The next morning AJ woke up after a night of dreaming about the events with Punk the night before. She smiled to herself and slipped out of the bed, groggily walking towards the shower to wake her up for the day ahead, she had a house show that evening and she wanted to be perfectly awake and ready for her in ring action. After a short shower, she was dressed and bundling herself into the already packed lift heading down towards the hotel's restaurant for breakfast. She walked in and felt the occasionally eye being lifted to acknowledge her presence and merely walked through, finding a table hid behind the wall in the corner, hoping for some privacy.
After ordering pancakes with a variety of different toppings, she sat waiting the imminent arrival of her delicious breakfast. Passing the time on her phone on twitter seemed like a good idea, until she heard a familiar voice.
"Whatcha reading Shorty?" the straight edged superstar asked, tilting her phone down to face him and saw her twitter page and smiled.
"Jesus Punk, you scared me." AJ started, before being interrupted by the arrival of a waiter carrying a plate of thick pancakes piled high on the plate, and a smaller plate full of toppings.
Punk smiled and began to grin, "Pancakes, my favourite."
AJ merely shook her head, "Can we have another plate please?"
"Of course madam, one second." The waiter answered curtly hurrying off to fetch another plate and cutlery for the eagerly anticipating Punk.
"Cheers pal," Punk said as the waiter hurried off as the bell rang, the two piled the toppings onto the pancakes sat in front of them and eagerly dug in, "So, I guess now would be a good time to talk about last night?" Punk queried looking up at AJ's soft brown eyes. AJ looked down and nodded, "Hey look, there's only one thing I regret about last night and that is how far I went, I should have respected you more especially seen as it was our first date, but everything else, I don't regret the slightest, if you'd allow me to take you out every now and then, I'm sure we could have a good time together."
AJ just smiled and nodded, "You know, Kaitlyn gave me some grief about what she walked in on." AJ admitted grinning as she filled Punk in with the story of what happened after he had fled from Kaitlyn.
Punk could tell that AJ couldn't be any less bothered at being caught red handed with Punk. He laughed, "Now why does that not surprise me? Lemme guess what she said, I'm bad, a womaniser, not to be trusted, good for nothing piece of shit that is far below her best friends standards and is obviously not to be trusted, something along those lines, right?" AJ could tell that the further Punk got through this the more badly he thought of himself and began to doubt everything that had happened.
She shook her head, "Totally the opposite at first, well I mean, at first she was pretty peeved at the fact we'd got as far as we did so soon, but she understands, we've been friends for a long time, and deep down, there's always been something that bit deeper than friendship, whether we've been willing to admit it or not. She said as long as I'm happy, then she's happy for us, for both of us,"at this, AJ reached out and took his hand and gently squeezed, "but she did threaten that she'd kick you in the balls, believe me, she's 100% serious." AJ added with a giggle. Punk smirked and began to laugh, assured at AJ's words that maybe this would work out better than the many times before.
"So whatcha up to today then?" Punk asked as he shovelled another mouthful of his favourite delicacy into his mouth.
AJ laughed at the site, especially the chocolate sauce running down his chin that she wiped of his face, Punk appreciatively smiling back. "Not much, I mean I've got my flight out later with everyone, heading to god knows where this time, it kinda all blurs the cities together constantly travelling, know what I mean?" AJ asked, Punk simply nodding back, knowing full well the toll of travelling from state to state every week could have on your body, health and happiness. It all got rather draining after a while; living out a suitcase wasn't always such fun and games as people thought. "I'll probably just go kick back with Kaitlyn, go shopping or something, what are you doing?"
"Media, fun. I mean I love it and everything, but they all seem to ask the same questions, I only really like the fan questions and stuff from Comicon, much more interesting. Hence why I take cookies. I'll be on the flight out anyway, maybe I can catch up with you back at the hotel, completely innocent and I'll take you to dinner or something?" Punk asked hopefully looking AJ straight into the eye, how she could even consider saying no with him looking at her like that.
"Okay Punky, I gotta go and find Kaitlyn, call me later back at the hotel or something?" Punk nodded in answer and she leaned over the table after glancing briefly around and gave him a peck on the lips, leaving him wanting so much more. She quickly hurried away with a huge pink tinge spreading across her cheeks, Punk lifted his hand to his mouth and felt where she had just touched his lips and smiled, it was happening again, he was falling again, and hard.
His media day dragged past, doing several interviews with interviewer's asking him the same god damn questions, why couldn't they be a bit more inventive, go past the realms of his work every now and then. He headed back to the hotel to grab his already packed bags and jumped into a cab heading to the airport. He boarded the plane quickly after passing through the intense security procedures and sat by himself, headphones in, relaxing in the luxurious plane he was booked on. Not many superstars were booked onto flights like this, but he was lucky enough to be one of those select few, and for this he was greatly appreciative of.
