Tonight was the taping of Smackdown and Mike was going against Edge and Randy, tag teaming with Dolph Ziggler. I'm just finishing up getting ready, wearing a turquoise-black top and jeans with black heels with a turquoise/blue back. Of course I had my engagement and promise rings on, turquoise two-drop earrings, turquoise blue drop necklace and a peacock feather bracelet. My makeup consisted of turquoise eyeshadow, blue/turquoise nail polish and cherry bomb lip gloss. After styling my hair, I finished everything off with a few sprays of Silver Rain Fragrance. After making sure I was all set, I walked out putting my things back into my bag and grabbing my coat.
"Hey beautiful, all ready?" Alex asks.
"Yep, all set."
"You want to wait for them in the hall or go out to the car?"
"We can go out to the car this time."
"Alright." He agrees, putting his coat on and following me out of the room.
Aly in the meantime come out of the bathroom herself from getting ready as well. She fixes her necklace before sitting on the bed to put her shoes on. Mike comes up next to her and kisses her cheek.
"You look beautiful."
"Thank you." She smiles lightly as she stands up.
She walks past him to get her jacket and the smell of strawberries and champagne follows.
"You and the flavored lip gloss of yours." He says, after inhaling the scent.
"Well you're probably smelling my perfume actually."
"Then I correct myself...you and the perfumes that smell so good."
She giggles and puts her jacket on.
"By the way, the lip gloss is strawberry cupcake. The perfume is strawberries and champagne."
"Strawberry theme huh?" He chuckles.
"Yeah."
"I like it." He says, putting his jacket on.
"Of course you do." She laughs lightly, standing by the door.
"If you behave tonight, you'll get to taste the strawberry cupcake." She adds.
"But only if you behave." She points a finger and shake it at him and they walk out of the room.
"I'll try." He comments.
"Better try hard." She giggles.
"Don't worry, I'll try my best."
She smiles as they head down to the car where Alex and I are waiting.
"Off to yet another headache of a show." I comment as they both get into the car.
"Ugh, don't remind me." Aly grumbles.
"Only because of those who shall not be talked about, and let's leave it at that."
"Yeah."
"The only upside of tonight, no problems between us and Corre."
"Or Drew and Cody."
"Them too." I nod.
"Those are the only good things."
"We get to sing the Icky Vickie song again tonight haha."
"Hah."
We pull up to the arena, and as usual walk in and into the room, waiting for the show to start.
"Joy, we get to sit through the entire show."
"Blehhhh."
"Boring and annoying." Aly sighs.
Eventually the show does start and they start off with doing a little segment on Corre.
"Ugh..."
"Gross."
After that the ring is shown and we hear that annoying little voice ring out through the tv screen.
"Excuse me! Excuse me! I said excuse me!"
As the crowd boos her, Aly and I start singing Icky Vickie. Alex and Mike watch in amusement.
"After severe injuries, after a brutal attack last week, I regret to inform everyone here that Teddy Long will not be here tonight. Therefore, I am the acting general manager of Smackdown. But first I would like to take this opportunity to wish Teddy Long my very best, and a speedy recovery. Teddy, we miss you. Now with that being said, as far as the Royal Rumble it is going to be..." She's then cut off by Randy's music playing and he walks out.
Aly just glares. He smirks and then walks down the ramp staring at Vickie as he walks to the ring. He mouths to her to relax, and gets into the ring with a mic in hand.
"Excuse me! Randy, I don't understand what you're doing out here, you don't have a match until later on tonight."
"Vickie Vickie, listen to me. Just relax, okay?"
We just roll our eyes and lean against the guys.
"Vickie I am only here to show my appreciation for being invited...here...to Smackdown. Now...I don't know you all that well Vickie. Never really had the privilege to get to know you so, you'll have to excuse me." He says, walking around to the other side of her.
"Vickie you're going to have to excuse me for what I'm going to do to your boyfriend later tonight. Just like the Miz is going to have to excuse me this Sunday, when I take the WWE Championship away from him."
"We'll see about that." Mike mutters.
"Now Vickie, as for you..." He says, putting an arm around her and takes a look at her hair.
"...by the way, nice hair."
