Title: Cruelty -4?- complicated
Author: Psychobarbie
Rating:T for teen...cuz I like to swear hehehe
Summary: She wanted it done, but he wasn't ready to let go. Simon knew even if she wouldn't admit it and begged her to not to go back. So why did she drive back to Fort Saskatchewan and pull up there. Was she just getting her stuff and moving on or was she giving it another chance?
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the idea behind the story and some OC's
Feedback: yeah but don't be mean, I'm not very nice when I get angry
Author's Note: blah blah, bliddy blah, 4th verse, same as the 1st...
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Tell me,
why you gotta go and make things so complicated,
I see the way you're
acting like your somebody else gets me frustrated
Friday night, Dri was lying on her bed, staring at the ceiling, tired but unable to sleep. She hadn't slept since she was last on the plane, going home and even now it was still impossible to fall asleep. Lui lay behind her, her head resting on his stomach. At least one of them was able to sleep. She turned on her side, her hand coming up to pet his ears. He briefly opened his eyes taking a quick look around and seeing that all was well closed his eyes with a small sigh, falling back asleep. She smiled closing her eyes as well but sleep still alluded her, instead there was a knock at the door.
Dri's eyes shot open and she felt a growl build up in Lui's stomach. Laying her hand on him she quieted him down. She had snuck him into the hotel and did not want him being discovered.
Slowly she stood up, her body still aching from the fight she had with Mark. Lui obediently followed behind her, his teeth still bared and a low growl still sounding from him.
Looking through the peephole, she saw it was Simon and she unlocked the door, calling for Lui to back down and be quiet.
"Lui?" Simon asked as soon as she opened the door. He wondered if she had a new boyfriend
"Yeah, he's my best friend." She replied with a small smile.
"Is he traveling with you?"
"For now, until I can figure out what to do with him."
"What do you mean?"
She laughed and opened the door letting him in before shutting the door behind him. She knelt down, burying her face in Lui's neck, mostly because she didn't want Simon to see her face in the better light here.
"You brought a dog in?"
She nodded, still not looking up.
"A Pit-bull?"
"He's a teddy bear, unless you're hurting me." She replied with a grimace.
"I've been calling you. Your phone is off."
"I forgot my charger." She lied, standing up and moving back to her bed.
"Are you okay?" He asked, noticing she seemed a little bit off.
She nodded, still not meeting his eyes.
"Dri?"
She looked up now and he gasped, getting his first good look at her face.
"What the hell happened to you?" He asked seeing her chin and all along her jaw was bruised and swollen
"I tripped on the stairs."
He raised an eyebrow not quite buying it.
"I did okay? And it hurt like a bitch but I'll be fine."
He pursed his lips but said nothing.
"I drove here." She told him "So I could bring Lui, so we can travel in my car."
"How did you get him in here?"
She pointed to Mark's Hockey duffel bag that had still been in the trunk. "I brought him in that. He was heavy but once we were on the elevator it was fine."
"Why did you bring him?"
A small smile twitched her lips but he could tell she was forcing it. "He likes car rides."
"Seriously?"
She shrugged. "I'm not going home Simon." She quietly said, looking down. "Mark can't deal with my new job."
"Did he hit you?"
She began to shake her head but he grabbed her arm, forcing her to look at him.
"He-he slapped me and I slapped him but that's all." She lied. "It didn't hurt and when I was storming away I tripped on the stairs and went down hard."
Simon shook his head. "If I ever meet him, I'll kill him."
"It's no biggie." She tried to assure him, "I hit him way harder."
He stared hard at her for a moment, unsure whether to believe her or not but finally he shook his head. "If he touches you again, call me. Tell me, I'll come get you."
She nodded, wanting to change the subject. "Want to get a pizza? I don't want to leave Lui alone here."
He nodded and she pointed to the phone. "I'm gonna sneak him down the back stairs and outside to go to the bathroom, order a pizza, pick a movie, I'll be back."
Grabbing a blanket, she grabbed Lui and wrapped him up in the blanket, grunting as she picked him up and left the room.
Adrianna returned 15 minutes later and kicked her door waiting for Simon to open it. When he did he laughed at her and if her arm wasn't full of a blanket covered dog, she would've given him the middle finger.
"Next time, you take him." She grunted , putting Lui down. It was the safe way to not be seen. Yes it was odd she was carrying a big bundle but they didn't actually see the dog, so what could they do really?
"What did you get?" She asked.
