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harmshake · 3 months
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pairing: Carmelo Hayes x Brianna (fem!black!oc) | warnings: none, 'tis fluff...for now 🤭 | word count: 444
wip wednesday! thanks for tagging me, sis, @megamindsecretlair. 💗
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"In Session"
"Sheesh. You either got a real bad starin' problem today or you must like what you see."
Brianna's tone was pointed but she couldn't help the playfulness that softened it. Besides, Carmelo was a big boy. He could handle her teasing—he had to if he kept on with his eyes pointed at her thick, glossy lips like he enjoyed her smart-ass mouth.
He chuckled lightly at her words, his annoyingly pretty, chocolate-brown eyes still on her lips before he licked his with his gaze flitting to meet hers as she watched him pointedly, too, with her hand on her hip. 
"Yeah, I like it. You know I do. The question is...what're you gonna do about it?" Carmelo spoke with his low, almost sizzlingly slow, baritone voice, those pretty eyes falling to her lips again as they pulled into a reluctant smirk. Brianna didn't have an issue with the man but with the way he could flirt with her and make her smile when she preferred to not be bothered.
She'd been a dance instructor at this gym for almost two years and she liked to just come to work, move her body while getting her clients excited to do the same, and go home. Brianna's class was located in the huge fitness center down the hallway from the main gym with the heavy equipment. Yet her studio had a large, glass window so other gym members passing by could check out her class and be encouraged to sign up—or so her bosses said was the intention.
Instead, Brianna often dealt with men walking by and damn-fear tripping or freezing in their tracks when they spotted her in her black leotard with matching leggings and Nike Air Force Ones as she showed her class how to dutty wine while on their hands and knees. She ignored it as most would be respectful and keep it moving, save for the few fools who had the audacity to pop their heads in while class was in session and try to spit game to her that she would always shut down with the quickness.
Carmelo was one of the respectful ones, though. She noticed beyond her window a fine, brown-skinned man sporting a fade and French braids in a ponytail with big, tatted arms exposed in his gray muscle tee shirt one day a month ago...and he noticed Brianna, too, with a sexy smile and wink before he carried on. It wasn't until she was coming back from break a few days later that she ran across him again, and he chatted her up with that same sexy grin that made her cheeks warm as she grinned bigger...
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a/n: Hoping and praying to post the full fic tomorrow (or later this week), and then a Rhea one. 😈 Thank you for reading!
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Can't wait to see y'all's wips! 😘
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dirtywrestling · 10 months
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Carmelo Hayes - Masterlist
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💦 = Smut, 💖= Fluff, 🌩 = Angst, 🚫 = No Warnings
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One Shots:
Three Boys One Night - Featuring Cedric Alexander and Lio Rush -💦
Summary: Birthdays are suppose to be special. Carmelo, Cedric and Lio make this birthday one Dani will never forget. (Commission, 18+, Smut, Minors DNI)
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shes2real · 2 months
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raya-hunter01 · 4 months
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Homecoming
One Shot
Carmelo Hayes x Black Female OC! (Kayla)
Rating: 18+
Warning: Smut
Summary: Carmelo is nervous about returning to his college alma mater FAMU for its homecoming. An alumni ball between his fellow brother Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and sister sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha is taking place.
Why is he nervous, you ask? A special someone he took for granted is going and he has no idea how to make things right. Follow Carmelo down memory lane as he tries to figure out how to fix the mess he made. Will Kayla forgive him or will this end in disaster as Trick travels with Carmelo to be his wingman for homecoming weekend.
This was a story request from royalkay23 who gave me the music and ideas that we put together. I hope you enjoy it!
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NXT Show
Carmelo POV
“Damn, another night, another show,” I sighed sitting down trying to unwind a bit before I showered and got on the road. Pulling out my phone I checked my messages.
“Damn, I already told Darnell, I was comin’ so what the hell he keep calling for?” I hissed putting in my code to listen to his voicemail.
“Man, I forgot you had a show, I talked to Angela, and she convinced Kayla to come this weekend. You better get ready to do some groveling to get yo’ woman man. I’ll see you down there, later bro,” his voice making my stress levels rise.
What does he mean she’s coming down? Fuck, should I even go? Will she even wanna talk to my ass?
“How did shit get so complicated,” I whispered pinched my nose truly frustrated.
Things used to be so easy; then we made it complicated by giving in to our desires. If only we never crossed that line, we would still be close.
I missed her, I knew the first day I met her that I wanted her to be apart of my life forever.
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FAMU Move in day 2019
“Remember we’re gentleman, carry their bags to their rooms. Be welcoming and act like ya’ll got some sense. Give them a couple weeks to get used to campus life before ya’ll start aggravating them,” our oldest fraternity brother Scott said as we all snickered.
“We got you, boss,” I said trying not to laugh as Darnell hit my shoulder trying to hold it together himself.
“No funny business Carmelo, this ain’t an opportunity for you to schedule your next hookup,” Greg hissed as I nodded scoping the parking lot not listening.
“Damn, I got her,” I said pointing to a beautiful young lady standing with her parents about to start pulling luggage outta their trunk. Oh, she bad….Legs and ass for days.
“You ain’t slick, you tryin' to holla at her,” Darnell whispered as I grinned. “I don’t know what you talkin’ about. If ya’ll will excuse me, I’m going to see if they need some help,” I said quickly making myself scarce before anybody could get a word in.
Making my way over to the family I couldn’t help but hear her mom fussing over leaving her daughter here. Smiling, I listened quietly trying to give them a minute before I interrupted.
“Mama, I will be fine,” she said reassuring her mother as they had her surrounded in a group hug.  “You go to your classes and back to your dorm, these folks are a little too wild,” her mom said looking at a couple making out not far from us as I snickered.
 Sorry mama, that’s something I wouldn’t mind doin’ to your daughter…Damn, Melo play it cool…
“Mama, I can handle it, I’m not going to be out here actin’ a fool but I will have fun sometime,” the Carmel beauty said being honest with her parents as her dad smiled.
“As you should, all work and no play sucks, babe give her a break. We raised her right,” her dad said as her mom took a deep breath.
“Yes, ya’ll did, now trust me,” she pleaded with a beautiful smile. Damn, a smile that could start a full-blown war….
 “I do trust you, baby, it’s just it’s your first time away from home, and I’m worried,” her mom said looking around at their surroundings.
“Have you talked to your little boyfriend who couldn’t bother to be here,” her dad said with disgust.
“Daddy, Justin is getting ready to go to college too. It’s ok, he’s going to come up soon,” she said her tone trying to keep the conversation light and positive.
Well, let me introduce myself, maybe that can change the subject, it seemed the mysterious beauty didn’t want to talk about it.
“Excuse me, do you guys need some help?” I asked said as she turned around and instantly blushed when we made eye contact.  
Damn she fine, fine, ok act like a gentleman and don’t embarrass yourself.
“Hi! Um, I guess we do,” she said looking around at all her things on the ground and in the trunk.
“What’s your name son?” her dad asked, as I grinned.
“I’m Carmelo, and I’m from the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, sir. I’m apart of the fraternity welcoming committee. We help students move in on campus,” I said shaking her dad’s hand as he smiled at him.
“An Alpha man! I like that, I pledged to that fraternity when I was in college, my daughter here is a junior transfer and is pledging to your sister sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha,” he said proudly as my ears perked up at the new information.
“You don’t have to tell everybody, Daddy, I might not even make it. Hi, I’m Kayla,” she said shaking my hand as I felt myself falling into those beautiful brown eyes.
“It’s always nice to meet a fellow sister, welcome to the family,” I said gently kissing her hand. Her mother scoffed, clearing her throat and interrupting our moment as I reluctantly let go of her hand as her dad laughed.
 “It’s nice to meet you as well ma’am,” I said taking her mother's hand in mine, kissing it as her smirk grew by the second.
 “Oh, you charming, stay away from this one Kayla,” her mom said as I smiled nervously at her…Alright, don’t let her see you sweat.
“Uh, let’s get you moved in Kayla,” I said trying to change the subject, helping her dad pick up some of her bags. “I would love that,” she said smiling brightly at me.
 For the next hour, I tried to learn all I could about her as we moved her into her dorm.
Her phone also had been ringing nonstop, but she ignored it. “He knows I’m movin’ so why blow me up like this. I’ll call him back in a minute,” she said as we carried up the last of her things.
 “When you do….Tell him he should have brought his ass here to help us move you in if he wanted to know what you are doing every fuckin’ second of the day,” her mom said as Kayla rolled her eyes behind her back.
Poor thing was getting it from all ends, I could see she needed a break from her mother, and it seemed her boyfriend.
Her parents walking ahead of us into her dorm gave me a chance to be nosey.
“Is that you and your man?” I asked, pointing at the wallpaper on her phone. Looking at the photo seemed to have her conflicted, almost nervous.
“Uh, yeah he is, we’ve been together for two years,” Kayla said as I observed her uneasiness.
“Ok, well maybe when he comes to visit, ya’ll can come check out one of our parties. We throw the best ones on campus,” I said trying to make conversation not wanting it to end as I sat her bags down inside.
“That would be cool, thank you for helping us, maybe I’ll see you around,” Kayla said as I felt the excitement dancing in my chest.
“Yeah, you definitely will, might as well call me your new best friend,” I said turning on the charm as she laughed.
“Well, maybe I’ll see you around best friend,” Kayla joked as I walked out of her dorm with a pep definitely in my step.
Senior year was definitely shaping up.
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“Aye, you planning to shower or what?” Trick asked bringing me out of my thoughts. “Yeah, I am, just was thinking about Kayla and if I want to go to the Alumni ball,” I said as Trick sat down in front of me and stared intently.
“Well, you deserve to have fun too, maybe ya’ll can talk and work this shit out. I mean it’s been four years, she can’t still be mad,” he said as I sighed.
“I said some fucked up shit that I can’t take back, I don’t even know how to approach her,” I said feeling helpless.
“You go up to her, apologize, and try to make it right. That’s all you can do,” Trick said as I stood up shuffling around the room gathering my things.
“Thanks, man maybe it’ll all work out and I’ll have fun this weekend,” I said as Trick smiled.
“Now that’s it, be positive and have fun this weekend. I’ll even go with you and be your wingman.  I can tell you when to talk and when to shut the hell up, 'cause you talk too much sometimes,” Trick said as I laughed truly thankful for him and our friendship.
“Well, I might take you up on that, let me shower so we can hit the road,” I said heading to the showers.
“Aye, you gon’ get her back, you just gotta shoot your shot!” I heard Trick yell as I started my shower.
I truly hoped so but for now, I had to be realistic, I had a lot of groveling to do, and I was prepared to do it if it meant Kayla could be in my life again.
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Delata Flight 193
Kayla’s POV
“Angela, I’m going to have fun and stroll with my sorors. I’m not going to resurrect issues from four years ago,” I said as she rolled her eyes at me.
“Ya’ll two need to talk and squash this shit, you know he didn’t mean it. He was jealous because he was in love with you…Still in love with you might I add,” she said as I scoffed.
“In love…..Carmelo…… Girl bye!” I exclaimed rolling my eyes. “Even if he was in love with me, it don’t make it right what he did.  Have a conversation like an adult and not say spiteful shit. And can we just drop this conversation, you are ruining my buzz,” I said finishing my glass of champagne as Angela sighed grabbing her phone.
Damn, I guess she was going to be team Carmelo all weekend. Love my ass.
“So, he wrestles, that’s cool,” Angela said as I looked over and saw her scrolling through Carmelo’s Instagram as I smiled.
Many of our late-night talks about our dreams began to invade my mind. He was always passionate about wrestling so it didn’t shock me that he made it to the WWE.
Leaning back in my seat I sighed trying to get in the right head space for this weekend. I wanted to have a good time, it would even be better if I could avoid him.
“Girl, he got to work with the undertaker, look!” Angela exclaimed as I leaned back over and looked at his latest Instagram post on her phone.
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“That’s awesome,” I whispered happy him. He looked so happy. As she scrolled to the next picture My focus went to the tattoo of an eye on his upper arm, it seemed to stir something in me, but I didn’t know what.  
I felt like I knew the meaning of it but I couldn’t piece it together as I looked at the beautiful tattoo of a woman’s eye with makeup smudged. Angela quickly swiped to the next post before I could truly process it.
“So, are you going to talk to him this weekend? Angela asked as I sat back in my seat and closed my eyes trying to tune her out.
“No, I have no desire to talk to him, I’m over it,” I said as she laughed. 
“Bullshit, you were in love with Carmelo, and you still are,” she countered as I snapped my head back looking at her wearing a frown.
“Don’t look at me like that, you gon’ put your big girl panties on this weekend, and get yo' man back,” Angela said with determination as I shook my head.
“He was never my man Angela; we just were two friends who had sex one night and it ruined our friendship. Worse mistake ever, I should have taken my ass home that night,” I said smartly as Angela sucked on her teeth.
“Nah, I don’t agree with that. Ya’ll were two friends who loved each other and were scared. He self-destructed jumping to conclusions and you were hurt by his assumptions,” Angela said as I got my air pods out of my purse.
“I’m done talkin’ about Carmelo, I’m takin’ a nap now,” I said putting my air pods in, turning my music on low.
“I know you can hear me so I’ma say this. I know he was wrong, but I think you are takin’ the one bad thing he did and erasing all the good. It wasn’t always bad Kayla and one mistake shouldn’t define him or his love for you, or your love for him,” Angela said as I continued to tune her out.
Yes, he did a lot of great things for me, I couldn’t deny it. Did the good truly outweigh the bad?
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Crossing Day 2019
Kayla’s POV
This is supposed to be an amazing night for me, but I feel shitty. It’s nothing but chaos all around me as I see Carmelo and some of his fraternity brothers helping set up the stage for our ceremony that starts in an hour. I hate we got a late start.
My phone ringing for damn near the tenth time within the last thirty minutes is pissing me off as I see Justin’s number.
“What do you want Justin?” I asked, truly fed up, especially after the bomb he dropped this morning.
“I just wanted to make sure you were good,” he said as I pulled the phone away from my ear in disbelief.
“Justin, how am I good? You called me this morning to tell me you’re not coming. You knew how important this was to me,” I said trying to keep my emotions in check not wanting to mess up my makeup.
“It’s not that big a deal, it’s just a sorority thing,” he said as I felt the tears coming. “Really, so something I want to do isn’t important to you. Even though everything you do, I come and support you,” I said raising my voice as Carmelo made his way towards me.
“You ok Kayla?” he asked as shook my head, sighing as he put a comforting hand on my shoulder. “Who is that? Is that your so-called homeboy, I shoulda known his ass was there. I ain’t blind I know ya’ll like each other,” Justin hissed.  
“Look, I got to get ready, I need to get my mind together,” I said trying to end the call.
“Well, that’s cold, you don’t even wanna talk about it. You must be spreadin’ your legs for his ass. Maybe we just need to call this shit off,” he said as I scoffed knowing where this was going.
Gaslighting 101, chapter five, Hide Your Guilt and Accuse Her of What You Are Actually Doing.
This bastard was cheating, and I knew exactly who it was with.
“You know I’m not cheating on you. Just grow a set and tell me you want to break up instead of playing games Justin. I know you sleeping with Regina, the jig is up, ok,” I said as the line got quiet.  
“Look, it ain’t about her, I’m just sayin’ maybe we just need to end this. Experience new people and just have fun, I don’t want to be tied down right now Kayla,” he said as I took a deep breath and looked at Carmelo, who gave me a nod of encouragement.
"I'm here Kay," he whispered as I fought back tears. He was always there to pick up the pieces and wipe my tears.
“Justin, why did you have to do this today? It could have been any other day but today. Look, just lose my number because you’re officially blocked, it's over,” I said hanging up and blocking his number as Carmelo took me in his arms and I broke down.
 “Hey, I got you,” he whispered as I cried. “I don’t think I can do this today,” I cried as his strong arms pulled me closer.
“Oh, yes you can and will because you have worked hard for this. Today is your day, don’t let him take that away from you,” Carmelo said as I nodded slightly pulling away a sad smile adorning my face as he carefully wiped my tears.
“No more tears, go get ready. I’m excited to hear your Crossing Introduction tonight. I know it’s gon' be fire, just like you, and make sure to shake that beautiful hair for me,” he said gently playing with my freshly silked-out hair.
“Ok, I’ll make sure to remember that,” I said reluctantly stepping back as Angela came running up.
“Girl, ya’ll can flirt later, we need to finish getting ready. See you in a few Melo,” she said pulling me away as I laughed.
“Never change Angela, and congrats!” he yelled as she waved back at him.
These two are a mess but it was time. It was time to step into my sorority destiny.
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Everything seemed like such a blur as we waited in line with our heads down. I was getting more nervous as each new soror went before the crowd introducing themselves.
Focus Kayla you did well on the march, now it’s time to let them know who you are.
“Alright Kayla let’em know,” my new fellow Soror whispered as I smiled, tossing my head back and whipping my hair back and forth as the crowd screamed. Here goes nothing…
Stepping out of line and going to the front of the stage I felt nervous till I looked out and saw Carmelo about three rows back smiling at me.
“My…… Name….. is!” I shouted, loud and clear pausing between each word.
“What’s your name?!” the crowd asked as I smiled and began moving my body and hands in sync with my words.
“Kayla!”
“Yea!” (crowd)
“Belle!”
“Yea!”
The crowd participating as I said my name had my heart racing. Pausing, taking in the moment, I saw Carmelo wink at me.
Giving him a sexy smirk, I tossed my head back and began shaking my hair again just for him.
“Peaches!”
“Yea!”
 Slowly lowering my head, I paused, building excitement as they waited to hear what my last name was.
“Taylor!”
“Yea!”
“And I am from the Peach State, the one and only Atlanta, GA! And this Georgia Peach has joined this great sorority and I’m this line’s number 17! I shouted with pride bending down into our stroll stance with a bright smile.
Finally releasing the breath I was holding, my eyes found Carmelo again as he licked his lips. His gaze grew more intense as Darnell whispered something to him.
Were they talking about me? I saw Carmelo dap him up sharing a mutual nod before he turned his attention back to me and winked.
"A'ight Peaches, I see you Ms. AKA!" he shouted as I smiled getting back in line.
Yes, it was over! I had done it!… I was an AKA….
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Later that night
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity House
Carmelo’s Room
“You sure you good?” Carmelo asked as I sat my drink down and curled up next to him on the couch. “I’m fine, thanks for being there tonight,” I said glancing up at him as he seemed to be in deep thought.
