Joe (Roman Reigns) and Trinity (Naomi) were sitting in Jane Geddes's office. Jane was the VP of Talent Relations and being called to her office was rarely a good thing. The pair of wrestlers sat in their seats uncomfortable and avoiding eye contact with one another.
"Joe, you know we're giving you a push, right?" Jane began.
"Yes ma'am and I'm very thankful for that." Joe carefully replied.
"And Trinity, we see how much skill you have and we want to leverage our best female wrestlers and give them more screen time."
"Oh wow thanks Jane." Trinity was grateful.
"So creative has decided to put you two in a storyline together."
"Will I be his valet?"
"Yes and you'll also be his love interest."
Joe and Trinity left Jane's office in a daze.
"We should probably talk about this, Joe."
"I know just give me a minute, Trin." Joe rubbed the bridge of his nose and sighed.
"This really sucks," Trinity remarked.
"I know babe, I know." Joe pulled Trinity in for a hug and gently kissed her lips. "We'll figure it out."
"I know, but do you think someone knows? About us?"
"Us? I doubt it. You heard what Jane said. We're both getting the pushes we deserve and this will give us more screen time. It's a coincidence don't be paranoid babe."
"I'll keep telling myself that. I just don't have a good feeling about all this." Joe grabbed Trinity's shoulders.
"You're gonna be fine, we're gonna be fine, it's gonna be fine. You and me, okay?"
"You and me." They both heard a door open and slam shut around a corner. They gave each other a quick peck on the lips and rushed to their respective dressing rooms. Joe turned the corner and bumped into his cousin Jon (Jimmy Uso).
"Hey man, what up?" Jon asked. Joe and Jon gave each other dap.
"I'm all right I had to see Jane though."
"You too? Shit, you in trouble now." Jon laughed.
"Always." Joe chuckled.
"Anyway you seen Trin?"
"Uh, no man. Sorry."
"It's fine, I'll just check the dressing room. Good luck tonight. It's your match with Punk, right?"
"Yup."
"Oh you got this." The two pounded their fists and Jon went to find Trinity who was in the dressing room. Jon opened the door to the room, put his hands over his eyes and yelled, "Yo anyone naked or can I come in real quick!"
"Come in Jon!" Trinity laughed.
"There's my baby." Jon kissed her on the cheek. "So how'd the meeting go?"
"I'm getting a push," Trinity smiled.
"That's great. I know you were worried."
"Yeah they proposed another love storyline though."
"Damn."
"Jon we talked about this," Trinity said sternly.
"I know but-"
"But nothing Jon. I deserve this push and if they're giving it to me in the form of a love story then that's what I'll go with."
"I know. So who's it with?"
"Roman Reigns." Jon started laughing and Trinity gave him a look.
"Oh man that's great. I have nothing to worry about then." Jon got up and gave Trinity a kiss. "I'm proud of you babe."
"T-thank you," Trinity stuttered. She was quickly becoming overwhelmed by the situation. Jon left the dressing room and Trinity looked at herself in the mirror. Who the hell was this looking back at her?
She picked up her phone to text Joe.
Trinity: "We need to talk after our matches." A few minutes later he replied.
Joe: "Ok. Wanna talk at the hotel?"
Trinity: "No, somewhere else."
Joe: "There's a bar not too far from the hotel. I'll drive."
Trinity: "Ok"
She put her phone down and tried to concentrate on her match and doing the best she could. If her head was anywhere other than the ring, she could injure herself or her opponent and she did not want that. "You deserve this," she told herself, "And tonight you're going to end this before anyone gets hurt." She looked at herself in the mirror one last time and proceeded to put on her gear for her match.
Trinity and Ariane were watching Jon's match and hanging out in the catering area before theirs.
"Joe told me you guys were doing a love story together," Ariane said out of the blue.
"Oh, yeah. We are. I didn't know you guys talked." Trinity took a sip from her water.
"Yeah that's kind of what I wanna talk to you about." Ariane started. "I've been seeing Joe for almost two months." Trinity almost spit out her water.
"What?"
"Yup I have. I didn't wanna say anything because I didn't wanna jinx it, but it's getting pretty serious."
"So all that time I thought you were hanging with Vinny-"
"I was with Joe. We wanna keep it on the DL for a while, you know he just divorced his wife and we have his daughter to think about." Trinity rested her hand on the table to steady herself. Ariane had to be lying. She was with Joe, kind of. How could Ariane be with him too? How could he cheat on her? Ariane, oblivious to Trinity's mood change, kept gushing about her latest beau. "We're talking about moving in together because we're long distance. I'm in LA and he's in Tampa and since everyone else is in Tampa too I might as well just move to Florida. Wouldn't that be great girl, the Funkadactyls in Florida 24/7!"
"Yeah. Great. Excuse me I gotta go to the bathroom." Trinity ran out of the catering area as fast as possible. She needed time to herself. At least five minutes she needed to process everything Ariane just told her.
Joe was cheating on her with Ariane.
Ariane had been keeping this secret from her for close to two months.
And she was cheating on Jon with Joe.
Fuck!
She swore out loud and Justin Gabriel and Heath Slater who were nearby gave her a look. Sheepishly she laughed it off. "Sorry guys, rough day."
"Tell me about it," replied Heath.
"Good luck tonight guys!" Trinity kept walking to the personal bathroom.
"Thanks you too!" Justin yelled back. Luckily for Trinity, she was one of the few divas the male roster respected. She had a great work ethic and her technique and showmanship was getting better as the weeks progressed. Finally, she reached the private bathroom, knocked and went in since it was open. She locked it quickly behind her and rested her back on the door and slid down to the floor crying.
The weight of guilt, anger, and sheer disappointment left her body little by little through each tear she shed. "This is it," she said to herself, "It's done." Once she stopped crying she got herself off the floor, wiped her tears, splashed water on her face and left. Her eyes were slightly puffy and red though, but she figured her match was in 20 minutes so she would look normal by then.
She walked back to catering. And saw Joe's large figure out the corner of her eye, but avoided eye contact. She'd deal with him later. When she entered the area Ariane looked up at her.
"You okay hon?" she asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I got allergies but forgot to take my meds. I'm good now though."
"Good, okay so let me finish telling you about Joe!"
"Can't wait." The sarcasm was lost on Ariane as she gushed all about her love for The Enforcer.
Soon it was time for their match and girls grabbed their pom poms. It was show time. Trinity needed the fans behind her push for it to work so it was all or nothing in this match.