1 year and 1 month ago:
I pull the bag of groceries from the trunk of my car and lug it into the house. It's been about a month since I lost the baby, and things seem to be getting better between John and me.
"John, can you help me with the groceries, please?" I say coming through the front door of my Tampa house. Nacho comes barking up to me wagging his tail. "Hey baby! How's my little man doing?" I bend down and pet him.
"John?"
I say a little louder, noticing he hasn't come into the kitchen yet which is strange because he always comes when I call. I leave the kitchen and go into the living room; he's not there, so I head up stairs into the bedroom. I stop in the doorway when I find all of his things are gone, his suitcase, and his pictures, his everything. I start to panic and run down the steps and to the basement where he keeps his "John Cena Collection". There were kept in boxes for now, we hadn't moved them up into my study where it would become his collection room. They aren't there, gone, all twelve boxes gone. I fall to the floor and cry, just when I think things will be okay it turns out nothing's okay anymore. I scream and start to through and tear things off the walls, I tip over my couch down there and scream into the pillow. How could he leave me?
Week four:
I sit in the makeup chair waiting for Lily to come back with a new bottle of foundation. I lay back and close my eyes; I'm so tired even though I went to bed early last night. Ever since Dolph spilled about his never ending love for me a couple weeks ago on Smackdown (which about 500,000 people switched channels to see) my twitter has been blowing up with questions, and ZIGGLEE stuff, why I suck at acting and a bunch of hate, which when I first turned heel it really hurt my feelings but it doesn't anymore. My phone bings with either a text or an update but I don't want to open my eyes or move, I'm so comfortable.
"Okay I found some new foundation!" Lily says practically running back to me. She starts to put on my face, its cold at first but it warms up after a while. "Are you tired?" I nod. "That's what you get for not going to bed earlier" she teases and starts to put on the powder stuff.
"I went to bed at eight last night." I moan. She chuckles.
"Then why are you so tired?" I shrug and she buts on the eye cramp, which she makes me open my eyes.
"Hey short fry." Nattie says walking up to me. I grumble a hello in reply.
"She's tired today." Lily informs her. Nattie rolls her eyes and sits in the next chair waiting for Lily to get done with me. Nattie sits there staring at me; I narrow my eyes at her.
"What?" I say annoyed.
"You are glowing…" she smiles at me.
"Well thank Lily, without her I would look like a mess." I grumble.
"That's not true; I think you have the best skin out of all the divas." Lily smiles while putting on eyeliner. I wonder what Nick thinks when I don't wear make-up.
"Well thanks, Lily!" Nattie says sitting on the stool.
"Sorry, but you do have nice lips….did that sound weird?" Nattie and I both bust out laughing.
"Yeah that's a little weird." I say smiling.
"Oh well. Okay you're done." She says finishing my makeup. I let the pins out of my hair and shake them loose.
"I need a coffee." I moan.
"No wonder you are so short! Coffee stunts your growth." Nattie teases.
"Very funny."
I roll my eyes and walk towards catering to get a coffee. My head is bounding and my ears are ringing. I feel like crap. I find catering and pour myself some coffee and I also pick up a vitamin water, for Nick, he will need a water for his match later. I walk out of the room and I drop the vitamin water. Why am I so weak today? It rolls away from me and hits a tennis shoe, not just any tennis shoe, John Cena's tennis shoe. I watch him bend over and pick it up.
"You dropped something." He smiles and hands it to me.
"Thank you captain obvious"
I smirk and take the bottle out of his hand. I take and drink of my coffee when I start to gag, John looks around frantically for a trash can and finds one and hands it to me and I make street pizza in the trash can.
"Are you okay?" he sounds concerned. I lift my head up from the trash bin, my cheeks red with embarrassment.
"Yeah it must something I ate today." I lie; I haven't eaten anything today because I knew I would throw it back up. He squeezes my shoulder and it sends goose bumps through my body, like it always had whenever he touched me. My stomach gurgles and I can feel it coming back up so I throw my head back into the trash can. I feel John's hands on my back as he holds my hair back. "Thanks." I mumble.
