you to be my focus in everything. To be my successor and to carry on the legacy of wrestling for our family. That’s what retirement is about Brittany. It’s all about you.”
Brittany thinks about it for a few moments before she just sighs in return.
“Mom thank you for everything. Truly I appreciate it but let’s not worry about what I am going to do in wrestling. Instead let’s just focus on you, focus on making sure you go on to be the greatest Bombshell Champion of all time. You came this far right? So why should you just stop now. You still have a lot more of your story to be told….”
“You really think so?!”
“Mom… I know so… Plus I can wait until you croak to gain your legacy, your movie studio, among everything else. So you might as well continue on being the best until I just shatter your every legacy…” Brittany smiles passionately as Crystal can’t help but shake her head with a grin.
“You are lucky you are my daughter… You know that right?! Normally I would get super upset over comments like that but I guess I will just let that slide for now. Now you brought me all the way to this damn ski resort we might as well start skiing right? Sounds better than just sitting here all day.”
Brittany smiles widely. “Oh so you are actually ready to get up and ski?!”
“Well… We can start on the kiddie slopes. You know for your own benefit and everything and we will see where the momentum will take us. Sounds like a good idea right?!”
Brittany nods her head in agreement. “Sounds like a plan… Come on let’s get going mom…” The two are about to get up off of the bench when Crystal’s phone begins to go off. Crystal sighs as she reaches into her pocket and pulls out her iPhone. It was a message from her personal assistant Chloe Martin. Crystal seems disgusted as she reads the message on the screen.
“Call me back as soon as possible… The studio wants to talk about a publicity stunt to bring more money into the studio and the bottom line… It’s very important….”
Crystal sighs as she deletes the message as she places the phone back into her pocket as she looks back at her daughter. Brittany taps her feet. “Who was that?!”
“It was nobody important… I am sure it can wait… Come on pumpkin let’s go skiing…” And with that Crystal got up as she headed towards the kiddie slopes with her daughter.
Crystal Blog
Feeling Amazing
Hey everyone this is the one and only Crystal Millar here, and let me just say that it feels absolutely amazing to be here right now. Christmas was great but my New Years was even more amazing. I broke the New Year in style and this year it’s about giving back to you the fans.
I know I have my work cut out for me this week but truth be told. As much as I might be walking into one of my toughest matches yet. As much as that my scare me. Truth is I am awaiting this challenge. IT’s something that I am willing to embrace with open arms and out of everyone on the roster.
Melody Grace is one of the only people that I haven’t beaten in a one on one match which means this is a match that I want more than anything else. I know she has a huge fanbase. The Melephants are always strong but I must admit lately the Stars and Starlets have been coming out in full force.
They have all been cheering me on and I can’t let them down especially since they have placed their trust into me. So for the first time in a very long time I am going to give them something this year. I am going to give back to them and that puts a smile on my lips.
SCW is about the land of opportunity. It’s the place where people should have the chance to shine and get the chance to ascend to the top of the roster and that is what this is all about. Giving a deserving individual a chance.
A chance that was ignored by so many for so long. Going into this match to be honest I feel better than I have ever been in my career. There are rumors circulating that I may retire this year. Hell even I said it on my Twitter account but the truth is I really don’t know what I want to do at this stage in my career.
The only thing I am certain of is that I am a fighting champion. I am the current Bombshell Championship and with a few months left to go I can go on to accomplish something legendary. I can be the greatest woman to have ever competed in an SCW ring and with every passing challenge is the more that I am raising the bar for every woman who comes through the doors.
It’s such a long way from the woman who had to rely on Delia Darling and Celeste North just to feel accepted on the roster. A long way from getting beaten down in a mask by the likes of Natalie McKinley. I am far beyond those days but as great as I am.
One thing I will never do is shy away from the past because it’s the past that has helped shaped who I am today. It has all been a build up into me becoming the woman that you see and in the ring this Sunday you will see why I am the best and everyone else is simply an after thought.
No matter what though I humbly await to see what Melody is going to bring to the table.
Call me excited…
Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas
Off Camera
The New Year had come and gone, and for the first time in a long time Crystal was happy with her life. Her movie co-starring Matt Stone was in post productions. She had earned the trust of the fans and most importantly through everything she was still the SCW World Bombshell Champion, and life couldn’t get any better. She was only two months away from setting the record as being the longest reigning World Bombshell Champion of all time and she had every reason to smile. She knew that one of the biggest matches of her career would be happening in Laughlin, Nevada but Crystal didn’t feel like making the drive over to Laughlin until the day of the event. She just wanted some time to relax in Vegas until the big day.
