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July 5, 2014 (off camera)

The bag of books in Kasey's hand was overwhelmingly heavy, the handles having already cut a giant groove into her palm when she finally set it down in front of the door. Rubbing her hands together, she winced and then almost visibly braced herself before lifting her fist to knock on the door.

"COME IN!" This was the voice of Tori, Kasey and Carson's pet project to turn into Nessa Wall after discovering Nessa had done the same to her. Not really one for being cordial or polite, the screeching sound of her voice was likely heard throughout the hotel. And upon entering the room, Tori was sprawled out on the bed like a lazy cat watching Judge Judy and consuming a bag of marshmallows nestled between her legs.

Kasey kicked the door shut behind herself, almost waddling with the weight of the books before she dropped the bag on the bed beside where Tori sat. A few books spilled out, including George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary in large print. "So, I pretty much cleaned out Barnes & Noble's. I think I can probably write this off as a business expense though as long as we talk about wrestling at some point today." She reached up to push her glasses up her nose, her eyes widening as she realized Tori was stuffing her face with pure sugar. "Uhh... should you really be eating all those empty calories?"

"Hey, cupcake. Lay off, I'm having a rough week...if you catch my drift. And I'm not going to take shit off anyone..." Tori responded as she grabbed a fistful of the marshmallows and shoved them into her mouth all at once and began to chew with a vengeance. As she managed to stuff all those down her throat, she glared at Kasey. "Are you trying to say I'm fat?!"

"No, oh my God... no way!" Kasey held up her hands defensively, "I was just saying that all that refined sugar is really bad for you and... uh... you..." she trailed off at the fire she saw in Tori's eyes.

"Good, because if you were...well there was going to be some trouble." She turned her attention back to the television, watching as Judge Judy continued to try the case. The sound of water running could be heard in the hotel room as well before Tori shouted out. "HEY DINGUS, STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE IS HERE!!" Tori turned her attention back to Kasey. "Jason's in the shower, but unless you came here to flash him, you probably aren't here for him, right?"

Kasey turned so red that her hair looked pale by comparison as she tried to pretend like she wasn't completely fixated on the sound of the shower now that she knew he was in there. Just imagining him without a shirt on was enough. "I..." she stammered, shaking her head, "no. I don't have anything he'd want to see. I brought over some books and stuff so we can work more on getting you really ready to be Nessa. This has to go off without a hitch so you have to be like... Jennifer Lawrence good."

"Hey! I did a good job! I kissed her freaking fiance, and by the way....EWWWW!! He kisses like a guy who just learned how yesterday. And YOU weren't the one who got Houser slobber on your mouth like I did! So uh....yeah!" She answered with a slightly angry tone to her voice, a little more than before. She looked down into her bag of marshmallows, picking one out and looking at it before she started to pout. "Why is everyone picking on me?!" Her eyes began to get puffy, almost like she was about to break down into tears. "I'M GOOD ENOUGH!!"

"You're good!" Kasey almost shouted, feeling the need to compete with the sheer force of Tori's personality. "It's just... you know. Nessa is really snotty and bitchy in a certain way. I watched the tapes back and Houser looked suspicious." She didn't bother to tell Tori that the timing was terrible and that he'd almost seen the two cross paths. The last thing she wanted was to open that can of worms. "I know he's super gross and stuff but he's not as dumb as most of the men in the wrestling business."

"Really?" She asked, rubbing her eyes for a moment before she tossed the marshmallow bag to the table and crawled towards Kasey. She wrapped both arms around her and hugged her like she'd just returned from overseas. Tori's personality was only matched by her strength as she squeezed Kasey tightly. "Thank you. You're wonderful too."

Kasey hugged her back, trying to breathe while she patted her back. "You've got this like 99.99% mastered already. We just need to put the last little bits of polish on it. I mean... she needs to go down for what she tried to do. Not just to me, but to you. I mean... did you like getting thrown around and bruised up and almost maimed in the ring trying to be me for like not even half of what I get paid per week?"

"Of course not...friend!" Tori added before she pulled Kasey over double long enough to grab the bag of marshmallows and sit back up with her. "We'll get that evil bitch, I promise. Here, you can have some of my marshmallows." She picked up a handful of them. And before Kasey could object, she crammed them into her mouth, a couple falling into her lap as Tori patted her puffed out cheeks as she tried to get them down. This would be the point Jason walked out of the bathroom with a towel around his neck and a pair of black boxer briefs on, looking at the two girls and Kasey's mouth stuffed full of marshmallows.

"Oh...I didn't mean to interrupt." He said.

Kasey almost gagged as she furiously tried to chew and swallow the mouthful of sticky white goo. Her face went red again as she shook her head and then finally managed to swallow. "...you weren't," she barely managed to croak out.

"Hungry, huh?" He asked as he passed by, walking over to the en suite and picking up an armload of boxes with different addresses scribbled across them. He carried them to the door, there had to be at least seven of them. He then doubled back towards the closet, tossing off the towel as he began to look for something to wear.

"Guess what?" Tori asked Kasey. "Yesterday we took down your fansite. Jason thought it was a good idea, and I agree. We just had to finish filling the last orders first." She pointed towards the boxes. "It's amazing how many people want your underwear or bikinis. I swear Jason got the weirdest looks at Target when he bought all those the other day." She told her, giving her another hug and pointing to the corner of her own mouth. "You got some white stuff on your mouth there. Looks like...never mind."

Kasey clapped a hand over her mouth, looking both horrified at the suggestion and the prospect of more creeps out there with the rest of her supposed bikinis and underwear. "I'm gonna just... um..." she walked into the bathroom without another word, running some water in the sink before splashing it on her mouth, scrubbing away the white chalky crud in the corner of her mouth. "Too bad you already filled those without me here. I could have... I dunno... signed something extra for them or something."

"That would have cost extra, and they were all cheapskates." Tori answered as Jason had now gotten into a shirt and some shorts before he headed towards the door.

"I'll be back in a little while, just gonna drop these off. You two have fun." He flashed a smile to Kasey and then looked back to Tori. "And don't be mean, share those marshmallows with her. It's obvious she likes them." He told his sister as he smiled back to Kasey, grabbed the packages and headed out the door, letting it close behind him.

"So....." Tori asked her as she saw her exit the bathroom. "How bad do you want to jump his bones?"

Kasey stared at her in shock before getting outrageously defensive. "God, why are you so crass all the time?!"

Tori nodded her head as she had resumed consuming marshmallows. "That bad, huh?"

It was becoming clearer and clearer that teaching Tori anything was going to be as big of a challenge as any opponent Kasey was going to face.