I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING BESIDES THE OC'S.
A/N: SORRY THAT THIS CHAPTER IS SO LONG, COULDN'T REALLY SEPARATE IT INTO ANY SMALLER CHAPTERS. IT MAY TAKE ME A LITTLE WHILE LONGER TO UPDATE THIS STORY SINCE I'M TRYING TO GET TO A CERTAIN POINT IN THE STORY BEFORE BEGINNING THE CHAPTER SEPARATION, I MAY DO ONE OR TWO MORE WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK OR SO AS I TYPE IT UP TO GET YOU CAUGHT UP BUT PLEASE DEAL WITH THE LACK OF POSTING UNTIL THEN.
Alex's Point of View-
I held onto my cheek that Maryse just slapped for the third time watching her walk out of the gym truly afraid of how much pain that her or Mike can give me if I don't fix this or if I fuck up again. I finished my work-out trying to think of what to say to Adora and how to apologize for how I treated her. I went back up to my and Mike's room seeing that Mike was no where to be found besides a note saying that he went to Maryse and Adora's room and I should be there no later than 4. I jumped into the shower washing the sweat off before I got out dressing in a casual attire only to have someone bang on the door.
"One minute!" I said as I gelled my hair quickly before I opened the door seeing Mike.
"Hurry up, the car is running." Mike said.
"It's not 4 yet." I said.
"Excuse us Mr. Riley for wanting to be early for once…." Mike said as I quickly slid some shoes on tossing my attire and other things into a bag throwing it over my shoulder following Mike out of the room and down to the car that was awaiting us in front of the lobby. I climbed into the back seat seeing Maryse driving and Adora was no where to be found.
"Where's Adora?" I asked curiously.
"She decided she didn't want to come for some odd reason…" Maryse said.
"Oh…" I said knowing exactly what that reason was, and that was me. I can't believe I got her to be that upset and angry to where she won't come to the arena because I was there. I really do need to fix this before Maryse decides to go after me or to tell Mike, he will kill me if he found out. I thought about how big of an idiot I was to do this to such an innocent girl and how to make it better. When we got to the arena, I wasn't in that good of a mood so I grabbed my bag heading into the arena and went into the locker room sitting on the bench shoving my face into my hands thinking about it until Mike walked in. "Mike, tell me the truth, Adora didn't come tonight because of me huh?"
"Huh?" Mike asked turning to look at me from the locker he was unlocking for a moment.
"Adora, she didn't come tonight because she's mad at me, huh?" I asked.
"Yes…yes, that is exactly why she didn't come tonight…you should be really proud of yourself…" Mike said as I turned around running my hands through my hair.
"How mad or upset is she at me?" I asked leaning forward against the lockers.
"She was so mad and upset with you she was crying, I mean like a baby crying…the tears, they wouldn't stop flowing out of her eyes…she was like that part of Spongebob where he was upset about his grandma's cookies…she was going on how she NEVER wants to see you again man…I'm sorry…why am I apologizing, I should be pissed at you…" Mike said.
"She was crying?" I asked.
"Yep…it took us all the way up until we left to get her to stop…you're a dick for making her cry…" Mike said making me feel worse than I already was.
"What would you do to show that you were sorry?" I asked.
"If Maryse is angry at me, I usually buy her flowers…" Mike said.
"Flowers, what kind?" I asked.
"It doesn't matter, girls like any kind of flowers dude…now, don't worry about Adora and focus on this tag match…" Mike said tossing one of his custom shirts at me hitting me in the face, how was I supposed to focus when all I wanted to do was to go back to the hotel and apologize to Adora. I tried to put her to the back of mind during our match, but it didn't work. I was successfully able to complete the match though without Mike noticing me not being focused. When we got backstage, I was able to find a ride back to the hotel knowing Maryse and Mike were having their weekly date night tonight and I had to get back to the hotel to fix this. I went into the little store that every hotel had finding a medium sized bouquet of flowers, I then saw a teddy bear that was holding a heart that was cute.
"Girls like teddy bears…" I said grabbing it, I went around the corner seeing a box of chocolate, "Girls LOVE chocolate….oohh, they have cards…" I said looking through the cards finding a perfect card. It then hit me, she was probably hungry because I know I was hungry and she hasn't eaten since about the same time as me. "Girls got to love pizza, but she's French, does she eat pizza?" I asked myself, "She's got to eat pizza, she has been in America before and being with Mike, she must have had pizza at some point." I said to myself as I went up to the counter purchasing what I had found that I would think any girl will like before I carried the two bags of things down the street to when I found a Little Caesar's buying a hot and ready pizza along with soda, breadsticks and cinnamon sticks because I didn't know what she liked more. I grabbed the food trying to carry everything as I walked back down to the hotel and up to her room hoping she will open up. I knocked on the door trying not to drop anything that was in my grip. I heard shuffling when the door finally opened to Adora wrapped up in a robe looking at me weirdly.