"Hawaiian pizza." As he said that there was another knock at the door and she quieted Lui, pulling him back as Simon got the pizza. They settled onto the bed, Lui jumping up behind Dri as Simon turned on the TV. They ended up watching There's Something About Mary and Dri was finally able to relax as she ate her pizza, occasionally ripping some off to feed to Lui who she was leaning against.
"How long have you had him?" Simon asked.
"5 years. I moved out of my parents place when I was 19. They bought him for me so I wouldn't be alone in my little apartment. He's loyal to me and me being gone is hard on him so I decided to bring him with me once in a while."
He noticed she averted her eyes again but chose to stay quiet.
"It could get hard to travel with a dog."
"Torrie does it." She reminded him.
"Torrie's dog fits in her bag."
Dri bit back a laugh as her eyes trailed to the hockey bag she used to sneak Lui in. Simon's gaze followed her and he laughed as well.
"Let me rephrase that, Chloe fits into her purse."
"I'm sure I can find a big enough purse." She mused.
Simon laughed reaching across for the remote which she quickly grabbed it pulling it out of his reach and sticking her tongue out at him.
"Come on." he complained, "It's my turn to pick a movie."
"Oh well, when you put it that way." She moved as if to give it to him but pulled it away again at the last second.
He growled and jumped at the remote. She squealed and rolled over, rolling right off the bed. She collapsed onto the ground in a fit of giggles.
"Dri are you okay?" He asked, leaning over the side of the bed and holding out a hand to her.
She was laughing too hard to say anything and he reached down, scooping her up in his arms and lifting her up onto the bed.
"Are you really okay?" He softly asked after he pulled her into his lap.
Her laughing stopped as her lower lip began to tremble.
"Dri." He softly said, smoothing down her hair.
She shook her head burying her face in his chest.
"Did he do this to you?" He asked, his hand running down the side of her jaw.
She shook her head again and he pulled back a little to look in her eyes.
"You have to tell me." He quietly said. "If he's hurting you, it's wrong, we have to tell someone."
She didn't say anything and he pulled her close, still petting her hair. Awhile later he looked down to see she had fallen asleep.
She woke up the next morning with someone's arm around her and rolled over to see Simon staring at her.
"Morning." he said with a yawn.
She smiled, a blush creeping up her cheeks, then she turned away so he couldn't see it.
"I should bring Lui out." She muttered, moving to sit up.
Simon's arm tightened around her.
"Dri?" He whispered, smoothing back her hair. "Are you okay?"
She nodded, still not looking at him and he eventually sighed and let go, allowing her to get up.
"Lui." She softly called, picking up the blanket.
Lui's head popped up from the foot of the bed and seeing Dri by the door, he quickly hopped down, his tail wagging as he ran to her and waited for her to put the blanket around him. She picked him up and moved to open the door but Simon was there holding it open for her. She moved out avoiding his eyes but he grabbed her arm, he knew what was bugging her, he just needed her to admit it. She stopped, waiting a few moments before looking up at him and when she did, her eyes were filled with such pain and sadness he dropped her arm in shock. She was always very guarded, but now he got to catch a glimpse of the real her and he was scared by what he saw there., nobody deserved to look as sad as she did, it just wasn't right.
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"Hey, nothing you can say, nothing's gonna take what they've done from me..."
Adrianna stopped when she heard a soft chuckle and her eyes widened as she realized what song she was softly singing. She spun around groaning at who she saw there.
"Knew you liked me." He said with a cocky smile, moving towards her.
"You have a catchy song." she retorted. "Don't flatter yourself."
He stopped before her, his eyes narrowing as he saw the fading bruise on her jaw and cheek.
"What happened?" he asked.
"I fell." She muttered.
"Did you?" He questioned, reaching his hand to lightly brush across her cheek, she pulled away, turning to go down the hallway but he quickly caught up and stood in front of her. She rolled her eyes.
"Annoying much?"
"Dri, really who did this to you?"
"No one, I tripped and fell on my stairs, it hurt, I'm fine, all's well, now please I gotta meet Simon."
"Doesn't your boyfriend get jealous of the time you spend with him?"
She tensed her eyes cooling over. "What boyfriend?" She asked, pushing past him.
Randy watched her with a raised a brow at what she had just confessed but didn't say anything else as she walked away.
Dri kept her head held high as she walked to the Divas locker room.
"Hey you." Melina said with a big smile. "Are you okay?"
Dri gave a weak smile and nodded.
"What are you doing tonight?" Melina asked.
"I don't know yet, Simon doesn't have a match. I'm supposed to be meeting Stephanie, she has more idea's. Should I be scared?"
"That depends." Melina said with a laugh. "How are her hormones at the moment?"
