A/N – Okay guys, really loving hearing more from you, reviews are slowly starting to pick up so as a thank you, I'm updating earlier than expected! Really happy with how Nat and Colby's friendship is being received, I sort of hinted in the first story they'd become good friends so I wanted to show that here. Hoping Nat and Becky's is received similarly
The following week, on the Monday morning of Raw in San Diego Nat is waiting to grab her bags at the airport, having landed not too long ago. Hanging around with Colby and Becky, Nat is caught off guard when Wade walks by, greeting Colby and Becky with nod but giving a smirk and a wink to Nat before he continues walking.
At this Nat simply smirks back, with Becky making whistling noises, 'Well looks like you took on my advice huh?' The redhead comments, noticing the look that was shared, aware of the agreement Nat made with the Brit. Colby however, was not as clued in.
Looking back at Wade, the WWE Champ slowly pieces two and two together. '….Wait a minute…Nat…what is Beck talking about…Becky what did you do?!' Colby questions the Irishwoman, knowing that her carefree attitude while fun, didn't work for everyone, especially not for Nat.
Acting dumb, Becky innocently asks, 'What? I just told her ta not be so uptight!'
Lowering his eyes and giving Becky a stony stare he continues, 'And what exactly does that mean Becky?'
'Okay whoa Colbs chill! Becky simply suggested that maybe I didn't have to write of Wade straight away…' Nat finally stepped in, deciding now, in baggage claim was as good a time as any to let Colby know about her new arrangement.
'So what you're dating him now?' The champ asks, in that same whiny voice he uses as 'Seth Rollins' every Monday and Thursday night on TV.
'Not necessarily…' Becky chimes in, giving Colby a wink as he looks at her questioningly, waiting for him to catch on.
'Oh ew…ew….really? ew?'
'What?! Why can't I have?!' Nat argues, becoming defensive over Colby's judgement.
'You can have fun! But Wade? He's so…he's so…'
'Hot?' Becky again interrupts, her thick accent coming out, loving how irritated Colby was getting, one of her favourite things was riling him up, it was sometimes too easy for her.
'You are not helping!' Colby bites back, giving Becky a stern look as he began grabbing his and the girls' luggage.
'I'm just saying…did it really have to be Barrett of all people? Like Nat are you trying to kill Jon?'
'Contrary to popular opinion, my actions are not in any way determined by how Jonathan Good is going to feel…Wade's fun, and hot, and GREAT in bed so if I want to blow off some steam with him why can't I?' Nat questions, grabbing her bags from Colby as he goes to hand Becky's to her, with the redhead only grabbing one forcing him to carry the rest.
'Oh no worries Becky I'll just carry the others!' He replies snarkily.
'Oh tanks love, listen Nat don't worry about what anyone else says, you're having fun! You are young, hot and single and if you want to sleep with the hunk tat is Wade Barrett, ya should!' Becky says, grabbing Nat's hand and beginning to walk ahead of Colby, leaving the WWE Champion to only watch on as the two girls start talking about Wade.
'It's okay guys…I'll just carry all this by myself!' He yells after them, the pair only looking back with smiles.
Later that afternoon
'Becky where the hell are we going…my feet hurt?' Nat asks her friend, the two had been walking around the streets of San Diego for what felt like hours and Becky seemed like she wasn't planning on stopping anytime soon.
'Nat! Stop being such a baby we are signtseeing!' Becky exclaims, tossing her arms in the air and spinning around, loving the atmosphere of San Diego, after a few minutes she does finally stop though, coming to the Comic Book store she was in search of, looking back at Nat with a smile similar to that of a kid in a candy store.
'Do you mean to tell me…that we have been walking around for 2 hours…because you wanted comic books? I swear if AJ was still on the roster with us you two would be the death of me…' Nat states, trying to remain calm, but her irritation beginning to become evident.
'How is our little AJ now that you bring her up?' Becky asks as the two walk into the store, roaming through the aisles as they talk.
'She's good…kind of missing the road life but hey! There was no way she was staying on considering Punk's current status with the company…she does say hi though!' Nat responds, walking through the sections, biding time until Becky finally decides on the comics she wants and heading over to the counter to pay.
As they leave the store the pair start searching for a restaurant to eat at, finally deciding on a cute little Italian café, sitting down early on and ordering their food.
The pair are enjoying a few laughs and casual conversation, Becky asking about Wade and Jon, with Nat quickly turning the tables and asking about Becky's own love life.
At this turn in conversation Becky's face scrunches up, 'What me? Please you know what I'm like Nat… I don't date I just…' Becky pauses, struggling to find a way to explain what exactly she does when it comes to men.
'You just have your fun and leave the boys high and dry when shit gets a little too serious?' Nat hits back cheekily, knowing Becky had a weird fear of commitment, which was funny considering how many guys on the roster actually had a thing for her, she was certain Colby had even the slightest bit of a crush on her, despite being engaged.
'Hey its not my fault they get invested! I make it clear from the beginning I am not looking to settle down, all I want to do is wrestle…that's it!' the redhead hits back, knowing that her attitude with men always came off the wrong way, but she didn't care. She was who she was; and no one was going to change that.
