"So the meeting was basically to tell you they're calling you up but changing your whole character…" April said and I nodded, tossing the heels back into my suitcase.
"Yeah I mean I'm excited about getting called up obviously but the whole character change… they said it's going to be some deep shit"
"Really?" She asked, perking up a bit while I held the phone out in front of me, looking at the Iphone screen again to see her do that. "How deep?"
"You know that whole Sister Abigail storyline the Wyatt's have been using for the past few months; well you're looking at her"
"Looking at… Sister Abigail…? Really?"
"Yeah, apparently they liked the idea of me playing her because of what I used to do in ROH, that weird sweet but totally not innocent gimmick"
"You are pretty perfect for it, plus Abigail is sort of your name too, how did I not put this together sooner?"
"I guess your storyline fan girl ways weren't ticking" I zipped up my suitcase and walked back to the hotel bed and sat on the edge of it. I was so ready to get this flight out to Tampa to pack now to hit the road.
"When are they putting you on air?"
"They said 2 weeks, so I'm flying back to Tampa tonight and then packing some suitcases before heading on the road to…." I stood up to grab the paper with the city name on it but April beat me to it.
"Grand Rapids? Am I seeing you tomorrow night?!"
"Seems so" I mumbled and folded up the paper and put it on the side of my suitcase, I didn't need to lose the schedule. "We can finally travel together, that's something you've been excited about for like years"
"I'm so excited for you to be here now!" She gushed with a clap of her hands "Finally they see the promo potential you actually have, wait are you wrestling or just promos?"
"Promo's for now but I'm supposed to be interrupting the Rumble match between Bryan and Bray on Sunday night so there's that, creative said that they'll have the outfit I'll be wearing tomorrow in Grand Rapids"
"I can't wait to see you Abs; ever since Cel left I've been bored out of my mind"
"You've been bored with your boyfriend too?" I asked and she rolled her eyes at me with a smile
"Of course not but you know how that is, you've met him"
"Also dated him for a while too, don't forget that"
"RIGHT that slips my mind a lot ya know"
"Well it wasn't for very long, I don't think we ever did count it as dating really" I mumbled as I glanced over at the time. I was stuck in this hotel room in Connecticut for another 3 hours before my car would arrive to bring me to Logan Airport.
"He does… your name actually came up in catering a few nights ago at a live event, I forgot who brought you up but you were referred to the quote unquote girl that punk dated in ROH"
"Really now?" I rolled my eyes really disinterested in hearing who was talking about me, a name flashed on the top of my screen by her hair "Uh, I've got to go do you mind if I call you later when I get back to Tampa?"
"That sounds good, shoot me a text before you call because I might be passed out"
"Will do"
"Have a safe flight!"
"Thanks" I smiled and waved before the screen went blank and I pressed the phone to my ear "Yeah?"
"So how did the meeting go?" The very male voice came through the speaker.
"I'll be seeing you tomorrow"
"YOU GOT IT? Damn I knew you'd get this, congrats on being called up to the big house" Seth gushed on the other end and I couldn't help but laugh at his excitement, he was probably up dancing or something.
"Thanks" I laughed again "I shouldn't have been so worried about it, you told me that I'd get it, should have understood that you were God and all of that"
"You're damn right. I can't wait to see you and travel together"
"I'm totally traveling with April"
"No way! We're traveling together, April's probably going to continue traveling with Punk, easier for her to do that don't ya think?"
"Probably, god maybe I'll have to for the first few weeks then… Dean and Ro won't mind?"
"No way, I mean I'll ask them but I'm sure it'll be cool, unless you're high maintenance now that you're being called up and all then fuck that"
"I don't think I'll ever be high maintenance, I had to wear fucking heels to the meeting today and I wanted to chop my ankles off"
"I bet you looked very respectable"
"You're damn right I did Rollins" He chuckled on the other end before I heard him pull the phone away from his ear to yell at someone that he was with to turn the music down.
"Sorry about that… dickhead" He mumbled and I rolled my eyes
"Someone giving you troubles? Whose ass do I have to kick?"
"Dean's, I told him to give me two… stop hey fucker" The phone was obviously being pulled from his ear and before I knew it someone else's was on the line with me. "So you want to travel with us?" I raised my eyebrow, I had never personally met Dean before but I knew his voice.