"Anytime." He smiles at me and moves a piece of hair out of my face. I close my eyes at his touch. "AJ…" I open my eyes and he's staring down at me. That's when everything goes dark and the last thing I feel is John's strong arms catch me before I hit the floor and him scream "Get the Doctor!"
I wake up to a bright hot lamp on the desk and the sounds of cheering coming from the TV. I look towards the sound but everything is blurry. I blink a couple of times and see Punk, Stephen and Cel sitting on the floor watching Raw.
"Guys, she's awake." I hear Nick's voice from beside me; I look over at him and smile. "Hey, are you okay baby?" he asks taking my hand and rubbing his thumb across it. Before I even answer I feel someone's arms wrap around my neck.
"Thank goodness you are okay!" Cel says. I want to tell her to get off of me, and that you are only making me feel sicker but I just hug her back.
"You scared us, fella." Stephen tears Cel off of me.
"Never trust a crazy chick."
Punk smiles at me and bends over to hug me. His hug is light and doesn't feel like a ton of bricks. Not that Cel's fat, she just forced all her weight on me. He kisses my cheek and squeezes my shoulder. I smile up at them.
"What happened?" I ask my voice groggy.
"I should have been there!" He grumbles to himself.
"Nick, you can't keep blaming yourself, just be happy someone help her." Cel said kindly.
"What happened?" I ask again.
"You got sick and then passed out, luckily John was there and caught you before you fell." Cel says touching my arm. "They rushed you here and we came as soon as Vince would let us."
"Old bastard." Punk said. I laugh, Punk and Vince never really got along, like ever.
"So what did the doctor say?"
"They didn't want to do anything while you were unconscious."
"Do you remember anything?" Stephen asked. I shake my head.
"The last thing I can remember is John, yelling for a doctor." I rub my head.
"Does-"
"Guys! She just woke up, give her a second." Punk and Dolph said almost at the same time.
Just then a very pale and heavy set nurse walked in with a to small scrub top on. She gave everyone a rude look like we were all under her, does she even know that she's in the room with the WWE champion, Divas Champ, the world heavyweight champion and a former world heavyweight champion?
"Visiting hours is over." She snaps at them. They all leave and I promise Cel I would call her later. The nurse looks over at Nick waiting for him to leave.
"I'm staying." He says.
"What's your relation to Miss Mendez?" She huffs; shifting her weight to the other leg.
"Boyfriend."
"Sir, I'm sorry but you-"
"I'm staying, my girlfriend is sick in the hospital and I'm not going back to our hotel without her. "
"Let me go talk to the doctor." She growls and shuts the door behind her. I smile up at him.
"Thanks."
"For what, babe?"
"For not leaving, I hate hospitals."
"I wouldn't leave no matter what, even if I had to sleep out in the waiting room and then sneak back in." he teases about the last part, or at least I hope. The nurse walks back in.
"Sir, you can stay. Miss Mendez, your nurse will be in soon to check on you."
She leaves and I sigh with relief, knowing that she isn't my nurse and that I will soon be out of here. It smells like a hospital should, gross. A nurse walks in with a laptop and a clipboard. She's young and is very pretty.
"Hello Ms. Mendez." She smiles at me as she pulls up a chair. She sets her computer on the table next to me.
"It's AJ." I smile back.
"Oh okay, so my paper says that you passed out at work….Raw live event what's that?"
"WWE, I'm a wrestler." I chuckle a bit. I find it funny when people ask me what I do for a living and then they start to ask me a bunch of questions. She nods.
"I think my brother watched that." She rolls her eyes.
I take that offensively seeing how I put my body on the line every night and she's here. I was about to say something but Nick shook his head at me. She starts to type on the computer.
"Did you eat anything today?"
"No…" She types some more.
"How about did you drink anything?"
"I had a couple bottles of water and a coffee." She nods and types like super-fast. I look up at Nick and he grabs my hand and smooth's my hair out of my face. She gets up and looks around the room.
"Well Dr. Bromain will be with you in a moment." She looks at Nick and smiles. Don't they see he's with me?
