We're all busy getting ready to leave for Raw, Aly just coming out of the bathroom and Mike stares in awe.
"What?"
"You look beautiful."
"Thank you." She giggles and smiles, her cheeks pink.
"Really?" She laughs.
"Yep, I'm wearing the gold tonight."
"Oh the irony."
"Did you read my mind or something? Or did we communicate telepathically?" He chuckles.
"Maybe we did." She giggles.
"How's the knee feeling by the way?"
"Much much better."
"Good, but let's hope nothing happens in the match tonight which causes it to get worse."
"I hope not." She frowns.
"If I see that anything has happened, I'll be out there in a flash." He says, walking over and holding both of her hands.
"I know." She smiles a little, raising up to kiss him lightly.
"Shall we get going then?"
"Uh-huh...husband." She adds with a giggle.
He smiles, putting an arm around her shoulders and kissing her head before they head out of the room and down to the car. Meanwhile Alex is fixing his tie in the mirror when I come out of the bathroom. I sneak up behind him and snake my arms around him, making him jump in surprise.
"Hi." I giggle.
"You scared me there for a minute."
"I could tell."
"But I don't get why since I'm the only other person in the room with you." I add.
"I wasn't expecting it, that's why."
"Always expect the unexpected..."
"I'll remember that." He chuckles.
"You and the black and yellow. You always wear the easy matching colors. I feel bad for Aly trying to match with Mike, he chooses the most complex ones."
"Yeah, he does." Alex laughs.
"We win.."
Alex agrees and turns around to kiss me gently. We pull away after a bit, leaning against eachother's foreheads.
"Can't be late for the show."
"Right. Let's go before Windy starts calling."
"Which can be any moment now." I say as I grab my bag and we head out the door, and then down to the car.
But as we reach the car, we realize just why she wasn't texting or calling as we see Mike pulling away from a kiss.
"I guess I was wrong."
Alex snickers. We walk up to the car and we get in, buckling the seatbelts. Mike starts the car and off we go to the arena. We got there in just enough time, since the show was starting in a few minutes. Once it starts, after a bit they reveal 3 single matches. Randy vs Sheamus, Morrison vs Truth and John vs Punk with Nexus banned from ringside.
"Nice."
"They'll find a way to cheat, just you watch."
"Probably."
Going back to the ring John's music plays and he walks out and faces the camera on the stage. He says it's Valentine's Day with his hands over his heart and then blows a kiss to the camera, before saluting and running down the ramp and sliding into the ring.
"Pfft. Dork."
He walks over to get a mic, after throwing his hat to the crowd and once his music fades he goes to talk.
"First things first...thank you Jerry 'The King' Lawler, appreciate the assist. And second...holy smokes look at this crowd here tonight. I see some guys smiling, I see some guys sweating, that can mean only one thing...it's Valentine's Day..."
"Ehh..." Aly and I both make faces.
"It's good to see all these couple in the house. Nothing really says 'I love you honey', like a pair of tickets to World Wrestling Entertainment." He says, and smiles cheesily at the camera.
"Love is definately in the air, but something else is in the air...Wrestlemania!" He says going over to Justin.
"Tonight is going to be big...real big, because tonight we find out who will host Wrestlemania! As you can see, everybody's been talking about this. There's tons of theories on who it could be. After last night at the Grammy's, they figure anybody brave enough to show up in an egg is brave enough to host Wrestlemania, so Lady Gaga's now a front runner."
"I don't think it's her..."
"On Thursday Sammy left the shore, so maybe she can stop by...she's not doing too much. But of all the theories...of all this speculation, I believe mine is the most rock solid. The host of Wrestlemania this year is Michael Cole."
"I think he lost his brain." I comment.
"I know...I know, I'm equally upset but...let's face the facts. Mr. McMahon said last night...it's a man who has experienced a special moment. Somebody who has extrodinary attraction...someone who's never been involved in something never been seen before. Michael Cole...has a special moment everytime he gets sensual, late night email from the guest manager of Monday Night Raw."
Aly just cracks up and presses her face to Mike's shoulder.
"And then we're talking about special attraction. Michael Cole has a special attraction to both Alex Riley and the Miz, folks that's a love triangle."
"Hey! That's gross!"
"Ewwwwww."
Mike and Alex are both cringing and shuddering.
"Something that's never been seen before. Micahel Cole is all over that...because we have never seen before any absolute proof that Michael Cole is actually a man."
"Hah."
"Now you..now you've gone too far." Cole comments.
"Hey Cole Cole...please please. No need to stand up and embarrass yourself, it'll be like
looking at a Ken doll."
"Oh that's really nice. You're funny, you're a funny guy." Cole comments again.
"You know...he does look like a Ken doll."
"A slightly nerdier version."
"True."
"It'll be big...Sunday will be bigger. Because tonight we find out the host for Wrestlemania. Sunday we find out who goes to Wrestlemania, to main event for the WWE Championship. And guys after the year I've had, I need this one. I need this Wrestlemania moment. I know...at one point in the calendar year I was a slave. I was working for a group of radicals. And then I was fired. And then it really got bad, I was...living off of powdered milk and Crayola crayons. It was...it was ugly."
"Crayons? Dork."
"But then when I came back, I still had to deal with this group of radicals that call themselves the Nexus. The great thing about the Elimination Chamber is, only one man from the group can step in the chamber. CM Punk is the only one allowed in, so there will be nooooooo..." He trails off as Punk's music plays.
