Princess Lawler - R. Orton

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I walked into the room and handed Stephanie her coffee. "I thought you were getting coffee." Paul says to me. "I was about to, but my dad said I have a coffee drinking problem. To prove him wrong I got tea." I say. Randy rolls his eyes. My phone buzzes and I look at it. Leighla texted me. That scared me. She hadn't even talked to me since the stuff with Colby went down.
L- Did you know?
H- Know what?
L- Know he was cheating.
H- Um....
L- You did?!
I could read the anger she was feeling.
H- I'm sorry! I never got around to telling you...busy schedule.
L- Busy schedule? What did you find out the day before or something?
H- More like 6 or 7 months.
L- You knew for that long yet you didn't tell anyone?
H- One. Jon knew and two. Colby didn't even know that I knew.
L- Yeah. Whatever. Thought we were friends.
H- We are, but currently you are handling this like a 15 year old girl
L- How would you feel if you got cheated on with the love of your life.
Right as I'm about to respond Stephanie says "Earth to Hailee." I look up and feel my cheeks get a bit red. "Sorry. It was... Not important." I was going to say who it was, but I think they had enough of the whole Colby, Zahra and Leighla. "You sure? It looked desperately important." Randy asks peeping over my shoulder. He sees the name and he just shakes his head. "Now I'm really interested." Paul says. "It was Leighla." I say. Stephanie rolls her eyes. "God. I've had enough of that drama." She says. "Leighla's dragging me into drama because I knew way before hand." I say. "Was that what you and Jon were sneaking around with?" Paul asks. I shrug. "Yeah. We didn't want to say anything till we knew anything for sure. And I just ratted out Jon." I say thinking. "Shit." I mumble. Paul and Stephanie laugh. "So, a bunch of people on twitter have been tweeting me the picture from AJ vs Nikki at survivor series." Randy says. "The one of us kissing?" I ask. He nods with a smile. "Why?" Stephanie asks. "That was my own fault. I hadn't tweeted in a while and this was a few days after the Survivor Series. I said anyone remember that pay per view with AJ. I wasn't thinking of Survivor Series. Everyone tweeted at me with the pictures and gifs. I tweeted the picture of you and I at Wrestlemania or something and everyone started tweeting them to you." I explain.

"He showed me one that said remember that time your wife turned gay." Paul says. I smirk. "Why does everyone say wife. Like it's not wife." Stephanie asks. "Brie fueled that." I say. "My mom called me trying to rat me out for proposing without telling her." Randy says. "That wasn't even the point of what Brie said. They heard marriage and everyone sent crazy." I say. "You are one of the few people on the roster that send the internet into panic mode." Paul says. "Speaking of Internet. I've almost got another plaque on YouTube. Which is too cool. Almost 1 million." I say. "You gonna do a special video or something?" Stephanie asks. "I haven't thought of anything. When I got my first plaque I did trivia and if I got it wrong I got hit with a raw egg." I say. They smile and that's how we spend the next few hours. Just talking. I grab my bags and head to the lobby with everyone else. When we walk in my dad sees me and waves. Now walking with Laurens little boy. I smile at them, and continue walking. "I'll drive. Since I know the streets like the back of my hand." I volunteer. They nod and I pull off. It would take about 20 minutes to actually get there so it was quiet but not that bad. I drove the long route because why not. They didn't know the difference. It took us 30 minutes and we hopped out the car. I grabbed my bags and got into the arena. The first person I see is Pam! Talking with Prince or Fergal and Ben. Whichever. I left Paul, Stephanie and Randy and walked over. I smiled and gave them hugs. "Hi!" I say. Pam smiles at me. "It's been forever." She says. "I know right. How are you three?" I ask. "Perfect. I got a lot of great stuff coming my way." Fergal says. "I love how Fergal answers for all of us as if all of us are great." Pam says with a smile. "Well Ben, what about you?" I ask with a smirk. "Debut. March 30th." He says to me. I nod. "Pam, what's going on?" I ask. "I win the NXT woman's title in August." She says with a smile. "Text me when and I'll be there." I say. I smile. "Sounds great guys." I say. "What about you?" Fergal asks. Floating