We're now in NYC, Mike has another media day promoting Tribute To The Troops airing this Saturday on NBC and of course showing everyone that he's WWE Champion. We're all sleeping, except for him. He has an interview early this morning with Fox and Friends on the NYC Fox News. He wakes up real early, getting out of bed carefully trying not to wake Aly. But little did he know, she was already up.
"What are you up so early for?" She asks, turning to look at him.
"I have an interview, what are you doing awake?" He asks.
"...nightmares..." She murmurs quietly.
"Again?" He asks, concerned.
"Off and on all night." She nods.
He comes over and sits on the edge of the bed near her.
"They're only nightmares, nothing in those nightmares can happen. You're perfectly safe here."
"I know, but I just can't help it." She sighs.
"I know. But just remember, I'll never let anything bad happen to you. I love you too much."
"I love you too." She smiles softly up at him, still laying flat against the pillows.
"Should I be getting up and changed too?" She asks.
"No, you should stay here and get some rest." He shakes his head, running his fingers
through her hair and she sighs.
"You can watch me on tv though. If that'll make you feel better." He adds.
"We'll see. I might fall back asleep." She says as he eyes start to droop because of what
he's doing.
"Here, I'll set it up to record just in case." He says, grabbing the remote with his other hand and turning the tv on and setting up the thing to record.
"Mmkay." She mumbles sleepily.
"If you need anything, you have Carly and Alex right in the other room." He says, getting up and going to get something to change into.
"I know. John's down the hall too."
"Exactly. So you have people to go to, say if you have another nightmare. Just be careful if
you walk down the hall alright?"
She nods, yawning. He heads into the bathroom to get ready, and she drifts off to sleep again. After changing he comes out and sees her sleeping. He kisses her quickly before putting on his jacket and bundling up for the bitter temperatures outside. He heads out and goes to the news station for the quick interview. Aly wakes up a long time later and couldn't go back to sleep, and sees that the news is over. She decides to lay there and watch the interview that he set up to record in case she missed it.
"He's wrestled his way from MTV reality star, to WWE Champion..you're looking at the footage now. Just last month, Mike 'The Miz' Mizanin finished off Randy Orton with his finishing move the Skull Crushing Finale to win the WWE Championship. And let the partying begin. He has now teamed up with other stars for the upcoming tv special the WWE Tribute To The Troops. Good morning to The Miz."
"Good morning. It is good to be here. It's time to wake up!"
"No it's not." Aly mutters as she props herself up with pillows.
"You know what, I am up. Now I'm really up. You don't need the 5 hour energy, you probaby beat...you don't even need..."
"Right? It's 6:30 in the morning. What better way to celebrate than be here on Fox and Friends."
"It's not 6:30 anymore but whatever."
"And you know what, you're pumped up because this has always been your dream. You even get emotional when you think about the fact that The Rock wore that belt. That Hulk Hogan wore that belt."
"Well I don't like to call it a belt, because you can buy a belt at Target. I call this a title, because I've won this."
"Only you." Aly snickers.
"Right."
"So yeah, it's absolutely incredible. I mean, I'm from a reality show The Real World: Back To New York. And just to pave my way, ten years ago I was on reality shows having my own fake belt. A costume belt, that I've worked my way up in the WWE and now I'm holding the real thing. The real prestigious title."
"You gave me that in the break and Dana was reading the new story that I was supposed to read. Thanks Dana. And all of a sudden...it weighs about 40 pounds."
"Yeah, it's heavy like...it looks easy right now but my arm's going like this." Mike says tilting to the side.
"The titles aren't light, that's for sure."
"But you know you're all pumped up for this I predict...my humble opinion. You're going to be a huge star like the Hulk Hogans..."
"I already am a huge star but I'm going to be an even bigger star."
"Now tell me about the Tribute To The Troops over at Fort Hood."
"Tribute To The Troops is our 8th annual celebration. It's our 8th annual celebration where we're kind of continuing where Bob Hope left off. And we basically go out to Fort Hood this year, usually we go out to Iraq or Afghanistan but this year we wanted to get...we wanted to reach the most military personel we possibly could. And this year we reached 50,000 soldiers, families and friends." Mike explains and Aly watches the video footage they show on the side of the screen.
One clip showing Mike with a little kid, and he's taking a picture with him and he has a kids toy belt and he makes the growly face and everything.
"Awww." Aly giggles.
"And not to mention we brought celebrities out this year. We brought Diddy Dirty Money,
Trace Adkins performed. I mean what kind of card can give you WWE Superstars, Trace Adkins and Dirty Diddy Money as well as Cedric The Entertainer. Uh Sherri Sheperd from The View came out as well as Ariel Winter from Modern Family sing the National Anthem. A twelve year old girl. It was incredible."
Aly nods.
"And the one guy I know who could...who's been a guest on the show like you. That could actually possibly take you...Trace Adkins."
"The guy's like 6'8'', he reminds me of The Undertaker to be honest. He's got a deep voice, the dude's scary. But let's face it, I'm the WWE Champion so Trace Adkins doesn't want any of this."
Aly laughs.
"Right and you are a heel. You are a villian."
"People think I'm a bad...I'm not a bad guy. But people think I'm a bad guy because I beat up people's heroes. But the thing is, someone's coming after your title, you're going to beat them up. I'm sorry."
"True that." Aly agrees.
"And people take it the wrong way when you defeat their hero."
