Chapter 5
Hazel and I were getting ready for the day ahead, Smackdown.
"So, what's supposed to happen?" Hazel said as she curled her hair with her wand.
"Well, I'm supposed to team up with Natalya to go against AJ and Tamina. Then I have a segment with The Shield." I say, putting up half of my hair then leaving the rest down.
"So, what do I do when you're not around?" Hazel asked, clicking off the hair appliance and began working on her make-up.
"I dunno, usually the other divas hang backstage or whatever. Maybe you can hang with them when I'm out and about." I said, taking one last look at myself. I was in my ring gear, it was a deep red and white shade this time.
"Okay." Hazel said. She was wearing a peplum top and leggings with "Lita" Jeffery Campbells.
"You look nice, and besides, I'm sure they'll like you." I assured her, before the locker room door was opened.
"Alison, you're match is in 15." A stagehand-that I befriended on my 3rd day, her name was Minnie, announced.
"Thanks, Minnie." I said, she nodded before leaving. I grabbed my script and began running over my lines as Hazel and I made our way out.
I was in Gorilla position, stretching. AJ, Natalya and Tamina had already made their entrances.
"And her tag-team partner, from San Diego, California, Ali Clark!" Lillian trilled, I ran out and did my signature motions while heading down the ramp towards Natalya, making sure to slap some hands on my way.
I hugged Nattie and she went up the steps as I climbed onto the apron and slid in. I made eye contact with AJ before I turned and posed on the turnbuckle.
I leaped down, Natalya agreed to take on Tamina in the beginning. Ding, Ding, Ding! Tamina and Nattie lock up, Tamina pushes Nattie back and Nattie retaliates with a running clothesline and then a takedown, landing in some forearms. Nattie tried whipping Tamina into the corner but Tamina got in a good side slam and slapped on a chin lock.
Nattie refused to submit but couldn't power out, Tamina landed a good snapmare by her corner, tagged in AJ, who landed a dropkick to Nattie's face.
"C'mon, Natalya!" I cheered, getting the crowd revved up. AJ went for a pin, a 2 count. AJ whipped Nattie into a corner and laughed before landing a good kick to Nattie's shoulder. She was gonna go for a monkey flip but Nattie hit the perfect power bomb. Nattie inched towards me but somehow AJ got up and dropkicked Nattie out the ring.
"Ha-ha!" AJ chided, she turned then tried to slap me, I caught her, grabbed hold of her hair and dropped down from the apron. AJ's head and throat hitting the ropes, she was dazed and turned around right into the Nattie by Nature. Natalya struggled to but managed to tag me in. I slid in and kneed Tamina off the apron, she flew onto her side outside the ring.
Then I landed some good stamina building clotheslines on AJ before giving her a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker.
"C'mon!" I cheered, the crowd roared with delight. As AJ stood, I gave her a dropkick, dropping her to her knees. I landed a DDT then I tried for a pin with a near 3 count.
I whipped AJ into the corner but then she countered and threw me onto my face. I tried standing but then she hit me with a shining wizard and got the 3 count.
…
After the match, I immediately went to where the upcoming segment between the guys and I was going to be. I had my lines down and had to look annoyed because I lost my match, easy.
The cameras began rolling, I was sitting on top of a trunk pretty high up.
"Hello, Alison." Dean greeted me, I groaned, and ran a hand through my hair.
"Aw, don't be that way." Dean said, simply.
"Besides, we watched your match. You were impressive, before you lost." Seth said, smugly. I was exhausted and I was supposed to slap Colby, so yeah.
THWAP!
Seth held his cheek and grimaced before they all grabbed my arms and legs, yanked me off the trunk and into a room.
"Cut, thanks guys!" The director called, me and the boys came out the closeted space, laughing. I hugged Colby, re-assuring him I didn't mean anything behind the slap, obviously.
"Its okay, Alison." He joked, returning my hug.
