Confessions of a Green Rookie Pt. 2

8/13/13

Ch. 1

Honor

Pulling double duty is stressful: I'm training down in NXT in Florida, traveling to keep up with the Raw and Smackdown schedules, and trying to make things run as smoothly with Randy as possible. All this is taxing me. In the perfect world of WWE the female roster is the best it can be: flourishing with talented, smart, sexy ladies. Our roster has greatly expanded it is diverse in characters. We have all these women that are their own people, everyone's busting their asses to be better than the next but at the end of the day we are a family with a common goal: to make our mark on the business.

After my feud with Miss AJ Lee, I've sort of become one to watch. I still can't believe it is my face on match cards. AJ puts me over every chance she gets, she also has become like an older sister to Avery and I. Any time either of us needs any advice she never fails to come through for us and for that I owe her a debt of gratitude. She loves teaching and only does so to those who'll listen and follow through.

The true stress is my relationship with none other than Randy Orton. We're coming up on my third anniversary in the WWE and our third anniversary as a couple. Lately with all the time apart I feel like we're gradually heading down the path to turmoil again. How do I sum it up? We are fire and water, sometimes we create steam and other times we completely deplete each other.

My birthday is tonight Feb. 25, for my present I received a caking from none other than Miss Lee and this time Alicia Fox and her returning Sister Caylee. Since it's a birthday a few people from the locker room came out to sing happy birthday to me and Corey Graves during the dark caking. Corey happened to have become a good buddy of mine, his birthday is the day before mine and he too was a recipient of caking tonight. His bud Baron Corbin got him while Foxy and AJ had to chase me. I may fret at the whole thing on the outside but I secretly enjoyed every second of it.

"Happy Birthday, Sweetheart!" I turn around and get caught in a sweaty hug by Randy, moments before the caking took place he participated in a triple threat match with Daniel Bryan and Roman Reigns to close out the Live Raw taping.

"Thank…" I stop my sentence dead in it tracks because he licks the icing off the tip of my nose, "I'm wearing makeup."

"It's not going to hurt me." He says as I wipe the towel across my face.

"Happy 24th kid." Roman stops giving me a small hug. He's pretty cool. He's a guy who's way funnier than he appears. To do the house show tours we all get divided up and I've been on a couple with him.

"Thanks Roman."

I smirk slightly as Roman goes on his separate way calling, "You crazy kids have fun tonight but not too much fun."

My cheeks heat up as Randy palms my buttum secretly.

"Go get showered," he says still licking icing off of my shoulder. All this icing is starting to stick and I can feel the flies' targets locked on me as Randy and I walk through to our separate locker rooms.

"See you here," he points to the interview booth we just passed, "in about thirty. It's going to take you that long to get dressed again."

"Unh uh. I'll just call when I'm done." I twist my mouth to the side going ahead and walking on to the locker room.

He pauses, "Forgetting something?" My eyebrows shoot up, "My kiss…"

I smile and amble back over to him and he reels me right in kissing me like his life depended on it. After quite a few moments we break apart. "Hahaha I hope I taste good."

"You always taste good. Hurry up." He says before finally walking away.

Cameron a.k.a. Ariane Andrew is bouncing around the room showing off her beautiful almost engagement ring to her close friends. Her engagement is the news of the day so it surprises me when she approaches me with a box and a bouquet of multicolored roses. "GIRL! Randy has you spoiled!"

The few Ladies in the locker room come crowd around me, as I open the card on top of the box. "I know I've been getting nifty surprises all day! I wonder what this one could be…"

The design on the front of the card is velour roses matching the bouquet of multicolored roses and hearts with bold black lettering in my name. "Guess who? …What? Is there any way I'll be able to send this back…?"

"Secret admirer? Scwheet!" Bayley bounces in front of me taking the box from my hands and shakes it. "I wonder what it is. It's kind of stuffed and heavy."

"Looks like there's another who fancies you and he's not Randy." Paige teases me in her native Eastern English accent her voice is very blunt. I just adore hers and Emma's accents, on a number of occasions I've expressed this to them.

"Wait what's in the box?!" Arianne asks peeking over my shoulder.

"Open it! You can't send it back so you might as well do it. I know you want too…" AJ chants in my direction she loves presents more than all of us it think.

"At least let me finish getting dressed first!" I'm wrapped in a giant Trollz beach towel I found in Walmart this morning. At home and on the road I only use beach towels because they're so darn big. Even at my heaviest I loved using them especially since they're softer than regular cotton towels!

"Hurry up! I don't like this suspense, it's killing me!" She rolls her eyes to the large white glittery box her fingertips are dancing around the ribbon.

So do I, the white ribbon at the top is perfectly hand tied anchoring the white glitter lid to the base of the box. I hurry to pull on some underwear under my towel then grab the first thing out of my bag. Yoga pants and a Wednesday Adams t-shirt, I don't feel like doing my hair so I just brush it back into a giant puff ball. "You are good to wear your own hair out. I also don't think I've ever seen it straight…" Naomi (Trinity McCray) stands over me running her hands through the black and purple fluff.

