Break Up

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Scene 1

Off Camera

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The UWA Tag Team division is currently being dominated by the reigning world tag team champions, Sophie James and Kimberly Williams of #GingerNation.  Between them and Marie Annabelle Jones, they have held those tag team titles for well over a year.  Recently The Heartbreakers and The Sisterhood both have tried to end their reign but to no avail.  To be perfectly frank, the trio of James, Williams, and Jones are sitting pretty at the top of UWA’s tag team division and they are confident that no one can or will overthrow them anytime soon.

Angelica and Kayla Jones, however, see things differently.

The last time The Sisterhood shared a wrestling ring with The Ginger Nation was in a triple threat match that also involved The Heartbreakers.  The Sisterhood had The Ginger Nation dead to rights when Angelica dropped Kimberly with The Hot Shot.  Unfortunately it was one fall to a finish and Sophie pinned Niles of the Heartbreakers before Angelica could pin Kimberly of Ginger Nation.  Thus Sophie and Kimberly retained the titles.

It was yet another letdown in what both Angelica and Kayla considered to be a lackluster 2016 for The Sisterhood.  Now that 2016 has ended and 2017 is here, they hope to refocus on their goal of once again winning tag team championship gold; in the UWA that means getting in the ring with the Ginger Nation one more time and, ideally, getting a one team on one team world tag team championship match.  Angelica and Kayla are convinced that had The Heartbreakers not been involved, had it not been a triple threat match, then they would’ve beaten the Ginger Nation and they would be the tag team champions today.

Unfortunately that’s a hypothetical scenario that will never come to pass until and unless The Sisterhood can earn a tag team title shot.  Lucky for them, they do have an opportunity to earn that tag title shot in a number one contender’s match on the first edition of Outbreak in 2017.

Their opponents will be Gwen Black and Connor Green.

These two teams are almost diametrically opposites when you look at them.  Angelica and Kayla are a sibling pair, unlike Black and Green.  Black and Green were graduates of the Ante-Up Academy whereas Angelica and Kayla had to rely on the goodwill of others for private lessons.  Angelica and Kayla are veterans whereas Black and Green have not been wrestling near as long as The Sisterhood.  It really does boil down to age and experience against youth and vitality.

SCW Breakdown was in Nashville this week, the city that has been Angelica’s home away from home ever since she broke into the country music industry.  Now that Breakdown has ended the sibling tag team have left the arena and have arrived in their rental car in front of their hotel, the Renaissance Nashville Hotel.  Kayla and Trenton exit the backseat first and then they are followed by Angelica Jones who exits the driver’s side with a wide ear to ear grin on her face.  There is an air of confidence that the sisters seem to give off as Angelica approaches the hotel valet, dropping the keys in his hand so he can go park her car.

Trenton Snow, Kayla’s husband and thus Angelica’s brother-in-law, walks in with the siblings into the lobby of the Renaissance.  It’s just a few hours since SCW Breakdown came to an end and they have changed back into their street clothes; Angelica is wearing denim jeans, black boots, a flame print t-shirt, and a black leather jacket.  Her long red hair hangs down unrestrained to shoulder length.  Her sister Kayla is wearing a floral print frock with quarter sleeves and a hemline that stops just below the knees.  Her feet are encased in black high heeled pumps.

Angelica leads Trenton and Kayla towards the front desk when…

“Angelica!  Angelica!”

The redhead is startled by this strange, unusual voice.  It is unfamiliar.  She turns and doesn’t recognize the voice’s owner as an individual in denim jeans, tennis, a plaid shirt, and thick glasses rushes up to her.  She sighs as she realizes it’s a reporter of some sort.

Angelica smiles politely and waves at this unfamiliar individual who she assumes wants to ask her a bunch of questions.  Kayla, though, is Angelica’s agent in the country music scene.  She has managed her career for quite awhile now and she considers it an obligation, not just as a sister but as her agent, to protect Angelica from these people.

Thus Kayla is seen getting right in between this reporter and Angelica.  Kayla shakes her head.

“No, no questions for her.”

“But…”

“We’ve had a long night.  We’re done for the day.”

