"Wow! Talk about an adrenaline rush!" Kaly exclaimed when she got backstage down the hallway with Zack. It was her first night going out to the ring with him, and she had so much excitement pulsing through her veins from the crowd.

"That crowd is on fire tonight!" Zack replied. He walked behind her, making sure she watched where she was going, and to make sure she wouldn't trip over anything.

"That was so amazing! I've never seen a crowd that big, I don't believe!" Kaly exclaimed, her bright hazel eyes met Zacks for a moment, and then for a minute, they smiled at each other, both breathing in the excitement of the air.

Zack felt something-he didn't know exactly what the feeling was-but it was one of nostalgia. One of those moments, where as quickly as you lost your thoughts, they were pulled straight back to you in a haze, and the insides of your stomach get warm and fuzzy, yet feel as they are going to fall out of you at the same time.

He didn't know how to feel, that he did feel these; and he knew he owed this feeling to the girl in front of him, Kaly. As her glance met his again, he wondered if she was feeling the same amount of excitement that he was feeling; the same feelings that they both used to feel, when the moments surrounding them were right there at the tips of their fingers, and all they had to do was reach out and grab them.

She grinned at him, and it was there. It was that grin, the one where she sighed in the middle of the grin, and he knew.

As quickly as he reached over to her, she was reaching out to him and pulled his face into hers, and it was as if nothing had ever changed from that time, years ago.

She knew, without a doubt, that if anyone could see them in the hallway right now, this would be horrible. Without a doubt, this was the one thing that pulsed through every nerve of her brain. However, this thought was quickly overthrowned by the level of natural serotonin and all of the other chemicals your brain sets off during moments of euphoric nostalgia.

They both pulled away from each other at the same time, eyes meeting.

"We probably shouldn't-" Kaly said.

"You're right. We probably shouldn't." Zack replied back.

Kaly nodded. "Well, I'm going to go to the dressing room, and change out of this." she laughed, motioning down to her threads that they found for her last minute debut. If she was to continue as being Zack's valet, even considering what had just happened, she'd have to get something different than what she was wearing right now.

Zack chuckled. "It looks good on you."

Kaly looked up into his face, his eyes gleaming towards her, and for a minute, she wanted to lose herself in that moment again. Knowing that she couldn't though, she thanked him and gave him a sheepish grin, walking down the hall.

He watched her walk away, disappearing into the locker room to the right, and he took two steps backwards and turned around. He almost ran right into Nikki Bella.

"Did I walk up on something? I see the new girl walk away and then you act like you have lost your train of thought. Don't fall already. It's much too soon for feelings to be caught."

He knew she meant well. And her saying 'much too soon' meant that she must not have known about the past they shared, the one that almost everyone else couldn't seem to let go of.

"Nikki, I..." he shook his head. "It's a long story. But, thanks for the concern. Good luck out there, not that you'll need it."

Nikki looked at him. "Ehhh...thank you?"

Nikki watched as he walked away down the hall to the men's dressing room.

"He's being weirder than normal."

John's big muscular arms came around her and he caught her cheek with a kiss and she smiled.

"Where did you come from?"

"Oh nowhere. I just saw you talking to the kid. Being as he has a valet tonight..and with it being someone he's been looking at, the way he's been looking at her.." his voice trailed. "Maybe I should talk to him."

Nikki looked at him, questioningly.

"I'll explain it all in the car later tonight. Right now, the only thing you should worry about is your match. Which of course you have nothing to worry about because you're going to do great."

She smiled and gave him her "I Love You" smile as she walked away to take her spot behind the curtain before her music hit.

John watched her walk away. Then his mind went to Zack. He loved what he had with Nikki. He wanted that for the young man. He wanted to believe, like Zack did, that Kaly was possibly that one. The past, however, spoke otherwise. He shook it off. People change. He had changed.

He walked down the hall. He had someone he needed to talk to.