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Ten minutes left.
She waited backstage, feeling the adrenaline coursing through her veins. Although she'd been with the company for two years now, she just couldn't get used to going out there. The fans were always cat calling or booing, and sometimes cheering. She had experienced her fair share of these reactions considering she once portrayed a sweet baby-face, but had since turned heel. For now, she'd have to endure their calls and boos. Though in reality she'd always preferred the 'mean bitch' persona over the sweet and innocent role. The divas on Smackdown were natural born faces. Now that Lisa (known as Victoria) had retired and Natalya is staying on the ECW-roster in order to establish the "New Hart Foundation" and with Maryse out on injury suffering a broken collar bone, she was the last remaining heel and outsider. She tried hard to get along with the other Divas but they were often shallow and superficial. 'Why don't you go to RAW and let us be the pretty Divas of the WWE?' they said to her once. By pretty they meant thin, slutty and well, dumb.
That wasn't her. She was a Diva with muscles and a figure. She wasn't one of the sticks you could easily break. However, she was not as muscular as Chyna or Beth Phoenix.
"Sunshine, where are you?" a voice ripped her out of her thoughts. She looked up and saw the grinning face of Matt Hardy. 'Sunshine' was her nickname around the locker room. She'd gotten it the first few days when she started working with the WWE. The other Superstars and Divas didn't really know her name and because she laughed so much she was nicknamed 'Sunshine'.
"Drowned in day dreams." she answered, returning Matt's smile.
"We have to go; I'm itching to get my hands on Jeff. Can you imagine, he put mustard in my bag?" Matt said incredulously while they were walking to the entrance area.
"Will the two of you ever grow up?" she questioned jokingly.
"Nope." He smiled, and together they went out to carry out their match.
As of late, she'd been teamed with Matt. During this time, they'd become good friends. The friendly and open attitude they both shared made it very easy to click. She often went out with Matt and Jeff after the shows, just to hang and have a good time. Today they had a mixed tag team match verses Jeff and Maria. It was pretty nice because she was given a chance to step into the ring with Jeff for a few moments. And truth be told, this was actually way better than wrestling Maria. She really tried, but Maria wasn't a true wrestler - she was more a performer. When she went out with Matt, they always received heat from the fans. Especially going against the fan-favorites like Jeff and Maria.
It was one of the days she and Matt were slotted to lose. But at least it was a good show and the officials knew that - so not everything was bad. Actually, her job as a whole was really good… except for those diva problems. She got along with most of the people on the roster; and there was even one special person that she had a small crush on. Unfortunately she never dared to talk to him. She was way too shy and afraid of being rejected. Besides, he never even noticed her. How could he? He was on RAW and she on Smackdown. But, she watched every episode of Monday Night RAW, and during the Pay-Per-Views she always watched his matches… in secret though. If Matt and Jeff ever found out who it was that she was crushing on, it would cause trouble. And she didn't want that.
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