Title: At All Costs

Rating: M

Genre: Drama/Romance

Summary: What's a girl to do when her friends and family can't accept her dreams? Well, if that girl is Lexus she's going to make them eat their words. Watch as the new Raw diva deals with family, friends, betrayal, hate, pregnancy, love, death and finding out what really matters. Everyone has their dreams, but her's may cost her everything.

Disclaimer: I only own Lexus, her parents, Ava and Madison. WWE is owned by Vince McMahon.

Chapter One:

If there was anything more annoying to Lexus it was being told she wasn't good enough or she couldn't do something. Lexus was Lexus, and if you told her she couldn't do anything, she would do it just to prove you wrong. But, this wasn't the case when she wrestled. Her family didn't like it and thought it was barbaric, then again, her parents and family didn't like the fact that when she registered to vote she registered as Democrat, instead of a Republican – like them.

Lexus pulled up into her parent's Palms Spring, California home. It was December, and the sun was shinning, hot as ever. Lexus parked her rental car in the drive way and got out. There was a family dinner, her sister was supposed to be announcing something. Lexus really didn't care, but she had to come; besides she had to tell her family something too. Something she knew they wouldn't like.

"Lexus!" she heard a voice yelled as they ran out the house. Lexus wanted to roll her eyes, but she didn't.

"Ava, sweetie." She kissed Ava's right cheek, then her left.

"Look at you." Ava held both of Lexus's hands and then looked at her sister in slight disgust. "Twirl."

Lexus knew what was going to happen, she was going to be ridiculed. "Uh, how about not?"

Lexi had natural golden brown hair, like all of her sisters, and brown eyes. She stood 5'6" and had an athletic build; her golden brown hair came just below her C cup breast.

"Lexi, tone."

"It's Lexus." Lexus replied, she pushed past her sister and then walked up the path to the front door.

Ava frowned as she trailed behind her younger sister. She pushed a lock of her dyed strawberry blonde hair out of her face.

"Mother! Father!"

"Lexus! What did I tell you about being loud?" a voice asked, as he walked into the room, holding his wife's hand.

"Yes, Lexi, use your inside voice." Her mother replied. She took her daughter's shoulders and kissed the left side on her cheek then the right. "You look…so…so."

"I missed you, pumpkin." Her dad interrupted before his wife could say anything.

"So have I."

Lexus gave a slight smile.

"How's life in Brooklyn?"

"Buffalo, mom. I live in Buffalo."

"And you really shouldn't. That place is so…hoodish."

Lexus rolled her eyes.

"Don't roll your eyes, Lexi. So, where's your luggage?"

"In the car, I'm going to be staying at a hotel."

"Why? Why can't you stay here in this house?" her father asked.

"Where's Madison?" Madison was Lexus's oldest sister, Ava was the middle child, and then Lexus was the baby of the family.

"She'll be here when dinner starts, with her surprise."

"Her surprise better be good if I came here all the way from New York."

"It will be, I'm sure. She'll do something to make us proud, like always."

"Yeah…." Lexus was silent.

"Lexus, we need to talk to you."

"We're talking now."

Her father cleared her throat. "Come, come."

Her father brought her into the sitting room. He and his wife sat on the love seat, and Lexus sat on the other side of the coffee table.

"Lexus, we think it's time you move back home." Her mother spoke, breaking the awkward silence.

"Uh, no…" Lexus told her parents. "I'm not coming back here."

"You're 21, and you can't hold a decent job. Ever since you dropped out of Law school, and then moved to Buffalo…you just, we're worried. You're not even dating anyone."

"This is your childhood home, Lexi. We don't think you could make it out in the real world. We could hire you a life skills coach. We can afford it."

"I don't want to date anyone, and I don't need a life skills coach. I don't need anything fancy."

"If you move back home, I'll buy you your own car."

"And we can get you that Tiffany's bracelet you want."

"You guys can't buy me. You've been doing that all my life. And, yeah it's time I take control. You can tell Ava and Madison what to do, but I'm different. I broke it."

"Broke what?"

Lexus thought for a moment. "The chain, the chain of becoming just like you guys." Lexus stood. "Excuse me, please."

"Lexus, we're not done."

"But I am." The youngest daughter replied. "I'll be back before dinner."

"Dinner is at six!"

"It always is." Lexus mumbled.

"Hey, Lexi." Ava followed Lexus out of the house.

"Lexus!" Lexus snapped. "It's Lexus."

"What's up with you? Why are you acting like this?"

"Because I can't stand it here, Ava. You know that, I know that, hell, mom and dad know that." Lexus turned around to face her sister as she sat on the hood of her rental.

"You're going to have to deal with it. We're family."

"I know we're family, but I need room to breathe."

"I don't understand you, Lexi." Ava sighed. "Mom and dad has given, me, you and Madison everything we've wanted."

