California Friends
Season 2, Episode 11: The Sunny Couple, The Rainy Couple
November 28, 2014
Previously On 'California Friends'; Melina finds out that Aj and Vince are having an affair, leaving her shocked and stuck with the information she holds, does she keep it to herself or does she tell? Meanwhile Eve is secretly crushing on Randy, but Cherry and Randy are about to become a couple, with the strong mutual feelings they share for each other it can happen any moment now. And Brie continues to have coincidental incidents where she runs into something with a Scream guy mask on it, it's like someone is out to get her, Daniel anybody? And everything seems to be going downhill for Nikki, her professional life is broken after being fired by Stephanie, but at least she has her reality show and modeling deals going on for her, but even those are destroying her relationship with John, which as of now the relationship is going nowhere.
Starring~ Melina Perez, Brie Bella, Nikki Bella, Eve Torres, and Layla El.
"Hey Layla, Can I talk to you for a second," Melina says as she slowly makes her way to Layla.
Layla turns around, surprised that Melina is approaching her, "Oooh, I wonder what this could be about," Layla says.
"Look I know we're not really friends, but since you're so close to Aj, I wanted to ask you something," Melina says, pausing to get her question together.
Layla crosses her arms, waiting for Melina to continue, "Okay, I'm waiting, What's the question," Layla says to Melina.
"So I really hope you won't tell anybody this, especially Aj or anybody close to Vince, but I wanted to know if you knew anything about Aj and Vince," Melina says, now waiting for Layla to respond.
"Well, what do you know about them, why the question now Melina, did you see or hear something," Layla asks, trying to get Melina to spill the secrets she knows.
Melina pauses again, not knowing if it would be smart to tell Layla what she saw, "No actually, I just think their friendship is kind of suspicious, they seem so close, I mean what do you think," Melina says, hoping Layla adds some input on the Aj and Vince relationship.
Layla shakes her head and she chuckles, "Okay I'll talk, I actually do know something, I caught them making out once and I also heard them flirting a few times, but you didn't hear it from me," Layla says, lying right through her teeth.
Melina gasps, "No way... Okay I'll admit it, I also know something, I saw them making out and touching each other, It was crazy, I was walking to Vince's office and I caught them, I even have photos on my phone," Melina says pulling out her phone to show Layla the photos.
Layla smirks, "Okay now I feel guilty, I was totally bluffing you, I know nothing, what I just said was a bunch of made up stories, but wow you actually do know something about them," Layla says, playing Melina back and forth.
Melina quickly puts her phone away, "Wait you lied... Layla, please, you can not tell anybody, at all, this is between me and you, I've only told you so far," Melina says, scared of what Layla might do with the shared information.
"Hey, you know what, I won't tell anybody, even though Aj is my friend, I'll keep it from her," Layla says patting Melina on the back, just to calm her down a little.
"Thank you so much Layla, this could change so much, it's destined to end in destruction, which is why I'm keeping it top-secret," Melina says as her trust for Layla starts to grow by the short minute.
Layla laughs, "I know, which is why I won't tell anybody," Layla says, she turns around as she hears Stephanie walking towards them.
Both Layla and Melina go quite for a minute, scared of what Stephanie might ask them.
"I have to go, but here's my number, so that we can continue this little secret," Layla says as she walks towards Stephanie.
Melina get's the phone number and puts in her pocket, she watches Layla walk away, not positively sure if she made the right choice by telling Layla, she got carried away in the moment. If anything goes down because of Layla, it'll come back full circle to Melina, Melina hopes that she won't later regret all of this.
Eve turns her wheelchair when she hears the door open, ready to start training, in order to be back on her feet again.
She looks over at the doorway, where she sees Cherry and Randy walking in, holding hands as they make their way to Eve, "Great," Eve whispers to herself.
Cherry looks at Eve and gives her a smile, Eve smiles back, Randy then also smiles and waves at her, Eve does the same back, hoping she can keep her feelings away from at all being awkward or hurt in front of the couple.
"Hey Eve, are you ready to begin our training therapy again," Cherry says, feeling brighter than ever, now that she's officially dating the man of her dreams; Randy.
"Totally, I'm also ready to start planning a future wedding for you two," Eve says to Cherry and Randy as she laughs.
Randy chuckles, "Oh you know it, I wouldn't have a problem with marrying this beautiful lady within the next year," Randy says as he kisses Cherry on the cheek.
Eve laughs, laughing in order to keep things from being awkward for her, she looks away and waits for them to finish.
"So how are you feeling Eve," Cherry asks Eve in order to keep the room from going completely quite.
"I'm doing great, I'm all about getting back on my feet again, that's all I'm thinking about," Eve says as she watches Cherry prepare the equipment to begin.
"Here babe, let me help you," Randy says as he helps Cherry get ready, the couple then begin to flirt, they begin to talk about their plans for the night while they get everything ready for Eve's training therapy.
Meanwhile Eve sits in her wheelchair, she instead turns around and instead rolls towards the window, where the view is picture perfect and where a couple isn't constantly showing affection, she hears them talking, but she tries to ignore them in order to keep her feelings safe.
