Chapter 47: Unwind
”But WHHHHYYYY”
That is how my night started. If I can, I want to take you guys back a few hours. I was sitting in the lounge room of my home. Both of my sisters, Amber and Tasmin along with someone who many would consider to be my best friend. Kallie Reznik. And of course, she was the one who let out that long whiny question. They had all tried to get Me out of the house. They were ganging up on me and telling me that I needed to get out and clear my head.
And their idea? Their great revelation on how to make sure that I’m focused on my life and I can breathe easier and be happy? Simple. They want me to go clubbing. Yes, clubbing. It was Tasmin and Kallies idea. Not that I should be surprised. I stared at all three of them, they stood shoulder to shoulder with my sisters flanking Kallie on either side. Meanwhile, I sat on my couch, my arms folded over my chest staring up at all three of them with all of indignation and annoyance.
If looks could kill indeed.
I shook my head, Tasman rolled her eyes and turned around while Kallie threw her hands in the air. They both stomped off as Amber shook her head and stepped toward me before sitting across from Me on the singular chair. She leaned forward, her elbows leaning on her knees as she tilted her head and looked me up and down. ”The little twit is right….this might be a good idea for you to unwind a little
”I don’t need to “unwind” I need to be left alone”
Amber laughed, she shook her head and looked me dead in the eye. ”Right, you aren’t uptight at all, are you? Even though it looks like we could shove a lump of coal up your ass and diamonds would come out in about five seconds.”
”That’s because I’m fucking fabulous” I spat out the words with venom with a straight face. It was a half joke half statement of intent and annoyance. More and more I was getting agitated and they could all see it in my face. But I could also see there’s that they were not going to let this go.
So I agreed.
And that’s what led me hear. Pumping electronic music, neon lights, and drinks that had an odd almost radioactive glow. I hated it. I sat at our booth, drinking my third drink of the night because I thought alcohol might help. Amber hated these things too but she seemed to have an odd look of satisfaction on her face as she watched me squirm. Tasmin was enjoying herself, dancing and bopping to the music but Kallie?
Well, this was something that gave me a little bit of satisfaction. She realized the grave error that she had made. ”OH MY GOD IT’S SO LOUD” She whimpered and covered her ears. I shook my head and drank the rest of my neon green colored martini.
”Come on, you should be enjoying yourself…like Tas..” Amber motions to our sister, she was swaying and lightly sipping her drink while listening to the music. She was enjoying herself, and why wouldn’t she? It was a night away from Adam and their child. Everyone needs that time away, I suppose. ”Kallies husband seems to be enjoying herself..”
Ahh yes. How can I forget? The moronic Australian insisted on escorting us. Saying that New York City late at night was no place for four unescorted women. He was trying to be sweet. And it made it easier since they were childless this weekend with his parents being in town. I couldn’t help but laugh looking over at the idiot. Covered in glow sticks, shirtless, wearing board shorts and skater shoes dancing to the music while blowing a whistle. And yes, before anyone asks he was doing a robot. ”Might be worth it just to see that…”
”Have you told him?” and there it is. Amber never failed to get he as soon as anyone was looking to get out of that kind of situation.
”No.”
Simple and concise. I was nothing if not these things. Especially when it came to my personal life. But I also knew that my sister was not going to let this stay where it was. Amber always had this need to get down to the bottom of everything. ”He needs to know…”
I took a deep breath, holding it in before pushing it out and shaking my head turning to Amber and holding my drink in my hand. ”Why?” I said forward laying closer to my sister. Kallie still had her hands over her ears. ”I don’t want to revive all of it. Besides, it’s not like it’ll make much of a difference. We deep in this shit.”
Amber shook her head and folded her arms over her chest sitting back ”He might understand. Besides, he needs to know. He needs to know everything that you’ve gone through and why you are, you know, the way you are.”
”The way I am?” I laughed to myself and shook my head. I knew what Amber meant. I know that I’m not the easiest person to get along with or get close to. And while I can’t blame all of that on my past it certainly made it worse. ”Yeah… it seems like he loves me despite all of that. Maybe he will understand. But not now. I’ll tell him, I will. But when I’m ready.”
