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The Squared Circle
Chapter 18
Past, Present and Future
Saturday, August 24, 2013 – 11:45 am – Mickie James' house – Aylett, Virginia
The two former lovers stood a couple of feet apart and took in the sight of the other for the first time in over two years. As Mickie and Melina surveyed each other, they had the same thought; she still looks good.
"I called about the taping schedule and took a chance on you being here." Melina softly said.
"I see your bloodhound skills haven't diminished." Mickie replied. Melina dropped her head and smiled gingerly. "Come… come in."
Mickie stepped back to allow Melina to cross the threshold. Melina's eyes scanned the living room as she walked in. "The place hasn't changed a bit." Melina observed.
"This place is my warm blanket. Slip in where it's comfortable and familiar." Mickie offered. She then held her hand out in front of her, palm up to invite Melina to sit.
"It's been two years. I don't get a hug?" Melina inquired. "I mean… I hope we're still…" She wanted to say 'friends' but opted for a less-caustic word. "Cool".
Mickie hesitated for a moment then stepped forward and slowly opened her arms. Melina took a step forward to embrace Mickie. Both women closed their eyes to savor the contact. Mickie opened her eyes and fluttered them before rolling her eyes to the back of her head before closing her lids again. Melina bit her bottom lip and struggled to keep herself from stroking Mickie's hair as she often did when they embraced. Mickie also noticed the lack of hair stroking and, even in the benign state of their relationship, mourned its absence. Moments later, the embrace was broken. Both women displayed awkward smiles before Melina took her seat on the sofa. Mickie sat in the adjacent arm chair.
"How's retirement treating you?" Mickie asked. Melina had announced her retirement just over a year earlier.
"Boring. You know it'll be a matter of time before I get the itch again." Melina flashed her trademark bad girl smile.
"Washing will help that itching, ya know." Mickie joked, trying to break the tension.
Melina flared her nostrils and pursed her lips in an attempt not to laugh. "Mick's got jokes, huh?" Melina scoffed.
"Hey, I'm not the one itching." Mickie shot back. She then curled her lip and began to mock scratching her armpits causing Melina to let out a single chuckle. Then she hiked up one leg to mock scratch her privates, causing Melina to do a dry spit take as she began to laugh out loud.
"Mick, stop!" Melina said as she laughed. "I did not come here to laugh!" Despite her words, Melina continued to laugh for a moment longer. Mickie went on for another couple of seconds before she stopped clowning. Mickie's smile then morphed into a neutral look.
"Why did you come? Not… that you're not welcome. But… why are you here?" Mickie asked.
Melina's eyes fell down and to her right before scanning the room then eventually falling back on to Mickie's gaze. "I was thinking about you." Melina began. "I missed you. I… didn't come here… expecting you to… say or do anything. I just… I hadn't seen your face in two years. I… missed you."
"You could have called." Mickie said.
"I didn't want you to say I couldn't come."
Mickie took in Melina's beautiful face. "I wouldn't have turned you away."
"I did kinda break up with you." Melina countered.
"No kinda. You did break up with me." Mickie said tersely. "What was it you said? I don't wanna fuck up cause I want to go back to Stamford to collect a bigger check."
"I did say that." Melina said with a disarming contrition in her voice that surprised Mickie.
"You said I didn't love you." Mickie said with icy calm.
"I said that too." Melina said calmly. "I was very emotional and didn't mean what I said. Just like you didn't mean it when you said you fucking hated me and called me a bitch."
"I did fucking hate you and you were a bitch… at that moment." Mickie admitted. Mickie then felt a mixture of angst and rage bubble up inside her and she gritted her teeth. "And you fucking hung up on me. I didn't even get to say goodbye. I wept all FUCKING NIGHT!"
"So did I." Melina meekly said.
"La-dee-FUCKIN-da! You wept all night in the PHILIPPINES!" Mickie said in a controlled rage. "After everything we'd been through, you couldn't event break up with me to my face! You CALLED me! You fucking CALLED me!"
Melina took a deep breath and felt herself begin to shake. She also felt the sting of oncoming tears. "Mick, I am so sorry…"
Mickie's emotional dam exploded as she screamed at the top of her lungs. "FUCK YOUR SORRY! YOU BROKE MY FUCKING HEART!" Mickie let out the single most gut-wrenching sob Melina had ever heard then she clutched her chest and groaned. For a split-second, Melina thought Mickie was hurt and she moved to jump up and help her. But Mickie's long overdue venting continued unabated as she began to cry. "I NOW KNOW HOW IT'S POSSIBLE TO LOVE AND HATE SOMEBODY AT THE SAME TIME! Part of me wants to scoop your ass up, take you into the bedroom and make love to you until the sun comes up tomorrow. And part of me wants to beat you to a bloody FUCKING PULP FOR LEAVING ME!"
