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**************** Try-Outs**************************************************************

Mike looked down at the little box in his hand as he waited for Swagger and Randy to enter the bar.

"Mike?"

He looked up at Ted.

"Mike, what is that?" She asked, signaling to the little box in his hand.

He looked down at for a couple moments before returning it to his pocket.

"Mike?"

"When I got back to Louisville, I had a late Valentine's Day surprise for Charity. I never expected her to show up here."

Before Ted could respond, Swagger and Randy walked in. Spotting them Mike waved them over.

"Hey Mike and …"Randy's voice trailed off as he looked at Ted.

Ted smiled at the two men.

"Hi, I'm Taylor. I'm Charity's friend."

Ted shook both their hands as they introduced themselves.

Moving over on either side of the booth making room for the men, Randy sat down next to Mike and Swagger next to Ted.

"Okay" Mike started looking from Randy to Swagger. "What's this plan you two wanted to tell me about?"

"First off, Mike, I wanted to apologize in person. I had no idea what Layla's intentions were. She only told me she was going to stay long enough to make sure you okay. That's it. I'm so sorry." Jack pleaded.

Mike nodded, not knowing what to say. Noticing his silence, Randy continued.

"I tried to talk to Charity when she was here earlier but she wouldn't listen to me. I told her all about you being set up. But she got mad and stormed off."

He paused glancing at Swagger before continuing.

"Luckily because of our job, we are very well known and liked here."

"Okay..."

"See we have connections in this hotel."

He smirked as Mike gave him a confused look.

At that moment Jack put three tapes on the table.

"Randy and I were able to get copies of all three security tapes. One is the bar, one is the lobby and the last one is the hallway near your room."

Mike looked at the tapes.

"That's great and all but how are we gonna get her to watch them?"

"Well, I can try to get her to watch them when we get home." Ted replied, smiling.

"How?"

"Oh, I have ways."

Grinning evilly she grabbed the tapes.

"Also, when are the try-outs?" Swagger asked, turning to Ted.

"Tomorrow, all day."

"So you're leaving the next morning?"

"Yeah. Our flight leaves at 7."

He turns back to Mike.

"Mike you leave that day too. What time is your flight?"

"8."

"Perfect! You meet Taylor there at the airport and she can find some excuse to get away from Charity for a couple minutes while they're waiting. That's when you go and try to talk to her 1 on 1."

"I can try. Ted, you can text me the whole time to keep me up to date on what's going on."

She nodded.

Swagger and Randy started to get up.

"Alright. So there's the plan. At the airport Taylor will make an excuse to get away for a few minutes and you can try to talk to Charity. If that doesn't work, Taylor will try to get her to watch the security tapes at home. Got it?"

"I got it. Let's just hope this works."

Saying all their good-byes, all four left the bar and headed to their rooms.

Back in the room

Walking back into the room, Ted saw Cody was still awake. Hearing the door, Cody rushed over.

"Did you find out what happened?"

Checking to make sure Randy was sleeping, she nodded. Taking a moment Ted explained what happened.

"Oh my god….poor Randy. But it wasn't Mike's fault! He was set up by that bitch, Layla!"

"I know. Randy tried to tell her what happened but she got pissed and stormed off."

She held up the 3 tapes.

"What are those?"

"Security tapes. Randy and Swagger gave them to me to show Charity when we got home."

"Why don't we just show her now?"

"She's sleeping and she's already been through enough tonight. Besides she doesn't need anything to distract her from tryouts tomorrow. I know how much it means to her to get into FCW."

"True. So why are there three tapes?"

"Well one is from the bar, one from the lobby and one from the hallway near Mike's room."

"There's one from the hallway?"

"Yeah."

" So you mean that it could have caught me picking my ass?"

Stifling a laugh, Ted smiled.

"Yes Cody."

She sighed.

"Well that's embarrassing."

"You guys have a big day tomorrow, so let's get to bed." Ted chuckled.

After getting changed, they turned off the lights and fell asleep.

