I DO NOT ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Tara's Point of View-
When I got into my room, I put the bag of souvenirs on top of my suitcase and put a new patch on my arm before I re-opened my window to get some cool air coming into the room. I pulled out my phone storing Alex's number into my contacts for some odd reason but it was nice having his number. I went to my suitcase to put up the souvenirs I had bought, I opened the bag seeing the dinosaur I didn't unpack. I put the souvenirs into the bag and picked up the dinosaur carrying it to the bed where I sat on the edge holding it realizing that this was the longest I have been away from my son, yeah I have worked night shifts at Universal right before a day shift but I have not been away from my son for more than one day. I ran my hand over the back of the dinosaur just smiling remembering when he opened it for his birthday the month before. 'What am I doing? I'm on a boat filled with wrestlers, I know that he is okay with my mom and he wants me to have fun. It's okay to be homesick but don't worry too much about him, he's fine with my mom.' I thought to myself as I put the dinosaur back into the suitcase grabbing my swimsuit that I had packed for the trip, I went into the bathroom pulling the swimsuit on before pulling the attire I had on back on over the suit so I won't be wandering around in just my bathing suit. I went back out to the main room sliding my shoes onto my feet without socks, I just figured without socks would be better than with socks especially if my feet get wet. I got comfortable on the bed after the last shoe was tied, I turned the television on only for a knock come to the door and I looked at the door 'You got to be kidding?' I thought to myself.
"It's unlocked." I said as the door opened and Alex leant against the door frame.
"Why aren't you in your bathing suit?"
"I'm wearing it under this…" I said smirking.
"Oh…you okay with going into the Bahamas?" Alex asked.
"If I didn't want to, I wouldn't have gotten into my swimsuit." I said as I turned the television off, I swung my legs over the edge of my bed standing up.
"Very true." Alex said as he smirked. I grabbed my purse, phone and room key before he pulled the door open and held it open for me. I walked out onto the walkway that overlooked the mall area below us until he walked out shutting the door behind him, he tested the door making sure it was completely shut and the deadbolt locked.
"Do you always test the doors when you leave?" I asked curiously.
"Yeah, I'm very eerie and cautious about those things." Alex said.
"I think I would be too if I stayed in hotels as much as you do…" I said as I sheepishly pushed a strand of hair behind my ear.
"I don't stay in hotels that much….I just don't trust that many people…"
"Do you trust me?"
"I have too…"
"Why do you have to?" I asked not sure to be offended of it or not.
"If Chris trusts you, I trust whoever Chris trusts and after everything you have went through already with Chris and I this weekend, I trust you." Alex said as he put his hands in his jacket's pocket.
"Do you always have trust issues?"
"I don't have trust issues, just that I don't want to worry about things being stolen and I think trust is earned along with respect besides certain obvious people." Alex said as we turned into the mini hallway, Alex leant forward pressing the down button for the elevator before he stood back up zipping his zipper up a little more to lessen the exposure of his black tank top underneath.
"What people instantly have respect?" I asked him curiously knowing a few people instantly.
"The president, I was always taught to respect the president even if you may not have wanted such candidate to win. Military personnel, those people do a lot for this country and go through a lot of shit. And women…" Alex said as the elevator tinged, the doors on the elevator on the left opened allowing Alex and I to climb onto it pushing the main floor level button.
"So, do you use you music to swoon women?" I asked curiously as I leant against the bar that wrapped around the elevator for people to hold onto to.
"That depends…" Alex said smirking.
"Depends on what?" I asked as the elevator came to a stop, doors opened and we climbed off the elevator heading through the mall part to where the boats were departing.
"If the woman digs that music or likes my voice….I don't have a good voice period."
"I doubt that…" I said as I looked the opposite way of him so I couldn't blush more than I was.
"How would you know, you haven't heard it…" Alex said as he bumped into me.
"Do you have some samples with you?" I asked.
"I'll play some samples for you when we board the boat…"
"What's the band called?" I asked curiously.
"The High Crusade." Alex said.