Melina dropped her head and began to silently weep. Mickie watched Melina do this at the same time she felt every emotion inside; love, hurt, disappointment, resentment and rage. Mickie then picked up the empty lead glass vase on the coffee table, turned and haphazardly flung it, expecting it to shatter into dozens of pieces. But Mickie's throw had aim that would have made a major league pitcher proud. The vase sailed down the hallway and into the bedroom where it bounced off the edge of the mattress and landed on the floor with a thud, undamaged. Mickie stood silently and stared at the vase for a moment before she began to breathe heavily. She then stomped down the hallway into the bedroom and picked up the vase, positioning it overhead to slam it to the floor as hard as her strength would allow. It was then that Mickie began to weep from the depths of her soul. As she sobbed, she lowered the vase and cradled it with both arms, lowering herself in slow motion to the floor and balling herself up into the fetal position. She sank to the floor as she continued to cry. Melina walked to the threshold of the door and looked down at the broken Mickie. She then did the only thing her mind would tell her to do. She dropped to her knees beside Mickie and wrapped her arms around her. When Mickie felt the contact, she began weeping harder. Melina completely broke down as she held Mickie. Melina then heard Mickie drop the vase to the floor and felt Mickie's arms wrap her in a tight embrace.
"I'm so sorry I left you." Melina whispered in their tearful embrace. She repeated herself another ten times.
Just as she did during their break-up call in 2012, Mickie went into self-preservation mode. "I fucking hate you… bitch." Mickie voiced in a strangled sob.
And just as she did during that same phone call, Melina responded accordingly. "I love you too." This time, her second sentence had a different sign-off. "I'm not going anywhere, baby. I'm not going anywhere."
Mickie and Melina sat in the floor and wept for almost five full minutes before the weeping began to subside.
"We… have a lot to talk about." Mickie said as she sniffed.
"We will. I promise." Melina whispered.
"I can't take it if you leave again. If you leave again, that's it. You can never come back." Mickie softly declared.
"I know." Melina acknowledged.
"We're…" Mickie sniffed again. "We're not… back together yet. We're talking."
"I'll take it."
"Good. Cause you're not getting any of this right now." Mickie announced.
"Okay." Melina said. "But eventually."
"Eventually, I'm gonna fuck the shit out of you." Mickie said as she wiped her tears. "Eventually, you are gonna tear my thick ass up. But not right now."
"But eventually." Melina reiterated.
Mickie looked at Melina and cracked a smile. "Eventually."
Melina held Mickie in her arms. They remained silent for a few minutes before Melina broke the fresh layer of ice.
"You've been seeing Magnus."
Mickie waited a moment before responding. "Hand it to the dirt sheets for their crack journalism." Mickie said. "We're on an extended break."
"John and I have been off and on." Melina said of her relationship with John "Johnny Nitro, John Morrison" Hennigan.
"Y'all are always off and on."
"Fuck you!" Melina said with a chuckle.
"Eventually." Mickie deadpanned. Melina chuckled again before asking a question.
"Have you been with any girls?"
Mickie took a deep breath before answering. "Yeah. We started an Inner Circle in TNA."
"Ah." Melina said in a 'Eureka!' sort of way. "Do I need more than one guess as to who's running the show?" Mickie tilted her head up to look at Melina over her own forehead. "Right." Melina said with a small smile.
"I've only been with one since it started. And it was a one-off thing. The initiation has changed." Melina remained silent. "You… mess with any chicas?"
"Nada." Melina said. She then paused in thought. "I want to know."
Mickie turned her body to look at Melina. She studied Melina's face to see if Melina's eyes betrayed her most recent request. Mickie found no such deceit. "Christy Hemme after we started. Layla and Stephanie together before."
"Layla… and Stephanie." Melina began. "Layla and Stephanie as in El and McMahon?" Mickie nodded. Melina let out a huge belly laugh. She continued to laugh until she saw Mickie's stone face. "You're serious!"
"They came to my apartment unannounced. Layla was unsure of herself as leader of the Circle. Stephanie wanted to restore her confidence."
"That's one hell of a way to do it."
"It wasn't supposed to go down like that at all. It was a talk that turned into more… with Steph egging it on."
Melina laughed again. She then grew sober. "So you didn't fall for somebody like you did me?"
"Whenever I thought about being the leader, I thought about you. I couldn't separate the two."
