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"This is terrible" Maryse complained as she let her body slump over the couch where her friend Nikki and her boyfriend Doplh, Nick or whatever he was called were making out.
Letting out a sigh that gave away all the suffering and the internal turmoil that has been eating her whole, the blonde closed her eyes and rested the back of her head against Nick's shoulder, her hand traveling all the way up to her forehead in an over-exaggerated manner.
"Aww what is it sweetie?" Nikki asked in concern while her boyfriend uttered a grunt, probably annoyed by the interruption.
Maryse didn't mind that, she had issues and she needed her friend.
"This is the worst thing ever, I'm so miserable and I don't know what to do" She admitted out loud for the first time ever because this thing had been in her mind for a while now and she couldn't deal with it anymore.
Talking about it was her last resort, she had tried everything in the book to push it off her mind; she went into a shopping craze, she got pampered at the spa, she did her hair, her nails and she worked out harder than ever at the gym; but everything she tried was in vain…
Now it was time to ask the advice of her friends, and since she couldn't find Brie and she could not say this to Nattie she went to Nikki.
"Oh my God don't tell me there was a fire at your condo and your entire closet got ruined!" Nikki gasped in horror as Nick snickered somewhere behind her. "Oh shut up, that's the worst thing I could imagine ever happening"
"Is not that…" Maryse considered for a moment. "That would be pretty bad though… but no, this is worse than that Nikki"
"Oh my God you are worrying me, what is it?"
Maryse brought her feet off the ground and put them on the couch, still resting against her girlfriend's man. She opened her eyes and stared off to the distance; she still wasn't sure if confessing in the lobby of the hotel was the wisest thing to do but she needed to let it out her chest now and the lobby was where her friend, one of her best friends in the whole world happened to be.
"I think I kind of like a guy" She covered both her eyes with her hands because saying that out loud kind of made it all real, it was no longer a ridiculous thought in her mind but something real that she had to deal with.
This time, after that confession Nick laughed out loud. "Common Maryse, that's hardly the worst thing ever… in fact, I think that's great because if you have a man of your own you will stop interrupting me and Nikki"
"Shut up" Nikki said before changing her attention back to the French Canadian. "Honey, liking a guy is not that bad… at all"
"I know, but it is awful when that guy doesn't want you"
"Ohhh" Nick laughed and Maryse whimpered dramatically.
"That's ridiculous, like what man wouldn't want you? You are hot, smart and sexy, every man's dream… well, all but Nick's, he's all mine" Nikki said before kissing Nick.
Maryse shrugged and removed her hands off her face.
"I know! But this guy… he doesn't want me and he thinks I'm ugly and stupid and…" Maryse sighed, Phil hasn't exactly called her those things but who cared? The fact was that he didn't want her and ever since that day at the beach he hasn't even given her a glance; not even on the numerous times they had run into each other at the arena or the hotel.
At first she thought it was the best thing but then time started to pass by and the more she saw him around the more difficult it became for her to ban him from her thoughts… and then that morning, as she went through the pains of waking up a revelation hit her; she liked him… well, kind of… the truth was that she wasn't sure what it was.
But there was something…
"Maybe he is gay…"
Maryse pouted, her thoughts going back to those stolen kisses, to those brief touches… No, she shook her head. "I don't think he is gay… what he is is blind and crazy, I mean look at me!"
She still couldn't conceive how a man like him could let the opportunity of being with a woman like her slip away… he was never going to get something better that the sexiest of sexy.
"So this guy, does he knows you like him? Because if he knew about it I'm sure that he would be wrapped around your finger by now, there is no one who can resist you"
"So tell him and be done with it" Nick added as an after thought
Maryse snorted. "Of course not, it's not like I want to be with him… I just want him to like me"
"Now, that's… a wicked woman" Nick said.
"No, he is the wicked one; he is very mean and treats me very badly… I think he wants to drive me crazy"
"Aww there must be something very wrong with him"
"Look, I'm a man and I'm going to give you important information that will help you for the rest of your days. There is nothing, and I mean nothing that a man likes better than a hot woman who is trying to seduce him… so I say you should use that sex appeal of yours, show him you are interested, be bold!"
