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[Scarlett Rose]

Scarlett was angry. Angry at the people she involved herself with, angry with people who watched her, and even more angry with herself. When one's feeling three different kinds of angry, well...things aren't going to go to well. As soon as the once Sean O'Haire theme hit the arena, the arena immediately disrupted into disproving hollers, and subsequent boos. They had a reason too, two in fact. The very public break up with her girlfriend, and her non-merciful coldness to her tag team partner, but who was she to blame? Both were complete idiots that night, and Scarlett just wasn't feeling it anymore. Fueled by jealously? Perhaps. Not wanting to deal with people who were going to cry after ONE freaking lost? Of course. Crying when you're the heel team, pssh. Getting emotionally upset because your girlfriend was cheating on you? Her loss.

Now standing in the middle ring, the crowd still feeding her heat, she gestured for the music to die down, and the crew obeyed, the dangerous crowd becoming more louder by the second. Scarlett then tapped her foot as she waited for a microphone to be placed her hand. Staff was just so slow these days. "Well," she began, the crowd suddenly settling down, "I suppose I pretty much made a bitch of things, haven't I?" In unison, the crowd screams "yes," Scarlett making a haughty facial expression, and taking the tone, "Lovely, tonight shall be fun then, crowd participation is always a plus, and just makes things that more exciting, but playing with all of you isn't the only thing on my agenda tonight, because you see..." She pauses as she looks depressingly down, "I'm horribly, and miserably depressed. Last week was just...the worst week a girl could ask for. First, I find that Jennifer was cheating on me, using me like a some type of feelings experiment. You either have feelings for someone or you don't. Kissing someone when you've agreed to allow the moment to build up beforehand, is just...just...just so thrown under the bus. Then, my poor excuse for a tag team partner decides to cry after a single loss. A single loss. Yes, yes, I understand that she just recently had a child, but if you're that concerned, and having such mood swings, then perhaps she should have done what basically every mother does after giving birth to her child; take the next six months off until you're ready to face reality." Upon that last note, Scarlett went from sounding depressed, to sounding down right tired of it. What she said was true. If Lauren wasn't ready for it, then why was she even here? If Jennifer was questioning her feelings regarding Scarlett, then why couldn't they do privately? "So, I suppose you can say I'm a little pissed off when it comes to people promising me certain things, only to completely go off on a different tangent a day or so later. But enough of my complaining, I'm out here for a match. A singles match. Triple threats just aren't on my radar at the moment, and fatal-four ways? Please spare me. I need someone to physically vent my anger towards, and Scarlett doesn't lose when she's absolutely determined, isn't that right my audience?" The continue to hate her as Scarlett merely shrugs, "If you will please?" She then takes an inviting gesture as the lights begin to flicker in the arena identifying the arrival of...

[snl2]

"Well, Well, Well!"

Lauren appears on stage ready to wrestle, maybe it was something Scarlett had said that made her mad enough to come out here. Scarlett was being a complete bitch and SOMEBODY needed to slap her back down. Lauren receives a mixed reaction as people didn't want to see another breakdown live on TV

"Scarlett dear, I realise that being cheated on hurts, just don't go and do a Logan! OK... Now you are angry at just about anyone who ever gave a damn about you! Me, Jennifer, and times change, people CHANGE! Last week I was upset with my performance, YES! But I was more upset because I let you down dear! OK maybe I shouldn't have cried in front of everybody, sorry couldn't help that I am only human sometimes we all need to cry! I dare say even you do!"

Lauren paused only to hear the crowd cheer, it kind of brought a smile to her face. Then Lauren frowned when she turned back to look at Scarlett, she lifted her hand up it the titantron and it showed some pictures, of Scarlett and Lauren together, in all of the pictures they both were smiling or laughing, they looked happy

"Now are you saying because I broke down after the match that our friendship is over? Tut, tut shame on you Scarlett. Now you can walk around here all you like in this mood, but it will do you no good! Now if you must take out your fraustration on somebody then it might aswell be me! Don't worry I'm not gonna cry, I'm not going to get angry. You want the old Lauren right?"

