ASHLEY POV:
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
I reached out to stop the violent beeping coming from my cell phone on the side table. It read 8.30am. Oh fuck off! I thought as I slided the phone shut and snuggled back into the warm body next to me. I froze and slowly opened my eyes; my face was snuggled into the crook of this person's neck. John. I let out a sigh of relief that it wasn't one of the other guys' on the roster. My phone let out another violent beep, John groaned, he moved and his arm fell over my waist. I reached out for the second time, this time turning off the alarm and carefully sliding out of bed, trying not to wake up John. I have to meet Mia at 9.30 in the lobby for a Starbucks catch-up.
I gazed down at the sleeping body in the double bed of the hotel room, and then my phone vibrated in my hand, which caused me to jump. CallerId told me that 'Mia cell' was calling me, I slided my cell open and walked into the bathroom, shut the door and then sat on the edge of the bath.
"Good Morning Miss Fox, This is your wake up call by request of Miss Mia Davis" Mia called from the other end of the phone. She was always a morning person where I was…the complete opposite.
"HA! HA!" I whispered back in a sarcastic tone. "Worried I was going to be late were you?"
"Well… kinda" she replied with a small laugh
"Well I'm glad you have so much faith in me" I replied again in a sarcastic way
"Why are you whispering?" she questioned me "Are you still in bed?!"
"No, I didn't wanna wake John"
"He's still asleep? Jeez!"
"Well not everyone is an early bird like yourself"
"HA! Funny! So what did happen with and him when I left you?"
"So what did happen with you and Jeff when you left us?"
"Nice one" she laughed "Okay talk later, you go try and make yourself look decent enough for me to be seen with you" she replied sarcastically.
"Pfft! Bye Dude" I hung up and began to get ready to meet her. After I was finished in the bathroom I wandered back into the bedroom and picked out black cargo pants, a pink tank top, black converses and a trucker hat to wear for today. Some of the Raw and Smackdown! Superstars and Divas had a photoshoot for new profile's and also WWE magazine. So today was gonna be quite busy, we were meant to be at the studio at 12, which gave me and Mia plenty of catch-up time. I grabbed my bag, keycard and phone and left the hotel room silently at 9.30
JOHN POV:
RIIIIIIIIIIIIING RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING
I groaned and reached out with my eyes closed for my cell phone, knocking my keycard to the floor.
"Hello?" I asked the caller as I flipped my phone open.
"C'mon wake up! We've gotta be down at the studio at 12 and it's already…11.30" the voice said
"Who is this? I croaked down the phone line
"Randy. It's Randy and I'm gonna come over there and beat your ass if your not down in the lobby in 5 minutes." Randy replied
"Alright man, chill. If it's 11.30 then we've got plenty of time to get to wherever the shoot is." I said as I swung my legs out of bed and stretched.
"Correction. The studio is half an hour away, so we are going to be late."
"Okay okay okay, I'm on my way down, man" I responded as I flipped the phone shut and got ready fast, pulling on random shorts and t-shirts and brushing my teeth. I got down in the lobby just under 10 minutes, Randy wasn't even there. Typical. I took a seat on the comfortable hotel chairs, pulled my hat over my eyes and shut my eyes.
"Yo! Buddy! Wake up! Let's go!" He said, already half way out the hotel main door.
ASH POV:
"Thanks" I responded as I reached for my coffee, we chose to sit on the brown plush comfortable couch by the window, placing my bag down next to me with Mia to my left.
"So you and John first" she said with a wide grin on her face
"Honestly, not much to tell I mean last night made out in the swimming pool this morning I woke up next to him …and then snuggled back into him." I explained while stirring my coffee waiting for it to cool down a bit.
"Woah rewind. Last night. Swimming Pool. So this was after Jeff and me left and after Trish and Randy left?"
"Yep"
"And?" I stared at her blankly "Dude! Don't leave me hanging! What happened?" she took a sip of her Caramel Macchiato.
"Well, after you left with Jeff, Trish and Randy left. We lasted about 5 minutes before we started kissing, he was saying how I couldn't resist him before and that's why I moved away and I replied with something like 'oh you don't think I can resist you?' or something and we kissed, and then after I made some lame excuse about being tired and having to meet you early and I left."
