To say that the girls were surprised when they reached where Caitlin, Angel, Jack and their sister Barbara were staying was surprising to Alexa, Becky and Bayley: it looked like a mix of a modified tour bus merged with an american Winnebago, a really large and fancy one too!

"You live here!?" Becky said surprised as the girls looked to Caitlin in awe. She just laughed a bit in amusement. "Yeah. It was mine and Barbara's idea when we were still on the independent scene with Jack. We didn't want to leave him alone, and we wanted to spend time as a family too. Hence this."

"I can see why. I mean DAMN it's cool!" Bayley said, which Caitlin laughed at. When she brought the girls into the place, they were surprised by how it looked: simple yet meant to accommodate multiple people, and it definitely seemed bigger on the inside than the outside like something from a sci-fi show. 

"Oh wow!" Alexa said, barely above a whisper, as she saw the place. She was then surprised when 2 very cute small animals ran out: one was a Husky puppy, and the other looked like a white wolf cub.

To say that Becky, Bayley and Alexa suddenly fell into cuteness overload when they saw the two animals, kneeling down and petting the exited pets, who, to Caitlin's surprise, seemed to take an instant liking to them, especially Alexa. 

"Wow. It normally takes them a lot longer to get used to someone new." Caitlin said surprised, and that caught the attention of the girls. "Wait really!?" Caitlin nodded in response as she went to put Angel to sleep in her bed...and soon another person came out, a few years younger than Caitlin.

She had long brown hair that went down to her back, and she wore a tank top with tight jeans. She also had a pair of Alexa Bliss style gloves that said person had gotten her on the first show that she had gone to with Caitlin. She immediately recognised the girls and they in turn recognised her.

"Barbara!" Alexa said with a smile and hugged her, with the now revealed Barbara hugging 'Little Miss Bliss' back with a smile plastered all over her face. "'Little Miss Bliss' as I live and breath! Missed you so much!" she said as they parted from the hug, before hugging Bayley and Becky.

When Caitlin returned into the room, the 5 girls all lounged on the couch watching Netflix on the huge tv screen whilst catching up with one another, with Bayley and Becky learning a few things from the other 3 along the way. Eventually, one subject came up as the two adorable pets jumped onto each sisters laps.

"If you don't mind me asking..." Bayley began, slowly pointing to the white wolf-like pet before continuing, "...but what kind of dog is that? Because that adorable little thing looks like a wolf than a dog." "Yeah, I was wondering that too." Becky agreed, the thought crossing her mind too. Both sisters just smirked a bit before they responded in sync.

""She is."" they both said, and that surprised their friends. "Wait, she is!?!" they spoke surprised. The sisters nodded. "Our brother, Jack, found Winter less than a year ago, just a month before he got Max, his Husky. We're still not entirely sure how, but he was allowed to look after Winter as a pet since she responded the most with him alone until she got used to us."

The girls were surprised by what Caitlin had just said, Barbara though soon says "If you want to know the whole story...well...you'd have to ask him when he's ready..." Before they can ask what she meant: the aforementioned brother soon entered rubbing his hands across his face, looking a little tired. Alexa noticed from the corner of her eyes that both Caitlin and Barbara looked to Jack with concern and worry in their eyes.

"You okay bro?" Barbara asked, and he slowly nodded in response. "Just...tired." Both sisters got up and hugged him tightly, causing Bayley and Becky to go "awww!" to what they saw, but Alexa was concerned that this was something else entirely. Jack noticed the three female superstars on the couch near him and his sisters...if Bayley and Becky not saying "awww!" hadn't given it away...before slowly asking with a nervous expression on his face. "Are...are your friends staying tonight...?"

The sisters nodded their heads in response. "Yeah. We talked about it earlier. It's...not a problem with you is it...?" Cait soon asked, but Jack shook his head. "No. It's not a problem." he responded, slowly looking to the Alexa, Becky and Bayley. "You're...more than welcome to stay if you want." He said, sounding a little shy still, which still surprised the girls considering he was like a different kind of person out in the ring earlier.

