CHASING CHAOS. TWO.

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A FIERY INFERNO BURNS THROUGH YOUR VEINS

FEEL THE FIRE AND SCORCH YOUR ENEMIES

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CHAPTER TWO - RUINING CAREERS

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SWEATY, OUT OF BREATH, AND IN AN EUPHORIC STATE.

That was what Josephine felt like in that exact moment as soon as she came back through the black curtains, pulling them apart so she could move forward to re-enter the backstage area.

Paige was already there there waiting for her, in fact, she didn't move from her spot since she herself came back from the stage. Her job required her to go elsewhere, but she was stubborn, and she was going to stand there and cheer her best friend on. She felt this overwhelming of happiness, pride, and just pure adoration while she watched her friend perform. Something Jo wanted to do ever since she introduced her to the wrestling world.

It was like she was watching herself out there.

She didn't forget the whole weight she was carrying on her shoulders with convincing Shane that she was as good as Paige claimed she was, and knowing how the crowd might not re-act to her the way the head of the business wanted them to react, was a big risk, but worth it in the end.

"Your performance was amazing." Paige shook her head with a smile on her face as she approached the blonde, who pulled her sweaty blonde hair back from her face and then delivered her a sheepish smile.

"Really? I felt a bit awkward out there," Josephine admitted. Even though performing in front of a crowd had been an experience of a life time that she didn't think she would receive.. she felt like she didn't belong here. Out of place almost. "I don't know if this is the place for me, Paige." she shook her head while a frown came onto her features.

The taller woman's eyes flickered down to her angelic looking face, "Why would you say that, Jo? You looked amazing out there and everyone was enraptured by you." She wrapped an arm around her upper back to walk her towards catering.

"I don't know I just felt.." she stumbled on her words, a struggle that she usually had when coming up with words to explain what she was feeling.

It's not that she lacked the knowledge of words, she had tons of words that people didn't even know how to use in a sentence but it was the fact that she had trouble letting her feelings come out. "I felt different out there, no one knew who I was and I don't fit in."

Paige's eyebrows raised on her forehead as the two friend's turned the corner to walk down the empty hallway that split into a huge square for the catering. "You don't fit in?" she snorted and then turned to face the blonde who looked back at her with a confused look on her face.

"You're not meant to fit in, Jo. You have your own unique gimmick that no-one else has." she told her truthfully while her fingers worked on pulling back her blonde hair that was dipped with orange pigment out of her face.

Josephine took a moment to look into Paige's dark eyes and behind them she knew the woman was telling the truth, and that she could see right through her excuses. She sighed out and adverted her eyes away from her friend, nodding her head slowly while her eyes focused on a water bottle in a big bin of ice.

"I hate that your always right, you know?" she said, her eyes flickering back to her face.

Paige smiled back at her and pinched her cheek. "But that's also why you love me." she raised her eyebrow at the end to prove her words right to which, Josephine rolled her eyes and smiled back at her.

Paige walked over towards the food and popped a piece of watermelon into her mouth while she watched Josephine load her plate with the fruit pieces from the trays. "I don't want to hear more of this, 'I don't fit in' crap around here." Paige knocked her elbow into the blonde's shoulder while she ate another cube of the fruit. "It would get pretty boring around here if everyone was the same."

"I'm just telling you how I feel." Josephine shrugged her shoulders while putting the sweet yogurt dip in her plate from a spoon. "You were the one to tell me to inform you of my thoughts, yeah?"

"I only said that because I don't want you to end up all bottled up and angry like the anniversary." Paige defended herself, remembering the time that Jo's parent's death anniversary came up and Josephine locked herself in her room to cry out the day in her pillows.

Paige knew her best-friend better than she knew herself, and Josephine had troubles with handling her emotions, scratch that, she didn't handle her emotions. She bottled them up and ignored them. Sooner or later she would become a firecracker, exploding all over the people around her while hurting them in exchange of her letting out steam.

Josephine nodded back at her without replying back to her. She remembered that night and she wanted to deeply forget that. Her parent's death was something that she couldn't, no wouldn't allow herself to forget. They gave everything to her once upon a time and she would be dammed if she forgot someone who played a big role in her life.

The topic of her parents would still hurt her today, and she didn't think she would ever get over the death of them, no matter how hard she tried too since it was her fault they were dead. She told them to rush home so she could selfishly boast about the next morning, where she would be closing another book on her life and starting another one.

Paige turned her head back around when she realized what she had just mentioned, and she silently cursed to herself. "Shit -- I'm so sorry, Jo. I know how that topic hurts you."