"I know. It's like oh don't be mean, don't be...but the thing is I'm not a mean guy. I'm just the WWE Champion. I got a target on my back, I've got to protect myself."
"Right and you are very confident in your ability to retain that belt."
"I mean I'm not one to brag about it but, I am the best in the WWE. And in the world."
"You aren't mean, you are a ginormous teddy bear." Aly says to the tv.
"And you are one to brag about it. Hey uh Mike, best of luck."
"Thank you so much."
"Thanks a lot for making us your first stop this morning. We hope to see you again and again and again. Let's go outside, let's see it's Christmas right?"
"Tribute To The Troops man, it's Christmas."
"And we're going to be watching your show. That'll be this Saturday. It's going to air December 18th at 9 o'clock."
The news heads outside and that's where Aly stops the recording. She switches over to the regular tv broadcasting and then slides out of bed to get dressed, somewhat at least. She was too busy getting dressed, so she didn't hear the door to the room open and close. Aly comes out and jumps.
"You scared me." She sighs.
"Sorry. Just got back."
"Nice interview." She says, flopping onto the bed.
"Thank you. In a few hours or so, I got to go to Jimmy Fallon to tape tonight's show. Busy day."
"Didn't you say something about a basketball game?"
"Yeah, that's tonight."
"Would you let me go with you to Jimmy Fallon? I'll pass on the basketball but I'd like to go with you to Jimmy Fallon at least." She asks.
"I don't know, how're you feeling?"
"I feel fine. They said to take it easy, not to be like an invalid." She says, pouting.
"Alright, you can come with me. You want to stay backstage and watch or come out with me?
I think I'm coming out of that trap door he has, but we could always have you walk out from backstage. Your choice." He explains, she smiles and gives him a small kiss.
"We can see what they say I guess." She shrugs.
"When we do leave to go do that, be sure to bundle up. It's bitter cold out there. I don't like it. Not a big fan of this weather."
"I hate winter weather." She grumbles, shivering at the thought of going outside.
"At least we don't see that evil white stuff." He points out.
"True."
"Plus the winter weather gives us an excuse for this..." He says, sitting down on the bed and then pulling her over to him.
She squeals a little and giggles.
"Not shivering at the thought of the cold air now are you?" He smirks.
"You think you're so smooth don't you." Aly laughs.
"Yes in fact I do."
"Right..." She trails off, giggling.
"But you can't deny that you like this." He says, pulling her even closer.
"I never denied that."
"Because you love it so much."
"I love YOU. This stuff is just a bonus."
"Well I do whatever I can to make sure you're happy." He smiles and she does too.
"You do." She briefly kisses him.
"Now what do you want to do for the few hours or so until Jimmy Fallon?" He asks, after they pull away.
"Hmm...I don't know. Laying in bed is boring."
"And it's a bit too cold to go walking around. Unless you can deal with it." He adds.
"I'm not going out there until we have to. Me and cold don't mix." She wrinkles her nose.
"Hmm, walk around the hotel then? See what's around?"
"Sure." She agrees and gets up to put on her shoes and white breast cancer ribbon NorthFace jacket.
He gets up too, and then they walk out of the room and just wander around. Meanwhile, I'm half alseep and half awake. I feel cold air just rush over my and I instantly crawl back under the covers.
"Cold." I mumble and Alex pulls me back over to him.
"There, no more cold." He says.
"How you stay so warm is beyond me." I comment, burrowing into his side.
"I'm just hot like that." He chuckles and I snicker.
"Tis true." I agree and he smirks triumphantly.
"I hate winter weather. Too cold."
"Yeah." He agrees.
"But hey, it kind of gives us an excuse for this...and for not wanting to get up at all. Which is what I vote for, I don't want to get up today."
"Sounds good to me." Alex grins.
"We don't have anything to do today by chance do we?" I ask.
"Nope. It's all Mike today."
"Good. Which means, alone time all day."
Alex's grin gets bigger and he turns on his side, burying his face in my neck, laying kisses against my skin.
"I really like alone time."
"I can tell." I say, and he chuckles.
"You are becoming very...distracing right now."
"Good."
"Someone's being Mr. Affectionate this morning." I laugh.
"I'm taking advantage of the lack of interruptions." He shrugs.
"And if you keep doing what you're doing, I may go crazy. Like I said, very distracting right now."
He smirks and keeps doing it. I didn't think that I would be able to do what I was about to do. But I went for it anyway. I got the strength to roll over, so that I was laying on him now, resulting in him stopping.
"Oh look, I made you stop."
"And what are you going to do?" He asks curiously.
"Hmmm, I don't know. What could I possibly do?" I say, pretending to think.
He chuckles a little and watches me.
"Maybe this." I say, kissing him once quickly.
He pulls me back down into another kiss, this one longer. I go to move slightly but he holds me there.
"You're not going anywhere." He mumbles.
"Clingy." I tease.
"You love it." He says back.
"Maaaaybe."
Then I hear my phone ringing.
"Ugh, not now." I mumble.
"Hey Car." John laughs once I pick up.
"Hey John. What's up?" I ask.
"Not much. What're you doing in there, I can hear you." He teases.
"What are you talking about?
"I'm in the hall. I stopped at your door because I was hearing something going on in there."
"Its really not your business but it isn't anything dirty if that's what you were thinking." You reply, laughing a little.
"We're simply taking advantage of our alone time." I add.
"Alone time?"