"Thanks, Jack." Alexa said, and slowly Jack hugged his sisters when he noticed their concerned looks on their faces, kissing the top of their heads for comfort. "I'm fine...trust me..." They slowly nodded, and soon dragged him towards a chair, much to his annoyance as he rolled his eyes. When they sat him down, Barbara handed him a can of Dr. Pepper and sat next to her brother.

"Not drinking?" Becky asked, and Jack shook his head at that. "I don't drink." he replied casually before drinking his drink...and before being jumped upon by both Winter and Max, causing him to laugh a bit and ruffle their fur.

Alexa's Personal Observation:

After about an hour or two of, eventually, getting Cait and Barbara's quiet brother to speak and helping him get comfortable with us, especially after his cute little pets began playing with me, Becky and Bayley: everyone else had decided to get some sleep for the night, as it was quite late already.

I found it hard to sleep, as I kept wondering on how different Jack was in real life to how he was in a ring. Now, granted, I'm no stranger to being different in the ring to in my personal life, same as nearly every wrestler in the world, but still I had been surprised to say the least...and to be honest, I couldn't help but be concerned and worried for him either.

He was definitely a sweet heart, that much I could tell without needing to ask him or his sisters, but there was something else that seemed to bother him, something that I couldn't quite put my finger on what it was. I could definitely see the pain screaming off of him, especially in his eyes, though it was hard for me to tell if it was physical or emotional since he also did a pretty good job at hiding everything else, within reason.

I awoke from my sleep a few hours after going to bed. Since becoming a wrestler, I'd learnt you had to grab whatever sleep you could for however long you could whenever you could, but tonight...tonight I was struggling a little more to sleep fully.

I then heard something in the other room: something that sounded like someone playing a guitar. I slowly got up, put something on, and exited the room...and what I saw made me almost cry a little, but only because of how cute it was...

Sitting on the sofa was Jack himself, and in his lap was his daughter Angel who looked like she had woken up from a bad dream, as she had tears down her eyes. Jack had a wooden guitar in his arms as well, and he was teaching her to play it, which seemed to be calming her down. I leaned against a nearby wall and, despite my better nature, I listened to what happened next.

"Could you play that song daddy? The one you normally listen to?" Angel spoke, and he smiled a little and nodded his head, whispering to her "Want to sing with me?" I saw her nod eagerly, and he soon began to start playing a song that I wasn't quite familiar with, singing it in time with his daughter at certain points.

https://youtu.be/NtzrLpxM298

After they had finished, I noticed that he put his guitar down and cuddled his daughter in his arms with his eyes closed as she fell asleep in his arms. I couldn't help but dry my eyes a bit, but was surprised when I heard him say "You can come over...I don't mind..." 

To say that I was surprised by that was an understatement, or due to the fact that he had confirmed that he knew I was around when he had been playing the guitar with his daughter.

I slowly walked over towards him and sat down on a chair next to him. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to listen in..." I began, but he looked to me and stopped me. "It's fine, Cait and Barb do the same thing." I nodded slowly, looking towards Angel and smiling a bit.

"Can I ask...how old is she?" I asked, which he picked up quickly on who I was talking about. "She's turning 5 in April, around about Wrestlemania season." I was surprised by that, but there was something I had noticed even before I'd met him, or more specifically whenever Caity had shown me pictures of him and Angel: there was no mum in any of the pictures.

"Where's her mum?" It was an innocent question, although I really do wish I had thought about it before asking that question: because as soon as I mentioned it, his face fell and he ended up closing his eyes, sighing sadly. "She's...she's dead..." I gasped at that, and felt downright rotten for asking.

"I'm so sorry...I didn't know..." I began, and he slowly shook his head. "It's not your fault...it's not something I talk about much...especially in front of Angel..." He began to slowly stand up and held up a single finger towards me, as if asking me to wait a minute, before carrying his daughter back into her room. He came back not too long later and sat down on the sofa he had not long occupied with his daughter.