The blonde shrugged her shoulders and leaned against the chair she had just sat down at. Her plate in front of her that was missing a piece of an orange due to Paige's fingers. "It's alright." She replied with a bit of solemn to her voice, clearly affected from the mention of her parents.

"I need to get over these things, Paige. It's been years but every time you mention them - it get's easier." she lied. It wouldn't get easier, not while the guilt that remained was still tearing her apart.

"Still.. I shouldn't of mentioned it." Paige replied. She placed one of her hands on the back of Jo's chair, frowning back at her like a child would when they have been caught doing something they shouldn't of been doing.

"I said it was fine, P." She shrugged again and grabbed a piece of fruit from her plate and into her mouth, hopeful that Paige would just stop the conversation there.

She hadn't properly gotten to grieve her parents death after the accident happened since Josephine had bottled up her emotions that day, unable to cry because she couldn't believe what had happened. It was just pure shock that flooded her emotions and then the feeling of numbness began to set in.

They had been sitting in silence for a few minutes while Paige checked her phone, and then her eyes flickered upwards, sensing someone watching her from behind. Paige turned her body slightly, catching the murderous glare from Becky before she glanced away.

Paige furrowed her eyebrows before turning back in her seat, looking at Josephine questionably. Becky clearly didn't have any beef with her, also she knew that Becky didn't know Josephine well enough to have a problem with her.

"What's your issue with Becky?" Paige suddenly asked the blonde out of the blue which had totally caught Josephine off guard. She turned her gaze towards her friend with a puzzled look on her face since not many people actually knew that they had a history together.

"What do you mean? I've never met her." Josephine told her while shaking her head, trying to play off being confused about the whole question.

"Well don't look behind me - but she's staring a hole through your head right now.. I mean- if looks could kill you'd be six feet under." Paige scoffed awkwardly since she could feel the ginger's stares from the back of her head, and she had started to feel a bit anxious herself.

Josephine's eyebrows scrunched up before her blue eyes flickered behind her. She caught the glance of Becky's heated glare from behind her friend and she was right, if only looks could kill.

Of course, she never listened to what Paige had told her to do, thus getting a silent curse from the raven-haired woman in front of her and then a pinch on the blonde's forearm, which made Josephine let out a shriek, her blue eyes snapping back to Paige.

"What the fuck was that for?!" she whispered back at her.

"I told you not to look! Way to make things obvious that we're talking about her." Paige grumbled out and then looked down at her phone which let out a chime sound. She sighed out again, "I have to go, duty calls." she told her friend and held up her phone.

"I'm just going to finish this--"

"Don't forget that you have pictures in fifteen minutes for the website." Paige bent down once she tucked her chair back into the table, putting a stern face on to show that she shouldn't be late for the photos. "They'll fix up this mess as well, so don't worry about it." she gestured to Josephine's face and pigtails that were disheveled from Becky's assault.

"Thanks asshole, see you later." Josephine called after her once Paige was halfway through the catering, only to have her turn back around.

"See ya, babe."

Josephine smiled at her best-friend's leaving frame before she totally disappeared behind the wall and the ghost of her smile was left from her lips.

Her blue eyes focused down at her phone that was in her hand while her free one grabbed a piece of pineapple. But all she could focus on was Becky's heated glare that was burning the side of her face while the red-head was trying to listen to Sonya in front of her, talking away.

She wanted to call the ginger out on it, ask her 'what the hell is your problem?', but Jo didn't want to cause a scene. She wasn't a person who lived for the attention, she was the exact opposite of her character. She just couldn't shake off Becky's eyes.

And all Becky could focus on was the complete rage that was starting to boil in her veins when she noticed that the woman she had left four months ago was sitting there, a few feet away from her right now. It made her blind with rage while she watched her look down at her phone, completely aware that she could sense her looking at her but didn't have the guts to say anything about it.

Or maybe she didn't say anything to make her blood boil even more since being ignored was something Becky hated and she knew that.

"Are you even listening to me?" Sonya asked her as she sat back a bit, her tone coming out more annoyed since she had asked her a question, but never gotten a response.

Becky's brown eyes flickered back on Sonya, but her eyes flickered back to the blonde before fully settling on the woman in-front of her. "Of course I did, why wouldn't I be listening?" she asked as she pushed back some of her ginger locks from her shoulders.

Sonya raised an eyebrow back at her and snorted. "Really, because if you heard what I said; you would've answered my question."

Becky sighed out and placed her elbows on the table, her vision flickering back to the blonde who hadn't moved since Paige left her. "What was your question, Sonya?" she asked her now that her focus was on the girl again.

"Are you going to come out with the girls again? You know we all love having you along with us." Sonya questioned her again, chewing on her bottom lip while she waited for the answer she wanted to receive.

