Post by K.I.S.S. on Aug 28, 2015 21:34:25 GMT -6
Ashley Kenyon sits on a bench at the dog park, her growing puppy, Wolfie, sitting in the grass behind her, his leash attached to the edge of the bench to make sure he can’t just run off after others in the park. As she sits there waiting for somebody, her ex? boyfriend, Billy Hawkes, walks up.
Billy Hawkes: We need to talk, Ash.
As she sees him walking up and hears the words, she just shakes her head and stands up to meet him.
Ashley Kenyon: I guess we do…
Billy can’t believe his ears.
Billy Hawkes: You guess?
Ashley shrugs, looking a million times more annoyed than she did a few seconds before his arrival.
Ashley Kenyon: What is there to talk about? You sound like you’ve already made up your mind regardless of what I say so what’s the point?
The shock almost explodes inside his head.
Billy Hawkes: How can you say that?
She shrugs, crossing her arms.
Ashley Kenyon: Easy, I breathe, move my lips and the vibrations on my vocal cords emit sounds that follow detectable patterns…
Billy’s eyes narrow in confusion, both at her attitude and at her chosen verbiage.
Billy Hawkes: Do… what?
Her arms drop as her eyes roll in exasperation, a metric ton of bad thoughts running through her head at the moment.
Ashley Kenyon: Nothing…
Billy starts to reach out to her.
Billy Hawkes: Ash, really…
She steps back from him.
Ashley Kenyon: What? Seriously, what? You barely talk to me, you tell me we need to take time off from each other and now that you… have decided we need to talk you’re gonna give me shit about how we start it?
Billy tries to find the words but Ashley is too fast for him.
Ashley Kenyon: What’s next, you ask me if I’m high on the same assumption everybody else always makes about me?
Billy is shocked all over again at this question and it’s accompanying tone of voice.
Billy Hawkes: Ash…
She raises a hand to slow him down.
Ashley Kenyon: Seriously… I love you… I…
Her eyes close as does her hand.
Ashley Kenyon: I started to get into heroin with you, watched you struggle with it and then sat there while the doctors tried to decide what was wrong with you, even paid your damn bills…
Billy nods, ashamed and embarrassed.
Billy Hawkes: I know.
Her eyes snap open.
Ashley Kenyon: So what do we need to talk about now?
Billy just nods.
Billy Hawkes: Jezzy, Nik…
Ashley’s eyes practically jump out of her head with outrage.
Ashley Kenyon: Don’t you DARE!
Billy steps back, shocked and a little scared.
Billy Hawkes: Don’t I dare what?
An accusing finger is pointed in his direction.
Ashley Kenyon: Don’t, seriously, I’m not in the fucking mood to deal with you taking their side!
Billy starts to shake his head.
Billy Hawkes: I’m not taking anyone’s side...
Before he can really get into it, Ashley cuts him off.
Ashley Kenyon: You’re supposed to take MY side, Billy! We were supposed to be a united front, the two of us together against the whole damn world!
He nods, trying to calm and placate her.
Billy Hawkes: We were…
Again, she cuts him off abruptly.
Ashley Kenyon: And what changed that?
He stares back at her, racking his brain for the right answer knowing there really isn’t one. Ashley just stares at him, incredulous and expectant.
Ashley Kenyon: Huh?
As Billy continues to just stand there searching and searching for the words that will not come, Ashley crosses her arms again.
Ashley Kenyon: What happened that said you didn’t need me anymore?
Billy finally finds his voice in his disbelief.
Billy Hawkes: What?
She nods to him, her arms dropping back to her sides again.
Ashley Kenyon: I asked you a question first.
Billy just shakes his head, still stunned by her question.
Billy Hawkes: What are you talking about?
Ashley cocks her head in rage.
Ashley Kenyon: Can you not answer a simple question without asking another in return? The fuck, Billy?
His face falls.
Billy Hawkes: I love you, Ash…
She moves up close to him and pokes him in the chest.
Ashley Kenyon: So why does that mean we walk away?
His hands come up in defense as he shakes his head pleadingly.
Billy Hawkes: It doesn’t.
Stepping back, the fury in her eyes almost burns him down right there.
Ashley Kenyon: Like fuck it doesn’t!