[Scarlett Rose]

"One, stop with all the yelling, you're giving all the hearing-impaired a dread to read, and the National Captioning Institute hell with having to constantly use shift/one just get all those damned exclamation points. Second, I never mentioned anything about our friendship being over, yes it's on the rocks, but isn't necessarily over, so if you're just out here because you're trying to convince my otherwise, well, I recommend you head back behind that curtain and come out with new material." Scarlett then brushed back her hair, and habit she picked up when she's trying to figure out what to say next, "Also, you're repeating yourself too often. Using 'dear' is a step into sounding more feminine, but use it too much, and you just begin to sound silly. I don't even know what exactly you're trying to do by changing that once strong image you had. That image I admired. Now you're just like every typical woman in the world, loving, caring, submissive, and emotional. The old Lauren, I don't see her coming back, and just one match isn't going to change that. You've become soft, you've become readable. Predictable." Scarlett then walks over to the turnbuckle nearest Lauren and takes a seat upon it, Beth Phoenix style, her feet danging off the side, as she made herself comfortable. "We've had great times together, and I still love you, I just, I just don't love this." She points at Lauren and makes a sour face, "You're turning into my mother."

[snl2]

Lauren couldn't help but smile as that was exactly like the Scarlett she remembered all those years ago

"Not your mother, I needed to make sure that you still had the same fire you had when we first met. Sometimes you'll learn that using your femininity can have its advantages, now you really don't know me do you? I have come out here tonight so you can vent your frustration on somebody who can handle it, what you had with Jennifer is weighing too much on your mind I think. So why not let an old friend provide the distraction that you need?"

Lauren lowered the microphone briefly and listened as the crowd began to boo her, and Lauren revelled in it even deciding to mock them.

"Cast your eyes upon the titantron if you please"

On the titantron images from last week's Full Throttle were Lauren is crying, then the footage is played first from the angle broadcasted. Then the same moments played from a different angle which when Bruiser gets to Lauren she is smiling as if a plan had worked

"As you can see, right there they were crocodile tears. I faked it pure and simple, and everybody fell for it even you Scarlett. Why? To see how people reacted to it, and you reacted as I expected with disgust. Well done and at the risk of sounding motherly... I am proud of you"

[Scarlett Rose]

Scarlett places her index and middle finger on the bridge her nose as she closes her eyes. That was just...stupid, and honestly, didn't make any sense. Scarlett had proven her stance with the company since she first signed her name upon the lovely contract. Within two weeks, she won the APW Rose title, within two weeks, she left her mark within the company. She had only lost three televised matches. Two against Jennifer Drew, and her sole tag team match with Lauren Blayze. For Lauren to question "the fire" when Scarlett wasn't showing any signs of burning out just didn't make any sense. Was this merely Lauren's way of testing out her partner? Was she only sugar coating it so it made Scarlett look completely and utterly stupid? Again, brushing hair away from her face as she opens eyes, she lets out a sigh. "That was stupid Lauren," she begins sounding even more aggravated then she was a moment ago, "One, that was our first televised tag team match for this company. The people watching aren't aware of our history, the people watching don't know what we've done as a team. Now, if you were to do that a month or two from now, perhaps you would have had the impact you were searching for, but right now? Lauren, Lauren, Lauren, you've only had two matches in APW. The people here don't know you, and to pull a stunt like you did last week, just doesn't have any connection with the audience and thus, they are now completely and utterly bored with this mess of a promo. Look." The camera zooms about the arena, the crowd not really feeling the heat between the characters because there just wasn't enough to grow upon. "It would have been best to stay the face, and allow each other to have a quote-unquote, 'friendly' argument." Already frustrated with her dispute with Jennifer Drew, she placed her middle and index fingers on the bridge of her nose again, and strolled herself off the turnbuckle. Another disappointing lack of judgement from her tag-team partner. "So, as much as you felt this was some kind of an evil-twist, I'm sorry love, but you just totally failed. Might want to read-up on crowd involvement next time around."

[snl2]

Lauren placed her hand on her head giving it a slight shake of disappointment,

"Why does everything have to be an argument, and I am sorry that I didn't follow your steps here before my arrival. To my knowledge I have only had the one match and that was with you... As for crowd involvement is that really what you care about these people for what... You want them to hate you? Love you? Getting them to hate you is easier than taking candy from a baby, just say you don't give a damn about them... And my case... it would be true"

The crowd boo her and some throw things at Blayze of course missing, it was only right that they did.

"Didn't do that because I wanted to make a big impact, I did it to find out if Scarlett was still the biggest, baddest bitch around. I would have had this conversation with you in the back if you weren't so hotheaded that you didn't return my calls, or ignore me in the back. These people can go stick their heads up their asses, I wanted to know that you were still the Scarlett I knew... I'm just sorry that I had to do this out here"

Lauren then looked around briefly before saying

"Oh and congratulations on your title reign, sorry I missed it... Love!"

Lauren then made her way to the ring, she stepped over the second rope, no damn diva entrance for her

"As for is it goes for your and the crowd game, you played them like violins... So I am here to help you relieve your frustrations... shall we begin?"

Lauren readies herself to wrestle