"Alex?" Adora asked.
"May I come in? My hands are giving out." I asked as she stepped aside letting me in.
"What is all this?" Adora asked.
"I wanted to apologize for ignoring you yesterday…and for making you cry…and for making you mad at me because I was an idiot…" I said.
"I wasn't crying…"
"Mike said you were crying because you were mad and upset with me for what I did to you…I didn't mean to ignore you, I just didn't….didn't…"
"Hold on Alex, Mike doesn't know what happened yesterday…" Adora said.
"He doesn't know?" I asked.
"I didn't tell him…"
"I didn't tell him…" I said.
"I'm going to kill him…" Adora said as she pulled out her phone as I looked at the pile of things I just bought for her. "I'm going to fucking kill you…" Adora said as she put it on speaker.
"What?"
"Did you tell Alex I was crying?" Adora asked.
"Yeah, why?"
"Why did you tell him I was crying?"
"Because he was being a whine baby going on about how it was his fault that you didn't go to the arena, that was the only way to get him to shut up and a way to tease him a little…" Mike said.
"You need to apologize to him Mike."
"Why? He was the one that was being a whine baby…"
"Because you made him feel so bad that he just went and spent way too much money on me."
"Consider it a welcome to America present…now you have company until we return." Mike said hanging up.
"I will pay you back for all this stuff….Mike is just a dick…I'm sorry about this…." Adora said tossing her phone aside as I could tell she was pissed about what Mike did.
"It's fine…are we fine?" I asked.
"Why did you ignore me?" Adora asked sitting on the corner of the bed.
"I didn't want to interrupt your conversation with Zack…Zack is the type of person you need an acquire taste for…"
"Really? He had nothing but great things to say about you…"
"Did he?" I asked shocked.
"Yeah…so what do you have against him?" Adora asked.
"Nothing, it's just…he's just really over confident and high on himself…" I lied.
"That he can be…" Adora said chuckling.
"Well since all this is bought anyway….you hungry?" I asked moving a few things so I could sit down.
"Why'd you buy all these things?"
"I didn't know what you liked so I just went with general things I knew girls like…." I said as I pulled out the flowers. "Mike suggested flowers, then I saw this cute little teddy bear…then I knew girls LOVE chocolate. I found this card…" I said as I was pulling things out handing it to her, she was smiling as she read the card holding the bear in hand and sniffed the flowers.
"Thanks Alex, this stuff will definitely make a girl feel better…take note for later…" Adora said.
"I will…you want some pizza?" I asked.
"Sure…" Adora said as we both scooted back on the bed so we were sitting up and leaning back against the head board. "What do you like to watch?" Adora asked as she begun flipping through the channels finding a baseball game on.
"Whose playing?" Alex asked as I stopped.
"Dodgers vs. the Cubs it looks like." Adora said.
"You know your baseball?"
"Yeah, I watched it with Mike and that is the only sport besides wrestling I can watch…" Adora said setting the remote down.
"I dig that…not very many girls are into sports or gaming." I said.
"What sports you watch?" Adora asked.
"I like to watch wrestling obviously, baseball, basketball and football…." I answered.
"I can never really get into basketball or football, I'll watch it if Mike was watching it or if my boyfriend would want to watch it…."
"Who's your baseball team?" I asked.
"I got to go with the Dodgers….I know I'm looking for punishment…"
"They aren't that bad…"
"They aren't that bad sometimes but sometimes it is flat out embarrassing…how do you feel about hockey?" Adora asked.
"Never really been able to catch it…I'll watch it…" I said.
"Cool…what are your teams?" Adora asked.
"Baseball, it's got to be Washington Nationals."
"Why them?"
"Because I'm from Virginia, that's the closest team to my home town."
"Don't you live in LA though?"
"I live in Florida…"
"Then why not the Marlins?"
"My team will always be the Nationals, sorry…" I said shrugging as we pulled the pizza, the bread and cinnamon sticks, and the soda to us.
"Cups…" Adora said as she got up going into the bathroom grabbing the plastic cups that every hotel room comes with bringing them out, "We got to make sure we don't make a mess because Maryse and I are sleeping on this tonight." Adora said.
"I will try…" I said.
"Do you want a napkin or something to put the pizza on?"
