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When You're Around

Chapter 54

The next day, the whole creative team was gathered around the table for their regular pre-taping meeting. During these meetings they went over what was going to happen in the show later and made any corrections if need be. After that Diana would go over who should be working on what storyline, hand off new assignments and answer any questions the staff had. Then she usually dismisses every one off to work, sending one of the interns to go pass out the scripts to the superstars and divas.

"Welcome back everyone," Diana said with a smile as she did every meeting on Monday. "We're going to start this meeting off with some sad news," She turned to face Chloe and gave her a sad smile. "This week is Chloe's last week with us. I think I speak for everyone when I say please come and visit," Chloe smiled as everyone spoke up, echoing Diana's words. Chloe promised she would come around and see everyone very soon. Diana then launched into new assignments and went over some things they had to improve on in future storylines. Towards the end of the meeting, she began to reiterate what everyone was working on. "And as you have all noticed, Greg is absent. Unfortunately he had appendicitis this weekend so he is going to be off for a few days recovering." She looked down at the folder in her hands. "In the meantime, Rachel, you're going to be taking over Greg's assignments." Rachel looked up in surprise and confusedly accepted the folder Diana had passed over to her. "Here's some of his notes and ideas if you want to use it. Alright everyone, let's get to work."

Rachel looked down at the folder and her eyes widened. "Um, Diana?" The woman looked at her. "This is a storyline for Randy and Nexus,"

She nodded and raised a confused eyebrow. "Is there a problem?"

Rachel laughed nervously. "Well, I mean these are main eventers, shouldn't I be taking on something smaller? Shouldn't Chrissy be getting this story?" She asked, referring to her co-worker Chrissy who often handled main events.

Diana pursed her lips in thought. "Let me ask you something Rachel, do you think Chrissy is a better writer than you?"

Rachel furrowed her brow. Was that a trick question? "Well, no,"

Diana grinned. "Me neither. Listen, Rachel, maybe this job isn't operated the way some of your past jobs have operated. But let me clear up some things, you got hired here for a reason, we already know you can write and you do it well, otherwise you wouldn't be here right now. Chrissy isn't above writing a storyline for rookies, and you aren't below writing for main eventers." Well, yeah, when it's put like that it makes sense. "You already proved why we should hire you, now you just need to prove why we should keep you. And you can do that writing for the Undertaker or, say one of the NXT divas. The only reason thus far you've been working on the stories that don't get as much hype is because you're new here and we hadn't really had anything available; people here usually stick with writing the same characters. Hell, Greg's been writing Randy's bits since he left Evolution. You could probably argue that Greg is the viper."

They both smiled and Rachel nodded, now understanding. "Ok, well, thank you. I'm gonna go get to work."

"Great," Diana said back before they both did their work.

Chloe walked up to Rachel's desk area where she was writing notes. "So I hear you're writing Randy's storyline," Rachel looked up at her friend and nodded. "How about you give him that belt?"

Rach smiled and shook her head. "We'll see how things go but I am not just going to give him the title because you're my best friend and you're dating him."

Chloe pouted. "Fine, you're no fun." She said before walking off to deliver scripts.

"Wow, this is amazing," Jess said in awe. John had introduced her backstage to one of the wrestler's wives, Kristen DiBiase, and the two had gone out to the arena together to sit in the family section where the wrestler's families and girlfriends usually sat.

Kristin laughed and nodded. "It really is; is this your first time coming to a live event?"

She nodded as she ate some of the popcorn that she'd bought herself earlier. "This weekend at the house shows I just stood backstage and I thought that was pretty crazy. But John insisted that I have to watch the show from the crowd, and wow, he was right; this is something else."

Kristin smiled at the girl and grabbed a piece of popcorn for her. "So have you and John been dating long?"

Jess blushed. "Well, actually we only just went out first date last week." Kristin raised a surprised eyebrow and Jess launched into the story of how the two had met when Randy and Chloe began dating and how they spoke over the phone before finally going on a date. "So I've decided to take a week off and since both my friends are here and John, I decided this would be fun." She turned her body in to face the other woman. "So your husband is Ted?" She asked to make sure she had remembered correctly. Kristin nodded. "You'll have to point him out to me. I'm still new to this whole wrestling thing and I've only watched it once so I pretty much don't know who anyone is."

Kristin smiled knowingly. "I know how that is. Ted and I met in high school," She began.

"Wow," Jess commented.

Kristin laughed. "Anyway, he was a huge wrestling fan and his father wrestled so when we started dating I began to watch with him and it took me forever to remember who everyone was and who was a bad guy and who was a good guy and what all the rules were. Trust me, eventually you'll catch on."

Jess smiled back. She sure hoped she had a chance to get used to all this. She actually felt kind of silly sitting in this family section as she wasn't even sure she was John's girlfriend. Sure, it definitely felt like it what with all the PDA and attention John paid to her and all the time they spent together, but they'd never really had that conversation so you could never be too sure. She let her insecurities slip away as the lights dimmed and the pyro's went off, signaling the start of the show.

"Oh my god, that was just ridiculous!" Jess gushed to John after she'd made her way backstage after the show and found her way into his room.

John laughed as he pulled his t-shirt over his head. "Glad you liked it."

"Liked it?" She questioned. "I loved it, seriously what an amazing feeling. And I was just sitting in the crowd! I can only imagine how it is for you each time you walk out there."

He grinned at her, glad she enjoyed the show. "It's unlike anything I've felt before or will ever feel again." He walked up to her, pulling her close so they could share a sweet kiss. "I think I've created a monster."

She smiled back at him. "You have no idea, I could get used to this."

He laughed. "Alright come on you little wrestling fan, let's go get something to eat." He said as he grabbed his bag before escorting her out of his locker room so they could go grab some food.

Adam smiled as he walked into the creative office and saw that it was empty save for his, wait for it, girlfriend, who was bent over her desk, writing furiously. He walked closer and leaned down over her shoulder to see what she was writing. "You planning on sleeping here?"

She turned her head and grinned when she saw it was Adam. "Hey," She said and turned her chair so they could face each other.

"Hey you," He said pulling a chair up to sit next to her. "What do you got there?"

She beamed. "You'll never guess what happened today! I'm writing Randy's storyline with Nexus,"

"Wow, that's great," Adam commented, reaching out to hold her hand.

"I know I'm so excited." She seemed to only now notice that no one else was in the room. "Is the show over?"

He chuckled and stood up, pulling her with him. "Alright you little work-a-holic, time to call it a night."

She reluctantly packed away all her notes and allowed him to lead her from the room. "Sorry, I just really want to do well on this."

He wrapped his arm around her shoulders and used his other hand to hold her things. "Hey baby, no need to be sorry. I just want to grab something to eat with my beautiful girlfriend," He said, emphasis on girlfriend, making them both smirk. "then go to bed with my arms wrapped around my beautiful girlfriend,"

She let out a sigh as she thought of it. "That sounds great,"

A/N: Another little shorty sorry! Thank you for all your amazing reviews! :) I love them.