"Alex and I get the day to ourselves because Mike's the one that's busy today."
"And Boo?"
"She's fine. She's probably with Mike or something. He wont let her out of his sight
anymore."
"I can't say I blame him."
"Me neither. But John word of advice...eavesdropping can get you in trouble." I joke.
He laughs.
"Can I get back to my alone time? This one next to me is all antsy because he wants to take advantage of the lack of interruptions right now."
"Alright, I'll talk to you later then." He laughs harder.
"Bye." I say hanging up and putting my phone away.
"Mine now." Alex nuzzles his face against my neck.
"For the whole day." I add.
"Very good." He smirks.
Meanwhile, Aly and Mike are just wandering around until the get bored of that.
"Bored." Aly sighs.
"Well there's not much to do in the hotel. Unless you want to go swimming or something. Or find a game room or whatever."
"Swimming sounds nice, so does games...your choice." She says after a pause.
"Hmmm, games first then swimming."
"Okay." She agrees as he leads her to the game room.
First they play games individually, then play together.
"I'm so going to beat you." He teases.
"Nu-uh!" She retorts.
"Uh huh, we'll see about that."
"We'll see about that." She mimics, giggling.
"Bring it on." He chuckles.
"And what happens if I win hmm?"
"Well that's for you to decide. I'll think of something for if I win."
"Alright, let's do this then." She gives him a sly smirk.
They start playing and they kept going back and forth between who was winning. It was coming to a close call in the end, but he was wrong and she won.
"Now what?" She smirks.
"Well you won, what happens now?" He asks.
She walks up to him, draping her arms over his shoulders.
"Hm...I don't know..." She trails off teasingly.
"You got to tell me." He says.
She giggles faintly and sings the chorus of 'PDA' quietly in his ear. He knows what she's talking about, but instead of her kissing him, he just ends up kissing her himself after smirking. She giggles as he pulls away.
"How about swimming now?" She suggests.
"Let's go." Mike agrees pulling her eagerly.
"Someone's eager." Aly laughs.
"Mike, slow down!" She says through her giggles as he pulls her out of the elevator once it stops on our floor.
He slows down once they get to the door.
"Now you slow down haha."
"I'm going to go change, you should see if Dolce and DC want to come." She adds, moving
towards her things after stepping in the room.
"Remember to knock first though."
He nods and knocks once she disappears into the bathroom. He doesn't hear an answer so he swings the door open a little.
"Not again!" He exclaims, clapping a hand over his eyes.
"Sorry Mike, we uh...didn't hear the knock." I say, pulling away from Alex.
"I saw that." He mumbles.
"Anyway, what's up?"
"Lys wanted me to ask if you guys wanted to come swimming."
"Oh, uh I don't know. Alex is pretty keen on keeping this alone time with the lack of interruptions...which there have been 2 now."
"Who was the other one?"
"John. He uh...was walking by the room and uh he heard things."
Mike raises an eyebrow and chuckles.
"It's not what you're thinking Mike."
"I didn't say a word." He holds his hands up defensively.
"But you were thinking it..."
"I'm a guy." He shrugs.
"And you're thinking about that, involving me...I'm sorry that's just wrong." I laugh.
"Oh shut up." Mike rolls his eyes.
"Alright, I'm gonna take your answer as a no and go get ready myself."
"You do that." I say and Mike disappears back into his and Aly's room.
"So?" Aly asks, walking out of the bathroom.
"Nah, Alex isn't letting her move. He's enjoying the alone time."
"Only he would. Let me guess, you walked in on them again didn't you?"
"Unfortunately." Mike whines.
"Aww poor baby." She teases, giggling.
"Yeah poor me, I think they were actually like making out or something this time. I don't even want to think about it." Mike shudders.
Aly just laughs at him.
"Next time, I'm calling her phone. No more knocking."
She sees him narrowing his eyes at her and she tries to stiffle her laughter but fails.
"But anyway, let me just get ready and then we can head down to the pool."
She nods and plops on the bed.
He grabs his things and heads into the bathroom to change, and once he's done he comes out with towels.
"Alright we can go."
"Right, let's." She says blinking, and snapping out of her daze.
He chuckles at her snapping out of that daze, and then they head out of the room and into the elevator, heading down to the pool. She bounces ahead of him, pulling off her cover-up and tossing it on one of the lounge chairs before kicking off her flipflops.
"Someone's eager huh?" He chuckles.
"The pool is warm, so sue me." Aly shrugs, dipping her foot in the water.
"If it's so warm, then why don't you just get in it?"
She sticks her tongue out and walks over to the deep end, stepping off the ledge and dropping into the water. Instead of normally jumping in himself, he sits on the side of the pool, just as she pops back up to the surface. She swims over and rests against his legs.
"Something wrong?"
"No. What I can't sit on the side of the pool without there being something wrong?"
"Yes. I was just curious since normally you jump in right away, that's all."
"I don't want to jump in right away...sue me." He mocks from what she said to him about the pool water being warm.
She sticks her tongue out and splashes him.
"Hey, no splashing." He laughs.
"What are you going to do huh?" She retorts, giggling as she splashes hima gain and floats
farther away.
"Oh, I don't know..." He trails off, then splashes her more than she did to him.
She squeals and then retaliates. It turns into a splash fight, before he finally decides to jump in.
"Uh-oh." She says as she sees the look on his face.
"You're going to pay for that splashing." He laughs, coming towards her.
"Oh really..." She giggles.
