"I've been asked to do a dark match on Smackdown." Jon exclaims over the phone. He'd said it so loud that I was pretty convinced my ears just might be bleeding. "Can you believe it?! I get to be on Smackdown! Well... Kinda." He chuckles.
"That's great news!" I reply. "Does that mean that they're thinking of hiring you soon?" I ask curiously.
"I don't know. They haven't said anything to me about hiring, but I mean if they're putting me in dark matches before major events it can't be far right?" He tells me. Too me that was fast, the guys had only been in FCW for like 6 months. But what did I know?
"Well I think it's awesome." I say with a smile, even if he couldn't see it.
"It's in Atlanta, you feel like traveling with me?" He asks.
"Like you could leave me behind." I basically scoff.
"That's what I'm counting on sweet pea." He replies with a chuck, I didn't have to see him to know he was smiling.
***...***...***...***
"Jesus christ Jon, I'm fucking lost." I grumble annoyed. I had him on speaker phone right now, I'd taken the rental car we had to go grab something we'd left at the hotel and I totally took a wrong turn on the way back. "So annoying, who's idea was it to make cities this fucking big?" I mutter.
"I can't exactly give ya directions doll." He chuckles, amused.
"I'm so fucking annoyed." I basically growl.
"I can tell her how to get here." I hear a familiar voice tell him. A few seconds later I registered it as Stu's. There was hesitation on the other end and I know Jon didn't want to hand me over to the bare knuckle brawler. "Fucking ridiculous Jon, just give Stu the phone!" I exclaim.
"What are the street names love?" Stu asks a few seconds later.
"Uhm... I'm going East on Rockman ave and I"m crossing 6th street." I mumble, looking at the signs as I pass.
"At 7th take a right turn, then follow it for somewhere around 4 blocks." He tells me, "I'll stay with you." He adds.
"Ok..." I murmur making the right turn.
"You should be coming up on Piedmont, go left." He instructs. "And you should be able to see the arena from the road." He adds.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you..." I sigh when I finally see the arena.
"You're welcome sweet heart." He replies. "See you later." He adds before handing me back to Jon.
"I'll be in there in a few minutes, I"m parking." I tell Jon.
"I'll wait by the door." He responds. I roll my eyes and toss my phone back into my purse. Jon was waiting at the door when I come walking up, he was obviously annoyed. "I really hate how friendly he is with you." He grumbles.
"You could have gone and gotten the junk yourself." I growl, shoving the bag in his hands. "I'm not your errand girl." I state.
"I love you..." He grins. He tosses an arm over my shoulder and pulls me in, kissing the top of my head.
"I love you too." I sigh rolling my eyes.
"Fuckin' christ... I don't want to leave you anywhere back here by yourself. I don't know any of these people." He grumbles as we walk around the backstage area.
"Sure you can, let me text Trinity. I know her and Jon are around here somewhere." I say pulling out my phone.
"Hey girl, where you at backstage?" Text to Trinity.
"Good point, I forgot about them." He replies.
"We're in a room called Citrus, Jon and Cody are playing Xbox." Text from Trinity.
"Be there shortly." Text to Trinity.
"They're in a room called Citrus." I say, looking at the signs as we walk by. "Here, it's right here." I say walking through the set of open doors. It basically looked like an over sized break room. Trin and a few other people were off in a corner occupying a few chairs and a couch, she waved as I walked up.
"Hey girl!" She exclaims.
"I've got to go get ready for my match, you'll watch it right?" Jon whispers. He was talking to me, but his eyes were glued to Stu who was playing with the group.
"Of course I"m going to watch your match." I reply. "Go out there and kick fucking ass." I tell him making him grin.
"That's my fuckin' woman." He laughs giving me a high five. "See you after." He says pressing a couple quick kisses to my lips and heading towards the gorilla.
"What's goin' on?" I ask Trinity sitting down on the couch next to her.
"We're just wasting time. They've got him in dark matches? That means they're looking into taking him to the main roster in the next couple months." She tells me, "That's great." She adds.
"He's super excited." I grin.
"Hello love." Stu grins, sitting down on the arm rest of the couch next to me.
