Best Friends Forever

Chapter 146: Never Give Up

Vanessa's POV:

I'm at LAX waiting for a flight from Los Angles to Tampa. I get everything checked through and I sit on a chair. Thinking about Dean sends a song to my head and I sing it. 

I'm awake in the afternoon
I fell asleep in the living room
and it's one of those moments
when everything is so clear
before the truth goes back into hiding
I want to decide 'cause it's worth deciding
to work on finding something more than this fear
It takes so much out of me to pretend
tell me now, tell me how to make amends
Maybe, I need to see the daylight
to leave behind this half-life
don't you see i'm breaking down
Lately, something here don't feel right
this is just a half-life
is there really no escape?
no escape from time
of any kind
I keep trying to understand
this thing and that thing, my fellow man
I guess I'll let you know
when i figure it out
but I don't mind a few mysteries
they can stay that way it's fine by me
and you are another mystery i am missing
It takes so much out of me to pretend
maybe, I need to see the daylight
to leave behind this half-life
don't you see I'm breaking down
Lately, something here don't feel right
this is just a half-life
is there really no escape?
no escape from time
of any kind
Come on let's fall in love
Come on let's fall in love
Come on let's fall in love again
'Cause lately something here don't feel right
this is just a half-life,
without you, I am breaking down
wake me, let me see the daylight
save me from this half-life
lets you and I escape
escape from time
Come on let's fall in love
Come on let's fall in love
Come on let's fall in love again

I get a text message from John that read round up some talent and meet me at the Performance Center. I round up a lot of talent and head to my bus to go to Orlando. We arrive at the Performace Center confused but excited. We're at the entrance to the training center when Jamie and Joey open the doors! We enter the training center and we're met with legends and Hall of Famers. I'm standing with Zack, Ashley, Wade, Nikki, Brie, Eva, Paige, Eve, Lita, Shawn, Tommy, AJ Styles, AJ Lee, Bret, Daniel and Sheamus. I look around the Performance Center and we're startled by John and a really loud announcement that we're going to do a team building training course! We're split up into our teams and we pick the team captains! I get picked as our team captain.  As i'm getting my team ready, I think of a song to sing for pumping my team up!

Rising up, back on the street
Did my time, took my chances
Went the distance, now I'm back on my feet
Just a girl and her will to survive
So many times it happens too fast
You trade your passion for glory
Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past
You must fight just to keep them alive
It's the eye of the tiger
It's the thrill of the fight
Rising up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor
Stalks her prey in the night
And she's watching us all with the eye of the tiger
Face to face, out in the heat
Hanging tough, staying hungry
They stack the odds still we take to the street
For the kill with the skill to survive
It's the eye of the tiger
It's the thrill of the fight
Rising up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor
Stalks her prey in the night
And she's watching us all with the eye of the tiger
Rising up, straight to the top
Had the guts, got the glory
Went the distance, now I'm not gonna stop
Just a girl and her will to survive
It's the eye of the tiger
It's the thrill of the fight
Rising up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor
Stalks her prey in the night
And she's watching us all with the eye of the tiger
The eye of the tiger
The eye of the tiger
The eye of the tiger
The eye of the tiger

After the song, our teams get assembled and we run the course! I'm climbing up the rope and I look down. My stomach gets tied in a knot. I want to quit but my heart wants me to climb the rope!  As I get to the top I high five Nikki!

Nikki's POV:

I'm doing the next obstacle in the course it's a ladder catch. The replica championship belts are scattered around the ladders. I grab the replica United States Championship Belt and swing on! I get the replica championship belts and match them to the person who has the most Cody finishes first and tags Randy. I finish the course and tag Brie.