New Chances

"John are you being serious," Vince asked. "Why would you want to have an assistant?"
"Because you know how bad I am with remembering everything and I just want somebody here that can tell me what to do and when. I need someone to manage all of those things."
"Do you really want an assistant, a manager or just the girl that you want to be your whatever?"
"Kind of all three. I know how good she is with schudueles and how dedicated she is. She's been my best friend for so long and I just miss her all the time when I'm here. Come on Vince."
"I don't know John. Do you want this to be a behind the scenes thing or does she want to be on screen with you."
"I don't know, I only joked about it with her but she said that it would be cool."
"Well why don't you go and talk to her and see what she is willing to do then come back to me with what she says. If she says that she is willing to be on screen then I need to meet her in order to figure out how much she will do, what she looks like and so on."
"Alright thank you so much Vince, I really appreciate what you're doing for me."
"Well God knows I've tortured you enough over the past few years."
"Alright, I'll go and talk to her and get back to you when she's decided what to do."

John smiled at Vince and thanked him again before he went back to his locker room. Alexis was on her computer and John snuck up on her and scared her.

"Jes, John, you gotta stop doing that. You know how jumpy I am."

"Sorry shortie, I couldn't help myself. What are you working on?"
"Nothing much, I just felt like writing a little bit. How did seeing your boss go?"
"Okay I need to talk to you."
"Oh God," she said as she closed her laptop. He picked her up, sat in the chair and sat her on top of him. "What do you need to talk to me about?"
"You know when we got here and we were talking about me needing an assistant?"
"Yeah."
"Well I talked to my boss and he said that if I wanted an assistant you could be it. So I was wondering if you wanted to be my assistant?"
"I would love to be your assistant Johnny."
"Okay and he wanted to know if you wanted to be a part of the family here. You'll be on contract as my assistant/manager and I don't know the full details of it but if you want to be on camera and part of the show, it's a very big possibility."
"Umm, I guess that would be cool with me."
"Really," he said with a huge smile.

"Really really." He kissed her on the cheek and stood up holding her like a baby.
"So do you want to go and talk to him now?"
"If you come with me."
"Alright, come on."
He put Alexis down and she jumped on his back as he walked to Vince's office. She jumped off his back and looked at him.

"How do I look?"
"You look cute shortie."
"Are you sure?"
"I'm positive."
She smiled as he knocked on the door. "Come in." John walked in and Alexis walked in quietly behind him. "So who's this?"
"This is Alexis, Alexis this is my boss, Vince."
"It's nice to meet you," Alexis said extending her hand to him.

He shook her hand and said "It's nice to meet you too. Why don't you two have a seat?"
John and Alex sat down next to each other and Vince started talking to them. "So John has talked to you about being his assistant on screen and off, correct?"
"Yes and I would love to be his assistant on and off screen if it can be worked out."
"I'm sure that we can work it out for somebody as beautiful as you."
"Thank you."

"Alright, we will start the storyline on Monday night. Umm, we'll get you guys the scripts as soon as possible but probably not until Sunday night or early Monday morning."
"Okay," John said. "Thank you so much Vince."
"You're welcome John. And Alexis, we'll get a contract written up for you to sign before Monday also."

"Thanks Vince, I really appreciate this."
"Well you're welcome and anything that makes our champion happy is good for everybody."

"I guess having an angry champion couldn't be a good thing."
"No not at all. I'll talk to you guys later about all that's going on and so on. Alexis you're going to stay with John in his locker room if that's alright."
"I would prefer that."
"Okay. And one more thing before you go, would either of you mind if we tried to get you two together as a couple on screen?"
"No," they both responded reluctantly.

"Okay good."
John and Alexis thanked Vince and left his office. On the way back they saw Ashley and John patted Alex on the back as he headed back to the locker room.

"Hey Alex."
"Hi Ashley."
"So what do you think of this place," Ashley asked as they turned and walked in the opposite direction.