"Only if it's cool with you three, if not I can get my own rental, I don't mind driving myself"
"I've got some questions for you"
"What is this some job interview now? I didn't know I'd be questioned on the spot or I would have prepared something" That enlightened a chuckle from him.
"Two questions, simple really, also two rules to traveling with us"
"Oh I'm nervous" I mumbled
"Never told me she was a smartass Rollins" Dean said and I smirked and lay back on the bed with a sigh
"Are you going to ask me these two questions or can I go?"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah sweetheart cool your jets. Have you ever been arrested for any DUI's, Speeding tickets, etc.?"
"No, if I'm going to drink I'll have some asshole who hasn't been drinking drive me"
"And do you have a boyfriend, ex-boyfriend, husband, ex-husband we should be worried about because we don't need any drama"
"Well my baby daddy might not be too happy with you asking me all of these fucking questions" I deadpanned and he was silent for a moment
"You don't have a fucking kid; jeez you almost had me there"
"I so totally had you" I laughed "But seriously, all I need is a ride from show to show, I can even drive a few nights a week so you three can get your beauty rest"
"Sounds good to me, how about you Ro? You got any questions for toots over here?"
"Toots?" I sighed, here comes another unwanted nickname. "Me and Ro are like brother and sister, he better not say no"
"I don't mind, she makes one hell of a breakfast that's for sure"
"And how would HE know you make breakfast well?" Dean asked into the phone
"Maybe because I stayed with Seth when I first arrived at developmental and I made breakfast a few times for them, who knows maybe I'll be able to make breakfast for you"
"You're in, see ya tomorrow toots" The phone was hung up after that and I sighed, putting it down beside me as I closed my eyes for a few moments of complete silence before I got up to take another shower. I knew once I was on the road sleep and showers were a rarity so I would take a long one now.
"Oh my lord it's cold" I mumbled as I rolled the dark gray and purple suitcase behind me and into the arena's back garage entry door. I glanced at the board and walked towards the right to the DIVA'S locker room. Pushing the door open I first noticed that it was really quiet. I had gotten here an hour before arrival time just so I had enough time for myself to walk around and get accustom to everything. I fixed the white beats headphones on top of my head and switched the country song to something else on my IPhone and pushed the phone into my back blue jeans pocket. I walked into one of the back rooms to see a few straggling wrestlers eating in the catering room, eyes were on me though when I walked in.
I grabbed water from the bin and unscrewed the cap and took a long sip before arms were wrapped around me, making me nearly spit out my water. I quickly put the cap back on and pulled the headphones down from my ears to keep them around the back of my neck and turned around "You nearly made me choke on my water" I hit his buff chest and he held his hands up in apology.
"Happy to see you is all, saw you come in, I didn't know you got the call up" Claudio said after shoving a hand into his jeans pocket.
"Yeah I had a meeting yesterday morning, got here early because I have a meeting with Bray, Harper, and Rowin but they aren't here yet"
"Why them? Oh shit they called you up to be Sister Abigail didn't they? I knew you'd be perfect for that part" I smiled and nodded, taking another sip of my drink.
"Yeah, it'll be a bit different that's for sure"
"Well come meet some of the guys" He wrapped his arm around my shoulders and pulled me along with him, Claudio and I had met in ROH so many years ago, I had made fun of his accent, and he made fun of mine and it sort of became a teasing friendship over the years until he got the call to join the WWE, I soon followed but unfortunately stayed in developmental much longer than I wanted because of an elbow injury I sustained about a year ago.
He was sitting with three other guys, all who were stuffing their faces with food but quickly stopped when I was presented to them. "Abs, this is Johnny, Dolph, and Zack, guys this is Abigail, and she just got the call up today."
"Great to meet you" Dolph stood up; putting his hand out and I shook it gently before he sat back down with a smile.
"Thanks, it's good to meet you guys too"
"So how do you know Claudio here?" I sat down in between Johnny and Claudio at the table, putting my water down on the table in front of me.
"We used to be in ROH together, back in what? 2006?" I nodded
"You were in ROH?" Zack asked, curiosity showing on his voice.
"Yeah, the first female they had on the roster, I wasn't in many matches obviously but I was Chris… I mean Kassius Ohno's valet for a while, then I was Claudio's girlfriend"
"That's interesting, so you've been in developmental for a while then?"
