The bold lines are in Randy's POV and the italics are in John's POV.

Dedication? CenatonObsession. You should go check out her/his John/Randy fics, they're seriously hot. Actually, I'm sort of jealous. I can't write those sort of scenes at all but I'll stick to angst and write a heart wrenching story about them because I know that I can do that!

Sad Story
Rated: T – for mentions of suggestive themes; darkness; angst
Summary: 100 Orton/Cena one-shots. First one (Introduction): An old college friend of John Cena, Mike, dares John to marry Randy and John Cena never backs down from a dare. Follow a series of one-shots that explain how John Cena tries to win the dare.
Genre: Romance/Angst

Introduction

John Cena doesn't really have any friends.

He's never had friends in kinder garden and he's never had friends when entered high school and he's never had friends when he entered wrestling because John's just a repellent to everyone and everything and friendship and a serious relationship and he knows it as much as anyone does.

When an old college friend, Mike Dasher, rings up his hotel and asks John to meet him in a café, John feels a sense of satisfaction and determination and approval bubble up through him. Now, it's not the same routine all over again. You don't have to pretend to be tough as you shove a guy on the wall in a café and get kicked out and you don't have to pretend to not care to hide the dissatisfaction, the rejection barreling right through you… John Cena's always been alone. No one really understands him.

No one understands that six year old boy who stares longingly at the candy store, dreams and thinks and breathes candy but can never really get a signal piece because he really doesn't have enough money. No one understands that nine year old boy that stands in the rain with a hat as his only protection, with ragged clothes and a silent pale face, walking from school with soaked clothes, with tears that no one can see running down his eyes.

That boy used to be just John, no one really cares about him and no one really wants to know him and no one really thinks that he's in shatters and shambles because he's always acting tough in front of them and happy and sweet but he's never really been happy. He's always just been broken pieces inside of a box that has a nice wrapper and now, that the wrapper's slowly tearing away, John was about to lose the cover that he's been hiding from for so long.

He walks towards the café, with his signature hat and his signature t-shirt and his signature sneakers and his fake smile and he sits down next to a boy with blonde hair and brown eyes and John knows that Mike hasn't changed a bit, all those years and he hasn't changed. You haven't changed either, John. You've lost the candy that you've been looking for.

He doesn't want to deny it but he doesn't want to accept it. John has truly lost the candy he's been looking for. He doesn't know what he wants. What have you really been chasing all your life? He doesn't know what he likes and what he doesn't and he doesn't know who you really are.

You finally get tangled in Jeff Hardy's mystery crap, don't you? He puts on a smile and plays friendly high school teenager Cena for now and Mike's always been that high school teenager, even if it's thirty years old. "John, I saw this bald dude the other day on TV, you know, the one with the two losers always following him?"

John feels something bitter in his mouth as he realizes that he means Randy Orton and he nods his head. "Yeah, Randy," he says with a bleak voice but so hard and so masculine and so thick that bitterness is hiding under his words and have been for so long. "What about him?"

Mike gives a glossy, mischievous smile. "I dare you," John's ears are open and his eyes are alert and everything around him doesn't matter because those words and Mike's eyes and face spell trouble but John Cena's always been John Cena and he knows that trouble follows him around all the time. "To get Orton to marry you and you keep your relationship, secret or open, your choice of course, for a whole two months. Can you do that?"

"Depends. What do I get as payment?" John now has Mike's mischievous million dollar smile and Mike's smile starts to fade before he puts on a thinking face. "How about you marry Orton for the extent of let's say—a year?"

"Deal. You'll back down before you can get married Randy Orton. You'll lose for sure. I won't give it more than a week. If you don't do the damn dare, then I'll tell just everyone how the John Cena backed down from a high school dare."

Mike nods his head at his theory and John walks out of the café with his head held high but inside, you're shattering with the dissatisfaction of the entire dare's idea and you don't know what to do or how to start and you're suddenly tired and drained out of your energy.

Little does John know that the dare is only a beginning of pure disaster for both him and Randy Orton and it'll change and shatter and break the lives of both of them through John's trip to prove his capability of winning a high school dare by a used to be high school friend.

John looks up as the rain falls and he's showering and pelted with fiery fire of the raindrops and he doesn't know how the tears fall off but they do. Hot tears run down off of John Cena's face and now, he's not high school John or wrestler John; he's just that little nine year old boy who wants candy just like all the other kids but can't and tough luck, he can't get anyone to make sure he's safe but his reliable cap to cover his head in shame.

You're so in vain, John.

I know it's short but it's just the beginning. The rest will be all one-shots that are based off of this! Orton/Cena coming its way, people, actually, it'll be a while before they actually fall in love but that's the beauty of it. It's supposed to be angst, people! And I'll try updating daily because seriously, this is so fun. Don't throw things at me just because this sounds ridiculous! 1 down. 99 more to go.

- Sam