Next Morning

[Charity's POV]

Opening my eyes, I look at the clock. 6:45.

"Shit!" I exclaim as I jump out of bed.

"Ted! Cody! Wake up! Try-outs start at 8. "

"What time is it?" Ted asked, half asleep.

"6:49."

"Oh crap. "

Turning to her bed partner, she was about to wake her up when she burst out laughing.

"Ted. What the hell is so fun-"

That's all I got out before laughing. Cody had her arms and legs wrapped around her pillow, making out with it. What made it even funnier was the fact her ass crack was showing.

"Jesus Christ Cody! " I exclaimed, still laughing.

"What?"

"Pull up your shorts. Nobody wants to see that this early in the morning."

"Oh come on Randy. You love my ass early in the morning. Admit it." She replied as she yawned and stretched.

" That's gross, Cody." I shot back, tossing her on the bed next to her.

"Hurry up we have an hour to get there before try-outs start."

After we were all dressed, Cody and I grabbed our gear bags and key cards and were off.

At FCW….

We finally got the building 45 minutes before tryouts were scheduled to start. As we entered the building , all three of us were awe as we looked ahead at the official FCW ring. As my eyes scanned the room I saw that there were very few wrestlers here. Two men were practicing in the middle of the giant ring. One was wearing red and black tights as the other was in plain black trunks. Breaking away the man in the tights looked me up and down, smirking. Saying something to his opponent he climbed out of the ring and started walking toward me. Smiling, he held out his hand.

"Hey there. Welcome to FCW."

Shaking his hand, I said hi before looking away.

"So" He started, checking me out once more. "What brings you here?"

Before I could respond, a short girl with jet black hair walked up.

"Zayne. What are you doing? Obviously, she's not interested. So leave her alone."

"Interested?" Zayne asked, as innocent look on his face." I was just being friendly."

She raised an eyebrow.

"Oh really? I was 20 feet away and saw you check her out. Twice."

He turned a light shade of red before he turned and walked away.

"Thanks. "

She smiled at me, holding out her hand.

"No problem. By the way, I'm Nira. I'm here for a tryout."

"Nice to meet you. I'm Charity and these two are my friends, Ted and Cody. Cody and I are here for try-outs too.

"Wait, Charity and Cody from OVW?"

"Yeah. Did you hear something about us?"

She giggled.

"Of course! A guy by the name of Nick Dinsmore came by a week ago bragging about you two."

Cody looked as shocked as I did at this news.

"Really?"

"Yeah! I've heard both of you are really good to work with. I just hope I'll get to step into the ring with you both in the future." She replied, smiling.

Looking past me she waved to somebody behind me. Following her gaze, we saw a guy around our age waving back at her.

"Is that your boyfriend?" Cody asked, looking back at Nira.

She chuckled.

"No. That's my brother. He came to cheer me on. I broke up with my man two weeks ago."

"Oh. I'm sorry,"

I shot a glare at Cody, causing her to shrug,

"Oh, no. It's fine. He wanted me to quit wrestling and stay home. I can't have a man that doesn't support my passion so I kicked him to the curb."

Hearing the front doors open, we all looked to see Randy Orton walk in.

"Perfect." I grumble, rolling my eyes.

"Wow. Now that's what I call a man."

Nira was practically drooling at the sight of him. Spotting me, he started to walk over.

"Oh my god. Here he comes. How do I look?" Nira asked, smoothing down her hair.

"Hello Charity."

"Randy."

"I need to talk to you."

Nira's eyes widened.

"Do you two know each other?"

Glaring at him I nod.

"Can I please talk to you?"

Crossing my arms across my chest I look at him.

"Go ahead."

"I mean, privately?"

Rolling my eyes I follow him to a vacant corner of the room.

"Can you make this quick? I have to go get changed for try-outs."

"Listen. First off, I just wanted to wish you luck in your try-outs. And second, please call Mike and hear him out."

"No."

"Why not? You really should get his side of the story before jumping to conclusions. "

I shake my head.

