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"TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES."
LOCATION: CANCUN, MEXICO
DAYS UNTIL DECEMBER 2 DISMEMBER: 14
EXCITEMENT LEVEL: HIGH
SCENE i
REC•Mikah was sitting in the chair in Gavin’s hospital room as he was supposed to stay overnight to insure that he didn’t have a concussion. Mikah wasn’t too happy about it either; she didn’t want to stay in the hospital but she didn’t think Gavin would find it fitting if she left. So she sits there, in the chair with a slight scowl on her face and her eyes glued to the screen of her Samsung Galaxy S6 edge. The doctor was checking Gavin’s vitals before he could leave for the night as Mikah requested that no disabled nurse be in charge.±±Doctor “Okay, you seem good to me. I will be back in the morning to check on you.â€
Mikah shoots the doctor a dirty look before turning her attention back down to her phone for a moment. She sighs before looking over at Gavin and pursing her lips a bit.;;Mikah “I. . .suppose you’d like if I stayed in this room with you, right?â€
Mikah raises an eyebrow in Gavin’s direction before looking around. It wasn’t like there was exactly a place for her to sleep. But she could live on caffeine for a night.::Gavin “Sure would but.. I’d like it more if you wanted to stay with me, considering I just got that beating.. “
She bites her bottom lip before looking around the room, looking for exactly where she was supposed to stay. She moves so she’s sitting in the seat fully, legs pulled up underneath her. She looks at her husband before sighing.;;Mikah “Look, it’s not my fault you got a beating; I wasn’t the one that hit you with the chair, you know. Guilt tripping me doesn’t really work.â€
She looks at him, giving her one of her usual looks that she gives him before she looks back at her phone. She presses a few buttons before sending off a few tweets and text messages.::Gavin “Yeah - but you know what you could do? Care, or even pretend like you do. But I’m not even sure you can manage that. “
She glances up from her phone and rolls her eyes at him. She had a lot on her mind lately and it wasn’t that she didn’t care about her husband, she just had to think of other things. Like how to prepare for her upcoming championship defense. Against Melanie Gabrielle. A girl that she didn’t even have anything remotely bad to say about. What was she going to do?;;Mikah “Yup. That’s me, Gavin James. I so don’t care.â€
She rolls her eyes for a second time before stopping for a moment, listening to the footsteps in the hallway out of his hotel room. She hated hospitals. They reminded her of everything bad.;;Mikah “If I didn’t fucking care, Gavin. I wouldn’t have even fucking came. I would’ve have accepted Marky Mark’s offer on going out to celebrate his revenge on Drake ‘Dollar Bin Movie Guy’ Green, okay?â€
::Gavin “Listen, I know you don’t like hospitals. I don’t really like them either. Just you know, stay with me, then we can both get out of here and not have to go back.. Sound good?“
She looks up at him, her feet still tucked up under her and her whole body in that chair as she sits with distance from her husband. She didn’t know what to say or if she could even stay all night in the hospital<----------->F L A S H B A C K<----------->It was August of 2009 and she’d just had a match and the ending to it, hadn’t gone well and in the end of things, she’d wound up in the hospital after passing out in a pool of blood. She sighs a bit as she leans back in the hospital bed and looks at the IV needle that was in her arm and giving her fluids. She just wanted to go home with her husband/boyfriend, Troy. She was waiting for the doctor to get back with the test results so she could leave. She looks at Troy who was standing off to the side with Leighton, who was four years old at the time.
;;Mikah “Where’s the doctor?! I want to leave. Now. Not in thirty minutes, now.
â€
Troy sighs as he looks at the woman who he was now just dating as she had revealed that she was still married to Alexander Fabb. He looks towards the door as he held Leighton in his arms. Leighton looked concerned for her mother, having had been watching the match backstage. Mikah, however could barely really look at either of them. She felt horrible because she had been doing some things with Alexander Fabb that weren’t exactly family things. She hadn’t cheated on Troy in any way but the “candy†that Alexander had offered her had been to hard to pass up, along with the booze. She knew that Troy wouldn't have been happy with her drug use and binge drinking but she didn't deal well with past demons and oh how she considered Alexander Fabb a demon. A demon who she hated at the time.
ΦΦTroy “I will go find him…â€
Mikah just shrugged her shoulders as she leans back in the bed, trying not to pull the IV from her veins as Troy walks off with Leighton to find the doctor that was supposed to be treating her for whatever it was she had. She looks around the hospital, glaring at the walls as she remembered just how much she hated them. It takes Troy roughly ten minutes to find the doctor before they both walk in, Leighton still in Troy’s arms and paperwork in the doctor’s hands.
