It All Started With A Kiss

by Riley-Mizfit

Carly is Mike 'The Miz' Mizanin's friend. But she has grown attached to his NXT rookie Alex Riley. Miz plays matchmaker for the two, what will become of it?

209. Money In The Bank

It's the day of the pay-per-view and Alex and I had flown in yesterday. We all decided to make a trip to the gym, because Alex, Mike and myself are in matches. When we got there, Aly and I went over to the treadmills to walk on them. We exchange smiles and giggles when we realize that we're in perfect view to watch the guys work out.

"You know what you can do tonight? You can come out to the ring with me, maybe even bring those cans of spray just in case."

"Oooh, sounds fun to me." She grins.

"Nikki tries anything, you get her with the spray." I laugh.

Aly laughs too.

"I do have a bad feeling about John's match though."

"I just don't have a good feelnig about tonight in general." She mutters.

"Well we can hope our feelings are wrong...which they usually aren't but...yeah."

"Right."

"You know I don't think they even know that we can see them." I laugh, pointing over to the guys.

"That or they're pretending they don't see us."

"Yeah, they are sneaky like that."

"Yes they are." She nods.

"They're looking over here, act like you don't see them."

She snickers and opens her ipod's case to change the song she's listening to. I just pretend to be looking out a nearby window.

"This is so awkward." Aly hisses in Italian, trying not to laugh.

"I know." I say back in Italian.

She puts her ipod back where it was and listens to the music while walking. She rubs her stomach absentmindedly. Then I look back over at them in hopes of them still not looking, but in fact they still are. I quickly advert my eyes. Aly snickers.

"Yeah, they haven't looked away yet."

"I noticed."

Then I take a quick glance again, and they seem to be gone.

"Heyyy, they're gone."

She shrugs. I just shrug it off and focus on the walking, but then all of a sudden a pair of arms wrap around me. I wasn't expecting it so I squeaked and jumped slightly in surprise. I hear Alex laughing at me. I stop the treadmill and turn around in his arms.

"You scared me." I say, hitting him on the chest lightly.

"Sorry." He snickers.

"Uh huh..."

Alex gives a cheesy grin.

"I love you."

"Love you too."

Aly giggles quietly, still walking on her treadmill. Then I have no choice but to get off the treadmill with him and walk off with him, while Mike takes my place on the treadmill so he's with Aly. She glances over.

"Hi."

"Hi." He says back.

She reaches out and takes his hand, lacing their fingers together. He lifts her hand and kisses it. She smiles.

"Love you."

"Love you too."

Aly and Mike continue to walk on the treadmills, their fingers still laced. Her free hand rests on her belly while she walks and out of the corner of her eye, she can see Mike glancing at her stomach. She laughs lightly. He shakes his head and stops his treadmill, moving over to stand on the side of hers so he can put a hand on her stomach too.

"You are such a goof." She tells him.

"Your goof." He corrects.

"Always." She smiles.

We stick around the gym for a couple hours or so, before deciding to get some lunch. From there we head back to the hotel to hang around until we have to get ready for the show. Alex and I are in our room getting ready. As usual Alex finishes first and then watches as I finish. I had already gotten my hair done and everything, before grabbing shoes and sitting on the bed as I put them on and buckle them. Alex whistles. I roll my eyes and shake my head amusedly. He snickers.

"Enjoy it while you can, my match is the 2nd of the night tonight."

"Ah. I'll do that."

"Ready to go?" I ask, after standing back up.

"Yeah." He nods, getting up himself.

We grab our things and start to head out, but before we could, Alex steals a quick kiss. I smile at him when he pulls away and then the two of us walk out with our arms around each other. In Aly and Mike's room, she comes out of the bathroom after getting ready. Mike looks up and then takes a double take once he sees what she's wearing. She finishes clasping her necklace and walks over to her shoes sitting on the floor. She picks them up and sits on the bed to put them on. After she stands back up from putting her shoes on, she looks at Mike who is staring at her with a big grin on his face. She can't help but laugh.

"Take it you like this."

"You have no idea."

"Well from the size of the grin on your face, it's a lot." She laughs.

"...uh huh..."

"You can admire later Lover Boy. We have a show to get to."

"...right." He says, snapping himself out of it.

She giggles and grabs her purse, waiting for him by the door. He grabs his bag and walks over, and then they head out the door and down to the car. We get to the arena and as usual, head for the locker rooms first. After dropping our things off we head to the usual room and sit down on the couches, waiting for the pay-per-view to start. Aly yelps a little as Mike pulls her super close.