"Yeah, about 3 years, don't get me wrong it was a learning experience, fun, tiring but I'm pumped to be here finally"
"I know the feeling, when we were all in developmental it was tough, but it's a payoff being called up" I nodded at Zack's words.
"Miss Woods?" I turned my head to see a red headed girl with a few papers in her hands and I nodded.
"Yes?" I asked
"I'm Melanie Stanton, Mrs. McMahon's assistant; she's sent me to come get you for the meeting"
"Oh awesome, thank you" I stood up from the table "It was awesome meeting you guys, I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot more of each other."
"That's Abby Woods?" I heard Dolph asked Claudio as I was walking away with Melanie; apparently they didn't put two and two together.
Melanie pushed the door open to a room a few hallways down and let me in first; Stephanie was sitting there with another dark skinned woman, as well as Hunter. "Thank you Melanie" Stephanie told her assistant who made hast to get out of the room "It's so good to see you here, everyone being nice?" She asked me as she let me take a seat at the table.
"Yeah, everyone has been really helpful. Where are the Wyatt's?" I asked
"Hopefully they'll be here soon, we wanted to bring you in a bit early so we could go over your script for Sunday night and show you the outfit that you will be wearing"
"Awesome" She slid the white papers over to me
"Why don't you read through those, the first page is just your entrance at the rumble match between Bryan and Bray. Luke Harper and Rowin will interfere but ultimately get banned from ringside; the match has a time table of about a half an hour. The lights are going to go out just before Bray can hit Sister Abigail on Bryan for the win; you'll appear on the outskirts of the ring apron…" I read over how I was supposed to just stare at Bray and Bryan in the ring before lifting my finger and pointing towards Bryan and bringing my finger back towards my throat to make the signal to behead him, like the undertakers move. Then Bray will hit Sister Abigail and get down on his knees in front of me outside of the ring, doing his weird praising thing before I lean down and whisper a few nothings into his ear before standing up and turning to go up the ramp slowly with him trailing me with his head down.
"This looks amazing" I told her, looking from up from the script when she stopped reading the script through.
Stephanie smiled wide "The next paper is what will happen on Monday Night Raw the following night, it'll be a promo backstage, you will also accompany them all to the ring, you will be the one sitting in the rocking chair. We'll have a few walk through's so you know how to get down to your spot in the 5 second window the lights are out. Harper will be on your right, Rowin on your left, Bray behind you." I nodded "Your promo work is amazing, that's why you were a perfect fit for your new character, so we won't have you read the promo you'll be having with the boys" There was a knock on the door then "Speaking of the boys" I stood up when Bray, Luke, and Eric walked in, they somehow looked bigger. A huge grin broke out of Luke and Bray's face when they saw me.
"Hey there sweetheart" Bray said while giving me a big hug, he was always a good friend of mine in developmental, we had our apartments next to each other's. I gave Luke a hug next; we used to wrestle in ROH together and his character never changed, lucky him. I smiled at Rowin next, we weren't too familiar with each other but we did know each other.
"We just went over the scripts for Sunday's match up Bray, and the promo that will be delivered on Monday Night Raw. Here are your scripts boys, and good luck tonight in your matches" Hunter said while handing them all white clipped papers, the same as mine. "You're free to leave boys, Abigail do you mind staying to go over character outfit?" I nodded and smiled at the three boys before they left. "This is Shannon, she's the head of our wardrobe department" I shook her hand with a big smile "She's in your hands Shan" Hunter said "We'll be seeing you, have fun with this, we believe in what you can do." I shook both of their hands again before Shannon and I walked out of the door; I held my scripts in my hand tight, not wanting to lose them.
"So when we first heard they had found an Abigail I was really excited to get working on this outfit, it's much different than what you're going to be used to"
"That's what Stephanie said yesterday during the meeting, but I'm excited to see it" She pulled open a door and we started to walk down another hallway until we got to her large work station. She pulled a hanger from the rack that was zipped up and unzipped the garment, revealing a black cloak with a large hood, hanging inside was a pair of black treggings, as well as a black long sleeve t-shirt that had holes in different places. The boots were flat wrestling tie up black boots too.
