AN: Here's another one shot for all of you guys. I didn't specify any names so you know how that works. Think of your favored character or wrestler have them be the center of the fic. As a disclaimer, you all know that I own no one that may come to your mind.
It's a short one. But it holds true for me, and I'm sure it does for a lot of you too.
I hope you like it!
-Nef
Here I am again. Watching just as I always am. If there was anyone else around me that felt and saw you in a completely different way, I might be viewed as a stalker. But I bet that even in your blissful ignorance, you wouldn't see me or anyone else around me like that. How could you anyway? It's not like you were focused on anything else but what is going on inside, and sometimes just outside, of that squared circle that you're standing on.
Your blood, your sweat and your tears have been spilled in that ring. It was all spilled because you had us in mind. You risk your body, you break your limbs, you leave your home and you sacrifice your life all for a few moments of glory. For that, I thank you. A lot of us thank you. But a lot of us keep wishful thinking in our heads too.
Is it nothing but a fantasy that will forever be kept in my head? Perhaps.
You walk a different path from me. That despite being able to meet with you, get a picture and a robotically scribbled John Hancock, you would not know me any differently from any other passing Jane Doe. I have my world, my reality, and you have yours. However, your world is a world and reality that is shared and viewed by everyone else that cares to watch. Thank you for that. But I still wish for so much more.
Maybe I should just give up on the idea though. It's a hopeless cause really. It's a fanatic crush. Heroism. Nothing can come from it. I should just stick to the idea that I will forever be admiring you from afar. To be honest, it's not really such a bad fate.
Well what do you know? You actually won. It was a brutal match that deserves the ovation that you're getting from me and everyone else. It was a match that took a lot of energy. Standing just a few feet from you, I could clearly see you breathing heavily.
Then you look up.
And look straight at me.
To say that my world stopped would be an understatement. It was like it was just you and I that existed. It was something that I've been hoping to come for a long time.
You smiled and turned to have your arm raised to signify your win.
And then you were gone.
Just like that.
And here I am still. I'm still standing there in awe. Perhaps I can never completely let go of any fantasy that I may have. At least not after that exchange. It was short and did not really cause a ripple to shift the axis of the world. But it meant a lot to me.
For it was in those few moments that our eyes connected, I existed in your world. That was all I ever wanted.