Melina pondered Mickie's statement. "I should be flattered."
"You should." Mickie suggested. It was Mickie's turn to pause in thought. "What if you go overseas again?"
"We work something out."
"Mexico." Mickie asked.
"We work something out."
"WWE."
"We work something out." Melina declared again. "I am not going to leave you again. I… love you." Melina bent her head down and placed a soft kiss on Mickie's lips.
"You're still not getting any right now." Melina laughed at Mickie's company line of the day. "But that was nice." Mickie's compliment earned her another soft kiss.
"Kat called me the other day." Melina said.
"She called me too!" Mickie said. "She's over Beth. She talked to her not too long ago. She told me she's happy for her and Adam."
"That's good." Melina smiled. "Wanna catch me up on what's been going on? Layla's still the ringleader over there…"
"Sasha too."
"Sasha… Banks? She's in NXT!"
"They've… expanded."
"Wow!"
"That's not the wow part… Nikki and Brie."
"Nikki and Brie, what?" Mickie let the meaning of her words sink in for a moment.
"Get the fuck outta here!" Melina heard nothing from Mickie. "GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE! ARE YOU SERIOUS?!"
"Do you want me to call Layla? She gave them the final push."
"Gimme Stephanie's number! I need to get back in over there!"
"You won't have to do that." Mickie said. "Since you promised you're not going anywhere…" Melina's reaction to that statement was to give Mickie a squeeze. "I can tell you that I have a plan. A grand plan. A plan to bring The Inner Circle, The Diamond Exchange, that's us by the way…" Melina chuckled.
"Good name."
"And The Young and The Restless together in the greatest meeting of Sapphic debauchery the sports entertainment industry has ever seen."
"Sounds legendary." Melina said. "And since you're in TNA and it's your idea, I know exactly what you can call it."
"Oh God! Do I want to hear this?" Mickie teased.
"Bound For Pussy." Melina joked, playing on the name of TNA's biggest pay-per-view, Bound For Glory. Mickie began howling in laughter. "Well?!"
"I LOVE IT! BOUND FOR PUSSY! That's exactly what I'm gonna call it. And maybe by that time, you will have earned a spot." Mickie said. "Now, let me tell you about the Beth and Kat of TNA; Taryn and Ashley…"
Saturday, August 24, 2013 – 12 pm - Taryn's apartment - Tampa, Florida
Ashley stared at the ceiling overjoyed. She and Taryn had just consummated their new relationship for the first time. Taryn had promised before she drifted off to sleep that round two would commence after she took a well-deserved nap. The opening round was as sweet and tender as both women would have hoped for. There was no doubt in Ashley's mind that round two would be good and nasty. Maybe that was because Taryn promised that it would be good and nasty.
Ashley could not wait to tell her fellow Exchange members that she and Taryn finally made love and that they could stop driving the rest of the locker room crazy with their unrequited machinations. But before she let the locker room know what was going on, there was one very special friend that she had to inform. Ashley got up out of bed with her cell phone, went into Taryn's drawer and pulled out a t-shirt and a pair of shorts. She then went into the living room and sat down on the sofa to place her call.
"ASH-HOLE!" Lisa bellowed on the other end of the line.
"I thought I had graduated from that name!"
"You never graduate from being my little ash-hole! How are you, girl? I miss you so much!"
"I miss you too. How is Chicago?"
"I love it. It's not the Impact Zone but I love it. The restaurant, everything is good. How are you? Have you made any progress toward a resolution to your TT dilemma?"
"Well… after an awkward intervention from Jamie on my behalf and without my permission…"
"Oh boy…"
"We declared our love to each other in the car on the way to the gym."
"Honey, that's great…"
"Then I got mad about something she said about Jesse and I dragged her into the gym by her hair."
"You what?!"
"And I slapped the shit out of her."
"ASH!"
"And we had a short match that went off-script and we ended up rolling out of the ring onto the floor."
"Stop! I don't want to hear anymore. "What the hell were you thinking?! You shed tears over this woman… Well, I guess that's over. What's next?"
"Oh, I'm waiting for her to wake up for round two. We're supposed to really get raunchy this time."
Lisa chuckled. "I should have known. You have a way of pulling the fat out of the fire. I am so happy for you."
"You're gonna really love this. She said the next time we come within 200 miles of Chicago, we're going to find Lisa and I quote, 'wear her thick ass out'. End quote."
Ashley could practically hear Lisa smiling through the phone. "Give me plenty of warning so I can be ready for you to."
