It has already been three days since AJ went back on the road after her misfortunate visit to Orlando. She went there with her boyfriend, Nick, but went home by herself, all because of the dark event that took place at the hotel room that early morning.
Today was supposed to be the usual Tuesday, where taping of Smackdown show would take place. It would be hard today, having to act like she was okay doing a segment with Nick when it was clearly not. He haven't talked to her since he left that hotel that morning. Dolph did speak to AJ Lee but nothing happened between Nick and AJ Mendez. She respected his professionalism but she was suffering too much already.
Last night after Raw, she tried to grab the chance to speak to him after their segment but when she entered his locker room, his things was already gone. She texted him and called him everyday and night frantically, but he ignored her. She was stressed to be put in this condition. She didn't want to lose her lover and all she needed was a chance to explain herself to him, that's all. If he didn't want to believe her afterwards, only then she could accept the fact that maybe Nick and her weren't meant to be. Hopefully, he trusted her and wouldn't break up with her.
This all came to her standing in front of Nick's locker room. While waiting for their turn to tape their in-ring segment, she should take this opportunity to talk to him. She knew he was in there probably warming up, but he wouldn't have any reason to avoid her this time.
Her fingers trembled as they came in contact with the doorknob. She turned it and saw Nick sitting on the bench taping his wrist, his back facing her. Hearing the sound of the door being opened, he turned to see who it was. Once their eyes came in contact, he sighed angrily and sent her a glare before he looked back to his hand to further working on with his wrist tapes.
"What are you doing here? Didn't we already discuss with everyone what's going to happen in the ring? Leave! I have nothing to say to you!", he straightforwardly told her.
"Well I have!", she was determined, entering the room and shut the door. She nervously walked to him and spoke, "What you saw that morning is not what you think. It was just a misunderstanding"
She waited eagerly for his response, only to be replied with a sneer. Nick slammed the remaining of the tapes aggressively on the bench before he got up and got in her face.
"Misunderstanding you said? Were you drunk that night before? Did my brother force you to do it? Were the two of you've been framed?", he cocked his head to the sides as every question came out of his mouth.
She chewed on her lower lip before guiltily replied all of his questions in one word, "No"
"See?", he said unimpressed, "Now where's the misunderstanding you're talking about, AJ?"
"It was dark by that time. He switched off all the lights. I didn't even know it was Ryan on that bed. I thought it was you", she lifted her head at him.
He snorted mockingly, "AJ, even if you wanted to defend yourself and dying to convince me, at least find a reasonable reason, not one that a high school student would come up with"
She shook her head tearfully, raising the palm of her right hand, "I swear to God, babe. I'm not lying"
He surprised her with his pointing finger right in front of her nose, "Don't you ever try to call me like that ever again"
"Please, I'm sorry! Nick, forgive me! But trust me, all I'm telling you is the truth. If I knew it's not you, you think I'll do it? I love you and I wouldn't do something like that to you, believe me"
"Sorry, dear. I don't buy your bullshits!", he shook his head, making his hairs flew left and right as he smirked at her.
To hear his words and to see his careless expression, AJ's started to do what she was doing for the past few days; crying. She really didn't want to lose Nick. She loved him that much but if that was what he wanted and it made him happy, did she have any other choices? Never in her life she met a man like Nick. Instead of setting his eyes on other attractive girls like her colleagues, he chose her. And she wasn't as successful as she was now when he started developed feelings for her. For God's sake, she was just a rookie by then.
But what did he do? He accepted her, professionally and personally. Everybody knew how she was with her family. They existed but they never see their own daughter as a human being; just a pitiful trash that they needed to chase away as soon as they can. When she decided to be a wrestler, they were happy not because her dream came true but because for far too long, they wouldn't have to suffer to see her in their lives again.