"Wasn't there a book or some sort of science fiction movie called that same thing?" I asked as we got at the end of the line of about five people.
"I believe so, do you like those type of movies?"
"Science fiction? Somewhat…I sometimes catch myself watching the Sci Fi channel, but its usually when my so-" I said stopping myself and bit my bottom lip from continuing on and ruining what I had with Alex with him knowing I had a son.
"When what?" Alex asked.
"When everyone is asleep in my house…I am the only one that tends to like that stuff in my house."
"Who all lives in your house?" Alex asked.
"A few people…but I wouldn't change it for the world, I love being around people." I said shrugging.
"Me too, but after a while being around certain people I tend to want to pull my hair out."
"Isn't that why you work the way you work? What is your work schedule?" I asked curiously as a boat pulled up, people were helped off the boat before the people in front of us started to get helped into the boat.
"We film in Orlando on Monday and Tuesday's, sometimes we may not film there but somewhere nearby like in Georgia. We sometimes travel throughout rest of the week or over the weekend to other states to please our fans, we also have pay per views on Sundays."
"Are the pay per views big events?"
"Well duh! Pay Per Views are events that people have to pay to view and it's usually the big matches that are too special for our weekly broadcast." Alex said when it got to our turn. "Ladies first." Alex said.
"Ugh, I hate ladders…" I said as Alex stuck his hand out helping me to the edge of the cruise boat and I swung my legs over the ladder and begun to climb down the ladder to the smaller boat that would sail us inland, Alex was a few bars up from me and when I got to the bottom, the captain of the boat helped me get onto the boat and I claimed a spot for Alex and I to sit when he got onto the boat.
"Hey it's Alex Shelley!" A male said on the boat.
"Hey guys! How is everyone? I hope you all are enjoying their cruise thus far." Alex said waving as he headed towards where I sat. Everyone mumbled out their 'goods,' or their 'greats,' in response to Alex's question. Alex sat down beside me and he leant back against the back of the boat.
"I am having a horrible time." I said trying to fight the smile creeping onto my face.
"Your such a liar." Alex said poking my side which was my ticklish spot squirming. "Is that a ticklish spot?" Alex asked smirking.
"No…" I said smirking. "You guys have a weekly broadcast?" I asked.
"Yep, every Thursday on Spike at 9 PM." Alex said as he pulled out his iPhone, "I didn't grab my ear buds, they are back in the room." Alex said.
"I have mine…" I said pulling my purse that I had rested on the ground between my feet onto my lap, I zipped it open and Alex leaned over to try and look into my purse. "Do you mind?" I asked pulling the purse out of his eye sight.
"Sorry…I'm nosey." Alex said smirking when I pulled out my ear buds and some gum.
"You want some gum?" I asked as I pulled a piece of gum out of the case, I pulled the gum out of its wrapper putting it in my mouth.
"Yes please." Alex said as I handed a piece to him, he unwrapped it and stuck the piece into his mouth.
"I hope you don't mind the buds…" I said as I put the purse back down between my feet as I begun to untangle the cord.
"No not at all…wait, is that skulls on the buds?" Alex asked grabbing the one red bud I had.
"Yeah, why?" I asked looking to him.
"That is awesome." Alex said smirking.
"I got them at Wal-Greens, who knew they had something that awesome huh?" I said as he was amused with it.
"I have to go get a pair like this, I dig it." Alex said as he plugged it into his iPhone as he was searching for a song on it as I finished untangling it and gave him the left bud and I stuck the right bud into my ear to listen. Alex played the song, I didn't bother to ask for the title of the song because I figured I will figure it out whilst listening to it and I did. It was totally a type of song I would head bang to, Alex and I listened to song after song until we arrived to the dock. We waited our turn to get off the boat, I stepped aside letting fans take their pictures with Alex which I didn't mind and I took pictures with my phone to send to my moms cell phone later along with the pictures I took of Alex and Chris earlier. "How do you feel being out of the United States for the first time?" Alex asked walking up behind me.