Billy’s jaw drops.
Billy Hawkes: Ash…
Ashley is unmoved.
Ashley Kenyon: I explained something to you now you explain something for me. What the fuck happened? Why wasn’t being with me good enough for you anymore?
Billy starts to plead his case.
Billy Hawkes: You were always good enough for me!
Ashley’s accusing finger flies down emphatically.
Ashley Kenyon: Then why aren’t we still together and why are we basically having the bullshit, “It’s not you, it’s me,” talk right now?
Billy stares into her eyes. What was he looking at and what was he seeing there? he takes a deep breath, his own eyes closing as he prepares for the blowback.
Billy Hawkes: Tommy Zeller.
Ashley steps back in shock.
Ashley Kenyon: Tommy… the Furry?
Billy’s eyes open as he nods slightly.
Billy Hawkes: Tedman, yeah…
This time it’s Ashley that can’t believe her ears.
Ashley Kenyon: The fuck? What did I do to…
Billy cuts her off, raising his voice for the first time.
Billy Hawkes: I don’t know and that’s the problem!
Ashley just stares at him.
Ashley Kenyon: What?
Billy manages to nod, trying not to look too accusatory.
Billy Hawkes: I have no idea what you did to him, just that you did something. I’m supposed to be the closest person in the world to you, intimately so…
Ashley stares at him, biting her bottom lip as he tries to look into her soul.
Billy Hawkes: And the fact that I have no idea what you did, where you’re going or who you’re becoming scares the living shit out of me way more than Brody Montgomery’s threats about doing heroin again ever did!
Ash scoffs.
Billy Hawkes: You… scare me, Ash, and I don’t know what to do with that.
Ashley looks back at him, shaking her head.
Ashley Kenyon: I scare you…
Angry tears start rolling down her cheeks.
Ashley Kenyon: Well if that isn’t the fucking pot calling the kettle black! Do you know how often I cried myself to sleep at night scared shitless about you? Do you have any idea…
She starts to look away, shock and disgust still flying through her entire body.
Ashley Kenyon: I used to spend every day hoping we would get a really dangerous job so I would have to really concentrate on that to distract myself from worrying that i would get that phone call about you…
Billy looks away in shame.
Billy Hawkes: Ash…
She raises up her hand and points directly at him again.
Ashley Kenyon: Don’t you dare tell me you’re sorry now! You tell me I might have done one little thing and it’s grounds for what amounts to an annulment and I’m just supposed to accept your apology for putting me in that position for years?
He shrugs apologetically.
Billy Hawkes: What else can I say? I’m sorry I drove you to that. I’m sorry I drove you to Brody and made you…
The accusatory finger leaps into action again.
Ashley Kenyon: Wait, wait, wait, what the fuck?
He nods.
Billy Hawkes: I said I was sorry…
Her moistened eyes almost leap out of her head all over again.
Ashley Kenyon: You’re gonna blame what happened with brody on shit you did a year ago? Are you fucking kidding me?
Billy stands his ground.
Billy Hawkes: How am i supposed to know what to blame it on, Ash? You won’t tell me!
Ashley slamost slaps him, coming up just short of his face.
Ashley Kenyon: I… I won’t tell YOU? You’re the one who told me to give space and now I’m the one who won’t…
She turns around and starts to undo the knot holding Wolfie to the bench.
Ashley Kenyon: You know, I was supposed to be meeting Nikki here but fuck that, I’ll call her and meet her some place else.
Billy puts his hands up again.
Billy Hawkes: No, wait…
She picks up her dog and starts power walking away.
Ashley Kenyon: I hope I never see you again!
Billy stands there, shocked and unable to comprehend what has just happened. As Ashley reaches her car and let’s Wolfie into the back seat, she pulls her phone out and sends off a message to Nikki.
“Change of plans, ran into Billy in the park. Not staying here, meet me at Jameson's instead.”
A second later, the answer comes back.
“Ok.”
As she sits there, she fires up her phone and turns on the camera.
Ashley Kenyon: Right, so i suppose now is when I’m suddenly supposed to think Vince Jones is a wonderful, incredible guy and I can’t wait to team with him against my big sister and the World Champion, right?
She nods already knowing the answer that’s coming back at her.
