Friday, July 21^st, 2019

It started out like any other day would and had, but today was not a normal day. However, Samantha Hawkins couldn’t have told you when her alarm clock was buzzing its little speaker off to wake her up. Samantha slowly sat up in the bed that she shares with her husband before reaching out towards the alarm clock to turn it off. She didn’t want to be up at six in the morning, but there were things that she had to get done today. She reached up and adjusted her bra slightly as it was out of place from her sleeping in it overnight.

She sighed lightly, as she started to think to herself that maybe she should just go back to sleeping in the nude, but she knew that wasn’t really an option. She never knew when her daughter was going to come into their room at night, but more importantly there was the issues with the name that was by all accounts were her father. Zachary Raines, the man that hired a person not only to kill one of her boyfriends, her first girlfriend, but her own mother was on the loose. Just the thought of him being out of prison makes her skin crawl, because she has no clue what it is that he is going to do with his new found freedom due to his little break out attempt being successful. She just wanted to focus on getting back to the top of the professional wrestling world, but there was not going to be easily while he continued to be free.

Sam looked over her shoulder towards her husband’s side of the side to find that he was still asleep. Which, she couldn’t blame him for wanting sleep in on one his few days off from his garage. He’s been pulling double shifts and even bringing some of his work home with him to make up for the money that she wasn’t making by wrestling. The SCW wasn’t going to pay someone that signed a pay per appearance contract if they weren’t appearing on the shows or wrestling matches. She hated the fact that he had to kill himself so that they could pay their bills, because she couldn’t bring herself leave home, because of the fear of what might happened to her family.

Zachary Raine, had already taken the lives of three people close to her and there was also the fact that he attempted to take Chase’s and her life as well the night that he was finally caught by the authorities. She saw the guilt that was etched over Patience’s face when she learned that her sound had died while she was wrestling. She couldn’t bring her to chance something like that happening to her family as long as he is not behind bars. It’s killed her that she had to take part on Breakdown this week, because the SCW was threatening to void her contract if she didn’t turn up. She pushed herself up off the bed and walked over to where her bathrobe was located. She slipped into it a single fluid motion. She then took a scroll out of the room and down the hallway to her daughter’s room. Which for a moment panic set in to her bones when she saw that her daughter’s bed had not been slept in last night thanks to the door being left wide open.

However, that fear and panic subsides when she remembers that despite her better judgement, Alaska, talked her way into spending the night at one of her friend’s house last night so they could spend some time together before he friend left for the Swiss Alps. Sam didn’t know how her daughter managed to make friends with one of the riches girls in school, but she did.

“She’s alright, she’s just at Connie’s house.” Sam sighed, again as she walked away from her daughter’s bed room door on her way to the kitchen. She figured she was going to make her husband a little breakfast and bring it to him in bed as a way saying thank you for all that he’s done lately. Once in the kitchen she grabs her favorite skillet and places it on the stove. She looks out the window that just to the left of the stove and already the morning is looking like a beautiful morning. With a smile on her face she moves over to the fridge so that she can grab some eggs and butter. However, unbeknownst to Samantha while she is digging through the fridge looking the open stick of butter a person unknown if it was a man or a woman, but they were wearing a black mask, and they were staring at her through the very window.

“Let’s see… French Toast, scramble eggs…” Sam thought, as she was putting together a list of things she could potentially make her husband for breakfast. As she closes finds what she needs from the fridge, she closes it, and turns back to the stove. However, she doesn’t see the person that was staring at her, because by the time she turns around they are gone from the window. She places the butter and eggs down on the counter next to the stove and reaches up to turn it on low heat, but then she notices movement out in the yard when there’s supposed to be none. She stares out of the window trying to make heads or tails of what is going on.

“What’s co…?” A voice came from behind Samantha as well as a pair of two hands grabbing her shoulders. Considering that she already a little creeped out by what’s going on in the back yard she jumps nearly out of her skin as she turns with her fist clenched ready to fight whomever is standing behind her. Which just so happens be her husband, who is looking quite amused by her reaction.

“OH MY GOD! What are you doing up?” Sam asked, as any curious wife would ask when she’s trying to surprise her husband. However, her heart was still racing and she still didn’t know what was going on in the back yard either.