Aly and I both snicker. The crowd starts chanting 'RKO' and he just looks at them, then back
at Vickie.
"Now as for you Vickie, there is...no...excuse."
She pulls away from his arm with a disgusted look on her face, while he stares her down. Then Dolph's music plays and out he walks and grabs the mic from Vickie to talk after getting into the ring.
"Who do you think you are? No one talks to the acting general manager that way, alright? Do
you have any idea who she is? Do you have any idea who I am?"
"Dolph, I'm pretty sure the same guy I beat two weeks ago on Raw."
"I still say he looks like a troll."
"Actually Randy, actually Randy I'm the guy who's going to be world champion on Sunday. So you will show me respect. Just like you'll show Vickie Guerrero respect. Never again...never again will you disrespect me, my girlfriend and everyone who stands behind us! You remember that the next time you come on MY show, and run your mouth. After Sunday...after tonight, you will have no choice but to show me respect."
"I wouldn't underestimate Randy or Edge."
"Well I'm sorry Dolph, because around here...you got to earn your respect." Randy retorts,
then RKO's him.
"Looks like the troll is dead haha."
"His loss."
After a while of Randy in the ring and posing and whatnot, they switch to the main event matchup for tonight and that's Mike and Dolph against Randy and Edge.
"Somehow I don't have a good feeling about that match."
"Me either."
After coming back from the first commercial break, LayCool's music plays and out they walk.
"Looks like Christmas blew up on Layla's pants."
"Niiiice."
As they were walking down the ramp, out runs NXT Season 3 winner Kaitlyn and Kelly Kelly, attacking LayCool from behind. LayCool were basically getting their asses beat and the match hasn't even started yet.
"Ahahahaha! Sucks for you!"
"HAHA!"
Kaitlyn has control over the match, but due to a Layla distraction, Michelle wins.
"Pointless match." I roll my eyes.
"Pretty much."
Then another commercial break happens.
"You know if the whole show up to the match is boring like this, I'm gonna end up falling asleep."
"I know." Aly agrees, already laying against Mike and yawning a little.
After the commercial break, Drew's entrance video and music are playing on the screen and out he walks for his match, Kelly Kelly remaining ringside to watch the match.
"She looks pissed off."
"Yeah, she does."
"I think it has to do with the whole attacking people thing. You'd be pissed off too if you were her, telling him not to attack people but goes ahead and does it anyway."
"True."
After JTG came out, the bell rang and the match started, but JTG was no match for Drew and he lost the match to him. Kelly gets into the ring, but Drew pays no attention and walks out, up the ramp and backstage. The matchup for Mike's match is showed again and then we go to another commercial. After we come back they replay what happened between Cody and Rey last week and how how Rey broke Cody's nose with his knee brace. I'm just laughing. The screen changes to Cody backstage, but his back to the camera and Todd comes in to interview him.
"Cody, if you don't mind I'd like to ask about the injury you sustained last week.."
"Go ahead."
"Could you turn and face the camera, it's a live interview."
"No no no, we're not shooting my face Todd. Not even you, not...not my face."
This makes me laugh harder.
"After what Rey Mysterio did to my face, I may never be able to show myself in public ever
again. And I have it, I have it on good authority that Rey Mysterio didn't even want to win that match. He wasn't concerned with winning that match, why else would he have kept his knee brace exposed? He wanted to...bash my face in. And he succeeded, 'cause not only do I have a deviated septum and a broken nose...but I am going to require extensive reconstructive surgery."
"HAHA!" I point, still laughing.
Alex is smirking while Mike and Aly are just watching amusedly.
"DOCTORS have told me that I can't compete in the Royal Rumble match. So not only...not only has Rey Mysterio shattered my face, he shattered my dreams of headlining Wrestlemania. I don't understand...why would anyone want to do that to my face? I...I am...I was the most handsome man in the world. My looks...my looks defined me. I made my living off of my looks and now, I can't even stand the sight of myself in the mirror. I read something the other day that was...very true for me right now and it said that it's not who we are on the inside, but what we do that defines us. Well Todd, what am I going to do? Am I going...am I going to keep standing, am I going to stand up, am I going to keep swinging, am I going to keep fighting? Because Rey Mysterio doesn't decide my life, I do?"
