— Three Days Later —

It's now finally Friday and everything seems to be looking up for me. Usually, God does have that effect on me. Nevertheless, it's been a busy couple of days for not only myself, but AJ Styles, too.

The night of SmackDown when it went off, AJ and I went back to our hotel to get a good's night rest, which we got, thankfully. Then, as soon as we met Wednesday morning, we were back on the road heading to the next place on the tour.

Wednesday, AJ had an interview to do while I stood back and let him to do it. However, he told me to join him and did something surprising – which was that he allowed me to sit on his lap and he wrapped his muscular arms around me to secure my safety.

Thursday, we had a free day, thankfully. So, we went out to town in Los Angeles, California, where the coming-up RAW is at, and got yogurt at one of the local shop and took pictures with some local fans.

Today, more like this evening, I began to scroll through Twitter and seen where people had tagged both and myself in posts. It was actually pictures of us today in town. Some were of the fans we took pictures with and the others were taken from a distance.

People wrote with them: OMG, are they dating now? I know that they flirt and have been best friends for a long time now, but is there finally something else going on now that AJ's divorced and single?

Another post was with a picture taken at the interview yesterday where I was apparently not looking at him at the moment, but he was looking up at me with a gleam in his eyes. The person wrote with it: Wow, just look at the way he looks at her! It's like he's seeing a whole new world with her. Maybe he is falling for her, after all. I want somebody to look at me like that.

I glanced around each of my shoulders to make sure AJ wasn't in the hotel room with me and still in the bathroom, which seemed to be so. So, I quickly saved the picture attached to my phone from that latest post. I'm not saying it was an accident, but maybe and possibly I just accidentally liked her post. That's all, I swear.

When I heard the bathroom door open and the light fall onto the ground above it, I quickly exited out of my Twitter app and sit my phone down on the bedside table with a thud. AJ came out of the bathroom and shut off the light, of course, and made his way to his bed.

He had a towel in his hand as he was still trying to get his hair dried a little more. However, he had some black gym shorts on and was completely shirtless with water still slowly trailing down his skin. I watched, but not in a stalking or drooling way, either. He seen that I was and smiled, which warmed my heart completely.

"Like what you see, perhaps?" AJ began to tease me, which kind of threw me off completely. He kept on smiling, showing he was just kidding, of course.

Finally, he tossed the towel onto the desk provided with the hotel and began coming towards me. He threw himself onto the bed I was currently sitting on the edge of and huffed, rubbing his face.

"You alright?" I asked of him, just to make conversation and to see what his problem was now. I peered over my shoulder to watch him.

He kept rubbing his face until he finally just let his hair fall back and glare up at me. "Nope, I'm good," he replied with a small grin. "What about you? Are you good, too?"

I opened my mouth to reply just as I was also about to nod, but I froze right in place and lowered my head and shut my mouth. The truth of the matter was that I wasn't all good and shit. I still had a problem with him. Well, not initially with him, but with the whole storyline as a whole that we apparently have to start this coming-up week.

My hands fell into my lap as my head was still hanging low. I felt AJ move on the bed until I felt his one hand caressing both of mine. I slowly began to look up him, suddenly feeling all insecure and depressed.

He seemed to be demanding eye contact, so I finally allowed it, but it still didn't seem convinced. "Hey, Britt," he breathed this out and have himself a moment to pause between sentences. "What's wrong?"

I opened my mouth to reply, but fell short and clammed my mouth shut again. I shook my head and hoped that was a sign towards him that I didn't want to talk about it.

That was truth, after all. This whole storyline coming up was really starting to stress me out, but I had to fight through it. I kind of already fell like brought this on myself, anyways. I'm the one that asked Shane McMahon for AJ and I to start teaming-up again. I brought this madness on myself, after all.

"Britt," he spit out my name and I looked up at him again. "Whatever it is, you can tell me. You know that, right?"

I blinked a couple of times and licked my lips. Obviously, I'm more nervous than I thought I was going into this. I knew I could talk to AJ about almost anything at all. He's been my best friend and partner-in-crime for the past fourteen years, anyways. Really, when you think about it, he's the longest relationship I have ever had with a man – without all the glorious benefits, of course.

Finally, I let out a very desired sigh and nodded. "Yeah, I know I can," I admitted, feeling the heat enter my cheeks. It did so much that my eyes started to water like I was literally on fire right now.

"Then, what is it that's got you so emotional right now?" I felt his hand squeeze the knuckles of my hands tighten and that's when I felt he pressure getting to me.

"It's just that... I don't know, AJ. I just don't—" I cut myself off short and took a moment to think over what I'm about to say to him. I wanted them to be sincere, but real in all the same sense. So, I tried to suck it up as I stated right in his eyes. "I'm just nervous about having this on-screen relationship with you and all. I don't even know where you stand with all of this. I get that we're taking orders from Shane and everything, but... I just don't want it to look fake and unperfected, y'know?"

