Chapter 8 - Talking Baby
"That was one of the greatest tag team matches I have ever seen on RAW!" Heidi exclaimed as she and Ash finally passed into the backstage area from the arena where they had been sitting front row to watch RAW as per usual.
Ash just looked at Heidi and couldn't help but laugh. Heidi looked at him and raised an eyebrow.
"What?" Heidi exclaimed as she looked curiously at her best friend "That match was amazing!"
"I know," Ash nodded with a smile.
"I mean Dave absolutely destroyed Hunter with that spine buster on the outside!" Heidi exclaimed as she started recounting what the pair had just witnessed in the ring.
"I know," Ash nodded again.
"And then Dad finally gave that fluorescent oversized lepracon….," Heidi continued.
"Sheamus you mean?" Ash suggested as he interrupted her.
"Yeah whatever," Heidi brushed off "And then Dad finally gave him actually what he deserved!"
"I know," Ash nodded.
"I mean after that backbreaker and that textbook dropkick," Heidi continued, getting more and more excited as she continued "Sheamus didn't stand a chance! Not even a chance!"
"Heids?" Ash asked, trying to catch Heidi's attention.
"Then he hit that RKO which was awesome!" Heidi continued, throwing her hands up in the air and reenacting an RKO of her own "No it was just amazing! The most amazing RKO ever!"
Ash couldn't help but continue laughing at his best friend as she continued on her rant.
"And then the 1. 2. 3!" Heidi finished off as she threw both her hands up in the air in victory to finish as she stopped dead in her tracks.
The young Orton finally broke out of her trance as she lowered her arms and exhaled a deep breath before she turned to look at Ash.
".zing match right?" Heidi suggested with a smile.
"Obviously," Ash agreed with a chuckle "But obviously you enjoyed it way more than I did."
".zing," Heidi emphasised with a wide smile.
"You are by far the most fun person to watch RAW with ever," Ash suddenly confessed as he sent a smile Heidi's way.
"I think what you mean to say way 'Heidi you are by far the most fun person EVER'," Heidi corrected him as she raised a finger at him.
"That was definitely what I meant to say," Ash shrugged "Along with 'with the biggest ego EVER'."
"It's not an ego when you have the goods to back it up," Heidi added.
"What does it become then my dear?" Ash inquired, interested in what answer Heidi was going to give him.
"Then it becomes pure confidence," Heidi replied.
"Which you seem to have plenty of," Ash added.
"Not such a bad thing might I add," Heidi said.
"True that," Ash admitted "All that confidence would have come in handy when Vince was grilling you the other week during your little job interview."
"Shut up!" Heidi said as her jaw dropped and she immediately punched Ash in the arm.
"Do you honestly classify that a punch sweetheart?" Ash replied with a small laugh.
"I had plenty of confidence thank you very much," Heidi stated folding her arms defiantly across her chest.
"Girl you were about to pee your pants when he asked you to sing infront of all of us including him," Ash laughed and continued so even harder when he noticed the look of pure dissatisfaction etched across Heidi's face.
"I was not," Heidi pouted "I was just a little nervous."
"About to pee your pants little Orton," Ash repeated "About to pee your pants."
Heidi simply didn't reply as she tried to make it as obvious as possible that she was ignoring him. She emphasised the fact by turning her head in the opposite direction.
"I could literally hear what was going through your mind when he handed you the mic," Ash continued as he screwed his eyes shut to impersonate his best friend "'Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!' and a side order of 'Fuck!' "
"Well I got the job didn't I?" Heidi said, trying to change the course of the conversation.
"Indeed you did," Ash nodded, admitting defeat "And did I offer my congratulations about that by the way?"
"Now you did," Heidi observed "Jealous?"
"Of the fact that you think you're amazing?" Ash asked, holding how own in this verbal war against his best friend "Or the fact that you have one of the best jobs known to mankind?"
"Try the best job in the entire world!" Heidi exclaimed as she grinned at Ash "Jealous?"
"Yes I am jealous actually," Ash confessed.
"Oh yeah?" Heidi asked, not quite sure if Ash was being sarcastic or not.
"Yeah," Ash said, rolling his eyes "Who wouldn't want a job with the WWE?"
"You want a job with the WWE?" Heidi asked, suddenly seeing where Ash was going with his comments.