"Drama queen." Aly snickers.
"Coming into the arena today, a little kid yelled at me and said that I wasn't dashing anymore because of my face. You want to know the worst part...he's right. That's enough."
"Alright, thank you very much Cody."
"Are you going to make it?" Alex asks me, chuckling.
"I'll be fine, that just totally made my night right there." I say, the laughing calming down.
"Sounded like it." Mike snickers.
"Looks like pretty boy's not so pretty anymore."
"Serves him right."
The camera fades and switches to another interviewer who introduces Edge, who shows up in his trench coat and sunglasses.
"Edge I'd like to get your thoughts heading into this huge tag team match tonight, just two days before the Royal Rumble pay per view."
"Yeah I'll get to that in a minute. But first of all I...I want to talk about the Corre and what they did to me last week. You see...I didn't forget, I have the memory of an elephant. I...I even remember all of their names. Ezekiel Jackson, Wade Barrett, DJ Gabriel..."
"With all due respect, it's Justin Gabriel."
Mike and Alex both scowl at the mention of the Corre.
"Yeah...okay whatever. And the guy with the really bad, red hair...the rockband guy?"
"Heath Slater."
"Yeah him. But listen...I'm gonna let them think about this because I'm not called the master manipulator, I'm not called the ultimate opportunist for no reason. I'm gonna let them sleep with one eye open. In the meantime, I have bigger fish to fry. Like my tag team match tonight, which sees me reunite with my old partner in Rated RKO, the viper Randy Orton."
"You mean the headache causer."
"And our opponents tonight, the WWE Champion the Miz and my opponent at the Royal Rumble Dolph Ziggler. See the last few weeks they've been really frustrating for me. So I'm gonna take all that bottled up frustration and I am gonna tear Dolph Ziggler in half...with a spear."
"Don't care much about him." Aly shrugs.
The Smackdown theme plays as the camera fades and switches to Del Rio walking backstage and he stops to talk to Michael Tarver. Then he gets into his car and drives it to the curtain where he always comes out of on the floor and we go to another commercial.
"I'm not watching Muffin Top." Aly rolls her eyes and gets comfortable in Mike's arms, closing her eyes.
After the commercial, Alberto is introduced by Ricardo and get walks to the ring after getting out.
"My name...my name is Alberto Del Rio! But you already know that. Tonight...tonight I'm not gonna tell you that my destiny is to win the Royal Rumble. Hey hey hey, tonight...tonight I'm gonna prove it. Back there, I have 39 fighters from all over the world. Ready to fight against Alberto Del Rio. So it's gonna be like...like a Royal Rumble exhibition. I'm gonna start with one, and every 30 seconds another one will come. Until...until I throw everybody out of the ring."
I didn't want to pay any attention either, so I just listened. It eventually came to a tag team match being made after Kane, Rey Mysterio and Kofi Kingstong came out. It ended up being a long match that seemed like it went on forever. Eventually the match ended with Rey and Kofi winning and then they replay what happened on Raw between Mike and Edge. Mike is glaring at the tv. After that was over and they yet again showed the matchup for his match tonight, we went to another commercial break. After the commercial break, we come back to Big Show's music playing and he walks out and gets into the ring witha huge smile on his face.
"Hi. You know when you're 7 foot tall...440 pounds, you're not just the world's largest athlete...you're the guy who can't quite fit in airplane bathrooms, and you tend to break furniture when you sit on it and yada yada yada."
"You're a former world champion, WWE champion, multi-champion. You're admired by your peers, and sometimes...sometimes you're a target. And when you're a target, people try and make an impact at your expense. Two weeks ago just like this..." He trails off and they show the footage that Corre did to him.
"Now the Corre, the Corre accomplished two things. One, you made me angry. And trust me, you don't want any part of my when I'm angry. And number two, the Corre reminded me of what it's gonna be like in a Royal Rumble match. I'm going to have 4 or 5 superstars attacking me from every angle, trying to tip me over the top rope. See I've never won a Royal Rumble match. But this year..." He then cut off by Corre's music playing and they walk out.
Alex and Mike both growl, which wakes Aly up.
