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Off Camera
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The
redheaded Boston native, The Crown Jewel of Professional Wrestling, The Phoenix
Marie Annabelle Jones, enters a park just on the outskirts of Boston,
Massachusetts. She feels a slight breeze
that rustles the leaves making them fall to the solid ground one by one. The park was a scrub of moss and weeds. Used needles lay amidst the shabby greenery,
invisible and able to pierce the common light-weight shoes the children
wear. They had benches, ornamental
trees, flowers year round and water fountains in clear lakes. The air was warm, the beams of sunlight
glowing on Marie’s skin as she makes her way through the grass.
The
beautiful redhead is wearing an ankle length flowing floral print skirt, a
black sleeveless top, and flip flops. Her long red hair hangs unrestrained to
shoulder length. The Crown Jewel of
Professional Wrestling is not walking alone.
With her is her identical twin sister, Kimberly Williams. Kimberly is wearing torn denim jeans, flip
flops, and a black t-shirt.
Marie and
Kimberly are spending some quality time together, time that Marie feels is
necessary considering the troublesome past few weeks. It all started when Marie’s husband, Arthur,
walked out on her. He left Marie due in
large part to Kimberly’s actions as well as Marie focusing too much time on her
wrestling career and not enough time on Arthur; at least, that’s Arthur’s
perspective. Things would get worse when
Kimberly, blaming herself for what appears to be the end of Marie and Arthur’s
relationship, attempted to commit suicide.
Lucky for
the Jones family, paramedics were able to arrive in time to save Kimberly. Still, the moment was scary and made the
entire family, especially Marie, stop and think very carefully about
Kimberly. They want to savor every
moment they have with one another, and Marie wants to try to understand why
Kimberly did what she did.
“You really
are lucky, sis.” Marie remarks.
“Well…” Kimberly’s voice trails off
mockingly “…let’s see, I am a Jones, you’re
my sister, I guess I am lucky…but I still haven’t won the lottery.”
She sighs
with disappointment. “Maybe I’m not so
lucky.”
“Be serious, Kim.” Marie answers back. “You know what I mean.”
“Oh do please divulge!” Kim says with a
grin. Marie, not really impressed,
frowns.
“Your psychiatrist, Dr. Warren, she could’ve
suggested you go back to the institution after that little incident…”
“You mean the whole trying to kill myself
thingy?”
“Yes, that.” Marie sighs deeply. “She could’ve had you put back in the
institution but she allowed you to stay under my care.”
“Yeah, well, maybe I should’ve been locked
up in the loony bin…” Kim’s voice trails off. Marie then stops dead in her tracks. The two sisters face one another.
“Why would you say that, Kim?”
“Do you have to ask?” Kim asks, tears
forming in her eyes. “I mean, if it weren’t
for me, Author wouldn’t have left you.”
“We’ve already been through this.” Marie
insists. “It wasn’t your fault. Hell, it wasn’t my fault, either, even though
he says I should pay more attention to him than to my wrestling career.”
She shakes
her head. “It’s Author’s own fault.”
Marie and
the entire Jones family have been trying to convince Kimberly that Author
leaving Marie wasn’t her fault. But this
statement made by Marie is pretty big. This
has been a big step for Marie to take, for she, much like Kim, has been blaming
herself, at least partially, for the separation. She had begun to consider the very real
possibility that she had been letting her wrestling career take up too much of
her life. And that mindset, perhaps,
caused her to take her mind off of the game and cost her the SCW Television
Championship against Ravyn Taylor.
True, she
could blame the outside interference.
She only lost by disqualification.
But she isn’t going to make excuses.
That’s not the wrestler is or was born to be. She is the type of athlete who will own up to
her mistakes and then move on to the next big challenge.
That next
big challenge will be in the form of Bree Lancaster. She is a former SCW Women’s Champion, SCW
World Tag Team Champion, and a former challenger to the SCW World
Championship. If Marie were to win this
match, she realizes it will catapult her in a big way in the SCW standings.
But more
importantly, Marie will not go into this match blaming herself for Author Pond
or even thinking about Author. She will
be completely and one hundred percent focused on the match against Bree…
…at least
that’s the plan. Marie places an arm
around her sister’s shoulder.
“Listen, Kim. I’ve already decided, if Author wants to be
with me then he has to accept me for who I am and part of me includes YOU and a
big part of me is this business, this whole wrestling business, and if he wants
me, then he was to accept ALL of it, all of me.
I’m not compromising who I am for him.
If that makes me wrong…”
She shrugs
her shoulders “…well I’m sorry, but I’m
wrong.”
Before
anything else can be said Marie’s phone rings.
She produces an iPhone and looks at the number. She sighs and immediately puts the phone
away. Kimberly looks curiously at Marie.
“Who was that?”
“Arthur.”
Kimberly
frowns. “Wait a minute…call him back!”
“Why should I?” Marie asks. “He walked out on me, Kim. If he wants to talk about this NOW…I’ll make
him wait…”
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On Camera
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Obviously that
Television Championship Match didn’t go as planned. I would love to stand here and say that I am
the new SCW Television Champion but thanks to some outside interference that
didn’t happen. But I’m not going to make
excuses, I’m not going to whine or even dwell on the past. I’m looking forward to the future and the
future has Bree Lancaster in my sights. I’m
going to do anything and everything within my power to put myself back not just
in the win column but back in the discussion as a real contender by beating a
former champion. That’s my future…and I’m
ready to open my arms up embrace that future…I’m ready to take that future, to
take that flame and run with it.
It all
starts this coming Breakdown…
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