;;Mikah “About time. I want to leave. . .â€
She sat up a bit more before she saw the sorrow and sad look in his eyes; the type of look that doctors get when they have to tell their patient something utterly horrible. Mikah sits back, half way scared about what he was going to say. Did she have cancer? Was she going to die?
►►Doctor “I understand that you want to leave and I apologize for the wait but I have your test results back.â€
If looks could kill, the doctor would have most likely have died. She didn’t like when people stated the obvious and more than half of the time, she had a sarcastic response. But she wanted him to continue and didn’t want to deal with his shit.
►►Doctor “I am sorry to have to be the one to tell you that you are having a miscarriage.â€
Shock had hit Mikah and she looks over at Troy and Leighton as the emotions start to flood her system. She hadn’t even known she was pregnant or that it was even a possibility at all. Well, of course they had sort of been trying but with everything that had been going on, she’d sort of forgot about trying to have another baby. She looks down, averting her eyes from Troy. She blamed herself, solely for the loss of her baby but she wasn’t going to let him know that.
;;Mikah “Okay. I just want to leave.â€
Her voice was void of emotion, it just wasn’t there because she couldn’t let herself feel anymore. She couldn’t let Troy in anymore and she couldn’t feel the heartbreak anymore. The doctor looks over at Troy before at Mikah again.
;;Mikah “Now! I want to fucking leave NOW!â€
She was screaming at the doctor as she refused to cry over the loss of the unborn baby and the doctor simply nods his head before handing her a paper that had a prescription on it to help with the rest of the process. She didn't want to cry in front of Troy; it wasn't something she wanted him to see. She can't even remember if he had ever seen her cry before. But she didn't want him to see it now. She felt horrible and she heavily blamed herself for the loss of the baby that she didn't even know she was carrying. She crosses her arms over her chest as he walks out to get a nurse to start to the discharge process.
;;Mikah “Go ahead and say it, Troy. I know you fucking want to.â€
Troy gave her a look before looking at Leighton, who had tears in her eyes because she hadn’t ever seen her mother like this. Leighton sniffled a bit as she looked at her mother, wanting her but not wanting to make her mad either. It was something different for the preschooler.
ΦΦTroy “What? What do I want to say, Mikah?â€
;;Mikah “That’s it’s my fucking fault that I had a miscarriage. That I’m the one to blame. It's in both of our heads so you should just get it out of the way.â€
She shoots him a look, a glare on her face so deadly that he didn’t know what to think. Leighton looks at her mother then at Troy, who she’d known for a while and almost considered him like her own father. Mikah couldn't look at Leighton, not without feeling a pang of guilt deep down in the pit of her stomach about the miscarriage. She wasn't sure how people were supposed to bounce back from that at all.
ΦΦTroy “I wasn’t going to; it’s not your fault.â€
He was trying to be supportive as he knew that she didn't do well with expressing her emotions. It's why she always went around in circles when they argued; she couldn't just outright tell him what she was feeling. She gives him a look, the icy stare still there. She knew that this was going to be the end of them as a couple because she didn't want to let him close again. She couldn't handle having another miscarriage or falling in love with him again. It would be too much for her.
;;Mikah “Fuck you, Troy. I know that’s what you’re thinking, so just say it.â€
Her words were laced with venom and each word she said, she made sure she said it so he felt it. It wasn’t too much longer before she was discharged and they exchanged icy words in the elevator as she took her child back from him, shutting herself off from him and building a wall between them which led to the end of them as a couple.<----------->END OF F L A S H B A C K<----------->Mikah blinks for a moment, not even realizing that she had spaced out for a good five to ten minutes. She looks over at Gavin, who had a ‘what the fuck’ look on his face.;;Mikah “...What?â€
She looks at him again before shrugging and looking back down at her phone, thumbing through her Twitter feed. She didn’t have Facebook as she didn’t care about that but she loved her Twitter app. And she loved to piss people off. And sometimes--well, most recently, that meant her husband too.::Gavin “Just seems like you’re more interested in your phone.. you went quiet for like, five minutes babe..“
She looks at him before shrugging her shoulders as she looks back at her phone. She didn’t know what to say to him because she didn’t share her emotions or things like that.;;Mikah “Sorrry?â€
It was the best she could offer up without having to explain what was going on in the inside of her head. She looks back at her phone before moving her chair closer to Gavin so that she was at least in arm’s length from him.::Gavin “Do you even enjoy being near me anymore? It always seems like you act as if you’ve got a better place to be or something..“
