ATM: The Bonehead and the Brain – The Black Heart Diaries
After her movie with John Cena and the Rock becomes a Hollywood hit Sasha Banks pitches a web series called the Black Heart Diaries and offers Bayley the lead role based on her diary.
Chapter Three – Braid of Many Colours
Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles, CA, 2pm
Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose were still dressed head to toe in black while Sasha Banks had her meetings with the Hollywood executives working on the follow up to Banks' Hollywood debut.
LC and Cameron were also bike riding with Faith Star in her baby seat, although the little prodigy wanted to ride her own bike at the tender age of nine months. In her mind, she was ten but in reality there was no way her legs could reach the peddles of a tricycle let alone a bike. It was a beautiful winter's day but it was drawing to a close and LC and Cameron would soon have to take Faith Star home for her nap. That's why they couldn't wait for Sasha's meeting to end so they could resume their talk about her marriage. Although they were elated to hear that Seth was coming over to spend the weekend with his wife, they also knew that she was not going to go back to the East Coast with him. Shawn Michaels had once again, in true Michaels' fashion, gone ahead of the Ortons and given advice without their approval. Now LC and Cameron would have to deal with the fallout which, unlike the weather, was going to be ugly.
"Come on Sasha end the meeting, how many more times does a person need to be told they're awesome?" LC said and Cameron chuckled at his wife.
"I tell you every two minutes," he replied but LC wasn't paying him any attention. She was too busy admiring the bike skills of Roman and Dean who were doing stunts like professional motor cross racers.
"I can do that too!" Faith Star said trying to wiggle out of her bike seat. "Let me down Mommy I wanna play with Uncle Roman and Dean!"
"No Faith Star you stay right where you are, you can't even do a split how are you going to do a somersault on a tricycle?" LC replied and her daughter smiled.
"Have faith Mommy, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me," Faith Star replied.
"It's not like you to take Scripture out of context like that," LC said knowing the reference well.
"I just really wanna get out of this chair," Faith Star replied and she whistled at Roman and Dean who came over to her in a hurry. "Unbuckle me please," she said politely.
Sasha Banks headed towards them with a big smile on her face and confident stride.
"Not now baby girl we gotta go talk to Mrs Rollins," LC said as Sasha mounted her bike and rode over to them.
"How'd the meeting go?" Roman asked her.
"Let me tell you with this cool move," Sasha replied and she did a somersault on the bike much to the amazement of the people watching.
"Wow is there anything you can't do?" Roman said to Sasha amazed.
"Apparently not, I am making a splash in Hollywood, I'm thousands of miles away from Bayley and Seth is coming over to spend the weekend with me. I've maxed myself out on happiness!" Sasha replied and Dean Ambrose smiled in agreement.
"I'm happy for you Sasha, you finally got that numbskull to come to his senses and get here to be by your side," Dean Ambrose said.
"Yeah now you and Seth can kiss and make up and we can spend the weekend chillin with Faith Star in Hollywood," Roman said giving LC and Cameron's baby girl a hi-five. He loved children even the unborn ones like Sasha and Seth's baby boy who was growing nicely in his mother's womb.
"Sounds like a plan to me. Can I see Uncle Seth before we go home Mommy?" Faith Star asked LC. "I miss his heart, it's so full of love,"
"No sweetheart we've gotta go home so you can have your nap. You can see Uncle Seth another time," LC said as they rode back to Hollywood which was half an hour away from where they were.
The Rock's House, Hollywood, CA
Seth Rollins and Bianca Belair were on their way to the Rock's house after having flown from Orlando to LA a few hours ago. They were not flying via Seth's Prayer Shawl as the Prayer Warrior had given it to Alexa Bliss to use as transport for her assignment to Hunter and the DX family. Bianca walked almost a foot apart from Seth drinking water and pulling her suitcase behind her. The looks she got as they walked through South Central LA to Hollywood was amusing to Seth. Her giant braid attracted attention not just because of its size but because it was shimmering with multi-coloured gems tightly woven into it by his own very hands. He wondered if her Gift of Trust had kicked in yet, Trish Stratus said that she would hear secrets but she hadn't told him any yet so he assumed that her Gift was in need of activation.
