— Continued From Last Chap... —

You're WAY prettier than him, anyway.

"Hello? Earth to Britt? Hey!"

If only I had met you before my wife, it would have been way different.

"Brittany Daria, are you there? Hello?"

I already told you what I want, AJ. I want to get married, have kids of my own, and to be happy.

"Britt, it's alright, okay? Just talk to me here."

I love AJ Styles.

Suddenly, I came back to reality after blacking out there for a moment. I found AJ staring right back at me, but I couldn't speak. Hell, I could barley breathe. I just kept staring at him as he tried to figure me out.

I felt like a little kid back in elementary school when your little crush you had found out they liked you. I felt all the nerves from that right now, but twenty-times worse, of course. Truth be known, I've been keeping this secret little crush of mine from AJ for over fourteen years now. Only thing is that my little crush I've had on AJ all this time has turned into a deadly sin.

"Is that true?" he asked me, which made my heart go even further down into my stomach. He keeps on and I'll give birth to it.

My mouth is halfway open, but only for me to hear me breathing. I was blinking frantically and my heart was going ninety-to-nothing. Maybe I was having a heart attack. Well, at least it'll get me out of this. But, in fact, I wasn't about to fall to the ground.

I was fine. I hadn't felt so free in all the years I've known him. Yet again, the words may be free, but I'm not. He may have finally fucking figured it out, but I haven't in my mind. I hadn't really pictured this moment, of how he would react to it as how I would respond. I'm speechless right now.

He touched my knee and I flinched, which caused him to go back to being physically concerned. He pulled his eyebrows in together and quietly asked, "Britt, am I the one you've been in love with the past fourteen years?"

When he said this, I suddenly found the will to get the hell up and practically fly away from him. I ran as far as my legs could take me, having to push people out of my way occasionally. I couldn't confess. Not now. I can't!

"Whoa! Wait up, Britt!" I heard AJ call after me, but I wasn't about to stop for him. Not this time, at least. "Where are you going?!"

I didn't answer. I just going until I was in the deserted part of the backstage arena. I didn't know where the hell I was, but all I could hope for was that I got away from AJ in time to hide.

I seen a pile of boxes stood up, so I immediately ran over there and hid behind them. I cradled to the ground and pulled my legs up to my chest, and began to cry quiet tears. I don't know what prompt me to fall down to the ground and begin crying, but I did. Again, I was that small child hiding her true feelings from her little crush.

I put my closed and wet eyelids in my knees and tried to come to terms that AJ finally knows. It gave me such a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach and it gave me a lump in my throat. It was beginning to get hard to breathe again, but I tried to remain calm and quiet. I was still trying to hide from AJ, after all.

"Britt?" I heard his voice again, but much closer. I looked up in such a rush and held my breath. He stood in front of me, standing beside the stacked-up pile of boxes. He held his mouth ajar and examine me down on the ground.

He bent down and got down on his knees. He held his hands up, mentally warning me that he was about to touch me, and he did. When he did, I flinched, but only a little bit. He didn't take his hands off of my hands, though.

"Britt, why didn't you just tell me flat-out instead of keeping it from me all these years?" he suddenly asked in a hushed and gentle tone of voice. It seemed like all the shut we've been fighting over the past week didn't really matter right now. He seemed like he actually cared once again for me.

I bit down on my bottom lip – hard – and sniffled up the tears that had already spread. He could obviously see how emotional I was right now. I shook my head and stammered out: "You wouldn't love me back... You wouldn't love me back..."

My face fell back into my knees as I shook with each little sob I spread. "You don't know that, Britt," he whispered, which did make me sleepy start to look back at him. When our eyes met, he leaned in and continued, "I could."

"That's the fucking point, AJ," I suddenly raised my voice towards him, which startled him a little bit. I couldn't hold it back anymore. I couldn't... "You could always love me back. You could always had realized my feeling for you YEARS ago, but you just didn't... Did you?!"

"Britt, I'm... I'm sorry, okay? I just didn't—"

"And don't you dare say that you didn't know!" I snapped at him, which made him remove his hands from mine. I had a veil of tears going right now to a point that I could barley see clearly. "You had to have known, AJ! I gave you every little reason to believe that there was something going on with me. I..."

I held my breath, then bit down my bottom lip again. He didn't speak and I could no longer find the will to do so, either. Then again, tonight had to be the night I tell him everything. It's now or never, and I'm not about chicken out again. Never again.

Our eyes met again as I sucked it up. Here goes nothing, I guess...

