Post by Rick Majors on Apr 4, 2014 21:49:49 GMT -5
The scene opens with Rick Majors sitting at a desk, facing a couch. There are a variety of different mementos around the room, primarily pictures and other items from Rick Majors’ wrestling career. Rick Majors starts to speak.
"Kids, I'm gonna tell you an incredible story, the story of how I met your mother. Nine years ago, back in NLCW, I had this whole other life. It was way back in 2005. I was 34, having success in wrestling, winning championships and having a great time. My life was good.
And then I broke my neck.
You see, when I entered NLCW, I did so alongside a friend of mine named Derrick Lambert. We’d been in a few different wrestling companies together and had travelled around the world with each other. We even lived together for a while. Well kids, you’ll find that, as you grow older, the friends you had when you were younger seem to drift away, at least most of them. So by the time 2005 rolled around, Derrick and I weren’t exactly friends anymore.
Okay, we were enemies. But that’s a whole other story.
All you have to know right now is that our friendship had gone bad. We didn't really 'drift' from each other... we tried to kill each other. One thing you’ll learn in life is that sometimes your biggest enemies end up being the people who used to be your best friends. Friends know each other very well and, when they get angry, they use what they know to hurt one another. It's not pretty, but it happens. It happens a lot.
The rivalry between the two of us had gotten so bad that we were booked in match called the “Suicide in Steel” and it was every bit as brutal as it sounded.
That’s the match where I broke my neck. I had spinal fusion surgery to try to fix the problem in April 2005 and I was confined to a bed for months. When I could finally walk, I certainly wasn't in any condition to wrestle. So, instead, I started helping out in NLCW's developmental fed: LCW. It was the summer of 2005 and that’s where I first met Tyler Scott.
Now Tyler and I were never great friends. We never really hung out backstage or went out for drinks after the show. But he was a talented wrestler and his work inside the ring impressed me. So, whenever I got the chance, I’d talk to him a bit about wrestling. I could tell that he was going to be a star and I wanted to give him any advice I could that would help him out. Plus, I liked watching his matches.
But Tyler Scott is important for another really big reason: Tyler Scott is responsible for me meeting your mother.
He probably doesn’t realize it and I’ve certainly never told him, but it’s true. I was backstage at a show in September of 2005. I’d finished up all of my road agent duties and my neck had been really bothering me all day, so I just wanted to go home and go straight to bed. But Tyler Scott was in a big match that night. I liked watching him wrestle, so I stuck around until his match was over.
He lost the match and, when I saw him backstage later on, it was obvious that he was upset. Like I said, we were never close friends or anything, but I cared about him and his career. So, when I walked by him in the hallway, I stopped and patted him on the shoulder. He looked at me with genuine appreciation in his eyes and said 'thank you.' Then, as I was walking away, he told me that there was a reporter from a local paper backstage doing interviews with wrestlers. He’d already spoken to her but, if I wanted to talk to her, she was just down the hall.
Kids, that reporter is your mother.
We met that night and really hit it off. She was smart and funny and beautiful and she actually seemed to like me. I forgot all about the horrible pain in my neck and asked her to go for a drink with me when she was done work. She said no.
I was crushed.
But then she gave me her number and asked me to call her next week when she had more free time. I did call and we had a great night. Less than two years later, we were married. I'd never been so happy before in my life.
You see, kids, right from the moment I met your mom, I knew I that had to love this woman as much as I could for as long as I could, and that I could never stop loving her, not even for a second. I carried that lesson with me every day.
And I carried it with me when she got hit by that drunk driver.
It always seemed like everything would be okay as long as she was there and then... everything changed. And now... now I might never see her again. And what.... what do I have left?"
It is at this point where it becomes obvious that Rick Majors is sitting in a room by himself. The couch he is looking at is empty. There are no children sitting there because, obviously, Rick Majors has no children. Rick and Kelly held off of having kids for a long time. They waited and waited and then it was too late. So, tonight, Rick Majors has been talking to himself.
Frazzled from recalling the situation that he currently finds himself in, Rick Majors stands up from his chair. He walks over to the shelf behind the couch. It is lined with a variety of different items from various different points in Rick’s life. He picks up a photo of him and Kelly on their wedding day. He looks at the photo closely, staring at it for a very long time before sighing and placing it back on the shelf. He turns to leave the room, but stops when another photo catches his eye.
It;s a picture of him and several LCW talents. It was taken backstage after a show. He remembers that day very well. In the photo is Calvin Ericks and Matthew Logan and Remi Bonneau and several others.... including Tyler Scott. Rick Majors picks up this photo and he stares at it for a very long time as well. He then throws it down at the floor, smashing the glass on the frame into hundred of pieces. Then he turns, walks towards the door, turns off the light and leaves the room, closing the door behind him.