She gives him a look as she tries not to look at her phone again. It wasn’t even as if there was anything important going on on Twitter but she didn’t want to explain her miscarriage of another man’s baby to her current husband.;;Mikah “Um. I’m near you RIGHT now. Literally.â€
She looks at him. She was being a sarcastic and literal bitch and she knew it but she wasn’t that girl that poured her heart out to everybody. It just wasn’t who she was or is.::Gavin “And yet you’re more interested in your phone. You haven’t looked away from it since the doctor left.“
She looks at him before looking around the small private room. She raises an eyebrow at him.;;Mikah “You know, I could get you a room that you could share with somebody. If you REALLY want to talk to somebody.â€
She looks back down at her phone, temporarily before looking back at him. She didn’t care if she was prodding and provoking him.::Gavin “For fucks sake..â€
He sat up and leaned over quickly, grabbing her phone. Then he tossed it into a nearby wall as hard as he could. Looking frustrated with her as he did so. She glares at him after realizing what he had just chosen to do.;;Mikah “What. The. Fuck. Do you fucking realize that THAT fucking phone is the ONLY communication I have with MY daughter while I’m on the road?!â€
She glares at him again before getting up and pushing her chair back before walking over to her broken phone and gathering the pieces.::Gavin “Yeah, well, your daughter will be fine. If you could get your nose out of your phone for five minutes, everything would be fine.â€
She looks at him, a glare settled on her face as she keeps some distance from him. She wanted to chuck her phone back at him but she didn’t want to actually give him another concussion or whatever it was he was diagnosed with either.;;Mikah “THAT is not the point, Gavin James. The point is that now she can’t call me or anything because you’re a fucking
dick and can’t handle anything anymore.â€
She wasn’t sure if she wanted to argue with him but she definitely knew that she didn’t want to tell him about the miscarriage and that was going to have had to happen if she would’ve paid less attention to her phone.::Gavin “This is how I always handle things. Always has been, always will be.“
She rolls her eyes at her husband before crossing her arms over her chest, narrowing her eyes in his direction.;;Mikah “Oh? Well, would you like to see how I handle things now?â€
She looks at him as she stands in the same spot, not moving closer to him as she looks at him. She didn’t have any means of communication now and he was going to pay for it. Or she’d scream. Loudly.::Gavin “Let me guess.. gonna cause me some trouble, break something of mine, so on?â€
She lets a laugh roll off of her tongue before giving him a look. If only it was that easy--well, it could have been if she’d had means of communication to Leighton back home, where she could tell her to break something of importance to Gavin.;;Mikah “Nope—well, maybe. But I’m now going to go for a run so I don’t throw something at your face. Which, I so want to do right now. Badly.â€
She gives him a pointed look as she looks at her broken phone and feeling the anger before she rolls her eyes at her husband.;;Mikah “Sometimes, Gavin, I think you’re more of a girl than I am.â€
She smirks at him, knowing he can’t get out of his bed without feeling dizzy or anything as she stands by the door.::Gavin “Sometimes, I think all you do is sit with your nose in a phone and tweet with idiots all day. So - I guess we both have opinions, huh?â€
She laughs before rolling her eyes again. A habit she’d gotten over the course of the past couple of weeks.;;Mikah “What? Jealous that people
actually like me and
not you?â€
She wasn’t actually sure why it bothered him who or who she didn’t tweet. It was her Twitter account and she felt that she could tweet whomever she wanted. Whenever it came to her mind.::Gavin “I could care less, you waste time with any trash you want on twitter. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.â€
She gives him a look before placing her hands on her hips, her right hand securely wrapped around her broken phone.;;Mikah “Warn me about what exactly, Gavin? Because interacting with people is not a bad thing, no matter how much you think it is. Just because I tweet them, doesn’t mean jack shit. It’s a fucking social media platform, that’s all.â€
She viewed Twitter as a means of communication with people she didn’t want to give her phone number too. People she didn’t hang out with hardly at all. Only a select few people in SCW had her number; Mark Ward, Alexis Edwards, and Christian Underwood. And she didn’t even want Christian to have her phone number but for some reason, both bosses just had to have it. Whatever.;;Mikah “What-ever. I’m going to go get a bottle of water and go look at babies. I’ll come back when I don’t feel like crushing your trachea.â€
He just rolls his eyes at her as she chooses to leave his hospital room. She didn’t have much else to say to him about her Twitter account or her now broken phone. It irritated her just thinking about it. So she didn’t want to think about it. She was going to go look at the babies in the nursery and drink a bottle of water that she was going to pretend was vodka.<text align=right><p align=â€Rightâ€>
"SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST."