About an hour later, some of his fellow wrestler's boarded the plane, most of whom he completely ignored, he was tired and wasn't in the mood to be greeted by co-workers that he didn't particularly care for. There was only one person who would break the foul mood he was in, and he simply couldn't stop his thoughts drifting to her, AJ of course. He knew already that she wasn't on this flight as her flight had took off about an hour ago, and he had been hoping she would potentially be on the same flight as him.
Gradually, the time ticked on to the point of take-off, which greatly annoyed him, all these stupid safety precautions. He inwardly groaned and completely ignored the air hostess's demonstrations and sat looking out the window instead, watching planes coming in to land. Finally, after a gruelling 3 hour flight, he arrived at the airport, and quickly fled the plane upon touchdown. There was only one place he wanted to be, and that happened to be on his date with AJ.
As he was grabbing a cab, AJ had spent the past half hour dozing off snuggled up in her covers in bed trying to catch up on some sleep. She was ridiculously excited for her date that night, and didn't want to sit yawning throughout the entire thing. After a while, she gave up and turned her phone on and sat playing games until she was interrupted by a text, she quickly opened it up to see the sender of the text; Punk.
Her face immediately lit up as she read the text;
'Hey AJ, I've not long landed just getting back to the hotel. Give me your room number and I'll come to you at around 8ish, I've got a table booked somewhere, see you soon Punk x'
She quickly typed back and looked down at her phone, half six, she immediately jumped up and grabbed her showering essentials and turned the water in the shower on, waiting a couple of minutes before jumping eagerly under the hot water. A good twenty minutes later she was wrapped in a towel, her long hair tumbling down her back and she sat brushing through it before she set about the task of drying it. A good twenty minutes later she began searching through her clothes, unsure of what to wear, eventually settling on a pair of jeans, converse, and strappy vest.
Punk meanwhile was sat on the phone to Colt, he guessed he deserved an explanation for what had been going on recently with him and AJ.
"Colt, how you doing buddy?"
"Ahhh, so Mr Lover Boy has decided to pick up the phone and explain why he spent the night in bed with a very special little AJ Lee, but didn't have sex with her? Is the old womanizing Punk I used to know gone, do I now know a Punk that is ready to settle down?" Colt mused laughing down the phone to Punk, who just shook his head and briefly laughed.
"Colt, listen to me, just this once. I'm going to explain everything that's happened between us since I returned."
"Okay I'm listening…"Colt replied eagerly, clearly intrigued as to the explanation.
"So, as you know, I split up with Amy, for all the reasons you already know. But there's one thing I never told you, she accused me of having an affair, with AJ. At first, I thought it was absolutely ridiculous; especially down to the fact that I hadn't actually heard much from her, because I hadn't thought to respond to her. But when I came back, and saw her, I realised just how much I'd missed her, everything about her Colt. I realised that what Amy said wasn't so stupid, I mean I never cheated, but she knew I always had feelings for AJ, slightly stronger than what a normal friendship should be. So I finally found the balls to do something, and while I was explaining to her what happened while I was away injured, I kissed her, and she stopped me from getting too worked up but we spent the night together, no sex though." Punk added quickly, earning a brief chuckle from a highly amused Colt.
"And well, we got on like we used to, and that's the morning you rang up and discovered, and since, well, she was tryna show me a superman comic in her room, sends a pair of pants flying in my direction, next thing, I'm above her lay in bed both incredibly worked up and in comes Kaitlyn, jesus Christ I've never been more relieved not to be in the company of a woman in my life." Punk stated, earning a howl from Colt.
"So-, let mmmee, get thiiss straaighht." Colt began, his voice full of laughter as he managed to splutter out his sentence, "you got walked in on, by her best-friend, and your telling me a few minutes later she'd had walked in on you basically showing AJ why you think you're the best in the world?"
"Shut the fuck up Colt, but yes. And tonight I'm taking her out on a second date." Punk responded nervously.
"Fuck me, Phillip Jerk Brooks for once in his life is dating properly, and not skipping the dating part straight to full blown sex. You are learning young one."
"Colt, I swear-"
"You know, just try not to get into her pants tonight okay?" Colt said, being serious for the first time in the entire phonecall.
"I know."
"One last thing, when you finally do get her into bed, make sure that I am not in the same city, I'm sure the two of you will have plenty of pent up frustrations that just need to be taken out on each other, and you'd best sure as hell give her one hell of a night, more than your usual one round Punk-" Colt added before bursting into another fit of laughter.
"I swear to fucking God Colt…" Punk stated angrily.
"God, I thought you were an atheist, whatever dude, just make sure I'm not in the vicinity when you finally get her, I've heard your girls before, I am incredibly fortunate to have been carrying headphones that night. Oh and Punk, try not to get worked up when she kisses you again." Colt simply said, before hanging up on Punk, who was unsure as to what he had gained out of the conversation when he had been looking for advice.
All he seemed to have received was a fair amount of laughter, and Colt taking the piss, but he knew Colt was happy for him, he'd always told him to settle down. Maybe AJ was the right girl for him to do that with…