So I've been feeling so inspired to write that I just had to post this new story I've been working on! If you've been following my other story Self Made you'll know that at the moment I'm racing through updates, so hopefully this new story should progress just as quickly. This one is going to be very different to Self Made, and will feature an ensemble cast of WWE Superstars and Divas; although mostly focused around Eve Torres, Maria Kanellis, Kelly Kelly, Kaitlyn and Alicia Fox. Other Divas and Superstars will make appearance and play major roles in the story so if you'd like to request one of your favourites to be involved, I'm very open to suggestions. If this first chapter gets some good feedback I'll keep it going, so please read, review, follow, favourite! Reader support means everything and I'd like to get as much response to Results May Vary as possible. This first chapter is a bit of a flashback/introduction, so the rest of the story will feel a little different. Hopefully I'll get some action going in the next few chapters. So... enjoy the ride!
1. Girlfriends
GOODBYE AND GOOD LUCK SENIOR CLASS OF 2010
"Can you believe we're graduating?"
Maria Kanellis threw herself onto her best friend's bed with a dramatic sigh. Eve Torres, who was sat at her vanity table curling her hair rolled her eyes in response.
"Maria, as I recall from the first day of freshman year of high school, you said, and I quote, 'four more years and we can finally get out of this dump.'"
Maria grinned sheepishly.
"What can I say? These past few years have been a lot better than I expected them to be."
Eve nodded in agreement and looked back at the mirror with a dreamy smile.
"Yeah. I guess they haven't been that bad, have they? But college is going to be even better. Goodbye Connecticut-"
"And hello California!"
With a grin, Maria grabbed her laptop and hit play on Tupac's 'California Love'. The two girls squealed in excitement, jumping up from their seats to dance around Eve's room and sing along as the chorus kicked in.
"Oh come on guys! How many more times am I gonna have to hear this song this summer?"
The two dancing girls stopped and turned, beaming as their friend Kelly Blank stood in the doorway with her hands on her hips and an equally large smile on her face.
"Oh Kells," Maria said dreamily, grabbing her hands and swinging her around the room with her. "We graduate in T-minus 24 hours. One more day and our lives begin for real!"
Kelly shook her head and giggled, kicking off her shoes and climbing onto Eve's bed. Maria went over to join her, placing her head on the blonde's shoulder.
"Don't say that!" Eve rolled her chair away from her desk so that she could sit facing her two friends. "God, that sounds terrifying."
"Tell me about it," Kelly mumbled. "High school's felt real enough. And besides, you guys are all happy because you're heading off to California together; meanwhile I'll be across the country on my stony lonesome."
"We won't exactly be together, Kelly," Eve said. "I'm going to college in SoCal, Maria's going to be in LA. We're all going to have to brave it alone."
"Yeah," Maria chimed in. "And even though we'll probably be raving about Cali all summer long, you're going to Florida, Kells! That's been your dream since middle school. All three of us will be up to our ears in hot beach babe guys and surfer dudes."
"I know," Kelly said with a giggle. "It'll just be weird, I guess. And then Alicia's in Florida, and Kaitlyn's in Chicago... I can't believe we're literally going to be spread out across the entire country!"
Eve and Maria nodded and sighed in response. The sombre mood was quickly interrupted by the arrival of the two women in question.
"Hey guys!" Alicia Fox beamed, then frowned looking around at the faces of her friends. "Oh God, Kells, have you already got started on your daily 'I can't believe it's all over!' speech?"
"Come on guys," Kaitlyn Bonin added. "You're acting like it's the end of the world."
Alicia stepped out of her pumps and joined Kelly and Maria on the bed while Kaitlyn took residence on the floor by Eve's chair.
"Look at us," Kaitlyn continued. "We've been the tightest motherfuckers since junior high. We are literally sickening. Like, it's gross how much we love each other. I mean, I've definitely lost count of how many times we've seen Maria's boobs over the years."
Maria poked her tongue out at her and threw a cushion in her direction as the other girls laughed.
"It's true though," Alicia piped up. "We've made it through junior high; we've made it through high school... so what if we're going to be apart at college? We'll see each other every time we come back home during the vacations, we'll constantly be skyping and all that stuff. It's like... it's like that summer a couple of years ago when all five of us went off to different places with our families and when we got back, we shared all the new things we've learned – and bought – and talk about the cute boys we met and do all that Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants kind of stuff."