"Really." He says, getting closer.
She swims backwards and laughs.
"You don't have far to go to get away from me, this is a pool...not the ocean."
"Maybe." She shrugs a little.
Soon enough he catches her and backs her into a corner.
"What're you going to do now huh?" He smirks.
"Can't do much really. More like what are YOU going to do?"
"Oh...I don't know. What do you think I'm going to do?"
"Don't tell me the piranha thing again..."
"Maaaaybe."
"No, no, no." She squeals and tries to push him back, scrunching her neck up.
"You can't push me away. Try all you want, you're not strong enough." He smirks.
"Damn you and your buffness."
"Oh you know you love it."
She makes a face at him while trying to keep him off her neck. But it was no use, she couldn't keep him off and he ended up doing the piranha thing again. He then alternates between kisses and the piranha thing.
"You're going to leave marks." She murmurs, her head falling forward to rest against his shoulder.
"So...your point?" He mumbles.
"Well I was going to say that we're going to be on tv so you shouldn't but I know that won't sto you." She sighs.
"You're right it won't, but if your that worried about it, I'll stop." He says, stopping briefly.
"Just as long as I can cover them up."
"You'll be able to, don't worry about it. I got it under control."
She giggles faintly. He continues for a while, before deciding to stop.
"Alright, I think we should start drying off, so that we can head back up to the room and get ready for the show."
"Okay." She replies, opening her eyes.
They get out of the pool and grab a towel to each dry off, sitting at the table before heading back up to the room and getting ready for Jimmy Fallon. She stands in the bathroom all dressed, the door open most of the way as she does her hair. She comes out all ready.
"I see you did manage to cover up those marks, I told you they weren't going to be a problem." He chuckles.
"Only since you kept on one side." She points out giggling.
"What isn't covered by my shirt is covered by my hair."
"I can see that." He points out.
"If we weren't going to be on tv, I wouldn't really try to cover them. Can you imagine the looks
on the faces of the stalkers and Frenchie if they saw?"
"Oh they'd be mad, but who care what they think."
"I don't but their faces would be funny." She shrugs, walking over to slip on her heels.
"Can't believe Christmas is next week." Mike says, waiting for her to be done.
"I know. Time has flown by." She agrees as she pulls on her winter stuff.
"We need to figure out where we're going for Christmas...all of us."
"Right. We'll have to talk to Dolce and DC later." She nods, zipping up her heavier jacket as Mike puts on all his winter gear.
"That is if they're not busy with their 'alone time'." He says doing air quotes for 'alone time'.
"Very true." She laughs.
"Well we can always ask tomorrow too. It isn't like we don't have time before we have to make a decision."
"Right." He agrees.
"Alright, are we good to go?"
"Yep. Out into the cold cold world...literally." He laughs.
"Bleh." Aly wrinkles her nose.
They both leave and once they're outside, she rushes to the car and bounces around while waiting for Mike to unlock it.
"Come on already!" She whines.
"I'm coming, I'm coming." He says, unlocking the car from the remote with the keys.
She quickly climbs into the car, buckling in and shivering.
"It'll take a bit for the heat to come on, just wait for it." He says, starting the car and heat.
"The seat warmers work faster." She says, flipping the switch for hers to turn on and then she hits his switch too.
Then they're off to the studio where the show is taped. Meanwhile, I'm still laying there in bed, but I decide that I should at least get up and change out of my pjs.
"Alright, I got to change."
Alex whines and clings to me.
"It's almost noontime, I can't stay in my pjs all day. You might be able to, but I can't."
"Aww."
"We're still going to have the alone time, don't worry about that. I just need to change, that's all."
He reluctantly lets me go. I get up and just grab any clothes that were in my bag that I could grab. Then I head into the bathroom to change. Once I was done, I was fixing my hair. But that's when I noticed something.
"Oh, he didn't..." I say to myself, looking closer.
Alex hears me and snickers to myself.
"Is there something you forgot to tell me about?" I ask, coming out of the bathroom and he smirks smugly.
"There is no possible way I can hide this thing, it's just too big."
"Maybe that was the point." His smirk widens.
"Did you plan this?" I Ask curiously, my eyebrow raised.
"Maaaaaybe."
"Which basically means that you did. Well I'll tell you something, you're not getting to the other side of my neck." I say, sitting back down.
"Aww..."
"I mean you could try, but I'm guarding that side. You can't get to it."
He eyes me mischievously.
"Nope, not getting to it." I say, putting my hand on that side and protecting it.
We have a playful fight with him trying to get to my neck.
"Noooo!" I squeal, now holding a pillow there as best I can.
"You're no fun." He laughs.
"Well I don't need another one. No more being a shark." I joke.
"Fun sucker." He teases.
"Stealing my line huh?"
"Yup."
"Well for your information, I am not a fun sucker."
"Oh really now." Alex raises his eyebrows.
"Really."
"Prove it." He challenges.
"Hmmmm, how to prove it..." I trail off.
I pretend to think about it for a while, before pulling him closer to me and kissing him for a while, dazing him.
"That enough proof?" I ask, after pulling away.
"Uh-huh..." He says slowly.
"Good. Now just relax." I say, reaching over and getting my computer to do stuff online.
He lays against me as I do things on my computer. Meanwhile Aly and Mike are at the studio and waiting backstage for when he has to go out. Someone knocks on the door to the dressing room that they're both sitting in and tells him that he has to get ready for his entrance through the trap door in the audience.
