We all had made it safely to the club in one piece, and Gionna runs towards me.

"Anastasia!!" Said Gionna.

"Gionna!!!" I yelled back.

"I see you brought your boyfriend."

"He's not my boyfriend!"

Gionna looks over my shoulder to see Austin's mouth that Anastasia is lying.

"I totally believe you, Asia." Gionna giggles.

"Yeah yeah." I playfully roll my eyes.

*15 minutes later *

Austin had called Roddy, Kyle, and Bobby to join us. I believe it's because he was lonely. Leah called for Corey to come to drink with us too. Trinity called Jimmy and Jey to go too. I had also called my friend Lexi to come to hang out. So we ended up getting a close off of a section of the club to ourselves. Gionna was drunk. I wasn't even close to being drunk. I barely had that much to drink. The rest of the girls were either drunk or intoxicated. I look on my phone, listening to a story Gionna was drunkenly telling us. I felt a tap on my shoulder. I look over my shoulder to see Austin's hand on my shoulder. I turned back to face my phone.

"Yes?" I said.

"Are you okay? You don't seem like yourself." He said, sounding worried.

"Austin, I'm fine. I promise." I replied.

"Don't lie to me. You have barely touched your second beer. This isn't like you. You honestly don't look happy. What's on your mind?" Austin asked as he grabs my hand.

"What if I hurt myself again?" I mumbled.

"A little bit louder, Anastasia."

"What if I hurt myself again? I don't want to go through that again." I said, finally turned around to look at him.

"Hey, you're gonna be fine. I know it. You're stronger than anyone I know. You need to stop doubting yourself. If I'm honest, that's what got in this state in the first place." Said Austin squeezing my hand.

"No, what got me in this state was me thinking it was a good idea getting on top of a steel cage and making my finishing move. How did that work out for me? Not good." I sighed.

"I'm still reminded of that every day, and it fucking sucks," I said as tears started to form. Austin pulls me into a hug.

"I know. You have to hope that everything will be fine. That's what I did when I watched you. It sucked watched that. Did you know they had to stop me from running out there to check on you? I almost gave up my match to be there for you at the hospital. I was so worried. You were all I was thinking about. I never what to see like that again. I love you, stupid. Stop doubting yourself, or I'll show people the video." He said, hugging me tighter.

I giggled. "I hate you so much."

"Awe, look at this touching moment." Said Kyle.

Austin and I pulled away from our hug.

"Why aren't you playing the air guitar?" I asked, looking at him.

"It's not an air guitar moment yet!" Kyle roared with a smile.

"I swear I hang out with idiots!" I replied.

"Hey, I'm a sexy idiot!" Adam said, laughing.

"Change sexy to ugly, and that's you."

"How rude; this is Austin we're talking about. He looks like a gremlin." Said Bobby jokingly.

"I was gonna have ogre, but that would just be hurtful to Shrek." Said Roderick.

"I thought you guys loved me." Said Austin, fake pouting.

"Love is a strong word," I said.

"Like a powerful word," said Lexi.

"This is why I love you, Lexi," I said, giggling.

Austin turned to look at me. "You just said you love Lexi. Why don't you love me? It's hurting my feelings.

"I turned over to Austin, smirking. "That's because I love Lexi. You not so much. I also didn't know that you had feelings. I thought you were heartless."

"Anastasia, really?"

"Yes, really, bay-bay," I said mockingly.

Austin rolled his eyes at me.

"You aren't supposed to use that!" Yelled Kyle.

"That's Austin's thing. Get your own." Roderick, Bobby, and Austin all agreeing on what Kyle had said.

"Don't attack my friend!" Yelled back, Lexi.

"What are you going to about it?" Asked Roderick.

"She won't be doing anything. I will," I replied.

"And that would be?" Asked Roderick.

"Kicking all you guys in the nuts," I replied.

"Woah Woah Woah. Who's kicking who in the nuts?" Asked Jey. Lexi points at me. I flashed him a smile.

"I gonna kick the lovely gentlemen's over in the nuts," I said while turned to point at Austin, Roderick, Bobby, and Kyle.

"I'm glad I ain't them," said Jey.