The reporter is about to protest but Angelica surprises everyone by stepping up in front of her sister, facing the reporter.

“Actually, Kayla, I think it’s ok.”

Kayla blinks with surprise.

“Are you sure?”

“Positive.”

Kayla sighs and shrugs her shoulders.  Angelica turns her attention to the reporter who is now grinning from ear to ear, seemingly excited about getting this interview.

“Uh, yeah, my name is Andrea and I’m working on a piece about you and Kayla for the Lifezette.”

Angelica furrows her brow in confusion.

“Lifezette?”

“Yeah, it’s a website and…”

“Oh I know what it is.  Laura Ingram is the Editor in Chief.  But since Ingram runs it, I thought it was purely about politics.”

Andrea shakes her head.

“Politics may be our main thing but it is definitely not our only thing.  We have FaithZette and MomZette and PopZette.  I’m writing a piece for PopZette.  And you gotta admit that it makes sense.”

Angelica rolls her eyes.

“How does it make sense?  I’m not a pop star.”

“You are a singer and you are a wrestler.  All in all, you are a great entertainer, Ms. Jones, and I think that makes perfect sense for us to cover you.”

Kayla smirks.

“She makes a good point, sis.”

“Fine, I don’t agree with you but, go ahead.  Ask.”

Andrea nods her head.  She pulls out her iPhone and presses a button to record their conversation.

“How difficult is it to manage being both a wrestler and a country music recording artist?”

“It’s tough and it does create some sleepless nights.  Supreme Championship Wrestling tours all over the world, I also have UWA commitments and GCW commitments.  That’s not to mention the commitments of my singing career, but the singing and the wrestling…”

She smiles warmly.

“…I love it.  They are my passions, so that helps.”

Angelica reaches over and places an arm around her sister’s shoulders.

“Plus it helps that my sister officially manages my singing career! When my sister is my agent in the country music world and my tag team partner in the wrestling world, it makes things so much easier.”

“Do you care to comment on your wrestling career?  You call yourselves The Sisterhood, correct?”

Angelica nods her head.

“Yes, and we just came back from an SCW booking in which we wrestled Vixen Cain and Merrick Wiseman.  In a little less than a week, in our UWA booking, we’ll be facing Gwen Black and Connor Green.  If we can win, we’ll get a shot at the UWA World Tag Team Championship.  And we want this match.  We want it badly.  Our first UWA World Tag Team Championship match ended in disappointment.  We had the current champions, Ginger Nation, dead to rights and would’ve been champions right now had it not been for a little bit of bad luck.  We know we have the Ginger Nation’s number.  We just have to get them in the ring against us.  And if we have to go through Black and Green first in order to get that title shot then so be it.”

Andrea nods her head and shuts off her iPhone before putting it away in her pocket.

“Thank you, Ms. Jones!”

Andrea holds out her hand and Angelica accepts the handshake.

“Good luck to you and your sister!”

“Thanks Andrea, but this time we make our own luck.”

With that, Andrea walks away, ready to write her article.  Angelica smiles as she turns back around to face Kayla.  The younger member of The Sisterhood smirks smugly at the older sibling.

“You must be feeling generous.”

“What do you mean?”

“You’ve never willingly agreed to these random interviews!”

Angelica shrugs her shoulders.

“Maybe I’m softening up?”

“Softening up or not, I think you should stay like this.”

Angelica chuckles as she continues her approach towards the front desk.  Trenton Snow and Kayla are following very closely behind.  They are greeted by a handsome young man with dark black hair and a smile that could swoon most ladies.  He is dressed to kill, as well, in a nice dark navy blue suit and tie with a white button up shirt. There is a reason he works the front desk and that’s because he has the looks.

The trio at the desk, though, are not impressed.  The young man looks up and smiles warmly.

“Yes, my sister and her husband are back for the night.  They’re going to be heading up to the room shortly.”

Angelica slides some cash towards the man.

“Have someone take a bottle of your finest wine to their room.”

He nods his head.

“Of course.”

With that Angelica turns to face Kayla, who frowns, shaking her head.