Dri laughed, knowing Melina was referring to the fact that Stephanie was so up and down lately due to her pregnancy.
"Only one way to find out." Dri said in mock horror.
There was a knock on the door and the girls called for them to enter. The door opened and in came Stephanie, looking sick to her stomach.
"Do you still have morning sickness?" Melina asked with sympathy.
Stephanie nodded, "More like never go away sickness." She groaned. "I was told it would be done after the first trimester I don't think it will ever go away."
"Did you need anything?" Dri asked.
"No, I have Hunter waiting back in the office, at least for the moment. He won't let me out of his sight, so I snuck out when he was in the bathroom. I just came by to tell you you're not needed Dri, we're showing your interview with Randy to set up something for next week. Just to get the fans caught up. They'll know it's from a few weeks ago" She looked closer at the bruises on her face "Have you been overdoing it with the training?"
Dri shook her head. "I did this at home, almost healed."
"Guess it's good you have the night off huh?"
"Yeah wouldn't wanna embarrass myself." she said making a face.
"Steph, are you in here?" Someone asked pounding on the door.
"Oh god, hide me." Stephanie said, this time making a face.
Dri opened the door a little smiling at Triple H.
"Hi." She said with a big smile. "I'm Dri."
"Nice to meet you, have you seen my wife?"
"Oh congrats on the baby. What exciting news. You must be ecstatic."
Hunter relaxed a little, a smile coming to his face as he leaned up against the door. "Yeah, I can't wait."
"Boy or girl?"
"We don't know, we want it to be a surprise." he replied.
Dri smiled. "What do you want?"
"I'd be happy either way. A boy to carry on in my footsteps, or even daughter who'll look just as beautiful as her mom, speaking of-"
"Ohh maybe you'll be lucky and have twins."
"Twins?" he asked, paling slightly.
"Oh yeah, twice the fun, can you imagine and maybe it'll be a boy and a girl then you get one of each, wouldn't that be exciting?"
"Uhh Yeah."
"Mind you, the waking up in the middle of the night won't be as much fun with all the night feedings, you'll both have to do it."
"Uh huh, thanks." Hunter muttered, looking even sicker than Stephanie as he walked away.
Dri closed the door to see Stephanie and Melina collapsed on the bench in a fit of giggles.
"That was just mean." Stephanie gasped, When she finally calmed down she smoothed her hair back and stood up, sending a mock glare to the new Diva.
"I should go do damage control."
"I'll go apologize later." Dri said with a grin. "I got rid of him didn't I?"
Stephanie shook her head and left the Locker room, Dri opened her mouth but was interrupted by her cell phone ringing and she cursed herself for not turning it off. She had called her parents earlier to apologize for not coming to visit the past few weeks and she had stupidly not turned it off.
"Are you gonna get that?" Melina asked.
She nodded, grabbing her phone and ducking into the bathroom closing the door quickly so Melina couldn't see that she had temporarily put Lui in there.
"Hello?" She whispered into the phone.
"Dri? Baby, are you okay? I've been worried sick."
"Bullshit you have been." she snapped. "What do you want Mark?"
"I wanna talk to you, come home baby."
"Why should I? Two weeks in a row now, you've been a psycho."
"I know and I'm an idiot. When you left I realised how stupid it was. I haven't had a drop since. I'll give up drinking."
"And that's supposed to make it all better?" She snapped. "What the hell has been your problem, Mark? Can't you try and be supportive."
"I was upset that you were gone, but I'll try, I swear. Please baby, just come home."
Dri sighed and shook her head. "I gotta go Mark, we'll talk later."
She hung up the phone and buried her face in Lui's fur. Why was this so complicated?
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"You look weird."
Dri nudged Simon in the side after he said this. "Thanks a lot buddy."
Simon rolled his eyes. "I mean at the moment you look funny, what's up?"
"I'm fine, Simon." She said, wrinkling her nose. "You worry too much about me."
"I feel I should." He cautiously replied. "If I don't then who will?"
"Why would someone have to worry about me?" she nervously asked.
Simon grabbed her arm, stopping her. He noticed her briefly tense. "Dri, I know we're just getting to know each other and it's none of my business to butt in, but I know something is going on with you back home."
Adrianna pursed her lips together, trying her best to hide the fear creeping in to her. "You're right Simon, it is none of my business." She pulled her arm away and got into her VW Jetta. She went to close the door but found Simon's arm stopping it.
"Don't go back to him Dri." Simon whispered.
Her eyes widened and she couldn't stop the fear and shock this time.
"He's hurting you, you won't admit it, but I know. My sister went through the same thing. I tried to help but she wouldn't let me. She denied it all the time."
