It's now Friday, and Smackdown is tonight. It's also Alex's debut as a part of the Smackdown roster. I thankfully get to go on the show with him, because I have a title. After being awake for a while, Alex had went to the gym while I stayed back at the hotel doing whatever I wanted to. I'm just minding my own business, when there's movement outside the room door. I raise my eyebrow in curiosity, and walk over to the door. The movement stops as I start to open the door, and I swing it open to reveal Ted. I roll my eyes in disgust.
"Leave...now."
"What? I can't talk to you?"
"Let me think about that...no you can't."
"Aw don't be like that..."
"Look, I know why you're here. There's no way in hell I'm EVER going to be with you. My
wedding is in almost a month. How many times do you need to be told?"
"Engagements can be broken." He shrugs.
"Well for your information you home wrecker, this engagement CAN'T be broken. Now get
out of my doorway." I say, starting to close the door but he stops it.
"I'm not going anywhere."
"Would you like for that restraining order to get put back in place? Because all it takes is one
phone call."
"Ted, why don't you leave her alone." I hear a voice say from behind him.
He moves out of the way, and we both look to see Randy.
"Why should I?"
"Just because Maryse dumped you, that doesn't give you free will to go after someone who's
engaged. She's clearly not interested in you."
"And I never will be." I add.
"So here's some advice...get over yourself and stop stalking me. Remember...restraining
order." I threaten.
Ted growls in frustration before storming away.
"He never gets it through that thick head of his." I shake my head.
"But thanks for helping."
"Not a problem." Randy says before walking off.
I close the door and go back over to sit down. But shortly after the door opened back up, and
I look over to see Alex walking in.
"If only you had come back a few minutes ago..." I mumble to myself.
"...what happened?" Alex asks, having heard at least part of what I said.
"Ted came by and refused to leave."
"He didn't do anything to you did he?"
"No he didn't. The threat of having the restraining order put back on him prevented him from
doing anything, that and of course Randy."
"Randy?"
"He just happened to be walking by when he saw Ted, clearly hearing our conversation.
Told him to leave me alone."
"Oh. Sorry I wasn't here." Alex sighs, hugging me.
"It's okay, I handled the situation."
"I know but I still feel like I should be here to protect you..."
"Well even if the restraining order threat didn't work, you know I would've called you and you
would've literally rushed over here to take care of him."
"Yeah."
"Just have to deal with this for another month, then hopefully he and everyone else leaves
me alone."
"They better."
"I've managed to avoid them for months, since all of them are on Smackdown, I can
continue to avoid them...unless I'm on the show with you like tonight."
"Yeah, that's another upside to this draft. I can beat up on them over here and you'll be safe
most of the time over on Raw."
"Thank god for that." I smile, and he kisses my forehead.
In the meantime back in LA, Aly and Mike are already up and lounging in the living room for
now, until they think of something they could possibly do. They're on the couch, him sitting
and her laying down with her head in his lap.
"I know what we can do. We can go to the boardwalk. They have tons of stores and street performers and everything. They even have a tattoo place, you can get that tattoo that you've
been thinking about getting, since we didn't have time overseas." Mike suggests.
"Oooh sure. I found a better quote to use too."
"Well then I can't wait to see it."
"That means I have to move. Aww."
"We'll have plenty of time to do this again tonight, since we'll be watching Smackdown to
support Alex."
"True...but that is feeling so good." She refers to him running his fingers through her hair.
"Well I suppose we don't have to leave right now..."
"No...we should go. But promise you'll do it again later?"
"Promise." He smiles, before leaning down and kissing her quickly.
She sits up and kisses him properly. After she pulls away, she stands up and makes sure
to grab whatever she may need, before heading out the door with Mike and out to the car.
After a bit, they get out of the car at the boardwalk. As of right now, it's not so crowded...a few
people here and there.
"Wow, this looks like it goes on forever."
"No kidding."
"But there's tons of stuff to do, which is why it's so long."
She nods and laces her fingers with his as they start to walk. Since he's been to the
boardwalk before, as they walk he points out all the best places for food and whatnot.
Eventually they stop, and they look up to see that it's the tattoo place.
"Here we are."