LOCATION: CANCUN, MEXICO.
DAYS UNTIL DECEMBER 2 DISMEMBER: 12
EXCITEMENT LEVEL: LOW
SCENE ii
REC•She had thought about getting dressed because it would have probably been more appropriate for a little promo for SCW to promote her match against Melanie Gabrielle at Decemeber 2 Dismember. But she couldn't bring herself to put on clothes over her turquoise bikini. So instead of changing her outfit to adapt to a proper promo, she'd adapt her promo to her and what she wanted to do with it. So here she sat, on a towel on the beach with her Ray Ban sunglasses over her eyes, and her championship perched next to her. She'd sent a text to the camera crew and informed them of the change of location as she was too lazy to directly call them. But they were late and she was becoming more, and more irritated. Didn't they know NOT to piss her off? Apparently they didn't because they were late. Finally, they showed up and were setting things up but now, she was more irritated than she should've been.;;Mikah “Do you think I have all day to wait for you morons? Do you think it says anywhere in my schedule that I have time to spare for late camera crew?â€
They shook their heads no. They'd worked with her plenty of times and were often the crew that were sent to do her things. They knew when not to speak in fear of pissing her off and that was something that they didn't want to do. However, it didn't take them long before the camera man nodded to her, letting her know that he was indeed ready to begin filiming.;;Mikah “This...this is how a champion lives. On the beach. Sun on their skin and no care in the world. But maybe, just maybe my opponent, Melanie Gabrielle knows about that. I mean, afer all, she
is the Bombshell Roulette Champion.â€
There were people on the beach and the noises were extra annoying but the annoyance couldn't be seen in Mikah's eyes as they were shielded by the sunglasses.;;Mikah “But then again, being just the Roulette Champion doesn't give you the same perks as being the Bombsell Champion; the TOP champion in the company. Screw Drake Green, he doesn't matter. He
never mattered to anybody other than himself.â€
She flashes the camera a smirk.;;Mikah “As the top Champion in the company, I get the best perks. I mean, have I ever let you inside the hotel room that I stay in? I mean, seriously. I know I get to book the room I stay in but the extra money from my championship reign definitely helps. I don't really know if Melanie Gabrielle is ready for that. I mean, her meager run as the Bombshell Roulette Champion is slightly impressive but I don't expect that run to last very long.â€
She winks at the camera even though her sunglasses cover her eyes. She lets a laugh roll off of her tongue.;;Mikah “I mean, I'm right, aren't I? Isn't it Winner Takes All come next Sunday?â€
She shrugs her shoulders a bit as she leans back, getting even more comfortable on her towel.;;Mikah “But here's the honest truth: I don't even fucking
want that piece of shit Roulette championship. I just want my Bombshell championship. That's all. I'd even go as far to give that shitty championship back to Melanie after I win the match. That is just how much I do not like that championship. I don't need to rely on weapons to beat my opponents. Or silly stipulations either.â€
She turns up her nose at the thought of stupid, useless stipulations.;;Mikah “I'm not even sure what being the Roulette Champion is all about. And if I cared about that championship, I would have gone after that one instead of
my Bombshell Championship. You see, I love this championship as if it was my own child. It's like I've raised it for six months and I'm not ready to give it up.â€
She grabs her championships and pulls it into her lap as she sits up, criss-cross style. She looks at it in an adoring way. She rubs her fingers over the nameplate that her name was carved on.;;Mikah “This championship has meant more to me in recent weeks than my husband has. Hell, my husband was in the hospital last night and the only thing I care about is this, right here. IS that fair to my husband? No, not really but my championship has been with me more than my own husband has in the past six months. We have a bond that cannot be replaced.â€
She didn't care if it was crazy to talk about a championship like it was a human. She didn't care if it made her a bit crazy because she'd had her share of crazy in the past. She knew crazy and she knew how to bounce back from it.;;Mikah “Melanie Gabrielle. She's the woman who beat everybody in that tournament to earn the shot at my championship. So right there she
does have that going for her. That's one more thing that she has going for her that Crystal Hilton, Mercedes Vargas, Amanda Cortez, or Veronica Taylor
ever had going for them. So bravo.â€
She fake claps a bit before rolling her eyes a bit and taking her sunglasses off and placing them beside her on her towel.;;Mikah “The girl came from out of nowhere, let's be honest with each other, shall we? I understand that being the Bombshell Champion comes with a target on my back. I get it, it comes with the territory of being a champion. But Melanie, you already
have a championship! Why must you be so greedy? Do you find it polite to be so greedy? I mean, Santa Claus is watching, you know. He could put you on the naughty list.â€
