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Courtesy of http://www.pantheonwrestling.com July 16th, 2008
4:10 p.m. So I told Ashley that I wasn't sure the kid was mine and as I expected she didn't much care for my thoughts. The bitch even went as far as to throw a glass of water in my face. and began cursing at me. Yet for some reason that didn't really bother me like it usually did. It didn't seem like a stab in the heart. If was as if I had an angelic figure over me to prevent the hurt that usually came with her recent meetings with me. I wasn't really even bothered with the fact that the kid might not be mine. It seemed that my mind and my heart were working as one again. All I could think about is that blonde I met in the bar. Tara. I had her number for about five days now as I bet she was wondering if I was ever going to call. You see as much as I wanted to call her and hopefully try to get on with my life, I had these thoughts in the back of my head about what if Autumn is my little girl. How would I explain to her not only am I her father and this is his girlfriend? I knew though that I couldn't continue to live in the past. That was what I had been doing the last couple weeks. I have been trying to rekindle my old relationship with wet matches. I had been led by my heart trying to get back a love that was lost. All I have gotten in return was heartache. I knew I had to take the plunge and try to find someone new. I knew that the only way to get over my ex-wife was to move on. Yet was Tara the one that could help me move on? I mean sure I felt comfortable around her and I was able to be myself...something that I hadn't been able to say in a long time. The big question was she the one I could see building a life with? That was the question I didn't know. Yet I guess it wouldn't help to take her out and get the answer in person. -=The Black Little Dress=- I had finally convinced myself after five days to give Tara a call. I had finally decided to move on with my life even if that meant my possible daughter would have two different Christmas's. I would soon find out if Autumn was in fact my daughter. I went to the doctor's the next day after the bar incident as Ashley brought Autumn there too. The doctor took our DNA samples with blood work and sent it off for viewing. The doctor's visit was very quiet as I don't think Ashley even muttered a word to me the whole time we were there. Right now though Ashley and Autumn were the last thing on my mind, I was too busy thinking of Tara. She had left quite an impression on me even if we didn't talk more than five minutes. My mind was thinking of Tara as I sat on the couch with my cell phone in my right hand and the napkin with her number on the coffee table. I checked the number as I dialed. I heard the rings as on the second ring I heard a voice on the other end. "Uh hello?" She sound tentative in her voice as I sensed that she was still seemed like someone was following her or stalking her at the very least. Yet I didn't understand anything about her situation as she was very vague about herself at the bar. Then again I can't really say I blame her as a local bar isn't the place to bare your secrets. Though I replied to her telling her who I was. "Hey Tara, it's Gio." As I said that I heard a slight sigh of relief on the other end as I began to build up nerve of asking her out for dinner tonight. I knew a nice little Italian place that she might like. I then began to speak again as she seemed less tense after finding out who it was. "So Tara, are you doing anything tonight?" I asked hoping she wouldn't say no as I really believe she was the one that could help me move on. Not to mention a night out with her would definitely get my mind off the pending paternity test and the feel of Ashley's cold shoulder. " No not really, I am staying at my brother's house right now. He and his girlfriend have went out for some business matter. Why do you ask?" She asked that question as I think she already knew what I was going to ask. Though it must be a woman's little game to make the man ask them out anyway. I thought I would just go along with the little game. "Well I was wondering if you wanted to go out to eat tonight? I know this nice little Italian place." I figured an Italian place would be safe as I didn't know many people that didn't like Italian food. Yet I waited for her answer hoping that she wouldn't mind catching dinner with me. I mean after all she is alone in the house. "That sounds great. I guess I need to give you directions don't I?" I was so excited she said yes that I almost didn't catch the last part of what she said as I was too happy that she said yes. Now I could hopefully move on from the last couple weeks and put my life back together. "Yeah directions would be great." After I said that...there was an awkward pause on her end of the phone as if she was actually trying to figure out the directions to get there. I then interrupted her train of thought. "Tell you want, why don't you just text me the directions later say before seven?" Surely that would give her enough time to get the directions straight as I figured that I knew myself around the city pretty damn well. "That would be great. So I will see you soon." She said as I let out a smile even though I knew she couldn't see it on the other end. I didn't know what it was about this woman that caused me to smile. Though I knew I liked it whatever she had over me. " Okay I will see you around eight Tara." With that exchange I closed my phone and jumped up from the couch. I then proceeded up the stairs to my bedroom. I then walked to my closet to try to decide if I should go casual or somewhat formal. I decided to compromise with a shirt and tie with some faded blue jeans. With my outfit picked out I decided to venture into the bathroom for a shower. I checked the mirror as I thought I needed to shave too. With that I proceeded to get ready for my date and maybe catch a power nap before the date. July 16th, 2008
