A/N: thanks to xoxLiveLifexox and xDarexToXDream for reviewing! i'm sorry the chapters have been so short, i will try to make the next one longer. i'm writing several fics at the moment and surprise surprise they all seem to be about Randy (except for my Ted Dibiase story hehe) so keep an eye out for them, i'll try to post them soon.
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Tinsley tried to calm herself before getting out of bed. She'd been texting John on and off in the last few days and knew that he and Randy where flying into St. Louis today. They'd agreed to have lunch tomorrow but that wasn't why her stomach insisted on doing summersaults every few minutes.
Every time she knew Randy was in town, and she always knew courtesy of their mutual friends, Tinsley felt sick until he was gone. And it wasn't just because she was scared of running into him, it was that she found herself thinking more and more about him when he was there. She tried to imagine what he was doing, and if she was really feeling bad, she wondered about who he was doing it with. They were broken up but every time she thought of him with another girl she felt a pang of jealousy. Jealousy, an emotion she hadn't felt all those times she knew he was with other woman while they were together. But that was different, when he was her boyfriend she knew she had him. There was no need to be jealous then, because no matter who Randy slept with he was still her boyfriend.
The knock at her door convinced Tinsley to get out of bed. She walked slowly to the door, not wanting to hear Megan's complaints so early in the day. They'd made plans to go swimming days ago and when Megan saw that Tinsley was not yet ready to go she was sure to be annoyed.
"You aren't ready? I just talked to Jessi, she's almost here. You better hurry up." Megan said cheerfully as she walked in and headed right to the kitchen.
"Good morning to you too." Tinsley mumbled shutting the door and pausing in front of the mirror to study her appearance. Her long wavy chestnut brown hair hung boringly past her shoulders. Her green eyes seemed dull against her sun kissed complexion. Tinsley sighed audibly and joined her best friend in the kitchen.
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Randy hurried up the stairs and threw his bags into the master bedroom. Without so much as glancing around he ran back downstairs to meet John who was coming out of the kitchen.
Randy had agreed to John staying with him before he could actually think it through. Not that he didn't love his friend, and he was happy to have some companionship, but John's presence also ruined his current sleeping situation. He hadn't spent one night in the master bedroom since Tinsley left him. He hadn't meant for that to happen but after spending that first night curled up alone in the guest bedroom he couldn't bring himself to go back to sleeping in his old bed, their old bed. But the smiling man standing in front of him insured that he would indeed be doing jut that.
"Dude, you have got like, no food. At all." John said sitting opposite from where Randy has just positioned himself on the couch.
"I know, I'm going to call my Mom in a minute to see if she will go to the store for me." Randy said fumbling with the remote.
John cocked his head and laughed loudly.
"Are you shitting me?"
"Uh, no." Randy said, allowing a bit of agitation to enter his tone.
"Why would you send your mom? We are grown men."
Randy thought for a minute before answering with an excuse he hoped John would buy.
"I'm a terrible grocery shopper. I spend a lot of money and come home with next to nothing. Plus I hate shopping and Mom loves it."
"Well you are in luck, I'm a great grocery shopper. Come on, let's go. I'm starving." John stood up and looked down at Randy challenging him to argue.
Randy simply ignored him and flipped through the channels. But he knew he had no choice. It was either go now, or go later and the latter would result in lots of bitching from John.
"I'll get my keys." he said finally pushing himself off the couch and intentionally ramming his shoulder into John's.
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If her life was a horror movie Tinsley was pretty sure she would be killed at the swimming pool. The pool was shared by the entire apartment complex but she had never seen another soul there. That made it the perfect setting for her to be attacked by the sadistic killer, and everyone knew that scary movies loved to kill scantily clad girls.
"That's such a cute suit." Jessi said wading chest deep into the clear water and nodding at Tinsley at the same time.
"Thanks, I bought it last week when Megan dragged me to the mall." Tinsley said adjusting her top before splashing Megan. It was a cute bathing suit, the saleslady had practically begged Tinsley to buy it after seeing it on her. Megan had agreed, loudly, so Tinsley had purchased the ridiculously priced bright yellow one piece.
"When are you going to get to see John?" Megan asked returning Tinsley's splash with a bigger one of her own.
"Tomorrow. We're going to have lunch."
"Why not today?" Jessi asked.
"Because I'm sure that they are tired from the flight. Plus John said that they might be going to Randy's parents for dinner tonight." Tinsley said allowing Randy's name to pass through her lips. She'd only said the name a few times in the past few months and every time it had sounded awkward. As if their break up had turned his name foreign and hard to pronounce.
"Tired? They were in South Carolina, that's like a two hour flight!" Megan shouted before flinching slightly.
Jessi and Tinsley both turned to face the tall blond whose face was a bright shade of pink. Tinsley couldn't help but have a slight smile on her lips.
"How do you know they were in South Carolina?" Tinsley asked finally.
"Busted." Jessi said laughing loudly.
"I, um, I watched Raw.."
"She watches every week!" Jessi giggled before Megan splashed her directly in the face.
Tinsley sat in shock for a few seconds before she too burst into laughter. Megan hated wrestling. She had refused to watch any of the shows and she'd only been to one taping. She claimed it was barbaric and 'stupid'. This revelation was just the kind of laugh Tinsley needed after her lousy morning.
"How long have you been watching?" Tinsley spat out in between fits of laughter.
Megan's pink face turned to bright red eliciting more giggles from Jessi and Tinsley.
"Around…a year I guess." Megan mumbled.
"A YEAR?? A year!! This is hilarious." Tinsley said clutching her flat stomach and looking at her embarrassed friend.
"Yes. It started that one night we all watched it together and I kinda got sucked into the storylines..so I kept watching."
"Why didn't you tell me? We could have at least all watched it together." Tinsley pulled her hair into a bun while she waited for her friends response.
"Because I knew you would both laugh at me like you're doing now."
"Well, it is funny. But I haven't been watching, fill me in." Tinsley said happily.
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Randy knew that with his current persona, the Viper a cold hearted maniacal monster, that he wasn't supposed to have fans. But he was happy when he was recognized by a few people at the grocery store and they'd told him how much they enjoyed watching him on tv. Of course they were in his hometown so it was to be expected but still nice. He'd even posed for a few pictures. He hoped that the pictures wouldn't show how nervous he had been. The entire time, an hour because John was very particular about what he bought, he'd peeked around the corners expecting to see Tinsley. He'd breathed a huge sigh of relief when they'd returned to his car two hundred dollars poorer and headed home without seeing her.
"Just so you know," John said before taking a huge bite of the frozen pizza they'd nearly burned while playing a video game "I'm going to have lunch with Tinsley tomorrow."
Randy gripped his water bottle tighter at the mention of her name but quickly released it when John gave him and odd look. He knew that John would see her eventually, they were friends and John had made it absolutely clear that he had no intentions of cutting ties with her when they broke up.
"Oh, cool. Have fun."
"We will. We are going to Kellermans. At one."
"Oookaay." Randy said slowly not sure why John was providing all this detail.
"Well I know that you always talk about that place and I wanted to make sure you didn't plan on eating there tomorrow or something. I know you'd crap you pants if you saw her."
Randy rolled his eyes and said
"I'm not going to eat out after I just spent $200 on groceries dumbass. Is she going to pick you up? If not I can get you a list of cab companies, because you sure as hell aren't driving my car."
"She's picking me up." John said.
Randy nodded and that was the end of the discussion.
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