I am really loving where this story is going. This chapter is probably the best one so far. I need reviews! ALICIA's POV
Matt Cardona and I had a very quick relationship. We met when Vince asked me to become Zack Ryder's manager. Of course I said yes. Matt is a very sweet guy. A few days after we met he called me and asked if I wanted to start training. The first day I met him at the gym to start working out. He was a tall, tan, and built guy. He started telling me about all the machines that he used regularly and his stats. I really wasn't listening. I was too busy staring at his tan chest. We decided that everyday that we would meet up for a couple hours at the ring or the gym. I needed a lot of in ring training but also body training. When I wouldn't do something right he would come behind me and place my hips were they needed to be or my feet or so on. I was starting to feel these feelings I have never felt before. I was not allowed to date in high school. College all the guys were interested in drinking or having sex. I was never into either. I had made a promise to my dad when I was younger about saving myself for the right person. He tried to get me to wait until marriage but I always said it will happen when its supposed to. The Saturday before my Raw debut after our training Matt asked me out to dinner for Sunday. I said yes.
He picked me up at 6 pm for dinner on Sunday. The drive to the restaurant was a little long. He told me that the restaurant served the best Italian cuisine that he had ever had. He got out of the car and walked over and opened my door. (at his request that I didn't open it) We walked into the restaurant and waited to be seated. It was very beautiful. It was mostly lit by candles. It was very romantic. We were escorted to our seats. Matt and I sat and talked about everything in our lives. After dinner he asked me if I would like to dance. I said sure. There were many other couples dancing also. It was very sweet. After we left he took me to this park that he knew of and we laid out and looked at the stars for a while. Finally I was getting tired and it was getting late so he took me home and right there on the porch we had our first kiss. Feelings of happiness flooded over me. I have never been this happy with a guy before. We were officially a couple before the night was over.
Sitting in my dressing room in Nashville I thought of how lucky I am and how sweet Matt is. He walked in the room and I just glowed with happiness. Many of the WWE Superstars told me that they never saw Matt this happy. We had to get all of our stuff packed up to head out. Raw was in Kentucky next week. We decided to spend our week off relaxing at home.
"We need to talk." Matt said.
Those are the worst 4 words that any person could say in a relationship. No matter what the news is you automatically think that it is gonna be bad. I the few seconds before I could reply a bunch of things ran through my mind. My hands started shaking.
"Ok. What about?" I replied.
"Well Vince called me in the office and we talked about a few things to make me a better performer. Not that anything was really lacking but how I could be better. One thing he asked is if I would considering changing my name." Matt said.
"What is wrong with Zack Ryder?" I asked.
"No. Not my character name. My real name. He thinks that I should change it to Zack Ryder. I am growing widely popular on youtube and twitter and everyone knows me as Zack Ryder. He thinks it would be easier with everything that is going on." he said.
A bunch of thoughts ran through my mind. I was so happy that the talk wasn't about us but kind of concerned about him changing his name. Why would your boss ask you to do that. I mean yeah I get the fact that he is pretty much everywhere on the Internet. I have watched his youtube channel ever since it came out. Plus I admit I followed him on twitter since the beginning but changing your name just because of fame. Who does that? But its not my decision but since he brought it up to me I have a feeling he wants my opinion.
"Well what do you think?" he asked.
There it was. I knew it was coming. What do I say? I think you're crazy. This is stupid. No. I can't say that. I should just be supportive and convince him to make his own decision and hopefully its the right one. But I mean come on calling him Zack Ryder all the time instead of some of the time wouldn't be that bad. Just weird because I knew him as Matt.
"Babe, I think you should do whatever you want. I can't really tell you what to do." I said.
"Thanks hun. I got to go talk to Vince. I will be back. Just wait til I get back and we can go to the hotel together." he said.
He walked over and gave me a kiss. Then he walked out of the room. I decided that I was going to go see Isabella since I had nothing else to do. As soon as I opened the door Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley was walking toward my dressing room.
"Hi Alicia. I was just coming to get you. I need to see you in my office. We need to go over your match. Don't worry we do this with every new wrestler to show them what they did right and what they need to work on." Stephanie said.