She clicked her tongue against her tongue a few times, making a 'tsk' sound. She smirks a bit, using the Santa logic with her. She knew that her years with Leighton believing in Santa Claus were numbered and maybe had just one more Christmas after this for her to believe. And what more of a fitting time to bring that up?;;Mikah “Also, I'm pretty amazed that you didn't really bad mouth me in your last little thing for SCW. Because that's what all those silly, interchangeable bombshells do in the back; they bad mouth me because they can't handle the fact that they fucking suck. Excluding maybe one or two of them, of course.â€
Harsh? Maybe. The truth? Definitely.;;Mikah “It's also become sort of a trend among the other interchangeable bombshells. To bad mouth me. To say how I'm annoying and I'm a bitch and blah, blah, blah. Like, really? I'm pretty sure they don't get to say that just because they fucking suck and can't hack it in a wrestling ring. Like Jessie Salco. Why does she think that she can even speak my name? She will
never get the chance to go up against me for this belt. Never. She can't even lick my boots, that's how much she sucks at what she supposedly does. And let's not mention Veronica Taylor or Celeste West.â€
She knew that wasn't the chick's real last name but she was showing just how much the bitch didn't matter to her. Not one bit.;;Mikah “Melanie, I'll be honest for another moment with you. Because you did actually earn this championship shot and you at least deserve my honesty. I don't know anything about you. Hell, you could be a fucking whore that secretly works in a whore house and I wouldn't even know that. Fuck, you could be Barack O'Bama's daughter and I wouldn't even know that. So, why oh why do I dislike you so much at the moment?â€
She purses her lips together for a moment and simply shrugs her shoulders.;;Mikah “You haven't even done anything to me, personally. But maybe, I'm just irritated because I have to face you and take that championship that you're holding away from you. A championship that I don't even fucking want. I'll even give it back to you, no match needed after I win. Because the only thing that I will be doing with it is throwing in a river or the trash because that's were I solely believe it belongs.â€
She lets a laugh roll off of her tongue as she rolls her eyes a bit. The feelings she had for that horrendous championship shouldn't even be real. Or in her mind but that championship that Melanie was holding had never been on her radar until now. When she had the opportunity to hold it and her Bombshell championship at the same time.;;Mikah “You're right though. The things you said in your last promo for the last match of the tournament. I know you didn't speak very much about me but the same stands true for this match: only one of us can walk out of the match with both championships. And I know that you will fight hard to insure that it's you but Mel—I can call you Mel, right?â€
She flashes a smirk at the camera.;;Mikah “Of course I can, I'm the Bombshell Champion. That gives me the right to do whatever I want and say whatever I want and call you whatever I want. You see, here's the thing Mel. I've been the champion for six months, going on seven. And I'm not about to let somebody just take it away with me so easily. And I'm not saying that you expect that because you don't. You don't seem like the type of girl that likes things just handed to them and for that, I give you props. But I've been on a little hot streak lately in singles competition. I don't know if you've noticed but I haven't lost a
singles match since before May. That's pretty impressive, don't you think?â€
She smiles at the camera.;;Mikah “Do you know how much pressure I feel right now to insure that I don't fuck up my perfect streak? I know somebody is waiting for me to fuck up and lose but I can't let it be this match I lose. I want to continue my hot streak for as long as I can. It's nothing personal against you but you're just the next person that I have to beat to put on the long list of losers.â€
It was what she called the people she's beaten. She kept track; Raynin had a tally by her mark as did Crystal Hilton and Amanda Cortez. Veronica and Mercedes' names were only on there once. She reaches into her bag and pulls out the paper that holds the names and the tally marks.;;Mikah “This. This is my long list of losers. I know, crappy name but I don't get paid to come up with catchy names and snappy comebacks. Everybody that I've beaten in a singles match since May is on here. Tag team matches are not because they aren't anything worthwhile. You and I have never crossed paths, Mel. And it will change next Sunday. Your name will be on this list and it's not exactly something you'r thrilled about, right? I mean, nobody likes to lose, I understand that but this...this is not about liking to lose or disliking to lose. This is about how I
need to win. My record has to continue and I have to continue to shatter every last milestone that SCW has for the Bombshells.â€
She smirks as she looks at the list one more time before folding it up and placing it back into her beach bag.;;Mikah “You are going to be the one to help me shatter one more record; the record of the most successful title defenses by a Bombshell singles champion. I
