Light In The Darkness

16 - Reasons to stick around for

Windham POV,

Everyone was still shocked by Harmony's outburst, even me. What she said was like a wake up call for most of us and I probably felt worse than anyone else. I had never meant to hurt Harmony. She had been a much needed light in my life. But I realise that she might have had a point. I looked over Dean "You okay Ambrose?"

"Yeah I'm fine." He nodded "And it's Jonathan, I prefer Jon though."

"Windham." I told him.

"Maybe your girl had a point" Jon said what I had just thought as well but I still corrected him on a detail.

"Still not my girl."

"Are you sure? She seemed a bit hurt when you agreed with her that it's 'not like that'. She hides it well but I know a thing or two about putting on a mask."

"Are you sure about that? Sure it wasn't annoyance or something?" I asked him, a little worried now.

"I'm sure and guessing by how worried you are I guess you two have a lot to talk about." Jon turned out to be a lot smarter than I had given him credit for "You should go find her."

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Abby POV,

The guys and I were waiting for my brother and Harmony to return, it was taking pretty long so we were getting a little worried. We got even more worried when there was a small knock on the door as Harmony and my brother would have just walked in without knocking.

"Abby, it's me." I heard a familiar voice, it was my other brother. I opened the door and looked at Taylor in confusion, he usually prefered keeping to himself.

"Come in." I sighed and Taylor walked inside. "What is it little brother?"

"Harmony snapped at Ambrose.. or well Jonathan I guess, in catering." He started. "He was making fun of their storyline and she snapped and slapped him in his face. She ranted about how everyone is even too selfish to ask about real names and stuff."

 "Okay, so?" It wasn't unusual for Harmony to stick up for my brother, what was up with the sudden name change though?

"She basically also told our brother that she should be upset with him and you guys as well because you acted like her friends for weeks before she found out your names because you made her look them up.  also she said something about being done with, and I quote, this shitshow"

"Really?" I asked worried, I didn't want Harmony to be mad at us. If anything I had hoped that she and my brother would have ended up together.

"It'll be okay Abby, I'm sure we can make it up to her" Braun said.

"I'm not worried for us, at least not as much. I'm worried about my brother, it was kind of painfully obvious that he likes her as more than just a friend"

"Not to put a damper on anything but shouldn't we go and find her?" Erick asked "We owe it to her to make sure she's okay."

"Good point." I had to admit "Taylor mind helping?"

My brother didn't even hesitate to answer "Of course not. What's the plan?"

"You and Erick will search the east side of the arena while Braun and I search the west side."

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Harmony POV,

I was hiding for everyone under a staircase and I had no idea how much time had passed by now. This time I did have my gps turned off, I didn't want anyone to find me. I can't believe I had just ranted at almost the entire roster. I guess I just couldn't take it anymore.

Everyone bugging me about the story line, his mother who actually made me realise how I felt, people judging me without knowing me, I guess I just had enough. I honestly felt like giving up and going home, to Levi. Sure he'd be disappointed but he would understand.

I just couldn't stay when probably the whole locker room would only hate me more now and when Bray still has feelings for that other girl. I hated the idea of him with another girl.

Sure he isn't exactly handsome but he's sweet, caring, smart, strong minded, funny, stubborn, wise, basically everything I could ask for in a guy, a real challenge.

I was still pretty mad at him but that didn't just make my feelings go away either. I still cared about him and there wasn't anything I could do about it.

I suddenly heard footsteps so I got extremely quiet.

"I know you're here." I heard Camila say. "Whatever you did out there, you started something."

I raised my eyebrow in confusion. What did she mean by that? Oh well since it was just my sister I might as well say something "What do you mean?"

"Why don't you come look for yourself?" That was all that she said before walking away, probably in the hope I would follow but I just couldn't bring myself to do it.

After a while I heard footsteps again, guess Camila had told someone where I was after all.

"Har, it's just me." Abby said, trying to find me.

"Go away Abby." I told her with a sigh

"No, I wont." She said before standing in front of me. "I'm so sorry if I ever hurt you. None of us ever planned for that to happen."

"I know you don't, I just couldn't take it anymore." I admitted "Its stupid."

Abby sighed and looked at me. "No its not we should have told you our names the moment we became friends. We just really suck at letting people in. But please don't be too mad at my brother. He always had this issue with getting attached to someone.It would really hurt him if he lost you now." 

"Im just mad, you guys wont lose me that easily." I assured her

"Talk to him." She basically ordered me.

I nodded slowly and headed upstairs to face my fear. Something I should have done right away.

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I looked just about everywhere before I finally found him. He was asking people if they had seen me. Once it was just him in the hallway I walked out of the shadows. "I'm sorry for running away back there."

Windham immediately turned around and hugged me, something I had not expected. "I was worried about you, I thought you were going to quit"

"I thought about it yeah but I figured I had still some reasons left to stick around for." I shrugged,

"Reasons?" Windham asked "What reasons?" 

Guess I would have had to tell him eventually but it still made me feel really awkward. "I care about you okay. I care."

"We care about you as well, our whole group does." He completely missed the point, guess this guy needed a more direct answer, just like almost every other guy.

"No Windham, I mean that I care for you as more than just my friend. They were never wrong about how I felt, they were just wrong about us being a thing. That's why I got so worked up over it, that's why it became too much for me."

Bray turned my face to look at him, making me look straight into his eyes. "Remember when I told you about that girl?"

I nodded slightly.

"That girl, it was always you. Its just that I didn't think someone like me deserves to be with someone like you."

I looked at him dumbfounded "Wait, you thought you weren't good enough for me? I thought you were too good for me.  You are so kind, funny and smart." 

"So what now?" Windham looked like a weight had just been lifted off his shoulders.

"Well, if you promise to just be yourself around me from now on, I'd like to give this a chance. So Bray stays on air only, please just be Windham when those damn cameras stop rolling."

"Deal."

That was the only word he said before pulling me into a kiss