I was in my house when something on TV caught my eye. My high school best friend finally made it to WWE. Who's my high school best friend? Well, you all might know as Wade Barrett but I knew him as Stuart Alexander Bennett.
We've met on my first day there. I was new, my parents just moved out from London and he was the only one who made me feel welcomed. Later that week I've found out that we both lived on the same street and since then we became inseparable till our last year of high school. Now he's a WWE Superstar and I'm a journalist for OK Magazine in London, I guess we both realized our dreams.
Now back to reality, tomorrow I have an interview at the O2 Arena with NVS and I'm trying to get my facts straight but Stu keeps pooping in my head.
'-Gee Leigh, get over it.' I say to myself while turning on my laptop.
After a couple of hours I managed to write down some decent questions for the band (NVS). I signed on Twitter and looked up at my mentions; there were a bunch of fans that tweeted me their questions for the band. After choosing the most interesting I tweeted: 'Tomorrow between 5-6 pm I'll be at the O2 interviewing NVS. Can't wait to see them again.' and I sighted off. The high school period pooped back in my head so I went to my photo albums. After taking a good look I realized how much I've changed. I used to have light brown hair but now it's dyed dark, used to wear glasses but I got rid of these a long time ago and I can count at least 5 other changes but there's no point. My house phone starts ringing and wakes me up from my day dreaming.
'-Hello.' I say a bit grumpy.
'-Hi Leigh. I was wondering if you can do me a favor?' my boss Joanne asked.
'-Sure, what do you need?'
'-Can you do an interview tonight? I can't send anyone else because they're on the field and you're they only one who's not.'
' and who am I interviewing?'
'-At Hilton, around 7 and you are interviewing 6 WWE Superstars.' she says and my heart skips a beat.
'-Give me their names so I can have an idea.' I manage to say.
'-I don't know their real names so I'll give you their on-screen names.'
'-No problems.'
'-John Cena, Randy Orton, Edge, Sheamus, Justin Gabriel and Wade Barrett.' I was about to faint when I heard the last name.
'-Can you write it down by tomorrow?' she adds.
'-I'll try.'
'-Do your best and we'll talk soon.' she said.
'-Will do boss.' I said and hanged up.
Bollocks. I'm in deep shit. The last thing I need is a high school reunion. Since I have less than 6 hours I decided to look up on the Internet for their backgrounds.
***4 hours and 30 minutes later***
I went to my Twitter account and tweeted: ''Apparently tonight I'm doing an interview with John Cena, Randy Orton, Edge, Justin Gabriel, Sheamus and Wade Barrett. Any questions?''
Soon my timeline was invaded by questions from the fans. One tweet caught my eye. It was from Stu/Wade. 'Please be gentle with us=)'. I replied: 'It's clearly that you don't live here. I have a reputation of asking the most uncomfortable questions. Y'er gonna need luck.'
I wrote down a few questions before seeing that Stu answered to my tweet: 'I goggled you and I have to say that I'm impressed. You remind me of someone.'
Gosh this went too far. Luckily I've changed my name and I look a lot different. I don't wanna go through what I went again. I was in love with Stu but never told him. I got over him really hard but his behavior helped me come to my senses if I can say so.
I signed off without replying and went to my wardrobe to choose something to wear tonight. I took out a white shirt by D & G, a black skirt from Versace and some beige peep toe shoes from Christian Louboutin My outfit was screaming ''Business meeting.'' Lol, I know. I decided to go with my car instead of taking a cab. I drive a Porsche 911, that car is my pride and joy. I have another car but I don't use it very often. I had 20 minutes to go to the Hilton; thank God that traffic wasn't that intense. 15 minutes later I arrived sound and safe and went straight to conference room. Luckily I was the first to arrive there. I hope they're not star struck, took a sit and reviewed my questions. 2 minutes later the door swigged open and 2 of them entered the room. I recognized them pretty fast. It was John Cena and Randy Orton.
'-Leigh Filan?' John asked.
'-Yes. I assume that you are John Cena and Randy Orton, am I right?'
'-Yes m'am.' John says.
'-Please call me Leigh. M'am was my mom and I'm not that old.' I said laughing.
'-Ok Leigh. Are we gonna wait for the others to come or start without them?' Randy asked.
