The following morning, around 9:15, AJ awoke to the sound of Paige snickering quietly beside her. Raising an eyebrow questioningly, she turned over and looked up at her, taking a moment to appreciate how amazing she looked, all messy haired and just in her underwear, before speaking. "What's tickling you?" She asked, her voice scratchy with sleep.
"Just talking to Brie." Paige replied, taking a couple of seconds to finish typing then dropping her phone on her duvet covered lap and grinning down at AJ. "Good morning, by the way."
AJ held in the scowl that wanted to form on her face at the sudden popping of her 'alone with Paige' bubble and focused on Paige's still sleepy face instead, which immediately made her able to grin back. "Morning yourself. I'm surprised you're awake already."
"Takes more than one round to wear me out, babe." Paige replied with a small smirk, grabbing her phone again after it vibrated with a new message. "You should know that by now." She added as she wrote back to Brie, confirming breakfast plans with her and her twin.
AJ laughed, choosing to carry on ignoring the fact Paige was talking to Brie too. Well, ignoring as best as the big green monster inside her would allow. "You shouldn't underestimate me, lil crumpet. I could take that as a challenge."
"You're welcome to take it as a challenge." Paige replied, eyeing AJ cheekily. Now she'd finished making plans, she lightly dropped her phone on top of her jacket on the floor and slouched down a bit further in bed. "Sleep well?"
"Sure did. I'd forgotten about your cover hogging habit though." AJ teased.
Paige gasped, faking offence. "I do no such thing!"
"Yeah you do." AJ laughed. "You practically make yourself a cocoon sometimes, it's a good thing we're in August and it doesn't get that cool during the night."
"Well you've never kicked me out, so I can't be that bad." Paige argued smugly.
"That's true...for now." AJ countered.
"Whatever you say." Paige poked her tongue out. "Wanna come for breakfast? Nikki and Brie will be here soon, I'm heading down to the buffet with them."
Words could not express how much AJ did NOT want to sit and eat while Brie made eyes at Paige and flirted non stop. And she knew it'd be a million times worse if Paige flirted back, which there wasn't much doubt about happening at all. Plus, her and Nikki weren't exactly the best of friends. They'd never really gotten along all that well, not past general workplace chit chat now and again. Everything pointed to a big, fat nope in response to the question. "Nah, I'm not hungry right now and I wanna take a shower, I might be down after though." She replied, though she had no intentions of going at all.
"Aw shit, and I thought I'd be invited to that shower." Paige sighed dramatically as she slid out of bed and to her feet, giving AJ an excellent view of her rear as she stood stretching.
"You could always ditch breakfast..." AJ trailed off suggestively, biting her lip as she watched Paige bend over to root around in her suitcase for an outfit.
Paige laughed, tossing a pair of black leggings, a white tank top and fresh underwear over her arm as she spoke. "Too late now, the Bellas booked me first. And it's probably best you're staying, you'd try to jump me on the table or something." She turned and shot AJ a wink before disappearing into the bathroom the room had to get dressed.
AJ's smile faded once the bathroom door closed and she sighed and rolled onto her back, moving the hair out of her face then staring up at the ceiling. Everything felt so...relationship-y with Paige, so comfortable. They had the closeness, they couldn't get along better than they did, they had the (amazing) sex and they knew and cared for each other deeply...they were practically girlfriends in AJ's mind. Except for the part where AJ was falling in love and wanting a relationship, with no idea of if Paige even felt anything of that nature and without the courage to bite the bullet and find out.
Paige emerged from the bathroom around a quarter of an hour later, her make up freshly done and looking casual but beautiful (as always, AJ thought to herself). She grabbed her shoes and sat down on the edge of the bed to put them on as she spoke to AJ. "You sure you don't wanna come?"
"I'm sure." AJ answered.
"Alright then." Paige shrugged, getting back to her feet just as there was a knock on the door. "Trouble's here, I'll see you later."
AJ forced herself to grin over at Paige. "I'll be here, have fun."
Paige grinned back. "Love yaa." She blew a kiss like she typically did in character then left the room, leaving AJ alone with her thoughts and tremendous jealousy. As soon as she was on the other side of the door, she was greeted by Nikki's impatient voice.
"I'm so starving, Brie took forever to get ready." She complained, shooting a brief glare at her twin.
Brie's cheeks turned a pale pink. She hadn't wanted to look a mess in front of her crush. "I didn't even take that long, geez."
Paige laughed, shaking her head at them both. "Get a move on then, idiots." She said, putting a hand on each of their backs and leading them off in the direction of the breakfast buffet. "I'm pretty hungry myself."
"Did I hear you talking to someone in your room?" Nikki asked nosily as they each grabbed a plate and headed over to serve themselves some food.
