Backstage, Bullet Club locker room…
Amanda muffled a slight groan as Devitt pressed his left hand into her already bruising upper back and ribcage, having sensed that she had accidentally injured herself when he saw the adrenaline wearing off of her.
"Yep, ya cracked one, love..." Devitt says, his index and middle finger right where the crack in Amanda's rib is.
"The apron itself is the hardest part of the mat." Amanda says, Devitt pulling her top up over her arms and pressing an ice pack to her bruised side after she unclipped the front clasp of her strapless bra and set it aside with the top… it was instinctive to remove the upper part of her outfit whenever she cracked or broke a rib.
But now here she was, half naked in front of a man she had just met earlier that day… Amanda covered her bare chest with her right arm as moving her left arm was painful.
"Better?" Devitt asks, Amanda nodding… she wasn't able to take too many deep breaths because of the pain but the ice was making it fade.
With the pain duller now and Devitt heading to the restroom to clean off, Amanda looked in her bag and retrieved a satin grey green push up racerback bra and put it on, followed by a loose fitting stormy blue tank top. She slipped out of her boots and shorts and pulled on a pair of skinny jeans before putting her boots back on and the strapless bra and outfit back in the bag, zipping it.
It was a while before Devitt was back in the locker room, dressed casually and towel drying his damp hair as Amanda found herself glancing at him for a few seconds.
Distracting herself, Amanda picked up her phone and saw a text from Hunter.
'Saw the show, hell of a kick to that idiot who grabbed you, kiddo. But I also saw your back and left side hit the apron, you okay?'
'Just a cracked rib, on the job hazard. Are they going crazy over there?' Amanda replies, knowing that The Shield had caught on to her being out of the country.
'A bit… well, maybe more than a bit, Seth punched Dean right in the face.' Hunter responds.
'He needs to chill the fuck out or Dean and Roman are gonna kill him!' Amanda replies. "Of course he punched Dean, that short tempered two toned jackass." She mutters, Devitt chuckling slightly.
"Is he the one who was always keeping his arm around you back in NXT and not letting you stray far from him?" Devitt asks.
"He still does that sometimes… it is a bit of a possessive grip, he's always trying to keep me to his side and tries to attack any man who he feels is looking at me wrong." Amanda says.
"Well, he's not here tonight…" Devitt says as he helped Amanda up to her feet. "So how about I show you around and we have some fun?"
"Hell yeah." Amanda says, putting her phone on sleep mode and zipping up her bag. Devitt grabbed it as well as his own and led her out of the locker room.
Outside the arena, the two walked through the light fog and unusual chilly wind, Devitt putting his leather jacket on Amanda… it wasn't the one he had used tonight but a leather jacket with a collar that on Amanda, completely shielded her bare neck from the weather.
Once in the car, Devitt started it and flipped the headlights on before he drove off with Amanda, the others having gone back to the hotel.
International BAR 1134 was a bit crowded but the two got into it and found an area to sit down at, Amanda drinking some Shōchū like she did earlier.
"You're starting to like that liquor…" Devitt says after drink some Sake, Amanda smiling.
"It's damn good." Amanda says as she looked at him. "I never really got to say thank you earlier… for dealing with the guy who started hassling me."
"It's alright, love… some of them can be real jerks at times. As for Tama being a little too… abrasive in flirting with you, he doesn't really have any filter with that kind of thing." Devitt says as the two drank a little more.
A few more drinks had Amanda laughing at Devitt's jokes, his right hand casually resting on her left arm before a familiar Earth, Wind And Fire song started to play and Devitt looked at Amanda.
"Dance with me?" Devitt asks, holding out his right hand. Amanda gripped it and followed him out to the dance floor, the two starting to dance closely to the music.
Do you remember the
21st night of September?
Love was changing the minds of pretenders
While chasing the clouds away
Our hearts were ringing
In the key that our souls were singing.
As we danced in the night,
Remember how the stars stole the night away
Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in September
Ba de ya - never was a cloudy day
Ba duda, ba duda, ba duda, badu
Ba duda, badu, ba duda, badu
Ba duda, badu, ba duda
My thoughts are with you
Holding hands with your heart to see you
Only blue talk and love,
Remember how we knew love was here to stay
Now December found the love we shared in September.
Only blue talk and love,
Remember the true love we share today
Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in September
Ba de…
Amanda pressed herself a little closer to Devitt, tilting her head to look into his eyes and both smiling.
They knew with today's technology that pictures and video of them having fun at the bar would most likely end up online… and Seth as well as the rest of The Shield would flip out and the fans would go crazy sending pics into tabloids and websites.
There really was no sense of privacy in this business.
Outside Amanda's room at the Kobe Meriken Park Oriental Hotel, the two stopped and looked at each other.
Resting his right hand on the left side of her face, Devitt leaned in and kissed Amanda, who welcomed the kiss as she ran the fingers on her right hand through his hair.
The drunken and excited yells and shouts of the rest of the Bullet Club echoed down the hallway after Amanda and Devitt stopped kissing and he saw Karl, Fale, Luke and Tama stumbling down the hallway away from them, heading towards the hotel bar.
"Oh boy… they're gonna have wicked hangovers tomorrow…" Amanda says with a slight chuckle before she opened the door to her room and motioned for him to follow her.
"Damn right they will… ah well, they're adults, they can handle themselves for the night." Devitt says after closing the door and the two kissing again and holding each other after lying down on the bed and watching Tv.
Something was telling him to not rush her into anything… and he wouldn't.