Irresistible ► Xavier Woods

Chapter Twenty-Five

Jessie sat on a bench in an airport in Seattle.  Shortly after arriving, Cheyenne needed to use the bathroom, so she had decided to wait so that they could go through TSA together.

Her phone had been vibrating non-stop since they'd left the arena, but Jessie hadn't bothered to take it out of her pocket until a few minutes ago, when she finally turned it off.

The two of them hadn't really talked much on the ride to the airport.  It wasn't that they were mad at each other or anything.  Cheyenne just knew that Jessie liked to think things through for a little bit before talking about it or venting to her.

Jessie figured they'd talk on the plane.

She looked around and saw Cheyenne making her way back to her, so she stood up.  They began walking.

"Stop!"

The voice was familiar, and even though it wasn't who either of them were expecting to see, they turned around to look at him.

Big E was power walking toward them.  People were staring as he walked past, but not like they recognized him; they were probably wondering why he was yelling in the middle of an airport.

"E?" Cheyenne asked.

"Of course."

"Why...?" Jessie had so many questions, but she didn't even know where to start.

"We need to go," Cheyenne said, turning around.

Jessie started to, also, but stopped when E spoke.

"Oh, yeah, because you guys are definitely in such a hurry," He said. "You obviously planned for your trip to be this short."

Jessie sighed. "What do you need?"

"You guys need to come back," He told them. "Let Woods explain himself."

"I did let him explain himself," She responded. "And I thought it was a bullshit explanation, so I left."

"Let him explain himself again," He corrected himself. "You and I both know he's kind of an idiot - "

"Yep," Cheyenne mumbled.

"- but we also both know that he's in love with you," E continued. "You don't see him as much as Kofi and I do, but do you realize how annoying he can be when all he talks about are you and video games?"

"Aw," Cheyenne couldn't help saying.  Jessie looked over at her, and she quickly avoided making eye contact.

"You don't even understand how much happened in the span of about five minutes," He said. "One minute, he's playing video games, then the next Sasha is kissing him.  And the next minute, you show up.  It was like a freaking soap opera or something.  You're asking him what happened, and he's still not even sure."

Jessie looked over at Cheyenne again. "I think I should talk to him..."

"I do, too."

"Then let's go."

***

The three of them arrived back at the arena, with E leading the way.  As they walked down the hallway, they were stopped by Seth.

"I owe you an apology," He said, looking directly at Cheyenne.

"Oh?" She didn't know what he was talking about, but she assumed that he was wrong about something, and she always loved being right.

"You're not over-confident," He told her. "You're the perfect amount of confident.  We said that I could easily beat you up, but how do we know that you can't beat me up?  I mean, Alexa Bliss is even smaller than you, and she could totally beat me up.  And honestly, if you were a guy, I wouldn't have thought twice about it, you know?  But instead, I laughed in your face - "