“It’s no problem, it was no other place I’d rather be,” he whispered caressing my face as I felt myself melting under his gaze.
“What are we doing?” I whispered as his lips slowly descended towards mine.  “What we've always wanted to do,” he whispered gently taking my lips in a kiss as I moaned in pleasure.
“We can’t, I don’t want to ruin our friendship,” I whimpered against his lips as his arms encircled my waist pulling me onto his lap.
Feeling his hardness underneath me had me shook. He was hard from just a simple kiss.
 “Mmhm, you feel that Kay? That's what you do to me," Carmelo whispered as I shivered. "Melo we can't," I pleaded as he silenced me with another kiss.
"We both want this, stop fighting it, baby. It won’t change anything, we'll still be us,” Carmelo whispered, his sexy voice casting a powerful spell over me.
 Looking into his beautiful brown eyes I saw nothing but the truth in his words. Kayla just let go and give in to what you want.
"Tonight...Just for tonight," I whispered as Carmelo's grip on me tightened. "I got you," he whispered slowly undressing me.
I felt shy, as he tossed my dress, anxiously over his shoulder before caressing my breasts. “You are so beautiful, just everything I imagined you’d be and more,” Carmelo whispered kissing my neck as I moaned in pleasure, his masterful hands making quick work of my bra.
 His words eased my nervousness and awakened the boldness in me.
Playing with the waistband of his sweats, Carmelo bit back a moan in anticipation. “Go ahead baby, you can touch it. I want you too,” Carmelo moaned as I purred at his words.
Nervously stroking him, his moans urged me on as his mouth feasted upon my neck. “Mmm, yes,” I moaned continuing to stoke him as he slid my thong to the side.
“You got a condom?” I whispered into the air as he nodded, reaching over, fiddling around in the drawer of the small lamp table beside us, as I claimed his lips in a powerful kiss.
His moan of triumph as he retrieved the condom and ripped it open made me tremble against him.
 “Let me,” I whispered against his lips, climbing off his lap, slowly sinking to my knees, holding his gaze I slowly placed the condom over the tip of his length.
Damn he was way bigger than Justin, it caused me to pause in my actions and stare.  
“Don't be scared, I'ma make you feel real good baby. I promise, now gon’ put it on and come take a ride,” Carmelo groaned, picking up on my nervousness as continued to stroke him.
My pussy quivered at his words; it excited me. Using my mouth, I slide the condom down over his hardened length as he bit back a growl, entangling his fingers in my hair.
“Shit! It’s like that baby?” Carmelo moaned, looking at me in amazement.  “Uh huh,” I moaned looking at him, while taking him deeper into my mouth
“Got dammmn Kay,” Carmelo hissed as his head fell back against the couch in pleasure. “You like that,” I whispered as he looked at me through hooded eyes. “Hell yea, I love it but if you don’t stop, this gon’ be over before it starts,” Carmelo panted as I smirked releasing him.
“Mmm, I wouldn't want that, ” I whispered climbing back on his lap nibbing on his neck as he growled grasping my hips, slowly inch by inch filling my wet center with his hardened length until he was to the hilt.  Our moans of satisfaction filled the tiny room.
“Fuck, you feel better than I ever dreamed,” Carmelo groaned against my neck as I began to ride him.  “Mm, you too,” I confessed wrapping my arms around his neck as he began meeting my thrusts in desperate need.
“Yea, ride… Mmhm ride dat shit……Just like that Kayla,” Carmelo moaned encouraging me as we chased our end. “Promise me nothing changes….Mmm,Melo!” I exclaimed as he began gently massaging my clit with his thumb as I used his shoulders to steady myself bouncing with a purpose.
 “Mmhm, nothin’ gon’ change, I promise Kay. Now let’s get this nut together baby,” he whispered as he took me higher and higher. “Yes! Melo, Mmhm I’m ready!” I cried as I rotated my hips against him hearing a low growl escape his lips that began to grow in volume as we shared each other’s love.
That’s what it was, love and it was scaring the hell outta me and by the look on Carmelo’s face I could tell it was scaring him too.
“Kay…Kay..Fuck!” Carmelo moaned, finally finding words as we were reaching our end.  “I know, God I know," I moaned shuttering against him as our lips met in desperation.
“I’m cummin!” I whined against his lips as he caressed his tongue with mine, deepening our kiss.
“I’m right there with you,” he moaned as we exploded together. Collapsing against his shoulder I struggled to catch my breath as he held me tight.
For awhile, nothing was said as I relaxed in Carmelo's arms. I felt overwhelmed, I knew I had messed up…I had fallen hard for him.  I felt my tears coming as Carmelo caressed my back.
“Don’t cry Kay, we good. See you doin' all this cryin' lately, I'ma have to get a tattoo of a tear on this shoulder. Better yet, ima put your whole eye up there with the makeup smudges and all," Carmelo said kissing my shoulder.
“See why you gotta tease me,” I said caressing his arms as he sighed.
“Look at me Kay,” Carmelo said lifting my head off his shoulder wiping my tears.
I would never tease you. I’m just glad you trusted me and allowed me to be there to catch your tears,” Carmelo whispered caressing my face, placing a gentle kiss on my lips.
Yep….We fucked up….Big time.
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“We're about to land Kayla,” I heard Angela say as I opened my eyes taking in my surroundings.
“I’m sorry I just meant to catch a small nap, not sleep the whole flight,” I said taking my air pods out and putting my seatbelt back. on.
“You good girl, it ain’t nothing like listening to music and letting it take you away,” she said smiling at me.
“Yeah, I guess so,” I said trying to shake the memories that were clouding my mind, and the other pieces of the puzzle coming together had me feeling overwhelmed.
Pulling my phone back out I went to WWE.com, turning slightly in my seat so Angela couldn't see. I would never hear the end of this if she knew I was looking at Carmelo's photos but I needed to see the picture again.
In my search, I found an article with the picture in question attached with several other backstage shots. I began skimming through the article and a question threw me for a loop.
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WWE.com Exclusive
"So, what is the significance behind this tattoo of the eye with what seems to be makeup smudged?"
"I got it about three years ago, I got it to remind me of a special someone I knew in college. She was my best friend and my number one supporter. She encouraged me to chase my dreams, and I never forgot that."
"Well, are you two still in touch?"
"Uh, no we aren't, but who knows what the future holds."
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“I can't believe he really got that tattoo,” I muttered to myself in disbelief. “Who got what tattoo?” Angela asked leaning over, trying to look at my phone as I quickly opened another tab.
“Uh, nobody I know, I was just thinking about the dream I just had,” I said which technically I wasn't stretching the truth very much. My memories with Carmelo were creeping into my brain and it scared me.
“I hope it was a good dream to start your weekend because we gon’ have fun these next few days,” she said as I sighed.
Girl, if you only knew I would rather be anywhere than Florida this weekend. This was dangerous, I had to keep my guard up.
Maybe I should have just stayed home.
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The Next Day
PHIRSTPHAM Cookout
Carmelo’s POV
“Damn, it’s thick out here,” Trick said as I grabbed us a beer. “Yea, they partyin’ hard, half of them probably ain’t making it to the ball,” I laughed looking around trying to find Kayla. 
“Aye, didn’t her homegirl tell you they’d be here?  I’ma need you to chill man,” Trick said as I tried to shake my nerves still looking around.
“I know I’m jus…just,” I said stuttered as I spotted her. “What the hell is wrong with you?” Trick asked turning around to see what had me shook.
“Damn, is that her?” he asked smiling as I nodded still unable to speak.  “You stupid as fuck if I may say so myself,” Trick whispered shaking his head as I growled.
“Look you ain’t gotta rub it in, you supposed to be helping me, and stop looking at her like that,” I hissed as Trick shrugged his shoulders.
“I am here to help you but I ain’t dead. Is that her friend?” Trick asked pointing at Angela. “Yea, that’s her, a straight pain in the ass but I adore her,” I said as Darnell came running up.
“Ooou! I know you see yo’ girl, she out here serving body for days!” Darnell exclaimed as Trick smirked.
“Man shut the fuck up,” I said seething as he laughed. “Now is that how you talk to your frat brother who just talked to the DJ and he’s about to play our favorite stroll with the AKAs,” he said as my eyes widened in shock.
“I know you didn’t,” I whispered as he smiled. “Yep, so get ready,” he said taking off towards the crowd.
"This idiot here is just fuckin’ stupid,” I said as Trick seemed confused. “What’s the issue, I mean a dance can’t hurt nobody,” he said as I sighed.
“In the stroll, I lead the Alphas and Kayla leads the AKAs,” I said as Trick's eyes lit up. “Oh, shit that’s perfect, maybe it will break the ice with Kayla,” he said as I drank the rest of my beer.
“If anything it may entice her to choke my ass out for being so close to her, but I guess I ain’t gotta choice,” I said as I heard the opening cords of Knuck if you buck by Crime Mob
“Class of 2020 and 2021 I need you on the floor it’s your time to shine,” the MC said as I saw the girls already dancing falling in line behind Kayla as she smiled brightly swinging her hips and arms.
“Aye, you betta get yo’ ass over there,” Trick said as Darnell was waving me over as I went to join my frat brothers.
“Taking my place in line across from Kayla felt weird as she seemed to not pay me any attention as she strolled with her line sisters.
“Let’s get it fellas!” I shouted blowing my whistle as we began steppin’ in sync with the girls doing our own stroll.
I saw Kayla look over at me in shock for a second before she recovered and continued leading her line sisters.
“Knuck if you buck!” Angela screamed as the AKAs kneeled deeper in their stance, killin’ it.
“I see ya’ll!” I heard someone yell as I cracked a smile.  It felt good to stroll with my frat brothers and most of all Kay.
I couldn’t take my eyes off of her as she danced, whipping her hair back and forth almost teasing me. She knows what that shit does to me.  Trying to refocus I cut my eyes towards Angela as she smirked at me.
“Yeah, act like you know! Stop playin’ wit her, take us on out Peaches!" she yelled, swinging her arms as Kayla smiled, walking as only she could pretending one of her hands was a mirror as she fluffed her beautiful hair with the other.
The crowd parted, cheering them on while allowing them to pass as we followed closely behind them.
Damn, Kayla still could command a room like no other. “Uh, you can thank me now,” Darnell said as I looked back at him and rolled my eyes getting out of the line, trying to find Kayla again.
Kayla’s POV “We still got it, that was fun,” Angela said as I laughed. “Girl, AKAs gon’ always bring that heat,” I said smiling at her. “I know you saw him, so when ya’ll gon’ talk,” Angela said as I sighed.  
Jeez can I have a moments piece without somebody telling me to talk to Carmelo.
“I didn’t see Carmelo, what are you talking about?” I said playing dumb.
“Oh, so you don’t know me now,” Carmelo said as I sighed looking at the amusement dancing in Angela’s eyes as I slowly turned to face him.
"I’ll let ya’ll two talk," Angela said practically running away as I scoffed. “I hate you!” I hissed as she laughed.
“Look can go talk, I think we both can agree it’s overdue and we don’t want to make a scene here,” Carmelo said as I looked around at everyone having a good time.
“Fine, but I’m not going far,” I said following him through the crowd as he led me to the side of the building.
The silence was defining as we both were trying to think of words to say to each other. It had been three years since we last saw each other after all.
I don’t know what came over me but I slapped him as hard as I could the sound echoing around us as Carmello stumbled rubbing the side of his face.
“A’ight I deserved that,” he said as I took a deep breath trying to not make a fool outta myself. I couldn’t let him know how he truly broke me.
“Yes, you did and more. You’re lucky that’s all you got from me,” I said as Carmelo raised his hands in surrender.  “Kay, I know I hurt you and I’m sorry,” he said as I looked at him my expression unreadable.
“It's Kayla to you, only my friends call me Kay. Look, can you make this quick, I got something to do,” I said folding my arms over my chest.
“So is this how it’s gon’ be the whole weekend, you just ignoring me. I’m trying to apologize, Kayla,” Carmelo said as I tried to wrangle in my feelings.
“Why are you apologizing to a whore. I mean that’s what you said I was right?” I said as a look of defeat and horror crossed his face.
“I didn’t mean it if you would just let me talk,” he started as I cut him off.
“I’m just a needy whore that will ride any dick right,” I said slightly raising my voice as he cringed at my words.
“Look, I was drunk, and I said some shit I didn’t mean alright. You know I lo—,” Carmelo's voice trailed off as he looked down unable to look at me. What was he going to say?
“Carmelo, being drunk ain’t no excuse, I thought you were my best friend!” I exclaimed frustrated that I was letting him get to me.
I am your best friend! Regardless of how you feel about me, you are my best friend Kayla and I miss you. Can you please just forgive me? he pleaded as I tried to walk away. "Carmelo, please stop," I begged trying to walk away as he blocked my path. "Say you can forgive me, please," Carmelo pleaded, his eyes drawing me in as they stared into my soul. I couldn't look away if I wanted.
“Kay, you know I didn’t mean it, can we just agree to talk sometime before we both leave Sunday,” he pleaded as I finally nodded, not trusting my words as I saw Angela walking over.
“Hey, ya’ll good, Kay?" she asked rubbing my shoulder as I held back tears.
“Uh, yeah we were just talking about not letting the drama of the past ruin the weekend," I said wiping a few stray tears that had fallen as Carmelo sighed in relief.
“Well thank God, we all deserve a good weekend of fun,” she said my eyes still focused on Carmelo as he glanced quickly at the tattoo on his shoulder before looking back at me.
I felt a shiver run down my spine, as I tried to shake it off.
“Well, uh, I’ll let ya’ll get back to the party and I will see ya’ll tonight hopefully,” he said giving me a hug, catching me off guard.
Carmelo’s POV
I knew I was pushing it but I couldn't help it. I had to hold her in my arms. Come on beautiful hug me back.
I couldn’t let her go until she hugged me back.
I felt her trembling hands touch my back as I sighed in relief pulling her closer. “I’ma make it right, just let me please. I’m sorry Kay,” I whispered in her ear as I felt her relax against me. Angela smiled at me before leaving us alone.
"You hurt me, Mel," Kayla whispered as I felt my heart sink. “I wish I could take it back, baby,” I whispered honestly.
I didn’t know what else to say, I had played the scenario over and over in my head a thousand times. How different everything could have been if I had just told her how I felt that night. If I did, we wouldn’t be in this shit now.
“I need to go," Kayla whispered pulling away as I felt empty again.
"Yeah, me too, I hope I see you tonight," I said as she flashed a half smile.
"Maybe, I guess we’ll cross that bridge when we get there," she said not looking me in the eye slowly walking back back to the party.
Don't give up on me yet beautiful I whispered watching her walk away from me and carrying my heart right along with her.
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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity House
End-of-Year Party
Carmelo’s POV
It was the last party of the year, graduation was near but Kayla was occupying my mind.
We kept our word, after our night nothing changed. We woke up that next morning and went back into our regular routine. Two best friends who adored each other.
 I had gone out with a few girls since then and Kayla was into her sorority life and wasn’t dating.
She had told me how she wanted to heal from the breakup with Justin before she dated anybody. I can’t help but admit I wanted more, and no girl could compare to her but I didn’t even know how to tell her.
"Let me get this straight 'cause you are confusing the fuck outta me. You like Kayla, but instead of telling her you bring Robin to this party. The girl who has made her life hell since she joined the AKAs. You stupid as fuck,” Darnell scoffed hitting me on the back of the head.
"Shit, you didn’t have to hit me, I know I’m wrong,” I said rubbing my head as I saw Kayla on the dancing floor dancing with Angela as I saw Anthony approach them.
"What the fuck is he doin'?" I hissed seeing my frat brother whisper in Kayla’s ear as she blushed, nodding as he pulled her away from Angela and they began dancing.
“Looks like he knows a beautiful woman when he sees one and he asked her to dance,” Darnell said as I growled.
“Fuckin’ freshman thinking he can come in here and do what he wants. Let me set his ass straight,” I hissed finishing my beer.
“Um, why can’t he ask her to dance? She’s single and so is he," Darnell said as I stormed past him not wanting to talk to his ass anymore.
Soon as I got closer Robin slid in front of me catching me off guard. "Hey, I have been looking for you, let’s dance," she said throwing her arms around me as I reluctantly danced with her.
I didn't know how to feel as Kayla looked at me in shock and uncertainty as Robin and I danced. I knew by her eyes she was hurt by my dating choice of the night.
Sighing I tried to play it cool as our eyes seemed to fall deeper into each other before she laid her head on Anthony’s shoulder avoiding my gaze as he seemed to be enjoying it a little too much for my liking.
"Motherfucka," I whispered as Robin pulled back looking at me. "What’s wrong babe?" She asked as I played it off. " Uh, nothin’ let’s go upstairs after this song. I know better things we could be doin', " I said as her eyes lit up.
Yea, I was wrong but I didn’t care at the moment.
"Hands up here now," I heard Kayla say as she moved Anthony's hands back to her waist. He had been trying to caress her ass.
"I'm sorry beautiful," he said as I saw red, I don’t even know what came over me as I stepped away from Robin and went towards them.
"What are you doing!? I know you ain't going over there, she don't need you to save her!" Robin hissed following me. Hell I don’t even know what I’m doing, but I know he ain’t gon’ be touchin’ on her like that.
"Aye, you need to keep your hands to yourself," I said interrupting their dance gently grabbing her arm and moving her behind me as I stepped in Anthony’s face.
"What is your problem, Melo?! We were just dancing," Kayla said as Anthony smirked.
"Ain’t it obvious, he can’t take somebody else takin’ an interest in you Kay, he just wants you to be his little plaything," Anthony said as I grabbed him by the collar snatching his ass up.
"My problem is every time I turn around yo’ bitch ass tryin’ to take something that belongs to me,” I hissed dangerously low as he laughed. "Oh, so she's yours huh," Anthony taunted as the music stopped and people began to stare.
"Let me talk to you for a minute," Kayla whispered grabbing my hand, as I let go of Anthony. I was getting more pissed by the second looking at his cocky ass.
"I know you new freshman, so you don't know me. Keep smirking, I'll knock all your fuckin' teeth out," I hissed, his smirk dropping instantly.
"No your not, let's go," Kayla said steering me towards the stairs as the music started back up.
"Don’t you go up there with her Carmelo! If you do I’m going home!" Robin yelled following us upstairs as Kayla rolled her eyes.
