I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Tara's Point of View-
I slowly walked closer to the back of the crowd when the tag-team was making their way to the ring and climbing in as Alex was helping Chris out of the ring, I wasn't 100% sure if either of them saw me and I thought Chris would see me more than Alex by the way he was looking at me. Chris was patting Alex trying to get his attention but Alex wasn't paying attention. Chris waved for me to come closer but I shook my head no and he waved at me again, and yet again I shook my head no. I watched as he hobbled to the security guard that had helped him down earlier speaking to him and I see him point back at me and the guard nodded. 'I'm going to kill him' I thought to myself as I shook my head biting my bottom lip when I watched the guard walk out of the curtain area which I was assuming was backstage and walked right up to me.
"Chris has requested you to come sit beside him." The guy said.
"Did he say why?" I asked.
"He said you were his assistant for the weekend…." The guy said.
"Fine, whatever…" I said kind of upset but yet excited, he escorted me through the curtain area trying not to trip over things and he escorted me to where Chris was sitting hoping I won't get hit from the match that was taking place. "What the heck was that?" I asked as I walked around the ring and was nervous about being that close to the ring.
"You're my assistant, sit…if you see me duck, you duck, if you see me lift my feet lift your feet." Chris said as I sat down nodding my head. "Are you hiding anything from me?" Chris asked curiously.
"Chris, we all have our secrets and things we hide…." I said truthfully.
"Are you an alien?"
"No, I'm not an alien…" I said chuckling at how stupid that sounded.
"You aren't male are you?"
"No, wait…no I'm not a male…" I said pretending to grab myself through my pants, I wasn't even paying attention to the match but staring at Chris not knowing what was to come out of his mouth next.
"Are you a zombie or a vampire?" I asked.
"No…" I said.
"Have you ever had sexual feelings towards a horse?" Chris asked.
"What the hell is up with these questions?" I asked confused about why he is asking all these questions.
"I realized I don't know the real you, I just know the girl that works hard and helps me walk or pushes me in a wheel chair daily." Chris said.
"Chris, I'm a 28 year old female that works for a living, I have a masters degree at University of Tampa in EMT, I'm a registered nurse and have a bachelor's degree in business. I have one sister, a mother and a father that abandoned my family when I was 4 years old. I was not hatched by an egg, fly to earth on a spaceship, nor have I had any sexual relations with any animals in my life time." I said.
"Okay…but have you ever had an out of body experience?"
"I wish I was having one right now and I'll be standing on the other side of the crowd watching…." I said as a joke.
"Okay…"
"What's with all these weird questions?" I asked curiously.
"Because…" Chris begun to say when Alex was thrown out of the ring and he fell on the ground rolling over and landed on my feet.
"Alex?" I said smirking when our eyes met.
"Hi Tara!" He said smiling and seemed shocked to see me, a smile crept onto my face.
"Dude, match." Chris said pointing to the ring.
"Right…" Alex said as I chuckled and rolled my eyes, Alex got to his feet and got back into the ring to finish the match.
"Because why?" I asked turning my attention back to Chris.
"It's nothing…" Chris said.
"It's obviously something…" I said.
"It's nothing, trust me." Chris said smiling. I jumped and screamed a couple times when they did suplexes or slams, but I think it was mainly from the loudness of the hit than anything else. "They are okay, you know that right?" Chris said.
"I know, Alex explained to me that you are trained to take the hits." I said glancing over to him.
"It doesn't hurt that bad…" Chris said.
"How does that not hurt?" I asked.
"It's going to sound weird but the harder you throw yourself down the less it hurts but the less you throw yourself the more it hurts."
"That doesn't make sense…"
"That's how it is…" Chris said as he rested his arm on the back of my chair.
"Weird…what is the ring made of?"
"Well, the frame is steal, then there is wood that fills in the empty space in the frame then an inch or so of padding then the mat that rests over it that the logo thing is attached to by Velcro. The poles are steel obvious, the ropes are steel cables wrapped multiple times with certain colored duck tape and where they meet on the steel cable is covered with a padded turnbuckle." Chris explained.
"How does that stuff not hurt?" I asked.
"It doesn't if you do it right."
"Is that why you have to be trained for months or years?" I asked.