"Hey Stu." I greet him. "Are you wrestling tonight?" I ask him.
"I am darling." He nods. Stu kind of makes it hard to keep a conversation going with his one sided answers. I only nod and focus back on Trinity.
"So are you ready for all of this?" Trinity asks and I give her a confused look. "The traveling, the chaos that is WWE?" She chuckles. "I mean this is nothing, we're on the road nearly all the time. Living from out of hotels. We're on the road anywhere from 200 to 250 days a year." She states.
"I'm sure I won't be with him all the time." I start to tell her.
"Yeah right, he ain't leaving you behind." She chuckles.
"Nor would I." Stu chirps behind us.
"I have to be." I shrug. "I told him in Philly that I'd be there for everything." I tell him. "Until we have kids anyway. Once I stop popping out babies there won't be near as much traveling for me."
"Soon?" She asks.
"No. Not for a few years now." I reply.
"You and Jon will make beautiful, smart, little cocky, arrogant babies." Jon laughs from his seat on the couch. I grin at him and shrug as if to say, 'so?'. "Ridiculous girl." He adds.
"Come on, lets go watch your man wrestle." Trinity says, "We have to go out to the curtains kind of, since it's not a live event." She explains.
"See you later darling." Stu says when we go to leave.
"Bye Stu." I tell him, letting Trin drag me along behind her. We stopped to the side of the entrance, just far enough so the audience couldn't see us but close enough that I could watch Jon. He was facing another FCW guy, Tyler.
"He is really talented." Trinity murmurs when the match begins.
"I've always told him that." I agree with her. Jon never botched a move the whole match and he sold everything perfectly. "He did awesome." I say mostly to myself but Trinity agreed with me.
"He should come right to where we are." She states watching him roll out of the ring. Sure enough a few minutes later he was walking towards us.
"You were awesome!" I exclaim, wrapping my arms around his sweaty neck. He lifts me up a foot or so off the ground and I circle my legs around his waist.
"That's one of the greatest feelings ever." He grins.
"Wrestling or your girlfriend wrapped around your body?" Trinity laughs.
"Well, both." He chuckles.
***...***...***
"Wow... Traveling really takes everything out of me." I sigh falling into our bed once we were back home. "And you're going to have to do that all the time." I mutter.
"Correction. We. We're going to have to do it all the time. You're fuckin' coming with me." He says pointing an accusing finger in my direction.
"So tired." I complain.
"Whiner." He teases me, crawling over me and pulling me against him. "I'm tired too." He finally admits with a shrug. He lets out an annoyed sigh when my phone goes off in my pocket.
"Can you work, right now?" Text from Lisse.
"Can I bring Jon?" Text to Lisse.
"Sure! Kia is ready, UCF has an event 2 till 4 at the union. Go now! Thanks!" Text from Lisse.
"Let's do it then." I sigh to Jon.
"How come I gotta go?" He whines.
"I thought you'd want to spend time with me." I pout.
"Lets go." He agrees. UCF was only a half hour drive from the house so in no time we're there and pretty much set up. This was a school I hadn't been to in a long time, but it was nice to be back.
"I don't know how you do this sweet pea, all these people would annoy the hell out of me." Jon grumbles. He was sitting in a chair next to me, while I was taking pictures.
"You know that when you get into the WWE you're going to have fans all over you, right?" I chuckle. "Alright, 1, 2, 3! Perfect." I tell the little girls in front of the green screen.
"Yeah, but it'll be different." He shrugs.
"Will not." I laugh. "You know these people see me at like walmart and stuff and run up to me like I"m basically famous." I tell him, then think about it more. "You're right, it'll be different." I grin.
"You're so ridiculous." He shakes his head.
"It's only a two hour gig, and we're done in a half hour." I assure him, kissing the top of his head.
"The lady walking this way looks like she knows you." He murmurs, glancing behind me.
"Hey! What are you doing here?" I ask Lissette when she walks up to my area.
"I just got done working at Seminole State, figured I stop in and meet this Jon character I've heard about." She smiles.
"Yeah Lissette thinks you're a made up person because I'm always talking about you, but she's never actually met you." I chuckle. He stands up and shoves his hands in his pockets. "This is Jon." I introduce them. "Jon, Lissette."