"It wouldn't be something I would turn down given the chance," Ash stated.
"I don't think anyone would," Heidi commented "But seriously, you want to work with the WWE?"
"I don't know," Ash said, his hands running through his blonde hair as his eyes dropped to the floor.
"And why are you getting so nervous right now?" Heidi asked, noticing Ash's sudden actions.
"I'm not nervous," Ash said, trying to brush off the conversation when he subconsciously ran his fingers through his hair again.
"Ash you are definitely nervous right now," Heidi commented, putting her hands on her hips and cocking an eyebrow at him "You always get all shifty-eyed and run your fingers through your hair whenever you're nervous, so let me ask you again, why are you getting so nervous just talking about working for the WWE?"
Ash sighed as he looked at Heidi and he knew that there was no way out of his now. She was going to keep pressing the issue until she got the truth. She was going to keep pestering him about this issue until she got him to talk. Heidi Maree Orton was a serial pesterer, especially when it came to him and the possibility that he was keeping something from her. Unfortunately she knew him too well and she could read him like an open book, thus she now knew that he was keeping something from her. She was a classic best friend.
"Baby where have you been?" a male voice suddenly called, drawing Heidi's attention immediately.
Ash simply closed his eyes and sighed in frustration. He knew exactly whose voice that was. He knew only too well.
"Baby!" Tyler Hadson exclaimed again as he finally reached Heidi and Ash, much to the displeasure of Ash.
Before Heidi could even speak or react, Tyler pretty much threw himself at the young Orton, enveloping her in a tight hug before spinning her around and lifting her feet off the ground. Ash resisted the urge to groan out load at the cheesiness taking place right next to him, so instead he distracted himself listening to Heidi's laugh and happiness as she was literally swept off her feet by her boyfriend.
"Hey!" Heidi greeted Tyler with a wide smile when he finally put her feet back on the ground.
"Baby where have you been?" Tyler asked as he pouted at Heidi.
"Oh I was out front row in the arena with Ash," Heidi explained innocently as she tried to stop smiling like an idiot.
"I don't think I like you going out there without me baby," Tyler said softly as he reached out a hand and hooked a finger underneath Heidi's chin.
Ash was about to say something when Heidi beat him to it.
"But you know that Ash and I have a tradition about being ringside for RAW Tyler," Heidi explained.
Ash definitely liked Heidi's answer and couldn't help but smile which Tyler noticed as he sent a glare in Ash's direction before he turned back to his girlfriend.
"But you're my girlfriend baby and I miss you when you're not with me," Tyler continued on "Next week promise me you'll stay back here and help me warm up before my match baby?"
"You don't even know you'll have a match next week Hadson," Ash blurted out before his mind could control his words.
Tyler glared at Ash once more before he turned back to Heidi.
"Promise me baby?" Tyler urged again "I can't warm up properly if I'm worrying about where you are and if you're OK. I want you here so I can make sure you're happy baby. That's all."
"You want me to be happy?" Heidi asked, the smile on her face widening yet again making Ash roll his eyes at what he was witnessing first hand. The first hand degradation of his best friend's dignity, and it was definitely getting ugly.
"Of course I want you to be happy baby," Tyler cooed as he smiled at Heidi and wrapped an arm around her waist, pulling her closer to him "You're my baby and I want my baby to always be happy."
"Tyler that's so sweet," Heidi cooed as she placed her hands gently on his chest.
"That's why I need you to be backstage with me baby," Tyler continued, trying to coax the correct answer out of Heidi "Promise me next week you'll be backstage with me baby?"
"Well…," Heidi started as she glanced over at Ash for a moment before everything was interrupted by Heidi's cell phone ringing.
Tyler glared over in Ash's direction and was met with Ash glaring right back at him with his arms folded across his chest. Heidi pulled out her ringing iphone and checked the caller display.
"It's Ria," Heidi commented as she looked up from the iphone screen to Ash and then back to Tyler "I'll be one sec. I have to take this."
"Sure baby," Tyler smiled as he reluctantly released his girlfriend so she could answer her phone.
"Hey Ria, what's up?" Heidi spoke as she answered her phone and started walking a little way away from Tyler and Ash.
As soon as Heidi was out of earshot and engrossed enough in her conversation, Tyler turned his complete attention to Ash which Ash wasn't all too pleased about.
