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I sat in the back with the other wrestlers preparing for our independent show, this time was different since the word was being spread in the back that there was a WWE talent scout coming tonight.
"Carol, your up!" Jerry said, I tightened my boots running out of the back room.
"Introducing next from Raleigh, North Carolina, standing at 5 foot 9 and weighing in at 250 pounds, Crazy Carol." Jerry announced, yes I'm on the big side, I'm about the same size as Awesome Kong and she could wrestle, even though she is a few pounds heavier. I went against my normal opponent since there was only one other girl in the league. I won this time and went back to my locker room jugging down water to re-hydrate myself, Jerry poked his head in. "Hey Mrs. Lopez, WWE talent scout, wants to talk to you." Jerry said smiling.
"Send her in." I said standing up, she walked in and I extended my hand out shaking hers. "Hi, I'm Carol Kent." I said smiling.
"I know, I loved your performance, I really think you'll be a great add to the WWE roster." She said.
"Are you serious?" I asked in an excited type way.
"Yes, do you have a demo reel I can take back with me?"
"Yeah." I said digging through my bag finding my demo reel handing it over to her.
"Someone will get a hold of you within a weeks time." She said, after she walked out and I heard the next match announced, Jerry barged into the room. Jerry is the ring announcer and the independent league promoter, he's like Vince McMahan to this league and he's my boyfriend, but it's going south in my opinion.
"So?" Jerry asked.
"She liked my performance, I gave her my demo reel and she said someone will call me within a weeks time." I said, he pulled me into a hug.
"Tonight, we're going to go celebrate." He said as he ran out for the next match, I changed back to my clothes and packing up to drive back home, our show was an hour from my apartment, I shared a two bedroom apartment with Jerry, I didn't feel like waiting around for Jerry so I headed out by myself. When I got home, I went up to the apartment listening to a message on the answering machine from Jerry for me to call him when I got home. I called him as I set my keys on the proper hook; I hung up my coat and set my bag aside. I got ready for bed turning my phone on silent so if anyone called I couldn't hear it, WWE wouldn't call this soon. I laid there in the dark watching the time change on my alarm clock waiting for Jerry to get home, I worry about him sometimes. I heard the door unlock and him stomping into the apartment like always, I heard him walking about the apartment shuffling things like his normal routine, my door slowly opened to have the light shine in. "Sweetie, you awake?" He whispered.
"Yeah." I said rolling over to look at him in the door way.
"You should be happy and proud of yourself to get a WWE scout scoping you out." He said walking further into my room and sat on my bed.
"Just because she likes me doesn't mean I got it, and why would Vince want me?"
"You got talent; he can't take that way from you."
"Talent is nothing if you don't have the look."
"Just wait, you'll get the call."
"You think that, good night and I love you." I said sitting up kissing him, he got up from my bed, he walked out closing the door behind him. 'Just because you think I'm talented doesn't mean shit.' I thought, being in WWE has been my long time dream, TNA has offered but I have always turned them down.
A Week Later- Carol's Point of View-
I sat on the couch flipping through the channels on our television with my cell phone sitting on my lap waiting for a phone call if there was going to be one, it was also my day off from work so it was nice just to lounge around in my pajamas all day. My phone started ringing, it read 'Restricted,' I thought it was Jerry since he knows how to block his number and has been doing it all day, I picked up the phone like usual.
"Hey Jerry." I said naturally.
"Um….it this Carol?" A male asked.
"This is she." I said confused.
"Hi, I'm Jim Ross with the World Wrestling Entertainment." J.R. said.
"Oh, hi." I said turning the television on mute standing up from the couch and started walking around from nerves and turning slight red from embarrassment.
"We have watched your demo reel multiple times and have heard a good review from Mrs. Lopez, we would like you to be a contestant in the 2009 Diva search, and have you on a developmental contract." J. R. said.
"Thank you so much for this offer; it will be an honor to do so." I said ecstatic.
"You want to do it?"
"Absolutely." I said excitedly as the door opened from Jerry walking in.
"We'll fax you a contract and information, i.e. flights, important dates." J.R. said, we exchanged numbers before I hung up the phone; I jumped up and down screaming.
