I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Adora's Point of View-
I woke up by Maryse shaking me violently and saying 'Girl, get up!' with every shake.
"I'm up!" I said groggily sitting up, I went into the bathroom splashing water on my face coming back out seeing Maryse checking us out. "What time is it?" I asked.
"5 AM."
"Why so early? Our flight isn't for another 3 hours….who chose such early flights?" I asked running a hand through my hair.
"To get home early to do things at home we have to take earlier flights."
"Riiight…" I said rolling my eyes. I put my bag on my back grabbing my bear and pulled the bar up on my suitcase.
"I'm excited, your first time going 'home'" Maryse said excitedly.
"I can't wait to sleep." I said.
"You will." Maryse said kind of in a mad tone that I wasn't more excited about going 'home.' When we walked to the door about to leave when a knock came to the door, I opened it seeing the two men who seemed barely awake.
"Ready?" Mike asked seeming the most tired.
"Yeah." I said as we walked out heading to our car driving over to the airport where Mike turned our car in and headed through the empty lines checking in and had our bags checked in. "This morning the airport is empty." I said.
"They are always empty in the morning." Alex said.
"Travelling in the morning has it's good points?" I asked pretending to be shocked.
"It does." Alex said as we went through security check point going to the screens seeing where our terminals were, Alex's was on the other side of the airport from ours.
"I'll walk Alex to his terminal." I said wanting to spend time with him to talk about tonight.
"He's a big boy, he can do it himself." Mike said.
"He's right, I'll walk you to your terminal, I have time." Alex said as he walked with us to our terminal, I set my carry on down on a seat with my bear across from Mike and Maryse before I walked with Alex out of ear shot but stayed within eye sight because if I didn't I knew Mike will be after me in an instant.
"Text me when you get to Florida and when your on the flight to LA."
"Addie, I will…just trust me?" Alex asked putting his big strong hands on my shoulders.
"I do but I worry." I said, he smiled and chuckled to himself about it, "It's not funny." I said.
"You don't have to worry with me…" Alex said smirking before he patted me on the shoulders before heading to his terminal.
"I hate you…" I said loud enough for him to hear.
"Ditto!" Alex said turning around when he said it then chuckled to himself. I went back sitting down checking my phone seeing the texts with the information from Claudia and looking up directions forwarding it to Alex to view. I pulled out Maryse's attire and my emergency sewing kit working on it as much as I could to keep myself busy.
"Is that my new attire?" Maryse asked.
"The jacket part of it, still got a lot of work to do." I said.
"Have you designed mine?" Mike asked.
"Working on it, I can only do one thing at a time Mike." I said knotting the thread at the end cutting the excess off the needle. I put it up when we boarded the flight to LA, I looked out the window momentarily before I pulled my sewing kit and jacket back out to continue to work on the jacket until we landed at 10 AM. Mike drove us home where I followed them into their house.
"Welcome home sis." Maryse said giving me a side hug.
"Thanks." I said smiling as I went in to their guest room that I have stayed in before seeing how clean it now was, it was completely empty of all their things that were in there before so I had room to put all my things. I checked my phone seeing that Alex has boarded his plane on the way to Florida. I began to unpack my things as I could hear Maryse or Mike upstairs in their bedroom. I only unpacked things for the next couple of days instead of unpacking everything. I heard a knock at the door, I walked out of my closet seeing Maryse in the doorway.
"Unpacking?" Maryse asked.
"Yeah, trying to get it done now instead of doing it later." I said smiling.
"I thought you were going to sleep."
"I will afterwards."
"Mike and I are going out for breakfast, you want something or do you want to come along?" Maryse asked.
"No thanks." I said.
"Alright, well….Mike and I will be out all day doing errands, you sure you don't want to come and explore LA like old times?" Maryse asked sitting on the edge of the bed holding the bear in her hands now.
"I'm really tired and I want to work on that attire."
"Okay….maybe tomorrow. Will be back later, there is food if you get hungry, you know our number and don't work too hard."
