I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Adora's Point of View-
I laid on Alex's shoulder with his head laying on top of mine and his arm wrapped around me holding me close to him as we slept only to be woken up what seemed the whole drive.
"Wake up sleepy heads, lunch time." Maryse said shaking my leg.
"What?" I asked slowly opening my eyes and sitting getting Alex's head to fall and he woke up instantly when it reached a certain point.
"Why'd you move?" Alex asked as his eyes were barely open.
"It's lunch time…" I said wiping at my eyes.
"What do you guys want?" Mike asked in a pissed off tone.
"I don't care…" I said sitting up right and scooted back to sit behind Mike and Alex did the same.
"Carl's Jr. It's the first thing I see and closest to the exit." Mike said.
"Mike, there is no reason for you to be mad…" Maryse said.
"What'd we do?" I asked.
"Nothing…" Mike said.
"Is he mad that we were sleeping like that?"
"Yeah, I tried to explain to it you guys were tired and were just sleeping, nothing more….but when Alex wrapped his arm around you pushed him over."
"Why's that? He was holding me close to him so I won't move."
"Try to knock sense into his hard head." Maryse said smiling.
"Your boyfriend is hard headed and stupid." I said as I looked out the window mad that I can't even sleep in the back seat with my boyfriend without Mike getting bad, I mean yeah he doesn't know we're dating but still. I felt my phone vibrate and I pulled it out seeing a text from Alex, I opened it to read, 'Don't let Mike get to you, we are together even if he doesn't want us too. :D' I smiled and looked over to Alex who was smiling and chuckled when I looked to him.
"What do you two want?" Mike asked.
"I'll have the chicken crispers with an orange drink." I said.
"I'll have the same with a coke though…I can't stand orange." Alex said.
"How can you not stand orange? Orange is my favorite color and favorite type of flavor…"
"Grape is mine." Alex said smirking.
"Grape is okay, your weird for not liking orange." I said.
"Am not, your weird…" Alex said.
"She is weird, she likes the orange flavor but she hates the fruit orange." Maryse said.
"Shut up Maryse." I said.
"You don't like orange fruit?" Alex asked.
"No, it tastes nasty, I usually just suck the juice out of the slices then I toss them out…" I said honestly.
"What else don't you like?" Alex asked.
"Potatoes." Maryse said.
"Potatoes? Seriously? But yet your going to eat fries though?" Alex asked.
"Chips and French fries are the only potato items I would eat." I said as we got quiet because Mike was ordering our lunch, he pulled around and we all pitched in money for our lunch and we begun to separate the food once we got it. "How much further?" I asked curiously as I opened the box of chicken I had.
"I would say another hour or so…." Mike said.
"Not bad…" I said.
"It's better than that 4 hours you were going on about at the hotel." Mike said.
"It was the way you said it Mike." I said.
"What's wrong with the way I said it?" Mike asked.
"It's ONLY 4 hours…that's like a kid saying I ONLY ate half of the cookie." I said.
"That's stupid, no kid would only eat half of a cookie…" Mike said.
"That's not the point though…" I said as I bit into a chicken tender, he didn't say anything after that so we continued eating away at our lunch and no one was really speaking, I hated rides like this when no one spoke a word because it made the trip more longer than it truly was. It would be more fun if Alex and I were able to goof off and talk without Mike thinking we are 'dating.'
"Is Claudia here?" Maryse asked.
"I don't know, I haven't received a text or a call yet so who knows." I said shrugging as we followed the signs from the exit to the arena.
"Maybe she'll give you the night off." Mike said.
"No thanks, what will I do with my time?" I asked.
"You can watch the show…" Alex suggested as we made glances smirking.
"That's ridiculous, Addie rarely ever watches wrestling…the only time she'll watch it is if Maryse is doing a match…she doesn't even care enough about me to watch my matches…" Mike said.
"It's because you record it at home and rewind it making me watch it 3 trillion times over the spread of 3 days." I said.
"Do not…" Mike said.
"Yeah you do." Maryse said.
"Maybe I do, but that's only because I'm that good…" Mike said as he pulled into the parking area and drove around finding the restricted area for the stars and being let in.
"Your not that good…" I mumbled as Alex chuckled a tad at the comment.
"I am that good…" Mike said as he parked the car, we climbed out and I pulled my backpack on my back watching the three others to pull out a suitcase.
"We have flights tonight, so we have to leave promptly right after our matches are finished." Maryse said.
"Well, I'll be clueless in that wardrobe room so someone has to come get me." I said as I put my hands on the straps pushing it forward so the bag was pressed against my back.
"I'll come get you." Maryse said as she glanced to Alex giving me that knowing look.
"I know that look, Maryse is planning something…." Mike said.
"I'm planning on getting some water…" Maryse said as she grabbed my arm pulling me with her, I kept looking back at Alex smiling at him when I felt a hand slap my arm. "I'll distract Mike enough for Alex to come get you…get a little time alone with him before we leave for the break…" Maryse said.
