"What the hell are you doing!"

"Is this like becoming a thing between us or something?" Nikki asked as Brie barged into her hotel room. "Also, how the hell did you get a key to my room?"

"Um, hello," Brie pointed towards her face, "the dumb clerk doesn't know you have a twin, so I just said I was you, now answer my question."

"I could answer your question if I knew what it was about," Nikki's head moved from side to side to emphasize how sarcastic she was being. "Besides, you need to go, John will be back soon, and he's always horny when he gets back from the gym, all that animal magnetism or sweat or whatever."

"Forget about John," Brie waved her hand like that would make John disappear. "I want to know what you're doing or what you think you're doing with Nick."

"Nick, what about him?" Nikki's voice was sickly sweet, and her sister made gagging noises.

"Going to him for help with John, the brownies," Brie gave her sister a deathly look.

"What? He helped me with some advice and I made him brownies, I think you're putting too much into this, Brianna," Nikki dismissed the notion that she was doing anything wrong because really, tell her what she did wrong? She sought out an old friend for some advice, and thanked him with baked goods, nothing to see here, folks.

"Well, couple that with you making AJ uncomfortable at lunch."

"Oh please, that girl needs to grow up. People talk about sex, it's part of life, and I was really just kind of giving her pointers. She seems like such a vanilla girl, and I don't think Dolph wants to do missionary for the rest of his life," Nikki shrugged as she pursed her lips at the thought.

"Don't play that game with me, Nicole. Why are you jealous of AJ, let's just get it all out there in the open right now because that's what's going on, and it's not like you want Nick, is it?"

Brie really didn't want to believe that of her sister, that she could be so cold and callous, but there were a lot of things surprising her about Nikki lately. This latest blow though, it was just too much, and if her sister was putting her sights on Dolph while still with John, she wasn't going to allow it to happen. Someone needed to knock some sense into her sister, and if it had to be her, so be it.

"Don't get your panties in a bunch, Brianna, it was just as I said it was, just me seeking advice. Nick and I broke up, and we were both quite happy about it. Is there something that leads you to believe that he might not be as happy with AJ as he pretends to be."

"He is happy with her and you know it."

"I don't see how," Nikki snorted. "I mean, have you seen her? The girl can't dress for shit, she's not even that pretty, and she likes a lot of things that are just plain weird. I mean, seriously, that's not the type for Nick, maybe I'm allowing him to see that, he deserves better."

"You don't even know her."

"I know that my sister has taken up to defending her," Nicole scowled, "and quite frankly, I don't see how you can defend her when you're supposed to be on my side. What the fuck does that little girl have that everyone wants to be her or be around her!"

"Oh, and there it is, so all your stupid games are just because you're absolutely jealous of AJ, this has all been because you've been jealous of her," Brie said. "Don't be so petty and snotty, Nicole, it's not becoming, and it'll make you look old."

Nikki gasped like that was the biggest insult she'd ever heard in her entire life, and Brie rolled her eyes at her sister's vanity. "I do not look old, and if I did look old, so would you."

"Maybe," Brie acted like it didn't affect her whether or not she looked old, and that only made Nikki angrier. "So let's recap, shall we. You're jealous of AJ because I've been hanging out with her, because she's dating your ex-boyfriend, and am I missing something else?"

"Shut up!" Nikki was angry now, standing up and facing down her sister.

"Ooh, there's more," Brie could sense that there was even more to this story, and while the biggest reason was probably her relationship with AJ right now, there was even more there that was bothering Nikki, and Brie wanted to find out so that she could stop it from happening right now. "What could it be, what could it be? Is it because she kissed John? I mean, yeah, you two were together, but it's not like that was anything more than a storyline."

Nikki gave a light snorting sound like that had no bearing on anything, and it really didn't. When would her sister just leave her alone? She didn't want to discuss this any further. Her sister had no right to just barge in here and try to talk to her like she knew anything that was going on in Nikki's head. Brie might have shared a womb with her, but they did not have the same brain, and she was not a mind reader.

"I think you need to leave," Nikki said icily.

"I'm not leaving until we get to the bottom of this and you stop being a bitch," Brie told her sister in the same tone she'd just used on her.

"There's nothing to tell."

"Bullshit," Brie stood her ground, and Nikki stood hers, and it was like an old western-type duel. All they needed was a tumbleweed to float by and the setting would be complete. "So did we narrow it down to John kissing her—"

"God no, look, I don't care if you're friends with her, and let Nick fuck her, whatever, I don't have to like her, do whatever the hell you want."