Crystal Millar rested peacefully in her King Size bed. The Rose Girl clad in her Sailor Moon Pajamas as she wore her hair in a long ponytail. She cycled through various channels on the television until she stopped at ESPN and a wide smile escaped her lips.
“That’s what I am talking about Lions… You damn well better bring Jim Caldwell back. He’s bringing my Lions back to the playoffs!!!! Bring on the sorry ass Seahawks. 12th man my ass!”
Meanwhile, rounding the corner came that very co-star, Matt Stone, walking and talking on his cell phone at the same time. “You’re absolutely positive I have to do this? You realize I don’t care about the image I have, right? I hit on chicks on Twitter for God’s sake, what makes you think I want to appear as a role model? Bigger man my ass, this is going to be hell and you know it! Whatever, I’ll call you when it’s over.” Matt hangs up his phone and stands before Crystal’s door. It was bad enough he was being forced by the producers to do this, but to be in a city like Las Vegas and more or less handcuffed to Countess Buzzkill was going to be a total bore. Still, the sooner he got this over with, the better. He brought his hand up and rapped on the door three times, with ay luck, she wouldn’t be there.
Crystal quickly got up out of her bed as she ran to the door. She swung the door open as she seemed annoyed. “Where the hell have you been… A girl get’s hungry you better have my burg….” She stops for a moment as she keeps her eyes locked on the man in front of her.
“You aren’t room service! What the hell are you doing here?! I thought we were done as soon as the movie finished filming. You do remember our agreement right? You fuck with me or my family. Your biggest fear gets made to go public. Just like that I make a big fool out of you or perhaps you had forgotten about everything!” She snickers as she looks deep into his eyes.
She says as she slowly backs up to walk over to the sink. She grabs a tissue and proceeds to blow her nose with it before she sniffles slightly. Matt stands in the doorway, having not been invited in and with the start of the new year, perhaps trying to start on the right foot was the right way to go. “Actually, I was told to come over for a meeting with you by your assistant. Please tell me she told you about it.” Matt called out, not being able to see her at the moment. “If she didn’t, I suppose I could come back…” though he said the words, he just wanted to get this over with.
Crystal rolls her eyes as she crosses her arms shaking her head in disgust. “You mean Chloe?! No she doesn’t do ANYTHING right. Stupid blonde… If I was heartless I would make sure she was out of a job but please enlighten m….” Crystal runs over to the sink as she grabs yet another tissue and blows her nose repeatedly. “Sorry between taking Brittany and Jonathan to Cypress Mountain in Vancouver because they wanted to learn how to ski over the Christmas and New Years break I managed to catch a c….” Crystal blows her nose again as she smiles.
“Better yet forget that… I am sure you really don’t want to hear the details of me making a fool of myself on a ski slope in between Jonathan trying to get me to make him a sandwich over his stupid Bradford City FC games… It was kinda crazy. I fell on my ass SO many times but then again you like my ass…” She smiles as she slowly walks up to Matt. “So tell me buddy. What did Chloe have to say to you?! What’s so important that you have to knock on my hotel room door for?!”
Matt pauses for a moment, there was several things that he wanted to comment on, but the first one was the fact that he was still standing out in the hall. “Well Crystal, apparently they want us to make appearances together and start the buzz on the movie, as well as asking me to maybe make appearances with you in the wrestling scene since it’s our line of work. I didn’t want to, of course, but they said it would help our bottom line, and I don’t have to tell you how interested I am in the bottom.” It was a forced double entendre, but it was the best he could do standing out in the hall. “Can I come in? I’d rather not stand here all night.”
“Fine as you wish… Feel free to come inside… Sorry about those Ravens two weeks ago by the way… Sucks they couldn’t beat the Steelers… NO I AM NOT SORRY!!! HOW’S IT FEEL TO NOT BE IN THE PLAYOFFS LOSER!!!!!!!!!! “Crystal points at the television. “You see that… Caldwell coming back! Playoff bound!!! That’s what we do, and don’t give me well at least you won a Madden tournament… Nope totes not important….” Crystal grins as she runs to her bag as she pulls her White Championship out of the bag and drapes it over her shoulder. “You see this… CHAMPION!!! You know it means you are the best! I guess some aren’t worthy enough of being in my league…” She laughs as she adjusts her championship again. “So what kind of bottom line?! Bitch I am a champion. THE champion. The featured attraction. I make money on my own how the hell could you help me in any sort of way?!”
