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"Come on, Willow, don't slow down you've got this," encouraged my coach as I began my training to get back in the ring. Joe had returned back on the road earlier than expected because they needed him back to help with the show and needed him on RAW to start his feud with Rusev. He was anxious about going back but I told him he can't stay home forever. It was time to get back on the road again and do what he loves. I promised to join him soon once I get myself back into shape. I run the ropes back and forth, my stamina definitely not where it should be. I'm out of breath, my chest is tight and I am trying to keep going. My legs feeling like jello ready to collapse any second but I push through and continue on. "Come, on, Willow," he says as I finish my last run. "Good job, now take it around the ring," he instructs me. Catching my breath I tell him okay before I begin to chasse around the ring still trying to catch my breath. "Come on!" he yells keeping me going. "You can do this, Willow," he says. I finally finish my final chasse and he says, "take a break."
I climb out of the ropes and grab my bottle of water from my bag and chug it down as I still try to catch my breath. As I sit on the chair I start to dry heave and feel myself get sick in the stomach before I get up to run to the bathroom where I vomit up all the water I had just drank. I take a few minutes in the bathroom to make sure I am okay before I vomit again from all the hard work I put in with running the ropes and doing my chasses in the ring. I finally finish and clean myself up by splashing water on my face before I go back out in the gym to get back into the ring. "You okay?" he asks me as I climb into the ring.
"Yeah," I say, "I just did a lot of running it made me a little sick. I'm good to go," I say.
"We really need to work on your stamina," he suggests. "You also need to get your body back into shape. You're nowhere near where you need to be. When are you aiming to return?"
"Survivor Series," I answer. "That's my goal to be back in the ring by Survivor Series."
"That's about 6 weeks away," he says. "You have a lot of work to do."
"I know. I'm going to be here every day to train."
"You've been training for two weeks, Willow and you're not getting your stamina built up at all. Do you want me to be honest with you?" he asks.
"Um yeah," I say as I pull my red curly hair up into a messy bun on the top of my head. "Say what you need to. Everyone has already passed their opinion on me the last few months so you might as well too."
"I think you really need to take this seriously."
"I am taking it seriously, Steve. I moved to Orlando so I could be here every day all day."
"But your stamina isn't getting any better," he says. "I'm not sure what's going on but it seems to be getting worse and if you're going to get back in the ring you might want to start eating a healthier diet. You're getting out of shape."
"Excuse me," I say, "my diet can't get any healthier. I'm eating lots of salads, proteins and stuff like that. It's not like I am binging on hamburgers," I say. "And are you saying I'm fat?"
"I'm saying your body is a little out of shape, Willow," he says. "If you're going to get back in the ring your number 1 and number 2 priorities are keeping your body in shape and building up your stamina. If you can't run the ropes without getting tired how are you going to perform a 15 minute match? Stamina is one of the most important things. Are you feeling okay?"
"Yes," I lie because truthfully I haven't been feeling my best. I have been feeling weak and tired, very tired. I haven't really felt like eating much but since I have started my medication I haven't really had much of an appetite and I have been a little on the moody side which I credit to my medicine. "It's just my meds are fucking with me. I'm going to talk to my psychiatrist to see if I can get something else that won't really affect me as much as these pills have done."
"Okay," he says, "but your goal leaves you with 6 weeks to go. You have a lot of work to do," he says.
"Okay," I say. "I know I have to work harder to get where I need to be. Do you think it's a realistic goal for me to be back in the ring by Survivor Series?"
"If you work hard and train hard you should be back in the ring by then. We just have to work a little harder to get your stamina up. I want you to work on some things at home to help with your stamina okay?"
"Okay," I say. "I just want to get back in the ring so badly. I have been waiting for this for over a year now I'm ready to get back into it."
"I know," he says, "but you have to get yourself back to 100% it has been a year since you've been out of the ring or just about a year."
"I used to be naturally gifted," I say with defeat in my voice.
"You're still naturally gifted and your in-ring performance is great. You sell like no one I have ever seen. It's your stamina that's holding you back. Other than that you're amazing in the ring you always have been. I wouldn't expect anything less from Undertaker's daughter," he says making me smile. "You've got a lot of potential, Willow, I watched you train for years and then I watched you in WWE. You've got it you just have to build your stamina back up to where it was before your injury."
"Thanks," I say with a smile. "I'll do that. Let's get back to it," I say before we begin to work a little more on my training especially on building my stamina back up. The afternoon isn't easy as I work my ass off, sweat pouring down my body, burning my eyes, my legs weak, my arms weak and the feeling of nausea after a day's work out as I chug down my bottle of water. I hit the showers before I head out to have dinner with one of my old friends in Orlando.
I walk into the bar where I am meeting my friend Kayle and I spot her sitting in a booth off in the corner. I smile and wave as I see her. She waves back as I make my way over to the table. "Hey, sorry I'm late. I was training to get back into the ring," I say.
"It's okay," she says as I take a seat. "How have you been doing? I can't believe you're back in Orlando."
"We are only here for a couple months until I get back into the ring then we are going back to Tampa for a little bit until our house is finished in Houston."
"You're moving back to Houston?" she asks.
"After the wedding," I say with a smile. "Joe is having a house built for us."
"That's pretty awesome. I bet you can't wait to get back."
"I've been wanting to go back to Houston for a while. My dad is moving back this month. It will be good to get back home to my hometown and to one day raise our children there."
"That will be great for both of you after everything that you've been through."
"And that's pretty much what it is a new beginning in a new place for us to build our love from the ground up. It's even better because we can pick and choose what we want so it will be our creation."