"What is all the growling ab- Ohhhh..."
They walk down to the ring and they split up surrounding it, staring at Show.
"So is this how it's going to be? All four of you are going to come in here and try me? Is that it? Is that because none of you have the guts to try me one on one? Huh? What about you pretty boy? One on one? What about you Wendy? Huh? Exactly." He says to Gabriel and then Slater.
"Pfft!" I laugh.
"You're supposed to be the leader of the Corre aren't you? Wade? Where's your guts? You don't have any guts, there's no leader 'cause you're cowards. What about you big man? You living famous off in that bodyslam? Why don't you face me straight up and see how well you do. Huh? Why don't you try me head on, face up and see how you'll do. I think that outcome might be a little bit different. Come on big man." Show says and he's attacked from behind by Slater.
It ends up turning into a match between Wendy and Big Show. Of course Big Show won.
"Dumbass."
Then Corre gets into the ring after he flips Gabriel over the top rope into the ring. Then Corre started going after him and that's when the Smackdown locker room starting emptying and they all go after them. Corre retreats like the wimps they are and walk away and we go to another commercial.
"Haha."
A stagehand knocks on the door as usual and tells Mike that it's time to get ready for his match since after the commercial the match will be happening.
"We'll meet you at the curtain." Aly says as we all get up.
"Alright." He says as we all walk out the door.
Aly and I head to the curtain to wait, he and Alex go to get ready for the match.
"I'm not getting a good feeling about this." Aly comments, leaning against the wall near the curtain as we wait for the guys.
"Is it ever a good feeling when it involves Randy?"
"No." She sighs.
"This match proves absolutely nothing, I don't know why it was even made."
"Stupid Creative and making retarded matches just to push feuds."
"Feuds which always seem to involve Randy lately."
"I know, I'm really sick of this."
"I think we all are."
She nods lightly. After a while, Mike and Alex walk up and we wait for the commercial break so that Mike's music can play and we can all walk out. Once the commerical break is over his music plays and we walk out, a mic in his hand and we walk down the ramp and get into the ring, Mike starts talking. He talks about some person and whatnot and things that person did and etc.
"Now what does this have to do with the Royal Rumble? Absolutely nothing. Just like Randy Orton strutting down here bullying Vickie Guerrero and hitting Dolph Ziggler with an RKO...it means absolutely nothing. Orton can come out here for all I care and RKO every single person in this arena. He can declare himself the undisputed king of RKO! It means absolutely nothing. I am the WWE Champion now, and I will be the WWE Champion after this Sunday. Randy Orton's song says that he hears voices in his head. Well the only voice that Randy Orton is going to hear after our match, is my voice. Saying I'm the Miz, I am still WWE Champion, and I'm...awwwwesooooommmme."
Then Dolph's music plays and he walks out with Vickie of course. And we go to another commercial as Mike and Dolph pose on the turnbuckles. After we come back Randy's music plays and he comes out and then after he's done with everything Edge comes out. After the bell rings it starts off with Dolph against Randy. They lock up and Dolph pushes Randy into the ropes. The spin around until Dolph gets Randy in the corner. The ref starts counting and Dolph lets go, then wails punches on him as the ref counts again. The ref pulls him off and Randy gets up, when Dolph goes near him he kicks him in the gut. He puts him into the corner and goes to throw him into the opposite one, but Dolph throws him instead by countering. Randy bounces back and clotheslines Dolph to the apron. He turns and stares at Miz for a brief moment as Dolph gets back up. Randy gets Dolph into the corner again and punches him, then uppercuts him a few times. After getting him out of the corner he uppercuts him so hard, he falls to the apron.
Miz then tries to sneak up on Randy but the ref sees and Randy turns around and glares at him. Randy then starts to get out of the ring and Miz jumps down. It's another game of ring around the ring, where Miz runs around the ring away from Randy. He then slides back into the ring with Randy in tow. When he quickly slides out, Randy's met with a kick in the face by Dolph. Dolph starts unleashing on him and then it becomes a game of going against the ropes. When Dolph bounces back, Randy jumps on him and starts throwing punches. Randy gets up and then tags in Edge to deal with Ziggler. Edge climbs to the top of the turnbuckle and then jumps onto him. He goes for the pin, but Ziggler kicks out. Dolph is again in the corner and he's not gaining any momentum. But that all changes when he's sent against the ropes again. When he comes back he grabs Edge's head and he slams him face first into the apron. Dolph goes for the cover, but Edge kicks out. Dolph brings Edge over to the corner and then tags in Miz, holding Edge there for him.
