This is a new story I just had to write after seeing the segment with these two. It will probably have more chapters, but it all depends on what happens on my TV. Anyway, enjoy this little piece and let me know what you think.
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Walking in a bee line through the backstage corridors of the arena where Raw was currently taking place that night, the WWE's Divas champion simply known as Kaitlyn pushed the inside of her teeth with the tip of her tongue as her fingers wrapped firmly around a cold bottle of Sprite Zero.
The soda was still sealed, as it was not for her to drink it and as she kept walking, she couldn't help but to shake her head in disbelief.
"This is the worst day in the history of worse days." The young woman mumbled under her breath. "I don't even remember having it worse…" She added, even though she was sure that she had made that same statement the previous week.
But this was different, this time she was really having it bad and she couldn't see how it could get worse. Not that she was going to play with scenarios of how it could get from bad to worse, after all she didn't want to jinx herself even more than she already was.
"Well at least you didn't make a fool out of yourself in front of him, again." She said to herself and despite her current situation, she snorted.
"Talking to yourself?"
Rolling her eyes when she recognized the voice, Kaitlyn halted on her heels and puffed out a breath. "And who would that be? I can hear her but I can see her?"
Swirling around, she looked both left and right and then she shrugged.
"You know it's me so don't play dumb." The other woman said bitterly and looking down to her, Kaitlyn faked being surprised.
"Well look at that, it's little AJ!" Yup, and this was her night getting a little worse.
Now, AJ was her former partner in crime and BFF, but since the chick got psycho-crazy they had a fall apart and things never got back to normal and now they had become almost enemies. Not that Kaitlyn hated her, she was just bummed up that AJ turned on her and she was dealing with that betrayal as best as she could, through sarcasm.
Batting her eyelashes in that crazy way that the petit woman had, Kaitlyn saw as her former friend smiled almost sweetly. "Yes, it's me; I was just walking around looking for my boyfriend Dolph when I saw you passing by. You know Dolph, don't you?"
At the question, the Diva's champion snorted. She just didn't know why would AJ want to provoke her. She was very aware that she had a brief thing with Dolph in the past so the question was stupid.
"Oh of course I know him, just as I'm sure that he knows me… and half the Diva's locker room according to what one hears around. How are you liking my second hands?"
AJ's expression turned darker. "Well I don't think he remembers you or anyone else for that matter so maybe one day I'll introduce you two. So how is your boyfriend? Wait, you don't have one!" Laughing out loud as if she just said the funniest joke in the world, AJ patted her shoulder. "Poor thing, I saw you trying with Cody though… too bad that he left with one of the Bellas."
Ha, way to rub salt into an open wound. "Yeah anyway, I have things to do, important things so I better get going. Hopefully I'll see you never again so bye."
With that said, she started walking again.
"I'm going to give you a free advice," AJ yelled. "Quit with the sodas as you don't really need the extra weight."
Chuckling, Kaitlyn turned around and smiled her best smile. She did it while opening the bottle and taking a sip. "Aww thanks, I'm going to send your boyfriend a free advice as well, tell him to get his rabies shot before you pass it to him."
With that said, the half blonde turned around and continued walking. As she did that, she pressed a hand to her stomach and furrowed her brows.
"I'm not fat, or am I?" No, she wasn't, and if she was then so what? Instead of looking at her AJ should worry about eating a bit more instead… as for her, she worked out and she hit the weights hard so yeah, she was muscular, which was entirely a different thing.
Shrugging, she turned into a corner and as it has happened way too many times now, she ran into Cody; the only difference from all the previous encounters was that this time she spilled some of the sprite all over him.
"Watch out." He said grabbing her elbow and in response, she cringed.
"Oh my God, I'm so, so sorry." She hurried to say as her hand automatically tried to wipe the soda off his shirt. It was in vain though and when she realized what she was doing, she drew her hands away and brought them to her face in embarrassment. "I'm sorry."
Cody blurted out something that closely resembled a laugh and waved her off. "It's nothing, I didn't really like this shirt anyway."
