I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES OC.
We went up to our room in which Jeff allowed me to take my shower first before he jumped in to take his shower. As I was waiting for him to take his shower, I began to packing the bag I would need to take with me to the show tonight. I was pushing this and that into the bag not knowing what all I needed for the night but I was trying to think of what I would possible need for the night, whatever I thought that I could quite possibly needed, I had put into the bag. The water had shut off knowing that Jeff was pretty much done with washing up only for the door to open in a short manner after hearing the water shut off then out walks Jeff with a towel wrapped around his waist. I tried so hard not to look as he exited the bathroom and headed over to his suitcase then he headed back into the bathroom where the door had shut again. I only presumed he had forgotten something within his suitcase but it was none of my business. I finished doing what I was doing then I pulled the towel I had my hair wrapped up in tossing it onto the bed that was mine before I sat down pulling my shoes on to do some walking around the city. Jeff exited the bathroom again but this time fully dressed as I got up going into the bathroom using the provided hair dryer blowing the heated air onto my hair getting it to dry faster. When the hair was dried was enough, I began to brushing it out then brushed it up into a ponytail holder. I walked out of the bathroom flicking the lights off seeing Jeff tying his shoes, without even looking up at me Jeff began to speak. "Did you bring make-up with you?" Jeff asked.
"I don't have any." I answered simply as Jeff moved to the other shoe.
"While we are out today we will need to grab you some because as a girl, that is a disadvantage you will need is always having to have make-up on." Jeff said as I sighed.
"Are we coming back to the hotel before the show tonight?"
"Yeah, I am not going in this and you aren't going in that." Jeff said as a matter of fact as I nodded as I began to apply deodorant and perfume to myself sitting waiting whilst Jeff finished up preparing for the day out. Jeff led the way out of the hotel room in which we headed down to the car we had rented with our bags in hand for the show tonight. Jeff did not want tot make a trip back to the room just for our bags, which made sense. I climbed into the passenger seat buckling up letting Jeff do the driving since he would know where to park or where we would go for the day. Jeff drove us further into the city seeing a lot more of the New York City area which I was loving. Jeff parked the car in some parking garage before we headed out of the garage onto the crowded city, as we arrived to the street corner I looked up at all the tall skyscrapers spinning around to enjoy all of it and soak it all in. I was in New York City. Little ole me was in New York City, who would ever think that I would make it here? "This surreal?" Jeff asked with a chuckle as I smiled as I had stopped spinning looking over at Jeff.
"Beyond surreal. I wish it was a little nicer than so crowded, noisy and grimy but it is beyond surreal." I stated.
"It's New York, what do you expect. Come on." Jeff said as he took me to Time Square and we began to look at all the different broadway signs and billboards that were being advertised for shows tonight. We stopped for New York's finest pizza along with many other things within New York as Jeff tried to make sure we would have things we could do the following day as well. At a certain time began to lead me back to the car where we grabbed our bags from the trunk then walked the couple of blocks to where the venue would be for the night. Heading inside after ringing to be let in but first had to confirm our identities. Jeff led me further into the venue like he knew the layout like the back of his hand. Walking further into the building, there were random groups of men sitting around chatting in which Jeff would stop to shake hands or give manly hugs to them which would lead to conversations on how things were going before I would be introduced. After stopping a couple times I finally noticed the ring that was already set up and highly lit for the night. I stopped just staring at the ring that was in front of me, it was hard to believe that only in a few hours I would be standing in that ring about to put on my first paid gig in front of a live event of paid fans. "Is it more surreal now?" Jeff asked with a chuckle as he stepped beside me with his arms crossed over his chest as I glanced to him glancing back in front of me.
"You have no idea." I said with a sigh, "Now can I be nervous?" I asked as he chuckled.
"Nope…come on." Jeff said as he nodded towards his left in symbol to follow him as I did just that. I did not know where we were going or what he had in mind but I just followed through with him. "Hey Tommy…how's it going man?" Jeff asked as the black haired older man turned around to face us, there he was. Tommy Dreamer. My mouth fell agape in shock that it was truly Tommy Fucking Dreamer.
