I had absolutely no intention of writing a second part to this story, it was meant to be a one shot and that would be it but I received so many requests for a second part I felt like I should give you what you wanted so here it is, enjoy :) P.s. This really is the end of it :D

Somehow Paul and Stephanie had managed to get through their scenes for Smackdown with no practise as Stephanie had refused point blank to be alone with him or even to talk to him outside of their scenes because she had barely slept and just couldn't deal with it.

After the Smackdown taping Paul had to fly across the country to do some promotion for the next pay per view that was coming up at the weekend and he figured the space would do himself and Stephanie some good, it might help her come to her senses and realise how much she had overreacted.

Sitting down heavily on the bed in his new hotel room he was just about to lay back and relax when the phone started to ring. Pulling it out of his pocket he just answered it, "yes?"

"You were meant to call me yesterday."

His eyes widened in panic, "shit, I forgot. With everything that's happened I completely forgot, I'm so sorry Lynn."

Concerned for her brother as he never normally forgot important things like this she pushed him, "it's okay, I went ahead and tentatively booked the restaurant and they said I had until the end of the week to confirm so you'll live. What happened?"

Groaning the last thing he intended to do was admit the truth but before he knew it it spilled out of his mouth, "confirm the restaurant, it was just that my girlfriend dumped me on Monday."

"You had a girlfriend?! Jesus Paul, how long have you kept her from us?"

Gulping he stood up, "just six months."

Surprised by that she couldn't help the level of her voice raising, "six months?! Now you need to start explaining things because you don't normally keep your long term girlfriends a secret. Why did she dump you?"

"Because I didn't want anybody to know about us."

It all made sense now, "no wonder she dumped your stupid ass, you broke her heart. Who was she that you were so afraid of telling anyone about her?"

Rolling his eyes he walked over to the sliding door and opened it walking out onto the balcony, "it was Steph. Don't dramatise it by saying I broke her heart, she knew what she was getting in to when she got with me."

"You dated the boss' daughter for six months, you refused to tell anyone about your relationship and then you wonder why she dumped you? Seriously Paul let me lay this on the line for you. Your now ex girlfriend put everything on the line for you and then you, in her mind, waste six months of her life dating her but yet you refuse to tell anybody that you are with her. More than likely she has fallen in love with you and every day you refuse to tell a single person about her it breaks her heart just that little bit more because she feels that you are ashamed of her, she feels that you are using her to work your way up the ladder and then she can't take it anymore so she tells you where to stick your relationship."

As he listened to his sister speak it actually made some sense, "wait, you think she dumped me because she felt like I was ashamed of our relationship?"

"I don't just think it, I would be willing to put money on it."

Paul groaned, "so in summary, my anxiety and stubbornness has basically ruined my relationship."

Thinking it over carefully before she responded she wasn't sure what he thought, "well that kind of depends on how you really feel about her."

"I love her a lot. Why? What are you trying to say?"

She wanted to shake her brother he was so stupid sometimes, "if you love her a lot and if you really want to be with her then I am sure you could win her back but you'd have to do everything you have been reluctant to do and that is tell people about you."

The thought of telling people was far from appealing to him, "she'll come around to my way of thinking."

Rolling her eyes she wasn't going to waste any more time on him, "you keep telling yourself that but when she doesn't don't come running to me."

Hanging up the phone she had better things to do than waste her time explaining the many reasons why he was a complete and utter idiot.

Surprised by the silence in his ear he looked at his phone to see that she had hung up on him, "charming." Sliding his phone back into his pocket he just enjoyed the view.

After surviving Smackdown Stephanie went home and had to go straight back to work in the office which was nice for her, it gave her a break from her thoughts as she had other things that she had to think about.

She was so wrapped up in her work that she didn't notice the time until there was a knock at the door and she looked up to see her Mom with her head around the door, "hi Mom."

Linda smiled at her daughter, "hi. I wondered if you wanted to do lunch today? I said we would do lunch this week and well I could do with getting out of here for a while."

The thought of getting out of there worked for her, "sounds good to me, let me save this work and we can leave."

Saving her work she got up and pulled on her jacket and picked up her bag before they left to go and get some lunch.

Twenty minutes later and they were sat with their meals in front of them discussing everything but her recent break up.

She didn't want to bring it up but Linda didn't have much of a choice, "so your Dad came home last night and expressed concern for you. I tried to explain it to him without mentioning names or telling him either that it was Paul or that they worked for the WWE. Your Dad thought Paul had something to do with it so I just told him that Paul was in the wrong place at the wrong time and it was an unfortunate coincidence and I think he bought it but I can't be sure."

Sighing she speared some lettuce with her fork in annoyance, "I hope he bought it, the last thing I want to do is admit to my Dad that I dated a wrestler behind his back for six months and that wrestler broke my heart because he was too ashamed of me to tell anyone about us, he would kill Paul."