"How would you distract him?" I asked.
"I'll think of something, trust your sister…" Maryse said wrapping her arm around me.
"Thanks sis." I said smiling, we walked in and she left me at Daniel's office where I clocked myself in and made my way to find the wardrobe room seeing Claudia already there and her hair was messed up. "You seem stressed." I said as I closed the door behind me and before walking further into the room.
"We're missing a pair of boots and knee pads, I've looked everywhere."
"No we're not…I loaned some out to Drew and Jack, they are supposed to return them tonight after their matches…" I said.
"Oh…they recorded it on the paperwork?"
"Yeah, I figured instead of wasting both of our times and figured they will be trustworthy." I said shrugging as I put my bag down.
"Yeah, their both good guys…anything else I missed this weekend?"
"Nope…" I said as I pulled out Maryse's jacket.
"Is that Maryse's attire?"
"Yeah, the jacket portion of it…." I said smirking as I handed it to her to look over as I pulled out the dummy to use tonight as well.
"It looks good thus far…"
"Yeah, I had to make a few changes to the design because she didn't like it but it's okay…" I said shrugging as I went to grab some of her thread to use.
"You got to do what the talent says…"
"I know…but it's not a big change, it's not like I had to start the whole thing over." I said.
"That is always good." Claudia said as she went to do her thing as I was working on Maryse's jacket, unless if she needed me to do something and it was cool to be needed and of use than just doing nothing the whole show. I did things from going to get us water to making copies to doing paperwork to drafting attire that she had described and she gave me worksheets to practice assessing upcoming characters ring attire and what they will or won't wear to work on over the break. It wasn't as busy, but yet she kept me busy enough to where it didn't seem that long before Alex walked in after the show to get me. "Hey Alex, what do you need?" Claudia asked, I turned around from Maryse's jacket that I was just about finished with.
"I actually don't need anything, I just came to snatch your beautiful assistant." Alex said smirking glancing over to me.
"Well okay then, I'll see you Friday?" Claudia asked looking to me.
"I'll be there." I said smiling as I took the jacket off the dummy and begun to pack it up.
"Where are the shirts that you and Mike used tonight?" Claudia asked.
"Jake picked Mike's up and mine is in my suitcase to use next weekend." Alex stated.
"Don't lose it." Claudia said.
"I'll make sure he won't…" I said smiling as I zipped up my bag and put the dummy aside for the crew to grab when they begin to pack up the things.
"Good…" Claudia said smirking as Alex stuck out his hand for me to grab, I sheepishly grabbed his hand and he led me out of the room.
"What's Maryse doing to keep Mike calm?" I asked.
"Do you want a creative lie or the truth?" Alex asked smirking and let out a chuckle.
"Truth." I said.
"She asked him to go get her a sandwich or something or rather…"
"It makes sense since we are flying home today…" I said as I shrugged, he glanced to me smirking and he stopped but I continued stepping forward until I felt him tug my arm to turn and look at him. "What Alex?" I asked walking the few steps back to where our arms weren't fully extended and I was standing in front of the taller man.
"I just want a few moments alone with my baby…" Alex said smirking before he ran his free hand through my hair, to say I wasn't blushing from hearing him call me baby would be a lie.
"We don't have a lot of moments left Alex…"
"I don't care…I need as much as I can since it has to last 3 days until I can see you again." Alex said.
"3 days isn't bad…"
"You won't miss me?" He asked in an offensive way.
"I will but…."
"But what?"
"We have our phones…it's not like we won't be in contact…" I said as he let go of my hand and put his hands on my waist pulling me closer to him.
"Very true, but I won't be able to see your beautiful face, that bright smile, hear your giggle, or feel your soft hair or skin…" Alex said as he slowly glazed his finger across my cheek.
"I will send pictures and giggle on the phone with you…" I said giggling.
"Real funny." Alex said chuckling and smiling as I stood up on my tip toes pressing my lips to his for a light kiss and he kissed me back that was more passionate than the small kiss I had given him.
"Where is Riley?" Mike yelled angrily from the hall, we couldn't see him yet and we quickly broke from each others embrace.
"What's wrong Mike?" Alex asked as he came around the corner.
"There you are…" Mike said as he got to us, he looked to Alex then to me and he looked back to Alex. "You two weren't?" Mike asked I could tell he was getting angry, Alex and I looked to each other.
"No, I was heading to the locker room to use the bathroom before we left and I ran into Alex on the way….he said that we were almost ready to go." I lied.
"Okay…" Mike said.
"What do you need?" Alex asked.
"You have a match tomorrow at SmackDown, can you drop us off at the airport and you can drop the rental off tomorrow night or when you fly out." Mike said.
"Sweet, that's fine…" Alex said.
"Congrats." I said.
"Thanks….why aren't you going to be there?" Alex asked looking to Mike.
"Because I was told they don't need me there and they want you to start doing solo things….at least for dark matches…" Mike said when Maryse came around the corner with her things.