Brie brushes her hair while she looks into the mirror, she's focused... too focused, it seems like she wants to be at her best now that her sister is gone, she's scared that she'll end up the same way, getting fired.
Brie continues to concentrate on brushing her hair, until she sees Stephanie and Layla walk in from the side of her mirror, Brie puts her brush down and turns around.
She get's up to shake Stephanie's hand, followed by another handshake with Layla, "Stephanie, Hi... who, who is this," Brie says pointing to Layla.
"Nice to see you Brie, anyways Brie this is Layla, I wanted you to meet her because I wanted to pair you guys up as a team," Stephanie says emphasizing Layla's presence with her hands while Layla waves with her hand.
Brie smiles and nods, "Oh wow, Okay I didn't know I was going to be put in a tag-team, I thought I would kind of go solo now," Brie says hoping Stephanie understands.
Stephanie smiles and shakes her head, "No, No, I never said anything about you going solo, I thought that giving you a new partner would kind of rejuvenate your career," Stephanie says to Brie.
"Wait... So is she like Nicole's replacement or something," Brie says finding the pairing kind of sketchy.
Stephanie laughs, "No way, No this is just temporary, don't worry you'll eventually go solo, so are you in?" Stephanie asks.
"I'm in, I guess it's not going to hurt to change things up a little, right," Brie says turning to give Layla a small smile.
Stephanie taps her on the back, "Okay perfect, well I'm going to leave so that you guys can get to know each other, you guys have a match in one hour, good luck," Stephanie says as she begins to head for the door.
She stops and turns back around, "Oh and Brie, I totally forgot, this card was left outside your door, I don't know who left it, I just found it their," Stephanie says handing Brie the special card.
"Thank you Stephanie, I wonder who could've left this," Brie says taking it out of the envelope.
Brie pulls it out and she slightly jumps out of her chair, the cover has a picture of the Scream mask, the Scream mask that keeps haunting her ever since that Halloween party incident.
Layla turns around to face Brie, "Woah is that the Scream guy from that one Scary movie, who sent you that," Layla says while she puts her stuff down.
Brie keeps her eyes on the card, she finally looks up at Layla, "I don't know, it's anonymous, you don't understand how scary and coincidental this is for me," Brie says to Layla.
Brie opens the card and inside the card is a small hand-written sentence that reads; "I Am Who You Think I Am".
Brie closely observes the letter, trying to match the handwriting to the person she believes sent her the letter, "Daniel Bryan," Brie whispers, having not one doubt in her mind that it could possibly be somebody other than Daniel.
Rain City by Turin Brakes plays in the background.
John walks into the kitchen, he looks across and sees Nikki sitting in the living room with a blanket on her by the window, staring out at the rain.
Nikki hears his footsteps, but she ignores him, both of them actually stay quite and just ignore each other.
Nikki sits their, keeping everything inside, but she can't help herself, she needs to tell him what she's going through at the moment, but she's not sure if he even wants to listen to her.
Nikki finally speaks, "It sucks that we've become that couple, the couple that keeps everything under the rug and that doesn't really love one another anymore," Nikki says to John.
John turns to Nikki, "I actually don't think we've turned into that couple, I mean I still love you and I'm not keeping anything from you, I think that instead we've turned into that couple that has grown apart and that no longer communicates anymore," John says standing behind the counter.
Nikki turns to face John, "I guess we have grown apart lately, I mean we haven't been talking lately, it's like were living separate lives," Nikki says.
"I honestly have no idea what's going on in your life, we live together, yet it seems like we live in different worlds," John says as he walks over to where Nikki is at.
Nikki holds the tears back, "I have so much inside, so much hidden raw emotion that can easily rock my world, I needed you John, but it seems like I don't have you anymore," Nikki says as she looks at him in the eye.
"I have a lot of recent stories that I'm waiting to share, but to who, I also feel like I don't have you anymore, maybe the passion has died," John says sitting next to Nikki.
Nikki wipes the tears away, the tears that she can no longer hold back, "So now what, I mean, when the passion is gone, what's left," Nikki says to John, hoping he can care for her, as at least a friend.
"I honestly think a breakup would work for us, although the love is still their, it's not the same, I feel like the love is the type of love you would have for a dear friend," John says putting his hand on her shoulder.
Tears pour down Nikki's eyes the way the rain pours down the window, she looks at John and then hugs him.
John shuts his eyes and holds her, to maybe take a little of the pain away. He finally let's her go and puts his arm around her shoulders, they both sit there for a moment to look at the rain fall down.
"Do you know what I've learned from our whole miscarriage tragedy, is that everything is little, if we were able to get through the miscarriage, we can do the same for any other obstacle," John says.
Nikki leans her head on his shoulder, "It's funny because I swore I would stay on the top, but I fell right back down and if I do end up back on top, I'll fall again, but maybe that's what life's about," Nikki says staring at the rain.
John grabs the blanket from behind him, he places it around Nikki and the former couple stays sitting their, in silence as they watch the rain pour down.
Special Guest Stars~ Stephanie McMahon, Cherry, Randy Orton, and John Cena.
Music Credit~
'Rain City' by Turin Brakes (Shown In Scene 4)
Created By~ Jonathan N.