Chapter 35
Everything seemed to disintegrate in a matter of days leading up to WrestleMania.
Keyla sat in the waiting room, bouncing her knee up and down nervously, waiting for news on her friend's condition. Lennox sat beside her, their hands clasped tightly and hoped everything would be alright. Everything was so screwed up in their lives. What started out as a happy reunion between the couples ended in a whirlwind nightmare. Keyla couldn't imagine what Lennox was going through given she'd called off the engagement to Roman Reigns and neither had spoken to their men in the past 2 days. It was Wednesday; the Superstars and Divas were busy doing countless charitable events, appearances, signings and WrestleMania Axxess. It didn't give Keyla and Lennox much to do for work considering the veteran camera crew members received first shot at filming all of the chaos surrounding WrestleMania week. When they were told they had 2 days off – Tuesday and Wednesday – to do whatever they wanted and received a call from Sami regarding Gina going into labor, both girls wasted little time hopping redeye flights to Tampa, Florida. It also gave them an excuse to get away from California and the WrestleMania festivities Jon and Roman were part of. They hadn't stopped trying to contact the girls since Monday night…when all their lives were turned upside down.
Closing her eyes, Keyla leaned her head back and recalled the past few days while fighting back tears…
The disintegration began with Keyla being backstage at Raw prepping her camera for one of the biggest shows of the year. The Raw before WrestleMania. It would be packed full of action, intensity and gave all the Superstars and Divas one last chance to build their matches up for their super bowl. Keyla couldn't wait to be out in front of the crowd again filming all the segments and getting back to work, feeling completely in her element behind the camera. She was all smiles and so sure nothing would be able to take away her happiness, especially after all the making up sex they had earlier in the day. Nope, nothing would wipe the smile from Keyla's face or pull her from the high she currently felt.
Or so she thought.
Her cell phone vibrating in her pocket jolted Keyla out of her euphoria and she pulled it out to read the text message, thinking it was either Lennox or Jon. Meet me in my dressing room. It's important. The message came from Baron's number and Keyla had no idea what he wanted, checking the clock to make sure she had time to go talk to him quickly.
What could he possibly want, Keyla thought, while rushing down the hallway after checking her camera equipment back in for the time being. The show wasn't set to start for another hour; Jon wanted to get to the arena to go over last minute details with the opponents he'd be facing in the Intercontinental title ladder match at WrestleMania. She was incredibly proud of him and would be rooting him on, even though Baron was also in the match. Her man came first, but if Jon couldn't win it, she secretly hoped Baron was the next in line to claim it instead of Wade Barrett retaining or any of the other opponents winning.
"Baron, this had better be a life or death situation." Keyla groused, pushing open the door to his locker room and had to shield her eyes since the man was in a towel – nothing more. "What the HELL?!"
"Shit sweetheart, sorry!" Baron clutched the towel tighter to his waist, the towel hanging low on his hips and little water rivulets slowly slid down his chest from the shower he just stepped out of. "I didn't expect you so soon…"
"Yeah well, you said it was important." Keyla snapped back, turning her back fully to the man and folded her arms in front of her chest. "Now what the hell is so damn important? Jon still doesn't know about NXT yet, so if we're caught together…"
Baron rolled his eyes, not having time to argue with her about telling Ambrose what happened between them in NXT. "It is. You need to sit down for this. Here, take my phone and watch while I go in the bathroom to dress." He didn't give her much of an opportunity to protest and dropped his phone over her shoulder before escaping into the bathroom.
Nearly dropping his phone, Keyla managed to catch it and frowned at Baron's erratic behavior, turning her citrine eyes back to the screen with a video already on it ready to play. What the hell was this about? She sighed, pressing the play button and didn't bother listening to Baron's advice to take a seat. Keyla should've listened to him. The second the video started with April and Heidi sitting in front of it, Keyla's entire body froze where she stood.
"WWE, we're coming to you as two loyal fans that have been hurt and betrayed by two of your top wrestlers." April spoke first, both women fully clothed unlike their softcore porn videos and she looked genuinely scared. "We went to a signing for them in Anaheim, California this past weekend and…it wasn't the first one we've been at. We love them as wrestling fans and admire them."
