I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Adora's Point of View-
I walked into the room Maryse had pointed out seeing Daniel behind the desk.
"Hey Daniel, I just wanted to clock in…how would I do that?" I asked nervously, I was afraid I was interrupting his work.
"Oh, yeah…I got your paperwork filed and stuff….I need to take your picture for your WWE badge…" He said as he shuffled about pulling out a camera taking a picture of me against the blank wall, he pulled out a seat letting me sit while he was shuffling through paperwork and getting things together handing me my card to clock in with at every show and how/where it will be at every show. "Have you heard from Claudia?" He asked.
"Yeah, she called earlier saying she was caught up in meetings at the headquarters and she shall be back by Monday." I stated.
"Okay…that is everything we needed now…good luck tonight." He said smiling handed me the badge that was printed out and my new time clock card. I stood up walking over to the machine scanning my card to clock in for the night before I walked out going to the wardrobe room seeing a group of two or three people already in there.
"May I help you?" I asked when they turned around recognizing one as John Cena, the other two I haven't really seen before.
"Hey Addie, I need my gear…" John said.
"The WWE shop gear?" I asked as I walked over to the table setting my bag down before heading to the one crate.
"Yep…" He said nodding as I opened the crate shuffling through the different drawers finding his stuff handing him the stuff he usually wears out to the ring getting him to head out.
"How may I help you two?" I asked walking back to stand in front of them.
"Hi, I'm Drew, and you are?" The one with longer brown hair said sticking his hand out with an accent.
"Adora, but most people call me Addie. Where you from, you have an accent." I said smirking.
"Scotland, you have an accent yourself."
"France…" I said.
"Nice…"
"What you need?" I asked.
"A pair of knee pads, I left mine at home by accident." Drew said.
"What color?" I asked heading to a different crate that was nothing but kneepads, boots and elbow pads.
"Black." He said as I pulled out a pair of black knee pads carrying them over.
"Try them on before leaving here…who you going against tonight?" I asked curiously as he pulled out a chair across from where my bag was.
"Alex Riley."
"Oh, good luck…is he any good?" I asked.
"Pretty good for a newbie." Drew said smirking.
"Hello? Am I going to get any help?" The blonde short spiky haired man said.
"Hold your horses Jack." Drew said.
"What do you need Jack?" I said remembering that name.
"A pair of boots, size 10." Jack said, I went back over to the crate pulling out a pair of boots handing them over to him and he sat beside Drew trying them on and I sat down across from them pulling out Maryse's attire to continue working on it.
"What's that you sewing?" Drew asked.
"Ring attire for Maryse…how does it look thus far?" I asked holding it up.
"It looks like a jacket…" Drew said.
"Good, that's what it supposed to be." I said smirking.
"These feel good…thanks Addie." Drew said standing up and headed out, Jack followed no more than five minutes later so I found a plastic model that travels with WWE hanging the jacket up on it to use and its much easier to sew on those type of models. I got to the one part that I hated was when you had to sew the two parts of a slit back together without the sewing being seen.
"Ow…god damn it…" I exclaimed when the needle poked me for the first time, I stuck my finger in my mouth sucking on it lightly before going back to sewing it yet again getting poked again but this time I was a little more prone to it. I heard the door open behind me and without looking, "I'll be with you in a moment." I said as I wanted to finish what I had started.
"Well, you don't have a moment…I am heading out now…" Alex said, I knew his voice distinctively I didn't need to turn around.
"Okay, I'll be out in a minute…good luck against Drew." I said as I pulled the needle through the two fabrics again.
"Thanks, your going to be watching right?" Alex asked.
"Alex, come on! Leave Addie alone, it's curtain call time!" I heard Mike yell when I could hear the announcer through the sound system announce Alex along with being accompanied by Mike before Mike's music started to blare through the arena.
"Alex go!" I said turning around, he smirked.
"I'll go if you come with…" Alex said when Mike grabbed him and dragged him out of the doorway, I couldn't believe that man. I finished what I had started walking out just when Drew's music ended, I went to the curtain that they both walked through moments ago standing aside holding the curtain aside slightly so I can peer out into the ring that Alex was standing in with Mike and Drew. I watched as Mike patted Alex on the shoulder before he climbed out of the ring and jumped off the apron. Alex and Drew walked around the ring eyeing each other before they locked up, I watched their technique and watched them as they continue their back and forth antics of winning to losing throughout the match enjoying Alex's and Drew's technique, they were both good.
"See anything you like?" Maryse asked getting me to jump out of my skin letting go of the curtain letting it fall close.
"You need to wear a cow bell, I swear…" I said walking past her to head back to the wardrobe room.
"So, what were you doing?" Maryse asked.
"I was getting fresh air, obviously I made a wrong turn." I said shrugging slightly as Maryse followed me.
"You thirsty? I was going to catering to grab a snack, you want to join me?" Maryse asked.