“You shouldn’t have done that, Angelica.”

“I wanted to.”

Kayla and Angelica embrace in a tight hug.

“Now you and Trenton go on and have fun, ok?  I’ll talk to you tomorrow.”

“Right, tomorrow.”

With that Kayla and Trenton turn and walk towards the elevators.  Angelica meanwhile makes her way towards the exit.  But right before she can get to the exit she hears a jingling sound.  It’s her phone ringing.  She stops dead in her tracks and then produces her phone.  She looks at the screen…it’s a text message.  She gazes curiously at the message.

“…Lindsey?  What are you doing in Nashville?”

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Scene 2

Off Camera

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The skies in Nashville are dark.  The only lights come from the moon and a few overhead street lamps.  Off in the distance is the light of downtown Nashville.  Otherwise it is quite calm and quiet in this usually very active city.  We are in Nashville, but not the downtown area where all of the action and excitement is.  We’re almost on the outskirts of the big city of music.  Wind blows lightly, causing the leaves to rustle on the ground.

Off in the distance we can see a rather large home belonging to someone of wealth.  From the outside this house looks lavish, it has been built with white cedar wood and has oak wooden decorations left over from Christmas.  Tall, large windows brighten up the house and have been added t o the house in a very symmetric way.  The building itself is rectangular shaped. It is fully surrounded by wooden overhanging panels.  The second floor is smaller than the first, which, in combination with its placement, creates an original look.  This floor has a very different style on the floor below.

The roof is high, triangular, but one side is longer than the other and is covered with red roof tiles.  One small chimney pokes out the center of the roof.  A few round, small windows let in enough light to the rooms below the roof.  The house itself is surrounded by a gorgeous garden, including various trees, bushes, flowers, and a large pond.

The same rental car from earlier is seen parked out in front of this large house.  Obviously this is Angelica Jones and that proves to be the case as she exits the car and hurriedly makes her way up the walkway that leads to the front door of this home that happens to be her home.

Yes, Angelica owns this home. She felt it necessary to have a place to stay in Nashville during the weeks she spent in the city recording a new album or on the rare occasions she was blessed and honored with the privilege of singing at the Grand Ole Opry.  Her wrestling career obviously comes first, but she also wants to focus on her singing career as well, and this home allows her to do that.

She loves it in Nashville, not as much as she loves it in her hometown of Boston but she does love it here nonetheless, and she normally wouldn’t be worried about returning to her home here in Nashville.  But the text message she received from her wife Lindsey Carter has her worried.

Lindsey is here in Nashville and, initially, Lindsey wasn’t going to be coming with them to Nashville.  What brings her here to music city?

Immediately upon reaching the front door Angelica reaches for its knob, turns it, and opens the door.  Angelica steps inside and then shuts the door behind her.

“Lindsey!”

“I’m in the living room.”

Angelica turns right and heads towards the living room.  She finds her lovely raven haired wife sitting in the middle of the black leather sofa against a wall opposite of a big screen television set.

“Hi, Linds!”

Lindsey is wearing a cream colored knee length dress with a scoop neckline.  A frown is etched across her face, a direct contrast to the warm grin on Angelica’s face as she approaches the sofa.  Angelica sits down but Lindsey immediately stands up, causing Angelica’s curiosity to peak; and it causes her concern to grow even more.

“Uh, Lindsey?  Are you ok?”

“Not exactly.”

Lindsey Carter makes it a point to keep her back turned to Angelica.  Jones stands up and places her hands on Lindsey’s shoulders.

“Well I did figure that something must be wrong.  You told me that you weren’t coming to Nashville with me, you said that you were going to stay in Boston until I got back.”

“I changed my mind.”

Angelica chuckles lightly, yet nervously.

“Obviously!”

“I don’t think you understand, Angelica.”

The Boston native shakes her head.

“No, I don’t, but that’s just because you haven’t explained anything yet.”

Lindsey turns around.  Tears have formed in her eyes and are starting to roll down her cheek.  Now Angelica’s concern and worries have reached their peak.

“Uh, Linds?  What’s wrong?”

