California Friends
Season 2, Episode 1: The Start Of Something New
August 25, 2014
Last Season On 'California Friends'; Brie finally breaks up with Daniel, but like she predicted Daniel ends up hitting her across the face. And Melina finally wins the Diva's Championship from Eve, and Eve is left in complete shock after her injury is discovered as a fake. Meanwhile Nikki and John prepare themselves for Nikki's upcoming pregnancy. All while Nattie becomes engaged to Tyson, only to be left in tears days later as she leaves him, California, and her friends for Canada.
Starring~ Melina Perez, Brie Bella, Nikki Bella, Eve Torres, and Layla El.
Melina sits in the car, she looks out the window, she watches all of the people and cars driving by, she sees all the different buildings and she feels the fresh air.
~ Last year was probably one of my best years so far, I already get nostalgia thinking about last year. But this year is a whole different story, at least I feel like it will be, I feel like it'll go downhill, but no matter what it's obviously going to be different. Last year I was excited and didn't know what to expect, this year I feel more nervous and not as excited to be honest. This is the year where I really have to go in a different direction, mostly because I want to try something new, and there's so many new things I want to do. Year after Year, I want to continue to move on and fly away, further away from the past, as a free spirit I shall continue to live.
Roman drives Brie to Wrestling School, they both talk and laugh all throughout the ride, until a Domestic Violence story is brought up on the radio by the radio talk show host's, after that Brie completely goes quite and she acts un-comfortable. Roman on the other hand doesn't relate to the story, so he continues to joke around, until he notices Brie's change of behavior.
"Brie, Is something bothering you," Roman says to Brie.
Brie's eyes pop out of her eyes, "No, No, I'm fine, I was just thinking about the first day back to Wrestling," Brie says, completely lying to Roman.
"You'll do fine," Roman says, not knowing anything about what Brie is really going through.
Brie gives Roman a fake smile, "Yeah, I can't wait to see what story-line they'll put me in next," Brie says, hiding the truth quite well, like always.
"I think they should put you in an awesome story-line, after all they haven't really been using you after the whole 'Melina/Bella Twins' story-line drop," Roman says, still not getting a clue on Brie's lies.
"I know, I guess I haven't really noticed how little they've been using me and Nicole, I mean with Nikki's pregnancy troubles and my whole Daniel breakup, and I... I honestly have a lot on my mind," Brie says to Roman, finally dropping a subtle hint to Roman.
Roman turns to her with a smile, to show her that he understands, "I get it, but hey at least you were able to break up with him, I mean now you're free from him, and I'm sorry about what happened to your sister, I really am," Roman says.
Brie's eyes get watery, "Yeah, it's just hard," Brie says, as the tears abruptly come out, crying about both Nikki and Daniel.
Roman pulls into the front building of the wrestling school, but he instead goes to an open parking space to park, "It's going to be alright, you'll be fine, your sister will get through it," Roman says as he pulls Brie in for a hug.
Brie continues to cry for minutes while she thinks about Nikki's pregnancy tragedy, she finally wipes them away, with the help of Roman, she turns to her window and her stomach goes numb, she just doesn't want to be there, "Anyways I better get going," Brie says as she opens the door, "Thanks again, and maybe we can do something later today".
Roman reaches over from his seat to give her another hug, "I would love to, maybe we can go see a movie or something," Roman says to Brie.
Brie gives him a blank smile, having too much on her mind to really feel any emotions, "Perfect, I have to go now," Brie says as she waves good-bye and then turns around.
Melina walks into the building, she walks down the hall, and for the first time she walks into her own dressing room, which is only given to whoever is the current Diva's Champion.
She walks over to the mirror, where the lights make her feel even more nervous for whatever comes her way at the upcoming show's, where she'll now be headlining as Champion.
She looks deep into the mirror, not knowing what to expect, she hopes everything goes right, but if everything instead goes downhill, she knows she'll be ready for it.
Melina starts applying makeup on her nose, quickly afterwards pausing again to think about the upcoming wrestling school year, and whether or not she'll be ready to handle it, she's excited but she's also nervous.
At this point the only thing Melina can tell herself is that everything will be different now, at least 75 percent of everything will be different, however her personal dreams and the vision she has for herself will remain the same, and maybe everything being different isn't necessarily a bad thing, only time will tell.
Melina finishes spraying the perfume around her neck, she picks up her title belt and walks to the door, taking a deep breath in, but after taking a long pause she finally has the nerves to walk out into the crowd of new and familiar wrestling faces.
Eve turns around to her left, where Vince happens to be standing, she sees him and instead turns the opposite way.
But before Eve can escape, Vince sees her, "Eve, can I talk to you in private," Vince says, waiting for Eve to turn around.