"What the fuck is your problem Irving?" Tyler asked, getting closer to Ash than he would have liked.
"You better get the hell out of my face Hadson before I make you," Ash replied, done trying to play nice with the egoccentric RAW rookie.
"You better stay the hell away from Heidi," Tyler warned raising a finger at Ash which practically touched Ash's nose.
"Otherwise known as my best friend," Ash commented as he slapped away Tyler's finger.
"She's my girlfriend," Tyler stated with a smirk on his face.
"And she's my best friend," Ash replied "And she has been for the better part of a decade so I doubt your fake blonde ass is going to be able to talk me into staying away from Heidi."
"She's mine so don't even think about going there," Tyler warned again raising an eyebrow at Ash.
"Heidi doesn't belong to anyone, least of all you," Ash stated, rolling his eyes at Tyler's attempt to scare him.
"Don't try and be all intellectual with me Irving," Tyler said "I see the way you look at her."
"Yeah and I see the way YOU look at her," Ash said, his tone getting serious as he pointed a finger dangerously close to Tyler's chest "You force Heidi into doing something she doesn't want to do, or if you so much as lay a finger on her, you won't just have to answer to her father. You'll have to answer to me."
Tyler scoffed as he raised his eyebrows at Ash.
"Why don't you write about your school yard crush in your diary Irving, cause no one else cares," Tyler replied with a smirk "Including my girlfriend over there."
Ash was so close to punching Tyler's smirking face in when suddenly Heidi's voice brought him back to reason and reality.
"Ria was having wardrobe troubles," Heidi explained as she smiled at Tyler before she turned to face Ash "Ash, is it alright if we skip next week's RAW so I can be with Tyler before his match?"
Ash sighed as he focussed on Heidi's smiling face before him, trying his hardest to block out the smug looking face of Tyler Hadson.
"Yeah sure Heids," Ash sighed as he forced a smile at his best friend "You stay backstage."
"Are you sure?" Heidi asked.
"Absolutely," Ash replied with a little more confidence this time to assure Heidi of his answer.
"OK then," Heidi replied "Thanks."
"Baby c'mon," Tyler suddenly butted in, wrapping his arm around Heidi and urging her to start walking with him "Baby let's go."
"I'll talk to you later Ash," Heidi called out before she was whisked away down the backstage area in Tyler's arms.
Ash wanted to chase after them and beat down that cocky, smarmy Tyler Hadson. Driving his head into the concrete floor or the wall would be greatly satisfying for Ash at the present. Driving his head into the concrete floor until unconscious or bleeding, whichever came first, and then taking Heidi far far away from him. That guy was just bad news with an ego. Ash had no idea what Heidi saw in him.
"Evening," a voice suddenly spoke from behind Ash and he turned around quickly, startled by the suddenness.
Ash smiled as he matched the voice to the face.
"Evening Mr Orton," Ash greeted Heidi's father with a nod.
"I don't like him either Ash," Randy said shaking his head as he watched Tyler and Heidi walk away, Tyler's hands and mouth all over his daughter.
"They've been together officially for less than two weeks and he's always gotta have his hands all over her and his tongue all down her throat," Ash said shaking his head as he also turned back around to watch the couple disappear down the corridors.
"Does he really feel the need to refer to her as 'baby' more than once a sentence?" Randy asked as Ash turns back to face him.
"Apparently so Sir," Ash replied with a smile.
"There's something that doesn't sit right with me about that guy," Randy commented, his eyes still focussed in the direction his daughter had just taken.
"You're not the only one," Ash commented.
"But what can I do right?" Randy commented "Heidi really seems to like him."
"Unfortunately," Ash muttered under his breath which cause Randy to turn his attention to the young man before him.
"So, how have things been with you Ash?" Randy asked, shaking himself out of his thoughts and changing the course of the conversation completely.
"I've been good thank you Mr Orton," Ash replied politely with a smile "Busy with the last assignments of the semester unfortunately though."
"You're at Yale still right?" Randy asked.
"Yes I am," Ash replied.
"Political science I think your father mentioned," Randy commented.
"Yes," Ash replied with a simple nod.
"How is it all going?" Randy asked.
"Really well," Ash answered honestly "Every subject I do is so rich in history and interesting. I've really learnt a lot so far."