Ashley Kenyon: Isn’t that what two-faced fake bitches like Vince do?
Shaking her head, she scoffs in disgust.
Ashley Kenyon: I’m supposed to stand up here and suddenly change everything because a few people who used to support me now disagree with me and thus Vince Jones is great, hey, come on Vinnie J, let’s go have some coffee and talk about the suddenly not a Deadbeat Dad while he holds up his belt and goes, “Scoreboard!”
She cocks her head to the left in growing exasperated disgust
Ashley Kenyon: Oh wait, nobody in this match can look at me and go “Scoreboard!” I’ve beaten Dorian, I’ve beaten Vince and pretty soon I’ll get the chance to do the same thing to dear, sweet Bethy too and prove to the whole damn world that the wrong fucking person is in this match with Dorian the Deadbeat! If I have to carry Mr. Barely Cares through this match by myself, fine, people have said i couldn’t do things before so why should this be any different?
Swallowing hard, she looks away, trying not to let the rage just eat her alive.
Ashley Kenyon: I swear to God, I should just walk out there, kick my two-bit loser of a partner’s head off and be done with it. It’s a fucking sacrilege that you get to carry his belt around and it’s a bigger one that you’re getting that world title shot and I’m not! I kicked your ass so bad you had to cheat and then i kicked your ass for cheating me and I took away your belt. You shouldn’t just get handed a chance at another one because you think you’re entitled to bling! I know full well you’re not gonna give a good goddamn about this match, Vince, but I do because we’re walking into the ring with two people who have walked that aisle and actually won the belt you keep parading around in like you bought it at some fashion show that cheap whore dragged you to! I want this chance, Vince, whether you do or not! I want the chance to walk out there and show everybody that my sister should never have better dealed me and that it should be me in the main event all the time!
Glaring into the camera, she nods ever so slightly.
Ashley Kenyon: So why don’t you actually do something worth paying attention to, stop stealing this company’s money, stop living down to every horrid racist stereotype our neighbors all spew about you and show the world you both give a shit and that you deserve to be in that fucking match! Prove me wrong, Vince, please? I’m begging you...
Snorting in revulsion, she exhales heavily.
Ashley Kenyon: Not like it matters, I already know you won’t…
Her disgust knows no bounds.
Ashley Kenyon: Business decisions… God, what a fucking crock!
Billy Hawkes: We need to talk, Ash.
As she sees him walking up and hears the words, she just shakes her head and stands up to meet him.
Ashley Kenyon: I guess we do…
Billy can’t believe his ears.
Billy Hawkes: You guess?
Ashley shrugs, looking a million times more annoyed than she did a few seconds before his arrival.
Ashley Kenyon: What is there to talk about? You sound like you’ve already made up your mind regardless of what I say so what’s the point?
The shock almost explodes inside his head.
Billy Hawkes: How can you say that?
She shrugs, crossing her arms.
Ashley Kenyon: Easy, I breathe, move my lips and the vibrations on my vocal cords emit sounds that follow detectable patterns…
Billy’s eyes narrow in confusion, both at her attitude and at her chosen verbiage.
Billy Hawkes: Do… what?
Her arms drop as her eyes roll in exasperation, a metric ton of bad thoughts running through her head at the moment.
Ashley Kenyon: Nothing…
Billy starts to reach out to her.
Billy Hawkes: Ash, really…
She steps back from him.
Ashley Kenyon: What? Seriously, what? You barely talk to me, you tell me we need to take time off from each other and now that you… have decided we need to talk you’re gonna give me shit about how we start it?
Billy tries to find the words but Ashley is too fast for him.
Ashley Kenyon: What’s next, you ask me if I’m high on the same assumption everybody else always makes about me?
Billy is shocked all over again at this question and it’s accompanying tone of voice.
Billy Hawkes: Ash…
She raises a hand to slow him down.
Ashley Kenyon: Seriously… I love you… I…
Her eyes close as does her hand.
Ashley Kenyon: I started to get into heroin with you, watched you struggle with it and then sat there while the doctors tried to decide what was wrong with you, even paid your damn bills…
Billy nods, ashamed and embarrassed.
Billy Hawkes: I know.
Her eyes snap open.
Ashley Kenyon: So what do we need to talk about now?
