[ You'd be surprised malls in Japan aren't all to differnt then shopping malls in the United States. Ok so maybe this shouldn't be a suprise sadly enough to Skylar Black it is. Or maybe she was just so happy to be out and about that she was delerious. Either way she is doing something that she is great at shopping. Skylar is out Pearl Plaza taking in all the beaty of the garden by the food court. Sitting alone in a corner booth eating fresh water eel sushi she looks peaceful. She looks across the table at a few of her bags then reaches for her Gap bag and says aloud.]
Skylar Black: "Wow..who would have thought they actually have The Gap here...hmmm."
[ In the background , stepping through the calm sea of people a tall , blonde haired man stops where he stands to take his hair down and shake his head a little , letting it find it's place cascading over his shoulders. From the leather pants , leather boots and tight AWA t-shirt Alex Wilkins flashes like a beacon. Having just gotten off the tube he's feeling a little cramped and shakes himself loose before he continues his walk. A certain bounce in his step as he grins to himself , just before he walks past Miss. Black he lets it melt off his face into a friendly smile. He walks an extra three or four steps past and "accidentally" kicks a chair leg , giving him an excuse to turn around and face her while he moves the chair back into place with an annoyed sigh. A bit startled Skylar jumps and gasps.]
Skylar Black: "My goodness are you ok?"
[ Alex laughs a little , smiling to light his face up , the very picture of an Angel when he so desires.]
Alex Wilkins: "Ock. It's nothing , I was just in a world of my own."
[ nodding her head and returning his smile with an angelic one all her own. Skylar sweetly responds.]
Skylar Black:"Oh it's ok..I get like that alot. Infact I used to all the time when I was a little girl. My grand-papi always said that sometimes I wouldn't respond unless they called me princess Sky....ah...the things we as kids ."
Alex Wilkins: "That's adorable. I tended to answer to 'Trouble' , 'Oii You' and 'Get outta my flower beds' for the most part. Boys will.. as they say.. be Boys."
Skylar Black: "Very true...it's not like boys are made from sugar and spice...lol...So..I'm assuming that you are not local..correct?"
[ She paused then took a bit of her sushi.]
=Alex smiles again and playfully points at the AWA logo on his t-shirt.
Alex Wilkins: "Not by a few thousand miles , atleast. Although , I spent years out here wrestling in the nineties."
Feeling a bit embarassed Skylar blushes. ]
Skylar Black:"Ofcourse...I should have recongized that you have an AWA t shirt on. Please forgive me...Normally peanut would be the first to pick up on something like that. But since he's back home in Florida...well...I guess the obvious wasn't so obvious to me..."
[ placing down her fork and softly wiping her mouth with a napkin.skylar place it down. And extends her hand. to Alex.]
Skylar Black:"Please for give my rudeness....I'm Skylar Black."
[ Alex takes Skylar's hand and shakes it gently , shaking his head dismissively.
Alex Wilkins: "Alex Wilkins. Don't worry about it. I'm only just getting back on the road after some time off."
Skylar Black: "Oh...It's just not very southern to not introduce yourself properly upon your first meeting. But you coming back..Wow...how exciting. You must barely be able to contain yourself. I know I can't..it's my frist tour to Japan with AWA and there are so many things I want to do here...there are so many botanitcal gardens and shows museams and such....I just hope I get some free time."
[ She said as she sips her water.]
Alex Wilkins: "I wouldn't worry about that. A company this size will come back a couple of times a year. Besides , it's a different pace of life out here. Another trick is not leaving your cellphone number with the office , that way they can't call you up and pull you in for photo shoots and so on."
Alex gestures towards a chair.
Alex: "D'ya mind ?"
Skylar Black:"Not at all..please..please..sit...But I don't understand the phone number thing. I actually like doing the photo shoots. It lets' me give something back to my fans. you know to show them how much their love and supoort mean to me. I don't mind that sort of thing. Did you eat yet?"