"When are you due for your internship?" Randy asked, realising that he almost sounded like he was interviewing Ash for a place at his prestigious university.
Randy couldn't help it when he was around these young guys, just like Ash and the rookies.
"Next fall," Ash replied "I have one more year of classes and then I'll be into some sort of political internship."
"The white house no doubt?" Randy suggested with a small smile.
Ash let himself laugh a little.
"I think that's every political science majors dream," Ash replied honestly "That was exactly what I wanted to do when I left high school."
"Be the president?" Randy asked curiously.
"Exactly," Ash nodded "Back then I knew for sure that that was what I wanted to do."
"Is it still what you want to do?" Randy asked, before he noticed the look of confusion set across Ash's face "I mean you said that you knew it was what you wanted to do back then. Is it still?"
Ash sighed as he shrugged.
"I honestly don't know," Ash suddenly blurted out.
Part of him blurted it out because it had been on the tip of his tongue moments earlier with Heidi and part of him blurted it out because he was talking to Randy Orton and he didn't exactly want to keep Mr Orton waiting for him to contemplate and think and consider and all that before he finally gave a straight out answer. He certainly didn't want to lie to Randy either. That would definitely be the wrong answer.
"I mean I just don't know if that's what I want to do for the rest of my life," Ash tried to explain "It's something I'm definitely interested in and something that would be a great opportunity for me, but since leaving high school my mind's been wandering."
"You're young Ash," Randy commented "Your mind still has a lot of wandering to do."
"That's what my Dad says," Ash replied with a smile.
"He's always wanted you to follow in his footsteps," Randy explained.
"I know," Ash replied "But these days I wander if that would be such a bad move."
"Ah," Randy said, suddenly realising what they were talking about "You've been considering it lately have you?"
"Working for the WWE?" Ash asked, wanting to make sure that he and Randy were definitely talking about the same thing before they continued on.
Randy simply nodded.
"Yeah," Ash admitted "It's been on my mind a lot lately. I mean the more time I spend here in the WWE travelling with my dad and being on the road, the more I think about it and the more I realise that I love being here and I want to be here."
"I understand now," Randy said "I was the same when I was growing up. I was the same as you. I grew up around all this and the more and more exposure I got to this lifestyle, the more and more I realised that I wanted to be a part of it."
"That's exactly how I feel," Ash replied with a smile "I'm thinking about studying my last year off campus and travel more on the road with my father. Really figure out what it is I want to do."
"It would be a great opportunity for you to get in a little bit of training too," Randy commented "Really get you exposed into what it takes to be a professional athlete. Let you see if you're up to it."
"I'm definitely up for it," Ash said "Definitely up for the challenge."
"You'd have to let your father train you mostly but if you ever want any pointers or want to work on your ring work," Randy said as he pointed towards himself "Come and find me. I'd be happy to help you out if you're willing to put the work in."
"I definitely wouldn't come and find you if I wasn't willing to put the work in Mr Orton," Ash added "You can be sure of that."
"That's good," Randy replied with a nod and a small smile at Ash.
"So you're 21 now?" Randy said, changing the subject again.
"24th September," Ash replied.
"Big celebration planned no doubt?" Randy inquired.
"Not yet but I'm sure Heids could definitely help me out with that," Ash replied with a laugh as his thoughts wandered back to Heidi.
"You would end up with a very extravagant 21st if you asked my daughter to help you plan it," Randy replied with a laugh of his own "But you would definitely get out of helping at all because she would definitely not let you."
"I would only ruin it," Ash replied "And Heidi would definitely know it."
Randy would be lying if he said he wasn't enjoying this little chat he was having with Ash Irving. Every time he'd been around Ash, Heidi had always been there and that made the time hardly ideal to actually get talking to the young Irving. While Ash was very similar in appearance to his father, short blonde hair and blue eyes, except for the fact that Ash was freakishly tall for an Irving, he seemed very different in terms of personality. Ash was much more mellow and quiet compared to his father and he definitely had way more intellectual ambitions for himself than Chris every had. Randy could have never seen Chris at college, EVER, especially not studying something like political science. Randy had to say that he was definitely impressed with Ash in general. He definitely presented himself as a very well-together young man. He was glad that his daughter had a guy like that in her life. He was very glad of it, especially considering the other guy in her daughter's life was the very much less impressive Tyler Hadson.