"I'm fine Simon." She assured him.
He let go of her door and she closed it rolling down the window. Lui climbed into her lap and stuck his head out the window waiting for Simon to pet him. They had become the best of friends this past weekend.
When Dri finally pushed him back, she started the car and looked up at Simon, a question nagging at her.
"What happened to your sister?" She cautiously asked.
Simon shook his head, averting his eyes, "She denied it until the very end. I was overseas when my mom called me to tell me he was in jail and my sister was dead. I swear to god if he wasn't behind bars I would've found him and killed the bastard myself."
"I'm sorry." She whispered, reaching up to hug him. "I'll call you when I get home."
"Your home?" He asked.
She kissed him on the cheek before pulling away. "Good-bye Simon."
He sighed giving her hand a squeeze "Stay safe, Dri."
She nodded rolling up her window and pulled out of the parking lot. He watched her until she was out of sight, hoping this didn't end up like his sister because he would find this bastard and kill him before he went to jail. He turned to go back inside, his expression turning into a scowl when he spotted a certain Legend Killer off to the side.
"Eavesdropping, Orton?"
Randy shook his head, for once his trademark smirk not in place.
"How could you just let her drive away?"
Simon sighed, running a hand through his hair. "You hear everything?"
The Saint Louis Native nodded.
"I don't have proof and if there's something I learned from my sister, if they don't want help, if they don't want to leave you can't push them. They'll pull away more and will just be worse for them at home. You have to tread cautiously."
"Maybe she does want help."
Simon shook his head. "If she did she would've found a way to convey it."
"What can we do?"
He raised an eyebrow at the "we" part but said nothing. "We keep trying to talk to her, hope she opens up but Orton? Don't bug her anymore and if you hurt her, I'll hurt you."
Randy nodded as the self-proclaimed fitness guru went back inside.
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"Okay Lui." Dri whispered, holding him close as she stared up at the house. "We'll go inside, grab our stuff and go to Ronnie's or my parents."
Lui barked and she laughed.
"You wanna see Ronnie?"
Lui barked again.
She heard a honk behind them and looked into the rear view mirror to see Ronnie pull up in her Blue Mazda Protégé. The shorter girl got out of her car madly waving as she practically skipped to her car and didn't even wait for Adrianna to get out, instead jumping through the window and throwing her arms around the new WWE Diva.
"You whore, thanks for not calling me." Ronnie said in a fake pout.
"Sorry." Dri replied with a laugh. "It's been a little crazy, I just got back."
"What? From the road? But it's Thursday, that would mean you go tomorrow."
Dri nodded, "I just came home to grab some stuff."
The door opened and Mark came outside. Dri briefly closed her eyes and sighed .
"Dri baby, I missed you." He cried pulling her up into a big hug. He went to kiss her but she turned away so he ended up kissing her cheek.
Ronnie gave her an odd look to which she just simply shrugged.
"How long you home for baby?"
"Just tonight, I go out tomorrow."
His grip tightened and she saw his jaw tense but in a moment it was gone. Dri had seen it though and all of a sudden she didn't want to be alone with him. Her stuff could wait another week.
"Kay Bitch, get your stuff." She told Ronnie, pulling away from her 'boyfriend', "we're going out tonight."
"Dri baby, I thought we could have a night for us two."
She gave him a sugary sweet smile. "Gee, honey, I've been home these past two times just for you it's time to go see my friends."
She opened the car and let Lui out as she pulled Ronnie up to the house.
"Why's Lui growling at him?" Dri's mocha skinned friend asked.
The taller girl shrugged. "My guess is he pissed him off. Now come on we're dressing like Diva's."
"Won't Mark get mad? He never let's you go out all skanked out."
"Hey." Dri cried feigning hurt in her voice. "Diva's don't dress like skanks."
"Just you then." Ronnie replied with a snort. "I've seen ya on TV. How is Mark not yelling at you."
Dri winced. "It's my job but he can go fuck himself, I'll dress how I wanna."
"That's what I'm talking about." Ronnie whooped as they entered her room.
Dri went over to her closet, opening it to find it half empty. Frowning, she quickly went through it to find most of her clubbing clothes were gone. All that was left was her business attire from her last job. And she knew she didn't take that much clothing with her. She slammed her closet shut, silently cursing Mark as faced her friend with a big smile.
"Change of plans we're going shopping, then we're going clubbing."
"Can't find anything to wear?"
"You can say that." She replied through clenched teeth. "Favor, can Lui stay with you?"
