It was 11 the next morning until the couple finally began to show signs of awakening from their deep sleep. Punk suddenly jerked awake and slowly rubbed at his groggy eyes, to see the weight of what was pressing down on his chest, AJ. He smiled remembering the events of the night before and looked down at her peaceful face, completely at ease and safe in his arms. He attempted to re-adjust his position in the bed, with his attempts only beginning to wake AJ. She began to squirm and wriggle around, until her soft brown eyes finally opened and took in her surroundings, and especially the warmth radiating against her skin. She looked around and saw Punk's hazel eyes smiling down on her, and she too began to smile, remembering Punk pouring his heart out to her, and finally admitting that he had always felt something for the young wrestler.
"Morning sleepyhead," Punk greeted the groggy AJ with a smile, kissing her on the forehead before settling back down into a more comfortable position. She smiled back and then sat up, finishing the bottle of water that was by her bed, before turning her phone on to see the time. 11:05, she certainly didn't expect to see that it was that late, she was normally up early.
Punk lay there studying AJ as she checked her phone and then began to stroll through the texts she had received from the night before, asking if she had wanted to go out with Kaitlyn and some of her other friends, she groaned at the amount messages and finally text Kaitlyn back.
Hey, sorry I didn't reply last night, was kinda busy; I'll explain everything when I next see you –AJ
After discarding her phone onto the floor, she turned round and faced Punk, lay with one hand behind his head and the other lay above the covers, who simply smiled. He however noticed that her smile wasn't so convincing, and knew immediately something was wrong, before he could get too concerned; he was cut off by AJ.
"Phil, you don't regret last night, do you?" AJ asked quietly, the words spilling out of her mouth before she even had time to think about what she was saying.
Punk held his hand out and caressed her cheek slowly, and turned onto his side to face her. "Not in the slightest, I meant every word I said last night," Punk answered truthfully, deep down begging that she too felt the same way. He rolled over and grabbed his glass of water and quickly drank the contents to soothe his dry throat, before rolling back over to face her, "You don't regret it, do you?" He asked concerned, and was quickly met by a shake of the head and huge smile off AJ.
"I loved every minute of it Punky."
"Good, because so did I."
The couple started goofily smiling at each other, until AJ wormed her way across the bed and landing her head directly on his chest, idly tracing his tattoos with her finger. The two of them were perfectly content staying there, not speaking, simply lying there in each other's company, until Punk's phone began to ring. He groaned, carefully sat up not trying to disturb a comfortable AJ, and gruffly answered his phone, clearly pissed at being interrupted, "What is it?" He asked, not really caring about the answer.
He was not however, expecting to be met with the voice of his long-bestfriend, Colt Cabana.
"Now Captain, is that any way to treat your commander?" Colt asked jokingly. Punk began to chuckle, looked down at AJ and began to stroke her hair.
"Hello to you too Colt. Wassup?" Punk asked his good friend that had stuck by him through thick and thin.
"Nothing really, thought I'd see how my man was doing?" Colt stated laughing mischievously, which caused a cute giggle to erupt from AJ, lay beside Punk.
"How many times have I told you, I'm not your man-"Punk started, but was very quickly cut off by an intrigued Punk.
"Was that a girl I heard then giggling?" Colt demanded, wanting to know the answer, Punk looked down at AJ who had bit her lip and mouthed 'sorry' before scrambling off the bed and retreating to hide in her bathroom. Punk smiled, only to hear another tirade from Colt, "it was wasn't it, you're in bed with a girl." Colt began to laugh down the other end and slowly began to pull himself back to his sense.
"Colt, yeah I'm with someone, before you ask, I did not sleep with her, laugh all you want Colt, I don't particularly care."
As AJ heard his words to his friend over the phone, she began to smile, he wasn't embarrassed to admit that he had spent the night with her, and wasn't embarrassed to admit it. She turned the light off and slowly crept back into the room and smiled at Punk, who immediately grinned back.
