Authors Note- Thanks for the reviews for the last two chapters I posted I can't wait to start a lot of the 2015 stuff considering I have a lot of ideas. Still trying to figure out which direction I should go in with Alana's character but I will continue to just roll with the stuff I have for now. Also she is probably only gonna do one season of Total Divas and then do one season of her own little Spin Off show. Like I said a lot of is still on hold until I figure it out but I gotta feeling the story will still be great no matter which way I go with it.
Colby was sitting on the porch at his parents house, he was scrolling up and down his Instagram feed he looked through his pictures but it was mostly ones of him and Ariel. He let out a sigh before putting his phone away and sitting back in the chair looking around the dark neighborhood that was only lit up by people's Christmas lights.
Of course his cousins and family were inside partying he knew because he could hear them from outside, he wanted to go in and have fun but he wasn't in a party mood. Ariel didn't come with him she was still mad and not talking to him in fact the only time they really talked was on Raw he didn't count when they were in the ring because it was for work.
Renee had told him that she went back home to spend Christmas with her family so he was happy that she was at least safe and not spending it alone.
The door opened, Carolyn walked out and gave a weak smile when she saw Colby. "Now what are you doing out here?" She asked closing the door and walked over to him.
Colby shook his head. "Nothing just wanted to be alone for a bit."
His mother nodded, she took a seat next to him. "This is about Ariel?" She asked and he raised a brow. "Your father told me."
"Of freaking course." Colby rolled his eyes.
"I already knew it was something wrong when she didn't come considering she was so excited about coming back." Carolyn said. "You got yourself into some pretty big mess, huh?"
He nodded. "Yeah, and let me guess you hate me for what I did to her to?"
She chuckled. "Colby I'm your mother I could never hate you, now did you screw up big time? Yes, yes you did and I am a little mad at you but not fully and I don't condone keeping secrets or lying in any relationship. But your heart was in the right place when you did what you did and you weren't just thinking of yourself you were thinking of Ariel."
"Well she doesn't see that." Colby scoffed.
"Well she is still hurting." His mom said, he looked down. "You know if it's one thing I seem to realize about you and your dad is that you two have real big hearts. So big that you will lie to protect someone else and in some cases that is a good thing but not this time but that's just how you guys deal with things. Also I never liked that Zhara girl."
"I know Zhara does stupid things but I kinda feel sorry for her." He admitted. "She had to put up with the old me and I wasn't exactly the faithful type back then."
"No but you changed and you let the past go which is exactly what Zhara needs to do. All you can do is apologize and mean it but it's up to her to forgive you or not and the same goes for Ariel to."
"How am I gonna do it if she won't even sit down and talk to me?" Colby asked.
"You make her listen." His mother said sternly. "You lay it all out to her and explain your side and once you have you leave the decision up to her on whether or not she wants to go or stay."
Colby shook his head letting out a sigh. "I can't."
"Why not?"
He looked over at her. "Because I don't want her to go."
Carolyn smiled, she rubbed his back. "Go tell her that."
"Now?" His brow raised.
She shrugged. "Whenever you feel that you want to. I mean your not really missing anything here and you already gave me and your dad our gifts and I gave you mine."
Colby blinked a couple times before looking at her. "I didn't get a gift from you."
"Yes you did. I just gave you the best motherly advice for the year." Getting up she patted his head. "And if you get her back don't lie again or I will be the one smacking you upside the head next time...I raised you and your two toned hair better."
Colby laughed. "Yes mam." He nodded. "Thanks mom."
"Anytime." Carolyn smiled. "Now let me get back in here and find the ear plugs before your aunt starts singing karaoke." She said with an eye roll before heading inside.
He chuckled shaking his head, dialing a number on his phone he got up and headed back inside the house.
Stephanie walked down in the gym that they had in their home to see Ariel working out, she hadn't seen her since after they had dinner. She could already tell something was wrong it was one thing for Ariel to be quiet half the day but it was another thing for her to not bake with her and her sisters like they would always do on Christmas Eve.