"Hi to you too, goodness."

Then he takes her legs and lifts them up and drapes them over his lap. She looks amused and puts her arms around his chest, laying her head against his shoulder/neck.

"Awwww."

"You're all cuddly over there too." Aly retorts.

"He started it." I laugh, pointing at Alex.

"Sure." She laughs.

Soon the show starts and a video package airs to open it. From there we go right to the arena and the pyro goes off, before Cole welcomes everyone to the pay-per-view and is joined by Jerry and Booker T. To start off the pay-per-view is the Smackdown Money In The Bank ladder match.

"Not really interested in this."

Sin Cara, Wade, Gabriel, Sheamus, Cody, Slater, Daniel Bryan and Kane come out in that order. As soon as the bell rings they all battle it out. But when the smoke clears, it's down to Kane, Wade and Sheamus in the ring. Kane double clotheslines both Wade and Sheamus over the top rope and grabs a ladder. There's a lot of dropkicks into the ladder until Slater ends up bringing the ladder into the ring. Justin gets onto the ladder, but Daniel Bryan dropkicks him off.

"Oh too bad." I snicker.

Cody sets up a ladder and starts to climb it, but Sheamus gets into the ring and pulls him down. Several of the guys do over the top rope dives onto the floor, sulminating with Sin Cara coming off the top rope and landing on Sheamus on the floor. Then replays of all that were played. Sin Cara and Daniel Bryan do flips off the top rope. Then Wade sets up a ladder bridge from the ring to the spanish announce table.

"Oooh that's gonna be a really bad spot to land."

"Uh yeah."

Sheamus manages to grab Sin Cara and powerbomb him through the bridge ladder. I cringe.

"Ohhh ouch!"

"Ohhhh. Oh my god." Aly winces.

Replays are played with somber voices from the announcers. EMT/paramedics come out with a stretcher. While the match goes on, they get Sin Cara onto the stretcher and roll him out of the ring area.

"Well he won't be competing anymore."

"Nope."

Sheamus continues the action with knocking everyone down with a ladder. Then for the 2nd time of the night a 'CM Punk' chant broke out during the match. Wade, Justin and Heath are in the ring by the ladder. Wade is seen telling them to let him climb up and win the match. They agree at first but when he starts to climb, they pull him down and beat him up, before throwing him out to the floor and then arguing with each other as to who's going to climb up and win.

"Hah. Thought he could reason with them...stupid."

"Idiot."

Cody hits the Cross-Rhodes on Slater, and then starts to climb the ladder. Wade comes back in to stop him and he does. But then Cody hits the Cross-Rhodes on Wade and starts to climb again. This time Sheamus comes in and stops him, and he starts to climb. Now Bryan is back in the ring to stop him. Sheamus holds Bryan up and Kane comes off the top rope with a clothesline. Then Sheamus wedges a ladder between the ropes and another ladder that is set up long-ways. Kane chokeslams Cody and Justin before fighting Bryan on the ladder. Bryan knocks Kane out of the ring and now Slater is on the ladder with Bryan. They soon come crashing down to the mat, hard.

"Oooh." I wince.

"Ouch."

Sheamus hits his big kick finisher on several guys, leaving everyone laying there. There's ladders set up everywhere now and Sheamus lays a ladder sideways across the top rope in one of the corners. Sheamus and Kane battle on top of the ladder, before Kane chokeslams Sheamus onto the bridge-ladder set up. Everyone is ganging up on Kane, until Wade hits the Waste-land on him, and Gabriel hits the 450 Splash off the ladder that was laying sideways across the rope. Now everyone is hitting their finishers. Wade, Bryan and Cody are all on top of one ladder. Cody is knocked off, and now Bryan and Wade are fighting. Wade goes for Waste-land off the top of the ladder but Bryan is fighting out of it. Out of nowhere he kicks Wade off the ladder, and then climbs to the top and captures the briefcase, winning the match.

"Ewwww...the nerd got it..."

"I bet whenever he cashes in he loses." Mike scoffs, before muttering 'nerd' himself.

Aly laughs.

"Well, I should go get ready now. Coming with me Aly?" I interject.

"Yup." She agrees, untangling from Mike.

I untangle myself from Alex's arms and stand up, but not before kissing him first.

"Have a good match, I love you." He says.

"Love you too."

Aly kisses Mike gently.

"I'll be careful." She says before he says it.

"Good." He nods.

"Love you."

"Love you too."

The two of us leave the room.

"Time for yet another beat down." I laugh.