Matt rolled his eyes, walking into the room, though still keeping his distance from her. “Typical. It’s a good thing you have people, because you’re pretty clueless. Making money for the studio, not for you. If the movie does well, your studio does well which not only makes you money, but it makes the studio money and keeps it afloat. You do want to keep the studio going, don’t you Rudolph?”
“Har, Har… You know you can be quite the jackass at times right?! I know how business works MATTHEW! Just because I don’t have a high school degree doesn’t make me any less smarter than you. I am just saying that me by myself should be enough star power on it’s own. I don’t need you to get over with anything. Never have, never will… Well maybe except for that one stunt in the SFL even though we never played a game but you know damn well. With the way my arm is I was an instant MVP candidate before I even stepped on the field. You can’t coach talent such as this or have the type of beauty that I have. You are just gifted with it…”
Crystal points at herself as she shrugs her shoulders. “ So tell me in what way are you supposed to be seen with me. I can get to understanding the whole special appearances thing. Meet & Greets and stuff like that but you around my wrestling career? I don’t think so… That doesn’t even seem like a good idea… Especially when I am so close to breaking a record. I don’t want you coming anywhere near what I am trying to achieve especially when you would be out to dick me over. I know how you operate.”
Matt chuckles, leaning against the bed now, watching Crystal stand atop her metaphorical soap box and try and prove that she doesn’t need him. “I would never dream of accusing you of being any less smarter than me.” He has to stop there to keep from laughing about that sentence. “Well the meet and greet is a given, autographs, that usual thing, but they want me to just be seen around you as much as possible even down to the mundane things. As for wrestling, you remember when I managed you? You didn’t lose a match listening to me, if I remember correctly. But of course, with your superior intellect, you’d know better than I would, wouldn’t you?”
Crystal smiles passionately. “It’s okay one day you might be more smarter than me but for now I guess I can even let you shine. I guess you do have a point. You managing me did go a lot smoother than when Jonathan managed me. We did have great chemistry together but of course you had to act like a jerk or maybe it was me. Oh well I am guaranteed to act like a bitch at least once during a month.. Well you should know how that works… And…” Crystal feels her nose about to run as she quickly runs over to the box of tissues but she drops it to the floor. “Damn it!” She begins to bend down as she reaches for it.
Matt felt his phone vibrate, reaching in his pocket and pulling it out, replying to the text message he had received. “Uh huh” he replied to her, not really paying attention to what she was saying. He finished the text, looking up to respond to what he picked up. “You always act like a bi-” He stops, turning to see her bent over the tissue box, the view reminding him of the rather interesting Christmas Gift she had sent him. “Shame I don’t have my camera with me Crystal, I could get next year’s birthday out of the way right now, couldn’t I?”
Crystal smiled as she saw the position she was in as she looked back at Matt. She couldn’t help but giggle as she dropped down into a three point stance clutching the tissue box. “I guess you really like what you see don’t you? Blue 42!!! HIKE!” She giggles as she tosses the box backwards into Matt’s chest as she walks five steps up. “I bet I could be an amazing Wide Receiver too. Too bad only balls I would be catching are from Jonathan… Yes I know… You are jealous. I would be mad at the guy that I get to go home to every night as well.”
“That’s nice Crystal, among all other things put that image in my head. This may shock you, but picturing your sex life isn’t something I’m interested in.” He looks down at the tissue box he was now holding, noticing it was almost empty. “You’ve sure been going through a lot of these, haven’t you?”
Crystal feels something in her nose as she quickly runs up to him. “I told you… Ski trip in Vancouver. Change of weather don’t you listen when I speak?!” She reaches for yet another tissue as she blows her nose. Her nose tickles but she doesn’t do anything as she looks back at him. “Why you got a problem with me or something?!”
“Problem? Me” Of course not. Just keep your...fluids to yourself.” He’s trying to be sincere, but it just isn’t working very well, she seems to know how to push all of his buttons even when she’s not trying to. “So..uhh..how was the ski trip?” he asked, trying to make small talk to hopefully ease the situation, though given their past that wasn’t a very likely scenario.
