"Joe!" I yelled as I pounded on his door. He wouldn't answer.
"Yo, man! Open the door!" Colby yelled.
I heard the chain pull off and Joe pulled all three of us inside.
"Are you guys insane? Do you want to wake up the entire hotel?"
"You should have answered the door." Jon said before plopping down on one of the beds.
"What are you guys doing here anyways?"
I held up some Oreos and ice cream. "We come bearing gifts."
"Is this about the Rumble? I told you guys I'm fine. We need to go to bed because we have to leave in a couple of hours."
"We can take turns driving or something." Colby said as he set down his snacks and sat next to Jon.
Joe looked at me. "I'm guessing this was your idea?"
"I can see that you aren't ok."
"I told you I was fine."
"But you're not. Why don't we just forget about the Rumble, watch a crappy movie and eat a ton of junk food?"
He sighed. "Fine, but you owe me one."
He walked into the room and I set my stuff down. I looked to see Joe on the bed with Jon and Colby. They started attacking each other with pillows and laughing. All grown men that acted like children. I tried to contain my laughter as I pulled out my phone and pointed it in their direction.
"Say Tumblr!"
They all three looked at me. Jon smiled a cheesy grin, Colby looked somewhat embarrassed and Joe looked a bit angry. I snapped the photo and smiled.
"Well, this is being tweeted."
"No, wait!" All three boys said in sync.
I laughed at their worried expressions. "I'm kidding."
The relaxed a bit and they laid back down on the bed.
"Hey, Joe?"
"Yeah?"
"Seeing as you three are all down and these are pretty big beds, can I practice that move you taught me today?"
"No, I don't..."
Jon got excited. "You taught her a wrestling move?!"
"He did."
"Well, go ahead."
I smiled and got on the other bed.
"You're going to jump on us from the other bed? I really don't think this is safe." Colby said, worried and skeptical.
"I have to agree with Colby on this, Eve." Joe said.
"Boys, it will be fine. Evanna here is going to be the next WWE Diva. She needs the practice." Jon said smiling.
Colby and Joe cringed as I jumped from the bed and slammed myself onto the three boys.
"1, 2, 3!" I heard Jon yell.
We all laughed and I climbed off the bed. I must have landed on it the wrong way because as I stood, a pain shot up my entire leg.
"Ow!" I fell and grabbed onto the bed for support.
"Evanna!" I heard all three boys say before they jumped off the bed and came over to me.
"I'm fine. I must have just landed on it wrong or something." I went to stand but as soon as I stepped on my foot, I yelled in pain. All three boys caught me as I fell.
"I'll get you some ice. You must have twisted it when you landed on the bed." Colby said as he went to get ice.
Joe picked me up and laid me on the bed. Colby put the ice on my ankle. We ate some snacks and watched a movie. We fell asleep during it. Me in one bed, Joe and Colby in the other and Jon fell asleep on the floor. I think distracting Joe from the Rumble was a success.
"Evanna?" I heard in the middle of the night. I opened my eyes to see Joe lying next to me.
"Hey, what's up?"
"Can we talk?"
I looked over at the clock on the bedside table. "It's 3:30 a.m. Can't it wait until morning?"
"3:30 is in the morning."
"Well, then, later in the morning."
"Ok." He said, looking sad and dejected.
"Ok, wait. Let's go out in the hall. I don't want to wake up Jon and Colby."
I stood up and carefully stepped over Jon's sleeping figure before following Joe out into the hall. The bright light of the hallway hurt my eyes as I stepped out the door.
"What did you want to talk about that couldn't wait?"
"I just wanted to thank you for last night. It meant a lot to me that you would got through all that trouble to distract me. So, thank you."
"It's no problem. I was happy to do it. Just the thought of you wallowing in what happened gave me enough of a reason."
"That's actually what I wanted to talk to you about. I'm scared about today. I know I said I was fine but the truth is, I'm scared out of my mind."
"Joe..."
"Look, I didn't bring you out here to give me pity. I just needed someone to talk to and you're the only one I think I can talk to about this. I don't think I could ever go to Colby or Jon about this stuff. I know that this comes with the territory but I'm scared. With The Shield, we were booed but we had each other. But now, it feels like I'm facing this alone. And that scares me more than getting booed does. I'm scared of the fans. What if they hate me so much that they get physical? It has happened before to other wrestlers. I'm just so scared and alone."
I had never seen this side of Joe before. He was so terrified of what might happen and it hurt me to see him like this. I tried to keep my tears in as I spoke. "You aren't alone. You have me. I'll always be here for you. If the majority of the fans are booing you, I'll still be here rooting for you, no matter what."
His eyes that were still cast to the ground finally looked up at me. He reached up and wiped away some tears that had fallen down my face.
"Promise?"
"Promise."
Joe then gave me a genuine smile and I was so happy that I go him to smile that I started crying again. Joe pulled me into a hug and we just stood like that for a while. I heard the door open and we both looked to see Jon and Colby looking half awake.
"See Jon? I told you they couldn't have gone far."
"What are you two doing up?" Joe asked.
Jon rubbed his eyes. "Looking for you two. Colby was worried."
"What? No, I wasn't. You were."
"No, I'm pretty sure you were the one that woke me up to go looking for them."
Colby looked appalled. "You woke me up, Jon. Don't turn things around."
"Whatever." Jon said before looking at me. "Have you been crying?"
I hurriedly wiped my tears away. "No."
"Liar. You are a worse liar than Colby."
Colby slapped Jon in the back of the head before turning to me. "What happened out here?"
"It's nothing. Let's just all go back to bed." I told them before going into the room.
They didn't come in immediately but I watched as Jon hit the bed soon enough and Colby followed suit. Which left Joe to the floor. He shook his head but got down on the floor in the middle of the two beds.
"Hey, Joe?"
"Yeah?"
"There is room up here."
"You sure?"
"Yeah. You can sleep here."
Joe stood and started to crawl into bed next to me but I watched as Jon pushed Joe out of the way and took his spot.
"Jon, what the..."
"I'm sleeping here. I don't think a man that might feel an attraction towards a pretty girl like Evanna should sleep in the same bed as her. I feel no attraction towards her so I should be the one to sleep here."
"Thanks, Jon." I rolled my eyes.
Joe looked to me and I just shrugged. Joe put up his hands and got in the other bed. I heard Jon start to snore. I looked over Jon and saw Joe trying to keep in laughter. I just shook my head and fell asleep.