"Hey man, you made it. Glad you could come. And you, you must be April." Tommy said as I did not say nor do anything, all I could do was stare.
"Yeah, I think she is a little star struck right now." Jeff said as they both chuckled.
"I'm Tommy, it's nice to meet you." Tommy said sticking his hand out to shake mine as I slowly stuck my hand out to grip his shaking it as firmly as I could.
"Nice to meet you too. I am so excited and happy to work with you Tommy. Thank you for giving me this opportunity." I said as the hand shake came to an end retrieving my hand from the grip that it was in.
"Gladly, I heard you killed it not too long ago against one of my best talents Mia Yim so I had to sign you to see what you can really do. Tonight you are having another match against Mia then tomorrow you are going against another great lady I have hired named Heidi." Tommy stated as I nodded I knew that I could work with Mia because she was beyond nice and we really clicked. Tommy began to talk to us about the line-up of the show and what was going to go on tonight so we knew what was expected of us, when we were going to go on and how things went at his promotion. I followed the two men through the back of the venue towards the catering, the locker area and other spaces for us to use. I had excused myself to go into the women's locker room and let myself into the locker room style room that was designated for us women, I noticed a bag or two already in the room and I put my aside to join the bags that were already in there. I headed back out heading towards catering grabbing a bottle of water along with a bowl of fruit heading towards back where the actual show were to take place leaning against the barrio that was set up watching as finishing touches were put on the ring that was pretty much already put together ready for matches to be performed.
"You already call dibs on the ring?" A male voice asked getting me to look over in the direction it came from to see two men in street clothes shaking my head no as they jumped the barrior and got into the ring watching as the two men began rehearsing moves and doing warm-ups like they were practicing for the match they had against each other tonight. I had to admit, the two of them were great and were phenomenal in the ring and I was enjoying the work they were doing as I sat there in the front row popping grapes or strawberries into my mouth when I felt someone plop down to me getting me to look at them recognizing the female.
"Hey Mia…" I said with a smile excitedly.
"Hey, glad that Tommy was able to get you on the card."
"You told him?" I asked curiously.
"Nah, my boyfriend was in the crowd that night and he spilt the beans to Tommy." Mia answered.
"Well I could thank you for getting me my first gig though." I said with a chuckle and a smile.
"So, what do you want to do tonight to show these two goons up?" Mia asked nodding towards the two men in the room as I sighed then glanced to her. We began to bounce ideas off of each other, it was give and take rather we liked them or not but we had begun planning our match move for move.
"To be honest, you are going to help talk and call out moves in there because I may not remember every move sequence." I stated.
"No worries sweetie, we will just have a badass match but welcome to the house of hardcore. If you impress this crowd, you are in the family." She said as I smirked.
"I hope that is what happens. I can get used to this." I said with a smile as I stood up as she followed suit as we headed into the ring now that it was cleared out letting me warm up and begin working with her on a couple moves that were discussed to let us feel each other before our match tonight. After running through a few spots we rolled out of the ring going to the back into the women's locker room where I was introduced to Heidi whom I would be wrestling against the next night. I headed over to my bag pulling it onto the bench opening it up and pulling out my gear for the night. I began to change into my gear before I slid the boots onto my feet. After changing, I headed out into one of the many halls walking along the halls stretching my arms as he went to catering grabbing more water downing one bottle after another to stay hydrated then used the bathroom one last time before my match. I headed to the designated gorilla position where I finished stretching before my match, and I peaked out only to see how many people were in the arena only to see it was a full house unlike the one show Matt and Jeff had put on. With that many people in attendance made my nerve kick in even more. "That is a lot of people out there." I stated towards Mia as I ran a hand through my hair as she smirked as she stood up from her stretch squat position she was in.