Amber took a deep breath and nodded her head toward Me. Acknowledging that it was time to drop the subject. I drank the rest of my drink putting it down. I took a deep breath and smiled the alcohol starting to take effect. I looked over and laughed as I saw my sister dancing. Tasmin was never the most graceful. Think of a baby giraffe on ice. I slid to the side of the booth getting up and pulling Amber toward me. The two of us went over to our baby sister to save her from herself. I couldn’t help but laugh, and the three of us started to dance.
Kallie joined us. And for the first time in a long time, I felt myself having fun. Letting loose and just trying to forget about all of the problems in the world. The issues with Finn‘s brother, the issues with the Romani. The pressures of being a world champion and face of a huge company. All of those stresses just washed away in a haze of thumping electronic music and neon-colored alcohol. ”See, I knew you’d have fun.”
I didn’t want to admit that Kallie was right. The stress had melted away and I was enjoying myself. As the song started to wind down I realised I needed a drink, but that’s when it happened. I turned and looked over to the bar and my stomach started to hurt, my heart dropped into it And I took a deep breath. He was there. Jace. Standing at the bar, holding a small glass and taking a sip. His long hair was tied up in a man bun as he tilted his head and leaned backward against the bar. A tight black shirt clean to his huge muscular frame he raised the glass up to me and gave me a small wink.
I took a sharp breath in and had to get out of there. I turned to move past both my sisters as well as Kallie. I needed air, I needed to get out. As I made my way out onto the street, I heard footsteps behind Me and spun around. Only to find Amber. ”…..what happened?”
I closed my eyes and shook my head looking down. ”You didn’t see him? Jace. He was at the bar.”
Amber blinked a few times obviously trying to process what I said. She then took a deep breath and shook her head. ”I’m sorry Kay, none of us saw him.” I took a few deep breaths and shook my head, Amber‘s face changed. She looked concerned.
”I just want to go home.” They all looked at me, never giving a small look of acknowledgment to everyone else before reaching out and taking Me by the arm. They understood and we were ready to go. But I couldn’t get it out of my mind. The wink, the fact he knew exactly where I was. And the fact he got away with everything.
I needed something to be done about this.
Unstoppable
”Some victories can be viewed as losses if you go too far celebrating them. Especially when it’s a victory that doesn’t deserve to be celebrated.”
Kayla laughed to herself, shaking her head and folding her arms over her chest. Her two championship belts sit close by as always. Deliberately placed to show off that she is a double champion and is due all the respect in the world.
”See, if you kick a can down the road and you happen to do it over and over again, do you celebrate it? Is it fun to do? Because that’s the situation I find myself in right now. I am a world champion. I am the world champion of the bombshells division. I faced and beat one of the best up-and-coming champions that this place had. I then defended the championship against a woman who went through an entire tournament just to get an opportunity at the title. I have done everything I can to make sure people look at the world Bombshells championship with respect admiration and lust.”
“I want people to lust after this championship. To want it. The same way I feel about the mixed tag-team championships. But the Bombshells championship is what I defended last week. And the victory from that is a hollow one. I can’t sit here. Tell you all that it was a great victory in a hard-fought match because it wasn’t. That was an easy match that I knew I was going to win and those matches do not excite me. They do not get my blood running. They don’t get their adrenal and coursing through my veins. Matches like that do not make me love professional wrestling which is one of the few things in this life that I enjoy.”
“Beating Seleana is not something that I’m going to stand here and celebrate like it is a great thing. Because it wasn’t.”
“The Bombshells championship deserves better. It deserves Me facing the best of the best and she damn sure wasn’t the best of the best. I am a woman who enjoys being challenged. And when I’m not? I get bored. And if I get bored, I get mouthy. It’s the entire reason why I ended up going toward the world bombshells championship in the first place. Because I was bored and decided to mouth off and constantly call out Juliana DiMaria. And that led me to be a champion but it also was one of the hardest and most infuriating moments of my career. And here I am holding two championships and again I’m going through the same bullshit because I’m starting to get bored. This company needs to do better and present me with challenges. And that leads me into this next match.”
Kayla can’t help her take a deep breath and shake her head before refocusing. Trying to suppress anger and frustration.
”A mixed tag team title match. Against the team that Finn and I have already beaten over and over again. Miles and Alexandra. I understand I do. You two want these championships so bad that it is burning a hole right through both of your brains. At least it would if anything went through Miles's brain except for Carter. Now, something that you two boneheads need to realize is that other teams have made the excuse that they are real teams and that Finn and I weren’t. Even in the beginning, that was a stupid thing to say. He and I are well-oiled machines and we make up a team that is greater than the sum of parts. And that is a major problem for you.”
