"Paul, put me down!" Stephanie squealed as her husband carried her over his shoulder.

Lisa laughed, leaning her head against Dave's chest. "Those are two crazy kids," she told her boyfriend.

Lisa glanced at Shawn, seeing the sullen look on his face as he and Lilian were setting up their tent. Shawn's fingers slipped as he was putting up the tent, causing it to collapse to the ground in a heap of fabric.

"Oh, way to go, cabron," Lilian said, sighing as she threw her poles down.

"Lilian, shut up. It was an accident," Shawn shot back.

"Just like it was an 'accident' that you forgot to call the DJ and he was booked for the night of our wedding?" Lilian couldn't help but snap.

"Maybe if you would've just agreed with my original plan and had you sing, things would be different!" he shot back.

She felt the Spanish tirade coming and the tears too. Giving him one last glare she stormed off to get something out of her bag.

Lisa frowned and looked up at Dave. "We have to do something."

"Like what? I don't want to intrude." He paused. "Maybe they just aren't right for each other."

She scoffed. "Oh yeah right, Dave, and Santa Claus is real."

Lisa kissed his cheek, then exchanged glances with Stephanie, gesturing that they needed to grab Lilian. Stephanie nodded, turning to Paul and saying, "We need to go to the bathroom," motioning towards Lisa and Lilian.

"We?" Paul repeated. "Why is it that females always go to the bathroom together, even in the middle of nowhere?"

"It's an unspoken rule that was written to piss the testosterone breed off," Lisa replied, grabbing a protesting Lilian's arm and pulling her away.

"We'll be back in a few," Lisa called over her shoulder, guiding Lilian away along with Stephanie.

"Females," Dave commented. "I don't think I'll ever understand them."

He winked at Paul, who grinned back. They both looked at their college friend who had a stormy look on his face. Dave shook his head, thinking back to how the three had met their respective women. Lilian, Stephanie and Lisa had also attended college together, and Lisa and Stephanie had invited the three guys to a bar where Lilian had been singing at.

He and Lisa had hit it off immediately, and of course Paul and Stephanie had been dating for years before that. Even as he flirted with the attractive raven haired woman that he would end up asking out on a date several months after just being friends, he noticed that Shawn had his eyes on the woman with the microphone. It wasn't until a huge black man began getting a little too close to Lilian that Shawn made his move, telling the guy to leave Lilian alone.

Lilian had been very grateful, and she and Shawn began talking, falling for each other hard. Now, two years and an engagement later, Dave wondered if Lilian and Shawn were going to make it to the wedding date without killing one another.

Whatever the case was, Dave hoped that Lilian and Shawn would work their problems out and not ruin the weekend for themselves.


"So what's the plan?" Andrew finally asked.

Mike and Test were further into the woods, but still within binocular view of the camp. "We've gotta get Steph alone," he answered gruffly. "Now shut the hell up before you blow our cover." Shaking his head, he muttered something and went back to watching the three women through the binoculars.

"C'mon Lil, what's going on?" Lisa asked.

"Nothing," Lilian answered, sniffling.

"Aww, don't cry!" Stephanie wrapped an arm around her friend. "What's the matter?"

Lilian sniffled again, wiping at her eyes with the back of her hand. "I don't know," Lilian said softly, sitting down on a log. "It just seems like all Shawn and I do is argue anymore! And I feel like he is falling out of love with me."

"Oh, come on, Lil, you know that isn't true," Stephanie soothed, sitting down next to her friend and wrapping her arm around the little blonde's shoulders.

"Yeah," Lisa echoed, sitting down on the other side of Lilian. "You two are perfect for each other."

Lilian sighed, and then said, "I don't understand. Shawn… he just irritates me to no end. We fight over the dumbest things. I think that we aren't meant to be together sometimes."

Lisa and Stephanie exchanged another glance over Lilian's head. "Oh, Lilian, you know you two still love each other. So what if you're having a little bit of trouble right now," Lisa finally said. "I mean, you two are planning a wedding, buying a house, and you are finalizing a record deal! That's enough stress to even bother Steph and Paul!"

"You two never have anything to worry about," Lilian said to Stephanie. "If anything would ever possibly go wrong in your life, your dad would do anything and everything to get it fixed."

A few feet away, Mike smirked. Let's hope you're right. He pulled back into the thicket, making sure not to make noise. He bumped into Test on accident, knocking the big man backwards and accidentally stepping on a pile of dried leaves. A loud crunch reverberated through the trees.

"Did you hear something?" Lisa whispered.

Lilian shrugged, not wanting to deal with her friend's overactive imagination. "It was probably an animal."

As the words left Lilian's mouth, another sound rang out through the thick mass of trees. This time, though, the girls froze briefly before swinging their heads around simultaneously.

"Don't any of you move," Mike said softly, aiming a gun at the ladies.

"Yeah," Test added, standing menacingly next to the former employee of WWE Technology.

"Mike?… Andrew?" Stephanie asked hesitantly. "What are you guys doing?"

"Getting revenge," Mike replied. Seeing the confused look on Stephanie's face, he laughed mirthlessly. "I guess Daddy didn't tell you?"

"Tell me what?" Stephanie glanced at her friends who were staring at her, wide-eyed.

"What's going on?" Lilian finally asked.

Mike smiled pleasantly at the three. "What's about to happen is I'm going to put a bullet through you two's," – he gestured to Lisa and Lilian – "pretty little heads. And you," – to Stephanie, "you're coming with me."

He turned to direct Test. In one quick second, all three girls jumped up and started running. In the opposite direction of their camp.


"So what's goin' on with you and Lil?" Dave asked Shawn.

Shawn sighed as he finished zippering up the now complete tent. "I don't know… we fight a lot now. I really don't understand her sometimes."

"Well, dude, you know she is under a lot of stress with her album and all," Paul said, tossing some sticks into the unlit campfire.

"I know," Shawn replied. "I just… I feel like she doesn't love me sometimes."

Dave smirked, shaking his head as he asked, "You and Lilian, not in love? I think hell would freeze over first!"

Shawn chuckled slightly, glancing at his watch. "Speaking of the girls, they've been gone awhile."

Paul shrugged as he attempted to light the fire. "They're females. They're probably gossiping and got distracted by a butterfly or something…"

Just as Shawn went to agree, all three jerked their heads in the direction of a high pitched scream and a gunshot.