Sam invites Jen to a wrestling show

“Come on!” Sam said to Jen as she excitedly pulled the petite blonde by the hand.

“I’m coming! I’m coming!” Jen giggled, amused by Sam’s eager, childlike enthusiasm. They had just got off the bus and she looked ahead to where her friend was leading her. It was a small community center that was bustling with all sorts of people going in. Families, young adults, older adults. Some had signs with them, others had their phones out to snap pics or livestream. There was a big banner out front advertising a live wrestling show.

Jen flashbacked to how she ended up here. It was early evening, Friday and she had just finished her last class of the day. She was looking forward to showering and slipping into something comfortable to spend the rest of the evening in. Her plans were to catch up on schoolwork, and maybe slip in a vid of the latest WSW matches, but as she was entering her dorm building, she saw Sam waiting outside for her.

“Hey!” Jen said, happily surprised. “What brings you here?”

“I’m taking you out!” the raven haired femme replied.

“I would… but I’m really behind on my schoolwork…” Jen sighed.

“Even if it means missing out on some live wrestling?”

“You want to do a match?” Jen asked, raising an eyebrow. There wasn’t much that could entice her out of study night, but a submission match was on the list.

“Ah, not exactly… but there will definitely be some woman on woman action,” Sam replied. “Think of it as a learning opportunity! You’ll get to see new moves that you could incorporate into your moveset!”

Jen narrowed her eyes cynically. “You’re talking about a pro wrestling show, right? Aren’t all those moves fake?”

“Well, yeah… but that doesn’t mean they couldn’t work for real…” Sam argued. “Listen, you can do school stuff all weekend, but this show is only on for tonight! It’s only a few hours and I promise you’ll have a blast!”

“I don’t know…” Jen hemed.

“OK…” Sam drew back and said in a serious tone, “I didn’t want to play this card so soon, but…” she leaned in closer as if to tell a dark secret. “A member of the WSW will be wrestling tonight!”

Jen’s eyes popped open.

“I wanted it to be a surprise, but you’re such a stick in the mud, I have to pull out the heavy artillery to get you to come out!” Sam sighed.

“Which wrestler?” Jen asked, honing in on the part that she was interested in.

“Well, you won’t find that out unless you come with me!” Sam smiled.

Back at the wrestling event.

“The show doesn’t start for another twenty minutes!” Jen said, noting the time on the sign.

“Yeah but that’s when some of the wrestlers come out to hype up the fans!” Sam replied, looking forward, trying to see through the open doorway to where the wrestling show was about to begin. “Ooh! Psychomatose! Check out his mask! Like a deranged zombie! Isn’t it awesome?”

Jen looked over at the masked wrestler Sam was pointing to. Before she could respond, Sam was already pointing someone else out. “That’s Ricky Rage! He’s one of the top guys! He’s facing The Adonis because his girl has been lured away by his beauty. It all started when…”

“Sam!” a voice called out from the crowd.

“Oh! Greg!” Sam greeted.

In walked a group of people led by an older man with dark hair peppered with grey. He wore spectacles and stood tall over the rest of his party. “You made it!” the man replied before looking over at Sam’s companion. “Oh, who’s this?”

“This is Jen, my friend,” Sam said. She then turned to Jen to make introductions. “This is Greg, my boss at the comic shop.”

“You didn’t tell me you worked at a comic shop,” Jen replied.

“Sure I did… I think… maybe it didn’t come up,” Sam shrugged. She then added sheepishly, “Well, I work at a comic shop.”

Greg laughed and told Jen, “It’s OK, Samantha doesn’t tell us much about her personal life either!” He then turned to Sam and added, “I saw Bonnie here too, she actually has a booth set up with merch!”

“Oh nice! Did she do the graphics on them?”

“Yeah, she’s friends with one of the wrestlers.”

“Let’s go check it out!” Sam told Jen. They waved to Greg who rejoined his friends and milled through the crowd to the artist alley. They entered a hallway lined with tables filled with T-shirts, posters and cards.

“I didn’t know wrestling was so popular…” Jen noted.

“Yeah, it’s booming!” Sam agreed, spotting someone she recognized. She waved furiously. “Bonnie!”

“Hey, Sam!” A blue haired girl in a maid cosplay waved back.