"Why don't you try this on, and we'll see if I need to take anything in alright?" I nodded as she pointed towards the bathrooms and I walked inside and locked it behind me, quickly changing into the outfit. Wow. It was a huge difference, but everything fit. I walked out after tying up the wrestling boots and a wide smile broke over her face. "Do you mind taking down your hair?" I shook my head and pulled it out of the big messy bun and let my long white blonde hair fall past my shoulders. She pulled the hood up over my head, it shielded my eyes which was the point but the white material was lined perfectly so I could see still. "This looks absolutely great, how does everything feel?"
"To be honest everything fits like a glove, might have to double up on socks for the boots until they're worn in but everything else is good" She smiled while pulling the hood away from my head
"I should bring you to see Mandy; with the look they gave me your hair should be curly"
"Oh usually it is, a big mess of curls actually, I just straightened it to look somewhat professional today"
"Well from now on girl, keep those curls" I nodded at her words "Why don't you go change back into your regular clothes, we'll hang this up and we can put it with your suitcase to bring around with you" I nodded and went to go change.
Mandy had said the same thing, and then proceeded to curl my hair to her liking. They were going for the more natural, angelic look which I understood was my character. I was sent off on my own then, bringing the black covered garment to the ladies locker room which was buzzing now and I was met with a few hugs and congratulations.
"ABIGAIL!" A brunette girl threw herself at me in the hallway outside of the ladies locker room moments later, making me stumble into the wall; her arms were wrapped around my shoulders hugging me tight. I was just a few inches taller than AJ, but everyone still called us twins.
"I missed you pipsqueak!" I laughed into her soft hair, my arms hugging around her small back before she finally pulled away when someone cleared their throat. I glanced to the side; Punk was standing there with AJ's bag up on his shoulder, his own on the floor with the handle in his hand to roll it. "Oh hi Punk" I smiled and he smiled looking me over quickly
"You're looking great, kicking your ass down in developmental huh?" He asked
"As if I didn't look good before" I hit his stomach playfully and hugged him gently "How's your back doing?"
"Eh, it could always be better, happy you got the call up, AJ wouldn't shut up about it"
"Hey" AJ said offended, putting herself under Punk's arm as he pulled her into his side.
"I'm kidding babe, but seriously Congrats on getting the call it'll be a lot of fun having you around again"
"Exactly" AJ said "I can't wait until we have matches together and have to hate each other"
"Oh that'll be so hard" I laughed sarcastically and she laughed under her breath "God I missed you guys" AJ took my hand and squeezed it gently
"We'll have to go out tomorrow just us and have a celebratory lunch or something, Punk's going to the UFC fights in Chicago so it'll just be us"
"Sounds like a great plan"
"Oh um… about the whole traveling thing, I totally forgot that…" AJ started
"Don't worry about it, Seth offered to let me tag along with them"
"You're going to travel with The Shield boys? LUCKY" AJ whined and I laughed when Punk cleared his throat, not happy with her answer. "But awesome that you have traveling buddies" I nodded.
"I'd love to stay and chat guys but I gotta get changed, warmed up and I have a few radio shows to call" Punk said
"Oh that's fine, I have to go find Seth anyway, talk about traveling arrangements and shit, it was great seeing you though, we should catch up" He nodded at my words and then proceeded to give AJ a quick peck. I took in a deep breath adverting my eyes before he walked away to leave me with AJ in the hallway. "Go do your thing, I'll be around forever"
"You sure you don't want me to show you around?"
"No way, I've been here for an hour already, these hallways are my bitches"
"Good" She laughed "I'll see you later on" I gave her a quick tight hug before she walked into the locker room and I walked down the hallway, shoving my hand into my pocket while I walked.
"There's my favorite southern bell!" I heard Seth say as I rounded the corner into catering, of course he was stuffing his face with free food, things never changed.
"There's my favorite tattooed warrior!" I called back, looking past Seth to Roman who was laughing because I always ignored him when he called me his southern bell.
"Hey I was kidding, no hugging him first" Seth caught me around the waist before I could go around him to a still laughing Roman.
"Get off Multi-colored weirdo" I batted his hands away but his arms pulled me off of the ground and over his shoulder.
"What's going on?" I heard Dean say who was next to Roman looking at Seth and I.
