Raw: July 2, 2007

"So…" Vince says. "You are cleared to compete now?"

"Yes I am, sir." I say.

"Okay then. Welcome back to Monday night Raw. I will see you around."

I nod before heading to leave. "Thank you, sir."

"It's Vince."

I laugh before leaving.

"Look at you." Candice says as she finds me. "You're back."

"Yep…how's Raw?"

"Awful. Mickie, Melina, and Jillian are all here."

"I've seen that you've been having problems with them."

"Yep. I only like Kelly and Maria."

"All the nice girls seem to go to SmackDown."

"Except you. We get along well."

"Yep."

"And happy birthday."

"Thanks."

"How old are you now? Twenty-five?"

"Yep."

"I missed you. It's weird not having Ashley around, and Mickie is the only other one here that had some training with Trish. I wasn't hanging with her."

"Well I'm here now, and I'm not going anywhere."

"Some people were saying that you were going to ask Vince to move you to SmackDown when you returned because of the incident that injured you. The person who caused it is still on Raw."

I laugh. "Candice, you can say Randy. And…I was never going to ask to go to SmackDown. Raw is my show. Even if I have to be around Randy, I'm staying here."

"Have you talked to him?"

"No. I don't plan to."

"I honestly don't blame you."

"Yeah…"

"So…are you still hanging out with Chris Jericho?"

"Um…actually we've been dating for almost a month."

"What?!"

I motion for her to be quiet. "We haven't gone public yet."

"Oh. Who knows?"

"Trish, Lita, Michelle, Edge, Cena, Christian, and you now."

"Awesome. I'm happy for you."

"Thanks."

"Let's go find friends. You need to show everyone that you're back."

"Okay."

We head down the hall to see who we can find.

We run into Michelle and John. I greet them with hugs.

"I'm so happy to see you!" Chelle says. "Best surprise ever!"

"I'm cleared." I say.

"New best surprise ever!"

"Yep."

"Welcome back." John says.

"Thank you. Nice to see you have that championship still."

John laughs. "Yeah. Maybe not if Trips was here."

"He's going to be back soon."

"How'd you know that?"

"I went to see him and Stephanie a couple times."

"Oh. Nice."

"Well…" Candice says. "We should get going. Other people to see."

"Bye." I say.

"So…" Candice says as we head to Catering. "What are you going to do since you're back?"

"Help you." I reply.

"Thanks. I could use it."

"No problem."

"But I get to take you to a club tonight."

"Deal…"

"Planning a celebration without me?" Kelly says. "How dare you?"

"We're going to a club, and you're only twenty."

"How old are you guys?"

"I just turned twenty-five today. Candice is twenty-eight."

"Exactly. You'll both be drinking. I'm your designated driver."

"Fine."

"By the way, happy birthday and welcome back."

"Thanks. You two can keep chatting, but I want food. See you later."

I entered Catering by myself. Not many people are in here. I grabbed a salad and sat down to eat. William Regal soon approached me.

"Welcome back to Raw." He says. "I'm the interim General Manager, and since you are returning and your birthday is today, I'm going to give you anything you want."

"I'm helping Candice. If I get Jillian or Melina to accept my challenge for a match, will you make it official for next week?"

"Will do. Bye."

"Bye."

I finish eating my salad. I go to head to the locker-room, but I run into someone. I cringe as I see who it is. It's Randy.

I try to get up and leave without him noticing, but he already had and turned around to see me. We maintained eye contact as I stood up. Neither of us knew what to do.

"Happy birthday." He says quietly before leaving.

"Thanks." I whisper.

Candice and I were walking around backstage. I told her about running into Randy.

"Did you talk to him?" She asks.

"No." I reply. "And I still won't."

"Okay."

We see Dusty Rhodes and he waves us over. We walk over to him and his son.

"Hello, ladies." Dusty says. "I would like introduce you to my son and newest member of Raw, Cody. Well, Marissa met him once, but you both were kids."

"I don't think she'll remember that, Dad." Cody says. "I don't."

"Neither do I." I say before shaking his hand. "Marissa Smith. Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you as well."

Candice shakes his hand. "Candice Beckman. Pleased to meet you."

"The pleasure is mine."

Dusty turns to me. "Are you cleared?"

"I am."

"Good. You're my favorite Diva."

I smile. "Thanks."

I watch from guerilla as Melina and Jillian attack Candice.

"Play my music!" I say.

("Move It Up" plays)

I run out to the ring and attack Jillian first. I hit Jillian with a Thesz Press and unload punches on her. Melina pulls me off. I hit Melina with a Clothesline. Jillian pulls Melina out of the ring. I hit them with a Suicide Dive knocking them down. I roll back into the ring and holds up Candice's arm.

"Hey, bitches." I say into a microphone. "I'm back. Now, Jillian and Melina, if you think I'm just gonna let you get away with bullying Candice, then you are sadly mistaken. The odds are even now. How about one of you faces me one on one next Monday night here on Raw?"

