It's Been A Long Time... [Desperate Measures Sequel]

TwentyOne

I woke in the morning in Seth's bed, he laid next to me fully clothed, out cards and papers all over the bed. Sitting up I groaned loudly as I stretched allowing myself to feel a little better. 

Smiling to myself I picked up my mobile and rolled my eyes seeing I had missed a call from AJ last night, if I called him back now he would still be asleep and I didn't want to wake him just for a chat. 

Suddenly I was brought back to my senses when there was a pounding on the door, my eyes widened as I looked down at Seth who woke up almost instantly hearing the banging. He looked at his phone and growled, "Shit." He looked at me and spoke "You best hide."

I got off the bed and rolled under it quickly as Seth got up from the bed as the pounding started again, "Alright alright!" Seth called as he walked to the door before he opened it. "What's up, man?"

"What's up?" I heard Dean's voice asked annoyance in his tone. "You said we were going to go training, I've been standing outside for half an hour like a lemon." His voice got louder and two sets of footsteps got closer. 

"I just overslept," Seth told him. It wasn't a lie, he did oversleep, just he neglected the part about my presence. 

I heard a ruffle before Dean laughed, "Did someone get lucky last night? Is she still here?"

"Leave it out," Seth replied. "Looks lets just get going. I wanna train."

"What's all this paper about?" Dean asked. 

I heard Seth groan before he spoke "Look I have a storyline with Tasha. I was just going over the notes."

"Why didn't you just say no?"

"Look if we don't do the whole shield thing with Tasha then I have to work with her and in the end, it will all lead up to the same thing. With you saying no you are just prolonging the inevitable."

Dean scoffed, "There is no way we are working with her. Jesus Christ, why won't they let me forget her?"

"Do you want to forget her?" Seth asked him in a quiet voice.

The bed dipped above me before I heard Dean speak, "I dunno. I thought I did. It's too late now, she's not interested." The bed dipped again indicating that they both had sat down, "I think I was falling in love with her, I honestly think she's the one for me." The bed rose leaving one person on the bed. "She just makes me so angry, she makes me feel the worst and best things at the same time. Sometimes I want to hurt her, that is how she makes me feel. I have hurt her-"

"Let me grab my bag and we can go," Seth cut his words off as the bed rose above me. 

"Am I too late?" Dean asked, his voice tiny. 

I heard a long sigh, I assumed it came from Seth. "All you can do is offer her the truth."

Watching Dean wrestle was always something I opted to do. I watched him from the girl's locker room, my eyes glued to the screen whilst people around me idly chatted. I didn't listen to their conversations, I didn't care for what they had to say. 

He was falling in love with me, just another spanner to add to my life. I wanted to believe him, I did because he told Seth, but I didn't see such actions. Maybe this is what he was trying to tell me when he asked me to stay at the hotel, maybe he was going to be honest with me then. Yet I had blown it and let him get away. 

I needed to stop. He wasn't anything special. 

He just made me feel special, he made me feel something I had never felt before, not with anyone. 

I looked away from the screen and down at my phone, I sent a text to my brother, sending him my love, I needed to see him soon. It had been so long, I wondered where he currently was, that was how long it had been since we last spoke. I thought I heard through the grapevine that he had returned to England, but I had been forgetting to ask my mum when I called her. 

We used to be so close, whatever happened? Well, we all know what happened, I happened. My fucked up life happened. Everything I think I am okay sometimes gets in the way, usually my illness, my disease. I knew it would never truly leave me, hopefully, this time, this last treatment would help me keep it at bay. 

"Tasha," Lana's strong Russian accent brought me back to the world. I looked at her and managed a smile before she spoke again, "Are you okay?"

I nodded at her, "I believe so."

"Do you have a match tonight?" She asked me. 

"Shit," I cursed as I stood up and grabbed my bag from behind me unzipping it quickly. "I'm out next."

I didn't even think as I started to strip down and change from my normal outfit into my wrestling gear, a pair of black shorts and a black bralet that had thin straps, my belly button on show as I looked in the mirror at my outfit. I pulled on my knee high wrestling boots before I pushed my bag back and headed out the room. 

Making my way to the gorilla I clasped hands with Seth as I saw him, a smile breaking out on both our faces before we let go of each other's hands. "Are you ready for this?" I asked him with a smirk. 

"She's not given us much time to prepare," Seth said about Stephanie.

As if on cue she came around the corner, "Nice to see my favourite two working and playing nice." She put her arms around both of us and grinned widely. "Now I want to see chemistry out there. I want you two to make it buzz, make it relevant."

I looked at Seth before smiling at Stephanie, "We know how to put on a good show."