A/N: I own nothing in this story except the guy named Derek and as always this is unBETA'd and only read over by myself, so please try to disregard any mistakes you come across
Evan woke up to the sound of rain bouncing off of his roof. 'Wonderful weather to have to do media in.' he thought to himself as he reached over to his bedside table and grabbed his glasses. He put them on, stretched and tried to sit up only to be thwarted as his waist got an intense grip on it as his still mostly asleep lover snaked his arms around him.
"No, you are not allowed to leave until I am up, moving, and have had breakfast." A very groggy Randy Orton muttered as he pulled Evan back towards him.
"Randy, that's ridiculous, I have to go, I gotta meet up with Kofi and do media today." Evan replied as he attempted to untangle himself from his lover's grip. It was only 7:45am but Kofi and his first media appearance was at 8:15 and he promised Kofi that he would meet him at 7:55 at Kofi's hotel.
"Why can't they just make you do media when you aren't at home especially with me out on injury? Or why can't they schedule us together for media?" Randy complained as he finally let go of Evan.
"Because let's look at the facts. I have a championship title and a tag team push, you don't, you aren't my tag team partner, and you are supposed to be out on injury for a bit thanks to Cena's big brute of a boyfriend. You have to deal with it baby, I promise that I'll try to make it home in a reasonable time, seeing as I know how much spending time with Al means to you and I know that you gave up time with her to be with me, which makes no sense to me at all, but anyways, I'm going to try my hardest to be back as soon as I can." Evan rambled as he put on his nice suit and packed a bag with his wrestling gear and belt in case they had to do a photo shoot in their ring gear.
"Yeah about that. . . I'll explain later when you get back home." Randy said with a small smirk as he pulled on a pair of boxers and sweats.
"Good now that you have decided to stop bitching about my media day, I really need to go. Kofi's expecting me." Evan said as he walked over to Randy and stood on his tiptoes to kiss him.
"I'll see you later then I guess." Randy said. With that Evan walked out of the door to go face the media day.
Randy took this time to think about his relationship with Evan. They had only started dating about 9 months ago and the whole wwe locker room knew about their relationship after the first month of the being together. But that kind of happens when Kelly Kelly walks in on you making out viscously in what was supposed to be the locker room for all of the more high flying stars. She made up the excuse that she was looking for Justin, which Randy and Evan both knew was a lie. Justin always shared Wade's private locker room with Heath and Wade, it's just what they did and Justin was trying to hide more because he was trying to figure out how to break up with her. Kelly was just being a nosy bitch because later on the realized that they had been kinda loud. But it was almost easier for Randy that everyone knew that he had Evan, because then all of the creeps would keep away from him knowing that if they tried anything with Evan, Randy would be after them and it was never good to have a pissed off Randy Orton after you. The only downside was that his wife had over heard the conversations about it backstage when she was with him at a show. That had not ended well. At least she had decided that they would take joint on Alanna. Sam had taken the job of filling the divorce papers, she completely understood what Randy was feeling and doing and didn't have an issue with it, she just couldn't stand to be married and living with him anymore. Randy had yet to tell Evan this and he was a little cautious to tell him because he knew how much Evan loved Alanna.
Evan sighed as he rode in Kofi's rental car towards their first of many media appearances of the day. Evan didn't want to have to leave Randy this morning but he had to. He was curious about what Randy had to say to him, that seemed to have something to do with Alanna. That thought got Evan worried but he couldn't show it when facing the media, that would be a living hell, luckily all of his love marks from Randy were either unnoticeable or hidden. That would be hard to explain if it came up in a conversation.
"Hey man, what's wrong, you seem worried and that isn't good heading into a media day." Kofi said hoping to make casual conversation.
"I'm just thinking, Kof, I'll be fine and I am fine." Evan replied as Kofi pulled their car into a spot at the place for the first stop of many on their media day.
Randy had fallen back asleep shortly after Evan had left seeing as the doctor had advised him that if he went anywhere to make sure to get a lot of rest. Randy was in the middle of a dream where Evan was talking to him, he loved the sound of Evan's voice. He was just getting to his favorite part of his dream when he was jolted out of his dream by a sound right on top of his face. He opened his eyes only to be met by the lit up screen on his cell. He closed his eyes again from the brightness as he started to fully wake up again. He vaguely heard the tones of the song G.F.A by Blood on the Dance Floor. He picked his phone up off of his face and sat up.
