14 ½ hours earlier…
Amanda groaned sleepily as the early morning sunlight invaded the room a few hours later and moved closer to Finn, who also groaned as Sami flung the curtains open.
Even as an adult, Amanda hated Monday mornings. Finn shared that same feeling with her and reluctantly opened his eyes, looking over Amanda's right shoulder and seeing it was 6:30 in the morning.
"Sami, it's not even 7am, pal… what happened to our agreed wake up time in the mornings that we have to get ready for work?" Finn mumbled as Amanda had dozed back off into slumber, using Finn's torso as a pillow for her head.
"Roman and Dean are outside, wanting to talk to Mandy." Sami replied.
"No, tell them to leave me alone!" Amanda mumbled, Finn's arms wrapping around her as he knew she could use a hug.
"If you don't open this door and let us in, we'll bust it down, Sami!" Dean replied after banging on the door, Amanda and Finn pulling the covers over their heads, trying to stay as still as possible as Sami unlocked and opened the door, seeing a hungover Dean and Roman outside but both were also pissed off.
"Where is she?!" Roman demanded in a low, angry tone.
"Where's who?" Sami asked.
"Mandy! Who else would we want to talk to this early, you fuckwad?!" Dean responded impatiently.
"Quiet, they'll hear you!" Finn whispered, covering Amanda's mouth with his right hand after she snickered at Dean's comment.
"What was that?!" Roman demanded.
"Ah, Finn's just talking in his sleep again." Sami explained.
"That'd be more believable… if there weren't two people in the bed. Get her out of the bed, Roman!" Dean said, Roman walking over to the bed and trying to snatch the sheets off... but was stopped by a foot ramming below his waist, Roman grunting in pain as Dean helped him up.
"Alright, we're going. But if we don't see Mandy anytime soon, we're calling John. And trust me, you don't want him barging in on you while you're asleep, especially with his sister in your bed, Balor!" Dean replied loudly before helping Roman out of the room.
"Which one of you kicked Roman below the belt?!" Sami questioned after closing and locking the door, Finn and Amanda pulling the bedsheets off of their heads.
Finn was the one snickering this time, Amanda doing the same after a few seconds before both started laughing crazily, Sami shaking his head before he started laughing too.
"Well, he did kind of deserve it for trying to drag her out of the bed… I wasn't aiming for any particular part of him, just anywhere to get him to not drag Mandy out of here." Finn responded.
"True. She did have a really bad night." Sami replied.
And they had a feeling it was going to be a long day… but they would lighten the mood in any way they could.
On the flight, Amanda and Finn were leaned against each other, listening to Southern Cross by Crosby, Stills & Nash by using the splitter jack plugged into Amanda's phone to accommodate their earbuds.
Already, they felt much better…
Present time…
People Are Strange by The Doors played through Amanda's earbuds as Finn had walked back into the locker room, dried off and in clean clothes, socks and shoes… and he heard her singing and smiled before he walked over and wrapped his arms around her waist, Amanda leaning against him after closing out Spotify and putting her phone and earbuds aside.
And Finn noticing the bite scar on her right hand.
"What happened there?" Finn asked.
"From what I remember, I had gently taken a pair of scissors away from Yukie because we were too little to use them… and she didn't like that at all." Amanda explained.
"She bit you?!" Finn responded, Amanda nodding.
"She bit down on my hand, I cried and John and Hiroki ran in and pulled us apart. It hurt like hell, I was a tiny 5 year old then." Amanda replied.
"Well, that's an understandable reaction, it hurts when anyone gets bitten… especially a small child." Finn responded as Amanda cuddled up closer to him.
He plugged her phone into the Bluetooth Sound System and Amanda turned to him before That's Amore by Dean Martin began to play and they slow danced to it.
When The Music's Over by The Doors played afterwards and the pace of the dance when Finn pulled Amanda's right leg up to his left hip and wrapped it around his back before he spun her around for a few seconds like Johnny did to Penny in Dirty Dancing, which made Amanda laugh with delight and her laugh made Finn smile.
"That's better…" Finn responded once their dancing was more sedated as The End by The Doors.
They knew how to soothe each other's nerves.
Meanwhile…
"Amanda ties me up, takes my microphone and hijacks my promo?! What have you all been smoking?!" Kevin shouted in disbelief.
"Just for the show tonight, okay? The knots are not going to be too tight, you can easily break free from them." Shane explained.
"That bitch beat me within inches of my life last night and you want me to work with her?! Hell no!" Kevin yelled.
"You don't have a choice!" Stephanie responded angrily, Kevin looking at her. "You went off script and you were warned about things we can and can't bring up on Tv and pay per views! Mandy, while aggressive last night, lashed out with good reason because you threw one of the most heartbreaking incidents back in her face! Do I need to make myself clear on what'll happen if you don't follow through with tonight's show?!" She responded.
"No, ma'am." Kevin replied before leaving, heading back to his own locker room.
In their own locker room, Dean turned to Roman.
"Something's going on with Finn and Mandy." Dean replied, Roman looking up.
"What, you think they hooked up last night? She's always hanging with Sami and you don't find that suspicious." Roman responded.
"Yeah because Sami's got a huge crush on Bayley and only thinks of Mandy as a younger sister. Mostly everyone in the locker room thinks of her as a kid sister, niece or daughter… Finn's always checking on Mandy when she's hurt and she's always doing the same whenever he ends up hurt, they're always hugging each other, tickling each other-" Dean replied.
"I'll admit, it is suspicious… but adults are gonna do what they're gonna do. And if they did hook up, it's their business." Roman explained.
Kevin backed away from the door… and smirked.
'If?! They most likely did fuck!' Kevin thought as he started heading to a locker room that wasn't.
He couldn't wait to tell Alexa because he knew with her mouth, it would spread like wildfire.