"They do this a lot when they haven't seen each other in a while; she'll pretend she hates him…"
"I'm not pretending!" I whined as I tried to get off of his shoulder that was digging into my ribs "Ow you loser you're going to injure me" I hit his back and when his hands let me go I tumbled forward and landed on my feet and shoved my arms up in the air "and the card says 10! Perfect landing, amazing dismount" I mumbled and Seth laughed behind me as I turned around and threw myself into his arms, my arms wrapped around his shoulders as his arms snaked around my back tight. "Awh I missed you asshole"
"I missed you too dork" He let me go down to my feet again and we let each other go.
"What is going on with this hair?" He ruffled the top of it
"No stop Mandy is going to beat you if you mess it up" I batted his hand away trying to fix the mess of curls.
"When did you get it bleached?" He asked
"Super early this morning, character changes remember? I'm an innocent sinister freak of nature"
"Sounds about right" Roman said before his bulky arm fell onto my shoulders and I wrapped my arms around his waist and hugged him, keeping my head against his chest while he hugged me back. "How are you doing gorgeous?"
"So much better now that I'm with my people"
"Her people, we're her people Ro" Seth said and I rolled my eyes
"I hate you still" I mumbled towards him and Ro laughed before letting me go.
"I don't know if you guys have ever met while down in developmental but this is Dean, Dean this is the ever so sinister Abigail Woods"
"Ever so sinister, I swear I'm not that bad" I told him "It's good to meet you though finally, this guy talks about you a lot when I call him"
"Oh does he?" Dean asked looking over at Seth who was shaking his head "It's good to meet you too, when are you making breakfast?" I nearly coughed on my own spit until I remembered we had talked about that yesterday after my meeting.
"Oh I don't know, maybe Monday morning, only if you win the rumble"
"Well I guess I'm shit outta luck then boys" Dean said, taking a long sip of his water and I smiled. I had a feeling we were going to get a long great "Where are you from?"
"Tennessee born and raised, yourself?"
"Ohio"
"Lame"
"What? How is that lame? It's not like I live there anymore"
"Oh where do you live now?"
"Vegas" he said "Just bought a place a few weeks ago"
"You just became my new favorite person" I said while letting Roman go to slide my arm into Dean's pulling him away from the group, he looked amused back at the other two guys.
"Oh really now and why is that?"
"I love Vegas, I spent my summer's there when I was a teenager, soon enough after I turned 21 it became one of my favorite places on earth other than my house in Nashville"
"So you're a party girl, the boys didn't inform me that you were a little crazy"
"Party girl? Eh not really, I mean I have my moments but don't we all? Vegas is my favorite because of the lights, the strip, and the very many strange people on the strip"
"Completely agree, my place is a few blocks over from the strip, best place on earth… so you're not debuting tonight?" I shook my head while letting his arm go.
"No at the Rumble I will be, interrupting Bryan and Bray's match and all that, Seth you're going to love my character outfit it's something out of a Lord of the Rings warrior game, white cloak and all"
"Boys we should go find security, figure out our entrance for tonight" Roman's arm wrapped around my shoulders again, one place I missed was being next to the big man. "You coming?"
"Why not? I have nothing better to do than eat my face off" We all walked together down the hallway and through the set up curtain and down the ramp, most of the arena was still being set up, but the ring looked like it had been made up hours ago. Dean eased himself over the black barricade after tossing his water out into a trash bin. "I'm so jealous that you guys can make it look that easy"
"It's not that hard Abs, just push yourself over and land on your feet" Seth did it and I narrowed my eyes at him
"Don't worry, I use a crate to hop over during Raw and Smackdown" Roman whispered down at me and I smirked while he let me go and pushed himself over the barricade once Dean found one of the head of security. "Come on are you just going to wait there?"
"I just might, I wanna see your entrance" I sat down on the steel steps as they all walked up the arena steps and then back down them a few moments later, easing themselves over the barricade the way they normally did, Dean first, then Seth and finally Roman. Now I was determined to try this. I stood up from the steps, the barricade was just above my hips, and I could totally do this. I planted my hands onto the soft material of the black barricade and then pushed myself up and swung my legs to the side and landed on the other side.
"There you go, now try your own Shield entrance over the barricade" Seth said, his arms crossed over his chest. I took in a deep breath and walked a few paces back for some leverage and then walked towards the barricade, planted my hands and used the crate to make this less hard on myself as I did a backflip over the barricade and landed on my feet. There was clapping but it wasn't from any of the shield boys, it was from Hunter as he walked down the ramp.
