Fan Contest [GONE WRONG] - Zane & Julie

[FreestylePoet]

"Oooookay, everyone, that just about does it for our tour of the LAW locker rooms!" The phone was held up, crooked in the air as its front facing camera caught a grinning Julie Dykstra-Liao. Her million-follower smile shifted into a roll of the eyes. "You'd think a literal sexfighting studio wouldn't be so Puritanical about some cameras in their changing room..." she murmured, before lighting up once more. "But getting kicked out was a blessing in disguise. Can't show ya everything at once now, can I?"

Julie Dykstra-Liao

Today was a good day. Namely, it was the first day Julie was allowed to stream official LAW content. Thanks to a masterfully-crafted social media campaign, JDLOfficial didn't have to die when JDL the wrestler was on the clock. To think, all that content was going to waste: the fun, the sexy, the dramatic, the cute. It was practically Julie's duty to put it all on YouTube. "We'll have more to show later, Clique. After all, I still have to give you all your 'thank-you' for getting me this far! Thaaat's right, it's time for the-"

Suddenly, a nostalgic video game tune chimed through the air. Her other phone. "Oop, sorry, Clique! Lemme get this real quick." She fished it out of her pocket. "Yo?"

"Julie, it's Christina. We-."

"Doc!" Just the girl she needed to hear from. "You and that fancy lawyer did the drawing right? For the fan raffle?"

"Yes. That's actually what I'm calling you about. You see-"

"Great! Text me the winner's deets, I'm about to read it off live~!"

"Please, Julie, just listen. There's been a problem with the drawing."

Julie scoffed. "What, does the lucky guy or gal live a thousand miles from the nearest airport?" Doc was, like, a total genius, and that was coming from a Stanford honors graduate. There was no way she could mess something up. Right? "C'mon, just text it to me! It'll be fine." She raised her eyebrows to the camera, which was definitely still rolling. Oh well. They wanted an inside look, right?

"Julie--!"

[Bare]

Too say Zane was a happy camper was an understatement. For multiple reasons in fact. After all, while he had certainly streamed before at LAW backstage it wasn't exactly 'allowed'. He was just good enough at not getting caught to the point he could get away with it, though it was much to the chargin of the producers. Now though he didn't have to worry about that given the actions of a certain fellow streamer.

After all if one person could steam with no issue, that meant everyone could! "Yooooo chat whats good!? Zane here with the first official stream that won't see any heat from backstage folk!" Zane proudly while posing and giving the chat some time to send some reactions in before chuckling. "Glad to see you're all excited, and best part is I haven't even told you all the best part of this yet.. in fact there's one person who has to find out first before anyone, so let's go find her." He said with a wink before starting to walk, keeping the camera focused on him and his shit eating smirk, which only got bigger as he turned a corner and spotted exactly who he was looking for.

"Yooo Julie! Ready for tonight?" He asked loudly while pointing his camera at his fellow streamer who also seemed to be running a stream of her own, a rare occurrence that Zane was definitely gonna take use of. "Oh bitching you're streaming this too? Noice, chat say hi to Julie's chat!" Zane said jokingly while giving a sarcastic wave, turning the camera briefly back to himself as he did so before pointing the camera back at Julie. "So did the Doctor lady already brief ya about where we're going?" Zane asked shit eating grin getting wider if it could, hoping by now she knew ahead of time.. and if not its not like he cared. Not as much as looking her over up and down and drinking her appearance in with absolutely no shame at all.

[FreestylePoet]

"Sooo... as you all knowww, we recently did a contest to celebrate me finally being allowed to stream official LAW content. Doc and I recently did the drawing, and-" Of course. She couldn't have anything nice, could she? Right there, out of the corner of her eye. A pain in her ass, going as far back as when she first started streaming. Zane freaking Lambert.

"Ugh." A strange noise choked itself from Julie's throat, somewhere between a scoff and a gag. She rolled her eyes and turned to the side, getting the creep out of view of the camera and her line of sight. "SorrynotsorryZane, I'm busy," she said quickly, completely ignoring every word out of his mouth. Wisps of hair covered her face from the quick motion, so she swept them out of the way and slapped on that cheery smile.

"Julie! Julie! Stop, wait!" Unbeknownst to Julie, Christina begged and pleaded with her client on the other phone. The kickboxer's efforts to drown out every last one of Zane's words -- scratch that, his words, his gaze, his everything -- did the same to her own manager.

