“Well I suggest you speak to her soon!” Roman added quickly. “She might think you were trying to hide it from her if you leave it.” Seth shifted awkwardly as he tried his best to think of something to say that wouldn’t sound bad to Leighla but in the corner of my eye I could see Dean smirking. I shot him a glare but he just continued to smirk as he stared back at me.
“Looks like karma has come around to bite you.” Dean said to Seth, the Cheshire cat grin still on his face. Seth scowled at him but looked back down at his phone.
“What the hell am I meant to say?” He looked over to Roman and I. It was all well and good that we told him but now we all stood there with no clue what to do next. “God, this is the last time I help anyone when all it does is ruin me.” He mumbled as he scrolled through his phone. Guilt hit me full force in the chest and I felt it tighten. I didn’t mean for this to happen… I didn’t want to ruin Seth’s life, I only scratched my eyebrow for goodness sake! Roman put an arm around me, noticing the upset on my face.
“He doesn’t mean it. He gets like this when things don’t go his way.” Roman whispered to me. I smiled at him, appreciating the nice gesture but still feeling like I had screwed up Seth’s future.
“See, this is the problem when you associate yourself with ‘some newbie wrestler’.” Dean said to Seth, using the air quotes gesture as he spoke the last bit. Seth immediately stopped scrolling and slowly looked up to me, the hurt now obvious on my face. He looked over to Dean and put his phone in his pocket, walking over to him until he was only a few feet from him.
“Why do you always have to open your big mouth?” Seth shoved Dean backwards into the wall he was standing by. I let out a gasp as Roman ran over to get in between them.
“I’m only telling poor Lucy what you called her… She deserves to know that she means nothing to you." Dean said smarmily.
"Dean, can we just not do this right now?" Seth spat at him. "Funnily enough I have more important things to do than play your stupid games!" Seth moved away from Roman and walked across the other side of the room, sitting down and putting his head in his hands. I thought of many things I could have said to him but as the 'newbie wrestler' I didn't want to upset him anymore.
“And funnily enough, I thought you had more important things to do than insult people who were trying to be friends with you.” Dean said, his face showing all the signs of enjoying winding him up.
“Please Dean, for once can you just shut the hell up?” Seth shouted, flinging his hands in the air in frustration. “You started this whole thing by bringing up Paige!” I knew immediately that this fight was far bigger than me going to the doctor’s room with Seth. I didn’t know who Paige was, I mean I knew of her from watching the shows but I hadn’t had the chance to speak to her yet.
“Yeah because you were getting away with everything I got punished for! Are you just expecting me to sit there and let it all happen? It’s nothing against Lucy, I just don’t get how Seth skipping off with her was fine and me going to see my girlfriend wasn’t!” I stood there with my eyebrows raised and my mouth open. Was this seriously a thing? These guys were like this because of jealousy and favouritism?
“Can we talk about this later? We’ve got a problem at the moment and it’s not to do with Paige or skipping anywhere!” Roman ordered. “Seth, concentrate on thinking of something to say to Leighla and unless we have a productive, helpful thing to say we shall just not say a word!”
“Just tell her the truth. Let’s not go upsetting anyone else.” I said, defeated.
A faint phone vibration was heard and we all looked over to Seth, who was clutching his phone with shock etched on his face.
"Pick it up!" Roman urged and to Seth's own reluctance he picked it up.
"Hello?" He said as if he didn't know who it was. “Hey babe, you alright?”. We watched the concentration on his face as he listened intently to what the person on the phone said and by the sound of it, it wasn’t good news. From where we were all sitting we could hear the loud, angered tone of a female out of the phone. Seth rolled his eyes and gritted his teeth together. “Oh and believing everything we read on social networking sites really helps us in life, does it?” Some more angered shouting was heard from Leighla and we all felt the tension in the room building. “She’s just some wrestler.” Seth tried to explain. I could tell Leighla was grilling him about me. “She’s new and we were asked to help her out… Yes, the whole group.” The lies had begun, this only proved that he was in serious trouble. “Yeah, go on and call them, they’ll tell you the same thing.” He looked up at Roman who nodded his head in agreement to the plan but from the corner of my eye I could see Dean shaking his head. “Honestly, it’s nothing. She got injured and I showed her the Doctor’s room, that’s all! I promise you.”
