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• B A R O N •

I gave up on her last night, but this morning, I'm back at it again.

Checking every single Superstar's room, I'm furious by this point and so damn aggravated. I wanted to find Ellie already, damn! Every damn Diva that I have found have said that they haven't seen Ellie and thought that she was with me. Damn!

Getting to room two-seventy-one, I go to knock on the door. Yet, right when I went to hit the door with my knuckles, the door is opening.

My jar hits the floor as I capture an unexpected moment happening between Seth and my Ellie. Not seeing me standing there, she was on her tip-toes to kiss his lips with both of their eyes completely closed.

They were sharing a kiss goodbye from their night of fun, I'm sure of it. That's where she was all this damn time. Here.

I. Am. Livid.

"You son-of-a-bitch!" I exclaimed just as I yanked Seth right out of his room and into the hallway. I dragged his ass to the ground and began to hit him.

I don't know what came over me. Was it the fact that I had chosen my wife over her? Or was the fact that she had talked so much shit about this guy, but now she's sleeping around with him? Oh, hell no!

I can hear Ellie screaming for me to stop, trying to pull me off of him. I can obviously hear her, but it not paying no mind. "Help! Help me!"

I let her voice breakthrough for a split moment before Seth is now on top of me, hitting me left and right out of nowhere. I tried blocking his hits – but, somehow, it was Ellie that stopped him from further damage.

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• E L L I E •

Whatever it was, it stopped him. I simply said, "Please stop, Seth," and lightly placed my hand on his shoulder. He perked up, slowly.

   I don't know what it was. Maybe he felt something for me that I've felt for him as well. Then again, how do we feel about each other after last night?

   From across the hallway, Enzo and Lillie peek their heads out of their hotel room's door. Then, realizing what was happening, they run out of their room to come and see what's going on.

   I held my breath as did Lillie, while we stared at one another in question and awe. She could now see my very emotional train of life unfold right in front of us both.

   Even though Seth stopped hitting Baron, Enzo had to pull him off of Baron and hold him back. Baron jumped to his feet, clearly ready to fight again, but I had to stop this before it got any worse.

   Now, I stood directly in front of Baron, holding my hands up for him to stop. Of course, he would never hurt me, which appears true as he physically calms down now – but that doesn't stop him from yelling at Seth.

   From the corner of my eye, I can clearly see Lillie running down the hall and knocking frantically on somebody's hotel room door. It appears to be Cass, who – after Lillie pointed down to where we all were – came running down to hold Baron back.

   I felt Baron's eyes fall onto me and we stared at one another. My heart began to ache as I stared back at the man that I truly loved more than anything else in this world. His eyes said it all. My poor baby was heartbroken.

   "Why did you come here to Seth's room after what happened last night between us?" Baron began to ask me, as he started to blab. "You have claimed countless times to me that you hate him! Everything you told me about Seth while we were together, it's all bad. Bad!"

   Then, before I could even see it coming, he began to name the countless stuff that I told him in confidence about Seth because I actually trusted him more than anybody else in my life.

   He pointed out what I had told him about when Seth pulled my hair, called me all these bad names, about Sasha and all the rest after that.

   Yet, I didn't get mad at him for any of it because I could admit that I was being a little hypercritical. Though, I didn't deserve it, either. It's Baron who had made me believe that he was going to leave his wife for me and, through my time together, I couldn't see myself being with Seth. I was going leave everyone for Baron.

   Seth had obviously heard all of this, turning slowly towards me in question. When our eyes met, that's when he started to go fucking nuts, shoving Enzo off of him. He was beginning to take his anger out in Baron, taking Cass out, too.

   When he pushed aside Cass, he tumbled back a bit, but it was enough for him to accidentally take Lillie down, too.

   Even though we all knew that it was total accident, I had become very angry towards both Seth and Baron alas. I had let everyone push Lillie down since we had first become friends, but not anymore. Nobody will ever push her down again and I not defend her.

   I gave Seth a good shove backwards as I yelled at him: "Don't you ever do that again! You made Cass push Lillie down and that's not gonna fly with me anymore!"

