Chapter 25
I guess it is no point of telling the rest of that conversation, it was mainly yelling and insults from both of us, and I didn't get Dave to realize, that what ever he had heard about me and John was bogus. I did mention the rumours I had heard about him and Candice Michelle, but he avoided it smoothly by saying that we weren't talking about him, we were talking about me. Finally I gave up and slammed the receiver to his ear, or better to say that I disconnected, I was talking in mobile and it is a bit difficult to slam the receiver then without breaking the damn phone. After that call I couldn't exactly concentrate on working, because I was wondering what Dave had heard about us, he hadn't told me that and from who he had heard it.
I started to clean the first aid room and when Matthew came back from Paul's lockerroom, he watched me closely. I guess he knew me quite well by then and noticed that I wasn't quite there with my whole mind, specially when I couldn't find the stuff, which was just infront my eyes. He didn't say anything though and I appreciated it. I wouldn't have known how I had explained the huge fight with Dave anyway. Chris came with me back to the hotel and in the parking slot he took my arm just when I was getting out of the car.
"Constantine, what's wrong?" I could see that my brother was very worried, and it was really unique that he used my first name.
"Nothing." I said quietly, but Chris didn't believe it.
"I can see that something is wrong. And Matthew told me that you were really out of everything the end of the show." Chris looked concerned. "Is something wrong with Caitlin?"
"No! Caitlin is alright. At least was this morning, when I called mom."
"Then it is Dave. Isn't it?" Chris watched me closely and I knew it was no point in denying it.
"Yeah. We had a huge fight over the phone and I disconnected in the middle of his sentence." I said sighing.
"You know those rumours about him and Candice are bullshit."
"Well, the fight wasn't exactly about him and Candice, though I did mention about her to Dave.."
"What was it about then?"
"Krhmm.. Dave has heard rumours about me and..." I hesitated a little. "John."
"John? Cena?" Chris looked like his eyes were about to bulge out. "You and Cena?"
"Yeah. Someone has said to him that I'm fooling around with John." I smiled a little. It was serious thing, but Chris looked so funny, that I couldn't help smiling.
"But that isn't true. Right?" He looked concerned about it.
"You know it isn't. John is a good friend, but he's not exactly my type... I'm not fooling around with him and I think that Dave should know it." I sighed again. "But obviously he doesn't."
"Maybe he just isn't sure what to think." Chris said thoughtfully and I knew that look he had.
"Christopher Keith Irvine, you stay out of this. You won't meddle in this." I said seriously. "And you will not mention about this to anyone, specially not to AJ."
"But if you need help..." My brother tried once more.
"I don't. And you should just take care of your own business. That is mainly staying far from Stephanie McMahon." I barked, when I got out of the car.
I should have guessed that Chris wasn't going to leave this little misunderstanding between me and Dave just go. On the very next day AJ called me, because Chris had told him about the rumours concerning me and John as well the rumours about Dave and Candice Michelle, and of course he had told about the fight. I just sighed when my best friend took it as a subject, and next ten minutes I listened how I had to tell Dave that everything he had heard wasn't true. I agreed to do it, but I guess AJ didn't quite believe me, he knows how bad I am what it comes to kissing and making up.
It was week after the fight, and I hadn't heard anything about Dave himself. Chris told me that Dave was really touchy and ingored everyone in Smackdown totally, but I knew that it was second hand knowledge, my brother had heard it from Benoit, but I guessed there was some truth in it, Chris Benoit isn't the type of guy, who would lie, specially not of things like this.
I wasn't going to avoid John just because some stupid rumours and everyone in RAW knew, that there wasn't anything romantic between us two, we were just good friends. I knew that I would have couple of days off from work before Summer Slam and I planned to fly to Winnipeg and take Caitlin again to tour with us. I missed her enourmously, like did everyone else, she had become some kind of mascot in backstage I guess. But before that we had a show in Miami.
Before the show I left Matthew to take care of putting the first aid room ready, when I went to ring. I had decided to practice a little again, because I hadn't done kickboxing for weeks and I needed some exercise. And I also wanted to let some steam out, I was sad and a little worried about the way the relationship between me and Dave was going, and the best way to unburden those feelings was kickboxing, at least for me. Although I say it myself, I gave Chris, who was sparring me, quite a hard time and couple of times he almost yelled me to slow down, he had a match that evening and he didn't want to get ass kicked by his sister before the show even started. John, Torrie and couple of other guys were watching us at the ringside and when we finished the excercise, I was still ready to take on everyone who wanted to have some postmatch warming, for my disappointment there was no one who wanted to do that. So, I left the ring jumping over the ropes and found out very soon that it wasn't the wise thing to do. Somehow I managed to get stuck on the top rope, and later I heard that I made quite a fly straight to floor, fortunately I managed to land so that only my breath was taken away and I lied on floor few minutes. Chris and others were fast by my side and everyone were yelling at the same time, but finally John kneeled next to me, at least for me it felt like ages before he did that.
