In the arena Paul was in his dressing room dialing Stephanie's Greenwich house to see if she was there suddenly someone picked up the phone and Stephanie's voice came on the line 'I'm sorry that I can't take your call at the moment so if you'll leave your message, name and number after the beep I'll get back to you' Paul sighed and hung up.

Kevin walked into the locker room just in time to see Paul throw his phone across the room, "damn Paul is that any way to treat your phone, it has feelings too."

Paul just looked at Kevin like he lost his mind.

Kevin sat down by the side of Paul, "are you alright?"

Shaking his head he had to resist the desire to be snarky in his response, "Steph's not answering her cell phone, she's not answering at home and she has taken an unknown amount of time off work, yeah I'm just grand thank you."

"Steph's taken time off work? It's got to be bad. How did you find this out? Did Vince volunteer the information?"

Paul nodded, "yep, Vince voluntarily told me that my fiancé or ex-fiancé whatever she is went to him in the middle of the night and told him she needed a break so Vince gave her the time off figuring I knew all about it and I don't even know where she's gone. Kev I'm scared, what if she does something stupid?"

Kevin put his hand on Paul's shoulder trying to reassure him, "I'm sure she wouldn't do anything stupid Paul, she's a sensible woman she just needs a break I'm sure. Why don't we forget about this and go and practice in the ring for a bit?"

Paul shrugged and picked his cell phone back up and they walked down to the ring.

Kevin and Paul were working out in the ring when Chris Irvine came down, "hey guys, do you mind if I join in please?"

Kevin shrugged and said, "the more the merrier."

Chris slid in the ring, "hey Kev how about we double team Paul to try and cheer him up? Anyway Paul where is your personal cheer squad? Steph normally loves watching you work out, in her words 'I just love my man looking all hot and sweaty when he works out'."

"She's not here."

Chris rolled his eyes ,"duh, I'm not stupid I can see that."

Paul got mad and backed Chris up into the corner and shouted in his face, "I TOLD YOU SHE'S NOT HERE, NOW BACK OFF."

Kevin quickly got in-between them both incase anything happened when Paul's cell rang, he immediately dived out of the ring to answer it, "Steph? . . . oh hi Mom."

Paul then signaled to the guys that he was going to take the phone call elsewhere so Chris turned to Kevin, "alright spill, what on earth is going on? Paul looks like his favourite pet just died, Stephanie hasn't been seen all day, Paul gets mad at the mention of her whereabouts and then his cell rings and he dives to answer it thinking it's her."

Sighing Kevin slid down in the corner of the ring, "Steph's taken time off."

Chris shrugged, "that's nice, but how does that account for Paul's mood?"

Frowning Kevin hated having to explain this, "don't tell anybody but she upped and left him in the middle of the night. Last night they went to bed together this morning he woke up to find a letter from her saying she was leaving, Paul then went to Vince who told him that Stephanie had gone to see him in the middle of the night asking for time off and no one knows where she is and she isn't answering her phone."

Chris was shocked as it was definitely not the behaviour of the Stephanie he knew, "that's not like Steph, I feel bad for Paul though as it is obvious how much he adores her. Has he tried Linda or Shane?"

Kevin shrugged, "I don't think so; I'll suggest that to him. I'd better go and see how he's doing though, please don't tell anybody what's going on."

"I won't, bye."

Kevin walked off to go and check up on Paul.

Paul was sat in his locker room looking at photos of her and them together when Kevin walked in, "what are you my babysitter? You don't need to hang around me all of the time I won't do anything stupid you know."

Kevin sighed, "Paul I know, I just want to help you alright? Have you tried talking to Linda or Shane about her whereabouts?"

Paul suddenly was full of life, "perfect, thanks Kev."

Paul picked up his phone and dialled Shane's number, "hey man it's Paul how are you? . . . Good I'm glad, okay I'll cut to the chase, have you heard from Stephanie lately? . . . You spoke to her last night? . . . What did she say? . . . So you have no idea where she is right now then? . . . Alright thanks man, it was worth a try, take care of yourself . . . I will, bye."

Paul hung up and turned to Kevin, "Shane spoke to Steph last night and she sounded fine and mentioned nothing about taking time off."

Kevin shrugged, "it was worth a try, are you going to try Linda? You know how close those two are."

Paul sighed, "not right now; I need to go over my match with Rob for later."

For the rest of the afternoon and evening Paul was on tenterhooks, every time his phone rang he was hoping it was Steph but it wasn't. Once Paul had had his match and the show was over Vince went up to him and said, "are you coming to Smackdown? We could always use your expertise there."

Paul thought for a minute and realised he hadn't talked to Linda and he could go back to Greenwich and check out Steph's house and talk to Linda at the same time so made a decision, "no I'm not, I told you I'm going to find out where Steph is and that is exactly what I'm going to do tomorrow."

Vince sighed, "Paul, what if she doesn't want to talk to you or even see you? She hasn't rung you today has she?"

Shaking his head Paul hadn't but he wished he had, "Vince I can't let her do this, I love her."

"If you love her you'll give her the space she obviously wants, think about it will you?"

Paul sighed, "I don't know that she does want space, all I got was that letter from her. Vince I have to find out where I stand, it's killing me."

Raking his fingers through his hair there was nothing Vince could say to make him see sense, "alright then, but promise me you won't force her to do anything she doesn't want to do and if she says she wants some space you'll give it to her."

Paul nodded, "I promise you, as long as it comes from her mouth I will do whatever she wants me to do but I need to see her and hear her say it."

Nodding his head he understood that, "good luck then, I think you'll need it."

Paul picked up his bag and headed for the airport, he had a long flight ahead of him.