They go in and she explains what she wants. The guy goes and gets it all set up before
calling her over. Mike follows, curious. She pulls up her shirt and uses a hair tie to hold it in
place. While the guy comes over the side where she's getting the tattoo, Mike comes over to
her other side and sits next to her.
"Ready?" The guy asks.
She nods and so he starts. She clenches her jaw, closing her eyes. Mike reaches over and
grabs her hand, to comfort her the whole time. She squeezes his hand and opens her eyes.
"I'm okay. The first part is usually the worst." She says as he looks concerned.
"Well, I'm still going to hold your hand anyway."
"Okay." She smiles.
After the tattoo was done after a long time, the guy had covered it and whatnot like what
tends to happen with new tattoos. She walks over to the desk and pay for it, before walking
back out onto the boardwalk.
"Now to have fun."
"Yep, let's go."
They walk down the boardwalk, sometimes stopping to watch performers or to look at
souvenirs. Occasionally they get stopped by fans too.
"Despite the clouds, this day is turning out to be pretty good."
"Yeah it is." She smiles.
"One more day here until we have to fly down to Tampa."
"Right." She sighs.
"I will try to be careful in that match Sunday. I know it's brutal."
She nods, frowning a little.
"I know. I'm just worried what might happen after what happened at Wrestlemania. And that
wasn't even an extreme match so there's so much more that can go wrong."
He frowns himself, before stopping and pulling her into a tight hug.
"And then there's the people that you're facing..." She mumbles.
"I know, I hate it just as much as you do..."
"Alright, let's get off that subject. I don't want it to ruin this good day."
"Right, we'll deal with it when it comes up. We're here for time off and to have fun."
She nods again and reaches up for a short kiss. He returns it and kisses back, before
pulling away and keeping one arm around her as they walk furter down the boardwalk. After
a while, they get down tot he end and turn back around to head back tot he car. Mike is
holding the bag that has a few things they bought.
"So how has the day been for you so far?" He asks, as they reach the car.
"Good." She smiles.
"My feet kind of hurt now and my side too but other than that, I'm good."
"Well when we get back, you can rest your feet and your side."
She nods and gets into the car. He gets in himself, and then they start heading back to the
condo for the rest of the day.
~Smackdown~
Alex and I are sitting backstage, him in his ring gear and a Smackdown shirt of course. The show starts and immediately shows footage from the draft on Monday. From the matches and to who got drafted and to where. Including Mike's match with him, Punk and Del Rio against John, Christian and Henry. They ended with that before going to the new intro of Smackdown.
"Awww you're not in the new intro." I say after it ended.
"Well hopefully I'll get put in after a while."
"I hope so."
After the show was introduced, Randy's music played, and he walked out to everyone
cheering for him. He walks out all happy and everything. He gets into the ring, and he grabs
a mic before his music fades, and the crowd goes crazy.
"Now, for those of you who don't know me...please allow me to introduce myself. I'm Randy
Orton. And now for the first time in almost 5 years, because of the WWE draft I am back here
once again on the Smackdown roster. While I'm looking forward to the many many
challenges that lie ahead, this Sunday at Extreme Rules...I have a little bit of unfinished
business to attend to."
"Watch him get interrupted." I say.
"Involving CM Punk. Now come this Sunday..." Randy starts to say but is cut off by Drew's
music.
"I so called that."
"Yes you did." Alex chuckles.
"I'm sorry, did I buy a ticket to see all of you? Come on everybody, Randy Orton is on
Smackdown. But with the good news, comes the bad news for everybody. Drew McIntyre is
moving onwards and outwards to Monday Night Raw. It's a real shame Randy...a real
shame. It looks like the WWE Universe..." Drew says, while getting into the ring.
"...will have to wait a little bit longer for Drew McIntyre vs Randy Orton."
"Pfft, Randy would kick your ass buddy." I say to the tv.
"Okay, I can tell by the look in your eyes, and these people know exactly what you want to do.
But Randy, I'm just out here to say hello...and goodbye." Drew says, dropping the mic and
kicking Randy, getting in position for his finisher.
Randy counters it and ends up giving him an RKO.
"See? Told you." I state.
"You are on a roll tonight aren't you." Alex says amusedly.
"I guess I am." I laugh.
But then out of nowhere Alex gets up and starts heading for the door.
"Where are you going?"
"Nowhere..."
