Plot: When Ella finds Rebecca's journals from the past, and wants to read them.. will her mother let her? What happens when Rebecca finds out a secret that Ella and Colby have been keeping from her? Will she allow any of it?
Word Count: 1,152
Rebecca walked into her office with coffee in hand and was met by her ever so curious daughter sitting in the middle of the floor in front of the closet.
"What are you doing?" she questioned as she sat her coffee down on her desk
"Looking" Ella said quickly as she continued to dig through the plastic totes
"Looking at what?" she questioned
"I found where you hide your journals" Ella admitted as she held up a few of the faux leather bound books
"Give me that" Rebecca said taking the journals from her and began to flip through it, every page was written on.. some days were just a few sentences, others were a few pages "I forgot about half of this stuff" she said with a shake of her head
"Can I read them?" Ella asked and Rebecca closed the book and looked at her daughter
"Why do you want to read them?" Rebecca laughed
"They could be helpful since I'm training now" Ella said
"Training for what?" Rebecca asked
"Daddy is teaching me to wrestle" Ella said confidently and as if he knew he was being spoken about, Colby walked into the room
"Daddy is teaching you to wrestle" Rebecca repeated her daughters previous sentence but stared directly at her husband
"Oh no this is a bad time" Colby said as he began to back out of the room
"Get back here!" Rebecca called after him and he slowly walked back in the room with his hands in his pockets and his head down
"We're busted" Ella said to him
"Yeah thanks to you, ya blabber mouth" he said to his daughter and she looked away from him
"She was going to find out eventually" Ella shrugged
"How long has this been going on?" Rebecca asked
"Not long" Colby said and he could see she wasn't believing him so Rebecca looked to her daughter
"About three weeks" Ella said
"Three weeks! You two have been doing this for three weeks and I never knew?" Rebecca exclaimed "When you came home last week with the bruise on your back.. you told me you were playing at school and fell down" she said
"Hitting the ropes" Ella admitted the truth and Rebecca threw her head back in frustration
"She's really good" Colby said "if that makes you feel better.. she's hanging with the guys that are double her age"
"Wait wait.." Rebecca held her hand up to stop him from speaking again "She's in class with grown men? You're letting your daughter get in the ring at eight years old with grown adults.." Rebecca was now becoming furious "She's a child!" she yelled
"They're more scared of her then she is of them and she can hold her own... plus it's not like I'm letting her do anything insane" Colby tried to extinguish this situation before it exploded "I'm telling you it's only been three weeks but she looks like she's been doing this for three years.. she's really good" he explained
"I don't care" Rebecca shook her head "I said if this was something she wanted to do or even just try for a little bit to see if she liked it, we would let her.. after she'd finished school and she was 18!"
"That's not fair!" Ella said
"That is very fair!" Rebecca argued
"No it's not, you were 15!" she said as she folded her arms across her chest
"Yes and that is 7 years older than what you are now! You're still a baby"
"I am not! Ava and Olivia are babies! I want to do this! Just let me do it!"
"Ella.." Rebecca shook her head "Do you understand how hard this is going to be? Do you understand the process you're going to have to go through? Plus not to mention being a generational wrestler if you decide to take it seriously go that far.. why don't you go talk to Ashley about how hard it is to be in this business and being the daughter of a wrestler? and take what she says and double that because you have both parents not just one"
"You can help" Ella said "You can help Daddy train me" she offered "I can show you how good I am"
"I'm not wrestling my daughter" Rebecca shook her head
"Daddy does!" Ella pointed to Colby
"Now hold on.." Colby shook his head "I show her moves on other people first but she's a hands on learner so I have to walk her through it step by step and I'm not going to let her try stuff on somebody I don't trust to protect her" he said
"Please mom!" Ella pleaded
"Just come watch class one time, watch her and if you don't like what you see and she's not as good as I tell you then she'll quit until she's older" Colby said and Ella's mouth fell open
"No" Ella shook her head
"I swear to god" Rebecca said to him
"Just trust me" Colby said"Last time you told me to trust you, is how she ended up here in the first place"
"Gross" Ella said "I don't need to hear that story"
"That story is in one of those journals.. as much of it as I could remember at the time" she said to Ella who dropped the books she was holding in disgust
"Ew.. I don't want to know that" she shook her head
"Trust me, she probably didn't write much.. she probably didn't remember much" Colby said
"Like you remembered it any clearer?" Rebecca questioned
"No comment" he said with a shake of his head and Rebecca took a deep breath, thinking for a few moments in silence
"I will let you train with you dad.. but the second you come home with anything other than a scratch or a bruise you are done.. understood?"
"Understood" Ella nodded "So.. can I read the journals?" she asked
"I wouldn't push your luck kid" Colby said with a shake of his head
"I'll tell you what, I will go through the journals and I will let you read a few of them.. from 2013 on"
"What about before that? I want to read the 7 missing years " Ella asked and Rebecca shook her head
"Absolutely not" Rebecca said sternly "You're not reading those until you are much older and able to fully understand what was going through my head at the time"
"You get to read about how we first met.. and your mom spilt coffee all over me" Colby said
"He ran into me" Rebecca said
"She wasn't watching where she was going" Colby retorted
"Can I read that now?" Ella asked with a laugh "I need to know whose side I'm on" she said
"I know whose side you'll be on" Rebecca said and Ella looked between her parents
"Mine" the couple said in unison
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