"Aaanyway... She's gonna text me the winner right now and we'll do a nice little shoutout right on stream for all of you!"

"Julie Dykstra-Liao! WAAAIT!"

Finally, Julie heard her. "What?" she asked tersely, putting the phone back up to her ear. Seriously, she loved Doc, but it was one interruption after another right now.

"--It's ZANE."

"..."

"..."

Julie blinked. She stared off into space, jaw dropping to swing low in the stale air-conditioned environs of LAW's backstage area. Her gaze flickered to the spare phone in her hand. To the camera. To Zane. Two quick, wordless motions came next: One thumb to hang up the call, and the other to end the stream. Then she turned to the idiot standing next to her. She shook her head in disbelief.

"No..."

[Bare]

Clearly Julie did not know what Zane did and that secretly gave him no small amount of joy since it meant he'd get to see the look on her face for himself when she finally realized. It wasn't a secret after all that there was a bit of animosity between them, though it was mostly from Julie, with Zane giving her plenty of reasons to be that way with his smarmy attitude and teasing nature, specifically to goad that sort of reaction from her. Why? Well mostly because he enjoyed seeing her rise, but also to an extent cause it stoked his own viewerbase any time he did.. and a part of him found it rather attractive when she got mad. A triple win.

Finally she was told that he had won the raffle, he was able to hear that much with how loud the doc had spoken and it gave him great joy as he saw her face slowly morph into shocked horror so great she actually ended her stream and call with the good doctor. Then as a professional courtesy Zane would do the same with his own stream... but not before making sure that EVERYONE watching on his end was able to get a good look at Julie's face before he did so. "Ohhhhh yeah babe. You and me, allllllll day." He said with smugness practically dripping from his voice as he leaned in a bit. "Hope you're ready for some actual fun babe." he said with a wink towards his fellow streamer.

[FreestylePoet]

Julie scoffed and shook her head, not even bothering to block her face from showing up on Zane's stream. "Nope. No way. There is no way in a million years that I am spending an entire day with you." She marched up and jabbed Zane in the chest with an accusatory finger. How did he even enter, anyway? Surely they'd written in some exclusion for current employees of LAW!

...Or, now that she thought of it, there wasn't. Because she secretly hoped she'd be able to hook up with one of the many super-hot wrestlers that called LAW home. Ugh. Way to go, Julie. Her horniness got her in trouble yet again. "Whatever," she said. "There's gotta be some way I can get out of this."

Suddenly, her phone buzzed. She fished it out before tapping it open. A text from Doc shattered her dreams: "There is no way you can get out of this."

"Ugh!" Julie turned around, slapping both palms onto her face. "This can't be happening..." Then, she turned back with a sigh, leveling one unimpressed eyebrow at Zane. "Let me guess. You've got something dumb in mind, don't you?"

[Bare]

Zane knew exactly the kind of reaction he was gonna get from Julie and so far she was delivering on it perfectly. Reacting just as he thought she would and he was loving every second of it. Even as she jabbed a finger into his chest he just gave a nonchalant shrug.

"Sorry babe, its happening consider this... one in a million." He said with a wink and, as if to back him up a text came that seemed to crush any hope Julie had of backing out.

Chuckling softly as he closed out his stream he would scroll on his phone as Julie finally conceded defeat and, in her own special way, asked what they would be doing.

"Well that depends, do you consider a whole day in the Akiya Beach Club with unlimited bubbly, luxury accommodations and fancy food dumb." He said, pulling the club's web gallery on his phone and showing it to Julie just to prove his point.

[FreestylePoet]

Julie scoffed. It was more automatic than anything, but if it hadn't been her instinct, she still would have done it anyway. Half out of disgust -- because, well, ew -- and,yes, half out of disbelief. "The Akiya Bea-- Let me look at that!" She swiped the phone out of Zane's hands and started scrolling through the photos.

She knew all about the Akiya Beach Club, of course. What self-respecting party girl living in Japan wouldn't? It hit all the right spots: Cabanas and beach bars and dancing galore -- with just the right amount of exclusivity. It was on her list, but her list was long. Yet here it was, rapidly shooting itself to the very top... If by availability more than anything else.