"Have fun." She smiles.
"I will." He says, kissing her quickly before leaving the room.
She turns and watches the screen as he goes out. The show comes back on after a commercial and then Jimmy starts introducing him. The camera pans to the audience where a trap door opens and he climbs out with fog, the band playing his theme music. He sits down as the music ends and the crowd calms down
"That's cool." Aly says.
"That is the belt."
"It is the title. Would you like to hold it Jimmy?"
"Could I please?"
"Yeah, absolutely." Mike says, handing it to him.
"Oh my gosh. It weighs a million pounds. Look at this thing." Jimmy says, showing the
camera the title.
"Yes that thing is heavy." she agrees, pulling her own title out of her bag in case she goes
out there.
"It's about 30 pounds. I get through TSA, you know and uh...it's a little fun."
"Look at that, world champ. Do you...I mean do you remember being on the Real World?"
"Uh yeah and 10 years ago I was on The Real World: Back To New York, holding a replica title that I had bought at a costume shop for $15. And I was annoying all my castmates with it going 'I'm the Miz! I'm the Miz!', and now I have the real thing."
Aly giggles and smiles.
"Good for you."
"Thank you."
"I'm so proud of you, I'm happy."
"It was a long long journey and I have a long way to go as well."
"That's so cool though, congratulations. I remember watching you on The Real World, I felt like we were roomates."
"We could've been."
"Yeah, but I watched every one of the episodes. It was just a fantastic season for The Real World. That was season 10 I believe."
"Season 10, 2001."
"Do you still talk to Coral?"
"Actually when I won the WWE Championship uh...I haven't talked to Coral for about 3 years. And I didn't think she knew where I was or what I was doing or anything like that. But uh she texted me and goes 'wow, congratulations...you won the WWE Championship. You lived your dream'."
"Awww how cute."
"That's crazy."
"Yeah as a kid I would dream of being a larger than life character like the Ultimate Warrior,
The Rockers and all these great superstars. And now, I'm one of them. It's incredible."
"That's great, congratulations. I'm really happy for you. But you're not the most popular guy."
"I am arguably the most hated superstar in the WWE."
"I don't know, Barrett isn't very well liked either." Aly says to herself quietly.
"Yeah..after you won the title we got the screengrab from uh...look at this girl's face." Jimmy says as the camera zooms in on the picture of Caylee and the evil glare.
"Yeah, she was not happy. And actually last Monday we had the Slammy awards which is
like our Oscars or our Emmys for WWE. And she actually won a Slammy for Fan Reaction Of The Year. So when she went out to give her thank you speech when she won. I basically interrupted her and took her Slammy, and started heading to the ring."
"Noooo."
"I am a mean man!"
"You took it from a twelve..."
"I took it from a twelve year old. Isn't it great?" Mike says cracking up.
"Why do you like that? That's mean."
"Because it's funny. It's funny. She was like 'I want to thank my mom and my..', and she was
so shy and cute. 'I want to thank my mom and my sister who always sticks up for me. Awesome...I came to play...', there I come snatch it away and go to leave. But my girlfriend who's here with me today came up, smacked me and took it away...back to the little girl."
"Damn right." Aly nods.
"You're girlfriend smacked you and took it back?" Jimmy asks, laughing a bit.
"Yes she did. Well she smacked me and then went over to my apprentice Alex Riley, smacked him, took the Slammy from him and stormed off backstage." Mike says.
"Well, let's bring her out here. Let's hear it for the WWE Diva's Champion Sadie." Jimmy says, and they wait for you to come out.
She steps out from backstage with her title laying on her right shoulder. She smiles and waves to the audience as she walks over to Mike and Jimmy.
"Now I want to compare these titles. How heavy is yours?" Jimmy asks Aly as she sits down next to Mike.
"Not nearly as heavy." She laughs, handing it to him.
"Oh yeah, big difference." He says, holding it and then handing it back to her.
She sets it on her lap and then smiles as Mike drapes his arm across her shoulders and she rests one hand on his leg.
"Well his is completely blinged out." She points out.
"Yeah, it's basically all gold from what we can see." Jimmy laughs lightly.
Mike laughs and agrees.
"Now before we get on with the next thing, let's talk about you. You've held onto that title for a long time now right?"
"Yes, it's been about 2 months." She nods.
"And no one is going to take it away from her anytime soon." Mike adds.
"People can try, but they always end up losing." He continues, she laughs and agrees.
"And from what I've heard on other interviews and radio and everything. You got into the WWE by one of your friends." Jimmy says to her.
"Yeah, that's Carly. She and I have known each other since we were born. She was traveling with Mike and Alex when she was signed to her contract and not long after that I came to visit her and right after that, I found myself with a contract of my own." She explains.
"And did you have any experience with wrestling when you got signed? 'Cause I know sometimes people get signed and they put in as interviewers or something before they actually get into the ring."
"I did. I'd been trained mainly by Matt and Jeff Hardy, along with Shannon Moore. I also wrestled locally for a while." she replies, getting some cheers and applause from mentioning Matt, Jeff, and Shannon.
"Yeah, they're like brothers to me." She answers the applause and cheers.
Aly smiles and laughs while Mike chuckles a little.
"Now look at this guy...you're on the cover of the videogame." Jimmy says, pulling out the SvR 2011 game.
"Yes."
"WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2011. Look at you, you're right there." He says to Mike.