Randy was about to start up another topic of conversation when his cell phone suddenly beeped in his pocket. Randy reached into his pocket and quickly retrieved his cell phone to check the caller display. One Text Message. Randy immediately thought Lita, but then he read on Unknown Number. Randy was suddenly intrigued.
"One second son," Randy said to Ash as he flipped open his cell phone and read the message.
Randy was more intrigued when he read the text message. It said nothing. It was pretty much an empty text message except for a single star. Well it was technically an asterisk, but all the same it had no business or meaning in a text message on its own. It was accompanied by nothing, before or after, and it was from an unknown number.
"Unfortunately I have to run Mr Orton," Ash suddenly spoke, breaking Randy out of his thoughts "But it was nice talking to you."
Still a bit confused by the text message he'd just received, Randy flipped his phone shut and smiled at young Ash Irving.
"You too Ash," Randy replied with a nod which was returned before Ash turned heel and started off.
The young Irving hadn't gotten very far, walking as usual with his head down and engrossed in his thoughts, when he suddenly bumped into someone.
"Oh I'm sorry," Ash quickly apologised as his head shot up and he realised it was a woman he had bumped into.
She was older than him but still incredibly pretty. Her brown hair was loose around her shoulder and unfortunately shielded a majority of her face. Ash couldn't put a name to the face but he had definitely seen the woman before. He knew that while she wasn't a regular in the backstage area of the WWE, that she knew most of the superstars well.
"That's alright, don't worry about it," the woman quickly replied with a small smile before she continued on in the opposite direction.
Ash stopped and watched the woman briskly continue walking further down the corridor before she finally stopped infront of one of the locker room doors. Ash could have been wrong but he was sure that it was John Cena's locker room she stopped infront of. She looked very unsure of herself as she stood there for a few moment before she finally looked to muster the courage to knock. Her hand was shaking as she knocked on the wooden door with as much pressure as was necessary to obtain an answer. She kept fiddling with the ends of her hair and she was nibbling furiously on her bottom lip as she stood at the door waiting for an answer. Ash knew that he should probably walk away and give the woman her privacy but he couldn't help himself from just standing and watching. She looked so scared and so unsure that a part of Ash wanted to make sure she was OK. He wanted to make sure someone in John Cena's locker room answered the door before he walked away. Ash could hear his own heavy breathing as he and the woman both continued to wait for an answer to the knock she'd just made. He could tell she was also heavily breathing as she waited and she suddenly brought a hand to her face and wiped under her eyes, which suggested to Ash that was had been or was still crying. He was definitely going to wait here to make sure she was alright. After seeing her like this and having her now crying, Ash was morally obligated, but at the same time he wanted to.
Suddenly the door to John Cena's locker room flung open and none other than John Cena stood in the door frame. He greeted the woman with a smile before that smile disappeared. Cena had obviously noticed the state of the woman as he reached forward and embraced the woman tightly. She hugged him back, but only lightly. The pair remained like that she sometime before Cena broke again slightly. He placed his hands on the woman's arms by her side and he gently stroked the skin of her arms.
"Alle what's wrong?" Cena spoke softly as he manoeuvred his head so he could look into the eyes of Alle Dumas, his ex-girlfriend "Please tell me Al."
Alle's eyes were full of tears as she looked up into Cena's blue eyes. She was trying to calm her breathing and she swallowed hard as she opened her mouth to speak.
"I'm pregnant," Alle suddenly confessed, her voice soft and shaky "I'm pregnant with your baby John."
A/N: Hey all! I need to sleep so bad but I wanted to post this chapter for you guys before I went to sleep - started writing and I didn't want to stop! Hope you like it! I know a lot of people were involved and a lot of different story lines but I hope it all made sense and you guys liked it! Please READ AND REVIEW! What do you guys think about Alle being pregnant with Cena's baby? Are they going to get back together? And Tyler Hadson? Douchebag? Let me know what you think of this story so far. It's a hard act to follow - with One Secret I mean - so please let me know how I'm doing with the sequel. Should I keep going as it is so far or should I change some things - REVIEW and give me your thoughts! I love to hear what you guys think because I write for my readers and my reviewers so tell me what you guys want! Will try and update as soon as possible. Until next time, God Bless, Mrs Bridget Orton xoxo