Post by Nick Knight on Jul 2, 2020 3:40:26 GMT
Nick Knight sits all alone in the locker room desperately trying to catch his breath. A mixture of blood and sweat drips from his face and pools between his feet. The smell of burning lighter fluid and singed hair still fills his nostrils. He reaches down into his bag, obviously in agony after his war with Abraxes, and picks up a towel. Carefully he wipes his face, the white towel quickly turning crimson.
Letting out a long sigh Nick picks up his cellphone and dials his most recent contact. She answers after only one ring. "Are you ok?"
"I'm beat to shit, but I'll live. It'll take someone a hell of a lot tougher than a freak in a Halloween mask to take me out," Nick answers.
"I watched the match and I was fucking petrified the entire time Nicky. Please promise you won't do something like that again."
"Penny I told you I didn't want JC to watch for a reason,"Knight snaps at his ex. Rage instantly taking the place of his sheer exhaustion.
"He's over at a friend's house," she defended herself. "I sat and watched it by myself and I was scared shitless the entire time."
"I'm sure it looked a lot worse that it really was," he says, trying to calm her down.
"You beat the shit out of each other with a chair wrapped in barbed wire and jumped off of a fifteen foot tall stage through a table that you set on fire!"
"Alright maybe it didn't look worse,"he says, with a chuckle.
"How can you even joke about this shit?"
"I'm sorry if I upset you. Tonight was about getting a job done, and I did."
"So what are you going to do now Nicky?"
"I'm going to go get cleaned up and have the trainers check me over. A couple of my cuts are kind of deep. Then I'm going to check myself into the hospital for a few days," he answers.
"Do you think that's going to do any good?"Nick could hear the accusation in her voice. She really was asking if a few days in the nut house would keep him from doing something stupid again.
"It'll be better than trying to do this shit on my own. Trust me I've been down this road before." It wasn't the answer she was looking for, but it was the truth.
"Take care of yourself Nicky. JC needs you in his life."
"And I need him in mine. Why don't you come to Corpus Christi next week? I'd love to see you guys."
"I'm in the middle of a big project and really can't get away. In fact...shit I'm late for a meeting. I gotta go Nicky."
"Alright I’ll see you in a couple of weeks."
Nick hangs up the phone and starts to cry. The tears like rivers through the blood stain on his face. He hurt mind, body, and soul. Talking to Penny just showed him how big of an idiot he had been the past week. He let his ego get in the way of the relationships he was trying to repair.
Letting out a long sigh Nick picks up his cellphone and dials his most recent contact. She answers after only one ring. "Are you ok?"
"I'm beat to shit, but I'll live. It'll take someone a hell of a lot tougher than a freak in a Halloween mask to take me out," Nick answers.
"I watched the match and I was fucking petrified the entire time Nicky. Please promise you won't do something like that again."
"Penny I told you I didn't want JC to watch for a reason,"Knight snaps at his ex. Rage instantly taking the place of his sheer exhaustion.
"He's over at a friend's house," she defended herself. "I sat and watched it by myself and I was scared shitless the entire time."
"I'm sure it looked a lot worse that it really was," he says, trying to calm her down.
"You beat the shit out of each other with a chair wrapped in barbed wire and jumped off of a fifteen foot tall stage through a table that you set on fire!"
"Alright maybe it didn't look worse,"he says, with a chuckle.
"How can you even joke about this shit?"
"I'm sorry if I upset you. Tonight was about getting a job done, and I did."
"So what are you going to do now Nicky?"
"I'm going to go get cleaned up and have the trainers check me over. A couple of my cuts are kind of deep. Then I'm going to check myself into the hospital for a few days," he answers.
"Do you think that's going to do any good?"Nick could hear the accusation in her voice. She really was asking if a few days in the nut house would keep him from doing something stupid again.
"It'll be better than trying to do this shit on my own. Trust me I've been down this road before." It wasn't the answer she was looking for, but it was the truth.
"Take care of yourself Nicky. JC needs you in his life."
"And I need him in mine. Why don't you come to Corpus Christi next week? I'd love to see you guys."
"I'm in the middle of a big project and really can't get away. In fact...shit I'm late for a meeting. I gotta go Nicky."
"Alright I’ll see you in a couple of weeks."
Nick hangs up the phone and starts to cry. The tears like rivers through the blood stain on his face. He hurt mind, body, and soul. Talking to Penny just showed him how big of an idiot he had been the past week. He let his ego get in the way of the relationships he was trying to repair.
Well howdy there pardner.