"You left?" she said in disbelief
"Yup"
"Why?"
"I Dunno, I guess I felt guilty or embarrassed or something" I responded while taking a long sip of the hot coffee
"Well, you shouldn't I mean its been well over 3 months since you and Sean broke up" she looked up at me "Is that it? Do you still love Sean? Or is it just you still regret things with him?"
"No, I don't still love him or miss him. I'm over him. It's just…I dunno I guess I feel guilty for not noticing it with Sean. It's just gonna be hard to open my heart again to another guy"
"Well that's okay, cause John's not any guy…He could be your guy" she said while smiling then taking a sip of her drink "Well, he could if you took a chance, cause John's a playa he'll probably go grab another girl if you don't take him" she said while laughing.
"Thanks!" I said sarcastically "Okay! Enough about me, what's going on with you and Jeff?" I said with a wink
"Honestly? Nothing" she said simply "After we left the pool, he walked me back to my room said goodnight and then I was about to walk into my room when he pulled my arm back and kissed me" she said while staring down at her drink with a huge smile on her face.
"And that's nothing?"
"Yeah?" she laughed took a sip then began smiling again. "I guess I will see how it goes today at the photoshoot" she said with a smirk
"Shit! Photoshoot!" I exclaimed while grabbing my coffee and bag and heading for the door with Mia beside me. We hailed a cab and headed over to a LA based studio, it ended up being a 35 minute cab ride, and we got there just before 12. Trish, Paul (Triple H) and Jeff were already there. We showed the guy at the front of the studio our passes, he let us in and we entered a large, freezing cold building. I reached for my sleeves, then realizing I had left my jacket at the hotel. Damn it. I turned around to see Mia but she had already worked her way over to see Jeff. I wandered over to where Trish and Paul were talking.
"You're on time!" Trish exclaimed, while pulling me into a hug.
"Yep but very cold" I replied. I felt a cold breeze hit my arms and I turned around and saw Randy and John enter the door Mia and I had only just entered moments ago. John caught my eye, and then I was pulled back into the conversation with Trish while Paul went over to speak to Randy and John.
"Hmm I sense a bit of sexual tension" Trish said to me while leading me towards flashing bulbs.
"Between you and Paul?" I said while laughing
"No, between you and John" she said with a smirk.
"Nah. Woah…"
"Yep… I think you're up next. Amy and Adam won't be long" Trish said while we sat on the steel chairs by the wall. I was looking up at Amy (Lita) and Adam, posing for the WWE magazine cover. 10 minutes later, they finished and headed over towards Trish and me.
"Hi, you must be Ashley. I saw your debut on Raw, it was impressive. I'm Amy by the way" she extended her hand.
"Thanks" I shook her hand and Adam caught my eye and smiled.
"Well if it isn't my favorite debut diva" he said with a chuckle. I met Adam on the day of mine and Mia's debut, and I instantly took a liking to him, he seemed like an older brother type of guy.
"Don't let Mia hear you say that" I responded while standing up to accept his hug. We continued on talking until a woman called my name, I turned in the direction of the voice and walked over to the woman.
"Right Ashley, I'm Elizabeth Rottie, the one who finds and supplies all these wonderful clothes these Diva's wear on their photoshoots for the WWE. So let's get you ready!" she said to me in a strong Texas accent. I followed her until I was in some sort of changing room, with clothes on hangers and rails. I spotted a mirror in the corner, with make-up arranged neatly around it. 15 minutes later, my hair was styled and my make-up was applied and I was ready.
"Okay. Great. Hold it." Graham, the photographer was instructing me on the poses to do for my profile page. "Yep. Okay last 2 now" he clicked the last two and came over and showed me some of them. I thanked him and left the photo area, and rejoined Trish, Mia, Jeff and Randy.
"You are up now" I said to Mia as I sat down on, and then Mia left.
