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I woke up at almost 10 o'clock the next day, having finally fallen asleep for good at almost 4 in the morning. Kaitlyn was already up and doing her hair in the mirror. "Hey, girl. Me, Layla, and AJ are going to spend the day shopping and then dinner. Do you want to come with us?" she smiled. It was Wednesday and we all had the day off. I nodded and smiled "shopping sounds good.". I got out of the bed and walked to the bathroom to get ready when Kaitlyn did a double take on me. "What?" I asked, curiously. She put down the curling iron in her hand and looked at my face. "You had nightmares again last night, didn't you?" I nodded, she frowned "you wanna talk about it?" I shook my head, "not really.". I escaped her gaze and got ready for the day. I took a shower, brushed my teeth, and put on a pair of black leggings, a peach off the shoulder sweater and brown knee high boots. I fixed a few curls in my hair that had come undone and put on a little make up. I grabbed my purse and sunglasses and we left.

We shopped for so long that I was glad when we finally sat down at a local steak house. "So what's it like working for the shield, Em?" asked Layla, "I like it. I haven't had a storyline in so long, I'm excited to see where this goes. Being a heel has always been in my nature. What better group of people to be a heel with then the three baddest superstars in the WWE right now?" "Yea, you where such a badass when you where in developmental." said Kaitlyn, I laughed "you would know since you just happened to be my first victim.". That's how me and Kaitlyn also became best friends. She had asked if I could teach her some of my moves since she was kind of new to wrestling at that point, whereas I had been on a few Indy promotions before I had gotten signed with the WWE 5 years ago, when I was 20, and I had agreed to help her out. "Have you thought about switching up your gear to match the guys?" asked AJ, "hmm, no I haven't but that's a good idea. My gear is a little to bright at times. I'll stop by Miss Sandra's room and see if she could whip something up for me.". Knowing the seamstress she could whip up something amazing in minutes. When we got back to the hotel me and Kaitlyn found the seamstresses room. "Hello, ladies. What can I do for you?" Sandra smiled, when she opened the door. "Hi, Miss Sandra, I was just wondering if you could whip up some new gear for me. My current gear doesn't really establish me as the 'Shield Girl'." I smiled "of course." she said, moving aside to let the two of us in. We sat together and came up with 3 new outfits for me to start wearing on Monday. Black pants with a black cropped tank top that had triangle cut outs on the sides, black shorts with a cropped black t-shirt and special op vest, and the last one was a pair of two toned shorts (half black and half royal blue) with a cropped Shield t-shirt. Sandra said she would start on it and it would be ready for Monday Night Raw, we thanked her, and left.

Once we got back to our room it was almost nine o'clock. We decided to watch a movie, our favorite, The Simpson's Movie. I fell asleep before the movie finished, exhausted.

*Roman's P.O.V*

Me and the guys spent our day off relaxing in the hotel room me and Dean shared. Since there was three of us, we rotated every hotel. Two would room together while the other got a single room. Seth had the single room this time around. We spent time playing cards, then video games. By the time midnight came, the three of us decided to call it a night. Seth wished us a good night and went back to his room. Me and Dean got ready for bed and wished each other a good night. I heard Deans snores fill the room 10 minutes later. Me, on the other hand, didn't fall asleep so quickly.

Seth's words from yesterday still rang in my head, you look at her like she is the one person you would go to the ends of the world to protect. Would I go to the ends of the world to protect Emma? There was something about the blue eyed girl that kept her running through his mind. She was beautiful, there was no doubt about it, but he had to focus on fighting his ex-girlfriend, Caroline, to continue on seeing his 3 year old daughter, Sophia. Caroline had broken up with him two and a half years ago for another guy she had met. She had left me heartbroken for a while and the only thing that had kept my spirits up was wrestling and 3 months later I had gotten scouted by the company and they sent me to developmental. I picked myself up, went to court and demanded visitation rights for Sophia and I had started paying child support. Everything was going just fine, I would see Sophia whenever I had a few days off from the road, and I would make my payments on time. But two months ago I had gotten a call from the Pensacola court house saying that Caroline had wanted to stop my visitation rights and more money. I had gone back to Pensacola whenever I had the chance, and I was still fighting it. It wasn't easy trying to set a court date that worked for me, Caroline, and the judge. I finally fell asleep around 2 in the morning but it was restless.

By the time I woke up again it was only 8 in the morning, I sighed. Knowing I wouldn't be able to go back to sleep again I got ready for the day in jeans, a t-shirt, and sneakers. I grabbed my key card, wallet, and phone and left. I needed to go for a walk so I decided I would get me and the guys breakfast before we left to the next state for a few house shows.

