Characters in this chapter: Shawn, Hunter, Stephanie McMahon
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Lack of Fairness
The next day, Shawn arrived at the arena in Sacramento, California for a house show a few hours early. He stormed into his locker room and slammed the door, believing that he shouldn't even be there in California, that he should be home in San Antonio, Texas with his family. The door flew open and Hunter walked in. "Whats going on with you, Shawn? You flew down the hallway and slammed the door!" Hunter tapped his foot on the floor, awaiting an answer from his best friend. "How'd you get here so fast? And there IS such thing as knocking, Trips!" Shawn pivoted on his right foot and looked up at Hunter who was a few inches taller than Shawn. "I want an answer, Shawn. Tell me whats making you so aggravated! Is it your self esteem or something?" Hunter suddenly looked uneasy. Shawn looked at Hunter for about a minute before answering, leaving them both in awkward silence. "...NO, Hunter! Its not my self esteem! My self esteem is just fine, thank you!" Shawn sat down in one of those steel foldable chairs and started choosing what attire he was going to wear to the ring. "I was just thinking it was your self esteem because you balding and kind of, well, aging, you know, I thought you might be kind of--" Shawn decided to cut in before Hunter ended his sentence.
"HUNTER! My age has nothing to do with this, thank you! And you're getting up there too!" Shawn pointed at Hunter with a stern look on his face. "Then what is your problem, man?" Hunter pulled up a chair in front of Shawn's and turned Shawn around in his seat, who was going to ignore him and continue picking out his ring attire. "Shawn, cut it out and tell me now." Hunter sat back in his chair. "My problem is that Vince told me that he was going to give me the week off so I can spend time with my family but yesterday he told me I was stuck on this stupid tour so now I can't see Rebecca and the kids when I told them I could, and because of that, Rebecca is mad at me!" Shawn tried to catch his breath as a result of his yelling and talking as fast as he could without it being not understandable. "Calm down. It happens to the best of us. Just ride it out and spend time with your family later." Hunter smirked and shrugged. "That's easy for you to say! Stephanie and your baby girl can travel with you! My family can't!" Shawn shook his head and grabbed a pair of wrestling boots, setting it next to a pair of jeans and a black t-shirt. "And what makes this even better is that even the lower carders got time off!"
"The lower carders got time off because Vince needs top stars to perform during the tour! Shawn, you've got to stop being so stubborn." Hunter got out of his chair, folded it and put it up against the wall beside his body. "Me?! Stubborn?! Of course, I have no reason to be stubborn, Hunter! I'm just the epitome of stubborness in the wrestling industry, aren't I?!" Shawn raised his voice, glaring at hunter. "Yeah, actually Shawn, I'm beginning to think you are! Just calm down and take things lightly for once!" Hunter stood up straight, not leaning against the wall anymore. "No! Not this, Hunter! How can I take this lightly? This is my family I'm talking about! Listen, if you can't help me, just leave." Shawn looked at Hunter, then to the door. Hunter looked at Shawn with an indignant look on his face, slammed the folded chair to the ground and left. Shawn mumbled and picked up the chair Hunter threw to the ground. Shawn turned around and tried clearing his mind. He already decided on what he was going to wear to the ring before his match, which was a pair of blue jeans, a black t-shirt, cowboy boots and his cowboy hat. "What to wear to the ring..." Shawn looked at all his wrestling gear. Shawn grabbed a red and black pair of leather pants, one of his promotional wrestling tee's and his wrestling boots and put them together.
"There..." Shawn looked at everything he set up and decided to change into what he was going to wear to the ring before the match. "An hour until showtime...great." Shawn started stretching out his back and his legs, hoping not to get injured. Stephanie McMahon knocked on Shawn's door lightly and walked in. Shawn looked up from stretching and stood up straight. "Yes?" He crossed his arms, still a little annoyed. "Shawn, you're getting sent home like you wanted for the tour. However, your little vacation isn't going to be a short one. I talked to my father about what the men in the locker room told me they saw, which was your little tirade around the halls, and he told me to tell you that today, Tuesday, June 10, 2008, you are suspended indefinitely." Stefanie McMahon shot Shawn a smile and walked out of Shawn's locker room. Shawn's jaw had dropped when he heard he was suspended indefinitely, he wanted to see his family but not if it meant coming closer to losing his career. He took a deep breath and called Rebecca. "Hello?" Rebecca answered the phone. "Hey honey, its me, Shawn. I'm calling to let you know that I'll be coming home either really late tonight or tomorrow." Shawn started changing into a suit while he was still on the phone with Rebecca. "Okay see you later, honey." Rebecca was about to hang up when Shawn stopped her. "Hey, wait! That's all you're going to say? I thought you would be happier than that."
Rebecca paused and responded, "I just don't know, Shawn. You're constantly changing plans on me, I just don't want to get my hopes up. Its too hard to recover from getting my hopes up and then just getting them torn away from me.". "Well, this time, I'm not changing my plans on you. Vince suspended me indefinitely because the guys in the locker room saw me storm into my locker room and slam the door, apparently I was 'tirading' around the halls. Anyway, I'll see you in a bit. Love you." Shawn smiled, wishing Rebecca can see the smile that was on his face. "Love you too, Shawn." Rebecca hung up the phone. Shawn tied up his tie, packed up his few bags and left the arena. It was raining in Calfornia too. Shawn looked up in the sky and smiled, his prayers answered. His limousine driver pulled over in front of the arena and Shawn got into the limo, on his way to the airport. Shawn looked out the window to his right to see that it was foggy and wrote, 'Shawn loves Becky' in the fog and put a heart around it.