“I think he may have done it!” Roman whispered happily.
“Let’s hope so!” I said, crossing my fingers.
“Ok, bye. Love you.” Seth hung up and phone and jumped up, a huge smile on his face. “Glad that’s over!” He said with a sigh of relief. Dean’s eyes narrowed at him for a second before he put on a fake smile.
“Hey, Lucy.” Dean said, walking over and standing next to me. “Are you free tomorrow evening?” He put his arm around my shoulders and looked down at me, his tall frame shadowing my small one.
“Umm, I think so yeah. Why?”
“Well, Rosa arranged a celebration party for the show’s ratings doubling over the past few weeks and she said all are welcome, so I thought you could go and meet all the other guys and girls.” Dean smiled that sweet yet cunning smile at me once more and I felt like I couldn’t say no.
“Sure. Are we going from the show or…?” Seth walked over to Dean as I spoke. He got only a few inches away and whispered in Dean’s ear.
“No offence, but isn’t she going to look a little out of place? She’ll be the only newbie there.” Seth whispered but it was loud enough for me to hear. “I just don’t want her to feel out of place.” Dean span round and glared at Seth.
“She’ll be fine if she’s with me.” Dean said through gritted teeth. I don’t think he realised I could hear him. “Now shut up and go away.” Dean spun back towards me and smiled again, as if what Seth had said hadn’t ever happened. Seth began to head towards the door out of the room.
“Actually, I think I’ll pass on it.” I changed my mind. I looked straight over to Seth as I carried on. “I wouldn’t want to ruin it because of being the only newbie wrestler there. You guys enjoy yourselves.” Seth stopped in his tracks and looked round at me, a sorry expression on his face. I shrugged at him and walked out of the room, not saying another word to the three people I thought were going to be my friends and help me through this process. It wasn’t easy dropping everything and moving to America and it certainly was a lot harder to get in the ring and prove to everyone that I was worth the time and money. My phone buzzed in my pocket and without looking at the caller ID I picked it up.
“Hello, this is a call for Lucy.” A voice I recognised only too well spoke to me.
“Yes, this is her. Hi Mark.” I weaved through the people backstage and made my way out into the car park. Excitement and dread filled my body as I wondered what the talent relations guy wanted with me, the newbie who had got an injury in her debut match.
“Lucy, I know it’s short notice but we need you in Smackdown tomorrow.” Mark sounded desperate. “Tamina got injured whilst training today and she’s going to be out for a least a month. She was in a storyline that began tomorrow and you’re the only person we thought could handle it.” My body forgot how to walk, breathe, move, talk… Did they just say I was going to be on a taped live event TOMORROW? “You’ll need to get to the arena much earlier tomorrow and we’ll go through it all with you.” I continued to stare off in the distance, taking the information in but not quite processing it quick enough to reply. “We know you’re wrestling skills are there, you’re confident and good on the mic but we need you to be perfect to pull this off. Alright?” I blinked a few more times as the information was slowly absorbed. I was going to be a newbie wrestler with a storyline on Smackdown. Things like this don’t happen often.
“Yes Mark, that’s fine. Just tell me a time and I’ll be at that arena.” I finally managed to say, although my body was still frozen with shock.
“Ok then, I need you to be at the arena 3 hours before scheduled. We’ll call up everyone else involved and get the scripts changed so it suits you. Thank you Lucy! See you tomorrow.”
“Thanks Mark, bye.” I hung up the phone and beamed. There was no way anyone could underestimate me if I pulled this off. I could be a fan favourite! I could be the new face of the Divas division! I could prove Seth wrong! This was something I had to do right, even if it killed me.