Ride For You
Chapter 4
As soon as Randy got to the back, he felt like he was ready to explode. He was still furious with the fact that Rachelle wanted to fight in him a cage match. That was beyond what he would expect from her. Cody and Ted looked at Randy.
"Does she know what she's getting herself into?" Ted asked.
Randy looked at him as Cody spoke.
"You would think she would know. I mean she was married to Randy and she knows exactly what he's capable of doing." Cody said.
"Will the two of you shut the hell up?! We have other things to worry about now." Randy said as they walked towards their locker room.
Cody and Ted just stared at Randy and followed him to the locker room. Rachelle had made her way to the back. Dave was helping Shane, who was now on the stretcher which had been brought down to the ring. Rachelle met them in the back and watched as they both looked at her.
"Not one word." Rachelle said as she walked over to them.
"But Rae, this is ridiculous. Why would you go and sacrifice yourself like this? You know I would have been willing to help your family out." Dave said.
Rachelle looked at him.
"No. This is our battle, Dave. It's between him and me. He's only acting like this because he's becoming selfish and realizes that I wasn't stupid enough to forgive his sorry ass after all of the things that he's done to me." Rachelle said.
"But did you really have to put yourself in that type of match?" Shane asked as he winced when the EMT's checked his ankle.
Rachelle looked at her brother.
""I just thought that it would be much easier to face him in a cage match then have Cody and Ted interfere in a normal cage match." Rachelle said.
Dave and Shane both looked at Rachelle.
"You know that we would have helped you out in that situation if you had just gone with a normal match." Dave said.
Rachelle rolled her eyes.
"Oh yes that would have been a splendid image seeing as that Shane has his ankle shattered and truly can fight night week." Rachelle stated sarcastically.
"Don't give that tone, Rae." Shane said.
"I'm just stating the obvious and if you two must excuse me, I have to find my children." Rachelle said as she walked away from her brother and Dave.
Randy was walking out of his locker room when he noticed his best friend walking right by.
"Hey John." Randy said as John turned to look at him.
John smiled at him.
"Hey man. How you been?" John asked.
"Not so good. I mean how can I be good following the type of match Rae wants me to fight her in a cage match?" Randy asked.
"I don't know, Randy. I was pretty shocked she would even go to those lengths to end this fight that you have with her and her family." John said.
"Yeah but I guess that's how Rae's always been. She's always been one to fight for her family." Randy said.
"Like she tried to fight to keep your family together." John said.
"What do you mean?" Randy asked.
"Oh come on, Randy. You're not that blind. I've told you a million times that if you didn't stop seeing Sam things would get out of hand and look at where it's gotten you. Look at how you see your children now. You see them every other week now a days. You don't even see Rae anymore. The woman who you said was the only one that was meant for you. She wanted nothing more but to have that fairytale life with you. She wanted that prince charming who would always be there for her. She didn't marry an asshole who chose to cheat on her twenty-four seven. She knew you. She kept telling herself that deep down in your heart was the man she had once married. She knew he would come back but I guess she couldn't wait anymore." John said.
Randy moved his hand so that it would rest of his neck.
"I've never realized how much I missed her until I got those divorce papers. It was like realization hit me then but Rae said that I couldn't just change within a week and I know that. I know that I have to prove myself even more now. I have to find a way to win her back." Randy said.
John looked at him.
"Do you think that's a good thing right now, Randy? She's happy now, you know." John said.
"I know she's happy. I mean she's gone from being my wife who had no voice to speaking out against me." Randy said as John laughed.
"You did give her a reason to speak out then." John said as they both laughed.
"I suppose I did." Randy said.
"Maybe sometime down the road things will work out for the two of you." John said as he looked at his best friend.
"I hope so. I just want her back now. I want my family back together." Randy said.
"Then prove it to her next week. Don't fight her next week." John said.
Randy looked at his best friend. The idea was pretty good and that would show Rachelle that he really did care about her. It would show that he was willing to change for her. Randy was now brainstorming things that he wanted to do in order to win back Rachelle. Randy thanked John for the advice and headed towards his locker room so that he could head back to the hotel early.
