Rumor:
A story or statement in general circulation without confirmation or certainty as to facts.
gossip, hearsay, fabrication, falsehood, fiction

She sat on the brick wall over looking what was left of the decaying deck that sat on top of the lake. The crisp autumn air blew, pulling some of the leaves off the trees, making them dance in the breeze. If her body hadn't been numb already, she would have shivered, but she couldn't feel the air, she couldn't feel that her cheeks were red from the cold, that her fingers were tingling. Her dark brown hair blew in the wind, her green eyes glistened from the tears. She sat there staring at nothing; wishing that her mind would have been just as numb as her body, but it wouldn't shut up.

"Jade!" She heard her brother's voice yell at her from a far distance. She knew he would close in fast, so she quickly wiped the tears from her cheeks.
"Jaden Kendall Rotunda, what are you doing out here? And without a coat? Are you loco?" He laughed, wrapping a blanket he had carried from his car around her shoulders, taking a seat next to her.

"How'd you know I was here?" She asked, trying to keep her voice from jumping.

"Twin telepathy." He started to laugh again, until she looked at him.
"What's going on, Jade?"

"Don't act like you haven't heard." Things had been flying back stage for months. None of it was completely true, but on the other hand, none of it was completely false.

"What do you want me to say?" Husky asked. They had always been close, even when she was called up to the main roster and he was stuck in NXT.
"I used to be able to talk to you about anything. Now, well, to be honest, I don't know what to say, or even how to ask you."

"Does dad know?" She asked. Husky started to nod his head,knowing their dad knew of the stories, but the look in her eyes told him she needed to think at least someone hadn't heard, so he shrugged his shoulders.
"Bo?" She had always tried to protect her little brother, but she had never thought that he would need protection from her.

"He's backstage just as much as I am, I'm sure he's heard something." He took a deep breath.
"Do I even need to ask what's true and what's not?"

"No, you can think what you want. You can be just like the rest of the locker room. Make assumptions, think you know what's going on. Think what you hear is all there is to know."

"Or you can talk to me." He tried.

"I'm so tired of getting the looks. Hearing the whispers." She said.
"Just because I was sitting on Cena's lap means nothing. I haven't slept with Cena. Ever. Out of everyone on the roster, everyone under contract, he is so not my type."

"Then why let it get to you?"

"Seriously, Husky? Have you heard how far this shit has gone?" She asked.
"Before you know it, I'm going to be pregnant with his child." Her brother looked at her.
"It's not even possible, Windham. I should hit you for even thinking that."

"Then why are you letting it get to you?"

"Because the rumor about what was heard from my hotel room is true. It's just the wrong guy." Jaden said, hanging her head.
The road got lonely. And truth be told she was involved with someone. A someone who was 7 years her senior. A someone who understood the pressure she was under being a third generation wrestler, he was one himself. A someone who was a father. A someone who was married. A someone who no one would ever expect.

"Who is it Jade?"

"That's not important." She said.

"How long has it been going on?"

"Over a year." She confessed.

"You've been seeing someone for a year and it's not important who it is? I'd say that's a pretty serious relationship." Her brother said.

"It's not."

"Jade, a year, how can it not be serious?" Her twin looked at her.
"I was engaged within a year."

"It's sex. There are no feelings between us." She was telling the truth there, she felt nothing for him. He was just someone who was there to fill her lonely nights.

"Oh, Jaden, that's not smart. Someone always gets hurt like that."
The word cut her to the core.
Hurt. She was hurt, that's why she fell into the ever-so-waiting tattoo'd arms of her lover.