I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Tara's Point of View-
I heard a knock at the door, I got up opening the connecting door and allowing Alex to walk into my room with me.
"Are you a stripper?" I asked not thinking it through, he gave me this dumb-founded look like I was high or something.
"What?" He asked confused and he chuckled a tad.
"Are you a stripper?" I asked dead serious.
"No! Why, do I look hot enough to be one?" He asked shaking his hair that went to right above the ear that had a streak of blonde down the back of his hair.
"Well…I'm not going to answer that…I could have sworn I saw a picture of you hanging down in the mall area…" I said turning walking further into my room and he followed me.
"Well, that is good and all because that was me in that picture."
"So you are a stripper."
"Am I missing something about my life that I need to know about?" Alex asked.
"Apparently, this is a single's cruise and the people in the posters are strippers, aren't they?" I asked.
"You have been lied to…"
"What do you mean I've been lied to?" I asked.
"This isn't a single's cruise, this is a wrestling cruise…"
"Wrestling? You're a wrestler?" I asked more shocked.
"Yeah, you didn't know?"
"No, my friend booked the cruise…I'm going to kill her…" I said running a hand through my hair pacing, this weekend is going to be fun, I don't watch wrestling but I guess now will be the time to start and since where I work we have a wrestling promotion, maybe it will give me reasons to go support them.
"It isn't that bad…come on, we have emergency procedure pre-caution class and I have to pick Chris up…"
"Chris?"
"My friend and tag-team partner…" Alex said.
"Right…" I said nodding as I grabbed my purse and my room key following him out of my room and to pick up his friend Chris.
"Do you watch wrestling?"
"Honestly?" I asked as I gave him a side glance.
"Honestly, I won't get offended."
"No…but I do watch hockey if that is any better."
"Who is your favorite team?" Alex asked as we waited for the elevator to arrive.
"Tampa Bay Lighting, they are my home team." I said.
"So you live in Florida…"
"Born and raised…" I said smiling, "What about yourself?" I asked.
"Born in Michigan, have a house there along with sharing an apartment in Florida since my work has me in Florida."
"You travel a lot being a wrestler?" I asked curiously as we climbed onto the elevator.
"Rarely, but it does happen. The only travelling I do is from Michigan to Florida, but maybe I'll stay in Florida more if that is where you'll be…"
"Stalker?" I asked jokingly.
"Do I look like the stalking type?" Alex asked as I looked him up and down.
"Can't any of us be a stalking type?"
"Not a truer statement." Alex said as it went quiet and the elevator tinged symbolizing we were at the bottom floor, Alex let me walk off first and he led me towards Chris's room. "Your friend told you this was a single's cruise?" Alex asked still in disbelieve.
"Yeah, don't ask please…" I said.
"I was right when I came to the conclusion that you were single."
"Maybe…" I said smirking when we got to a door and he stopped but I didn't bumping right into him. "I'm so sorry." I said embarrassed that I pretty much ran him over.
"It's fine, people like us don't stop suddenly, how tall are you? 5'8ish?"
"Yes, how do you do that?"
"I have a measuring eye…" Alex said when the door flung open without us knocking.
"About time Alex, Tara, what are you doing here?" Chris asked getting me to turn to look at the blonde haired blue eyed guy that I work with weekly at my job.
"You know Chris?" Alex asked looking at me shocked.
"Yeah, I know him through my job…
"If you know him through work, how did you not know he was a wrestler?"
"He never told me, I don't ask people…."
"You asked me…"
"Your different…" I said giving him a weird look before turning back to Chris who had NO idea what was going on, "How is your leg doing?" I asked.
"I got another 3 months until I can get a walking brace." He said leaning forward against the crutches.
"That sucks…why are you on the cruise?" I asked.
"Work…what are you doing on the cruise?" Chris asked.
"My friend set me up…" I said.
"Her friend said this was a singles cruise and she thought we were strippers." Alex said laughing.
"You thought we were strippers?" Chris asked shocked.
"I hate you two…" I said turning to walk away shaking my head in disbelieve when an announcement came over to remind everyone about reporting to the deck A for the emergency procedure review.
