-June 11, 2010-

I was almost knocked over as Windham came barrelling out of Florida Championship Wrestling's front doors with his brother, Taylor.

"Good to see you, too Ham!" I laughed at him as he ran back to circle me and apologise, saying that he couldn't stop running. "I understand, keep at it."

I opened the door and walked into the small reception area, instantly being granted access to the 'inner sanctum'. I walked past the ring – which was occupied by Brandon and Kipp – and applauded the goings on. "Keep it up, guys!" they stopped momentarily to say hey. Well, Brandon did. Kipp was still sour, not that it surprised me. "Is Gwen here, somewhere?"

"Yeah," Brandon's voice still surprised me, "She's doing weights with AJ, I think."

"Thanks, man, keep training!" I called back to him as I walked away and towards the weights room. I passed all of the other Rookies and various other FCW talent.

Gwen was lifting weights alongside April 'AJ Lee' Mendez, though she stopped when she saw me. She hugged me before introducing me to small wannabe Diva. AJ definitely surprised me with her upbeat personality and jumpy behaviour; it was too much happiness inside such a small human being.

I pulled Gwen away from the hustle and bustle of training and into an unoccupied office on the side. We took seats on opposite ends of a three seater couch, lifting our legs up into the middle.

"I'm not one of your precious Rookies, what good am I to you?" she asked with a small smile.

"We're friends, right?"

"Yeah, of course we are..." Gwen nodded, tucking her legs underneath herself.

"I need to talk to you about Cody." Gwen shook her head and told me that she didn't want to talk about Cody, "I know and he doesn't want to talk about you either, but I need to know what happened between you guys."

"How are you and Mike?" she asked quickly.

"Yeah, we're, um, we're goo-great." I stumbled over my words and before I knew it, she was bombarding me with questions. Telling me that I didn't sound too convincing and asking why. "We're fine, Gwen."

"Are you two fighting?"

"I fight with everyone, don't worry about it. Besides, we aren't talking about me, we're talking about you. Now, tell me, why did you and Cody break up?" She looked at me with sad eyes and I knew I was going to get it out of her.

"He was cheating on me." my jaw dropped, my hands clenched into fists and I was at a lost for words.

"Wha? No... How?"

"I found something in his bag... panties."

"Women's panties? Like a thong?"

"Does it matter? They were in his bags, Claire." I shook my head and took a deep breath. Cody Runnels cheated on Gwen. Cody Runnels. That didn't make any sense.

"Why were you even looking in his bags? I don't mean to put this back on you, but why?"

"I lost something and I was hoping that maybe I had accidentally packed it in his bag... What do you think, Claire? Was he cheating on me?"

She finally looked at me, after staring at her feet for the past few minutes. "I don't know, Gwen... Maybe they've been in there for awhile... I know for a fact that guys like to keep 'souvenirs'," I said, complete with air quotes, "Cody wouldn't cheat on you... He wouldn't be dumb enough to do that."

"Stupid purple, frilly fucking panties." Gwen swore, digging her finger into a hole in the seat cushion, pulling out some stuffing.

"Purple?" I asked, suddenly very worried, "Frilly? Really?" my voice began to squeak and I cursed myself.

"Yeah," Gwen said, venom suddenly in her voice, "Who wears purple, frilly boyshorts? What kind of underwear is that? She obviously went out knowing she was going to get laid." The anger in Gwen's voice scared me and I had to think long and hard because from what I could remember... Those were my purple, frilly boyshorts.

-June 15, 2010-

"You haven't, by any chance seen Cody around here yet, have you?" I asked Windham, hoping he would say he knew where his Pro was. He hadn't though and I had to keep looking. It was only early afternoon and I was at the arena much earlier than last week, but the boys had to run through the show and this was the only time I could get the ring.

"You look stressed, why do you always look stressed when I see you?" Kevin asked when he found me in catering, my head in my hands.

"That's because I'm always stressed." I was blunt about it, I was stressed.

"Have you talked to Mike?"

"This isn't something I want to talk to him about."

"You cheated on him, didn't you?" the man asked as he sat down opposite me, "I can keep a secret."

"I finally have the guy I've wanted for years, the last thing I want to do is risk this fucking relationship." I spat, unable to contain it, "Sorry. I'm just feeling terrible right now."

"I can keep a secret, you know." He said with a kind smile, leaning back in his seat as Mike joined us at the table. He sat down beside me and began rubbing his hand up and down my back.

"You feel any better?" I shook my head and deadpanned when I told him that I hated working as the one person who keeps NXT together. "We get to see each other, though... That counts for something right?"

I smiled up at him, nodded and leant in to kiss him. "I'm sorry I'm such a bitch. I'm just having a really hard time... This is actually more stressful than wrestling. I'm on the verge of quitting."

"You're stronger than this," Mike said encouragingly, "You're doing a great job of keeping these kids in line, I even saw Kipp here." I laughed at him and thanked him for trying to make me feel better.

Cody appeared not long after and told me that he had spoken to Windham and come to find me because I was searching for him. I didn't want to speak to him, really... But I had to.

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