"This is gonna be fun." Aly laughs.

Then we get to the locker room and walk in. I get ready as we talk about the match and everything.

"Let's go." I smirk evilly.

She grins and agrees, pulling the door open. Then we go down to the curtain and wait as the Bellas had just went out. Aly goes and asks for two spray cans from a stagehand and gets them just as my music hits. Then she and I walk out together, and of course the crowd goes nuts. Not only for me, but for her as we're introduced and we walk down the ramp. Aly laughs and waves at the fans, slapping hands with some of them. I get into the ring and pose with the title a couple times, before hand the title to the ref as my music fades. Nikki gets out of the ring and then the bell rings to start the match. Of course Brie starts her mocking of me like she always does to everyone, and I'm not amused by it. So I just smack her in the face and she stumbles away. When she comes back I clothesline her near the ropes, and she slides out going over to Nikki to recooperate. Nikki makes sure that Brie is okay and I can sense that they might try the Twin Magic on me. So I just shake my head and run towards the ropes, bouncing off of them and sliding through the top and middle rope, landing on the both of them. I get back up and grab Brie, throwing her back into the ring before getting in myself. She stumbles over to the ropes and leans against them, and I come over and push her throat into the middle rope, letting go before the ref counts to 5. She's still leaning against the middle rope and this is when I decide to bring back an old move of Mike's. I back up a bit before running full speed, using Brie as a support to fling myself over the top rope and drop my hands on her head, making her throat bounce off the middle rope. I climb back up onto the apron as Brie rolls around, and then Nikki comes over to stop me as the ref is tending to Brie. I see her out of the corner of my eye and Aly comes over to get her with the spray. Nikki sees her but before she can back off, I kick her in the face sending her falling into the barricade. I turn back around and Brie kicks my feet out from under me, making my head hit the side of the ring and I land out onto the ground. She rolls out of the ring and picks me up, throwing me back into the ring and goes for the pin. The ref gets to 2 and I kick out. Brie gets me to a sitting position and does one of her submission moves by twisting my arm back and applying pressure. I manage to get my other arm up and elbow her in the face a few times, making her let go. I go to get up to my feet but Brie beats me to it and kicks me in the back, making me roll over to the ropes.

She walks back over to me, hoping to get me by surprise. But I turn the tables on her and sweep her feet out from under her. I go in for the pin, but she kicks out at 2. I get up and wait for her to get up before I spear her and repeatedly start hitting her in the face. I get up and wait for her to get up again, and when she does I throw her across that ring by her hair and I make sure to really throw her. When she gets up I clothesline her and help her up. Then I wrap an arm around her neck and deliver a neckbreaker. I go for the pin, but Brie kicks out. We both get up and I kick her in the gut before punching her a few times. I go to get her on my shouders to do Alex's finisher that he used to do, but she slides off and pushes me into the ropes. I bounce back and duck from her move and when I come back again, I clothesline her. I go for a pin attempt but she kicks out again. We both get up, but she catches me offguard and drops my leg back onto the mat, going for the pin and I kick out of course. There is no way I'm letting her win.

"Whyyyyyy?" Brie screams as we both start to get up.

Brie goes to do something to me, but I push her into the ropes. She comes back and I duck her move and then dropkick her. She gets back up, and when she does I do my roundhouse kick, knocking her out and I cover her. The ref counts to three and I have retained the title. Aly cheers and gets into the ring to hug me. The ref hands me back the title before I hug her, and after we pull away, she raises my hand in victory as the Bellas argue with each other as they go back up the ramp. We both laugh at them. We wait for them to leave, before we left the ring and headed backstage. While we were walking back to the room...not the locker room...we saw the Summerslam promo play on the screen. Aly pauses as she sees Mike on it. I giggle as I see her facial expression and I nudge her.

"Shut up." She blushes.

"Oooooh." I tease, snickering.

"Stop it." She says, her cheeks getting redder.

"Okay okay, I'll stop."

Her cheeks are still red as we get back to the room. When we walked in, the guys were already changed into their ring gear as they were sitting on the couches. I sit down by Alex and cuddle into him. Aly takes her place beside Mike and tries to hide her red cheeks.

"What happened? You're blushing." He asks.

"Nothing."

"Doesn't seem like nothing."

She shakes her head and then eyes me.

"Not a word out of you either." She points at me.

I just hold up my hands in defense and laugh. Mike's looking between us.

"Okay now I'm really curious."

She shakes her head again.

"Not telling."