"Yep, like any sport you need to practice and learn everything, wrestling is more complicated than other sports and it takes a whole lot longer to learn it, because you don't only need to learn the physical aspect of it but you need to learn the mentality behind it."
"It sounds hard…" I said.
"It isn't the hardest job…" Chris said.
"Yeah, it doesn't seem hard coming from the one that has a messed up knee…" I said chuckling.
"Hey! Injuries happen…"
"Like how life happens?" I asked.
"Yeah, you got to live life on the fast lane and take risks even if it results in injuries…it's just a step-back." Chris said.
"I'm not that risky…I don't take risks because I'm scared of the smallest things." I said.
"Is that your biggest secret? It's that your scared of everything?"
"There are a lot of things that I keep secret, we all have those secrets we don't tell people." I said.
"Alex has a lot of secrets." Chris said.
"Alex isn't a part of this conversation." I said as I was kind of uncomfortable talking about Alex because I didn't know how I felt towards Alex.
"Oh he is…"
"How so?" I asked looking to Chris from the match we were supposed to be watching, and of course that was the moment Alex got the pin.
"Nothing…" Chris said as I looked back to the ring seeing Alex's hand being raised in victory, I stood up grabbing the crutches that security had put aside bringing them to Chris and helped him to his feet. I stood there helping put the crutches under Chris's arms when I felt an arm wrap around my neck and I looked at the hand that was on my left shoulder before I looked to my right seeing Alex with a smirk on his face and his face was just glowing with happiness.
"You came…" Alex said happily as he pulled me into a hug, I didn't know what to do so I didn't wrap my arms around him from shock that this was happening.
"I promised I would, I never break a promise." I said after he let me go but continued resting his arm on my shoulder.
"Never?" Alex asked.
"Not yet…" I said.
"Challenge accepted." Alex said as Chris rolled his eyes and we let him walk in front of us around the ring and Alex kept his arm wrapped around my shoulders and I would have felt rude to push it off, plus I didn't mind, it was a simple friendly gesture. When I got into the curtain, I saw the mess of all the things yet again and what was I to suspect because they were men and wrestlers, they don't have much time before their matches to make sure everything is put away neatly. I stepped out from Alex's embrace and helped Chris sit down holding onto his crutches before I tried putting them under my arms, surprisingly I was able to and was swinging myself on them. "Well, we found a way to keep her entertained." Alex said smiling as I looked over when I saw him noticing me as he was sliding his one foot out of his boot.
"Sorry…" I said sliding off the crutches when the two other men walked through the curtain.
"Good match." The one that was in the match said.
"Same for you…" Alex said smacking his hand before fist bumping it.
"Who are you?" The other said.
"Oh, I'm Tara." I said sticking my hand out to shake theirs.
"Are you allowed back here?" The first guy said.
"Yeah, she's cool…she's my assistant..." Chris explained.
"I am NOT your assistant…" I said.
"Yeah, you kind of are…" Chris said.
"Your not paying me…" I said.
"Dang, she has an attitude…" The first guy said.
"It's not an attitude, it's just her…" Chris said.
"I just don't like being called something I'm not…I'm a friend." I said as I stuck my hand out to shake theirs.
"Oh…nice to meet you, I'm James…" The first guy said shaking my hand finally, "This is Bobbie." James said pointing to his tag partner.
"In wrestling terms, they are Beer Money Inc." Alex explained.
"Oh, that will explain why he had a beer bottle when he came out and their music begun with 'Beer Money.'" I said rolling my eyes.
"She doesn't watch wrestling." Alex said.
"Alex." I said smacking him.
"What? It's true." Alex said.
"If you don't watch wrestling, how does a pretty girl like you end up on a wrestling cruise?" James asked as he sat down and begun undoing his own boots.
"It's a long story in which ends where I will end up killing my friend and Alex is close to second on that list." I said.
"All that matters is that you're here now sweetie." Bobbie jumped in.
"Yeah, that is all that matters." I said when Chris was finished switching his shoes and I helped him to his feet. "I'll walk him back to his room, nice meeting you James, Bobbie." I said.
"Pleasure was ours." James said smirking.
"Is all wrestlers flirts?" I asked looking to Chris.
"Nah, just those two and Alex." Chris said as I opened the curtains for him to walk through and I stepped out behind him.