"I know what I saw, Randy. It's over between Mike and I. My ex cheated on me and now Mike. I'm not gonna put up with it. I'm sorry."

I start walking back to Cody before he can respond.

"Hey! What did he need to talk to you about? Is everything okay?"

I hear Nira call as she ran to catch up to us as Cody and I walked into the locker room.

"Well, her and Mi –"Cody started before I cut her off.

"My boyfriend and I broke up last night and Randy was wondering if I was okay." I lied.

"Aww. " She frowned. "I'm so sorry."

For a couple moments we stood in awkward silence.

"You like Randy, huh?" I asked, changing the subject.

She blushed.

"Is it that obvious?"

Grinning, I nod.

"Yeah. I've had a crush on him forever. I'm a huge fan of his."

"Oh cool."

After pulling on my boots, I waited as Cody laced up her boots.

After Cody finished tying her boots, we walked out of the locker room with Nira in tow.

I sat down off to the side and started warming up.

"So how did you meet him?"

Nira asked excitedly.

"I bumped into him at the hotel we're staying at when I went to get an extra keycard."

I could feel my heart ache as the image flashed in my mind. I couldn't stop thinking about him. I could feel my chest tighten and tears start to form. My mind not only flashed the image of him and Layla, but also that night I spent with him at his hotel room. I remember the emotions that ran when Mike first told me he loved me. It hurt to realize those were just words. That's it. They were just words without meaning. I tried to shake these thoughts but they just kept coming back. I'll admit that I'm a mess. I feel like a whole piece of me is gone. How could I give the talent scouts my all when all I wanted to do is go home, crawl into my bed and just cry my eyes out? Just cry until I was no longer able to.

"Randy?"

Snapping back to reality, I looked up to see a concerned looking Cody and Nira staring at me.

"Are you okay?"

I hadn't noticed that I started tearing up a little.

I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs that I'm not. I wasn't fine. I felt broken. Excusing myself, I walked to the bathroom to try to compose myself. Splashing some water on my face, I look in the mirror. My eyes had dark circles from my troubled sleep. I had a dream that was a reenactment of what happened. It played over and over again. Closing my eyes, I took a few deep breaths. Finally calm, I walk out as I see everybody crowding around the ring. A tall man with brown hair and glasses stood in the middle of the ring. He smiled as he brought the microphone to his mouth.

"Hello everyone. Welcome to the official FCW try-outs! I'm Steve Keirn and I'm the Owner and one for the head coaches here at FCW."

Behind him were four other men. Two of whom I recognized as Joey Mercury and Ricky Steamboat. He introduced the other two as Norman Smiley and Tom Pichard.

"We are going to pair you up with each other and we will evaluate you during your match. At the end of the tryouts the other trainers and I will decide which of you will become a part of the FCW family."

