Dolph's pov
"So your favourite place in Phoenix is actually your home?"
"Technically this is my back yard but yeah, this is my most favourite place in Phoenix."
"It is beautiful, I'll give you that."
"Thanks, I know I have great taste."
I decided to take AJ to my home here in Phoenix as the last part of our date. We're both going to leave for raw tomorrow and I wanted to take her somewhere I thought was beautiful to end an amazing night. I turn the outside lamps on and quickly grab some drinks from the kitchen for the two of us. As I make my way towards AJ I notice that she's completely enthralled with my swimming pool.
"Get in if you want to."
She looks up at me and takes the glass of coke out of my hand. "No, it's okay. It's not like I have any swimwear anyway."
"Where's your sense of adventure? Just get in with your clothes on."
"No! It's fine honestly. Let's just talk about something."
I can clearly see she wants to get in the pool. I really hope she doesn't mind what I'm about to do next but I can't help myself. I place both of our drinks on the floor and scoop the petite woman up over my shoulder.
"DOLPH! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" She keeps hitting my back and I'm trying my hardest not to laugh as her punches feel like tiny taps. I run and jump into the pool with her in my arms and create a huge splash of water. As I just manage to come up from under the water I can see AJ coming up for air too.
"You're such a jerk! My whole damn make-up will be ruined now not to mention my chucks will be soaked!"
"Aw c'mon, I know you have another 5 pairs of chucks in your suitcase and you look beautiful even if you had no make-up on so calm down!"
I can see that my compliment has won her over and she starts to giggle. I just love hearing her laugh. I swim a little closer to her so I can move the wet strands of hair away from her eyes. Playing with each other's hair has definitely become our shtick.
"Can you believe that around two months ago you were calling me trash in a locker room?"
"It feels like a lifetime ago. I'm so sorry about that by the way. You know I never meant that, right?"
"Yeah I know. You said it just to get to Cena, I fully understand that."
"Good. Anyway, can you believe that two months ago you and the franchise had a thing? What were you thinking?!"
"Hey! I know John isn't the greatest man in the world but I could have done a lot worse. Besides, you were with Vickie! How much worse can you get than that?"
I've gotta laugh at that. The lady has a point. "Okay, so we've both made mistakes in weird previous relationships. It's all in the past now." I look towards her to see that she's nibbling on her lip. Ah, AJ I know you only do that when you're dying to ask me something, so spit it out.
"So I know you've just said that it's all in the past and everything, and I really don't want to ruin the date by talking about exes, but I've been trying to talk to you about Nikki for the past month and every time I do, you avoid the subject."
There is a reason why I avoid the subject when it comes to Nikki. It's not exactly the easiest topic of conversation for me. I sigh deeply ready to open up to the girl I really like about this. "What do you want to know about her?"
"I.. I just wanted to know what happened with you two. You were together for a long time and I just never knew what happened."
"Well, basically Nikki was the only girl I've ever really loved. I er.. I thought we had a lot in common and we got along great. I fell in love and she broke my heart. That's that."
Her brown orbs scan my face and I can sense that she's taking pity on me. "I'm sorry for asking. I'm just a little unsure of how she could hurt you or why she would even want to for that matter."
"It's okay, you have a right to know I guess. We just grew apart and for the last few months of our relationship she just acted really strange and started to become really malicious towards me. On the night we broke up at this awful club, that's when I really knew she was a total bitch."
AJ moves even closer to me. "Why, what did she do?"
"She got really mad at me because I arrived at the club with Zack and not her so we ended up having a huge argument outside. She told me to go to hell and then went in the club and made out with some random guy in front of me. I was in total shock. I mean, who does that? We ended things that night and I've never spoken to her since."
"What a freaking bitch! That is awful."
"Eh, it doesn't bother me as much as it used to anymore. Now how about you answer a question of mine concerning past relationships."
I can see that she immediately regrets asking me about Nikki. She starts to swim around the pool to avoid any questions. I lean back against the side staring at her knowing that she isn't going to get away with not answering my questions.
"Fine. What is your question Ziggy?"
I swim closer towards where she is while I think of what question to ask her. Ah, I know exactly what to ask her. "You said to me a while ago that you've always had a thing for me but you never felt good enough. Which idiot hurt you so bad that they made you think that you weren't good enough for someone like me?"
That question caught her by surprise. Our bodies are practically touching now. I can feel the body heat radiating from her tanned skin. We share an intense stare and I can tell that she's trying to figure out what to say to me next.
"Well.. erm.. great question by the way. I don't think it's a particular guy that made me feel that way, but.. a culmination of everything I've been through in my life.
"What do you mean by that?"
"I've always been self-conscious. Most guys that I've liked have always gone for either Kaitlyn or another girl and none of my relationships ever end well. I think I've always carried around this feeling of not being good enough and I obviously think that you're a pretty great guy so it didn't make sense for you to like me."
This girl really is crazy. Doesn't she realise how amazing she is? "You're literally insane. You have absolutely nothing to be self-conscious about." Again, I mess with her hair so it is not covering her graceful features. "You, Miss AJ Lee, are beautiful, fiery, charming, funny, generous, sexy and I could honestly go on all night about all of your flawless attributes, but I don't want to boost your ego too much."
Her eyes are sparkling and I detect that tears are starting to appear. "Why are you so sweet to me? I just don't understand, especially after all the crap that I've put you through."
"Because you deserve to be told how perfect you are. Although I don't know why I bother, you're never this nice about me" I follow with a flirty wink. She has that devilish smile plastered on her face that I adore and wraps her arms around my neck.
"Okay show off. Maybe you deserve to be told how perfect you are too. You are simply gorgeous, strong, charismatic, confident, kind, caring and I could go on all night about your flawless attributes but instead I want to do this."
And before I know it, her lips are on mine. I smile into the kiss because of how utterly perfect this whole night has been. What better moment can there be than kissing the girl you care for in one of your most favourite spots. I may be the happiest man alive. I think the only moment that could top this would be if I won the championship right now. All in due time, Dolph.
Her fingers run through my hair as I deepen the kiss by running my tongue across her lips. I can feel her legs wrap around my waist and I quickly remember the night of our first on screen kiss. Who would have thought that the next similar kiss to that would have been in water? As much as I'm enjoying the moment, I can feel myself getting carried away so I break the kiss and remove her legs from my waist.
"What.. what's wrong?"
"Nothing, honestly. It's just.. this is our first date."
"Don't you like me enough or something?"
"Are you kidding me AJ? Of course I like you. I really like you. I just don't want to rush things on our first date that's all."
"And here I was thinking you couldn't get any more amazing." She smiles and leans up to leave another kiss on my lips. "I really like you too, you know."
"Then let's take things slow, okay? Let's just start dating each other and see where things go from there." She nods at what I say and I take hold of her hand. "Let's go inside and get dried off. Big day tomorrow."
As we walked back into my home soaking wet, I wrap my arm around her small frame. For the first time in a long time I'm so excited about the future. Maybe this is the start of something wonderful.
Chapter update before elimination chamber. My main hope for tonight is that we actually get to see Dolph + AJ, and hopefully Dolph cashes in. Enjoy the pay-per-view guys. :)