"Hey. It's nice to finally meet you." She grins at him.
"The same." He nods.
"Has it been busy?" She asks, glancing at the computer screen.
"It's been steady. Never really had a line but I've had people the whole time." I answer with a shrug.
"So I've got a tour coming up, if you're interested." She starts off. "I could bring Keola, but I'd rather you went with me."
"You're taking my sweet pea?" Jon asks skeptically.
"If you'll let me." She chuckles. "It's from Thursday until the following Friday. We'd go to Atlanta, then to New York and back home." She answers.
"Oh! New York!" I exclaim.
"Jesus, I ain't gonna be able to keep her around now." Jon mutters with a roll of his eyes.
"Can I go?" I ask Jon biting on my bottom lip in an attempt to hold back my grin.
"Of course ya can go sweet pea." He chuckles.
"Thank god! I'd kill myself if I had to take Keola." Lissette states. "We'll have fun, I'll take you to the statue of liberty." She smiles.
"Oh... awesome." I agree. Lisette had this thing, she thought everyone needed to see the statue of liberty and the white house at some point in their lives. She'd already drug me to the white house so the statue of liberty would be next.
"It'll be fun!" She assure me.
"Yes, fun." I nod sarcastically. "You want to tear down that green screen?" I ask Jon glancing at the clock.
"Alright well I'll text you about when we're leaving. I'll probably just come by and pick you up on the way." She says.
"Sounds good. See you later." I say, starting to unplug the cords and stuff on my phone cart.
***...***...***
"You couldn't keep me away from New York either!" Kelly laughs.
"Plus I felt bad, because Keola is just dumb as rocks... We travel really well together, unless it's conference season then we want to kill each other by the end of the month." I shrug.
"Are you worried about Paige?" She questions. "Look, manatee." She murmurs, pointing a few feet away in the water. We got a lot of manatees, gators and dolphins in our part of the river.
"Not really." I answer honestly. "I trust that he wouldn't do anything to betray my trust."
"When I first met him, I would have said he looks like the player type but now that I've been around him for a long time I can't see him doing anything with anyone but you." Kelly says.
"Good." I chuckle.
"Whatcha doin' ladies?" Colby asks, plopping down right between us on the dock. Jon was also making his way up the dock, in a pair of swim shorts and shirtless.
"Talking about girly stuff." Kelly tells him, kissing his cheek.
"A week is a long time sunshine." Jon says. He sits down next to me and I rest my head on his shoulder.
"You can FaceTime me, every day." i assure him
"Multiple times right?" He questions.
"If you want." I grin. "You planning on going for a swim?" I ask him. "There's manatees out there." I say pointing to the large masses. They were grazing a few feet away, we had a big seaweed field that they loved that sat just outside the dock and went for a few miles.
"That'd be a scary sight to see if you were under water and not expecting it." Colby chuckles.
"I've had one of them bump me under water once, totally thought I'd turn around to an alligator." I tell him, "Turns out it was a manatee, thank god." I chuckle. "I've been crept up on by the stinking dolphins too." I add.
"Them fuckin' dolphins are sneaky bastards. Plus if you're not paying attention those fins look like shark fins." Jon mutters.
"Yeah, we bailed out of the water a few days ago because we thought there was a shark out there. Turns out, it was the dolphins." Colby laughs, kicking some of the water up with his feet.
"I love you..." Jon murmurs, his hot breath tickling my ear.
"I love you too." I giggle, rubbing my ear on my shoulder.
"You're gonna miss two of my matches." He grumbles unimpressed.
"I'm sorry." I sigh. "I'll bank off this tour though, maybe we can do something special when I get back?"
"Y'all just went to the keys! I think you've hand plenty of special actives lately." Colby laughs next to us.
"We should save it, put it towards something we really want. What do you really want sweet pea?" He asks tilting his head at me.
"Do you want to go somewhere? We could save and go to like Australia or something." I exclaim.
"Or Paris." He suggests.
"That's a really good idea Jon." I nod, impressed with his way of thinking right now.
"Why thank you... Thank you very much." He grins.
A/N: Next up... New York! :)