Laughing softly Linda knew her daughter spoke the truth, "he might not but you're right, he probably will. Do you think there is any hope for you and Paul?"

Shrugging her shoulders she played with the food on her plate, "I don't know. I do love him, I just can't be his secret any longer."

"So if he told people then you would take him back?"

Quick to jump in she didn't want to give her Mom the wrong idea, "I might take him back. It's not just about telling people, I don't even care if he only told his family and was happy for you guys to know, I just don't want to be forced into staying in really dirty motels just so he won't be seen with me. Can we not talk about him though please? I have cried enough tears already this week that I really don't want to cry any more, especially as I have to see him from Sunday rather than just from Monday next week."

Not wanting to upset her daughter she changed the subject and they had a nice lunch together.

Ever since he had spoken to his sister on Wednesday Paul had thought about what she had said and every night he went to bed his mind drifted to Stephanie as normally they'd speak at least once a day and normally texted throughout the day and he hadn't had that all week and he missed it.

Arriving at the arena for the pay per view he stared at his phone as he sat in his car, he knew he shouldn't do it but he couldn't stop himself:

I miss you xx

Having arrived early with her Dad Stephanie had thrown herself into work and was actually really enjoying it because her Dad was allowing her more freedom and giving her more responsibility because he was in his own special way trying to help her get through the break up. When her cell phone vibrated she figured it was her Dad with more instructions but as she looked at the screen and saw it was actually from her ex-boyfriend she almost didn't read the text but was intrigued so read it. Rolling her eyes at the text she shook her head muttering, "you had the chance, you blew it."

Vince had gone to check up on Stephanie to see how she was going and approached from behind just in time to hear her talking to herself, "everything okay?"

Jumping at the sound of her Father's voice she nearly dropped her phone but barely kept hold of it as she turned to face him, "yeah. My ex just sent me a text telling me he missed me, he has no right to miss me."

Shaking his head Vince was not impressed, "well he lost the right to miss you the minute he was stupid enough to keep you a secret. Enough about him though, how are you going?"

Smiling she nodded her head, "good. I'm nearly done with everything you asked me to do but I'm going to go and finish it off before everyone arrives so if you'll excuse me."

Walking off she had a check list to complete and she was going to do it, she was going to prove she was responsible.

Turning the corner she groaned when she saw Paul stood in front of her but kept her head low and focussed on the clipboard in her hand.

Stood in the corridor responding to his Mom's text he lifted his head just in time to see Stephanie walking towards him, "Steph."

Pausing briefly she looked up at him, "yes?"

Looking around nervously he blurted out, "did you get my text?"

Rolling her eyes she nodded her head, "yes. Is it supposed to change something? If so it doesn't. Paul you can't click your fingers and expect me to come back to you just because you miss me. I didn't dump you because you weren't paying me any attention, I dumped you because I didn't want to be your secret and nothing has changed so nothing between us has changed."

Not bothering to wait for him to respond she just walked off. She had surprised herself by managing to keep it together but she had barely kept it together so she had no idea how she would deal with the show later.

Watching her walk away his thoughts came back to what his sister had said about probably only winning her back by telling people about them. He didn't know if he could do it or how he would go about doing it but he was going to think about it because the more he saw her the more he realised that he didn't want to live without her.

Keeping herself busy with work she hadn't had a chance to dwell on what Paul had said and was enjoying every single moment of not having to think about him or see him as she was too busy but her Dad had called a company wide meeting for every single person that was there at the pay per view today and she had to be there and she knew he would be there too.

Walking down to ringside her Dad pulled her aside, "I want you to stand with me. If you're eventually going to run the company then you need to start stepping up in these meetings."

Nodding her head instead of sitting down she stood next to her Dad as he addressed everybody.

As soon as he had finished talking Vince threw the floor open for questions about what he had just announced, "does anybody have anything they wish to say on the matter?"

Paul was sat there barely listening to what Vince was saying as his full attention was on Stephanie and he knew he had really fucked things up by forcing her to keep quiet about their relationship. When he heard Vince ask if anybody had anything to say he knew this was completely the wrong thing to say but his sister's words were playing on his mind so he raised his hand, "I do."

About ready to dismiss everybody Vince opened his mouth to tell them to leave when Paul raised his hand, "go ahead Paul."

Taking a deep breath he stood up, "I know this is changing the subject but whilst everybody is here I wanted to tell everyone that I am very much in love with Stephanie. We dated for six months before she dumped me recently but I don't want to give up on her just yet, my love for her is strong and I don't want to live without her."

Vince's eyes widened as there were murmurings amongst the wrestlers as they began to discuss the developments, "everybody is dismissed except Stephanie and Paul, I want to see you both in my office right now."

Groaning she could kill her ex-boyfriend, he couldn't just let things go, he had to open his fat mouth and tell the entire company. Silently following her Dad to his office she knew she was going to get shouted at now.