Miz gets in and kicks Edge in the chest/throat. He then kicks him in the back and Edge starts crawling away. He leans against the ropes to gain his strength back, but Miz goes over and pushes his leg to Edge's back so that his throat is on the bottom rope, creating pressure on it. The ref starts counting and Miz has no choice but to let go, and he starts arguing with the ref. This distracts the ref and gives Alex the change to step in and hit Edge, hoping to weaken him to make the match easier. He quickly backs away as soon as Mike walks towards Edge and the ref isn't distracted anymore. Miz picks Edge up and gets him in a rear chinlock and holds it for a while. Edge gets up and hits Miz in the gut, making him let go. But he immediately retaliates with a knee to the gut. He goes against the ropes but is met with a boot to the face by Edge. Edge falls himself and reaches to tag in Orton. Dolph holds out his hand as well so that Miz would tag him in.
Miz holds Edge's feet so that he can't get to Randy...or so he thought. Edge pushes him away and then scrambled over to Randy and tagged him in. Randy is all fired up and Miz can't catch a break. Randy gives him everything he's got as always. Randy then gets in that place where he hears the voices in his head, the viper has coiled and he starts banging the apron with his fists, slithering like the snake he is. We did end up taking a commercial break and during that break, Miz tagged in Ziggler and he had control of the match when we came back. He tags Miz back in as he holds Randy where he is. Miz gets in and then kicks Randy like he kicked Edge. After a couple of hits to the shoulders of Randy, Miz goes for the pin but Randy kicks out. Miz gets frustrated and gets Randy in a chinlock like Edge and hold it for a while again.
Randy gets up of course and gets Miz to let go, followed by a headbutt to daze him. Randy runs against the ropes and comes back to Miz, to be met by a swift knee. Miz goes for the cover again but Randy kicks out. He then crawls on to him and repeatedly punches him like he always does. The ref pulls him off and Miz gets a kick in for good measure. He then goes around and knees Randy in the back and pulls on his face. He gets him in the chinlock again and holds it there for a while. Randy struggles, reaching for the ropes. Randy gets to his knees and crawls and reaches for Edge. But Miz pulls on Randy's face and drags him away from the reach of Edge. He keeps the chinlock in place still, and Randy struggles again. Randy gets to a knee and a foot, trying to get out of the chinlock. He stands up completely only to fall back to one knee and foot again. He gets up a second time, but fails and falls to a knee and foot again as he struggles. Randy gets him to let go and headbutts him again. He goes to do something but Miz counters and does a backbreacker and neckbreaker...one of his signature moves.
He goes for the pin again, but Randy kicks out. Randy rolls to the corner and Miz backs up into the opposite one, setting up for the running corner clothesline. He runs, but is met by a clothesline by Randy himself. Randy falls to the apron himself, as Alex and Dolph yell for Miz to get up. Randy slithers/crawls to Edge who's hand is reached out for the tag. Miz gets to Dolph and Randy gets to Edge. Edge is fired up and keeps at Dolph, never letting him get a hit. Edge then cheapshots Miz, knocking him to the floor and focuses his attention back on Dolph Ziggler. He gets ready, backs up and pulls his hair, getting ready for the spear. Alex gets up onto the side of the ring to get involved and stop Edge but Edge punches him in retaliation which knocks him to the floor like Miz. Edge then gets Ziggles with a neckbreaker of some sorts and goes for the pin, but Miz comes in and he stops it. That's when Randy gets in and goes after Miz, sending him over the top rope while he slithers out from under the bottom rope.
Alex goes to go after Randy who is heading for Miz, but Randy clotheslines Alex hard which sends him back down onto the floor. Meanwhile in the ring Ziggler jumps on Edge's back from behind which doesn't work at all. Edge ends up spearing Ziggler and gets the win for him and Randy.