"Hey Arie."
Ariel turned around, putting the weights down she smiled. "Hey mom."
"What are you doing down here so late?" Stephanie sat on one of the workout benches.
"It's only ten." Ariel chuckled. "Besides I had nothing else to do so I thought I just workout. It's kind of a force of habit."
She raised a brow. "Like you holding stuff in?"
Ariel brows furrowed in confusion. "Okay, who told?"
"Aurora, she heard you talking on the phone to Renee."
"She is so dead." Ariel gritted out.
"Ariel." Stephanie gave her a look, she patted the spot next to her. "Come on."
Letting out a sigh Ariel walked over and plopped down next to her. "Mom, seriously I'm fine."
"No your not."
"I am."
"No your not Ariel and that is okay." Stephanie rested a hand on her shoulder making Ariel look at her from the side. "Stop lying to yourself...you are not fine or okay. The sooner you admit that the better hun." Ariel eyes watered up, leaning over she hugged Stephanie and started crying in her shoulder. All that pinned up anger and hurt finally was coming out, closing her eyes she hugged her daughter back while rubbing her back. "I knew you weren't fine."
"I-I miss him." Ariel said in between soft cries.
"I know." Stephanie nodded, she pulled away and whipped the rest of Ariel tears that was coming out. "Now I got half the story from your sister but I want to hear the full one from you."
Ariel used the back of her hand to wipe her face, she decided to sit back and tell her mother everything from her sneaking out at 18 to go to a show with the Young Bucks. How Colby took her virginity that night, she then told her about the whole Vegas situation that happened with Zhara. And how Colby lied to her about being out and that he actually figured out who she was but didn't tell her.
After the story Stephanie shook her head with a sigh. "Wow."
"Yeah, that's pretty much all that happened." Ariel said, she played with her wristbands. "Gotta answer for all that?"
"I do but this time this talk isn't for me." Stephanie said. "It's for your dad."
"Stephanie says what?" Ariel eyed her like she was crazy. "Your joking right?"
Stephanie shook her head. "No, this is really a talk for you and your dad to have."
"But your the mom." She pointed.
"Yes, and sometimes the mom knows when certain things are meant to be passed on to the dad. You and your dad made up last time you were here but you two never really talked things out when it came to your past and you doing Indy wrestling." Stephanie narrowed her eyes on her at the last part. "But honestly I think this is a talk for the two of you two to have."
"Fine." Ariel sighed.
"Tomorrow." Stephanie pointed, she rolled her eyes. "I know you and him like don't like talking about the past but you have to so you can really move past it."
"He's gonna kill me when I tell him this."
"Maybe." Stephanie shrugged. "But he will still love you I know your dad doesn't really show it like he use to but he really does love you. And he won't judge you about the Colby thing because his closet isn't so clean either and trust me I know that for a fact."
Ariel giggled. "I'll talk to him in the morning."
"Good." She pulled her in a side hug. "I know it's hard to be in this business and deal with your personal life but I'm proud of how you handled it I would have never known you two weren't on good terms."
"Well we agreed to still things professional no matter what happens backstage." Ariel shrugged.
"That is why you need to stay together." Stephanie said.
Ariel lifted her head up. "So your saying I should let it go?"
Stephanie let her arm drop as she shrugged. "Ask your dad that." She stood up heading out.
"You have a weird way of being a parent." Ariel called out.
"I know." Stephanie called back. "Which makes me the best."
Ariel shook her head with a smile, flipping her small towel over her shoulder she left out the gym and hit the lights on the way out. Going upstairs to her room she took a shower, putting on her night shorts and matching top she laid down under the covers. She picked up her phone and decided to get on Instagram for a bit and found herself scrolling past all her pictures but all of them were of her and Colby.
"We take way to many damn selfies..." She muttered to herself.
She went on Colby's page and saw he posted a couple pictures with his family, a small smile appeared on her lips but as quickly as it came it left. It was bad enough all she could think about was him but even after all he did she still wanted to be with him at the moment and having fun but she couldn't.