"I promise you I WILL!" Ashley's voice shot up suddenly thanks to Taryn easing up behind her, reaching around and rubbing her nipple.
"I take it Taryn's awake."
"Say hi to Lisa." Ashley said to Taryn, putting the receiver up to Taryn's ear.
"Hi thickness." Taryn cooed into the phone.
"Somebody sounds sufficiently rested and horny."
"You would be correct." Taryn purred. "I'm going to fuck your friend in places she didn't know she had. And as for you, I have a feeling you know where all your places are. I'm gonna fuck 'em all. And I expect you to return the favor."
Lisa drew breath between her teeth. "Put Ash back on the phone."
Taryn stepped back and nodded. Ashley put the receiver back up to her ear. "Lisa?"
"Not that you need anymore encouragement, but please get off this phone and fuck the living shit out of that beautiful piece of blonde ass for me! Please!"
Ashley started laughing. "Consider it done. I'll call you later. Love you."
"Love you too."
Ashley hung up the phone and looked up at Taryn who was standing in front of her naked and ready. Ashley suddenly reached up and yanked Taryn to her knees on the sofa. Taryn settled in, straddling Ashley's legs while giving her the most seductive look in her arsenal. Ashley reached up and grabbed Taryn by the back of her hair, giving the blonde mane a sharp tug making Taryn gasp.
"So it's like that now?" Taryn asked. Ashley tugged on Taryn's hair again, eliciting another sharp gasp.
"You said it was gonna be good and nasty." Ashley snarled. "So I did a little research."
Taryn got nose-to-nose with her new lover. "What kind of research?" Taryn asked with a wicked grin."
"Ever heard of Hot and Mean?" Ashley equaled Taryn's wicked grin.
"The lesbian website? I know it well." Taryn said. "You're not suggesting that we go HAM on each other?"
"I suggest we lose our fucking minds."
"You don't really wanna do that." Taryn challenged. Ashley glared at Taryn for another couple of seconds before violently snatching Taryn by the hair again, exposing her neck. Ashley then latched onto Taryn's neck and began sucking on her pulse point. "OH… SHIT!" Taryn began squirming in Ashley's lap. "A-Ash!" Ashley managed to latch onto Taryn's spot of spots and began a relentless assault. All Taryn could do was grind in Ashley's lap and moan. She then felt a couple of sharp, stinging slaps to her buttocks that made her let out a pleasure-pain cry.
"Oh my God, you fucking bitch!" Taryn whisper-spat.
"Unh-huh." Ashley grunted before kissing Taryn deeply. Just as Taryn opened her mouth as wide as she could, Ashley slapped her butt two more times, swallowing Taryn's cry. It was now Taryn's turn to seize Ashley by the hair. In an instant, Taryn found herself near her redline of maximum arousal. Taryn initiated another blistering makeout session. The two women ground against one another as if they were in heat. When Taryn could take no more, she stood up.
"Get up!" Taryn ordered as she pulled Ashley to her feet and kissed her again, grabbing Ashley's butt with both hands. Taryn then picked Ashley up by her butt and walked back into the bedroom. She flopped Ashley down on the bed and watched as she crab-walked toward the head board. Taryn crawled up toward Ashley, stopping when they were face to face. Taryn gave Ashley another deep French kiss as Ashley slid her hand between them and started playing with Taryn's clit. Taryn cried out, kissed Ashley's cheek then lightly bit it before placing her lips right next to Ashley's ear. "I'm so fucking wet."
Taryn felt Ashley slide down underneath her and knew exactly where she was headed. Ashley stopped when she wrapped her mouth around Taryn's clit and began sucking and flicking her tongue. Taryn called out Ashley's name in ecstasy and reached down to grip Ashley's hair. Ashley responded by torturously dragging her tongue back and forth from Taryn's clit to her perineum.
"Mouth… feels so good." Taryn breathlessly said. "You want me… to ride… that sexy ass mouth… don't you?"
"MMHMM!" Ashley hummed. Taryn began rolling her hips from front to back, opposite of Ashley's tongue motion. Ashley then reached up and gently pushed Taryn so she would lean back. Taryn instinctively got off her knees and placed her feet on either side of Ashley, giving the prone woman better access. "Yeah, baby. That's it." Ashley lecherously approved as she began flicking her tongue the sliding her warm tongue inside. Taryn let out a high-pitched gasp that quivered when her entire body shuddered.
