"Smile, AJ."
"I don't have anything to smile about. I don't want them to break us up. I love working with you."
"I do too, sweetheart but sadly we don't make those decisions. Anyway, it's not like you'll never see me again. We'll see each other all the time."
"But we work so well together and they're breaking us up so soon. Other tag teams get to work together for ages, why not us?" AJ pouted at her friend across the table.
"Because they have other ideas for us. You're Diva's champion now and I'm starting this new storyline soon."
Mia sat at the table with AJ, Kaitlyn, Zack, Mike and Dolph; the close friends she had made since moving up to the main roster after Wrestlemania. She couldn't believe it had been already been a year since she had signed her WWE contract; time just seemed to have flown by.
She was glad she had decided to sign the WWE contract, moving from Ring of Honour to WWE, though not everyone was pleased that she had accepted the offer. Some of her former friends at Ring of Honour felt she was a traitor, though it was more a case of them being jealous that she was achieving her dreams and progressing whilst they had become stagnant in their careers. Her Ex hadn't been happy with her decision either. Though the discovering that he'd been having an affair with Rachel, her friend at Ring of Honour, the decision to leave and get as far away as possible from them had been easy.
She quickly made friends upon her arrival into the WWE world. The first friend she made being Zack who, at the time, had been down at the NXT training facility in Florida for a few days and had shown her around. Her time at NXT had been relatively short, only spending nine months down there before being moved up to the main roster. The higher ups saw her talent and potential and had plans for her already.
Moving up to the main roster the next person she became close with had been the overly hyper AJ, who had actually skipped into the twenty seven year olds life. They had hit it off immediately, both having similar styles and interests. However, there had also been those there who had made it obvious upon her arrival that they were not happy with, what they deemed, her quick rise in the WWE. Many chose to ignore all the years she had worked independent circuits, instead focusing on how she had only spent nine months at NXT and how she quickly made her debut on raw. She sat here now remembering how a few weeks after joining the main roster on the road, she'd become friends with AJ after being called into a meeting with AJ where they were informed they were being put into a storyline together and would become a tag team.
She was happy here; she was doing what she loved, what she'd dreamed about doing since she was seven years old. She'd made some really good friends, not just with most of the other diva's but also with a lot of the superstars, a couple she briefly knew from working the independent circuit.
The WWE universe had also taken well to her and loved the tag team of her and AJ, also known as the High-Flyers. The name came partly from there ambition to be more than a couple of pretty women to look at, they had exceptional talent and the fans knew this; the other part of their name came from their fast paced, high-flying in ring style. They fit so well together as a team, both wearing converse out to the ring. The rest of Mia's ring gear consisted of army green shorts and three quarter length tops.
Her first storyline saw her running out to the ring to help AJ who was being attacked by Layla and Kaitlyn. During her time at NXT when she was feuding with Emma, who in the storyline briefly teamed up with Layla who was returning from a thigh injury, there had been a couple of matches which saw Mia team up with Paige against the two. For her debut onto the main roster creative had decided to continue the feud between her and Layla, thus her reason for running to help AJ. This quickly culminated in AJ and Mia forming an alliance and facing Layla and Kaitlyn several times, as well as others, dominating the WWE.
However, AJ and Mia had been made aware recently that their time as tag partners was coming to an end. A stipulation in a match against the Funkadactals stated that whichever team lost would be forced to break up. Mia and AJ were sad to hear that they were booked to lose but exited for the new storylines that both were being put in. Mia was being put in a storyline Brad Maddox and Dolph Ziggler, whilst AJ was going to continue with her title run and enter a feud with those on Total Diva's.
"Hello, earth to Mia," Zack waved his hand in front of her face.
"Sorry, what was you saying Zack?"
"Do you want another drink?"
Before she had chance to answer everyone's attention was upon someone else.
"Yo, man you never told us you were going to be here tonight?" Zack was yelling across the room as he got up from his seat and started walking towards the person.
"Because unlike you, I'm capable of keeping a secret," The man Zack was talking to replied, a smile on his face.
By this point, AJ had jumped up from her seat, squealing as she ran over to hug the person.
"Punk, you're back! Got any new comics for me?" the petite diva grinned up at him.
Mia who hasn't been able to see the person through everyone else or recognised the man's voice now realised who it was everyone else seemed so happy to see again. CM Punk, the straight edge, pipe bomb wielding phenomena was back. Mia, though she knew who Punk was, had never met him in person, he'd already been at WWE for two years before she got to Ring of Honour and he'd just taken out time after Wrestlemania due to problems with his ankles.
Mia, however, remained in her seat. Unlike them she didn't know him so there was no point getting up. She was happy to stay sat down while the rest of them caught up with him. She figured that now he was back, everyone would be travelling and working together and he was good friends with the same people as her, so they were bound to get to know each other eventually.
"I missed you too Cray-J," Punk replied, smiling, one arm wrapped around the tiny diva holding her up. They'd become good friends ever since working together last year, hence the nickname, a referral to her crazy onscreen persona.
"So have I missed anything good? And no Zack I don't mean which new divas/make-up artists you've tried flirting with."
Zach held a hand to his mouth faking shock at his friends' accusations.
"Punk, it hurts me that you see me in that light. I'm capable of being friends with women." The internet sensation hit back playfully before they hugged it out.
Punk walked over to the table to sit down with the others and this was this when he first noticed the petite honey blonde haired women sitting next to Zack. Had she been there the whole time he thought to himself. He briefly recognised her from watching Raw and Smackdown whilst he had been injured; he'd tried to keep up with what his friends storylines while he'd been away.
"So you were the other half of the High-flyers," It was a statement, he said looking at her as he sat down.
"And you're the straight edge superstar," she replied looking at the tattooed wrestler sat opposite her.
Everyone at the table was watching the two, curious as to how this was going to end. They all knew that Punk was a straight talking, sarcastic type of guy, who rarely had the best first encounters with people. Not everyone understood his sense of humour either. He was no arse kisser, if he had a problem with someone, they would know. However, they also knew that the newest diva was sarcastic and witty and didn't take any crap; she spoke her mind, which had led to many confrontations with others, especially Eva Marie and Jo-Jo.
Punk looked at her, he was surprised to be honest at how she acted, she was different to a lot of the other divas, past and present. She wasn't in awe of him, she showed no sign of flirting with him outrageously and from what he remembered from briefly watching her matches on TV, though he was mostly interested in how his friend AJ was doing, she was talented.
At this point Zach spoke up, "Yeah, Punk this is Mia, my lil ass kicking broski," he said proudly pointing to Mia.
"Right guy I'm going to the gym, whose coming?" Natalya asked them all, standing up from her seat.
AJ, Mia and Dolph all said they would, leaving Punk and the rest to catch up.
The next week passed relatively quickly with the recording of Smackdown on Tuesday, media responsibilities and a few house shows. Punk quickly got into the old routine and enjoyed hanging out with his old friends again, especially his road wife Kofi and internet sensation, Zach, though he found Zach spent quite a bit of time with Mia. If you didn't know they were just good friends it would have been easy to believe they were a couple. Mia and Punk didn't have much interaction. They would hang out as part of the group but that was it and even then they barely spoke to each other.