I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Heidy's Point of View-
I woke up the next morning from being lightly shook and someone talking to me in a whisper type voice.
"Time to wake up Heidy." Kofi said as I felt a heavy object with four legs and fur climb on me licking my face only for me to clench my eyes shut more.
"I'm up." I said lightly shoving Roxie down a little.
"You need to learn how to set an alarm, I'm getting kind of tired of assisting my assistant." Kofi joked smiling at me.
"I'm sorry. I didn't realize I was going to fall asleep from boredom." I said as I slowly sat up as Roxie ran over to sit on the side of the bed staring up at Kofi.
"Now, you know, get up and get dressed. You got to have breakfast on the go, we are running late."
"Hurry mode on." I said sitting up next to Roxie only for her to glance at me then back to Kofi noticing he was walking out of my room getting her to run after him and Kofi shut the door behind him. I got up going to the door locking it before I went into the closet rolling out the suitcase pulling it onto my bed getting a new outfit out switching quickly and making sure all my necessities were in my suitcase before I pulled it off my bed and rolled it behind me to my door unlocking it and walked out rolling my bag up to his two or three bags he usually takes. I shuffled through my bag pulling out the script and the e-tickets setting them on the counter.
"You might want to pack up your laptop and camera, you'll need them." Kofi said as he walked past me to put his scope bottle in his suitcase. I walked the few steps to my laptop that was sitting on the island still plugged into the wall charging the battery, I squatted down unplugging it from the wall. "I pulled out my old laptop bag for you to use." Kofi said handing me a laptop mail carrier bag.
"Thanks." I said laying it flat unzipping the bag part sliding my laptop in and strapping it in before I zipped it back up then wrapped the cord putting it in the front pouch. "My camera is going to be carried in my purse." I said packing my camera putting it in its own pouch of my purse.
"Got the plane tickets?" Kofi asked.
"Yeah...just set them down on the island." I said pulling the laptop bag off the island pulling the shoulder strap over my head resting it on my opposing shoulder.
"My script?"
"Beneath the tickets, now to leash Roxie up." I said looking down at Roxie who was standing between our two pairs of feet looking between us with a confused puppy dog look.
"Can you do that? I'm going to take a trip down to the car with my stuff since they'll take up most of the room."
"Alright, I'll come down in a few with Roxie, do you want me to bring anything else down with me?" I asked.
"If you could grab me a water bottle and a pack of pop tarts none cooked?" Kofi asked as he was figuring out how to carry his bags.
"Flavor?"
"I only have the strawberry kind." Kofi said as he pulled open his door walking out with his three bags shutting the door behind him so Roxie couldn't walk out after him.
"Time to get you ready to go." I said looking down at Roxie, I went over to her leash that I put up the day before bending down hooking it onto her collar dropping her leash to the floor so I could go grab him a pack of pop tarts and a water bottle sliding them into the big pouch of my purse. I bent down grabbing the leash sliding my hand through the loop letting it rest on my wrist, I leant over the island grabbing the paper on the island folding it as best as I could sliding it into laptop bag and grabbed my suitcase rolling it to the door pulling it open with my free hand and walked out making sure everything was clear of the doorway before I pulled the door shut and headed towards the stairs only to see Kofi reaching the top.
"Got everything?" Kofi asked stopping beside me.
"I think so....just do a quick look through if you want." I said.
"Alright, the car is unlocked." Kofi said as I slowly walked down the stairs practically dragging Roxie since she doesn't like walking down the stairs and walked through the lobby to the parking lot door pushing it open, we walked through and walked down an aisle of cars reaching Kofi's. I left my suitcase at the trunk, I walked between the two cars pulling the drivers door open pulling the knob to pop the trunk open and slammed that door walking back to the trunk struggling to lift my suitcase into the trunk and pulled my laptop bag over my head and slid it on top of my suitcase slamming the trunk shut noticing Kofi joining me. "That's everything." Kofi said.
"Shall we go then?"
"We shall..." Kofi said as I walked Roxie over to the passenger side, I pulled open the door climbing in and let Roxie jump onto my lap. I buckled my seat belt and rolled my window down a tad as Kofi started the car and pulled out of the spot. "I brought cards for us to play on the flight."
"Sounds fun....you prepared for the promo?" I asked gently holding Roxie as she stood up on her hind legs and her front paws on the door trying to sniff the air outside as we drove.
"Pretty much....they just want us to just talk, nothing is really scripted."
"Why did they send you a script then?" I asked confusedly.
"Its sometimes useful but a lot of us guys just wing it, like this one."