"Just go home, I'll call you later Robin," I said trying to not cause a scene seeing a few people were still looking at us.
"I’m serious, you go in there don't ever call me again," she said as Kayla opened my door pushing me inside before turning to face her.
"Good! It'll save him a trip to the free clinic! Anybody fucking you ends up with something bleach can't wash off and a ten day perscription of penicillin, Bye, irrelevant!" Kayla yelled slamming the door in Robins's face as I heard her scream on the other side of the door before walking away.  
"Aye, you didn’t have to be so rude," I said as Kayla laughed sarcastically.
" Really, you wanna talk about rude. All I was doing was dancing with him and you come over acting like an asshole," she said as I invaded her space pushing her up against my door towering over her.
"I’m sorry ok, I just saw him touchin’ you and I wasn’t thinking," I said honestly caressing her face as she nervously bit her lip before my lips gently grazed hers.
"We need to talk Mel," she whispered as I groaned reluctantly stepping away from her. She was right we needed to talk badly but I didn't want to do it now.
"Ok, what are we talking about?" I asked frustrated the moment was ruined as she looked at me in disbelief.
"Are you serious?  Well, let’s talk about why all of a sudden you actin’ like you my man," Kaylas said as I sighed feeling the anger in me boiling. She couldn’t see that I liked her.
 "We’re friends Carmelo, remember that night wasn’t supposed to change us," she rambled running her hands through her hair, pacing.
"I know what we agreed on, I ain’t dumb!" I yelled as a knock on the door interrupted us.
"I heard yelling….Are you ok in there, Kayla?" Angela asked as she tried to calm her breathing before she responded.
The last thing I needed was Angela bustin’ up in here making matters worse.
"Yeah, I’m good I’ll be down in a minute so we can go," Kayla said as Angela tried to open the door.  
"She’s fine Angela, damn!" I hissed as Kayla sighed. "Don’t get no attitude with me 'cause you fucking stupid. Jealous ass, I’ll be downstairs Kayla,” Angela said as quietness filled the room.
"What are we doin'? This isn’t us, why are we arguing with each other Carmelo. What’s really wrong?” Kayla asked.
Ok, tell her how you feel…This may be your last chance.
" I’m cool, we’re cool. I’m just trying to say before you put yourself back out there, just know women can’t do what men do," I said as Kayla frowned at me.
"What are you tryin' to say?" she asked as I tried to choose my words wisely. "I don’t want a bad reputation following you, I mean all it takes is you opening your legs to one of these idiots and then you are labeled as a whore," I said as I saw the flash of anger cross her beautiful face.
Fuck, I opened the gates of hell.
"Are you saying I’m a whore!?" Kayla exclaimed as I growled. "No! I ain’t sayin’ you’re a whore! I’m sayin’ don’t be out here in these streets grinding up on these clowns like a needy whore that will ride anybody’s dick," I said as Kayla reached up and slapped the fuck outta me.
How dare you? I wasn't grinding on no motherfuckin' body, we were just dancing. Meanwhile, you fuck anything with a gash and me simply just dancing with someone leads to a conversation as to how you don’t want me to be a whore..You're unbelievable," Kayla said throwing her hands up in frustration as I rubbed my face.
"Look, I ain’t gon’ argue with you. I said what I said and if you don’t like it, you can leave. I’m sure Anthony is ready to make you his new little plaything anyway. I’m sure he’ll love that lil trick you do with your mouth,” I said not believing the words coming out of my mouth.
I was supposed to be telling her I loved her, but here I was spewing venom towards her because another man was interested in her.
"I tell you what, I’d rather be his plaything than your so-called best friend?  Hell, maybe he can actually satisfy me better than you did, so fuck you! she yelled storming out of my room, slamming the door behind her.
"DAMN ITTTT!!" I yelled sinking into the couch as I realized the finality of my words.
I had lost my best friend and the woman I loved.
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"Aye, earth to Melo! I heard Darnell yell as I cringed. "Stop yelling, I heard you," I said trying to get myself together. " I saw ya'll talking is everything good now? he asked as I smiled.
" We're gonna get together before the weekend is over," I said honestly feeling a little about the weekend. "That’s good to hear, hopefully, ya’ll move past this,” he said as we went back to join the party.
I hoped so, I knew one thing was for certain tonight was the time to shoot my shot and I planned on making my intentions loud and clear.
I wanted Kayla and nothing was going to stop me from telling her this time, not even myself.
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PHIRSTPHAM ALUMNI BALL
Kayla's POV
“Angela thank you so much for helping me find a dress,” I said looking myself over in the mirror as she touched up her makeup.
The Emerald gold hue colored dress looked good on me. The dress being off the shoulder with the built in bra enhanced the beauty of it. Also, who could go wrong with showin' a little leg. Yea, I’m wearing the hell outta this dress right now if I may say so.
“Yea, I was gonna comment on your Instagram post, but you disabled your comments bitch,” she said as I shrugged my shoulders.
“Yes, I did because when Carmelo liked it I kind of panicked. I knew he was going to comment next, then his fans would see it and I ain’t with all that attention,”  I said as Angela nodded in agreement.
“Ah, I get it, I actually don’t blame you on that one,” she said as we made our way back into the dining hall. The night had been going well but I was getting ready to soon leave.
Two hours was enough for me and I hadn’t seen Carmelo yet so my nerves were a little on edge. I can’t believe how just a hug from him was breaking down the walls I had built up. But for now, I’m going to enjoy the rest of my weekend.
“Heeeyyy, the party jumpin’ now,” I said looking at the crowded dance floor. “Gril, here come Anthony, don’t look,” Angela said as I sighed truly not in the mood.
“Damn,I was hoping he wouldn’t see me,” I whispered. I knew he was going to ask me to dance. Now don’t get me wrong, “I’ll give all my love to you” by Keith Sweat is one of my favorite songs but I ain’t dancing with his ass.
After the blow up with Carmelo I pretty much stayed away from his frat house all together. That didn’t stop Anthony from spreading rumors that he and I had slept together. So, yea I had to rock his shit one good time too.
“You ladies look amazing,” he said sizing us up as Angela cleared her throat. “Thanks, Anthony” I said as he smiled brightly at me.
“Kayla, may I have this dance?” he asked as I felt someone grab my hand gently bringing it to their lips. I actually sighed in relief seeing it was Carmelo as he smiled at me.
“She’s with me Anthony, ain't nothin' changed Bruh. Let's go Kay, I owe you a dance,” Carmelo said smoothly steering me away as Angela smiled.
“Well ok then Melo, come through boo,” Angela said as I blushed. She always hyping him up in his bullshit.
“Thank you, I was about to have a flashback and was probably gon’ rock his ass again like I did you earlier,” I said as he laughed pulling me close on the dance floor as we danced.
Carmelo’s POV
Step one complete I had her in my arms again our foreheads touching as I caressed her waist swaying to the music. She felt so good, this was a dream it had to be.
I love you in the night
I wanna take it real real slow, my baby
I understand what you told me
And if I, I didn't know
I always wanted someone just like you
“Thank you for dancing with me,” I whispered as she pulled back slightly, those beautiful eyes stirring something deep in my soul.
“Thanks for saving the day like you always use to do,” she smiled as I felt all my troubles melt away. She just didn’t know but I would always protect her.
I really need to hold on, hold you
I'd give the world to you, oh my darlin'
You know I will
Yeah yeah you know i will
I surely will
“You are so beautiful; you know that right?” I asked, caressing her face as she looked away.
“Carmelo,” she started as I cut her off gently grasping her face making her look at me. The more I stared into her beautiful eyes, it seemed the more I got lost.
 “Just be in the moment with me,” I pleaded, gently kissed her forehead, as she relaxed in my arms.
I will never do anything to hurt you
I'll give all my love to you
(I'm gonna give you every bit of my love, my love)
And if you need me, baby, I'll come runnin' (yes I will)
Only to you (yes my baby yes I will)
I looked over and saw Trick dancing with Angela as he smiled at me giving me a thumbs up. Smiling, I closed my eyes just enjoying Kayla being in my arms again as she laid her head on my chest.
One of her hands resting on my back as the other caressed my arm and not just any arm but the one that contained the tattoo I had joked about getting four years earlier.
“You remember, don’t you? You know it’s your tattoo,” I whispered in her ear,unafraid of the answer as she nodded against me.
I no longer had anything to hide from her.
Girl I've been longing for you baby for a long long time
Let's make love tonight
I can make me feel real good baby
I can make feel real good baby
Sometimes, sometimes I get a little lonely, baby (so lonely baby)
“Why,” she whispered as I leaned down and gently placed a kiss on her bare shoulder. “Why wouldn’t I? I wanted to carry you with me always, you’re my best friend and I love you,” I whispered as I felt her still in my arms.
And I need a little love that I can call all mine (I need some lovin')
Girl, you are the one for me, babe
I know that you are the world for me, babe
“I can’t do this, I’m sorry,” Kayla whispered pulling away, walking off the dance floor.
Defeated, my eyes met Trick’s who pointed, silently telling me to go after her.
He was right, I couldn’t let the chance pass me by again. I rushed off the dance floor determined to catch her before she left.
Kayla’s POV
“Don't fall for it... He didn’t mean it Kayla, stop being weak,” I muttered to myself pacing. I felt in flight or fight mode as I saw Carmelo rushing towards me. “Look, I forgave you ok, so you don’t have to do this,” I cried trying to put some space between us as I tried to leave again.
“Kayla we can’t keep running from this baby,” Carmelo said blocking my path as I felt my anxiety rising.
This couldn’t be happening right now, he didn’t love me, he couldn’t.
“Why are you doin’ this!?” I cried as he caressed my face. “I’m doin’ It because I should have told you that night. I should have told you that I loved you,” Carmelo confessed as I felt the room closing in.
“No, no, you couldn’t have,” I whispered as I felt the air rushing out of my lungs.
“I’m sorry to just spring all this on you but, I don’t wanna make the same mistake twice. I can’t let you walk away from me again without telling you. I still love you Kayla and I know you love me too,” Carmelo declared without fear, claiming my lips in an eager kiss.
I will never do anything to hurt you
(I would never, never do one little thing to hurt you)
I'll give all my love to you
My mind was fuzzy as our kisses became more passionate, was this really happening right now.
“I’ma leave, and give you some time,” Carmelo whispered against my lips as I whimpered at the loss.
“I want you to come to me when you’re ready to admit you love me just as much as I love you, he said gently brushing his lips against mine before rushing off towards the elevators.
And if you need me, baby, I'll come runnin'
Only to you
Running towards the bathroom I locked myself in a stall trying to process what had happened. All this time he loved me, all this time lost.
Did I love him? Who am I kidding, I’ve always loved him and I thought I was over it until I saw him today, and it hit me like a ton of bricks.
His words continuing to echo in my head as I got myself together.  Finally building up the courage to come out of the bathroom I ran into what felt like a brick wall as a strong set of arms steadied me.
"Hey, I'm Carmelo's friend Trick. I was looking for him, have you seen him,” the gentleman said as I looked at Angela,who stood behind him.
“He left and went upstairs,” I said as Trick frowned. “So did ya’ll talk?” Angela asked as I nodded.  
“Kayla, did he tell you how he felt?” Trick asked as I nodded again.
"Uh, can you give us an answers and stop all that damn nodding," Angela said I sighed.
“He told me he loved me and that he always had,” I said overwhelmed as Angela squealed in delight. “I knew it! My eyes don’t fool me," she said as I wiped my tears.
“How do you feel about what Melo said?” Trick asked as I contemplated his words.
“I love him too;” I said feeling relieved to say it out loud as Angela hugged me.
 “Then go to him,” she whispered as I nodded in understanding. I guess this is what she mean the other day about me putting my big girl panties on.
I had to tell him he wasn’t wrong, I did love him.
 “Trick, Do you know what room he’s in?' I asked as he smiled. “Room 984,” he said without hesitation as I gave him a hug.
 "Thank you and it was nice meeting you," I whispered as he laughed returning my embrace.
“Nice metting you too Kayla, and I’m sure we will be hanging out soon. Especially if your friend Angela here gives me her number,” he said as I smiled at him before I took off towards the elevator.
“Get ya’ man and have some mind-blowing sex you deserve it!” Angela yelled as Trick laughed. "Trick you better keep your eyes on that one," I said getting on the elevator anxiously waiting for the doors to close.
I felt nervous, the elevator seemed to be going so slow. I almost changed my mind, but the loud dinging noise let me knew I had reached my destination as I walked in a daze to room 984.
Taking a deep breath, I lightly knocked hoping he wouldn’t hear me, and I could leave.
“Damn no such luck,” I muttered as I heard him fumbling around the room. Just do what you feel Kayla, you already know he feels the same. Speak your peace and leave it at that.
Last night I thought to back to when we made good love
Listenin' to some Marvin Gaye all night long
Now I want that old thing back
 It was like time stood still as he opened the door clad in only a towel and a surprised look on his face. Wasting no time and closing the distance between us, I leaped into his arms, capturing his lips in a passionate kiss.
 It’s power startling us both as we moaned in pleasure as our ever-present need for each other continued to grow more intense by the second as we got lost in each other.
 Reluctantly parting to catch our breath, Carmelo looked at me in wonder, caressing my hips.
Make these moments once again a fact
So won't ya, won't ya, uhhh, do it for us, babe
“So, you do love me?” he whispered in disbelief as I caressed his face his piercing gaze had me under his spell.
“I love you, Carmelo,” I whispered against his lips as he groaned reclaiming my lips, pulling me against his bare chest and into his room, slamming the door.
“I love you too, baby,” he moaned as his hands masterfully unzipped my dress causing it to fall at my feet as I shivered feeling exposed under his intense gaze.
“Are we really doin’ this?” I panted as his eyes continued to roam my body. “Yes, and your even more beautiful than I remembered,” he moaned, his breath now hot on my neck as he slowly grazed his lips across my neck, helping me out of my underwear.  
I couldn’t contain my moans of pleasure as Carmelo entangled his fingers in my hair, kissing and nibbling on my neck.
 Purring against him I felt myself losing control as his towel fell, a barrier no longer between us.
Good lovin, body rockin' knockin' boots all night long yeah
Makin' love until we tire to the break of dawn
But oh, come on, a-come on
“Melo, baby,” I moaned as he growled, his hands caressing my breasts as he teasingly sucked and nipped at them as my grip on his head tightened.
“I need to taste you, Peaches, I bet you taste so sweet,” he groaned using his tongue, licking a path from my stomach to my pelvis as he kneeled before me.
And turn the lights down, and let me get on it, yeah
‘Cause when I do, just me and you, it'll be so right
“Can I taste you, Peaches?” he moaned caressing my thighs wrapping them around his shoulders as I trembled with anticipation as he kissed my inner thigh trailing his tongue over my wet center.
Carmelo’s POV
“Yes! Please baby,” Kayla gasped, arching her hips against my tongue as I tasted her. Her hands gripping my face as I licked and sucked on her clit. “Mmm, you taste so sweet peaches. I knew you would baby,” I praised, her eyes rolling back in her head as I pleased her. 
Her moans urging me on as I swirled my flattened tongue around her swollen sensitive clit over and over as she whimpered underneath me.
A-give me some good love
(Somebody rockin' knockin' da boots)
A-give me some good love
(Somebody rockin' knockin' da boots) Somebody rockin', baby, ooh
“Carmelo! Oh, fuck!” Kayla moaned as I groaned savoring her taste. Gripping her ass and standing up while still lapping up her juices, I lifted her higher into the air.
 “What are you doing!” she gasped in shock and pleasure as my hungry eyes met hers. Her back planted firmly against the wall as she shivered against my mouth.
“I'm eating my dessert baby,” I moaned devouring her sweet wet center as her legs trembled around my neck.
I feel so good when I'm near you
That's why I always wanna be close to you
“Give me what I want Peaches,” I moaned against her as her gasps were coming in short spurts, I knew she was close.
 “I want it now Kayla,” I moaned swirling my tongue one last time around her clit before taking it in my mouth sucking it gently as she rode my face, her head thrown back in pleasure.
"Oh God! Melo, I...." She trailed off as her whole body began to shake as her orgasm hit her strong as I slid my tongue inside her making her scream and writhe against my mouth as her orgasm continued to overtake her.
I moaned loudly as her essence drenched my mouth as I welcomed it.
Enjoying watching the pleasure on her face, I gently unwrapping her thighs from around my neck.  Maintaining my grip, I slowly slid her down my body as she leaned forward kissing me with urgency.
“I need you,” I panted against her lips as she arched her back against the wall as I entered her swiftly, as a strangled moan escaped her beautiful lips.
I'm so addicted, I'm so addicted
To makin' love to you, baby
All night long, baby, all night long, long, long, long
Her moans mixed with the feel of her pulsing around me had me reelin’. “Fuck! Shit, I missed this Kay,” I confessed reclaiming her as she clawed at my back.
“I missed you too Carmelo,” she moaned as I bounced her with ease on my dick. Her arms around my neck and her knees locked on top of my arms as we rocked against each other.
“Yea, bounce on this dick… Bounce on it like a good girl. You like how this dick feels in this pussy don’t you?” I moaned.
“Carmelo, yes! Fuck me! Umph,” She groaned sucking on my neck, her wetness soaking my dick as it got louder with each thrust.
Kayla’s POV
“Yea, this that grown man shit, you like it don’t you? That pussy so wet for me Peaches, you takin’ it so good baby,” Carmelo praised as I whimpered against him. “Yes! I love it!” I screamed holding on for dear life.
He was right, we weren’t shy college kids anymore.  This truly was real grown folks shit and I loved it.  Clawing at his shoulders in disbelief and pleasure, I felt that familiar tingling starting to surge downward. Good lovin', body rockin' all night long, oh, oh
Makin' love until we tire to the break of dawn
“I feel you baby, don’t fight that shit,” Carmelo panted as I whined not wanting to cum just yet. “I got you, I’ma make you cum,” he groaned as I gasped, his thrusts becoming more powerful as he revealed his plan for the night.
“Tonight, you gon’ cum again…and again…and again…and again,” he groaned as I fell apart in his arms, his mouth swallowing my cries as he held me tight.
“Yea, that’s it, you so fuckin’ beautiful,” he whispered against my lips.
But oh, come on, come on and turn the lights down, and let me get on it, uh
‘Cause when I do, just me and you, it'll be so right, so right, so right
Each stroke masterfully takin’ my breath away. “I want you to cum baby,” I whispered wanting him to let himself go.
