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Chapter 2

- Monday Night Raw, a few weeks later -

Nikki felt overwhelmed. Stephanie McMahon had just officially announced that she was granted a shot at the Divas Championship at Night of Champions. Everything had been perfect – until A.J. Lee, Paige AND Nikki's twin sister Brie had to get involved and try and ruin her night. Even Stephanie, who was usually incredibly professional, seemed visibly annoyed with the interruption.
Once again Brie wanted to steal the spotlight from me, Nikki thought. But this time, it's finally my turn to shine. It's my turn to show everyone that I'm the better Bella. She smiled confidently as she made her way out of the arena.

Despite the incident with Brie and the two other Divas, the evening had played out quite well – Nikki finally had a title shot, and nobody was able to take it away from her. That's why she was in the mood to celebrate – her schedule tomorrow wasn't too tight and she had not been on a night out since… since my last date with John, she finished the thought, swallowing.
But no, I'm not going to let John or Brie or anybody else ruin my mood tonight. I've waited for this opportunity for so long, and now it's finally there.

Nikki pulled out her phone and sent text messages to Summer Rae and Cameron, asking them if they wanted to party. There were several Divas that had remained fairly civil towards Nikki after she turned on Brie at SummerSlam, but Summer and Cameron were by far the friendliest. Especially Cameron seemed to understand Nikki's actions – she was still involved in a feud with her former best friend and tag team partner Naomi, after all.
Nikki hesitated and pondered whether she should text Natalya as well, but then decided not to. Nattie had tried her best to keep out of Nikki's and Brie's fight and stay friends with both of them, so Nikki didn't want to make her choose and thereby hurt her. Nattie had always been a loyal friend, and was one of the few Divas that had not judged Nikki, which she was thankful for.

When she arrived at her hotel room, Nikki checked her messages – Summer had a tight schedule tomorrow, so she couldn't afford to spend the night clubbing, but Cameron had time and was in the mood. Nikki told her to meet up in the lobby in an hour, and then quickly started picking her outfit and getting ready.
After changing clothes and applying her make-up, Nikki checked the mirror, decided she looked good, and then left her room and went for the elevator.

She pushed the button and waited.
The elevator arrived, the door opened – and right before Nikki stood none other than Seth Rollins, all dressed-up and seemingly ready to go out.
The two of them had not interacted much since Nikki had slapped Seth and he had given her that weird look, except for Rollins' usual insolent remarks, which mostly annoyed her.
As she entered the elevator, Nikki tried to contain her surprise and ignore the ever so cocky grin on Rollins' face.
"Well well, look who we have here. Why, if it isn't the next Divas Champion."
"Save your fake ass kissing, Rollins", Nikki said, giving him a glare. "I'm actually in the mood for celebration tonight, so you can take all your stupid comments and throw them at me, I won't let you ruin my night."
Nikki smiled. It felt good to turn the tables on Rollins for once.
But apparently, she had celebrated too early.
"Well, as it turns out, Bella, I'm ready to go out myself. And because of my unmeasurable kindness, I might even buy you a drink." He smirked.
"First of all, it's Nikki. And second of all, I think I'll be having a much nicer evening without your 'unmeasurable kindness'", she said, putting on a fake smile.
Bing! The elevator had arrived at the first floor.
Finally, Nikki thought.
Before she could walk away, however, Seth managed whisper in her ear: "You have no idea what you're missing out on, Nikki."
Somehow, Nikki felt herself tingle at his words. It's only because he's so disgusting, she reassured herself.
"I don't even want to know, Rollins" she said with as much self-confidence she could muster, and started walking towards Cameron, who had already spotted her and waved.
She could still hear him chuckling in the background.

It was late. Nikki didn't know how late exactly, but it seemed pretty late. She and Cameron had had one hell of a good time: They had talked, gossiped, drank, giggled, and then perhaps had one or two shots too many.
Of course, there had been some idiots who had tried to chat them up, but they had quickly gotten rid of them.

After calling a cab and arriving back at the hotel, the two separated and Nikki made her way to her room.
As she stood in the elevator and looked at the reflection of herself in the mirrored walls surrounding her, she felt a sudden wave of loneliness come over her. She didn't know if it was the alcohol or something else, but she had already grabbed her phone and scrolled through her contacts, stopping at John's number.
For one second, she thought about calling him. Then she decided she knew better, and put her phone back in her bag.
To her surprise and shock, she suddenly found herself thinking about Seth Rollins.
You're drunk. You're just confusing things, she told her inner self, as she walked out of the elevator and back to her room.

Before she could look for her key though, she heard an all-too-familiar voice right behind her: "So you did have a good night after all, huh?"
Nikki inwardly groaned as she turned around to face Mr. Money in the Bank himself, looking at her with his usual smugness.
"Yes I had, not that it's any of your business, Rollins", she hissed, trying to look as confident as possible.
"So I'm still just Rollins, even though I called you Nikki before?" he said, smirking.
He took one step closer to her, and even though every voice of reason in Nikki's head told her to just turn away from him, she somehow couldn't bring herself to it.
"What's it to you?" Nikki asked, noticing her voice had suddenly gone softer, even though she hadn't meant it to.
He didn't answer her, he only looked her in the eyes for what seemed like an eternity. Nikki felt a strange feeling shoot through her body, something she couldn't quite place.
A sudden sound coming from a room near them brought them both back to reality.
"You, uh, should look for your room. I don't want you stalking me all night" she said, her voice shaking a little.
"Actually, my room is just down the hallway, so don't flatter yourself, Nikki", he answered with a smirk, and then walked away.
Nikki quickly pulled out her key and got into her room. She leaned against the door and took a deep breath.

Despite her trying as hard as she could to push all thoughts of Seth Rollins out of her mind, Nikki found herself thinking about him as she fell asleep.