"FUUUUUCKK!" Taryn cried out a second before one of the most intense oral assaults she would ever experience. Ashley placed her hands on Taryn's butt and began pushing her pelvis into her, allowing her tongue to thrust inside Taryn repeatedly. The sweat that had already began to run down Taryn's face and into her hair increased along with her heart rate. Taryn's head back as Ashley savagely tonguefucked her. "God… damnit… Ash… I'm… gonna… come… in… your… fucking… mouth!" Ashley continued unchecked. She had wanted Taryn for so long. In this instant, she had to let Taryn know how bad she wanted her.
Suddenly, Ashley stopped thrusting and stuck her tongue inside as far as she could as she rubbed Taryn's clit. Taryn screamed at the top of her lungs as she came. Her entire torso fell backward onto Ashley's legs as her orgasm hit. Ashley had long since wrapped her arms around Taryn's waist so when she fell backwards, Ashley was prepared to complete the sexiest Sunset flip of all-time as she sat upright, pinned Taryn's shoulders to the bed and began licking her.
"YES!" Taryn screamed, letting her legs fall limply, giving Ashley unobstructed access. Ashley listened to Taryn's moans, hums and cries of pleasure as she licked her. She also listened to Taryn's gasp of surprise when Ashley's tongue dipped below her perineum and began rimming her ass.
"AHH! You dirty bitch! I love you! You dirty bitch!" Taryn called out.
Ashley began rubbing Taryn's clit faster as she plunged her tongue inside at the same speed. Taryn began bucking and thrashing underneath her as the sensations rocketing thorough her made her body go haywire. Moments later, her body exploded again as she came nearly as hard as she did the first time. Taryn managed to somehow begin to roll over onto her stomach. Ashley rolled right with her, ending up face down on top of Taryn. If Taryn thought that would stop Ashley's asslicking, Taryn thought wrong. Taryn buried her face into the mattress just as deeply as Ashley buried her face into Taryn. The buxom blonde slapped the mattress several times and groaned as Ashley worked on her. Then Ashley hopped up, straddled Taryn's waist facing her feet and began slapping her ass repeatedly until she saw the crimson hue of blood just beneath the surface of her cheeks begin to show
Taryn began making animalistic guttural sounds as she maneuvered to turn back over onto her back, forcing Ashley upward. As Ashley went up, she lost balance and Taryn pounced. She flopped forward onto her stomach onto Taryn's legs. Taryn spread her legs allowing Ashley to hit the mattress. Taryn then picked up the lower half of Ashley's body, nestled her head between Ashley's legs and began eating her pussy. It was now Ashley's turn to scream in pleasure as she pushed her torso up with her arms before settling down on her forearms.
Taryn licked and sucked Ashley like there was no tomorrow. Taryn provided Ashley with another minute or two of glory in that position before flipping her over onto her back and sidling up to her and kissing her. Ashley panted heavily as she spoke.
"I taste so good." Taryn grinned before she shot up, stood at the edge of the bed and pulled Ashley toward her by her ankles. She pushed Ashley's legs back as far as they would go, testing the redhead's flexibility before plunging her tongue inside again. Ashley furiously rubbed her clit as she dirty talked.
"I'm gonna come in your fuckin' mouth! So fucking hard! You sexy slut!" Taryn reared back and slapped each of Ashley's buttocks twice causing her to yelp before resuming her oral assault. "There!" Ashley cried out when Taryn flicked her tongue just to the left of her clit. "Keepgoingkeepgoingkeepgoing…" Taryn indeed kept going until Ashley's diminutive frame locked and began to seize in a silent but strong orgasm.
As Ashley calmed down, Taryn began chuckling to herself in an almost giddy fashion. Her giddiness was interrupted by another power surge from Ashley. She lay half on top of Taryn and began kissing her passionately. In between kisses, Taryn laid down a challenge she knew would be too good for Ashley to refuse.
The two women were slick with sweat, their hair plastered to their foreheads, "You think you can grind on this pussy and make it come?" Taryn hissed. "Huh? Put all your fuckin' weight into that shit and grind it like wheat?"
Ashley let out a sexy chuckle and pushed Taryn flat on her back. She positioned herself between Taryn's legs and defiantly spit down onto their clits before beginning to gyrate. Taryn's tilted her head back and rolled it from side to side as every one of Ashley's gyrations rocked her to her core.
"This what you wanted?" Ashley said as she bore down.