Eve pauses and rolls her eyes, she slowly turns around to face Vince, "Hey Vince, what is it," Eve says, pretending like she doesn't know what Vince is about to bring up.
Vince chuckles, "Ahhh Eve, you make me laugh, I think we both know what this is about," Vince says walking towards a corner, where nobody can possibly hear what he's about to tell her.
Eve stays quite, she follows him, and then stops when he stops, "Vince, I don't know what you're talking about," Eve says, continuing to fake her act.
"Enough Eve, Look I didn't want to embarrass you in front of anybody or anything, but we have decided to suspend you from ever winning a Championship, ever again," Vince says, not caring on how Eve might react, being over Eve's silly act.
Eve gasps, with her signature dramatic gasp, "Vince, really, that's so unfair, don't you think that's a little too harsh," Eve says as she now starts to regret the risky fake injury she made up last year.
Vince taps her on the shoulder, not saying a word, he walks away, no longer wanting to argue with Eve and her fake old dialogue.
Eve watches him walk away, she then looks around and sees all the new faces, she wonders if she might be replaced this year, will she even make it in the company all the way till the end of the year, Nattie sure didn't last year, she ended up quitting.
(2 Months Prior To This- June) This scene represents Nikki's hurtful miscarriage, she is left behind in the past, the sadness is making her live 2 months behind the rest of the world.
After coming home from the hospital, Nikki rushes out of the car to the bathroom, with the lights off, Nikki sits in the bathroom, she cries her heart out while the horror of what she just experienced killed her a little in the inside. Meanwhile John sits in his car, where Heaven by Beyoncé is playing on the radio, the song breaks him even more.
"I was ready to be a mother, I envisioned what my baby would look like, I was feeling maternal, and now all of that is gone, within a dash before my eyes," Nikki whispers to herself, while the tears and stuffy nose make it hard for her to even get her words out.
She lays there, with her arms resting on the side of the bathtub, she sobs enough to fill up the bathtub for her to drown inside it.
Meanwhile John rests his head on the steering wheel, he can't help but to cry as he too imagined himself being a father. He try's to convince himself that there's other options, he try's to shake the blues away, he thinks about 'everything happening for a reason' and that maybe the baby wasn't supposed to happen quite yet.
John looks out the window, where the sun shines brightly, he looks up into the sky and brings himself back into the present, he manages to keep his cool and peace.
Nikki on the other hand is left behind in the past, she continues to lay on the bathroom floor, feeling like it's all her fault, practically giving up, she then get's up and without thinking she starts to break and throw stuff around. She throws glass perfume bottles against the wall, she pulls down the shower curtains and then try's to shove the shower curtain down the toilet, she continues to destroy anything else in her sight.
Nikki stomps around in the bathroom, but after minutes of Nikki's dramatic meltdown, she finally lies on the floor out of tiredness. She looks up into the ceiling and continues to cry, eventually crying herself to sleep on the bathroom floor.
Darlene by The Lumineers plays in the background, Melina walks outside after a long day of wrestling, where she sees Brie sitting. They make eye contact, but Melina looks away, Brie however continues to stare at Melina.
Melina looks over from the side of her eye, she sees Brie staring, right away the guilt get's Melina, so she speaks, "Hey Brie," Melina says as she walks over to Brie.
Brie looks up, "Hey, how are you," Brie says to Melina, not really sure where their friendship stands.
"I've been good, and you," Melina says, continuing the conversation to let go of any past awkward feelings.
Brie nods, "That's great, It's been quite a while since I last talked to you," Brie says, sliding the question about her feelings under the rug.
Melina smiles, knowing Brie is obviously hiding something, "Yeah, It's been a while, It's like I don't even know you anymore," Melina says trying to get Brie to talk.
Brie moves un-easily in her green cable box sitting spot, "Well a lot has been going on recently, it's all too complicated and messy right now for me to talk about," Brie says hoping Melina understands, that she just doesn't want to share her feelings or recent life stories.
"Well hey, maybe we can get together sometime... and you know, hang out," Melina says trying to cheer Brie up.
Brie gives Melina a smile, "I would love that," Brie says as she sees Roman's car pulling up. Brie get's up and gives Melina a friendly hug, "Look I know you're done waiting, but I'm not done," Brie says as she walks away to Roman's car.
Melina watches her walk down the sunny sidewalk, "Incase you haven't noticed, I'm also still waiting," Melina whispers.
Special Guest Stars~ Roman Reigns, Vince McMahon, and John Cena.
Music Credit~
'Heaven' by Beyoncé (Shown In Scene 5)
'Darlene' by The Lumineers (Shown In Scene 6)
Created By~ Jonathan Nunez