Post by Amber Richards on Apr 30, 2016 0:10:58 GMT
“I feel like I need to apologize.”
Amber looks up slowly through her hair. The long black strands flowing down the sides of her face and back.
“I need to say sorry to the fans, and to Ana…..for not signing with VWS sooner.”
“See VWS needs me. I look around the female division and it doesn’t have a real star. Not like me. I mean do any of you actually know who I am?. I look back a few years ago and I was the hottest rookie on the face of this planet. Not just for womens wrestling. I mean in all of wrestling….”
“I stepped into the ring and people took notice. I wasn’t the usual smiling blonde, or bitchy brunette. I wasn’t a failed actress or former pop star.”
“I was Amber fucking Richards, professional wrestler….”
“And over the last 4 years I have worked to show the world just how amazing womens wrestling can be. An IWF Ruby Championship, Three IWF Diamonds championships…that makes me a three time WORLD champion.”
“I have been in the ring with the best of the best and I have stared into the face of legends and made them my bitches….”
“But at some point I lost my way and instead of concerning myself with being the best, with being a professional wrestler I concerned myself with trivial matters like honor and the fans happiness and…my sister….”
“I let it all just slip away.”
“But now here I am, signed to VWS and ready to be the champion that is needed, to be the best of the best again. And to bury my sister….”
I heard them talking. Their voices and thick accents travelling through the thick door between our hallway and the living room. Renee’s voice raised a moment, Jace told him to calm in a hushed tone. I swallowed hard and stayed behind there. Listening to every single word, Jace sounded upset but kept it hidden behind his usual mask of strength.
After a few moments the door opened, Renee and Jace stood there eyes wide. My husband sighed and gave me a nod. His long brown hair and beard betrayed his age. He looked to be a man in his mid thirties, not twenties. His face behind the beard withered from a life opened to early to the evil ways of men.
Jace was a little younger, not by much but he looked it. His own long hair tied back away from his fresh baby face. He looked away with the sadness pouring through. Renee stepped back into the room sitting down as Jace stepped past me. I stood close and whispered to him, so Renee wouldn’t hear. “I’m sorry…”
He gave me a small nod and went out the door. Renee sat back, his foot up on the table and a hand on his chin. He hid it but the anger boiled. The pain was there to. We had let her in, we let her see. We accepted her and made her a woman of standing. Not quite a match for myself or Queenie. But close.
I walked in and sat down across from him. Renee looked over at me. His eyes looking at me but at the same time unfocused and distracted.
“She needs ta be punished…” I swallow and nod. Renee sits forward and runs his hands through his hair with a groan of frustration. “We cannae let it slide….” I nod and in my mind agree with everything…but my heart….she is my sister after all…. “I’ll deal with it…personally….”
Renee smirks and sits back. “Ya betta make tha call then….”
“As I said before, I needed to apologize. But now I also feel the need to do it again but not on my behalf. On the behalf of the entire VWS female roster. I am sorry….I’m sorry on their behalf for being a bunch on no talent bums….”
“I mean really. Here we are going into the first ever VWS pay per view at Madison square garden and the VWX womens title ma-“
“You mean the Ana Valentine All-star title match….”
Ana steps in from the side and Amber looks down then back up before squaring up to her.
“I will never call it that…..but in the end you have Crystal Millar and Gina Neon fighting for that belt. Really Ana?...REALLY?”
Ana shrugs and Amber scoffs.
“Your hand picked champion is a bust and Gina Neon is a smiling little twit with a penchant for pastel colors and the 80’s….and these are the two who could represent your company and the VWS womens championship?....”
“You hadn’t signed yet…”
“I suppose and it’s not like you have that much to pick from is it?...”
Amber slowly turns back and Ana slides around and sits down.
“The VWS womens division is pathetic. From rejects like Fiona McFly, Eliza Valentine and my sister to blonde bubblehead idiots like Trixie, useless shiftless nobodies like Danielle Bradley and Kimberly Heart. Hell the only active wrestler on the VWS roster I give a damn about is Samantha Tolson. She’s the only one I would consider a threat and even then….well even then she isn’t an Amber Richards….”
“The entire roster will bow before me. I will work my way to a title shot after whichever idiotic moron walks away with it at Uprising…but first. Well first I have my own business to take care of…”
“My little sister Kayla….”
The birds tweeted, the sun was out. People around me carried on their own little lives and conversations about their jobs, families and..I don’t know..curtains and shit. I looked up to see Ana storm towards me looking around. She sat down and huffed and scoffed before folding her arms. “Well?” Ana’s voice was filled with annoyance.
“Well what?” I kept my voice calm and sipped my drink as Ana narrowed her eyes. “Why am I here? You’re not someone I like to spend time with…”
I laughed to myself and shook my head. The arrogance oozing from Ana amusing me to no end. “Yes because you are someone I want to eat cupcakes and drink tea with Ana…” She looks down at me and sighs calming down a little and relaxing. She pulls the chair out opposite me and grabs a menu. “If I’m being forced to sit here I will be getting a distraction…”
I roll my eyes, I can’t help it. Ana catches it out of the corner of hers. She orders and sits back. “So, why are we sitting here?” I shake my head and sigh before sliding forward. “We have a problem” Ana raises an eyebrow and folds her arms. “Aside from having an awkward lunch date?”
“No you twit….Eliza and Kayla…” Ana’s expression changes. She goes from arrogant and cocky, in other words, herself to worried with a hint of trepidation. She seemed human. “What…what about them?”
I swallowed hard and closed my eyes, I took a deep breath. “Jace and Kayla broke up, and Kayla has been seeing your neice…again.” Ana stays quiet for a moment, but I feel it seething under her, I feel the anger, the frustration, the disappointment. The drink she ordered gets set down beside her but Ana doesn’t seem to notice.
“So…what do we do?”
“This is your fault Kayla. All your fault.”
Amber sighs deeply and slides her hands into the pockets of her black jeans.
“You hid things from me, you lied to me and you turned your back on the family. Everything we did for you, everything was pissed away. And for what? A girl that threw you out of her life like you were nothing?. A girl who took your heart and soul and destroyed it just like Ana did but even worse because it was about love?....”
“You turned your back on me for her?...FOR HER?”
Ambers hand slams down against the table in front of her.
“We are blood, and my husband pulled you in to the family. You had a guy who worshiped you and a woman with high standing in our world as your mentor. But that wasn’t enough was it?. You wanted Eliza. You wanted the girl who left you for a guy who she at one time thought was her brother….”
“She dropped you like a bad habit. And you went back…”
“Like a stupid child.”
“And the worst part is Kayla that you honestly believe yourself to be smarter than me. I try to help you, guide you. And you throw it all back in my face. I’m your older sister and I deserve to be respected and I deserve to be listened to. I had your back Kayla….”
“But now you will feel my wraith. I will make you bleed LIVE ON PAY PER VIEW and I have a million reasons Kayla. From Eliza and your “relationship”, to your disrespect of me and my family’s ways…to even more….like your foolish notions of being a better wrestler than me….”
Amber growls the words, low and deep.
“On top of everything else. You wanting to surpass me in our profession is an insult all on its own and I will show you the folly in your thoughts all while Eliza watches and her tears fall…”