"Con, are you alright? Did you break something?" He sounded very worried.
"I... I'm alright. I just... got breathless." I huffed on the floor and then my always so polite big brother gave his hand and pulled me up. I took couple of deep breaths, when everyone were watching me with concern.
"Are you sure?" Trish asked.
"Yeah. I guess I'll have some bruises, but I'm alright otherwise."
"The way you landed on floor looked really wild. Are you sure you didn't break anything?" Chris watched me closely and I sighed.
"Yes, I am sure. I don't break so easily."
"Alright, she is obviously fine, so let her just be." Trish said, when she probably noticed that I was getting a bit annoyed.
Chris followed me to the first aid and I guess he would have asked again that was I really alright, if I hadn't lammed the door shut just infront his nose. There is a limit for that concern, what I can take and my limit was full. I did my job like usually, despite everyone who came to the first aid room, watched me with a concern, I guess they had heard about my little dive before the show. Just before the last match of the evening started, Maria came to first aid and when she stood by the looking like she didn't know which way to go or what to say, I smiled to her. I had liked her from the day she came to RAW, despite her character is quite childish and clueless, she is quite a smart young woman and very sweet.
"Maria? Do you want something?" I asked her as nicely as I could.
"Well, I wanted to ask you..." She said shyly glancing to Matthew and I guessed that what ever it was, she didn't want to ask it when my co-trainer was present.
"Can you excuse us for a moment?" I turned to Matthew who just grinned and left the room.
"So, what's on your mind?" I sat on the bench and watched the brunette with curiousity.
"I... I know that AJ Styles is your good friend." She said sitting next to me and I saw her blushing, when I watched her speechless of surprise. That certainly wasn't what I expected to hear. But I wanted to know where she was going with that statement.
"Yes. AJ is a good friend of mine." I said after a moment. I didn't know what else to say.
"I was just wondering... Does he have a girlfriend?" Poor Maria, now she was almost as red as a tomato.
"No, he doesn't." I smiled a little. "I guess he is still looking for that right one. You like him?"
I thought that Maria and AJ might actually make a good pair...
"Yeah, I like him. He is so cute, he has the greatest body, his eyes are so nice, his ass..." Maria listed, when I interruped her laughing.
"Alright, alright, I got the picture. Have you ever met him?"
"Not really. I saw him at Wrestlemania, but I didn't talk to him. I have never spoken to him."
"Well, he is in TNA, so even I see him quite rarely, despite he is my best friend and Caitlin's godfather." I stated.
"Is he Caitlin's godfather? I thought that Chris is." Maria seemed amazed.
"You didn't know? Yes, he is her godfather, and Chris is also."
"Ah. So you don't see him often?"
"Not really. Even I haven't seen him since the Wrestlemania, but we talk over the phone in weekly basis."
"I thought..." Maria hesitated and I gave her a couraging smile, then she continued. "I thought that if you could introduce us sometime?"
"I'll see what I can do."
"Thanks, Con." Maria stood up and left the room. I smiled to myself thinking that AJ wouldn't be too pleased, if he would figure out that I was hooking him up with Maria, but I really thought that they would be a good couple. However, first I had to find out what AJ thought of her.
When the show was over, I went to look for Chris. I was thinking that I had to tell him about Maria's interest to AJ, Chris would be as amazed as I was. It was also in my mind, that Summer Slam was in four days and I would see Dave there, maybe we could then sort out this misunderstanding, because it was that, just a big misunderstanding from both of us. I couldn't find Chris anywhere though, and no one knew where he was, so I went to his lockerroom door and opened it without knocking. I guess I should have learned to knock after the incident in Wrestlemania, but apparently I hadn't. I immediately noticed that I repeated my mistake, when I saw my brother and Stephanie McMahon pulling fast backwards when they heard a door open.
My mind went just totally blank and I stared at them two.
"Tinnie, this isn't what it looks like. I just gave Steph a friendly hug..." Chris started to explain fast.
"I know you Chris. It's never just friendly when Steph is concerned. You're on your own, brother. I warned you." With that I turned from the door and walked fast out of the building. I was pissed to Chris, because it seemed like he just couldn't keep his hands off when Stephanie was near him. I had plenty of problems of my own and I wasn't going to meddle in Chris' life, despite he constantly meddles in mine.