“See, it’s a major problem because he and I are also also the world champions. These titles. These mixed tag-team titles have been overlooked. They’ve been used and abused by different teams just because they wanted to get the Rob. He and I wanted to make these championships mean something and we have worked day and day out weekend out in and out for almost almost a year to make sure that these championships are ones teams want to hold and are after as more than just to pad your fucking resume.”
“We have taken them to the main event. We have made the mean something.”
“And you both seem to believe that you’re going to do better than us? That you are worthy of holding them? Look if you are good enough as a team to beat myself and Finn then yeah you deserve to call yourself champions but the problem is, you already think you are in your head. Thinking and believing these things and proving them are completely different. So many others have said they’re better than me but they yet fucking prove it. Others have talked shit about Finn saying that they can beat him but none of them have proved it. But hey you two are ready to force a change right? That’s what Alexandra said?”
she can’t help but laugh and shake her head again.
”Let’s talk about that then. How exactly are you both? Going to accomplish this? Do you think you’re gonna do it by just being better than us? Sorry not gonna happen. You look at both of your careers and you look at what you’ve accomplished as a team and you still don’t come anywhere close to being that good. now, miracles happen. That is a straight-up fact miracles in this business happen and upsets happen. If Finn and I both have an off day you might be able to sneak in a quick win with a roll-up, a handful of tights, or if we slip on a banana peel, whatever the fuck”
“But it’s going to take a hell of a lot more than wishes upon a star and potential to beat us. And that is the albatross that’s been hanging around Miles. That albatross around his neck. The word potential. And there was a time when I agreed with that. We all looked at you Miles and thought that you had untucked potential and you were good enough to become a world champion. You’ve had these opportunities gifted to you over and over again only fall short each time and you’ve had nobody to blame except for yourself.”
“And for a while, your personality came through. That determination you had to be the best. That determination you continuously talked about in promos where you wanted to show the world that you were capable of more. But that personality is slowly disappeared replaced by something that makes the rest of us roll our eyes in total cringe.”
“Your entire personality has changed from being someone who wants to improve and wants to be the best to simply being Carter's husband. That’s it. Your entire personality your hopes your dreams your aspirations your past your future every single thing you could possibly imagine and everything that you have accomplished will accomplish or could accomplish boiled down to one simple statement and one simple thing. You are Carter's husband.”
“The end…”
She rolls her eyes and throws her hands in the air before continuing
”But Carter is technically Finn‘s problem. Alexandra is mine. And what a problem she is. It’s funny how people sit there and constantly talk about me and how I will say things that get me into trouble and how I’m this horrible, arrogant self-righteous piece of shit yet out of the two of us who has been more problematic Alexandra? which one of us causes more problems for those in our lives. Because you have been dragging Miles into the mixed tag division and costing him so much just because you want these championships. And without a good enough partner, you would have no chance at taking them from us.”
“But it’s time for a change right? That is this rhetoric that you decided to throw out there on social media. Talking about all due respect and all this other stupid bullshit. Let me lay it out for you. Respect is something that is earned. You should respect myself and Finn because we have a track record of winning. We have a track record of being the best. Not just in the mixed tag team division but also in the main event. He is a two-time SCW world champion and I am a three-time Internet champion and the current reigning defending undisputed bombshell world champion.”
“You should respect us. And if you didn’t, I certainly beat it into you.”
“That respect that you gave us? It’s one-sided. Because as I said, I don’t respect you. I don’t respect you as a woman I don’t respect you as a performer. I don’t respect you as a challenger. I do not respect you one bit. And if I had children, I wouldn’t respect you as a mother either. A mother is supposed to be somebody who sets an example for her children. The only example that you set for your child is being a leach when it comes to talent and fame and not having a goddamn lick of purpose in a company like this. Your legacy and your example to your daughter is that of failure and being a liability to not just your tag-team partner but the fucking company.”
“And you will drag down these mixed tag-team championships with your inability to be anything more than a joke. And I will be dead in the cold cold ground before I let you destroy something that I’ve built up so much. So you and Miles can do everything you possibly can to beat us, but in the end, all you are going to be is a failure.”