"Look Colt, this is a story that I don't particularly care to tell right now, yes I spent a night with a very special somebody, and I shall no doubt answer a full examination of last night from you the next time I see you. So commander, I'm gonna go back to her instead of listening to you laugh hysterically down the phone. See you soon loser." Punk added with a laugh before getting a response from Colt and settled his phone back down onto the table beside him; "Come here AJ" He said holding out his hands to her as she clambered over the bed ready to spend a few more minutes wrapped up in his inked arms.
"You're with AJ? Punk, I had never imagined this happening…"
Punk's phone was still connected to the call with Colt, having accidentally not hung up, with an intrigued Colt still sat listening intensely on the other end.
Punk groaned, "For fuck sake Cabana-"before finally ending the call and turning around to AJ. "So, where were we?" He asked playfully, pulling her to lie on the table beside him, and pulled himself up to meet her lips that tasted so sweet.
She began to giggle and relaxed back into his arms for another half an hour before Punk finally, had to go to find Kofi, they needed to hit the road if they were ever going to make it where they were scheduled for a house show the next evening. After saying goodbye, a long embrace and a quick make-out, he waved one last time from the bottom of the corridor towards AJ, and turned to walk the short flight of stairs to find Kofi's room. After finding his road wife, they trudged back to the bus sat in the car park of the hotel and entered, and set about a game or two on Punk's XBOX.
"Where were you last night dude. We tried calling you and AJ to see if you wanted to head out with us last night but neither of you answered us-"Kofi began curiously, watching his friend out of the corner of his eye.
"Look Kofi-"Punk tried to explain, but got cut off by Kofi.
"I mean, come on, what were you doing that was so important last night to not answer your god damn phone Punk? And I mean it's not like AJ to not answer her phone either…" Kofi stated curiously, looking over at his good friend of years. And that's when he saw it, a pink tinge beginning to crawl over Punk's face, he was blushing. It hit Kofi like a ton of bricks.
"Oh my god." Kofi quickly paused the game to carry on with the interrogation, "You were with her weren't you? Last night, you spent the night in her room, that's why you didn't answer when I went to knock. You slept with her?" Kofi asked, still not believing the conclusion he came to.
Punk simply swung his feet off the sofa and placed them on the floor and sat up and looked Kofi straight in the eyes, "Yeah, I spent the night in her room, but I didn't sleep with her." Punk started before sighing deeply, "The truth is, I like that girl a lot, there's something about her, she isn't like any of those other airhead diva's, she's quirky I guess, and I love that about her. And well, I've liked the girl ever since the storyline we did together, I just never realised it before. And when I came back yesterday and saw her, it hit me, and I realised that Amy was right, I did secretly like her, and now, well, it aint so much a secret." Punk admitted looking straight into the Ghanaian superstar's eyes, "I really care about her Kof."
Kofi began to smile and slapped his friend on the back and grinned, "You treat her right, change your god damn stubborn ways and keep that girl." He stated simply, and rested back to continue to play on the XBOX, secretly overjoyed at the fact his pal and his small friend had eventually hooked up. For the rest of the journey, Punk and Kofi gamed, breaking it up with the occasional rest stop before watching some films, Kofi also noticed how Punk seemed more relaxed and open than of recent, and saw the little smile that crept onto his face every time he answered a text.
AJ meanwhile, was absolutely over the moon, she'd never really had much luck with guys before, but this all seemed to be beginning the change, and she couldn't had been much happier. She showered and changed before heading out to grab some breakfast, but it was more lunch time by the time she finally left the room and arrived at a nearby café. Every now and then, she'd receive a reply from Punk, and she too found herself smiling as she read his texts back.
After finally finishing his house show, Punk and Kofi were heading to the airport to catch a flight back home, Punk's flight to Chicago was called first, and he briefly bade Kofi goodbye before boarding the plane for the short flight home. AJ too was due to head home that evening, back to her beloved New Jersey. After a brief 2 days at their respective homes, constantly texting each other with the occasional evening phone call, they both headed towards the Arena for Raw in Tampa, Florida.
Punk sauntered into Raw a couple of hours before the show started, it was still reasonably early and not many other wrestlers had arrived yet. AJ was sat in catering on her on, sat with her headphones in and sat with her eyes closed and relaxed back against the seat in the corner. The music was calming until she was suddenly disturbed when her headphones were pulled out of her ears. She immediately jumped up in response to see a grinning CM Punk stood in front of her, which almost instantly made her smile.