Maryse rolled her eyes, that was information that she already knew, but she didn't think it was going to work with Phil… after all he had already got a taste of her and he didn't liked it.
She was about to say so when she spotted the man that had been tormenting her thoughts for the past days. He was walking out of the elevator with his little girlfriend in tow and they were both coming their way… after all she and her friends were seated near the only way out of the hotel.
"You could also…" Nick started to say but Maryse interrupted him.
"Shut up" She mumbled while finding a sudden interest in her recently done nails.
"Oh I get it" Nikki said and after a long pause she went on. "He's is kind of hot"
"Hello, remember me? Nick… your boyfriend"
"And he was definitely checking you out"
"Was he really?" Maryse asked turning around to face her friend; she also took the opportunity to watch him leave, but when she tried to search for him he was already out of sight.
"Totally, he was looking at you and how could he not like what he saw? You look great today"
"Wait a minute, I got lost here for a minute. They guy you like is Phil?" Nick burst out laughing and for the longest time Maryse just watched him.
"What?" She snapped after a while. She knew that Phil wasn't the most attractive guy she had ever known, but he definitely had an appeal… and he knew how to kiss.
Yes, that he did great…
"Nothing… look, just forget everything I told you before about seducing him, it's not going to work with that one and frankly, I don't think you will get his attention they way you are used to… so my dear friend, good luck with that one"
Maryse pouted, she hated this, never in her life she had dealt with rejection and she didn't know how to do it.
Nikki moved closer to her. "Don't listen to him, like I told you, there is no one who could resist you, we'll come with a plan. In the meanwhile I say we should go shopping and then have some cocktails at the beach, after all this is our last night here"
Maryse nodded, shopping always lifted her spirits… and having a few cocktails sounded like the best idea ever.
As for Phil, she should forget about him, there were like a million men all over the world who would give anything to be with her… she could also get hottest guys, guys who will really appreciate the greatness that she was.
So yes, no more Phil in her mind and let there be shopping…
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Maryse laughed, throwing her head back the tiniest bit as the man sitting at her side watched expectantly. She liked Mike, he was the funniest guy ever when he was drunk… and at that moment he was way too drunk.
But she didn't like him like he wanted her to like him, he was cute and funny but that was it.
Looking back at him she swirled her finger in front of his face and signaled him that it was time for him to find another chair, he had been occupying hers for too long now.
"But Maryse…" He whined and she lifted an eyebrow. "Ok… just one kiss so I can leave a happy man" He patted a finger to his check and Maryse kissed the spot, a small treat for being her entertainment during the night. "And another one" He turned so she could kiss his other cheek and she did too.
"Au revoir" Maryse said and he took that as his cue to leave, so he stood up and stumbled away. She laughed, her eyes following him as he disappeared into the night.
"I'm never going to drink again"
Maryse turned around and looked at Brie, she was laying on her beach chair and looking way too miserable; Maryse couldn't help but to laugh because, well, because she had a few drinks of her own and even when she wasn't as far gone as the rest of the people around her she was already in what she called a happy mood.
"Yeah, yeah… I think I've heard that too many times now" Nikki said breaking away from Nick for a short moment before kissing him again.
Maryse saw them and rolled her eyes. "You two get a room already… anyway" She turned her attention back to Brie. "That's what you always say mamacita…" She flipped at her hair while she knelt on her chair. "Just let me tell you a little something, this time I'll take pictures if you fall asleep hugging the toilet, be sexy" She made a motion with her hands, much as she did in the ring when performing and then laughed.
"Wow! Why do I feel the need of looking at those pictures?"
Maryse recognized the voice as Natalya's so she smiled and turned around to look at her; whoever, when she saw that she was accompanied by Phil she made a grimace and rolled her eyes.
"Anyway, girls, Dolph, Zack and Matt… is he awake?" Natalya asked taking a closer look to the oldest Hardy, who happened to be passed out in a chair nearby. "Anyway, Phil and I just wanted to come by and say that…"
"You all look like shit"
"Well, that wasn't exactly what I was going to say but… yeah, you look pretty bad" The blonde Canadian laughed and Maryse saw as Zack threw something their way, it missed.
"Shut up Nattie, we look great, we always do" Zack said and Brie chuckled; Maryse for her part flipped at her hair once again and sat down.