"Oh...what does Shane have to do with this promo or whatever you call it?"
"Its for his character by what I could tell of the script, we just got to wait and see how they take it." Kofi said.
"I guess...." I said as Roxie climbed down and laid on my lap, it was quiet for most of the ride there unless Roxie was barking at a dog we were driving by. Kofi pulled into the kennel he usually takes her, I unbuckled climbing out with her and walked her in signing a couple of papers and walked back out climbing in as fast as I could.
"They didn't give you a hard time did they?" Kofi asked as I buckled up as he backed out of the spot.
"No....not at all." I said as I readjusted the top part of my seat belt some.
"Good."
"What do they do there? She isn't locked up all day in those tiny kennels that you see in those commercials is she?"
"No, well at night she is with possibly one or two other dogs or even puppies. During the day, she goes on walks, they take them to a dog park, it's like a doggie day care basically, she is very spoiled there." Kofi said.
"Like she's not at home?" I joked.
"A tad but she's even more spoiled at this place."
"Change of subject, do you do promos often?" I asked.
"There are backstage segments like this one we are going to be filming then there are in ring ones." Kofi said taking one hand off the wheel to talk with his hand.
"There is lot of acting to wrestling than I thought."
"A whole lot more than you think...I like doing both but the backstage segments because more than likely I'm going to be filming with one other person so I don't have to worry about messing up because they can edit it where if I was doing it alone out in the ring, I tend to blabber onto something that isn't relevant."
"Wouldn't you have more trouble when your doing the segment with someone else because you can get off topic more easier?"
"It happens but we could always re-film it where as in the ring it is live and as you can't fuck up, yeah mistakes happen but you have to prevent them as much as possible."
"That's understandable, it is embarrassing if you mess up on live television." I said as Kofi sped to the airport parking his car in the long term parking. "I thought you had a friend drive you or take a taxi?" I asked as I opened my door to climb out.
"I would of but it was unexpected to be called in a day earlier."
"That's the life of always being on the road and/or of a wrestler huh?"
"Yep, you got to do what you have to do to make the product the best it could be even if its like this." Kofi said as we loaded up on our bags.
"I forgot that I grabbed you your pop tarts." I said as I readjusted my purse on my shoulder as we rolled our bags over to the elevator.
"We'll eat it at the terminal." Kofi said taking the elevator down to the bottom walking across the street into the terminal going up to the self check in desk that was faster than the actual person desk. After we checked in, we walked over to the security handing them our luggage for them to scan before handing it over to put on our plane. We walked over to our own security check point walking through getting our carry-on bags scanned. "Half hour to spare." Kofi said as we situated ourselves in our terminal, I pulled my purse onto my lap pulling out his pop tarts and water bottle.
"Your pop-tarts and water bottle." I said handing them over to him.
"Thanks....did you grab one?" Kofi asked as he fumbled with the plastic to open it.
"Nah...I forgot to, I'm fine." I said sliding my purse back to sitting between my feet with my laptop bag, Kofi opened the package handing me one of his pop tarts. "I'm good, thanks." I said glancing over at him to see him give me the dumb founded look.
"Eat it, you know you want to....it's screaming 'Eat me Heidy!'" Kofi said waving it in front of my face in a taunting way.
"Fine..." I said grabbing the pop tart. "Thanks." I said breaking a piece off.
"No problem...you got the tickets and the script?"
"Yep, I put them in m laptop bag."
"That's a good thing to do, we usually carry our ring attire in our carry on in case our luggage gets lost."
"Very smart....does it happened often?"
"More so than people think, there has been cases where wrestlers didn't put their wrestling attire in the carry on and had to borrow others for the night because sometimes the wardrobe can't make another nor have a spare." Kofi said as our flight was called and we got up getting in line.
"That must be embarrassing for those that it had happened to."
"It is, they do get razzed a little but we usually help as much as we can because the show needs to go on."
"How do you go about finding them new trunks for the show?"
"We go through the roster of people that is there and find one that is closest to what they usually wear, one time Dave had to wear Randy's inside out because Dave's bag got lost and it was the closest but Dave wore it inside out because on the back of Randy's it says 'RKO'" Kofi said as we handed them our tickets and were able to go onto the tunnel thing walking down to the plane.
"Has there been any that you haven't been able to find something close to what they wear?" I asked as we walked down the tunnel stopping at the part where the tunnel meets the plane.
"Yeah....like Oscar."
"Who's Oscar?" I asked
"Rey Mysterio, he usually wears a mask and two different colored pants with the numbers 619 along the side, he is the only person with two shaded pants."