"Sure…" I said thinking that no one will be coming in considering the show has started and everyone pretty much is already in their gear if they had a match. I turned around following Maryse into catering grabbing a bottle of water and a snack to munch on before heading back out.
"Where you going?"
"Back to wardrobe before you begin asking 20 questions." I said as I walked back to wardrobe eating my snack before I continued working on the jacket.
"You didn't even come watch me?" Alex asked as I heard the door open and close shut behind me.
"I did come watch, don't jump to conclusions…"
"If you did, you didn't watch all of it…"
"You won…" I said smirking.
"You only know that because you can hear the music back here." Alex said as I turned around setting the needle down on the table.
"Right…Maryse caught me watching your match so I cut it short…your pretty good, surprised your not as big as you shall be." I said.
"Am I on your list of favorite wrestlers now?" Alex asked wiping the sweat off his forehead.
"I guess so…here, you can have rest of my water." I said handing him my water bottle and walked over to a crate pulling out a towel tossing it to him letting him use it to wipe his sweat off.
"Thanks…" Alex said taking a drink.
"What happened to your jacket?" I asked.
"Oh, there is a person that collects that and brings it back here for me….for any star…"
"What a job that is…"
"Right, huh?"
"Congrats on the win, where does that put your character now?"
"One more victory in the right direction…" Alex said.
"At least your winning huh?"
"Yep…" Alex said as I leant against the table beside him.
"You going to be doing that match on Monday?"
"It'll be the dark match…that night Mike has a match though…they trying to prepare me for matches on SuperStars…"
"Your getting there, do you think you have improved any working with Mike?" I asked when the door opened seeing Maryse walk in.
"Alex, Mike is looking for you…" Maryse said pointing back into the hallway.
"Great, he's going to critique my match and what I should have done…catch you later and I owe you a bottle." He said pushing himself off the table holding the bottle up.
"It's free you know?"
"You know what I mean." Alex said as he walked passed Maryse out of the room.
"You almost done in here?" Maryse asked.
"Is the show done?" I asked.
"No…"
"Then, I still got work to do…" I said smirking as Maryse walked in letting the door close.
"Is that my jacket?"
"Yep, you want to try it on?"
"Please…" Maryse asked as I pulled it off the dummy as she pulled her shirt off to where she was just wearing the spaghetti strap she wears underneath pulling the jacket on.
"How does it feel?" I asked making tiny adjustments and marks of what to change for her.
"Can you bedazzle it a little and make the collar pop up some?" Maryse asked.
"I'm not done, but what do you think of the fabric and how it looks thus far?" I asked.
"I like it….definitely will get used to this…" Maryse asked as she walked over to the mirror seeing her reflection.
"Good, take it off so I can continue my work…" I said as she pulled it off handing it back to me as she pulled her shirt on as I put the jacket back onto the dummy threading up a new needle to begin working on the one adjustment I had made when she wore it.
"Has it been busy?" Maryse asked climbing onto the table to sit.
"Nope, three people total came in besides you and Alex…not too bad…I thought it will be a lot worse…"
"It will…trust me…there aren't a lot of stars here tonight due to a storm in the mid-northeast area." Maryse said.
"Is that why certain peoples matches were to make up for those that couldn't make it?"
"No, well, two matches were changed and Drew was thrown into Alex's match last minute…"
"What else can they do?" I asked shrugging when I licked my finger after being poked again.
"Exactly. You have never been out with us on a Friday night while on tour?"
"Yes I have, when you guys were in France…"
"When?"
"When you and Mike first begun dating…" I said.
"Oh yeah…it was your senior year in high school."
"Duh, and you snuck me in by letting me use your ID."
"I can't believe the security guard fell for it." Maryse said giggling.
"I think he was a little tipsy…"
"Me too…I don't know who else is going out tonight…maybe we can get Alex to go out…" Maryse said.
"I think he said he was at the airport." I said as I glanced back at her.
"Do you want him to come?"
"Does it matter what I want?" I asked.
"No…so was this all that you thought it would be?"
"Yep…I told Alex about my wrestling training…."
"Did you? What if he tells Mike?"
"He won't tell Mike, I trust him…plus what if Mike knows?" I asked shrugging.
"Mike can be very pushy and may try to get you into wrestling side of things…"
"I am NOT going to wrestle, Mike can't make me do anything because he's not my father…." I said.
"What did Alex think about it?"
"He didn't care…he thought it was cool." I said smirking.
"It's nice to see you have made a friend…he seems to like you as a friend…"
"Like he didn't have friends before I came along…he's a nice guy…" I said.
"Not really, he hasn't really been that social and been very awkward until you came along."
"Why's that?" I asked looking back at her and stuck my hand on my hip.
"I don't know…this whole company is a hard place to jump into and get in your skin, this company is rough on the male side of things to adopting to this thing, he has to pay his dues and get comfortable in his own skin may cause him not to have many friends. You saw how long it took me to get used to this big change…"
"Yeah…it was gradual for me, because I had you and I was able to get in here before I got the job so I knew people."