around...wrestling at Wrestlemania." I say to them. "What's the match?" They ask. "Tag match. Paige, AJ and I against Bella's and Alicia." I say to them. They nod. "Well, me and Banks are going together." She says. I nod. "I'll see you guys in a little while. I've gotta get ready." I say to them. They nod. "If you guys want you can hang out in my locker room to waste time." I say to them. They nod. "Alright. Let's go!" Pam says. I go and check where I'm at and what I'm doing. I go to the board and Paige is there talking to Nick. I smile at them and look for what I'm doing. I was told I had something. "Divas match." Paige tells me. I nod and look. Attacking Nikki from behind. Only for the numbers game to be too much. That meant I got to be in/by the crowd for this. Nice. Which means I get to dress down. Croptop, or a t shirt, jeans and a pair of sick boots. "Awesome." I say. I leave that area with Pam, Ben and Fergal. I go to my locker room with them and set my stuff down. "You can keep whatever you brought in here. I've gotta go into hair and makeup." I explain. "Do we have to stay in here?" Ben asks. "No. Course not. I'm saying if you want to leave your stuff it's totally cool." I say. They nod. "Now, I'll see you in maybe an hour." I say. They nod. I grab my phone and leave. I walk to makeup and sit in a chair. It didn't take them an hour it took them 30 minutes. Not going all out. I left and on the way saw Colby and Jon. I walk over and smile. "Hey guys!" I say cheerfully. Hopefully Leighla didn't text him. "I'll catch ya later man." Jon says. Colby nods leaving. "If you are trying to be nice in hopes I forget about you throwing me under the bus. Not happening." He says. "Woa." I say completely surprised by that. "I didn't mean to throw you under the bus dude." I say. "Really?" He asks looking at me. I nod. "I was trying to get her to not give me all the blame, so I said you knew." I say with a smile. It slowly starts dropping when I realize that isn't much better. "Yeah. Okay." He says. "Why does it matter?" I ask. "Because Colby, ya know. One of my best friends is so pissed off with me because I knew and didn't confront him." He explains. "That one wasn't my fault okay. You said no maybe he has a reason. I wanted to confront him." I say. "Well, now you can join me out to coffee with the two of them. Different days of course. Leighla is too heartbroken to see Colby and Colby doesn't want to see Leighla because it's completely over." He says. I laugh. "No problem. I have a way with words. I'll get us out of it." I say to him. "If not?" He asks me. "I'm sorry then." I say with a small smile. He nods and walks away. So my friendship is riding on how well I tell them this. Maybe our friendship is currently over, and I just don't want to admit it. I sigh being left speechless. I start walking to the locker room, but I find Randy. "Hey." I say walking over to him and Pam. "Hey Hailee." Pam says. I smile. It might have been fake, but oh well. Pam sensed it right away. Randy if he did didn't say anything. "You okay?" Pam asks. I nod as Randy wraps an arm around me. "Yeah, I'm fine. Just very exciting to be here, and actually with my friends." I say. Just thinking about it put me in a better mood. "That's sweet." Randy says. "We've got about an hour and they want me to go on the preshow panel. Which means I've got a busy night in order to prepare." I say. "Did you finish writing your speech?" Randy asks. I sigh. I had completely forgot about that. "Nope, but I read a book, and I have a quote to help me. Plus a dictionary and thesaurus to help me out." I say. He rolls his eyes. "Well, Hall of Fame is in a month. You should start." Randy says. "Yes father. Right away." I say saluting. He rolls his eyes. I smile at him. "Alright so right now I've gotta put on my other clothes that I'm wearing to attack Nikki and a dress over it." I say. He nods and Pam smiles. "Plus I have to video a bit in the arena, because I said that I'd update within the next week or two." I say. "Oh! Can I join?" Pam asks. I nod. I grab my camera and go find someone to give me the okay to go where the preshow panel is. I couldn't find anyone, on our way out I found a producer. "Is anyone using the preshow area right now?" I ask. "Um, no. In about 2 hours or so we will put the final touches on it, with like the graphics and such." He says. "Can I use it to make a video? It at the most will take an hour." I say. He shrugs. "Yeah, sure why not."