Chapter 60: Forgiveness
Sometimes I have a tendency to overreact
I know, you can’t believe it, right? That I, Kayla Richards can overreact in a way that might be detrimental to my relationships and psyche. Hard to believe. After all, I am usually such a calm and measured individual who would never do anything to damage my reputation and all the feelings of those around me. Whether or not they are a friend or a photo I am not someone who routinely goes out of my way to say or do things that hurt other people‘s feelings. I am very calm and measured, I take every insult inward and give people a chance to make it up to me in the most normal ways.
Ok, I’m internally laughing because even I know that was total bullshit.
This was one of those cases where I overreacted. The last few weeks had been stressful but the last few days had been damaging. They caused me to not talk to the one person on this planet that I never gave the silent treatment to. It caused me to feel insecure. Insecure in my relationship, insecure for my place in his life. All of those feelings became manifest. All because of one person. One woman who knew that even if it was a lie, she could manipulate that fiction to cause the fact of our relationship to be damaged. Not in a way that could not be repaired.
But it was still damaged. For a time anyway. But after he had spent days going through boxes of storage materials. Many things that hurt him emotionally because he didn’t want to remember them or face them, but he found what he was looking for. His copy of the divorce papers. Completely signed sealed delivered and notarised. A stack of legal praise that I didn’t care to read or understand. The only thing I cared about was that every single place that she needed to sign or initial had been taken care of. That flatchested cunt had tried to ruin my relationship in my life. But more than that, she had caused me to doubt the one person on this planet who didn’t deserve that kind of thing.
So, in my mind, I already accepted that I was going to get my hands on Aaron asphyxia and destroy her. But first I had other things on my mind. A world championship match, one that was going to be held in a cage. With pods that would open up. A match that was brutal in its exaggerated violence. Not just that but I also had a match against a woman who decided to try and get involved in my boyfriend‘s business.
But, there was an immediate problem. One that I needed to solve. So I found myself out shopping, something that I do enjoy doing. And because I needed someone with me, I grabbed hold of my sister who was visiting from New York. And Tasmin and I decided to spend some of that hard-earned money. ”So…. The whole thing with Aaron is now sorted?”
”Yep”
Tasmin nodded slowly, her long blonde hair flowing down her shoulders. Motherhood suited her. But I could tell that she missed everything that she used to do in the ring. And as much as I hated to admit it, she had the talent to be the best out of all of us. Better than our older brother, better than our older sister, even better than me. ”I’m sorry that you had to go through that. But at least you know that Finn cares about you, after all his first first thought wasn’t to defend himself. It was just to prove to you that he definitely signed them. There is a certain amount of hatred that that man has for his ex-wife, something that I’ve never really seen before.” Tasmin looked at a dress and raised an eyebrow. It wasn’t really her thing. But she was right about her evaluation of Finn and his feelings toward Aaron.
I took a deep breath and sighed heavily, looking at a tight black dress, envisioning how I’d look in it with a chuckle. ”I know. And part of Me understands it. Usually, when a relationship ends, it isn’t sunshine and rainbows. Most of them end with anger and frustration. And a hell of a lot of pain. Aaron hurt him. That alone is enough to make me wanna snap her in two. But coming back into his life and hurting him again, trying to damage our relationship, that bitch is on borrowed time and the fact that she’s coming to my company makes it even worse. So she needs to seriously re-evaluate her priorities.”
”And…what about Kallie?”
I raised an eyebrow ”Kallie?”
Tasmin took a deep breath and stopped before turning and leaning against a wall right next to a mirror. She offered up a small shrug and pushed out her breath with a sigh ”She feels horrible. She honestly feels like she betrayed you by not texting you or calling you right away when she was talking to Aaron. Even though you gave her a hug and told her it was alright she still thinks that she’s damaged your friendship.”
”She didn’t”
Tasmin swallowed hard and tilted her head. ”You sure?”
I couldn’t help but chuckle. I knew where this was coming from. I have been known to be rather vindictive in the past especially when it comes to anything relating to my personal life. And relating to friends and perceived betrayals. ”Aaron tried to use her. She tried to use that poor girl against me. And that was not only going to try and hurt me. That was also going to hurt her. I’m not going to turn my back on Kallie. She has been too much of a friend for me to ever do that. I love that girl. She’s naive and can be a bit dense but I love her to death and I’m not going to hurt her.”
Tasmin smiled and pushed off the wall. She was satisfied with my answer. We walked around a few more parts of the shop before my sister's eyebrows raised, she noticed what we were looking at now. She blushed a little and laughed under her breath before clearing her throat. ”I guess you really have forgiven Finn…” I smiled as I held a black see-through negligee with a halter top in my hands that would accentuate my assets that I knew Finn enjoyed. I tilted my head and took a deep breath with a smirk forming on my ruby-red lips.
”You….might say that…”
Death Incarnate
”I can forgive and forget. I can. I can look past many things to let people get along with their lives.”
Kayla let out a breathy sigh, her nostrils flared as she ground her teeth together and folded her arms over her chest.