"What?" Jerry asked.
"I got into WWE!" I said hugging him tightly.
"That's great!" Jerry said as he was not nearly as excited as I thought he would be.
"What's the matter?" I asked concerned.
"What about us?"
"What do you mean what about us?"
"Our relationship has been on the shiz lately, we're not the same people we were, and this is going to add more to our problems." Jerry said.
"Do you want to take a break for a while; we can do our own thing?"
"Sounds great, but can I still give you a congratulations kiss?"
"Absolutely." I said pecking him on the lips, "Now, I got to go downstairs to pick up the faxes." I said grabbing my keys running downstairs to the front clerk. "There were faxes sent to me." I said.
"Carol Kent?" She asked.
"Yep." I said as she handed me a pile of what seemed to be like one hundred pages, "Thanks." I said carrying them up the stairs into the apartment. I set them on the coffee table in front of Jerry.
"Holy shit, have they ever heard of e-mail and saving the planet, you know how many trees they knocked down?" Jerry said, him and I are very environmentalist.
"I promise I'll try to change their ways, help me separate this thing." I said, I sat down on the couch next him separating the papers into three different piles. One pile was designated to contracts, which consisted of papers I need to read and sign and fill out like my medical history for the paramedics on staff to know my medical information if anything happens. The second pile was designated to my itinerary or calendars that included any meetings I needed to be at, signings and had an itinerary of my travel arrangements. The third pile was designated for informational sheets, sheets that I needed to read that further discussed the WWE company, their objectives and goals, and about this Diva search, what I need and what is to be done. When we finished separating them, I was tired already and got more tired looking at the three piles.
"I'll start reading these out loud to you as you work on those." Jerry said pointing out the contract pile, I started the medical history since that was like five pages long as Jerry started reading me the Diva search information sheet, we worked at it until 1 AM, we got through about 75% of it, thank god I have all day Sunday as well. I woke up Sunday dreading it since I knew I had SO much work to do, I walked out to the living room looking at the pile of papers I got to go through yet, my itinerary being one. "Back to work?" Jerry asked walking out of his room.
"Yep, I should look at my itinerary first." I said pulling out my itinerary.
"When do you leave?" Jerry asked walking into the kitchen grabbing the orange juice bottle from the refrigerator.
"Tomorrow afternoon, can you give me a lift?" I asked.
"Yep, shouldn't you pack?"
"Should I? Yes, but would I? No."
"When are you going pack?"
"Tomorrow morning like I always do." I said looking through rest of my itinerary.
"When do you get back in town?" Jerry asked pouring a glass of orange juice for me and him.
"By my schedule, I should be back on Friday and leave Sunday." I said looking at the meetings I had to attend along with photo shoots on Wednesday and Thursday.
"You serious?"
"It'll be like that for two weeks or so, and then I begin working Friday through Tuesday."
"Two days?"
"That's working Raw shows and ECW/Smackdown."
"If you win, what's your schedule then?"
"Friday through Monday."
"Good thing we are taking a break, huh?" Jerry asked carrying the drinks out to the living room.
"Yep." I said, I pulled out my palm pilot, it's my best friend, and I don't leave home without it. I put in all the meetings, photos shoots and special times I needed to remember from the itinerary even though I'm taking the itinerary with me in case my palm pilot dies.
"I got to head to work." Jerry said.
"I'll see you tomorrow morning." I said as Jerry drunk his juice quickly.
"Okay, night." Jerry said leaving for his night job, I read through rest of my papers signing where needed. I went into my room pulling out a suitcase; I looked at a list of things needed for the Diva's search contest. I went through each thing, things such as evening gown, casual outfit, WWE related outfit, talent material, etc. I then packed my other necessities; I literally sat on my suitcase just to make sure it zipped shut. I moved it out next to the front door, I packed a carry on that held my paper work, laptop, books anything else to keep me entertained on the plane that I didn't need right now. Even though I was up for a few hours, I figured I might need some sleep before traveling, I climbed into bed looking up at the ceiling thinking of all the nice people I might meet on tour and what a great experience this is going to be, I laid there thinking until I fell asleep.