"AJ... I love you, okay? And I don't mean it in a friendly way or anything like that. I mean it in a more-than-friends way. I know it sounds pathetic, but I have honestly loved you since the very first moment I laid eyes on you in that Ring of Honor ring. I have loved you since the beginning, yet I was just too damn late to get you to be all mine. You were married. Happily married, that is, and not even I could ruin that. I couldn't ruin the happy marriage you had."

I huffed, not believing all of what I've told him so far. Yet, I had so much more to go. So, I continued: "It didn't settle in that I had loved you so much until you told me that Wendy was pregnant with Ajay. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe the time had just flown by like it was nothing, and I still hadn't confess to you. I hadn't come out to you about my feelings and I knew that I couldn't do it then, since Ajay was born. Then... Then, as time went on and you kept having kids with her, I just learned over time to keep my mouth shut about how I felt about you and to just keep it to myself. Even after you and her got a divorce, I still couldn't say anything. I was hoping you would have to do all the talking from that point, because I had this small feeling you would at least love me back, too."

He was speechless and I could see why, considering all that I have finally confessed to him. Then again, he looked at me very sincerely. He looked at me like... I don't know. Maybe like he liked what he just heard.

I, of course, rolled my eyes at him and scoffed off, "Stop looking at me like you want me because we both know that you don't."

"Fourteen years, Britt," he said instead, which took me off-guard a bit. "Fourteen years of friendship, ups and downs, many tag-team matches together — and I had no idea. I just thought we were best friends having good times together. Then again, I can't deny how much I have always wanted to be with you as much as you've wanted to be with me."

Wait, what?! I didn't say a word, but my mouth did stay ajar. He didn't say anything and I didn't, either. In a way, we didn't have to.

He placed his left hand on the back of my neck and he leaned in, more than I usually would, believe it or not. He was about to kiss me when I suddenly separated us.

I shook my head and muttered out, "Nope, not again. You can't kiss me when you know good and well what I want. I'm not a teenager anymore. I'm looking for something more than a hook-up here, AJ."

He shrugged, smirking, and looked right back at me. Suddenly, a small grin began to play along his lips when he confessed, "I'll marry you, Britt. I'll finally be the one to make you happy."

My hands flew to my mouth as I had to hold myself back from crying again. I let out a small squeak, but that's before the tears began pouring out of my eyelids like it was nothing. I couldn't keep it together now. He said he would marry me!

He took ahold of one of my hands and held it in with his as we made eye contact and I gulped. "I love you, Britt Daria. I love you for all that you are and all that you've ever been," he admitted and I nearly fainted from the impact of his words. "I know this all sounds so cliché, but honestly, I rather spend the rest of my life with you than with anyone else on this earth. I'll marry you, Britt, but give me some time to get a ring first."

"Oh, my Gosh!" I squealed and had to use my other hand to wave off the heat from my face. "Are you serious right now?!"

"Yes, baby, I am," he assured me with a huge ass smile. That's when he crashed his lips into mine and it was on from that point. All the little sparks and electricity I felt before was now being fulfilled by the love of my life all over again.

I was going to get what I truly wanted from life, other than being a wrestler, and that's the fact AJ and I were going to get married one of these days. I'm not going to be Brittany Daria anymore. Oh, no, I'm going to Mrs. Brittany Jones!

• Sooooooo... I attached that pic up there of my boos getting down cuz that will ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS be my most fave thing on earth! It's of AJ and Karl, especially, dancing their little booties off 😂 Ugh! I am SO fucking super jealous of Britt now! 😡 *I* want to be the one to marry AJ! Y'all, no joke, I'm 19 and I have dreams of me and the currently 39-year-old AJ Styles getting married. That would be the shit, wouldn't it? 😔 Unfortunately, for me, that will NEVER happen and.. Oh, God, the tears again! 😭 Anyways, um... I just wanted to let u guys kw that I loved this chapter, despite the fact it might of seemed a bit RUSHED, but it's really not. And the part where AJ promises Britt that they'll get married (soon, I may add) is because - c'mon - they've been BEST FUCKING FRIENDS for the past FOURTEEN DAMN YEARS. So, why shouldn't it be rushed? Wouldn't you marry the person you've been in love for the past 14 years as soon as u can b4 they change their mind?! LOLZ, JK, but Ik *I* would! Shit! If AJ GD Styles showed up at my front door, got down on one knee, and proposed to me... Hell, he wouldn't have time to do the last 2 cuz I would have already asked HIM! Anyways... Hehe 😁 Loved this chap! 😘 Wbu?! Let me kw down in the comments and remember to VOTE!!! All the love .xx •