"That's weird…" Alex said.
"That's what they want." Mike said.
"Congrats on the match." Maryse said as she joined us.
"Thanks…let me get you guys to the airport." Alex said smirking as Mike handed him the keys to the car, we walked out together to the car and I sat in the backseat with Maryse yet again, so that one trip in the backseat with Alex was worth it I guess.
"Did you and Alex have some time together?" Maryse asked.
"Yeah, we had a few moments and one last kiss…I told him that we can talk or text over the break but since he has a match tomorrow, he is going to be busy."
"It won't be that long, I think you need to spend some time with Mike this break…"
"Why's that?"
"That way he can realize where your mind is at and put him at ease about this whole thing…make him realize your still the same ole girl that he looks at like a little sister." Maryse said.
"You know best…" I said as I looked out the window knowing that she was probably right, Mike needs to spend more time with me since we haven't spent a lot of time together since I got here.
"Airport, here we are…" Alex said pulling up to the curb and turned his hazard lights on as he climbed out and opened the door for me and offered his hand to help me out which I gladly took it. I climbed out pulling my backpack with me and smiled when I stood in front of Alex who was on the other side of the door. I moved out of the way and he pushed the door shut and we went to the trunk where Mike had just set his suitcase down on the curb and Maryse grabbed her bags and I reached for mine but Mike and Alex both reached to grab it at the same time.
"I got it Alex." Mike said giving him a dirty look.
"Okay…" Alex said as he backed away letting Mike grab my bag for me.
"Thanks for the ride Alex…good luck at your match tomorrow, be careful and drive safe." I said as I turned to look at him.
"Always am…." Alex said as he twirled the key ring on his finger.
"Right…" Mike said under his breath.
"Thanks Alex…text us when you get to your hotel for the night…" Maryse said.
"What are you, his mother?" Mike asked.
"Don't listen to him." Maryse said.
"I won't…" Alex said.
"Night Alex." I said as I climbed onto the sidewalk standing beside my sister.
"Night Addie, Maryse…Mike." He said as he walked around back to the drivers seat leaving us there as we walked into the airport, I was walking slower than those two but I could hear them arguing over something and I have heard mine along with Alex's name a couple of times. I couldn't help but to think about Alex and hope that he will make it to SmackDown's town safely, and it isn't that far. I can't believe it has to be 3 days until I can see him again, but even then it will be sneaking around. I sat aside with my, Maryse and Mike's suitcases while they waited in line together watching them doing so. I pulled out my phone realizing how low the battery was so I turned it off to save the battery and hoped that Alex won't get upset that I may not respond immediately. I opened my bag to pull out Maryse's jacket to see how much work I had left when the bear fell out and I smiled quickly putting it back into the bag before Mike could see it as him and Maryse were heading back to me.
"Come on, we have limited time to make our flights." Mike said as we went and checked our bags in at security before we went through our own security to get to our terminal. We made it in time to claim our seats on the flight, there wasn't many people on the flight and they dimmed the lights so people can take a nap on the plane since it was only an hour or two flight back to LA. Mike and Maryse were out, but I could never find myself asleep on a plane because I hate flying as it is and I was not about to sleep on one unless if it was a long flight like from France. As we landed, I woke the two sleepy heads and begun to get ready to get off the plane that wasn't as full as it should have been. We got off the flight, Maryse and Mike were waking themselves up for the short drive back to their place and I would have offered to drive but I didn't have a United States driving license so I couldn't. We grabbed our bags when they got to us and found our way to the car that was parked in the lot over the weekend and drove back to our place, barely any words were said besides 'Glad to be home' or 'What are we doing tomorrow?' which was never answered. Mike parked the car in the garage and we went into the house by the connecting door that led us into the house on the other side of the stair case, it was an odd place for the garage but there is where it was.
"Night guys." I said as I watched them as they begun dragging their bags up the stairs.
"Night Addie." Mike said in his sleepy voice, he sounded like he was about to pass out on the stairs and Maryse was slowly behind him.
"Night Adora….don't forget to text Alex before you go to bed." Maryse said so Mike won't hear what she literally said.
"Willdo." I said as I waited until they went around the corner after reaching the top of the stairs heading to their room and I headed to my bedroom putting my suitcase in the closet for me to deal with later, the only thing I grabbed was my phone charger and plugged it in instantly turning my phone back on to text Alex, oddly enough I was wide awake. I was tired where as I know that if I laid down for a while I would be able to fall asleep but yet I knew that I could also be up for a few more hours. When my phone fully turned on, it showed that I had 3 text messages from Alex already and I knew he must be already asleep considering the last one that came in said 'You must be still flying, but I'm going to bed. Travel safe, I miss you already!' I smiled and wrote him back 'I miss you too, glad to know you made it. Be safe yourself, no injuries please.' I turned the television on before I climbed into my bed snuggling with the extra pillow on my bed watching the episode of Law and Order: SVU that USA Network was playing until I fell asleep after it had finished and went onto another episode.