"Hell yeah!" Taryn confirmed. "Make it come!" Ashley found a gear of grinding she didn't know she had as sweat flew off of her. Taryn was now bellowing from the pit of her stomach. Not only was this orgasm that was about to hit going to be the best one of the night, it was going to be legendary. Ashley must've sensed the same thing as she began to build toward the same finish. Ashley did exactly what Taryn challenged her to do; she put all of her 120 pounds behind her. The combination of her intense emotional and physical expenditure made her began to weep even before she was finished. The second Taryn opened her eyes and saw Ashley crying, she began crying as well. A moment later, both of them began careen toward the edge of the cliff of orgasm and then off the ledge. The women experienced near-simultaneous orgasms, so powerful that they were rendered motionless except for their deep breathing followed by even deeper sobbing. After a moment or two of weeping apart on the bed, Ashley slid into Taryn's arms where they silently cried for several more minutes. Once the crying subsided, silence filled the bedroom. Taryn squeezed Ashley several times as if she were preventing her from getting up. Ashley, however, had no intention of moving until it were absolutely necessary.
Both women thought back to the first time they met, the first time they thought they may have feelings for the other, their first kiss, their match in the gym, and what they had just done. To say that they were overwhelmed would have been the understatement of understatements. They had just dumped a heavy but pleasing ton of bricks on themselves.
"My God that was the most amazing…" Ashley began.
"I second that emotion." Taryn added. Ashley sighed. "And you were worried about disappointing me."
Ashley giggled. "What can I say? I'm a worrier."
"A warrior is more like it." Taryn complimented. "I don't know who taught you how to fuck…" Ashley laughed out loud sending vibrations through Taryn's body. "But they deserve a gold medal, a blue star and a pink poodle… on a keychain."
Ashley continued laughing. "Where have I heard that from? Pink poodle on a keychain."
"Double Jeopardy. Ashley Judd. Tommy Lee Jones."
"Right." Both women grew silent again.
"So… how do we tell the locker room that this is a done deal?" Taryn asked. She felt Ashley start to get up. "No!"
"I'm coming right back." Ashley said with a huge smile, bending down to give Taryn a peck on the lips. Ashley left and then came back into the room with her phone and sat upright in the bed next to Taryn who slid up to sit next to her. Ashley then began tapping out a text message
To: The Exchange
We fucked. Drama over. Deuces.
Taryn began laughing hysterically. "You are not gonna send that!" Ashley looked at her with no expression on her face then hit the send button with her index finger. Taryn began another round of hysterical laughter. "You are an insane person!" Just as she said that, multiple incoming text chimes began blaring, carrying messages from "WHAT?" to "Way to go!" to "It's about fucking time. So happy 4 u! xoxo".
"And there you have it." Ashley confidently declared.
Taryn finished her laughing episode with a big sigh. "Well, now that you have put the Taryn Terrell notch on your bedpost, you can move on to Mickie."
"IIIII…. think I'm gonna be messing around with you for a while. The rest of them can wait."
Taryn beamed. "You sure know how to make a girl smile."
"So do you." Ashley smiled. "I love you."
Taryn's next smile started from the bottom of her heart and bubbled to the surface. "I love you too."
Monday, August 26, 2013 – 4:30 pm local time – Phoenix, Arizona – US Airways Center
Brie and Nikki were backstage having just come from booking agent Brian James aka Road Dogg of the New Age Outlaws. He informed them of the match they were involved in for the night. Brie would be going up against Natalya in a one-on-one match. Brie would have Nikki and Eva Marie in her corner. Natalya would have Naomi and Cameron in her corner. The sisters would have preferred having a straight up tag team match, however, an opportunity to share some ring time the Funkadactyls made up for the lack of tag action.
"I feel like getting drunk tonight." Brie said as the sisters walked.
"You know we don't drink on a Raw night." Nikki countered.
"I know." Brie lamented. "Buuuut… there's another kind of drunk that I can be tonight." Brie nodded in the direction of Trinity and Ariane who were off to the side of the corridor talking to Kay and AJ.
"Who are you in the mood for tonight? Trin or Mega Hot?" Nikki asked with a grin.
"Well, you know I love me some Trin, but Ariane is looking especially tasty today." Brie said as they walked up on the conversation already in progress.
"You seriously don't want to be on the show, do you?" Trinity had an air of incredulousness in her question to AJ about her lack of participation in the reality show Total Divas.
"It's just not my thing. Not judging any of you for doing it. I just don't want people in my personal life like that." AJ explained.
"Yeah." Kay said. "I mean, say I got horny for this little spinner and just wanted to pin her up against the wall and hump her brains out!" All of the women started laughing. "I can't do that with cameras rolling.
"You've been trying to pin me to a wall for what, five years now?" AJ joked.
"Slow and steady wins the race, my little pocket rocket." Kay shot back.
Brie glanced knowingly at Nikki, who flashed a lecherous, albeit brief glance at Trinity and Ariane.