"Very impressive Abigail" I straightened myself out, brushing the hair away from my face.
"Thank you" I smiled gently
"Maybe my wife and I made the wrong call with who you should have been joining, you look better suited in this group" I looked at the shield members, never thinking that a woman could join that tough group for the WWE "Thanks you the tip Rollins, we might have a few things to change." I raised my eyebrow as my eyes narrowed at an innocent looking Seth Rollins. He walked away after he winked over at me and I shook my head.
"What does he mean 'Thanks for the tip Rollins'?" I asked him quickly
"I might have let it slip earlier that you were better suited here than with the Wyatt's, I mean c'mon do you really want to be on the back burner doing promo's rather than in the ring kicking ass?"
"It's my first day here, I'll do whatever they needed me to Seth come on, you can't set me up like that as some sort of audition"
"It's worked before didn't it?" He asked and I rolled my eyes, walking away from him to go back up the ramp. I can't believe he put me on the spot like that. All I wanted to do was my job, and that was with The Wyatt family, doing promo work and being creepy for the next few weeks. But no, Seth just needed to put his two cents into Hunter, setting me up.
It was about an hour later when Stephanie came to find me in the locker room, telling me the news that my character was getting another change and I wouldn't be getting to wear that awesome cloak that was made for me. I wouldn't be debuting at the Rumble either; I wouldn't be debuting until two weeks before the elimination chamber. The news around the building spread like wild fire too, that a woman was joining the shield, and I was going to be the reason the shield would break apart. I didn't like this.
"You know he was just trying to help right?" Roman said while he pulled his hair out of the ponytail that it had been in.
"I know that, he's always trying to help… I just, I was looking forward to being a part of the royal rumble, now I'll be backstage doing nothing" Roman sighed as I ran my hands back through my hair in frustration "I never asked about traveling, are we headed out right after this is done?"
"That's what we usually do" He nodded
"I'll drive; it'll give me something to do instead of wanting to shave off Seth's hair while he sleeps"
"He'd be so pissed"
"Exactly, why couldn't he have just left it alone? Now they have to get my measurements for a vest, and I'll be your stupid valet for weeks before I even get into a match" I huffed out a breath before Roman came over to me and crouched down so he was eye level with me.
"You gotta stop being so negative about this, The Shield are main eventers, your face and character will be out there with us, maybe I can talk to Hunter about you coming out with us during Raw on Monday, I know we got some big 6 man tag going on" I nodded at his words "Now stop frowning, you're making me upset" I smiled a bit when his thumb brushed against my cheek and then he nodded with a smile and stood back up. He pulled his vest in place before glancing in the mirror and taking his water bottle from the small shelf.
"Should I be in here?" I asked him after I uncrossed my legs to stand up
"Probably not, company rules about relationships and all" I rolled my eyes while he grinned, pulling me with him when he wrapped his arm around me while pushing the one person bathroom door open to head out to the hallway.
"Well isn't that interesting…" We heard a woman say and I glanced back to see Aksana standing there with Alicia Fox, looking me up and down with distaste.
"Problem ladies?"
"No problem, It's just good to know women in NXT still sleep their way to the top" Roman's hand gripped my shoulder a bit tighter when I flinched to move closer to the women before they walked away.
"Come on" He said against the side of my head lowly, steering me away in the opposite direction.
"I fucking hate women"
"Tell me about it" He mumbled, he had just gotten out of a 3 year relationship a few weeks back because she was getting sick of him being on the road all of the time.
"What's crawled under your skin pretty lady?" Ambrose asked while we met up with the two guys at catering, both were already dressed in their ring gear.
"Just making friends" I managed to get out before Roman's arm came down on top of Dean's shoulder to pull him away so I could talk to Seth alone.
"Look I didn't mean to cause a problem with your work here; I Just didn't think the sister Abigail storyline would be suited for you. Sure you cut awesome promo's, you've always have because you learned from the best… just… you need to be in that ring kicking ass, that's what you love so if you want to yell or hit me do it now alright?" Seth quickly jumped in and I sighed deeply, pushing my hand into my pocket while I looked at him.
