I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Adora's Point of View-
Alex and I sat in his car driving down the street, I wasn't sure where exactly we were going besides wanting to go get dinner.
"It's 8 PM, what's open?" I said checking my phone that had shown that I had received more texts from Maryse along with texts from Mike.
"I got something in mind, don't worry." Alex said.
"Sorry that was the way it was." I said putting my phone up not paying attention to the text messages.
"Are all runway shows like that?" Alex asked.
"That was the first one I have been to like that."
"So I have to attend another?" Alex asked.
"If you want to." I said not trying to smile watching the tall LA skyscrapers pass by, "LA is definitely different than France."
"LA is different than everything." Alex said chuckling as he turned into a parking lot that had about a handful of cars.
"That's with any place, I guess there has to be that special element to it." I said.
"Does LA have that element?" Alex asked parking his car.
"I don't know yet." I said as I took my seatbelt off opening my own car door climbing out at the same time as Alex.
"You'll find that one thing soon enough." Alex said as he met me at the trunk grasping my hand leading me to the door of the restaurant.
"I'm only going to have three days a week off so it's not bad." I said as he opened the door for me, I walked in seeing the empty restaurant besides a couple of people.
"It really isn't." Alex said as we were seated in a booth, Alex waited for me to slide in before he slid in across from me. "You look stunning Addie, I can't get over it." Alex said sitting down.
"Everyone looks stunning compared to that in the show." I said.
"Yeah, but you are in your own league."
"Thanks." I said pushing a strand of hair behind my ear, "You need to attend one in France, the fashion is way better."
"Is it?"
"Obviously." I said.
"Pardon me princess, I'm not from France." Alex said.
"Don't you think you should go to France?" I asked jokingly.
"If I must." Alex said letting out a breath, "You think you'll miss your friends?" Alex asked when the waitress came up putting down bread and took our drink orders.
"I think I will be homesick none the less at some point, we are all homesick some point in our lives. I will miss my mom and dad, but I never had many friends."
"Why's that?"
"I was a nerd, my face was always pressed into a textbook or I was too busy with my latest outfit to do anything." I said honestly when Alex chuckled, "It's not funny."
"It's not…how is it your friends with everyone in WWE but not in France?"
"Because WWE was where I wanted to be, you got to know people to have connections in this business."
"What better connection than Maryse as your sister?" Alex asked when my phone begun to ring.
"Talking about Maryse, I'm so sorry…" I said pulling out the phone ignoring her call and expected her to be mad, she will leave a voicemail and text me again but I turned off my phone.
"It's fine, it's a sisters job to worry."
"One can only take so much of either Maryse or Mike." I said smiling as I put my phone into my purse.
"I agree, you need to take small doses of Mike."
"I love Mike as a big brother, he really has watched out for me." I said taking the lemon off the glass sipping at the water that the waitress had just dropped off.
"Yeah, he may be annoying but he really is caring and helpful."
"Aren't you? I mean, you and Mike got to be enough alike if you two were teamed."
"People tend to say that."
"Well tell me what these 'people' tend to say….I want to know the Alex Riley others know." I said.
"My mom was a pageant queen and my dad was a football player." Alex said.
"Explains a lot."
"What does that explain?" He asked curiously.
"Your beauty and your athleticism." I said blushing playing with my straw when the waitress came back to take our order.
"Are we ready?" She asked.
"Um." I said looking at the menu for the first time.
"You want to split a BLT?" Alex asked.
"Sounds good, thank you." I said when the waitress took our menus and left.
"So you think I have beauty?" Alex asked.
"Oh my god Alex…" I said rolling my eyes, "Yes, your very handsome, especially when you wear something that is complimentary."
"Like this?"
"Perhaps." I said.
"Thanks, I wore this to my parents wedding vow renewal."
"How long have they been married?" I asked curiously.
"30 years, it was meant to be."
"It's adorable."
"And I'm not?"
"You are, but you haven't been married for 30 years."
"I would like to be one day…." Alex said making eye contact with me momentarily smiling a tad before I saw him blush in his cheeks.
"Do you ever have time to date on tour?" I asked.
"No, it's rather rough. We all often try to either date within the company whereas others try to date outside of the company."
"What type of guy are you?" I asked curiously in hopes he said he would date within the company as I played with my straw.
"I don't care, love is love no matter what." Alex said as it made me happy to hear that.
"I agree, I think everything happens for a reason and you can't stop love."
"That you can't." Alex said.