I made my way back towards the diva locker room and changed into my jeans and plain tee. I tied my hair back and walked out, Hazel had texted me saying she was gonna be back late and had already dropped off all her stuff at the hotel since she was gonna catch a movie.
…..
"CRAP!" I yelled as I beat the steering wheel to my rental. The thing wouldn't start! I groaned as I hopped out of the car and looked at my phone and called April.
"Hello?" April said, music nearly drowned out her voice.
"April?" I said, closing the door to the SUV.
"Hey, Ali, what's up?" April said, the noise slowly disappearing.
"Can you pick me up?" I asked, tapping the roof of the SUV.
"Sorry, me and Phil are at a bar, y'know, not drinking." She said.
"Well, okay then." I said before hanging up.
I thought for a minute then decided to call Joe, he is usually still around.
"Hello. Alison?' He said, no noise rang from the background.
"Joe, can you pick me up?" I said, my tapping on the roof becoming more rapid.
"Man, Alison. I'm like 5 minutes away from the hotel." Joe said, he sounded torn, like he wanted to come back and get me.
"Oh." I said, simply. I stopped tapping as someone caught my eye.
"I can turn around if you want me to-" Joe began, I interrupted him.
"No, its okay Joe. I've got it." I said simply, before hanging up.
"Now, don't tell me that thing won't start?" None other than the viper joked.
"Randy. Hey! And yeah, this won't even budge." I told him, he smirked.
"Pop the hood, Ali." He told me and I followed his order.
He lifted up the hood and got a good look at it, then he stuck his hand in and after a few seconds of twisting and turning, the car finally started up. After he withdrew his hand, I noticed it was covered in grease and oil. I grabbed a damp white towel and ran over to him.
"Here" I said, grabbing his hand, then began to wipe off the grime.
"Its nothing but dirt, Ali." He chuckled, handing me back the now dirty towel. I flash him a smile in return and throw the rag into the back of the car.
"Thanks for fixing up my car, Randy." I said. He nodded and shrugged.
"Well, I'll see you back at the hotel." I said, slipping into my car.
"Bye Alison." He said waving. I watched as he slipped into his bus and drove off before I took off myself.
…
It was a bright and early morning, Hazel was completely asleep on the bed across from me. I rose from my own bed, and shuffled over to my duffel bag and saw my as my phone blinked and blinked. I moved it over and grabbed some clothes and headed into the bathroom.
As I took a shower I pondered over what I was gonna do tonight. I had the script but since I came home and crashed immediately last night, I hadn't had a chance to read it. Maybe I could ask Joe, Colby and Jon. They've had to have read it by now. I changed into my ACDC hoodie and ripped jeans.
I walked over to my door but remembered my phone. I snatched it and made my way out the door. I dialed Joe's number as I slipped into the elevator, it rang twice.
"Hey, Alison." Joe said, I heard talking in the background, I clicked the lobby button and felt the elevator travel down.
"Hey, Joe. I wanted to know if you've read the script for tonight yet?" I asked as the doors slid open.
"Oh yeah, me and the guys have all read it. We can read it together if you want?" He said, simply, I heard Jon and Colby laughing in the background.
"Yeah, um can we meet up later? I have to go train and in case, JON-" I made sure to say his name louder so he could hear through the phone. "-wants to know, Hazel is in my room, they could hang out for sure." I said, a giggle escaping at the end.
"Whatever Alison!" I heard Jon say, with joking annoyance tinted in his voice.
Joe laughs before giving me his answer. "Yeah, how about the café on main street?" Joe says
"Yeah, that sounds awesome! Thanks a ton, Joe." I say before clicking off the phone. I head down to the lobby and grab some breakfast.
Then, of course, the Total Divas cameras began rolling. I sat down with my plate when Nattie sat down next to me, trailing behind was also cast member: Eva Marie.
"Hey, Ali. This is Eva Marie, she's also new." Nattie said, Eva stuck out a tanned arm and hand. I smiled and shook it.
