I woke up in Adam's arms, head resting on his collarbone. I must have moved over to his side and snuggled up to him some part of the night, and it felt good. I looked up at him, my eyes following that ridiculously amazing jaw line of his, but was distracted by how badly I needed to pee. I hopped up from the bed wearing one of Adam's Wrestlemania shirts, which literally almost came down to my knees, and headed for the bathroom. The bathroom mirror caught my attention before I went to the toilet and I started playing with my hair, feeling a bit hung-over.
'A-hem'
I spun around and saw Jay sitting on the toilet behind me. A huge wave of embarrassment rushed through me. I started walking backwards 'Oh, crap! I'm so sorry… I'll just leave you in pea-' I had tripped and totally gone ass up on my own duffel bag. I could hear Adam and Jay laughing at the top of their lungs. Like this situation couldn't get any more embarrassing.
Adam helped me up and brought me over to his bed checking if I was ok. As soon as Jay came out of the bathroom, I ran in. Moments later I came out to a very stern looking Jay. I couldn't see Adam anywhere.
'Where is Adam?' I asked and sat down on the bed next to him.
'He went to go get us breakfast.' Jay replied, and then turned his body to face me. 'He said nothing happened – but it was a complete shock seeing you in there this morning. I was too drunk to notice last night.'
I didn't know what to say to this. So I just shrugged.
'Has he told you everything?' Jay asked me raising an eyebrow.
'We had a very good chat last night, don't worry.' I assured him in a way that shook off the conversation. I don't know what he was trying to get at. He was just making everything really awkward. I checked my phone to see if I had any messages, I hadn't looked at it since I left the arena last night.
The next few nights were a repeat of last night. I'd find Adam drinking himself stupid at the bar, and join him. I wouldn't always join in with the drinking, but somehow, always ended up in his bed. Not like we did anything, I guess it's just nice to have something warm to hold onto.
The following Monday night Raw is War had me so nervous I was shaking. This was my big heel turn. I arrived at the arena with Amy, and we headed straight for the locker rooms to get ready. Once dressed, I read over my script what seemed like a thousand times, I was not stuffing up this time.
CUT SCENE
'Mick, Mick!' I called as I ran into his office. Today his office looked more like a laundromat. On his table he had a cactus – clearly a representation of an alter ego of his 'Cactus Jack'. 'Mick I need a favour!'
'What is it Angel? What can the commissioner do for you?' He looked up from his desk, pencil hanging out of the corner of his mouth.
'I need a rematch… they need a rematch and put me in it!
'Wait, wait, what are you asking me for?'
'Hardy Boyz to rematch Edge & Christian… tonight.'
'And you want to be a part of the action?'
'Yes!'
He smiled and scratched his chin. 'Ok then, I'll give you exactly what you want. You can team with the Hardy Boyz, versing Edge & Christian, in a handicap match, which is up next so you better hurry up and get out there!' The crowd cheered. Inter-gender handicap matches were not uncommon in the Attitude Era, but it's never the baby faces that have the upper hand.
'Did you hear that JR? We are going to see Cat Angel, in action, tonight!' Cried The King with enthusiasm.
'Cut.'
As I walked to the stage entrance, I felt myself getting nervous. I don't know why, it's not like I'd actually be doing any wrestling – I hope not anyway. As I approached my destination, I heard Matt's voice from around the corner. 'Don't worry, Jeff, just get through tonight and you can ignore her all you want. Just remember to act really heartbroken so the fans take our side.' Matt sounded like he was assuring his brother. 'I don't understand why you dislike her so much anyway, she is so sweet. It doesn't matter after tonight.'
'Yeah,' Jeff said softly. It was hard to hate his voice. It sounded so innocent with his beautiful southern accent. Something I was quite unfamiliar with at home. Matt had it too, but Jeff's was gentler, and such a contrast to the way he spoke about me. 'And good fucking riddance. I won't even have to pretend to hate her on camera after tonight.'
I decided to stand behind them where they couldn't see me a bit longer as I didn't want them to know I have overheard their conversation, although my stomach felt as if it was turning. Adam and I agreed it was best to play nice.
'Hey Guys, you ready?' I asked skipping over to them. I have a feeling Matt could tell I heard everything due to me holding back tears. Jeff didn't even look at me – he probably couldn't care less.
We were signalled to run on stage.
MATCH
We ran down the ramp. Jeff and Matt were doing the hardy guns while I walked sheepishly behind them, pockets in my ripped denim shorts.
'Well this should be interesting, King. Remember inter-gender rules mean anything could happen.' J.R commentated 'It's even more interesting that she requested the match – I mean, why?'
'Oh JR, I'm sure it's because she likes to be on top!' King said jokingly.