"We just wanted to meet our favorite wrestlers again." Heidi chimed in quietly, keeping her eyes lowered from the camera and on her clasped hands in her lap.
April sniffled, pulling a tissue from the Kleenex box and dabbed her nose before continuing. "We thought it would be any other signing we've attended."
"But it wasn't."
"We were propositioned to leave the venue by both Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns. Reigns asked Heidi and Ambrose asked me. We were hesitant to do it, but what fan in their right mind would say no? So we agreed to meet them after the signing ended and they had us escorted to the back by security guards." April explained, wiping her eyes of a few stray tears. "We won't go into details, but…they knocked us out, the security guards did, and we were kidnapped."
"Treated like animals." Heidi mumbled, rubbing her arms to try to warm them up somehow. "When we woke up, we were chained to beds in separate rooms and…" She couldn't go on, looking away from the camera as silent tears slid down her own face.
April reached over to clutch her friend's shoulder, murmuring it would be alright and they would get through this horrific ordeal. Then she turned back to the video and proceeded to describe everything Dean Ambrose did to her. How he started out showing her a video of himself in just boxer/briefs and then threatening her with a fork, showing the mark on her knee where he'd dug in with the object. Conveniently, they left out the part about being interrogated and talked about all the ways the wrestlers touched them sexually, trying to entice them to have sex.
"'We'll let you go if you just do what we say' they both said and we were too scared out of our minds to deny them." Heidi really turned the waterworks on and cried harder with April holding her close, trying to calm her down.
"T-They sexually assaulted us – raped us and then took us to the airport after making us promise not to say anything about what happened. We did…only to get away from the psychos we used to love and admire with all our hearts." April cried softly, her voice clear though a little haggard from all the crying she'd done. "WWE, we IMPLORE you to give two of your most loyal fans the justice we deserve! We never asked for any of this and were taken advantage of! Please fire Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose! This can't happen to any more of your fan base or else you won't have any left! We are giving you a chance to do the right thing, but if you don't, we'll have no choice except to start a petition for them to be fired. Don't make us go to those lengths. Thank you for your time and good luck to everyone else at this year's WrestleMania."
By the time the video finished, Keyla was completely shell shocked standing in the middle of Baron's dressing room and he'd long rejoined her. This past weekend Jon did have the signing with Roman in Anaheim; that couldn't be denied. Anyone could look up that information though. Were they telling the truth about what happened to them? Jon was a lot of things, but a rapist was never a label Keyla thought he'd be. Then again, after that morning before the signing began, she didn't hear from Jon for 2 days straight and remembered her phone call to Baron worrying about him. The temptation of the road…Keyla's head was swimming and her heart slowly breaking piece by piece inside of her chest. What if…what if Jon really did this and now the crazed fangirl whore was crying rape?
"Where did you get this?" Keyla asked after a few minutes of silence, keeping her back to Baron as silent tears slid down her face. The happiness and euphoria she'd felt only minutes ago was completely shattered. "Baron…"
"Someone from NXT sent it to me." Baron answered gruffly, hating how much pain Keyla was currently feeling and once again, it was all because of Dean Ambrose. "Keyla…"
"Who?"
Baron sighed, not wanting to drop the name of his friend, but also didn't want to betray Keyla more than she already had been. "Enzo. He came across it while surfing Instagram. Carmella found it for him, actually and they sent it to me since I'm on the main roster. Keyla, I'm sorry I didn't mean…"
Holding her hand up to stop him from apologizing, Keyla quickly sent the video to her phone before turning to hand it back to its owner. "Thank you for telling me. Good luck tonight." Then she walked out, leaving Baron standing there looking regretful and morose.
"This can't be true."
Keyla had a cigarette dangling between her fingers while standing outside of the arena, letting the warm air flow over her. "I don't want to believe it either, Lennox. The last thing I want to do is actually believe those whores, but…"
"But what?" Lennox demanded, handing Keyla's phone back to her and caught a glimpse of the beautiful diamond ring on her finger, tears stinging her eyes. She was so happy and content with her life only moments ago and now…now Lennox didn't know what to do with this sudden turn of events. "Keyla, what aren't you telling me?"