have to break that record. I cannot let Mercedes Vargas continue to hold that honor. That is not an honor I want her to still hold. And I'm not really sorry that you're the one that I have to go through to break that record. And I know that you will understand that. Because while I don't like you, I don't at all dislike you either. All that much anyways, because let's be honest, I dislike almost everybody.â€
She lets another laugh roll off of her tongue as if it was the easiest thing she's said all day.;;Mikah “You don't seem to be the type to hold too much of a grudge against many things. And you seem to want to fight a fair fight and that I can promise you. I can promise you a fair fight. I do not like to cheat to win; all of my victories since May have been clean ones. Either by pinfall or submission. There has been no disqualifications or any cheating to win. I know you will know that and recognize that as well. I trust in you to know that. Because you're not like those silly, interchangeable bombshells, are you, Mel? You don't think it's unfair that I have the championship, do you?â€
She pouts her bottom lip out a bit.;;Mikah “Because if you do, I will classify you in the same category as I do all those other pathetic simpletons. They don't think I've been a worthy champion because they don't like me. They don't like my attitude, the attitude I get to have because of my success. They don't understand what it is like to be superior than they are. And I don't care if this isn't helping my case with them because I don't care about them. Horrible to say? Maybe but it's the truth. I don't want to classify you in the same category as them, Melanie. Because I honestly believe you're better than that. I mean, you after all didn't get this championship opportunity handed to you and that's a redeemable quality. Or at least to me it is. You have better qualities than Crystal Hilton or Mercedes Vargas, the resident historian.â€
She offers the camera a smile, a real smile.;;Mikah “Everything I do, I do for a reason. I have a plan at all times, Melanie. Don't think that just because I'm holding you to a better standard than I have my previous opponents that I'm going to take it easy on you. If anything, I'm going to bring it to you even more. If I'm going to get beat, which I highly, highly doubt it, you're going to have to fight harder than you've ever fought before. This isn't a silly tournament match. It's a championship match. It's for the whole kit and caboodble. Your gold vs my gold. Everything is on the line here except our careers. And if I'm going to lose, I'm going to make you tired by doing so. It's not a walk in the park, Mel. It's a fight in the jungle and as you said in your last promo...â€
She smirks as she uses Melanie's own words.;;Mikah “Only the fittest survive. And it's kill or be killed, so to speak and that's just what I plan on doing.â€
She winks at the camera before standing up and wiggling her hips to fix her bikini bottoms. She waves at the camera.;;Mikah “See you soon.â€
She gathers up her stuff in one swift, easy motion before walking away from the camera, letting it get a good image of her backside as she walked to the hotel. She had to get ready to go back to New York City for a good week and a half before she had to go to Canada. She wasn't too happy about having to do some stupid convention of some sorts. It was one of things about being a champion that was hard; the promotional events that weren't beneficial to her. But she did everything that a champion was required to do; autograph sessions and the meet and greets. It was what a true champion did, after all. And she was the true champion.<text align=right> <p align=â€Rightâ€>
"CHRISTMAS CHEER."
LOCATION: NEWYORKCITY, NEWYORK
DAYS UNTIL DECEMBER 2 DISMEMBER: 6
EXCITEMENT LEVEL: HIGH
SCENE iii
REC•She growls a bit as she stands in line of the Apple store, waiting to buy the new iPad that her daughter desperately wanted for Christmas. Leighton had accidentally broken her first iPad a month or so ago and was using Mikah's second iPad to play games or whatever it was she had to do. This was also a reason why she didn't like to go Christmas shopping sometimes; the endless amount of lines that never seemed to move fast. She was lucky though, because Christian Othniel had agreed to go with her since he was going to be around for a day or so.;;Mikah “I want to stab somebody in the eye with a fork. Or a spoon or something. This line is ridiculous.â€
If she had been sitting, she'd have probably hit her head on the table to make a statement. But she wasn't. Instead she was imagining shoving a spoon or some gadget in the person in front of her's back. She smiles a bit before looking at Christian, who just raises his eyebrows at her.ΣΣChristian “Do it. I'll cover for you.â€
She smiles at him and shakes her head a bit. This was one of the many, many reasons he was her best friend. He understood her.;;Mikah “Yeah, okay. So you can get custody of Leighton when I'm in jail?â€
She glances at him and he just grins at her and pats her head in a patronizing way. She scowls at him and tries to smack his hand away.ΣΣChristian “I love my daughter. And of course I would take care of her if you went to jail; it's just the way I am.â€