I wanted to see his face as he found his sweet release as he eased us onto the bed towering over me. “Spread them legs wide for me Peaches, we gon’ get this one together, baby,” he groaned, his mouth once again overpowering mine as his strokes became deeper and harder.
“Yes! Carmelo! Cum with me,” I gasped as the new position allowed him deeper inside me.
“Mmhm, I’m real deep in this pussy, it feels so good too baby,” he praised. Moving in sync with him I knew he was close. His muscles began to twitch under my touch.  
A-give me some good love
(Somebody rockin' knockin' da boots)
“Your mine,” I moaned as a low growl fell from his lips as I traced my tongue against his lips as he caught it between his lips gently sucking on it.
“You mine too, you always been mine,” he moaned as my pussy pulsed tightly around him again. Smirking, he placed two of his fingers inside my mouth as I gently sucked on them.
“Fuck yea, good girl Peaches,” he whispered taking his fingers and begins rubbing against my clit matching in tune with his strokes.
“Ahh! Baby I’m cumin!!” I exclaimed, his growls becoming louder as his body shook in ecstasy exploding inside me.
‘Cause I'm ready
(Somebody rockin' knockin' da boots) I'm so ready
I'm so ready, baby
“You felt so fuckin’ good. Shit, that was amazin’” he moaned gently kissing me as we came down from our trip of ecstasy.
 “You ain’t never lied. Can’t wait until we do it again,” I whispered as he groaned against my lips.
(Somebody rockin' knockin' da boots)
To give you everything that we've been waitin' on
(Somebody rockin' knockin' da boots)
“Best homecoming ever,” he panted collapsing beside me as I laughed.
“I have to agree, it’s definitely one for the books,” I said smiling.
“So does this mean you gon’ be my girl,” he whispered running his fingers through my hair as I laughed.
“Uh, I would hope so, you done gave me head in the air…The damn air Carmelo, that definitely was a first for me and the rest I can’t even talk about right now because the feeling in my legs ain’t back yet,” I said as he laughed.
“That was hot as fuck wasn’t it. It’s you, I ain’t never done no shit like that, you make me this way,” he whispered pulling me close as I kissed his tattoo.
“Well, tonight was definitely happy tears,” I said caressing his tattoo as he smiled.
“I promise as long as you my girl, it’s always going to be is happy tears, I promise you baby,” he declared as I snuggled further into his arms.
 “I love you,” I whispered as I felt his heart beating faster.
“I love you too Kayla,” he replied dropping a tender kiss on my forehead.
Where do we go from here, I didn’t know but I knew he was my man and it was going to stay that way.
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mrsarcherofinfamy · 5 months
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• Trick Williams x Reader
Summary: Shawn Michaels puts you into a trio with Carmelo Hayes and Trick Williams. What happens when Trick gets a title shot with you at ringside?
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Leaning against the wall playing on my phone, I hear footsteps coming near me.
"Y/N! Just who I am looking for!"
I look up and see Shawn Michaels standing infront of me.
"What's up Shawn?"
"I need you to go take champ pictures with Melo. I think the fans will love it!"
"Whatever you say bossman!"
We both laugh and I look down at my NXT women's championship around my waist. I put my phone in my pocket and walk over to where they have the pictures set up. I am wearing a black and blue bralette that says "Y/N" on the front (kinda like Indi's), black and blue leather booty shorts, one black and one blue kickpads and black wrestling boots. I see Melo posing and taking pictures so, I stand next to the camera guy watching him. Carmelo has been one of my very few friends I have made since coming to NXT.
"Y/N! What brings you over here?"
"Shawn said I had to come over here and take some champ pictures with ya."
"Oh shit. Get your ass over here!"
He grabs my hand and pulls me to where we have to stand. We take a few pictures together. He grabs my arm and looks at me.
"Y/N. Wear this for the pictures."
He hands me a "Melo don't miss" shirt. I roll my eyes, take it from him and put it on.
"See?! Much better!"
We stand shoulder to shoulder, hold our belts up with our one arm and keep a straight face. Than I smile and look over at him. I put my title back around my waist.
"Well that was fun Melo. Thanks for the shirt."
I giggle and walk off to my locker room not noticing Trick Williams watching us from behind the camera.
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Sitting in my locker room scrolling through my phone at all the pictures of me and Melo on Twitter, I laugh at all the comments about us dating and how there is apparently chemistry between us. I hear a knock on my door and get up going to the door. I open it and there is standing Shawn and Melo.
"Hey guys. What's up?"
"Y/N. Melo had this amazing idea where you, him and Trick Williams will be a trio in NXT."
I look at Melo than back at Shawn.
"I actually kinda like this idea. We are all pretty similar in wrestling styles. Yeah I will do it! But one thing."
Shawn and Melo look at me confused.
"Trick will need to win a title."
"She's right Shawn. Me and Y/N are champs. Trick needs to fight for a title next."
"Alright you two. I will go and figure out something for Trick. By the way, let me know if you see him so I can tell him about this."
Shawn shakes our hands and walks away. I look at Melo.
"Wanna go find Trick ourselves and tell him the good news?"
"Yeah sure. Let's go!"
We walk around the hallways looking for him until we eventually hit catering and he is sitting there talking to Fallon Henley and Brooks Jenson. We walk over to him. Melo sits down next to him and smacks his arm. I stand behind Melo putting my hands on the back of his chair leaning a little.
"Hey its Melo and Y/N. What's good you two?"
"So I've.... we've got some good news for ya. Shawn is making me, you and Y/N a trio group."
"And he is also figuring out to get you a title belt as well."
Trick looks up at me and smiles. I smile and look down.
"You two really did this for me?"
"Of course dude. We got your back."
"Oh my God. Y/N and Melo. You two are so cute. Thinking you can win this guy a title is hilarious."
Dom and Rhea walk into catering with a camera following them. This must be Shawn's idea how to get Trick a belt. Dom comes out and slightly pushes Trick into the table. I step between Trick and Dom and get in Doms face. Rhea pushes Dom back and gets in my face.
"Watch it Rookie. You don't know who or what you are dealing with."
"And you obviously haven't been here in quite awhile to know who I am or what I am capable of."
She laughs and whispers in Doms ear. Trick is standing behind me with his hand on my shoulder. Rhea gets in my face again.
"We challenge you and your boy to a mixed tag team match tonight. And if you and your boy win, he gets a chance at Dom Doms title."
"We accept."
Rhea laughs and pushes Dom out of catering. I turn around and look up at Trick.
"We got this."
"Yes we do. Let's go get ready."
We leave catering and go to our locker rooms to get ready.
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I walk into gorilla wearing the same wrestling gear I had in the pictures and my championship around my waist. Trick is standing watching the TV with his back to me. I walk up next to him and put my hand on his back to let him know I'm there. He turns and looks down at me.
"Hey Y/N. You ready for this match?"
"I'm ready. Are you?"
"If we win.... excuse me... when we win, I hope it gets me a title shot at No Mercy."
I rub my fingers lightly on his back looking up at him smiling.
"I think you definitely will."
His music hits and we walk out of the curtains together not noticing that Rhea and Dom were taking pictures of us.
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"Y/N. Trick. You two are so adorable. We saw your little touchy feely backstage."
Rhea and Dom come out not dressed to wrestle. I grab a mic from the camera guy outside the ring.
"What are you talking about Rhea? Aren't you two supposed to be dressed to wrestle us tonight?"
Rhea and Dom start laughing at us and pointing to the screen. The crowd gasps seeing the picture of me and Trick backstage. I roll my eyes and look at Trick. He gets hit in the back with a metal chair and I jump back seeing Damian Priest and Finn Balor. They start beating him up and I try to get them off but Rhea grabs my hair and knees me in the back. I drop to my knees and she pushes me onto my stomach. She puts her knee on my back and pulls my hair making me watch the rest of The Judgement Day beating up Trick. They put a chair around his leg and smack it with another chair. He screams and grabs his leg. Rhea comes next to me and starts laughing.
"You will pay for this Rhea."
"Will I Y/N?"
She slams my face down on the mat and they all leave the ring. I start feeling a burning sensation in my nose. I push myself up with my arms and crawl over to Trick.
"T? You okay?"
I put my hand on his side looking down at him. He looks up at me holding his leg.
"Y/N. Your nose is bleeding."
He sits up with his hand on my face. I shake my head looking at him.
"I don't care. Are you okay?"
"I'll be okay."
I help him stand up and climb out of the ring. I put his arm around my neck and help him to the back to the trainers room.
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                     *in the trainers room*
I am standing next to him while the doctor is feeling his leg. I have a hand on his upper back trying to be comforting and watching the doctor. Trick looks over at me. The doctor pats his knee and looks at us.
"Ummm Trick. You just need to rest your leg but you should be good to go in a few days."
"Thank you doctor."
The doctor leaves the room and I am looking down at his leg. We hear a knock on the door than it opens. Shawn comes into the room and smiles.
"Trick. Y/N. Just who I was looking for. Trick. You got yourself a title match against Dominick Mysterio for the North American Championship at NXT No Mercy!"
"Oh thank you so much Shawn! This means a lot to me!"
Trick looks at me than back at Shawn.
"Y/N can be ringside right? Just incase Rhea decides to do anything."
"Of course she can! Better get ready. No Mercy is this Saturday!"
Shawn leaves the room and Trick turns to me. I smile really big looking up at him. He pulls me into a big hug. I hug him back giggling at how tight he is hugging me.
"Y/N.... there is something I really want to do right now."
"What's that T?"
"Ummmm.... find Melo and tell him what's happening!"
"Oh okay! Yeah let's go find him."
We walk out of the trainers room to go find Melo.
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                     *at NXT No Mercy*
It is getting close to Trick's match against Dom. Me, Melo and Trick are standing in gorilla getting prepared. I am wearing a black bralette, and new custom black and blue shorts that say "Whoop That Trick" on the booty. I have a hoodie wrapped around my waist because it is a surprise.
"T? Y/N? Imma stay back here and get ready for my match. You two have a good time out there."
Melo winks at Trick and I look at both of them confused. Trick's music hits and we walk out of the curtains. I turn my back to the crowd and slowly untie my hoodie.
"Hey T! I got a surprise for ya!"
"Oh yeah! What's that?"
I fling the hoodie to the side and shake my ass a little for the crowd. Trick leans forward and reads my shorts.
"No way!"
He grabs his chest and moans a little. I look over at him and giggle.
"That is the best surprise I have ever gotten."
We walk down to the ring and finish our entrance. Rhea and Dom make their way down to the ring. Trick is standing in the corner and I am on the outside lightly rubbing his shoulders.
"You got this T!"
I pat his shoulders and climb down to the outside. The bell ring and the match begins.
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It is getting towards the end of the match and Dom is sitting in the corner getting stomped by Trick. Dom grabs his foot and makes him fall onto his back. Dom rolls him up putting his feet on the rope and Rhea holding his feet. I jump up on the stairs than run across the apron and knee Rhea right in the face. Dom jumps up and grabs my arm.
"How could you do that to Mami?!"
I push Dom off of me and Trick rolls him up getting the win. I climb into the ring and jump into Trick's arms. He holds me around my waist.
"You did it!"
"With your help! And in front of my mom!"
He points over to his mom jumping and clapping at ringside.
"In front of your mom?"
I gasp looking over at her and get off of him. The ref hands him his title. He looks over at me.
"I'm also gonna do this in front of mom and the world."
I look at him confused. He grabs my waist, pulls me into him and kisses me. I gasp than wrap my arms around his neck kissing him back. The crowd is cheering and screaming for us. He pulls back looking at me with a big smile on his face.
"I have been waiting to do that for a long time."
I giggle looking up at him still having my arms around his neck.
"Well to be honest, it took ya long enough."
He smiles, lets me go than rolls out of the ring and over to his mom. I jump out of the ring and walk over to them. He hugs his mom and the lights kinda go dark. He grabs my hand, says goodbye to his mom than we walk to the back. We go to his locker room where Melo is waiting for us outside the door.
"Trick! Finally got those feelings out huh?"
I giggle and look up at Trick holding his arm. He smiles looking at Melo.
"Finally!"
Melo smiles and pats Trick's shoulder walking around us leaving. Trick looks down at me. I have my head against his arm holding onto his bicep.
"Hey Y/N?"
"Yes?"
I look up at him smiling. He puts his hand on my cheek looking at me.
"Will you be my girlfriend?"
"Yes! Yes!"
He grabs my face and kisses me hard. I wrap my arms around his neck kissing him back. We hear someone clear their throat behind us. We stop kissing seeing his mom standing behind us with her arms crossed. I giggle and blush really bad. Trick hugs his mom and starts crying. We celebrate with her and hang out in his locker room. Trick takes a selfie with me and his mom. His mom leaves and we say our goodbyes to her.
"I can't believe I won this championship in front of my mom and got the perfect girlfriend all in one day!"
I giggle and put my hands on his chest. He looks down at me and smirks.
"Wanna go home and "celebrate" our new relationship plus me winning this title?"
I bite my lip looking up at him. He smirks and puts a hand on my cheek.
"I will take that as a yes!"
He picks me up, throws me over his shoulder, grabs our belongings and heads out to his car. He sets me down and opens the door for me.
"What a gentleman."
I get into his car and he races around to the other side getting in the driver's seat. We head off to his place for a night to remember.....
The End
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livsbrutalitys-blog · 6 months
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MASTERLIST AND RULES
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Hi guys I’m a new writer here on tumblr and I already have some stuff written and I can’t wait to share them with you! Here are the things/people i write for so if you have any request lmk!
➰-smut ✔️- fluff ➿-angst
• WWE
- Rhea Ripley
homecoming✔️
series
Unfinished business ➿
part 1 | part 2 | part 3 part 4
one shots
rhea ripley x fem!reader ➰
ex!rhea x fem!reader ➿
homecoming ✔️
- Dominik Mysterio
- Damian Priest
one shots
damian priest x fem!reader ✔️
untitled w fem!reader✔️
enemies to lovers?Damian priest x fem!reader ➿
- Becky Lynch
- Bayley
- Sasha Banks/ Mercedes Moné
- Liv Morgan
- Dolph Ziggler
- Drew Mcintyre
- Roman Reigns
one shots
roman reigns x fem!reader
- Jey Uso
- Jimmy Uso
- Trick Williams
- Carmelo Hayes
- Wes Lee
- Roxanne Perez
- CM Punk
- AJ Lee
- Nikki Bella
- Brie Bella
- Dean Ambrose/Jon Moxley
- Baron Corbin
- Shayna Baszler
RULES
Here are some things I WILL NOT write about.
- p3dophillia
- n3crophilia
- inc3st
- non-con (cnc i will but nothing where one party is non-consensual/r@pe)
- any kind of bodily fluid play (bl00d is fine but no golden showers or anything like that)
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thesupreme316 · 11 months
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bronco nima x female reader? the reader is engaged to carmelo hayes but carmelo breaks it off with her when he falls for someone else and bronco is there for the reader and soon after they fall in love
Hate Him, Love You (Bronco Nima x Fem!Reader):
Word Count: 874
Supreme Speaks: thanks to @hooks-martin for this request. ummm...that's it to be honest. Requests are open but I'm gonna be renovating my blog and trying to create/finalize my masterlist (so be patient with me)
Warnings: not really proofread, mentions of a relationship breaking apart
Bronco hates Carmelo
As an athlete, Bronco respects the hell out of Carmelo (it takes a lot of guts, talent, and dedication to be a wrestler period)
But as a person? Bronco hates him
He hates how he has good fits after good fits, how he oozes with charisma every time he’s out on the mic or in the ring, he hates how all the women drop at his feet
Most importantly; Bronco hates how Carmelo was able to work the charm on you
Causing you and Carmelo to start dating…and then becoming official….and then getting engaged
He hates all of it
You have been a good friend of Bronco for years (even before you and Carmelo started dating)
You know each other like the back of your own hands, you have always been there for you (and vice versa)
So it was no surprise when Bronco started to develop feelings for you
Why? ‘Cause Bronco loves you
How you do your hair, how you are so sweet to everyone, how you go above and beyond for your friends, how you are able to smile and calm down in a moment of chaos
So imagine how he felt when he saw you on the hallway floor of NXT…crying
Bronco huffed, “Bro, I don’t know what to do. I’ve never seen Y/N like this before.”
Lucien, his best friend, shook his head, “That’s even more of a reason for you to go over there and comfort her. The woman of your dreams is crying, and no one is around her to comfort or help her. This your shot man, now go be a good person.” He pushed Bronco forward, who very quietly started making his way toward you.
“Hey, Y/N” Bronco whispered. You looked up for a brief moment before wiping your eyes, to make it look like you haven’t been crying. “Y/N, you don’t have to do that. It’s okay to cry. But we can go to a more private place if you want.” You slowly nodded your head as Bronco helped you up. You two started walking toward his locker room. It really hurt him to see you like this; because this was not like you at all. You were always the joking and smiling type. That’s what he adored about you; but to see you like this, he was angry at whoever made you cry. Sitting down on the couch, you sniffled as the tears continued to fall.
“I’m sorry that you have to see me like this.” You said in a shaky voice.

“No, I’m sorry for whoever made you cry.” He whispered to himself, hoping you didn’t hear him. “Do you want to talk about it?”
You took a deep breath in. You whispered something, causing Bronco to ask you to speak up. “Carmelo broke up with me.” You said before letting out a bitter laugh. Bronco’s eyes and mouth got really wide as he took in your appearance more. You weren’t wearing your engagement ring.
You and Carmelo had your problems, which would end up with you guys being “broke up” for a couple of days. You would end up getting back together. But if you took off your ring, it was probably something really bad.
Bronco immediately started to curse out Carmelo in his head (while also thanking him at the same time). He asked, “What happened?”
“He fell in love with another girl.” You sighed, letting go of a breath that you were holding. By saying it out loud, you were accepting the facts for what they were. “He left me. Apparently, he didn’t cheat on me, but now I wouldn’t put it past him. He said it just happened, that he didn’t expect it. So he broke up with me to be with her.” 
“I’m so sorry, Y/N,” Bronco said, sitting down next to you. He wrapped his arms around you. “You don’t deserve this.”
“Maybe I do since I obviously wasn’t e-“
“Don’t you dare finish that sentence.” He said, making you grow quiet. “You did a lot for him, and he couldn’t see and appreciate it. So, screw him. You are an incredible woman and you deserve a man who appreciates you. Don’t ever put yourself down, especially because someone who gives up so easily.”