"What is that all about?" AJ asked, seeing the loaded glances.
"What is what about?" Kay asked.
"These four looking at each other like they're in on an inside joke." AJ observed.
Nikki snickered and then answered. "We had a conversation the other day and said… that we thought y'all would make a cute couple." Kay dropped her head and shook it as she smiled. AJ etched a puzzled look on her face.
"A cute couple?" AJ began. "Last time I checked, we were both women! Hello?!"
"Uh, AJ, lesbians and bi-curious people do exist. Hello?!" Ariane mocked.
Brie, utilizing a psychological manipulation tactic she had seen Layla use, decided to interject a convincing passive aggressive recruiting pitch that all of the new members of the Circle picked up on.
"Yeah AJ, I mean, and I can only speak for myself here, if I were bi or gay, I would be on you in a heartbeat. I can definitely see why men… and women want you."
Knowing that AJ would probably think that everyone is involved in the same mock flattery that Brie is, everyone decided to chime in with their true feelings.
"I know I'd fuck you." Trinity said.
"Jean shorts on the floor in two seconds flat." Ariane said.
"You could even keep the Chucks on." Nikki added. AJ threw her head back and launched into a full belly laugh followed by the other women.
"Oh I've had that dream more than once." Kay teased, making everyone laugh even harder and earning a playful punch in the arm by AJ.
"Look, I am about ninth or tenth on the totem pole in sex appeal at best." AJ said.
"Not judging by the reaction of the Universe." Trinity said. "You are the one. You may be small but that ass is poppin'. I'm just sayin'."
AJ let out a slightly embarrassed chuckle as a slight blush crept onto her cheeks. "Let… me go before this conversation gets… any weirder. I'll catch y'all later. Kay, you coming?" AJ hopped down off of the oversized flight case she was sitting on.
"In a sec." Kay said as AJ threw her hand up and walked away from the group. When she thought AJ was out of earshot, she turned her head back to the group. "Y'all are good! She definitely felt that. Brie, how did you know she felt self-conscious about her sex appeal?"
"I didn't. I was just trying to plant a seed."
"Well, you hit a nerve. Not in a bad way, but she'll let this conversation marinate in her brain for a minute." Kay revealed. "Let me go before she comes back for me. I'll see you guys." Kay started to walk away.
"Celeste!" Trinity called out to her by her real name. Kay turned her head toward her. "You got me tonight?"
Kay flared her nostrils and grinned. "I got you, Trin. I got you." Kay then turned her head and continued walking away.
"What do you got tonight, Trin?" Nikki asked, believing she knew the answer.
"Exactly what you think I've got." Trinity saucily said. "I've got a date with that booty."
Brie laughed. "Speaking of which… Mega, what are you doing after the show?"
"Uh…" Ariane raised an eyebrow and briefly glanced at Trinity before looking at Brie. "By the look on your face and your question I would say… you."
"Good answer, Cammy." Brie said. "We'll talk after the match."
Later on that evening, the combatants in the Brie-Natalya one-on-one match were fuming over the lack of ring time they received.
"Two minutes! Nikki vented. "I've had farts last longer than that!"
"It's true. Especially after she's had beer." Brie joked.
"Brie, I'm serious! This is bullshit!" Nikki shot back.
"How do they expect us to tell a story in two minutes?" Nattie inquired.
"They don't." Trinity added.
"I thought it went well." Several of the women rolled their eyes at the lightning rod called Eva Marie when she said that.
"Went well? We were out there for two minutes. Our ring entrances were longer than the match." Ariane huffed.
"But hey, at least we're out there. A lot of women would kill for the position we're in." Eva Marie replied.
"I ain't even trying to hear that from you right now!" Trinity started. "Why don't you just…"
"Hang on! Hang on!" Nattie interrupted. "Eva does have a point. "It's not much but at least it's not the unemployment line. Our time will come. We've just got to stick together and make sure we're ready when it does. In the meantime, we do our best in the time we're given."
The women looked at each other and nodded their heads in a sign of contrition allowing Nattie to be the voice of reason yet again. Before the women went to the locker room, Nattie got Trinity's attention and nodded in Eva Marie's direction in a non-verbal effort to get Trinity to apologize for snapping at her. Trinity had the same view of Eva Marie that the other women did; she seemed to be a nice enough person but managed to always say something that rubbed people the wrong way. Trinity gave Nattie a 'do I have to do this?' look that made Nattie nod again. Trinity sighed and walked toward Eva Marie, who had begun to walk away.