'Oh, come on King…'
This match had Edge and Matt start off. Matt took a few hits then hit Edge with a Running DDT. They both swiftly tagged in their partners, where Christian took down the younger Hardy. This led to Edge & Christian rapidly tagging in and out, practically isolating and wearing down Jeff.
'Matt really needs to get a tag here.' JR commentated. 'He looks like he's in big trouble.'
As Christian worked on Matt in the ring, Edge jumped off the apron and snuck around to Matt and pulled him off the apron causing him to smack his head on the apron. Jeff reversed an Irish Whip and hit Christian with a swinging neck breaker, and slowly crawled over to me, calling for the tag. I jumped down from the apron before his hand could touch mine, the look of hurt spreading all over his face. Matt had jumped back up on the apron and took a blind tag, giving me an unimpressed look.
'Oh my god, did you see that King?' J.R Shouted.
'Haha she don't like you no more!' The King laughed loudly.
I stood back from the ring with my arms crossed and a look of pure accomplishment spread all over my face. The Hardy Boyz were being annihilated with steel chairs at the hands of Edge & Christian. The referee called for a DQ while the crowd booed.
'And here are your winners, due to disqualification the-' Before Lillian Garcia could finish her sentence I had walked over to her and grabbed the microphone, causing the crowd to boo even harder. It was at this point Edge & Cristian had stopped and pulled me into the ring.
'Sorry, but as if the 'best team' won that tournament a week ago.' I sneered into the microphone whilst Edge & Christian had big grins on their faces like it was Christmas morning. 'So boys, I feel like we made a nice team and I gave you exactly what you wanted, and that was to destroy the Hardy Boyz. I feel that as you're valet, we will achieve even bigger greatness.' I raised their arms as if they had one the match but turned around as I saw Jeff struggling to his feet against the turnbuckle.
'And you, are a sorry excuse for a Man.' I turned to Jeff. 'You thought I loved you? Oh, I was just using you.' As Edge planted a big, fat, evil smooch on my face, the crowd booed so loudly, it sounded like the whole arena was shaking.
'Well, it looks like we have a new couple in the WWF' JR stated. 'Look at them; they think they're so big.'
Edge grabbed the microphone from me. 'Yeah, Jeff, she wants a real man. You snooze, you lose buddy. But I'll let her touch you one more time.'
As Edge & Christian held the younger hardy back, I licked my hand, wall the way from the wrist to the top of my middle finger, and slapped him right across the face. I was the hardest I had ever hit anyone as I didn't hold back. I was glad that Jeff fell to the ground and had no time to react to me.
'Oh that's not very angelic!' JR said with disgust.
'It's the Angel Slap!' The King announced quite happily. 'She can slap me silly any day.'
Hand in hand with Edge, the three of us long haired blondes walked out of the arena looking quite smug. I did my best to look as loved up with Edge as I could, he was a natural. The crowd were giving us so much heat, devastation written over every single audience member's face.
Oh, being if felt great to be heel.
Once again I found Adam sitting at the bar clutching a whiskey. Although he didn't look as miserable as he did the previous nights. I walked over to him, but before I could say anything, he grabbed my hand and pulled me into a hug. He didn't smell like alcohol, yet.
'I'm so glad you came into my life' he gushed.
'Don't get drunk tonight.' I pleaded. He looked at me shocked. He'd drunken every night since Smackdown last week. 'For me.'
He looked at me and slowly pushed away his glass. 'Anything you want.' He smiled at me, and pulled me into a hug. Adam was easily the most affectionate guy I had ever met.
'Where's Jay?' I asked.
'Out.' He replied.
'And you didn't want to go?'
He shook his head. 'Not feeling it.' He looked at his watch. 'I'm going to go watch a movie in my room since I have it all to myself tonight.' He got up and started walking to the elevator. I got in with him.
'I'll join you?' I offered.
'I'd feel a lot less lonely.' He told me. 'I feel a lot of things right now.'
His face came closer to mine as he said this. I don't know why, but I let him kiss me. It was different to the one in the ring, a lot slower and gentler. He worked the kiss up, it got really heated, and by the time we got to his floor my back was up against the elevator wall. He pulled away and smirked. He then lifted me with no struggle over his shoulder and carried me to his room in fits of laughter.
Once in his room, we continued the kissing. His tongue explored every inch of my mouth. Before I knew it, he had taken our clothes off and was on top of me. Everything happened so fast I felt like I couldn't keep up, but caught in the moment, I started to feel things for him that I didn't want to feel about anyone else in the company.
A/N Next chapter i'll start building up some back stage drama big time. Jeff will soon have a really big part in this story. Good things come to those who wait ;) let me know what you think x