[ After asking that question Skylar immediatly looks around the room for a waiter.]
[ Sitting down , Alex wriggles his shoulders a little bit looking uncomfortable.
Alex Wilkins: "No , but I'm having dinner with somebody later. Business matters , in a sense. Fund appropriation and placements. Hardly my idea of a rockin' good time , but important never the less."
Skylar Black:"Oh, a charity?"
[ She asks while she raised her cup of tea. Holding it so gentley in her hand and slowly siipping it then places it down.]
Skylar Black: "My Good Lord that was a smidge hot..woah..."
Alex smiles again , looking playfully amused. After another session of shoulder wriggling he finally plunges his hand down the back of his neck and searches for something.
Alex Wilkins: "Not so much a charity as a cause , I suppose."
[ With a soft "Ahh" Alex's hand comes out from this t-shirt and pulls with it a very small golden medallion and a plain golden crucifix , both on the same thin golden chain. He pulls them round and drops them to hang infront of his chest.
Alex Wilkins: "Must've gotten thrown about on the tube over here."
[ leaning in closer to take a look she reaches out for them.]
Skylar Black:"That's beautiful...so are you religous? So what's this fun appropriation about? do you donate money to it or have to like bake cookies for it?"
[ Alex lifts the chain with a finger to bring them closer to her hand.
Alex Wilkins: "I don't scream about it from the mountain tops usually , but yeah. I try to atleast visit a church for a few minutes if we stop somewhere over-night. That ones a St. Christopher , patron saint of - among other things - travellers. I keep it with me on the road. It's only a few months younger then I am. My date of birth and the date I was baptized are engraved on the back. It's quirky , maybe , but I like it."
[ admiring it Skylar smiles she lets the chain go and sits back in her chair. As she looks very impressed. Suddenly she undoes the top button on her shirt and pulls out a chain with a emblem on it. Again leaning back over the table towards alex.]
Skylar Black: "This one is Saint jude the patron saint of lost causes. My gran gave it to me when I was six because she said that I've always shown love to animals and want to help people who are in need of a friendly face.
My dog peanut has one of saint francis the patron saint of animals."
[ She said calmly and looking very interested at Alex. Alex lifts it with a finger to study for a moment , pushing his lips to one side. He lets it go and resumes eye contact with Skylar , smoothing over his beard with his right hand before he nods his head.
Alex Wilkins: "It's very nice. You'd be surprised how many people go into shock when they spot these , it's why I tend to keep them inside my clothing."
Skylar Black: "Why do they go into shock?"
Alex laughs a little and hesitates for a split second , looking for the right words.
Alex Wilkins: "I may have been somewhat of a tear-away in my youth... and my teens... and my young adulthood... and a lil' bit in my mid-twenties."
[ A bit confused Skylar squints her eyes as she is very engaged in the conversation.]
Skylar Black: "A tear-away? Meaing that you were an outlaw? A bad seed?"
Alex: "Sex , Drugs and Rock & Roll might be the phrase to describe it. My fault , really. I got into the business when I was 16 and was touring by 18. I ended up latching onto the wrong kind of people to get myself more work. Next thing you know I'm sitting in the back bedroom of a Wrestling House in Tokyo with coccaine all over my face and just enough money in my pocket to get myself to the next show so I could afford some more. Then when I ended up collapsing in the ring , my friends weren't so eager to be seen with me. Something of a wake-up call , you can imagine."
[ Feelling sorry for him Skylar touches his hand.]
Skylar Black: "Oh my goodness you poor man...! What a rough life you lived...But don't worry you seem to be on the right track now and atleast you have found and made peace with our Lord and Savior. You did the right thing...I wish more men could be strong like you and take from your example and learn then apply it to their own."
[ Skylar paused as a grin comes over her face like a light bulb just went off inside her head.]
Skylar Black: "I have an idea actually....I could use your help on..that is if your not busy. I'm sure you have your appoints and all. and I don't want to keep you from them."
