11 Months ago:
I moan and get out of bed, my stomach was hurting which is normal for a pregnant woman but it was hurting more than usual. I make it into the hotel bathroom and the room starts to spin and there's a pounding in my head, I reach for my pain pills and that's when I fall on the floor, warm liquid running down the side of my leg.
"John! John!" I scream so loud people in China can probably hear me. I hear the bed's spring's groan as John gets out of the bed and runs in the bathroom.
"A.J. what's wrong?" he says, his voice groggy, I can hear his footsteps right outside the bathroom door and pain shoots up my back and in my stomach. I start to panic, I'm only nine weeks pregnant almost ten. He walks in the bathroom and immediately drops to his knees, I cry out in pain.
"Miss Mendez, unfortunately we lost the baby, I'm sorry" The doctor squeezes my shoulder and leaves the room. I look at my stomach and hold as I start to cry. I killed it! I killed my baby! The thing that was growing inside of me, it was gone! I don't understand how it could be gone so fast, I'm angry and I want to punch something or scream. I feel John's arms wrap around mine and I try my best not to push him away.
"SHHH, it will be okay" he says rubbing my arms.
How could he be so calm? I killed his baby too, the thing we cherished the most, the thing that brought us together. But as I was about to say something I heard him choke and I knew he was crying aslo….
I shook the memory out of my head as my boyfriend Dolph Ziggler (Nick Nemeth) walked out of the men's locker room with the World Heavyweight Championship around his waist and his latest T-shirt that read "I stole the show…" on the front and "and your girlfriend" on the back. He's wearing his wrestling trunks and boots, he's match was next, a steel cage match against John Cena.
"Hey babe" he walked over and kissed me.
I kiss him back and smile up at him. I wore the same shirt as Dolph but I had spent hours upon hours cutting it into a cute and fitting way, I paired it with a pair of black shorts and my favorite black Converse sneakers.
I had met Nick when I was GM of Monday Night Raw (WWE's main brand) back in August, well I already knew of Nick and his character and his nagging old Girlfriend/Manager Vickie, but I really didn't know him until one night after Raw had just ended and Vince wanted to talk to me in his office about how great I was doing as GM so far. Well the meeting lasted longer than I was hoping for and my best friends left without me, Nick was the only person left and after the segments we had done together in the past I was kind of afraid to ask him for a ride to my hotel. He had said yes and I found out despite his rude character he was actually very sweet, and funny, and clever; we had exchanged numbers that night and we started going out about a month later, sneaking around of course, as me being the GM I wasn't allowed to be in any relationship with any other the talent, No one knew except my best friends Sheamus, Punk, Kaitlyn, Natalya, Layla, and Aksana. All was fine until Vickie had hacked into Nick's phone and had seen all the texts and calls between us and went to the WWE board of Directors and had me resign but not before Vince and his creative team made it into a storyline with John Cena.
I hated being a Valet, I wanted to wrestle but as long as I got my job back I didn't what I had to do, but with Cena even though Vince knew what happened he thought it would make a good storyline since John is the "franchise" of the company and I'm Vince's "leading lady" the top should be with the top. So that following Raw was my last day and I resigned in my home state of New Jersey and later John and I cut a promo that was named the "AJ Scandal" which led to Vickie becoming the "Managing supervisor of Raw" and then led to the questions and to the kisses and then to me turning my back and John at the TLC Paper view, in his match against Dolph for the World Heavyweight Championship which Dolph retained and that started the #ZIGGLEE (the name fan girls made for the new Power couple) on the next night at the Slammy Awards, I was up for best kiss and went out to except my award when Vickie wouldn't give it me I got in her face, then Dolph came out and I jumped in his arms and made out with him and ever since then the Cena/Dolph/AJ storyline got heavier.
Dolph wrapped me up in his arms and sighed, we had just gone over the script for the match and I could tell he was worried, I was too. I laid my head down on his chest, I was 5'2 I couldn't reach his shoulder so the chest the closest, he kissed my head. Dolph made me feel at home, like I was always safe when I was around him.
"Are you ready for this?" It was January and this would be the last Raw before the Royal Rumble and Vince said this would be the last of the Storyline if Dolph wins tonight and eliminates John at the Rumble.
"I'm ready for this storyline to end, so that way you don't have to pretend to "love" John anymore"
I smile a little, ever since I turned on Cena and, Dolph and I became a thing on TV, I had to come up with a reason why I turned on John (people are right about WWE being scripted but not all of it, most of it we come up with in the ring) so I told them the low-down version of how he basically tore my heart out and threw it away like trash and how he was supposed to be different and how much I cared for him. Then I had to pretend like I was still in love with him.
"April I need to tell you something" He says all of the sudden. His voice serious and deep.
I look up confused. "Yeah?"
He was about to say something but one of the crew members called for us "Dolph! AJ! You're on!" Dolph let go of me and looked down and took breath then looked at me.
"Game Time" he whispered. We walked over to the curtain and waited for them to play his theme music; he pounced on his feet and made little arm movement like he was jumping rope.
"Okay guys, the music will play in about a minute" one of them said, I don't really know which one because they all look the same. Dolph stopped jumping and took a big chug of water, he looked at me with a "Are you ready?" I nodded and waited for…
"I'm HERE TO SHOW THE WORLD; I'M HERE TO SHOW THE WORLDDDD"
Dolph stomps out of the curtain with me in tow. He shouts some words that I can't hear over his music being blasted through the arena.
