CHAPTER 23:
By noon the next day, AJ arrived in Atlanta, Georgia for the filming of "Main Event" that night. It was already reportedly heavily on TMZ that she had "gotten her face beaten in by fellow diva Nikki Bella". She would have put foundation on her, but she knew that her face was still too sore to even wipe anything off. She began preparing for her appearance in the interviewing chair and as she did, she received a knock at the door. It was Brie Bella.
"Hey" she said as she stepped inside. "How are you?" "I'm fine besides the occasional public stares and photo snapping" said AJ. "But other than that, I'm ok". "I'm again, really sorry for how my sister's actions were to you last night" said Brie. "Thank you" said AJ. "So how's your eye?" "Minor fractured orbital socket" said AJ. "I should be good by next month to fight again". "Well that's great April I'm really happy to hear that" said Brie. "There's something that I've been meaning to talk to you about". "Ok" said AJ as she sat back down.
Brie nodded as reached into her cross-body and removed a folded grayish piece of paper. "Here" she said. "I think that you should read this". AJ took the paper from Brie and discovered that it was none other than a newspaper article. The New York Post to be exact. "Oh great" she said sarcastically. "It's my least favorite newspaper in the whole world". She opened up the paper and read the front page article:
"Pummeled! WWE divas star AJ Lee (whose real name is April Mendez, 26) took a severe beating by the hands of not-so fellow diva, Nikki Bella (whose real name is Nicole Garcia, 29). This all started by what appeared to be a seemingly normal tag team between AJ and Nikki with Tamina Snuka (daughter of legionary hall of famer Jimmy "Super fly" Snuka), 35 and Brie Bella (whose real name is Brianna Garcia, also 29). This however changed when head CEO Stephanie McMahon, 37 stepped out and interrupted at the very beginning of the match. Everyone watched in horror to learn that Stephanie was suddenly changing the scheduled match into not only a fatal four way (which would force AJ against her own longtime tag partner Tamina) but a match that would be in a steel cage, a rarity for divas alike.
The last known divas' steel caged match was up against AJ's own idol, Lita vs. Victoria which was back in November of 2003. Once the match had begun, the stunned AJ was forced to fight up in what was dubbed by ringside commentators (who were still stumbling over words themselves) a 3 on 1 handicap match. Everyone in the audience were mortified although at times cheering for AJ. Maybe it was because they were truly her fans to begin with or because they felt sorry for her. As the match began, it was clear from the get-go who was really out to get AJ and that was Nikki Bella.
AJ was left no choice but to defend herself against all three women. It was clear that her own partner Tamina had at first given her soft shots and Brie Bella tried not to hurt AJ too bad, despite being in a match against her. But it was solely Nikki Bella who was out for blood. Nikki herself had just returned back from a four-month long absence due to a severe shin injury sustained back in June. AJ had a few great moves of her own, giving us her usual before deciding to make the quick and carefully plotted climb over the steel cage (again this is nothing we have seen the modern day divas do) as Tamina and Nikki followed behind.
Once on the other side, AJ's theme music should have played, signaling her victory as she got over the fence and away from her opponents. However after a delay (possible glitch), her theme music began to play. Nikki Bella rushed up behind AJ, and began to savagely beat and assault her. Tamina quickly followed and Brie Bella was freed from the cage (as she was the only one not to actually climb over it) by Tamina's kicking in the steel door and they began to beat AJ. It however, suddenly became clear that Nikki's attacks were the most ferocious and violent and unlike her character, signaling for the referees to finally break it up and put a match to WWE'S most disturbing match of the millennium, possibly the entire history.
AJ and Nikki but sustained minor but severe injuries and AJ is expected to appear on Wednesday night's "Main Event" to discuss her incident on last night's "Monday Night Raw". Stephanie McMahon has formally apologized to AJ but there is still no word yet if the "U can't see me" man's girlfriend has apologized to AJ Lee herself. We will inform you with more information once it arrives"- Jeff Gold, October 26th, 2013.
AJ finally finished reading the full article. As she did, she crumpled it up. "I really hate these people" she said. "I know" said Brie. "Don't we all? And don't even forget about that time that I had that nip-slip, let me tell you that it was no Nicki Minaj moment". AJ got up from her seat and walked over to a table. "Why?" she asked. "Why what?" asked Brie. "Why does she hate me so much?" asked AJ. "Why does your sister hate me so much that she would do something like this to me?"
Brie sighed. "Ok do you remember last year when you had that love storyline with John?" "Yeah" said AJ. "What about it?" "Well that's why" said Brie. "She hates that you got to be with John, not to mention a lot of the guys here and she felt that you should have said no because she thinks that you made yourself look like nothing but a slut to entire world". AJ was silent after Brie's comment.
"So that's what this is about?" asked AJ. "She is pissed off at me because John and I had a little storyline?" Brie nodded in confirmation. "That…that is so unbelievably fucking ridiculous" said AJ. "What if it was someone else who got paired with him? Would she be so pissed off at them!? Would she be out there trying to destroy them?" At this point she was yelling and Brie was silent because she understood why. "You think that I liked the fact that I got paired with 6 guys in one year?" asked AJ. "And now I gotta get back with Seth. Now don't get me wrong or anything because I like Seth. Me and him are really good friends but I was hoping that instead of trying to sneak in another revived storyline that Stephanie…would have just gave me my apology but left it there but of course she didn't".
"At least she's meeting with Nikki tonight" said Brie. "Nikki told me herself this morning at 3am". "How is that supposed to make me feel better?" asked AJ. "I dunno" said Brie. "But I hope that it helps to know that". The two women paused. "There's something else I need to talk to you about" said Brie. "And what's that?" asked AJ. "Joe Anoa'i" said Brie. And with that AJ became silent.