I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Heidy's Point of View-
I walked further down the hall to the womens locker room walking in to see Mickie and Natalya chatting.
"Hey ladies." I said.
"Hey...you now travel with us? I thought most assistants would be at home assistants." Mickie said.
"I would but we both prefer that I travel with him considering I've never really been in America." I said setting my things down individually on a part of a bench across from them.
"Oh...do you have your citizenship yet?" Mickie asked.
"Not yet, were going to do it today but got called in early." I said.
"Be safe with that." Natalya said.
"I know…do you have any extra locks?" I asked curiously.
"Yeah..I always bring a spare." Natalya said shuffling through her bag pulling out a combo lock.
"Thanks…owe you one." I said going to grab the lock from her grasp but she snatched it back.
"You have to be my assistant tonight."
"Fine..." I said rolling my eyes.
"By the way…" She said leaning forward whispering, "The combo is 15-37-6."
"Thanks." I said as she set the lock into my hand, I put pretty much everything besides my purse and laptop in the locker. "I need to invest in locks."
"You should…how'd you meet Kofi?" Mickie asked.
"My friend is his friend, I met his friend the same year Kofi moved to the states, I used to drum for a band and my friend brought him when he was visiting and we just hit it off." I said benidng over picking up my laptop bag sliding the cds that Shane gave me in the bag, I turned around shutting the lock making sure it was locked.
"Befuore you head wherever your going to go, can you go grab us a couple of water bottles?" Natalya asked.
"Sure, can you watch my stuff?" I asked setting my stuff back down.
"No problem, we aren't going anywhere." Mickie said, I pushed the door open looking up from where I was pushing it at to see Kofi already changed into his custom shirt and his stripper type pants, I call them stripper pants, but the rip off type pants he wears over his trunks, he was leaning forward against his arm that was pressed against the wall talking to a production girl, I knew she was a part of the production side since she had a headset on that was smiling and giggling at whatever Kofi was saying. "What's wrong?" Mickie asked, I slowly leant back into the locker room.
"It's none of my business, but…" I said trying to get the images out of my head, "does Kofi have a girlfriend or have you noticed him interested in any girls around here?" I asked.
"Why?" Natalya asked standing up along with Mickie walking towards me, I slightly opened the door, we all stuck our heads out staring at the two that were laughing now.
"I've seen him talk to her a few times before, I knew they were kind of weird around each other, I think they like each other." Mickie said.
"Oh…okay…how can I sneak out of here without them noticing? I don't want to interrupt?" I said as we all slowly lean back in, Mickie pushed the door back open peaking out.
"With the way their acting right now, I don't think they will notice….they haven't noticed this door opening and closing this many times….plus others are walking by." Mickie said leaning back in.
"It'll just be more awkward with me."
"Why's that?" Natalya asked.
"I'm his assistant that IS a girl, wouldn't you be awkward too if you met your boyfriends assistant that is a girl." I said.
"Well, I think that is Kofi's personal business, I don't see Kofi as the type that will fire or give you up over another girl." Natalya said.
"I doubt it, I mean if they have been like this for a while, I'm the new meat and the easiest to get rid of." I said.
"But, he did go to Jamaica twice for you, he hasn't traveled and risked his job for her." Mickie pointed out.
"You make it sound like I want to date him….I'll be back, if I don't make it back in time, take my stuff before Shane gets to it." I said walking out before they could even question what I just said. I softly walked out and quietly shut the door and snuck away without disturbing them. I turned the corner to go to the catering to get them water bottles, I peeked around the corner and they haven't moved. 'At least he's happy with her, I don't know if they are even dating, why do I even care?' I asked myself, I turned and headed towards the catering, 'I think I care because he's my friend first and foremost, and my boss, I don't want him to get hurt, he's smart, I don't think he'll date anyone that he doesn't like just for the heck of it.' I thought as I went into catering that was full of muscled men that were all pretty much shirtless and in either pants or those little trunks, 'I think I'll enjoy this job seeing this everyday.' I thought smiling as I walked over to the big things of ice and water bottles. I pulled out one when I felt someone standing beside me seeing Mike. "Hey…" I said looking back down at the cooler to grab a couple more.
"Hey, see that you guys finally made it." Mike said.
"Yeah, we had to go film a promo in Connecticut. How was your flight?" I asked pulling out the last one, I grabbed one for myself as well.
"It was long….don't have a match tonight, so I could hang with you." Mike said.
"Cool….I'll be back, I have to take these back to Mickie and Natalya and grab my laptop." I said.
"Alright, I'll make myself a plate of food, you want anything to eat?" Mike asked.
"Um…I'll get a plate when I get back." I said turning and walking away, I walked out of catering and headed down the few hallways to the locker rooms, this time Kofi and that chick wasn't there, I went into the locker room handing them their water bottles.
"Are they still out there?" Natalya asked.
"Nah…I think they found a new spot or she had to get back to work." I said as I walked over picking up my laptop and purse. "Thanks for watching my stuff." I said.
"No problem…" Mickie said, I walked out of the locker room heading back to catering scanning the room for Mike, finally seeing him sitting at a table with a female pair of twins, I didn't want to cramp his style so I went through the tables of food putting things I liked onto a plate and planted my butt down in a seat at an empty table. I fumbled with my laptop bag pulling the laptop out and set it on the table opening it and pushed the power button getting it to turn on. I leant over pulling out the few CDs that Shane loaned me and set them on the table above my plate. I ate at a strawberry waiting for the laptop to load up, and when it did I cancelled out of a few programs that pop up when you first turn it on. I went to my iTunes that had an empty library, I set the half eaten strawberry down so I could pull out the first CD and put it in my laptop. It was just a waiting game for it to input all the songs that were checked on the CD, which was all of them, I didn't want to listen to all of them right now, I can listen to them later and delete them if I don't like it. I ate my food while inputting the other CDs when Mike walked over pulling a chair over next to me and flipping it around so he could sit on it backwards.