We roll our eyes. Out walks Punk, him too with a mic and his music fades.
"I do not need to listen to this anymore. Just as I do not need the members of the new Nexus to defeat you John. You're a sports fan, it's in the history books, it's in the grey's sports almanac. The two times you and I met, let the record state it's CM Punk 2, John Cena zero."
"Circumstances can change." Aly remarks.
"I don't need the new Nexus to beat you, I don't need to listen to you run down a good samaritan like Michael Cole. I don't need these people here in Anaheim like you do, because I am a good person."
"Psh, that's a lie."
"And John...trust me...even here, good things happen to good people." Punk finishes and John takes off his shirt, along with Punk and then the bell rings.
The match was pretty even between who had control. At one point John had knocked Punk off the side of the ring and out of nowhere we see an arm stretch out with a steel chair, wearing Nexus armbands.
"What the hell?"
Punk takes the chair and slides it into the ring, the ref being distracted by getting it out of the ring. Punk ducks back down next to the ring and a wrench is now slid out from under the ring by the same arm with the armbands. Punk too the wrench as the ref was busy and hit John on the side of the head with it, sliding into the ring and giving John the GTS and pinning him for the win.
"CHEATER!" I shout.
"See? I told you. He can't win without the help of his little sidekicks." I add.
Aly rolls her eyes.
After Punk walks up the ramp, the camera goes back to Cole and Josh. Cole announcing that Jerry isn't at Raw tonight due to his mother passing away over the weekend.
"Awwww."
"That's sad."
After the commercial break, we come back and Ricardo introduces Del Rio.
"Oh no, not him again."
"Oh god. I don't want to pay attention to this." Aly sighs.
After Del Rio talks for a while, Edge's music plays and he walks out and gets into the ring to talk to Del Rio. In the end he ends up attacking him...again. He took out Ricardo and then speared Del Rio right off the side of the ring.
"What a surprise." Aly says sarcastically.
"Excuse me!" We hear Vickie's voice.
"Ughhhh go away!"
"Not who I wanted to see today." Aly covers her face.
"Excuse me! I said excuse me! Yes, this Sunday we will have the World Heavyweight Championship match. But first I am here to introduce to you the new..." Vickie stops as the booing is louder than her.
"...excuse me!"
"No you are most certainly not excused."
"I am here to introduce to you the new World Heavyweight Champion...my amazing boyfriend...Dolph Ziggler!"
Dolph walks out and then they play the footage from last week's Smackdown between Dolph and Edge. We see that Vickie attempted to spear Edge, but merely just bumped into him and fell down.
"Wow...fail."
"Major fail."
Then Vickie was holding her ankle and sitting outside the ring, witnessing the banned spear from Edge to Dolph. Edge calls out for another ref and a member of the Green Bay Packers comes out and counts to 3 making Edge win.
"Ew...it's a cheesehead."
"Oh Edge...I have told you over and over and over again. That if you use the spear, you would face the consequences. This Friday night on Smackdown...we will have the official coronation of Dolph Ziggler as the new World Heavyweight Champion! Now Edge you lost the World title this past Friday night. And you are about to lose something else...your...job!"
We raise our eyebrows.
"Because I have proof that you are the one that assaulted Teddy Long." Vickie adds, then going off on an evil laughing fit.
"Oooookay then."
Then a stagehand knocks on the door, telling Aly that she has to get ready for her rematch since it's coming up after the commercial break, I was also told that I should head out to the ring during commerical break along with her since I'm going to be one of the lumberjills surrounding the ring. She takes a deep breath.
"Here it goes."
"But at least I can have your back out there this time." I add as we get up.
"Right." She says before turning to Mike and kissing him.
"Good luck." He and Alex both say.
"Thanks."
We then leave, walking to the Diva's locker room. When we get in there, the Bellas are in there talking amongst themselves. We ignore them and Aly changes. After she finishes, she pulls off her jewelry, her rings being last. She takes off her promise ring first and then her wedding rings, which catches the attention of the Bellas. They look at eachother briefly, before leaving the room fairly quickly. We look at each other and shrug. Aly puts away her jewelry and we head out towards the curtain. We head out during the commercial break like all the other lumberjills and when we come back Aly's in the ring, her music fades and Eve's plays...her walking out. I glare at her the entire time she walks down that ramp and gets into the ring. She poses and gives the ref the title and he raises it up. Eve then holds out her hand to shake Aly's after the bell rings. Aly stares at it for a second before looking back up at Eve. She slaps her hand away and decks her right in the face.
Eve stumbles back and hold her face, staring at Aly. She stomps towards her and they lock up, Aly gaining the advantage and flipping Eve over. Eve counters and gets her legs around Aly's neck, and Aly kicks up and out of it. Eve does the same thing, and Aly then gets her legs around Eve's neck and Eve kicks up and out. Both Eve and Aly stand up and they both do a drop kick that fails. Aly locks up and ends up flipping her again, going for the pin. Eve kicks out and Aly goes in for the cover again...Eve kicks out again. Aly picks Eve up and wraps her arms around her waist, Eve countering and flipping Aly over and going for the cover on her. The ref cant see a cover and Aly struggles to get up. She manages to get up and gets Eve to let go. Eve throws Aly into the corner and runs to her, but Aly jumps up and over sending Eve into the corner herself. She then grabs her and gets her in a submission which Eve counters and goes for the cover on Aly again. Aly kicks out and gets up, getting Eve in a headlock. Eve gets out of it and pushes Aly towards the ropes where Eve lays on the apron with Aly jumping over her. Then Eve misses as Aly avoids a near hit after coming off the ropes. But Eve gets her in the end with an elbow to the face.
