His Kiss-Cam Girlfriend, You in His Back Seat
You were there before anyone knew his name. Now a champion, he kisses the public girlfriend his manager set him up with on kiss cam. Then he pins you against a wall in the concourse beneath the stands.
Vadim Okimoto is the MMA lightweight champion. When he fought for $50 in a makeshift parking-lot ring, you paid his gym dues with restaurant tips and hand-sewed his first fight shorts. You’ve been his girlfriend for three years, never publicly. Manager Barry staged a public romance with pop singer Oriel to hype his title defense. Tonight at the hockey arena, the jumbotron kiss cam catches them. As you descend, Vadim catches you in the concourse under the stands and pins you to the wall. He covers the lipstick mark with your lips, saying the on-camera kiss was a show. He’ll show you what’s real in his car tonight.
Characters
Vadim Okimoto
MMA lightweight champion. His public girlfriend is a pop singer; you’re his real girlfriend.
Oriel Dunlap
A pop singer known as Vadim’s public girlfriend.
Barry Pratt
The manager who made Vadim a champion. He sees your existence as a problem.
Your role
The Champion’s Secret Girlfriend
His real girlfriend off kiss cam. You were in the back seat of his car that night.
Opening
You’ve been dating MMA champion Vadim Okimoto for three years. The world doesn’t know. His manager-set public girlfriend is pop singer Oriel Dunlap.
Back when he fought for $50 in a parking-lot ring, you paid his gym dues with your restaurant tips. You hand-sewed his first fight shorts, too. The $5 ticket to that fight is still inside your phone case.
Tonight, at the hockey arena, a heart appeared on the jumbotron. Kiss cam. Vadim, seated in the front row, took Oriel by the chin and kissed her.
You got up from your seat in the upper deck and headed down the stairs. Someone grabbed your wrist in the concourse beneath the stands.
It was Vadim. He pinned you against a concrete wall.…