La Arquitecta

Chapter 52

"Zel, you really need to calm down," Sonya said patiently. They were in her hotel room, where Zelina would be spending the night. There was only a double bed in the room, so they were going to have to share. That had been by far the preferred option for Zelina, who had refused point blank to countenance the idea of traveling on the tour bus, despite all of the persuasion that Sonya and Bayley had attempted. Even now that they were in the hotel room, she was still pacing angrily around, while Sonya sat on the bed, pillows cushioning her back against the headboard.

"How can I calm down? I had my boyfriend back there basically shouting down the hallway that I'm a slut!"

Sonya took a deep breath. "Alright, I know you're mad, and I know you're hurting, but raging at me isn't going to help anything. It's been more than an hour now since we left the arena and honestly, it's starting to piss me off."

Zelina walked over to the window and stood looking out. She didn't say anything for a couple of minutes while she tried her best to calm herself down. Sonya was right that she didn't deserve to take the flack for what Seth had done. She had been kind enough to offer her room for the night, along with a friendly ear. Seth was the one her anger should be directed at.

"Zel?" Sonya prompted gently. "Come sit down and talk to me, huh? I haven't even gotten a clear story of what happened yet, you've been so worked up about it."

Turning around, Zelina grimaced. "I'm sorry I've been going off at you. I just can't help it when I get pissed off. I really can't believe he said those things to me. What a total asshole."

Patting the bed beside her, Sonya said, "Sit down and tell me from the start what happened, without blowing up again. I want to help you here, but I need the full story."

"Alright." Zelina walked over and sat down next to her friend, shifting the pillows to prop her back the same way Sonya had arranged hers.

"I can get on to room service and get some beer or wine up here if you like?" Sonya offered.

"Thank you, but I'd better not. I'd probably get even angrier if I had drink inside me."

"Okay then, how did the argument start? Tell me the whole thing from the beginning."

Zelina covered her face for a moment, massaging her forehead to try and ease the headache that was starting to make itself known. With a heavy sigh, she started to tell her side of the story. "So, I had been in with Hunter. He was telling me about the promo stuff I've got to do with Paige for Fighting with My Family, and about some of the staffing changes they've made. I was really happy because they brought Sam Monte up to work with me."

"Everyone loves Sam," Sonya smiled. "He really is one of the good guys."

"Yeah, he is. So I was very happy when I came out of Hunter's office, and I set off to go find Seth and give him the good news. I came around a corner and there he was walking towards me. I said to him something like, 'You'll never guess who they've brought up from NXT,' and he launched right in on me. He said, 'I already know. The guy you were fucking on NXT, until he got injured.' I was stunned, as you can imagine. Seth had never spoken to me like that. The tone he used was like he thought I was the worst piece of shit he had ever seen. I don't think I've ever been talked down to as badly as that before, certainly not by someone I'm close to."

"I'm sorry he spoke to you like that," Sonya said with a compassionate look on her face. "So, reading between the lines, Andrade must have told Seth you were sleeping with him. Is it true?"

Trying to suck up her anger as much as possible, Zelina acknowledged that there was no judgement in Sonya's question. She was just trying to establish the facts of the situation they were talking about. "Yes, it's true. I slept with him once, and that was a mistake. It was the night he won the NXT title. We went out to celebrate and we both got blind drunk. We ended up sleeping together. What can I say? It was a stupid thing to do and I wish I hadn't done it."