Outside of the arena April sat in the car tapping her fingers off the steering wheel watching as people began to spill out of the back doors into their buses or packing boxes into the vans waiting to take the equipment to the next show, when she spotted him walking out his cap pulled low on his head and looking at the ground. Seeing him like this broke Aprils heart and she knew how much being a part of the wrestling fraternity meant to him and how hard he worked to get to where he was. But she had seen how despondent and dejected he was getting these past few months, especially watching him getting passed up for those who only come in once a year to boost show ratings. She stepped out of the car and waved over at him hoping he would see her. As he looked up and spotted her she knew then he had obviously made the hardest decision of his life. Deciding not to question him she gave him a quick hug and got into the car as he put his bag into back seat and got into the front.
As they pulled out of the arena car park she stuck the radio on and started to sing along to the latest One Direction song knowing it might bring a smile to his face watching her try to sing along or making him change the radio station as she knew he hated that type of music, but he just pulled his cap right down over his face and leant his head against the car window. April noticed how upset he must be and hoped that when they got back to the hotel and into their room and some privacy he might open up to her. If not she would have to make the call to Scott to see if he could get anything out of him.
Parking the car in the hotel car park she pulled into a space and turned the ignition off turning to look at Phil.
"Hey we are back at the hotel do you want to go grab something to eat or should we just order something in and eat in the room?"
"I'm not really hungry and I just want to go to bed and have an early night I have a banging headache from the match earlier and my back feels like I have went 10 rounds with Lesnars F5s. Don't let me stop you from getting a bite to eat" Phil replied as he opened the car door and began to get out.
April quickly ran round grabbed his bag and watched him as he tried to straighten up knowing that he must be hurting but was to stubborn to ask for help. He reached his hand out to take his bag as she bent into lift hers out. Swatting his hand away she told him that she would take them and he wasn't to argue. Walking into the hotel lobby they were met with a crowd of the roster getting ready to go out.
"Hey April you coming out with us tonight?" asked Paige
"Not tonight Paige thanks for the offer have to keep an eye on Phil tonight after that match"
"Yeah it was a bit brutal to be honest when I watched it on the screen I actually thought he was out of it at one stage but when he got up again I thought he must have been ok, but no worries maybe next time" replied Paige and gave her a big hug before walking over to where everyone was gathered.
"Hey you wait up" she called out as she watched Phil heading towards the lifts. He turned around and gave a small smile as she ran up to join him, watching her trying not to trip herself up with the two bags she was carrying along, as much as she was graceful in the ring she was a bit of a klutz outside of it. It was one of the reasons why he had fallen for her as she wasn't like the other girls on the female roster.
"Glad to see I can still make you smile" she said as she set the bags down at this feet waiting on the lift doors opening. Picking them up as the doors opened she stepped inside and he followed behind. Punching the button for their floor she gave his arm a quick squeeze letting him know she was there for him no matter what. He pulled her into his arms and wrapped them round her and squeezed her tight and said a quiet thank you to her.
The doors opened and they trudged along to their hotel room, opening the door April threw the two bags into the corner before flopping down on the bed. Watching Phil lower himself down onto the bed beside her he took his cap off and she could finally look at him and see in his eyes that the fight he once had had left him.
He sighed heavily and leant back against the pillows every muscle in his body aching now he was beginning to relax, his head was throbbing from where he had hit not recalling exactly what happened to cause it due that many things happening round him. He looked over at April and could see her studying him knowing he must be hurting both physically and mentally.
Taking a deep breath he finally spoke "I'm done, I'm not going back my body and mind can't take any more of the beatings and mind games. I said my piece to Triple H and Stephanie and I walked away. My heart just isn't in anymore and I don't want to be somewhere where I'm just going to be pushed to the side or play second fiddle to the likes of Cena. I just hope that this won't affect us and your career as I want you to continue and I will support you one hundred percent. I just hope that the same thing doesn't happen to you too" he said with sincerity in voice.
