I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Adora's Point of View-
I was woke up at 9 AM the next morning by a loud thud from the room above me, I wasn't sure if Mike and Maryse were having sex and the bed was thumping or if I should be worried. I laid there not hearing anymore more thuds, I threw the blanket back so I could slide out heading out of my room and nervously headed up the stairs seeing the door open.
"Maryse? Mike?" I asked from the third stair from the top.
"We're fine…" Mike said as he walked into sight laughing.
"What?" I asked as I leant against the banister staring at him.
"Your sister just tripped out of the shower." Mike said.
"Is she okay?" I asked.
"She's fine…" Mike said, I rolled my eyes before I started heading back down the stairs going to my room knowing I couldn't go back to bed now. I found my sketch pad along with the paperwork that I was given by Claudia taking it out to the living room after I grabbed my phone and turned the television off. I sat onto the couch flipping through my sketch pad finding an empty sheet marking it so I can find it later on reading over the top sheet. I begun to try and think what would be a good idea for this character or person that will need attire. I heard someone walking down the stairs, I didn't bother to look to see who it was but begun drawing a sketch of a human body to use as a model to draw the attire. "What are you doing?" Mike asked, I didn't look over to him when I heard him ask me the question.
"I'm working up some ring attire for some upcoming characters that Claudia has given me." I said.
"How many do you have?" Mike asked as he sat down beside me.
"I have 5 I believe." I said as I finally looked at the bunch of sheets I had not actually counting them.
"Your not going to back out of our plans today, are you?" Mike asked shoulder bumping into me.
"No…I just figured try to get one done now before we leave and I'll do the others tonight or on the flight." I said.
"Way to wait until the last minute." Mike said.
"I learned too much from you." I said smirking as I started trying to trace what I thought of for the character that was described on the sheet.
"Who do you have?" Mike asked.
"I don't know." I said handing him the sheets to read.
"Hm…I've never heard of this person." Mike said.
"Your not Mr. Popular and know everyone." I said chuckling when I heard footsteps coming down the steps. "Are you okay?" I asked knowing it was my sister.
"Yeah…my butt just hurts." Maryse said as she was walking weird.
"How did you fall anyway?" I asked.
"I went to climb out and apparently the bottom of the bathtub was still slippery from the shampoo or soap, my foot slipped and I tried to take the bump which caused me to fall on my butt." Maryse explained.
"I was laughing so hard." Mike said as he started laughing again as he moved the top sheet behind the other sheets to read the next sheet.
"Your so mean." Maryse said as she smacked her with her pair of socks as she walked by.
"I would have probably laughed as well if I was there…" I said smirking.
"You would have, it was so comical." Mike said as he started chuckling again.
"Fine, it was funny…" Maryse said sitting in Mike's arm chair leaning forward to pull one sock on.
"I should put this up and get dressed…" I said as I finished up what I was doing.
"Yeah, we got to go out and hang…" Mike said as he smacked my shin with the pile of papers before putting them back on his lap.
"Well, if we are just going to Dave and Busters today, shouldn't we wait until later?" I asked thinking about it since people usually buy meals along with their game cards.
"No, we are going to go do other things…"
"Like what?" I asked as I looked up at him from my drawing.
"It's a surprise…" Mike said smirking.
"I don't trust you." I said.
"Trust him, I told him specifically where to go." Maryse said as I turned to look at my sister.
"And it's somewhere I want to go as well." Mike said.
"Okay, let me finish this and I'll go get dressed." I said as I was putting the last touches on the drawing. I leant forward grabbing the sheets from Mike putting it under my doodle pad while I was putting the last touches on the drawing I had started drawing but realized I still had a lot of work to do on it so I flipped the pad shut and stood up taking it back into my room putting them in a safe spot for later before I went and locked my door before I grabbed an outfit taking a quick shower before I got dressed. I checked my phone seeing a missed call along with texts from Alex, I checked my voicemail as I was sliding socks onto my feet listening to him mumble on like he was sleep talking. I rolled my eyes as I deleted the message texting him that I would be busy all day with Mike so I will talk when I could. I pulled on the other sock before pulling my shoes on, I finished getting ready since Mike is probably waiting on me to finish getting ready to head out to whatever he has planned. I walked out pulling my purse onto my shoulder and sliding my phone into the pocket the opposite side of my purse.