For some reason their whole relationship started to make more sense now then it did before. Why she felt so attracted to him and why out of every guy backstage she just wanted his attention and why it always felt so easy talking to him. The way they had played with each other even before they got into a relationship always made people question their just friends thing.
Flashback
Ariel was backstage with Nattie, Brie, Rosa and Renee. She had on her ring gear as she was on the floor stretching while the other girls were talking.
"Ariel are you going out with us later?" Brie asked.
"Can't." Ariel replied hitting an arch.
Brie bent to her level. "And why not?"
"Because she is carpooling with Colby." Renee teased.
"Oh stop it." Ariel rolled her eyes, she lifted herself up and jumped to her feet.
"Carpooling now?" Rosa gasped. "Wait, did you guys?"
"No, no! God no, what kind of girl do you guys think I am." Ariel eyed them.
"Not that kind but you two went from going out a couple times to carpooling now, don't you think that means something?" Brie asked.
"It means that he wants to carpool." Ariel said in a confused tone.
"Or.." Nattie motioned her hand for more.
"Or that he wants somebody to ride with." Ariel said as all the girls huffed giving her looks. "What?"
"He wants you to ride with him alright." Rosa said as the other girls started laughing.
Ariel eyes widened. "Rosa!" She lightly smacked her arm. "Shame on you."
"Come on she has a point." Renee said.
"No she doesn't." Ariel shook her head. "Seriously guys Colby isn't like that he never made any move like that on me."
"You haven't given him the chance to." Renee said.
"You are not helping." She pointed.
Nattie shrugged. "Be honest with yourself Ariel, do you like him?"
"I don't know but I'm not here to date I'm just here to be a wrestler so all of you need to stop trying to corrupt me." Ariel said.
"Guys she's right." Brie spoke up.
"Thank you Brie." Ariel threw a hand up.
Brie cracked a smile. "We will leave the corrupting to Colby." She said as they laughed.
"I hate you guys." Ariel said with a plain shake of her head. Looking down the hall she saw Colby hit the corner and walk down the opposite way. "I would love to stay and chat but I see my ON SCREEN boyfriend." She walked off.
"On screen for now." Renee called out.
Ariel simply glared back at her laughing friends before continuing down the hall, she spotted him already in his ring gear by the interview area. "Hey, Colby." She waved.
Colby had his arms crossed, he looked from TV and over at her. He smiled seeing who was walking over to him. "Hey, what's up?"
Ariel shook her head. "Nothing I saw you walking and used that as an excuse to get away from the girls."
He chuckled. "They teasing you again?"
"It's becoming a regular routine." She rolled her eyes. "They just don't get it that me and you are just friends."
"Mhm." Colby nodded still smiling, he looked back at the TV. "That's what we are."
Ariel raised a brow. "What was that?"
"What was what?"
"The 'Mhm' why did you give me that?" She asked.
Colby shrugged. "I was just agreeing beautiful, that's all."
She smirked. "Aw you think I'm beautiful?"
"Of course. Well other then that time you answered your room door with that face mask-"
"Hey!" Ariel pointed. "You swore to never bring that up again."
"No I didn't." Colby shook his head. "You did."
"Which means you automatically agreed with me."
He thought about it with a hum. "Mmm, not really."
"Yes really." Ariel got in his face. "Promise to never bring it back up."
"Are you trying to be intimidating?" Colby smirked, he raised a brow.
"Yeah, is it working?"
"Not really but still having you this close to me is a win in my book so I'm not complaining." He shrugged.
"Okay, you try and be intimidating then Rollins." Ariel challenged while poking his chest. "Or have you lost that quali-"
She was cut off by him grabbing her hand out of nowhere, she looked up wide eyed not expecting that. He backed her up until her back was pressed up against the wall and he was towering over her with a glare, The fact that his body was pressed up against hers and her heart beating fast but the look he was giving her made all thoughts leave her mind.
