Post by Alicia Lukas on Jan 5, 2018 5:15:28 GMT -5
Off Camera
Atlanta Georgia
7 years ago.
“Fuck, no no no…”
Alicia’s voice shook with laboured breaths. Her bare feet felt cold on the tiled floor of the bathroom. She sat on the edge of the bath, her arms wrapped around her stomach squeezing hard, she rocked back and forth, her eyes fixated on the floor as she felt the object in her hand poke against her ribs.
Her eyes stayed on the floor, they blurred as they filled with tears. The defined black lines in between the eggshell tiles fazed out and mixed together. She let out a small whimper, and kept her eyes shut as the tears rolled down her cheeks. The first few got to her chin and slowly dropped off and hit the floor.
Alicia tried to calm herself down as she continued rocking back and forth and shaking, her breaths slowed her heart rate followed. Her hands moved and she looked down at the object in her hands, hoping and pleading for it to be different, for it to have changed, her eyes begging it to be different. She threw it onto the bathroom counter and buried her face in her hands.
She shook her head mumbling under her breath. Before looking over and finding his straight razor. Her hands trembled as she reached for it. It was heavy, old, but sharp. Alicia flicked it open and stared at the blade almost mesmerised by it. She got to her feet and looked down at her bare wrists and then down at the bathtub. She seemed to stare and stand still for hours but it would have only been minutes.
Alicia snapped out of it and turned catching a glimpse of the object on the bench. A pregnancy test. A positive pregnancy test. Her jaw clenched as did her hand around the old wooden handle of the straight razor. She looked up into the mirror seeing herself. Her eyes red and puffy from crying, Her make up a mess.
Alicia pressed the cold steel against her skin, a trickle of blood dripping to the floor. She took a deep breath in and suddenly dropped the razor with a wail. She fell to the floor and cried, weeping openly. She heard the footsteps, she knew he was coming. Ronnie had heard her. She grabbed the razor and threw it up near the sink getting to her feet as she frantically moved things. The door opened.
“Violet what the fuck is this?...why the fuck are you crying?” She adjusted her dress and smiled wide, bright and completely fake. Her hand holding out the test. Ronnie’s eyes trailed down to it, he studied it and the look on his face didn’t change. “Oh...father will be happy…” Alicia’s jaw trembled, he showed no emotion, no happiness...nothing..just a monotone voice and a cold stare.
“But darling aren’t you happy?....you’re going to be a fath-” A loud sickening thud caused Alicia to double over. Ronnie’s fist buried itself into her midsection, Alicia dropped to her knees and coughed and sputtered managing only a few words. “Th-the ba-bay…” He stared down at her and shook his head. “Watch your mouth if you want to keep it...if you lose it...well...we’ll just have to make another….”
Off Camera
Lukas family home. Atlanta Georgia.
2 Years Ago
Daisie and Alicia sat on a couch in the parlour of Alicia’s mothers home. Daisie was dressed in a lovely purple dress with black accents, Alicia on the other hand much to Daisie’s dismay was wearing a pair of jeans and a singlet top with pink cupcakes over her...assets.
Daisie sat like a proper woman, her back straight, her legs crossed under the chair and her hands sitting on her lead leg. Alicia slumped in the chair, her legs spread, and her arms folded. Daisie looked over and rolled her eyes as Alicia and Daisie’s mothers sat opposite them. Both dressed similar to Daisie and sitting the same.
“Well this is fun…..” Alicia spat with more than a hint of sarcasm. Daisie turned and shook her head. “Oh Alicia you’re so funny..mama Mrs Lukas, we just had to come home and see you.” Daisie’s mother gave her a small smile and a nod as Alicia’s mother mumbled under her breath. Alicia raised an eyebrow and looked up.
“Sorry mama what was that?..I couldn’t quite hear you” She clears her throat and sits up straight with a shake of her head ignoring Alicia and instead speaking to Daisie ”Daisie my dear I would of much rather you brought that dashing young man of yours...Austin wasn’t it?’”
Alicia rolls her eyes and sits forward, Daisie is quick to act as she slides forward again. “Alic-” “Violet...her name is Violet.” They both go silent, this time Alicia can’t stand it getting to her feet throwing her hands in the air. “D, this is shit, I’m sorry but fuck y’all i’m out…” She turns and heads towards the door, her mother gets to her feet and yells in anger startling the help and Daisie and her own mother.
“That’s right Violet, walk away like you did to Ronald and your sons….how are Rory and Ryan?...do you care?....”