"Are you ready?" Mike asked.
"Yeah…" I said.
"Aren't you going to get something to eat?" Maryse asked as she walked out of the kitchen holding a cup of coffee.
"Nah, but I am going to grab some water." I said as I stepped in front of her and she slid out of the doorway to let me walk into the kitchen to grab one of the last water bottles they have. "You guys need to go grocery shopping."
"Dang, you found out what our first task is." Mike said snapping his fingers in a joking manner.
"Please tell me your not serious." I said as I twisted the top trying to open it.
"You actually think he will go grocery shopping? I would pay big bucks to see him go grocery shopping one day…" Maryse said as she pulled her legs up onto the arm chair with her resting the coffee cup on her knees.
"I will take that bet…" Mike said.
"Your on…" Maryse said.
"Don't look at me for help." I said as I turned starting to head towards the garage.
"Have fun you two!" Maryse yelled through the house as I heard Mike walking down the hall behind me.
"I hope so." I said back as I pulled open the door, I stepped into the doorframe holding the door open for Mike to grab when he walked a few more steps towards me holding the door now open with his hand. I stepped into the garage walking around the car as Mike stepped into the garage pressing the button to get the garage door to open before we even got into the car. "Where we going first?" I asked wanting some kind of hint or something.
"You'll see." Mike said smiling as I stood beside the passenger side door waiting for him to unlock the doors, he turned the key getting the doors to unlock and we climbed in. I buckled up as Mike did the same starting the car and put it in reverse before he started backing out, I reached to the ceiling pushing the button to close the garage door. "Are these new characters you are designing for?" Mike asked as he turned the opposing way he did couple days prior.
"That I don't know, I think it is some type of test."
"Why would you say that? She wouldn't test you after you have been hired would she?"
"Who knows…she probably is seeing if I have the ability to draw up attire for these people I don't know personally. It's easy on me to draw for you and Maryse since I know you two personally and closer to you."
"Any wrestler you meet won't be too complicated, we are all easily pleased and our characters now days newer people are having problems fitting into their characters, look at Heath Slater."
"Who is Heath Slater?" I asked curiously.
"He was a first season NXT rookie, he claims to be an one man rock band…and he's a ginger."
"Why does him being a ginger deal with his character?"
"I don't know…I just like saying it like ginga…"
"Ginga…" I said as the whole car ride to a bowling alley that Mike and I always came to late at night when Maryse was asleep. "We haven't been bowling in years…how did Maryse find out about our nightly bowling trips?" I asked.
"I never understand how she figures anything out."
"She knows both of us way too well."
"And we are too much like kids too." Mike said as he parked the car.
"I'd rather be a kid than grow up, I want to be in Neverland."
"I know what you mean, life is too short to not have fun and being a prude."
"Exactly, don't sweat the small stuff and people put too much thought behind what they do because they are afraid how others will think or judge them." I said as I slammed the car door shut after I climbed out of the car.
"That is the harsh truth, every one can have judgment, even I can be at time and I am sure you can too but it's why you could not let others judgment on you make you decide on what to do. What others think shouldn't bother or change you." Mike said.
"We shouldn't care what others think, but we are contradictions because that's why we ask for others opinion and advice about simple things." I state as we went into the bowling alley.
"You made your point, but don't change because someone wants you to and do what makes you happy but not what others want of you."
"Yeah." I said smiling a tad when we approached the counter, Mike rung the bell to get an attendants attention. "My game is going to suck." I said as I leant against the counter with one arm and stared at the lanes that one or two groups of people were playing.
"Mine too, but let the best loser win." Mike said chuckling as he rung the bell again, I pulled out the phone in my pocket seeing two text messages and a media message. "Is that Alexandria girl?" Mike asked.
"Yeah…" I lied.