Colby rested a hand next to her head, he leaned down to her level so they were eye to eye. "What were you saying about being intimidating again? Don't get quite on me now sweetheart I know you have something you wanna say."
Ariel swallowed the lump in her throat, she innocently smiled up at him. "Believe in Seth Rollins?" She said in a low cute tone.
Colby tried to keep a straight face but ended up cracking a smile, he chuckled before letting her go and backing up. "Guess I found my weakness to breaking character."
"Oh yeah, what's that?" She asked as she was still trying to get over what happened.
"You and those damn pretty blue eyes of yours." He admitted making her look up at him. "Well um I gotta go finish getting ready I'll see you out there, alright?" He let his shoulder brush pass hers as he headed down the hall.
Ariel watched him leave, she slowly smiled before hearing something. Turning around she saw a couple workers and camera guy. "Please tell me ya'll didn't get that?"
"Want us to lie?" The camera guy asked. with a smile.
"They always say the stuff off guard is the best." One worker spoke up. "Guess we got our backstage exclusive."
Ariel eyes turned to slits. "Oh you guys are good." She pointed. "Colby was in on it to, wasn't he?"
"Nope nobody was." He answered.
Her eyes widened as she looked back down the hall that Colby left in. "So...that was all him." She soon smiled before shaking her head.
End flashback
A knock on her door made her snap out of thought, she put her phone away. "Come in."
"Ariel." Her little sister Murphy opened the door and walked halfway in.
She sat up. "Yeah, Murph what's up?"
Her little sister played with her thumbs nervously. "Can we stay in here tonight?"
Ariel sighed, she ran a hand through her hair. "Yeah, I guess you-wait we?" Her eyes narrowed.
"Yay!" Murphy ran in.
"Told you she wouldn't deny Murphy." Vaughn said following.
"Oh shutup." Aurora rolled her eyes, she closed the door behind her.
"Whoa hold up-oof!" Ariel was cut off by Murphy jumping on her to get on the bed, she cuddled up next to Ariel. "Okay ouch, but why aren't you guys sleeping in your big rooms? You know the ones mom and dad spent thousands on?"
"Because your not in them." Vaughn said getting under the covers.
"Yeah, besides we always use to sleep together on Christmas eve." Aurora laid back getting comfortable.
"And we missed you." Murphy smiled.
Ariel rolled her eyes. "Alright fine just go to sleep." She hit her light and laid back down. A quiet silence fell in the room after two minutes Ariel spoke back up again. "Anybody really sleepy?"
"Nope." Aurora answered.
"Nah uh." Vaughn shook her head.
"I was never sleepy." Murphy said.
"Welp." Ariel sat up. "There's still ice cream and cake left from earlier." She got up.
"Wait for us!" Vaughn called out as they jumped out following their sister out the room and downstairs.
The next morning everybody was in the living room as they watched the girls open the presents they got, Vince and Linda were there as well. Ariel had on a pair of light faded blue jeans, a v-neck fitted burgundy cashmere sweater, some of her hair was pulled back into a pony tail but the rest stayed out.
She had took two pictures and had posted them on Twitter one was just a picture of her parents wearing their Santa Claus hats. The second one was a big family picture with everyone in it.
Ariel's first tweet- The worlds best Mom and Dad I couldn't have asked for better parents #ILoveThem #BestParents
Ariel's second tweet- Me and my family I hope all my fans is enjoying time with their families #HappyHolidays
"Aw you got me all the season of Vampire Diaries." Aurora hugged her. "Looks like I'm not gonna read your diary when you leave after all."
Ariel hugged her back with a smile. "Thank you for bringing that up, I'm taking it with me this time."
"Dang it." Aurora snapped her finger, she let go and went back over to see what else she had got.
"Here you go Ariel." Her grandfather walked over handing her a gold box as he sat across from her. "It's from me and your grandmother."
"Aw come on granddad you didn't have to get me anything I told you guys that already." Ariel said.
"I know but it's kind of hard to to stop buying gifts for your first grandkid." He said making her smile. "No matter how old you get you are getting a gift from me kiddo."