"Alex, don't go out there. You're just going to get hurt...or at least RKO'd."
"I'm just want to go talk to him."
"And that's gonna lead to an RKO. I just finally got on good terms with him, he does it
again...drama all over again. Don't go out there."
"Carebear..."
"You go out there, I'm coming with you. Don't expect me to be happy about what happens.
Because I know what WILL happen...I mean it is Randy afterall."
He sighs and nods. I get up and follow him out.
"Now...as I was saying..." Randy trails off, before Alex's new music hit.
We both walk out to his new music, I trailed behind him as he walked down the ramp with a
not so pleased look on his face. As I walk down the ramp behind him, I just shake my head.
He points to the Smackdown logo on the shirt saying that this is his show, before stopping
at the bottom of the ramp and glaring at Randy. Randy looks at me and I shrug. Alex gets
into the ring, after grabbing the mic that was left on the stairs for him. He looks around,
before looking right at Randy and walking towards him going to say something. But of
course before he could say anything he suffered the RKO like always. I just sigh and shake
my head, turning to walk back up the ramp. I get backstage and wait for Alex.
"I freaking told you..." I say as he comes through the curtain.
"I know Carly."
"Yet you still went out there. If this is what you're gonna do on Smackdown, go after
Randy...then you won't be seeing me around here."
"I'm not going to come here with you, just to see you do stupid things that you know are
going to get you nowhere or that will get you hurt." I add.
"This is the only time I'm letting this slide. Next week if you do anything stupid like you did
tonight, you can forget about me appearing on the show. I'll stick to Raw, and you can be
alone without me here. I can't save you from the RKO without possibly getting hurt myself." I
continue.
Alex sighs and hangs his head.
"You better hope you can make up for this."
"I know you're mad, but I love you." He nods quietly.
"...I know you do."
Alex sighs again, knowing I'm too mad to say it back. He starts to walk back to the room and
I walk behind him silently. We walk back in the room, and sit down on the couch to watch the
rest of the show. My arm is hanging over the side of the couch, and I had my head resting on
it. I look at my hand and sigh as I play with the ring on my finger. Alex is sitting on the other
side of the couch, silent as can be. He keeps looking over at me and then inwardly kicking
himself for causing this. Then the silence is broken by my phone ringing. Aly's ringtone
goes off, and I take my phone out of my pocket and answer it as I get up and head outside of
the room to talk to her.
"Hello?"
"What was that?"
"You know, I haev no freaking idea. I told him not to go out there. He didn't even listen to me."
"Wow."
"He just wanted to talk to Randy. He didn't even get one word in, just got RKO'd instantly.
That's why you saw me shake my head and walk away."
"Gotcha...you'd think that Alex would have learned his lesson from all those times before..."
"I know right? I'm just tired of his stupidity. I can't save him from Randy like I save him from
John. I'm at risk for getting hurt around Randy. I laid down the line, trust me. He does one
more stupid thing, he can forget about me coming here with him, and I'm not kidding."
"I know you're not."
"I don't know if I can stay here anymore, I'm tempted to just walk back to the hotel."
"Don't go off by yourself. You know all three of your stalkers are there tonight and they'll take
any opportunity to corner you."
"Ted already tried today back at the hotel. All it takes is one phone call and the restraining
order can be put back on them, I already threatened Ted with that."
"Oh...well don't give them any more opportunities. We don't want anything to happen to you."
"Well since Natalya is here on Smackdown now, I can ask her for a ride back I guess...if I
really wanted to leave."
"That would work, just let Alex know. I know you're mad at him but you need to tell him if
you're leaving so he doesn't flip out."
"I know, I wouldn't leave without telling him."
"Just making sure."
"He's probably thinking that this could possibly cause me to call off the wedding. That's
something I can't do. Especially not since it's almost a month until it."
"You should probably tell him that. Let him know that even though you're mad at him that
he's still going to be your husband, he just has some making up to do."
"I know, I'll do that. Thanks for calling by the way, I needed someone to talk to about all this."
"Hey, that's what I'm here for."
"I'll see you Sunday at my place in Florida okay?"
"Of course. See you then Dolce."
We say 'bye' to each other before hanging up. I stand there for a while, contemplating
whether I should stay or leave. I eventually decide that it's in my best interest to leave, so I
walk off to go find Natalya to ask for a ride back to the hotel. I find her in the Diva's locker
room, watching the show.
