Bringin' On The Heartbreak by Def Leppard blared through her earbuds as Amanda Cena was on a crate in the parking garage, glancing at the heavy thunderstorm outside… and every second that passed by without the car showing up, Amanda could no longer hold it in and screamed in anger until her lungs hurt from it.
They yelled, screamed and traded insults over the course of just 15 minutes earlier in the night… all because he had caught her talking to someone else.
And when the insults were dragged up, Amanda had snapped and told Seth off for taking up with Zahra even though that relationship had fizzled out. Even though Leighla was far from her favorite person, Amanda felt that Seth was being a disrespectful prick, to quote herself properly.
"Screw feeling sad." Amanda mutters, standing up and clipping her phone to her shorts pocket before standing up as For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) by AC/DC began playing, Amanda dancing on the crate like she would on a table… to the point where she was unaware that she had attracted someone else's attention until she slipped off the crate and fell into his arms.
"You could really hurt yourself like that, Mandy. Don't want that happening again." Finn says, Amanda opening her eyes and looking up at him. "Seth ditch you?" He asks.
"Yeah…" Amanda says as Natia and Joe ran into the garage.
"She's okay. Just blowing off steam." Finn says.
"Why? What happened?" Natia asks.
"Seth and I got into a stupid fight like friends do from time to time. Thing is, he was my ride home and he's not here." Amanda says, shutting her Pandora app off and putting her earbuds away.
"He'll chill out but you both have been fighting excessively lately… maybe you just need time apart." Joe says.
"Joe's right for once. Maybe that's exactly what you guys need." Natia says.
"Yeah… and a few stiff drinks sound good." Amanda says, Finn smiling slightly.
"Let's go find a good bar." Finn says, the four heading to the rental car as the storm seemed to have calmed down a bit.
In the downtown Orlando area a while later, the four were drinking but Natia turned a bit worried as Amanda slammed down four Kamikazes within 10 minutes.
"Girl you better slow down or Finn's gonna have to carry you out of here. Everything okay?" Natia says.
"Fine as wine, Natia." Amanda says, climbing up on the bar itself as You've Got Another Thing Comin' by Judas Priest started playing and she started dancing to it.
"Mandy, come on! You're gonna hurt yourself!" Finn says, Amanda continuing to dance drunkenly.
"Fuck. You better grab her Finn, I think it's time we get the hell out of here." Joe says.
Finn reached up and pulled his drunken friend off the bar, Amanda trying to shake off her blurring vision as the bar patrons turned angry that the dance was cut off.
"Ah, shove off, all of ya!" Finn yelled at them, the smallest one in the crowd yanking a knife out of someone's hand.
"Give that back!" The man yelled, the hooded person stabbing him in the arm before she ran to the four.
"Joe we better get out of here, like...now!" Natia says frantically.
"Couldn't agree more." The hooded person says, following them out into the stormy weather and Amanda noticing a violet glow from the hooded jacket.
"Are you… even human? Or am I too drunk?" Amanda asks.
"I'll explain later. For now, I'll tell you that my name is Zosha… and you look like hell." The creature says as they all piled into the Altima and sped off.
"I think we lost them, you can slow down, Joe." Finn says, Joe slowing the speed of the car as Zosha checked on Amanda, who was in a strange mix of laughing and crying.
"Your head is just… hey, what's that?" Zosha says, Amanda questioning what she meant as she examined the side of Amanda's head, moments before slowing Amanda's flop back against the seat as her consciousness dropped.
"Mandy, wake up!" Finn says, frantically shaking her to try to get a response. "What the hell did you do?!" He asks Zosha.
"Put her into sleep. She'll wake up in a bit, it's just venting the alcohol from her system." Zosha says.
"Is she gonna be okay when she wakes up?!" Joe asks.
"Bit dizzy at first, pretty much just extended morning drowsiness." Zosha says as Finn held Amanda in his arms.
"Maybe we should've stopped by a restaurant instead of a bar. Amanda doesn't normally drink excessively but when she does, things get crazy." Natia says.
"Bit like me." Zosha says.
"For her, we have an idiot named Seth Rollins to thank for her mood tonight. The two have been fighting like cats and dogs lately." Joe says, Zosha listening to Amanda's thoughts.
'If he doesn't like that I've found someone to talk to, to hang out with while he was away with his injury, fuck him! Humans get lonely, damn it!'
"Not just humans…" Zosha mutters.
Reaching the apartment, Finn picked Amanda up into his arms and took her into the living room as the others followed, Zosha closing the door before looking around.
"If you're not exactly human, what are you?" Joe asks, looking for Aspirin and water.
"20% human. The rest… my dad wasn't human and for the most part, neither am I." Zosha says.
Amanda muttered incoherently as she opened her eyes halfway, Zosha walking to her.
"What the hell… did I do anything stupid?" Amanda asks, her mind scrambled.
"Got a bit wasted… disagreement with a friend." Zosha says.
"That's putting it mildly…" Amanda says, flopping back down onto the couch and Finn lightly rubbing his hand up and down her back.
"Seth's got anger issues at times… and he was practically blindsided earlier when he found us talking." Finn says.
"I… I got a bit lonely when he was out with a bad injury so I turned to Finn, he and I have been friends for two years but we haven't gotten to see each other too often like Seth and I have so Finn and I stayed in touch by…" Amanda says, Zosha seeing the FaceTime app on Amanda's phone.
"Video…" Zosha says.
"And eventually, she and I started sneaking time away from Seth as well as Dean and Roman. Those two know but didn't tell him." Finn says, Zosha seeing a text from Dean.
'Give him time to chill, he'll be okay and so will you, kiddo.'
Zosha turned around and saw Amanda leaning into a trashcan as Finn held her hair back, Zosha cringing slightly as she didn't like the scent of Kamikazes.
"That stuff is like chugging vinegar!" Zosha says.
"They don't re-use the name Japanese suicide pilot bomber for nothing but she started drinking them when we were in Japan last year and doesn't drink much else." Finn says as Amanda wiped her hand over the back of her mouth and Joe took the trashcan and rinsed it out.