CHAPTER 1: SINGING THE BLUES

"Hello! Audrina! Lights on! Anyone home?"

Trish's loud abrupt voice brought Audrina back to reality. She really didn't want to be here looking at wedding dresses. She didn't want to be around anything wedding related, especially since Dean broke up with her.

She held back her tears once again and took another sip of wine. Anything with alcohol seemed to be the only thing making her feel better.

"Sorry Trish, you look perfect."

Trish sulked, she began to think that shopping for the wedding wasn't the best way to cheer Audrina up, rookie mistake. She gathered her dress and sat next to Audrina.

"I'm so sorry sweetie," Trish began. "I've been going on and on about this wedding and I haven't even asked you how you were."

Audrina shook her head and took another sip of her wine.

"No, don't worry about it. This is your day I don't wanna ruin it."

"Well I can't ignore that somber face," Trish said with worry.

Audrina sighed, being in this bridal shop seeing these wedding dresses definitely made her sad. She tried her best to hold her tears, but she couldn't help herself.

"It just sucks, seeing all of these dresses knowing that I won't even be in one. I hoped that, maybe in the future, Dean and I would-"

She couldn't finish her sentence without tears rolling down her face. She wiped them away quickly as Trish put an arm around her.

"Then it's like he didn't give me a reason at all, and I have to see him every time we do a show, this sucks so bad."

"You will have that one day sweetie," Trish said with a sigh. "You will have your day in this dress honey. Forget Dean, obviously, he's a coward if he can't even give you a reason. You're still young, focus on you for a change, now you have all the time to heal your knee, get back in the ring and get that Diva's title."

Audrina sighed, when she heard the words diva's title, she began to think about Cameron and all of the things she said to her and exposing her past. She definitely wanted to give her a piece of her mind when her knee is healed and she is clear to get back into the ring.

Trish was right, as much as it hurts not to be with the only man she ever loved, but being in rehab healing her knee has been keeping her busy, but when she wasn't in rehab all she thought about was Dean. It didn't help that she was traveling in the tour bus he got for her birthday. Thank God this tour was almost over and she could get rid of it.

She looked at Trish, wanting to get a close up of the dress she was wearing.

"Thanks, but I don't wanna wear that dress, though."

They both giggled, "You don't like it?"

"No," Audrina answered bluntly. "I know you like to keep thing simple, and that dress is a little over the top, and, to be honest, Trish I really don't know about being one of your bridesmaids."

Trish sighed, she really wanted Audrina to be one of her bridesmaids/. It would mean the world to her if she had Audrina by her side. This would definitely make her father happy.

"Why Audrina?" Trish asked with sadness in her voice.

"You know why" Audrina answered back.

"Stephanie and Shane are supporting this wedding, why can't you?"

Audrina sighed, "I am supporting this wedding, even though you dated my long-lost deadbeat father without telling me, and you're not even asking them to be bridesmaids you're asking me!"

"I want you to be one my bridesmaids because I love you and you're my girl, we've been through a lot these past years. You're gonna my future step-daughter, this will be great!."

Audrina scrunched her face in disgust.

"Please, don't say that ever again."

The two of them laughed.

"I made you laugh!" Trish exclaimed.

"Yeah yeah!" Audrina said while laughing.

"You know what's going to make your feel better?" Trish asked with a smile.

"Hell In A Cell?" Audrina answered back.

"Well, yeah, that, but how about you plan my bachelorette party! Party animal!"

Audrina let out another sigh and finished her glass of wine while Trish made her way back to the mirror to stare at herself in her dress.

"I'll think about it, and I'm not a party animal."

Trish continued to look at herself in her dress with concern about Audrina's well being on her mind. She has been bar hopping a lot lately and drinking a little too much. There have been blogs and Twitter feeds uploading pictures and videos of her drinking heavily at bars and showing reckless behavior. She has been late for two training sessions and hasn't been performing at her best due to being hungover. Trish has been wanting to sit Audrina down and talk to her about her partying, but she knew that getting her heart broken was part of it. She also wanted to tell her about Vince asking her to run the Divas division as well. Finding the right words to tell her this was hard, especially with Audrina's irrational behavior.

"May I bring you ladies another glass of wine?" The bridal shop server approached them.

"No thank you, mam. I'm fine." Trish said.

"I'll take another one," Audrina said after her.

"Right away." The server left them.

Trish was still staring herself in the mirror. She grew more concerned with Audrina as she watched the server hand her another glass of wine and drank it quickly. She was really hoping that Audrina wouldn't spiral out of control.