“Brennan called, apparently the shop is over booked today.” Samantha didn’t like the sound of that, because she knew what was going to come next. “He asked if I could come in for a few hours to help with the backlog.”

“Today is supposed to be your day off… your first Friday off in MONTHS.” Chase didn’t have to ask to know if she was upset over the situation. He could tell just by looking at her that she was livid over it. However, what else can he do? The shop is their main source of income at the moment, but more importantly than that if they took too long getting the cars fixed, customers would start looking elsewhere for their repairs. Needless to say he found himself in a lose-lose situation.

“I know, but money is tight. You know that I have to go.” Sam bite her bottom lip, because she knew that he was right, but that didn’t make her like it any more one bit. “And was something outside?”

“I’m not sure I thought I saw something moving, but I couldn’t see anything.” Sam moved to the side to allow her husband get closer to the window to look out of it. He does so and much like Sam he doesn’t see anything that sticks out and whatever that was moving had stopped by the time that he got to the window.

“I don’t see anything out there.” Chase turned back towards Samantha and give her quick kiss on the lips. “I’m going to get dressed for work. I’ll call you when I get a break for lunch and we can meet up.”

Normally, that would’ve been a date, but today was one of those off days when it’s not.

“I can’t meet you for lunch today. I’m meeting up with Minka, Patience, and Ashe to go shopping for some proper new gear for the new tag team.” Sam even though she was a little disappointed that she wasn’t going to be able to have lunch with her husband either she was more than a little happy to be going shopping. She knew that sooner or later this day was going to come for Minka and her to help Ashe buy some gear, but never did she think that she would be helping her cousin pick out new gear. Samantha had thought Patience was truly out of the business after what happened, but seeing her rush down to the ring for the Taking Hold of The Flame battle royal was breath taking. Not only that, but it made Sam regret that she didn’t join the match, because that would have been the first time that Minka, Patience, and herself would have been on the same show since they were broken up by the draft in IWC.

“Well, then I will see you at home for dinner then… my treat.” Sam could only smile at the gesture of her husband, but on the inside she was cringing a little bit. She loved fast food as much as anyone else. In fact, she probably eats more of it than some of her peers, but the thought of eating it on a day that she was going to try to make special for him was something that she wasn’t looking forward to. Seeing as she knew that’s what he meant by treating her to dinner, because as much as she loves her husband he isn’t much of a cook in the house. She’s the one that does all the cooking for the big family events and family dinners.

“Can I take a rain check on that?” Sam smiled playfully to let her husband know that she’s not trying to hurt his feelings over dinner. “I’d rather not have a pizza night on what I want to be a romantic night.”

“So you are saying that you’ll cook dinner tonight.” Chase was trying his best no to show his hurt feelings, but it hurt that Sam didn’t trust him to make dinner tonight. True, he isn’t the best cook in the world and most of the times that he has even attempted to cook dinner they end up eating take out. However, that was at the start of their relationship and since she’s been away from home more than usual since she signed with the SCW he’s actually had some time to practice cooking without her shutting him down. He still has a long way to go to match the level of cooking she can perform, but he can safely say that he is confident enough in his ability to say that he’s at least as good as a high school student who passed home economics class.

“Seeing as I was going to make you breakfast in bed, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch for me to.” Sam continued to smile as all she wanted to do deflect from the heart of the matter to one that is just as plausible. “I still have three hours till I have to meet up with the girls. So I can go grocery shopping to make sure I have everything I need for dinner tonight.”

Sam kissed her husband and even though she knew that he was still a little hurt that she wasn’t going to allow him to cook knew that he wasn’t going to boycott anything that she made for dinner. Chase with a halfhearted smile soon left the kitchen to go get ready for work. As he was leaving Sam turned her attention back to the stuff that she already pulled from the refrigerator and sighed. She went to all the trouble of getting it out just to put it back up. It couldn’t be helped… she could have left it out, but then it would have spoiled and she would have to get more when she was at the store. So she picked up all the items and returned them to their proper places, but while she was doing that once again there were movement outside in their yard. The person in the back mask was once again peering through the window at Samantha’s back.