   Then, that's when I spun around on my heel and did the same to Baron that I did to Seth with the shove backwards. "And, you" —I stuck my index finger right in his face— "how dare you throw what I've said to you in confidence back in my face?!"

   Baron just slowly shook his head and stared right back into my eyes. This time, it wasn't the heartbreak that I felt before when we had looked into each other's eyes. His dark eyes were now cold and bitter.

   Cass swept by, taking Baron out, demanding that he get out of here before he regrets it. Baron stumbled away, keeping his head down as he walked away and disappeared into the elevator moments later.

   For a moment, it's like everyone around me is living life in fast-motion and I'm the one who is living in slow motion. I can't believe that this is how my life has come down to and, tonight, I would have to go to work and act normal.

   Nothing will ever be the same again.

   Slowly turning around to face the rest of them, Enzo now has his arm around Lillie while Cass is making sure that Seth is good.

   My eyes meet with Lillie's, who is being pursued by Enzo to go back into their room. Something about that moment nearly crushed me completely, even more than the whole Baron and Seth thing. I knew, just from our intense eye contact just now, she had immediately forgiven me.

   "Just give her a minute," I could hear Enzo whisper into Lillie's ear as they turn their backs on me, but just for a moment, though.

   Before I could even turn towards Seth again, he had already went back into his room as he slammed the door directly in my face. I started to bang on the door and beg: "Please, Seth! We have to talk about this! I didn't mean any of that!"

   "Go away, Ellie," he simply said, grumpy. I didn't know what to do, honestly. "Just... Go away and leave me alone forever."

   Fuck... I started to yank on the door handle, hoping he'll budge. "I don't hate you, Seth! And it's not because of last night... It's because of what I felt between us last night!"

   When the door yanked open, I jumped back in surprise as he got right in my face. I was so scared of everything. Of him and my feelings, most of all.

   "Listen, Ellie," he demanded, growling, "we are no longer anything whatsoever. The only time that we will ever talk is at work and about work. I am no longer your friend or even your acquaintance. I am just your co-worker and partner in the ring."

   I blinked away the tears and held my breath for a moment. "But, Seth... What does this even mean? Are you... breaking-up with me? Our friendship, that is?"

   He simply took a deep breath before he finally nodded and said, "Yes, I am, Ellie."

   He tired to go back into his room, but I took a stance in his doorway before he could shut the door. "No, you can't do this to me, Seth! Not after everything we've been through together! You treated me so badly and are now blithering me about my feelings towards you from that time!"

   He rolled his eyes, but I continued: "What I told Baron is basically all about you always calling me names and how you've treated me badly in the past, showing me how much you hated me instead. So, that is what modeled my feelings towards you about all the hate."

   He doesn't want to hear anymore of what I have to say as he simply takes a step back inside. Again, when he tried to leave me out in the hallway, I tried jumping back in, but to no avail, of course.

   After our argument, he seemed to get even more mad and completely shoved me out of his room – his space. Nonviolently, though, but it was enough and slammed the door in my face again.

   I could very clearly hear him throwing stuff around in his room, at the walls, and breaking shit. I had caused so much pain and I wanted it all to just stop.

   What the hell have I done?

• DUNT. DUNT. DUNNNTTT. WHAT THE SERIOUS FCK DID I JUST WRITE?! IDK! Y'ALL TELL ME! Let's review first, shall we? Okay... First of all, Barellie broke-up 😰 Secondly, Sellie have FINALLY had sex! Like... THANK. GOD. That NEEDED to happen! Alas 💕 Thirdly, Sellie broke-up, too, or WHATEVER they had going on... You guys DO realize that this has REALLY hurt Seth, right? Like, this guy can almost shrug ANYTHING off... BUT THIS 💔 So, guys, here's the part that we absolutely NEED to talk about and that's... THE SEQUEL TO THIS! Yup, this IS going to be sequel to this story, but guess what, guys??? It's NOT going to be about Ellie or even Seth (or Baron, hehe!)... It will be about AND from the POV of ((WAIT FOR IT)) YOUR HOMETOWN GIRL... LILLIE!!! YES, GUYS, IT'S TRUE! IT'S *DAMN* TRUE! I have more info to come as I'll keep you updated for more, but until then... All the love .xx 💋 •