Eve goes against the ropes and flips, landing on Aly's gut and going for the pin again, which doesn't work. They both get up and when Eve turns around, Aly drops her to the apron...all of us lumberjills laughing at Eve. Aly goes over and picks Eve up by her hair and Eve throws Aly out of the ring and out onto the floor. She did hit her knee again and then the Bellas, Maryse, Melina and Alicia all gang up on Aly just going after her. Gail, Tamina and myself rush over and try to get them to back off. We manage to get Aly away from them and that's when Eve jumps and lands on all of the girls, except for Melina. Eve rolls back into the ring as Aly's back in the ring.
Eve picks up Aly and throws her into the corner, which Aly stops the impact with her foot, still feeling the pain from her knee hitting the floor outside the ring. When Aly turns back around she and Eve clash heads, both going down. So along with her head, she's holding her knee as well. Aly gets up, limping slightly and waits for Eve to get up. Eve notices the already hurt leg and goes after that, kicking it out from under her. Then as she's laying on the apron, Eve repeatedly kicks her knee making the pain go through her knee. Eve gets up and sees the opportunity and climbs onto the turnbuckle. She checks behind her to make sure Aly's still there and then moonsaults off the turnbuckle, landing on Aly and going for the pin. The ref counts to 3 and Eve retains.
She does her celebrating and Aly slowly sits up, stifling a cry as she bumps her knee. Back in the room Mike has the most worried look on his face and he dashes right out of that room and out to the ring, sliding into it as I'm now kneeling next to her in the ring myself. He hears me as if she's okay and she shakes her head.
"...hurts..." She manages to say.
"Want me to just call the trainers out here?" Mike asks.
"I think I can get back there. She shakes her head.
He nods and then we both carefully help her up and out of the ring, slowly making our way up the ramp to head backstage to the trainer's. We get there and the trainer checks out her knee, declaring it a bad sprain and saying that she's not to wrestle for at least 3 weeks. A heavier duty brace is put on her knee and she's given crutches.
"Damn Eve, I'm telling you...this is just going too far." I comment as we leave the trainer's.
"Kick her ass. I'd do it but I can't hit girls." Mike says.
"Oh I will." I say, but then I spot Eve.
"Hold that thought...I'll be right back."
"You. Who do you think you are?" I say, walking up to her
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me. First it's going after my fiance, and now you've injured one of my best friends making her not able to wrestle for about 3 weeks. You got issues."
"I don't have issues and I was doing what needed to be done." Eve retorts.
"Oh really? Well you just made the wrong person really mad. Why don't I just do what needs to be done right now? I won't hesitate to deck you."
"I'm not afraid of you."
I just laugh to myself and look her right in those evil little eyes of hers and reach out, smacking her first. She retaliates. It gets so bad the refs that were nearby had to pull us off of eachother and we struggle, screaming at eachother before we're pulled away from each other in opposite directions.
"Go get her." Aly nudges Mike.
He walks over and tells the ref that he's got me, then he grabs me.
"This isn't over, not by a long shot! I'm coming after you for that title now!" I yell as Mike drags me away and back to where Aly's standing.
She looks somewhat amused.
"Can you calm down enough to help me go change?"
"...yeah..."
We head to the locker room so that she can change. It takes a little longer than normal but soon enough Aly and I come out of the room. We slowly make our way back to the room, Mike holding the door open for her and she makes her way in, followed by us.
"Ouch, you alright Windy?"
"I'm out for at least 3 weeks."
"That sucks, I'm sorry."
"Me too." She sighs.
She makes her way over to the couch and carefully sits down, and I sit down next to Alex still a bit mad from the fight with Eve. Alex pulls me over to him and starts rubbing my back soothingly.
"The nerve of her..." I mumble.
"You'll get her back." Alex assures me.
"I know..."
I start to calm down, leaning against Alex.
Not too long after, the stagehand knocks on the door and says that Mike has to get ready for his match, since it's coming up after the next commercial break. She starts to get up and Mike looks at her.
"No." He says.
"Mike..." She protests.
"I don't want you going out there with me with your knee like that. We can get John to keep you company during my match."
"Not even if I agree to sit by commentary and not do anything?"
He thinks about it for a few seconds.
"Alright, that's fine. Alex is going to be on commentary himself so he'll keep an eye on you."
She kisses his cheek and gets up. Then we all leave the room and head to the locker room for him to change. After changing he walks out, and we start heading down the hall to the curtain. As we're walking, someone backstage walks in our direction and Mike shoves him down into some boxes and keeps walking...Alex finding amusement in it. Aly and I look at each other and try not to laugh. We get to the curtain as we're at commercial break, and when we come back the tech guy plays Mike's music and he walks out with Alex basically running out behind him, and me lagging behind with Aly who's on the crutches. Alex and Mike make their way down the ramp, Aly and I making our way slowly down the ramp. Alex waits for us as we slowly make our way down, before we follow him over to commentary. Mike gets into the ring and poses with the title on the turnbuckle. Alex sits down next to Josh on commentary, and Aly sits in a chair next to him and the same thing with me.
"Hey what're you doing to my man? What're you doing to my man Josh?" Alex comments.
Josh introduces the sponsors for the viewers at home after.
