Memory Lane is a Bitch

Beth awoke the next day, Sunday, rather early considering her late night rendezvous with John. Just as she tried to get out of bed, she felt a pair of strong arms wrapped around her waist. Looking over, there he was, sound asleep with a slight grin on his face. She noticed that he was shirtless, and panic started to rise in her head. She lifted the sheets to examine her own body and let out a sigh of relief; she was still fully dressed in her sweatpants and tank top. Gently lifting his right arm away from her torso, she slid out from underneath him and tip-toed to the bathroom, quietly closing the door behind her.

"What the hell were you thinking flirting with him like that? He just signed his divorce papers and you just had your heart ripped out and stepped on." Beth whispered to herself as she placed her hands on the counter and leaned in closer to the mirror.

Her mind was racing with so many thoughts ranging from her career to her ex-husband to John Cena sleeping in her bed. She decided on the one thing that always helped to clear her head; going to the gym. Washing her face thoroughly, she readjusted her hair (not wanting to put too much effort into it, just for it to get all messy again) and grabbed her workout clothes from her bag on the floor. Once she was dressed, she quietly walked out of the bathroom, praying he was still sleeping. As she walked into the bedroom, she could hear the slight sound of snoring and it reassured her that he was. After scribbling a note explaining where she was, she placed it on her pillow, grabbed her key card and left the room.

Walking into the hotel's gym, the Glamazon immediately felt at home. Placing her headphones in her ears, she cranked up her workout playlist that consisted of Pantera, Megadeth and other heavy rock bands, which always pumped her up as she set off to the treadmill to warm up. Stepping on, she set the speed to five as she started to jog. Ten minutes later, when sweat was covering her face, she upped the speed to eight and a half and a twenty percent incline. Ever since coming back from tearing her ACL, she was diligent on keeping up with the exercises her physical therapist gave her. As she started her cool down, she let her mind start to wonder to what she was feeling the night before.

When she finally made it to the WWE, Beth's life was in shambles; especially after her debut match. Her marriage was coming to an end and her jaw was broken after taking a braced knee to the face from Victoria. When she made it back, she had sworn off dating fellow wrestlers, at least until she had championship gold in her hands. Beth had stayed true to her word and after she won the Women's Championship, she began seeing Cody Rhodes. But just like her relationship with Joey, he had gotten jealous of the push she was receiving when he was on a losing streak. She had been the one to break things off and it hadn't hurt as bad as she thought it would be.

Over the next few years, she had dated several guys, wrestlers and non-wrestlers alike. When she was gearing up to continue her push after Natalya lost the Divas Championship at the Royal Rumble, she ran into CM Punk. When she found out that she was passed over for Eve as the fourth participant in the Fatal Four Way, she was livid. Walking into catering, she thought she was alone. After strongly hollering some choice words and kicking chairs, she heard slow clapping. Slightly embarrassed, she turned and saw Phil in the darkest corner standing up to face her.

Calming down after her outburst, she sat down and talked with him about her frustrations concerning her career and where she was going, which was nowhere currently. Phil expressed his thoughts on his situation which reveled hers. They talked for several hours, and never ran out of things to say. During their conversation, they learned that they had a lot in common. Phil admitted that he was attracted to her, but was always timid to approach her. Three weeks later, they became exclusive and had the other wrestlers talking.

After Beth was drafted to RAW from SmackDown, she suddenly saw her career start to take off. After Phil's infamous shoot promo, she magically received a push towards the Divas Championship. Capturing the coveted Butterfly emblazoned belt for the first time, that's when she started hearing the rumors.

"Can you believe her? She's just using Phil to get ahead, yet she's screwing around behind his back." Kelly said to Eve one day in the locker, not even trying to keep her voice down.

"Are you kidding me? She's such a slut." Eve retorted as they both looked in Beth's direction as she was taping her wrists for her match on SmackDown. Beth was trying her hardest not to pay attention, but their voices echoed in her head. Finally hearing enough, Beth left the locker room for the Gorilla Position with tears streaming down her face.

Not two weeks later, Vickie had cornered Phil backstage and started feeding him the lies. It was after the Tables, Ladders and Chairs pay per view that he waltzed up to her in her locker room and confronted her. Barging in without knocking, he went straight for the jugular.

"Has this whole relationship been a sham? Have you been using me for your own personal gain and then fucking other guys behind my back?" he yelled.

Beth jumped when the door slammed shut and at the tone of his voice. As her brain processed what he was accusing her of, she was shocked.

"What? No, who told you that?"

"Everyone in the fucking locker room is talking about it! I had to hear from Vickie that you've been cheating on me with guys from FCW. Are you seriously that insecure about yourself that you have to lower your standards to those douchebags?"

"Phil, none of that is true. I have never cheated on you and I have not been using you. Do you really not trust me enough to believe the bullshit?"

"I guess not. I'm done with whatever this is. I'm done with us. Hope you have fun not being on TV and secluded to SuperStars you blonde slut." Phil yelled as he left Beth sitting dumbfounded on the bench, walking out of her life. Letting his words sink in, she mentally broke down. Sure enough, over the next few weeks the only matches she had were on SuperStars. Even as the Divas Champion, she was treated like a mid-car jobber. It wasn't until she dropped the title did she start to have a more prominent role on RAW. Even then, she had to bust her ass to make the other Divas like Kelly and Layla look good in the ring.

Thinking back to how Phil handled the situation pissed Beth off even more. Hitting the stop button, she waited for the treadmill to come to a complete stop before climbing off. Turning around to head for the punching bags, she turned right into a hard body and fell to the ground.

"Dammit!" she hollered when she hit the ground. Annoyed, she looked up to see who she walked into and was dumbfounded.

"Sorry, I didn't mean for you to fall. But you did turn right around like a bat out of hell, so it was kinda all your fault."

"Screw you Cena, now help me up."

"That is the second time today that you have offered that, and again I'm going to have to decline." John joked as he extended a hand towards the blonde as he helped her back up to her feet.

"That's so not funny. What are you doing here?"

"I woke up and found you're note that you left. I figured after all the shit the two of us have been through, you needed a training partner. You know, since Natalya is doing a promotional tour in Mexico."

"That's probably a good idea. Did you want to do weights, agility, or strength training?"

"Hmmm…That's a tough decision, but I think I'm going to have to go with weights."

"Are you sure that you want to go there? How are you going to feel if I out lift you?"

"You think you can out lift me? HA! Fat chance at that."

"Someone's a little bit cocky today aren't they?"

"Maybe, but that is what makes me the best! Let's do this bad thing. Whoever can lift the most, the other person is buying lunch; deal?" John asked as he extended his hand towards Beth once again.

"Fine, deal. You are so going down Cena!" Beth exclaimed as she shook his hand and headed towards the bench press.

****A/N****

Once again, y'all are awesome! Now I know most of this story is factually correct, but that's what brings the fun to a FanFiction right? Any who, this is another chapter that is mostly filler. I needed this to set up for upcoming chapters.

-Megan