Chapter 13 Gain ground

As usual Raven was sitting down with the annoucers pretty much wasting time, now that she thought about it why in the blue hell did she let Sarge agree to this stupid bikini contest, the last time she wore a bikini she was a mere thirteen years old and apparently it made her look fat. That was the first time Punk had ever defended her with his fist. Well technically it was his foot but still. When the girls, Eve, Kelly, Tamina, AJ, Beth and Natalaya were annouced to kick off summer with the bikini contest Raven suddenly cringed and tried to hide behind her hands.

"Crap I knew there was something I was meant to be doing" With any luck they would just skip past her and name someone the winner.

"Now Raven was supposed to compete in this contest but its obvious that she has realised that she's a freak that would just look plain ugly in a bikini" Beth taunted, Raven still hid behind her hands trying to stop Charlie and Sarge from retorting. Sadly Raven wasn't exactly fighting too hard so the next thing she knew Charlie was on a microphone errupting cheers from the crowds and unknown to her, Cody Rhodes.

"I have you know I forgot about this contest, thats why I'm not in there with you ladies, and by ladies I mean, Evie,Kelly, Tamina and AJ"

"Right you "forgot" More like your afraid to compete because your nothing but an ugly little girl whos a tad body shy. Don't worry I'd be body shy too if I was covered in freakish tattoos"

"Oh that does it! Mess with a freak and you mess with America!" "Sarge please don't do what I think your gonna do" "Quiet you"

Still muttering insults Raven began to get undressed right down to her bra and panties. She thought the roof was gonna blow, at least somebody liked her tattoos. Or maybe it was her curves, she didn't know and she wasn't sure she cared. Muttering about how she was a war hero Sarge grabbed a chair and slid into the ring, all the Divas instantly got out except Beth was a little too slow and she wound up with a chair to the back. More cheers fell around the arena as she held up the familiar spray can. Right before her eyes Beth was marked with the number three.

"Here are your winners Eve, Kelly, AJ, Tamina and the Sarge" Raven annouced, to her everyone was a winner except the two manish trolls that called themselves pin-up strong. Raven was just happy a commercial began so she could get out of the ring and put some damn clothes on.

Punk's POV

Was it wrong that I was completely turned on by my best friend taking off her clothes? I know I wasn't the only guy staring when she started to peel off her clothes but I figured I should be protecting her from guys like them, not join them. I couldn't help it, it was like she was putting on my very own strip show. It was hard not to punch every guy that was looking at her, no one should be perving at her but then again I couldn't pass judgement because I was the first one to perve at her. After the show was done we met up and I was sad to see that she had clothes on again.

"Well that was fun" Raven beamed "Indeed it was, now people know mess with freaks and you mess with America" "Thank you for that Sarge, we got the message" "It was fun! We should do it again!"

"Sounds like Charlie was a stripper once upon a time"

"Only for you Punky" Charlie grinned making Raven roll her eyes "Thats the last time I forget I'm meant to be in a bikini contest"

"I think you did very well"

That deep drawl could only belong to one pervert, the biggest one in the entire locker room. Raven however beamed even more.

"Thanks Randy. I gotta admit it was kinda cool to hear the fans cheering me on"

"Well you've certainly made the Diva division more interesting"

"Thanks" She shot me a look before looking at Randy "Hey are you a betting man?"

I swear his face drained of all colour as the innocence of her words washed over him. "Uh no I'm not. Why's that?" She knows! You must sacrifice Cena, it was all his idea!

Raven just shrugged casually "I wanted to hit the casino, Punk doesn't like gamblin, I thought you might"

"Sorry I'm not much of a betting man"

She shrugged again "Shame. That could of been fun. Anyways we should be going, we have some Gain Ground to play. Bye Randy"

She linked our arms again and started to pull me towards the exit. I have never seen Randy's face drain of colour as fast as it did. That was pretty sweet to watch.

"Your an evil little woman you know that?"

"Yeah but ya love me anyways"

I did love her, love her with all my heart. That would never happen but hey, I could dream right?