He holds a hand over his heart and pats it a few times before smiling again at her. She rolls her eyes at him but a smile appears on her pretty face.;;Mikah “Yeah because you're such a saint, aren't you, Mase?â€
Christian just shrugs his shrugs with a smirk on his own face. Mikah rolls her eyes at him and growls again, the line still moving slowly. It wasn't like she had all day and she wasn't about to stand here for another fifteen minutes.ΣΣChristian “I AM a saint, Miks. And you need to calm down; it's gonna be alright. I promise you.â€
She shot him a slightly irritated look. If only EVERYBODY could be as patient as he was, it'd be amazing. And it would definitely be a much better world.;;Mikah “Says the man who doesn't have a job or a big match coming up.â€
They move forward again and Mikah once again is tempted to shove a fork in the man in front of her's back.ΣΣChristian “And it's probably my best decision yet.â€
Mikah rolls her eyes at him before sticking her tongue out at him in a childish manner. She glances at the front of her phone, checking the time. She lets out a loud sigh as she continues to notice that the line is moving at a snails pace.;;Mikah “For fucks sake. I just want to by this iPad and these accessories and go have some fucking lunch. And all these people can is move fucking slow! Fuck it, I'll order it online and not have to deal with these morons.â€
The little patience that Mikah did have was gone. She sets her things down and grabs Christian's hand and tugs him out of the store and out into the chilly December air. She had to do her Christmas shopping while Leighton was at school and while she was home. So there wasn't very many opportunities to actually shop.ΣΣChristian “Testy, testy.â€
She just chuckles at him as she laces her fingers with his, holding his hand as they walk down the busy, crowded sidewalk to one of Mikah's favorite little restaurants. The hostess sits them in a small booth near the back and Mikah gets herself situated. She looks over the menu, barely looking at Christian as the waiter walks over. She orders a simple tea with lemon and Christian orders the same.;;Mikah “So...â€
She looks over at him, chewing on her bottom lip.ΣΣChristian “So. . .â€
He looks at her with an inquisitive look on his own face before smiling at her in a friendly manner. For some reason, the two just clicked.;;Mikah “I think my relationship with my husband is over. I just....him and I just can't connect anymore.â€
She chews on her bottom lip. She wasn't sure if she was supposed to be happy about it or sad about it. But either way, she was uncertain and that in itself should have told her it wasn't a good thing. She knew how Christian felt about Gavin and she knew how Gavin felt about Christian.ΣΣChristian “Good, you can do better than that scrub. YOU deserve better.â€
She knew that he'd have that sort of answer because he didn't like Gavin. And didn't like the relationship that the two had. But he liked Mikah and he was there for her and trying his best to be supportive.;;Mikah “Mase, come on now. I know you don't like him but obviously I do. Did? I don't know. It's a mess.â€
She frowns a bit, trying to forget her feelings. She was used to just giving into the urge to drink and just forget the emotions that would steadily run through her mind. He watches her and offers her a supportive smile. He was a good friend and he'd always been there for her in some form.ΣΣChristian “I'm not trying to be a dick because you know I'm a saint but Miks, you do deserve better. He treats Leighton like crap. My daughter deserves better treatment.â€
Mikah sighs and runs her fingers through her straight blonde locks as the waiter sets their drinks down in front of them. She listens as Christian orders some hamburger and french fries before she orders herself a simple cup of baked potato soup.;;Mikah “I know. But it's a marriage, Mase. It's not something that can be just brushed under the rug as if it didn't matter. It wasn't a mistake.â€
She looks down for a moment before peeking her eyes up to look over at him.ΣΣChristian “Miks, I get it.â€
He reaches over and pats her hand as she offers him a small, miniscule smile.;;Mikah “You are such a good friend.â€
Christian winked at her and took a long drink of his iced tea. He leans back on his side of the table, in his own booth.ΣΣChristian “That's me, the saint.â€
Mikah laughs before rolling her eyes again.;;Mikah “That should be your next thing. Should you come back to wrestling; Saint Othniel. Can't you just picture it?â€
He shrugs before moving his straw around in his glass, swirling the ice around. He knew that she wanted him to return but she wasn't about to make him do something he didn't want to do. She just enjoyed the time they got to spend together when he was around.ΣΣChristian “I guess you can never really say never, can you?â€
He raises an eyebrow at her and she laughs before leaning back as the waiter walks over and puts her cup of soup in front of her and Christian's burger in front of him.;;Mikah “I know. I was almost done in May, literally ready to hang up the boots and just. . .be done. But somehow, the fire got ignited once more. And here I am, six months later the best champion that Sin City Wrestling has to offer.â€
She shrugs her shoulders as she grabs her spoon as he shoves some fries into his mouth, watching her as she just stirs her soup around in the small bowl. He takes a deep breath, not wanting the conversation to go in the direction it was about to.ΣΣChristian “Mikah. . .â€