"I'm busy tonight, maybe another time." Becky brushed off her offer like it was nothing, not wanting to go out and celebrate her 'loss' tonight even though she knew that wasn't what Sonya meant. She just wasn't in the mood.

Sonya raised her eyebrows as she began to get up from the table. "Whenever you cool down, give me a call tonight - the offer still stands." Sonya said coldly, clearly offended that Becky hadn't even had the intention of holding a conversation with her. Her eyes then turned to look back at the blonde that had occupied Becky's brain and then rolled her eyes.

That was her chance to give her a piece of her mind, and Becky never held back her thoughts - ever.

Josephine looked up from her phone once she felt a presence that was standing off the side to her, that and she could see that the light has dimmed from the body standing over her, blocking the light. Blue met brown and Josephine found herself raising her eyebrow up at the ginger.

"You've got some nerve!" Becky uttered under her breath, sitting down on the chair, allowing to screech out harshly as it skid across the ground when she pulled it towards her.

"Excuse me?" Josephine raised her eyebrow at the girl, putting her phone onto the table to turn her attention over towards the fuming red-head.

"What the hell do ya think you're doing, huh? Comin' in here and actin' like you own the damn place-"

Josephine blinked back while the words just came spilling out of Becky's mouth and everyone around them had heard the words spat from her mouth like a waterfall. "Let me just stop you right there," she held up her finger to silence the red-head who just glared back at her but before she could open her mouth again to fire back with something else, Josephine began.

"I'm not coming in here and acting like I own the place, I work here and I'm here to do my job. If you have a problem with that, go run off to Vince - it seems like your good at that."

Becky started to chuckle but the look of wanting to murder her had never left her eyes, but they had gotten more fiery if that was even possible. "Is that what your here for? You've already ruined my relationship but now you're here to ruin my career - is that it, petty revenge?"

Josephine shut her mouth quickly and she adverted her eyes down to the wooden table, her eyebrow raising again in response and her lips pursed. "If I remember correctly, you lied to me-" she stopped herself from going any further, feeling herself get angry at remembering what position Becky put her in months back.

She wasn't here to ruin careers and in all honestly, she didn't expect that Becky would remember her, but she guessed she was wrong since Becky did.

Josephine put her head to the side to face her fully. "--I'm not here for old grudges, and in all honesty I didn't think I would see you again."

Becky leaned back in her chair. Arms crossed over her chest and her biceps were bulging out, giving her a more intimating look. "Don't feed me these lies, Josephine. I've got a pretty memorable face." her name rolling off her tongue made the hairs on the back of her neck stand up. "You came back here to prove a point - to hurt me or whatever after I hurt you - but it's not gonna end like that for you."

Becky shook her head back and forth, leaning up against the table to move closer towards the blonde. Her brown eyes had enough fire to thaw out the ice in her blue eyes, and cause a flood to pour out.

"You're in my world now and if you think that defeating me with an illegal move gives you the point in this - you're dead wrong." Her voice was dangerously low, enough to make Josephine loose her breath and clench her jaw. "When I get my rematch and I will - I'll show you how the Man takes care of cheaters like you."

Her brown eyes were constantly flickering back and forth between eyes, trying to read Josephine's stone expression but once she saw her eyes narrow into a penetrating stare, her tongue came out to wet her nude colored lips.

"This isn't some game, Becky." Josephine's stare was getting more heated by the second, and she herself felt like she was going to burn up.

Becky scoffed while a smirk rose onto her lips. "Isn't it?" Her eyebrows were more expressive than her face in this moment.

Josephine could feel her veins on fire as they were fighting a war inside each other's iris'. A war of Ice against Fire, who would win? She couldn't tell. She swallowed as the red-head gave her one last look of confidence and hatred all at once until she stood up from the chair, turning around to leave the blonde behind her. Just like four months ago.

And now that she was out of the room, the intense aura that left the room thick had lifted and Josephine felt like she could breath again.

She came here with the intention of doing something that she fell in love with from the moment she got a taste of it - but now that she knew the woman who left her in the morning, filled her with white little lies, and then screamed at her to get lost.. her intentions of being here had changed when she took that first glance at the red-head standing in the ring while she stepped onto the stage. She felt angry, and betrayed that she would leave after the things that were said that night that wasn't as blurry on Jo's side of things.

Maybe she did go on that stage for revenge.

A/N:

Hello folks, if you have read this before I unpublished -- I have added some new things that will now make more sense but still leave a sense of wonder. I felt like this chapter was a bit rushed when I first published, but now that I took my time with this. I'm pretty happy with the result.

AHEM. but hi. I hope you guys liked the chapter and are excited for Jo's and Becky's story to unravel because it's gonna be a crazy ride. xx