He goes to say something else but is interrupted by the tv with the next match, that being Big Show vs Mark Henry.

"I have a bad feeling about this match."

"Its always bad when its Henry, he's nuts."

"He's worse than Truth."

"Yeah pretty much."

Henry comes out first, followed by Show. Big Show has the upperhand so far until they get out onto the floor and Henry takes control, working on the knee of Show. They get back in the ring and Henry continues his attack on Show's leg, before putting it in a leg submission hold. Show gets to the ropes to break the hold and then he comes off the second rope with shoulder block. Then he grabs the knee that Mark has been working upon landing. Big Show is calling for the chokeslam as Mark works his way to his feet. But he blocks it and nails Show with the World's Strongest Slam. He goes for a pin attempt but Big Show kicks out at two. Mark picks him up again nails him with the World's Strongest Slam. He follows up with two big splashes, and after another pin attempt he gets the 1-2-3 for the finish. After the match, Henry goes to the floor and grabs a chair. He comes back into the ring with it as Big Show is still laid out. He opens the metal folding chair up and places Show's leg inside of it. Henry goes to the corner onto one of the turbuckles before jumping off and slamming down onto the chair and Show's leg and he freaks out like his leg is broken.

"Oh my god." Aly cringes, turning her face against Mike's chest.

He gets helped out of the ring by the EMTs. A stretcher is brought out for the 2nd time in 3 matches. Big Show can be overheard saying 'I'm serious, I think he broke my foot'. And then another random 'CM Punk' chant breaks out as Show is taken to the back. Then we see Josh Matthews appear backstage where Vince is talking to Johnny Ace.

"Unfortunately this is where we need to leave. The Raw Money in the Bank match is next." Mike says.

We both sigh.

"Just be careful...as much as you can...both of you." I add.

Aly nods in agreement, biting her lip. Mike wraps her in his arms, before kissing her. Alex does the same with me and then they both get up.

"We'll try." Mike says, before they both leave the room

"I don't like this. I really don't like the feeling I'm getting." Aly looks over at me, frowning and rubbing her stomach.

I frown and get up from the couch I'm on and sit next to her on the couch she's sitting on. She leans into me.

"I'm worried something bad is going to happen."

"I know, I'm worried too."

We lean against each other and wait for the match to start.

Dorito, Kofi, Lispy, Evan, Truth, Alex, Mike and Rey all come out in that order for the 2nd Money In The Bank match. They all bring their own ladder to the ring and everyone goes after Dorito first and Dorito is sent to the floor. Mike goes after Alex while Rey and Evan battle with their ladders. Lispy throws a ladder on Dorito followed by Evan, Kofi, and Rey. Mike hits Rey with the ladder he has and then sends Rey onto Del Rio.

"Aha that's what you get Dorito!"

Aly snickers a bit.

Lispy throws a ladder but misses and then Alex sends him to the apron. Alex throws a ladder at Swagger and it knocks him to the floor. Truth and Mike battle with their small ladders but Swagger comes in and takes care of both of them. Kofi and Evan climb onto the ladder Swagger brought in, but it isn't big enough to reach the case. Truth does a split under the ladder as they work together hit him, but they hit him anyway. Rey leaps off the ladder and he sends Swagger over the top with a head scissors. Alex delivers an atomic drop to Truth onto the side of the ladder followed by a kick to the head.

"Hah!"

"Go DC."

Alex gets a small ladder and he sets it up, but he's about six feet too low from the briefcase.

"Oh Alex...it's too small...dummy." I shake my head.

Aly laughs a little.

Mike stops Alex but he hits Mike with the ladder and it sends Mike to the floor. Alex delivers a placha onto Mike and Swagger. Truth does a split, followed by a dive onto Mike, Alex and Swagger. Kofi and Rey go up to the top, jumping onto the Alex, Mike, Swagger and Truth with cross bodies. We both cringe. Evan climbs a big ladder on the floor and he hits a shooting star press onto everyone down on the floor while Del Rio is nowhere to be found.

"Whoa!"

"Oh jeez." Aly winces.

Evan sets up a larger ladder in the ring and he starts to climb, but Mike gets in and stops him at the top. Evan hits Mike with a round kick to the head but Mike stays on the ladder. Mike and Evan have their hands on the case for a bit before Del Rio comes in from nowhere and tips the ladder. Evan falls to the ring, while Mike is dangling in the air, holding the case. Then he falls and he's holding his knee, screaming in pain. Aly's eyes go huge and she starts to freak out. Mike is being checked on by the trainers while Del Rio climbs the ladder. They go to check his knee but he screams in pain for them not to touch it. They all agree that he needs to get out of the ring area, so they help him up and backstage to get checked out further. I try to calm her down but she still freaks out, hyperventilating.