"What you doing sat here by yourself?" Punk asked curiously.
"Though I'd try to chill out a bit, besides, there are not many people I particularly like here." AJ admitted looking round to see mostly the technical crew grabbing a quick bite to eat before the show started.
Punk sat in a chair and began grinning as he thought to himself, "but you like me right?" He asked playfully, poking AJ's arm from the other side of the table. AJ simply started laughing and hid her face with her hand, "someone getting shy?" he asked again, and then burst out laughing himself, he loved winding the feisty woman up.
For the next half an hour, the two chatted away and Punk almost kept AJ in tears the entire time, she couldn't handle it any more when he did an impression of Mark Henry attempting to run. "Punk seriously stop, my sides hurt too much." AJ groaned as tears slid down her cheeks, holding her ribs to try and ease the pain of the constant laughter. Punk sat back satisfied with what he'd accomplished, and began to think how cute her laugh was, and how beautiful she also was.
"So, AJ, when you going to let me take your cute self out again?" Punk pondered, putting the question out there, only to be met by a huge smile on AJ's face and a quick nod, "Now, I've gotta idea for where I want to take you, you're at Smackdown tomorrow right? Stopping at the same hotel as everyone?" Punk asked a recovering AJ, where she sat looking at him and smiled before briefly nodding, only to bite her lip to stop herself grinning like an idiot.
"So you're asking me out tomorrow, is this what you're saying Punky?" AJ queried, knowing full well the answer. Punk slowly nodded his head and leant back, running his hand over his beard.
"Yeah, it is. What do you say, I'll let you travel with your friends to the hotel tonight, and then tomorrow morning I'll come pick you up and take you out, and then drive us both to Smackdown's arena? How does that sound?"
"That sounds brilliant." AJ admitted truthfully, over the moon that Punk was wanting to take her out on a date.
Punk stood up and held his hand out to her, helping her up off the seat, he began to lead her through the corridors, where they passed unseen, not that either of them cared particularly, and Punk lead her straight in front of his locker room door. He opened it, kicked his bags aside, and turned the light on, ushering a nervous AJ in. He smiled and walked over to her, her feet scuffing the floor and her head down looking at her shoes, Punk put two fingers below her chin and carefully brought her face up to meet his, brushing the escaping strands of hair back behind her ear. He moved his hands gently down to her hips and wrapped them around her back, pulling her body against his, and leant in to gently placing his lips upon hers.
AJ could feel the cold of his lip ring brushing against her lips; she loved the feeling of it. Punk gradually began to nibble at her lower lip; he's such a good kisser AJ thought to herself, before opening her mouth and allowing Punk entrance. The two stood exploring each other's mouths in a passionate lip lock. Gradually, the need for oxygen became severe and both pulled back, Punk using his height to lean over AJ and rest his forehead against hers, gently stroking her face with his hand, with his thumb occasionally brushing against her sweet lips.
The two spent as long as possible in each other's company until they had to prepare themselves for the show tonight, only briefly seeing each other as AJ walked past Punk in the corridor, who had just finished warming up. "Go give em' hell girl" He whispered with a wink as she walked past, brushing his hands over her hand and giving it a quick squeeze, she smiled and nodded, waited for her music to hit, before skipping out and putting on a brilliant performance against Natalya, earning herself the win.
As she walked back up behind the curtain, she saw a Punk stretching in the corner, his headphones in, getting himself pumped for his match that was coming up shortly. He turned round and saw the petite Diva walking towards him and smiled, instantly pulling his headphones out and smiling, "You were brilliant out there beautiful." He grinned; she seemed shocked that he had watched her match.
"You-, you watched?" AJ asked, and with a swift nod of the head she began to smile, "Good luck out there, I'm heading back to the hotel soon, text me later okay?"
"Of course," Punk laughed, with a technician signalling he was up, "looks like I'm up, see you tomorrow, for our date AJ." He whispered the last part, smiled down at her before quickly pressing his lips to her forward, winking, and running out the front of the curtain, to the front of the crowd.
As ever, Punk put on a brilliant show, and AJ simply could not wait until the next morning.