You leaned your head on his shoulder. “Thank you.”
Ever since that day, you two became inseparable; constantly hanging out with each other
You felt yourself getting better; as you spent most of every day with Bronco
Then, you started to feel sparks between the two of you
Bronco felt his feelings get stronger and decided to bite the bullet
And soon, those hangouts became dates
Going on picnics, driving around late at night, attending company dinners together
Bronco really made you the happiest person ever
And vice versa
Bronco asked you to be his girlfriend after y’alls third date; to which you happily said yes
Till to this day, Bronco hates how Carmelo treated you
But he’s grateful that he did in a way
Cause he loves you…and nothing was gonna change that
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chloewatcheswrestling · 8 months
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Wrestling Love Letters
The Ring General: Reigning after Roman.
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Gunther's journey as the Intercontinental Champion is now etched in the history books, securing him the esteemed title of 'longest-reigning Intercontinental Champion of all time.' Yet, as the saying goes, all good things must come to an end, paving the way for even greater achievements. But how do you book the end of such an epic run without harming the dominance and significance of this championship reign? Gunther has ran through the majority of the superstars the WWE roster has to offer, so let’s explore a path for Gunther to ascend to the pinnacle of the wrestling world, cementing his legacy as a world title holder.
With a reign nearing 500 days (at the time of writing), Gunther undeniably deserves a shot at the top title. His longevity as Intercontinental Champion gives him a claim superior to many on the roster. In a previous blog post, I explored why I’m backing Shinsuke Nakamura to take the World Heavyweight Championship from Seth Rollins but, as a future feud, Gunther doesn’t seem the right fit here. Shinsuke would be a fresh champion with his own reign to cement and whilst I love a villain vs villain clash, this one doesn’t seem fitting.
Doesn’t Roman Reigns vs Gunther for the WWE Universal Championship at Wrestlemania XL (2024) sound appropriate for the longest reigning IC champion of all time? Champion vs Champion? Tribal Chief vs Ring General? Now that’s a Wrestlemania main event.
With Roman currently taking a break, WWE has some time to manipulate the moving parts in this potential matchup. Maybe they could continue to add fuel to the fire of the Giovanni Vinci storyline and identify Vinci as a pivotal figure in Gunther's journey moving forward. The Triple H era has seen the re-emergence of faction-based storytelling but, recently, every faction seems to be experiencing turbulence. Imperium should be portrayed as an impenetrable fortress, a united force that remains dominant and cohesive. Amidst the descent in the other factions on television, Imperium should stand tall, keeping their internal conflicts off-screen and projecting an aura of strength. At Wrestlemania, Vinci could have the opportunity to prove his loyalty to Gunther and Imperium and play a crucial role in Gunther emerging victorious, further solidifying their alliance. Perhaps intercepting a Solo Sikoa run in? Or perhaps putting himself in the path of a superman punch?
To prevent another instance of a champion holding multiple belts, Gunther should make a significant announcement. Given the lack of formidable contenders for his Intercontinental Championship, he was forced to explore new horizons. Gunther will be relinquishing the IC belt to focus on establishing a historic reign with the Universal Championship.
The future of the IC title could be determined by a tournament that features hungry and determined competitors. This not only showcases the talented WWE roster but also ensures that the next champion feels like they have truly earnt their place. This could be a great time to showcase all the talent that have come up short against Gunther but who still remain worthy contenders, roster members who deserve title shots but have been overlooked and perhaps even some hungry NXT stars.
Now, picture this: Gunther, seated at ringside in a sharp suit, proudly draping the Universal Championship over his shoulder. The Intercontinental Championship sits on a silk-covered platform, flanked by Ludwig and Giovanni. The tournament unfolds each week, with Imperium observing, analysing, and critiquing the suitability of the competitors.
For the brackets, after much consideration—taking into account Sheamus's injury and other superstars tied up in different storylines—I settled on a mix of suitable contenders. When it comes to showcasing NXT stars, while Ilja is a personal favourite, Carmelo Hayes or Bron Breakker would also shine in this spotlight.
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As for the winner, recognizing that LA Knight is a huge fan favourite, my vision for the IC title aligns more with Drew McIntyre. It presents Drew with a well deserved opportunity for a dominant championship run playing out in front of real life crowds.
The legacy of Gunther's historic Intercontinental Championship reign will undoubtedly leave an enduring mark on the sport, setting the tone for an exciting new era and setting the stage for another unforgettable chapter in WWE history.
With pins, submissions, and a whole lot of heart, Chloe xoxo
05.10.2023
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wweassets · 4 months
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Okay I could NEVER be as good as the OG calendar anon but I thought I’d make one since they’ve gone missing. Hopefully y’all like it! <3
January: Happy New Year! Dirty Dominik Mysterio is looking forward to another year of criminal acts and peggings from Mami, he’s so excited at the Judgement Day New Years party that he’s stripped out of all his clothes and has two bottles of champagne going, he pours one dramatically into his open mouth, letting some of it drip out the sides of his lips and down his slender body, the other is held just in front of his dick and balls. He’s holding the bottle there deliberately, not letting us get a look at his junk; only Mami gets to see the goods.
February: Picture the scene: Valentines Day, fancy Italian restaurant, candles everywhere, rose petals surrounding the table. Sitting opposite each other is Tony D and Stacks. Adriana Rizzo is in the background serving cunt (& meatballs!). The two men are sitting so close together, their faces only an inch or two apart, looking lovingly into each other’s eyes. The tablecloth obscures the view for everyone but us, and we can see that under the table Stacks is secretly rubbing his foot against the hardening bulge of The Don.
March: Class is back in session for the Spring Semester at Chase U, but Riley Osborne was late for one of Andre Chase’s lectures. Everyone knows bad behaviour has to be punished! Riley is seen bent over Andre’s desk at the front of the class, his pants dropped to his ankles, with Mr Chase winding his palm back around ready to spank the bare ass of his student. The MVP of Chase U, Duke Hudson is also there, sitting at his desk but with a flushed red face, using a textbook to cover the boner he’s got from watching his twunky tag team parter getting spanked.
April: There’s an Easter egg hunt happening at the PC but Carmelo Hayes (dressed in his slutty crop top and a pair of tiny gym shorts) has been distracted by a trail of candy on the floor leading him into the locker room. His eyes are locked into the candy until they appear on the locker room bench in front of him and stop abruptly in between two powerful oiled up thighs belonging to Trick Williams. Trick is completely naked with a seductive look on his face and is holding an Easter egg in front of his beautiful dick, almost teasing Melo to dig in.
May: The Cinco de Mayo celebrations are underway for Angel Garza & Humberto Carrillo in some kind of dance club. You can tell they they were initially dressed in traditional clothes but they have been thrown to the side and they’re now moving their nearly naked and sweaty bodies along to the music. The men are in tiny thongs that leave VERY little to the imagination. They’re dancing on small tables while everyone gazes lustfully at them and their sensual moves, drawn to the cousins curvy and juicy asses. The camera catches Angel mid twerk, while a horny tío slips a few dollars into Humberto’s bulging thong. The Lotharios can’t help it, they love to show off!
June: Summer is the perfect time for volleyball! It’s a Raw vs Smackdown volleyball game for brand supremacy. Austin Theory & Grayson Waller vs The Creeds. Both teams are wearing speedos that are colour coordinated with their brand. We all know Austin’s is not stranger to a blue speedo 😉 Both teams are shining; is it the sun? sweat? baby oil? who cares, they look like gods! Austin is stood to the left of the picture, his shapely ass spilling out of the tiny blue speedo, watching his glistening partner soaring through the air to slap the ball. On the other side of the image, Julius is jumping through the air hoping to block Grayson’s shot, his heavy shlong protruding obscenely from his speedo. Brutus is still face-down on the sand after initially saving the point, his thick ass pointing to the sky.
July: CAAAAW 🦅MURICA 🇺🇸 happy 4th of July y’all! Cody Rhodes loves America so much that he even sleeps in a bed with an American flag duvet! This candid picture was taken of him just after waking up, one half of his body still tangled in the bedsheet, the other above it, with him laying on his stomach. Silly Cody was very tired the night before and went to bed completely naked, so here he is presenting his smooth All American bubble butt to the camera. A sliver of morning sunlight peeking through the window is perfectly illuminating the curves of his body and ass. Gawd bless the U S A.
August: Bash in Berlin is the first WWE PPV to ever happen in Germany, so what better way to celebrate the occasion that with some German delicacies. WWE has superstars doing promotional work across the country. Oh no, looks like someone forgot their lederhosen 🫢 Ludwig Kaiser will have to be naked instead I guess? He’s in a German tavern, holding a massive overflowing plate of thick German sausages in front of his lean muscular body. Luckily for him, one of the thickest sausages is dangling off the plate in the perfect position to cover his own huge meat.
September: Harvesting season has begun for Brooks Jensen and he’s busy trying to fix this goshdarn tractor. Farming is sweaty work so he’s thrown his plaid shirt to the side. He’s stretching himself across the giant tractor wheel to fix the problem, forgetting that he’s wearing a jockstrap under his denim bootyshorts, and his stretching has given us all an eyeful of his fat country ass framed by a few flimsy bits of fabric. Typical himbo!
October: It’s not such a happy Halloween for Dragon Lee since he’s being chased down backstage by cock-hungry zombies! 😨 he was preparing for a match when the outbreak happened so was caught off guard by the attack, they clawed at his glistening body and tore some of his tiny trunks leaving parts of his ass exposed for all to see.
November: It’s Thanksgiving for the WWE roster and many of them are sitting around a long table, ready to feast. But wait, that’s not a turkey in the middle of the table… that’s Jey Uso’s giant ass! He’s completely naked On a large serving platter and surrounded by seasonal vegetables while his humongous cheeks are being used as the table centrepiece and they look as shiny and delicious as a well-basted turkey!
December: Some people need to just stop fighting and kiss-and-make-up, none moreso than CM Punk and Seth Rollins, and what better way to do that than meeting underneath the mistletoe. They’re both wearing adorable Christmas jumpers but the kiss they’re giving each other is far from adorable. It’s nasty, passionate, sloppy, tongues deep inside each others mouths. Punk’s hand has slipped under Rollins’ pants and has a vice grip on his asscheek, while Seth has one of his wrapped around Punk’s throat. Don’t you just love Christmas?!
WELL HELLO CALENDAR ANON (thats what im gonna name u now)... THIS WAS A FUCKING SHOCK! and also so funny cuz costume contest anon sent theirs in just before dfsjsadjadsf
I LOVE IT THO LIKE?? DOUBLE THE SLUTTY CALENDAR FUN?? THANK U BOTH
these are legit so hot like:// gonna need u to do more too pls....
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how about yall? double the fun today!!
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wrestlingisfake · 1 year
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NXT Fake Rankings, 12/23/2022
Men's singles division - babyfaces
Bron Breakker (NXT men's champion)
Wes Lee (NXT North American champion)
Apollo Crews
Axiom
Odyssey Jones
Xyonn Quinn
Ikemen Jiro
Damon Kemp
Men's singles division - heels
Grayson Waller
Carmelo Hayes
Dijak
Joe Gacy
Von Wagner
JD McDonagh
Scrypts
Charlie Dempsey
Unranked: Dante Chen, Guru Raaj, Hank Walker, Javier Bernal
It's been sixteen months since WWE started dismantling Triple H's vision of NXT, and about five months since Vince McMahon retired and left Triple H in charge of creative. It's telling that almost no one on the roster during the Wednesday Night Wars is still here. I suspect Vince's "up or out" mentality is still in effect, and NXT won't see another long-term mainstay like Johnny Gargano or the Undisputed Era.
On the other hand, I think Solo Sikoa is the only NXT 2.0 performer who has been called up to the main roster. At that rate, it might take a few years to completely turn over the roster again. When Vince was in charge I would have expected Breakker, Jones, and Wagner to get called up by April 2023 whether they were ready or not. As it is, we'll have to wait and see how long Triple H wants everybody to spend in developmental.
Men's tag team division - babyfaces
Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods (NXT men's tag team champions)
Josh Briggs & Brooks Jensen
Edris Enofe & Malik Blade
Brutus Creed & Julius Creed
Andre Chase & Duke Hudson
Men's tag team division - heels
Pretty Deadly - Elton Prince & Kit Wilson
Tony D'Angelo & Channing Lorenzo
The Dyad (Jagger Reid and Rip Fowler, formerly James Drake and Zack Gibson) and Indus Sher (Veer Mahan and Sanga, formerly Rinku and Saurav) are featured on TV but haven't wrestled in the past month. I'm surprised they haven't done anything with Gallus (Mark Coffey, Joe Coffey, and Wolfgang), who are apparently still employed but you'd never know it from watching the product.
Women's singles division - babyfaces
Roxanne Perez (NXT women's champion)
Alba Fyre
Wendy Choo
Indi Hartwell
Nikkita Lyons
Fallon Henley
Thea Hail
Women's singles division - heels
Cora Jade
Isla Dawn
Zoey Stark
Elektra Lopez
Kiana James
Unranked: Amari Miller, Lyra Valkyria, Sol Ruca
NXT shot itself in the foot by building the entire women's division around "Mandy Rose is super hot" for 400+ days, and then abruptly releasing her for being too super hot. Having her put over Perez is all well and good, but she could have spent the next year or so giving the rub to several other women.
If you don't want your talent posting nude photos on the internet, you need to pay them enough to make it worth their while. And if you don't want to pay them enough, it makes no sense to push them so strongly. So now Mandy's making a shitload of money and living her best life, and all I can say about NXT's women's roster is "Roxanne and a bunch of nobodies who couldn't beat Mandy."
Women's tag team division - babyfaces
Kayden Carter & Katana Chance (NXT women's tag team champions)
Ivy Nile & Tatum Paxley
Women's tag team division - heels
Toxic Attraction - Gigi Dolin & Jacy Jayne
NXT can still only scrape together three women's tag teams, which is still better than Raw and Smackdown put together, which is kind of sad.
No TV or PPV matches in over 30 days: Jagger Reid, Lash Legend, Oro Mensah, Rip Fowler, Trick Williams, Valentina Feroz
No TV, PPV, or streaming matches in over 30 days: Ava Raine, Boa, Cameron Grimes, Ilja Dragunov, Joe Coffey, Mark Coffey, Meiko Satomura, Nathan Frazer, Quincy Elliott, Roderick Strong, Sanga, Sarray, Tyler Bate, Veer Mahan, Wolfgang
Boa has been on the NXT roster since like 2017, and the only reason I know that is because I keep track of things like that for stuff like this. I don't want anybody to lose their job but I am genuinely perplexed how he survived all the releases over the past three years.
Not listed on NXT roster: Aleah James, Blair Davenport, Noam Dar, Stevie Turner
In August, WWE shut down NXT UK and released much of the roster. Everyone else got reassigned to Original Flavor NXT...except these four, for some reason. WWE.com still lists them as "current superstars" but not for any particular show. I can only guess that several of them are awaiting a rebranding like Aoife Valkyrie/Lyra Valkyria and Oliver Carter/Oro Mensah. But Davenport already has a WWE-owned name, and I haven't heard of her being injured, so I don't know what's up with her.
Inactive
Tiffany Stratton (head - unspecified injury)
Yulisa Leon (right knee - unspecified ligament tear)
I wouldn't be surprised if there are more people sidelined on the NXT roster, but reliable information has gotten harder to find as the brand has become less relevant.
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One of the most high-profile guests we’ve ever had in MPW, one of the most high-profile challengers we’ve ever had for the MPW Stardust title as a whole, Riley Ishimori has selected Dyln Blaine’s challenger tonight to be none other than the former NXT Champion, one of the best wrestlers in North America, including all the way back to his time on the independents, the electrifying Carmelo Hayes! Dyln’s held the MPW Atlas Championship for months, but there’s a very real chance this could be the end of his reign here tonight! 
If Dyln is intimidated, he’s not showing it here tonight, at the very least he’s trying to give off the vibe that he belongs in the ring with a competitor of Hayes’ level. Hayes, used to the big atmosphere, simply measures his opponent, before the bell rings, and the two men lock up. Dyln is quick to pick Carmelo’s arm and twist it into a wrist lock, but with a roll through, kip up, and a twist of his own, Carmelo manages to twist out of Dyln’s wristlock, and trap Dyln in a wrist lock of his own, twisting Dyln’s arm. Dyln snarls, and tries to pull his arm free, before trying the same move that Carmelo did to get out of his- a roll through, and a kip up, and now both men are back to even. 
“This is my house, this isn’t NXT, we actually wrestle here!” Dyln tries to shout across the ring at Carmelo, who simply laughs at Dyln’s attempt to insult him. Say what you will about the WWE performance center, but Carmelo was forged on the American Independants. Trying to pretend otherwise is frankly silly from Blaine. The two lock up again, and Blaine goes back to the wrist lock, but as he wrenches it, Carmelo drops down, rolls forward, and then cartwheels back, using his momentum to reverse pressure and trap Blaine in the wrist lock again, but as Blaine rolls forward to try and attempt the same reversal once again, Melo catches his arm and throws him with an arm drag! 
Dyln is quick back to his feet, and as Melo tries to charge him, Dyln tries to leapfrog, but doesn’t stick the landing completely, and Melo uses the brief stumble to grab Blaine into an O’Connor Roll, shoulders down!
1….2… Kickout!
Blaine shoves Hayes off, but as he sits up, Melo is quick to pop him right in the jaw with a Superkick! The experienced veteran of the two men tonight, Hayes, using Dyln’s inexperience to his advantage! As Dyln is dizzied, on a knee, Hayes charges the ropes and springboards off, looking for something that Dyln moves out of the way of. Dyln grabs Hayes again, this time hooking his arms and looking for a backslide, but Hayes frees his arm and throws Blaine off, before pulling him back, and throwing Dyln across the ring with the arm drag again! 
Blaine rolls to the corner, and tries to shake off the cobwebs, but as Blaine pulls himself up, Melo charges in and nails him with a huge flying forearm shot! Hayes tries to whip Blaine into the opposite corner, but Blaine turns it around on him, sending Melo into the corner, but Melo leaps up onto the top rope, jumps, spins in mid air, and on the way down, catches Blaine with an impressive lucha-style armdrag, throwing Blaine across the ring again! Wow! The arial expertise of Carmelo Hayes is something to behold!