"What'cha doing?" Mike asked looking at the laptop.
"Importing Shane's Pearl Jam CDs onto my iTunes so I could have some kind of music to listen to." I said as I bit into one of the finger sandwiches I grabbed.
"Oh…I have my iPod if you want to listen and see if there is anything on there you like." Mike asked.
"Sure…" I said as Mike and I each put an ear bud in listening through his iPod, he had some good music, I wouldn't know the band or anything but it was defiantly good music.
"Anything you like?"
"A few songs…..you have any of those CDs with you?"
"Nah…I leave all my CDs at home, I just bring my iPod and car adapter to hook the iPods or MP3 players up." Mike said.
"Oh…." I said cancelling out of iTunes since I just imported the last CD and took it out of the CD-Rom, I went to the start menu shutting the computer down.
"Next time your in LA, I would loan you some CDs." Mike said.
"I might have to make a trip then one day."
"You should…." Mike said.
"Got a question…."
"I may have an answer." Mike said jokingly as I closed the laptop.
"Does Kofi have a girlfriend? I saw him talking to a girl earlier and he was quite flirty with her."
"Why? You like him?" Mike asked in a teasing matter.
"No…just curious….I just don't want it to be awkward when he introduces her to me if he ever does."
"What makes you think he has a girl?" Mike asked as I slid the laptop into the bag.
"When I went to leave the locker room, I saw him chatting with this production girl, Mickie and Natalya said they have seen him chatting with the same girl the same way before I was hired on." I said zipping up the bag.
"I know he has been talking about this girl lately on the production side of things, but he also been talking about –" Mike said then stopping right there when he looked at me.
"About?" I asked.
"No one….I shouldn't really be talking about his personal life, ask him, I'm sure if he starts dating someone he'll tell you, I would." Mike said, I'm glad he's not trying to pick me up now, I think I broke that about him.
"I got an advice question….you want to walk and talk?" I asked standing up and pulling the laptop bag onto my shoulder and grabbed my plate.
"Yeah…" Mike said standing up grabbing his plate and bottle of water. We walked over to the garbage throwing away our plastic plates and I went back to the jugs of water pulling out a new bottle and grabbed a banana to take with me off the table. "What do you need advice on? It's not another question like that about Shane is it?" Mike asked.
"Nah….so, I went to a music store the other day just to look and was just playing around with a few drum sets they had, thinking about purchasing a new set instead of going back to Jamaica and shipping it back…."
"Is that what you need advice on, to buy a set or not?" Mike asked.
"No….I can do that myself….but I was offered a position to give people lessons in drumming, I don't know if I want to or if they would let me work on the days we are off." I said.
"Plus thing is it will bring in extra cash, yeah Kofi is supporting you and paying you but you'll have a side job and extra cash to help out in the long run so you don't have to run to Kofi every time you want to buy something and I think it might also be good for you guys in the long run."
"How so?" I asked.
"If you guys spend too much time together you might start fighting and you may quit at one point from frustration….I work with all of these people and there are points where I want to murder them from spending too much time with them."
"I hope I won't be on your murder list." I said jokingly.
"Nah…I won't actually murder anyone, but I certainly do have my moments where I just need to have my space." Mike said as we reached the womens locker room.
"Thanks….I'm surprised you didn't try to ask me out…if you did, I would of probably said yes." I said pulling the locker room door open and walked in at a fast pace.
"What!" He asked in a loud manner, I reopened the door to see him standing there in a shock manner.
"I just meant, if you would have asked me on a date, I might have said yes, but now its more like a friendship thing…." I said smiling leaning forward on the door but held it still for I wouldn't fall.
"I'm going to try anyway, you want to do dinner? Not a date, but just a friendish dinner, to talk." Mike asked.
"Sure…meet you in the lobby at 7ish?" I asked.
"Sounds good." Mike said smiling, I walked back into the locker room with my phone ringing answering it.
"Heidy?" I said.
"Hey Heidy, I was confirming with you that you and Kofi have a room at the Hilton on Rose Verde Ave." A lady said.
"Alright, thanks." I said as I repeated the street in my head as she clicked the phone off and so did I.
"I don't mean to over hear, but you have a date with Mike tonight?" Julie asked now noticing she was in the room.
"It's not a date, I told him it was just a friendship, plus I think I owe him at least that." I said.
"Oh…" Julie said bending down to tie her shoe.
"Why?" I asked.
"Nothing…I just know some things…."
"Like what?" I asked.
"Nothing…what hotel are you booked at?" Julie asked.
"Hilton on Rose Verde." I said.
"We are too, want a ride over?"
"Maybe…has Kofi gone on yet?"
"I don't know, he might of, I went on a bathroom break." Julie said.
"Let me put the laptop in the locker and I'll walk you back to your work." I said putting the combo in and slid the laptop in shutting it and locked the lock again walking with Julie out of the room. "What are you not telling me?" I asked hooking arms with her.
"Its something that Shannon told me in confidence that Shane told him."
"You can trust me, I won't say anything to Shane or Shannon." I said.
"I don't want to break Shannon's trust…" Julie said.
"I heard my name." Shannon said walking around the corner joining us.
"She is trying to get the secret out of me." Julie said truthfully.
"Can't tell you….Kofi finished his match, he might need you." Shannon said, I didn't know he meant it literally.
"Thanks…." I said heading towards the curtains turning around, "You'll tell me that secret later?" I asked hopefully taking a couple steps backwards.
"No!" Julie and Shannon yelled unisonally.
"Fine!" I said turning around and walked off meeting Kofi when he walked out from the behind the curtain