a/n: So, you know when you have an idea in your head and it sounds perfect...but then you try to write it out and it doesn't work out the way you planned? Yeahhhhh, that was me for this chapter. I was stuck with it but I typed what I could. It's still not how I envisioned this chapter but I didn't want to keep you all waiting any longer. Maybe I'll come back to this chapter and edit it completely, we'll see. I apologize for such a delay! I hope you guys enjoy this chapter and hopefully the next one will come sooner. If there are any mistakes, I apologize, I'll get back to it and replace the chapter or something. Enjoy and happy reading! :)

April 1, 2015

Pop's Diner

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Seth found himself in Philadelphia yet again. It had been quite the week for him since WrestleMania had just passed and he became the new WWE World Heavyweight Champion. While he was on cloud nine and ecstatic that he achieved a goal he always had since he was a little kid, he wasn't as happy as he could have been. The reason for that? Not having Allison around. When they were down in NXT together, they both shared their goals that they wanted to complete. Hers being that she wanted to be Diva's Champion and his being that he wanted to be the World Champion. It was something they were both so passionate about and they promised they would be there to watch it happen for one another. While he was able to see her achieve her goal last year, she wasn't there for him. It was his fault of course and that's what had him so down. After seeing her back in January and everything coming out last month, he knew he had to find her. Everybody wanted to but they all haven't been able to. He knew that everybody had no clue how to approach her, being that they were in the wrong and turned their backs on her. Seth needed to talk to her though. Not just for his sake but for Paige's as well. He could tell that she missed Ally deeply and just wasn't herself, especially since seeing her in January. He had to make things right and figured this would be first step in the right direction…he hoped.

Being that he knew where she worked, he figured he would start there. Seth didn't tell anybody his plans because this was something he needed to do on his own. Being that he was her friend before everybody else, he had to make the first attempt to talk to her. Taking a deep breath, he nodded to himself and stepped out of the car, opening his umbrella as he walked towards the diner. Once inside, he closed his umbrella and looked around the diner. It was fairly empty and unfortunately, he saw no sign of her.

He walked over to the counter and saw a man there, figuring he would ask if Ally was there.

"Excuse me?" he called out, which caused the man to turn around.

"Yes?"

"Hi." Seth replied. "I'm uh—wondering if one of your waitresses is here. Allison." He said. "I'm a friend of hers and—"

"Oh I know exactly who you are." Pop said. "You were part of that crew that was here a few months ago and caused her to have a breakdown."

Seth sighed, knowing that this was bad. "It wasn't-" he started but sighed. "—that wasn't our intention."

"I don't care what your intention was, you're not welcome here." Pop told Seth, "Out. Get out." He said, shooing Seth away.

Seth was going to protest but stopped when he saw Ally come out from the back. She saw him and he saw how she tensed up, as if she were worried he was going to do something to her. To be honest, Seth was a little taken aback at Ally's presence. Not because of her actually being there but of how she looked. He wouldn't say it out loud to her but…she looked like crap. Ally looked like she hadn't slept in months and she looked worn out. He could even tell that she lost a significant amount of weight. If she were any thinner, he was sure he wouldn't have recognized her.

Ally looked between Pop and Seth before grabbing her coat from the rack and putting it on.

"I'm going home now." She said quietly to Pop.

"Go ahead." He told her. "Get some rest and I'll see you tomorrow."

Ally nodded and grabbed her bag as well before looking over at Seth and then leaving the restaurant. Of course, Seth decided to run after her. He wasn't going to let go of her again, he was stupid for doing that in the first place.

Opening his umbrella again, he called out to Ally but frowned when he saw her picking up her steps and walking faster. It was pouring and cold out and she was really trying to outrun him? There was one thing that Ally was never good at and that was trying to outrun Seth. He picked up his pace as well and caught up to her easily, tugging on her arm lightly, which caused her to turn around to face him.

"Ally…" he said and watched as she shook her head.

"What do you want, Seth? Didn't you guys do enough last time?" she sighed, obviously defeated.

"That night was…I can't even tell you how sorry I am for that night." He told her. "I came here to apologize."

"You're forgiven. Okay, bye." She said quickly, wanting to get away from him.

"I know what happened between you and Cena." Seth said before she could really start walking away from him. "How you rejected him and he made your life miserable. We all found out."

Well, that certainly caught her attention. "…what do you mean?"

Seth let out a sigh and made sure to raise his umbrella a little more, so they didn't get wet. "There's stuff you need to know and I'm not going to have a conversation out here. Let's go to my car and I'll take you home. Maybe then, we can talk?" He offered.

Ally looked skeptical and wasn't sure what to do. What if this was some elaborate plan to mess with her? She didn't want to go down that road again. "I don't know…" she said.

"Come on, I have heat in my car and I'll even buy some hot chocolate and donuts on the way."

She shook her head, confused. "Why are you doing this? Why did you come to look for me?"

"Because I'm a shitty friend and I made a huge mistake. Plus, I miss my best friend. I want to make things right with you."

She honestly wanted to tell Seth to go to hell and leave her alone…but looking at him and listening to what he was saying had her curious. What on Earth was he talking about? She wanted to know and then she would throw him out.

"…you'll get me chocolate glazed donuts?"

Seth let out a small smile and nodded. "I'll buy you a whole dozen."

As Seth walked into Ally's apartment, it was not at all what he expected. For starters it was very bare and cold. There was no heat on and she literally only had a couch in the living room and a chair in the kitchen area. She had a small TV but from the looks of it, it was old and most likely didn't work. He watched as she put her hot chocolate down on the counter and then took out some candle to light them up around the room. For heat, he imagined.