"I love your hair," a little girl said to Belair as they walked through South Central to the Rock's House which was on a hill a few miles up the road.
"Thanks little girl," Belair said and she gave the girl her autograph who received it with glee.
"Is this your boyfriend?" the little girl asked Belair referring to Seth who chuckled at the mistaken impression the child had made.
"No honey this is my friend Seth Rollins, he's married to "The Boss" Sasha Banks. My husband is in Orlando, enjoying my absence," Belair replied and the girl shrugged before skipping away giggling at Seth.
"Children are very perceptive," Seth teased Belair who doused him with the rest of her water.
"Hey quit it you shouldn't waste water like that we're in California,"
"I'm not happy Montez didn't come with us, now I'm going to be by myself while you're doing it and doing it and doing it well with your wife," Belair said frowning.
"What are you complaining about you have sex with Montez first thing in the morning, early in the afternoon and the last thing at night. I haven't slept with my wife in weeks, you should be happy for me," Seth replied.
"Happy that other people are having sex? No Seth I'm not happy about that at all, neither am I happy that you've been living with my husband and me for a week and you already know our sex schedule," Bianca said blushing.
"It syncs perfectly with my workout schedule, so is that a coincidence or are you just really that consistent?" Seth said and Belair continued to blush knowing what Seth was getting at.
"If you are suggesting that I synced my sex life with your workout schedule because I get turned on everytime you get back from the gym, then you need to get laid more than I realised," Belair said and Seth laughed.
"I'm glad I could make a difference but I can't help but wonder what your sex life was before I moved in. Did you just loop your nights to my Instagram to get things started? I mean that's one step away from foreplay, I might have to start charging you for services rendered," Seth said and Belair found herself laughing.
"Oh I'm Seth Rollins, I'm the sexiest man alive!" Bianca said mockingly and Seth went to gag her mouth until he felt something hit the back of his head.
"What was that?" Seth said looking back and there were a gang of teenage boys on bikes looking at him menacingly. "Oh this is great, we just walked into the middle of the biggest stereotype in African American history; the midwestern white boy being attacked by a bunch of black thugs,"
Belair looked around and saw the men looking at Seth and she didn't like it at all, "This ain't no stereotype this is real life and it's about to get even realer. Give me that rock," Belair said and she threw the rock back at the teenagers who ducked from it. "I dare you to throw it back!"
"Ow!" Seth cried out and he turned around to more thugs this time from the other side. "Now we're surrounded, if I get shot at least I'll die knowing I made you wonder what it would be like to sleep with a white man," he joked.
"First of all you're not white you're mixed with something and second of all -" Bianca was about to finish her sentence when she got a throbbing headache and she fell to her knees in pain. The teenagers noticed as Seth crouched down over her to make sure she was alright.
"Belair what is it? I was just kidding about the fantasy thing I'm sure I'm not the first non-black dude you've thought about doing it with," Seth said still joking but the comedy was soon over as the teenagers came over to them and crowded around them.
"What did you do to her?" one of the teenagers asked Seth.
"He put his hands on her," another teenager said and another teenager pushed Seth back.
"You better get outta here white boy," one of the teenagers said threatening Seth.
"He's not white he's mixed with something, something stupid," Bianca replied holding her head and her braid started to glow. The teenagers gasped in amazement a stood to her feet, her eyes like amber flames and her hair reflecting the in the daylight causing a rainbow like effect all around her and Seth.
"What the -?!" one of the teenagers cried out as Seth smiled realising what was happening; E S T's Gift was being activated.
"Run," E S T said to them and they ran away leaving Seth an alone but one teenager decided to stick around.
"I'm not scared of you you're just a stupid girl," he said and he pulled her braid much to Seth's amusement.
"Oh you really shouldn't have done that kid," he said knowing something really bad was about to happen.
E S T whipped her braid around and the kid went flying into the other kids like a bowling ball.
The little girl that had gotten her autograph jumped up and down in glee and she was joined by other children who recognized Belair and Seth from DX TV.
"E S T! E S T! E S T!" the children chanted amazed by what they had seen. They were delighted that Belair had scared away the little thugs but they didn't know she had a Gift from God. They thought the braid was 'magic'.