He nodded and began to say, "Yeah, I get what you mean. With kissing, right?" I nodded. "Well, we could—"

"And, AJ, we've been through absolutely everything together in the past fourteen years of friendship and I just don't want us to experience our first kiss together to be apart of this story," I suddenly cut him off and poured out only half of my heart to him. He stayed frozen, so I knew I had to explain further. "Sorry, it's just that I don't want to mess up, either. Could we try our best to be professional about this please?"

With that said and out of the way, AJ began to nod, but he still seemed kind of confused. I was out of options at this point. "Well, I was going to say a minute ago that we could, um" —he paused just so he could cough— "maybe try to do it now before then outside of the ring, so it'll feel more real on-screen."

Oh. "Well, uh, yeah. Sure," I muttered out, now feeling completely lost and totally blind. I gulped and felt the pressure definitely now more than ever. Oh, my God. Wait... You just agreed to kiss him, Britt! Are you even ready for this shit?! No! But... Dammit!

Maybe I'm just working myself up a little too much for no reason at all. I asked AJ just a minute ago that if we keep this professional and he agreed, but now I'm the one not being so professional about this.

I had always pictured us kissing for the first time. I just didn't picture it to be here in this hotel room in L.A. I thought that it would be a little more romantic and passionate, like something we have both wanted for a long time. As far as I'm concerned, I'm the only one here in the party of two that's ever desired it. It's just insane to even think about doing it with him now.

"So, we're really doing this, right?" AJ's sudden sexy southern accent interrupted my thought process going on. I didn't mind, of course, but the question made me sweat more.

I nodded and gulped. "Sure," I finally agreed, biting down on my bottom lip. I did it so much that I thought it was going to bleed out before we could do this.

"Alright. Well, let's do it, then," he slowly said out, which scared me more than I thought it would. I took a deep breath before anything could happen, though.

But, then, he began to lean in and I knew that I would have to catch up with him if I was going to in sync with him throughout this little moment, as to say. I closed my eyes and let my wondering lips to do the rest until they were suddenly touched by an angel.

AJ's lips crashed into mine like a straight-line wreck and they stayed together for ten seconds to be exact because I counted it up in my mind. I enjoyed every little second of it, of course, along with all the many fireworks, sparks, and the butterflies entering into my tummy right now. I wanted more, though. Now!

Now that we were apart, I sat there almost paralyzed in motion with a very wondering mind. As for AJ, however, he was frozen like me, but he gave me a look that we ended up sharing for a few seconds.

Before I knew it, he raised his right hand to my cheek and pulled my face back towards his. Again, our lips crashed together like a car accident. It surprised the hell out of me. This time around, however, he gave in more force and passion. I gave in very easily, of course. The only hard part was how I would keep up.

We began to fall back on the bed, but kept it going like nothing had ever happened. It seemed, as if, we were really making-out. Then, I felt him pull me again, but to where I was on top of him now. I'm hovered over him, still not about to break this off, and I feel him touching me like he's never done before with his hands all on my back and ass, at one point. While still on top of him, I feel his hands slip their way up the back of my shirt to where his hands were now wondering up back there.

I'm still kissing him when I only have a real short second of freedom. "Oh, AJ," I moaned into the kiss and his mouth. I kind of regret saying that, but I couldn't help myself. He started this shit – not me this time. Nevertheless, he seems to actually be enjoying this and himself.

His hands in the back reached my bra when I heard him utter, "Wait," but I didn't think anything of it until I was being flung off of the bed to where I landed on my knees on the ground next to the bed. He just totally threw me off of him without warning!

"I'm...," he tried to stammer out with a small gulp. "I'm sorry, Britt. I didn't mean for it to go that far or to throw you off of me. I just, uh..."

He then got off of the bed and extended his hand towards me. I accepted his friendly offer and allowed him to pull me up. When he did, his right arm wrapped around my back while his left hand laced its fingers with mine. It would seem that this is the position to slow dance, to be honest.

His hair had fallen back in front of his face, but as I leaned in again and our foreheads touched, I could still see his same old eyes on mine.

I bit down on my bottom lip and tried to hold myself back as best as I could, but it wasn't enough. Because I wrapped my arms around his neck and slowly – and very passionately – placed our lips back together again. It wasn't as rough as it was before because now it was more slow and settle.

My eyes were, of course, closed during all of this, but when I opened them just to sneak a peek at AJ — I seen that his eyes were closed and he seemed to be enjoying this as much as I did.

Nevertheless, I closed my eyes again and just let the motions run deep until he didn't want them to anymore. Most importantly, I finally let it sink in that I had kissed and made out with AJ Styles in one single night once and for all.

• One emoji can describe this, I think, and that would be "🔥" because HOLY FLAMES, THAT WAS AWESOME!!! Now, I'm not saying that they are officially together or whatever because – c'mon – it's way too early for that ish, BUT this had to happen and I regret nothing tonight, ladies and gents (maybe?). These little author notes at the end here may not be a very REGULAR thing because I'm starting something new with my stories where the chapters should speak for themselves for now on. For the last chapter, I just HAD to say something, and that goes with this one as well, too. Anyways, I hope it's been good ☺️ There's more to come, though, my lovelies... All the love .xx •