"I won't." I said smiling as Maryse left as I heard her and Mike leaving and locking the main door as I laid on my bed taking a quick nap before I got up seeing that Alex had texted saying he was on his way to LA. I started to get ready, I ran upstairs going into Mike and Maryse's room going through the dresses Maryse had finding a red cocktail dress that I had designed her. I ran back downstairs going into my room taking a quick shower in my attached bathroom, I got out starting to get ready by dressing, accessorizing with the things I had when my phone begun to ring from where it was charging. I ran from my bathroom to it picking it up, "Hello?" I asked.
"Hey, I'm heading to my hotel…give me an hour and I'll be there." Alex said.
"Cutting it close."
"Like I always do." Alex said as I could tell he was smiling.
"Hurry up and stop smiling." I said.
"I will." Alex said as I could tell he was smiling still, I hung up going back to the bathroom doing my hair and make up before I ran out to the living room picking up the spare house key and writing a note to Mike and Maryse that I was heading out. I grabbed a granola bar quickly eating it before I brushed my teeth. I moved my stuff over to a purse I borrowed from Maryse when a knock came to the front door answering it to see Alex in black pants, white buttoned up shirt, a black blazer and a red tissue in the pocket. Alex was holding a red corsage in a container, he smirked as he looked me up and down. "You look absolutely stunning." Alex said smiling.
"Thanks, come on in. I have to put my shoes on and we have to leave before Mike and Maryse get home." I said pulling him inside as I ran into my room pulling on my heels grabbing my purse and running back out pulling him out of the house locking the door as I closed it behind me.
"Slow down, we aren't going to be late." Alex said as I looked to him, I took a deep breath.
"Your right…." I said smiling when I finally soaked in what he was wearing. "You look handsome Alex, didn't think you'll clean up good."
"Thanks…where's Maryse and Mike?" Alex asked as he pulled open my door letting me climb into his rental, he ran around climbing into the drivers side.
"Doing errands, I really owe you one." I said already feeling bad for him about coming.
"You don't have to." Alex said as he was driving down the streets.
"You memorized the directions?" I asked.
"Yep, I was bored on the flight." He said glancing over at me as he pulled into the proper valet, the valet attendant opened my door helping me out and Alex met me on the other side, "I bought one of these for you…" Alex said nervously and embarrassed.
"You didn't have to but it's cute." I said smiling as he opened the container sliding it onto my wrist, Alex tossed the container into a trash can before he offered his arm letting me slide my arm thorough his resting my hand on his elbow as we walked to the red carpet filled with press and photographer people. "I can't do this." I said stopping before we even approached the PA that we needed to check in with.
"Yes you can….I'm right here." Alex said putting his hand on mine, I felt immediately comfortable with him and trusted him after all this.
"You won't let me do anything embarrassing or stupid?" I asked as we approached the PA.
"No….I figured you will trust me after this."
"I do…I don't trust me." I said as he chuckled.
"Names?" The PA asked.
"WWE, I'm Adora and this is Alex, we are filling in for Claudia." I explained as we showed our passes.
"Here you are, thanks." She said marking it off when she let us onto the red carpet, I dug my nails into Alex's arm when he moved my hand to where our hands were locked together lacing our fingers together.
"I got you." Alex said as I stepped onto the red carpet, Alex and I posed for pictures and I followed Alex's lead.
"Why must they take so many photos? I am still seeing flashes."
"You will get used to it."
"No I won't, I'm not the talent."
"That's right, your not talented." Alex said as I gasped a tad out of shock as I started to laugh and he laughed.
"Your right." I said as he walked down a step or two sticking his hand out helping me down the steps then we walked over to the video camera area to do interviews.
"Hey guys." The lady said.
"Hey…" I said nervously.
"I'm Wynter Lang with CNC 10, who are you?"
"I'm Alex Riley a WWE superstar and this is Ad-" Alex said.
"Addie, WWE's wardrobe personnel." I said cutting in so he won't try pronouncing my name.
