Post by Steve Sinclair on Feb 9, 2014 15:48:47 GMT
It's Wednesday night and Billy made it home from the gym and before the snow storm. It's been 2 weeks now, maybe 3 since Britney quickly packed up and bolted on Billy ending the longest relationship Billy has ever had. Billy has been focused on Archer and Emma since then that he hasn't noticed that Britney left him.....until tonight.
The TV is on Fox Sports 1 for coverage of Speed week and the first day of testing at Daytona and Billy is standing at the "kitchen" sink in his studio apartment washing out some mason jars. He must be a hardcore canner junkie or something. He rinses out the last of the jars and places them in the strainer and cuts the water off. He's drying off his hand with a towel when Billy stands and faces the bed, aka the living bedroom Britney would call it. A bottle of her perfume is on the nightstand on what was her side of the bed. A simple gold necklace is next to the bottle and the second drawer to her dresser is open slightly and one of her old shirts is sticking up. Billy slowly walks over to the dresser and slowly nudges the drawer open. In her fury she took hand fulls of clothes and left. Whatever she left behind, she hasn't come back for and she could get her stuff anytime she wanted for she still has a key to the place. Billy picks up one her shirts and holds it up. He sniffs it and the shirt smells like Britney did. A flood of memories come rushing to him. Billy tears up some. He shoves the shirt back in the drawer and closes the drawer close.
Heartache has set in for Billy.
He makes his way around the bed to his side of the bed and starts to empty his pockets. First to end up on the nightstand is his wallet, followed by his truck keys. Some change, wadded up bills and some receipts for who knows what and lastly out of his pocket is a business card from Steve Sinclair. Billy holds the card in his hand as he slowly sits down on the edge of the bed. He stares at the card and remembers what Steve said the other day and what Emma said too. He starts to tap the back of the card up against his fingers as he has all sorts of thoughts running through his head. He goes to set the card on the nightstand when a selfie of him and Britney holding each other by a campfire catches his eyes. Billy picks up the picture. He sighs. He clears his throat. He cries.
The next day.....
A unshaven NASCAR Billy stands in front of a UWL backdrop wearing his trusty #88 Real Trees hat, a National Guard #88 team jacket and peaking from underneath his jacket is the UWL Tag Team title, a title he has proudly wore since October. His hands are in the pockets of his jacket and Billy doesn't seem himself today.
"Last night.....last night I took some time for myself. Maybe it was the big winter storm, or how the whole state closes down when it sees a snowflake. I don't know. I couldn't really tell you why or how but last night. Last night it became clear to me just what this war with Emma and Archer has cost me. Last night was the first night I felt the void. The void that Archer has created in a life. My home life. And for what? This?"
Billy opens up his jacket to reveal the UWL Tag Team title.
"I don't know when it happened, or why it happened but I've been swallowed up this snowball rolling along and the snowball is getting bigger and bigger, so big in fact that for the last month or so I have had blinders on! I have become fixated on Archer! Fixed on him so much that every person I saw, I saw Archer! I would eat, sleep, eat, poop and all I would think about is Archer! And why? Huh? Why?"
Billy glances down for a second and gathers his thoughts.
"For a win over some jealous little piss ant? Oh yeah sure, they say they want this match because they want to beat the best! Yeah! That's what they say! Like this match this week is like, the first match that matters or something. Like, the other two matches never happened! Emma sits there with her fancy bottle of water tellin' whoever will listen that Joe can't get his story straight.....yet!"
Billy wags his finger.
"It's Emma who can't get her story straight. We want to show the UWL who the best team is? That's why we wanted this match. Well whatcha gunna do now Emma? Now that you got the match you two wanted all along? You gunna show everyone who the best team is now? Now? Not at the Coronation Cup Finals? But Now? Now? Like, Now? Not then. No Not then when you know Emma, it kinda mattered, but now? Now? What? Are the stars all aligned up or something? Did you go to Mavis and they did a front end alignment and everything is like, in sync or something? This is the match you envisioned all along? Let me tell ya somethin' Emma. You're wrong about Joe and I! Joe isn't using me Emma! Joe is helping me! Hell if it wasn't fer me, Joe wouldn't have never been the UWL Tag Team Champion! Yeah! Whatcha think about that Emma? As good as Joe is, Joe couldn't beat the Cazadors on his own. He needed a partner, someone he could trust or....."
Billy adjusts his hat and thinks about what he about to say for a split second.
"I'm just going to say okay? So here it goes. Yeah."
Billy holds his hands out, prepare yourself.
"Joe needed a tag team partner who wasn't going to bail on him after losing the UWL World title! Yeah that's right Emma! If you remember correctly. Joe was teamed up with Frankie Cocheese but he was too busy defending his World title and had no time for Joe. They defeated the Tag Team Champions. Yeah I bet you didn't know that Emma. Frankie and Joe, they defeated The Cazadors in a tag match and wanted a title match against them, but because like, Frankie was all, self absorb and stuff, Joe had to find himself a partner! Nanook helped him. Yeah sure Joe wasn't trilled about teaming up with me at first, But when we got that title match against the Cazadors and beat the Cazadors to become the 43rd tag team champions.....Joe started to change his whistle little. Here we are now in February, only the best Tag Team in the UWL! Why? Because we have each other's back! I trust Joe and Joe trust me! Here's something else I'm gunna tell you Emma!"
Billy is standing sideways to the camera and his right arm comes up to his hat, he wiggles his hat and holds his hand out towards the camera.
"It was faith that we won these titles. Yeah faith. It was meant to be! And Ima gunna tell ya why! Richard Petty drove the number forty three to a record 200 wins. He won the Winston Cup 7 times. He is called the King! There was no one better than The King Richard Petty! In his day no one could beat him. He won 26 races in a year! 26 freaking races! One year! We are the 43rd tag team Champions."
Billy faces the camera and holds his hands out like saying "See I told you."
"It's meant to be. We'll hold on to these here title for 200 title defenses. Hell I might just retire as the tag team champion. We'll hold on to these here titles so long the UWL just might have to retire em, who knows! But I know this, No one wants to be the Scott Riggs of the tag team Champions! When you look at all of the champions, the 43rd champs will jump off of the page! I can't wait for this match! I can't wait to beat you two once again! Not only will we finally shut you two the hell up, But I will be able to put my life back together."
Billy slides his hands back in his jacket pockets.
"You two have cost me a lot professionally and personally. I was almost knockin' on a shot at the TV title or something until you two started to wreck my win lose record. I was working my way up the ladder. I was a rising star! The hot name in the UWL, until you two cheated and tarnished my good name. I had a girlfriend I loved. You took Britney away from me because I came so engrossed with beating you, that I ignored her and she ran away. This Saturday not only will I beat you, not only will I retain my title, but I will get my girl back. Saturday will be the first day of many with Britney back in my life. Why you ask? Because if ain't first......you just suck!"
FTB.