Rachelle headed towards her brother's locker room and went to grab her bag so that she could get her kids, who were with Mickie and Barbie. She stepped into the locker room and walked over to grab her bags as well as the twin's bag. After gathering everything that she needed, she walked back out of the room and was headed towards the women's locker room where Mickie and Barbie were. While walking towards the locker room, she noticed a figure coming to block the pathway that she had wanted to walk down.
"What do you want, Ted?" Rachelle asked.
Ted looked at her.
"I just wanted to talk. If that's okay with you." Ted said.
Rachelle stared at him. Here before her was a man helping her husband destroy her family and yet he stood here wanting to talk to her. She found it strange enough that he would want to be talking to her after everything that had gone down between Randy and her. But she didn't want it to seem like she was a rude person.
"Umm…sure." Rachelle said.
"Where are you headed towards?" Ted asked.
"The women's locker room." Rachelle said.
"Picking up the twins?" Ted asked.
"Yeah." Rachelle said.
"I'll walk you there. Here let me take your bags." Ted said as he reached for the duffle bags that she was carrying.
"Umm… thanks." Rachelle whispered as they walked towards the women's locker room.
Rachelle felt that it was a bit awkward having Ted holding her duffle bags. She was assuming that Randy had sent him to check on her. Though maybe there was a different reason as to why Ted was actually talking to her. Maybe he wanted to tell her that she was wrong for asking for the cage match just as Dave and Shane had done. But what was she going to do? She had already asked for the match and she couldn't back out of it. She could only imagine what her father would tell her once she got back home. He would blow the roof off the house. If that was even possible to do.
Ted looked at Rachelle as silence filled them for a couple of minutes. He wondered what she was thinking about. Maybe she was assuming that he had gone to see her because of Randy. But the truth was, he didn't go for Randy. He actually wanted to be her friend and help her out, as she did need all the help she could get. He knew that what Randy had been doing to Rachelle was completely wrong and that he would have never done that to his wife, Kristen. Kristen was his whole life and she meant everything to him. If he had gotten into an affair behind Kristen's back, he knew he would have probably killed himself.
"You know I'm not here for Randy." Ted said.
Rachelle looked at him. Well that made Rachelle tense less. At least she knew that Randy was leaving her along.
"Then why are you talking to me? I mean why would you talk to your leader's ex-wife?" Rachelle asked.
Ted chuckled.
"I'm allowed to talk to whoever I want, aren't I?" Ted asked as Rachelle laughed a bit.
"That's true. But why are you talking to me? You've never talked to me before." Rachelle said.
"To be honest, Rachelle, I'm not even sure why I'm talking to you. It's just that I feel what Randy did was wrong and if I had done that to my wife, I would be working my way to find a way to keep our marriage stable. And plus you look like you need more friends to help you out. You know with the twins and having fun." Ted said getting Rachelle to smile.
"Well thank you. That's really nice of you to consider that. I mean with the fact that you are Randy's friend as well." Rachelle said.
"It's nothing really. I mean I just feel like what Randy did to you was wrong and that you deserve much better than what he had been doing to you for the past couple of months." Ted said.
"Well thank you, Ted. It's always nice to know that some guys who are perceived to be bad have a heart." Rachelle said.
"Yeah. Anyways what I wanted to really talk to you about was the match you chose to face Randy in." Ted said.
Rachelle looked at him.
"What about it?" Rachelle asked.
"Why would you choose that type of match? You know what Randy's capable of doing." Ted said.
"You and Cody were the reasons why I chose that type of match. I didn't want you two coming into the match." Rachelle said.
"You think I would really interfere in that type of match?" Ted asked.
"Well you do follow Randy's orders." Rachelle said as they stood in front of the women's locker room.
"But I would never hurt a girl. My father raised me better than that." Ted said.
"It looks like he did. But I really have to go, Ted. I'll see you next week and thank you for helping me." Rachelle said taking the duffle bags from him and knocking on the door.
Ted looked at her.
"It was nothing and take care of yourself next Monday." Ted said as Rachelle stepped into the locker room.