"May I help you?" A female attendant asked as she came around the corner into the area behind the counter.
"We want to play a couple games." Mike said.
"Alright, you need shoes?" She asked.
"Yep." Mike said.
"May I get a 10 in women." I said politely.
"Damn you have big feet." Mike said.
"I usually wear 9s but I have wide feet so I usually have to go a size bigger to give my feet room." I said.
"Excuses excuses." Mike said snickering a tad.
"For you sir?" The lady said setting the pair of shoes onto the counter in front of me, I grabbed the pair of shoes looking at the phone again.
"11 in men." Mike said as the lady nodded before she went to get them.
"And I have big feet?" I said rolling my eyes as I opened the photo Alex sent, it was a photo of him laying on the beach and I wrote him back saying 'Don't get burnt, if you do it'll give me a right to smack it. We should go to the beach! Miss ya too, will call you tonight after buddy day with Mike.' before I slid the phone into my pocket as Mike grabbed his shoes from the counter.
"Lane 21." She said as she entered the numbers into the cash register.
"21, not a bad number." Mike said.
"I went to a psychic once and they said 3 is a dominant number in my life." I said realizing how 21 in related to 3.
"Weird…where is your 3rd arm?" Mike asked as we headed down the steps to our lane and the racks of the bowling balls.
"It hasn't started growing yet." I said chuckling.
"When will it sprout? At age 33?" Mike asked laughing a tad, we sat on one the benches in front of the lanes 21 and 22 to put on the crazy looking bowling shoes.
"We'll see." I said smiling as I slid my purse under the chair.
"It'd be awesome." Mike said as he stood up going to the monitor typing in names for the frames to pop up.
"Whose third arm?" I asked.
"You, and I'm The Awesome one." Mike said.
"Of course you are." I said as I stood up to go get my ball. I walked around to the different racks grabbing different colored and sized balls until I found one that was green and felt right. I carried it back to our lane getting it to rest on the ball return rack only to see two more balls to be set into the rack. "Why do you have two balls?"
"All men have two balls, it's something we are born with." Mike said sarcastically.
"Ha ha…I meant bowling balls." I said to clarify it.
"It's so I can do both bowls without waiting."
"Mike, we aren't in a rush so go put one back." I said.
"But why?"
"Because, just please."
"Fine." Mike said taking a ball back before he came back, "Do we need bumpers to make it far?"
"Only if you feel as if you need them." I smiled.
"I don't need them, go three arms." Mike said as he went to take a seat, I put my hands over the air vent thing they had before I put my three fingers into the ball picking it up. "Three again, it's SO your number." Mike said jokingly.
"I'm about to give you five reasons to shut up." I said as I lined my feet up with the middle arrow before I slowly stepped forward leaning down to bowl the ball.
"Three!" Mike yelled getting me to throw the ball too soon and it rolled right into the gutter.
"Mike!" I said angrily turning to look at him, he was laughing under his breath.
"Butterfingers." Mike said.
"I don't have butterfingers, I have a jerky friend." I said.
"I'm not a jerk, I'm awesome. The screen says so." Mike said.
"Because you made it say so." I said leaning against the computer monitor."
"No I didn't." Mike said confidently as he slid by me to take his turn. I pulled his maneuver getting him a gutter as well. After each of us getting 6 frames of gutters, we decided to pull out the bumpers and to stop that move on each other. We did the last four frames, he beat me by 4 pins. "You want something to drink or a snack?" Mike asked.
"Sure." I said following him up to the snack bar not knowing what they had or to get.
"You want to split some cheese sticks?" Mike asked looking to me.
"Sure may we get ranch with it?"
"Duh!" Mike said as we stepped up to the counter ordering the cheese sticks and drinks. "We should do a suicide." Mike said excitedly.
"I got these five." I said as I put even amounts of five of those fountain drinks as Mike did the other five.
"Let's do this." Mike said as we put our cups together shaking it up so we could each have each kind of what we each did in time to hear our number to get called. Mike grabbed our cheese sticks walking back to our lane, I rolled my ball to start a new game getting a split.