Billy just nods.
Billy Hawkes: Jezzy, Nik…
Ashley’s eyes practically jump out of her head with outrage.
Ashley Kenyon: Don’t you DARE!
Billy steps back, shocked and a little scared.
Billy Hawkes: Don’t I dare what?
An accusing finger is pointed in his direction.
Ashley Kenyon: Don’t, seriously, I’m not in the fucking mood to deal with you taking their side!
Billy starts to shake his head.
Billy Hawkes: I’m not taking anyone’s side...
Before he can really get into it, Ashley cuts him off.
Ashley Kenyon: You’re supposed to take MY side, Billy! We were supposed to be a united front, the two of us together against the whole damn world!
He nods, trying to calm and placate her.
Billy Hawkes: We were…
Again, she cuts him off abruptly.
Ashley Kenyon: And what changed that?
He stares back at her, racking his brain for the right answer knowing there really isn’t one. Ashley just stares at him, incredulous and expectant.
Ashley Kenyon: Huh?
As Billy continues to just stand there searching and searching for the words that will not come, Ashley crosses her arms again.
Ashley Kenyon: What happened that said you didn’t need me anymore?
Billy finally finds his voice in his disbelief.
Billy Hawkes: What?
She nods to him, her arms dropping back to her sides again.
Ashley Kenyon: I asked you a question first.
Billy just shakes his head, still stunned by her question.
Billy Hawkes: What are you talking about?
Ashley cocks her head in rage.
Ashley Kenyon: Can you not answer a simple question without asking another in return? The fuck, Billy?
His face falls.
Billy Hawkes: I love you, Ash…
She moves up close to him and pokes him in the chest.
Ashley Kenyon: So why does that mean we walk away?
His hands come up in defense as he shakes his head pleadingly.
Billy Hawkes: It doesn’t.
Stepping back, the fury in her eyes almost burns him down right there.
Ashley Kenyon: Like fuck it doesn’t!
Billy’s jaw drops.
Billy Hawkes: Ash…
Ashley is unmoved.
Ashley Kenyon: I explained something to you now you explain something for me. What the fuck happened? Why wasn’t being with me good enough for you anymore?
Billy starts to plead his case.
Billy Hawkes: You were always good enough for me!
Ashley’s accusing finger flies down emphatically.
Ashley Kenyon: Then why aren’t we still together and why are we basically having the bullshit, “It’s not you, it’s me,” talk right now?
Billy stares into her eyes. What was he looking at and what was he seeing there? he takes a deep breath, his own eyes closing as he prepares for the blowback.
Billy Hawkes: Tommy Zeller.
Ashley steps back in shock.
Ashley Kenyon: Tommy… the Furry?
Billy’s eyes open as he nods slightly.
Billy Hawkes: Tedman, yeah…
This time it’s Ashley that can’t believe her ears.
Ashley Kenyon: The fuck? What did I do to…
Billy cuts her off, raising his voice for the first time.
Billy Hawkes: I don’t know and that’s the problem!
Ashley just stares at him.
Ashley Kenyon: What?
Billy manages to nod, trying not to look too accusatory.
Billy Hawkes: I have no idea what you did to him, just that you did something. I’m supposed to be the closest person in the world to you, intimately so…
Ashley stares at him, biting her bottom lip as he tries to look into her soul.
Billy Hawkes: And the fact that I have no idea what you did, where you’re going or who you’re becoming scares the living shit out of me way more than Brody Montgomery’s threats about doing heroin again ever did!
Ash scoffs.
Billy Hawkes: You… scare me, Ash, and I don’t know what to do with that.
Ashley looks back at him, shaking her head.
Ashley Kenyon: I scare you…
Angry tears start rolling down her cheeks.
Ashley Kenyon: Well if that isn’t the fucking pot calling the kettle black! Do you know how often I cried myself to sleep at night scared shitless about you? Do you have any idea…
She starts to look away, shock and disgust still flying through her entire body.
Ashley Kenyon: I used to spend every day hoping we would get a really dangerous job so I would have to really concentrate on that to distract myself from worrying that i would get that phone call about you…
Billy looks away in shame.
Billy Hawkes: Ash…
She raises up her hand and points directly at him again.