"Yeah, isn't it great?" Mike answers and the crowd cheers and claps.
"I think he'd prefer the other cover he made with just him." Aly jokes, giggling.
"These are great videogames."
"Oh, a fantastic videogame. THQ does a wonderful job with it and just to be on the cover. I'm
in a videogame. When I was a kid growing up, I had a Nintendo. There was an A, B, select, start, and that's all we had. That's all the buttons we had okay? We didn't have all
these...bunch of buttons now."
Aly nods in agreement.
"I mean I was in the Nintendo Championships in Cleveland."
"Were you really?"
"Yeah."
"What's the Nintendo Championship?"
"Well the Nintendo Championship's...back in the day...back in my day we uh, we had these champion...there's a championship in Cleveland for the Nintendo and there was Super Mario Brothers, a racing game and tetris. And you had an allotted amount of time, and you had to get a certain score. You had to get higher than a certain score, and then you could make it on the main stage. And I did that."
"You did it?"
"Yeah."
"How'd you do the whole event?"
"Well uh..yeah there were 10 of us on the main stage. And like...I did really good, but when I got onstage I got a little nervous and stage fright. And uh, you're supposed to get through Super Mario Brothers, get through the racing game and get all your points at Tetris. So I'm trying to get Tetris, trying to get Tetris but I kept on leaving little holes. And uh, I ended up in like 10th place."
"Awww poor thing." Aly laughs.
"But you know what..."
"Out of how many people?"
"Out of...well out of 10. But here's the thing Jimmy. Alright now those kids are probably playing World Of Warcraft on a Saturday night. I'm the WWE Champion! Who's the real winner? Huh? And...and I'm on a videogame! I'm on a videogame!" Mike exclaims standing up briefly and waving the game in the air.
Aly can't help but laugh at him.
"I'm so proud of you, by the way I should say uh...that WWE and you are giving everyone in our audience a copy of the videogame to go home with tonight."
"Yes yes, you're welcome. Now everyone out there that's going to be playing this videogame. If you ever play as my character and you're about to lose...I want you to press power, reset, whatever you do. I am not allowed to lose if you play with my character."
Aly shakes her head, giggling.
"Alright, thanks to the new WWE Champion The Miz! And the WWE Diva's champion Sadie!" Jimmy says, then announces the musical performance for after the break and the show goes to commercial.
They say goodbye to Jimmy and head backstage to bundle back up before they go outside.
"Back to the hotel until I leave for the game."
She nods and snuggles against him as they go out to the car. They climb in and drive back to the hotel. Once they get back to the room, she changes back into the comfy clothes she was wearing before and Mike finally notices the shirt.
"Nice shirt." He points out.
"I know, I like it." She grins teasingly.
"Hey, you want to talk Christmas plans with Carly and Alex? I'm sure the 'alone time' wouldn't last this long."
"You text and see 'cause I'm not going to even try going in there." She laughs.
He pulls out his phone and texts me asking if he and Aly can come into the room, because they want to talk to us about Christmas plans.
"Your phone is buzzing babe." Alex mumbles.
I reach over, trying not to make my computer fall and grab my phone and read the text, and answer it. I tell him that everything's good, that they can come in. The connecting door pops open and they walk in, sitting on the bed.
"What is THAT?" Aly asks immediately pointing to my neck and Alex immediately starts snickering.
"Somebody was being Shark Boy." I say, narrowing my eyes at Alex.
"I guess so, because that sucker's huge."
"Though I'm sure I would have been the same if I hadn't said something to Piranha over here." Aly adds.
"You too?" I ask.
She moves her ponytail and pulls on the collar of her shirt, exposing the marks.
"Consider yourself lucky, I can't hide mine." I say to her, putting my computer away.
"She made me behave cuz we were going to be on Jimmy Fallon." Mike shrugs.
"Well I have no control over this one over here." I say pointing to Alex, and he has a satisfied smirk on his face.
"But are we here to talk about what happened today? Or are we here to talk about Christmas plans?" I add.
"Christmas." Aly laughs a little.
"So I think the first question is whether or not we want a white Christmas."
"Well we would have to find a place where they've already gotten that evil white stuff if we want that."
"Well if we don't want to deal with snow, then we can go to either Mike's place or yours." Aly points out.
"If we don't mind the snow, then we can do my place or one of our families."
"Oh they'll be happy to see us again that's for sure. If we decide to go there again." I say and she nods.
"Hmmm I don't know. I like snow for Christmas and a actual tree. Our own places don't have that. Especially my place, I mean what're we going to do? Decorate a palm tree in the backyard?" I laugh.
"That'd be funny though." Mike snickers.
"A palm tree christmas."
We all laugh.
"Okay so we're going somewhere with snow then?" She asks.
"Yeah, I think that's best."
"Alright. So, like I said, there's my place and then each of our families." She says, laying on her stomach and crossing her ankles in the air.
"Hmmm, how about your place? We've already been to my place so let's switch and go to your place." I suggest.
"You two okay with that?" Aly looks at Mike and Alex.
"I'm okay with it." Alex replies.
"Me too." Mike agrees.
"And for New Years we can always go back to our families'. We can decide on that later."
"Right." Aly nods.
"So what else is on your busy schedule for today?" I ask Mike.
"I'll be going to the Knicks game soon." He replies.
"Ah. How was Jimmy Fallon?"
"That was pretty fun."
"He had the most epic entrance ever." Aly adds.