[ Alex screws up his nose for a second and grins , showing all his teeth.
Alex: "I've got dinner tonight , but otherwise I've kept myself pretty available. With all the rehab I did on my shoulder I could do with some time outta the gym."
[ excited Skylar claps her hands.]
Skylar Black: "Oh...good to know...the guy I'm trying to help now has a drug problem, and I feel our biggest problem is he can't relate to me. Because I've never done drugs in my life. I barely don't drink wine...well unless it's at a wedding. And I don't sleep around..."
[ Skylar hold up her right hand and points to the silver ring on her ring finger.]
Skylar Black: "Because I'm part of the silver ring soceity..we believe sex before marriage is just wrong....you should only fornicate when you want to procreate. Anyway..Mike can really understand me all the time...he thinks I'm a good church girl that has never done a bad thing. But if he see's how you have refrormed...maybe he'll feel there is hope for him yet, and then he can be a better father, brother, son and all around great person I know he can be.!"
[ Alex looks at the ring for a second and nods his head once to acknowedge it.
Alex Wilkins: "Well , I'm not sure how gleaming an example I am of a great person , but I've got a couple of little girls at home now who seem to think I'm a good egg. So I suppose I'm doing something right. I'd be glad to give it a try for you. What's he on this.. sorry.. Mike , was it ? I've taken a few thousand blows to the head in my time."
Skylar Black: "Awe, how sweet you have little girls...their just the best. The pretty clothes to buy them...the daddy daughter dances the little trips to camp..how cute. Mike has a daughter as well named patience. she is a little doll I adore her..maybe your girls could come and play with her..while you talk to mike. And show him while the road isn't easy it can be done! He needs to stop drinking and taking GHB, and Xtasy, I think he's done alot of LSD..or atleast that what Rick said he had take
[ Alex tents his fingers and presses his index fingers to his lips for a second.]
Alex Wilkins: "Well , considering I dragged myself up by my own boot straps I'm not exactly a trained professional. I'm not going to coddle him through it , it won't be tea and biscuits. It becomes like oxygen to people , the drugs. You gotta have it or you feel like you're gunna die. Theres every possibility he might snap. I scratched my arms until their was near no skin left on them in the first night. It was that or end up as an untended headstone half a world away from my family. Is there anything else I should know ?"
[ a bit sacard of what she was just told her voice softens.]
Skylar Black: "No.but if it's all the same I just want you to meet Mike for now, and have you tell him how you found the light and your way to the lord. Then we can decided how much help he'll need from then on. I know his brother Rick will want some imput on this...So that will be the plan...I"m staying at the Granvia Osaka Hotel -room 929.. ...Do you know where that is?"
Alex Wilkins: "I may have passed the door the other day. I wouldn't worry too much , though. So long as he isn't backed into a corner , there may be nothing more then raised voices. I guess it all depends on what he really wants out of life , deep down , where he really can't lie to himself. You know ?"
Skylar Black: "Oh, I know...and he does want that. I see such potential in Mike. He really could be great. Just as long as he doesn't end up in a relationship like his poor brother is in now."
[ skylar sighs as she shakes her head.]
[ On the inside , Alex is grinning , but outside his face is nothing but sincere and curious.]
Alex Wilkins: "I'm not sure I follow."
[ Atfirst skylar looks around to both sides of her. Then leans closer toward Alex across the table.]
Skylar black.:"Well, I don't gossip cuz there is nothing good that comes from it, and frankly Jesus would frown upon it. but...I have a sneaking suspcion that Brandi James abused Rick Young...last week he came to check on Mike and his wholed side of his face was scratched and he had a huge black eye..plus I heart them yelling and a huge crash.."
[ Alex leans a little closer , but only a little , trying to make Skylar feel a little more comfortable and reel her in almost.]
Alex Wilkins: "Did you see my run in with her... on the last Adrenaline ? When she gave me that DVD to watch ?"