She never knew how it felt like to have a family; parents. But it all changed when she met his family. They treated her like their own daughter. She could never repay them for restoring her faith on having a family that she always dreamed of. They knew it was only about time when she would be having the last name Nemeth. But now, she blew it all. If they knew what happened between her and their sons, she would feel the heartbreak of losing important persons in her life again. Not only she would lose another parents, but she would also lose the only man she could ever wanted to be with.
Are you happy now, Ryan?
"And out of all people, it has to be my brother?", Nick questioned her, he was also on the verge of his own tears.
"Nick, I-"
"You know? I thought you're different. That you're not like any other girls I've dated. But you're far more worse. How could you, AJ? I gave my heart and my soul to you and you crushed it just like that. If this was some gossip spread by one of those girls, I'll believe you in a heartbeat. But I saw it with my own eyes. You and my little brother stabbed me in the back. And I was just 3 floors above you when you guys were fucking each other"
"Ryan planned all of this. He said you stole his chance to be a great WWE Superstar just like you and he thought it's only fitting if he marked me to piss you off"
"He could be an ass but if you didn't stop him, this wouldn't happen, right? Well you know what? From now on, you can do anything you want. I don't want to have anything to do with you anymore. We're done. You're free now. You can fuck all the other guys if you want right now. I don't need someone-"
Nick stopped when a powerful slap came across his left cheek and he looked down instantly, a disbelief laugh came out of his mouth. He didn't want to look at her. He knew she was crying for sure but he didn't want to see it. He might fall for it. He didn't want that. So he waited until he heard her shoes stomped against the floor until he couldn't hear it anymore. Enough with what she did in front of his eyes. Enough with all this stuff bugging him for these past few days.
He didn't see her again until he was at the gorilla position, waiting for his turn and her to get out there with this giant dude named on screen as Big E Langston. While the dark skinned man stretching his hands to warm out before the entrance theme played, he caught the glimpse of what he dubbed as the most disgusting but insanely cute couple to be distant from each other. AJ was sniffing her nose like she was just done crying while Nick looked out of the place, like he wasn't in his game.
Probably one of those couple's little fights.
He shrugged and as if on cue, the music played and the three of them went out there, soaking the boos and slight cheers from the fans. As usual they headed to the ring and stood there along with their on-screen opponents, Jake Hager or famously know as Jack Swagger and his manager until Alberto threw a ladder inside, just like how it was planned.
AJ felt uncomfortable when Nick's burning skin from his arm brushed against hers but she wouldn't let it show. She could tell he was feeling the same so without wasting time, he went for a grab at the ladder. What should happened next was Jake would tried to prevent him from doing it by planting a kick at Nick's head and Nick would successfully backed away from it. But what happened next wasn't apart of the script. Nick lost his timing and the unaware Jake accidentally kicked him in the head really hard. Nick rolled out of the ring and the others including AJ hoped nothing serious happened.
Soon after, she jumped off the apron, while the others brawling in the ring and Nick climbed up again to finish his spot with Alberto's kick. He once again rolled out of the ring and knowing the camera wouldn't focus on him anymore, he showed his true colors at that time. Grabbing his head, he felt like the world was spinning and the lights were blinking several times, confusing his vision. When he tried to shake it off, that was when his head gave him the most hurtful nerve-wrecking pain he ever felt and everything went black.
AJ felt something was wrong when she didn't see Nick getting up quickly from the other side so she rushed to her now real life ex-boyfriend and the sight she saw making her heart fell to the cold ground. Nick was unconscious and got frightened with that, she frantically knelt next to him, laying his head on her laps as she screamed for her life to the medics for help.
Haha, I posted a chapter. I said I would only update if I got 3 reviews but hey, 2 is great enough for me. And I couldn't help it. My mind just go boom boom boom with ideas for this story that I desperately need to write and upload it. We would have a time skip for the next chapter, like a week later and Nick was at his parent's home in Cleveland, where unfortunately, Ryan was there too. What will happen between them? Find out tomorrow and please please review this story. They motivates me so thank you very much for those who did review :)