Blaine tries to get right back to his feet one more time, but as he does, he’s caught and dropped again by a quick dropkick from Hayes! Dyln rolls out of the ring, trying to recover, as Hayes waves the New Orleans crowd onto their feet, before measuring Dyln on the outside, turning, hitting the ropes, going for a dive… 
But Dyln cuts it off! Just as Carmelo Hayes was about to dive through the ropes, Dyln Blaine jumps up and nails him with a big european uppercut! That almost took Melo’s head off! Dyln back into the ring, charging the ropes, before leaping up grabbing Carmelo’s head, and twisting in mid air to deliver a modified Tornado DDT, delivered without the assistance of the ropes! Carmelo is spiked right ontop of his head, Blaine hooks the leg, looking to retain his title!
1….2… Kickout!
Hayes out at two! Dyln gets up, a little frustrated that that last move wasn’t it, and immidatyely puts a boo right to Melo’s ribs. Dyln tells the booing crowd to shut up, before grabbing Carmelo by the head, pulling him up to his knees, before just disrespectfully slapping the former NXT Champion right in the face! The disrespectful manuver works to also keep Melo dazed, as Dyln picks him back up, and knocks him into the corner with another European uppercut. Dyln then traps Melo’s arms on the ropes, before rearing back, and delivering a stiff chop to the chest! Melo grits his teeth in agony, and tries to walk it off, actually turning his back on Blaine, and as Blaine tries push Melo into another corner, Melo actually puts a hand in Blaine’s face, and roughly shoves him right off! Blaine answers that with a forearm to the chin, knocking Melo into the corner, before following it up with a big back elbow, keeping the challenger dazed for the moment. 
Dyln slid to the middle of the ring, to create distance and build momentum, before charing back at Hayes, landing another European Uppercut, before snapmaring Hayes out of the corner, into a seated position, and then following it up with a BIG dropkick right to the back of the head! Dyln right back to his feet, drags Hayes a little closer to the corner, before running, leaping, and launching himself down onto Carmelo Hayes with a big Imploding 450 Splash in the corner! Made even more impressive that Dyln did that down off the second rope, Blaine back into the cover! 
1….2.. Kickout!
Hayes out at two once again. Hayes is already back up to his feet, and Dyln runs a hand through his hair in frustration, before getting back up, and catching Hayes with a forearm. Hayes seemed to have had enough of the blows from Blaine at this point, though, and fires back, alternating between forearms and chops, nailing Blaine over and over again! Blaine is dazed, and Carmelo hits the ropes, charging back at him, going for what looks like a Destroyer, but Blaine catches him, and turns it into a backdrop, before going back into the cover!
1….2… Kickout!
Melo kicks out! Hayes rolls to the corner, and Blaine measures, before charging at Hayes. Hayes got out of the way, and tried to nail Blaine with a big forearm, but Blaine caught Hayes, trying to drive him into the turnbuckles with a flatliner, but Hayes caught Blaine with several hard elbows, breaking Blaine’s grip on him. Blaine stumbled back, holding his head, perhaps his equilibrium a little thrown off by those shots to the ear. Hayes charged Blaine, before going for a wheelbarrow, which he rolled through into a victory roll, but Dyln is quick to shove Melo off of him, before the referee can even manage to count one. Dyln sits up again, but this time, as Melo tries the same trick, another Superkick like earlier in the match, Dyln evades, before kipping up to his feet, and catching Melo with a Superkick of his own! Carmelo nearly gets his head taken off, and he’s dazed as Dyln lifts him up, and drops him with a huge backdrop suplex! Blaine into the cover again, to keep the title around his waist!
1….2… Kickout!
Carmelo kicks out again! Dyln, frustrated at this point, grabs at Carmelo’s goatee and shouts at him to stay down, but Carmelo, not standing for the disrespect from Blaine, shoves him off again and gets right back to his feet. Dyln huffs, frustrated that Melo isn’t going away, before charging him, but Melo sidesteps and sends Blaine right through the ropes. Blaine lands on the apron, and as Melo charges, Dyln tries to catch him with a shoulder to the gut, but Carmelo wanted exactly that, and as Dyln leans through the ropes, Melo stops dead and nails him with a Superkick! Dyln gets ROCKED, and almost goes limp, put Melo insures he does by grabbing him and catching him with a stunner between the ropes, as Dyln’s body now hangs limply from the middle rope. Melo charges the adjacent set of ropes and springs off of it, looking for a leg drop, but Dyln moves at the last moment, nobody home for Melo. Dyln runs along the apron and leaps up onto the top rope, measuring, and leaping off, catching Carmelo with a Blockbuster from the top rope! Dyln plants Melo! Dyln hooks the leg! 
1….2… Kickout!
Melo out AGAIN! Always one to show up in big matches, this is no different! Carmelo is almost unlikely anyone Dyln has ever faced before, and anything less than the big guns won’t be enough to put Carmelo down tonight! Dyln gets back up to his feet, and calls for Melo to get up, and as Melo starts to rise back to his feet, Dyln charges the ropes, looking for the Rocket Strap, but as he jumps onto the ropes, Melo shoves Dyln over the ropes! Dyln lands on the apron, but as he catches himself, he couldn’t be prepared as Melo launches himself over the ropes, catches Dyln, and dumps him on the apron with a HUGE Flying DDT! Dyln’s head planted right on the hardest part of the ring! 
Dyln, maybe having just had his spinal column rearranged, gets thrown back into the ring by Hayes, and somehow Dyln is already back on his feet, but not for long as Hayes charges him and drops him with a Codebreaker! Double knees to the face, the champion is down, and Carmelo Hayes is into the cover!
1…2…. Kickout!
Dyln hangs onto the title for the moment! Melo gets back to his feet, and urges the entire New Orleans crowd to theirs, as he could be approaching the MPW Stardust title at a rapid pace! Melo measures Dyln as he gets back to his feet, looking for the Dirty Diana, but Dyln shoves him off, and tries to nail Melo with a Superkick, but Melo catches his leg, drops him, and locks Dyln into a Figure Four! Hayes had Blaine trapped in the Figure Four in the middle of the ring! Hayes wrenched back on the hold, as Bryce asked Blaine if he wanted to give up. Blaine insisted he didn’t, but the pain on his face as Hayes continued to wrench back with the hold told a different story! Blaine may be just seconds away from tapping out to Carmelo Hayes!
Blaine was pulling on his own hair, trying to fight through the pain, trying not to submit while simultaneously trying to figure a way out of this hold! Hayes continued to wrench back on the figure four, practically trying to tear Blaine’s ACL! A hold like this can leave a competitor on the shelf for months, if not permanently crippled! Blaine began to rock himself, trying to turn Hayes over, which would reverse the pressure on the hold to Hayes, but as Blaine rolled, managing to turn Hayes over for a second, Hayes knew to roll with Blaine, and managed to roll through and keep the hold locked in and the pressure on Blaine’s knees! Blaine once again told Bryce that he was fine and didn’t want to submit, but the pain on Blaine’s face told a much different story. Blaine began to reach out and try to drag both himself and Carmelo Hayes to the ropes, and when that didn’t quite seem to work, Blaine began to try and pry at the legs of Hayes, managing to start to pick away at one of Hayes’s ankles, but Hayes shut that down quickly, and kept the hold locked in! Blaine let out another cry of agony, but with one final last gasp of effort, managed to pull himself to the ropes and force a break!
Hayes kept the hold on until the referee’s count of four, making sure to milk every last ounce of punishment he could out of the hold, until he had to let it go or face disqualification. While many matches in MPW had more relaxed rules, referees would tailor the match to those in it. Both Carmelo Hayes and Dyln Blaine being traditional grapplers, the full rulebook would be in play tonight, disqualifications included. Hayes got back to his feet and grabbed Blaine’s leg, catching it with a kick that caused Blaine to let out another cry of agony. 
Melo drags Blaine back up, and tries to lift Dyln up, but as he lifts Dyln for a Suplex, Dyln slips out the back, and lands on his feet, before trying to pick Hayes up for a German Suplex, but Melo nails him with a back elbow, forcing Dyln off of him. Melo then turns around and nails Dyln in the gut, before hitting the ropes, and dropping Dyln with a Scissor Kick! Dyln goes down, Melo into the cover!
1….2… KICKOUT!
Dyln hangs onto the title for the time being! How is the champion still going?! 
Hayes drags Blaine back up to his feet, before taking that bag leg and wrapping it around the ropes, pulling on it for a moment, causing Blaine to shout out in agony, before Hayes turns, hits the ropes, and nails the bad leg of Blaine with another dropkick! Blaine collapses to the mat, clutching at his leg, still caught up in the ropes. Hayes gets back to his feet, and measures Dyln’s leg once again, going for another running maneuver to the leg, but this time Dyln pulls his leg away, and Hayes finds no water in the pool, getting caught up in the ropes himself. Dyln manages to roll back up to his feet, jump up, and drive the back of Hayes’s neck into the mat with a Neckbreaker! Hayes hits hard, and Dyln rolls off to the side, in order to try and recover some. Hayes, meanwhile, rolls to the opposite corner, and was still finding it easier to get up than his one legged opponent currently. Carmelo gets back up to his feet and waits as Dyln struggles to his, charging, only for Dyln to whip around, twist in mid air, and LEVEL Hayes with a Cyclone Kick! Blaine levels Hayes!
Fighting with everything he has just to get back up to his feet, Dyln immediately makes an effort to start climbing up to the top rope. It’s slow going, but he manages, and sets his feet, but suddenly, Carmelo Hayes charges up the ropes, grabs Dyln, and sends him to the mat with a HUGE Top Rope Frankensteiner! Dyln hits the mat hard, and Hayes immediately leaps back onto the top rope, sets his feet, and as Dyln gets back up, Hayes leaps off and CRUSHES HIM with a big Double Stomp! Blaine driven into the mat!
Hayes isn’t done either, as he perches himself in the corner, measuring Dyln as he gets up, looking for the Dirty Diana, but as he charges Dyln, Dyln catches him and shoves him off, accidentally knocking Melo into the referee! Referee is stunned for a moment, and Dyln takes advantage, trying to go for the Rocket Strap, but Melo measures him in mid air, and nails Dyln with a Superkick right to the back of the head! Dyln might be out cold!
Carmelo looks to end this one, heading up to the top rope, and measuring him, looking for Melo Don’t Miss, but as he tries to set his feet, Eric Taylor is up on the apron, trying to pull Melo off the top rope, but Melo kicks him off the apron! What Melo doesn’t notice, is that Lilith Brookes slid the baseball bat into Dyln, and as Melo leaps off the top, Dyln spins around and nails Melo with the baseball bat in mid-air! Melo drops like a sack of bricks, and might be out cold! Dyln ditches the bat, and shakes the referee back to consciousness, before going for the pin on Carmelo! 
1….2….3!
“Here is your winner, and STILL MPW Stardust Champion, Dyln Blaine!” 
Dyln survives maybe his toughest challenge ever, somehow his title reign making it past Carmelo Hayes! But will it hold up tomorrow night against ANarchy?! 
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In Session, Part 1
Brianna may be a dance class instructor, but Carmelo could teach her some new moves...
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a/n: This one is for my good sis, @theninthwonder. 😘
Happy reading! Read my other WWE one shots here. ✨
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"Sheesh. You either got a real bad starin' problem today or you must like what you see."
Brianna's tone was pointed but she couldn't help the playfulness that softened it. Besides, Carmelo was a big boy. He could handle her teasing—he had to if he kept on with his eyes pointed at her thick, glossy lips like he enjoyed her smart-ass mouth.
He chuckled lightly at her words, his annoyingly pretty, chocolate-brown eyes still on her lips before he licked his with his gaze flitting to meet hers as she watched him pointedly, too, with her hand on her hip. 
"Yeah, I like it. You know I do. The question is...what're you gonna do about it?" Carmelo spoke with his low, almost sizzlingly slow, baritone voice, those pretty eyes falling to her lips again as they pulled into a reluctant smirk. Brianna didn't have an issue with the man but with the way he could flirt with her and make her smile when she preferred to not be bothered.
She'd been a dance instructor at this gym for almost two years and she liked to just come to work, move her body while getting her clients excited to do the same, and go home. Brianna's class was located in the huge fitness center down the hallway from the main gym with the heavy equipment. Yet her studio had a large, glass window so other gym members passing by could check out her class and be encouraged to sign up—or so her bosses said was the intention.
Instead, Brianna often dealt with men walking by and damn-fear tripping or freezing in their tracks when they spotted her in her black leotard with matching leggings and Nike Air Force Ones as she showed her class how to dutty wine while on their hands and knees. She ignored it as most would be respectful and keep it moving, save for the few fools who had the audacity to pop their heads in while class was in session and try to spit game to her that she would always shut down with the quickness.
Carmelo was one of the respectful ones, though. One day a month ago, she noticed beyond her window a fine, brown-skinned man sporting a fade and French braids in a ponytail with big, tatted arms exposed in his gray muscle tee shirt...and he noticed Brianna, too, with a sexy smile and wink before he carried on. It wasn't until she was coming back from break a few days later that she ran across him again, and he chatted her up with that same sexy grin that made her cheeks warm as she grinned bigger.
But when he asked for her number, she declined as she didn't feel comfortable seeing anyone who was a member at her place of work. That just meant if anything went wrong, they would still be in her face when she just wanted to do her job. Carmelo understood and respected it...but it didn't stop him from making her smile whenever they crossed paths.
"Whatchu mean 'what am I gonna do about it,' boy? Only solution I see is for you to start averting your eyes when you see me," Brianna said, trying to hide her grin when he sucked his teeth and rolled his eyes.
"If I could do that...I probably still wouldn't 'cause you know you lookin' extra good today, right?" Carmelo claimed in that smooth voice as his eyes smoothed over her slimthick curves in her leotard and leggings that were nearly the same shade of honey brown as her skin, her feet covered in leopard-print Jordan Retro 6s. 
"You just saying that 'cause you probably think this is how I look naked," Brianna purred but then bit her bottom lip, suddenly ashamed of what flew out of her mouth. It was that damn smile of his that had her cheesing back, but she didn't want him to get the wrong idea. Did the thought ever cross her mind of what Carmelo's big hands would feel like if they roamed her bare body the way his eyes did? Hell yes. 
But she refused to catch feelings for a gym member...even if he made it his business to catch her at work by syncing his workout schedule with her classes. It was that kinda cute shit that made her thoughts, and now her words, run away from her.
"Naw, girl. You look extra good witcha clothes on. You just don't know how to take a compliment." Carmelo shook his head and breathed an adorable laugh. "You could just say, 'Thank you, Melo.'" 
He then waited for what he wanted to hear and crossed his arms over his perfect pecs, leaning against the elliptical he was about to use before he spotted Brianna and called her over. Yeah, all of that cute shit, too, she thought as she blushed and twirled her finger around one of her reddish, crocheted twists. 
She rolled her eyes, too, to play it off as she quietly said, "Thank you, Melo."
He nodded with a satisfied smirk before he added, "Now say, 'Yes, Melo...'"
"To what?" Brianna furrowed her arched eyebrows and folded her arms, as well.
"You gotta say yes first to find out..."
"Ughhh...yes, Melo."
"Cool. I'll pick you up at eight, beautiful."
Brianna's brown eyes widened with both surprise and thrill at him trying to finesse her into a date. "You think you slick, don't you?" she giggled, and he did, too, but she trembled a little at the thought of what a night out with him could entail...
"It ain't like you work tomorrow. I don't ever see you here on Saturdays," Melo said and it was true. He caught her gaze with low lids and added in that low, slow voice of his, "And you can't keep actin' like you don't like me..."
"If I didn't like you, I wouldn't put up with you," she confessed in a small voice and a smaller laugh. He raised his eyebrows like he didn't already know that and it made her playfully shove him in the arm. 
"Then let me take you to dinner. Just once." He grabbed her hand that connected with his bicep to hold for just a moment. Even that brief, warm contact, that eye contact, made Brianna feel heated like she just finished a warm-up routine. "Unless you got plans or something, what's your excuse this time?"
Brianna was in her mid-30s, single, hard-working, and drained by the end of the week from said hard work, which meant she reserved her Friday evenings for staying in to recharge, catch up on her TV shows, read, and maybe go out for the occasional drink or two with her homegirls. But never a date. It had been years since her last one...and for good reason.
Once upon a time she bothered to use dating apps, but never got close to anything that actually resembled a date because the dudes gave her the ick merely from their introduction messages. 
"You got a fat ass, ma."
"Where you stay? Let me smoke you out tonight."
"You got some sexy lips...what that mouth do?"
Yet Brianna noticed Carmelo remained respectful, even if he flirted heavily with her. It never failed to impress her—shit, turn her on, too—as he was about five years younger than her and carried himself with the poise and savvy of a gentleman older than her. 
Not to mention...he was sculpted like a demigod. His physique was beyond impressive and she struggled to keep her gaze on his as he stood before her half-naked with his abs popping with light sweat from his previous workout, and his slight happy trail that led into his black sweatpants sitting low on his hips, revealing the black and white waistband of his boxer briefs...although she tried not to strain her eyes to see what else they revealed. Carmelo wasn't much taller than her but she knew he was strong from the weights she'd seen him lift...and no doubt he'd lift her with her ease and wear her out until she was begging to the gods for mercy.
However, Brianna would probably be worse for wear, anyway, as it'd been a hot minute since she'd gotten some ass. She was never one to hook up with randoms, the last time being when she was in college over a decade ago. She would only fuck her boyfriends on the regular, but she hadn't been tied down in over three years—and three years without made her feel beyond rusty in the bedroom, no matter how limber she was in her dance classes. 
What if she embarrassed herself? What if his respectful guy was a shtick and he ran his mouth around the gym about what they got up to outside of it? Brianna didn't want to take the chance.
She took a small breath to compose herself from her thoughts before she finally replied to him, "No plans. I just don't plan to shit where I eat. I've told you this before, sir." 
"Yeah, I know...but you like me, yeah? And I like you," Carmelo said with those eyes that seemed to read her thoughts and make her coyly grin again. "One date ain't gonna hurt you..."
Mmm, but what if I want you to? Brianna thought begrudgingly, feeling herself blush again as she couldn't stop those thoughts from clouding her judgment once more. She heard herself gush the words, "Alright, then. Eight it is," before she could rethink them and Carmelo's sexy smile was bigger than she'd ever seen it before.