*Emma's P.O.V*

I woke up at 8:30 and Kaitlyn was still sleeping. I got up and put on some workout clothes. I wanted to use the punching bag that was in the gym downstairs. I grabbed a paper and pen and wrote Kaitlyn a note, Went downstairs to the gym. Be back before 10:30. - E. I sat it on her phone where I knew she would see it and grabbed my key card, phone, and headphones. I went across the street to grab a small breakfast before I began. I sat in a corner table, eating a fruit salad and checking my schedule for the next week. I had house shows today, tomorrow, and Saturday, along with a photo shoot Saturday morning with Dean, Seth, and Roman. I had the day off on Sunday, Raw on Monday, Smackdown on Tuesday, day off on Wednesday, Autograph session on Thursday, again with Seth, Dean, and Roman, then the same on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

I threw out my trash and headed back to the hotel and went to the gym. I put my headphones on and began playing my workout play list, before I started I decided to tape my hands. It wasn't long after I started using the punching bag that I got lost in my thoughts. It had been a month and 4 days since I left Jack. I didn't miss him, but he scared the hell out of me. At any point the McMahon's could decide to bring him back. The Dirt Sheets doesn't know about any of this but the rumor mill would start spinning soon if it hasn't began already. I also knew that when and if he comes back, he'll come after me again, and he would go after my friends also if the mood struck him. Especially Roman, Dean, and Seth. There was a pang in my chest, Roman. I liked him and he was usually on my mind. But there was something there…you couldn't see it if you weren't paying attention, but I had noticed. He was a person with his own demons. I wouldn't bagger him about it of course. It wasn't my place and besides, if he wanted me to know about it he would tell me.

I headed back to the room earlier then I said I would to get ready to travel to South Carolina. Kaitlyn was finishing up getting ready so I took a quick shower and got dressed in jean shorts and a pink t-shirt with pink gladiators. I put my hair in a bun and made sure everything was packed. I volunteered to drive the whole way, it would be about 3-4 hours but I didn't mind it. Layla and AJ had left earlier, both of them having different events to attend to, so it was only me and Kaitlyn. "Do you have a match tonight?" she asked, I shrugged "I don't know, I haven't seen the card. I'm probably just going with the guys, and if I do have a match, it'll be against Nattie. Do you have a match?" " No idea, I doubt it now that my storyline with AJ is done. Creative hasn't been able to come up with anything else for me yet." "I hope they find something for you soon. Go to creative see if they can come up with a storyline to bring the chick busters back together. Or better yet, maybe we could feud again?" I said, trying to suggest ideas. She thought about it for a moment, "I'll talk to creative on Monday see if they can whip something up for me. Their all about the Total Divas girls now." "I know. Have you met the newbies?", she nodded "yea, I have. Have you?" "No." I shook my head. "Eva, the red head, she's to cocky for her own good. She's not here cause she wants to be. She's here to get her name out there. I'm surprised Nikki and Brie haven't gotten into a fight with her yet. She's been hitting on John, and she's been rubbing her Maxim shoot in their faces, and all of our faces to, for that matter. She's been saying how she's going to taking the Bella's spot soon." Kaitlyn said, rolling her eyes, I snorted "Nikki and Brie have already done Maxim. It's not like she's the only person in WWE to ever grace the cover of that magazine. As for hitting on John? Isn't she engaged?" "she sure is. As for JoJo, she's a sweetheart, you'll like her. She has talent and you can tell she wants to be here. She's young, only 19, but she's getting the hang of how things work around here pretty quickly, everyone likes her. She has decided to spend more time training at the performance center so she doesn't travel with us often. Only if she has something Total Divas related. She sang the National Anthem at Summerslam and she nailed it." "hmm, good for her. Let me guess, Eva chooses to spend more of her time traveling with us?" "yea and Creative likes it. They think she's more of a star then JoJo is." Kaitlyn snorted "Oh well at least JoJo will actually learn something unlike Eva." I shrugged "Very true. I guess we'll see how they work out." "I guess so.".

We decided to head straight to the arena instead of checking in to our hotel. Turns out that I did have a match and it was against Nattie again. I walked with Kaitlyn to our locker room and put my gear on. I used the black shorts with the royal blue top today along with my black ring sneakers. I let my hair down from its bun so it cascaded down in waves. All three guys where coming with me to my match so I left the locker room to stretch and meet up with them.