"Hello?" Randy asked a little irritated for being woken up from a good dream.
"Geez Ortz, snippy much?" The jolly laugh of John Cena replied over the phone.
"When I am woken up from a dream that was really good, yes, and when I'm already not in too great of a mood to talk anyways." Randy grumbled through the phone to Cena.
"Did someone wake up wrong or is he upset about something media related?" Cena asked.
"You always seem to know exactly what it is that's bothering me Cena, it's a bit creepy at times. But yeah media related." Randy replied with a chuckle.
"I've been your best friend for the past, what is it now 10 years? Anyways let me guess Evan had to go do media today while you are stuck at his place because of your 'injury'" Cena replied over the phone.
"Yeah, but don't go making it sound like my injury was faked, I really did get hurt thanks to your boyfriend, the big brute that he is. Anyways why'd ya call me Cena?" Randy said.
"Well, Vince had called me this morning, bright and early, and told me that seeing as he knows about every relationship in the business, I had to go do media today, seeing as Wade is out doing his own media related things." John started.
"And?"
"And he also told that seeing as Evan had media with Kofi today, that we were going to be doing media together so as to build up your return and my possible heel turn." Cena explained while trying to cheer up the bored sounding voice on the other end of the line.
"Why can't he just be an amazing boss and schedule better media days?" Randy complained, something that he felt he was doing a lot of today.
"Don't know man, but we have a plane to catch, so I'm almost at Evan's place to pick you up now. Vince said pack a light travel bag, you might have to stay a night." Cena heard a groan on the other end of the line.
"Alright, I'll see you in like 5 minutes when you get here." Randy said as he hung up and started throwing together his travel bag. He threw in his iPad, iPod, cell, a pair of jeans, and one of his T-shirts in a small bag and went to the bathroom to grab his stuff from there. He was just about done when there was a knock at the door.
"Come in!" Randy yelled as he remembered that he had forgotten dress clothes and socks.
"Hurry up Ortz!" Cena yelled. "People might think you're a girl if you take any longer to pack a bag."
"Shut up Cena!" Randy yelled as he stuffed his smaller travel bag into his duffel bag that had his ring attire in it and slipped on his shoes. "It's not my fault that I don't want my normal clothes and dress clothes to touch, and that they have to have their separate bags and cannot touch my ring attire either." Randy said as he slung his duffel bag over his shoulder.
"Fine, but if you took any longer I would have been forced to call you a girl. Heck, even Zack can pack a bag faster then you can and he has a lot of stuff he takes with him almost everywhere he goes." Cena said with a chuckle.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, anyways is it still raining out there?" Randy asked as they headed towards the door.
"Nah, it's clear you don't need a jacket."
"Alright, let's go."
"Oh for the love of! How many more of these do we have to do today?" Evan whined. They had already done three interviews and a pair of photo shoots and it wasn't even noon yet.
"We have two more photo shoots and six more interviews. We have one more interview before lunch though." Kofi said with a small chuckle.
"UGH! Being a champion is hard work." Evan pouted.
"Yeah, but it's better then being a jobber by far. I love being in the high card, you never have a bored minute. You go from waking up to gym to food to small media session or more gym to the event that night or if it's a break day, you have media all day, normally it's not this hectic though." Kofi babbled as Evan looked out of the window. This day was going to be too long but at least Evan got to look forward to seeing Randy when he got home.
Randy boarded his plane with John, they were going from Florida to Connecticut. Stupid headquarters wanted to get in a few interviews and photo shoots in to be put up on . Then they were to head off to Michigan and meet up with some other superstars for a b.a. STAR thing at some place they have never heard of.
"Stop looking so unsociable, it will scare off the kids that we will be seeing later." Cena said lightly punching Randy in the arm.
"I guess so." Randy said as he took out his iPod and waited for the flight to be over.
"Randy, don't forget to let Evan know that you might not be home tonight." Randy heard John tell him when they were about to take off.
"FOOD TIME!" Evan shouted as they got outside of their last media interview and photo shoot before lunch.
"Excited much there, Ev?" Kofi said with a chuckle as he climbed in the rental and got ready to head towards the nearest subway.
"YESSSSS! I love food, especially when it's been a long day." Evan said as he bounced in his seat.
"Geez, Ev, if people didn't know you they might think that you were mental or something." Kofi said with a chuckle as they pulled into the subway parking lot and headed inside.