"Being in the WWE is the greatest gift you gave me but thank you." Ariel took the box, unwrapping it she saw a pretty gold charm bracelet that had a lot of pretty charms attached to it but one stuck out. It was the W logo that stood for WWE it was a bit bigger then the other ones. "It's so pretty!" She quickly put it on to get a better look. "How long did this thing take?"
"I had to get it pre ordered in November. I was gonna give it to you for your first match but I decided to wait." Vince said.
"Thank you so much, I love it!" Getting up she hugged him.
"I thought you might." Vince hugged her back with a chuckle.
After a while Ariel excused herself from everyone and went to find her dad, she later found him in his home office at his desk.
Ariel knocked on the opening getting his attention. "Can't take a day off can yah?"
Paul looked up from what he was writing, he smiled. "No I can I just had to fill these papers out for the next NXT Takeover which reminds me I need you and Colby there by the way."
"I'm sure that won't be a problem." Ariel said, she walked in and sat on the big comfy sofa. "Can we talk about something?"
"Your not pregnant are you?" His brow raised.
"What? No! What is with you guys when every time I say that I need to talk that you think there is a baby in here." She pointed at her stomach, moving her feet she folded her legs on the couch.
"Well." Paul says as he stood up and walked over. "The last time your mother asked me could we talk about something your sister Murphy was born nine months later." He sat next to her on the couch.
"And isn't she adorable?" Ariel joked, he let out a chuckle. "But seriously I just need to talk."
"This about that whole Colby, virginity, Zhara, and Vegas trip thing?" Paul raised a brow, he watched her eyes widen. "Your mother told me last night."
"Dang it." Ariel snapped. "She must thought I was gonna back out...which I was." She scratched the back of her head, she looked at her dad and let out a sigh. "I'm really sorry daddy."
Paul brows furrowed. "Sorry, what are you sorry for? You didn't do anything."
"Actually I did. I wrestled at a young age and lied to you and mom constantly about where I was going."
"Ariel your not perfect." He said making her look over at him. "The only reason I was so mad when I found out that you were wrestling at that age is because I was afraid for you."
"Afraid for me?"
"Kid you put on great matches the best I seen from the main roster in a long time but I still worry about you every time you step through those ropes. Which is why when I found out you were wrestling at that age I was scared that you were gonna get hurt injured or worst." Paul sat back. "But I have to say sorry to you to."
"You apologizing dad?...this is definitely Christmas." Ariel mumbled.
"Hey, even parents can admit when they do something wrong." He nudged her. "But I am sorry for trying to baby you all the time. It's just hard looking at you and see that your no longer my little girl that was crawling around the house getting into stuff around here. And by the way there is no need to be nervous about telling me how you snuck out to go to that Indy show when you were eighteen I already know you did."
"Okay, does everybody know stuff that I don't?" She asked. "Wait, you mean you knew before mom told you?"
Paul nodded. "Mhm."
"Man if I still was seventeen I would be so grounded." Ariel shook her head. "How did you know?"
"The guy that owns the show called me and told me you were there." He said. "Since you illegally wrestled the first time I made sure to send out a warning to my buddies that if they see you to call me. Now I was gonna come and get you but then I decided for once to let you go and see if you could handle yourself and let you experience adulthood."
"Well it worked I learned my lesson and probably made a big mistake." Ariel says looking down. "I was just some score to Colby back then I didn't mean anything to him and I gave something like that to a guy I barley knew."
"Well you said the right word out of all of that 'back then' not right now. Now although I'm not to found of you dating somebody your in a story line with it was bound to happen sooner or later especially with both of your history." He eyed her. "Now maybe you were just some score to him back then but I seen how he treats you and I don't think that you are just some score to him. I seen a lot of people backstage use others and lets just say if Colby is using you to get noticed in the company more then he is one hell of an actor."
