Favoring Fortuna

Chapter 1

He was there again tonight with that whore. It was bad enough that he'd cheated on her, but it added insult to injury that she had to see them all of the time, even at work. Even better the hallway was half full with some of the roster, and too many of them were the people that she'd thought were her friends until they'd decided to pick sides. She was so done with the whole situation and just wished she could get away from it all. It would be a whole lot easier to move on if he didn't always seem to be wherever she was, intent on making her life hell, and anything she'd once felt for him had slowly morphed into an unwelcome, seething hatred. He couldn't decide whether he wanted to convince her to come back to him or if he wanted her to be as miserable as possible, but she didn't care what he wanted, she just wanted him to leave her alone.

As soon as she walked in the whore muttered something under her breath. Bayley couldn't even hear what it was exactly, but she knew immediately it had been directed at her and it hadn't been kind. Most of the bystanders were laughing and looking at her. It pissed her off that they had the gall to act like they hadn't claimed to be her friends only a couple of months ago, and she could feel tears of anger welling up. She did not want any of them to see tears and think they'd gotten to her, so she gave them the dirtiest look she could before making her way out the door at the back that led outside. Thankfully it was dark, quiet, and deserted and she made her way over to one of the picnic tables and sat down to try and calm herself down.

To her surprise it was only a few seconds before she heard the door open again. For a moment she was scared her ex was going to follow her, but when she looked up she was surprised to see Finn Balor instead. Finn was a bit of a mystery to her. He'd joined the roster last September and his reputation from overseas had preceded him. He was in one breath awe-inspiring and terrifying if rumors were to be believed. She'd seen enough tape to know he was an amazing wrestler, but she'd also seen a guy who gave the impression that he didn't give a fuck about the world or what they thought of him. She'd been at once jealous and weary. Since he'd joined the roster though she'd been even more confused. He'd been selective in his choice of friends, but most of those that he'd chosen were people she liked and respected. Sami really seemed to like him and Becky had had nothing but praise for her fellow countryman.

"Are you okay?" he asked once the door closed behind him. She would never normally put her problems on the shoulders of someone who was virtually a stranger to her, but he'd caught her at a particularly vulnerable moment and instead of putting him off with the 'I'm fine' that she'd planned everything seemed to spill out of her at once,

"No, I'm not okay. I'm so sick of his bullshit, and I can't get away from him. I just want to be done with it all, but he won't leave me alone, and now I hate him. I don't want to hate him, I just want to be indifferent, I want to not care what he or that whore or any of the rest of those backstabbing assholes think."

"The only person who can change that though is you."

"How in the hell am I supposed to do that? And why do you care anyway?"

"About that asshole ex of yours? I could give a rat's ass about him, but you, well a lot of people around here really seem to like you, a lot of my friends seem to like you, and no one else was coming after you. People can be cruel, and sometimes that's even okay, everyone has reasons for doing what they do, but someone in there should have said something, and they didn't. I've seen you with some of those people before, I thought they were supposed to be your friends."

"Yeah, well, obviously not."

"So fuck them then. Show them they don't matter. You give them the power if you are going to just let them get away with it. As for your ex, you can take away his power too. Move on, find somebody else to fuck. Let him watch you without him and I guarantee he'll change tactics then. Besides a good nut would go a long way to taking your mind off of him and any hatred you feel." She could feel the heat bloom across her face at his bluntly honest description, thankfully it was dark enough that hopefully he couldn't see it.