"Yeah, that's hard to find one that is exactly the same." I said as we slowly got through the plane to our seats and sat down.
"We usually carry them in our carry on now, like I said."
"And like I said, that is a smart idea." I said as I buckled my seat belt and grasped Kofi's hand that was resting on the arm rest.
"We haven't took off yet." Kofi said.'
"Getting ready." I said as we just chuckled, we watched others walk through the walkway and found their seats only to have them come over the intercom saying the plane was being piloted out, I squeezed his hand.
"Hello! Flesh and bone." He said in a squeal.
"Sorry..." I said loosening my grip a tad as Kofi reached over me pulling the slide down on the window.
"You don't need to look out the window." Kofi said as I tightly hung onto his hand and the other arm rest. I listened to the stewardess go over the safety guidelines, the pilot announced we were next to go and I squeezed tightly, Kofi gently put his other hand on top of mine holding my hand between his. "It's going to be okay." Kofi said as the other hand death locked on the arm rest, I felt the plane going faster I tightened my grip on his hand and the arm rest until I felt the plane lift off the runway and level out, I only held on tightly for a little while longer until I knew the plane had leveled out.
"I hate these airplanes." I said.
"We'll be driving city to city."
"Thank god.....would there be room for me in your car?"
"No, you have to sit on the roof." Kofi said, I just gave him this death glare, "That wasn't funny, sorry...you want to play some cards?" Kofi asked reaching between his legs to his laptop.
"Sure....what game you want to play?" I asked.
"Um....hearts? It'll be a long game." Kofi said sitting back up with a deck of cards, he pulled the cards out of the box resting the box on his left leg and shuffled cards on his right leg before he dealt out the cars We played the whole flight, that was a long game, "I won." Kofi said as we counted the cars.
"How do you know?"
"I have a smaller deck than you."
"Good game then." I said handing him my deck so he could put it with his sliding it back into the box and slid it back into his laptop bag, when the seat belt light came back on he stuck his hand out and I immediately grabbed it squeezing tightly then loosened my grip and feeling it descend slowly after the pilot announced it. I tightened my grip when I knew we were landing and didn't let go or loosen my grip until we slowed down.
"You got a grip on you." Kofi said shaking his hand.
"Sorry." I said as I lifted the window thing watching as we pulled into the terminal and heard the chime of the seat belt light going off. We both unbuckled ourselves, we both stood up leaning forward onto the seats in front of us so we won't bump our heads on the storage cabinets above us, we grabbed our laptops and my purse between our legs pulling it onto our shoulders waiting our turn to go out in the aisle way to get off this plane. "Is someone picking us up or are we taking a cab over?"
"It depends if they felt like sending a limo over, which they do occasionally."
"How would you know they got you a limo?" I asked as we stepped into the aisle walking out into the tunnel.
"We all came up with fake names to check into hotels along with flights so fans couldn't figure out what room we were in and etc."
"Good thing."
"Yeah, if they got a limo they would have a guy with a sign with my fake name on it."
"Oh...." I said as we walked through the airport to the baggage claim.
"No limo this time." Kofi said.
"When do you actually get limos?" I asked as we stood to the side waiting for the right carousel.
"Usually when we have signings, they take us from the hotel to the signing then over to the arena." Kofi said as we noticed people from our flight heading to this carousel and we followed them in hopes they knew what they were doing. We waited for our bags pulling them off the carousel and made our way outside to get a taxi to take us over to the WWE headquarters.
"Do you go to the headquarters often?" I asked as we walked through the roped off line up the front since the line was non-existent.
"Not often, but we do go there occasionally for business, its like going to the principals office, you don't want to go to the office because you never know if its a good or bad thing."
"We now this is a good thing right?"
"Yeah, but if your going there for no apparent reason then be worried." Kofi said as we climbed into the back of a taxi letting the driver load our luggage into the trunk, the driver got in and buckled up.
"Where are we going today?" He asked, Kofi recited an address to him and he drove off.
"You surely know that address, been there often?"
"Only here and there, nothing huge."
"You must have been there enough to memorize the address."
"It's better to know the address than saying WWE headquarters." Kofi said.
"True...." I said looking out the window watching the different buildings that we drove by until we came to a complete stop.
"This is your destination." He said, I climbed out carefully without getting hit by a car, stood behind the trunk pulling it open and pulled out our luggage. I pulled my laptop and purse onto opposite shoulders and pulled the luggage onto the curb as I slammed the trunk shot stepping onto the curb standing between my bag and Kofi's.