"God dang it." I said walking back to the ball return waiting for the ball.
"Good luck!" Mike said chuckling as he bit into a cheese stick.
"Thanks." I said as the ball rolled out, I grabbed it and took my second chance at it but unfortunately only one got knocked down.
"Tough break, watch and learn." Mike said after he put the half eaten cheese stick down.
"Learn from who? Your no professional."
"I'm better than you." Mike said as we slid by each other.
"We'll find out at end of this game." I said as I picked up a cheese stick he hasn't touched to eat and pulled out my phone to check my texts. 'We'll go to the beach this weekend. We will be in Cali. What are you and Mike doing?' Alex asked in the text.
"Are you going to text the whole time to Alex?" Mike asked, I snapped my head to look over at Mike who was standing between the monitor and the ball return.
"No, she is telling me about upcoming shows." I said replying to him real quick.
"If she wants to model, why is she in school?" Mike asked.
"You can still get a degree if you're a model, they don't discriminate."
"They have a degree in modeling?"
"No, not that I know of." I said as his ball was pushed out onto the return.
"Then why is she at your college still after you graduated?" Mike asked as she picked up his ball.
"She's studying business law, she can't count on modeling at least not for her whole life." I lied.
"She talked to Maryse to try to get gigs outside school?" Mike asked.
"Maryse already knows and is looking out for any possible gigs as well as I." I said as I went to sit down while Mike went to bowl his second ball.
"Spare!" Mike exclaimed as he jumped up in his excitement.
"You suck!" I said in a pissed tone.
"Your just jealous." Mike said as he popped his collar.
"Am not, I still got a few frames left." I said checking the scores displayed on a big monitor hanging above.
"But it is already over." Mike said as we came face to face as I went to get my ball.
"It's not over until the fat lady sings and I don't hear you singing yet." I said trying not to laugh at my own joke.
"Real funny." Mike said as he went to our table grabbing his half eaten cheese stick and his drink.
"I'm laughing." I stated. I picked up my ball going to the lane setting the ball down for a moment.
"What the hell are you doing?" Mike asked with his mouth full.
"You'll see." I said as I picked up the ball rocking it back and forth between my legs before thrusting it down the lane.
"Did you just resort to the granny bowl?" Mike asked.
"It always comes in handy." I said smiling not turning around, I watched my ball slowly roll down to the end of the lane.
"You'll get what? Like one pin?"
"You always under estimate this." I said as the ball hit the first pin and rolled its way through the pins getting all the pins to fall. "Strike! And I believe that beats your spare, booyah!" I said turning around proudly and smiling.
"I'm still ahead though!" Mike stated.
"Not for long." I said as I stepped off the wooden lane area.
"Not if I can help it." Mike said as he picked up his ball and I slid past him to sip my drink. We finished that game with him beating me by 20 points which led to two more games to where he won 2 out of the 3 legit games we had. "Told you that I'll win." Mike said as we sat down on the benches to take off our bowling shoes and put on our regular shoes.
"Oh yeah, you showed me." I said rolling my eyes as I loosened the laces on the bowling shoes and slid one foot out before I did the same to the other.
"I did…but you have time to show me at Dave and Busters." Mike said.
"I know I can beat you there…." I said smiling knowing that I always have beat him at the Skee Ball or the racing ones that had bikes.
"I think we should do air hockey first."
"We'll see." I said smirking as I stood up, I grabbed the ball I had been using putting it up and came back to grab my purse and the ugly shoes waiting for Mike to come back from taking his ball back to where he had picked it up earlier. "The tour is in Cali this weekend?" I asked as we stepped up the two steps.
"Yep, in Northern California, I think Maryse wanted to drive up there so I think we are going to leave early in the morning to head that way." Mike said as we stepped behind the family in front of us.
"How long of a drive would it be?"
"About 4-6 hours depending on how fast I drive and traffic, plus we have to pick Alex up before we head that way." Mike said.