"Great, what do you think both companies would benefit from working together?" Wynter asked.
"It'll benefit both companies promotionally and work wise. WWE would be able to promote the new designs by dressing people like Alex in it." I answered.
"I'm just a dress up dummy to her." Alex said getting us both to laugh.
"Someone has to dress you or tell you what to wear, if not you'll probably walk around in tank tops and basketball shorts." I said.
"What can we provide WWE?" Wynter asked.
"More creative workers." I said.
"How does the whole attire fashion thing happen in WWE?" Wynter asked.
"When stars like I get hired onto WWE, we work with the creative writers and the other stars to form our characters in storylines." Alex said.
"In the end, us wardrobe department then works with the stars and the writers to get a better understanding of the character and the stars personality so we can make their attire around them." I said.
"Do you do the t-shirts? Did you design his tux?" Wynter asked.
"We design whatever they wear to the ring besides the articles they may wear that could be sold at the stores." I said honestly.
"She didn't design this tux." Alex added.
"But I did design and make this dress for my sister…I kind of borrowed it tonight." I said.
"You did?" Alex asked looking at me then over the dress.
"Sorry, I didn't tell everyone I made this dress, I didn't think it was a big deal." I said.
"I think it looks good and absolutely beautiful." Wynter said.
"I thought so too, but I think the person wearing it is more beautiful." Alex said getting me to blush.
"Its blatant you guys work close with the talent." Wynter said.
"We are all a tight knit family, we spend about 300 days together so we are family." Alex said.
"Are things you guys may not like about WWE?" Wynter asked.
"What is there not to like about WWE? Everything about WWE and in WWE is likeable and amazing, it is spectacular." I said.
"Thanks, enjoy the show." Wynter said.
"I suck as this." I said softly as we turned to head to the next camera.
"You did great." Alex said as he lifted my hand to his lips lightly pressing his lips against the back of my hand in a comfort type way, he let go of my hand wrapping his arm around me and held me close to him through rest of the interviews until we reached the last camera. We did the last interview before we were escorted inside to our seats, we were sat in the last row. "Why are we back here?" Alex asked waiting until I sat until he sat down.
"Because they know we probably won't behave." I said honestly as I crossed my legs.
"We know how to behave." Alex said as I gave him a dirty look, "Sometimes." Alex said smiling when I pulled out my phone seeing Maryse had texted 'Home, noticed your gone. Call when you can or text. "Everything okay?" Alex asked.
"Yeah, Maryse and Mike are home." I said as I put my phone back in my purse when the lights dimmed, "I'm sorry in advance of how boring this will be to you."
"No worries, I like clothes, I wear them don't I?"
"Clothes are different than fashion." I stated as the first model walked out in her first outfit, it wasn't entirely great.
"That's for sure." Alex said as his eyes bugged a little seeing that outfit, I chuckled out of his reaction. The whole show I had more fun watching his reaction and snapping pictures of the bad ones along with some good ones while we were joking around about the bad ones until the one model fell as they were walking back. I heard Alex trying not to laugh, which made it harder on me not to laugh. We both stood up walking out of the room into the lobby where we both busted up laughing; we decided just to leave the event early since they were almost done anyway. "Some of those were bad." Alex said.
"Like that girl falling wasn't bad." I said chuckling as his hand slid from my grip to wrap around me as we headed to the valet place.
"That was badly funny….please say you know what not to design and those are examples of that." Alex said.
"I went to school for fashion and learned in the first class not to design that." I said as we waited for valet to pull up with his car.
"Would you be okay if we went to dinner since I had kind of blown that." Alex said as I looked up to the taller man meeting his not so subtle blue eyes that were shining with hope and happiness.
"I could eat, I don't know my way around LA though." I said.
"I do, no worries." Alex said smiling as the valet attendant pulled up in Alex's car. Alex pulled my door open waiting for me to climb in before shutting it and running around climbing into the already running car. He climbed in buckling up, adjusting the mirrors and such before he pulled out onto the street.