Shane was having brunch with his sister Stephanie. It really was nice to see her, but he had some questions about her annulment and the chaos that has been surrounding his father's company. The sad look on his little sister's face made it hard for him to break the ice.

"How are my nieces?" He asked as the waiter brought them their meals.

"They're growing like weeds." Stephanie smiled. "I swear I have to buy clothes for them every other weekend. They love shopping!"

"The apples don't fall far from the tree." Shane smiled.

"I don't shop that much," Stephanie said back. "How about my nephews? I need to come see them."

"Yes, you do." Shane agreed, "But if you come, leave the drama at home."

"What are you talking about?" Stephanie asked with confusion.

"I talked to dad."

Stephanie sighed, she didn't want to say anything about the annulment to anyone until she was ready. She also wasn't surprised. Shane was going to find out about it one way or another.

"So what do you want me to say, Shane? I want an annulment. I can't do this anymore."

Shane sulked, this was news to him.

"Last time I saw you guys, you seemed as though you were in a good place. I don't understand, what happened?"

Stephanie tried her best not to cry. She was trying not to show that she was hurt, but she loves Hunter, the last thing she wants to do is separate herself from him. She felt like she had no choice, she also didn't want to be that stupid female that is chasing a man that doesn't want her. She wasn't going to let anyone demean her intelligence, not even her husband.

"Shane, everything that has been going on this past couple of months has been too much. Even before the whole thing with Audrina, it's always been constant fighting. He's not affectionate, he never wants to do anything with me. I don't want to believe that there is someone else, but now I'm having a feeling that there is."

Shane sighed, he didn't want to think about Hunter cheating on his sister. He began to think about when she began dating him when they were younger and how he warned her about him. He even pulled a few stupid stunts to keep them apart. As they got older, he accepted it and supported their marriage and even grew to like him, but now hearing this from Stephanie, he was having second thoughts.

"You don't think he's cheating with Audrina do you?"

Stephanie shook her head.

"No definitely not, but when we first met, the way he looked at her, complimenting her all the time. He got jealous when she and Ambrose started dating, it tore me apart. I was mad and angry and jealous. I was in over my head. I didn't know what to do."

She paused for a little bit, the mentioning of Audrina had her wondering about how she was doing. She was hurt seeing the video of her and Dean breaking up. She thought she would be satisfied, but she felt ashamed. She felt that this was all her fault. She didn't know what to do to make things right. She knew that Audrina wasn't accepting any apologies any time soon.

"How's dad doing?"

She wanted to change the subject.

"He's doing better," Shane answered. "He asked me to run WWE with you guys and he is relieving Hunter of C.O.O duties and putting him on the roster as a wrestler."

Stephanie was shocked and upset. "When did he ask you this?"

"When I went to see him at home," Shane answered.

Stephanie was now angry. She wasn't angry with Shane running the company along with her and Audrina, she was upset that nobody told her.

"Why wasn't I called? Why didn't anyone tell me this?"

Shane shook his head. "Steph, I'm telling you now, I'll be there after Hell in A Cell. I have a few legal things to work out."

"So did you tell Audrina? How does she feel about this? As you've seen she's a lot to handle. I really don't think that this is a good-"

"Steph, with this whole annulment thing going on dad asked me to do it. To be honest, since you and Hunter have been running WWE it has been nothing but chaos. You seem to be only doing things that are what's best for you, and not what's best for business. We need to give the fans a good show."

Stephanie was even more enraged. Shane hasn't been in WWE for years and he was always too busy with being a lawyer to be with his family in time of need so why does he get to run everything?

"It's not all my fault. Hunter had a hand in this too! What about Audrina?"

"I will deal with Audrina. Don't worry about it!" Shane was raising his voice. Sometimes talking to Stephanie was like talking to a disobedient child.

"You, me and our little sister are going to come together and give some order to WWE. Trish is running the Diva's division for a little while too. If you want to step down Steph now is the time to do so. I'm not going to have our family company ruined because of high school drama. Hunter is not what's best for business. Hell, he's not even a husband to you right now."

Stephanie sulked. She couldn't believe the words that were coming out of Shane's mouth, especially about Trish running the Diva's division. Was this really happening? She didn't want to give up on what she worked so hard for. Running the WWE has always been a childhood dream. Right now, she was done with this meal and her conversation with Shane.

"Well, it seems like you all have your minds made up. I don't have a say in anything, but don't say I didn't warn you about Audrina."

Shane chuckled, "She wouldn't be a McMahon if she didn't have a little fire in her."