"I guess it's nap time" Rei smiles at his twin daughters who have fallen asleep in his arms, he carries them off and tucks them into bed before returning to his couch. The aging wrestler relaxes and slowly put his hands behind his head before laying, grimacing at the pain in his left shoulder before noticing his pet turtles in their tank.

"Studdly and Pudgy I'll finish my story with you two" Rei says to his two Red-eared sliders who simply sat on their rock.


挿話2

Insomnia

"I think we need to talk" Raine and Sara say simultaneously as the pair wear a concerned look on their face.

"Your blackout spells...they're really freaky" Sara confesses "we worry about you everytime!"

"You need a break kid" Raine adds to Sara's statement. "You're working yourself too hard, juggling both wrestling and part time jobs is stressing you out. Take a break from wrestling."

"Okay let's not patronize me, I'm not that much younger than the two of you!" Rei complains with his face turning red from frustration building. Raine and Sara sigh together patting Rei's head and hugging him.

"We're just worried Rei" Sara replies hugging him wrapping her arms around his neck with Raine roughing up his hair.

"I swear, ever since you two hooked up, you've been treating me like a child" Rei complained but was touched by his friend's worries over him. The trio went their separate ways as Rei's bus arrived taking him to a suburban area in which he worked. Working as a security monitor was fairly boring for the nineteen year old who sat at an entrance gate letting cars in and out of wealthy country club for eight hours, only to show up for the next job at a Blockbuster video store(For real!). Rei slept peacefully knowing that customers were a rarity in that store and that there only customers were older folks and hipsters looking to kill time. Rei would watch two to three movies each shift mostly falling asleep through all them, this morning's line up: Fight Club, The Dark Knight, and A Clockwork Orange. Despite sleeping, Rei's fascination with cinema made him memorize a vast majority of dialogue from films he watched or listen to, so much so that Rei was able to recite lines in his sleep.

"When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep... and you're never really awake."

"If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?"

Rei began to dream of WrestleMania, seeing himself at the top of the ramp with WWE Championship and a legion of followers two at at time facing each other with hands behind there back. Each face was covered by printed picture of a blurred face, presumely their own, and each follower recited a mantra as Rei walked down the ramp.

"We are not your job. We are not how much money we have in the bank. We are not the car we drive. We are not the contents of our wallet. We are not our fucking khakis. We are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world" they chanted as Rei looked back and smirked before raising title in the air. Rei glared at his challenger walking up the steps as the soldout crowd cheered him on despite being the heel, the challenger himself was blurred but he could feel an intense stair shooting back at him, whoever this person was they were determine to win. The bell rings as challenger and champion begin to lock up just as the stadium itself began to violently bounces up and down. The camera angle drifted upwards as everything fades to white.

"Wasn't I at ...work?" Rei ask himself staring at the entrance of his apartment building. The puzzled Rei walks upstairs greeting neighbors as they walk by before open his door and shutting it quietly. The sounds of a headboard knocking against a wall meant that his roommates, Raine and Sara, were home. Rei quickly and silently grabbed a notebook and pen from his room and left the apartment to a nearby park.

"Ripping off movies is tradition in wrestling" Rei thought to himself as began to draw concepts in his notebook. The pen moved intensely for what felt like hours before Rei felt a presence that interupted his flow, he noticed a pair of Converse high tops before slowly moving his head upwards seeing the shape of girl, her face was blurred by the sunlight but he could she was smiling.

"Hello"


A/N: Short chapter this time sorry about that hopefully you enjoyed!

Thank you for reading!