I am nervous. I am often nervous about many things, but tonight I am nervous about one thing in particular, and this pushes all other nervous thoughts out of my mind like a large sumo wrestler pushing people of my size out of a ring. I guess some things you never get used to. Like stepping into the ring, it’s still just as nerve-racking every time I do it now, as it was the first time I entered it to start my first day of training. I knew that I was the smallest one there, and I knew that everyone else could beat me to a bloody pulp if they wanted to. And last week I guess it showed that they can still do that.

“Matt Keith, you will regret what you did. You will regret ever having written me off as a non-threat because of my size. Plenty of people have made that mistake before, and while I am hurt, you have no idea what I am going to do to you.”

Still trembling from nerves, I shrug on my shirt, blue and Hawaiian in case you wondered, and I flinch as it presses against the bruises that are only just beginning to fade from Fiesta. I remember that night and the bite of the chair seems to hit home once again. I should not be this shaken I know, but I was in his position once, I know what it is like to be the rookie burning to prove yourself.

“I know how you feel Matt, I know why you want to get the best of me so much, I know why you don’t want me to get a clean win over you. I know because I was in your position, less than a year ago I was being targeted by Denrol. By a WWA Legend! A former World Champion no less, I was the hot rookie facing the established star. However you and he are making the same mistake, you both underestimated me, neither of you think I can beat you, I Denrol wrong, I’ll do the same to you Matt.”

This is not what I’m nervous about however, I don’t worry about things that important, not when things that seem trivial can invade my thoughts. Of course to me this is not trivial, to you maybe, but not to me.

“Other things worry me too, the Bridge Barnstormer for example. The entire roster, me, myself and X-Corp. They’re who I’m most worried about in that match, I don’t want to have to fight them, but I might have to, and they might even want to fight each other. I just wish we could go into this united, as we have before. I wish we could fight Enigma, Bonafied, and all the rest together as the force of light we truly are! One thing I’m looking forwards to though … is Kash. It’s been months now since I faced him for the title, and he kept it, but ne never beat me, on Monday, I want the chance to show I can!”

Suddenly the source of my anxiety bursts onto the scene, without knocking as she is wont to do, and in a whirlpool of chestnut hair and red tassled scarf, I am metaphorically swept off my feet, and literally made breathless. Before I even get the breath back to speak she is kissing me, warm and wriggling in my arms. Then just as soon as she started the kiss, she breaks it, sending a shiver of longing down my body. She opens her exquisite mouth and speaks, he voice a gentle, playful tingling of bells to my ears.

“Come on lover boy, time for our first date.”

This statement strikes me as inaccurate, so I make the very enjoyable mistake of arguing.

“It’s hardly our first date Laura, we were together for a couple of years.”

The curl of the smile on her face is worth anything I may have to put up with for arguing.

“But it’s our first date since we got back together, and if you don’t come now I may decide to rethink it.”

Her arms find their way to entangle themselves around my neck, and my nerves disappear, her touch exorcising any thoughts of other things. Wrestling is secondary, this is bliss.