7:04 p.m. I laid on my bed as I was already dressed for the date. I had my eyes closed as I tried to catch some z's on a power nap till I heard the buzzing of my phone against the wood surface of my night stand. I then opened my eyes and reached for my phone as it was Tara's text with directions to her house. I checked the time as I figured I might as well get up and leave as the directions seemed to take me on the outskirts of Los Angeles. I jumped up out of bed and went to the mirror as I fixed my hair and checked myself to see if everything was straight. Once I was satisfied with they way I looked I grabbed the keys to my newly bought 2008 Mercedes-Benz S-Class as I exited my house locking it on my way out. I hoped in my car as I put in the address to where Tara was in my Tom-Tom Navigation system. I then pulled out my drive way as I headed off toward Tara's brother's house to pick her up. While I drove my mind began to wonder as I thought about the possibilities I had with Tara. My daydream was abruptly ended when some fucking asshole cut me off. I then shook off the thought as I tried to search for some music while I drove. The next ten to twenty minutes I just listened to the music as I got closer to Tara. While driving though I started noticing stuff I have seen before as I couldn't figure out where I have seen it before. I mean I had seen these landmarks before as I then realized it when I pulled up to Tara's brother's house. Her brother was known other than Pete Ebdon. I had an "oh shit" moment as I shook off the thought as I got out of my car. I now knew why she had looked somewhat familiar. Lucky for me that she didn't look much like her brother. They just had some facial features that showed they were related. I then proceeded toward the door as the thoughts of how Pete would react raced through my mind. I got to the door as I rang the door bell. Then a few moment passed as the door opened and there stood Tara wearing a little black dress that looked more like a slip than a dress. She smile as the only thing that could come out of my mouth. "Your Pete's sister." Damn what an idiot. I can't believe I just said that. I should have complimented on the way she looked ,but I couldn't get over her being my associate's sister. She gave me an uncomfortable smile as she didn't know how I would react to her being his sister. "Yes I'm Tara Ebdon, how do you know him?" How do I know him? I was his associate. Apparently Pete and her didn't share much stuff with each other. I mean I had been to Pete's house a couple times yet I had never seen her. Then again I never stayed at Pete's more than a couple of minutes. Anyway I then explained how I knew Pete. " I'm in The Pantheon with him." She smiled a bit as she stepped out a bit from the door way as to say that she was ready to go out to eat.. "Ah so you are a wrestler?" I nodded yes as she looked me up and down. I guess she didn't really believe me as I didn't exactly look like the wrestler type. I wasn't steroid up freak like some of the wrestlers namely Tank Trindad. Yet I had only been that for the last couple weeks. "So are you ready to go?" I asked as she nodded in agreement. We then walked to the car as I opened the door for her as I had class unlike some people whose idea of treating a woman right is either assaulting her or making her do everything for them. Anyway Tara took a seat as I walked over to the driver side. I got in as we pulled out from the driveway. I looked at her and began to apologized for the first thing I said earlier. :I sorry about Your Pete's sister thing early. It is well I never knew Pete had a sister much less staying with him." Her smile faded a bit as I almost slapped myself for saying that ,but I had to say it cause well it was true. She looked out the window then turned back to me. "Well we aren't exactly the close type of brother and sister. See I haven't told many people this ,but the reason we aren't close is something that happened a couple years ago. You see his wife at the time Sara and I went to a bar and well we got a little drunk." She paused as if she didn't won't to tell me what happened next. She almost froze up thinking what she had done. She then looked back at me. Well not exactly at me more toward the ground. She then finally looked at me in the eyes. "After we got a little drunk, we started umm doing some stuff with a camcorder. We kind of made a sex tape together. Yet that wasn't the worst of it" Damn that wasn't the worst? Man did she have some problems too. Though I should judge as I too had problems that haunted me in my everyday life. She paused longer this time as she didn't want to tell me what happened next as I put my hand on her thigh to comfort her. She put up a half decent smile before continuing. "The sex tape got leaked on the internet and well it messed up Sara really bad as she became very paranoid. This cause Pete and Sara who were separated at the time more problems. So Pete hasn't talked to me in a couple years till recently." Wow is all I could think as I had to think of something comforting to say about this situation. I mean she had quite an ordeal as it made my problem seem so what smaller compared to her problem. I smiled as she smiled back. "Well you two are talking now aren't you? She looked down as her smile faded as I took that as a no. She looked out the window as she watched the trees zip by. I then turned at her and tried to cheer her up or maybe make her laughed a bit.. "Well we both know that Pete is a hard headed bastard." She chuckled a bit cause she knew that was true. Though she stopped laughing as she looked back at me. "You know that when I first came to stay with him, he actually acted civil and tried to make it work. That was till this week. He came back one night and was a bit different. He was back to an old way that I don't much care for." Huh? I wasn't really following. Maybe Pete was just a little stressed after all he was in