"Oh my God, you want the title, you hate that she's done more with her career than you have," Brie said, and Nikki's eyes widened like she'd been caught. How did her sister know that? Oh damn it, was it that stupid twin thing again? "Couple me and her being friends, her being with Nick, and then add that entire thing with her career, and wow, yeah, a whole things of jealousy, huh?"

"Get. Out."

"I'm going, but seriously, get over it, Nikki, this is gross, you're being gross," her sister said. "Don't talk to me until you sort your mess out."

"You're the one who's gross!" Nikki yelled at her as she left the room. "Damn it," she said, turning around and facing the window that overlooked nothing at all. There was no great view, but still she stared out at it. She just couldn't stand that stupid AJ, and she now needed to do something real about it.

AJ frowned as she watched Dolph packing up his things for the show later on. She didn't even know why she was frowning, but her mind couldn't stop thinking about Nikki and about Brie saying she was going to confront her sister. She didn't want to be the cause of this rift. She didn't want Nikki to continue to do whatever it was she was doing with Dolph. Maybe if she stopped being friends with Brie, this would all end too.

"What's up?" Dolph asked over his shoulder. "If you look at my back any more intensely, I think you're going to burn a hole through my shirt."

"I'm sorry," she said, "I just, I was thinking about some things, maybe some things that I need to do to make things a little more normal around here."

"We work in the wrestling business, how normal do you think our lives can be? I mean, it's not like we're living normal lives or anything," he laughed, but when she didn't, he turned to face her. "Please don't tell me you're thinking about Nikki again. Babe, I told you that she means nothing to me."

"No, no, I know that, it's just really disturbing that she's been doing this stuff in the first place. I have nothing to worry about when it comes to you, I know that, but…I'm just thinking."

"Okay, what about?" he decided to come over and sit next to her so that he could listen to what she obviously needed to get out. She'd been looking like she needed to talk for the last twenty minutes. He'd been hoping, and he knew this was horrible of him, that it could wait until she saw Kaitlyn later because she would probably give better advice, but he knew that wasn't going to happen.

"I don't know, like maybe I should just stop being friends with Brie," AJ told him. "That's the root of all this, don't you think?"

"I don't really know, I mean, I know that I dated Nikki, so I guess I should theoretically have some insight into how her brain works, but it's been a long time so I don't."

"I just think that if I keep my distance, Nikki won't feel so threatened by me."

"You shouldn't have to give up your friendship with someone because someone else dislikes it," he reasoned.

"I know, but maybe it's just not worth it," she scrunched up her face. "I mean, I like hanging out with Brie, I really do, and I even like hanging out with Daniel when he's around—"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, let's not get too carried away with this friendship, okay," he chuckled. "I'm not sure you even know what you're saying at this point, I don't even think Brie totally likes hanging out with Daniel."

"Stop," she chastised him gently, swatting him on the arm. "It was nice to have their friendship, especially here in Phoenix because I didn't really know anymore besides you, but I don't know, Nikki it just…out there."

"Like I said, don't let her come between you guys."

"Or us," AJ added.

"Like that could happen." He'd said the words before, but they were still true now. AJ thought about her friendship with Brie, how it seemed to come between her and her sister then she let her mind wander into what it was that came between Dolph and Nikki. She remembered, vaguely and through a haze of years gone by, that people seemed to think Dolph and Nikki made a pretty good couple together. What drove a wedge through that?

"What really happened between the two of you? I mean, I know, like in a general sense because you've told me, and I've heard it around when I first came to the company. I mean, I knew you guys were together and whatever, but like, what really happened?" She didn't know why she needed that reassurance when Dolph continually told her that it was the two of them now, and that he loved her. Sometimes, she figured, you just needed to know why someone loved you and didn't love someone else.

He was thoughtful for a moment before speaking. Even when AJ didn't explicitly tell him she needed that reassurance, he knew that's what this was, and if he had to do this fifty more times, he would, just so she knew that whatever Nikki was doing wouldn't be successful in the end. "I know this is going to sound weird, but essentially, we were too similar. I don't know, I guess it just was fun at first, but then it wasn't fun anymore, and it sounds stupid, but it was one of those things that neither one of us could see going long term, and I don't even know, babe, it just didn't and would never work, we both knew that, it's all I can offer you."

"I'm stupid, I shouldn't have asked, I know she poses no threats. I know this."

She hoped she knew this, boy, did she hope she knew this.