For business or for pleasure (part one)

The Crushing blow

 Back stage, Payne was walking back from winning her match against Alicia Fox. She ran into Cody Rhodes who was actually waiting for her to come back so that he could talk to her. He turned around as she approached him and she stopped a little surprised to see him but realized she shouldn’t be because they work for the same people. She gave him a smile and Cody didn’t know whether to be unnerved by it or think that she was just trying to be polite.

“Hi Cody,” She said nicely

“How’ve you been?”

Cody looked at her suspiciously not knowing how to answer the question because he didn’t want to fall into her trap if she was setting one up. He answered cautiously,

“I’ve been better.”

“What’s wrong?” she asked

Rhodes let down his guard a little figuring that she was innocent enough and that he could talk to her.

“Nothing… uh did you get my text?”

“The one with the emoticon, yeah I thought it was hilarious did you think of it yourself?”

“Um, no and not that text, the other one.”

Payne’s smile kind of faded a little making him a little nervous. Just that morning, Rhodes asked if she could do him a favor and represent him. Considering that Payne was with Roman, she decided that she was going to ignore the text and when she and Roman weren’t with each other she forgot about the text. She didn’t think that it was appropriate to have Rhodes as her client especially since everything that’s happened between them plus they were exes but she didn’t want to just ignore him. Rhodes wasn’t a bad wrestler it’s just that he didn’t impress her enough when he fought. The clients that she’s taken in have all been people that have impressed her with their fighting styles. Payne looked down and scratched the end of her eyebrow. She smiled with a little laugh and said,

“You know Cody, I honestly don’t think that’s the greatest idea; I mean you haven’t exactly proven to me that I can trust you.”

“Yeah I know, I just thought I should ask this time. My last approach ended up hurting you and pushing you into Romans arms instead of mine.” He responded slightly disappointed.

“I can honestly say; what you did definitely helped me make my choice a lot faster but I don’t think the outcome would’ve changed, honey. I was very much interested in Roman .Next time you should try catching the girl’s attention when you’ve spotted your next victim.” She said giving him a laugh.

“I’ll keep that in mind.”

“Rhodes the thing is that I represent people that impress me with their skills and you haven’t exactly done that yet. I mean you put up a fight with people and I kind of like your cross Rhodes move but other than that I haven’t seen you do anything that stands out to me. I mean that fight against Roman wasn’t even real I asked him to lose so that I could see if you’d show your true colors and you did and that’s why we’re in this awkward situation right now.” She said.

Rhodes shook his head and said,

“Yeah I know, I’m sorry and if there’s anything I can do to change your opinion of me just tell me and I’ll do it.”

“Payne.” Roman said coming up be behind Rhodes.

Rhodes turned around to look at Roman; he had to look up to look him in the eye. The tension in the room raised its self to level one hundred and Payne could feel the awkwardness between these two. It was weird to her; she stepped in between Rhodes and Roman grabbing a hold of Romans hand and putting it on her cheek when he looked down at her she kissed the palm of his hand and said,