a gauntlet match at the pay per view. "Maybe it is cause of his match." She looked at me as if I was a complete idiot. She shook her head no as she knew from experience that Pete's ego would allow him to stress over a match. "Maybe not." I said as she nodded her head yes as she knew what had happened to Pete when he went out that one night. She had a look in her eyes that she didn't like what he went out to do. "No, you see back a couple years ago Pete started this cult like following called the Followers of the Messiah or FoM for short. Well after the sex tape they made it a mission to sort of take me out of the picture. Anyway Pete left them a while back yet it seems they have gotten him back. Or that is what I caught overhearing Christy and Pete" Damn this sounded like a damn movie to me. Here I was thinking that my life was fucked up yet only to find Tara Ebdon's life more fucked up on mine. "Well maybe Pete will keep the FoM from harming you now. I mean after all he is letting you stay with him right now isn't he?" She hadn't thought of that as she look a little relieved as we pulled in to the parking lot of the restaurant. It was a little Italian restaurant that wasn't some franchise type restaurant ,but had the best pasta in the whole state. I found a parking spot as we got out and walked in. I gave them my name as I had made reservations while I was getting ready earlier today. The hostess then sat us at a corner booth. Tara then changed the subject of her to me. "So how did the meeting with your ex-wife go?" I thought to myself I should tell that is went the way I expected. I mean how else would she have acted. I basically called her a slut. Yet I just looked down the glass of water they had at the table. Tara looked at me as she was able to read my expressions. "That bad huh?" I just smirked at the comment. She probably knew how it would go anyway when I told her a the bar. She then looked at me and grabbed my hand. The moment was ruined at the waiter came up. "Welcome to All' Angelo I am your waiter for the night. May I get you something to drink?" I smiled and decided to order wine as I hope she would have a drink with me. "A Bottle of your best red wine " She smiled as the waiter handed out the menu's and went to get the wine. She looked through the menu as I knew what I wanted. It was what I got on Ashley and my first date. Wait what the fuck was I doing? Why did I choose this place? I mean this was the place I took my wife out on our first date. How fucking sick must I be? "Something wrong?" Tara asked as I choose not to tell her that this was where I took my ex-wife when I first met her. I mean I don't think that would exactly play out well for me. I mean what was I doing? I was trying to move forward and I kept trying to relive the past for some messed up reason. "It's nothing. Anyway what are you going to get?" I tried to make the best out of the situation as I changed the subject. I tried to get my mind off of Ashley and back on the angelic figure sitting in front of me. She gently move a piece of hair out of her eyes as she looked up at me from the menu. "I think I am going to get the chicken Alfredo." Of course wouldn't that be my luck? She ordered the same thing that Ashley order. What was it that kept me going back to Ashley. I thought Tara would be the one that could get me over Ashley. After all she had made me not care about what happened with Ashley at the bar. Then again that could have been the third scotch on the rocks that helped numb me too. I didn't know ,but Tara was a great woman. "Good choice." I lied through my teeth as I wished she would have choose something anything else. I then just grinned as she started back on me about what happened at the bar. "So did you ask your wife for an paternity test?" She seemed real interested. At least she wasn't a woman that chose to have some small chit chat about nothing more than the weather and politics. She seemed sincerely concerned about me which was a welcome to me. "Yes, she then cursed at me and threw water in my face ,but I really don't blame her." She seemed a bit taken back by the last comment. She didn't except me to be okay with that. After all she knew the mentality of most wrestlers. She though saw something different in me. "True but you know it will be okay, Gio. She will calm down. Trust me everything will work out fine." You know when most people say that, you don't believe them. Yet when Tara said that I actually believed her. I was then interrupted again by the waiter with bottle of wine. He pour us a glass a piece and set the bottle in the middle of the table as he then began to take our order. "What will we be having this fine evening" He asked as he pulled out his pen as I began to order for the both of us. "The lady will have the chicken Alfredo and I will have the chicken parmesan." The waiter wrote down our order as he left. I took a sip of the wine as Tara did. Tara then broke the silence. "Though I hope Autumn is your daughter." What?! I couldn't believe she said that. I mean most women would like to start out with a guy that doesn't have a lot of baggage. I have a two year piece of baggage. "You see having a child is the greatest thing in life." How would she know I began to wonder as I didn't have didn't even have to waste a breath to ask that as she answered it for me. "You see Gio, I have a kid as well. His name is Billy, he is five and he is the love of my life." I could tell she loved him dearly as her eyes started to water up. She quickly took another sip of wine were she would be choked up when she began to speak to me again. "At least he knows who you are and that you love him. I can't say the same for my possible daughter. I mean I love her ,but she is scared of me. She would barely look at me when I first met her. You don't know how much that hurts." She just looked down as she didn't know how that felt. She could see her son when she got home. I didn't mean though to damper the evening