"So, you, uh, come here often?" I said in a deep voice, raising one eyebrow at Maryse.
She laughed and shook her head.
"Ohh, John, you make me laugh."
For some particular reason, I was getting the feeling she didn't exactly know I wasn't entirely joking with all these pick up lines. She flipped her insanely long blonde hair over her shoulder and scanned the table for the water bottle labelled 'MARYSE'. I watched her every move carefully, paying attention to every little movement. Can you blame me? This girl is beautiful. She found her bottle, and took a sip nonchalantly. Man, she even looked sexy drinking water.
"So, you're winning the tag team titles tonight, yes?"
I grinned and nodded proudly. Tonight was the night that R-Truth and I were gonna beat Big Show and Miz for the Unified Tag Team Titles. It felt good knowing I was gonna be a champion again.
"Well, good luck out there, I'm sure you'll do great" Maryse smiled, touching my forearm lightly before walking past me and down to the Divas locker room. As always, I watched her walk away. I heard the sound of muffled yelling coming from the other direction, so I unglued my eyes form Maryse and walked towards the origin of the sound, intrigued. I knocked on the door of the locker room it was coming from, and opened it slightly. I saw Eve sitting on the bench in the corner, while Katie was standing in the middle of the room, pacing and ranting about something. I laughed to myself and shut the door quietly, hoping to not make a noise. Everyone on Raw knew that Katie was the closest anyone had ever seen to a real life Incredible Hulk. When she got mad, it was bad news for everyone. She was probably ranting about Mike. I had a sneaking suspicion she didn't like him… I dunno, it was probably the way she looked at him as if she wanted to kill him every time he was within a one mile radius of her. I laughed again and walked towards my locker room, keeping in the back of my mind to pick an extra sparkly coat tonight to match my new title.
Deep breathing was not going to help me right now. I stretched my arm out towards R-Truth further, and ran the ending over in my mind. If this went the way we'd planned it, the crowd would go nuts and Truth and I would really get over. Truth finally reached my hand and the crowd went into a frenzy. I clotheslined Miz and ran over to Show, punching him in the face. Of course, it didn't do anything, and before Show "knocked me out", I could hear the crowd cheering, meaning Truth had just executed the scissor kick on Miz. The timing was perfect. Show connected with my face, and man did it hurt, and I fell backwards, right on to Miz. The referee started counting as Truth and Show fought now on the outside of the ring. One, two, kick out. The crowd were electric. They were really into this match, thank god. There's nothing more off putting than a dead crowd. Miz and I both struggled to out feet and began exchanging blows, to the crowd's delight. The 'boo's and 'yay's were deafening, and we loved it. Out of "exhaustion", I fell forwards onto Mike, who said quietly in my ear,
"You ready?"
"I'm ready" I said back.
Miz pushed me off him, and went for the Skull Crushing Finale. I pushed him onto the ropes, and we collided. We were both down again, but I had gotten the best of it, and managed to get up before Miz was even stirring. He was in perfect position. I'd have to thank him for that later. My eyes widened, and the crowd exploded, knowing what was coming next. I ran to the turnbuckle, climbed as quickly as I could, and saw Big Show coming at me out of the corner of my eye. I hastily jumped, perfectly executing Starship Pain just before Show could grab my leg.
One, two, three. Bell. Ain't No Make Believe. Crowd cheers. Truth's next to me. Hug. Referee. Gold. Championships.
"Here are your winners, and the neeeeewwwww WWE Unified Tag Team Champions, John Morrison and R-Truth!"
I know it's kinda lame, but I was still beaming at my new gold 20 minutes later. The nameplate hadn't even been changed yet, and it stunk of Big Show's BO. But I didn't care. It may not have been a world title, or even a singles title, but it was a championship. I was being recognised by the big man, Vince McMahon himself. The only thing that could break my focus from the belt was happened just down the hall from my locker room. When I heard it, I couldn't help but go and watch. This was going to be great.
"Hey, Miz." Katie smiled, walking into the trainers room. Miz was icing his ribs, and looked up cautiously when Katie walked in.
"I don't wanna hear it" Miz snapped, turning his head away from the Diva. Katie smiled again.
"I didn't come here to rub it in your face. I just came to say, you had a great match. And I'm sorry that you lost your titles. If anyone deserves it, it's you. So, I'm sorry."
Katie turned to leave, but Miz grabbed her wrist. Gently, of course. Katie turned around to look at him, and they shared a moment for a second. I had to admit, Katie was doing a brilliant job of not showing her hate for Miz.
"Uh... Thanks" Miz cleared his throat, releasing Katie's wrist from his grasp and scratching the back of his head. "I'm getting my titles back. I still have my rematch clause. And when I choose to invoke it..." He paused and smiled the tiniest of smiles up at Katie. "It's going to be awesome."
"I don't doubt it." Katie smiled back. She turned to leave again, but turned around and added, "You looked good out there... Really good"
She then left the trainers room, and joined me, Evan and Eve in the hallway, leaving Miz to stare after her with a smug smile on his face. The camera stayed on him for a while before the camera guy yelled "Cut", and Mike threw the ice on the floor. I burst out laughing, and Katie smiled up at me shyly.
"It's not funny" She protested.
"Sorry" I smiled. "That was a good promo. You two have chemistry together."
Katie laughed bitterly.
"Yeah, right" She mumbled dryly. She stared up at me for a moment, and I returned her gaze, but before I knew it, she was off down the hallway. I couldn't wait for next weeks Raw. This storyline was going to be great.