He smiled as he looked around at the crowd before he continued.
"Whoever makes it will get a call from us in exactly one week from today. But now that we have all that out of the way, let's begin!"
An excited buzz started among the crowd as the four men went around the room, pairing people up. A few moments passed until Joey walked up to me, clipboard in hand.
"What's your name?"
After giving him my name his scanned the list on his clipboard.
"Okay, your partner will be Zayne."
As he said his name, he pointed to the same guy that welcomed me to FCW when I entered the building. Hearing his name, Zayne looked up at me and smirked. Wonderful. I have to have my tryout match with the same guy that wouldn't stop checking me out. As Joey moved on to Cody and Nira, Zayne started over.
"Well," He said looking me over. "Looks like we're partners."
I rolled my eyes. Nira looked over at Zayne and me.
"I'm sorry." She mouthed.
Zayne ran a hand through his bleach blonde spiked hair.
"So, what do you want to do?"
We ran through a couple ideas and decided to let it flow. We had three main spots planned out. After talking about what we were going to do, we sat on in the chairs in the crowd where other wrestlers were still conversing. I found Ted and sat next to her at the end, that way Zayne couldn't sit next to me. Bad move. He sat right behind me.
"I can't wait for our match." He whispered in my ear. I felt him linger a moment near my neck. His breath on my neck made me shiver. It felt a lot different when Mike did that. I shook my head clearing away my thoughts of Mike. This was not the time to think about him. As time flew by we watched as couples had their matches. Twice, wrestlers landed wrong and got hurt. One of them couldn't even finish their match. They had to be put on a stretcher by the paramedic that was waiting nearby. I remember hearing them deny that they were hurt.
"I'm fine, I'm fine! I can finish my match! I swear!"
I swear the girl was delusional. It was obvious that she had broken something.
"Alright everyone. We'll break for about thirty minutes and then we'll resume the rest of the matches. Joey will show you all where catering is."
We all followed Joey down a hallway to this room that had a couple tables packed with food. There were little round tables scattered throughout the room. I sat down at one of them as Ted and Cody grabbed some food. Ted was the first one back to the table. She looked at the table in front of me. Seeing no food, she gave me a questioning look.
"Randy. Where's your food?"
She sat down next to me.
"Is it about Mike?"
A lump started to form in my throat.
"Randy?"
Swallowing, I put on a fake smile.
"No, of course not!" I lied. "I'm just really nervous about my match. "
The truth was the match was a huge deal, but the Mike thing was bothering me more. I missed his voice, his laugh, his touch, the way he looked at me. I missed everything about him. And it drove me crazy to know what happened.
"What's up, beotches!"
Cody slammed her food down on the table as she sat down. Thank god for Cody's horrible timing. She picked a noodle off the table as it fell off her plate and ate it. She looked from Ted to me.
"Did I miss something?"
I shook my head.
"Oh and by the way, Randy. Your partner is hot. Just saying."
I wrinkled my nose in disgust.
"Zayne?"
"Yeah. Those abs of his….wow!"
I was about to respond when somebody walked up behind me.
"Hello Ladies."
I rolled my eyes.
"Speak of the devil. Hello Zayne."
He sat on the other side of me, smiling.
"Hey there, partner. I just wanted to come over and say hi…" He paused before continuing as if to build suspense.
"And I wanted to know if after try-outs you wanted to go out to dinner with me. What do you say?"
"Yeah, Sorry Zayne. I've already got plans. But I know somebody who doesn't."
His smile wavered a second.
"Who?"
"Cody!" I said, signaling to her, smirking.
He looked at her for a second and then back to me.
"Okay then. Your loss. " He shrugged as he turned to Cody.
"So I guess I'll meet you after try-outs. "
And with that he grabbed his food and walked off. Cody looked at me wide eyed.
"Randy. What the hell just happened?"
I smirked.
"Looks like you now have a date after try-outs with wow-abs boy."
She blinked as she tried to process this. After a couple moments her face twisted to a look of confusion.
"I don't understand."
I chuckled.
"Well Cody, You always say you're the romantic of the group and always complain about wanting romance so now here's your chance. Your welcome."
She nodded although it was clear that she was still confused. Seventeen minutes passed as we sat in silence as Ted and Cody ate. They looked at me as I stood up.
"I'm gonna go hang out in the locker room until the matches start again. If you want, you guys can join me when you're finished eating."
I didn't wait for a response before walking off back down the hallway. Back in the locker room I saw my phone was flashing. I picked it up to see I had 50 new text messages and 2 missed calls. First I opened my inbox to see that all 50 text messages were from Mike. Ignoring them I looked to see who called. One was from Mike and the other was from my cousin, James. I smile. James and I grew up together. We both love wrestling and dreamed of making it in the WWE. Unfortunately when he was born he had some health conditions that only got worse as got older. I know it killed him to know that he wouldn't be able to live his dream. The same day he found out that he couldn't wrestle was the day I made a promise to him to try the best I could to make it to the WWE and live the dream for the both of us. Pushing all my hurt and sorrow about Mike aside, I tried to focus on kicking ass at this try-out match. Who cares that I have a weird partner? Even he won't ruin my chances.

