I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Tara's Point of View-
Alex led us to the Paris street Disney World had in their park, they had stores, restaurants, a small Eiffel tower and décor to make it look like Paris as we walked along the lane. I wrapped my arms around Alex's one arm looking at the things they had soaking it all in knowing I'll never be able to make a real trip to Paris so this was the closest I will ever be to going to Paris.
"Have you ever been to Paris?" I asked curiously.
"No would love to go though. I believe Chris has gone though." Alex stated as we started walking a little slower.
"How is Chris?"
"Same-o, Same-o."
"When is his next doctor's appointment?"
"I don't know." Alex said shrugging.
"I invited him over for the New Years Eve thing we are doing, he said he wants a gift."
"Get him a knee because that is what he needs most." Alex stated sarcastically.
"Alex that isn't funny." I said chuckling.
"Then why are you laughing?" Alex asked chuckling himself.
"I'm not…what does Chris want seriously?" I asked as we got to a restaurant that looked good.
"Chris wants you to have fun and not to talk about him on our date." Alex said opening the door for me as we went into the restaurant and got seated out on the patio where there was only one other group that had sat out there. "Why do I feel none of this food is French?" Alex asked looking over the menu.
"Since Chris has been to Paris, have you ever travelled without him?" I asked.
"Well his trip was a family vacation, I wasn't invited because apparently I'm not part of the family…" Alex said.
"How odd of them not to think of you as a part of their family." I said smirking as water was put down on our table along with bread and butter.
"It was odd…but I don't like travelling alone and haven't been able to convince anyone to go with me besides Chris and I can only deal with him for small doses and we travel enough together."
"You two travel overseas together as well?" I asked.
"Yes, we have done multiple wrestling shows and trips to Japan, Canada and Mexico. You ever travel out of the USA besides on the cruise?"
"No, I don't travel much due to Xavier being in daycare, my work and money, but I don't mind not travelling."
"This has to count for something, you sort of went to Paris." Alex said as he bit into the bread he had just put butter on.
"I'll mark it off my list of places I would like to visit."
"You made a list?"
"What can I say? I'm a list type of girl." I said shrugging
"You have a bucket list too?" Alex asked.
"Don't we all? I think I gave up on it though." I said as the waiter came back ordering our meals that weren't French, they were hamburgers or hot dogs.
"You can't give up on something like that."
"It's not that easy." I said twirling the straw in my glass hearing the clanking of the ice hitting the glass.
"Why did you give up?"
"I have a kid I need to worry about, I can't go jumping from an airplane or any other reckless behavior." I said.
"Because you have a kid doesn't mean you have to give up on it, plus you have how many years left to live?"
"Hopefully I have more years than I do less…others may have less than more especially if you are doing risks like you." I said smirking as I made slight eye contact with him.
"I'm not going to die from wrestling…worse thing I will do is break a bone or something else in my body."
"What's on your bucket list?" I asked curiously as I crossed my legs interested.
"I never made a full list, there is just a list of things I want to do but haven't made a complete bucket list."
"Name a few."
"I want to get married, I want to have kids, I want to scuba dive with sharks and I want to bungee jump."
"Would the first two count as things to be on a bucket list?"
"Yes, I want to do it before I die which is what a bucket list is."
"Got me there." I said smirking as I glanced between him and my glass of water that I was still playing with the straw in, I was oddly nervous because this was the first official type date we have ever been on.
"What about you?" Alex asked taking a drink of his water without using his straw.
"I want to sky dive, and swim with the dolphins, those are the two I have had since I was a kid."
"Swimming with dolphins, that sounds fun."
"I think it does, I have always loved dolphins." I said smirking playing with the bracelet on my wrist.
"It's odd neither of us said anything about travelling around the world to see places."
"What's that one spot you would like to travel to?" I asked as our food was delivered.
"Paris is definitely near the top of that list."
"Well, who doesn't want to go to Paris?"
"Very true…" Alex said as we both smiled as we both reached for the ketchup at the same time, "Go ahead." He said smirking as my cheeks blushed as I picked up the bottle to spray some on the bun before I begun taking toppings off.
