The scene opens with the view of a digital clock. It reads 5:59 with an LED light next to the AM text. The camera's view fades back showing the small table where the clock sits and the bed beside it. A figure lay under the white sheets and as the clock changes to 6:00 a sequential beeping begins. After a couple of moments a hand stretches out from beneath the covers and feels around the top of the clock. After some finger tapping the beeping stops and the arm drops beside it. A voice is heard.

Cortney Steel: Wake up sleepy head.

A moan comes from beneath the covers and shortly after Dave Steel rolls the sheet from across his body to an empty part of the bed. He sits up and moves his fingers through his messed up hair and scratches his head. He speaks out in a soft groggy voice.

Dave Steel: Oh no! Now I got family filming me too?

Cortney Steel: I told you about this two weeks ago.

Dave Steel: It's been two weeks already? Man I missed my monthly shower then.

Dave stands up and reaches to his bed post grabbing a black and green flannel shirt. He throws it on and walks towards the camera.

Dave Steel: I'm hopping in the shower. We getting breakfast after or what?

Cortney Steel: Yeah.

Dave walks past Cortney and into the bathroom which is part if the bedroom. He closes the door and shortly after the sound of running water can be heard. The camera moves around a complete 180 degrees and its now focused on Cortney. She walks out of the room and into her own room which is decorated with some magazine clippings and a couple of....

....Justin Timberlake posters on the wall. She sets the camera down on a desk and hops onto her bed across from the desk. She sits Indian style on the bed and starts to talk.

Cortney Steel: I don't know exactly where to begin so I guess I'll just start with my objective. A couple weeks ago in school my teacher Ms. Russo told our class about a project, well more of a paper, you see she wanted us to write about our parent or guardian. The projects a bit weird but I decided in addition to the written report I'd make it into a video project.

Cortney pauses for a moment.

Cortney Steel: A couple months ago my mom died of cancer. My father had died a few years back and I was faced with the possibility of having to endure life in foster care. I really don't have any close family and I was terrified about what would happen to me once my mom had passed. I was shocked when Dave walked into the social service office....

....and said he would take me in. When I was little and he was in his early teens we were pretty close. Our families were really close. As time went on our family got smaller and smaller and me and my mom moved across the country to San Diego. I heard from Dave from time to time but our families relationships drifted further and further apart. I guess 5000 miles can do that. One night I remember hearing my mom talk about going to Boston. I was so excited but shortly after I found out the reason for the trip. Dave's parents were killed in a car accident. I was only 10 at the time so my mother thought it best if I didn't attend the funeral but I begged her to let me take the trip to Boston anyway's. I remember seeing Dave but he didn't see me so much. He was lost, in another world far away from the rest of us. He looked me dead in the eyes and never saw me at all. There was so much I wanted to say to him but I knew he wasn't in the right state of mind to hear it so I left a note for him in his golf bag. It was about spring time and I figured it'd be a couple weeks before he'd see it. I don't know why it was so important for me to have him read it with a level head. I guess I just wanted him to know that I......

.....really cared about what had happened despite the distance between our families. I didn't hear from him for a long time. I don't even know if he ever saw the note. Eventually we heard he was involved in professional wrestling and that he was starting to make it big. We started to hear from him every now and again, at least a couple times a year since. So we're back to my original thought of being shocked when he walked into the social services office and offered to be my guardian. He even offered to move to San Diego if that's what I wanted. I chose to go to Boston. I was so grateful he was gonna take me in that I didn't want to have him make any changes on my account. It's worked out well though. I like it here.

The sound of water stops and the camera is shut off. It turns back on and is placed between Cortney and Dave on a table inside a small breakfast restaurant. The waitress walks buy with a coffee pot and offers some to Dave who declines. He's got his eyes focused on a newspaper in front of him but soon folds it up and slides it to the side of....

....the table. Cortney has a pen and a notebook with her and she looks to Dave as if she were looking for him to start something.

Cortney Steel: The battery's running low so I'll just summarize what you say and I'll repeat it later.

The camera cuts out again and when it comes back Cortney is again alone in her room on her bed with the camera on her desk. The sun is flooding through the window so we know it is still daytime.

Cortney Steel: The battery wasn't running low. I just figured if I'm gonna get a good grade on this project I should listen to what he says and give my perspective on it.

Cortney rummages through her notes for a moment before speaking.

Cortney Steel: I started by asking him about his job. He was

...a bit hesitant at first but I reminded him that the more he tells me the less likely I'll be repeating the 10th grade. He's still a professional wrestler and he said his routine changes from week to week. It all depends on who he's facing, where, and what's on the line. He went into a whole lecture how that's not the way to be and he should prepare for every opponent the same way. I say he's wrong since he's been pretty successful in his field doing it the way he has. When we got our food he started telling me about when he first broke into the business. Back then he was in a group called the Regulators made up of a bunch of rookies including his cousin Adam from the other side of his family. They started making waves real quick and Dave found himself moving up the ranks real fast. He says things are different now. The things that drove him then don't exist anymore. He said he's no longer part of a team effort and objective and that he fights alone. It seemed like it was something that bothered him a bit. I told him that changes happen and we never see them coming. But it's what we do after that makes us who we are. He said "Thanks Aristotle" and he started going over what he needs to do this week to be able to win.

Cortney reaches to her right and takes a sip of a drink she has sitting on her night stand.

