Faded

six

The Next Night. St. Louis, Missouri.

"Listen up Simon and Garfunkel, you better call Mrs. Robinson and tell her you're gonna be late for dinner." Billy says as he walks out onto the runway, 3 groups of men staring at him intently. "I've been listening to you, run, your, mouth about taking out Enzo." He says and puts his hand up in the air, moving his fingers up and down as they touch his thumb. "Well, Enzo is my family. And you messed with my family, and now I'm gonna have to finish what we started last night." Billy adds and I turn up the volume on the tv backstage.

"And as for you Dudley, d-d-d-d-do rights! We already knocked you out of this tournament, so as far as I'm concerned. Vaudevillians, Dudley Boyz, there's only one word to describe you and I'm gonna spell, it, out for ya. S-A-W-F-T!" Billy yells as Eric and I smile, the crowd spelling out 'sawft' with Billy. "He'll do good tonight with them three." Eric says and rests his head against my shoulder.

"We're on next Addi, you ready?" Mercedes smiles and plops down on the chair beside us, her white and red outfit sparkling in the light. "Of course." I smile and run my hand through my hair, "I was just listening to your entrance music, it's actually the catchiest thing ever." She laughs and I laugh with her, my entrance music is a song called Bow Down. It's got a little bit of Italian music mixed with an upbeat beat, and it was created for me by CTO$.

"What can I say, I made some good entrance music." I smile and he quickly picks his head up off my shoulder, and stares at the tv intensely as Billy picks up one of the Dudley boys. "And that's our queue." Mercedes says as Billy slams him down and quickly picks up one of his leg's, the referee counting to three as the bell rings signaling the end of the match.

"That's my boy!" Eric cheers and claps as I wrap my arms around his shoulders, "Good luck baby girl, don't hurt yourself." He says and turns back to me before quickly kissing me. "Thanks babe." I smile before walking back towards the stage entrance with Mercedes. "Congrats boys." We both smile and I wink as Xavier Woods, Kofi Kingston, Big E, and Billy pass us.

We wait by the entrance as they go to a commercial break, and Charlotte comes up behind us. "Hey girls, just wanted to wish you both good luck. You'll need it." She snickers and smirks before walking over to Dana, I roll my eyes as Mercedes crosses her arms. "I hate her attitude." We both say and laugh as one of the stage managers pushes us forward, "Showtime." She says and my entrance music starts to play.

We both walk out and crowd cheers, screams erupting from all sides of us as we both run down one side of the ramp. I start to high-five the people in the front before running up alongside Mercedes, we both stop right before the ring and high five each other before getting into the ring. She stands in the middle of the ring as I sit on the top rope and cross my legs, waving to the crowd before jumping off and joining her in the center.

"Well, well, well. Look at who we've got over here, two wannabes." Dana smirks as Charlotte and her walk out, "No, they're not even wannabes Dana. They're no ones." Charlotte smiles as I crack my knuckles. "Maybe you should stop stalling, and just get in this ring because you both know that you're gonna lose!" I yell and the crowd cheers for me and Mercedes.

"It's on." Dana says before running towards the ring, and sliding underneath the rope. Charlotte follows her as Dana and I stand face to face, "Okay ladies, get to your corners." The referee says and separates us. I walk towards the corner that Eric and Billy are always in, "Show them everything you got Addi." Mercedes smiles at me before fist bumping me, I crack my neck and the bell rings.

Dana and I run towards each other, our hands wrapping around the back of each others necks. I get her into a headlock before she flips me over and puts a cover on me, I quickly kick out and stand up, I throw my fist towards her face and it connects hard as she stumbles back. "Aw, did that hurt?" I ask and grab her by the hair, leading her towards Mercedes who tags in, I roll under the ropes as she starts to throw punches towards Dana whose dodging them.

"Come on Sasha, come on!" I yell as Dana throws her to the ground and smacks her head off the mat, "You can't do anything for her now Adriana!" Dana yells as she tags in Charlotte who jumps on top of Mercedes, she groans and rolls over onto her stomach as I reach my hand out waiting for a tag. She slowly gets up as Charlotte parades around the ring, Dana screams and points as Mercedes as she tags my hand and I climb up to the top rope.

Charlotte runs over and I jump off, wrapping my legs around her and taking her to the ground in a move called tilt-a-whirl headscissors. "Yeah Adriana, you got her come on!" Mercedes yells and Charlotte lays on the mat stunned, I grab her right arm and put it in between my legs as I put my arms around her neck pulling her head back in my submission move called the Italian Cross. "Tap out! Tap out, you know you want to!" I scream and move my legs out, pulling on her arm even more as she screams and tries to pull her arm out from between my legs.

The referee crouches down to us as Charlotte tries to pry my arms off from around her neck, "Come on, do it!" I scream and she taps out. I let go of her arm and remove my arms from around her neck, I stand up and Mercedes grabs my hand throwing both of arms up in the air as my entrance music plays again. "And your winners by submission, the tag team of Adriana and Sasha Banks!" The female announcer yells into the microphone as Dana helps Charlotte up.

I blow them both a kiss before Mercedes and I begin to walk back up the ramp, and backstage. We get backstage and Eric, Eva, Billy and Paige stand there waiting for us. "That's my girl." Eric smiles widely and hugs me tightly, "You guys were great out there." Eva exclaims as Mercedes hugs Paige. "Did you see what move I did before my finisher?" I smile and pull away to look Eric in the face, "Yeah, and you nailed it." He smiles again before kissing me.