She still heard that twinge of "Girl, what are you doing?!" whispering in her thoughts to agree to a date with this adonis, but at this point, her brain gave the reins to her body. It twinged with heat when Carmelo held her hand again to slide his cell phone in her palm, instructing her to save her number in it, before he slid his fingers around her wrist and brought her knuckles to his lips for a quick, delicate kiss. The heat between her legs immediately whispered for him to kiss her, too...
"I'll see you tonight," he said softly as he let her hand gracefully fall to her side and Brianna mumbled what she hoped was a coherent, "Okay, see you later," as she not so gracefully sauntered off, her tongue tied and her knees weak.
If Carmelo had this effect on her with his mere aura and a simple kiss, Brianna knew she had a lot more to get ready for today than her next dance class...
When he arrived at her house later that evening, Brianna felt like she was floating on air even in her white, strappy heels as she approached him leaning against the passenger's door of his silver mist-painted GranTurismo, those big arms on display in his black, short-sleeved button-up and crossed on his chest where a gold Cuban link rested as he watched her come closer with that sexy grin on his lips.
"You clean up nice," she teased as a way to conceal how he stole the air from her lungs with his warm, yummy, snug scent when he hugged her.
"Yeah? Just tryna keep up with you 'cause sheesh," Carmelo said before he let out a long whistle and slowly spun her 360 degrees to take in the details of her silky, red mini-dress that covered her arms but dipped with a v-cut to show off her cleavage and another upside v-cut to unveil more of her left thigh.
The way Brianna's body heat soared to near-feverish levels from his touch and admiration made her want to feel ashamed, but all she could do was hide it, suck her teeth, and smile as she told him, "Boy, stop butterin' me up..."
"I tell you all the time how beautiful you are...and I mean it every time," Carmelo stated as he opened the door for her, his voice dropping an octave along with his eyes that met hers as she sat down on the red leather. 
"Yeah, whatever," Brianna toyed under her breath as he closed the door, certain he didn't hear her.
But when he slipped behind the wheel and started the car, the speakers softly singing the chorus of "Moonlight" by Arin Ray, she felt her heart pound when his gaze lingered on her as he replied in that deep yet smooth tone, "'Member what I taught you earlier 'bout takin' a compliment? And you say...?"
"...Thank you, Melo," Brianna murmured with a tiny grin as he cupped his ear with his hand as if to listen carefully before he grinned back and pulled his Maserati away from her curb and to their destination.
Maybe it was her nerves from being on a date for the first time in years. Maybe it was the way stars above and lights that lined the downtown street twinkled around them in the lavish, outdoor dining room at Prime + Proper. Or maybe it was the way Carmelo couldn't seem to avert his eyes from her like she'd dared him to earlier, his gaze more fascinated with her than the beautiful lush garden bordering the restaurant was surrounded or the lovely plates of gourmet alfredo over penne and roasted chicken set in front of them by their kind waiter.
Instead, he looked at Brianna like she was something delectable, something special, and all of it, all of him, had her heart still pounding in her chest as she tried to play it cool.
Yet when he spoke her name with his hand reaching across the table to tap his fingers along hers that wrapped around her fork, she felt herself stiffen from his soft touch. Brianna hoped he wouldn't notice but when she met his eyes, that sexy smile appeared on his lips as he said, "Lemme get a bite of that. Looks delicious."
She let him take her hand, something he seemed fond of doing and made her feel a way each time, as he leaned forward and guided her fork to his mouth. He let out a satisfied grunt as he chewed on her chicken and she giggled before she said, "You must really like it to make a noise like that. Greedy ass."
"Greedy? Naw, I just have good taste. I like what I got and I like yours, too," Carmelo replied with a lick of his lips before he took a sip of his iced water. His eyes stayed on her the entire time his thick, pink lips stuck to the glass, and she found herself imagining them stuck to her in the same manner...
"I'll give you that. This is a nice restaurant. The food is good," Brianna admitted as she glanced around again in awe and savored another bite of her food.
"Glad you let me take you out somewhere nice. You deserve it," he responded smoothly. "I know about your rule, but I figured that was for the lames. And I know I ain't one of them...not when I make you smile like that."
Carmelo grinned as he watched how her face broke into a grin, too, that she tried to mask with her glass of lemonade before drinking a bit. But he was onto her, she could feel it, and he pressed her softly.
"So why you was dodgin' me for so long, Bri?" he spoke. She thought briefly to come up with another excuse yet she knew he would see through it at this point.
Brianna sighed and expressed in a timid tone, "Because...you...ugh, you make me feel nervous."
"Nervous? Really? We be coolin' it when we talk."
"Yeah, yeah, I know...it's more like I'm nervous about what you'd do. I haven't been out like this in a while but I know how niggas do. Not saying that's you, too, but I don't know..."
Carmelo placed his fork down and propped his elbows up on the table to rest his chin on his knuckles as he gazed at her with a sudden seriousness in his brown eyes that matched his voice as he spoke, "I hear you on that. I do. But I didn't ask you out for any other reason than to get to know you better. I meant it when I said I like you, Bri. I like you a lot."
The bite of chicken she was about to take halted in the air as she could tell he did mean it. Just when she thought her nerves were settling, her heart did a flip as she said back to him, "I like you a lot, too, Melo..."
The drive back to her house was filled with that same flirting and tittering which helped ease Brianna's fluttering heartbeat in his delightful presence. But that fluttering intensified as he held her in his strong arms while they stood on her porch after he walked her to her door. She expected him to let go after a few seconds but he didn't—and she realized she didn't want him to as she rested her head on his shoulder with his chin resting on her twists that spilled down her back.
"Guess this is 'good night,'" Brianna piped up with her arms still draped on his waist as she looked up at him. Carmelo looked down at her and he didn't have to say a word for her to see the same glimmer of disappointment in his eyes that also twinkled in hers for ending the night so soon. However, she didn't know how else the night was supposed to end after leaving all of her dating skills and etiquette in years long gone.
That's when the thought that often crossed her mind about him wiggled its way to the forefront as she could feel his warm, hard muscles pressed to her and see his pretty, moist lips that looked just as warm yet soft...
"Guess so. Hope it's not the last time, though," Carmelo uttered wistfully.
"It won't be. Um, drive safe and let me know when you get home," Brianna said under her breath as he finally dropped his arms. She turned to her door to then fish through her Saint Laurent white leather clutch for her house keys, but something made her turn back around to face him and grab his chin before planting a quick smooch on his cheek. "Thank you for tonight," she whispered on his skin. Not the kiss she craved, but close enough.
"Of course...thank you for lettin' me spend a lil time with you. I'll text you when I'm home. Have a good rest of your night, beautiful," Carmelo whispered back and briefly bit his bottom lip that her thumb almost grazed. He stepped back as she unlocked her door and with a parting, handsome smile made his way back down her driveway to his car. 
As Brianna opened her door to step inside, she felt that same something urge her to look over her shoulder at him as he rounded the hood to hop in his Maserati. Those thoughts came flooding back, every single one of them, the one that told her not to mess with a man she knew from work; the one that told her that man was too young and likely too hung for her to handle; and the one that told her she needed him in the worse way, each way, and each position until each of her vocal cords gave out...and Brianna let the flood finally consume her as she abruptly called out his name.
He perked up from bending down to slide into his car, watching her wave for him to come back. When he graced her porch once again, he asked, "Forgot something in my car? I'll grab it for you."
"No...I forgot this." Brianna leaned into him with shaky fingers from her nerves as they cupped his chin again to claim that something as boldness as she brought his lips to hers. Those warm, soft, juicy lips. It was a short kiss, not even a few seconds, but it left her shaking even more in her soul, wanting even more, as she tried to fix her eyes on his that looked pleasantly surprised. "Do you wanna...c-come inside?"
"Mm...you sure 'bout that, beautiful?" Carmelo asked quietly, curiously. He took her wrist into his hands and scattered two light but long kisses along the inside of it as if to test that curiosity, test her boldness, and discover if it led to more...but then he said just as quietly, "I hope you ain't just askin' me that because you think that's what I want."
"I want that...if you do," Brianna professed in a near whisper. He met her gaze with a knowing smile, the same smile that made her swoon since the first day she saw him... 
"Oh, you know I want it."
There was a distinct buzz surging through Brianna's body, controlling her every limb as she led Carmelo into her home. It was like she was under a microscope, that microscope being his intense yet soft eyes as he studied her moving around the foyer to hang her purse on her coat rack, then to the living room to flick on a light, and lastly, the kitchen where she opened her refrigerator to offer him a drink. 
She approached him sitting him on her couch, legs spread and reclined with his arms across the top, making himself all comfortable like he knew her place well, those stunning brown eyes still following her every step. She realized then the buzz wasn't just nerves but anticipation. Brianna could tell by now that Carmelo's respectful guy shtick was the real deal and there would be nothing going down if she didn't make it clear that's what she wanted it, too...badly.
Yet she was tongue-tied again, her dirty thoughts only stuck in her mouth even as she caught him looking at her lips. Damn, he made her nervous. Anxious, really, that buzz underneath her skin giving it away. When he accepted the bottled water from her, their fingers brushed together and she wondered if he felt that buzz tingle up his arm, too. When she sat down next to him, their thighs gently nudged together, she pondered if he felt it shoot a thrill up his hip, too. But when he slowly tilted up to put down his water on her coffee table after a few sips, he let his arm slip around her shoulders and she knew she was the only one who shook from his embrace.
"I need you to be straight up with me, Bri. We both grown." His other hand used his thick fingers to find her jaw and steer her face to his, eyes low yet prayerfully seeing the deepest need in her that she knew was trapped in her glittering, brown eyes. "Do you want me to fuck you, beautiful?"
Carmelo's low voice couldn't have sounded more gentle, more sweet, in her ears but the bluntness of his words forced another shake through her body that settled between her legs where Brianna felt a trickle of arousal betray her self-control. Like she had any of that left, anyway.
She kissed the man, twice. She invited the man inside her home. She let the man hold her face as his lips hovered so close that she felt his warm breath touch her lips when she needed it to be his mouth.
His question was simple but sliced through the layers of this game of "keep away" they'd been playing for weeks now—a game she initiated because god forbid she humiliate herself fucking with a dude when she hadn't been fucked, and fucked good, in years.
Yet Brianna was out of moves, he had flipped the game board and challenged her with new moves, like his gaze touching her soul and his hand gripping her with an ease, a tenderness she wasn't familiar with. It unlocked that boldness yet again living deep inside her that she kept hidden from men...but Carmelo was no ordinary man.
"...Yeah, I do."
The kisses he left on her hand felt even better on her lips. Curiously bold yet delicate like he wanted to feel every corner of her mouth, taste every inch of her tongue, and make up for lost time, all those times they could have been kissed like this. Carmelo's hand falling from her jaw to beneath her throat, delicate still with his grip, making a needy whimper slip from Brianna, his other hand tugging her closer to him by the small of her back until she crawled up on his lap, her arms slithering around his neck with her legs snaking his waist, her body shaking anew just from the whisper of contact against her clit behind her thong from his bulge that felt goddamn thick.
Brianna's hands twitched with curiosity to touch it, skimming down his chain, hard chest, and abs until her fingertips grazed it, mindlessly fiddling with the button on his black slacks to unfasten it. Her head was suddenly fuzzy with only one thought, pantsoffpantsoffpantsoff, her nerves not particularly soothed but drowned with a flow of dopamine from his intoxicating cologne caressing her nostrils, his lips caressing her neck, and his hands caressing everywhere else, like her breasts that he lightly massaged until they tried to spill from her bra and her round ass that fit perfectly in his big palms, making her breath stutter into his mouth.
"You want it right here? On the couch?" He panted his question as his breath hitched, too. Brianna nodded once as she successfully unbuttoned his pants, but his hands briskly scooped hers away. He pulled them to his mouth to sprinkle those light kisses along her knuckles again, forcing her to focus on him through that fuzz as he added, "I was thinkin' of layin' you down. So I can take my time with you..."
His voice was so smooth, so tender...how could she say no? Yet her newfound boldness made her mumble the intrusive thought before she could bite it back, "What if I wanna take my time sucking this dick right now?"
Carmelo's eyes briefly widened at her bold words but then he licked his lips before he licked and sucked her tongue in a heady kiss that made her whine, eager to slurp on him the same way.
"If that's what you want, go 'head. I wouldn't mind feelin' these pretty lips around me," he purred into her mouth with another kiss as her pussy purred at the seats of his pants and her panties to feel him throb from the idea. "But after that, baby...you better let me take my time eatin' that pussy."
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rickygoldman34 · 10 months
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We shall get onto the next match up here Tiffany Stratton vs Thea Hail in a submission match for the NXT women's title. Tiffany looking for a submission very early on but Thea escapes and fumbles a few move here including a suicide dive to the outside that the champion caught and tortured her until getting back in now and Tiffany looks to make Thea tap but once again Thea gets out of it. Tiffany sends Thea to the corner which allows her to hook in yet another submission that Thea fought out of she battled back but not for long because once again Tiffany has one more submission locked on but Thea is back in it and hits a successful suicide dive but her momentum didn't last long as Tiffany is in it again,both women up to the top rope,Thea hits an exploder followed by a kimura lock but Tiffany fought out and smashed Thea into the barricade and then into the steps on the outside. Back in and tiffany hits the prettiest moonsault ever she then hooks in a Boston crab but Thea won't give up,Tiffany hooks in a half Boston crab forcing Andre Chase to throw in the towel which means Tiffany keeps the title.
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And now its the MAIN EVENT! Ilja Dragonuv vs Carmelo Hayes for the NXT title. Both men jockeying for position,Carmelo in control but only by a little as he shoulder tackles and arm drags Ilja. Both men exchange chops but Hayes kick Dragonuv outside the ring. Back in and Ilja with a dropkick to Carmelo he follows it up with a German suplex and a clothesline,Carmella won't stay down so Ilja delivers more German suplexs. Ilja then takes it to the champion and goes for many pinfall attempts but Hayes stays in it despite the hard shots from the challenger but it didn't last long as Ilja hits a 61line to no avail. Ilja locks in a sleeper but Hayes escapes as they trade kicks,Ilja with 2 clotheslines but Hayes fought back but Ilja wouldn't go away as Hayes hits a clothesline but he looks to be out on his feet. Ilja goes for another 61line but didnt connect as Hayes comes off the top to no avail, up to the top rope Hayes goes but Ilja knocks him off hits a senton but no,Ilja hits a coast to coast but Hayes kicks him out of mid air then goes for his finisher but gets powerbombed,Dragonuv then hits a elbow to the back of Hayes head but nope. What a match this was with neither man giving up. Both men trade blows,Ilja hits torpedo moscow on Trick Williams on the outside,back in and Carmelo hits his finisher to walk out as champion.
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WRESTLING - WWE - AEW
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completed = 𓆩♡𓆪
unfinished = ♡
in the works = ➳
oneshots = ★
series = ☆
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carmelo hayes
i love you ★ 𓆩♡𓆪
—carmelo loses you when he really didn’t want to.
mine ★ 𓆩♡𓆪
—carmelo wants to be more than a quick fuck to you.
bron breakker
the only exception ★ 𓆩♡𓆪
—bron confesses he likes you after grayson waller ruins your promo.
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“Swerve.  SWERVE!  Isaiah!  Shane!  Can we talk?”  Carmelo Hayes followed Hit Row through the backstage area, and even through wrestling’s most dangerous parking lot.  Anything too wild would get Trick thrown at it first though.  I mean, what’s the point of having a corner man, if he couldn’t handle what’s around the corner, right?
Staying a few cautious steps behind, Carmelo sees some long silver braids duck into an SUV right before two well-manicured middle fingers give him, and NXT a goodbye.  He could only watch them speed off.  Still in his gear, and with the addition of a rather oversized Bordeaux colored championship.  He looked to it, and then to the fading lights of the vehicle.
This is the moment that the smile began.  And spread.  Even ignoring the change of weather, and the fact he was outside in gear and a NXT 2.0 T-shirt.  The road he was on was made of opportunities.  Taking the ring against Adam Cole, the NXT Breakout tournament, even a battle against four hundred pounds of a rhino named Odyssey Jones, each stop got him to that clipboard.  To that opportunity.  
Now the clipboard was gone.  The guaranteed title shot was waiting on next year’s tournament winner.  And the months long Hit Row/Legado Del Fantasma war had been closed for conflict.  Carmelo Hayes being the final, yet absolutely unexpected last salvo in the battle.  NXT was certainly where you came for the wildest solutions possible to any wrestling beef imaginable.  Even further, when one reflected back on...
“If you don’t GET your ass back inside.  You been out here staring at an exit gate for ten minutes now in your underwear.  Melo not about to miss pneumonia, or the wrestler sweats either!”  Trick Williams appeared behind him, having watched his partner observe silently long enough.  Ironically, he hadn’t thought to button his own shirt up either.   Carmelo snapped back to reality.  Took a moment to collect his thoughts and replied.  “No stares cousin.  Nothing in the past at all.  Its all future from here on out, nothing but the next bucket made.”
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TITLELESS: 16 NBA teams that flamed out too soon
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Were Gary Payton’s Sonics the best team to never win an NBA championship?
Our quest to uncover the best NBA team to not win a title begins with the teams that suffered mind-boggling playoff disappointments.
Our quest to uncover the best NBA team to not win a title begins with the teams that suffered mind-boggling playoff disappointments. These 16 clubs fell short of their ultimate goal due to an early-round upset, a brutal collapse, or both. Meet the Flameout Division.
As always, we will count down from worst to best. We begin with a long-forgotten upstart and end with one that has become a cultural icon.
16. 2012-13 Denver Nuggets
ERA: The Post-Carmelo trade.
RECORD: 57-25
POINT DIFFERENTIAL: +5
PLAYOFF RESULT: Lost in first round to No. 6 Golden State Warriors (4-2)
KEY STAR(S): None
COACH: George Karl
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Ty Lawson, Andre Iguodala, Danilo Gallinari (injured in playoffs), Kenneth Faried, Andre Miller, Wilson Chandler, Kosta Koufos, Corey Brewer, JaVale McGee
OTHER SEASONS CONSIDERED FROM THIS ERA: None
These guys were the victims of Stephen Curry’s loud arrival on the league’s biggest stage. The Warriors’ eventual rise and the Nuggets’ immediate demolition conspired to turn this Denver squad into a footnote. Too bad, because they were innovative, a joy to watch, and a cool example of the power of depth. If only Danilo Gallinari didn’t tear his ACL late in the regular season...
15. 1986-87 Atlanta Hawks
ERA: Dominique.