"Forget those people, just imagine you are back home in your training facility. It is only you and me in that ring, all you need to be concerned with is executing every move properly and me." Mia said as I nodded as I tried to push out the antsy and rowdy crowd that was out there in attendance. As the two men that were performing a match before us walked through the curtin simultaneously, it then became time for our turn to go out there to top the match before us. Listening as Mia's music had hit and the ring announcer began to make the announcement for Mia as she made her way to the ring as I began to jump between my feet pushing out nerves and preparing myself for our match. Hearing Mia's music coming to an end I knew that only my music would only come on next in which it did along with hearing the announcer beginning to announce her 'opponent' which was me. I walked up two steps to the main stage where I exited through the curtain to go down the ramp. The crowd were mere quiet with a few screams as some did not know who I was so what else should I have expected from this? I slowly made my way to the ring making my grand entrance into the ring climbing up onto the second turnbuckle for the funs to soak in my prescence before I turned to look over my shoulder staring at Mia as I jumped off the turnbuckle turning to look at the woman I was about to face. The ref called us to the center speaking only a few sentences about being a fair fight and the rules that we already knew before asking us to shake hands. Mia stuck her hand out, I looked at her hand then made eye contact with her before slightly smirking as I shook my head no smacking her hand away before returning back to my corner, this time I was going to be the heel. The crowd began to boo me as I began to do a couple more stretches before the ref signaled for the bell to be rung. When the bell officially rung Mia and I began to walk around the squared circle eyeing each other down before we ran in to meet each other for a lock-up to begin one of many move sets that we had planned for our twenty minute match. Our plan was to kick some ass and to have the fans on their feet throughout the match which they did multiple times throughout the twenty minutes. I rolled Mia up for a win after giving her a chair shot to the head when the ref was distracted. My hand was held up in victory as I smirked evilly as many fans began to boo me and I began to taunt them back as I climbed out of the ring getting face to face with some of them as I made my way back to the backstage area. I went down the two steps running a hand through my sweaty hair trying to catch my breath waiting for Mia to come through those curtains when she came through faking the injury with her putting her weight on the ref. After the curtains shut behind them, she stood up to her full height rubbing at the back of her neck and smirked.
"Nice shot for being your first time using a chair…" Mia said with a chuckle as she went down the two steps letting us give each other a hug.
"Thanks, practice makes perfect. I'll have Jeff get on training proper weapon usage." I said with a chuckle.
"It will be much needed, or even talk to Tommy if you will be here more frequently he would be just as good of a trainer and mentor as Jeff." Mia said as she did have a point as we headed to catering together and spend rest of the show together. She even introduced me to her husband Eddie, whom seemed just as nice as Mia, and he had joined us since we were all done for the night. I felt very welcomed here and that everyone seemed so nice to me regardless of me being new to the promotion. A lot of talent had came up to introduce themselves or to tell Mia and myself what a match we had as I felt bad because I wanted to watch more of the matches so I told myself that tomorrow I will be watching more of the show. Jeff was a part of the main event, I was ready to go by the time Jeff had ended but I was one of the last talents to leave or hanging around as I headed out to the arena area seeing that everything was still put up and not seeing anyone tearing it down which was new to me but I guess since we had another show the next night they did not want to bother. I sat down in the front row staring at the empty ring kind of in disbelieve that tonight happened and that it will happen again tomorrow.
"You ready to go?" Jeff asked getting me to jump from being startled.
"Yeah." I said nodding as I stood up grabbing my belongings following Jeff out of the venue as Tommy was close behind us locking it up as we exchanged good nights and see you tomorrows with Tommy before we headed in a different direction towards our car. I climbed into the passenger seat after tossing my bag into the backseat exhausted. I did want to go back out to explore New York at night because there were so much left to explore and sure that it was lit up but I was tired. Jeff drove us back to the hotel where we had headed up to the room that was ours for one more night. I flopped onto the bed not even bothering to change because I was already in comfy clothes curling up under the blankets falling instantly asleep.