Kaitlyn sucked in a breath; she knew he was saying that just to humor her and she felt even worse. That has been a nice shirt and by the looks of him and the scent surrounding him she could tell that he was recently out of a shower and that he just put it on, and in that same fashion she also guessed that he was on his way to his double date with a stupid Bella twin so of course he should mind that she ruined his shirt.
"Sorry about your Sprite." He said, biting on his lips as his lips curved into the phantom of a smile.
Letting her hands fall to her sides, Kaitlyn shook her head. "Oh, no, that wasn't for me, it was for my rental car. I don't drink soda, I was told sodas makes you fat so I stop drinking them; unless they are grape sodas."
"Okay…" He said with a frown.
"Not that the car was going to drink it, it was for the battery." And Gosh, was she babbling? "I mean the car won't start because the battery died and I thought that this could help."
Biting hard on her tongue to keep herself from talking even more nonsense, Kaitlyn breathed in and fought hard against the urge of slapping her forehead. Why did she always talk too much? And why was she doing it while he was looking so perfect and smelling oh so good?
Humming, Cody took the bottle out of her hand and arched an eyebrow. "Are the terminals dirty?"
Chuckling, Kaitlyn shrugged. "I don't know. I just saw it in a movie and though it could help?"
The third generation wrestler lowered his sparkling blue eyes to hers and pouted his lips. "This will only work to clean the terminals; did you consider jumpstarting it? Maybe you left your lights turned on and that made the battery die."
"Well… I'm a woman and dumb about this stuff so no…"
He snorted and made a motion with his head; "Come on, I'll see what I can do for you." Once he said that, he started walking away and Kaitlyn bit hard on her knuckles.
"Why, why?" She whispered under her breath. The more time she spent with him the more foolish she would look and she was definitely not anticipating that. Maybe if she didn't talk and let him fix her car so he could go, her night could end in a good note.
With that in mind, she started following him and when they made it to the parking lot, she showed him to her rental car and opened the hood.
"You are leaving early." He said as he inspected the car.
"Uh?"
Looking at her, Cody arched an eyebrow and flashed her one of his dashing smiles. That right there made her breath catch in her throat. Did he even know the effects that smile had on the female population? Because if he did then he was a jerk for doing that to her on purpose.
"The show has not ended and you are already leaving."
"Oh," She said while shaking her head back to reality. "Well I have a long drive ahead. I have Smackdown tomorrow so I wanted a head start."
"I have Smackdown tomorrow too." He said, his eyes sparkling as his eyes meet with hers.
"Really? Good…"
"Yeah…" With that said, the man went back to work on her car and Kaitlyn just remained there, watching in silence.
Now Cody, one would have to be blind not to notice his good looks and because there was definitely nothing bad with her eyesight, she was noticing and in what way. Hell, in her mind he was even prettier than her and somehow, she didn't saw that as being entirely bad.
He had a perfect body, his eyes were to die for and one look at his smile was enough to make any sane woman melt in the spot. To add to those nice attributes, he smelled way too nice and then there was the mustache. She had a thing for men with a good mustache and well… she kind of developed a crush on him.
True, there was no denying that he was kind of a jerk when he was on the ring but out of it he has been nothing but nice to her.
Biting hard on her lips, Kaitlyn sighed. Yeah, he was truly perfection… too bad that whatever kind of attraction she felt for him was going to stay in that, in an attraction.
Now no, she didn't suffer from lack of self-esteem but she wasn't stupid either; men like Cody didn't look at women like her; she wasn't Barbie looking, her sense of humor was weird and hard to understand and she was kind in the dorky side. She wasn't ugly, but she wasn't the kind of women Cody would go for.
The Bellas were his kind of woman and that he was going to be in a date with them later on was the perfect proof of that.
Shrugging, Kaitlyn saw him back away from the car and then without looking at her, he spoke. "Turn it on."
Doing as he said, she sat on the driver's seat, turned on the ignition and voila, the car was brought to live.
Gasping in delight, she jumped out the car and squealed. "What did you do?"
"Magic." He said in a snort while moistening his lips with the tip of his tongue.
"No, tell me what you did!" She wanted to know, she was often traveling on her own and knowing how to fix something simple could come handy sometime down the road.
