Getting Started
Jet City South - San Diego
14 January 2021
OFF-Camera
Walking into Jet City South, it felt like it was going to be a good day. The god awful year of 2020 was over, and I was ready to put my losing streak behind me. I mean, I get it. Lots of awful things happened last year that were much worse than losing a few matches, but I’m allowed to feel a little sorry for myself. I was once the fastest rising star in Sin City Wrestling. These days I’ve basically fallen to the very bottom. That’s why I need to get things turned around. That’s why my losing streak is the most important thing that I needed to leave behind in 2021. That all started with Kris. He owes me, and I’m ready to cash in the favor.
Coby: He’s not here...
Half-stack must have seen me looking around because he cut me off on the way up to the offices. I may have been able to convince him to join The Black Sheep, but Coby stil didn’t trust me. I found it more annoying than anything else.
Court: How did you kn--
He brushes me off, almost like the formality of the conversation was boring to him.
Coby: You were doing your mean girl walk like you’re on the way to tell someone off. I know it’s not me. Also, common sense just says it’s Kris. But sorry, unless you want to hop on a plane, you’ll have to wait.
He barely broke stride as he spoke, and I had to grab his arm to stop him from just walking away from me. This was important. How could he not see that?
Court: He’s supposed to be here to help me get ready for my match. I thought that is what being a team was all about?
He didn’t try to pull his arm free, but he did stop and actually give me his full attention. I should have known better than to think that he would get angry.
Coby: If you need help, I’m around. It’s not like Kris is actually a useful trainer. The guy has no actual technical wrestling talent. To be honest, I’m not even sure why he is so interested in running a gym.
I couldn’t help but to be offended on Kris’ behalf.
Court: Hey! Whatever style he has got you gifted a championship, which is further than your talents have gotten you so far.
The little guy actually had to take a deep breath and close his eyes for a moment to stop from lashing out, so I take that as a victory for me.
Coby: ...and you wonder why nobody else around here is offering to help you. I’m around if you need me.
He finally does pull his arm free, and leaves me standing in the hallway, off to wherever he was headed before we crossed paths. He was right though. Nobody but Kris ever really showed interest in training me. Mikah was supposed to be my mentor but most of the time she was MIA. Kate had a lot of her own stuff going on. I guess I am on my own… as much as that makes me sick.
Court: …..fuck.
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>I’m not going to say that this is a new year, and new me. It’s fucking played out, and even when it wasn’t, it was still pretty lame.
I get it. My last couple of outings haven’t been great. I don’t exactly know what I am doing wrong. In all my time trying to work my way back to Sin City, I never considered that when I got back I would be incapable of getting back to the place that I was in when I left off. I expected to cruise to the Bombshell Championship as easily as I did two years ago. I thought that all the dominoes would fall at the right time, and in the right order and my dreams would come true.
Obviously I was wrong. I was very, very wrong.
The last few months have been a nightmare. All of my teammates in The Black Sheep are hitting their strides. Kris and Mikah ended 2020 as the undefeated champions of their division. Kris won the god damn SCW World Heavyweight Championship and handed off the Mixed Tag Team Championship to Coby. In his own right, Coby has been inches away from the Television Championship in SCU a handful of times, and only hasn’t gotten there because he has been screwed. Every one of them is doing big things. It’s almost like I don’t belong in the same ring with them.
That’s why I couldn’t bring myself to sign up for Blast from the Past. Nobody wants to see a former winner fail to make it out of the first round, and I would feel bad for anyone that got stuck teaming with me. I need to figure out how to right the ship before I try and do anything like chase a championship. One thing is for sure though, I’m not giving up. The whole time I was injured, I kept telling myself that this was the palace that I wanted to be. I’m not letting that go. Not like this.
The position I find myself in is a nightmare.
It’s only fitting that the woman standing across from me is the living embodiment of that.
I might be at the lowest point in my career, but I’m not going to let that stop me from trying to take this nightmare apart. Something is going to wake me up. Maybe the answer is inside that ring with a woman that everyone should be afraid of.
We’ll see at Climax Control.
