My apologies for the delay. So I hope you folks aren't getting bored with this. We're about halfway through the story. Just incase your impatience was hitting in all time low.
Chapter 52
Taylor lies on her bed in her and Alice's hotel room after the show. She's lying down thinking while Alice is in the shower. Why on earth would her brother embarrass her like that. She's never felt so humiliated in her life. He's always treated her like a baby, even when she got older. Just because she's the youngest, doesn't mean she's a baby anymore.
She sighs as she angrily searches for something to watch. There's a knock at the door. Taylor groans and gets up to open the door. Someone she'd never thought she'd see at her hotel room door again, is there.
It's Dolph. She sighs and rolls her eyes. "What do you want?"
"Your family is full of crazies. Your brother tried to attack me." He says through clenched teeth.
"And I wish he would have. Don't come here and start shit. I'll slam this door in your face!"
"Stop being so fucking bitter. I left you, end of discussion."
"You cheated on me asshole!" She hits him hard on the chest.
He looks down at the spot where she just hit and looks back at her. "You just get over it. I bet Randy is helping you get over all of this very well." He grins and she gives him a cold and icy stare.
Alice comes out of the bathroom. "What the fuck do you want!?" She snaps.
"I was just telling my ex how she's very lucky I don't press charges against her brother."
"He didn't even touch you!" Taylor snaps.
"Whatever. I have something to get back to." He walks away.
"What an ass!" Alice rolls her eyes. "You alright?"
Taylor shuts the door and turns around. "I am so tired of everyone asking me that." She plops on her bed with her back towards Alice. Alice gives her a weird look but doesn't say anything else.
It's been almost a week since Michael embarrassed her and tried to attack Dolph. She's long told her mom and sisters about it and they all said they'd talk to him. But so far, she hasn't gotten one phone call or text from him. No apology at all. So now she's trying to put that behind her and let it go.
She sits beside Randy as he tapes up his wrist. "Why do you wear that?" She asks, watching him.
"Why do you wear those stupid arm sleeves?" He grins.
"They aren't stupid! I don't even have them on now. They look better than your whole attire!" She snorts.
He shakes his head and looks up at the tv. Alice and Wade are cutting a quick promo for his match later. Tonight is her first night managing him. "Hate that guy." He says, focused on his wrist tape.
"How many people in this company do you hate? My god! You hate everyone." She looks at him with a smile.
He glares at her. "I don't hate you."
She snorts. "Yeah, that's about it." She says jokingly. "So what's wrong with Wade?"
"He just rubs me the wrong way. He's arrogant."
Taylor smiles. "Oh. So Randy Orton was always a nice guy, never arrogant, never cocky?" She looks at him.
"This isn't about me."
She wraps an arm around his shoulder. "It's just managing. I could go out there right now and manage you and no one would think anything else." She smiles.
He raises an eyebrow. "You really believe that?"
She takes her arm off of him. "Okay maybe it wasn't the best example but still."
He stands up and fixes the tape some more. "Who are you fighting tonight?" She asks, standing up with him.
"Dolph."
She frowns. "Good luck. Keep a close eye on Big E." She gasps. "Hey, maybe I could manage you tonight!"
He turns to her. "Not a chance. If he did interfere, what would you do? He's bigger than you and I'm not allowing him to put a hand on you either."
She sighs. "You need enforcement!"
"I don't need anyone."
She crosses her arms. "Now you're stubborn." She smiles.
He grins and shrugs "Hey I liked that submission move you did. I'm glad you tried it on me first." He grins again but Taylor doesn't see it. He steps into the hall with her in tow.
"Who's supposed to win tonight's match?" She asks.
"Me."
"Really? That's awesome!" She smiles. "Still watch out for Big E though. He scares me." She shivers.
"You slapped the hell out of him a couple of weeks back." He laughs.
"He made me mad." She giggles. They walk up to a crowd of superstars and divas. They're watching AJ cut a promo. Big E stands behind her, with his arms crossed.
"I've messed with Kaitlyn these past couple of weeks. I think she deserves a break. Whatdya think Katie Kaboom?" Kaitlyn stands in front of the monitor and rolls her eyes "Anyway," AJ shifts from foot to foot, "I wanted to shine the spotlight on someone else this week." She smiles. "Someone very, very special. Take a look."
A video appears on the titantron. A man, who happens to be Mike, storms through the arena. He finds Dolph, in the catering room and goes for him. Before he can attack him, Big E is blocking him from getting to Dolph. He curses at Dolph, Big E and AJ, which is bleeped out and he's carried away by security.
"Oh god! That's Taylor's brother by the way. He tried to attack my Ziggypuff! Can you believe that?! Our World Heavyweight Champion."
Big E asks for AJ's mic and she hands it to him. "Uh AJ, don't you have something else to show them?"
"Oh E! That's right! Thanks for reminding me!" She smiles and turns to the screen. Another clip shows Taylor yelling at her brother. He yells at her back and snaps at Randy."And people call me the c word!" AJ throws her head back and laughs. Big E chuckles. "Her little boyfriend got into the mix! You three should be a comedy act!"
Kaitlyn shuts the monitor off and all eyes turn to Taylor as she glares at the now black screen. Is it not bad enough that she was embarrassed backstage last week? But AJ decides to embarrass her in front of the entire WWE universe! Taylor is really tying to not let AJ get to her. But how far will the crazy chick go to push her over the edge? Randy leads her back to the locker room. She kicks over a trash can and runs her hands through her hair. "That little bitch."
"It's going to be alright."
She turns to Randy. "Yeah, it's going to be totally fine." She says sarcastically. "She just embarrassed me more for no reason." Taylor sighs.
"She's going to get chewed out. I know she wasn't supposed to do that."
"You always say that. She never gets in trouble. What don't you get? People like her for whatever reason. Stephanie is not going to suspend her most popular diva!"
"She's not the most popular. People like you and the other girls."
No Randy, you still don't understand." She shakes her head. "AJ will always have the spotlight. She'll always be given attention. Two feuds at once, always being on the match card. Kaitlyn is losing the title to her! Did you know that?"
"I-I didn't."
"Of course you didn't." She crosses her arms.
"Please calm down." He pleads. "You're doing it again. You're getting mad at me because of what she did!"
She glares at him but says nothing. She didn't mean to get frustrated with him. She's just angry right now. "This could all have been avoided if Mike just stayed home but no! He came here and yelled at me like I was some child! Like, like I needed discipline. And then he snapped at you and-" Taylor is cut off with her tears. It happened so sudden and she didn't think she'd cry.
He pulls her into a tight hug while she cries into his chest. He strokes her hair. "Just be strong okay?"
"I'm..trying.." She says in between tears.
"Randy, you're on in a sec!"A stagehand calls.
He pulls away and looks at her. She looks up at him. "Randoll?" He says and offers her a smile. This makes her giggle and hard too. He smiles and goes off to his match but suffers a slam from Big E after.