"Hey that's Seth Rollins!" one of the kids said recognizing Seth and the kids ran back over to them. Seth rubbed the back of his head and prayed for E S T. Her eyes stopped glowing and her braid stopped sparkling.
"You okay?" he asked her.
"I don't know what just happened but I feel like I just got hit by a nuclear weapon," E S T replied and she looked at the teenagers who was struggling to get up. "Get over here now!" she cried at them but they refused, instead they ran the other way as the neighbours applauded E S T's bravery.
As Seth signed autograph looked around suspiciously. "I might need to go to the hospital and have my head checked out. Those rocks hit me pretty bad," Seth said wincing in pain.
"You don't need a doctor," E S T replied and she kissed the back of his head, healing him with the power from her Gift. Seth felt his head. It was all better.
"Are you sure he's not your boyfriend?" the little girl asked E S T.
"Scram little princess, I need to talk to my mentor alone," E S T said to the curious girl who looked at Seth and giggled.
"How did you heal me?" Seth asked her. Trish didn't say anything about Belair having the Gift of Healing too.
"I think it has something to do with whatever happened to me before you made that joke about me secretly wanting to sleep with a white man, you know just to see what all the fuss was about," Bianca Belair said.
"It wasn't a joke," Seth replied.
"I felt my lips glow and then I heard a voice say "there is a balm in Gilead," do you know what that means?" Belair asked Seth.
"I sure do, I'll explain it all to you when we get to the Rock's house," Seth said.
"We better move, those kids have older brothers and I do not wanna end up on the evening news all weekend for whooping South Central thugs with my hair. I could think of much better things to do with my time and my hair," Bianca Belair said wrapping her braid up while Seth fantasized about his wife.
"So can I," he said romantically as his rendezvous with Sasha was just moments away.
Down the hill from the Rock's house Seth and Bianca saw Sasha, Roman and Dean on bikes with LC and Cameron Michaels and what appeared to be a baby on a skateboard.
"Who is that little girl?!" Bianca said touching her lips that felt warm after kissing Seth's neck to heal him.
"It's Faith Star, LC and Cameron's baby girl. Nine months and she's on a skateboard, my son's got some stiff competition when he gets outta the womb. Good thing my wife's up for the challenge," Seth said and he dropped his luggage and ran to his wife, hoisting her off her bike in one swift motion and he swung her around like a walking merry-go-round. The gesture brought smiles to Roman and Dean's faces whil honed in on the little girl with the powerful legs.
"Miss Belair I love your hair!" Faith Star said to E S T.
"I love your daughter," Bianca Belair said to LC and Cameron who smiled with appreciation.
"Thanks we love her too," Cameron replied. "Now we gotta be going its time for Faith Star to have a nap,"
"No!" Faith Star protested and she grabbed the back of Seth's legs, "I wanna stay with Uncle Seth and Aunt Bianca. Please don't make me sleep, I won't see them until the next time Uncle Seth and Aunt Sasha have a fight,"
"Then you'll see them tomorrow," LC whispered under her breath; after having spoken to Sasha about Seth all week, she and Cameron knew that their problems were far from over.
Sasha and Seth weren't fighting at the moment though, they were enjoying a very deep kiss, so deep Belair had to fan herself.
"Excuse me I gotta call my husband, I suddenly feel the need to be with the man I love," Bianca said.
Faith Star tried to skate her way through the gates of The Rock's Hollywood mansion but her father lifted her up while LC confiscated the skateboard Roman and Dean had bought for her on their way back from the Santa Monica Pier. The Shield waved goodbye to the now crying nine month old an blew her a kiss while Seth and Sasha continued to kiss each other oblivious to what was going on around them.
"Seth looks like a giraffe when he's kissing his wife," Dean Ambrose said laughing at the height difference between Seth and Sasha. "I sure hope he doesn't get a cramp in his neck,"
"His neck is fine I made sure of that. He can kiss her from ten feet in the air and he won't feel anything but good," E S T told Dean who wondered what she was talking about. They didn't know she had the Gift of Healing. She pulled Seth's luggage to the gates and waited for someone to let her inside while she called her husband who wasn't answering his phone. "I can't believe he's not answering. What's so important that he can't take two minutes to talk to me?"