"Feels the same as being in United States…" I said smirking.
"It always does, well unless if you go into the cities and no one speaks English then it's a little tough." Alex said.
"Have you learned any other language besides English?" I asked as we headed up the dock to the beach.
"I know a little of everything, had to learn a few words when I was overseas and when we do go overseas we are there for a few days, you need to survive somehow."
"Do you know sign language?" I asked curiously.
"Never learned that…what about you?" Alex asked as we stepped down a couple steps onto the sand.
"I know Spanish, I had to learn it for my job and I know sign language as well."
"When did you learn sign language?"
"I had been taught it at a young age, well at least I was taught the alphabet and as I got older the more interested I got into it and wanted to learn more." I said.
"Did your mom teach you?"
"She taught me the alphabet…"
"Why did she teach you?" Alex asked as he stopped and sat patting the spot beside him for me to sit beside him, I slowly sat down beside him to look out at the ocean that had waves crashing into the beach sand in front of me.
"My grandpa was deaf, my mom, aunt, uncle and grandma all had to learn sign language to communicate with him, so I kind of wanted to learn so I can have a relationship with him."
"That sucks…I think if I was going to lose any of my senses I would want it to be taste…." Alex said.
"Me too...Lord knows there are some tastes out there that I can go without tasting and it'll be nice not to have to taste it anymore."
"Like medicine, I hated those damn cough syrups when I was a kid."
"Didn't we all…" I said laughing, my son hated cough syrups as well so it must be a kid thing.
"When we were kids, we never understood that the stuff would help us….that and our vegetables."
"I still don't like some of the vegetables…fruits I can deal with." I said.
"What is your favorite fruit?"
"Banana's…I can eat those all the time…" I said honestly when I looked at the sand seeing a seashell, I picked it up and started cleaning out the sand that was in it.
"Do you collect seashell's?"
"Nope…but when I was a kid, my mom would take my sister and I to the beach and we would run up and down the beach collecting seashells just to look at the different shapes, colors and just to look at them." I said glancing over to him smirking.
"Seashells are beautiful things…but I know someone more beautiful." Alex said when I felt my cheeks burning from blushing. My phone started to blare through my pocket, I pulled it out trying to make sure it didn't ruin this moment more. When I got my phone out completely, I saw Chris's name. "Who is it?" Alex asked.
"Chris." I said as I answered the call sticking my phone up to my ear, "Hello?" I asked.
"Hey, what are you up to?"
"I'm sitting on the beach…"
"Ugh! Is Alex there with you?"
"Yeah…you need to talk to him?" I asked looking over to Alex who was staring out at the ocean in front of us.
"Nah, just come back and get me."
"Chris, I don't think it's a good idea for you to come to the beach."
"I can sit on the dock….I hate being locked up in this room all weekend long…"
"Fine, we'll come back and get you….no swimming…"
"I won't." Chris said as I hung up the phone.
"So?" Alex asked.
"Chris wants us to go back and get him, he's bored and wants to come inland." I said as he rolled his eyes standing up and helped me to my feet as we headed back to the dock.
"Here." Alex said as I looked over at the sound of his voice seeing him picking a flower off of it's stem, it was a beautiful pink flower that was full bloomed and it was absolutely beautiful. "You can be an islander and wear it in your hair." Alex said as he stepped in front of my sliding it over the top of my ear locking it there to make it look like it was pinned in my ear.
"Thanks…" I said smiling.
"No problem…let me take a picture of you for your mom." Alex said as he reached out to take my phone.
"Why don't we take a picture together?" I asked in hopes he'll agree.
"Wouldn't that creep your mom out?" Alex asked.
"It'll keep the impression up that it's a single's cruise." I lied.
"Oh…" Alex said as he stepped closer, I wrapped an arm around him and he wrapped his arm around my waist as I snapped a photo of us with the ocean and the lowering sun in the background. "How'd it turn out?" Alex asked as we got to the bottom of the steps leading up to the dock, he held onto my hand to help me up the steps in which I didn't need but it's still a gentlemen move.