As I was about to put my phone back in the locker, it started to ring. Glancing at it, I bit my lip. It was Mike. I could feel my heart race a little as I thought about it. Should answer it? I let it ring a few more times before I decided to just let it go. I missed hearing his voice, but every time I thought about it my chest tightened. Shortly after, I received a voicemail. As I debated whether or not to listen to it, Ted and Cody walked into the locker room.

"Randy."

I looked up to Cody as she spoke.

"They're gonna be continuing in a few minutes. Are you ready?"

I glanced down one more time at my phone before jamming it into my locker.

"Yeah." I answered as I stood up from the bench I was sitting.

And with that, the three of us left the locker room.

5 hours later

It was around 6 when we finally got out of tryouts. Zayne and I had a pretty good match. I'll admit that he did a good job of making me look good. Cody's partner was Nira. They had one hell of a match. From what I could see, Nira was really good. At the end of it all Steve gave a small speech and then thanked us for coming. Ted waited outside as Cody and I went back to the locker room to change. We changed in silence until Cody spoke.

"Randy."

"Yes?" I said as I stuffed my gear my bag.

"I just wanted to thank you for setting me up on this date.."

"You're welcome, Cody."

"But Randy."

"Yes?"

"I'm nervous. I mean this our 1st date. That date that makes it or breaks it."

I grinned as she rambled on.

"Cody" I said, putting my hands on her shoulders. "You'll be fine. Just be yourself. I'm sure he'll love you."

She smiled.

"Thanks Randy." She replied as she gave me a hug.

"Well, you better get your ass out there. I'm sure he's waiting for you. Have fun!"

"Yes Ma'am!" She said as she gave me a salute.

I laughed as I picked up her bag and mine. When we walked out of the locker room, Zayne was dressed and waiting for her. She walked over to meet Zayne as I walked over to Ted. Cody waved to us as she left.

I sighed, causing Ted to shoot me a questioning look.

"What's wrong?"

I sniffed.

"Our little Cody is all grown up. " I said, pretending to cry.

She shook her head, chuckling.

"Well I'm pretty hungry. What do you want to do for dinner?"

I took a moment to think.

"Well on the way here I saw a subway. And right now, I can feel a sub calling my name."

"Alright, subway it is."

We drove over to Subway and ate then headed back to the hotel. Back in the room we packed up our stuff and watched a little bit of South Park. After about an hour and a half, Ted fell asleep. Although I was tired out from try-outs, my thoughts kept me awake. No matter how much I tried to push it away, the image of Layla and Mike consumed my thoughts. I decided to listen to my Ipod to see if my music would drown my thoughts. I turned it on and hit shuffle. I laid down on my bed, looking out the window at the moonlight pouring in. I could feel my chest tighten as the song started. Need you Now by Lady Antebellum. I could tears start to form as I listened to it. The lyrics started to bring back memories. I buried my face in my pillow and did what I've wanted to do all day. I cried until I felt like I couldn't cry anymore.

Mike sat on his bed waiting as he listened to the phone ring on the other end. He closed his eyes as he just heard her voicemail.

Hey, you've reached Charity! I can't answer my phone right now but leave me a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can! Thanks!

He hung up before he heard the beep and tossed his phone on the bed. John was out with his girlfriend so he had the room to himself. He was already packed to leave in the morning for Louisville.

"I wonder what's on the radio right now." He wondered aloud.

Hitting the button on the radio in the room he waited as it crackled to life.

He sat on the edge of his bed as he listened to the chorus of Need You Now by Lady Antebellum. Quickly, he shut the radio off and picked up with phone. He had to get out of this room before he went insane. He sent out a quick text to Alex and waited for a reply before he was out the door.

Later

Taking out her keycard, Cody eagerly opened the door. Stepping in she looked in to find both Randy and Ted already asleep. As silently as she could, went into the bathroom and changed for bed. She walked over to Randy, taking out her ear phones and Ipod. She shut it off before tiptoeing over to her bag and putting it in before curling up on her bed.

"Good Night, Randy. Night,Ted." She whispered before she drifted off to sleep.