October 9th 2017…
Finn looked up as Rue walked in, taking a deep breath.
"I picked out a ring for Mandy." Finn explained before showing her the onyx and diamonds marquise cut engagement ring, Rue smiling and the two hugging for a few seconds before she gasped.
"How much time til you propose?" Rue asked.
"Right before my promo tonight." Finn explained before noticing the look in Rue's eyes. "What are you plotting?" He asked after closing the velvet box and putting it in his jacket pocket.
"Well aren't you gonna ask me the big question?" Rue asked, before raising an eyebrow.
"Rue will you sew the dresses if Amanda says yes?" Finn asked.
"Yes! A million times yes!" Rue said.
They hugged again and let go before Rue walked to the door… and turned back to Finn.
"I'm gonna get her dolled up a bit." Rue responded before she left.
Once she found Amanda, she looked her over and guided her to the chair that the makeup artist used before clipping Amanda's hair up out of her face and wiping Amanda's makeup off.
"What in the-" Amanda responded before Rue shushed her and applied pink corrector concealer under Amanda's eyes to hide the dark circles, blending it in with concealer that matched Amanda's skin tone… and closed both tubes before finding the contour.
"Finny wants to do something special tonight so I'm gonna make you drop dead gorgeous." Rue explained.
Amanda nodded as Rue used the right contouring for Amanda's narrow shaped face, blending it with concealer and bronzer… and lightly applied Amanda's eye makeup in a doe eye look to brighten up Amanda's eyes, adding a bit of highlighter pencil to under Amanda's eyes after finishing with the winged eyeliner and mascara.
"Honey, you are way too young to be this tired looking." Rue explained.
"It's not easy getting enough sleep while on the road but faking a wide awake look helps." Amanda responded as Rue looked at the shades of lipstick nearby… and chose a nude lipstick to apply to Amanda's lips before taking Tenoverten's Church off of Amanda's nails with remover and using rubbing alcohol on Amanda's oval shaped nails before applying Ella + Mila's All About That Base base coat and closing it.
As Dean walked by, he stopped and was wide eyed as he looked from Amanda to Rue.
"What? Do you want a makeover?" Rue asked before holding up a blush brush.
"How did you make her look less exhausted and why'd you paint her nails rose gold?" Dean questioned, noticing Ella + Mila's Champagne Pop on Amanda's nails.
"By the power of makeup and the fact that most weekends I'll be lucky to get some sleep." Rue said.
After a while, Amanda saw a text from Dakota… who was mad that Amanda hadn't spoken to her since the concussion incident.
'You can't avoid me forever!'
Amanda put her phone on Do Not Disturb before she and Finn kissed and walked to the ring.
Once they were in the ring and Finn had a microphone, he got down on his right knee and opened the box… and Amanda was wide eyed as Finn asked "Amanda Rose Cena, will you marry me?" and the fans cheered.
"Yes! Yes!" Amanda responded happily, Finn putting the ring on her left ring finger before he stood up and they kissed as they held each other.
In the backstage area, Dakota dropped her script in shock.
In Ashley's apartment Seth looked down at Ashley's smiling face... only to find she was sound asleep.
"Damn sleeping pills, couldn't they wait another 5 minutes." Seth muttered.
In the arena in Denver, Amanda and Finn kissed in the backstage area… and jumped as Hunter managed to restrain Dakota.
"Calm down!" Hunter responded.
"Don't you tell me to calm down!" Dakota growled.
Finn guided Amanda away as Dakota kept directing her anger towards them, Hunter dragging her into the office and slamming the door.
"What's your fucking problem with them?!" Hunter demanded.
"Mind your own beeswax." Dakota sneered.
"Mind my own business when you intentionally injured your own damn friend?!" Hunter responded.
"Oh for god's sake we're really gonna bring this up again?" Dakota asked.
"Tell me why you're pissed off about Finn proposing to Mandy!" Hunter responded.
"Why should they get to be happy when I don't?!" Dakota retorted.
"That's your excuse?!" Hunter asked.
"What are you gonna do? Suspend me?" Dakota asked.
"As of now, you're on suspension! Get your things and go!" Hunter responded, Dakota wide eyed as she hadn't actually expected that.
"Seriously?! You can't do that!" Dakota yelled.
"I just did, you can't keep going off at your co-workers! You're also gonna be in grief counseling because you're gonna need it after Terry's gone!" Hunter explained.
"Fuck that! You can't me go to a fucking counselor!" Dakota yelled before leaving and heading to her locker room.
She packed her things up and threw one of the scripts at the door… and Finn pulled Amanda out of harm's way before Dakota saw them.
"Get the fuck out or I'll break your legs!" Dakota growled.
Amanda kicked the door shut before she and Finn headed to their locker room… and Finn lightly rubbed her back.
"She's not taking it well, she's not going to be the same." Amanda responded quietly.
After packing her things, Dakota left her locker room before seeing a can of red spray.
She grabbed it before heading to Finn and Amanda's locker room once they were out of the room and put 'The slut and her master!' on the door.
When they reached their locker room while talking with Rue, all three of them saw it… and Rue took a picture before sending it to Hunter with the text 'Dakota needs some serious help before someone gets killed!'.
'I know but she's refusing to.' Hunter responded.
'Well fucking make her go!' Rue texted.
'I'll give it my best.' Hunter responded.
At the hotel, Amanda and Finn were in their room and about to move closer towards the bed when Luke was angrily knocking on the door.
"I'll burn this place to the ground if you two don't open this door!"
Finn unlocked and opened the door, stopping Luke from hitting him.
"Your cousin needs to accept that she needs help!" Finn responded, Luke backing up a few steps and glaring at Amanda.
"Don't take out that anger on us, it's not our fault that Kota went off!" Amanda replied.
"Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining!" Luke growled.
"That expression is terribly outdated!" Amanda responded, Luke turning livid and Amanda cutting him off by slapping him as he was about to yell again. "What are we all supposed to do, put our lives on hold? Kota is gonna need support, not to push everyone away and act like we're all traitors for starting the next chapter in our lives! What if you someday want a family with Nia, are you gonna put that plan on hold permanently because your flesh and blood would see it as betrayal and claim that you don't care?" She replied, Luke taken aback by that and rubbing his stinging face.
Luke quickly left and the door slammed, the sound of it echoing in the hallway.
"Goddamn it, Mandy… when you're right, you're right." Luke whispered as he was walking away.
He wouldn't admit it but the thought of Dakota treating him like an outsider when something happened that she didn't like terrified him.