She slapped the phone back into Zane's palm, eying him up and down with suspicion. A college girl's survival instincts kicked in. "Okay. I'll bite. What's your game?" This wasn't like Zane at all. There was a reason most other streamers didn't like him. On camera, he had just the right mix of irreverent and suave to go viral once a week. Off camera, though? Well... More of the same, really. The difference was that it was way more grating when it was right in front of you.

So the raunchy, douchey, dick-for-brains laughingstock of the streaming world... Inviting her to one of the hottest beach clubs in Japan. "Well? What gives?"

[Bare]

Despite the scoff from Julie it was apparent she was still surprised, and that made Zane grin, even as she swiped his phone and began scrolling through the photos of the place. All while he crossed his arms smugly, feeling rather good about himself that he got such a reaction from the normally dismissive girl.

'Knew that resort would be a good idea.' Zane thought to himself as he sat back and watched Julie scroll through. Granted the two were VASTLY different people, but they also had some core aspects in common. Both were from California, growing up on the beach and very wealthy at that and they even went to school not too far from each other. So needless to say he had at least a decent idea of what Julie would be into, and this just proved it.

Of course, similarities be damned Julie was significantly more distrustful of Zane, not that he cared, but of course she would start to grill him, asking what his angle was, to which he would just shrug. "Whatttt? Come on we both know I've been hollering at ya for awhile can't a guy just act on a long shot chance?" He asked with signature suaveness and a wink... Only to be met with cold indifference.

Wilting a bit at the look he would shrug. "Had to try." He said with a chuckle before taking his phone back from her and holding it up. "Really though I was thinking we'd turn this little beach date into a collab, stream part of it and all that. After all, two of the hottest streamers doing a collab on a exclusive beach resort? You know that would do huge numbers." He said, just knowing that the promise of a streaming boost would help tempt Julie.

[FreestylePoet]

Zane didn't have to say it. He didn't have to waggle his eyebrows, either. Or flash a wink, or lean in slightly, or anything like that. Honestly, there was so much that Zane didn't have to do, but he did it all anyway. Story of his life. Without any of it, it still would've been obvious that all he wanted to do was get in Julie's pants.

Typical Zane. She was about ready to turn around and just eat the lawsuit until he made a very... uncharacteristically good point. Even with all her problems with him, Zane undoubtedly knew content, and he was right. The two of them would be a power couple that could dominate the airwaves, if only for a night. Julie growled at how much sense it made. "As much as I'd hate to be seen in public with you, I am obligated to do some publicity with the winner of this contest..."

She pinched her nosebridge. Was she really about to do this? "Okay, fine. It's- excuse me." Julie gagged. "It's a date. But I'm setting some ground rules. First, you are not getting laid. No way, no how. So don't even think about trying to 'put the moves' on me or whatever." She sent herself cross-eyed as she put on her best Zane impression for a moment. "Second... I'm not gonna tell you not to look at other girls. That's not fair. I'm definitely going to." Women were great, after all. Besides, it'd be better than looking at Zane the whole time. "Just don't, like, embarrass us by leaning over to the next table over and chatting someone else up."

"And last? Probably the most important one. Just..." Julie sighed. "Please don't be a creep. If you wanna call this a date, act like it." Then, she slipped her right glove off and extended a hand to Zane. "If that all sounds good, then... pick me up on Friday? I'll give you the address to the Team Stanza offices."

[Bare]

Zane continued to smirk confidently at Julie, knowing he was about to lose her, but the way she seized up at his point on the numbers they'd draw should they stream... He knew he had her. Sure enough she was agreeing but with ground rules. Not that Zane minded at all. "The gag was a little unnecessary." He pointed out before continuing with a casual, confident tone. Anyways, I agree, and trust me, I won't be just treating it like a date, I'll be treating it like the best date, all for you babe." He said with a wink and a slightly sarcastic tone to his voice, but there was some level of genuine intent behind it. It was mostly mean to be some faux suave, but there was some hints he was being serious, only time would tell though...

Next day, outside of Team Stanzas Offices

Pulling up outside of the offices that Julie had told her to head too Zane would pull out his phone and send her a text to let her know he was here. Having taken an uber to pick her up and then head to the beach he would just sit back and relax, waiting to greet his date once she entered the car. Dressed pretty simply in blue trunks and a blue and red button up short sleeve shirt with sandals, he had a small bag with him as well, mostly a change of clothes and other essentials, both for a beach day and for streaming. If nothing else he'd make sure Julie couldn't give him grief about being prepared.