"Yeah," Eve nodded, grinning as Alicia spoke. "That's what college is going to be like for us. Just without the magical jeans. Think of how much stuff we're going to learn and see and all that; think of how lucky we are to practically get to witness five different college experiences!"
All the girls nodded in agreement and began chattering in excitement.
"You know," Kelly said, looking around at her friends. "We should totally keep up that tradition we have of spending at least one holiday together every year. Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year's, the Fourth of July..."
"Ryan Gosling's latest movie premiere..." Maria added.
"Matt Hardy's latest epic breakup with whatever clone of Amy he's dating that year..." Alicia continued.
All five girls burst into laughter at the new game they had just created and spent several more minutes coming up with new holidays to celebrate. After some time, Eve clutched her side and begged for them to stop.
"You guys are too much," she said between breaths.
"Kelly's right though," Kaitlyn said with a shrug. "We're joking about it, but think about how much fun we had that year we spent Christmas with your grandparents in Florida, 'Leesh. And when we went camping on the Fourth of July the year before. It makes sense to keep doing it, no matter where these next few years take us."
Eve nodded. "I know we're going to go off and make new friends at college and have our own lives to live-"
"For once," Kaitlyn joked, making the girls giggle again.
"But-" Eve continued. "That doesn't mean we can't still be like this when we do get back together. It just makes it all the more special, I guess."
"So it's agreed," Maria said, looking around at her four best friends. "No matter what happens, every year, college and beyond, we'll pick a holiday and get together just like old times."
The rest of the girls murmured in agreement.
"Just think," Kelly said quietly. "Four years down the line, once we've graduated, we could be back here in Eve's room like always, but college graduates. We'll have it all together. The jobs of our dreams, gorgeous city apartments, our future husbands, we'll all look fantastic, obviously..."
"Hear hear!" Maria shouted out. "I can't wait, guys. Adulthood beckons!"
"I can't wait 'till the day I never have to see Dolph Ziggler's stupid peroxide hair again," Kelly mumbled.
Alicia patted her arm sympathetically. Dolph Ziggler, the drop dead gorgeous star athlete of Springfort High and one of the most popular guys at school, had managed to woo the notoriously shy Kelly Blank after months of trying. The couple were together for almost two years – a relationship which had ended abruptly just before Christmas of senior year when it was revealed that he had been cheating on her for months with the classically hot, charismatic and popular cheerleader Nikki Bella. Kelly was devastated but her friends, as always, were on hand with endless supplies of ice cream and RomComs to get her through the break-up.
"Don't worry Kells," Maria said with a sigh. "At least your love life so far has been marginally better than mine."
As Maria had suggested, Kelly wasn't the only one of the bunch who had been unlucky in love throughout high school. Maria went off into a dream-like trance as her friends rolled their eyes and sniggered. It didn't take much guessing to figure out what was on her mind.
Throughout high school, Maria had harboured a huge crush on well-known misfit Phil 'call me Punk' Brooks. Her friends had spent years trying to get Maria to do as much as speak to the clueless object of her affection, but she would panic whenever the opportunity arose. The ice cream and cheesy movies were whipped out once again when Punk had started dating Matt Hardy's ex-girlfriend Amy Dumas. Maria hated to admit how much she liked Amy as a person, with her carefree demeanour, Punk Rock attitude and constant friendliness. But as her friends would constantly remind her, Amy wasn't the one who stopped Maria from making a move on Punk when he was available.
"Well as long as we're on this depressing subject," Eve said, snapping Maria out of her daydream. "I've got one word for you..."
"AWESOME!" All five women shouted, before collapsing into a fit of giggles.
"I can't believe you dated that asshole," Kaitlyn choked, wiping away a non-existent tear.
"I can't either," Eve muttered through gritted teeth.
The ex in question was Mike 'The Miz' Mizanin. Mike was quite possibly the most obnoxious guy on the planet. With his constantly perfectly gelled and spiked hair, non-stop arrogant grin and totally unnecessary catchphrase ("What kind of asshole even has a catchphrase in real life?!" Kaitlyn had ranted during Eve's tearful post-breakup bitching session with the girls), Eve had no idea what she had ever seen in the guy. Back in junior year, she had considered his arrogance to be an attractive sort of confidence, but had quickly reconsidered this after overhearing him recount the story to his boys of how she had lost her virginity to him the night of Prom.
