Training. Wrestling events in Oklahoma. Seminars for wrestlers up and coming. Ricardo hasn't been this busy in a long time. He stares at his schedule, tapping a pencil against his teeth. His ankle is finally good enough for him to get back on a regular schedule and it's kind of nice to not have to follow by WWE's doctor's orders on his own health and well being. He only has to answer to himself and Alicia and it makes him smile as he scribbles in more dates.
He blinks when Alicia bursts in, surprisingly cheerful despite losing on Monday. She all but tackles him, kissing all over his face and neck as she tips him forward, vibrating happily. "They finally released it!" she cheers, dragging a box over to her and pulling something out of it, everything going dark as she drags something over his head.
He sputters and blinks as light- both the sun and her brilliant smile- returns to him, his eyes wide as he looks down. She'd dragged a shirt on him with a female cartoon fox on it, the words Crazy Like a Fox scrawled over it. "Is this-?" he asks softly and she beams.
"I have a shirt! They sent me a bunch of them! I'm going to send them to everyone. AJ, and Mike, and Sara for when she's old enough. Do you think Sofia would want one?" She's going on and on about all of the people she wants to have one- Maryse and Heath, John and Taya, until he laughs and gently presses a kiss to her lips, quieting her subtly. She smiles at him and kisses him back, running her fingers through his hair. "Isn't it great?"
He nods. "It is." He's not sure about sending a shirt to AJ with crazy on it but ultimately lets it go, figuring that she would understand Alicia's motivation being excitement and not to rub it in that she has a shirt with that as a tag line when AJ's own mental health issues were always so close to the surface during her time in the WWE.
"I like how it looks on you," she says, tracing shapes in the fabric. "I always wondered what you would look wearing one of my shirts. I can wear your PWtees shirt, but I never had one to return the favor with. I'm so happy."
He chuckles, eases her face up gently and kisses her softly. "I'm happy too," he tells her softly. "Look at my weekend plans." She eases around him and stares at the calendar, smiling against his cheek. "Everything's getting a little better for both of us, huh?" he asks quietly, squeezing her arm.
"I think so," she beams, kissing him once more. He leans into her and closes his eyes, thinking ahead. To holidays, perhaps with Alberto once more- probably not, because even Ricardo couldn't ask him to leave Paige alone over Christmas, and he can't think about seeing her for too long right now without wanting to scratch his skin off. But he'll have Mike and Alicia, John and the rest of their friends. It's a nice, warm thought and he smiles to himself, kissing her again. "Will you help me mail all of these out to our friends?" she wonders, patting her hand against the top of the box.
"Sure," he agrees, pleased to have something to do while he waits for training to start. "Let's go do it." He pulls her to her feet and follows her out to buy bubble mailers to send the shirts to California. He stands by the car and looks over at her, smiling softly. "Alicia?"
She looks up at him and smiles curiously, leaning against the car to look back at him. "Yeah?"
"I love you."
Her teeth flash in the sun overhead. "I love you too, Ricardo." Once they're both in the car, their fingers find each other over the console and he squeezes gently, smiling over at her as she strokes his knuckles gently.