“Angelica, I…”

Lindsey shakes her head.

“…I just can’t take it any longer.  I’m leaving you!”

It could’ve been anything and Angelica could’ve taken it better than this.  Angelica could’ve expected anything; anything but this.  Angelica shakes her head vehemently as if she denies the reality before her right now.

“No Lindsey, no…you can’t mean it, we…”

“Oh come on, Angelica!  Don’t be dumb.  You had to know this was coming eventually and if you didn’t, then maybe you really are dumb.”

She points an accusatory finger at Angelica.

“You tricked me into falling in love with you!  You tricked me into marrying you and you colluded with Meagan Collins into tricking me into signing that nasty prenuptial agreement, you remember it, don’t you?”

Angelica winces.  Lindsey is right about all of these painful truths.  This was done during a time in Angelica’s life she’d like to forget.

“I was a different person, Lindsey…”

“Oh really?  Was that The Dragon?”

Lindsey rolls her eyes.

“Whatever you want to call it, whatever label you want to slap on it, it was still you.  You worked with Meagan to trick me into signing the prenuptial agreement which made me your legal slave, because I couldn’t you.”

She shakes her head.

“I couldn’t leave you because if I did, if we got divorced, Meagan would get full control of Carter Industries.  Either you would control me or Meagan would control my company.  YOU did that, Angelica.”

Now there are real tears forming in Angelica’s eyes as she struggles for words, struggles for a defense.

“But…but we fell for one another…I really did fall for you.”

“Yes, over time you legitimately fell in love with me, and I legitimately fell for you, but did you think I forgot about what you and Meagan did?  Does it change what you and Meagan did?”

Angelica tries to hug Lindsey but she pushes Jones away.

“But Lindsey, we loved each other…”

“Do we?  How often are we together?  I only see you when you’re not wrestling.  And between your SCW commitments, your UWA commitments, your GCW commitments, and being a country music singer, I hardly ever see you!  You are hardly ever home!”

She points a finger at Angelica.

“You are a rock star!  You a superstar!  The world loves you and the world gets to spend time with you but do I get to spend time with you?”

Lindsey shakes her head.

“No...I never get time with you.”

“But Lindsey, please, let me explain…”

“There’s nothing to explain.”

Lindsey turns and walks away from Angelica and out of the living room.  Angelica, seeing her wife walk away from her, goes after her.  Lindsey opens the door and walks out.  Angelica follows her outside.

“Lindsey, wait!”

“I’m leaving you, Angelica.  In the next few weeks I will file for divorce.   Meagan will get my company but…oh well…shit happens.  I should’ve been smarter than to sign that damn paper.”

Lindsey starts to walk away.  Angelica has one last, desperate plea left in her.

“Don’t leave me!  I’ll do anything to make this work!”

Lindsey stops dead in her tracks.

“Anything?”

“Anything!”

Lindsey turns to face Angelica.

“SCW, UWA, GCW, or country music.  Pick one and stick with it!”

Angelica pauses.  She isn’t sure she can make that decision.  She knows she should but she isn’t sure that she can.

“But…I…”

Lindsey sighs and shakes her head.

“That’s what I thought.  Goodbye, Angelica.”

With that, Lindsey turns and walks away.  Angelica drops to her knees and starts to cry…

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On Camera

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We open in front of a UWA logo backdrop.  Angelica Jones is standing in front of that backdrop and her sister, Kayla Jones-Snow, is standing to her left.  The women are stoic as they stare straight ahead into the camera, focused intensely.  Angelica is wearing an elegant shift dress with sheer peasant sleeves and latticework panels. Black stockings run all the way up the dress and they blend in almost perfectly with the black dress itself and the black high heeled pumps that comfortably encase her feet.  Kayla is wearing a lavender tank dress that features a pleated stretch lace bodice and a skirt that flutters at the hem.  Kayla is the first to speak up.

