Chapter 59: Focused Anger
”That classless, ratchet ass, boy-chested cunt!”
I was furious. In fact, that is probably a severe underestimation of my feelings toward the subject. Since Aaron had come back into our lives, I had been annoyed. Twitching and trying to push down that annoyance and act normal was becoming a daily struggle. But this? This was a step over that fragile line that was keeping me from snapping and wanting to rip someone’s head off. And unfortunately, the woman whose head I wanted to rip off was currently out of my reach. I took a deep breath pacing back and forth through the kitchen. A cup of tea sat in front of me that had been made for me.
Kallie Reznik, my innocent, sweet, blonde, best friend and apparently my tea maker sat nervously fidgeting at my kitchen bench. She swallowed hard, her hands wrapped around her teacup as she stared down at the swirling milk. I hadn’t noticed as I kept pacing back and forth. She had always been very awkward when it came to me talking about Aaron. You see Aaron had a massive hand in training her. Truth is she was Kallies mentor. And Kallie considered her a friend.
She is very naive
I, on the other hand, knew exactly the type of woman that Aaron asphyxia was ”She walks back into Finn‘s life, he has to deal with her at work, then she starts hanging around like a bad smell, and starts trying to get into his head, she then joins the goddamn company he works for and starts to torment both of us. And then, we find out that bitch never signed the goddamn divorce papers. And why? Why is she doing this? He’s happy with me we’ve moved in together. This is fucking ridiculous.” Every single one of my words was spat with the same amount of venom that was usually reserved for people that I hated while cutting a promo for any company that I happened to be working for.
Kallie sat there sipping her tea and looking nervous. And it was at this point that she finally spoke up, that she finally decided to add her two cents into the conversation. ”Maybe she still loves him”
I stopped pacing, I shook my head, and tried to take a deep breath to calm myself down. I turned leaning back against the opposite kitchen bench where the stove top was, the unused stove top, don’t judge me. I wrapped my arms over my chest, almost hugging myself as I tilted my head looking at Kallie. ”You said that with a hell of a lot of certainty.” I could see it, I could see it in her eyes and her body language. I could see it in the way that she was breathing. She knew something.
Kallie took a deep breath and shrugged ”I-I mean, it makes sense right? Why would she be doing all of this? She has to still be in love with him.”
I placed my palms onto the kitchen bench and leaned right across getting closer to Kallie and tilting my head ”You have something that you want to tell me, don’t you? Come on Kallie…” She stumbled over her words her nerves becoming more exposed.
”Well, no, I mean it’s just obvious-“
”KALLISTO!”
”I was talking to Aaron and she told me that she and Finn were technically still married and that she really wanted him back because deep down she was in love with him and she realized that that wasn’t going to go away and she says that they are meant to be together and she’s going to do everything in her power to be with him. I’m paraphrasing but that's basically what she said.”
Kallie closed her eyes. When she’s nervous she speaks fast. I was able to catch everything and I shook my head. I swallowed hard trying to push my emotions down. I was still angry. I was still furious. But I needed to keep calm. I couldn’t let Aaron win. I couldn’t let her strip me of everything that I had. all of the growth that I had been through. I used to push people away, I wanted to be alone because I didn’t want people relying on me or wanting to be around me. But now I had friends, I had family, I had a man who loved me. Despite everything.
Kallie looked up at me, I could see it, she was worried because I was staying silent and I hadn’t said anything. ”I’m sorry, she told me and I had no idea what to say, and before I could make sense of it and come and see you she had revealed the whole thing to Finn.”
I moved around the bench, stepping to the side I wrapped my arms around her and hugged her. My hand lightly rubbed up and down her back. ”Shhh it’s ok…” I stepped back and shot her a small smile. Kallie looked at me surprised.
She took a deep breath and took a sip of her tea ”You're not mad at me?”
I shook my head and took a sip of my own tea. She seemed relieved. And now I had to form a plan. ”I’m mad at Erin. I’m mad at her for not just letting it go, I’m mad at her from not only my standpoint of being in love with the same man that she’s in love with but I’m also mad at her for putting you in the position that she did. That is not something a friend should do. So I’m removing you from the middle of it. you don’t need to worry about it.”