Ashley Kenyon: Don’t you dare tell me you’re sorry now! You tell me I might have done one little thing and it’s grounds for what amounts to an annulment and I’m just supposed to accept your apology for putting me in that position for years?
He shrugs apologetically.
Billy Hawkes: What else can I say? I’m sorry I drove you to that. I’m sorry I drove you to Brody and made you…
The accusatory finger leaps into action again.
Ashley Kenyon: Wait, wait, wait, what the fuck?
He nods.
Billy Hawkes: I said I was sorry…
Her moistened eyes almost leap out of her head all over again.
Ashley Kenyon: You’re gonna blame what happened with brody on shit you did a year ago? Are you fucking kidding me?
Billy stands his ground.
Billy Hawkes: How am i supposed to know what to blame it on, Ash? You won’t tell me!
Ashley slamost slaps him, coming up just short of his face.
Ashley Kenyon: I… I won’t tell YOU? You’re the one who told me to give space and now I’m the one who won’t…
She turns around and starts to undo the knot holding Wolfie to the bench.
Ashley Kenyon: You know, I was supposed to be meeting Nikki here but fuck that, I’ll call her and meet her some place else.
Billy puts his hands up again.
Billy Hawkes: No, wait…
She picks up her dog and starts power walking away.
Ashley Kenyon: I hope I never see you again!
Billy stands there, shocked and unable to comprehend what has just happened. As Ashley reaches her car and let’s Wolfie into the back seat, she pulls her phone out and sends off a message to Nikki.
“Change of plans, ran into Billy in the park. Not staying here, meet me at Jameson's instead.”
A second later, the answer comes back.
“Ok.”
As she sits there, she fires up her phone and turns on the camera.
Ashley Kenyon: Right, so i suppose now is when I’m suddenly supposed to think Vince Jones is a wonderful, incredible guy and I can’t wait to team with him against my big sister and the World Champion, right?
She nods already knowing the answer that’s coming back at her.
Ashley Kenyon: Isn’t that what two-faced fake bitches like Vince do?
Shaking her head, she scoffs in disgust.
Ashley Kenyon: I’m supposed to stand up here and suddenly change everything because a few people who used to support me now disagree with me and thus Vince Jones is great, hey, come on Vinnie J, let’s go have some coffee and talk about the suddenly not a Deadbeat Dad while he holds up his belt and goes, “Scoreboard!”
She cocks her head to the left in growing exasperated disgust
Ashley Kenyon: Oh wait, nobody in this match can look at me and go “Scoreboard!” I’ve beaten Dorian, I’ve beaten Vince and pretty soon I’ll get the chance to do the same thing to dear, sweet Bethy too and prove to the whole damn world that the wrong fucking person is in this match with Dorian the Deadbeat! If I have to carry Mr. Barely Cares through this match by myself, fine, people have said i couldn’t do things before so why should this be any different?
Swallowing hard, she looks away, trying not to let the rage just eat her alive.
Ashley Kenyon: I swear to God, I should just walk out there, kick my two-bit loser of a partner’s head off and be done with it. It’s a fucking sacrilege that you get to carry his belt around and it’s a bigger one that you’re getting that world title shot and I’m not! I kicked your ass so bad you had to cheat and then i kicked your ass for cheating me and I took away your belt. You shouldn’t just get handed a chance at another one because you think you’re entitled to bling! I know full well you’re not gonna give a good goddamn about this match, Vince, but I do because we’re walking into the ring with two people who have walked that aisle and actually won the belt you keep parading around in like you bought it at some fashion show that cheap whore dragged you to! I want this chance, Vince, whether you do or not! I want the chance to walk out there and show everybody that my sister should never have better dealed me and that it should be me in the main event all the time!
Glaring into the camera, she nods ever so slightly.
Ashley Kenyon: So why don’t you actually do something worth paying attention to, stop stealing this company’s money, stop living down to every horrid racist stereotype our neighbors all spew about you and show the world you both give a shit and that you deserve to be in that fucking match! Prove me wrong, Vince, please? I’m begging you...
Snorting in revulsion, she exhales heavily.
Ashley Kenyon: Not like it matters, I already know you won’t…
Her disgust knows no bounds.
Ashley Kenyon: Business decisions… God, what a fucking crock!