"That's always cool. How is training going?" she asks as the waitress comes to take our drink orders. I order Pina colada and also ask for some pickles with onion rings and French fries with a bacon cheeseburger. I obviously felt like splurging after everything my trainer just told me not to do. "Should you be eating all of that?" she asks me.
"Well, I am really hungry and I just want some good old greasy foods. It's just something I want. I'm starving! And training is going okay. I am just not where I want to be. I am really out of shape. And I know I have put on some weight since Joe left to go back on the road and my medicine is making me tired and moody."
"You'll get there," she says. "How does Joe feel about being back out on the road?"
"He feels pretty good. I think he was ready to get back to work and make life normal again, you know as normal as it can be when you're a WWE superstar," I say with a small laugh. "But he is really happy to be back. I can't wait till I go back and hopefully I am on the same brand as he is. If not we will never see each other."
"Maybe because you two are engaged they will put you two on the same brand together. You would think it is easier that way."
"I hope so," I say. "And this medicine is making me sick too."
"Sick?" she asks as the waitress brings my drink and the food I ordered as well as Kayle's order.
"Yeah, like nauseous all the time or most of the time," I say with my mouth watering looking at the burger on my plate. "Threw up at least 4 times today I figure because I'm working so hard and the pill doesn't really help."
"Maybe it isn't your medicine, Willow. Have you always had these symptoms?" she asks as I bite into my burger.
"Not until last week maybe. I thought it was weird too because I have been on the medicine for a few months now so I didn't know how side effects were coming out of nowhere. I was going to talk to my doctor about it."
"Maybe you're pregnant," she says as I lift my Pina Colada to have a taste. "Which means you probably shouldn't be drinking that."
"I'm not pregnant, there's no way I can be," I say. "There's no way. Joe and I had sex probably once in the last few weeks."
"It only takes once, Willow," she says. "And that one time could have been it."
"I'm not pregnant," I say putting my Pina Colada down with the sudden feeling to not drink it. "I can't be."
"Think about it, you're tired, you're hungry, you're moody and you're sick. They all sound like pregnancy symptoms to me. Maybe you should take a test, Willow."
"Joe has some freaking super sperm if he got me pregnant that one time we had sex for our anniversary."
She lets out a laugh. "Do you want to be pregnant now?" she asks.
"I want to be a mother, I have wanted to be a mother since Kekoa," I say. "It was just a devastating blow when we lost him. We have finally started to get our lives back on track and get everything back to normal and our wedding! I mean I wouldn't mind having a baby but right now it would be crazy."
"But the most unexpected time is the best time."
"True," I say accepting the fact she could be right about me being pregnant. I don't know if I subconsciously ignored the signs and believed that I was in denial or if I really believed that it was my medication giving me these symptoms. "I guess I shouldn't be drinking this," I say pushing my drink aside. "It makes sense."
"So you should buy a test and maybe you'll be pregnant."
"Maybe," I say with a smile. "I do want this more than anything. I will give up my entire career to be a mother, to stay home and be with our child."
"It isn't unheard of, Willow," she says with a smile. "I hope you are. You two deserve this and if you're worried about the wedding you can always push it back a couple months till after the baby is born. You two obviously love each other and neither of you are really going anywhere."
"That's true," I say with a smile feeling a little bit of excitement inside of me and even a little bit of hope. I order a different drink from the waitress and enjoy my evening with one of my best friends talking about the wedding, making wedding plans and talking about things going on in her life. Overall we have a pretty good dinner.
After we have dinner together Kayle comes with me to the drug store down the street from the apartment Joe and I have leased out for a couple months here in Orlando. We walk into the store and we look for the aisle with the pregnancy tests. "Are you late?" asks Kayle as I am looking at what test to get.
"Honestly, I really don't know," I say. "I haven't really been paying attention. My period hasn't been regular since we had Koa so I never really noticed."
"Okay," she says. "Do you want to be pregnant?"
"Yes," I answer with a smile as I grab two pregnancy tests from the shelf. "I want to be a mother."
"I know you do," she says. "You think Joe will be happy?"
"I think he would be ecstatic. Losing Koa really did something to us. It changed us."
"I'm sure," she says as we make our way to the cash register so I can pay. "I don't see how it wouldn't change anyone. Are you two doing better now?"
"Yeah," I say. "After I got my medication and started talking to someone we got better and we stalk to a therapist together because that was traumatic for both of us. He's been really good throughout this whole thing. Sometimes I feel like I don't deserve him because he is so great to me."
"He's a great guy," she says, "and he really loves you."
"I really love him too," I say as I pay the cashier for the tests before we exit the store. I can't wait to get home to take the test to find out if Joe and I are having another baby or not. I would be happy if we are. It's something I want even more than having a wrestling career.
We arrive back at my apartment and the first thing I do is go to the bathroom to take one of the tests. I read the instructions on the back of the test and do what it tells me to do. I place it on the sink for 2 minutes. I sit down on the side of the tub playing on my phone as I wait. It feels like an eternity passes by as my timer goes off on my phone. I stand up and walk over to the sink. I look at the results and run out of the bathroom with the test in my hand. "KAYLE!" I yell as I burst into the living room. "I'M PREGNANT! JOE AND I ARE HAVING A BABY!" I say with excitement. She jumps up from the couch and hugs me as I hug her back.
"Congratulations," she says as I smile even bigger. Joe and I are having a baby.
*A/N: How do you think Willow's training went? Could it have gone any worse? Do you think that she has lost her love and passion for the business? What did you think of her dinner with her friend Kayle? Are you surprised that Willow is pregnant? Is it too soon? Were you surprised by her reaction? How do you think Joe is going to handle the news? Do you think this marks the end of Willow's wrestling career? Please review and thank-you for reading.