"Well A-Ry, I apologize."
"So unprofessional Michael, so unprofessional." Alex says, shaking Cole's hand and when they let go, they end up hitting Josh in the face.
"I apologize."
"Apology accepted."
"This is ridiculous why don't you show some respect to Alex Riley, to me your mentor, and to the man in the ring the WWE Champion." Cole says to Josh.
"Why don't you show some respect to Jerry Lawler, the man is a hall of famer." Josh retorts.
"You know what?"
"What?"
"He's going to be a hall of famer back in commentary on Sunday."
Then Daniel Bryan's music plays.
"He's going to be WWE Champion."
"Not if I have anything to do with it, I'll be here." Alex adds.
Daniel comes out and in introduced, getting into the ring.
"Well ladies and gentlemen Daniel Bryan...it should be pointed out defeated the Miz to become the United States Champion. And Daniel Bryan has an opportunity tonight, to defeat the WWE Champion the Miz." Josh explains.
"Talk about ancient history. You're talking about ancient history when Daniel Bryan defeated the Miz for the United States Championship..." Cole adds.
"That was months ago. Might as well have been years ago, we're past that." Alex continues.
"It happened...I hope Daniel Bryan can concentrate on this matchup here tonight. His girlfriend Gail Kim on Valentines Day, involved in all kinds of fights backstage with other Divas."
"I can't believe this guy even has a Valentine." Alex comments.
The bell rings...Mike and Daniel circle eachother and Mike stops to look at the crowd.
"I wouldn't allow it, I wouldn't allow it. I used to pick on guys like this, stuff them in trash cans is what I did with them." Alex comments about Daniel Bryan.
Mike and Daniel lock up, and Mike gets him in a headlock. But that is short lived, because Daniel leans him against the ropes and pushes him away. But when Mike came back he basically shoulder blocked Daniel to the apron. As Daniel is kneeling on the apron, Mike starts yelling things to the crowd and then to him...and Daniel gets up starting to circle eachother again. They lock up again and Mike pushes him against the ropes, they spin around still locked up until Daniel flips Mike over. He does that again, before holding onto Mike's arm and twisting it behind his back as he gets up. But Mike gets out of it by elbowing Daniel in the head a few times. Mike goes against the ropes and comes back towards Daniel, who jumps up so Mike runs under him. Mike comes back from the other ropes and quickly steps over Daniel as he lays on the apron. Then Mike comes back again, and Daniel dropkicks him. Mike quickly gets up, but only to be met by a 2nd dropkick. Mike gets back up and he reverses an Irish Whip to the ropes, only to fall into the trap of being kicked in the face after bending over.
He stumbles back a bit holding his face and Daniel comes running, only to be met to a boot to the face by Mike.
"Alex you're a glorified butler." Josh comments.
"A glorified butler, well you're Michael Cole's glorified butler so I guess we have something in common Josh." Alex jokes.
Mike goes to work on Daniel, elbowing him in the shoulder repeatedly. Then after a few more things, he steps over him and gets Daniel in a chinlock and holds it. Daniel struggles, but eventually gets out of the hold. He goes against the ropes again, and jumps over Mike's back as Mike tries to do a move on him. Daniel jumps on Mike's back and wraps his legs around Mike's midsection and an arm around his neck. Mike struggles but is able to grab the ropes, making Daniel let go. Daniel then kicks Mike in the back, he does it again and as Mike gets up he kicks him in the leg. Another Irish Whip into the ropes which Mike reverses it and knocks Daniel back down to the apron. Mike goes for the pin, but only gets a 2 count. Another elbow to the shoulder shot and then wraps his arms around his neck and holds him there to the apron.
"He's got some Stone Cold Steve Austin in him, the way that he brawls..." Cole comments about Mike.
"And on top of that he's must see...he's must see...he's changing entertainment...he's crushing genres...he's bringing people in...he's doing a great job, he's the most must see champion in WWE history Josh." Alex adds.
Daniel is now going after Mike with repeated punches to the head, and Mike retaliates with a kick to the gut making Bryan keel over. Mike punches Daniel, who punches Mike back a couple times before he goes into the corner. Another Irish Whip that's reversed on Mike's part, sending Daniel into the corner. But Daniel jumps up and flips backwards landing behind Mike. Daniel got the momentum rolling and he knocked Mike down, who rolled away. Mike pulls himself up into a standing position in the corner, then Daniel runs and dropkicks him in the corner making him stumble forward and fall. Daniel goes for the cover but only got the 2 count. Daniel gets up before Mike and raises his fist to him. Mike pleads and begs him to not do anything, slowly inching away. But Mike instantly gets up and kicks Daniel in the leg and the punches him which makes him lean against the ropes. Mike runs at him but Daniel picks him up and sends him over the top rope and out of the ring to the floor.
Daniel raises his fist again as Mike gets up and leans against the ring for support. Daniel runs and leans against the ropes, hoping to land on Mike but Mike quickly moves out of the way to the barrier. Daniel climbs out of the ring and stands outside the ropes staring down Mike. He then runs and knees him, sending him into the barrier. Alex gest up and stares at Daniel with the most pissed off look on his face.
"A-Ri, your boy's in trouble." Josh clearly states.
"I'm only five feet away Miz!" Alex exclaims.
