The Deville You Know Ch3
"Mandy?"
Silence.
"Mandy, are you awake?"
Nothing.
"Mandy!"
Sonya launched her pillow across the room, with it landing on her blonde best friend.
"Uhh?"
"Oh good, you're awake."
"What?"
"Mandy, will you listen to me. I need to talk."
"What time is it?"
"I don't know, about four am?"
Mandy let out a loud groan. "Sonya, unless this is life and death, turn over and go to sleep. Now."
"Mandy you were right."
That had much more of an effect. Mandy turned over and faced her friend. "I told you drinking too much water before bed would make you uncomfortable."
Sonya didn't even acknowledge the attempt at a joke. "No, you were right about Paige."
Mandy looked blank, although the fact she was still more than half asleep played a huge part in that. "Paige? What about her?"
"What you said about her, about me, I think you were right." Sonya braced herself for a response. The response never came. Mandy hadn't understood still. "Oh come on. Mandy, I'm trying to tell you that you were right. I think I am having some feelings for Paige. I don't know what to do and I need you to wake up before I lose my mind!"
Mandy was still quiet for a moment, but her expression had changed. Finally she spoke. "You do? I mean, I know you do. I told you you did. But are you ok?"
"Yes? No? Oh I don't know, I don't know!" Sonya pounded her mattress with her arm in pure frustration.
"Sonya, calm down. You have to think about this. You have to be sure. Breathe." Mandy slowly sat up as her friend was ready to have a moment of craziness. Mandy got a bottle of water from the minibar and handed it over. "Calm down and think."
Sonya thought about how great the last day had been after the misery of its previous. Achieving a goal of her debut on tv, making new friends, a great evening. But most of all she thought about that kiss.
"She sorta , Well, she kissed me last night." Sonya took a second to look up and her friend, and saw her mouth open in shock.
"You two kissed? What the hell?"
"It's not like that, we were getting hit on by these drunk morons, and she kissed me to get rid of them. Worked like a charm too. But what a kisser she is! I can't stop thinking about it."
Mandy smiled. "Ok, so you've definitely got it bad for her, the way that you smile when you talked about it. What are you going to do, ask her out?"
Sonya looked like Mandy was crazy. "What? No! I can't do that. She didn't kiss me because she liked me, we were lucky they didn't recognise her, or they'd know what I do. Paige isn't into girls. I swear I've got the worst gaydar in the world, first it's women who don't truly care about me, and it's leading me to straight chicks now.
Mandy raised an eyebrow. "And you told me you watched the show."
Sonya didn't understand. "What show? What do you mean?"
"Total Divas. When I told you I was going on it you said you'd been watching it for years. Either you were lying or you have a lousy memory."
Sonya knew she was beaten here. "Ok, I was trying to be supportive, I did watch the season you were on though, you know that, you were watching it with me! But what does this have to do with Paige, other than she was on it too."
"There was an episode where she admitted to having been with a woman before."
Sonya's eyes went wide at hearing this. "Are you for real?"
Mandy nodded. "Yeah, I mean, it was just once, and she completely rejected Rosa later on, but it happened, and that means you have to have a chance right?"
Sonya groaned. "One moment years ago doesn't mean she has some repressed gay feelings Mandy. It's ridiculous. She's had only boyfriends since then. I don't have any hope of her actually feeling anywhere close to what I do, and she never will...will she?"
"I don't know Sonya." Mandy said, sitting back down next to her. "But you aren't just going to try and get her into bed right? Right. See what happens. If it's meant to be, it'll happen. You said we are on the same flight home today, and it leaves in a few hours, so let's get sorted and get to the airport."
The two packed their cases and checked out of the hotel, finding an Uber with ease. As they finished at the check in counter, Sonya heard a voice call out that made her whole body tingle.
"Yoohoo! There you are bitches!"
Clad in blue jeans, a leather jacket, and a very stylish hat, Sonya looked at her on screen leader and thought she looked amazing as she walked over. Problem was none of her thought process stretched to opening her mouth or ears, which were not functioning until Mandy jabbed her in the midsection.
"Ah, what was that for?" Sonya saw Mandy direct her attention to Paige, at which moment she realised she may well have been staring. "Sorry." She said in hope.
"Sorry? If you don't want to grab a coffee before the flight that's cool, I'll see you at the gate." Paige said, no idea as to what Sonya was doing.
"No, I mean yes, I mean, coffee sounds good." Sonya couldn't get her words right, and there was a voice in her head screaming at her for being so lame. Mandy on the other hand was doing everything in her power not to laugh at her friend acting like a teenager. Paige of course had no idea about any of it. As the three of them ordered coffees to go and went and sat down while they waited for their flight to be called. Sonya couldn't sit still, crossing her legs, uncrossing them, tapping her fingers on her hand, trying to calm herself.
"Sonya, what's the matter? Are you a bad flyer or something?" Paige asked her, snapping her out of another near trance.
"What? Er no, I'm fine."
"Well that's good, because not liking flying is not going to be very helpful to you in this job. It's not like NXT, you have to sort your own flights, your own hire cars, everything." Both Sonya and Mandy knew this, but it still sounded daunting coming from the only one of them who knew it.
"But you can help us right?" Mandy asked. "You must have some advice on the better airlines, or rental companies, even hotels."
"Yeah, I mean I might be a little bit rusty, and some of these companies might have gotten their act together and just the opposite. I guess we will all find out together."
"We will?" Sonya asked, with a sense of hope.