"Nah, we can be white trash tonight and eat it from the box…"
"Never ate it that way…"
"Seriously?"
"Seriously…"
"There is a first for everything, sit down…" I said as she sat down and I poured our drinks, I put both on the night stand next to me as I rested the pizza box between us, I pulled out one slice taking a bite out of it.
"How do you eat it from the box?"
"Like I am…" I said as I was still chewing.
"Gross…"
"Sorry, I don't have many manners when it comes to pizza and soda…"
"Me neither sometimes…." Adora said as she finally grabbed a slice doing what I did, we were yelling at the game and it was so much fun, I never got to do this with any other diva or Maryse for that matter. "Oh my god, these cinnamon sticks…." Adora said covering her mouth.
"They are delicious right?"
"Yes, but I think I'm going to get 3 cavities and gain like 10 pounds…" Adora said swallowing.
"You won't gain 10 pounds, plus it'll be good for you….you and Maryse are like twigs anyway…"
"You want me to get fat?" Adora asked.
"I didn't mean it like that…I just meant that your small enough that eating one cinnamon stick isn't going to make you 'fat'"
"Well…I feel like it…"
"If any one of us needs to worry, it'll be me…you see this…" I said lifting my shirt pushing out my stomach trying to make it look like I was fatter.
"Faker…look at this and this…" Adora said poking at my muscles.
"Muscles…that doesn't contribute to this…" I said poking at my fat.
"That isn't fat…it's you pushing yourself to make it look like fat…I know that trick…" Adora said poking it and I made it deflate.
"Hey…."
"Hey…your all muscle and no fat…"
"I do have fat…"
"Where? In your head?" Adora asked as she grabbed another cinnamon stick.
"No…"
"In your big toe? I mean, I don't see any fat on your body…"
"I do…it's invisible….it's where this is going…." I said biting into a new cinnamon stick.
"Whatever….looks like Cubs won…." Adora said seeing them getting another home run in the 9th inning getting them to be ahead by one point.
"Change it, it's over…" I said as she grabbed the remote changing it until we got to AMC where they were playing Mel Brook's Young Frankenstein, "Stop…have you seen this?" I asked.
"No…what is it?" Adora asked setting the remote down.
"I would hope you like it, it's a Mel Brook's movie, it's called Young Frankenstein…it's already half way through but I will grab it from my house and we will watch it next weekend…" I said, we watched rest of the movie not being able to finish the cinnamon nor bread sticks. Adora scooted closer to me resting her head on my shoulder, I wrapped my arm around her holding her there and it felt good. In the dark, I could see the blue of her eyes and her blonde hair from when the television illuminates the room.
"You don't mind do you?" Adora asked sitting up right looking right into my eyes.
"Not at all…get comfortable…" I said smiling as she rested her head against my shoulder again and her one hand resting on my one peck.
"I don't know but when I watch movies in the dark I always snuggle with something."
"It's fine…my dog does the same thing…" I said when I mentally hit myself in the head, she sat up looking at me with a weird look.
"Your dog snuggles with you?" Adora asked trying not to laugh.
"Not like that…well when it's bed time he likes to sleep on my feet but when it's dark, he likes to lay on my lap…." I said.
"Oh, dogs shouldn't snuggle like this with their owners, which would just be weird…" Adora said.
"That it would be…" I said as I enjoyed this moment for what it was, I heard Adora laughing at the funny parts and when the credits started playing I heard her say 'aw' in disappointment.
"You HAVE to bring that next weekend…does he have any other movies?" Adora asked sitting up right.
"Yeah, he has quite a few…I have a few of them…"
"Bring them, we can have a movie night or something…" Adora said.
"I will if I remember…"
"I'll text you a reminder…" Adora said as she fidgeted about pulling out her phone, I was trying not to look at her screen but I did anyway seeing a text from Maryse. "They are heading back, we got to clean this up…" Adora said as set her phone down forgetting to text me as I leant over turning the lamp on. "God, that is so bright…"
"I know…" I said as I stood up helping her clean up the mess, I looked at the things I had bought her still sitting at the end of the bed.
"What do you want to do with this?" Adora asked nodding to it.
"Keep it…that is if you don't mind…" I said as she picked up the flowers sniffing them again, "Maybe not the flowers because I can't really bring them along, they will die by the time I get home Tuesday, sorry…" Adora said as I could tell she felt bad.
"It's fine…they would die in or out of water…" I said shrugging.
"It's the thought that counts too….as for the other stuff, I will keep…thanks Alex for everything…" Adora said as she walked over to me wrapping her arms around my neck for a hug, I slowly wrapped my arms around her small waist embracing the hug.