Daniel then goes back over to Mike and picks him up, throwing him back into the ring. As Mike is getting up, he climbs to the top rope of the turnbuckle and waits. After Mike does get up, Daniel stands up and then dropkicks Mike as he comes down. Daniel goes for the rollup pin, but Mike kicks out. Daniel gets up and then goes over to Mike, picking him up. But Mike just gras Daniel's neck and drops to his knees, putting strain on the neck of Daniel. Mike goes back over to Daniel, but Daniel drags him down going for the Lebell Lock. Mike manages to get a foot on the rope and also a hand, so Daniel had to let go. Mike rolls out of the ring and then stands up, Daniel coming after him. But Mike knees Daniel in the head and then grabs him by the neck for a neckbreaker, jumping down off the ring making Daniel hit his head and neck and whatnot.
"Well that's going to teach Daniel Bryan. The Miz once again, dominating." Cole comments.
After the commercial break we came back to the match. Mike was laying on the apron with
Daniel Bryan in control of the match. Then Daniel repeatedly and quickly kicks Mike in the chest with the side of his leg, screaming the whole time. Daniel goes for another kick, but Mike ducks and rolls up Daniel for the pin, and of course Daniel kicked out. Daniel walks over and Mike goes for the pin again, but Daniel kicks out again. They both get up and Mike gets Daniel in the backbreaker/neckbreaker position, which is successfully does...the backbreaker anyway. Daniel counters the neckbreaker and picks Mike up, flipping him over. Mike sits on his knees there dazed and that's when Daniel comes over and kicks him in the head, sending him crashing to the apron. Daniel rolls Mike over and goes for the pin again, but thankfully Mike kicks out. Daniel then goes for the Lebell Lock again, but Mike struggles as he's on his feet, trying to prevent Daniel from taking him down. He does throw Bryan into the corner, but is met by a elbow to the face by him. Mike stumbles away, his back towards Bryan. Bryan then jumps onto Mike's back, wrapping his arms around his neck. But that's when Mike drops Daniel face first to the apron and he's dazed as all hell, even when he stands up.
Mike goes behind Bryan, sets him up and delievers the Skull Crushing Finale and gets the pin for the win. Cole and Alex both stand up, happy that Mike won the match and Alex claps.
"He reminds me of Rocky Balboa, he just doesn't quit!" Alex comments, then he and Cole high five eachother.
Aly shakes her head and laughs, clapping while still sitting. During the replay of key moments in the match, Mike had been given a mic to talk.
"Did you all see what I did to the United States Champion, Daniel Bryan? I know you all saw what I did...I know you saw what I did. But there's one person that didn't see...Jerry 'The King' Lawler. And we all know Jerry's unfortunately not here tonight, because his mother passed away. Therefore, I'd like to take this moment...to offer my sincere condolences."
"However...hope Jerry doesn't use this as an excuse as to why he loses his match on Sunday, at the Elimination Chamber pay per view. Because if I want him to hear one thing and one thing only, it is that I will still be WWE Champion! Because I'm the Miz, and I'm...awesooome!"
His music then plays, and Alex gets up from commentary and slides into the ring and hugs him, then raises his hand in victory. Aly smiles and gets up, grabbing her crutches and heads to the bottom of the ramp. I get up as well, following her and then we all head up the ramp and backstage. We head over to the locker room so that Mike can change. As we're waiting, John walks up to us.
"Hey Sully." Aly greets.
"So what's this I hear about a wedding?"
"How the heck did you fi- Ohhh..." She starts to say and then realizes just how he found out.
"The Bellas must've seen me take off my rings and blabbed to everyone they could find."
"Always knew they had big mouths..." I snicker.
"That they do." Aly rolls her eyes, then looks at John.
"You heard right, Mike and I got married."
"I thought the wedding was in July..."
"It is. We just decided to have a small one first."
"Ah, I see."
"Where did you get married at?" John asks.
"Vegas." She grins and giggles.
"Figured..." He chuckles.
"And before you ask, no we weren't married by Elvis."
"Wasn't even going to ask that."
"Yeah okay."
"Sorry about your injury by the way...how long are you out for?"
"At least 3 weeks."
"Damn, that sucks Boo."
"I know." She sighs.
"But if you ever need anything, I'm just a phone call or text away."
"I know, thanks."
"Excited about finding out who the Wrestlemania host is tonight?"
"Yeah it should be interesting, that's for sure." I say
"I don't know about the others but I think it's either the Rock or Stone Cold." Aly shrugs a little.
"If it's the Rock, Mike is gonna flip he idolizes him." I comment.
"I can only imagine his face." Aly giggles.
"Can only imagine who's face?" Mike asks, walking out of the locker room.
"Yours if the Rock is the Wrestlemania host."
"Well you know what I have to say to that, that would be awesome."
"You would say that." I shake my head amusedly.
"You've known me for years, it shouldn't be a surprise."
"It's not." I say.
"So...it looks like my other sister here is going to go after that Diva's title now huh?" John
asks, turning to me.
"Oh hell yes. She is so in for it."
"You do know she's trying to take Alex away from me right?"
John raises his eyebrows.
"No shit..Wow."
"Yeah, she's been flirting with him. So not only is this about getting the title, it's become personal. I'm sure you saw the fight I had with her before Mike's match right?"
"Yeah." He chuckles.
"Well I'm gonna let you rest that knee of yours Boo, so I'll talk to you guys later."
We all say bye and he walks off. We turn and start to head in the direction of the room. When we get back to the room, the commercial break was over and we were back to Raw. We then see Otunga and McGillicutty in the ring, with Mason Ryan outside the ring. Then out walks Morrison and we see that around his eyes it's all red from what Punk did to him with the spray in his eyes last week.