"It's on!" Jillian answers.

Candice and I are walking past Mickie.

"Do you mind if I say a few words to Mickie?" I ask.

"Be my guest." Candice replies.

We stop right by Mickie.

"Mickie." I say. "Don't you try anything with me. The Marissa now is not the same as before. I am a lot meaner. Stay out of my way."

We start walking away.

"Damn." Candice says. "You aren't fooling around."

"Nope." I say. "I'm not."

Candice and Kelly are sitting with me in the club. We are waiting for a waiter to ask us what we want to drink.

The waiter finally arrives. "Sorry for the wait, ladies. What would you like to drink?"

"A virgin margarita, please." Kelly says.

"And you?" He asks Candice.

"Some whiskey shots, please. And get the birthday girl a rum and coke." Candice says.

He looks at me. "It's your birthday?"

"Yes." I reply.

"Well consider all of your tables drinks on the house."

"Awesome!" Candice says.

The waiter leaves.

Candice smiles. "How's your birthday?"

"Pretty good minus seeing Randy for the first time in months."

"He was nice though."

"But he didn't apologize for knocking me over."

Candice laughs. "I guess you're right."

"What all happened?" Kelly asks.

"Randy ran into Rissa when she was going to leave Catering. It's the first time that she's seen him since the RKO incident. All he said was happy birthday, but she's annoyed about him not apologizing about knocking her over."

"Oh. That's understandable."

"Exactly." I say.

"Didn't he call you and text you when you were injured?"

"Yeah. I just am not willing to answer them."

"Understandably so."

"Yeah."

The waiter drops off our drinks, but Cody Rhodes starts approaching us before we can drink. We wait for him to join us.

"Sorry to interrupt your girls night out." Cody says. "But the rum and coke is spiked. Spiked by your waiter."

"Oh." I say as I push the rum and coke away. "Thanks, Cody."

"I wasn't the one who saw him. Randy was. Randy just figured that you would actually listen to me."

"Oh. Tell Randy that I um say thank you."

"Will do. See ya around."

"Bye, Cody." We all say.

"The waiter is a little fishy." Candice says. "Thank God that you didn't drink your rum and coke."

"Yeah." Kelly says. "At least Randy was looking out for you."

"Yeah…" I say. "I guess I'll give him that."

"Is there something wrong with the rum and coke?" The waiter asks.

"Yeah. You spiked it."

The waiter glares at me. "Wanna repeat that?"

"You. Spiked. My. Drink."

The waiter grabs me and shoves me against the table. "Guess we'll have to do this the hard way." He shoves Kelly and Candice down before going to pull me away.

"Ahem." I hear.

Randy had done that. He had Cody, Hardcore Holly, and a few others with him. I keep calm and hope that I can get away soon.

"What do you want?" The waiter asks.

Randy rolls his eyes. "I want you to let go of her."

"No. This doesn't concern you."

"Actually it does. She's our coworker and we aren't going to let you hurt her."

The waiter swings at Randy. Randy blocks him. I watch as Randy and the waiter stare at each other. The waiter grabs a beer bottle to smash on Randy, but I kick the waiter in the balls. Randy then hits the waiter with a hard right hand.

The waiter stumbles away from us. Candice and Kelly join us all. I don't wanna be at the club anymore. This isn't a good birthday.

I walk out without a word. I sit outside and start crying. Someone sits next to me and starts wiping my tears away. I look up. It's Randy.

"The others went back to clubbing." Randy says. "After what just happened, I don't understand how anyone could."

"Me either."

"He spiked your drink."

"That's what Cody said."

"And you listened then?"

"Yeah. He told me that you noticed it, and I didn't think you would lie about that."

"I wouldn't." He goes to pull out a cigarette.

I look at him. "You started smoking again?"

"Yeah…after I injured you."

"Oh."

We sit in silence as Randy smokes. I decide that I am not going tell Chris about what I have been doing tonight. He's been busy with Fozzy. So he probably won't ask.

Randy puts out his cigarette. "Do you wanna go back to the hotel?"

"Yeah…"

We get in Randy's car. He drives me back to the hotel. We get out of the car.

"Do you need me to stay with you until the girls get back?" Randy asks.

Even though Randy injured me, I probably would've said yes. But then there was Chris. It's just not right for me to be alone in a hotel room with another man when I have a boyfriend.

"No." I say. "I'll be fine alone."

"Is this because of the injury?"

"No. It's not."

"Really? Because I know you well enough, I know when something's wrong. What's up?"

"Nothing." I say before heading into the hotel.

I turned to see if Randy had followed me in, but he hadn't. I wanted to be friends with him. I really did. But I'm still upset over him injuring me and having him in my hotel room wouldn't be right since I'm with Chris.

I use the stairs to get to my floor and quickly enter my room. I shut the door and immediately laid on the bEd and went to sleep.