"Alright, let's get you to the trainer's." I say, starting to freak out and I help you up and we walk out quickly and head to the trainer's.

We get there and I explain what's happened to one of the trainer's that isn't busy. She has Aly sit down and she puts an oxygen mask on her face, telling her to breathe as deeply as she can. Then she gets a blood pressure cuff and brings it over so that she can check her pressure. I look over at the tv screen to see everyone at the top of many ladders now reaching for the case and beating each other up. It ends up with Swagger pulling Del Rio off, and then Swagger gets knocked off. Then Alex pushes Evan off and he hits the floor. With Truth, Rey and Kofi ganging up on Alex, he too falls to the ring and rolls out onto the floor. I cringe as I watch him fall from the ladder. It comes down to Kofi and Swagger, they both fall and then out of nowhere Mike comes hobbling back to the ring and he hops up the ladder step by step, going for the case.

"What is he doing?"

Aly's eyes go wide again.

"What the hell does he think he's doing?"

Aly's voice is muffled by the oxygen mask over her nose and mouth. Rey gets to him though and hits him with a sunset flip powerbomb off the ladder. Mike is laying in the ring until he rolls out and he's attended to again. It's down to Rey and Del Rio in the ring, and in the end Del Rio unmasks Rey, and gets rid of him before climbing back up and claiming the briefcase.

"He's...going...to...pay...for what he did." I mutter with clenched teeth, anger seething though me.

"Be careful." Aly calls as I go storming out.

I rush through the halls to the curtain and quickly go down the ramp, making sure that Del Rio isn't paying attention. First I go over to Mike to check on him myself.

"I'll yell at you later but you need to get back there. I had to take Aly to the trainer's office because she started hyperventilating and wouldn't calm down." I tell him.

"She's in an oxygen mask and her blood pressure is being monitored." I add.

Mike looks worried.

"Now I have a Dorito to crush."

I stand up and sneak my way around to the side of the ring behind Del Rio. I slide in and I grab the ladder, pushing with all my strength. He starts yelling at me in spanish, before he goes crashing to the ring. I move the ladder out of the way in favore of getting a smaller one that was in the ring. I pick it up, walking over to him with a look of pure anger on my face. I lift it up and then throw it on him and the crowd goes 'Ohhhhh!'. Then I pick it back up and flip it upside down, slamming the top, flat part onto his gut. I keep using the ladder to my advantage, and go for one more hit but the ladder is taken from my hands. I turn around to see that Alex has taken the ladder away from me and tosses it away.

"Calm down, come on. I think you've done enough." He says, taking my face in his hands.

"No...not only did he hurt Mike. Aly's at the trainer's...she was hyperventilating and I couldn't calm her down. He deserves this."

"You're going to get in trouble love, we don't want that."

"...I know."

"Come on, let's go check on them."

I nod and by this time Mike was taken backstage. When we got backstage, we went to the trainer's where Aly still was, and where Mike now was to get his knee checked out more. Aly's still sitting down with the mask on, breathing as deep as she can manage and she has her eyes closed. I go over to Mike and Alex stays with Aly. By the time I walked over to Mike, the trainer has moved away from him, and he has a bag of ice resting on his knee.

"That was really stupid of you to go back out there you know." I say as I sit by him.

"I know. They popped my knee back into place, it just hurt a lot. I thought I had the perfect chance to grab the briefcase...hurt knee or not."

"You need to think before you do these things now Mike. Its not just you anymore. You have Aly and the baby to think of now."

"I understand your determination to win 2 times in a row, but it was a crazy determination. You should've just held onto the ladder when Del Rio tipped it. You wouldn't be here right now." I add.

"I know." He sighs.

"Now I don't know how Aly's gonna react when she recovers. I can assume it won't be good."

Mike winces.

"She was mad when you came back out to the ring."

He sighs and hangs his head.

"I would've gotten in trouble out there with what I was doing to Del Rio. Too many mixed emotions from what happened."

"I bet." He nods.

"Another close call tonight. I don't..." I trail off, feeling my eyes start to water, but hold back whatever tears wanted to fall.

"...I don't want to see you seriously hurt or even close to it."

"Oh Carls..." Mike trails off and hugs me.

"I care about you too much to see that happen to you."

"I know."

Then I look over at Aly and Alex, and she's taken off the oxygen mask and she's now talking to him.

