Eve turned to her friends as Syd sat across from them in catering, zoned out, once again completely unaware of anyone's existance.
"What is it with you and that... That thing?" Kelly asked with a grimace as Eve smirked and said " Well, I went to high school with her."
" And?" Maryse asked as she raked her hand through her long platinum blonde hair.
"And, let's just say, her only friend committed suicide because of a stupid prank, now, Syd, I think, blames me."
It'd all been a joke. Eve pretended to make friends with the quiet new girl named Sydney and another one named Brinna who moved in down the street from her. She'd noticed them walking around school by herself, and though Eve wouldn't admit it, parts of her did feel bad for the girls, they didn't have her own real parents, Sydney's father was in prison and her mother, according to rumor, had od'ed when she'd been sleeping beside her in the bed one night, while Brinna's family died in a car accident.
The rumors about the girls were bad enough, but for some reason, Eve got it into her head that her boyfriend Scott liked the girls, and it made her jealous. So Eve set out to make their life a living hell. Or at least that's what she thought she was going to do.
She pretended to be Scott, and wrote a note, passing it to Brinna. Brinna read the note and her entire face lit up, and she hurriedly wrote back, while Sydney shot glares at her, obviously knowing something was fishy.
Sydney watched as Brinna got ready to meet "Scott" that night. "You realize this is a sick joke, right?" Sydney tried to make her best friend, the girl she'd been with since she was about 4 at this point, realize that she was only going to look stupid. Brinna was more optimistic than she was, and turned on her heel in the mirror, as she asked, "What's wrong with you? Can't you ever just be happy?"
"I would, were the note true, Brin. I'm telling you, it's not going to happen. Either he won't show up, or Eve and her friends and a whole slew of other people will, and it won't go well." Syd said calmly as she looked up from a Rolling Stone and at her only real friend.
" Syd, don't. Just cover for me with Daryl and Anna, and I promise, I'll be back as soon as I can." Brinna insisted as she opened the second story window, climbed down the drain pipe, disappeared into the night.
At about midnight, Syd rolled over, finding the bed empty, but hearing loud crying and talking down stairs. She slipped on a Pennywise shirt and walked down stairs, just in time to hear Anna asking, "And there's no way she's alive?"
The police officer shook his head no and said calmly, "No ma'am. She jumped off the bridge, landed on the railroad tracks below. Made one hell of a mess."
Syd's stomach churned and she stood on shaky legs, bolted to the bathroom and threw up at least three times. "Why the fuck didn't you just listen?" she asked as she stared in the mirror in shock. Without Brinna, she had no idea what she was going to do. Brinna, in some ways, had kept her from completely losing herself, retreating into herself.
"That bitch Eve and her friends caused this. I'm going to make them pay. Whatever it takes." Syd snarled as she ran back down the hall, got back into her bed, pretending to be asleep. Daryl, their foster father walked in about 20 minutes later, and woke her up, told her what happened.
The next day at school, everyone was sad, they held a speech in her English class, and Syd listened as someone who barely spoke to either of them, some popular fake poser ass bitch, got up to speak.
" What's everyone so sad for? You all, each and every one of you got what the hell you wanted. And a few of you in this room, were the very reason she jumped off the bridge." Sydney said calmly, after raising her hands, fixing her eyes hatefully on Eve and her group of friends, her boyfriend Scott.
Eve froze as she watched Syd's eyes go from cold and hurt to cold and empty and she bit her lower lip. She raised her own hand and said quietly, " We didn't do anything to her."
" You idiots gave her a note, pretending to be a guy she had a crush on. Eve, I'm not stupid." Sydney stated as a menacing sneer filled her lips.
" And she didn't have to come. She was depressed, Sydney. She had to have been, for that to make her jump." their teacher intersected.
Sydney turned to look at the teacher and said " She was NOT depressed. They pushed her and she snapped. They've been picking on both of us since we started school here in September."
The teacher grimaced at the sharpness in the girls tone and said "If you need to talk to a counselor, Sydney, I can write you a pass."
"Fuck talking. I don't want or need anyone's pity." Sydney said as she waited until the teacher's back was turned, and walked casually past Eve and her boyfriend, leaning in to whisper in Eve's ear, " I'm going to make you feel every single bit of pain she felt you sick bitch."
Eve gulped. She avoided Sydney successfully until the last period of school for the day, and Syd caught her alone by the girls bathroom. She'd already given her a pretty good beating when Scott found them and grabbed Syd, holding her, letting his friends and Eve, then her friends beat Sydney.
The odd and scary thing was that Sydney didn't cry, or even act like it hurt, and she fought loose, and started trying to take them all on at once. A teacher caught wind to what was going on and quickly broke up the fight, then pinning Sydney's arms, got her calm, then down to the office.
After that day, Sydney moved maybe a week later. Eve's life went back to a blissfully normal state, and noone ever really found out what happened that night, because noone asked.