"Oh…" I said as we stepped up to the counter when the family left handing our shoes over and Mike paid for the four games we had played. We headed out of the bowling alley to see the bright sun shining, "I missed the hotness during summer." I said soaking in the sun.
"You could always liked it, it's not nice to my skin."
"Who isn't afraid of getting sun burnt or getting skin cancer now days?" I asked as we climbed into his car, I buckled up and fixed my hair so it won't be tugged by the seatbelt.
"A lot of people have the fears, especially folks like Sheamus who burn and not tan…"
"Irish folk and British folk, luckily I'm not one." I said smirking.
"Lucky you…" Mike said.
"You just use a lot of tanner boy." I said.
"That I do, some people like myself do not have the time to go to the beach to tan hours on end, especially through the winter months it's hard to get tans and during the summer it's hard to know when to stop tanning." Mike said.
"I bet…"
"I try not to over do it, maybe you can be my personal tanner."
"Ew, no! Isn't that Maryse's job?" I asked grossed out on just thinking about it.
"She does sometimes but I need to know what is too much."
"Fine, next time you do a spray tan come and find me, I'll honestly tell you if it's too much."
"Cool…you okay with Dave and Busters?" Mike asked.
"Yeah…does Alex do spray tan?" I asked.
"I don't know and I don't care…" Mike said as he turned right onto the main street.
"Do you ever go to the beach during your times off, especially now during the summer?" I asked as I leant against my arm that was resting on the window.
"If I do, it's usually on not so busy beaches…why do you want to go to a beach instead?" Mike asked.
"No…I don't have my swimsuit…but what beach isn't so busy?" I asked.
"Manhattan, it's a good surf or boogie boarding spot as well…."
"How far is Manhattan from our shows this weekend?"
"Why are you asking? Are you thinking about going?" Mike asked.
"Maybe…haven't decided…" I said as I looked out the window. "Are there any beaches up North near where we are going?" I asked.
"Near where we'll be for the shows?" Mike asked as he glanced over to me.
"Yeah." I said.
"A few, why?"
"I think I would want to go to one but I don't want to go too far." I said.
"Oh…I'm sure that you'll be able to find one." Mike said.
"I'm sure I will too, it's California, there are beaches everywhere."
"That we do, that's one thing we are known for." Mike said smirking when he pulled into the parking lot of Dave and Busters.
"That and Hollywood and bad traffic and a lot of smog and a lot of breast implants." I said listing everything that came to mind that people may associate with California, more specific the LA or Hollywood area.
"What town doesn't have bad qualities?" Mike asked.
"An Amish town." I stated.
"Amish towns are bad too, I can't live without electricity or my car." Mike said.
"But if you grew up without it, it probably won't be as bad." I said climbing out of the car and shut the door behind me.
"I guess your right, if you were raised without something, you'll learn to adjust to it." Mike said.
"I can't imagine the culture shock it is to them when they come into the type of cities we live in." I said.
"I bet it can be, them riding into our cities on their horse drawn carriages down our car driven streets." Mike said chuckling as he pulled the door open for me.
"Not that, but at age 18 children are kicked out to explore the city and decide if they want to live with the Amish or live in the city in our lifestyle." I said as we stepped up to the counter and the hostess sat us and gave us the menu and current deals they had.
"How would they survive? Rent alone is expensive and the city could be scary to those that haven't been in one." Mike said as he opened his menu and I did the same.
"I think the whole Amish community pitches in for an apartment and sends their kids out together. I wouldn't know because I wasn't raised in an Amish family." I said shrugging.
"I think it's a bigger shock to them coming to our lifestyle than us going to their lifestyle for a few hours."
"Yeah because we can leave after a few hours and be back to our normal lives with our technology where as they really can't and they aren't used to all this technology we have been raised with." I said.
"What looks good?" Mike asked changing the topic.
"The nachos." I said as I closed the menu gathering the other one single deals they had putting them on top of mine while Mike closed his. "What are you getting?" I asked curiously.
"The cheeseburger, you want to play games afterwards?" Mike asked nodding to the bright and loud games to the right of us.
"Duh!" I said as our server came taking our order.