“Sophie and Kimberly are sitting pretty right now.  They think quite highly of themselves, as they should.  They’ve been tag team champions for over a calendar year.  They have beaten every tag team UWA has to offer and even a few SCW had to offer, including Angelica and I.  We could argue that it was a triple threat or that we weren’t pinned, but hey, we won’t make any excuses.  We’re competitors to the core and at the end of the day, a win is a win.  But they’re probably gloating the most over what went down at Against All Odds, the #GingerHoax when they pulled the wool over the eyes of not just the entire UWA, but arguably the entire Triad.”

Kayla and Angelica proceed with sarcastic golf claps.

“Congratulations, ladies.”

Angelica nods her head in agreement.

“Yeah, soak it up while you can, because while you won’t admit it, you know what we know and that’s that The Sisterhood has your number.  We know how to beat you and, if given a one on one shot, without any other teams involved, just us against you two, that we can beat you.  We had you dead to rights on Outbreak but you were lucky that Sophie had covered Niles just a half second before I covered Kimberly.  You are tag team champions right now only because of luck and soon, very soon might I add, that luck is about to run out.”

Kayla smirks.

“That’s right, Angelica, because while you may be the best team in town right now, no one is the best forever.  That is a lesson about this sport that we all have to learn someday.  It’s a hard lesson.  It’s a difficult lesson.  But everyone has to learn that lesson.  It’s your turn to learn that lesson and you will learn that lesson at the hands of either The Sisterhood or Gwen Black and Connor Green.”

Angelica looks over at Kayla with a confused look on her face.

“Don’t you mean that they’ll learn that lesson at the hands of The Sisterhood?”

Kayla frowns.

“We have to earn it first, sis.”

“Oh yeah, I forgot.”

Kayla rolls her eyes before continuing.

“Gwen, Connor, you are Ante Up Alumni and that in and of itself speaks highly of what you two are capable of.  What the Ante Up crew has done in wrestling this past year alone is extraordinary and now you two are looking to take it to the next level and potentially become the tag team champions of the world.  You have a steep hill to climb to do that, and I don’t just mean the Ginger Nation.”

She motions to herself and Angelica.

“You have The Sisterhood to deal with.  We admit that we have not made the kind of impact we wanted to make this past year of 2016 and we damn sure have not made the kind of impact the Ante Up crew has made this past year.  But we’re damn sure ready to make up for it and make that impact in 2017 and this opportunity on the first show of 2017 for UWA’s Outbreak will be our time to make that impact.”

Angelica sighs.

“You’re great athletes, there’s no denying that, and we’ll no doubt have a hell of a match, but understand that Kayla and I have been chasing tag team gold for a very long time and we’re not going to go easy on anyone who stands in our way of achieving that goal.”

Angelica holds up her thumb and index finger very close together.

“We were this close to dethroning the Ginger Nation.  We had them beat but a combination of bad timing and bad luck saved their sorry asses.  That’s why Kayla and I KNOW that we can become UWA World Tag Team Champions.  That’s why we KNOW that we are the team that can dethrone the Ginger Nation.”

She holds up one finger.

“We just need one shot at the titles, one tag title opportunity without anyone else in the way.  Just us…and just the Ginger Nation….”

She points at the camera.

“…but currently, and unfortunately Gwen and Connor, you are in the way.”

Kayla nods her head.

“Yes, and that means one of us has to go.  One of us has to step aside and let the other have that shot at the Ginger Nation.  Can you two honestly say that you can beat Sophie and Kimberly?”

Kayla shrugs her shoulders.

“Maybe you can, but Angelica and I KNOW that we can beat them.  We just have to prove to Helms and Bryant that we deserve the opportunity to once again try and beat them.  And to prove it to them, to earn that shot, we first have to beat you.”

Angelica nods her head in agreement.

“We will fight, we will bleed if we have to, but we will not quit.  We will not stop fighting until that final bell rings and if you do manage to beat us, then good luck and do us a favor will you?  Take those belts off of Sophie and Kim.”

Angelica smirks knowingly.

“But we don’t plan on losing.  We plan on doing everything we can to win.  And then we’re going to move on to face the Ginger Nation and we’ll beat their asses too.”

Kayla slaps her leg.

“Gwen and Connor, but more especially Ginger Nation, get ready, because we’re going to kick your teeth, right down your throat!”