"I get it, I was pissed for an hour but now I get it. I probably would have done the same thing with you if the opportunity rose. I just didn't want the Shield breaking up over a woman… now that woman is me"
"It was bound to happen sooner or later, at least we get to have a good run together before you ride into the sunset with Ro" I rolled my eyes and hugged him tight, his arm wrapped around my shoulders to hug me back.
"Is it just me or if he being like super protective over me today?" I whispered while glancing over at Roman and Dean talking to a few other guys.
"Eh, you know how he is…" I glanced up at him and pulled away from his body
"What aren't you telling me?" I asked and he looked over at me and shook his head
"Nothing why?"
"You're totally lying, what's going on?"
"After you got off the phone yesterday with Ambrose he wouldn't stop asking about you, your in-ring work, your finishers, how you acted outside of the ring. It was annoying Ro to no end, then Ambrose started looking up your photos on his phone, probably made a comment that you were hot or something"
"So that's why Ro is being protective? Because Ambrose said that I was hot?"
"Something you don't know about Dean is that he well… he likes women, a lot, and he usually gets what he wants and then ditches them. He's hoping you don't become too friendly with Dean if you catch my drift"
"Oh" I mumbled "OH!" I finally caught on and he nodded with a laugh "I'm traveling with you guys, there's sort of a 'don't sleep with' rule there for me, don't worry nothing's going to go on"
"I know that, but Ro seems to think that Ambrose if your type"
"Him? My type? I don't see a lick of a tattoo on him" I joked
"No but he makes up for it by being a complete asshole sometimes"
"Oh yep, those are the men I usually date" I said with a loud sigh
"I'm not worried though, you should probably put Ro's mind at ease though, he'll continue being overprotective beast man for a while if you don't"
"I will, I think I'm bunking with him anyway at the hotel"
"No way that's our thing" He injected
"Well you snooze ya lose, he already asked me last night through texts"
"No fair" He mumbled while we walked towards the guys to join the conversation.
"We're here" I shook Seth's shoulder in the passenger's seat and he mumbled a few things before his eyes slowly opened and he sat up. He had fallen asleep only about an hour into the drive, the next stop was only about 5 hours away and I didn't mind driving it.
"Already?"
"Yes already, now get those two up; I'll go grab our keys inside" He nodded while wiping the side of his face, leaning his seat back hard to hit Dean in the legs and he groaned loudly as I got out of the driver's seat and slammed the door behind me, waking Roman up with a growl. He hated being woken up for anything other than his alarm clock. I called him an angry bear when he did that growl, he also didn't like the teasing.
I grabbed my suitcase from the trunk and pulled my other bag up onto my shoulder and left the boys to grab their own before walking inside the warm hotel lobby. "Hello Miss may I help you?" I nodded while I pulled my WWE pass and ID from my back bag. "Oh right yes, you're certainly early"
"We don't like to stay after the shows, easier to get here early, get more sleep that way" I said and then yawned softly into my hand while the man typed away at his computer behind the desk.
"Is it just the one room?" The guys slowly trailed inside the lobby
"Two would be awesome, two double beds" He nodded as he typed away and then turned around and grabbed two key cards
"I just need all of your signatures, then you'll all set to head up" I nodded while signing quickly, grabbing the key card #304 leaving Seth to pick up the #303. The elevator felt like it was taking forever to get to our floor with us in it but finally once the bell rung and we got to our doors, I pushed the key card into the slot and unlocked the door, pushing it open with my foot. I had a feeling Roman was just going to go to sleep anyway, which I was right because when I was grabbing my yoga pants and tank top, he was pulling off his shirt to crawl into bed. I averted my eyes and went into the bathroom to quickly change and wash up before crawling into bed myself.
"Abby?" I groaned when I heard Roman's sleepy deep voice say my name
"What?" I whispered
"Thanks for driving tonight, I'm happy you're on the road with us" I smiled gently at his words, turning over onto my side to look at him in the dark lit room. He was on his back, arms under his head while his eyes were closed.
"I'm happy I'm on the road with you guys too, I missed you two" His head turned to look at me now
"I missed you too" I smiled
"Can I sleep now? I have to drive you three around tomorrow" He chuckled and nodded
"Night Abby"
"Night Ro" I whispered, snuggling into the warm blankets and sheets deeper before I fell asleep.