Hunter and Ric were sat on the couch watching Randy get ready for his match later in the evening with Maven and they were discussing the match with Goldberg for Unforgiven, "so Champ what do you think will happen in the lead up to Unforgiven?"

Hunter shrugged, "no idea, I'm going to beat him though."

Ric and Randy both nodded then Ric said, "so what do you think Steph will say about you calling her Champion a 'Paper Champion'?"

Hunter sighed, "don't you ever give in? I thought you'd at least be happy for me that I have something else in my life, it isn't romantic but she is an awesome person and an awesome friend so can't you just leave it be?"

Ric shook his head, "she is the boss of the opposing show and with your fraternizing with her so if Bischoff finds out we will all be put under suspicion of jumping and he'll make our lives hell, do you want that?"

Hunter shook his head, "of course not, but quite frankly I don't give a damn what Eric thinks, it is my life and I'll do whatever I want and be friends with whoever I want and if that includes Stephanie then tough titty to him, the same goes for you two aswell. If you don't like it you know where the door is".

Ric and Randy then left for his match so Hunter took the opportunity to pack his stuff and head out back to the hotel so he wrote Ric a note saying where he'd gone and he'd see him next week.

At the hotel Stephanie was sat on the bed watching Raw but working at the same time when she heard a key in the slot so she turned her computer off and put it on the desk in the room as Hunter walked in and asked her, "did you have a nice evening?"

Stephanie just turned to him and glared.

Hunter placed his bag on the floor, "I'll take that as a no, what's wrong?"

She shook her head, "what's wrong? You want to know what's wrong?"

He just nodded ufrther angering her, "maybe the fact that a guy that I thought was a friend went out onto Raw live tonight and called the Champion of my show a 'Paper Champion', why did you do that?"

Hunter sighed, "it was for effect, people are supposed to hate me so what better way for them to hate me than to take a dig at the opposing champion that they all love? I didn't mean it at all, Kurt's a great athlete and he is really brave and I respect him."

Stephanie nodded, "alright then, you're forgiven."

He smiled and flopped down on the second bed in the room, "why thank you Princess, I'm so glad I'm forgiven. So what's happening on Raw?"

"Shane's fighting Jericho at the moment."

Hunter nodded, "well come and join me then and we can watch the end together."

Stephanie nodded and joined him on his bed and they watched the end of Raw together.

It was now 3am and Hunter hadn't slept a wink as he couldn't stop thinking about Ric and whether he was right about being friends with Stephanie was wrong but he was also thinking about how much fun he had had with Stephanie over the past two days and how he hadn't had that much fun in ages so he was watching her sleep while lost in his own world.

Stephanie could feel eyes on her and it was kind of disturbing so she opened her eyes and saw Hunter wide awake staring at her, "what wrong Hunter? Can't sleep?"

Hunter jolted out of where he was at the sound of Stephanie's voice, "yup, there are a lot of things running through my mind right now and I just can't sleep. You look very peaceful and angelic when you sleep, I'd forgotten how much so."

She blushed, "why thank you, you should get some sleep though, you look like you could do with it."

He nodded, "I've tried but it's not happening for me tonight."

Stephanie moved over a bit in her bed and opened up the one side of the covers, "come here then, maybe you'll go to sleep with a nice calming influence like me next to you."

Hunter smiled, "I can hope, thanks."

He got up and climbed into Stephanie's bed while she snuggled up next to him.

On Tuesday they went their separate ways as she had to go and prepare for Smackdown on Thursday night and he went home to rest for a couple of days but they were still in contact over the phone.

On Thursday Stephanie had been working non stop when there was a knock at the door and in walked a delivery man with a gorgeous bunch of flowers, "I'm looking for a Stephanie McMahon."

She nodded, "that'd be me."

The delivery guy moved closer with the flowers and placed them on her desk, "these flowers are for you so if you'd like to sign here for them I can be on my way and let you get back to work."

Stephanie smiled and nodded, "thank you." She signed the paper and he left.

Once the delivery guy had left shee got the card out of the flowers and opened it to read:

Dear Stephanie,

Thank you for this week it has been really nice and I have enjoyed myself immensely, more so than in a long time, I hope you've enjoyed yourself to. I just wanted to send you these flowers and cheer you up and to ask if you'd like to go out to dinner with me soon.

Best wishes

Hunter

Stephanie sat back in her chair with the card in her hand thinking, 'why did I lie to him again? I've missed out on all of this.'

She then picked up her phone and dialed his number and after three rings he picked up, "what's up Princess?"

Stephanie smiled, "how did you know it was me?"

"I was using Caller id to screen my calls as I don't want to talk to Ric, so what can I do for you?"

She started playing with the card in her hand, "I just called to say thank you for the flowers, they're gorgeous, but you didn't have to do that."

He smiled, "I'm glad you liked them, so will you go out to dinner with me then?"

Sh chuckled, "who's impatient now? I will go out to dinner with you though, even if you can be a bit impatient sometimes. When is best for you?"

He sat back on the couch, "how about say Saturday night at 8?"

"Sure, that sounds good to me, will you pick me up or will we meet at the restaurant?"

"I'll pick you up of course, as the gentleman does."

"Sounds good to me. I've got to go and get back to work now, I'll see you Saturday."

"Of course Princess, give them hell tonight."

"Bye Hunter."

"Bye Steph."

Once Stephanie had hung up the phone she realized what she'd just done 'oh my God, I've just made dinner plans with my ex husband who I didn't speak civilly to for 18 months. What have I done?'