Chapter 63: Sacrifice
I was furious.
That may have been an understatement. Furious is too light of a word for how I feel right now. Completely and utterly enraged might be a better description. For the last few days, I had been stomping around the house. A simple act like making a coffee becomes an exercise in futile anger. Stirring the milk into my coffee the spoon made a loud clinking noise before I tossed it into the kitchen sink with a force that could be described as violent.
And it shouldn’t be this way. I shouldn’t be stomping around My Home in such a state. I know it, Finn knows it in fact everyone else who has come to visit knows it. But I simply can’t help myself. No matter how happy I am about my own success I find myself at the precipice of falling into a psychotic rage. I want to tear them both apart. I want to walk into the SCW locker room with a steel chair in my hand and start swinging. I want to scream in anger in their faces and tell them exactly why this is happening to them.
But I can’t.
Right now, I am standing in my home in Colorado. The home that Finn and I bought together. A symbol of just how far our relationship has come. Everyone has to remember that this shouldn’t have happened. A person like myself and a person like Finn forgetting everything that has happened to us in our past and coming together in a relationship is not something that happens every day. In fact, I would refer to it as a miracle. The kind of miracle that some people write about in those religious books that they put so much belief in.
That isn’t really my thing but to each their own
But I can’t deny that this is a miracle. Everything that Finn went through with that wretched bitch Erin, everything that I have been through with my daddy issues mixed with all of the stupid relationships that I had been in as well as my own psychosis when it came to feelings of any kind of romantic nature Fin and I being together, being happy and taking a step as big as owning a home together is not something that happens every day and it is something that should be studied and celebrated. I know this, Finn knows this. But right now it doesn’t mean that much to me.
While I’ve been able to step forward and become a champion again and raise my hand high fin lost his title. He lost his championship to someone who lied to his face and took advantage of him. He lost his championship because of his ex-wife and her manipulative bullshit ways. But, I seem to be the only one who was angry about it. I took a sip of my coffee and looked over at Finn who was sitting back and flicking through a book. I shook my head and paced back and forth.
Finn looked up and raised an eyebrow before shaking his head and slowly closing the book. ”You’re going to wear out a track in the floor” I stopped and tilted my head staring at him. Finn nodded slowly and put his book on the coffee table before sitting back. ”Alright, we’ve been home a few days, we have some time off and get to enjoy ourselves. But you’ve been miserable.”
I took a deep breath trying to keep it all in. ”I’m not miserable” I huffed and folded my arms over my chest ”I’m angry. I can’t believe you were robbed like that. And what’s worse is you seem to be okay with it.”
”Kayla”
I continued, Finn, sitting there and staring at me. ”Why aren’t you furious? Why aren’t you angry? Why aren’t you on the phone right now demanding a rematch and getting ready to kick the shit out of Alex and take back your championship? Why aren’t you letting me go after Aaron?”
”Because it doesn’t matter right now” I stopped and looked over at him. I was confused. How could it not matter? Why would it not matter? He cleared his throat and got to his feet stepping toward me. ”You did something that many thought was impossible. And you went out there and did it after seeing what happened to me. I don’t want to think about that right now and instead, I want to celebrate you. Celebrate your success.”
I shook my head and cleared my throat before stepping toward him. I took a deep breath and looked up before shooting a small smile at him. ”You make it impossible for me to stay angry you know that? You lost something special. I’m proud of what I did but at the same time I’m furious about what happened to you.”
Finn shook his head, his hand found my chin, and lightly lifted my head so I was looking straight out of him. He smiled lightly and leaned down before kissing my forehead. ”You can be angry or annoyed about what happens to me later. But for now can we please celebrate what you accomplished? You’re the champion again. Just like I knew you would be. I’m proud of you. I hope you know that.”
I closed my eyes taking in a deep breath. As I exhaled all of that anger and frustration left my body. My shoulders dropped and I relaxed. Something that Finn noticed. ”I guess I need to take my own advice. I keep saying that taking a loss is a learning experience and that you can always come back stronger. I expect that from myself, why wouldn’t I expect the same thing from the man I love?”
He chuckled and wrapped his arms around me, I relaxed and stood there in his embrace. He was right. Getting angry about what happened to him was going to diminish what I accomplished. And that would be just another victory for Alex and Aaron. Another win for them over us. I couldn’t let that happen. I couldn’t let them think that they were able to get under our skin to the point where I couldn’t enjoy something that I was able to pull off.
This relationship was a miracle.
My miracle. I don’t know what I would do without him. I don’t know what I would be able to accomplish without him. But I knew what I’d been able to accomplish with him in my life. And now it is time to continue my work. It was not over. Just like I knew it was not over for Finn. God help everyone when he gets back. Because he’s going to be even better. Just like Me.
Blind leading the blind
There was a sharp inhale. Kayla Richards the new SCW world bombshells champion is sitting in her hotel room in Oslo Norway. She smiles slowly until her head looks over at a cup full of an amber liquid. She picks it up and gives it a sip before taking a deep breath and continuing.