”What are you going to do?”
I laughed and sighed heavily. ”Right now? Nothing. Because I don’t need to. Aaron is trying to make our lives a living hell but she also wants me to snap and push everyone away. Why do you think she told you? She wants me to be angry at you and push you away. She wants me to be angry at Finn because of this whole situation which was one of her making. I’m not going to let her do this. I’m not going to let her get into my head so I push the people I love away from me…”
Kallie had no idea what to say. I could see it, she was shocked at me bearing my soul and my heart to her. But it was true. She wasn’t just my friend, she was my family. And Aaron had tried to use her as a pawn in her little chess game. I wasn’t going to let her do this. I wasn’t going to let her win.
Perfect Soul
”I lost it…”
Kayla closes her eyes taking a deep breath, her long black hair is tied back away from her face in a bun, showing off her razor-sharp cheekbones, her green emerald eyes and a small twisted grin that appears to most people fear.
”Are you all expecting me to throw some kind of tantrum? To say that it was a fluke? To disrespect our new SCW world bombshells champion? Because that isn’t what’s going to happen. I lost, I lost a woman who on that night was better than Me. and I say on that night because it doesn’t mean she’s better than me as a whole. Some nights people are just on another level. And that’s what Andrea Hernandez was. When we stepped in the ring together at inception there was something different about her. The way she carried herself, the way she moved about the ring. She was a better version of herself than I had ever seen.”
“So, congratulations Andrea. You beat me. You stopped me from reaching 300 days as the world bombshells champion. I’m not going to say that it doesn’t hurt or that it didn’t make me angry or frustrated, because it did. Losing never feels good. Especially for someone like myself myself who feels that pressure so rarely. I’m not someone who loses all the time so when it does happen? It almost feels like a new sensation every single time. I’ve never become complacent in my losses. But, I did become complacent in my victories.”
“Thank you, Andrea…”
“Thank you for beating me. Thank you for giving me the gift of a loss. A singles loss. One-on-one in the center of the ring fair and square, you beat me. And I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, you learn more from a loss than you do from a win. Every single time I have been beaten, I have come back stronger. And with the exception of one person who did return to this company but has been hiding from Me like a little bitch weakling, I have avenged my losses. I have been that woman. The one who will lose but comes back and decimates opponents in ways that so many others wish they could.”
Kayla chuckles, closing her eyes as her mouth twists again into that same twisted grin.
”And the clock is ticking. At blaze of glory, I’m going to get into that elimination chamber and I get to destroy every single one of you who dare step foot in there with Me. And it’s strange because while I am the former champion and I should be looked at as someone who could walk out as the new champion, I’m at a disadvantage. You see while everyone else in this match gets to just focus on either retaining their championship, like Andrea, or winning the championship like everyone else. I have to keep one eye open for an obsessed bitch named Aaron asphyxia.”
“I have to deal with her as a distraction. I have to deal with her constantly getting involved in my business. Not just my personal life now but my actual business. And I can’t let her distract me or stop me from getting my championship back. But first, I have to team with the woman who beat me. And some of you might be expecting me to lash out at this fact. To be angry about the fact that I’m teaming with Andrea Hernandez.”
“That couldn’t be further from the truth. Normally, I hate teaming with anyone who isn’t named Finn Whelan. But in this case, I’ll make an exception. And it’s for one reason reason. I look over at Andrea and I see someone who has the exact same attitude as I do. She’s a competitor. She’s a pit bull. She will scratch claw bite and fight her way through anyone to get the win. She hates losing just as much as I do so I know damn well that when Andrea and I step into the ring, we will both be fighting for the same goal. To walk out as winners. This might sound strange but I trust Andrea. And I hope she trusts me. Because between Bell to Bell from the moment that match starts to the moment that match ends I’m going to be her partner. I’m going to do everything I can to win that match.”
“After the match though?”