"Yep, but he just got thrown into this company…it's a very hard change."
"It could be a rude awakening." I said chuckling.
"It is…why didn't Claudia come?"
"She had meetings, plus I think with that storm she wouldn't have been able to fly out…" I said.
"One day you will be attending these meetings."
"I hope not…meetings seem so boring…"
"It isn't that boring if your there with the right people…"
"Like who?"
"Me…why don't we go out tomorrow? Mike has a signing tomorrow with Alex and Eve…"
"Another signing, when are you going to do a signing?"
"Why? You don't want to hang out?"
"No, I want to hang out…maybe we'll go see that new Justin Timberlake movie…" I said smirking.
"Oh, the Friends with Benefits movie?"
"Yes, I heard he shows his butt…"
"Dang, he can get it…" Maryse said.
"Calm your tits Maryse…you haven't even seen it yet…" I said.
"Sorry…JT is hot…" Maryse said waving herself.
"And I'm not?" Mike asked as he walked in with his belongings with Alex behind him with his belongings.
"You are, but Justin Timberlake is phew!" Maryse said.
"Please say you don't have her same taste in men." Alex said looking to me.
"Justin is hot, don't hate on Justin." I said smirking as I tied the thread before setting the needle down pulling the jacket off the dummy. "Try this now." I said handing it to Maryse and she pulled her shirt back off.
"Phew, I thought you weren't wearing anything under there and I got scared for a moment." Alex said wiping his brow.
"I always wear an under shirt, so does Adora." Maryse said nodding to me as she grabbed my jacket.
"Yep, we were always taught that ever since puberty." I said.
"I don't need to hear about your puberty…" Mike said kind of grossed out.
"Change of subject, here is a bottle of water to pay back for earlier." Alex said handing me a full bottle of water.
"Thanks." I said grabbing the bottle opening it to take a swig.
"Did you change anything?" Maryse asked.
"Yeah…I tightened this and I trimmed this…" I said showing her what I had done and she nodded.
"Do you understand any of this?" Alex asked leaning to Mike.
"Not really…" Mike asked shaking his head no as he watched us discuss the jacket.
"What if you put the clasps on the collar so I can fold it down and if I want it up I can?" Maryse asked starting to take the jacket off.
"Why don't you have just a normal collar like Mike's and have an Elvira type collar that can be attached that is glimmered with sparkles?" I asked.
"I would have to see it, can you draw it out?" Maryse asked as I went around the table pulling out my drawing pad going to the design and grabbed a pencil sketching it out with Maryse over my shoulder when I drew out what I had imagined.
"Like that?" I asked looking up to her to get her approval.
"I like it, do you guys like it?" Maryse asked turning it around to show Mike and Alex.
"Looks good…when are you going to get to mine?" Mike asked.
"When I finish this." I said as I stood up going back to the dummy when the door opened, I turned to see Drew from earlier carrying the knee pads.
"Good match Alex." Drew said walking in sticking his hand out, Alex pushed himself off the table stepping towards Drew shaking his hand.
"You too." Alex said smirking.
"Thanks for the knee pads, see you tomorrow Addie." Drew said as he smirked and gave me a wink as he handed them to me before he walked back out of the room.
"You like Drew?" Mike asked smirking.
"No, why?" I asked confused looking over to Alex who had fire in his eyes of jealousy it seemed.
"It looks like you have caught his attention." Mike asked.
"I don't like men like that…" I said as a sigh of relief came over Alex.
"Why not? I mean, he's Scottish, confident and a sweet guy…" Mike said.
"Mike, if she doesn't like him, she doesn't like him." Maryse said.
"Okay, whatever…" Mike said.
"Just waiting on Jack…" I said as I begun to put the dummy up and fold Maryse's jacket to bring with me back to the hotel when Jack came in with his boots handing them to me. "Jesus, these stink! What do you guys do in these boots?" I asked plugging my nose.
"We sweat and they are on our feet, so what do you expect to smell like? Roses?" Mike asked as I grabbed a bottle of perfume I carry with me spraying it into the shoes before packing them up so I won't have to deal with that smell when I open up the crate tomorrow evening.
"No, but still…that was disgusting…" I said as I closed the crate and went back to my bag grabbing the card that Daniel had given me earlier to clock out with. "I just got to drop by Daniel's office and clock out." I said as I pulled my bag onto my shoulder.
"I got to go grab my things, Adora why don't you meet us by the car?" Mike asked.
"Okay…" I said smirking as we walked out of wardrobe going over to the office clocking out. I turned around to head out hopefully without Daniel coming back to his office.
"Leaving already?" He asked checking his watch when he walked in.
"If that is okay? Mike, Maryse and Alex are my ride and they are ready to go." I said.
"Yeah, show is pretty much over and if everything is packed up and ready to be put into the truck." Daniel said.
"Yep, everything is ready to go into the truck." I said.
"Good night and see you tomorrow." Daniel said.
"Night…" I said as I walked past him and out of the room finding my way out back not seeing them yet.