"I think I want to go to England or Canada since I had ancestors from there."
"We all want to see where our ancestors came from, it's where our roots are."
"It's that and it's hard to tell how our ancestors really lived because things have changed since then to now so honestly we won't know what it was like for them."
"Yeah, we grew and adapted…I am kind of thankful for that."
"Why is that?" I asked curiously as I picked up half of my cheeseburger after I had cut it in half.
"I'm not as barbaric as I look."
"You don't say." I said jokingly smiling.
"I know it's shocking as I bite into this big cheeseburger." Alex said as we both let out chuckles before he bit into his cheeseburger than wiped his face with a napkin.
"I think then it was either live or be killed, you did what you had to do to survive…" I said.
"But then if you didn't get killed by a lot of animals, I'm sure it happened but we hunted the shit out of those animals but it was the lack of medicine we had for things like TB or chicken pox…"
"True, thank god medicine has grown since then…even today we can say medicine still has a lot of increasing that needs to be done because there are some illnesses we don't have cures for that we wish we did that are killing people."
"But it is a lot better than it was, if anyone here knows that better than anyone it should be you considering you work in that industry…what made you decide the field you are in?" Alex asked.
"It is hard to explain…"
"We have time." Alex said smirking.
"Well, I honestly didn't want to be what I am today…."
"Then why are you doing it if you don't want to do it?"
"Because that is what my mom wanted me to do and it is sufficing for now…" I said shrugging as I munched on another fry.
"Then what did you want to be?" Alex asked curiously.
"It's stupid…how much training did you have to do for wrestling?" I asked changing the subject.
"I bet it isn't stupid…what did you want to be?"
"I wanted to act or sing…" I said giving in and felt myself blushing.
"See it wasn't that hard…why didn't you follow through with it?"
"Have you not noticed we are in Florida and not in Los Angeles? It is harder to come by a place that will hire someone to sing or act here…." I said realistically.
"Doesn't mean you still can't pursue it…"
"How do you suggest that?" I asked curiously as I ate another fry not even wanting to start the other half of my cheeseburger.
"TNA and my band…" Alex said as I almost started choking on my fry when he mentioned TNA knowing instantly what he was getting at with it about trying to get me a job and I can't let him know about Dixie's offer quite yet.
"I can't do that…there isn't much acting done in TNA and I can't ruin what you, Chris and the others already put into your band." I said.
"Just one track? I won't push TNA because that will be harder to do, but I want to help cross this off your bucket list because I know it's on your bucket list isn't it?" Alex asked as all I could do was blush, "Please?"
"I'll think about it Alex…now let me help you with something on your bucket list, what else you have?" I asked.
"I have always wanted to be fed by my girlfriend."
"Seriously?"
"Yes, the men always feed their girls the food, sexual or none-sexual, I want it the other way around." Alex said as I smirked and rolled my eyes as I picked up a fry reaching across the table feeding him the fry and he smirked. "That is crossed off…" Alex said smiling.
"How much training did you do to become the wrestler you are today?" I asked.
"6-12 months of hard work….plus before I got into TNA I had to do a lot of the indy leagues."
"Indy leagues?" I asked.
"Oh yeah, you don't know the wrestling lingo…indy leagues are the slang for the independent circuits, I still do some independent shows but they are low class promotions that are city owned or self promoted by wrestlers to get their talent work until they get brought up to either higher promotions like TNA or WWE."
"WWE your competition then?" I asked.
"Yes, if you want to say that…"
"Are there a lot of these indy leagues?" I asked.
"More than you would think."
"Name a few." I said smirking as I took one last bite of the half of the cheeseburger I told myself I didn't want to eat.
"You ready to go? We can walk and talk?"
"Sure, where we going?" I asked as I took another bite into the cheeseburger even though I still had some in my mouth and grabbed a few more fries before we got up heading to the front to pay our bill.
"We are going to the Eiffel Tower and going to the top…" Alex said.
"We can do that?" I asked.
"Obviously if I'm taking you there." Alex said smirking as we walked out of the restaurant after paying the bill.