"Ouch."
As Morrison gets to the ring we see Truth is out there, clearly being his tag team partner. The whole match seemed pretty good. Once Morrison got into the ring he was really pissed off and he wasn't holding back with beating up Nexus. After the match was over, both Truth and Morrison went after Mason Ryan until the ref backed them up.
"I would be pissed off too if I were him."
"Yeah."
After another commercial, we come back and in the ring with Justin was Ariel Winter from Modern Family and Triple H's new movie The Chaperone. She talks and whatnot and says that not only is it Valentine's Day but it's time for the Khali Kiss Cam.
"Oh jeez..."
"Oh boy."
Then Khali's music plays and Khali walks out. He gets into the ring and talks into the mic and no one understands him, until his translator speaks.
"The Great Khali says, welcome to a very special Valentine's Day edition of the Khali kiss cam! That's right, but tonight we're going to do things a little different because Khali won't be the one doing the smooching. That's because for the first time ever, we're going to have our kiss cams rolling live in the arena on all of you...and live backstage. So there's no telling who's going to get a kiss tonight."
"Oh god."
"You guys ready? Alright let's go, hit the music!"
First they show a couple in the audience, followed by another, the backstage to Santino and Tamina. The Cobra comes up during their kiss and 'kisses' Tamina on the cheek, before Santino slaps it away saying 'my girl', and kissing her again.
"Haha that was funny but cute."
Then it changes to Vickie backstage and the camera follows her over to Dolph and they basically make out.
"Ohhh ewwwwww!"
"Grosssssss..."
Then they switch to another couple in the audience, then Ted and Maryse backstage. She stares at the camera and smiles as she turns to Ted and goes in to kiss him. But she stops and does her hand motion thing and turns around and grabs Yoshi Tatsu and kisses him. He has the most funniest, surprised look on his face after she walks away.
"Ewwww."
Then the camera switches to Zack Ryder and Regal backstage, with Ryder talking about his girlfriend and what he's getting her for Valentine's Day. Regal looks at the camera and smiles, leaning over and kissing Zack on the cheek and just smiles, walking away. Zack with the most disgusted look on his face.
"Hahahaha poor Shortbus."
Out of nowhere we see Aly and Mike on the screen.
"Uh...guys?"
They turn and see the camera guy. Aly then looks at Mike, giggling. He smiles, and he holds her face with his left hand, clearly showing off the wedding band on his finger.
"What is...look at that...that's a wedding band on Miz's finger!" We all hear Cole on the tv.
Aly can't help but giggle into the kiss.
"They're married...they're married...woo hoo!"
Then they pull away, and the camera changes but to Alex and myself.
"Oh jeez."
Alex smirks and kisses me just like he did on NXT. After we pull away the camera goes to the ring and Hornswaggle comes out from under the ring with a box of chocolates. He gets into the ring and walks over to Ariel. She turns around and takes the chocolate that Hornswggle had for her and she kissed him on the cheek and he's all happy. We laugh a little. After Hornswaggle's music plays we get an outside view of the arena and then see Randy walking to the ring for his match against Sheamus. Then after that, we see another 2/21/11 promo thing. Towards the end you could clearly tell that it was Undertaker...they gave it away when they showed a sneak peek.
"Told you."
"They basically gave it away this week though...looks like we'll see him next Monday night."
"Yup."
After the commercial break, Sheamus came out first and then Randy. The match was long, as it usually is with Randy. But in the end Randy wins with an RKO.
"Of course."
"No surprise there."
But before Randy could celebrate, Punk came running out and sliding into the ring, followed by the rest of Nexus. They start assaulting Orton and then out runs Morrison, who goes right after Punk. Then out runs Truth coming to help. Lastly to help was John running out and he goes right after Mason. Randy RKOs Otunga, then McGillicutty, then he and John work together to get rid of Mason.
"Niiiice."
Punk then goes for the GTS on Randy, but he slithers off Punk's shoulders and pushes him into John, who lifts Punk up onto his shoulders and gives him the AA. John's music plays and he stands in the ring with Randy, staring at Nexus outside the ring.
"Go John! ...and Randy..."
The screen changes to a limo pulling into the arena.
"That must be the Wrestlemania host." I comment.
The limo comes to a stop and we see a pair of heels step out of the car and start walking until the screen fades.
"Um...maybe not.."
After the commercial we're back by the ring to see who the host will be.
"Ladies and gentlemen the host of Wrestlemania 27..." Justin announces and just stops.
These weird electric sounds fill the air and the lights slowly start going off, followed by the Wrestlemania sign, and finally the tron and everything around it.
"Ooookay..."
The tron lights back up again and goes black, then we hear the Rock's theme song play and out he walks to a cheering WWE Universe.
"Oh my god, sweet!"
Mike is just staring at the screen in pure awe, not believing what he's seeing right now. Aly laughs and uses her phone to take a picture of his face. Rock stays at the top of the ramp for a while, staring at both sides of the crowd before heading down the ramp and getting into the ring and posing on the ropes. He gets down and grabs a mic to talk when his music fades.
"After seven long years...finally...finally...finally the Rock has come back Anaheim! Which means, finally the Rock has come back to Monday Night Raw! Which means finally the Rock has come back...home."
We all grin.