"But did you hear what Regal had planned for Raw this week? He was suggesting that…" Jeff was saying, as someone nudged my in the side. I looked up and saw Adam, he signaled me for to follow him, we left Randy, Jeff and Trish continue talking as Adam and I walked over to craft service, I sat on the chair opposite to him as he began to question me.
"So you going to explain to me what's going on with you two then?" He began saying while smirking. "Or am I going to have to get it out of you somehow?" he said with a small laugh.
"You as well?" I said with a groan.
"Don't give me that" he said in his Edge cocky voice, which caused me to laugh.
"So where is this signing thing after then?" I asked Amy. We were sat on the green couch, so we had a view of everyone who was having their photo taken; Orton and John were on set right now for some photoshoot for WWE Magazine.
"Uhhmm I think its at a place downtown." she responded "Its gonna be you, me, Adam, Randy, John, Paul, Mia, Trish and Jeff. Possibly Jericho and some other divas. It's like a huge signing right before the One Night Stand pay-per view, so I guess it's kinda big" she said with a small laugh.
"Ashley, can you come over here for a sec?" the photographer called me over to the set where Randy and John were standing. I approached the set, while pulling up my black cargo pants that kept falling down.
"What'd you need?" I asked him.
"I wanna try something out. I'm intending on doing it with Mia, Jeff and Matt's photo possibly in next month's cover, So it's worth a try with you to see if it works" he said while gesturing towards the set, I walked towards were John and Randy were stood. The black screen that was there for me had now changed to a green screen.
"Okay I want you to stand in between them, with a hand on each of their chests, as if you were pushing them apart" I looked up at them both, they were both dressed as if they were ready to wrestle. I stood in between them and suddenly felt very small. I had my left hand on Randy's chest and my right hand on John's chest.
"Jeez Orton, do you have to put so much oil on your chest?" I said to him in a sarcastic way.
"Damn, I thought you liked that?" he responded while raising an eyebrow at me, causing me to laugh.
"Okay great, now John and Randy do the same as you were last time, but put more weight forward so it looks realistic, as if your trying to get to each other" they did as they were told, and leant forward slightly, while I looked straight on into the camera.
"Okay, that was perfect. Thanks you three." the photographer said to us as we left the green screen and the photographer handed John and Randy their hoodies..
"You three? Can't he remember our names?" I responded as I headed for a coffee from craft service.
"I need to talk to Paul before we leave so, I'll see you guys at the signing" Randy said as he parted with us. Leaving John and me. Alone. Again.
"So how did you sleep last night" John asked me as we approached the table with the coffee machines on it.
"Ermm quite well actually." I responded while looking up at him. There is still something not right with him. It's like I can't-
"Well I woke up in the middle of night and you seemed pretty comfy when you were snuggled into me" he said with a teasing smile. Damn him.
"Yeah…Well…I was cold and you were hogging the covers" I said back as I watched the white polystyrene cup begin to fill with hot coffee.
"Excuse, Excuses, Excuses" he said as he grabbed a bottle of water from the table and leant against the stone wall. My cup finished filling, I walked over to where John was standing and stood in front of him.
The main door opened once more and the breeze hit me square on. It sent shivers up my spine and goosebumps appeared on my arms
"Cold?" John asked me while putting his bottle of water down. He took his hoodie off and draped it over my shoulders.
"Thanks" I said, responding with a smile. I looked up at him and our locked eyes, the heat of my coffee floating up to my face. His eyes fixed on me like crazy glue-
"John! Ashley!" Paul shouted to us. "We gotta get going!" the crazy glue broke, and we turned to see Paul waiting by the door for us. "C'mon the coach won't wait forever. grab your stuff and lets get going" I grabbed my bag, said thanks to everyone and then exited the building. I hugged John's hoodie to my body, I looked up at saw him smirking at me as I walked onto the coach.
A/N: Writer's block SUCKS! This chapter was written in about 4 hours, in between revision for exams. And I officially hate French exams :) just thought I'd share that. I added banners for this fic this week as well, took some time to sort things out with photobucket and then I gave up and went back to imageshack. I am also writing up ideas for 2 new fics, one will be a one-shot about Edge and his special day and the other will a be a series fic about- actually I'm gonna leave it as a surprise :D