"And now, I want to give myself what I want. I can't always let them do everything for me."

"Why? You live to disappoint them don't you?"

"I don't do it on purpose, it's not my fault they have different standards than me. You and Madison have different standers than me."

"Lexus, sometimes I'm ashamed to call you my sister. Look at the way you've turned out!"

"You're ashamed? Please, I remember when growing up and always being in you and Madison's shadows. You both were so girly, cocky and self-centered, made me sick and tired of the color pink, and not to mention, I felt so embarrassed when the whole school was talking about your boob and nose jobs."

"You were jealous of us, always were."

"No, actually I wasn't."

"Too busy hanging out with your dyke friends, huh? Those other tomboys and those ugly skater guys."

"Call them what you want. At least they liked me for who I was and not because of what I had."

"If they like you so much…then why, oh why don't you still talk to them? I still talk to Kat, Becca, and Emmy. Oh wait, you can't talk to your friends because most of them ended up dead from drunk driving, and the other half you lost contact with when they went to…rehab." Ava smirked; she won the argument with her sister.

Lexus got off the rental car and then got inside. She was going to go for a drive.

6:14 PM.

Lexus opened her parent's home door and walked in. She was late for dinner, and if it was anything like it was when she was a teenager, she wouldn't be able to eat dinner. It was a family rule: If you're late to the dinner table then you weren't that hungry. It was also a family rule that you couldn't eat anything after 8 PM, not unless it was a special occasion. You couldn't even sneak any food, there was a lock put on the refrigerator door and only Lexus's parents and their house cook had the key.

Lexus walked into the dining room. "Mother, father. Ava, Madison…guy I don't know."

"You're late."

"I know."

"You're right." Lexus heard Madison whisper to Ava. "she has gotten fat."

"I heard you Madison." Madison flashed her younger sister a fake smile and then looked over to the guy she was with.

"Sit down, Lexus." Lexus sat down in the seat that was to the right of Ava.

"You know the rule, Lexi."

"I know, I can't have dinner."

"Glad you remember." Her father nodded.

"How could I forget? I nearly starved in this house."

"Glad you remember, also." Ava told her sister.

"Whatever."

"Girls! Girls! Stop this." Their father spoke, the girls stopped talking. "While you were gone Lexus, Madison told us her good news?"

"She's leaving the country?" Lexus's eyes lit up at the thought, and she grinned to herself.

"No."

Lexus frowned.

Madison stood up. "I'm getting married!" she held out her left hand and showed off her diamond ring.

Lexus didn't look impressed. "How long have you been dating?"

"Three months." The guy answered.

Lexus looked at her parents. "And, you both…approve?"

"Yes, honey we do. They go to Yale together." While Lexus was 21, Ava was 24 and Madison was 27.

"How wonderful." Lexus replied. "Now, can I tell my good news?"

"You have news?" Madison questioned, Lexus nodded. "Well, can't be bigger than me being engaged…so, I guess you can share."

"You guess? I didn't ask for permission."

"Well, you should have."

"QUITE!" Lexus's father shushed them. "Lexi, what's your news."

"I signed a WWE contract two weeks ago!"

"What's WWE?"

"World Wrestling Entertainment…"

The room became silent until Lexus's father laughed. Everyone joined in with him, besides Lexus. "Okay, Lexus. What's the real news?"

"That was the real news."

The room became silent until Ava dropped her fork; it clinked as it hit the good china.

"Get out!" Lexus's father screamed.

"Dad!"

"Get out now!" Lexus's father yelled as he stood up and pointed to the door. "If you want to waste your life, then do it. But, I'm not going to be apart of it. I worked for everything I have…and you do this?"

"You worked for everything? Ha, that's a good laugh, dad. Grandpa did all the work, you were just born into what he worked for. Don't claim what he did as your own."

"I tried to provide you what I never had!"

"I don't want anything from you or this family!" Lexus screamed.

"Then what are you waiting for? Leave my house, Alexus, since it isn't good enough for you."

"She will never make it on her own." Madison whispered to her fiancé.

A tear fell out of Lexus's brown eyes as she walked slowly out of the dinning room, and soon out of the house. As she got in her car, she let all the tears flow. She didn't need her family, she would prove them wrong. She would make something of herself. Her journey into the WWE would start soon, and her family would eat their words. She would make it on her own…or at least, try to.

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A/n: I'm sorry if the following references offend anyone: democrat, republican, dyke and the line where Lexus's mom says Buffalo is hoodish, and the reference of rehab and the reference of drunk driving, and also boob and nose jobs, and ugly skater guys and tomboys. Oh, and I'm sorry Ava and Madison are such bitches, and also the parents. Blah. But, hmm…next chap is her debut. Review and tell me what you think!