when my problems as I tried to change the subject. "So why are you staying with Pete?" Tara sighed under her breath as I apparently changed to the wrong subject. She looked at me and smiled at me. "It was for Billy's safety." Huh? I didn't quite following. Yet I wonder should I keep prying on her life as the waiter delivered the food to us while we continued the conversation while we ate. Tara though could tell that I didn't understand why the move was for Billy's safety. "The FoM were after us." Damn it sounded like Pete had quite the aggressive cult there. I mean really hunting down a woman cause she made a mistake with their leader's separated wife? I just nodded as I didn't know what to say. I had never had a cult chase me. So we continued to eat. The next couple minutes we ate in silence as she then broke the silence when she changed the subject again. "So how do you like wrestling?" Hmm I don't know if like was a word I would use. I mean it was something that I could make a good living at. Yet I just smiled and responded to her question. "I like it. It pays the bills." She laughed a bit as she had been around wrestling cause of her brother. She then caught me off guard with a question. "So when do you find out if you have a daughter?" I mean she changed gears on me again as I tried to think when they said. It the popped in my head that they were going to call me today. I smiled as I took a sip of wine to chase down a bite of chicken I just took. She sat there waiting for an answer. "Today actually. I need to check my answer machine when I get home." Now for some reason my mind was focused on getting home yet my heart was wanting to spend some more time with Tara. I was starting to think she was the one Ash--I mean woman that could get me to move on. Damn it did I just almost say Ashley? Fuck my damn heart. I wished it would just let go. I want to find someone to love. Tara could be the one. My heart just better not fuck it up. "That is good, I hope you get some good news." I nodded as I finished up my dinner about the same time Tara had pushed her plate away as well. "Are you done, Tara?" I asked as she had only ate about half of her pasta. She nodded yes. I thought she must be one of those women that don't like to eat in front of their date. Yet I didn't care. I just enjoyed her being there. I mean at least she ate a bit. The waiter then came by as he laid down the check. With that I reached in my pocket and place the money in the check book. I left him about a ten dollar tip. "So you ready Tara?" She nodded yes again as we both stood up and walked to the door. I opened the front door for her as I don't think I ever did that for Ashley. Then again I had a driver to do all that stuff for me anyway. Tara and I returned to the car I drove her back to Pete's. "That was some the best pasta I have eaten." Tara added to break the silence. I didn't want to tell her that Ashley said the same thing when we went there. I just nodded and kept smiling. She took a deep breath and kissed me on the cheek as I looked back over at her. "Thank you for listening to my problems. Most men I had been with didn't give a shit about my problems. You though you are different." I couldn't believe she was the one thanking me. I should be the one to thank her. I mean she was helping me get on with my life. She was the one that gave me hope that I could actually love again. I mean if it wasn't for her I would have been at home struggling with my feeling toward Ashley. "No, thank you. You have given me hope that I can love again." I saw Tara eyes water a bit as she quickly wiped them away. She then scooted closer to me. "That is the nicest thing anyone has said to me in a long while." She laid her head on my shoulder for the rest of the ride home as there wasn't much conversation. We just basically listened to the radio. We finally arrived back to Pete's home as I put the car in park as I walked her up to the door. "Thank you Gio, for a great time. I hope we can do this again." She smiled hoping that I would say yes. I just looked at her and smiled back. "Of course we can." I liked the feeling she gave me when I was around her. It was a feeling that I hadn't felt in over three years. It was a feeling that I wanted to last for ever. With that I leaned in as we kissed as my body almost melted. We then broke away from our kissed and smiled each other. "Good night Gio." I just stood their with a stupid smile on my face. "Night Tara." Lucky I was able to get that out before she went inside. I then turned back and returned toward the car as I could stop from smiling. I then pulled out of Pete's driveway as I made my way back to my place as I drove I kept thinking about Tara. July 16th, 2008
11:04 p.m. I returned home from my date with Tara Ebdon as I had a smile permanently planted on my face as I threw my key down on the counter in the kitchen and walked over to answering machine. The machine had the one digit flashing as my little bubble of love busted with the sharp pin of reality. That must be the doctor's office with the results. I stood there for what seemed like five minutes trying to decide if I wanted to know. Did I want to know if she is my kid. I mean really could I take the news if she wasn't my kid? Should I just have believed Ashley? Well that ship had sailed. I finally though decided to find out as I pressed the play button on the answering machine. It then beeped as I heard the following message. "Yes I am calling from Doctor York's office....we have got the results of the paternity test and Giovianni Aries is 99.998 percent Autumn Marie Aries's father." With that said I felt a relief come over me. I had a daughter. I actually had a daughter. Yet now how the relationship be? I mean Ashley was pissed at me. Would she even allow me to see my daughter again? I didn't know ,but I did know that I had a daughter. I then took a seat on the couch as I had to get my mind off the recent event. It was time for me to get.... |