Cortney Steel: He's fighting in a pretty high stakes match so he apologized ahead of time if he seemed to focused on his work too much. He's fighting for the Intercontinental title along with the number one contendership for the world title. He's facing a guy named Fox who he's fought before and a new guy Lucas Balkan who has been making a name for himself. He said his rivalry with Fox goes back to his days in the Regulators. They would fight often with members from Fox's stable the Dead Pac so the two were never really friends. He said he still respected Fox though. They fought a big pay per view match a few years back with Dave barely escaping with the victory and his life from the sounds of it. There were mines set up in and around the ring. There was another guy involved too....umm his name was John John Earl. Dave said that even though he beat Fox before there were three men involved and that you can't really get an accurate measure of how people match up with three involved. I was a little confused because there's three people....

....involved this time too so it should be the same as last time. But I'm just explaining the life I didn't say I had to understand it. Fox seemed to worry Dave a little more then Lucas Balkan does. Dave says he and Fox have a lot in common. They both have accomplished almost all that can be accomplished in wrestling including being Hall of Fame members, they've both been able to make successful returns and get back to the top levels of the federation, and they both once fought for great groups and now fight alone. It looks like when it's all over the two will understand each other more then most competitors. Competitors, it's a word Dave used a lot at breakfast. I always thought a person you fought was your enemy. Dave doesn't see it like that. He made it seem like they all fought for a cause and that neither cause was right or wrong. He said when someone's your enemy usually they've wronged you in one way or another. I guess neither of these guys has rubbed Dave the wrong way.

Cortney lays back in her bed leaving her notes at her side..

....She seems to remember most of what she's written and continues to talk from a more comfortable condition.

Cortney Steel: When I started asking him about Lucas Balkan he started joking around a lot saying I probably knew more about him. He jokes around a lot but he told me that Lucas was a guy he knew could cause an upset. I guess Balkan's been feuding with Dave's friend Dave Van Dam. Dave made it sound like this Van Dam guy was one of the greatest legends in wrestling and that if he was feuding with Balkan then Balkan shouldn't be taken lightly. It's tough to get a read from Dave sometimes though. He often goes out and tries to come across as a guy who thinks everyone he fights are his equals. I see his arrogance though. He tries to hide it out of class but I know he's really not worried about Lucas Balkan as much as he led on. Maybe it's me but he really was concentrated on preparing for Fox. I don't know why he worries so much, he's beaten him before. I know the respect factor was genuine when he talked about Fox though. They've traveled similar roads.

A sound is heard ***SEEEEEEEEGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA***. Cortney sits up and immediately gets up and walks to the camera.

Cortney Steel: Well he's home from the gym now. Nine out of ten times he'll play video games when he gets home. I think it helps him unwind. He usually plays older games from Sega Genesis or the original Nintendo. I don't exactly know why but he acts like a little kid.

Dave Steel: I SWEAR TO GOD I"M GONNA KILL KNUCKLES. STUPID CHINCHILLA!!!

Cortney Steel: I'm gonna shut down for a while and go watch him play.

A scene fades out and it returns during the beginning of night. With the new moon just three days past it is pretty dark outside but we can see two figures sitting on a deck outside. From the voices we can tell it's Dave and Cortney.

Dave Steel: So did you get enough footage yet?

Cortney Steel: Yeah I think I can shut it off for the night.

A scene fade but the sound can still be heard as the two continue to talk.

Dave Steel: It's tough talking knowing that cameras on. I feel like everything I say needs to be thought out and scripted just perfectly.

Cortney Steel: It's tough to be yourself when everyone's watching.

Dave Steel: You're right. I have cameras on me so often I sometimes forget who I am.

Cortney Steel: It's kind of sad.

Dave Steel: Thanks for the encouragement.

Cortney Steel: Let me finish dumbass. I mean...you're like a celebrity and everything and cameras and reporters capture so much of what you do. They see so many sides of you but there's always a purpose behind the attention. They want something from you. They want your thoughts and opinions. They want you strategies and your outlook on things. Even in my video you're being filmed because I need to for a project. But nobody gets to see the real you. They just scavenger for bits and pieces.

Dave Steel: That's what makes family and close friends so special. They know the things about you that no one else can. They see your strengths and weaknesses but love you for neither. Close relationships are built on two people who understand each other so deeply that they can speak without words. If everyone could see who we really were then none of us would be as special too each other.

Cortney Steel: Is that why you said you've lost some of your passion for your career? Cause you're close friends aren't fighting alongside you? Cause there are few left who.....

......understand you?

Dave Steel: That's a part of it I guess. But it's more then that. I just feel that I do it because it's all I know rather then for the love of it. C' mon let's go inside.

A sound stops and we cut to a new scene. Cortney is about to go to bed.

Cortney Steel: I already have a ton written down for my report so I think I've filmed as much as I need to. Dave said he had lost a lot of his passion for life and work. I think he tries to look at himself from the outside too much. Like it's through someone else's eyes. He criticizes himself for things that aren't even true. If his passion was gone he wouldn't still be doing what he was doing and he wouldn't still be succeeding. If his passion for life was gone he wouldn't look after me the way he does and he wouldn't look after himself as well either. I think a lot of it comes from his ex girlfriend Jessica. She freaked out and left him...

......for no good reason as far as I can tell. He's been different ever since from what I've heard. I think he looks for the reasons she left and starts searching for his faults. He looks at himself through her eyes. I think the worlds in store for a bad trip when he starts looking at himself through his own eyes. He'll see that he's an extraordinary man.

The scene fades out.