"Hi, how may I help you today?" A boy behind the counter said to Evan and Kofi as they walked up. The boy had medium long black hair with streaks of almost every color in it, a pair of goggles barely noticeable from under his hat, a set of snakebites, and had the typical subway employee shirt.
"Well," Evan took a second to read the nametag pinned to the front of the guy's shirt, "Derek, I would like a footlong black forest ham sub on Italian bread, please." Evan finished with a smile.
"What kind of cheese would you like?" The boy named Derek asked.
"Uh, American, please." Evan replied after a moment of thought.
"Okay, what kind of sub would you like sir?" Derek asked Kofi.
"Same as him, please." Kofi replied.
"Do either of you want your sub toasted?" Derek asked as he slid the subs down the counter.
"Nah, no thanks." Evan and Kofi replied. They were mildly surprised that they hadn't been recognized yet by anyone, but from the looks of it they were the only ones there besides the boy working the counter.
"Okay then, would you like anything else on your sub?" Derek asked both Kofi and Evan.
"Yeah, can I get cucumbers and ranch, please?" Evan asked as he kept an intent eye on his sub.
"Same for me, please." Kofi chimed in. He joined Evan on intently looking at his sub.
"Okay, is that all for you?" Derek asked as he places both of their subs in a bag.
"Um, I believe so, unless Ev wants a cookie." Kofi said as he got out his wallet to pay for their lunch.
"Whoa, Kofs I got this. My treat after bitching all morning and you putting up with it somehow." Evan replied as he shooed Kofi's wallet away and pulled out his own. "Anyways, yeah, that's all." Evan said to Derek.
"Okay, your total will be $10.60." Derek said with a small smile as he waited for Evan to get the proper amount of money out.
"Um, here's $11, keep the change." Evan said returning the young man's smile as he grabbed his and Kofi's subs and left to go find Kofi.
"That was the weirdest thing ever." Kofi said as Evan found him leaning on the rental.
"What was?" Evan asked as he joined him on leaning on the car.
"Well, first of all, we weren't recognized at all when we were in there. And second of all, I just got a call from Vince saying that the rest of our media day has been postponed and we are to finish it up in a couple days." Kofi said as he hopped back into the rental.
"Why did Vince cancel the rest of our media day?" Evan asked as he hopped into the rental as well.
"Well, he said that as soon as we were done with lunch that we are to head to the airport." Kofi said as they drove towards a nearby park to eat their lunch.
"For what?" Evan said as they got to the park and went to a table under a pavilion.
"Well, apparently there is this school someplace in Michigan that really needs the b. program and the support of all of it's famous to famousish people. So we have to go there and do some stuff, I think they might even have us be doing like some form of benefit event or something, I just remember the boss saying that we had to go to Michigan, to take our ring gear, and to be ready to talk to a bunch of kids." Kofi said as he ate his sub.
"Ah, did he say exactly all who would be there and how exactly we are getting there?" Evan asked as he ate his sub.
"No, he didn't specify who, but the private plane is picking up everyone seeing as we are all in Florida, it's just going to take us there." Kofi explained as he quickly finished his sub.
"Okay, well let's go then!" Evan said as he finished off his sub, threw his garbage in the can, and hopped back into the rental.
"Hey, Ortz, wake up, plane's about to land." Cena said shaking Randy a little bit.
"Huh? Oh thanks Cena. What time is it?" Randy asked as he rubbed his eyes, yawned, and stretched.
"It's about 11:30 am, boss said he was going to give us lunch when we got there. And knowing our boss, it's going to be really good food that's also good for us." Cena said flashing his super man smile at his sleepy best friend.
"Good, I'm hungry and I can't do media on an empty stomach, I start acting like a real douche, but then again, you already know all this after dealing with me for a decade." Randy rambled as the plane landed in Stamford.
"Is food really the only thing you think about when you're away from Evan?" Cena asked with a chuckle as the headed towards the doors of the airport to the car the company had sent for them.
"Pretty much, food is just that important." Randy said as he shoved his bag into the back seat of the rental and climbed into the passenger seat.
"Speaking of Evan, have you told him yet?" Cena asked as he threw his bag in the back beside Randy's and hopped in the drivers seat.
"I was going to but he had to leave and I had planned on telling him tonight, but obviously I can't do that seeing as I will most likely not be there. So no, I have yet to tell him, and I don't completely know how I'm going to either, but I guess I'll find a way." Randy said as he looked out his window as they drove towards headquarters to do their media stuff and get food.