"So, we are good right?" I asked as we broke the hug.
"I'm good, if your good…." Adora said putting her hands on her waist in a different way than her sister would.
"Yep…I'm still sorry for what I did…I'll never do it again."
"You better not…if you do, you may be going broke sooner than you will be making the money…" Adora joked, we both laughed and I wasn't going to tell her about what Maryse had said.
"I had fun tonight, we have to do this again and soon I hope…I guess I should leave…." I said as it seemed kind of awkward heading to the door grabbing the door handle when I was stopped.
"Alex…" Adora said, I turned around making eye contact smiling when she slowly pushed a strand of her blonde hair behind her ear. "Thanks again for everything, for tonight…for being a man and apologizing for your wrong…I was worried that I had done something…" Adora said as she was playing with her fingers as a nervous habit.
"It wasn't you…you can't do anything wrong, sweetie…" I said smiling getting her to smile.
"Right…night Alex…sleep well and see you in the morning…." Adora said.
"Night Addie, you get some well needed sleep for your first day of work tomorrow…and from that jet lag…I'll see you in the morning…" I said smiling as I finally opened the door walking out leaving her in her room until Maryse and Mike would return which shouldn't be long. I walked down the hall to my room letting myself in asking myself "How am I going to get Mike back?" I looked to the television when it hit me. A few moments later, Mike walked into the room in a happy mood after his date with Maryse. "I hate you…" I said.
"You deserved it…next time don't be a baby…" Mike said.
"I wasn't a baby…you were being a dick…"
"Just go to bed Alex…you don't have any good comebacks so it isn't worth my time…" Mike said as I was laughing in my head not being able to wait until the morning when he goes to check out. I laid down on the bed getting comfortable, I was facing the wall just remembering tonight and how much fun I had spending with Adora but I couldn't let Mike know that I was smiling from happiness. I fell asleep after what felt like a half hour or an hour trying to force myself to fall asleep until I was woken up by Mike. "Alex, wake the hell up…we got to get going." Mike said hitting me with a pillow.
"I'm up!" I said grabbing the pillow hitting him back.
"Get going….we have a long drive ahead of us." Mike said.
"I'm going…" I said as I got up heading into the shower after grabbing my things, the shower really woke me up and I got dressed in a fast pace that Mike and I always have every morning because we both love our sleep so we sleep in as late as possible and rush getting ready. I walked out of the bathroom putting my dirty clothes into my bag before I pulled my socks and shoes on and then I grabbed some gel styling my hair the way I usually wear it before I zipped up my suitcase and walked out of the room with Mike. We headed down to the lobby to check out like we always do before we go pick up the girls, we walked through the roped off line waiting behind 2 people that were on crew that were heading out as well until we were called up to the counter.
"Room 375." Mike said sliding the clerk the two keys, she typed in the information.
"Mike Mizanin?" She asked.
"Yep…" Mike said as she printed out a receipt handing it to him to sign it, "What the hell? It's $100 more than it was originally priced…" Mike said.
"You ordered movies last night sir."
"Movies? What movies?" Mike asked as I then remembered my prank, I bit my lip so hard trying not to laugh at what she was going to say.
"Pirate Men Blow, Shiver His Timbers, GI Joes, Studs 'N' Spurs, and Saddle Him Up." She said matter of factly as I burst out laughing hearing the names.
"I didn't order those movies…" Mike said embarrassed and pissed.
"I did to get back at you, I spent all of my money and your now spending all of yours…."
"You bought these?" Mike asked looking at me pissed getting me to laugh more.
"Yes, but I didn't watch them…god, this was an amazing prank…" I said letting out my laughs looking at the clerk who was giving us dirty looks, "I honestly didn't watch them, I have to stare at him all day and that is torture enough…" I said.
"I don't care if you watched it or not, someone has to pay for it…" She said.
"Mike…" I said looking to Mike who was pissed but it was a sweet revenge.
"Fine…" Mike said as he signed the receipt handing it back to her, "I can't believe you…I can't wait until this phone call from Vince…" Mike said.
"Like he's going to call…" I said as I could tell Mike will laugh about this later on.
"I can't believe you Alex…" Mike said rolling his eyes as we walked out to the car he parked the night before.
"It was good though?" I said as he popped the trunk.
"It was a good prank, not going to lie, I have taught you well…." Mike said chuckling.
"Your going to stop harassing me now?"
"Nope, still going to harass you…." Mike said smirking.
"Great…"
"Now, I just know you will fight back…" Mike said as we slammed the trunk heading back into the hotel and up to Maryse and Adora's room.