'-Let's give them another 5.' I respond smiling.
'-In the meanwhile tell me something about you.' I added.
'-We're both current WWE champs.' John says proudly and Randy nods.
'-Both married.' Randy says smiling.
'-Yeah but you have a kid so you bet me at this.' John says laughing.
The chemistry between the 2 of them is so touchable. Thank God that they are so easy going.
'-We're both faces.' Randy says.
'-That means you're the good guys, right? I ask.
'-Yeah. The other 4 are the bad guys.' John says.
'-Not really. Edge is somewhere in between.' Randy explains laughing.
'-That's true man.' John says. Before we could say something else the door opens again and the other 4 walk in.
'-Sorry for being late. We got lost.' Edge excuses.
'-Not a problem. Please have a sit so we can make this fast. I'm pretty sure that you don't like being questioned by me. I know I wouldn't.' I say chuckling and they laugh.
***An hour and 45 minutes***
I was closing my laptop when Stu says:
'-I was right, you do look like someone I used to know.'
'-That's life Mr. Bennett.' I respond.
'-Probably.' he says scratching the back of his head.
'-Before sending this to my boss, I'll send you the interview to give it a read and tell me if it's ok.'
'-Sure. It was a pleasure to do this interview.' John says smiling
'-The pleasure was all mine, good luck with the show. The crowd from London is pretty hard to please.' I respond.
'-Have you ever watched a wrestling show?' Sheamus asked.
'-Yeah but a long time ago.'
'-Then why don't you come to tomorrow's show.' Justin asks smiling
Gosh he's so cute I thought.
'-Let's see if I'm free.' I said opening my notebook.
'-So are you gonna come?' Wade asks.
'-I have an interview from 5 to 6 but I'm pretty sure that we'll finish around 6:30 but after that I'm free.'
'-Cool. The show starts at 8:30.' John says handing me a backstage pass.
'-Thanks. I'll bring the interview too.'
'-Sounds good.' Edge said.
'-In this case till tomorrow.' I said leaving the conference room.
Boy that was close. Why did I accept to go to the show tomorrow? Probably because I wanna see Stu again. Thank God he didn't recognized me that would've complicated things for me at least. I took my car and headed home. After taking a cold shower and then started to work at the interview. Around 2 am the interview was done and I was really proud of it. I just hope they will like it too. I signed on Twitter and checked my mentions. There was one from John, one from Randy and one from Justin and none from Stu.
They were saying that they had a blast doing the interview, I replied thanking them for their time and kind words. Right when I was about to sign off I saw a tweet from Stu:'You should be sleeping. Stop working you crazy girl.' 'Lol, I know but I have Insomnia. Same goes for you Mr.' my reply was.
A couple of seconds later he replies: 'Same here. Are you still coming to the show or you got scared?'
I reply: '=)=) Me? Scared? That's the funnies thing I've heard lately.'
'I have the reputation of being a funny man.' he says.
I was about to reply:' I know' but I realized that it would've been a huge mistake. Instead I wrote: 'That's good. My bed is calling me so good night. .'Good night doll.' was his reply.
He used to call me doll when we were in high school. He used that word when he talked with me and apparently now he probably calls ''doll'' every girl he meets.
***Next morning***
I've woke up around noon. After taking a shower and having a late breakfast I signed on Twitter and tweeted: 'Finished editing my interview with the WWE Superstars. Pretty happy with the way it turned in. I'll probably go to tonight's show.' Checked my mentions and saw one from John:' Yo girl, how do you feel doing an interview with the divas?
'It would be great.' I reply knowing that Joanne will be over the moon.
'In this case will talk more after tonight's show. C U there.' he replied
'Ok mate.' was my answer.
Switched off my laptop and started to get ready for my interview with NVS. I've meet them on my first year of University, back when they weren't famous yet. They were just starting in the music business and I've supported them since. It will be a good laugh to do this interview.
*** 7:30 pm***
The interview went really well, not that I would've expected any other way. Now I'm getting ready to go to the show. Fingers crossed. I've decided to wear something more appropriate for a wrestling show so I took from my wardrobe a pair of baggy jeans, a red t-shirt and a pair of Converse. I look like one of John's fans.=).
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