Isla had a virus so we were sent home with a list of things that would make her feel better while we waited for the virus to pass. Marek dropped Isla and I off at home and quickly reminded me that he would give Colby my number to call me in the morning to schedule a time to make up the part of the class I had missed.
The night went pretty good considering how unwell Isla was. But she had been awake for a good eight hours by the time we got home so I knew that she was more than a little bit tired. I gave her some baby paracetamol and then fed her half a bottle before she nodded off to sleep in my arms. Surprisingly she slept all night with one or two cries before she settled herself and went back to sleep.
In the morning I was up early because although Isla had gone to bed quite late, Tynan had a great nights sleep and was up at his normal time of seven thirty. I insisted that Sophia slept in this morning, she had been nothing but a mothers best-friend since we moved Moline. When I had finally decided to move to Moline to attend the academy she had insisted that I would not be able to do everything on my own and she moved with me to help with the twins while I followed my dreams. I met Sophia just a few weeks after Declan and I had met, so we were very close. I may have lost a husband but she had lost her only child. Myself and her grandchildren were all that she had left, her husband died before I met her. She often said that I was reason that Declan survived for so long.
My phone rang at ten thirty, a little later than I was expecting but I picked it up none the less. Isla had woken up about half an hour before hand and was currently healthy enough to sit in the playpen and play with her toys while I changed her brothers butt. "Hello?" I answered the phone awkwardly and tilted my head to my shoulder to hold the phone in place while I multi tasked.
"Georgia? Hi this Colby. Marek said that you should be able to come in today for a couple of hours." I almost laughed at the tone in his voice, it sounded like he was nervous.
"Hey Colby, that would be great."
"Awesome. Well I'm headed over to the gym now. So you can pop in whenever you're ready." He said.
"That's great. I'll see you soon." After hanging up the phone I could then concentrate on Tynan and his horrible whining as I changed his diaper. He never usually whined when i changed him, I hoped he wasn't getting the virus that Isla had.
"Boy did i need that sleep in, I feel like I could climb a mountain today!" Sophia emerged from her room at the front of the house as I walked out of the bathroom where the twins change table was kept. "How are you feeling?" Sophia smiled at me warmly. This woman was like my mother, better than my real mother anyway.
"I feel fine but I thought I might take Tynan to the doctor after training. He's getting a bit whiney, I hope he hasn't got Isla's virus." I explain to her as I put Tynan on the floor in the playpen and he starts to cry.
"Oh yes, that's a good idea. Will you take him to training with you?" She asks as I lean over the play pen and put Ty's pacifier in his mouth. This seemed to calm him down a little.
"I think I might, he's due for a bottle in a little while and I'm fairly certain he should sleep. I might be over reacting a little bit, he might not be sick at all, maybe he's just moody." I tell Sophia as I walk in to the kitchen and start making us a cup of coffee. "Would it be easier if I took Ty with me?" I ask her curiously.
"I don't think it will make much of a difference, darling. But the doctor is right near the gym so you may as well." She smiled at me as I started mucking around in the kitchen with mugs and coffee.
So after I sat down and had my coffee with Sophia I started to gather my gym stuff and got a bottle of water out of the fridge. I gave Sophia the list of things to do for Isla if she started to get unsettled again, I'm not even sure why I bother anymore, she knows these kids better than I do. I packed a bag for Tynan and we were out the door in the stroller down the road to the gym.
I opened the door and walked in to the gym which was dead quiet, there was a separate room for the actual gym and the training centre. "Hey Georgia." I looked up as I walked through the door and saw Colby sitting on the edge of the ring with his phone in his hand.
"Hey." I smiled back at Colby and made sure that Tynan was happy in his stroller.
"Who is this little guy." Tynan had decided that he didn't want to sleep and that he wanted to watch what mommy was doing so I sat him up in the stroller. Colby had walked over to me.
"This is Tynan." I smile down at my little boy.
"He wrestling with us today?" Colby joked and bent down beside the stroller and started talking to Tynan.