"It was this trap door and smoke came out, oh it was so cool." She explains.
"Sounds cool. Guess I'll have to try to stay up to watch it tonight."
"You can always record it and watch it in the morning." Mike points out.
"Yeah, I know. I'll just see how tired I am before I decide to do that or not."
We talk for a couple more minutes before Mike looks at his watch.
"I'm going to have to get going." He says getting off the bed and Aly also slides off.
"And I'm probably going to chill in our room." She adds.
"Alright, have fun." I say and they walk back into their room.
"We'll have to dig out my decorations when we get to my place then." She comments, hopping onto the bed but sitting near the edge.
"And find a tree, it's not Christmas without a tree." He adds.
"Don't get me wrong, I like the smell of the real trees but they are a pain in the ass to clean up after. I've always used a pre-lit tree."
"Those work too, use it over and over again and not worry about making sure it has enough water."
"Exactly."
"Alright, well I should be back in a couple hours, depending on the game and traffic."
"Mmkay. Have fun." She smiles.
"I will. Don't miss me too much." He chuckles.
"I'll try not to. Love you." She laughs.
"Love you too." He says, kissing her quickly and then bundling up yet again and leaves.
She flops back onto the bed and lays there for a few minutes before her phone starts blaring John's music.
"What's up Sully?" She answers, laughing a little.
"Oh nothing, just wondering how you're feeling today."
"I'm feeling just fine."
"That's good to hear. So what're you up to?"
"Laying here. Mike went out to a basketball game and the other two are having their alone time."
"Oh I know about Carly and Alex and their alone time." He chuckles.
"So you were the other interruption." She laughs.
"Haha yeah. Only me calling her. See I was walking down the hall and stopped at their door because I was hearing some things." He explains and she cracks up.
"But she assured me that nothing was going on."
"Other than Alex being a shark." She snickers.
"A shark?" He questions.
She laughs loudly and then explains to him about Alex being a shark and Mike being a piranha.
"Ah I see. Anyway, you shouldn't be sitting in that room all alone. I say you and I hang out. I have those pictures of my brother's baby girl, and I know you want to see them."
"Yeah! Bring them over."
"Alright, be there in 20 seconds."
"Okay." She laughs and ends the call.
Seconds later she hears a knock on the door, gets up and answers it.
"Hey Sully."
"Hey Boo." He grins, hugging her before stepping in the room.
She shuts the door and goes back to sit on the bed.
"So come on, I want to see the pictures." She says anxiously, he laughs and pulls them out.
"Awwww, how cute!" She gushes, looking through them.
"I know. I can't wait to see her again next week for Christmas."
"I can't blame you, she's adorable."
"What are you doing for Christmas next week?" He asks.
"The four of us are going to my place in Chicago."
"Sounds like fun."
"I'm sure it will be." She laughs lightly and plays with her ponytail, forgetting that it's hiding some of the marks on her neck.
"What are those?" He asks, pointing to her neck and she flushes and giggles faintly.
"Mike did that didn't he?" He asks chuckling.
"Uh-huh." She nods, still giggling.
"But oh man if you think this is bad, you should see Dolce's." She snickers.
"Do I want to know?" He asks.
"Mine are at least hideable. Hers...isn't." She laughs.
"Well...okay then. You two had interesting days I can tell."
"To say the least." She shrugs.
"So, do you really want to sit here the whole time Mike's gone?" He asks.
"Nah, what do you have in mind?"
"How about something to eat?"
"Sounds good even though that means going out into the cold again." She says, making a
face.
"You forgot that the hotel has a restaurant. We don't have to go out into the cold."
"You are passing up the opportunity to go out and get amazing New York food? Are you nuts?"
"Maybe I am." He jokes.
"Okay so maybe you are but come on!"
"Haha okay, we'll find a place in the city."
"Yes!" She cheers, hopping up and going over to her winter stuff that is piled on the table.
"Excited much?" He laughs and she sticks her tongue out.
"You know, I can't understand how you can wear those jean cutoff shorts year round Sully."
"Its a habit. I'm used to it." John shrugs, chuckling.
"Remember, I grew up here in New England so it's something I'm used to." He adds.
"I grew up in Chicago and you don't see me doing that." She teases.
"Well I'm a guy, it's different. Higher tolerance to the cold."
"Good point." She says.
"But anyway, let's go." She says, all bundled up to go back outside.
"We got to stop by my room so I can get my stuff and then we'll go." John says.
She nods and they go down to his room. She stands in the open doorway, bouncing lightly on her toes. She hears people in the hall behind her but she ignores it.
"You can come into the room you know." He chuckles.
"Eh whatever. We're about to leave anyway." She shrugs.
"True." He says, walking back over all set.
"Now we can go."
"Yayyy." She sings, bouncing into the hall and down to the elevator. He laughs and shuts the
door behind him, shortly joining her in the elevator.
The elevator gets to the lobby and she goes out first, bouncing past Morrison and McIntyre without blinking once. John sees them starting to turn to stare at her, but he stops them.
"Ehhh, eyes off the sister."
They avert their eyes, knowing what John is capable of.
"Good, you listen." He says, walking away to follow her.
"So what do we have a taste for? Pizza?" She asks
"Yeah, sure. Sounds good."
They walk outside and go to find a good pizza place.
"Alright, choose anything you want...I'm buying." He says, once they find a place and walk in.
"I'd protest but I know I'd lose." She makes a face.