Alicia stopped in her tracks and sneered before turning around, Daisie had gotten to her feet and stood in front of her. “Nah boo...calm….she tryin ta git a rise…” She winks and nods, Alicia nods back understanding before looking over at her mother with a wild grin. “My boys are fine...mother. They’re with their violent, abusive father who beat me everyday, but he won’t hurt them...they’re his boys…”
There was an air in the room of shock and awe. Daisie’s eyebrows raised as Alicia just smirked and shook her head. “Oh an another thing bitch. I got a new man. I would introduce ya, but ya dun know what a real man looks like….” She smiles and grabs Daisie’s hand as the two make their way out of the room and the door.
On Camera
Washington D.C
Present Day
“Well, this is certainly an unexpected development right?.”
Alicia smiles slowly, she looks up through a veil of long blonde hair that flows down her body, her shoulders and her pink tapout brand shirt, her arms stay leaning against the bar of a weight set, her leg up on the headrest of the bench.
“I’ve flirted with the prospect of joining LAW for so long. See I love women’s wrestling. I’ve never been a big fan of this intergender mishmash bullcrap. I always loved the pure competition. But my schedule never allowed for it. I was always busy, signed to other companies. Competing around the world where I have been a multi-time champion. See my whole rise in this business started 7 years ago when I walked out of a bad situation and found my way to Japan. I spent months scrubbing floors, rolling up mats, washing gear, taking down the ropes, sweeping the canvas. I did everything I could and earned enough respect to get my training started.”
“I spent years being beaten down, thrown around. Told to quit, that I was just a silly little white girl. A beauty queen with no future in the world they all respected. I should go back to my frilly dresses, and luncheons. But every single setback, every beating, every loss I came back stronger. Tougher. Ready to get back in that ring. And four years of in ring competition. Four years of wrestling in every Japanese promotion I could find that would take me. Championships, Tournaments, Matches against legends. I did it all. Then I came home. I stepped off that plane and felt the entire world crush down on my body. The weight of it all…”
“And I realised my career and life there. It meant nothing.”
“See the wrestling world might be global at most points and some people know me and see what I can do but they had to go looking. To 90 percent of American fans, I was a rookie. A nobody. And that’s where I started. Almost two years ago, back at square one. Facing the American scene and all its wonders and the star making power...no one...NO ONE cared who I was…."
Alicia pauses for a moment and raises an eyebrow looking around the home gym that her fiance Michael Reynolds had installed when he asked her to move in with him. Everything she could ask for, anything she needed. This was where she could switch off and just focus on what she wanted and needed. To have that killer instinct that has now become her trademark
“I started from the bottom, and everything I got told was that I was nothing. Just some silly little girl who played wrestler in Japan. That I wasn’t going to go anywhere. So when I signed my first contract I agreed to go back to developmental. I listened to everyone when they said I wouldn’t do anything. But then, it started. I ran through the competition. I won a title I defended that title and I moved on. And what has happened since then?. Well for the last two years there has barely been a time I haven’t been a champion. There has barely been a time I haven’t held gold.”
“So as I sat there and looked around at new places to compete in the name that kept coming up time and time again was LAW.”
“And this just makes sense. One of the best female wrestlers of the past two years in one of the best all female companies that has ever been. And that is what LAW has been for many since it opened. I always watched I always noticed. And I’ve been in the ring with some of the best LAW has to offer. Hell even a former talent in Courtney Leinart got destroyed by me. One of your best in Kate Steele fell to me twice. And I went to war in a match of the year candidate with Samantha Tolson. People like Kenzi Grey and Roxy Cotton know me. They wanted me here. And of course, Maki knows me quite well. So this was a no brainer.”
“The level of competition in LAW is what really attracted me to it and I wanted to test myself.”
“So the new year came up and I decided to sign my name on the dotted line. And amid rumors of changed opponents etc here I am. With some real hype. January 14th at the D.C Armory I get in the ring against Le Bord de Dieu. A woman as beautiful as she is mysterious. Se I feel like maybe I’m at a disadvantage. While you can go anywhere and see matches of mine, watch promos….Le Bord though?. I know what she looks like, I know her name in English means “The Edge of God”...thanks google translate….”
Alicia smirks and pushes off the weight bench.
“For all I know you could be one of the greatest unknown wrestlers in the world. And one of the ways I got so “good” is by never...EVER underestimating opponents. See you do that and it all falls apart. So no Le Bord de Dieu I’m not going to talk about how great I am and try and put you down cause the truth is we all belong in that ring. We all have the guts to step in there and put our bodies on the line. But what I can promise you is that you’re going to get the best Alicia Lukas, you’re not going to get anything else than my entire heart, soul, body and mind.”
“This debut will be something special. Whether it’s for you or me at LAW 75 it’s going to be something amazing. And the fans of LAW, anyone not familiar with me?...they’ll know my name after this….”