"I don't think so. Although he'd probably love that, he likes watching me wrestle more than his sister does." Marek had gotten me some matches at the local wrestling companies in town which had been really cool and Sophia had always wanted to watch me wrestle so last week Sophia brought them to a show. Tynan was fascinated by all the loud noises but poor little Isla hadn't liked it that much.
I laughed softly as Tynan leaned closer to Colby and suddenly reached out to play with the blonde streak in his hair. "That's mine buddy." Colby laughed. "So you've got two kids?" Colby looked up at me when Tynan let go of his hair.
"Yeah twins." I smile.
"Wow! And you're back in the ring already? Your husband must be proud of you." He says with enthusiasm and I just stare at him blankly. He looks a bit shocked but I had sort of assumed that Marek would at least let him know about my situation. "No husband?" He queries. "Aw man I feel like the biggest dick right now…" He mutters and runs his hands through his hair.
I stay silent for a little longer before coming to my senses and out of my shock and respond. "I'm sorry, I just thought Marek may have told you is all. My husband died when the twins were four weeks old." I say and look over to the ring. I decide that Tynan can sit by the ring while we practice.
"Aw jesus I'm the biggest ass, I shouldn't have said anything. I'm so sorry." He stumbles over his words as he follows me over to the ring. I hand Tynan his bottle and he starts drinking away and then I hop in to the ring. The walk here was my warm up.
"It's fine, not a lot of people know." I shake my head.
"I'm still sorry, I try not to get too personal with students but I kind of walked right in to that one. You've got one cute kid there, he sort of distracted me." He chuckles nervously.
"He is pretty cute." I smile.
"Right let's get to work, show me what you can do." So for the next hour I show Colby exactly what I can do in the ring, he takes everything I give him and when he has advice to give he gives it and then we start again. "How long have you been wrestling?" He asks curiously when we've finished. We're sitting in the middle of the ring with our water bottles and Tynan is crawling around the ring and sitting up every so often and starts bouncing up at down.
"Since I was seventeen." I answer. "I'm twenty five now." I add.
"What the hell are you doing here then? You've got just as much talent as half the locker room at WWE." He scoffs loudly. I look at him curiously and he seems to be serious.
"That's why I'm here. I don't want to be that manager that distracts the ref every match. I'm over being the only woman in the company, I want some competition and I figured that coming here would look good on my resume and maybe I could get some indy work or a reference." I smile brightly at him and he laughs.
"You've definitely got what it takes, I'll give you that. I've got some people coming to scout at the end of this course so I'll let them know. But what about your kids? Surely you don't wanna move around too much." He says and takes a sip of his water. I look around and see Tynan pulling himself up on the ropes, I've never seen him so that before I'm not sure what to do first. should I be proud that he's learning something new or should I freak out because he's teetering on the edge of a wrestling ring.
I decide to freak out and slide out of the ring and stand in front of him so if he does tumble in the wrong direction I'll be there to catch him. "My husband's mom has pretty much told me that she'll support whatever happens when this course is finished. If I don't find anything I'll go back to the drawing board. If for some crazy reason I hit the road, the kids are coming with me. Until they go to school they'll always be by my side." I explain to him.
"I'm pretty sure you'll be on the road." Colby grins at me.
Seth Rollins thinks I'm gonna be on the road after this course, I'm the only one in the whole class that knows that there are scouts coming at the end of the course. "So is this scouts thing meant to be a secret?" I ask curiously as Tynan decides that he doesn't want to stand up anymore and lets go of the bottom rope and falls on his butt and starts to cry. I reach in and pull him out of the ring and cuddle him to me, he's incredibly tired he was meant to have a nap while I was training.
"It's meant to be a secret, Marek will probably kill me if I tell him I told you. So keep that one to yourself." He chuckles and I nod my head. "Little guy looks pretty tired." He says as he climbs out of the ring.
"Yeah he was meant to sleep while I was here." I nod and put Ty back in to the stroller and give him his pacifier and while I strap him in and put the back down so he's laying down.
"So I was wondering, if you're free during the week do you wanna have another training sesh?" He asks curiously.
"I thought Black & Brave didn't do private lessons." I cock an eyebrow at Colby curiously and he grins lopsidedly at me.
"Well they don't but Black does." He chuckles. "Or even just a work out, do you do crossfit?"