Her head snaps up, looking at him. He only called her Mikah when it was serious or he wanted to talk about something serious.;;Mikah “Masen. . .â€
She adored him as her best friend but sometimes, he brought up things that she didn't like to talk about. Things that he knew about her because he knew her like the back of his hand. He knew her ques and what was going on in her mind.ΣΣChristian “Are you...â€
Even though he was her best friend, there were things that were hard to bring up. Hard to talk about because he didn't want her to back herself into a corner.;;Mikah “Am I what?â€
She raises an eyebrow at him as her heart beats just a little faster in her chest. She was thinking about every possible thing that he could say to her and it wasn't something she was proud of. Sometimes, she jumped to conclusions.ΣΣChristian “Are you okay? Are you eating and taking care of yourself?â€
She feels her breath catch in her throat as she looks at him. How could he just know things like that? She wasn't sure just why he just knew.;;Mikah “I'm fine. I eat. I take care of myself.â€
The answer was clipped and short. She didn't want him to pry but she didn't want to push him away either. But even if she pushed him away, he would push back and refuse to leave.ΣΣChristian “I just want you to be healthy. None of that stupid bullshit about whatever it is that makes you do
wreckless things.â€
The sincereity to his voice made her smile. She takes a spoonful of her soup and chews up the potatoes and swallows and offers him another smile.;;Mikah “I'm fine, Mase. I promise you. I just...like to run.â€
Running was a drug for her; something she did for her because it made her feel good. It also made her forget about all the bullshit in her life. All the things that she couldn't deal with or refused to deal with it.ΣΣChristian “Okay.â€
He had a look on his face that made her think he didn't believe her but she didn't want to talk about that. Or the fact that she was lying to him. She wasn't okay. She didn't feel okay with herself again and it was getting harder and harder to resist that urge and not feed into it like she so desperately wanted.;;Mikah “Are you going to come watch my match on Sunday? I'm defending my championship against Melanie Gabrielle.â€
She winks at him as she stirs her soup around before taking another bite of it and looks at him, curiously. She would love for him to be able to watch her compete for the company that she was so successful in.ΣΣChristian “Maybe. We'll see.â€
She laughs a bit, always having not really liked his nonchalant answers that didn't really give her a real answer. She just shrugs it off, knowing that he wasn't one to commit to a schedule.;;Mikah “Well, should up if you want to. I'll be there, obviously. Kicking butt.â€
He laughs before taking another bite of his own meal. He didn't mind eating in front of Mikah and he didn't mind that she just watched him but he didn't like that she barely ate herself.ΣΣChristian “You'll win; you're better.â€
She laughs a bit before grabbing her glass of lemonade and taking a long drink of it before leaning back, looking at her barely eaten soup. It was mocking her, begging her to take another bite while her head was screaming at her not to.;;Mikah “It's kind of nerve wracking, you know that? I mean, I've defended my championship successfully for I think five times but you know, there's always that chance that somebody can surprise you and take everything you've worked so hard on away from you. I love being the champion but I want the match to steal the show too. Like you were stealing the show in the IRX.â€
He looks at her before smirking as she brings up their old glory days in the former company. They'd been quite the duo.ΣΣChristian “Ah, the good ole' IRX. I miss that place. Don't sweat it, Miks. You're the better competitor and even if you lose, you're still the better person AND competitor.â€
His faith in her was unnerving and unwavering. It was a trait she'd admired about him. She could easily remember back when they had met back in PWT where they ran rampant in a faction, who's sole mission was to destroy the company.;;Mikah “Ah, yes. I remember when YOU used to be scared of me because I was a girl. Or that's how it seemed.â€
She winked at him. She was just teasing him a bit, trying to rile him up.ΣΣChristian “I was not scared of you!â€
He objected to it, of course just like she knew he would. She lets a laugh roll off of her tongue as she sits across from him, enjoying his company like always.;;Mikah “You sure acted like it, Mase. Blushed beat red when I kissed your cheek. Scared little boy.â€
He scoffs before finishing his burger and throwing a french fry a her.ΣΣChristian “You just caught me off guard. Plus, we were in front of my people, it was a surprise.â€
She laughs again at what he was saying before shrugging her shoulders simply.;;Mikah “I know. Are you almost done, Mase? I have a lot more Christmas shopping to do and I'm going to need those muscles of yours to carry my bags.â€
He nods his head as he polishes off his iced tea and she leaves some money on the table, not even bothering to wait for the check. She didn't have time for that and she didn't want to waste anymore of her precious shopping time.