She pouted and looked away, her fun has ended and she wanted them to leave… well, at least Phil.
"Yeah you look pretty… pretty wasted; and that's one of the reasons why Phil and I don't drink"
"Yeah you don't drink but I saw T.J. getting pretty wasted earlier on so what about that?"
"And that's the reason why I'm keeping him locked in our room" Nattie said and laughed again. "Nah seriously guys, it's three a.m. in the morning and you are still out here?"
"You are all losing your very much needed beauty sleep" Phil said and Maryse wrinkled her nose, she wasn't looking but somehow she thought that was directed to her.
"Nonsense, you guys should totally join us; since this is our last night here we are waiting for dawn, it will be pretty" Nikki said climbing out of her boyfriend's lap and walking towards Phil and Natalya. She got between the two and linking her arms with theirs she walked them towards one empty chair, the one besides Maryse. "Sit, join us and be merry"
They both did and Maryse sent Nikki a deadly glare that the black haired completely ignored, she didn't want her friend to blurt out what she had confessed a few hours ago.
"So Phil…" Nick said and when the raven haired man turned his attention to him Maryse buried her face into her hands; she knew she shouldn't have said anything.
"What is it Maryse? Natty asked moving to her chair. "Oh please don't tell me you are going to throw up because if you are I'm going back to the other chair"
Maryse shook her head and ventured a glance towards Phil and Dolph, the blonde man was talking and Phil was listening. Not good… "Yes, I don't feel so well… I think I'm going to leave" She stood up from the chair, looking around for her shoes.
"Do you need someone to walk you to your room?" Her fellow Canadian asked and Maryse shook her head.
"No"
"Yes you do" Nikki said and Maryse gave her another one of her icy cold glares.
"I'll go with you" Natalya volunteered and then she began to stand up.
"No you won't… I need to talk to you; oh my God it's like we haven't talk in forever and a catch up is very needed"
"Why are you guys acting so funny?" Brie asked and Zack shrugged.
Nikki ignored her sister and turned to Phil, grabbing his hands in hers. "Oh please Phil accompany her, I would feel awful if something happens to her…"
"Oh my God I can't believe this" Maryse said turning around and starting to make her way back to the hotel. She wasn't as drunk as one needed to be to bear so much embarrassment.
She should have told Brie instead… no, she should have told no one! She had let out her dirty little secret and now they would tell Phil and if his thoughts on her were bad now they were going to be worse.
Good thing they would be leaving soon, the less she saw of him the sooner she would get over that ridiculous phase she was in… besides, whatever it was she was feeling was provoked by the fact that he was deliberately ignoring her.
She pressed the button on the elevator and waited, and while she waited she felt someone stand behind her and because it was three in the morning and she didn't think people roamed the lobby at that hour she turned around to see who it was.
And damn that Nikki. She turned her back on him and opened her eyes wide.
"Your friends back there were giving me hell to walk you to your room"
"I think I'll have no problem finding my room, thank you" She said with a false smile and then rolled her eyes.
But when the elevator's doors opened he stepped inside with her. "Maybe I wasn't clear enough; I don't need you to accompany me"
"Relax, I'm not going to kiss you if that's what's making you so nervous" He said with a smile as the doors closed.
"Don't be ridiculous, you don't make me nervous" She turned and faced the door, standing as close as she could to them so that when they would open she could step out and be gone. She just hoped this elevator wouldn't break too…
"If you say so"
She ignored him, even in her clouded mind she knew that would be the best course of action to take. So as the elevator reached her floor she just adjusted her clothes and waited.
Fortunately, this elevator was in perfect condition and she reached her floor without any inconvenience… well, she had an inconvenience and that inconvenience followed her out the elevator and all the way to her door.
Still ignoring him, she opened the door and walked in, but when she was about to close the door in his face he intervened and made his way in, closing the door behind him.
"What do you think you are doing?" She asked as he walked pass her and into the room, looking for something and she wasn't quite sure what it was.
