Chapter 2: Play Hard

The next day passed by in a blur of media and a short match on Smackdown and I was soon able to return back to the hotel to get myself ready for the party. None of the girls were really up for being hungover tomorrow so they decided to skip out on the party but Brie promised to pick me up later so I wouldn't need a cab.

I quickly had a shower and blow dried my hair, I decided to just leave it in its natural curls tonight, I then did my make-up and got myself dressed into a pair of short shorts and a fitted crop top with white converse, I then tied a red and black plaid shirt around my waist and went on my merry way. I was excited to get to Urijah's and see everyone like Chad and Cody who I hadn't seen in a very long time. The WWE schedule didn't leave too much time for visiting sadly.

I arrived at the party just after 9 and the house was already full and so was the front yard, I went into the house and straight away tried to find someone I recognised.

"Jess!" I heard Urijah call me," I can't believe you actually made it!" he gave me a quick hug. He must not have been drinking because there wasn't even a slight slur in his voice.

"Of course I did I told you I'd be here didn't I?" I laughed and looked around nervously at all the strange people here I didn't seem to recognise anyone here. "Who are all these people? I can't see anyone I know".

"Just some friends from other gyms, real chill people don't be nervous I got your back" he smiled sweetly at me, "Here let me introduce you to a couple guys I know you'll like". He led me through the crowd to the back patio away from most of the crowd and noise there was a group of people laughing and joking between themselves not seeming too bothered with others at the party. "Hey guys I want to introduce you to my friend Jessie" he then turned to me "I just got to run and check on something I'll be two minutes wait here". He walked off and I started to get a good look at the group in front of me, there were 2 girls and 6 boys in total. One of the guys caught my attention fast, he was tall maybe about 6 feet tall and had really short almost shaved off dark hair and dark eyes. He was quite handsome he was standing next to another guy that was obviously his brother they were so similar in looks.

A blonde girl stood up in front of me and put out her hand for me to shake "I'm Leslie Smith" she said while shaking my hand with a friendly smile, "This is Keri Melendez, Gilbert Melendez, Jake Shields, Chris Avila, Kron Gracie, Nick Diaz and Nate Diaz" they each leaned forward and shook my hand as Leslie introduced them. I tried not to blush too bright as Nate took my hand but judging by the small smile he gave me I think he saw my red cheeks. I recognised the name Diaz and it dawned on me they were the Diaz brothers who'd I'd watched fight many times.

"Hey it's really nice to meet you guys I've actually watched a couple of your fights before" I gestured towards Nick and Nate while Nate handed me a beer from the cooler on the ground. "Thank you" I blushed again as my hand touched his while taking the beer.

"You're an MMA fan? Didn't think a girl like you would be into that" Nick asked while taking a swig of his beer.

"Excuse you!" I said while laughing "I'll have you know I'm not only a fan but also a martial artist myself, I've even fought a couple of times".

"Really?" Nick seemed surprised "Your tiny!" The group laughed at his comment"

"Who you train under?" Nate asked nodding his head upwards at me. He was standing with one hand in his pocket sort of leaning back like he was trying to get a good look all around me without me noticing. Little did he know I was doing the same, through his black t-shirt and blue jeans I could see he was muscular with good definition in his arms, I could see he worked out often.

"I use Renzo Gracie's academy down in Florida now it's only a couple hours from home" I replied taking another big swig of my drink. He was still looking at me closely and I secretly hoped that he liked what he was seeing.

"Cool we are all Gracie fighters too" he smiled.

"Renzo's a badass motherfucker" Chris piped up "Always busts my balls when he visits". Chris had a cheery smile it was inviting and made me like him already.

"He wouldn't have to if you actually did some work" Nate replied kicking Chris's leg making everyone laugh.

"Hey fuck you dude I work plenty" Chris kicked Nate back.

We all began talking and they questioned me about what I do and where I'm from and I questioned them too. Urijah was right they are all really cool people, I learned that Keri and Gilbert have a daughter and are engaged to be married in a few months and Jake also has a daughter but he split with her mom years ago. We all got caught up in a big conversation but that eventually split off into individual conversations and I was left talking to Nate. I thought he would start acting the bad boy like he does on the television during his press conferences but he didn't at all he was really sweet and so funny. We talked about everything from work to veganism we really hit it off I've never had that before. Eventually it was time for Brie to come get me as I was getting pretty drunk.

"Hey guys, I better head off my ride is here but it was awesome meeting everyone" I stood up and swayed a little bit but Nate grabbed my arm to steady me. "Thanks Nate" I smiled a rather tipsy smile at him.

"I'll walk you out" he replied standing up and putting down his beer, "Don't need you falling over". I made a quick round of hugs to the small group and told everyone to contact me again, I then quickly found Urijah with Nate's help and said goodbye to him too then Nate and I made our way outside and up to the end of the driveway until I could see Brie's rental car across the road.

I stopped and turned to Nate, "That's my ride there thanks for walking me out I had a great night we should hang out again sometime" I smiled sweetly at him praying silently he agrees.

"Yeah definitely give me your number and I'll hit you up" he replied smiling down at me. I gave him my number and then reached up on my tip toes to kiss his cheek and give him a quick hug goodnight then I ran across the road hopped in the car and waved as Brie drove off, he waited until I was gone before turning around and going back inside.

"Well did you have fun? Who was that guy? He's cute" Brie asked while trying to focus on the road. I told her everything that happened tonight and about all the new people I met, she seemed excited at the thought of me finally meeting a guy.

We arrived at the hotel about 20 minutes later and I went straight up into my room to wash the make-up off my face and get changed into my pyjamas and after a quick facetime call to Paige I decided I better try get some sleep seeing as I've an early flight back to Florida in the morning. Before lying down I took a quick bedtime selfie for Instagram and captioned it 'goodnight x' seeing as I haven't updated in a couple of days. After a couple of minutes, I checked the comments and one stood out from the other fan comments " natediaz209: Goodnight JessieJaydeWWE x". For some reason that put a giant smile on my face before I snuggled down into bed and fell into a deep drunken sleep.

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