"But-"
"Let me finish." Paul stopped her. "I know he lied and I do not condone that but his heart was in the right place when he decided not to tell you. He didn't wanna see you hurt or cry...and to be honest I did that to your mom before. I didn't wanna do that, the pain of seeing her hurt or cry because of me was just something I couldn't deal with but I had to. And that is probably what Colby was battling with, do you honestly think Colby wanted to hurt you on purpose or even lie to you? I mean do you think it was probably easy for him to walk around knowing what he did and not being able to tell you?"
Ariel thought about it, she shook her head. "No, but why didn't he just tell me?"
"Because you my daughter are a coin toss." He said making her raise a brow. "You don't know if your gonna take the news well or bad. And personally Ariel no guy has a good past I still hate talking about mine because back then your dad was a real-"
"Dick?" Her brow raised.
"Thank, you." He said sarcastically making her shrug and smile. "Anyway I was a bad guy back then and did some things that I'm not proud of. And when your a young guy in the Indy scene you can sometimes loose yourself because your still young and trying to figure this crazy world out while trying to make it. Colby might have been a bad guy back then and treated women badly but he's grown now and I don't think that guy is Tyler Black anymore. He's Colby Lopez and if you love the guy as much as you say you do then you will leave the past where it belongs and move on from it together."
"So your saying I should stay with him?"
"No." Paul shook his head. "You let the guy tell his side and if you still can't forgive him for what he did then you just move on but at least let him say what he needs to."
Ariel played with sleeve of her sweater as she looked down, she nodded. "I think I get what your saying."
"Good and I'm proud of you and Colby for still finding a way to keep it professional in the ring. That shows me that you two can work together even when your having problems."
"Well you taught me well." Ariel said.
Paul nodded. "That's true and by the way no matter what happened between us when you were younger I am glad that I trained you to wrestler...better."
She smiled. "I guess in a way you were right to take me away from Indy wrestling I probably would have lost myself down the line. I love you daddy and sorry for putting you guys through it when I was a teenager." She hugged him.
"I love you to baby girl." He hugged her back. "And you didn't scar me and your mom that bad since we had three more girls."
Ariel pulled away. "Do we ever find it crazy that uncle Shane has all boys and mom has all girls?"
"It is weird but then again the mom side of your family has always been weird."
"What do you call your side dad?" Her brow raised. "Because they are weird bunch themselves...aunt Viola for instance."
"We still don't know if she is related to us." Paul pointed, she shook her head and started laughing at her dad.
A knock on the door made them both look over, Aurora walked in. "Bad time?"
"Never a bad time for you girls, what's up?" Paul asked. "Is everything okay?"
"Yeah." Aurora nodded. "But Ariel somebody is here to see you."
Ariel brows furrowed together confused. "For me? I don't remember inviting somebody over."
"Maybe one of your friends stopped by." Paul shrugged.
"Dad I don't have that many friends. Besides the ones I do have are probably with their families right now." Ariel stood up, she looked to Aurora. "Did you get a name?"
"What do I look like Arie your secretary? Come see for yourself." Aurora said with a scoff as she walked off.
"Okay you are so rude." Ariel followed her out. "You could have just got a name you little brat!"
"Blah, blah, blah." Aurora mocked as they walked down the steps. "Stop yapping and come on."
"Shutup and don't rush me." Ariel said, she walked down the steps but stopped dead in her tracks when she saw a familiar face. Her eyes widened but she had to blink a couple times to make sure she was seeing things right, slowly she took another step down. "Colby? What are you doing here?" She asked not taking her eyes off of him.
He just let out a sigh and shrugged. "I came to talk and this time I know you can't go anywhere on me."
"You flew hours just to come and talk?" Ariel questioned, she let her feet hit the floor and crossed her arms over her chest.
"Yeah, I did." Colby nodded. "But the real question is, are we finally gonna sit and talk? Or are you shut me out and run away again?"
Ariel sighed, she opened her eyes back up giving him a conflicted look.
That was chapter 51 and don't worry chapter 52 will be out this week to. But anyway I hope you guys liked this chapter and don't forget to leave me a review telling me what you thought about this chapter, until next time!
