Chapter 1:
*Amethyst's POV*
"1….2…..3!" the fans cheered at each tap on the mat.
My music of 'Bring Me to Life - Evanescence' blasts through the building joining on the cheers.
"Your winner Amethyst Bones!" the ref raises my sheer covered hand in victory.
I managed to keep together for the victory because of the intense match against my friend/co worker Naomi. Sweaty and sore wasn't helping as my worn out in ring converse takes me to backstage.
"Good work out there," Naomi says, panting next to me.
"You too," I responded, panting a little.
"You wanna join with the girls for a drink?" she asked.
"Nah I am heading back to the hotel."
"Suit yourself. Our plane ride is early in the morning after tomorrow," she reminds me before heading to her locker room.
My locker room is not too far from the others. All I want is to shower and get some all deserve rest.
I gently take out of my contacts from my black eyes revealing the familiar blurry vision. Ameyest doesn't need glasses to see, but Miriam needs her glasses to see for everything.
Slowly I take off my amethyst purple and black corset with purple sheer sleeves that went down to my fingers. A yawn escapes my lips as I finally take off my knee high converse. Steam from the warm watch meets my pale flesh. My amethyst purple ripped pants gets off as well so I can begin my normal routine.
Black sweats and a spaghetti straped black and purple striped shirt covers my now dried body. The mirror shows my reflections. Makeup and hair are still messy are still messy. There's a knock at the door.
"Come in," I called out when I fully remove the last of my in ring makeup.
The person who appear into my temporary locker room is Mr. Seth Rollins himself when I place on my glasses.
"Colby," I greeted still focusing on my hair, facing the mirror looking at him, "does Stephenie or Paul need me for something?" I play along with his recent feelings.
"No they don't Miriam," he sighs, obviously hinting his true feelings.
"It's still too early for Joe and Jon so I'm giving them some time and space," I casually speak, placing on my black jacket that went to my fingers.
"Listen Miriam!" he exclaims, startling me a little to face him. "I'm sorry," he sighs, stepping forward, "I don't need to think about those events. Do you have any plans for tonight?"
An eyebrow raised confused. My relationship with is similar to Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose. Good friends who I would casually hang out and trained with. Usually I wouldn't mind them asking me if I have plans or not, but with him asking me now sounds like he's nervous.
"I was planning on staying at the hotel and order some room service. May I ask why?"
"May I join you please?" he asked softly, staring down to my black eyes.
"Ummm sure…..?"
He was wearing some sweats, a T-shirt, and sneakers so we're going to have a causal night. Oh boy. While I am putting on some sandals on, my thumbs quickly make a text to Roman and Dean basically telling them what's going on and I'm going to keep my guard up.
Dean replies with 'Be Careful' while Roman responses with 'Don't do anything stupid'. 'I will' sends back.
Seth offers to carry our stuff together which I kindly refused to, but he insisted. So I let him. I lead the way out of the building. My ears are being sharp for the man following behind me. You may never know with him.
Once outside, I finally turn to him to ask him, "where is your car?"
"Follow me," he says to me, walking to one location.
I move my glasses up on the bridge of my nose to make my vision sharper.
We arrived to his rental car and something weird happened. I head towards the passenger seat once our stuff is in the trunk. Just when my hand was about to touch the door handle, Seth quickly heads in front of me and open the door for me. My glass covered eyes meet his glass covered eyes - an occasional sight. The taller male gives me a smile, but I wasn't sure if it was genuine or not. I give him a shy smile because I like the gentleman like behavior.
Once I am fully seated in he makes sure I was indeed fully in before closing the door. The seat belt fastens on me proactivity when Seth copies my action in the the driver's seat. He starts up the car, playing the radio. I look at it and notice it's a CD track. Seth and I have similar taste in music, but you can definitely notice the differences. One song catches my attention along the way to the hotel.
My hand reaches over to the volume and raises it up a little more. The music boils my blood in excitement as I sing along to the lyrics. I can feel my face hurting so much smiling. The starry night sky joins me singing.
The faint reflection in the window shows me that Seth has a soft smile on his face, but I couldn't tell what he is smiling at though.
Soon we arrived and check in. Our rooms are on the same level, but possibly we are staying in one room for most or half of the night. Looks like my room is closer to the elevator so most likely Seth is staying with me.
"So," I speak up once settled, "what do you want to do?"
"I can order room service and you can find something on TV," he suggests.
"I'm more in the mood for music first before watching TV," I said crawling onto the only bed.
He orders room service and joins me on the bed.
"Okay Mr. Lopez," I sighed, turning towards him, "the recent storyline has everyone on edge of you, including myself. And now you wish to hang out with me as friends and I respect that-" all of sudden, he breaks down and hugs me tightly. "Colby-"
"You're my only friend left among the group!" he cries in my neck. "Please still be my friend!"
I simply smiled and hugged him back. Sooner or later he was going to have a meltdown about the situation.
"I'll still be your friend Colby, but remember it's not going to be like how it was before and I am not going to pick sides, is that understood?"
"Understood Miriam," he whispers, tightening his grip.
Warmth from his body is warming up my own. I am treasuring this moment because when I debuted into the main roster, there was an attraction towards him. Unfortunately, it's hard due to mainly he's my trainer - one of them - and I don't want to ruin our friendship and professional relationship.
Then our moment ends when there's a knock at the door. Room service is here. Seth slowly but surely removes himself from my grip to get it. Usually hotel food is not my cup of tea, but I am in no mood to go out after my match.
Seth and I enjoy the food while catching up with some background music. He's still the guy I always knew since I've been in the company so that's a good thing. Of course, my guard is up just to be on the safe side.
A few hours later, he needed to head back to his hotel room. One part of me doesn't want him to leave and another part of me understands why.
So we pull ourselves into a hug. Just like before his warmth appearing onto my body and this time neither one of us want to pull apart. As I press my ear against his lower to mid chest, his heart beats nice and strong. It's like music to me. I snuggle a little more as he run his large fingers in my long, raven black hair.
Eventually we pull away to give each other smiles.
"Goodnight Colby."
"Goodnight Miriam."
I slowly closed the door as he walks way still smiling towards me.
His image keeps on appearing in my head well into me getting into bed. A single light from the lamp on the end stand lights up the room. I pull out the one thing from my childhood from my purse. The handwritten list of everything that I always wanted in a partner. Each detail meets my glass covered eyes as my mind asked, "is he the one?"