"Such an asshole," Alicia concurred with a scowl. She hated the guy's guts, and had been sure to give him the telling off of his life after finding out what he had done to her best friend.
"But that's in the past now," Eve shuddered.
All eyes now turned to Kaitlyn, who blushed and looked down at the floor when she realized it was now her turn to reminisce on her love life.
"I wonder if Derrick Bateman's managed to get over you breaking his heart yet," Maria teased.
"Come on!" Kaitlyn protested. "Me and Derrick were better friends than we were boyfriend and girlfriend. Let's just say it was... a failed experiment."
She sighed.
"I guess it just never really happened for me at high school. I mean, think of all the guys I went on dates with or sort of hooked up with, and it never came to anything. It's pretty depressing that Derrick was the best I could do."
"Hey, that's not true!" Kelly chimed in. "You and Johnny Curtis were totally the It couple for a while there..."
Kaitlyn cringed and buried her face in her hands as her friends burst into another fit of laughter. It was the horrifying – at least, it was in Kaitlyn's eyes – story of her on-off romance with aptly nicknamed 'Dirty Curty'. She had fallen for his charm and good looks back in sophomore year, and they had eventually undertaken a no strings attached sexual relationship. This followed her brief relationship with Derrick Bateman and was the running joke among her friends from the day it began to... well, the joke never really ended. Fair enough, Johnny was a very good looking man and a very good lover – as much as Kaitlyn hated to admit it – and the affair continued until she had walked in on him getting it on with notorious mean girl Maxine Perez and she found herself dry-heaving at the thought of ever being intimate with him again. Safe to say, her standards increased dramatically from then on.
The girls sat around Eve's room shaking their heads as they came down from their hysterics.
"God, I can't believe how crappy we all are at love," Maria sighed. "Alicia, you need to teach us your ways, girl!"
Alicia shrugged with a satisfied smile as her friends' eyes fell on her. Alicia was the serial monogamist of the group, with the running joke being that as long as they had known her, she had never gone more than three months without a boyfriend. Never had her relationships ended badly, either. No cheating scandals, no creeps, no assholes. Alicia's back catalogue of men was filled with guys who were handsome, polite and doting boyfriends; but in her words, while star football player Jack Swagger, cute and loveable Kofi Kingston and even Randy Orton, one of the most gorgeous and sought-after guys at school served as 'Mr Right Now' across Alicia's four years at high school, after each relationship would come to an end she would return to her girlfriends with a sigh, claiming that none really seemed to be the true 'Mr Right'. Nobody had worked out what exactly Alicia's criteria for 'Mr Right' was, and her four best friends were sure that she hadn't either. But now that she was once again newly single after dumping Randy Orton a week earlier ("He's going to school in Missouri; I'm heading off to Florida... it's clear that we're chasing different things in life."), the girls would joke that she would probably find her next man within her first week at college.
"I'm not that lucky, guys," she whined. "Okay, so I've had great, long-term relationships with some of the hottest and sweetest guys at school..."
The other four women glared.
"But none of them have been the one, you know? They were great as Mr Right Now-"
"But not as Mr Right," the other four chimed in unison. Alicia giggled with a shrug.
"See, you guys totally get what I mean."
Eve sighed, crossing her legs underneath her.
"This is ridiculous. I can't believe we're sat here pouting about all of our failed high school relationships. What does it even matter?"
"Eve's right," Maria nodded. "Everyone says that college is where it all happens, finding your soulmate."
Maria, Alicia and Kelly smiled dreamily while Eve and Kaitlyn exchanged a roll of the eyes.
"Let's put it this way," Kaitlyn said. "If by the time we've all finished college a few years from now not even Alicia has found the man she's going to marry, I guess we can agree we're all screwed."
Alicia shook her head at Kaitlyn while the others laughed.
"Come on guys," Eve said. "We're totally not screwed. So can we put this to bed like Kaitlyn did Johnny-"
The room erupted as Kaitlyn groaned.
"And get some popcorn and a Ryan Gosling movie on or something? Graduation's in the morning and David Otunga's party is tomorrow night, and then we're done with high school forever and the real thing begins. I think that's a cause for celebration."
Maria, Kelly, Alicia and Kaitlyn cheered in agreement and the girls jumped up and started rushing downstairs; ready to enjoy their final night as high schoolers.