"Hey Nat." I greet as I walk in.
"Oh hi Carly." She smiles.
"Can you do me a favor? Do you think you can drive me back to the hotel real quick? I can't
stay here after what happened earlier."
"Sure thing hun." She agrees, getting up.
We head out of the locker room, and stop by the room so I can collect my things that I had
brought. I walk in and go over to where I was sitting, grab my bag and drop my phone in it.
"I'm heading back..." I say, before Alex could ask where I was going.
"Okay." He says quietly.
"Natalya's giving me a ride, so don't worry you can still get back. Another thing to not worry
about is the wedding, it's still happening. I'm still marrying you, you just have a lot of making
up to do."
Alex looks pretty relieved.
"I love you Carly."
"...I love you too." I say after a few seconds of being quiet.
He looks even more relieved to hear that from me. He reaches out and grabs my hand,
kissing the back of it.
"I'll see you in a few hours."
He nods and lets go of my hand. I walk back over to the door, and open it but stand there for
a few moments contemplating something. I then turn and walk back over to him and lean
down, kissing his cheek. He turns and gives me a small smile. I smile slightly back, before
walking out and closing the door behind me. Natalya's standing there, waiting for me. We
head downt he hall and out to her car, heading back to the hotel. In the meantime after Aly
had gotten off the phone with me, she sighs and shakes her head.
"What's going on?" Mike asks.
"They got into an argument kind of."
"Basically Dolce was telling him not to go out there, that he was going to get hurt or
whatever and obviously as we saw, he didn't listen." She adds.
"So she's going back to the hotel. I really don't blame her." She continues.
"No. He's got making up to do, doesn't he."
"Majorly."
"But I can see where he gets it from. You've done pretty stupid things before yourself." She
adds.
Mike looks sheepish.
"Let's just hope you don't do anything stupid anytime soon."
"I promise I'll try not to."
"You better."
He leans down and kisses her cheek. She turns her head and catches his lips briefly.
"Love you, no matter what stupid thing you do." She smiles.
"Love you too."
Then she snuggles against him as they watch the rest of the show. By the time the show
ends, Aly's asleep with her head on his lap while he plays with her hair. Instead of normally
moving her to bring her into the bedroom to go to sleep, he stretches out a bit and get
comfortable on the couch. He plays with her hair some more before slowly drifint off to sleep
himself. Meanwhile I'm laying in bed when Alex comes in from the show. I turn to lay on my
back, because my back was to the door originally. Before moving, I wipe my eyes because
between worrying about him getting hurt and the arguing earlier tonight, it just got too much
for me. Alex frowns as he sees the motion. He sets his things down and comes over by me,
sitting on the edge of the bed by where I'm laying. He silently opens his arms for a hug,
sensing that I need the comfort. I sit up and look at him, before moving forward and
basically just cling to him, burying my face in his shoulder. Alex closes his arms around me
and lays his head against mine.
"I'm sorry love, really. I'll make it up to you."
"I know...between you not listening to me, almost getting hurt, and the arguing...it all just
sunk in and really got to me." I explain, partially muffled due to his shoulder.
"I know."
"I honestly at first wasn't thinking of getting a ride back here, I told Aly I was gonna walk."
"I'm glad you didn't."
"You wouldn't have let me anyway, even if I tried."
"You're right, I wouldn't."
I pull away and lift my head from his shoulder. I look at him as I lace the fingers of both
hands with his.
"If you want to still make up for what you did, you can. But you clearly showed tonight that you
were really sorry...I will forgive you."
"Thank you." He kisses my forehead.
"And yes, I'm still making it up to you. I owe you that much."
I nod, and smile a bit.
"Alright, you should change so we can get to sleep. We are heading down to my place
tomorrow because of Extreme Rules Sunday."
"Right. Just one last thing." Alex says, before leaning in and kissing me.
I let go of his hands and move mine to resting on his neck, and leave them there when he
pulls away.
"Now that I needed."
He just smiles and gives me another quick kiss before getting up to go change for bed. After
he changes, he climbs into bed next to me and I immediately snuggle against his side and
lay my head on his chest. We say goodnight to eachother before he turns out the light and
we drift off to sleep.