"Jon didn't contact me for 2 days and claimed it was because of exhaustion from the shows and losing his cell phone charger." They hadn't had a chance to talk about her discussion with Jon until now. "What if it wasn't? What if he didn't lose the charger and it was just a cover-up for what he and Roman did with those whores? I don't want to believe they cheated on us, but…" After everything that happened on the road to WrestleMania, it was hard to fully trust their men.
Lennox shook her head, not believing for a second Roman would cheat on her and gripped her honey blonde hair between her fingers tightly. "No – no – NO!" She shouted out the last word, anguish and fear claiming every part of her body. "It-It can't be true…"
"There's only one way to find out for sure. And it requires invading their privacy in every way possible."
"Keyla? Keyla!"
Amber eyes snapped open and jolted Keyla out of her deep thoughts about the past few days, looking up at Sami holding something wrapped in a baby blue blanket in his arms. "Oh thank god!" She breathed, jumping to her feet and could feel fresh tears swelling in her eyes.
Sami had tears of his own while staring down at the tiny human being in his arms and couldn't wipe the smile from his face. "I'd like you both to meet Samuel Alton Callihan JR. Gina insisted on naming him after me and my pop." Alton was Sami's father's first name and he'd recently passed away before meeting his grandson.
"He's so perfect." Keyla whispered in awe, moving the blanket down a little to get a good look at the baby boy's face and smiled up at her best friend. "Congratulations Daddy." She kissed his cheek. "How's Momma doing?"
"Exhausted, but elated and currently napping. She's gonna breastfeed him instead of doing the formula thing, so I'm letting her get as much rest as possible before JR wakes up hungry." Sami spoke quietly, not wanting to disturb his newborn son and couldn't believe this was his life now.
Lennox took a look after Keyla was done gushing over the baby and congratulated Sami as well, though her heart was in another world entirely. She missed Roman, wondering when they would get over the rough patches and finally be able to be happy. He swore to her he didn't cheat with Heidi, but the video footage of the woman crying her heart out about being raped was against him. She couldn't find any video on his cell phone, but there was a call to an anonymous number he couldn't come clean about making. Her promise not to run away hadn't been broken either; she told Roman to his face she needed time to figure things out and would be staying with Keyla for the foreseeable future. Keyla did the same thing with Jon; both couples officially on a break from each other until the truth of the situation surfaced regarding April and Heidi's accusations of being raped.
Sitting down with the baby in his arms, Sami knew he had to come clean about his involvement with Jon's kidnapping plan. "This isn't the time or place to do this, but…Mox called and told me what was going on." He confessed softly, seeing the confusion erupt in both Keyla and Lennox's eyes, heaving a sigh. "Jon is an idiot and asked for mine and Drake's help with a little problem he and Roman were having. I still felt a debt to him after keeping you a secret from him, so I flew out to California Friday night with Drake. We posed as security guards at their signing Saturday and were told once two women named April and Heidi came to the back area, we were to detain them. So we did."
Keyla couldn't believe what she was hearing, searching Sami's green eyes for any indication he was lying to them and found none. "You – You and Drake were the ones that…"
"Knocked them out, yes. Chloroform. Jon's idea. He was so pissed off, Key. I've never seen him so determined to go through with a plan as asinine as it was and he wouldn't tell us what it was about. Only that the bitches had to pay for making his and Roman's lives miserable as well as their women. I don't know the specifics of the plan, but Jon told me he's facing sexual assault, rape and kidnapping charges. Roman is too. And they didn't do anything to the women besides threaten them a little and a lot of interrogating. They just wanted answers because Jon is convinced someone is pulling their strings – behind all the bullshit they've done, which he did tell us about." Sami explained, feeling the baby boy squirm in his arms and knew it wouldn't be long before he'd be wailing for food. "Look, I've known Moxley a long time. Roman – not so much, but I truly believe they wouldn't do something as stupid as cheat on you. Keyla, you've been through hell and back with Jon, do you really believe he would ever cheat on you? Lennox, you need to think about what kind of man Roman really is too. Because they both need you right now with everything going on."
Sure enough, Samuel JR started crying at that moment and Sami had to leave the girls to go wake Gina up for a feeding, leaving them with a newfound piece of information they didn't know before.
Keyla and Lennox looked at each other, wondering what they should do now because standing by their men meant they would be denying the rape allegations.
Decisions, decisions.