"Well Cole, It's time for the Main Event and what an Event it is, Dolph Ziggler vs. John Cena in a steel cage. WOW" Jerry says on commentary. I smile up at Dolph like a puppy, that's my character, not only am I the "crazy chick" but I'm also a confused girl in love. He turns and shakes his butt, then turns back to me and I kiss him passionately. He tears away and wraps his arm around my waist and we make our way down the ramp. I get a couple of boos, mostly from die-hard John Cena fans, I get some cheers and I smile at them, we get to the cage and Nick hands me his belt then stomps up the steel steps into the ring that is right below the steel cage. Dolph blows me a kiss from inside the ring, I catch it with my hand and hold it to my lips like my character would, I smile and blush at the ground when that annoying theme song blasts through the arena and I mouth the words
"YOUR TIME IS UP, MY TIME IS NOW"
I roll my eyes as he runs down the ramp, very awkwardly may I add, and slides under the ropes into the ring, he looks at me with eyes that make me all giggly inside, he looks at me like "I miss you, come back to me" and I sort of want to. Even though my character is supposed to be still in love with him, I still am. He throws off his shirt and I stare at his abs and try not to remember the way they felt. The cameras turn to me and I watch John with the "crazy chick" look; cold and hard. I glance over at Dolph, he is leaning against the turnbuckle away from me, starring at Cena, he also takes off his shirt and the ref rings the bell.
While I was playing "crazy chick" on TV with WWE Champion CM Punk , Kane and my ex and former World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan, I was best friends with John, in fact we all were, but I was madly in love with him and I knew he was married but I just couldn't help it. Then he told all of us one night after a Raw in France, when we were hanging out in the garage waiting for the bus to pull up that he and his wife were getting a divorce. I tried to sound sympathetic but inside I was jumping around, skipping, so happy I could burst. Then the next thing I know we started going to dinners, and traveling together and BOOM! I was pregnant, and after I lost the baby, I came home one day from the grocery and he was gone, his things, everything was gone, we haven't talked since beside the segments and then he would look at me and I would try not to cry, then he would walk away without a word. Then I became GM and we had even more segments together, then I lost my GM spot and that led to even more Segments, but by that time I has dating Nick for at least five months.
I tilt my head to the side and watch the match, John and Dolph lock up, John gets the upper hand (like he always does) and for a while and then Dolph moved out of the way on the mat, Cena falls to the mat awkwardly and twisting his ankle, he cries out in pains.
The match is brutal, John is bleeding, and Dolph is limping. Dolph goes for the super kick, Cena dodges and the ref gets a mouthful of Dolph's boot, the ref goes down hard on the mat. Dolph looks at the ref and shakes him to try and wake him up, he gave up and turned around where John had the Attitude Adjustment waiting for Dolph. I needed to cause a distraction. I slammed the belt against the cage several times; I looked up and saw John starring down at me, Dolph on the mat gasping for air. I looked up at him at screamed, dropping the belt I could feel tears poking out of the corner of my eyes, I started hitting and kicking the fence.
"AJ!" he yelled at me.
I ignored him and started pulling on my hair; I looked around for something to throw. Jerry and Cole were staring at me; I saw a chair and threw at the cage, screaming. I'm going way out of script but I don't care. It makes "Good TV"
"APRIL JEANETTE LEE" I heard him scream from inside the cage. I hated hearing my name. It's not even my real name.
I look up and he is standing where I threw the chair, sweat pouring down his body. He looked hot. I tilt my head to the side and walked over to him. I smile and give him the crazy chick look; he stares down at me, motionless. We stand there for a minute until I see Dolph get up out of the corner of my eye; I smirk and scream, gripping the cage with my fingers shaking the cage. John steps back alarmed, then Dolph comes from behind and slams him into the cage, I step back smiling crazily.
Dolph Irish whips him into the cage door and spears him through it, the cage door opens and both men on the ground. I skip over and kneel down at Dolph, rubbing his back.
"Get UP!" I hiss, he whimpers and starts to move.
I look up and see the ref is still out; I skip back over to where the chair was and pick it up, then skip back over to Dolph and Cena. Dolph crawls out of the way, dazed and confused on what's going on. I smile down at Cena, lift the chair up in the air and slam it into his head. My heartaches but I have to keep acting otherwise this storyline will go on, and I can't do that to myself, Dolph or John it not healthy. I hear people screaming at me, ignore them, they are mostly seven year old and teenage girls that are madly in love with him, but he doesn't even know they exist. I do it two more times and when I think he's knocked out I fall to the floor and cry and cry I can't help it. Dolph finally snaps back to reality and comes to my aid.
"NO!" I scream at him, pushing him away. "Pin him" I say as I crawl out of the cage, Dolph drags John into the ring and pins him, we both realize they is not ref so I run into the ring and count to three as fast as my little arms can go, and I signal to ring the bell.
"I'M HERE TO SHOW THE WORLD, I'M HERE TO SHOW THE WORLDDD"
Blasts and I hold up Dolph's hand in victory and he pulls me in for a hug. I squeeze him not wanting to let go, afraid to let go. I finally do and Dolph climbs to the turn buckle and yells
"Ziggler's better!"
Which he yells after every match, rather he wins or loses, he jumps down, grabs my hand and we leave the cage, I look back at John who is just now getting up, blood is on his face and he is stumbling. I start to cry again, Dolph picks up his belt and puts it around his waist, I keep my head down, blocking out the screams and the boos from the fans, and cameras. This time he doesn't grab my hand; he picks me up and carries me to the back, where I sob into his sweating shoulder.
"SHHH, it will be okay" he says into my ear as we walk through the curtain.
There's it is again… is anything really okay anymore?