I stretched and fell off the bed. After laughing for what seemed like two seconds the pain kicked in and sent me into over drive.
I sped into the make do kitchen and grabbed a bag of peas to put on my knee. I sat on the bench an elf it in place.
"What are you doing?" I threw the bag to the side as Seth came over
"Just reading the instructions..." I lied.
"Do you want me to cook some for you?" he chuckled at my food choice
"I-I'm not actually that hungry" I gave him a small smile.
"Ok if you say so" he shrugged. I totally nailed that.
"Why did you hang up on me last night?!" Dean sobbed as he burst through the door. He fell on his face an got straight back up.
"What's wrong Dean?" I chuckled as he laid his dad in my lap and fake cried.
"I can't believe you hung up on me" he sniffed
"He's been like this all morning" Roman rolled his eyes and shut the door behind him.
"I have no clue what is happening" Seth reminded us
"You!" Dean cried and wagged his finger at Seth "what are you and my precious little sister doing while I'm not around?!"
"nothing much" Seth smiled slyly. Dean's face dropped and he began chasing Seth around the hotel room. I shook my head at their childish ways. But in reality I would probably be running away from Dean too.
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I stood outside of the stadium in my home state. California. It felt good to be back here. And in my brand new ring attire. A short sleeved black top under a black bulletproof vest, kind of like Roman's, and black cargo pants with combat boots. Black of course. Wouldn't want to break the trusty code of black now would we?
"you ready for this?" Roman chuckled
"miss. shield" Dean smiled
"oh I was born ready" I scoffed
"nuh uh" Seth clicked his tongue "you were born and bred for war"
"of course" I flicked my wrist at him. "war this and war that blah blah" they laughed at my lack of care. I was just happy for my match. After defeating Natalya, Tamina would be a piece of cake. Then the title shot. It's in my reach.
"so close" I whispered and smiled.
'Sierra, Hotel, India, Echo, Lima, Delta... SHIELD'
I came down through the crowd as they roared with cheers and clapping. I let a smirk form on my lips. This was too perfect
"hey" Natalya smiled as I entered the ring
"uh... hey?" I stared at her
"May the best diva win" she chuckled and waited for the bell. The match had a nice pace to it. It was refreshing from the whole 'lets break her knee!' thing. Natalya wasn't an enemy. She was a friend... I hope.
The boys watched from the floor and called tips every now and then but stayed out of the action. Both me and Natalya stopped as AJ's theme played. She was followed by the Bellas, The Funkadactles and Aksana. Natalya looked at me.
"just go with it" she mouthed to me. I looked at her strangely as she ran at me. I blocked her way too easily and realized what she was doing. She was throwing the match before they could.
The divas were still at the top of the gorilla and as I performed my finisher on Natalya I deliberated if one of them could reach the ring in less then three seconds... only one way to find out