'I see no point in getting into a relationship and giving someone the power to hurt you…the last thing I need is to get invested into someone and have them cheat or do something else to hurt me…if anyone knows what that feels like, its you nah?' she continues, striking a nerve with Nat, but being right nonetheless. The pair begins to eat in silence once their food arrives, until Becky gasps after reading something on her phone, before snapping back up at Nat with a stony glare.
'Ya see THIS right 'ere is exactly why I do not date!' Becky exclaims, throwing her phone over to Nat, with the screen opened up to an article on twitter, and boy was it causing quite a stir.
The article was talking about a recent affair that had been uncovered by one of the fiancées of a top WWE superstar, it seems the woman found some nude photos on the superstars phone of him and a developmental diva, and decided to share them with the world. The superstar in question? Seth Rollins.
'Shit…' Nat said, at a loss for words that Colby would do something like that to Leighla…they'd been together for almost 8 years, she knew they were starting to have some issues but not this bad, not bad enough for Colby to cheat.
She looks back up at Becky, whose face remains the same, plastered with a hard glare that the woman only reserves for those she truly dislikes. 'What the fuck?' was all Nat could say, she didn't know what to think, she knew that she may have been just jumping to conclusions, but things weren't looking all that good for Colby.
'We need to go back to the hotel dude.' Nat tells Becky, deciding she needed to check on Colby and make sure he was okay, as mad as she was at him, she was still his friend.
Back at the hotel
As the two divas walk up to Nat and Colby's hotel room, they shouting through the door, it sounded as if Colby was on the phone, to Leighla no doubt. The two women slowly walk in, each sitting on the two beds in the hotel, waiting for Colby to hang up, with him now having noticed their presence.
Once he finally does, he sits back down on his bed next to Nat, with Becky sitting across, the two girls waiting for him to finally speak.
'I fucked up, I know. I just…I don't know…what can I say?' He finally says, clearly in shock at the situation, he kept his affair with Zahra quiet from everyone for so long, he didn't think that if it were to ever come out, this would be how.
'How about the truth? Colby what the fuck? HOW could you cheat on Leighla! You fricking proposed to her! What made you think cheating would be okay?' Nat hits at him, angry that he could be so careless and stupid, the situation sparking up memories of her and Jon.
'I don't know okay! I just… listen you know things haven't been the best lately and I just…I was down at NXT one day and Zahra and I hit it off and before I knew it we were in bed together, its not like I was planning on running off with her!'
'No but you still cheated! And that's enough' Becky interjects, she knew the type of man Colby was albeit not as well as Nat but she also knew enough about Zahra to know that she would've easily been able to charm him into bed, she just didn't want to believe he was dumb enough to fall for it.
Colby, looking up at Becky simply responded, 'I know…nothing can fix what I did…I just wish I didn't do it in the first place…I've got to go talk to Trips and Steph, do some damage control…I'll catch up with you guys later?' He asks his two friends, hoping they didn't hate him now, after a long silence both women simply nod, letting him leave before heading out to the lobby themselves.
'So…that was intense, wonder how that's all gonna go.' Becky ponders, trying to get Nat to comment, knowing her friend was a lot more irritated with Colby then she let on, but before she could continue she saw Jon heading straight over to them, and prepared for the shit storm that was about to go down.
'Ladies…' Jon began, looking down at both women, but his eyes resting on Nat who only looked back at him with anger.
'What do you want Jon?' She asked, cutting to the chase.
'Whoa what's your problem?'
'My problem? My problem is men not realizing how fucking stupid they can be, seriously what is with you shield boys and cheating do you not just ever think?!' Nat snaps back, unleashing her anger on Jon, who only looks at her and Becky in confusion.
Realizing Nat wasn't going to respond rationally, the lunatic fringe looks at Becky and asks, 'Okay what happened?'
'You don't know? Some not so decent photos have been posted of Colby and a WWE developmental diva…seems he wasn't being all that faithful.'
'Like another former Shield member' Nat says, causing Jon to look down at her and realize that this situation was bringing back up some memories he would rather not have himself.
'Shit…'
'Yeah…'shit' Nat says, glaring at Jon, and just when things couldn't get worse Becky thought, they did, seeing Renee walking up to the three, clearly irritated with Nat and Jon speaking to one another.
Trying to stop things from getting out of hand, Becky tries to pull Nat away but its too late, Renee has already reached the three of them, intertwining her hand with Jon's, the blonde looks back at the two women with a stony expression.
'Jon, sweetheart…what're you doing talking to these two? I thought we were going to lunch?' Renee says, diverting Jon's attention from Nat to her, the wrestler clearly trying to make it clear to Nat that his priority was to talk to her, to try to calm her down.
Nat though doesn't have any time for it, instead she grabs Becky and turns to leave but not before plastering on a fake smile and saying, 'Well enjoy your lunch guys, Becky and I are off to hang with Wade and Dolph.' Leaving Jon to look on after them in anger, knowing exactly what that meant, while Renee tried to bring his attention back to her.
A/N: Okay guys so that's chapter 8, I wanted to bring in the real life Seth drama as I figured it would help to make Nat really confront the issues with Jon, she's sort of been just ignoring her feelings as much as possible, now it's really going to remind her how she felt when she first saw Jon and Renee together, and of course it does put more focus on her friendship with Colby as she tries to help him recover from his mistake.
Loving that I'm getting more reviews, so please keep that up, as you can see the quicker and more frequent the reviews are, the quicker the updates are too!