"Its so cool to finally meet you, everyone has been saying you're really good in the ring." Eva said, she has nice hair and a great smile.
"Holy crap, I remember you. Didn't you do the summer shoot of fitness for Strong Lady Modeling back in 2009?" I asked, Eva looked like a woman I worked with a while back on one of my most popular spreads.
"Yeah, oh wait! Now, I know why you looked so familiar!" Eva exclaimed.
"So, you two already met?" Nattie asked, impressed that we'd already met.
"Yeah, before I wrestled I did fitness modeling, besides my brother, Christopher, didn't want me to wrestle. He was scared I was gonna get hurt, but yeah. I modeled for fitness spreads and I also did some modeling in 2010 for Topshop and Brandy Melville too." I explained, Nattie was shocked as was Eva since she suspected that my modeling career only went as far as fitness spreads.
"Anything else?" Nattie joked but I nodded.
"I did model for Chanel in 2011 just about 4 months before my brother finally agreed to train me!" I said, finally. Nattie's jaw dropped and Eva clapped.
"Now that's a resume!" Eva laughed, I smiled as Nattie joined in on Eva's laughter and clapped as well.
"Wait, your brother's a wrestler?" Nattie asked, I nodded, after taking a sip of the coffee I had.
"Yeah, he's been in ROH since 2007, so when he was 27." I said, finishing off the food that was on my plate.
"Wow, so like it runs in the family?" Eva asked, she didn't do wrestling much as had to go through tons of training and developing.
"Well, my parents never did wrestling but we have 2 cousins, Bianca and Benny, they wrestle in FWE and Ra Ka King, they still do indies too." I said, both of my cousins were twins. They're about a year younger than Chris.
"So like, how'd you get into it?" Nattie said, I knew she was referring to wrestling.
"Well, my parents took me and Chris to tons of WWF shows and we also watched it at home. Then, Chris decided he wanted to wrestle so after he went to college, he left to go get trained for about 3 years before signing with ROH." I said, Nattie looked truly impressed as Eva looked confused as if she expected to just be a model with no WWE interest, like I only wanted to bump up my character and get my modeling career more press.
Need I remind her, since I turned 22, I expressed to my brother I wanted him to train me to wrestler but he thought I was too fragile so I stuck to modeling but with a twist: Since I love to be trim and fit-working out-I did fitness modeling.
"Wow, that is beyond impressive." Nattie said, Eva nodded.
"Didn't you go to college?" Eva asked, tossing back her flame colored hair.
"Yeah, I went for about a year. I was also there because I loved field hockey and I still do. When I was outta high school, I was asked by Florida State to be on their field hockey team. I was MVP too, but in `one game some girl mistook my leg for the puck and whacked it, so my leg was broken and I was no use to the team. Plus, the stress was surreal. I dropped out." I said.
"Well, weren't you studying something?" Eva asked, I sighed.
" Yeah, Social Sciences." I said, Nattie nodded.
"Well, are you ever gonna go back?" Nattie asked, I placed my napkin on top of my plate and shrugged.
"CUT! Thanks everyone!" Called the director as soon as the cameras stopped rolling.
Nattie, Eva, and I hugged and kept up a mini conversation before we parted ways.
It was noon, Hazel was getting ready. I decided to have her come with me when I go meet up with the guys. Hazel was just wearing jeans, chucks, and a grey Hollister hoodie. Her hair was in a low ponytail, too.
Hazel finally came out after snapping like 23000000 selfies.
"You ready?" I asked, stashing my script in my bag.
"Yeah!" She laughed. I texted Joe we were on our way.
"Okay so, you go to the ring without any poses or whatever. You're supposed to look all scared since Superstars. Then, AJ costs you your match against Tamina, but then you and AJ get into an altercation so the guys and I have to break up the fight." Jon informed me, I skimmed over the script that Hazel had just finished highlighting for me.
"And then we have a segment?" I asked, flipping the pages.