"I have a feeling your the type of guy that would use the lame pick up lines."
"I did in my younger days." Alex said as the waitress set the plate down on the table as we both begun to eat totally forgetting about our conversation. "I don't use them as much." Alex said starting the conversation up again.
"Mike ruin your style?"
"No, I just don't go out looking for it."
"Liar, like you haven't wanted to use it on a girl to get what you want." I said as I ate a fry.
"Me lie?"
"I can tell by that right there." I said pointing at him with a fry.
"Like you haven't batted your eyelashes, showed off your bright smile and gently rubbed a guys knee in a flirty way."
"I've never done that." I said in an offended voice but knew what he was talking about when I picked up half the sandwich.
"And I lie…" Alex said as he bit into his half.
"I still feel bad about that girl that fell." I said chuckling and changing the subject.
"Me too, but I feel worse for her having to wear that outfit…but her fall was comical…" Alex said laughing when he stood up, "Who am I?" Alex said pretending to act out the fall getting me to laugh but the workers didn't find it as funny, he sat back into the booth laughing as well.
"Your such an ass…" I said laughing.
"Am not, I'm a good actor." He said biting into a fry.
"So, your character, why Varsity Villain?"
"Why do you want to know?"
"If I'm going to do your wardrobe, I need to know about your character."
"I wanted to be more of a football player, jock type person who is also a goof and a cocky bastard." Alex said.
"So I get varsity but you won't always be a heel so you won't always be a villain." I said not understanding that part of the name.
"I can't be called Varsity Face then Varsity Villain, can't change it that often."
"Why not something simple like Mike's chick magnet or something?"
"I thought that was Varsity Villain?"
"It doesn't work nor fit."
"What do you suggest?" Alex asked.
"I don't know, it's not my job and your not really using it until after you fight out of Mike's shadow."
"By then, I may have another character."
"How'd you think of the character Varsity Villain?"
"I was a football player, I was vicious at the game and auditioning for the teams, I got drafted to a college football team my junior year of high school and was the first freshman to be on the varsity team at my high school."
"So you got Villain by the way you tackled the game?"
"If you put it like that, yeah…" Alex said.
"As long as it's not because you like being the bad guy."
"Why not be a bad guy?" Alex asked smirking with part of the bacon hanging from his mouth.
"1. Bad guys don't have bacon hanging from their mouths." I said as we laughed.
"Sorry…" Alex said covering his mouth as he fixed it, "And two?"
"2. I don't associate with bad guys."
"Explain Mike."
"I didn't choose Mike, that was Maryse's choosing. He's anything but a bad guy."
"True…"
"Why do you like being a bad guy?" I asked curiously.
"Nice guys always finish last, I don't want to be last. I want to be first and the best man if it makes me a bad guy. I will do anything for what I want and to get what I want." Alex said which was a good answer to an extent.
"What was the worst thing you've done to get what you want?"
"Um…I snuck out to go to a concert on a school night and forged my parents signature on paperwork I didn't want them to read about my behavior or grades."
"You were a trouble maker as a teenager?" I asked.
"Weren't we all at one point in our lives?"
"True…" I said agreeing.
"I bet you were a rebel especially with Maryse as your sister."
"You can say that."
"Spill." Alex said excitedly.
"Maryse and I had a pact that we looked out for each other. One night I snuck out to go with my boyfriend to go to Paris for a rave. I didn't return until 6 AM which was when I was supposed to get up for school. Maryse got up earlier to help me get back in but we made sure we did help each other because I did the same for her with Mike and when she was in high school."
"You went to a rave? Did you do drugs?"
"No…I have never went to a rave before then, when I got there seeing all the drugs and stuff was when I realized I had to break up with my boyfriend because I'm not into that whole scene and I have never been to a rave since then." I said eating another fry.
"You got to learn the hard way huh?" Alex said as I nodded.
"Did you ever do drugs?"
"Hell no, may parents drug-tested me monthly at random times." Alex said.
"Why was that?"
"They were afraid I would do steroids more than anything else because of my football." Alex said honestly.
"Did you try any other drugs?"
"Nope, never wanted to."
"Would you drug test your kids monthly like that?"
"If I had reason to believe they were on drugs, I would…my house would be a drug free house and I would want my kids to be open with me about everything." Alex said when the waitress set the check down.
"Even if it's something you don't want to hear?"
"I want them to come to me with their problems, I don't want them to drink and drive so I would want them to call me for a ride and they will be punished for getting drunk."
