"Fuck," I said with a wince as my hand went over my ribs. David, Tyson and I were backstage and feeling the effects of the attack by the Usos and Tamina. "I think she tried to kill me."

"You you you," Tyson said with a roll of his eyes. "It's always about you Nattie. What about us? We had a match AND got splashed on. You don't get to complain about shit."

I glared at him. "I'm not complaining. Believe me, when I start complaining, you will know."

David rolled his eyes at the both of us. "Can you two please stop? I don't want to hear this the rest of the night."

"She started it," Tyson claimed childishly.

I just smacked him on the back of the head before picking up my bag and putting it over my shoulder. "Let's just go." We had to go to the hotel and get some sleep before waking up early to drive to the next house show.

David and Tyson both grabbed their stuff and followed me out of the room. We passed a few people on our way down the hallway, who all nodded to us as we went by. "Can we stop and get something to eat?" Tyson asked. "I'm starving."

"What about Denny's?" David suggested.

I shook my head. "We've overdone it. I want Taco Bell."

"Ooooh fuck yes," Tyson immediately agreed. "Yes yes yes." He spread his arms wide open. "My body is ready."

David stopped in his tracks and looked at him like he was absolutely insane (which was a pretty common look to give him quite frankly). "Don't you ever say that again."

"My body is ready."

"…." David tried to say something to that but all he could do was open and close his mouth wordlessly before just walking away. Tyson put his arms down and gave me the best little innocent look he could muster.

"Was it something I said?"

…

The Taco Bell we ended up stopping at was a common one for everyone in the company to stop in when we were in the area so when we got there we found Miz, Ted, Melina and JoMo in there as well. "Yoooo, what's up?" John asked as we joined them after getting our food.

"Not much," I replied. I unwrapped my burrito and took a bite out of it. "What about you guys?"

"I tried this Baja Blast Mountain Dew," Ted informed me. "And I hate it."

I frowned. "You do?" I loved it so I held up my regular Mountain Dew, which I had only taken a little sip of while I was waiting for my food. "Wanna trade?"

His expression brightened right up. "Really?"

"Sure." I handed him mine and then took his. "There you go."

"Thanks Nat. You are like all kinds of awesome."

Mike rolled his eyes at him. "Suck up."

"Hey, he's just being smart and recognizing how much I rule," I said in his defense. "Maybe if you grew half a brain you would do the same thing."

His response to that was to shoot me the finger.

"So what do you guys think of the newbies?" John asked.

David shrugged. "They're okay. I mean, we really don't know them yet but they seemed okay when we talked to them."

Ted pointed his thumb towards Melina. "The chick-what's her name?"

"Tamina," I told him.

"Right. Tamina creeps her out."

"She does?" I shook my head at her. "Do I want to know why?"

Melina wrinkled her nose. "She looks like some kind of crazy Amazon chick that's like gonna eat my face if I look at her the wrong way."

"You told me she looked like a tranny," John said helpfully.

I just rolled my eyes. Catty and bitchy comments like that were pretty common from Melina. They were pretty much a big part of the reason that I avoided hanging out with her as much as possible. If she was being nice, the only time it seemed genuine when she was being nice to the guys. She had quite the reputation with all of them and she was notorious for not getting along with the majority of the girls in the locker room. Hell, the only person I saw her really get along with was Jillian and that really said more about Jillian than it did Melina.

"You think these Usos are gonna last?" John asked. It was a pretty legitimate question, given the state of the WWE tag team division. It was no secret that it wasn't exactly something that was too focused on. There were moments when it seemed like things were going to change but those were getting fewer and farther between.

David shrugged. "Too soon to tell. Hopefully. We need some good competition."

"We need competition in general," Tyson chimed in.

"True that," John agreed. "If they don't work out though, I think Tamina might. At least for the short term. We all need a manly looking chick to dominate the other divas for a bit."

"Oh would you stop," I said in exasperation. "She's NOT manly looking." The only reason he was even saying that was because Melina did. He had his head shoved so far up her ass it was hard to even tell where she ended and he began.

I got weird looks from John and Melina for that but I didn't care. They were annoying me and David could sense that and quickly changed the subject.

"So, who's up throwing food on Mike's car again?"

"Hey!"

…

When we got to the hotel and got all our stuff into our room I immediately claimed the bed closest to the bathroom and laid out all across so it would be clear that I was not sharing with anyone tonight. Usually when we all bunked together it was Tyson and I that ended up sharing. When we were dating the reasons were obvious and when we weren't I just put up with him because he and David in a bed together usually led to lots of bickering because David snores and Tyson throws elbows around quite liberally. Tonight though, I wasn't in the mood to be in the same bed with him. Maybe it was just because he was annoying me more than usual lately or maybe it was because now that I had slept in the same bed as Beth, I didn't really want anyone else. Either way, I was sleeping alone tonight.

"Nat move!" Tyson ordered as he got up on his and David's bed and started jumping on it. "Move!"

I gave him an irritated glare. "Don't you even think that you're jumping on to this bed."

"Oh I'm thinking about it," Tyson said happily. "I'm thinking about it a whooooooleeee bunch." He was such a child sometimes that it wasn't even funny. I honestly wondered if sometimes if he just had some kind of emotional issue that kept him from maturing the rest of the way or if he was just really acting that way on purpose all the time. And it's sad that even after knowing him for so long that I have to wonder that.

"Would you quit it?" David asked as he tried to pull Tyson down. "We gotta get some sleep, not act like little assholes."

"Silence bitch." Tyson smacked David across the face and leapt from his bed over to mine. I tried to roll out of the way but I didn't move fast enough. He landed right on top of me and I ended up getting an elbow right in the chest.

"Ow! Bastard!" I shoved him off the bed and rubbed my chest gingerly before trying to grab him so I could throttle the fuck out of him. He scrambled away though and ran right out the door, forcing me to get off the bed and chase after him.

"Guys don't!" David called after him. "Come on, you're going to get in trouble with the hotel staff again!"

I wasn't listening and I didn't even think that Tyson could hear him. We were both just running, me rapidly gaining on him despite his best efforts to outrun me. "Get back here!" I growled at him "Tyson! You bitch come back here!"

"No!" Tyson refused. "You're going to hurt me!"

"Damn right I'm gonna hurt you! Fucking take your punishment like a man for once!"

He had absolutely no intention of doing that. He started running faster and as a result I picked up my speed as well. I wasn't paying any attention to anything in front of me that wasn't Tyson and as a result I didn't see the person coming out of their room until I ran smack into them. The force of the collision sent us both crashing to the ground and I winced, feeling absolutely horrible now. "Shit…"

"Okay, I was NOT expecting that," Tamina said under her breath as she sat up.

"I'm sorry," I quickly apologized. "I'm so SO sorry." I got up first and then helped her up to her feet. "Are you alright?"

"Momentarily stunned and kind of confused but otherwise I'm peachy." She looked up and down the hallway. "What were you running from?"

"Actually I was chasing Tyson. I was trying to kill him and clearly it didn't really work out that well."

"Ah I see."

"Yeah."

A long silence reigned. I noticed that she was standing just a little bit too close to me and her eyes were going up and down, showing quite an interest in me that didn't exactly make me feel comfortable. "You want to go downstairs and get a drink?" she finally asked.

I shook my head. "Thanks for the offer but I gotta go get some sleep." I would just kill Tyson later when he came back to the room. I started heading back, feeling Tamina's eyes on me until I was finally out of her sight.