"Yeah, we tell you that the door is still open." Joe says, sipping his tea.
"And then basically, you just walk away." Colby adds, I flip another page.
"So you're telling us, you never read the script?" Joe asked, his eyes wide in a joking manner.
"Yeah, first thing I did as soon as I got to the hotel was sleep." I said, guilty as charged.
"Wow, Alison. You should know to read scripts.." Jon said, his eyebrow raised.
"Whatever. Hey its time to go get ready for tonight, so we'll see you guys at the show!" I said, standing up. Hazel stood, after giving some flirtatious smile towards Jon which he somewhat returned.
Hazel was brushing my hair back, which reaches just under my clavicle.
"Okay, so how are you hitting it off with the other divas?" I asked Hazel, as she began brushing the right side of my hair back.
"I guess, they just like to watch the matches and whatever." Hazel said, working towards the end of my hair.
"Oh, well. My match starts in 10, I need to stretch." I announced as Hazel finished brushing my hair. I stood, and walked out with Hazel close behind.
"And introducing her opponent from San Diego, California. Ali Clark!" I walked out, my hands close to my side, the fans cheered and stuck out their hands but I wasn't making any contact. I climbed onto the apron and slid into the ring.
Tamina smirked, I sighed and waited for the ref to signal the timekeeper.
DING. DING. DING
Tamina and I circled eachother before she stopped and started laughing.
"How was it? Losing to AJ?" Tamina laughed, I balled up my fist while she laughed and laughed then finally I launched myself on top of her and landed some fists. I grabbed her hair and banged her head onto the mat.
The ref pulled us apart and after Tamina rose to her feet, I hit a jumping snap mare bounded off the ropes and gave her a dropkick to her face.
I dove for the pin only to get a 2 count. I shot up and dropped a knee on Tamina then slapped on a body scissors. Tamina easily powered out the slammed my face onto the mat. Tamina crawled away to the opposite corner. I rose up before hitting the handspring elbow smash (Alison Smashin') before hitting a bulldog, dropping Tamina. I went for the cover and received a 2 count. I crawled away and as Tamina stood I ran to her and went for a float over DDT that Tamina countered into a side slam. She went for the pin and I kicked out at 2. She slapped on a chin lock, then grabbed my hair while applying a surfboard, she let go at 4. I tried crawling but Tamina yanked me back and landed a swinging neck breaker. But that also slowed her down, I sighed, and crawled to the opposing corner. I waited until Tamina was just walking away then I ran to her and landed a crossbody. I dove into the pin and nearly got a 3 count, just then AJ climbed onto the ropes.
"What are you doing, get down, get down." I yelled, AJ laughed.
"No, you can't win this one!" AJ said, then slapped me, the bell rung. The ring started shaking and I saw Tamina running towards me, I dove out the way. Tamina couldn't stop but AJ side stepped her and Tamina went flying out of the ring and just as I could barely turn around, AJ attacks.
. . .SHIELD
Soon after hearing that theme, AJ and I are picked apart from eachother, Roman with me and Dean with AJ. Seth standing in the middle, trying to make sure one does not run towards the other for round 2.
"We've gotta get her outta here." Roman said, the other guys nodded before they yanked me off through the crowd.
"Why did you pull us apart!" I said, slamming the door to the room the guys pushed me into.
"It was getting outta hand, sweetheart." Seth laughed, my eyes blurred and I punched something hard, I wiped my eyes and found Roman smirking down on me.
"Besides, we didn't wanna see the pretty face get hurt, anyways." He said, and reached up to touch the side of my face before brushing a strand of hair behind my ear. I locked eyes with him and like, UGH! He's beyond hot right now but I gotta stay focused.
So, I swatted away Roman's hand, his face hardened. Dean grabbed my shoulders spun me around and leaned towards me.
"Don't worry honey, our door is still open.." He said, before he and the guys watched me slip out the door.
"Thanks for that guys!" The director said, switching off the camera.
Thanks for being patient guys!