"E, wait up!" Trinity said. Eva Marie stopped and turned toward her. Trinity walked up and stopped in front of her. "Look, I just wanted to say… I'm sorry for snapping at you. It wasn't you. I'm just frustrated. That's all."
"Oh, it was me too." Eva Marie said. "I know I grate on people. I don't like doing it but I'm not gonna change who I am. I know you didn't mean it. No harm, no foul."
Trinity let out a smart-alecky chuckle. "Okay. Cool." Trinity turned to walk away when Eva Marie reached out and put her hand on Trinity's shoulder, stopping her. Trinity turned back around.
"Trin, can I… I heard Ariane call you that." Trinity nodded her approval. "How do I… how do I, you know… not be an outsider in the locker room?"
"Just… be real. These girls can sniff out a bullshitter." Trinity said. "If you really aren't about the business, it'll show, and they'll jump on you. People outside the locker talk a lot of shit about The Bellas, but they work hard for their spot, and not on their knees either like a lot of people like to say. Put in the work and you won't have any problems."
Eva Marie smiled a genuine smile. "Thanks. You're the first one to talk to me."
"You asked a question from the heart with no bullshit attached. It's that simple." Trinity smiled, nodded and gave Eva Marie a quick rub near her shoulder. "Come on. Let's get out of here."
"Aren't you gonna wait for Ariane?"
Trinity had a mental flashback to Brie's proposition to Ariane. "She's… got a date."
"Ooh! Sounds juicy!" Eva Marie said.
Trinity shook her head and smirked. "You don't know the half, girl. Not even close."
In the locker room about 15 minutes later, Kay slung her bag over her shoulder and headed for the door.
"Have you seen AJ? I thought she was riding back to the hotel with me." Kay asked Brie who was standing near the door.
"I saw her grab her bag and dart out of here when you went to the bathroom."
"Maybe she's waiting for you in the hallway." Kay nodded. "But… I thought you had a… date with Trinity." Brie asked.
"I do. I'm going back to the hotel to shower. We're gonna grab a drink or something."
"It's the or something I'm curious about."
"Brie, anybody tell you that you're a little horndog?"
Brie leaned in to whisper in Kay's ear. "Every time Nikki goes down on me." Kay exploded in laughter.
"Goodnight Brianna!"
"Goodnight Celeste!"
Kay went into the hallway and saw no sign of AJ. She asked several people if they had seen her. Two of them indicated that they had seen her heading for the exit to the parking lot. Kay continued her search when she came across someone that she thought would know for sure of AJ's whereabouts.
"Phil!" Kay called out to AJ's boyfriend, Phil "CM Punk" Brooks.
"What's up?" Phil said.
"Have you seen April?
"I assumed she was with you."
"She rolled out without me. That's weird."
"She probably got a ride back to the hotel with somebody else. She seemed a little antsy last time I saw her. Everything cool?" Phil asked.
"Don't see why it wouldn't be. Maybe she had to take a big dump and wanted some privacy." Phil began laughing. Kay was one of the few people that could make him laugh consistently.
"That's probably it."
"Cool. Well, I'll see you tomorrow."
"If I don't quit first. Yeah." Phil replied using his acerbic wit. With a wave, Kay was on her way back to the hotel.
Monday, August 26, 2013 – 9:15 pm local time – Phoenix, Arizona – Four Seasons Hotel
Kay decided to leave her ring bag in the car since she was getting up early to go to the airport to fly to Las Vegas for the SmackDown taping later that night. She was eager to get upstairs to shower so she could meet Trinity in the lobby for drinks. Just as the elevator reached her floor, she received a text from Trinity. Kay became engrossed in her text as she walked down the hall. She was giggling to herself when she pulled out the key card to open the door. Because she was texting while she was opening the door, she opened the door very slowly making almost no sound. When her ears focused on the sound inside the room, her half of the text conversation ceased.
"Oh shit!" Kay heard AJ whisper-yell that profanity followed by breathless panting. Knowing that Phil was the last person that she had talked to at the arena and that there was no way he could have beaten her back to the hotel, it meant that one of two things were happening just out of her sight line; either AJ was cheating on Phil…
"God Kay… fuck!"…
Or Kay was listening to her best friend masturbate… thinking about her.
I had a few people review and PM me when Kaitlyn and AJ made their first cameo whether or not they would show up and join in on all of the fun. Well, a blind man can see where this is headed. We'll find out what goes down in chapter 19. Also, Taryn and Ashley, finally! What do you think? And last but not least, the return of Melina? What in the name of HLA is going on around here? I'm off to write chapter 19 now. Talk to you soon.
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