"Pizza is not that expensive, don't worry."
"I know. I'm teasing."
They stand there, and choose what they want. Once they chose what they wanted, they
ordered it and when it was all set, they sat down and started eating. Meanwhile, Alex and I are just laying there on the bed.
"Awww looks like you tired yourself out distracting me." I laugh.
"Nah, I just enjoy being lazy and laying here with you." Alex replies.
"Who doesn't like being lazy?"
He shrugs and chuckles.
"Christmas is next Saturday and I still need to go shopping for gifts for everyone. It's coming up too fast."
"I know. Time's gone by quick."
"It'll be 2011, before we know it. What a fast year."
"Yeah." He agrees.
"TLC Sunday, and since it's a table's match for Mike's match against Randy. You'll probably agree with him that you don't want Aly and I out there because it can be dangerous right?"
"Yeah. I really don't want to see you two get hurt."
"You try to stay clear of the table. I know that you can get involved seeing as since it's a table's match, it's no DQ. Who knows what Randy will do."
"I'll try but you know I can't guarantee anything." He says.
"I know." I nod.
"Hmmm, what to do now..." I trail off and he starts clinging to me.
"Oh no, not this again. You start clinging, next thing I know I have one of these..." I say, pointing to my neck laughing and he snickers against my skin.
"Well what're you going to do about it? You said so yourself, you can't control me." He teases.
I retort by kissing him to make sure he's occupied so he won't go after my neck. But then I hear my phone buzzing and I just groan in frustration.
"Ugh, what now?" I ask, pulling away and grabbing my phone and opening it.
I see that I got a text from Wade and it said 'you're next'.
"Okay creeepppy."
Alex reads it over my shoulder and he growls.
"Like hell she is." He snarls and I turn around to face him.
"Just relax, they're not going to get me like they got Aly. You, John and Mike will make sure of that."
He nods firmly, still scowling.
"Just calm down. They're not here, for once...nothing is going to happen."
"The thought of them doing that to you just pisses me off." He grumbles.
"Do I have to calm you down myself?"
He smirks a little and raises an eyebrow.
"I'll take that as a 'yes'. But hmmm, so many things to choose from." I trail off and he watches me with amusement.
I decide to combine a few things. So what I do is...I start off by kissing him first. Then when the time is right, I drag my nails across the back of his neck. He groans lightly, and shivers a bit. I pull away, giggling a bit.
"It worked." I laugh.
"Sneaky."
"Well I just thought I'd try combining my little tricks. I found out it works." I smile all innocently and he chuckles.
After a while we hear the door to Aly's room open and close.
"Well sounds like Aly's back."
The connecting door swings open and John is standing there."
"What're you kids going?"
"Just laying here, what did you think we were doing?" I laugh.
"PDA-A-A." Aly sings from behind John.
"Haha, you just missed that." I add.
"Good." John says, making a face.
"And holy hell, she wasn't kidding when she said that mark on your neck is huge. You two were busy today weren't you?" He adds and Alex just cracks up.
"You see nothing." I say, hiding it with my hand.
Aly moves out from behind John and laughs at me.
"You can try to hide it all you want. Fact of the matter is, we've all seen it." She adds
Alex is still laughing but at the same time, has a satisfied grin on his face.
"Are we really going to get into this conversation again?" I ask.
"We could. I'm just bored since Mike is still gone and now I'm full so my hunger isn't distracting me anymore." She shrugs.
"Well I don't think John wants to talk about what I did today. I think he'd want me to spare those details."
"Uh yeah, please do."
"But we can talk about how Wade sent me a text telling me that I was next...talk about a creeeeper"
"Not if we have anything to do with it." John says folding his arms over his chest.
Then her phone buzzes and she takes it out and opens it up, reading the text.
"Speak of the minion to the devil...Gabriel just texted me saying 'I'll get you back with me, just wait'." She says and John scowls.
"Let's just be glad, none of them are here in New York."
"You know I wouldn't be completely sure. We didn't think they would be at other places and
they have been." Aly points out.
"You got a point."
"We've just been lucky so far." She says, sitting down on the end of the bed.
"Yeah, and plus I really haven't left this room at all today so...I wouldn't know if they're here or not."
"I've had Mike and Sully here with me when I went out so I didn't see them."
"Well let's just hope we dont, that is until Sunday."
We all nod in agreement. We all hang out in the room for a few more hours. John decided that he wanted to go back to his room for the night, and Aly went back into hers. Just as she walked in, Mike walked in too.
"Hey you." She smiles.
"Hey, miss me?"
"Uh-huh." She walks over and hugs him.
"What'd you do while I was gone?"
"Went out and had pizza with Sully and then he and I chilled with Dolce and DC in their room for a while."
"How was the game?" She adds.
"It was fun."
"Knicks lost but it was fun." He adds.
"Aww." She giggles.
"I'm all tired out now." He laughs lightly.
"Poor you." She teases, running her hands up and down his back.
"And if you keep doing that, I may end up falling asleep where I'm standing."
"Go change then." She stops and laughs lightly, pulling back.
He walks over to his things and grabs clothes to change into and heads into the bathroom to do so. Aly picks out her pjs and waits for him to come out so she can change as well. Once he comes out, she heads into the bathroom and he lays down waiting for her. She comes out and tosses her other clothes into her bag and climbs into bed. She scooches closer to him.
"Night."
"Night princess." He mumbles sleepily.