"It isn't much I know…" she said, "…but this is home." She shrugged. "You can have a seat if you want, I'm just going to get something from my room." She told Seth as she headed to her room, which was in the back of her apartment.

Seth let out a sigh and took a seat like she told him too and kept his jacket on. He was freezing and he couldn't even process how she stayed here on a daily basis with no heat or anything. He felt horrible that she was living like this but at the same time, he was glad she at least had a place to stay.

Ally came back out and it looked like she had put on some gloves and a scarf to keep her warm. She grabbed her hot chocolate and one of the donuts we bought as well, and then took a seat on the couch as well, facing Seth.

"So…" she said, not really knowing what to say.

"John and Nikki set you up." Seth said, immediately.

Ally blinked, obviously not expecting to hear that. "Uh, what?"

He let out a sigh and figured he would get some answers and start from the beginning. "When you went on your date or business dinner with John, what happened at the end of the night?"

Figuring that since she had no job and couldn't get reprimanded for anything, she answered honestly. "Well…he tried to sleep with me that night." She told him. "More so he was trying to make it happen but I rejected him. He got a little forceful and tried to hold me down but I kneed him…you know where…and got out of the room." She said.

Seth sighed and shook his head. "Why didn't you say anything to us?"

"Because I know how you guys would have reacted. I didn't want you guys to ruin your careers going after him and getting into trouble. Plus, I figured he would leave me alone and that would be the end of that." She shrugged.

"Was it?"

She shook her head. "Those times that you saw me in the hallway with him and a few other times, he tried cornering and bothering me. After a while though…he would come up to me talking about how he wanted to try and make things right. John told me he was going through his divorce and was drinking and just wasn't in the right frame of mind. I wasn't exactly open to it but I told him I would allow him to speak to me and try to apologize for his actions." Ally shrugged. "I thought it would be the right thing to do and maybe get him off my case and a step in the right direction. After that, that's when things went crazy and well, here I am now."

Seth was fuming in the inside. Cena messed with her mentally and came up with some sad excuse of a story to get Ally alone and make her feel sorry for him. He knew that Ally was a good girl and figured he would use that to his advantage. It was a dick move on Cena's end for sure and now Seth wanted to go after him and hurt him even worse than Dean did.

"That was all a part of his plan then." Seth said and saw the look of confusion on Ally's face. "Last month Nikki came to us and told us that she and Cena came up with a plan to break you and Dean up." He told her.

"—but, why?" Ally frowned. "I don't understand."

"Well, that same day I was walking by John's locker room and he was talking to Randy about how he tried to sleep with you that night and you rejected him. Apparently he didn't like that and held some sort of personal vendetta with you for a while. He was going to dismiss it but then Nikki approached him about breaking you and Dean up. I guess she wanted him and wanted to tear you two apart so she could get her claws on him." He told Ally. "John became more obsessed with you though and took her simple plan into his hands and made it bigger than it was. The day he went to visit you at your place, he put something in your drink and cause you to pass out." He said as he watched Ally's reaction, which was one of pure shock. "From that point, he let Nikki into your place and had her dress up as you so that they could stage some pictures in your bed and well, you saw how that turned out when we were at the after party for Money in the Bank."

Ally frowned to herself, mostly because she was mad at herself for falling right into Cena's little plan. She should have known. She was also mad at the fact that there was an actual plan to break her and Dean up. What did she ever do to anybody? She always kept to herself around others that she wasn't as close to.

"And Nikki just randomly confessed to this?" she asked.

Seth nodded. "I guess after seeing how everything turned out and how much of a psycho John turned out to be, she had a guilty conscience."

Ally nodded and then asked, "Dean knows?"

"Everybody knows, even Vince. John and Dean were called into his office after they fought one another."

Ally shook her head and let out a small chuckle, of course Dean would fight John. He fooled him to believe that he stole Dean's girlfriend…again and also had him falling into his plan. She'll give credit when credit is due, John sure did know how to get people and knew their weak spots.

"Ally…" Seth started. "I know this must be a shock to you and I'm sorry everything turned out the way it did. I'm sorrier that I chose to believe the lies and not let you explain yourself. As your friend, what I did was shitty and ever since then I've felt horrible. Things aren't the same without you and yeah, it's my fault and others for pushing you away but I want to try to make things right. You were right all those months ago when you said I should have had your back, especially since I was your friend first before everybody else. You've also been there for me through a lot of things and I didn't return the favor like I should have." He said, scooting closer to her. "I'm not asking for your forgiveness because I know I sure as hell don't deserve it but I want to try to make things right with you. I just want a chance to try and get back to how we were or even just a small step in the right direction to do so. Especially because I know Paige wants you around too."

Seeing how sorry Seth was and listening to him was interesting for Allison. She was feeling a bunch of different emotions; anger, hurt, frustration, loneliness, sadness and so on. She didn't know what she wanted anymore. However, by Seth popping up and apologizing to her; it meant a lot to her. He was the only one that came back after the incident back in January and that was meaningful.

Ally nodded a bit and agreed with his statement. "You're right, I can't forgive you…but we can try to make things right. I know I probably shouldn't because of how you reacted to everything last year but I-I'm just so lonely and I can't take it anymore…" she said as she finally started to let all her emotions out by crying. "My life has completely turned upside down and I don't know what to do anymore." She sobbed and Seth took this as his moment to get closer to her and hug her tight.

"It's okay." He said as he rubbed her back, comforting her as she cried. "I'm here and everything is going to be okay. You're not alone anymore. We'll fix this."

a/n: Well, at least somebody is back in her life...somewhat. Reviews? :)