“It was horrible… Every time I tried to do something there were fans all up in my face. Everyone questioning if I was retiring or not. Like no get out of my face it’s a publicity stunt… As if I of all people would retire. You know how much money there is in “claiming” to retire? People come out of the woodworks to try to fight you. You get a bigger paychecks from appearing everywhere. The year becomes all about you. So much money to be made…. Ahem but skiing itself was awesome. I can do a lot of things but this body doesn’t deserve to be surrounded by the cold. No I need to be on a beach drinking plenty of pina coladas that’s the only life for me… Why do you ask? I never knew you cared so much about my life and what I was doing…”
She grins evilly as her nose begins to tickle again. “Oh, I don’t care, per say, but I figured it was less painful to talk about you skiing than it as to listen to you drone on and on about your wrestling career, but kudos to you for finding a way to bring that up anyway. Don’t let anyone tell you you’re too humble, that’ll never be a concern for you. I did see you talk about retiring, seemed like the right call for you to be honest, you can’t go two months it seems without coming down with something, could mean your body is wearing down.”
“Bitch… My body is as great as it’s ever been. It’s called a publicity stunt… One I decided to do on my own. Sounds better than what the studio wants with you pairing up with me. Let’s be honest what could you possibly do for me? Who’s to say you wouldn’t try to screw me over in my next outing. That sounds just like you and the moment that happens. Is the very moment where I would end you…”
Crystal hugs up on Matt now as she whispers in his air. “End you just like that… You should know by now why I went through so many tissues… Unless you are that dense…”
Matt couldn’t help himself, he had to make a joke. “Well, if it’s the same reason as what you said in that Christmas Card you sent me, you were having quite the ‘Me Party’ in here before I showed up.” Even though he was joking around, he tried to push the woman off of him, not a big fan of being this close to her, especially in her condition.
Crystal smiled. “What’s wrong Matty? I thought you liked being near me. You loved all of my assets. How could you always admire the view from afar but when I am up close and personal you are always so quick to try to run away. That’s not how things should work at all… You should be amazed by me my fellow Co-Star. After all this is nothing compared to the type of scenes we filmed for our movie or perhaps you had forgotten.”
She grins as her nose begins to bother her again. Matt nods at what she’s saying, figuring she was right about something for once. “You know what, you’re right, I do admire your...well you know, that part of you, so why not help the both of us and turn around. That way, I can go back to admiring and you can go back to not hugging me.
“Only if you come just a little bit closer… Come on you know you want to hug me…” She smiles as she pulls him in for a hug. Her hands grabbing his hands as she moves them towards her backside. Meanwhile her nose begins to really get the better of her as she keeps her eyes locked on him. “So I think you know what happens here right Matt?!”
“Is this the part of the movie where I thrust you upon the bed and have my way with you? Sorry, I forgot to read the script before coming.” Matt replies, trying to force Crystal down off of him and on the bed.
Crystal falls on the bed as she moves her eyes up to him. “Oh playing rough already… You know if that director finds out about you. He may even consider you for even bigger roles. Come on why don’t you just lay down next to me. We could perhaps discuss this little arrangement. As much as you drive me insane I am always willing to listen to different opportunities and what not. Seeing if we could make this work. If the company want’s us to do more things together we might as well go for it. Our movie will be hit so might as well keep things rolling right?!”
She smiles widely as she points to her bed. Matt looks down at the bed, giving it some real thought before coming to his senses, as it were, and shaking his head. “You know, on second thought, maybe you should just get some rest and we’ll start on things tomorrow. Here, I have a feeling you’ll need these.” He tosses her the box of tissues.
Crystal begins to get upset as she stares back at Matt. “Wow Matt… You really know how to be an asshole at times… Whatever Matt… I guess you know what I was trying to do don’t you?” Crystal says with a disgusted expression on her face.
“You did make it pretty obvious, Crystal. You get some rest and I’ll be back tomorrow to pick you up...try and stop with all of this before then, okay?” He gestured to her whole face as he spoke, shuddering a bit before heading out of the room, silently cursing his luck in the process.
Crystal could only sigh as the sneezes followed. As they repeatedly emerged from her. She grabbed a tissue as she blew into it as Matt closed the door behind him.