”But, what I cannot abide by is laziness. All week, myself, Andrea and Cassie Wolfe did everything we could to promote that tag match. We recorded promotional material, we talk shit about each other and the match itself while also talking about the high stakes that it represented as we started heading into the road to blaze of glory. And the elimination chamber that we were all going to be a part of. Meanwhile, Mercedes Vargas said nothing. All week leading up to the match she said nothing. Did nothing. And then when the time came and the bright lights were on she turned up set a couple of sentences walked out there and acted like none of it matted.”
“Well, tell Me Mercedes, does that match matter? You seem to not give a crap about it but Andrea and I went out there and did everything we could to win because we hate losing. Even your tag team partner Cassie did everything that she could do to try and win the match. Because that kid, as much as I dislike her attitude most of the time still showed more guts and determination than you have in the last five years of your broken, winding down, rotten, and dead career.”
“But, I can still stand here right now and I can celebrate the win that Andrea and I had. And when the referee's hand hit the mat for the third time I was the one who was on top of you Mercedes. Just like I have been every single time you and I have faced in this company. And you might not remember this but I do, when I was 19 years old and I had signed my first professional wrestling contract you beat me. I had just turned 19, and you beat me. But that was the first and the last time.”
“So, now we are rolling down that highway heading towards blaze of glory and the elimination chamber. Where I am going to do everything in my power to walk out as the SCW world bombshells champion. To regain that championship that I lost to Andrea Hernandez at inception. And notice that I say that I lost it. I don’t make excuses, Andrew beat me. And now she has to go into that cage and she has to defend that championship against a group of contenders, some talented and some talentless opponents. But the only one that she needs to worry about is me”
Kayla takes a deep breath and cracks her neck. The noise is echoing through the room that she is in showing that the former bombshells champion is obviously tense.
”Now, before I start to tear down my opponent for this week. Bea Barnhart. I should address the elephant in the room. And by elephant, I of course mean a flat-chested, blue-haired, talentless little hack of a woman who has decided to infest this company with her disgusting brand of bullshit.”
“Aaron asphyxia”
“Aaron, some people in this company might not understand why you’re here and why you’re doing what you’re doing. But I do. I know Damm well that you are here not only to make Finn's life a living hell but you’re also here to make my life a living hell. I don’t know why you decided to get involved in the world championship match, at the end of the day you actually helped Finn because Alex can’t control himself with a steel chair in his hand, much like he can’t control himself around whores…”
“After all, Alex did sleep with Finn's sister”
“And mine…”
“But, now you’re disgustingly feeble attempt at manipulation has been exposed. Let me tell you what it is about to happen. I’m going to destroy Bea. I’ve been going to go to blaze of glory and take back my championship. And after I’ve done that I am going to walk into Christian Underwood‘s office, I am going to put a contract onto his desk for a match between you and me, and I am not going to leave until he signs it. And trust me, I can be very persuasive when I’m threatening to drag each and every female roster member out to the ring and break their arms until I get what I want from you”
“You are going to get the arse kicking you deserve.”
Yes, Kayla said arse, not ass. Because she’s British and everything that comes out of her mouth no matter how crash or insulting sounds like fucking Shakespeare.
”Now, onto that moronic waste of a singular brain cell and a spot on the roster Bea Barnhart….the wife of Bill Barnhart. A man whose IQ is roughly the same as his shoe size. A man who accused Finn, a man who does everything he cannot cheat of cheating. While trying to use you to cheat. Amazing isn’t it? The irony. Your husband is a complete idiot. And when stupidity marries stupidity you’ll end up getting this perfect storm of mental inadequacy. I don’t know if you two have ever had kids but if you haven’t then I would strongly consider taking Bill to get a vasectomy. Because if you two had a child, I don’t think the Earth is ready for that level of dumb.”
“So, you knew that Finn was going to beat your husband. So you can’t be that stupid, you are smart enough to figure that out. The only problem is you tried to help him. You tried to assist your husband in beating my boyfriend. You tried to assist your husband in getting a win over the world champion. so of course I was going to come out and stop you. And you’re lucky. You are lucky that I wasn’t able to fully get my hands on you and do what I wanted to do. Because if I did this match would not be happening. Because you would’ve been broken.”
“Let’s be honest here. This match is not fair. It’s not fair to you. And in a way, it’s not fair to me. I have never been someone who likes to punch down, I only have a punch up. And with you? I’m not just punching down, I’m having to get down on my hands and knees to reach your level. You look at the two of us Bea, and we are nowhere near on the same level”
“You were a mixed tag team champion with your husband, you have had nothing of not happening in your career because those championships until Finn and I held them we looked at his jokes. So you are the type of person who I have always hated watching in this company. You are a waste of space and a waste of time. And it is normally a waste of my time to get in the ring with you.”
“But..not this time.”
“No, this time there is a method to the madness. This time not only do I get to punish you for thinking that you can get involved in my boyfriend‘s business, but I also get to beat the stupid out of you. I get to release all of the frustration that I’ve had with Aaron asphyxia being in this company and in my face on you. I get to practice before I get into the elimination chamber to get my championship back. So there is a reason why I’m taking this match when normally I would be insulted having to face someone like you. You’re nothing to me, Bea…”
“Nothing but a tool. A tool for my motivation, a tool for punishment. And in a way, you should be happy. Because for the first time in your life, you actually get to be useful for something. So get ready, because you are about to be destroyed and humiliated worse than you ever have before.”