"Come here,"
She did, stepping forward until she was standing right in front of the open hood of the car. Cody was beside her, his side was even brushing her shoulder and his scent was invading all his senses.
"The terminal was loose so I just tightened it," He showed her how to do it. "It needs to be replaced though so if you want my advice, I would tell you to call to your rental company and demand another car. You shouldn't have to deal with this while traveling on your own."
Nodding, Kaitlyn stepped back and looked up to him. "I'll do that, thanks." And what did she do next? She lifted her hand in the international invitation to a high five!
Cody humored her, making her feel way too embarrassed afterwards. "So do you want your soda back?" He asked, reaching for it and handing it to her.
"No, keep it, I don't want it to be a buck wasted. After all half of it is on your shirt so you might as well drink the rest of it."
"Let's share it, sit with me." Cody said, closing the hood and sitting over it.
"Oh no," She said, waving him off as he sipped from the bottle. But she did sit by his side.
"You are not fat; I heard you talking to yourself earlier on and the answer is no." His head turned to her as he said that and she felt herself blushing.
"So… you bumped into me on purpose? And here you had me feeling bad for ruining your shirt, tsk." As she said that, she smiled at him and their eyes meet.
He smiled almost nervously; "I didn't want to bump into you, I heard you talking, I stopped and next thing I know you are giving me a Sprite shower."
Kaitlyn cringed at the memory again and when she was about to apologize for it once again, her eye caught up on his wrist. He had a thin bracelet right below his watch and on it, there was the Triforce sign of a game she knew too well.
"You have a bracelet with the Triforce?"
"Yeah," Cody said in amusement. "Do you know about the Triforce?"
"Well duh, power, wisdom and courage. I've been playing Zelda since I was a little brat in elementary school. I even had my Gameboy confiscated a couple of times by my teacher because of this game and my mom prohibited me to ever take it back to school. I didn't listen to her though and I kept taking it with me." She said that with an amused chuckle and when she looked up to Cody, his eyes were sparkling and he was smiling.
"Always the little rebel, weren't you?"
Biting on her lips and feeling the weight of his stare on her, Kaitlyn shrugged and looked up to the dark skies. If she talked, she would mess up so she decided to keep it simple. "Kind of."
Oh but even though she was not looking at him, she could feel his eyes on her and smiling, she leered at him.
"What? Do I have something in my face?" She asked while running a hand over her mouth and then over her cheeks.
"You are fine," He said, grabbing her hand away from her face and then placing it over her lap.
As soon as his hand drew away, Kaitlyn wondered if he has really wanted to ask her something earlier on or if he just threw that line at her knowing that she would find in amusing.
It was probably the later, no doubt so she just stopped thinking about it.
For a while, neither one of them said a word and just sent timid glances at each other every now and then, at least until Cody cleared his throat and slid off to the ground.
He looked at his watch and then blew out a breath. "I should keep going,"
Getting down to her feet, the NXT winner of season three bit the inside of her cheek and clapped her hands together. "Yeah, me too. Thanks for the help."
Smiling, he looked behind his back and then turned his eyes back to her. "No problem. So, I'll see you on Smackdown?"
"Sure." Overcome by a wild impulse, Kaitlyn rose to her tip toes and without a second thought, she kissed his cheek. It was a chaste contact and nothing out of the ordinary, but once she pulled away she was blushing and not wanting to face him, she hurried to get into her car and waving at him, she drove away.
Once she turned on the curb and was out of side, she put the car on parking and slightly slammed her head against the steering wheel. "Why, why is this happening to me? Of all the guys that I could like, why do I get a crush on the one who will never look at me?"
Sucking in a breath in the most dramatic way, she composed herself and straightened up.
"There, I let it out of my system so I'll buckle up and get out of here." Talking to herself once again, she put the car back in drive and drove into the night.
Now, tomorrow should be a better day and at least she has something to look forward to and no, it was not seeing Cody, it was having a match to release all her frustrations away. Yeah, tomorrow… and it didn't hurt that she was also going to see Cody so yeah, tomorrow was going to be better.