"Ok." I replied.
I followed Stephanie to her office. I wasn't nervous or anything because I was sure that I was doing a good job. We walked into her office and she shut the door and asked me to sit down. I sat down on the seat in front of her desk. I looked around the room and saw a bunch of pictures of her daughters and the rest of the McMahon family. She grabbed the video and placed it in the dvd player and turned on the tv. The match that I had with Zack against Dax Hastings and Kelly Kelly replayed right in front of me. We watched the entire match and I was pretty proud of myself. Stephanie got out of her seat and shut the tv off and sat on the corner of her desk.
"Well Alicia we saw the replay of the match. I have to say that I was as disappointed this time as when I first watched. You had a lot of botched spots. Some of the moves looked very unprofessional. I have to tell you that I wasn't impressed. If I was my choice I would release you but Paul (Stephanie's husband aka HHH) is willing to give you another chance. We are gonna put you in a match at the Summerslam PPV in a few months. You have until then to get proper training and show us that you belong in this business." Stephanie said.
My heart sank. I never really cared to be in this business because I was surrounded by in my entire life. I saw too many of people that I love get hurt. But since I have been training I have grown to love it. I never would have met Matt if I didn't join the company. Stephanie got up from the desk and I stood up.
"We are not doing this to punish you. We are doing this to help you. We are keeping you off wrestling on Raw until the ppv. You are allowed to accompany Zack to the ring for his matches. We will have another meeting with Paul and my father after Summerslam to see where we go from here." Stephanie said.
She excused me from the room and I walked down the hall. As soon as I walked away from her office I began to cry. I saw Dax Hastings walking in front of me to his dressing room. I noticed a paper fall out of his pocket. I walked closer as he walked into his dressing room. I noticed that it was a picture of a little boy and an older lady. I am assuming the boy was Dax. I walked up to the dressing room and knocked on the door. He answered the door.
"Can I help you?" he asked.
"You dropped this out of your pocket as you were going to your dressing room. I saw it was a picture so I figured you might be looking for it." I said.
"Thank you. That was me and my grandma when I was a little boy. She died a few years ago. I miss her so much. She is my good luck charm when I am in the ring." Dax said.
He looked at me with his beautiful brown eyes. I noticed that his muscles showed through his white t-shirt. He had a nice smile too. I never really noticed any of this before. He turned around to grab his bottle of water and took a drink. Then looked back at me.
"Not to be nosy but you look like you were crying, is everything ok?" he asked.
I was trying to forget about everything that happened in Stephanie's office but Dax sounded concerned so I figured I might as well say something.
"Stephanie told me that if I didn't get some more training that I will be released. I am getting at match at Summerslam against Kelly Kelly and if I don't do well then I am gone" I began to cry.
He looked confused. He looked like he wasn't sure if he should give me a hug or not. I tried to talk but nothing would come out. He walked closer and hugged me.
"I'm sorry. I really don't know what to say but if you want I could always help you out with training. I have nothing else to do and I really do think you have a lot of potential I dont want to see you lose your job. We can start tomorrow if you like." Dax said.
"I don't know. I am sure Matt wouldn't like the idea and neither would Randy." I said.
"Ok well just let me know. Thanks for bringing me my picture back. Talk to you later." Dax said.
I walked out of his dressing room down the hall to mine. I knew that Matt wasn't gonna be very happy with the idea that Dax train me as I am sure he would want to but we tried that and he has been so busy lately. Maybe Randy would want to do it. I just don't know how I am going to tell Matt what is going on. I feel like a failure. I don't know why I even though I could do this job. I walked into the dressing room and Matt was sitting there waiting for me.
"Well it's official. My name is Zack Matthew Ryder." Matt (I mean Zack) said.
"Well congratulations Matt...I mean Zack. Well this is going to take some time to get used to," I said.
"Yeah but I am ready for a change." he said.
"Changes yeah they are coming left and right. I think we should just go home now." I said.
We grabbed our stuff and left the arena. I couldn't wait to go home.