"Figures."
The celebration doesn't last long because Vickie is furious.
"Excuse me! Excuse me! As general manager, I have decided until further notice the spear
is illegal!"
"Good. If only we could outlaw the RKO and the head punt, we'd be happy."
"Oh we'd be more than happy."
"Right."
"That's right Edge, the spear is banned. Edge, if you hit Dolph Ziggler with a spear at the Royal Rumble. Not only are you disqualified, but you will lose the World Heavyweight Championship. Do I make myself clear?"
We head over to Mike and Alex, not even worrying about or even caring about Randy at all.
"You two okay?" Aly asks them.
"We're good." Mike comments as he gets up.
"Alright, let's go get you guys changed so we can get out of here."
"Just one thing first..." I trail off, after helping Alex up and going over to Randy.
"Okay listen, you better get over yourself because you're not winning back that title Sunday. And the constant attacks on Alex have got to stop. I swear to god, the day you actually hurt him...I'm hurting you." I glare, before backing away.
"Let's go." I mutter.
We all head backstage and stop by the locker room so Mike and Alex can change.
"Randy thinks he's got aggression and all that jazz? He hasn't see me when I'm pissed off yet." I mutter.
"They haven't see me pissed off either." Aly agrees.
After Mike and Alex are changed, we head back to the room so we can get our things and then we head back to the hotel. The ride back and walking back into the hotel, up to the room, I was silent the whole entire time. Alex waits until we get into our room before he speaks.
"Carly I know you're mad but there isn't anything we can do right now." He sighs, pulling me into his arms.
"You didn't hear what said to him did you?"
"I did but I just don't want you to get hurt or in trouble."
"Well I don't want you seriously hurt either. I am so sick and tired of these constant attacks on you by him just because you're trying to help. The next thing he'll resort to with you is that punt in the head, and I can't...I can't see that happen."
Alex hugs me tighter with another sigh.
"He's already tried twice to do it to Mike, there's no doubt he'll try it on you at one point." I mumble.
"I know, hopefully we'll be prepared." He says while rubbing my back.
"I don't think that's something we can prepare for...I mean he RKO's you out of nowhere all the time."
"True."
"I just...I don't know. But on the brighter side if you ever come in conflict with Edge, he can't spear you anymore."
"Yeah, that's a good thing."
"But anyway, I think there's something you forgot to do today..."
He looks at me curiously.
"Something you forgot to give me...something you give me everyday..."
He thinks about it for a minute before his eyes land on my lips and he smirks.
"Aha." He chuckles.
I just laugh, and shake my head amusedly starting to pull out of his arms.
"Oh no, I don't think so." Alex says, tightening his arms.
"Curse you for being stronger than me right now."
He smirks and brings his lips to mine. My arms then make their way up and around his neck eventually. After a but he pulls away and licks his lips
"Cherry."
"Cherry Bomb to be exact." I smile.
"Nice." He chuckles.
"Now we can either stand here like this all night, or you can let me go so we both can change and go to bed."
He reluctantly lets me go and we both change fairly quickly. We get into bed and I lay my head on his shoulder and wrap and arm around him.
"Night."
"Night love."
Meanwhile Aly and Mike Mike have finished changing, but in a blink of an eye when she came out of the bathroom, she was braced up against the wall.
"Um...hi?"
"You owe me something."
She pauses for a minute and then it clicks and she giggles.
"You didn't take that strawberry cupcake off yet did you?" He asks and she shakes her head.
"Good, that means I can have the pleasure of taking it off myself."
She bites her lip a little and giggles again. He smirks and then leans in, bringing his lip to hers. She drapes her arms around his neck, one hand sliding up into his hair. He then moves closer, pressing his forearms against the wall on either side of her this time. He ends up shifting again and she feels his hands in her hair and she smiles into the kiss. After he thinks he's gotten all the lip gloss off he pulls away, but lingers just to drive her even more crazy.
"Evil." She mumbles.
"Love you too."
She catches him off guard with a brief kiss.
"We should probably get some sleep."
"Right, we had a long night."
They go over and climb into bed. She snuggles up to him.
Night, love you."
"Night, love you too."