"Yeah." Paige nodded. "We are going to travel together aren't we? The office usually likes teams to travel together, they think it helps with the characters and helps build chemistry. Plus I want to know you both better. It's been a long time since Tough Enough. Unless you don't want me to? It's ok if you want to the two of you. Nia and Lexi has already asked me, so I'll see if the offers still open?"
Sonya swallowed hard as she found her voice. "No, don't do that, I'd love you to travel with us. I mean we. We would love you to travel with us. Right Mand?"
Mandy was making notes on all of this to make fun of her friend with later, but now she needed her backup. "Of course. We split all the costs, and the driving even though."
"Fine by me, I'll even show you some great places to eat, drink and have fun along the way, as well as the hotels of course. This is great, we need a pic for Instagram. The moment we became a team for real." Paige pulled out her phone and the three of them got close, with Sonya in the middle. Paige lent her head against Sonyas as she took it.
"Look at your smile Sonya, it's beautiful." Paige said on checking the photo. She added a caption and hit send. As she did they heard their flight getting called over the loudspeaker.
"Where are you sitting?" Mandy asked Paige.
"Errm, seat 17C" Paige checked her boarding pass.
"Oh, we are in row 26. I don't suppose you'd switch with me. This ones a talker and I could really do with trying to nap." Mandy asked. Sonya saw straight through her and gave her a death stare.
"You're rolling the dice, I usually get stuck with the worst person on the plane, but if you're a risk taker, then go for it." Paige replied with a smirk.
"Deal. Have fun you two. Mandy switched passes with Paige and headed to the plane.
"You and me then toots. You better not have any bad plane habits, or ill throw you off myself, mid air." Paige laughed, but realised she was the only one. Sonya was trying to keep herself calm and missed the joke, only then realising it.
"Oh, sorry, I was thinking, I don't think I have any, or Mandy might have done that herself."
"Yeah, I'm sure." Paige picked up Sonya's case and headed it to her. "Come on."
Sonya took a breath before following her. 'Be cool, just be cool' she thought to herself as she went to get on board.
Their seats weren't far from the doors so Paige and Sonya got sat down fast. Sonya saw Mandy several rows ahead, giving her a look and a knowing smile.
The blonde was lucky enough to get some sleep, barely waking up before touching down in Orlando. The passengers were up so quickly she wasn't able to see her friends until they were at baggage claim, where Paige waved her over. The three of them collected their belongings and headed into the main airport until the reached the exit.
"There's my ride, my assistant Joey, so, I guess I'll see you back here Friday Mandy. Early flight to Detroit for the house show. Just don't be late. Sonya, I'll text you the address ok? Later chicas!" Paige walked off, hugging the guy who picked her up, then getting in his car.
"Chicas?" Sonya said with a smirk, causing Mandy to laugh.
"Yeah, don't pretend even that didn't light your fire a bit, and what's this about texting you an address then huh?"
Sonya went red, she knew she was busted on that as soon as Paige mentioned it. "Well, we were chatting on the plane, and she, well, she kinda asked me if I wanted to join her for drinks tomorrow night, maybe dinner, she wasn't sure."
Mandy raised her eyebrows. "She asked you out?" The tone wasn't one of certainty, which was easily picked up on.
"I know, but it's almost certainly not like that. But it's a great chance to get to know her."
"It is, she clearly wants to get to know you, wait a minute, how did I not even get an invitation here? Sonya suddenly couldn't look her best friend in the eye. "Sonya? What did you do?"
"I, um, I might have said you were going to spend the next few days with your Mom."
"You lying...man, she's really gotten into your head hasn't she." Mandy couldn't get mad at her friend, she could tell she didn't feel good about it, yet couldn't stop herself from taking Mandy out of the meet-up.
"Yeah, thanks for not getting mad."
"I'll only be mad if you blow it. Come on, let's get UbersYou better get some food in, I'll be round yours at about noon tomorrow." Mandy got her phone out and ordered a car.
Sonya was confused. "Why are you coming round?"
Mandy rolled her eyes. "You know how useless you get on dates."
"It's not a date."
"Maybe not yet, but who knows by the end of the night. We are going to pick out your clothes, do your hair and make up as many times as we need to until we create something that gothic leader of ours will again question which team she's really playing for." A car pulled up behind them and Mandy signalled him, realising he was her driver.
"You really think I've got a chance?" Sonya said, looking for reassurance.
Mandy sighed. "Oh you poor thing. Don't worry Cinderella, you will go to the ball and take Princess Charming breath away. Just don't leave your shoes there, I know how much you pay for them." Mandy laughed as she got into the car.
Sonya watched her leave, then realised she hadn't ordered and Uber herself yet. While she did so and waited for it, she realised she had a lot to do. Not just her laundry and chores, but tomorrow, she had a very big night ahead.
A/N: Well I'm sure you thought this was dead in the water. It's been a very long time since I published anything for it. At one point I thought the same. Paige's return being cut heartbreakingly short by her injury forced retirement made me very unsure what to do. I'll probably take the in ring side of the story out of it to a point, unless it helps the story. I'll certainly not have Paige getting injured or retiring in this story, maybe if there's a sequel. I'll be able to keep Dean Ambrose in it too, despite his departure.
The reason I even picked it up again is dire to a few people who sent me messages via reviews or messages asking me to continue. If you are one of those and you are reading this, then I thank you.
Please let me know any thoughts you have, anything you would like to see, what you think will happen when Sonya and Paige meet up for drinks. I love reading your reviews and it really does mean a lot and inspire me to write, I just ask you keep them friendly.