"That mask stinks. Plastic smells weird." She says while the lady trainer checks her blood pressure again.

"I bet it does, but I'm glad you're okay." Alex replies.

She smiles a little at him and puts her head against his shoulder.

"Can't be having you or little Jellybean getting hurt."

"I know."

"Try not to scare us like that again okay?"

"I'll try."

"As long as you try, we'll all be okay."

She nods.

"Are you alright? That looked like a bad fall." She asks him.

"Yeah I'm okay, probably be a little bruised and sore but I should be okay."

"Good."

"You probably want to know how Mike's doing right?"

She nods lightly before glancing at the trainer.

"Your pressure came down, you're okay to go." She says.

She thanks her before she gets up and crosses the room. She and Alex walk over to me and Mike and they see him hugging me, and I'm sniffling. She puts her hand on my shoulder. I pick my head up and look at her, wiping the tears from my face.

"Heyy, you're okay."

"Mmhmm. My pressure came back down and everything." She nods, hugging me.

"Thank god."

She pulls away and Alex takes me into his arms.

"Mike will be okay Aly."

She nods tearfully.

"I'll let him tell you what happened."

"Okay."

He sighs first.

"When I fell, I dislocated my knee."

She winces and sits down by his side.

"When they brought me backstage, they popped it back into place. I was hurting but I thought I'd take a chance to get the briefcase. Hence why you saw me back out there."

"That was stupid."

"I know."

"You really scared me." She mutters softly.

"I know I did, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I scared the both of you. I didn't mean to hang onto the case and fall from the air."

"I know it was instinct but still. You screaming in pain..." She trails off and closes her watery eyes, biting her lip.

He frowns and pulls her into his arms. She buries her face in his shoulder.

"You don't like the sound, I know."

"I never want to hear that again."

"I can't promise that, because I don't know what's gonna happen in future matches, but I'll try."

She nods and presses a kiss to his shoulder.

"Are you going to be okay for Wednesday?"

"I should be. It'll hurt for a while, and the ice will keep the swelling down."

She nods again, sighing quietly.

"You're okay, that's all that matters." She adds.

He nods himself.

"And you're okay...that's what matters the most. You and Jellybean."

"...yeah.." She agrees.

"I don't know what I would do if anything happened to the two of you."

"Well let's just hope that we never have to find out."

"Love you."

"Love you too."

"Well I'm gonna go get changed back into my regular clothes. See you two back in the room?" I interject.

"Yeah."

I give them one more hug, before Alex and I leave.

"Do you think we can get you to the locker room so that you can get changed? I think all of us are more than ready to go home now." Aly asks Mike.

"Yeah, I can walk...I'll just be limping because of the pain that's all."

Aly sighs and nods, pulling away from him so she can get up. Once she gets up, he removes the ice from his knee, holding onto the bag for later, and he carefully gets up while grimacing from the pain.

"Lean on me so you don't put so much weight on that knee." She tells him, pulling his arm over her shoulders and slides one of her arms around his waist.

He leans on her as they walk out of the trainer's room and out into the hall, all the way down to the locker room.

"Are you going to be able to get changed by yourself?" She asks while chewing her lip as they get to the locker room door.

"I should be able to. If I have to I'll just put shorts on or something instead of the jeans."

"Call me if you need help." She presses her lips to his cheek.

"I will." He nods, letting go of her and opening the door to the locker room, limping inside.

Aly sighs and sits down against the wall across from the door rubbing her stomach as she spaces out. It takes a while, but the door finally opens and Mike limps out with his bag in one hand the the ice bag in the other. She gets back up and takes his bag from him. Then she pulls him back into the position they were in before with his arm around her shoulders and her arm around his waist. By the time they got back to the room, Alex and I had walked out of it and I had all our things in my hands.

"I got everything. Makes it quicker and easier to get to the car."

Mike and her both nod.

"My car keys are in my purse." She says since I'm holding it.

I nod, and we all head out to the car. When we reach it I take the keys out of her purse, and then we put our things in the trunk. I hand her purse back to her once we're all in the car, and then we head back to her place. I'm driving with Alex sitting in the passenger seat while Mike and Aly are in the back, his legs across her lap and the ice bag on his knee. When we get back to the house, she helps Mike out of course, and I go around to the trunk to grab our things. Then we walk up to the front door and I unlock it, and we all walk inside. Alex and I take Mike and Aly's things to their room.

"Thanks. Night guys." She says, smiling a little.

"You're welcome. Night."