WWE Academy

Chapter 24

John's POV

"I just hate all of them!" Nikki yelled in frustration.

"Woah, darling, hate is a strong word," I tried to calm her.

"You're right. It's just, I feel like the new girls are better than me."

I decided to take her out for ice cream. If there was one thing I knew that Nikki couldn't resist, it was ice cream. I took her to Dairy Queen. Her favorite thing there were the blizzards. Her favorite flavor was Snickers, but she also liked Cheesecake.

When we walked in, I saw Roman behind the front counter. That was strange, because I wondered what he was doing here. I know he didn't work here, because he worked at American Eagle with his cousins, Jimmy and Jey Uso.

"Hey, Roman," I greeted him.

He looked up, "Hey."

"What are you doing here?"

"Well, this place is much more flexible with school and all."

I was confused, "But what about your old job?"

"American Eagle wasn't as flexible with my school schedule. I could only miss a few days, and when I had an extra practice or something, they wouldn't let me come in late, so I just quit," he explained.

I saw Nikki was getting impatient, so I asked her what she wanted. She wanted the Cheesecake Royal Blizzard. And I ordered an Oreo milkshake. Roman punched in our order and then once it was ready, he handed it to us.

Nikki didn't want to stay and eat, so we started heading back to my dorm. She seemed much more at ease, now that she had her two favorite things. I unlocked my dorm with my key, and we walked inside.

When I was inside, with Nikki behind me, I wondered where AJ was. Normally, he'd be yelling he was here, or singing, but I didn't hear him.

"Roomie, you're home."

Never mind.

"Yes, AJ, I'm home."

"You two went to Dairy Queen?" AJ questioned.

I nodded.

"And you didn't think to get me anything?"

"AJ, it was kind of a date," I explained to him.

He scoffed and laid down on his bed. Nikki kissed me goodbye and walked back to her dorm. AJ was still pissed at me for not getting him ice cream.

The next morning, I walked to school with Enzo and Cass. Our first class was Geography with Brock. I recently became friends with "The Certified G's", because we had almost every single class together, except the last one.

"Alright, today we're watching a movie on The Seven Wonders of the World," Brock lectured as he handed out movie notes. Cass groaned.

We watched the movie, and filled out our note sheets. When the class was over, we handed them in to Brock, who was now texting his manager, Paul Heyman, who was also his best friend. Or so it seemed.

"Hey, John, can I ask you for some advice?" Cass caught up with me in the hallway.

"Sure bud, what's bothering you?" I asked stopping at my locker.

"Well, I know this girl, and I really like her, but, she has a boyfriend."

"Oh girl troubles, huh?"

He nodded.

"And let me guess, Enzo doesn't know, does he?"

He shook his head.

"All I can say is wait for this girl to come around. If she doesn't, then she's missing out on a great guy," I told him with support as I headed off to Finn's class.

Cesaro's POV

The squad and I had decided to go tie shopping for the Spring Fling today. I was taking Bayley, Brie had changed her mind. Sheamus was going single which made him a happy camper. Becky had finally given Sami the okay that she wanted to go with him.

Heath was taking his girlfriend, Alexa, Kevin and Sasha were going, and Kevin wasn't happy. He wanted to go single, but Sasha made him go with her. And Alberto was going with Eva Marie, who was new.

"Ugh, I am dreading this, just so you know," Sami groaned.

The girls had sent us pictures of their dresses and we had seen them in person as well, and they already said if we didn't get the right color, then they'd return it and buy the right color for us.

"Yeah, it's going to be so boring and stupid," Sheamus added.

We were all crammed in Heath's Subaru. The shop we wanted to go to wasn't in walking distance. We were going to take Sami's car, but it was being repaired. He had flat tires and he needed an oil change.

"Guys, just think how great we're going to look," Alberto added with a bit of cockiness in his voice.

"Alberto, if we were wearing onesies, you'd think we'd still look good, and we wouldn't," I told him and he scoffed.

Heath rolled his eyes and turned into the store. We just recently became friends with Heath, I mean, it was February, and he jut came a few weeks ago. But, he was pretty chill and I liked him, so it was fine by me.

The store we went to was called Sir Tie, a dress shop for men. Now, I never shop here, but then again, I didn't need too.

"Hello, how may I help you young men today?" A man from behind us asked.

He didn't look that much older then we did, and he was wearing khakis with a long sleeve shirt, and he had one of the store's specialty ties on. He also had on some nice dress shoes and his hair was pulled back.

"Uh, yeah, we need ties for a dance we have coming up in a few months," Sami stepped forward and asked.

"Are you kids up the road from that academy?"

We all nodded.

"Oh, I know what you need. I've already had a few customers from that school already. My dad works there. Right this way," he said as he led us through a little hallway into an enormous section of ties. There were bow ties, ties, and even the really fancy ones, that I didn't know how to describe.

"What? Who's your dad?" Alberto asked.

"Oh, Stone Cold Steve Austin, you guys know him?"

We were all shocked. We didn't even know Stone Cold had a son, but I was asking him the next time I saw him.

"There are so many, how am I going to make up my mind?" Heath mumbled from the back.

"Now, we have almost every single color. They are color coordinated, so if you need purple, that would be down that way, and we have all the different shades, so if you need maroon, you can find that in the red section," the man, whose name was Ryan explained to us.

"If you need help with anything, I'm just right through the hall," Ryan said and then exited, leaving us in front of all the ties.

We all roamed for hours on end, trying to find the perfect color to match. Whether to get a tie or a bow tie, we just had so many decisions. I was the first one done, Bayley was going in a lavender dress, so it wasn't that hard for me to find one.

Sami was having the most trouble with Becky's green, blue colored dress. It wasn't teal, or aqua, it was the weirdest color, but with Ryan's help, we were able to get the right color.