Entering his office Vince took a seat behind his desk and waited for them both to join him and the door to be shut before he spoke. As soon as they were sat down he said, "so who cares to explain what's going on?"

Glaring at her ex-boyfriend the pleasure could be all his, "I think Paul can explain because half the story I don't know."

Paul knew that if he was going to have any hope of restarting his relationship with Stephanie and of gaining Vince's approval he would have to be totally honest, "Stephanie and I began dating six months and one week ago and we split up six days ago because I refused to tell anybody about us and I refused to be seen with her outside of work. Since we split up I realised that I was stupid and ridiculous for not wanting to tell everybody that I was with her and that I love her so I figured if I had any chance of winning her back I would have to tell people and I just kind of thought that was a good point to tell people."

Vince looked at his daughter, "Stephanie?"

Shrugging her shoulders she leant back in her chair, "yes we dated for six months, yes I dumped him on Monday, everything else I can't comment on."

Looking at his daughter he tried to gauge her reaction and he really couldn't, "Paul can we have a moment together and then you can come back in?"

Nodding his head he got up from his seat and walked outside to wait.

As soon as they were alone Vince leant on his desk and stared right at his daughter, "what's going on? Why are you cutting yourself off emotionally?"

She had no idea that her Dad would realise, "because I love him, because it hurt to break up with him and now I don't want to allow myself to be hurt again if he is just doing this to get me back and if he doesn't really want to do it."

Pushing his chair back Vince stood up, "I think this is a conversation the two of you need to have but just know that if you do choose to give him a second chance I think you could do a lot worse than him."

Looking at her Dad in surprise that was the last thing she expected him to say, "really?"

Smiling softly he pressed a kiss to the top of her head, "it may be against my rules but I can see how much you care about him so I will allow it but if he hurts you again I will kill him."

Opening the office door he stepped outside, "you may go in and talk to Stephanie. Hurt her and I will kill you."

Walking off he left them to sort it out between themselves while he continued with his work.

Entering the office again Paul shut the door before he took a seat in the chair next to her again, "so your Dad told me to come back in."

Sighing softly she turned in her seat to look at him, "why did you pull that stunt out there?"

Turning his chair around so he could look at her face on he sighed, "because I love you, because I was an absolute idiot to expect you to keep it a secret when really I should have been shouting it out loud that I was the luckiest man alive to have you. I realise that it probably looks suspicious but I spoke to my sister, she said I had probably broken your heart by keeping you a secret and if I wanted to win you back I would have to tell people, I don't think this is what she meant but I wanted to make a grand gesture to show you how serious I am about you."

Sighing heavily she leant forward on her thighs looking down at the floor, "so you're not ashamed of dating me?"

"No! God no Steph. You are beautiful, smart and just amazing and I am so lucky to have somebody like you interested in somebody like me. I'm not ashamed to beg but I will ask nicely first, will you please give me a second chance? I promise this time it will be very different."

Slowly lifting her head to look at him she eyed him suspiciously, "how different?"

A bit taken aback by her question it took him a moment for his brain to catch up, "uh . . . we'd stay in the hotel with all of the wrestlers, we could eat wherever you wanted and you could come and meet my family in a couple of weeks for my parent's surprise anniversary party? I don't know, how else do you want things to be different?"

He was saying all of the right things but she wasn't sure if it was just words and she didn't know how he could prove it to her.

He knew she didn't believe her, he could see it in her eyes and he didn't know what to do so he reached out and grabbed her hand tugging on it gently, "please?"

Allowing him to pull her to her feet she stepped closer to him as he continued to tug on her arm before he put his hands on her hips and she allowed him to lower her onto his lap, "I know you don't believe me right now and that's okay, just please give me a chance to prove myself to you."

Sitting stiffly on his lap she wouldn't allow herself to relax but hearing him practically beg she felt her heart soften a little towards him, "fuck it up and I will castrate you."

Laughing softly he slipped his arms around her waist and held her close, "I promise you I won't fuck it up this time, I've lost you once and won't do it again."

Sighing softly she allowed herself to relax against him and rest her head on his shoulder not quite going as far as to hold him but giving him hope, "you have one more chance and one more chance alone, you mess this one up and we're done for good."

Kissing the top of her head he knew he was lucky to have another chance with her as he knew how stubborn she was and he wasn't going to mess it up, "I swear I won't mess it up, I love you."

Closing her eyes she breathed in the scent of his cologne, "I love you too."

Vince had pretended to go and do some work but in truth he just wanted to hang around outside his office and listen to what was going on. He couldn't hear much of it but he could tell when things went quiet so when it did go quiet he gently pushed his office door open and little and peeked inside smiling a little seeing Stephanie cuddled up to him. Now he knew the truth everything from the past few months all made sense to him, he just hoped that they could recapture the happiness that they had because over the past week he had missed the smile on his daughter's face.