"So you're just gonna let this happen!" Said, Bobby

.Jey nods his head before saying, "Heck yeah, and I'm gonna record it."

"Ooooo, it should be title "NXT's Horror takes out the Undisputed era!" What y'all think?" Said Trinity.

Gionna and Daria said they love it. Savelina said it should be her. Alexa said the title could be better but thinks it's a great idea. Austin, Bobby, Roderick, and Kyle disagreed. Leah was too busy making out with Corey in the corner to answer.

"Blah blah blah! Let's dance!" Yelled Gionna as she got up and grabbed my arm. I mouthed help me to Austin. He smirked and mouth you'll be fine. Lexi & Trinity got up and went dancing with Gionna and me. After a good 10 minutes dancing with the girls. Gionna ended up finding someone to dance with. Jimmy started to dance with Trinity. I was busy dancing with Lexi when I felt a pair of hands wrapped around my waist. I had frozen.

"Hey, calm down. It's just me." Said Austin.

I let out a sigh of relief. "Don't fucking do that. Gonna give a heart attack, Austin. Shit."

"Sorry, I wanted to see what you would do."

"Well, now you fucking know."

"Sorry, babe. You know I didn't mean to scare you."

"Yeah, I know." I looked up at him and gave him a small smile. I slowly started to move my hips side to side, dancing to the music.

"This is probably why people think we're fucking around."

"What the problem with that? We know the truth; they don't." "Yes, that is true, but still. I care about you a lot; you know that. Yeah, sometimes the shit we seem couple like, but the truth is we're best friends. You had my back and got yours."

"Uh-huh."Austin looks down at me.

"You alright, Anastasia?"

"I just think I'm getting tired, that's all," said I as I was removing Austin's hands from my waist. "You ready to go home?"

"Yeah, we gotta tell the girls that we're leaving."

"Why don't you wait in the car. I'll get your stuff and tell girls we're leaving. Sound good?" Said Austin handing me my keys from out of his pocket.

I nodded. I walked out of the club and head to my car. I got in my car and sat in there for a good few minutes waiting for Austin. Austin finally makes it out of the club and to my car."Here's your stuff." Austin hands me my things as I say thank you.

"Let's get you home!" Austin starts the car and drives me back home. We get out of my car as he hands me my keys back.

"I had fun. How about you?" Asked Austin smiling.

"It was fun to get out of the house. There's so little of what Ashley and I can do. I mean, it sucks to hear about it all the time and not being able to be there but to hang out with friends and get away from work talk have fun. So thank you for helping the girls dragging me out of the house. I appreciate it, Austin."

"Hey, what are best friends for. I'm glad you had fun. Hopefully, you'll be back in no time. I have faith in you." Austin pulls me into a hug.

"God, you're so warm," I said, laughing.

"What a way to ruin the moment, Ariel." Said Austin.

"I don't like it when you call me by my middle name, Jenkins."

Austin scrunches his nose and pulls away from the hug.

"Don't do that," I said.

"Yeah yeah." Austin playfully rolls his eyes. Austin pulls me back in and hugs me. "Well, it's time for me to go."

"I don't want you to go."

"You know I have to go. I gotta be at the..."

"You gotta be at the PC tomorrow. You could've said it."

"I was trying not to upset you, but yeah. You could always come and watch. You're allowed to work out."

"I know," I said, looking down.

Austin lifts my chin to look at me."Come with me tomorrow, Please?" Austin gives me puppy eyes.

"Fine, you big dork," I said, laughing. I hear the door opening.

"Hey, lovebirds. Time to wrap it up." Yelled my roommate Ashely. We're both turn our heads to look at the green-haired woman.

"Give me a minute, Ashley!" I yelled. "Fine, If you're not in here in a minute, in blocking the door so you can't get in." Yelled Ashley.

I gave Ashley the middle finger.

"Love you too." Yelled Ashley before closing the door.

"That's my cue to leave now." Said Adam chuckling.

"I'll see you tomorrow, and you better come with coffee. No coffee, I will not go."

"I got it bossy," Austin said, pulling away from the hug.

"Good," I said walked to my door. "Night."

Austin replied with "Goodnight" before getting in his car. I opened the door to my house and walked through it before closing it.

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Edited: 6-7-21