"Thank you nurse…"
"Grout but you can call me Sally." She winks at him and he just nods and kisses my head. I sigh and start fidgeting with my bed cover.
"What's wrong babe?" Nick sits down in my bed.
"Nothing, hospitals just freak me out." I lie.
I'm freaking out on the inside. What if it ends my career? What if it's something totally weird and Nick doesn't want to be with me? I look up at the television and it's a backstage segment, but it's not the one in the script which I read from cover to cover. I reach for the remote on my bed and turn the volume up. It's John, Lay, Nattie and Randy all hanging around backstage.
"Can you guys believe what happened to AJ?" Lay said sounding concerned.
"Yeah, John what happened?" Nattie said turning to John.
"I don't know I picked up her water and she started to gag and then she got sick and then just fainted." He said coolly. I swallow hard; I didn't want anyone to know what had happened. Why are they talking about me? I start to grip to the blanket. "I hope she's okay. It would be a bummer not seeing her skipping around backstage anymore." He says and I smile. Lay's face says that wasn't in the script. She never had a good way of acting cool when one of us went out of script, Nattie on the other hand just nodded. The scene ended and King and Cole go on about how the Rock will be back next week to confront CM Punk. I look up at Nick and he smiles at me, he slides in next me on my bed and puts one of his arms over around my shoulders. I snuggle up to him and lay my head on his chest.
"Will you still love me if it's something terrible?" I ask. He's playing with my hair waiting for the doctor to get in here. It's about twelve o'clock, we would be signing into our hotel by now. He chuckles and kisses my head.
"Of course." He says softly.
"Do you have my iPhone?"
"Yeah." He reached into his pocket and fishes it out. He hands it to me and I see I have five missed calls, sixteen mentions and twelve texts. All calls from my mom, I guess Nick called her. He's so amazing! I pull down the mentions:
" Sethrollins: WWEAJLee Hey, get better FOOL!"
" KofiKingston: WWEAJLee Played X-box, played with Cody, not the same didn't even give me a challenge. Get well soon."
" CMPUNK: WWEAJLee Should head over to the hotel to warn the staff that they better keep a close eye on the crazy chick. Maybe strap her to the bed? Get well chick. I laugh at that and decide to respond."
" WWEAJLEE: Cmpunk I already escaped from the straps silly, you should know that by now. But I did overhear them say something about a straight jacket."
" wwEFAN127: CMPUNK WWEAJLEE Don't call her crazy!" Opps fvdghbdlbvrhfvd *Big E Langston attacks*"
" NatbyNature: WWEAJLee someone missing from the locker room tonight? Get well soon."
" WWWAJLee: Natbynature Check the locker I tend to get stuck, and hurry I can't rash in three cookies."
" BigELangston: Boss what's wrong. I swear it wasn't me who put the NyQuil in your coffee. My money's on Ryback. WWEAJLee get well boss!"
" WWEAJLee: BigELangston Well why weren't you there then? I can see it being Ryback, he's always been jealous of my muscles…."
" realMickFoley: Heard what happened. Get well WWEAJLee"
" WWEAJLee: realMickFoley Thanks Mick, you're the man!"
" EveMarieTorres: WWEAJLee I'm not even gone a month and you miss me so much that you faint! You could have called! Get well pipsqueak."
" WWEAJLee: EveMarieTorres I tried to call all I got was voicemail. Don't you love me anymore?"
" JohnCena: WWEAJLee Falling for me again or on me? Get well soon."
" WWEAJLee: JohnCena Thanks for catching me tonight…."
" WWEAJLee: Thank you for all your good luck wishes I really appreciate it. I read all of them! Now let me out of this hospital!"
I sigh and toss my phone on the bed, Nick's asleep next to me and I smooth a little piece of hair out of his face and kiss his cheek. I cuddle up next to him and fall asleep; we have a long time until morning.
A/N: Hey guys I'm sorry for how badly the last couple of chapters sucked it was my job to spell check and edit them and I didn't, but thank you for reading. We got a lot of reviews on twitter so I just want to thank you and sorry about the last couple of chapters. I hope this one is better. – Cora.
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