The maid was sitting behind one of the tables. This one had, amidst actual photos, original artwork of a female wrestler dressed in a similar maid outfit as the girl was wearing, but with long purple hair done up in twintail braids. It was done in Anime style along with action lines to make the character pop and Kanji in big bold font which Jen could not read. Fortunately, it was translated underneath as ‘Meido No Tetsujin’, which Jen did not know the meaning of. Marked on top of the artwork was an autograph from whom Jen assumed was the actual wrestler.

“Did you see Greg?” Bonnie asked Jen once they were at the table.

“Yeah, as soon as I came in. This is Jen, Jen, Bonnie. She works at the store with me!”

“Nice to meet you!”

“Nice to meet you too!”

“Did you make these?” Jen asked, gesturing to the artwork.

“Yeah, Meido is my friend from high school. We’ve been working together for years!” Bonnie replied. “Do you come to a lot of shows? I haven’t seen you around before.”

“No, this is my first one!” Jen answered.

“Oh, you brought in a virgin, huh?” Bonnie joked at Sam. Jen instantly blushed and almost denied it, thinking she meant sex, then realized she was about to admit she’d had sex before and blushed even harder. Bonnie observed this silent response and turned back to Sam. “She’s kind of shy, isn’t she?”

“Yeah, cute, isn’t it?” Sam laughed.

Jen shrunk away a bit more as the coworkers bantered among themselves. She then felt a nudge on her side. She turned to see a hooded figure standing over her. She craned her neck to see who it was and the tall blonde lifted her cover slightly to reveal herself as Jen’s recent WSW opponent, Sonya!

“Hey!” Sonya said softly to the petite blonde. “Didn’t know you were into pro wrestling too!”

“Hi Sonya!” Jen replied, surprised to see a familiar face. “Not really, but I came with my friend… you’re into this?”

“Yeah, that’s why I got into WSW in the first place!” Sonya smiled. “So, your friend… is she… like us?”

“Actually, yeah!” Jen said, knowing Sonya was referring to submission wrestling status. “I can introduce you later, she’s chatting with a friend… you came alone?”

“Yeah… none of my friends are really into wrestling. They’re more ‘real sports’ oriented,” Sonya shrugged.

“What’s with the hoodie?” Jen asked, noticing Sonya tug down on it and look around.

“Whenever I come to these shows alone, some guys try to make a pass at me, so I try to dress down and look inconspicuous.”

“I think I get it,” Jen nodded. When someone is a tall hot blonde like Sonya, they are bound to draw a lot of attention. “You stick out wherever you go, I bet.”

“It has its ups and downs,” Sonya nodded. “Check that girl out, she’s all dolled up for this. I wouldn’t dare pull that off!”

Jen followed Sonya’s gaze and saw a woman in tight latex pants and a bra ensemble. She looked like she could be a wrestler at the show if she wasn’t with her boyfriend.

“Oh how about that one?” Jen said, pointing out a pretty girl with a bare midriff and a belly piercing.

“Not bad, not bad,” Sonya said, scanning around for other potential hotties.

Jen looked around the hall. The place had a proportionally larger male audience but there was still a decent female representation. Still, even among those, there were few that could match Sonya’s looks and height.

“Whatcha looking for?” Sam asked.

“Oh! Sam, meet Sonya, she’s the girl I met up with last week!” Jen said.

“Hi!” Sonya smiled at Sam.

Samantha’s jaw dropped as she took in the track runner. “This is her? You didn’t tell me she was an actual wrestler!” Sam responded.

“I’m not…No, just a rookie, like Jen,” Sonya admitted. “I’m here as a fan!”

“On your own?”

“Yeah, not many friends that enjoy this sort of thing!” Sonya chuckled.

“Well, you can join our cheering section!” Sam said excitedly. “The more the merrier!’

“Oh! So… you two aren’t on a… you know, date?” Sonya asked, glancing between the two.

“Oh! I didn’t think of that! No, I wanted to drag Jen out because she’s such a homebody!” Sam laughed.

“I am n…” Jen had to stop herself. She sighed and shrugged, unable to argue.

Samantha hung her arm around Jen’s neck and hugged her. “It’s OK, that’s why you have me looking out for you!”

Jen didn’t reply because she suddenly became distracted by the most beautiful woman she’d ever seen.