Ronnie's eyes widened as she glanced outside. "Are you pissed about the girl I saw with him that night? Are you guys fighting?"
"Not at all, he's too busy to watch him properly, maybe that's why Lui is growling."
"Yeah it's no problem, I love that puppy but if you and Mark-"
"Drop it Ron."
The short hair girl nodded, eyeing her best friend warily but not saying anything else. Dri was open about everything with her if something was going on. She'd know. Dri told her everything.
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"Tommy." Dri called as her and Ronnie made their way to the back of the line.
"Whatcha doin' you crazy girl?" The Bouncer asked latching on to her arm as she passed. "Let me get a look at you."
Dri laughed as her and Ronnie spun in a small circle. She was wearing a short black pleated skirt and a purple halter top, her long dark hair flowing down to her waist. Beside her Ronnie wore a white skirt and baby blue tank top. Tommy let out a low whistle.
"Damn girls, you two are looking fine tonight, Come on in, no WWE Diva is gonna be paying on my watch, 'specially not a local one."
"Aww Tommy, that's so sweet," The new Diva gushed, "And this extends to my friend too right?"
"Of course, anyone else?"
Ronnie grabbed Dri's hand. "We're supposed to meet Mark in the line up."
Dri went up on her toes and saw Mark's familiar dirty blonde hair, leaning over some girl, his fingers playing with her hair. Dri hid the look of disgust on her face as she shrugged.
"I don't see him, Thanks Tommy." grabbing Ronnie, she pulled the shorter girl past the line up and into the entry way ignoring the groans of people in the line up as she placed a kiss on the muscular bouncers cheek
"Shut up," Tommy yelled. "Are you in the WWE? Naw didn't think so, so you can wait in line."
"I saw Mark still in the line." Ronnie chastised her friend.
"Must've missed him." She relied with a shrug.
"No you didn't. You saw him I know you did. Now what's going on?" Her friend yelled over the music. "Are you seeing someone else? Is it that Simon Dean guy that you're traveling with?"
Dri shook her head, "Simon is my friend. I think I've just outgrown Mark. I did see him all over that chick out there, what was I supposed to do bring them both in?"
"Dri-Dri." A male voice yelled moments before she was picked up and slung over someone's shoulder.
"Put me down." She shrieked, thumping on his back. "I'm in a short skirt."
Darren, her old friend from high school, laughed, putting her down. "Right like we don't see more every week on Smackdown."
Her eyes widened. "Oh my god, you do?"
"Don't you watch yourself?"
"No actually, I haven't seen an episode yet, I've been a little busy."
"You're one of the hottest Diva's out there." Darren said.
She laughed and shook her head as the music stopped and the DJ got on the mic.
"Hey everyone, we having a good time, let me hear you holler."
The room cheered and the DJ waited for it to quiet. "Lets check out the TV and see what's on tonight..."
The big screen TV came on and lo and behold Smackdown was playing, Canada still got it Thursday nights.
"Check it out." the DJ yelled. "It's Smackdown with Fort Saskatchewan's very own Diva Adrianna Brent who I hear is in the house tonight."
"And now, Tazz, I'm just getting word that we have an interview from a few weeks ago of Randy Orton, done by Smackdown's newest Diva, Adrianna Brent." Cole was saying.
"Oh I liked how the Simon's System worked for her, but why are we showing it now?"
"It seems, I'm being told, Randy Orton asked it to be played."
As she came on the screen, a few of the clubs regulars that knew her began to cheer.
"Oh god." She groaned, burying her face in Darren's chest. She didn't look up again until she heard a loud cheer from the crowd and when she did she went a bright red as Randy Orton finished kissing her on screen and walked away with her stupidly staring after him.
"You got to kiss Randy Orton?" Ronnie gasped. "You little whore you, how could you not tell me?"
"Or me?" A voice said behind them.
She turned around to see Mark standing there anger on his face.
"Oh, where's your little friend?" She asked.
"We're going home." Mark snapped, grabbing her arm.
"Like hell we are." Dri said pulling her arm away.
"Don't play any fucking games with me Adrianna." He snarled.
"And I said it was over you jackass."
He stepped forward and Darren got in between them.
"What's your deal man? You've been a straight up asshole ever since Dri Dri went to the WWE."
"This is none of your fucking business Darren, it's between me and my girl."
"I'm not your girl, you dipshit."
"Come on girl let's get out of here." Ronnie said hoping to diffuse the situation. She grabbed Dri's hand and they began to leave.
"Get back here." Mark yelled, "I'm not done with you yet."
Adrianna just lifted her middle finger to him as she left the club.
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