"Tara wait for us, I can only move so fast." Chris said, I stopped waiting for Chris and Alex only because I felt bad for Chris and thought he would need help with his leg being the way it was. "I told you she will slow down, she's a worry wart." Chris said.
"Am not Chris…" I said as I helped him down the stairs and over to his seat as Alex went to find the life vests. "I'm going to set your crutches here, I wonder if they have any wheelchairs for you to use…" I said.
"Oh yeah, a wheel chair will be so much safer on a ship I will be randomly rolling around due to the currents…" Chris said.
"You want to hobble around this big cruise ship?"
"Maybe…" Chris said.
"Your so weird Chris…" I said.
"I'm weird, I am only grateful you took the room next to Alex, he's just as weird."
"I bet…"
"You have no idea…." Chris said smiling as Alex came over handing us our vests.
"You know how to put this on?" I asked.
"I may be handicapped, but I'm not stupid…you may need to help Alex though." Chris said.
"Shut up Chris." Alex said as he grabbed my hand leading me to a blown up raft that was ours, Alex held his hand out helping me into the blown up raft that was supposed to resemble the boats we would be in during such evacuation. I started putting the life vest on seeing that I was the only girl in that whole boat that wasn't muscular or sexy, I was getting kind of uncomfortable about it too.
"If you and Chris work together, how come I never seen you?" I asked.
"I can ask the same thing with you…" Alex said.
"Are all these people wrestlers?" I asked looking around us.
"Yeah, don't you feel oh so comfortable being in the same rescue boat with all of us?" Alex asked.
"Yes and no, I'm the only non-wrestler…it can be good because I can use you or that guy as my floatation device but it can be bad because all the weight from how muscular you guys are…" I said nodding towards the man across the boat from me that was very muscular and had to be at least 6'6.
"Dang, we are muscular but we aren't that fat…" Alex said.
"Muscles weigh more than fat…but still, if this ship is going down you're my floatation device…"
"Hell no, I'm hanging onto you…HOLD ME TARA!" Alex said grabbing me and holding me to his embrace.
"Get off me Alex!" I said trying to push him off but he won't budge.
"Tara, save me!" Alex said by this time he started to climb on me.
"Alex, leave that poor girl alone…" A blonde haired man said.
"But Mr. Jarrett." Alex said.
"Yeah Alex, he'll kick your ass…" I said chuckling.
"Shut up Tara." Alex said climbing off sitting beside me.
"You have your vest on wrong…" I said reaching over to fix it.
"OooohhH, lower…oh yeah…right there…" Alex said as I was playing with the fasteners on his vest.
"You are so weird…" I said rolling my eyes, I was trying not to laugh and from the moment I had met this guy it has been very interesting.
"Am not." Alex said as I fixed it and we listened to the precautions and I could tell that fans were staring from their areas. "Besides Hockey, you watch any other sport?"
"Sometimes baseball…"
"You will be watching wrestling after this weekend."
"Will I?"
"It will pull you in…"
"Will it pull me in or will you pull me in?"
"A little bit of both…" Alex said smirking.
"I hate boats…" I said as the boat rocked a tad and grabbed onto the raft below me.
"If you don't like boats, why did go on one?"
"I thought cruise ships were different and I haven't been on one since my s-" I begun to say when I quickly stopped and had to change what I was saying, "My sister almost drowned…"
"How does your sister drowning involve a boat?" Alex asked.
"She jumped over board and she almost drowned…" I said.
"I can see how that can be scary…what's the age difference?"
"Oh…um…what is the age difference?"
"How do you not know the age difference between you and your sister?"
"We are 4 years apart." I lied.
"Not that much of a difference." Alex said.
"You have any siblings?"
"Nope, only child…but I look to Chris as a brother from another mother…"
"I look to my best friend like that, we have been best friends since kindergarten so we have grown up together…" I said.
"She's the one that was supposed to be here today?"
"Yep…"
"What a bitch, you don't leave a sister hanging like that…"
"She has the flu…"
"Oh…well….then that is fine…we don't like the flu near us…"
"I bet…" I said chuckling a tad from his facial reaction, Alex and I weren't paying attention to the safety precaution procedures instructions they were giving us.