"Umm, I really like it actually and I think that I'm going to say."
"What do you mean stay?"
"I'm going to be John's assistant and I'm going to be out there with you guys. Not wrestling or anything but being there as his manager."
"Are you okay with that?"
"Yeah I really am. I get to get away from my parents and I get to see John all the time."
"How are you two doing after this morning?"
"Umm, we're doing alright. I was crying about it but I told him it was because of my parents and when I said that I would be his assistant he kissed me on the cheek."
"Wow, that's weird."
"I guess so but I feel like I should just give up on trying to date him and just be there for him as my best friend ya know?"
"I wouldn't give up but that's me and I don't know all the stuff that you guys have been through so I really can't led a helping hand."
"No it helps just to be able to talk about this with somebody. Johnny is the only friend that I have and I really can't talk about the feelings that I have for John with John."
"Yeah I understand that. I don't have many girl friends and one of my best friends is Jeff and I can't talk to Jeff about Matt because I know that Jeff will tell Matt everything that I tell him."
"Well it's probably a good thing that we have each other."
"Yeah it really is. I'm glad that you're staying because I really didn't want you to leave."
"I didn't want to leave either, I think that's why I agreed to all of this."
"Probably, either that or you want to be able to be with John all of the time."
"No I like having my alone time without him but it's always nice to have someone to snuggle with and to sleep next to."
"I know what you mean. I hate sleeping alone."
"Me too."
"So what do you want to do tonight?"
"Umm, how about shopping and dinner."
"That works for me. I love shopping."
"Me too and I think that I'm going to be needing more clothes now that I'm coming out here. All of my clothes are too big for me now."
"Really?"
"Yeah I used to weigh about 40 pounds more then I am now."
"Jes, and you look great now."
"Thanks. You're in great shape too."
"I try to keep up my appearances which isn't always easy."
"Yeah I know what you mean."
"And tomorrow we're going to get our hair done. We don't need to be here until 5 so we can go during the day so you look good for your debut on Monday."
"Why are you being so nice to me?"
"I don't know but I don't like the girls around here and I like you so I like that I have someone to do all of this stuff with."
"Me too."
"Well I've got to get ready for my match so I'll talk to you later."
"Alright. Here's my number so you can call me when you're ready to go out."
"Alright."
Alexis gave her number to Ashley before they went their separate ways. She was walking back to John's locker room and ran into Jeff.

"Hi Alexis."
"What's up Jeff?"
"Nothing much, I was just going for a walk. Would you like to come with me?"
"Yeah sure."
"Come on then."
Jeff and Alexis walked down the hallway and went outside. It was a breath of fresh, hot air as they walked out of the air conditioned arena and into the hot Florida sun.
"So you said you were a graphic designer?"
"Yeah, I work for a few companies. None of them are really big but I manage the websites and put out new layouts and stuff like that when they need me to and I make okay money."
"Well I think that's really cool that you made a career out of art. I always wished that I could have done that."
"You're an artist?"
"Yeah I really like painting and drawing, writing, basically any of that kind of stuff."
"I wouldn't have expected that."
"Why is that?"
"I honestly don't know. You're so original and everything and it's just not the first thing that I thought of when I first met you."
"What did you think when you first met me?"
"I thought that you were very creative with the way that you look and I thought that you would be a great person to get to know because you were just so calm and relaxed while everybody else was in full energetic mode."
"Well I'm not the most energetic person in the morning."
"Oh so you're not a morning person?"
"No, why, are you?"
"I know that I don't sleep well but when I decide that it's time to get up I like spring up in bed and decide that I need to get ready to go and do what I need to do."
"Well maybe I should just not sleep as much and I'll be a morning person."
"No I don't suggest that you do that because I really hate that it takes me hours to fall asleep. It's not the most comfortable position to be in, I promise you that."
"I guess not but I would like to be able to just get up and go you know?"
"Yeah I have a really big problem with getting John up and ready to go. I can't tell you how many times I've broken the damn speed limit trying to get him to the airport in time for the plane to leave. It is ridiculous."
"Yeah, Matt usually has to pry my ass out of bed all of the time."

"Well then we should never put you and John together because both of your asses would get fired."
"It would make sense for us not to room together because you're dating him."
"No I'm not."
"You guys aren't dating?"
"No, we're not. We're just best friends."
"Oh I thought that you two were together, sorry."
"A lot of people do, don't worry about it. Sometimes I even feel like we're dating."
"Is that weird for you?"
"A little bit and because of that I don't get a lot of dates, with just knowing that John is my best friend because he's a little intimidating."
"Just a little bit, I mean did you see his movie."
"Of course I saw it, I was in it."
"Were you really?"
"Yeah I was but I was just an extra, not that big of a deal but I got to stay with John while he was filming and when he came here, I went home."
"Wow, you are really with him almost all the time."
"Now it's going to be all the time because not only are we moving in with each other but now I'm working with him too."
"So you're going to be staying here?"
"Yeah I am."
"Good because I really look forward to getting to know you better."
"I want to get to know you too. I want to see all of your art and stuff."
"No problem, I would love to have your input on all of it."
"And I want to give it to you."
Jeff and Alexis talked for a little while longer before they headed back to the arena to see everybody.