”Strange isn’t it? Time after time and week after week I keep telling you people what is going to happen. I have always been honest. You can laugh all you want and you can think that I’m not but the truth is that every single time I open my mouth, I’m telling you the truth. Now, truth is a loaded word. Because one person‘s truth is another person’s lie. One person’s truth is another person‘s nightmare. Now, what is my truth? My truth is the collective nightmare of every single woman in that locker room. My truth is making every single one of them look substandard and worthless.”
She laughs and takes another sip of the liquid before putting it down. She then grabs a bottle, pulling it sideways and we see for the first time the label. Mjøderiet mead. The best in Norway. After all, Kayla is nothing if not a classy bitch….
”Think back. Think back to before the elimination chamber. What did I tell everyone? I told each and every woman in that match that I was going to be coming back better than I was before. But Andrea beating Me had made it harder for them. And it was true. You look back over my history, not just in this company but my history in general and you will see a distinct and clear pattern of brilliance. I am an excellent professional wrestler. Regardless of what you think about me personally you have to admit I am one of the best to put on a pair of boots and get into a professional wrestling ring whether that ring has four sides or six sides, whether or not it is a regular match or if it is in a giant steel cage.”
“I am one of the best to ever do this. And I told them all, I told them that I was going to get into that ring and I was going to leave us the champion. I told them that Andrea beating me meant I was going to come back stronger because that is what I have done every single time. I lost the Internet championship three times. And twice I got it back because I wanted to and I beat the people who beat me for it. There was one exception, and it was because I was ready to move on.”
“It’s because I set my sights on the world bombshells championship. And along the way, I won the world mixed tag team championships with Finn. We stood above everyone and set records, and we lost them. We lost them to the team of Eddie and Victoria Lions only to grab them right back in short fashion. And this company has struggled to find anyone willing to face us because every single one of you are cowards.”
“That is why that division is failing. Because there are no teams that have the balls to come up and face us.”
Kayla grows, clearly angry about the situation. She takes another sip of the Me. If she’s going to get drunk, this could get interesting.
”But, now what? Now that I have regained what is mine and I am back on top of the mountain where does this championship and Its champion go from here? My first run I beat almost everybody, I even beat Andrea one-on-one. She ended my rain and then I got the championship back in a match that featured almost all of the top contenders for this title. So, if I’ve just beaten everyone where do we go from here?”
“I could just wait for the blast from the past winner to reveal themselves. But that’s never been my style. And I will be getting back in the ring against Harper Mason this week but the more I think about facing her the more my stomach starts to churn and the more I want to throw up. Not because I’m scared or intimidated by Harper Mason but because I don’t like facing people who are not on my level or can’t ever reach my level. And trust me, Harper, despite what you believe you aren’t on that level and you never will be with the attitude that you currently have.”
“The same night that I was able to regain the top prize in women’s wrestling you lost to Bella Madison. And hey I’m not gonna stand here and say that Bella Madison is a bad champion and that you should be ashamed of yourself but you still lost in an Internet championship match. The title that I made famous that I hold three times you can’t even get your hands on and now you want to talk some shit while coming into a match with me?”
“Honey, I don’t know who you pissed off to get put in this match with me but you better find out their name and you better go apologise to them real fucking quick”
“And it’s also really cute that you’ve sat there and had this little talk with Victoria Lions on climax control. And I would take whatever that bitch says with a grain of salt. While she is the queen of the roulette division and she did win the queen for a day her other claim to fame is being able to wrestle the mixed tag team championships away from Me for a month before Finn and I snatched them back. Every single time Victoria has gotten the ring with Me I have beaten her and I have embarrassed her just like I did with you.”
Kayla rolls her eyes and folds her arms over her chest before sitting back and kicking her legs up on the chair that is next to her.
”I have had almost 50 matches in this company. 47 to be exact. And out of those 47 matches 40 of them I’ve won. You were one of those wins. And well I have watched my career from mountain top to mountain top. You have done nothing. You’ve lost a Bella Madison a few times, you’ve challenged some of the best that this company has to offer and you failed every single time. And now you get to face me again. Congratulations. You get to be in a non-title match against me. And if you should somehow win, if you should somehow shock the world and beat me then I dare say you have earned the right to face Me for the title.”
“But then what? Look back into your grand scheme and your grand plan Harper. What then? You somehow fluke went over me and then you get an opportunity for the bombshells championship. With my track record and my history, I come back stronger than ever and I beat you again. And your track record and your history says that the second you get an opportunity to make something of yourself, you will fail. You will choke.”
“That right there is the difference between people like me and people like you”
“I get an opportunity and I take it with both hands and do everything I can to make it count. I step above everyone and I take everything that I’m offered. I have already had a Hall of Fame-worthy career. Three-time Internet champion two two-time mixed tag team champion record mixed tag team championship rain and now a two-time bombshell champion with over 300 days combined. Tell me Harper, what makes you believe that you should even be allowed to step in the ring with Me? What makes you believe that you can beat me? What makes you believe that if you do beat me this is going to do anything but make your career even sad when you get another shot at Me and you inevitably choke and fail.”
“No, I have to save you from yourself. And I have to make sure this company knows that they made a mistake putting you against me. Then, if your little mentor who has been whispering in your ear wants to try and face Me? I will bury Victoria Lyons right next to you. This is your final warning, don’t fuck with me, Harper. You will regret it.”
