...And Beyond... | To Infinity... Book Two [ON HOLD]

Chapter 3: Opening up

Wrestlemania: Sunday April 11, 2021 - New Orleans, Louisiana

9:45 AM

Joe POV

Sitting at a table at continental breakfast with The Usos, Seth, and Dean, I'm looking at Desi sit all alone a few tables down from us. It's been a few weeks since she's started working here and she's still not eating. Don't ask me how but I've gotten my hands on Lenni's phone number and I've been texting her everyday for advice on how to handle this whole situation.

Me: She's just sitting there, alone, not talking or eating
Lenni: I rly wish ud stop txtn me
Me: Lenni! Tell me what to do! She won't eat!
Lenni: IDK wat 2 tell u dude, she's been like dis 4 months
Me: Ur her best friend, shouldn't u have been trying 2 help her??
Lenni: U think I haven't tried? U broke her into a million tiny pieces its kinda hard 4 one person to fix all that by themselves, especially wen UR the only person that can fix it.
Me: What r u saying?
Lenni: Shes missd u n shes dpressd u dumbass n always bein arnd u isnt helpn anythin. Get ur shit 2gethr dude b4 I legit come whoop yo ass

What did I say? She's all fight. I shake my head and avert my gaze as she looks up in my direction. I don't know how to fix any of this, I've put all my cards out on the table but she's just not coming around; I think I really broke her but I don't know how to help her out of this rut when she doesn't want anything to do with me.

"You should talk to her." I hear Seth say.
"She doesn't wanna talk to me again. I told her everything, there's nothing else to say." I reply taking a bite of my biscuit.
"Then maybe she's the one that has some talking to do." Dean chimes in with a mouth full of eggs.
"She's not gonna wanna talk to me and her best friend ain't tellin' me shit."
"You see, she just needs some finessin' from yours truly." My cousin Jimmy says standing up from his chair.
"Sit yo dumb ass down, you ain't never talk to her before."
"And now's a good time to start; I've been dying to talk to the girl that put a smile on Big Uce's face again. Aye, Jey, come wit me."

I laugh and shake my head as they make their way over to the table where my Rainbow Queen sat with a pesky cloud of depression over her head. They were there for a good fifteen minutes and had her laughing out loud within the first five of sitting down with her. I missed her laugh, I missed her voice, her lips, her hugs, the way she would hug onto my arm when we cuddled in the couch and she would just trace the patterns of my tattoo instead of watching whatever was on TV; I just miss her, yet here she is a few feet away from me and it feels like she's light years away and it's my fault and I'm failing at figuring out how to right my wrongs.

The twins make their way back over to us with smiles on their faces and sit back down in their chairs.

"Well? What she say?" I ask a little too eagerly.
"Well, first off, she said that if we were over there to be your little spies that we should fuck off." Jimmy says.
"Damn, yikes."
"Right, that girl don't play. But then we started tellin' her some stories." Jey continues with a wicked smile.
"Stories? What stories?" I ask and they take turns listing the number of embarrassing stories they managed to tell about me in the short time they were sitting with her.
"And then there's the story about when you got a fish hook stuck in yo dick."
"Yeah, yeah! Then she said she noticed you had these weird scars on it and said that - wait for it...'you put the Dick in Moby Dick'."

The whole table erupted into laughter and I peek up to see Desi quickly look away from me trying to stifle her laughter. I missed her smile and was glad to see a part of it, even if it was at my expense.

"Okay, okay, that's it, you're not allowed to talk to her again." I say lightly laughing.
"Awh, nah man, that girl's funny; y'all need to hurry up and make up so we can chill with her more." Jey says.
"Fuck that, I'll get her number right now. I ain't waitin' for her to forgive his dumbass, he's a dumbass."