"It turned out real good…" I said smirking as I sent it to my mom. "Are you guys going to do this cruise every year?" I asked as we walked down the dock to where we were dropped off no more than hour earlier.
"This is our first cruise, I guess there may be more depending how well this one plays out…thus far I think it has done well…" Alex said smirking.
"Why's that?" I asked as we stood at the end of the dock, I wrapped my arms over my chest trying not to show that I was cold.
"It just is…" Alex said smirking as the boat arrived with about three people on it, we let them climb out first before we climbed aboard, we had the whole boat to ourselves so we sat across from each other. "What boat do you prefer, this one or the cruise boat?" Alex asked.
"The cruise boat." I said holding onto the seats beside on me.
"Why?"
"This boat makes me nervous…" I said as it was rocking with each wave we had hit heading back to the cruise ship.
"Your not going to like boats after this are you?"
"Probably not…" I said smiling.
"You'll get used to it…"
"I'm not on boats often so I don't think I'll ever get used to it."
"You will if you slowly work at it…."
"Are you a specialist for curing fears?" I asked sarcastically.
"Little do you know…"
"Bullshit, I'm calling bullshit right now…" I said stopping him before he continues.
"You think I will make stuff up?" Alex asked putting on a shock face.
"Yes…your good friends with Chris and he's known for that type of stuff." I said.
"What has Chris tried to pull on you?"
"I'm not stupid, so I caught him in the act of all his bullshit."
"I bet…he isn't a good liar as I am."
"You lie a lot to perfect it?" I asked as the boat came to a near stop letting us to climb onto the ladder to take us to the top of the boat. "I can't reach the ladder…" I said as I reached above my head trying to grab the bottom bar.
"Here…" Alex said interlacing his two hands to let me step in to hoist me up.
"You can't lift me, I'm heavy…" I said.
"One, your not heavy and two, I'm only hoisting you for no more than five minutes. Do you not trust me?"
"No…" I said.
"I'm a freaking wrestler, I'm not going to drop you and I have perfect balance…" Alex said as I contemplated it before I gave in, I rested both hands on his shoulders before I lifted one foot into his hands.
"One…Two…Three…" I said bouncing with each count before I pushed off and he held me up long enough and high enough for me to be able to grab a bar and pull my other foot onto the bottom bar.
"Your welcome!" Alex said loud enough for me to hear him.
"Thank you…"
"Now you can trust me more than you do now…"
"I'll think about it…" I said smiling down at him.
"Get moving, I need to start my climb…" Alex said as I started climbing up forgetting I was wearing a skirt. "I see London, I see France, I see someone's underpants…" Alex joked, he chuckled a tad.
"Shut up…I hate you…this is why I don't trust you…." I said as I got to the top climbing over the edge and slid off landing on my feet waiting for him to get to the top.
"I didn't look if you wanted to know." Alex said smiling as he got to the top, he swung his leg over to get his balance before he brought his other leg over to jump off onto the deck.
"Then why did you sing the song?"
"To embarrass you…" Alex said smiling.
"It worked…" I said as I looked down at my feet.
"Nothing to be embarrassed about…I've seen worse…trust me…" Alex said as I rolled my eyes turning around heading to Chris's room.
"What's worse than that?"
"I work with at least a hundred men, we all have to share a locker room so you have no idea what I have seen….a lot of things I wish I didn't see…"
"How bad could it be?" I asked shrugging.
"Bad…I don't mind it, I love all of them like they were my brothers but there is a lot that goes on back there that no one wants to witness."
"Like what?" I asked curiously.
"Some of them do walk around naked, some take shits without spraying some kind of air freshener…it's just wow…"
"Ew…." I said grossed out.
"Yeah…"
"What about the girl wrestlers?" I asked curiously.
"They get their separate locker room, but I'm sure they do things that are worse than that…"
"I still think it's embarrassing…."
"Would you feel better if you saw my swimwear?"
"No…" I said nudging him.
"Just trying to make you feel better." Alex said shrugging when we got to Chris's room.