"Just what your girlfriend asked me to do"
Maryse crossed her arms up to her chest and sighed, watching him do his thing through all her room. "Ok, whatever she asked you to do stop it" She opened the door and waited for him to take the hint and walk out. "Tell her you did it and she'll believe you"
He looked at her and with a smile as he walked to the door, but when she thought he was finally getting out he closed the door and stayed in. "I don't like to lie"
Maryse blinked up at him, but before she could respond he walked back and sat on Brie's bed, taking the remote control in his hand and turning on the T.V.
"What are you doing?" She asked walking indignantly to him. When he didn't respond she tried to push him off the bed, she wanted him out.
"Hey! I know you can't resist getting your hands on me but be gentle… I'm only doing a favor"
Maryse stopped pushing him and stared at him for a while with her mouth wide open. She might have a few drinks on her but she saw it as clear as day… at least in her mind it was.
She squinted at him. "Nikki didn't ask you for anything"
"Of course she did. What? You think I'm here just to enjoy your lovely company?" He snorted and began changing channels with the remote until Maryse yanked it off his hand.
She smirked and flipped at her hair. "Of course, who wouldn't want my company?"
Phil looked at her, raised an eyebrow but said nothing.
"And I think you want it more than anyone in this hotel… well, taking away Mike"
Yes, she saw it now… he talked his talk about not liking her in the slightest but why would a guy that claimed not to like her would kiss her a couple of times? There was that and now the fact that he was in her hotel room and refusing to go.
He must have it pretty bad.
"Sure, that must be it" He took the control from her hand and continued flipping through channels.
She smiled, content, because getting a man that wanted her was way easier that getting one that didn't. So with that in mind and with some alcohol dictating her actions, she climbed on top of the bed and straddled him.
That took him by surprise because he rapidly changed her attention to her, his eyes questioning hers.
"You know…" She pouted, running her hands up to his chest. "You are not very nice"
"Well, I've never claimed to be a nice guy, now come on, get off"
She bit down a smile, her hands sliding down to his and bringing them up her thighs. He became unusually quiet as his hands, guided by hers went slowly down her dress and to her waist. "Now who's the nervous one?"
He looked up to her and tilted his head to the side. "Now tell me, does this work with all the guys you bring up here?"
Maryse quirked her lips and wriggled her weight against him, searching and finding for a very interesting and very awake part of him that she hadn't meet before.
"It works with you" Pressing her body even more into his she moved her face forward, her only intention kissing him, but then he moved his face away and she had to lift her hands up to his face to make him face her.
He did, his eyes on hers while her fingers buried themselves into his hair. She leaned into him once more but he again moved away, this time back and without breaking eye contact with her.
That frustrated her, why wouldn't he kiss her? He certainly liked this because she could feel him awake, alert and pushing against her own groin… or what if he had been saying the truth and he didn't like her?
What made it worst, his body wanted her but because he disliked her so much he wasn't going to do anything about it.
She got off of him and lay on the bed, taking a pillow and covering her face with it; she was not one to feel ashamed of her actions because everything she did she mean it, but in that moment she couldn't help but to feel the awkwardness of the situation. "Why are you doing this to me?"
"I'm not doing anything to you" He said and she almost laughed at that.
That was it, he wasn't doing anything and that was her complain. She took the pillow of her face and looked at him. "I don't understand" She confessed.
He shrugged. "I don't like drunk women and I certainly don't like kissing them"
She snorted because she was not drunk, maybe a bit tipsy but nothing grave. "You don't like drunk woman, you don't like me… I think I get it" She took the pillow and covered her face once again. "Would you please leave now?"
He took the pillow out of her face and just when he was about to speak the door busted open and in came Brie, rushing into the bathroom while Zack stayed behind.
"Sorry, she wasn't feeling so good"
Phil got off the bed. "Well, you can tell Nikki I did as she told me so now I'm off" With that and without taking a look back he walked away.
Maryse grunted and threw the pillow away. This was the worst day ever, she hated it. She sat up and looked at Zack, who was standing at the door and looking at her.
"Zacky… do you think I'm good looking?" She asked even though she knew the answer, but she needed to hear it from someone else because at that moment she felt at her lowest.
"Hell yeah, you know it"
Somehow that didn't make her feel better so she went back to covering her face from the world. Thankfully in a few hours she was going to be on her way home and Phil was going to fade away from her mind… and that's the only thing she knew.
TBC…