Elsa stays with Kelsy

It was late and even if she did show up to practice, she didn’t really have a way to get in. The doors would be locked. Instead, Elsa promised herself that she’d make the practice next week for sure and slipped her phone back into her pocket before sliding back into Kelsy’s embrace. She felt the slender blonde shift on top of her to get more comfortable and went back to sleep.

The next day, Elsa messaged Sonya back to explain that she missed practice because something came up.

Sonya: Something came up, like your new GF?

There was no reason to hide it, so Elsa sheepishly responded: …Pretty much…

Sonya: No biggie, see you next time?

Elsa: Yeah, for sure!

Sonya: OK.

Elsa felt a little strange about their conversation but couldn’t quite put her finger on what. It eventually hit her: She was expecting Sonya to razz her about her new relationship or make some sort of snippy comment about missing practice, but Sonya said nothing. It was weird. Normally her and Sonya would snipe back and forth with friendly jabs, but this interaction felt almost like reporting into the office. She reasoned that it might just be because they were texting. In person, Sonya probably had way more to say, she’d just have to wait until they next got together.

Then, another thought occurred to her: If Sonya figured out why she skipped out on practice, the others must have an idea why too! She wondered how the others were taking her new relationship. Even though she got the thumbs up from most of them on her instagram, she hadn’t talked to them face to face aside from Jen/ Would her new relationship change the dynamics of the group? Those thumbs up could have just been polite acknowledgement while they secretly had a problem with her finding someone. Jen already voiced her concerns about Elsa dropping WSW altogether. Her skipping practice wasn’t helping her beat those allegations.

It was a big jump to conclusions but she had no one around to assuage her fears. She started looking ahead to opportunities to meet up with the group to fully gauge where they stood on her relationship with Kelsy. It would be a whole week before next practice and now she was starting to dread confronting all of them as a group.

The week became a mixed bag of blissful joy with Kelsy and impending dread from the upcoming wrestling club. While she was loving her time with her lovely nurse, she was constantly checking the group chats for any signs of negativity towards her and her relationship. It ate at her when she laid in bed at night. No one had reached out to her about it which meant either they didn’t care or they did care and didn’t want to bring it up. She had to know which way it was.

She didn’t want to bring it up herself and expose herself for obsessing over potentially nothing, but she couldn’t shake the doubt. Almost out of desperation, she set up a meeting.

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Monica walked into her exam room, looking at the paper on her clipboard. She stopped in her tracks, staring at the sheet for a moment. “Elsa?”. She lowered her board to see the green streaked brunette laid over her massage table.

“Uh… Hello…” Elsa greeted.

“I… didn’t expect to see you here…” Monica said, putting the clipboard down and looking around.

“Uh, yeh, I kind of knackered my back the other day and was hoping you could take a look at it?” Elsa replied with a questioning look. Monica raised an eyebrow. Elsa immediately dropped the facade. “Look, I just wanted to talk with you. I hope it isn’t a bother. I wasn’t sure how else to meet up with you…”

“Well… you could have emailed… I have office hours for advising the club…”

“Oh…” Elsa responded, biting her lower lip. “I… already paid…”

Monica sighed. “Well, I’m not exactly sure if treating one of my club members is a conflict of interest so I suppose we can… wait. Are you naked under there?”

“I thought that’s how you do it…” Elsa replied, getting up to cover herself up with a towel.

“Well, first I have bigger towels… ” Monica said, averting her eyes.

“Ah… I’m screwing up everything these days!” Elsa moaned, covering her face, Monica walked over to console her.

“Elsa… Elsa, hon…” Monica said, holding her shoulder and looking her in the eyes. “What is the reason you came to see me today?”

“I…“ Elsa paused, then forced herself to come out with it. “I started dating someone and now I’m worried it might mess things up with wrestling. I still love WSW but now that I’m seeing someone, things have gotten more… complicated… She doesn’t know about WSW, if I tell her about it, she might freak! If I don’t tell her about it, I have to skirt around it all the time and do things like miss practices… Jen said I might have to give it up altogether…”

Monica looked at her with consoling eyes for a moment, then straightened up and guided Elsa to a lounging couch to the side of the room. Elsa covered as much as she could with the towel and sat down. Monica felt the urge to grab a bigger towel but stayed on task.

“So, this was why you missed practice this week,” Monica stated, sitting next to her.

“Yeh…did anyone say anything?”

“Not so much, but I got the feeling most of them knew you were doing something to keep you from showing up,” Monica revealed.

“Ah, really?” Elsa felt a sting of embarrassment even though she did come out and tell everyone she had a girlfriend now. “So they didn’t seem upset or anything?”

“If they were, I couldn’t tell,” Monica shrugged. “Was that what you were worried about?”

“Partly…” Elsa confirmed. “But, the other part is this new relationship. Is it cheating if I keep doing WSW and seeing her at the same time? I’m not sure what to do… “

Monica let out a beleaguered sigh. “So. You have a new girlfriend and are afraid it will interfere with your wrestling and can’t decide on which one is more important. Am I getting this right?” she asked.

“That’s pretty much it, yeah…”

“And you were hoping I could offer you some advice on which way you should go, right?”

“I mean, I figure you might know a little something about this…” Elsa replied, feeling a little guilty about putting this on her advisor now.

“I do have some experience with this sort of thing, “ Monica admitted.

“And…?”

“And I can’t give you a ‘this or that’ sort of answer,” she said with a sad smile. “This is your decision to make and neither will be right or wrong.”

“Yeh… I kind of figured it wouldn’t be so cut and dry…” Elsa sighed.

Monica looked at her for a moment, then decided to add to her response. “You know, I was in a relationship when I did WSW,” she revealed.

“Really?”

“Yeah, it was with another wrestler. Our heated rivalry turned into something more. It’s not the same as your situation, mind you, she knew about WSW and was totally onboard with it.”

“How did you deal with matches with other wrestlers?”

“Well, like I said, we were both part of the scene, so we understood what that involved. We treated matches and prize rounds as part of the sport. What we shared outside of that scene was between the two of us.”

“I see…” Elsa nodded. “But I don’t think Kelsy would be ready for that sort of thing. She’s new to being with another woman…”

Monica nodded. “WSW would probably be too much for her to take in, yeah. You don’t have to smarten her up to all of it, but I will say that me and my ex both agreed on boundaries together and it worked out for us. Relationships with secrets don’t usually pan out in the long run.”

Elsa nodded. “I get that.”

“But, you know, if you don’t tell her, that’s totally fine too. I’m good with less people knowing about what we do that could potentially get me fired…” Monica smiled meekly.

“If I tell her, I’ll make sure she’ll keep it a secret first,” Elsa told her advisor.

“Thanks…”

“Thank you, Monica!” Elsa said, reaching out for a hug.

“Oh, another potential firing and or lawsuit,” Monica responded awkwardly. Elsa’s towel fell, making things even more awkward.

“Come on now, if I were to snitch on you, I’d have way more incriminating stories!” Elsa teased. Their minds flashed back to the ending of the tag team match where Monica joined in the prize round. Way more salacious than a simple hug.

“Oh fine!” Monica relented, hugging the naked Aussie.

“So… Do you do Nuru?” Elsa teased.

“OK, your time is up!” Monica retorted, ending the hug.

Monica’s advice stuck with Elsa. If she wanted to be with Kelsy in the long run, she would eventually have to reveal her WSW lifestyle. That or leave WSW behind. It still felt too early in their relationship to be dumping something so heavy on her new girlfriend. She wondered if anyone else was in a relationship that could give her more insight on what to do.