As soon as we got to the hotel we set up her oldschool gaming console and loaded up Gain Ground, I liked video games, we both did. We were pretty much nerds, so shoot us. Tonight since we had nothing else to do tomorrow we were gonna stay up late and play video games until we could stand it no longer. Gain Ground was basically kill everything in sight and get to the exit sort of game, sure you couldn't see any blood but you could imagine that the enemies were someone you really hated. So naturally every archer I saw was Randy and he was shot multiple times. If only he would die in real life. We spent most of the night talking and laughing and as Rae had to point out saving my ass on a number of occasions. Around half past three Rae paused the game and stretched.

"C'mon I need coffee"

"And I need more red bull"

She linked my arm again "To the red bull machine!"

"Keep it down, people are trying to sleep"

She locked the door behind her "Well if they wanted to sleep then they shouldn't of gotten a room next to mine or Charlies"

"Thats actually a fair point even though it doesn't make sense"

"Punky I never make sense, its because I'm so pretty"

"Yes Charlie, yes you are"

She giggled softly as we made our way out of the hotel and across the street to the 24/7 convientnat store. "You like him don't you?"

"Who?" She asked while she grabbed some 'staying awake' food. Chips and chocolate.

"Randy"

She rolled her eyes "Yes I also like AIDS, Hep C and my slutty sister"

"Your allowed to like him"

"You know who I do like? Josh Mathews. He's been nothing but complete gentleman to me. Even Sarge has said so" "Well Joshua was pretty much not a threat to me. He even respects America unlike that idiot that has a thing for Charlie" "Who has a thing for me?" "Cody whats-his-name" Charlie laughed making the owners look at her like she was insane "Thats just so wrong, he's too skinny for a start, and he doesn't even know my name"

"He does Charlie"

"Who would tell him that?"

"The ring annoucer"

She thumped her fist in her palm "That bastard!" "Does it even matter Charlie? You won't be going out with him anytime soon" "Oh thank God!"

"C'mon lets pay for this, those owners are getting really edgy" I tried not to laugh as they kept looking at Raven wondering if she was drunk or high. Or both.

"That will be ten-nintey" Raven paid them her other hand over her mouth, no doubt Sarge had something racist to say about the asian girl working the counter.

When we walked back to the hotel it was just rounding ten to four, I still had all the energy in the world. Only I wanted to put my energy into scaring Josh away from Raven. Already the cogs were ticking in my skull. I had to think of someway to keep them away from each other without her knowing it was me of course.

"Is that Evie?" Raven pointed to the bar. For ten to four, Eve was certainly dolled up. This wasn't new to me, I know why she was looking all done up and waiting at the bar this early in the morning. Because Randy told her too. This is what he did, whenever he was horny or lonely or whatever he called one of those girls and twisted them like string and like idiots they all fell for his words. I oevr heard one day that it was because he was really good in the sack, apparently sexual performance was more important than their self esteem.

"Hey Evie, why you up so late?"

"What are you guys doing up?" She dodged the question like a pro, always smiling so we didn't click. Raven wouldn't know why she was here and I wasn't about to tell her, who knows maybe if she saw for herself what Randy was like, maybe she wouldn't like him so much or at least stay away from him.

"We needed some more energy, we're staying up to play Gain Ground" Raven explained still linked to me. "We were totally kicking ass Evie"

"I'm glad Charlie" Eve laughed.

I was about to open my mouth to say something but Raven elbowed me, apparently I wasn't allowed to say anything about this even though I probably wasn't the only one that wanted too. Seriously one would think their feelings or whatever was more important than Randy and his sexual performance. See this is why I hated him and then there was the other thing.

"Hey Eve, ready?" Randy asked sliding an arm around her waist "Oh hey guys"

Did his face just flush with guilt? Randy doesn't show guilt for anything.

"Hey" Raven tried not to smirk, quickly a hand went over her mouth, apparently someone else had an opinion on what was taking place.

"Well it was good seeing you guys. I'll see you tomorrow Raven" Eve quickly got up and let Randy lead her away.

"Hey Evie" Raven called out, Eve stopped and looked at her, they both did. "Just remember you don't have to swallow if you don't wanna" With that she and I walked back to our room leaving them both stunned. Raven can be a real bitch with her words at times. I just loved the way his eyes flared when she said her opinion.