"Now before the Rock gets into that, before we electrify, before we turn this out tonight, for those of you who don't know...the Rock has many nicknames. The Great One, the most electrifying man in all of entertainment, the People's Champion. But I want to tell you something that's important to me right now. I need to take this moment and I need to tell you something as Dwayne."
"It's been a long time since I've been back, seven years to be exact. But I want to take this moment...in the middle of this ring to tell you why I'm back. It's not because of the money, it's not to promote a movie, I am back in the middle of this ring because of you. When I left...when I left the WWE seven years ago I dreamed big, and you all dreamed big with me. You helped me accomplish my goals...accomplish my dreams because you never left my side. And I want to take this moment to tell you all here...you're live here...millions watching around the world...I want to tell you thank you, I love you..and it is because of you that I am back in this ring. And it is because of you and I give you my word, I am never ever going away."
"Simple put ladies and gentlemen, the Rock is back! No the Rock is back because I wanted to do something unprecedented, something no man has ever done before. I wanted to hose Wrestlemania. So it happened...the Rock called Vince McMahon. And Vince McMahon said 'Rock I know why you're calling. I know you know I need a host for Wrestlemania. Rock there's only one man electrifying enough to host Wrestlemania. Rock there's only one man that can captivate the world. Rock that man can only be Justin Bieber!'"
"But I told Vince, no no no no no no no. Hey no, the Rock knows Justin he's cool. Dig dig the kid, cool kid but make no mistake about it Vince...there is only one man capable enough to host Wrestlemania. That man is...the Jabroni beating, pie eating, trailblazing, eyebrow raising, step off the brake put your foot on the gas, always ready to whoop some..." And he's bleeped out.
"...the Rock! The Rock is going to Wrestlemania. The Rock will host Wrestlemania, and at the drop of a dime the Rock will layeth the smackdown at Wrestlemania! But...to who? That's the question. Could it be the WWE Champion The Miz? He's the one that goes around saying 'I'm the Miz and I'm awesome. I'm awesome, I'm awesome'. I hear that all the time...I'm awesome. Well the Rock ain't no scientist, but pretty much knows that there's one formula that's a fact. If you got to run around, shooting your mouth off and telling everybody how awesome you are, it means you absolutely, undoubtedly, unquestionably, 100 percent completely suck!"
"Hey!"
"But there's one more man...who the Rock wants to see. There's one more man who the Rock is gonna see. And that man..." He pauses, until the GM ding goes off.
"Oh, what now?"
"That's nice, interrupting one of the greatest wrestlers."
"Can I have your attention please? I have just received an email...from the anonymous Raw general manager."
"Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa! Michael Cole if you take one more step towards that computer, the Rock will get out of here and slap the taste so far out of your mouth, you'll never get it back."
"I do know Cole supports us but I want to see the Rock do that."
"Shut up. Michael Cole you actually think that the Rock is just gonna let you walk over to that computer, and interrupt him when he is LIVE on Monday Night Raw? Is that what you think? You actually think that any of us give a damn what your general manger has to say? Michael Cole, is that what think?"
"I'll tell you what I think..."
"It doesn't matter what you think!"
We snicker.
"Now what you do Michael Cole, is you sit your ass down at that announcer booth, you take off your headset and you don't say a word. And I quote...you know your damn role, and shut your damn mouth!"
"Woohoo! Go Rock!"
"Because...if you don't the Rock will have some pretty cool facebook pictures to post on his facebook tonight. Does anyone here want to contribute to the Rock's facebook tonight? Really simple.../DwayneJohnson...if Michael Cole doesn't do as the Rock says, you're gonna get a beautiful picture of the Rock stepping out of this ring, going over to that computer, some of you may know where I'm going with this. The picture you're gonna get is the Rock shining it up real nice, turning the son of a bitch sideways, and sticking it right up Michael Cole's candy ass!"
"Oh man...this is epic." Aly says, laughing.
"Now sit down, you look like a drunk...hobbit, sit your ass down."
Cole sits back down, Josh is cracking up and Cole looks like he's going to cry or something. Aly and I are laughing pretty hard, Mike and Alex are chuckling.
"There is one man who the Rock is gonna see. There is one man who the Rock has to see face to face. A guy who I met, a guy who I thought was a cool guy. Wished him well, happy for his success. When the Rock leaves he comes in and out of the blue, eventually he starts talking trash about the Rock. I don't know why, and I don't care. But I'm back now, you might've heard of him, his name is John Cena."
"...what?"
"So let me get this straight. The WWE had gone from the powerful Austin 3:16, to the dominant and iconic can you smell what the Rock is cooking, all the way to...you can't see me." He mocks John doing the hand motion of his.
"Thanks Cena." Mike mumbles and Aly pinches his sides.
"Ow!"
She frowns at him.
"...sorry..."
"You can't see me...you can't see me. What're you playing peek-a-boo? You can't see me, I can see you, you can't...can you see me? Oh believe me we all can see you...we all can see you. A blindfolded sleeping, stuck in the basement Stevie Wonder can see your monkey ass."
"How the hell you think we can miss? You come out here with your bright ass purple shirt. And before that, your bright green shirt. Before that, your bright orange shirt. You run around here looking like a big, fat bowl of Fruity Pebbles!"
"Pfft." We snicker.
