"Great match today!" Joe tapped Colby on the shoulder after the match 'Roman Reigns vs. Seth Rollins'. "Hey, bro, you okay?"
"What? Uh...I …yeah, sure" He wasn't. Colby had these weird thoughts that he couldn't shake off of his head.
"Well, you don't look fine! You're sweating and staring at… nothing, and I'm pretty sure you're not listening to me!" The taller man argued worried about his friend and former Shield mate.
"Yeah" Colby mouthed involuntarily.
"You make me want to slap you, you know!?" Joe rolled his eyes and turned around headed the shower "idiot" he mumbled.
The locker room was silent, the sound of the water was the only thing that could be heard. Silence. Silence is not the best thing ever when you're trying to ignore your own thoughts.
Finally, Colby came back to real life "Shit" he mumbled as he realized he had been in a stupid status for over ten minutes. He was putting his stuff on the locker when Jon entered the room.
"Hello, my friends! Who's coming for a beer?" He asked faking a British accent.
"I am" Joe came out of the shower with a towel around his waist "And Colby is coming too! The champ here really needs a beer… or two!"
"Three" the smaller guy said with a smirk on his face.
"Let's go then, Nick and John are waiting outside! You guys ready?"
"Oh yeah!" Oh no Colby thought, alcohol would make him speak his mind… and the truth was, if he did say what he had been thinking about for the past weeks, he would probably lose a friend, his best friend. Why, you ask? Because he had been feeling kind of strange when Joe was around. He had been feeling this way for a long time, but the whole Shield break-up made him think he just missed him. Weeks ago, that feeling was much stronger and that day, after the match, Colby realized that he couldn't see Joe as a friend or a brother anymore. But Joe couldn't find out, Colby didn't want to lose him. He rather have him as a friend than not having him at all.
The three men left to meet the others. They all went to a bar near and ordered some beers
"So, now that you have a beer in your hand, can you tell us what's wrong with you!?"
"Nothing" he lied
"Come on! We are worried" Joe said honestly
"None of your business!"
"Who is she!?" Jon was teasing him and the other guys were helping.
A few beers later and a lot of shots, Colby finally gave up and started to yell at everyone
"Hey, calm down, buddy!" although drunk, Joe tried to keep Colby calm but he pushed him twice
Buddy that word really got to him. Colby took a sip from his beer and gave the bottle to Jon, and started walking towards Joe. He was stumbling, John and Nick tried to stop him, but they couldn't. "You just don't get it, do you!?"
The three guys were looking at each other thinking the same: Colby is freaking wasted
"You're right, I don't! Make me understand" Joe said with concern in his voice. The two toned man remained silent. "Fuck you, Lopez" he roared… And the fight was on…
The next day Colby woke up on a couch that wasn't his. He tried to move but he couldn't, something was blocking his legs. They were… legs… Joe's legs. What the hell happened last night?
"Morning sunshine" Jon shouted while opening up the curtains and let the sunlight in "Breakfast's ready!"
"Shh…!" Colby begged
"Go away" Joe demanded "and turn the lights off"
"No! Who had the brilliant idea to get drunk on a Monday night!? Seriously, how old are you? 17? So… get your asses up, go take a shower and go to work!"
"Okay, dad" Joe said
"Jeez, he's freaking crazy" Colby whispered to the blue eyed man sitting next to him.
"I heard that!" Jon shouted from the kitchen
Colby went upstairs to the bathroom, closed the door, looked at the mirror and…
"OH SHIT!" He screamed "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS!?"
The two men ran to see if the third one was okay "What's wrong?" They asked simultaneously. When Jonathan realized what he was talking about he started laughing out loud.
"What are you laughing at? What the hell happened?" Colby was looking at his new black eye
"Joe, have you notice the cut on your lower lip?" Jon asked still laughing "You guys had a fight! You punched Joe and he punched you back – that's why the black eye – and then you bit him in the neck…"
Joe pushed Colby and looked at the mirror "My neck" there was a really red spot on his neck and it hurt as he touched it "You bit me!"
"What did I do to you, Joe? Why did you start that fight?" Colby was looking at his black eye again
"Actually, you started it" Jon said
"What!?" Both men asked looking at each other
"Yeah, Colby, you said something about him… and well, it was disturbing and SO FUNNY!"
"Shut up! My head is about to explode" Colby covered his ears.
"OH I'M SORRY, HANGOVER? Well, suck it up and grow up" Jon shot "Both of you!"
"Yeah, 'cause that's mature!" Colby chuckled
"Remember me not to get in a fight with you again, okay?"
That day, Colby couldn't stop thinking about that fight, mostly because of his dark eye but also because of the reason he started it. He remembered random parts of the night before, but not all of it and that scared him because he didn't know what he'd said while drunk. He wasn't worried about Joe knowing anything (because the long haired man was as drunk as he was) but about the others.
"People do crazy things when they're in love."
-Meg, Hercules