"What about sex?" I asked awkwardly and embarrassed of saying it.
"Why are you turning red?"
"Am not!" I said feeling my face turning redder from him drawing attention to it.
"Are too, your embarrassed about sex!"
"No!" I said grabbing the check sliding out of the booth heading to the cashier. Alex slid out walking behind me up to the cashier.
"Sex." Alex whispered.
"Alex shut up!" I said as he laughed out loud as he stood beside me.
"No, I'm having fun with this…" Alex said as I handed the cashier the receipt letting her scan it in. Alex pulled out his wallet when he leant forward whispering "Sex."
"I'm going to kill you." I said giving him a dirty look and stomping my one foot.
"This is too easy." Alex said laughing harder handing the waitress his card.
"Don't talk to me." I said as I headed to the door pretending to be mad, I knew he was teasing me but yet I had to pretend to be mad.
"Addie, don't be like that, I'm just teasing you." Alex said signing the receipt and hurriedly ran after me.
"I know your teasing me." I said as we walked outside.
"It's cold out, here." Alex said taking off his blazer wrapping it around me.
"Thanks." I said holding the coat edges by the opposing hand. Alex helped me off the curb heading to his car where he unlocked the car doors on my side opening my door for me and waited until I got in before he shut the door and ran around climbing into the drivers side of the car starting it trying to get the heat to work.
"Why do you get so awkward and embarrassed about sex?"
"Does it matter?" I asked playing with the cuffs of his coat.
"It's a natural thing, nothing to be embarrassed about."
"I do get embarrassed..."
"Why bring it up?" Alex asked glancing over at me and I saw him trying not to yawn.
"Isn't it one of those topics or things your parents say not to do under their roof?"
"God, I have heard that my whole life."
"Did you ever break that rule?" I asked curiously as he yawned yet again.
"No, I lost mine my sophomore year.
"Same…"
"We were bad kids." Alex said getting us to chuckle.
"Look where we are now." I said.
"Times haven't changed." Alex said smiling as it went quiet for rest of the way back to Mike's house, I kept noticing Alex yawning, I knew he must be tired because he probably didn't sleep well last night nor has he been able to take a nap whereas I have. Alex went to park in front of Mike's house.
"No, go around the block." I said in a panic mode when I got to thinking about him being tired and how I could get him to stay the night instead of going back to his hotel
"No problem." Alex said pulling back out and going around the block parking in a clear section.
"Thanks for coming and for tonight period…you didn't have to."
"No problem and no need to thank me, it was a true pleasure." Alex said smiling.
"I was thinking, why don't you stay the night?" I asked nervously.
"What?" Alex asked shocked and I could tell that was a nervous tone too.
"LA is filled with stupid and bad drivers as it is, I can't let another one out there, especially one that is as tired as you…"
"Thanks Addie, but I'll be fine to drive back to my hotel…I would like to live to my next birthday rather than Mike killing me." Alex said.
"No, no, no….they should be asleep by now and Mike doesn't get up until 10 AM, he is like clock work I swear….I wake up at 8 AM every morning to use the bathroom, I can get you out then."
"You sure?" Alex asked yawning, I gave him that look, "Fine, let's go." Alex said turning the car off completely as we both climbed out walking down to Mike and Maryse's house seeing the lights on.
"Shit, why are they still up? Alright, there is a back door in the kitchen. The gate is on that side, and it's hard to unlock. Move the stick out to get to the wire, you will have to untie the wire to be able to unlock the gate to open it." I said explaining how to do it.
"How would I know it's the kitchen door?" Alex said.
"It's the first door, right before the sliding glass door, it's the only one with the knob."
"Most doors do have knobs."
"Not sliding ones." I said correcting him.
"Right…" Alex said as he turned around to head that way.
"Alex," I whispered getting him to turn around, "Be quiet and beware of the bushes."
"Alright…" Alex said as he turned back around heading that way, I watched him do so when I remembered I was wearing his jacket. I ran after him taking it off in the process.
"What are you doing?" Alex asked.
"Your jacket." I said handing it to him.
"Right, go!" Alex said as I tip-toed back down the sidewalk heading up the path to the front door seeing Alex waiting for my cue to head to the gate. I unlocked the door grabbing the knob to open it not wanting to go in because I knew that Mike and Maryse were mad and worried but I need to do this. I gave Alex a thumbs up before I pushed the door open going into the house seeing Maryse and Mike stand up from the couch.