"John Cena, the Rock will see you at Wrestlemania. Just like the Rock will see the Miz at Wrestlemania. He will see everyone at Wrestlemania, and just as sure as the Rock...just as sure as the Rock turns Wrestlemania into the most epic Wrestlemania of all time. And just as sure as anything can and will happen at Wrestlemania, and just as sure as everyday John Cena walks out here looking like he just got shot out of Barney the Dinosaur's anus..."
We all laugh.
"...is just as sure as the Rock guaran-damn-tees three things. At this Wrestlemania, the Rock guaran-damn-tees to show the world that he is the most electrifying man in all of entertainment. The Rock guaran-damn-tees, at the drop of a dime just like that to layeth the smacketh down on all their candy asses. And the last thing and most important, the Rock and the millions..."
The crowd shouts something.
"No no no no no no, that's not good enough. No no no no! The Rock and the millions..."
"No no no no no no, that's still not good enough. The Rock is the People's Champ, you are the backbone of the Rock. When we speak our voices are heard, we all say 'I bringeth' Anaheim the world is watching. Anaheim the world is listening, one more time...the Rock and the millions...of the Rock's fans go to Wrestlemania. And electrify Wrestlemania, and the world like no one else can. If you smeeeellllllll, what the Rock...is cooking." He ends with the eyebrow raise and his music.
The night ends with his music playing, screen fading.
"Well now we know Wrestlemania is definitely going to be good."
"Definately."
"Shall we get going?"
"Yeah, it's been a long night. Hey Mike...earth to Mike." I say, his expression on his face not really changed from before.
"I got it." Aly giggles.
She takes his face in her hands and kisses him. It takes him a while, but he responds and kisses back.
"It's time to go silly." She pulls away.
"Already?"
"Uh-huh."
"Well let's go then."
Mike grabs their bags and we start to head out. We get back to the hotel and walk into our rooms. I kick my shoes off and go get pjs, changing in the bathroom. Alex changes and sets out my gifts.
"Ugh, such a long night." I say, coming out of the bathroom and stretching.
"Yeah."
I turn around and see the gifts set out.
"What's this?" I ask, walking over to him.
"I know you didn't want to really celebrate today but I wanted to get you something anyway." He says, kissing my forehead.
"Happy Valentine's Day love."
"Awww, you and the bears."
"Well I know you like stuffed animals and you are my CareBear."
Then I take the 2nd bag and pull out a box and open that. There's small bag in that, and I open the bag pulling out a heart necklace with two smaller hearts hanging on it.
"These are our birthstones..."
"Yup."
"But look on the back...there's an engravement." He adds.
I flip it over and find me and Alex's names engraved there.
"Oh...Alex." I smile.
"You know I think you changed my opinion on this day." I add.
"I'm glad I could." He smiles.
"You're just awesome." I laugh, hugging him.
"I love you too." He chuckles, wrapping his arms around me snugly.
"Forever..."
"Forever and always."
"I'd say let's go to bed, but I'm far too excited and happy now." I laugh.
Alex laughs.
"See what you do to me?"
"You'll find some way to return the favor, I know you will."
"You got that right."
He chuckles and kisses me gently.
"Tired yet?" He asks, mumbling.
"...a little maybe."
"Then lay down."
"Maybe I don't want to..."
He scoops me up and lays me on the bed.
"Heyyyy no fair."
Alex smirks a little and sets my gifts aside before climbing into bed with me.
"Sleep."
"Noooo."
Alex pulls me so I'm laying against him and he starts rubbing my back gently.
"Darn you..."
"Night love." He chuckles.
Meanwhile Aly and Mike have slowly made their way into the room, Mike holding the door wide open for her to make her way in. She somehow manages to get her shoes off and then goes to her bag, getting some pajamas.
"Are you gonna need any help?" Mike asks.
"Um I'll let you know."
"Alright."
She goes into the bathroom and manages to change without needing help. When she comes back out of the bathroom, he has two bags sitting on the bed for her. She tilts her head and goes over to the bed, sitting on the edge.
"What's this?"
"Well you said you would let me get you a gift for Valentine's Day, so I went out today and I did. Got two actually."
"Oh."
She reaches for the first bag and pulls out a soft fuzzy pink and white bear.
"Awwww..."
"I know how much you like stuffed animals, so I saw that and decided to get it."
"Thank you." She giggles, kissing his cheek.
"Now I think you're really going to like the 2nd gift."
She sets down the bear and pulls the second bag over. She finds a box and when she opens that, her eyes widen and she gives a tiny gasp.
"It opens up too..."
She carefully takes the heart shaped thing out and finds the clasp, opening it. Music begins to play and sitting inside the box is a key that has jewels on it.
"Ohhh...Mike..." She whispers.
"You hold the key to my heart..."
She sets it down, the top still open and the music playing. Her hands pull Mike's face to hers as she kisses him hard. After she pulls away, he has the most dazed look on his face. She giggles and puts the music box and teddy bear away.
"I'll take that as a 'I love the gifts' reaction." He says, snapping out of his daze.
"You'd be right."
"See? Valentine's Day wasn't that bad was it?"
"Only because of you."
"Well I'm glad I could make the day better for you.
She smiles and gives him a quick kiss.
"Thank you."
"That's what I'm here for." He smiles back.
She turns and takes off the kneee brace, trying to stiffle a yawn.
"You're tired."
"Mmm." She nods slightly.
"You need all the rest you can get, after all that's happened tonight."
She sighs and nods again. After taking the knee brace off, she carefully scooches back into her spot next to Mike.
"Night, love you." She yawns after getting comfortable.
"Love you too."