The Shield entered the code to open the gates which opened slowly an stepped in as Roman and Dean took Seth's luggage and hers. They walked up to the mansion together with the luggage and bikes leaving Seth and Sasha kissing outside the gates of the Rock's cool Hollywood home.
Roman and Dean had a key for the door and when Roman opened it up E S T's jaw hit the floor.
The entrance of the house was decked out in gold like an 18th century French palace and decorated with the most glamourous design she'd only ever seen in Vogue magazine photo shoots.
"Rocky's never home so if you're expecting him to run down here in nothing but a towel don't get your hopes up," Dean Ambrose said a pocketed her phone to take the house in properly.
It was the most beautiful entrance she'd ever seen.
"I feel like I just won a million dollars standing here right now," she said in amazement. "The Rock sure has expensive taste,"
Roman frowned a while Dean took Seth and Bianca's luggage up to the alcove by the steps. "You think my cousin decorated this place? This was the Boss' idea, she had it redecorated while she was here making her movie," he said an nodded seeing Sasha's fingerprints all over the place now.
"That makes sense," she said feeling so comfortable all of a sudden. Her anxiety over spending the weekend without her husband while Seth and Sasha spent time together disappeared. "I couldn't be happier to be in Hollywood,"
Roman looked her up and down. Bianca Belair was quite the physical specimen and while her anxiety had disappeared, her presence made Roman very nervous indeed. He knew Seth well and when it came to beautiful women he always got himself in trouble. Sure he was married now with a new found purpose in his life after giving his life to Jesus Christ but that was just a few months ago and true Christian regeneration took time. Old habits die hard and he was having a hard time believing Seth only wante around for professional reasons.
"So how come Montez didn't come with you to LA?" Roman asked her sitting on the steps while she admired the high ceilings of Rocky's home.
"He wanted me out of the house so he could play grab ass with Angelo and HBK. Shawn actually came over to talk to Seth and he ended up wanting to hang with them after he'd done talking with Seth. I don't know what it is about that that bothers me more; the fact that Shawn Michaels was willing to chill with them or the fact that Montez was willing to chill without me," Belair said and Roman chuckled at the idea of Shawn hanging out with the Street Profits. It was the kinda thing he would do with Seth and Dean when Renee wanted to spend time with Dean alone.
"They're just being boys, still LA is a long way from Orlando, Florida. I wouldn't have thought you'd wanna be gone a whole weekend," Roman said suspiciously folding his arms across his chest while EST stroked her braid.
"Its because I'm on assignment. Usually Alexa Bliss would be rolling with Seth but she got re-assigned and I got chosen to pick up the slack," E S T explained going over to the walls to check out the heavy gold framed photos of Sasha and Seth, Alexa Bliss and the Shield hanging up. She especially liked the picture of Sasha and Seth on their wedding day, even though Sasha was wearing a Harvard sweater over her wedding dress which was way too big for her.
"Wait you got a Gift from God now?" Roman asked surprised an nodded.
"Why is Sasha wearing this Harvard sweater over her wedding dress?" she asked Roman but he ignored her question waiting for her to answer his. "Yeah I got it in New York at the Ortons' home. I can do all sorts of cool stuff now but I need Seth's help before I can use my Gift like he can. The Ortons say it will take time to get used to it but that I'd be in good hands with Seth. He really needed my Gift to work today so he's in good hands too. Now can you tell me what's up with Sasha and the Harvard sweater?"
Roman couldn't believe it; God had given Seth yet another reason to spend time with a beautiful woman that wasn't his wife. He couldn't understand it, why didn't God just give the Gift to Sasha?
He thought to himself.
"I don't know," Bianca replied and Roman frowned at her.
"You don't know what?" he asked her.
"I don't know why God gave me this Gift instead of Sasha," she replied.
"You heard my thought?" Roman asked her.
"Its my Gift, I know stuff that other people don't know and I tell Seth," Bianca replied and she turned back to the photos while Roman tried to understand what was happening right now.
"So this sweater was worn to keep Seth from sleeping with Sasha before they got married right?" she asked Roman who gasped in amazement.
"Yeah, how did you know that?" he asked in shock. The only people who knew about the sweater were the Shield and the DX family.
"God gave me the info since you didn't want to say anything about it. I guess God wanted that baby to be legit, just like his mama!" she laughed and even Roman had to laugh at that one.