"Yeah, AJ. It's her room." Paige replied, dolloping some scrambled eggs on her plate followed by a couple of pancakes and some bacon.
"Oooooh, someone did the nasty last niiiight." Nikki sang gleefully, her mischievous side taking over a moment.
Paige snickered. "How clever of you, Nicole. Would you like a medal?" She asked sarcastically, wandering over to where Brie had silently split off with her breakfast to get them a table.
"Nah thanks, I'm fine." Nikki replied as she followed her and took a seat.
"You really know how to sneak off quietly." Paige told Brie from her seat opposite her. "And you grabbed that food fast."
Brie chuckled. "I just know what I want." She shrugged, knowing it was actually a case of 'escape the talk of Paige bonking someone that isn't you as fast as possible before you give yourself away'. Hearing that Paige had spent the night with AJ, in her room too, was something she could very much live without. But being mad at her twin for bringing it up wasn't worth the hassle, she knew it was just the way she was. Besides, Nikki had already assured her she'd have her full help.
"Good to know." Paige smirked, taking it with a pervy twist as usual, before digging into her eggs.
They ate in a comfortable silence for a few minutes before Nikki spoke again. "What have you got set for Raw tonight?" She asked Paige.
Paige finished her mouthful then replied. "Gotta distract AJ by skipping round the ring, she'll lose then I'll stick around on the ramp, bust out a great poem for her and leave."
"What poem would that be?" Brie asked, more to rid her mind of the definitely distracting images of Paige skipping around in her little black shorts, looking hot as ever.
"Goes like this..." Paige finished her final forkful and cleared her throat in an exaggerated manner to recite it. "Roses are red, wood chips are beige, I'm sorry I pushed you right off this stage. It's not like I hate you, I like you a bunch, but you just have that face that I wanna punch. I'll see you this Sunday, and this part is vital: I'll be skipping my way out of SummerSlam with MY Diva's title."
Brie snickered and Nikki's face cracked into a wide, very amused grin. "Niiiice." She laughed.
"Why thank you." Paige grinned. "It's all Creative though, I just learnt it."
"Still, it's gonna be great." Brie smiled. "You're really making this feud work, and it'll be even better if you win."
"They won't even tell me who wins yet." Paige pouted. "But thanks, pumpkin."
Brie felt a pleasant flutter in her chest at the nickname, though she knew Paige used it on pretty much everyone at some time or other. "You'll find out soon enough. And either way, it's totally party time once you're done."
"For sure." Nikki grinned. "22 is a great age to turn."
"It's always fun with you two anyway." Paige grinned back. It suddenly occurred to her that there was one person missing from that: AJ. There was no way she was going to celebrate her birthday without her best friend (with benefits) there, especially since her match was with her and one of them would be celebrating the Diva's Championship too. "But I have to bring AJ too."
Brie felt something like a stab to her gut. She'd not considered that Paige would most certainly want her there, the idea of spending alone time with her crush (since Nikki wasn't planning on going along, setting the two of them up) and a looot of alcohol had pretty much taken over any other idea. Nikki noticed her sister's face and stepped in, allowing her a moment to get over the sudden hit. "Of course, the more the merrier!"
"Totally." Brie managed with a convincing smile.
Paige beamed. "Well ladies, I have a work out that's not gonna do itself. I'll probably see you later." She said as she stood up.
"Probably." Nikki replied, helping herself to another glass of juice from the jug on the table. "Have fun future two time Diva's champ."
"Ahhh, that sounds so great." Paige gave a cute little jump. "Bye to you too, Brie."
Brie jokingly rolled her eyes at her, acting as normal as possible. "Bye Paige."
The moment Paige was out of sight, Brie turned to her sister. "The more the merrier?! What the hell Nikki? You said you'd help!"
Nikki sighed. "Calm down, it'll be fine. Just a change of plan..." She paused to think. "I'll come along after all, bring John too since he's always up for some fun, even if he loses. He might even bring Daniel Bryan or something, they get along great. We can probably manage to distract AJ away from Paige, for a little bit at a time at least. Or just hope she gets too drunk to stand or something."
Brie considered this for a few seconds. It was a long shot, AJ and Paige were always close and touchy, but probably even more so once there was booze in the mix. Still, it was worth a try, especially since there was literally no way that AJ wouldn't come. "Okay, it could work."
"Exactly." Nikki nodded. "I'll do my best. Now cheer up, a Bella always gets what she wants one way or another."
UH OH. Well dudes, hope you're enjoying this story so far and yes I know I'm annoying with this but THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. And if anyone wants to hit up my Youtube channel and see me being a total idiot watching WWE, please feel free. Link on my profile and I think I've found a way to fix the lighting issue to get better vid quality. YOU'RE ALL AWESOME BYE.