Sydney had been glaring hatefully at Eve and her friends, and she failed to notice the knife she'd been carving on the tabletop with had shut, her finger caught between the blade and the closing and was now pouring blood. But Seth Rollins, who sat down the table from her noticed and coughed, elbowing Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose sharply, nodding his head.
Dean threw a grape at the girls head, but she kept staring at Eve's table. Rolling his eyes, he leaned in and said coldly, " Hey, you fucking weirdo.. Your hand's caught in your knife." as he raised a brow at the girl and nodded down, before going back to his own food.
Sydney looked down at the knife, her cut finger and then dug around for a bandaid, pressing it around the cut. She'd go get it cleaned out later.
The table went silent, but a few moments later, Seth was curious about what'd just happened, and for some reason, though he didn't give a damn about the girl, he found himself asking, "How the fuck do you not feel that?"
Sydney looked at him and then said quietly, in a stiff voice, " Congenital analgesia. Indiference to pain, unless it's extreme."
Before they could ask her anything else, she'd stood, shoved her chair beneath the table, and walked off, leaving her Ipod behind.
Dean looked around, not wanting anyone to see him, and shoved the Ipod into his pocket. The faint sound of the song Unsettling Differences by some band called Blue Smock Nancy, according to the Ipod's playlist when he looked at it, had him sort of raising a brow.
When he looked up again, he heard some people by the door chanting, "Fight" and smirking, he sat back with his chair leaned on two legs, the Ipod's earbuds in one ear, his eye on the door.
Then he realized that she was fighting... With Torres. He shoved the thought to the bottom of his mind, because she was of non importance at this point.
"Ambrose."
"Yeah?"
" She'd be a good member." Roman said quietly, almost thoughtfully as he ate a celery stick and watched the fight with his fellow stablemates.
"She's a fucking girl." Dean spat, not sure why the proposition even bothered him. She could fight, she seemed to have no feelings, and in some ways, she reminded him of himself.
Seth raised a brow at the angry statement, but shrugged, going back to eating his food. Then a few moments later, Ambrose said with a smirk, " Fuck it. But if she fucks up I'm going to beat the living shit out of her. Clear?"
Sydney got dragged back into the catering area, shirt torn, swearing loudly at Eve and Maryse as AJ, who'd been the only person they'd seen her talk to since the week or two she'd been on the lineup, tried to calm the girl down.
Syd looked at AJ and then said " I'm going to kill those bitches."
AJ nodded and with her evil smile said " Our plan.. Trust me.. They're all going to pay for their bullying soon enough. Now calm down before you get suspended and blow it. Besides, if you get suspended, then who will I room with?"
Syd licked her spoon as she shrugged then said quietly, " Yeah, you're right. Those bitches get it soon enough." before realizing her Ipod wasn't in her pocket.
She looked over at the table she'd been sitting at, and rolled her eyes when she saw Dean Ambrose sitting, listening to her Ipod before storming over and snatching the Ipod from his hands, then the earbud from his ears.
Dean stood and growled, getting in her face, grabbing her wrist as he smirked and went to twist it until it broke.
The smirk dropped slightly when he felt a fork stick into his shoulder. "You crazy bitch." he snarled as the two of them started to fight.
" Don't ever touch my fucking stuff again, got it? Unlike the rest of these morons, Ambrose.. You don't scare me." Syd said as she wiggled from beneath him, how he had her pinned, and walked away calmly.
Dean watched her walking away, his hand in his hair, brow raised, anger surging.
And parts of him were oddly turned on, and fascinated by her lack of fear where he was concerned. He got this feeling that they were a lot alike. And it intrigued him, to be honest.
Okay then, this beginning to a possible story was actually written about May of last year. I'm revising it to make it halfway fit with anything they might be doing now, so there might be references to the Shield, Team Hell No, the AJ Scandal, etc. I have no clue who I'll pair my Syd with, but if you haven't guessed by reading, she's not really emotional a whole lot. Her diva thing is on my profile if anyone wants to have a read.
If you want to throw a name out at me for a paring for her, go ahead. More about Eve and Syd's past connection from high school will come out in future chapters. If you want to see more, read and review, please and thanks?
Seriously having thoughts about pairing her with Ambrose. Thanks my two anon reviewers and jcott, my signed in reviewer. Hope this chapter answers your question. If I pair her with Ambrose, it'll be an odd relationship, because I'm gonna play them both in character, and neither one really does the whole love thing. Gonna do my best to keep them both in character.
The reason I'm probably going for an Ambrose pairing is because I watched a tribute video today, about him, it's one of my faves when he was Jon Moxley( the one where he talks about everything he's ever had taken from him, it's on youtube, pm me and I can find it for you), and it was rather revealing about deeper things in his characters personality.
And I love the guy, damn it to hell.
read and review loves. But don't expect your typical sappy romance. Thanks for the support so far!