"Yeah Sasha got pregnant real quick after that honeymoon. Seth spent the whole week with her it all happened super fast. I couldn't be happier for them though, they were made for each other," Roman said fondly looking up at the photo of everyone at the wedding in New York. The fact that it was also the same night Bayley decided to show Seth her naked body was unfortunate, at least from Sasha's perspective, didn't change the fact that it was the culmination of years of praying on Roman's part for his best friend to come together with the Boss and settle down like him and Dean.
"So its your fault they got married so fast, you put pressure on Seth to lose his virginity to the woman you thought would be best for him," E S T said as God continued to fill her in on the last year of Seth and Sasha's life. "You didn't trust Seth to make that decision for himself so you influenced it by endorsing Sasha over, let's say . . . Bayley or Alexa Bliss,"
Roman nodded, "I did push for Sasha but Seth could have listened to Dean if he wanted to. Dean was not happy about Seth marrying the Boss and we both told him how we felt. It was Seth's decision in the end, I think he made the right choice. Don't you?" he asked Bianca who shrugged.
"Its none of my business Roman I've been in NXT for the majority of my wrestling life. I don't know Sasha and Seth as well as you do, I do know one thing though and that's that Seth loves Sasha very much. He talks about her all the time," E S T said and Roman nodded. It was so good to hear that, he just hadn't seen it in a long time.
"So why do you think he chose to stay on the East Coast after that fight over Bayley in New York?" Roman aske who was starting to realise that a lot of stuff happened in New York that she wasn't there to witness. The stuff that happened in New York was still affecting Seth and Sasha's marriage so it must have been important for her to know about it.
"Seth has unfinished business with Bayley. They have a connection, it might not be a marriage friendly one but its really strong. As long as Bayley's in his life New York City will always have a place in Seth's life. That might mean he has to separate his married life from his life as a Prayer Warrior," E S T said wisely. "Man that was good!" she said impressed with her own wisdom. "I think I'm catching on to all this God stuff pretty good!"
Roman was not impressed and he gav look to indicate his dismissal of her opinion, even though it wasn't her opinion, it was God's.
"You don't know half of what I know so if you wanna catch up I suggest you spend more time with me instead of hanging around my boy like you don't have a bed of your own to sleep in," Roman said an laughed out loud.
"I have more knowledge wrapped up in my braid than you have in your whole life, what could I possibly gain from spending more time with you Roman? God didn't give you a Gift so just sit there and let me and Seth do what God told us to do which is look after your ungrateful, arrogant a**. Didn't God say something about honoring those He puts over you to watch over your souls? I'd much rather be at home with Montez now trust me but I'm here on assignment just like Alexa was and I am not going to let God or Seth down because you think I wanna get Seth in trouble with his wife," E S T said firmly. She suddenly softened her tone; she couldn't blame Roman for being so defensive after everything Seth and Sasha had been through with Bayley. It had to be hard to trust another woman from NXT after that messy situation, "You don't trust me I get it but I ain't trying to win your trust, I'm trying to win Seth's and Sasha's trust. I don't know why God gave me this Gift either Roman," she said turning to all the pictures on the wall of Roman, Dean, Seth and Sasha, "but after being in this house and seeing how the Boss changed it to accommodate her taste, a taste that is very similar to mine, I'm already enjoying my stay here. Try and ruin it for me but it won't work because the more you talk the more I realise why Seth needs me,"
E S T headed up the steps leaving Roman by himself then she turned to say one more thing to him, "your boy needs me a lot more than he needs you," she said twirling her braid then she skipped past Dean Ambrose who was coming down the steps towards Roman.
"What was all that about?" Dean asked Roman.
The Big Dog sighed, "I have no idea but I think we're going to have to put thi woman in her place and if she thinks she's gonna take mine as Seth's closest ally, she's as wrong as her braid is long," Roman told Dean who nodded.
"Its a shame we have to resort to our Shield tactics, I don't like making girls cry," he said and Roman looked up at the framed photos of them all on Seth and Sasha's wedding day.
"It depends on the girl," he said valuing Sasha's happiness over an NXT upstart he barely knew and he didn't want Seth to get to know her either.