Skylar Black: "Yes...for once she did something nice..totally shocked me. Maybe she listended to me when I told her that you catch more flies with hunny than sugar."
Alex Wilkins: "Well there was certainly copious amounts of sugar being handed out on the DVD. It just so happened to be a home-movie , actually."
Skylar Black: "Like a family outting?"
Alex Wilkins: "Kiiiiiinda."
Skylar Black:"Well it's nice to know Brandi can spread a little good ness and sunshine around. Did you like it?"
Alex Wilkins: "Part of me did."
Skylar Black: "Part of you? I don't get it? was it touching?"
Alex Wilkins: "A little more then I'd anticipated going in."
Skylar Black: "oh well, I'm sure if it was your home movie it would be differnt."
[ Alex finally lets out a short sigh and - slightly exaggeratedly - takes a quick look around to make sure they're still outta earshot.]
Alex Wilkins: "Actually... it was a recording of her engaged in rather lewd sexual congress with a man."
[ In total shock Skylar's jaw drops.]
Skylar Black: "No....wow...I shouldn't be shocked...but...wow...I know that woman is going to hell...I just know it. Sex,Sex, Sex...you would think Rick was God himself the way she screams in groans of pleasure at night....and in the afternoon...also the morning...then if they had time mid day...or in the pool..."
Alex Wilkins: "Well it sure as Hell wasn't Rick I was watching on the screen. Most confusing. Why I'd want it is entirely beyond me."
Skylar Black :"her soul needs saving as well. .the woman is a sex addict....Unfortunately for her I'm a virgin and probably coudln't help her.."
[ she pauses]
Skylar black; "Hey Alex maybe you could help Brandi? You know after you talk to Mike. You know convince her sex before marriage is very wrong."
[ Alex raises his eyebrows and nods a little. Who better to give that lecture then the guy whos been married 4 times but never to the mother of his blood daughter ?]
Alex Wilkins: "She makes me a little uneasy , but I'm willing to try anything once , for a good cause."
[ sky looks at her watch and stands up.]
Skylar Black: "I'm so sorry Alex and I don't mean to be rude but I really have to get back to Mike..but you know where to find me so keep in touch. Ok?"
Alex Wilkins: "Absolutely. If you ever need me I'll leave my number with the Hotel reception for you."
Skylar black: "Thanks for the conversation...and all your help..take care now.."
Alex Wilkins: "Anytime , and you , too."
[ Skylar picks up her bags and walks away. She looks back at Alex who flashes a big smile at her. ]
Skylar Black:"What a nice fellow...I'm glad to know some decent people still exist."
[ She states warmly as the scene fades away.]
The Match Talk:
Wow...how exciting an intergender tag match! While this match will be something new for me at the same time I'm a bit taken back by this. I haven't had too much success with tag matches due to my partner not always giving a hundred percent.
No Offense to Angela..She's still my hero and darn it the woman is so busy and tried really hard. But My success rate in tag matches isn't the best. I'm hoping to turn this around against Carmel Sin and Marcos. Hopefully Rumbler will be the kind of partner that will finally help me get over the bump and get a win in that colum.
Although Marcos is a bit scary, I'm so looking forward to getting in some ring time against Auroa. She's such a strong competitor and has made a fine addition to the women's roster. It's just goes to show you that we women can be both strong and beautiful.
Infact I think this will be an exciting preview for our up coming singles match. Fianlly the chance to showcase two of the AWA's best women in the spotlight. I just hope that Auroa and I don't over shine Marcos and Rumbler.
There's really not a whole that I can say about Marcos. Other than the fact he goes around distrupting other people matches makes him nothing more than a bully. And we all know that bullies never get rewarded. Just remember Marcos what goes around eventually comes around.
Rumbler..I think you are a fine champion and a strong competitor. It will be my honor to tag with you.
Auroa: You truly are the new standard of determination. Someone that will really make me push myself to the limit and back. I welcome new challenges that test my ability and strength. This one should be one for the books! Good luck girl!