RECORD: 57-25
POINT DIFFERENTIAL: +7.2
PLAYOFF RESULT: Lost in second round to No. 3 Detroit Pistons (4-1)
KEY STAR(S): Dominique Wilkins.
COACH: Mike Fratello.
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Kevin Willis, Doc Rivers, Randy Wittman, Tree Rollins, Cliff Levingston, Spud Webb, Mike McGee, Jon Koncak, Gus Williams, John Battle.
OTHER SEASONS CONSIDERED FROM THIS ERA: 1987-88, 1993-94
Dominique Wilkins’ inability to even advance to a conference finals is framed as a casualty of the deep Eastern Conference. He was great, the argument goes, but his teams didn’t have enough to beat the Bostons and Detroits of the world.
That’s largely true, but 1986-87 was different. Nique’s Hawks earned the No. 2 seed in the conference, and he was lauded for improving his all-around game. With Boston wobbly due to injury and Detroit still a year or two away, this was Atlanta’s chance.
They didn’t lack for confidence. Before their second-round series with Detroit began, Hawks power forward Kevin Willis was asked if the series would go the distance. “No, I think it will go five,” he replied.
Technically, he was right. Atlanta lost Game 1 at home after Wilkins shot just 7-18 from the field, then fell behind 3-1 after Isiah Thomas drove from the top of the key for a layup in the closing seconds of Game 4.
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Atlanta then blew a double-digit fourth quarter lead in Game 5 when they suddenly forgot how to score. That was their title shot, and they blew it.
14. 1946-47 Washington Capitols
ERA: Red Auerbach, pre-Boston
RECORD: 49-11
POINT DIFFERENTIAL: +9.9
PLAYOFF RESULT: Lost in BAA semifinals to No. 2 Chicago Stags (4-2)
KEY STAR(S): Bob Feerick
COACH: Red Auerbach
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Bones McKinney, Fred Scolari, Johnny Norlander, John Mahnken, Irv Torgoff
OTHER SEASONS CONSIDERED FROM THIS ERA: 1948-49
Meet professional basketball’s original chokers! Coached by Red Auerbach – yes, future Celtics legend Red Auerbach – the Washington Capitols were the standout team in the inaugural season of the Basketball Association of America, a precursor to the NBA. They were known for their excellent team play, high-octane offense, conditioning, and unique triangle zone defense that toed the line of legality. A skinny forward named Bones McKinney was the fulcrum, while a quick guard named Bob Feerick was the offensive star.
Feerick in particular was a stylistic marvel for his time. If you have 30 minutes to spare – and I know you do – this rare footage of a 1949 Capitols-Baltimore Bullets game is a delight.
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Heat check!
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And contrary to popular belief, Tracy McGrady wasn’t the first player to try to pass it to himself off the backboard.
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Let’s talk about that zone more. Midway through the season, the BAA banned zone defensive styles that attempted to slow the game down. (Remember, this was the pre-shot clock era.) But the Capitols’ triangle approach was still legal because it actually sped the game up. Here’s how a 1947 New York Daily News article described Washington’s strategy:
“Standing zone defenses were banned earlier this month by the progressive BAA, in the interest of more action for the fans, but this stratagem is a triangle of weaving tall men the Caps use under either backboard that insures them of nearly every rebound. The other two are used for fast breaks or give and go plays.”
So, cherry-picking. What visionaries!
So how did these dudes not win the title? After losing just one game at home during the regular season, they inexplicably dropped the first two games of their conference finals series against the Chicago Stags by double digits. Told you they were chokers.
13. 1968-69 Baltimore Bullets
ERA: Wes and Earl the Pearl, pre-Elvin Hayes.
RECORD: 57-25.
POINT DIFFERENTIAL: +4.3
PLAYOFF RESULT: Lost in East semifinals to No. 4 New York Knicks (4-0 with home court)
KEY STAR(S): Earl Monroe, Wes Unseld.
COACH: Gene Shue.
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Kevin Loughery, Gus Johnson, Jack Marin, Ray Scott, Leroy Ellis.
OTHER SEASONS CONSIDERED FROM THIS ERA: 1969-70
The Bullets of the late 60s and 70s were one of the league’s forgotten powerhouses. Ironically, it was their worst regular-season team — an aging 44-win unit that turned back the clock in the 1978 playoffs — that gave D.C. its lone title. I considered the 1973 trade for Elvin Hayes as the line of demarcation between eras, which made these Bullets of Earl Monroe, Gus Johnson, and a rookie Wes Unseld the obvious choice.
Their four-game series loss to the hated Knicks had a slight asterisk because Johnson missed the series due to injury. Still, the Bullets had the NBA’s best record that season thanks largely to Unseld and Monroe. They should not have been swept.
They got their revenge on the Knicks two years later to reach the Finals, but that Bullets team was just 40-42 in the regular season. The 68-69 edition was much better.
12. 2017-18 Toronto Raptors
ERA: Kyle and DeMar
RECORD: 59-23
POINT DIFFERENTIAL: +7.8
PLAYOFF RESULT: Lost in second round to No. 4 Cleveland Cavaliers (4-0)
KEY STAR(S): DeMar DeRozan, Kyle Lowry
COACH: Dwane Casey
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Serge Ibaka, Jonas Valanciunas, Delon Wright, Pascal Siakam, O.G. Anunoby, Fred VanVleet, CJ Miles, Jakob Poeltl, Norman Powell
OTHER SEASONS CONSIDERED FROM THIS ERA: 2015-16, 2016-17
I toyed with the idea of excluding all Raptors teams due to last year’s title, but considered the Kawhi Leonard-DeMar DeRozan trade and the firing of Dwane Casey as significant enough changes to split the era up. That means we get to flash back to a time when the Raptors were known for choking in the playoffs and getting owned by LeBron James. Ahh, memories.
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11. 1976-77 Los Angeles Lakers
ERA: Kareem before Magic
RECORD: 53-29
POINT DIFFERENTIAL: +2.8
PLAYOFF RESULT: Lost in West finals to No. 3 Portland Trail Blazers (4-0)
KEY STAR(S): Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
COACH: Bill Sharman
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Lucius Allen, Cazzie Russell, Don Chaney, Kermit Washington, Don Ford, Tom Abernathy, Earl Tatum, Mack Calvin
OTHERS CONSIDERED FROM THIS ERA: None
The only decent Lakers team of the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar era before Magic Johnson showed up was exposed as a one-man band in an embarrassing Western Conference Finals sweep. The contrast between Bill Walton’s speedy, team-oriented Blazers and Kareem’s slow, battered Lakers was stark. Kareem outscored Walton, but none of Kareem’s teammates showed up.
It didn’t help that starting power forward Kermit Washington missed the series (this was before he became a pariah after punching Rudy Tomjanovich) and point guard Lucius Allen barely played due to a toe injury.
10. 1994-95 San Antonio Spurs
ERA: Admiral, pre-Timmy
RECORD: 60-22
POINT DIFFERENTIAL: +6
PLAYOFF RESULT: Lost in West Finals to No. 6 Houston Rockets (4-2)
KEY STAR(S): David Robinson
COACH: Bob Hill
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Sean Elliott, Dennis Rodman, Avery Johnson, Vinny Del Negro, Chuck Person, J.R. Reid, Terry Cummings, Doc Rivers, Willie Anderson
OTHERS CONSIDERED FROM THIS ERA: 1989-90, 1990-91, 1993-94, 1995-96
This was the best of the David Robinson teams Before Timmy, and also the one that suffered the most humiliating defeat. The 1995 title race was wide open, and San Antonio had home-court advantage throughout the playoffs and the league’s MVP. In the end, that MVP was outplayed by Hakeem Olajuwon in a Western Conference Finals where the Spurs dropped all three of their home games.
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This was one deep team. Dennis Rodman got weird by the end, but he was still a force during the regular season. Nine players averaged at least 15 minutes a game, and each position had a top backup. They could go big or small depending on the matchup and the needs they had during each game. But all of those advantages faded away as Olajuwon dominated.
9. 2015-16 San Antonio Spurs
ERA: Post-Big 3
RECORD: 67-15
POINT DIFFERENTIAL: +10.6
PLAYOFF RESULT: Lost in second round to No. 3 Oklahoma City Thunder (4-2)
KEY STAR(S): Kawhi Leonard, LaMarcus Aldridge, Tim Duncan (last season)
COACH: Gregg Popovich
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Tony Parker, Danny Green, Manu Ginobili, Patty Mills, David West, Kyle Anderson, Kevin Martin, Jonathon Simmons
OTHER SEASONS CONSIDERED FROM THIS ERA: 2016-17
You’re probably wondering why this team (and the 61-win version the year after that lost to Golden State when Zaza Pachulia slid under Kawhi Leonard’s ankle) is eligible for the tournament despite retaining four key core pieces and the legendary head coach from the 2013-14 title squad. Two reasons
The 2015 signing of LaMarcus Aldridge qualifies as a core-altering event.
This was the year the Spurs became Leonard’s team. His usage jumped nearly three points from 2014-15 and would leap up to beyond 30 the next season. Meanwhile, Tim Duncan ended up retiring after the season.
This was a forgotten powerhouse due to the presence of the 73-win Warriors. Ultimately, they were a paper tiger who couldn’t raise their level to get past a Thunder team that coasted in the regular season.
8. 2008-09 Cleveland Cavaliers
ERA: Young LeBron
RECORD: 66-16
POINT DIFFERENTIAL: +8.9
PLAYOFF RESULT: Lost in East Finals to No. 3 Orlando Magic (4-2)
KEY STAR(S): LeBron James
COACH: Mike Brown
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Mo Williams, Delonte West, Anderson Varejao, Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Ben Wallace, Wally Szczerbiak, Daniel Gibson, Joe Smith
OTHER SEASONS CONSIDERED FROM THIS ERA: 2009-10
The regular-season fundamentals of these Cavaliers are as good as any in the tournament. Sixty-six wins, a differential approaching nine, and arguably LeBron James’ best individual season. Putting them as a No. 8 seed seems tough.
On the other hand, Mo Williams was their second-best offensive player.
7. 2013-14 Los Angeles Clippers
ERA: Lob City
RECORD: 57-25
POINT DIFFERENTIAL: +6.9
PLAYOFF RESULT: Lost in second round to No. 2 Oklahoma City Thunder (4-2)
KEY STAR(S): Chris Paul, Blake Griffin
COACH: Doc Rivers
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: DeAndre Jordan, J.J. Redick, Matt Barnes, Jamal Crawford, Darren Collison, Jared Dudley
OTHERS CONSIDERED FROM THIS ERA: 2012-13, 2014-15, 2015-16
Choosing between Lob City teams was tough. The 2014-15 team was nearly as good as the 2013-14 edition and fell in much more excruciating fashion. The 2015-16 team wasn’t as good, but their title window was briefly opened by Stephen Curry’s ankle injury before both Chris Paul and Blake Griffin got hurt. The 2012-13 version under Vinny Del Negro has a great case, too, though there was plenty of dysfunction lurking beneath the surface.
But I chose the 2013-14 edition for three reasons:
It had the best point differential of the bunch.
It was the most well-rounded thanks to J.J. Redick’s arrival, Matt Barnes’ underrated season, and DeAndre Jordan’s improvement.
Their playoff run was the weirdest of all, from Donald Sterling’s demise to Paul’s out-of-body experience in Game 5 against the Thunder.
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6. 1999-00 Portland Trail Blazers
ERA: Pre-Jailblazers
RECORD: 59-23
POINT DIFFERENTIAL: +6.5
PLAYOFF RESULT: Lost in West Finals to No. 1 Los Angeles Lakers (4-3)
KEY STAR(S): Rasheed Wallace, Scottie Pippen
COACH: Mike Dunleavy
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Steve Smith, Damon Stoudamire, Arvydas Sabonis, Detlef Schrempf, Brian Grant, Greg Anthony, Bonzi Wells, Jermaine O’Neal
OTHER SEASONS CONSIDERED FROM THIS ERA: 1998-99
If you want to break Portland fans’ hearts, send them this video.
5. 1992-93 New York Knicks
ERA: Patrick Ewing’s Knicks
RECORD: 60-22
POINT DIFFERENTIAL: +6.2
PLAYOFF RESULT: Lost in East Finals to No. 2 Chicago Bulls (4-2)
KEY STAR(S): Patrick Ewing
COACH: Pat Riley
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: John Starks, Charles Oakley, Charles Smith, Anthony Mason, Doc Rivers, Greg Anthony, Rolando Blackman
OTHER SEASONS CONSIDERED FROM THIS ERA: 1991-92, 1993-94, 1996-97, 1998-99, 1999-00
It’s easy to wonder in hindsight how a team with John Starks as its second-leading scorer had any shot against Michael Jordan’s Bulls. At the time, though, the Knicks seemed to have Chicago’s number, pushing them to seven games in the 1992 playoffs before upgrading their roster the next season. They led 2-0 in the East Finals and had a chance to win Game 5 before Charles Smith was stripped, stopped, stopped, and STOPPED AGAIN right under the basket.
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That denied Patrick Ewing his best shot at a ring – the 93 team was comfortably better than the ‘94 team that lost in the NBA Finals and a tad more formidable than the ‘97 club that added Allan Houston and Larry Johnson to their regular core – and our chance to watch a repeat of one of the wildest brawls in NBA history.
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4. 2006-07 Dallas Mavericks
ERA: Dirk, Before Carlisle
RECORD: 67-15
POINT DIFFERENTIAL: +6
PLAYOFF RESULT: Lost in first round to No. 8 Golden State Warriors (4-2)
KEY STAR(S): Dirk Nowitzki
COACH: Avery Johnson
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Jason Terry, Josh Howard, Devin Harris, Erick Dampier, Jerry Stackhouse, Devean George, DeSagana Diop
OTHER SEASONS CONSIDERED FROM THIS ERA: 2002-03, 2005-06
It was tough picking between the 2006-07 edition of the pre-Rick Carlisle Mavs and the 2005-06 one that was 2-0 up on Miami in the NBA Finals before Dwyane Wade’s never-ending free-throw parade turned the tide. The 2002-03 edition that went 60-22, beat the Kings in Round 2, and battled San Antonio despite key injuries deserves more love too.
The 06-07 team ended up getting the nod because they were the clear favorites that year and because this was Dirk Nowitzki’s finest regular season. Maybe things would be different if they played anyone other than that weird We Believe Warriors team that matched up so well with them.
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3. 1990-91 Portland Trail Blazers
ERA: Clyde’s prime
RECORD: 63-19
POINT DIFFERENTIAL: +8.7
PLAYOFF RESULT: Lost in West Finals to No. 2 Los Angeles Lakers (4-2)
KEY STAR(S): Clyde Drexler
COACH: Rick Adelman
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Terry Porter, Jerome Kersey, Buck Williams, Kevin Duckworth, Clifford Robinson, Danny Ainge
OTHER SEASONS CONSIDERED FROM THIS ERA: 1989-90, 1991-92
The other two Portland contenders of the Clyde Drexler era made the NBA Finals, but this was their best team of the bunch. They went 27-3 to start the season, handily beat the eventual champion Bulls twice, and also won 16 in a row to end the year before giving their starters limited minutes in the season finale.
But after slipping by Seattle and routing Phoenix, the Blazers blew a double-digit fourth-quarter lead to the Lakers in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals. Terry Porter missed a three that would’ve tied the game, and Buck Williams bricked two free throws with 30 seconds left. The Blazers elected to defend the Lakers straight-up on the ensuing possession instead of fouling, but surrendered an uncontested dunk to Sam Perkins at the shot clock buzzer.
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They never recovered from that collapse and fell in six after Magic Johnson flung the ball down the court to nobody in the closing seconds.
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Imagine these Blazers in the 1991 Finals instead of a Lakers team that didn’t have a healthy James Worthy. Wouldn’t they be the favorites against the Bulls?
2. 2018-19 Milwaukee Bucks
ERA: Giannis and Bud
RECORD: 60-22
POINT DIFFERENTIAL: +8.8
PLAYOFF RESULT: Lost in East Finals to No. 2 Toronto Raptors (4-2)
KEY STAR(S): Giannis Antetokounmpo
COACH: Mike Budenholzer
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Khris Middleton, Malcolm Brogdon, Eric Bledsoe, Brook Lopez, George Hill, Nikola Mirotic
OTHER SEASONS CONSIDERED FROM THIS ERA: None
Is it harsh to put last year’s Bucks on this side of the bracket considering Toronto’s eventual title? I don’t think so. Milwaukee had the league’s best point differential by a mile, a 2-0 series lead, and had Toronto on the ropes in overtime in Game 3. What happened thereafter is a collapse, even if history rewrites it as Kawhi Leonard’s triumph over a too-green Giannis Antetokounmpo.
(Interesting question: if the 2019-20 edition fails to win the title, would they be this tournament’s No. 1 overall seed?).
1. 1993-94 Seattle Supersonics
ERA: Kemp and Payton
RECORD: 63-19
POINT DIFFERENTIAL: +9
PLAYOFF RESULT: Lost in first round to No. 8 Denver Nuggets (3-2)
KEY STAR(S): Gary Payton, Shawn Kemp
COACH: George Karl
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Detlef Schrempf, Kendall Gill, Sam Perkins, Nate McMillan, Michael Cage
OTHER SEASONS CONSIDERED FROM THIS ERA: 1992-93, 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98
It was tough choosing between these Sonics and the 95-96 edition that made the Finals. The 95-96 team won more games and went deeper in the playoffs. Their two stars, Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp, were better versions of themselves. Maybe they’d have given the 72-10 Bulls more of a series if George Karl put Payton on Michael Jordan from the start.
But the 93-94 edition had a better point differential (+9 to +7.8) in a season without expansion teams, as well as a stronger supporting cast and a much scarier trapping defense. Kendall Gill was an emerging star, Nate McMillan wasn’t injured, Sam Perkins could do more, and Michael Cage was significantly better than Ervin Johnson in the middle. Plus, Bob Kloppenburg, the architect of Seattle’s famous SOS pressure defense, was not on the staff by 1996.
It’s easy to forget how monumental that Nuggets first-round upset was at the time. Michael Jordan was retired, so the title was up for grabs. Seattle’s net rating was higher than any other team and nearly double of the eventual champion Rockets. They won 16 of their first 17 games and 30 of their first 35. They had blown out the Nuggets in each of the first two games of the playoff series. This was the peak version of one of the most enthralling non-champions in NBA history, not the 1995-96 version.
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