“Well, when the dust has settled and she and I have our arms raised then I will be keeping an eye on Andrea just like I know she’ll be keeping an eye on Me. Another thing she and I have in common either we’re not stupid. I know that when the bell rings and she and I have won this match she could very well hit me from behind and try and get an advantage, just like I would. That is where the trust ends, that is where the road to the elimination chamber and blaze of glory begins. And we can work together in this tag match, I know we can, but when we get in that huge structure? I’m going to be doing everything I can to rip your head off and take my championship back.”
“Respectfully…”
She chuckled and took a deep breath turning and revealing that she was wearing a thin Whelan T-shirt. Maybe a small sign of support for her boyfriend?? Or maybe she’s just being snarky. You can never really tell with Kayla.
”Now, onto two people who I don’t have respect for. Cassie Wolfe and Mercedes Vargas. We have one young barely out of diapers rookie and one grandma who is nearly back into diapers. The two of you are going to be in the elimination chamber but let’s face it. You are just making up the numbers. Especially you Mercedes. I can understand Cassie being in this match. Her getting an opportunity to earn the right to get into the chamber makes sense. She’s a young hot prospect that the company hopes is going to become something. But you? You shouldn’t be in this match. You shouldn’t be in any match for an opportunity at the world championship.”
“And don’t think I have forgotten about you deciding to cut a little interview on climax control. Yes Mercedes you are going to be locked in that cage with me. The difference between you and me is that when I say I’m going to do something I actually do it whereas you keep spouting off nonsense about the things that you’ve done in the past and then doing nothing with that information or time. All of that experience you have, all of that unbelievable knowledge that is stuck in that aging brain of yours is useless. You would be better served as a manager to a young talent imparting that knowledge on them and finding glory that way.”
“And yeah, I understand that you are sick of hearing the whole argument that you are old. So, let’s switch gears a little. You’re also selfish. You are a selfish, self-centered egomaniac and you can’t see past your own insecurities and your own failures to step back and reevaluate your life. They constantly say that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks and bitch you can’t learn shit.”
“I get it though, you don’t want to fade away. You don’t want to be forgotten. So you’re doing everything you can to scratch and claw your way into relevancy. You got into the chamber and now you’re just going to be there. Hoping and praying that you’re able to somehow get lucky and walk out of that cage as the bombshells champion. And anything can happen. This is an unpredictable match. So somehow, someway, you could fluke a win and we could see Mercedes Vargas as the world bombshells champion in 2025. And somewhere Samantha Marlowe just had a coronary….”
Kayla chuckles again and shakes her head before refocusing on the other opponent in this tag match.
”Oh, Cassie Wolfe. The little puppy that could. You just keep coming back, don’t you? We have to admire your tenacity. You are still young enough that it makes sense. You are still a piece of clay that can be molded into a champion or someone great. Unlike Mercedes who has passed her prime and use-by date, you are just coming into your own. Now, you deserve to be in this match. You have that mixture of youth and desire that everyone loves to see in a challenger. But you have to realize what you’re getting into. This week you are in a tag match, you have to tag with a woman who is always out for herself, against a team where All we care about is winning. You are teaming with a woman who needs a walker to get around against perhaps the two best bombshells currently signed to this company. The current champion and the former champion.”
“That’s what you are dealing with at climax control. In a few weeks at Blaze of Glory, you’re going to be locked in a massive steel structure. Vargus will be there. You will be there. I will be there. Andrew will be there somehow will be there. And of course, another spot that we will probably have to fill. Because people are dropping in and out of this company like fucking flies at this point.”
“Thing is, I brought up desire. I brought up your desire and your youthful exuberance. But I want you to have a look at my desire. If I wanted to Cassie, I could’ve waited until the end of the chamber match. I could’ve waited to see who came out of that match as the champion and then put my rematch clause into effect to face whoever the champion was. But I chose to enter that chamber. I chose to put myself in that situation with the rest of you.”
“And that should frighten you”
“But, before we get to that match. Before you are locked inside that huge cage with me, you are going to have to face me and Andrea. And whether or not you and Vargas believe it or can see it, you are both pretty much fucked. Andrea and I are going to get into that ring and we are both going to want to prove a point. And you two are going to be the victims. So I’ll see you at climax control, and then when all is set and done, I’ll see you with the cage. All three of you.”[color]