"My sisters talk about you a lot...and I do mean that quite literally." he said as he sat on the chair with his legs crossed, sort of like how CM Punk used to do in the ring. I couldn't help but laugh a bit at what he said though. "Nothing bad I hope." I found myself saying, to which he simply shook his head. "No, all good. It's kind of...refreshing, to be honest."

I raised an eyebrow to that intrigued. "Oh? Refreshing how?" He surprised me when a small smirk appeared on his face and he laid back in the chair. "Because they see you like another sister, one that they wish they had. Plus, with everything they've said about you, you're practically Angel's favourite female wrestler."

My eyes nearly bulged out at that. "You're...not serious, right?" He nodded his head. "Dead serious." He then smiled a little bit and looked down to his lap as if in deep thought. "You okay?" I asked, to which he slowly shook his head. 

"I'm...not used to this. Talking I mean. Especially with someone who I just met not that long ago..." He slowly pointed to where his sisters were sleeping before continuing. "If it wasn't for them...well...let's just say Angel would have probably lost her dad too...." He didn't seem at all cheerful or happy, and I saw him rub his hand briefly over his eyes.

"Can I ask...Can I ask why? You don't have to tell me, I'll understand. I just...I don't know, I want to help if I can." I said, not sure why I said that and, to be honest, worried that he'd shut down on me completely after I had said that...but surprisingly...he just looked up with a depressed look on his face, not even attempting to hide what he was going through.

"I...I have double personality disorder...so the lines between what you and others see in the ring or in promos...and who I am outside of a match in real life...they are completely blurred in my case as it's one or the same...but in my case, there's an added...complication..."

I slowly sat forward on the chair, looking to him with concern, but I remained silent so he could continue when he is ready, something that I assumed he appreciated. Eventually he did continue, and the gravity of how severe his case is became clear...

"Because the lines of how I am in and out the ring are completely blurred...the violent side of me kicks in at random times outside of the ring...which causes me start having random violent moments: like attacking anything in sight, or throwing things around in an extremely violent fashion...and it gets so bad that, when I start feeling it about to kick in...I forcibly lock myself in a room away from everyone and start attacking everything in the room...and let the dark side of me take over..."

As I tried to grasp what he had just told me, he got out his phone cautiously and slowly brought up a video showing what he is like when he loses control...though I suspected this was only a small taste of what actually happens to him...

The clip showed him talking aloud, though nothing he said made sense or was audible: he had a look of pain, anger, sadness and despair all in one etched onto his face...and most of the time, he would throw a chair in the room at something else in the room, or near a wall...sometimes with it rebounding and hitting him in the head...before, very rarely, he would go to a corner and begin rocking slowly with tears down his eyes. 

"That was something my sisters recorded...because I wanted to know what was happening to me..." he said as he looked down to the ground, and I did the only thing that I could think of right now: I pulled him into a tight hug, sorry Bayley. "I'm so sorry...You shouldn't be going through this..." I said, trying to be of some help or comfort.

He slowly wrapped an arm around my back and hugged me back. I'm not sure if that was him agreeing with me, or just his way of saying "thank you", but I gladly accepted the hug as we just sat there in each others arms, as a comfortable silence filled the room between us. 

End of pov.:

What neither Alexa nor Jack noticed or realized was that Barbara was looking at them from the doorway of her room. And as soon as she saw her friend and brother hugging one another and talking to one another, she couldn't help but smile before retreating quietly back into her room. What they didn't realise that day, and what they probably wouldn't for now, was just how much the Ryan's lives alongside Alexa's would change, for better or worse, after today...but boy, would they find out soon enough....

Author's Side-Note: I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Honestly, it's not my best, and I feel it could have gone better, but I can't complain about it as it also went better than I feared. Can't promise when the next chapter will be, but I can promise that it will have some in ring action in it. Apart from that, I hope you all enjoyed the chapter, and I hope you all have an amazing day!