April had tears in her eyes listening to him and she could see them in his too knowing how hard it was for him to finally admit what he had been feeling for ages. Shuffling over on the bed she leant her head on his chest and wrapped her arm around him "don't worry about me I'll be fine I still have my champions belt and I'm tougher than I look" she said "do you want anything to eat or do you just want to rest? I can phone down for room service?"
"I'm not hungry thanks I just want to rest up and hopefully with some rest this headache will go away but go you ahead and order up something, we can stick something on the T.V and relax"
She pulled out a menu for the hotel and phoned down to put her order in, Phil meanwhile changed out of his clothes into something more comfortable. As he was changing April could see the marks on his body resulting from the match tonight, red welts covered his back, bruising appearing on his side and on his thigh. She was used to seeing these but tonight they made it seem worse after his confession. Grabbing the remote for the T.V she started flicking through channels trying to find something they could both watch, finally she found a rerun of Supernatural on and decided it was probably the safest option as he definitely was not a chick flick or romcom kind of guy. Once she was settled on the bed with a veggie pizza and fries she glanced across to Phil who despite saying he wasn't hungry his stomach was saying otherwise.
"Take a slice of pizza will you it will settle that tiger in your stomach" she said while wrapping her finger around the loose string of cheese dripping from her slice. "You need to eat something or you'll feel worse later on"
"Okay, okay if it will keep you quiet I'll take one slice" he joked while lifting the biggest slice there was and practically inhaled it "oh that is so good" he mumbled while enjoying it.
"Glad you are you greedy git" April teased him glad he was taking something to eat. "I have to keep an eye on you to make sure you have no side effects after any head injury despite you having been given the all clear"
"I'll be fine honest AJ how many times have I had this happen and I've always been fine" Phil protested knowing that she was only showing concern and love for him. She accepted that and didn't say anything else as she didn't want to cause another row between them, especially now things where on the change for both of them.
Things had been rough for them this past while, what with his diffuclty with his work and what they had been doing with his career while hers was finally beginning to take off it was having a bit of an effect on them and caused one or two riffs. It had crossed his mind once or twice that maybe she would be better off without him, he would only hold her back and despite the age gap someone her own age, but she stuck by him and was always there when he needed her – well most of the time somethings a guy couldn't talk to a girl about her confided in his long-time friend Scott.
The two of them ate the rest of the pizza in silence watching T.V and just chilling. As soon as the show as over Phil turned off the screen and began to yawn, he shuffled down from his sitting up position down onto the bed and rolled onto his side to talk to April. As he finally got onto his side he glanced over and found April had fell asleep her long hair had fell over his face which he gently pushed back and gave her a good night kiss. He tried not to waken her as he knew she needed the rest too. Even though he was tired he couldn't sleep his mind was just a buzz, used to not sleeping to well it was one of those nights he really wanted to try and get a good sleep. Despite trying to settle he just couldn't so he sat back up resting his back against the headboard of the bed and he picked up his phone and fired off a text
Hey Scott how's tricks? I've finally done what I said I was going to do! Hope all's good speak soon, P
No sooner had he send this to his long time best friend than he felt his phone vibrate on his chest
What the hell man are you serious? Did you finally tell those idiots where to stick their job? What you going to do now? Here for ya if you need a chat. S
Yep I did in a roundabout way tell them where to stick it. I just walked out and I have no intention of returning so be interesting to see if aul Vincy boy will contact me or if anyone for that matter. I'm not going into to work for the next show and I'll see what happens then. No idea what my next plans are but might get speaking to Paul to get some ideas. At the mo I just time to rest and get my shit together. Hitting the send button he wished that his best friend was here to talk to he would understand how he felt in a way after all he suffered at the hands of the same people a similar effect being pushed aside for stupid things and other people.
Keep me updated on what happens man, and if that prick does try to get you back tell him to F Off and where he can put his job. Say hi to April from me. Now get a rest I gotta go back to the ladies!
Phil gave a chuckle over Scott's last message. He lifted his latest comic and decided to kill some time reading and hopefully maybe he'd get some sleep.