Turning the glitter box over in my hands as much as I can, I respond to Naomi, "Trin, I have no freaking idea how I manage this monster on my head enough to straighten it. Plus weave and I are a disaster so the most I ever do is use water, conditioner, baking soda, and coconut oil to keep it clean and moisturized. Oh, and there's a lot hope involved…"

"You wash your hair with baking soda?"

I start untying the ribbon while I speak, "Yeah Trin. It works for me!"

"Interesting. Any who, that is a ton of paper in that box."

"Darn right it is! It's also my favorite color, purple and glitter." Whoever sent this box went to great lengths to stuff it. They also know a lot about me or either picked something and had it wrapped. I'm not talking about a ton of paper stuffing…I mean a bunch of crazy stuff stuffing.

"How lovely!" Paige starts, pulling her black hair over her shoulder and tilting her head to the side to see, "They filled the box to the brim."

"I know! Are you sure Randy didn't send this trying to be funny?" Trinity and AJ look at me questioningly. Kaitlyn (Celeste Bonin) quietly observes from the corner while peeling her wrist tape off, she didn't compete tonight but she did a really awesome photo shoot tonight.

Digging past all the paper I realize a whole flurry of white frost glitter is going to be stuck to my skin all night; fun! The first thing I pull out is a bottle of Manic Panic hair dye, "Hair dye?" I inspect the bottle to see if the seal is still there which it is. "This is a… unique gift…"

"You're not exactly conventional yourself." Cameron rolls her eyes and scolds me. I snicker at her.

The next item I find is a Paramore heart t-shirt, they know my favorite band…? I start raking through the list of guy friends I have that know my music tastes and that doesn't go very far…

Bayley chimes in, "Whoever they are they have great music tastes."

My fingers come across a pack of belly button rings standard gauge barbells. The colors range through from orange to pink and have rhinestones dangling off of them. Underneath that is a moon necklace, a snake ring bracelet, glitter mustache tattoos, and a three different hair bows.

AJ reaches over and grabs the box, giving it a little shake, "There's more stuff! Honor, who's been flirting with you to give you all this stuff?!"

"No one! Scout's honor!" I say pulling out the t-shirt that says: My other Tee is a Rex.

"Oh girl, your admirer went far to win you over." Cameron responds and Paige and Layla giggle at me. Of course I'm blushing again. Maybe all of this stuff is from various people in the locker room? Eh…I don't know there's still another section of paper wrapped around a ton of cloth in the bottom of the box so…I'll discover that later.

All I know is I'm thankful that Avery bursts through the door when she does because I sure need help carrying my belongings. While all the girls except AJ, Avery, Layla, me and Kaitlyn leave I catch up with Avery making stupid jokes about the idiots on Tumblr.

"Aves they freak out over everything. Like their favorite celebrity has a fantastic picture day and they're panties are more than likely flying to Antarctica. Hey, do you mind helping me get this to the bus before you and Lay leave?" I ask her trying to pack everything in the box and keep it tucked under my arm.

"I'll help you…" A girly sounding voice pops up behind me, it matches the woman's appearance her dual toned blonde and brown hair. Kaitlyn starts to gather her backpack and her suitcase along with my duffle bag while I hold the box, the vase, and suit case.

"Okay." I haven't a clue why she volunteered. We haven't exactly been each other's favorites especially since she cost me two months of my career to be spent on the sidelines. Usually I can let things slide and I can forgive people easily but for some reason I can't forgive her for that concussion. She's a vet she's been here long enough to know that if she can't exactly execute a move perfectly then she doesn't need to do it. That is just common sense. I don't trust her, this is the reason why I haven't stepped back in the ring with her.

Out of earshot from the other ladies in the arena corridor I rudely ask, "No disrespect but Kaitlyn, what do you want?"

Stunned she halts her steps, "I just wanted this bad blood between us over. I figured it's time to bury the hatchet."

I nod processing her words, "I wish I could say the same. Kaitlyn, I don't mind you but I don't trust you. So can you do me a favor and just let bygones be bygones, you don't have to pretend that you want to be my friend because I know you don't like me. I know you and AJ are close friends but we don't have to be. As long as you and I don't antagonize one another then we'll be fine. Thank You and Goodnight."

I grab my bag from her and continue to struggle to the interview booth that's been broken down. Randy is waiting there and he gives Kaitlyn a smile as she walks away to her own rental. "What's in the box? Wait… Where'd the box come from?" He says taking my suit case from me and dragging them behind him as we start for his bus.

"Uh someone got me a present." I say as he glances at the vase of roses strapped on my suitcase handle bars by a belt. The confused jealousy clouding his expression tells me all I need to know. He didn't send this to me, someone else did. "Randy?"

"Yeah," he scowls eyeing the glittery box. His jaw begins clenching as I struggle to keep the box from sliding out of my grip.

"I think I've got a secret admirer."