Chapter Ten: Have A Good Time

A/N: Dude, did you see Shawn Monday (04/07/08)? He was like, really hardcore.

Ugh, and I HATE Batista for what he said. I mean, I already hated him, but I hate him even more now. He's such a prick!

Oh and ahahahahaha Jericho says 'sorry' wierd.

Sorry. Just thought I'd say something about it.

Review.

'Shortie had them apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur, the whole club lookin' at her...'

Courtney's entrance theme, 'Low' by Flo Rida came on and everyone went crazy. Lights flickered back and forth like strob lights as the young lady came out.

"The following match is a Diva tag-team match!" Lilian announced. "Arriving to the ring from Yonkers, New York weighing in at 125 lbs -- Courtney!"

'...She hit the floor, next thing you know, shortie got low, low, low low...' the song continued.

Courtney preformed a dance move where she popped her ass down to the ground. She knew the fans loved that. Especially the males. But Courtney wasn't about impressing the males' with her lustful moves, but more what she could do in the ring. Once she got up, she shot up to her feet and threw her pointer finger in the air. Like a Trish Stratus-esque way.

Her music lowered, and Courtney waited at the front of the right. Valerie's song came on next.

'They said 'Oh, teenagers scare, the living s-- out of me. They could care less, unless someone'll bleed...'

And as Valerie flashed her sexy pose, a pair of red fireworks shot off.

'So darken your clothes, or strike a violent pose. May be they'll leave you alone, but not me!'

"And her tag team partner, Valerie!" Lilian continued. The other two women, Candice and Mickie James we're already in the ring. So now, it was time to battle. Valerie walked up to her friend and gave her a high five. The both of them entered into the ring and the match began.

"I like this two women, a lot King. They have great chemistry in the ring." said J.R. "Don't you agree?"

"Yes, they are very smooth and talented in the ring." King replied. "That new girl, Courtney is doing very well for herself."

"I agree with that statement as well." J.R. replied.

Courtney was first to be in the ring against Candice Michelle. The two of them circled the ring like two wolves. They began to slowly approach each other, holding out their hands to grapple. But Candice had something else planned. She pulled a trick on Courtney as she shook her head and smacked her, right in the face. Courtney then just smiled after it and then preformed a neck breaker on Candice.

"And Candice Michelle goes down by a neck breaker by Courtney!" J.R. exclaimed.

Courtney tagged in Valerie with a smug look on her face. Valerie smiled back, excited and pumped to get her hands on Candice, herself. Valerie swiftly adjusted herself through the ropes and into the ring. She grabbed Candice up by her thick, dark hair. Valerie rammed her into one of the turn buckles. Candice bounced back and fell to the mat. Valerie started punching her as she lied there. Mickie James then came in and flung her off of her tag-team partner. That's when Courtney came in and attacked her back for coming after Valerie. The ref eventually broke the girls up and told Courtney and Mickie to go back to their corners. Courtney held up her hands in defense as she backed up, slowly. She get back outside of the ring and waited to be tagged in.

The match continued on only for more than a couple minutes. And then it was over, the winners were announced.

"And here are your winners, Courtney and Valerie!"

"Whoo, that was a good match!" Courtney cheered to herself, feeling victorious.

"Yeah, it was!!" Valerie cheered, as well.

They were coming out of the back doors of the arena, but as they stepped one foot out of the building, cheering and screaming went on. It was fans.

There was a group of fans behind a few bodyguards that were going wild. Valerie spotted a certain familiar diry blonde man and nudged her friend.

"Hey, Shawn, at one o'clock." she alerted her.

Courtney looked up. Shawn was by the crowd, practically engulfed in the fans, signing one autograph, giving out hugs, and taking pictures with them one at a time. She smiled as she saw him.

"Be right back." she said to Valerie.

She jogged over to Shawn and the group of fans and joined him in autograph signing. Courtney grabbed the nearest paper and pen of a fan and wrote down her autograph.

"Hey." she said over to Shawn.

He knew he was by her, and replied. "Hey, you ready?"

"Yeah, I am." she replied. "I can't wait, I'm so excited."

She smiled as she saw the joy in Shawn's eyes that she was excited. She knew that he was happy to hear that Courtney wanted to see Arizona. And after signing the autographs for fans and saying her good-byes to Valerie and the others, the two RAW Superstars headed down to the airport.

"You're kidding?"

"No, I'm sorry, sir, but that's the last available time until tomorrow."

"Okay, okay, fine. We'll take it." Shawn said, impatiently to the lady at the counter. He gave her some money to her and bought two tickets. When he was finished, he looked over at Courtney. "There's no plane to Phoenix until three AM."

A splash of disappointment came over Courtney's face. "Are you serious? Oh, man. What're we going to do?"

"I already bought the tickets, so, we're gonna have to go." he informed her. "Let's just stay in a hotel for the night and get at least some sleep."

Courtney nodded. "Yeah, okay."

Shawn and Courtney arrived at the closest hotel they could. When they got a room, they did nothing but get ready to go to bed. They were going to need all of the energy they could get.

The blonde male had just finished up showering. He came out dressed in only baggy black pajama pants and a towel in his hands, drying off his orange-tinted, blonde hair. Though as he came out, he might've stepped out at the wrong time.

Courtney unclipped her bra and took it off. Shawn stared in wonder at her. He never really saw Courtney in this way before. Yes, he did see her in a sexy beach photoshoot, but never in this way.

Of course, she had her back turned to him and didn't notice Shawn at all. But the chance of staring any longer didn't last too long.

"Shawn?" Courtney called to him, rather loudly. She still thought he was in the shower.

Shawn jumped slightly out of being startled and panicked. He scampered back into the bathroom, closing the door gently so he wouldn't make any noise. Courtney called his name a second time. Shawn was relieved, she didn't notice him and he was okay.

He responded to her, in the same volume. "Yeah?"

"Who're we going to visit when we get up to Chandler?" she asked him.

"My family and probably some friends." he answered her. "We'll see when we get there."

"Okay!"

Courtney slipped on an ECW shirt that Tommy gave her a while back. Then next was a pair of orange pajama shorts. Shawn tried acting the whole situation off and came out. He still felt a little bit awkward in the thought of being almost caught for being a pervert. Walking back over to the bed, he looked down at his feet before peering at Courtney. She was lying down, with the blankey up by her chin. She smiled bubbly at Shawn and he smiled back. He crawled on his side of the bed and turned the light off.

There was a long moment of silence. An equel amount of thoughts buzzed in both of their heads. The quiet barrier was broken down by Courtney, when Shawn turned over on his side. As soon as he did that, Courtney was fancinated with his hair and started putting her fingers through it. Shawn was surprised at first by it, but then he let it go and didn't care.

"I love your hair, it's so soft." she said, as she played with it.

Shawn merely chuckled slightly as a response. He let himself fall asleep to her gentle touch.

Courtney stopped soon after and gave him a small hug. "Good-night, Shawn."

"'Night." he said quietly and tiredly.

Three or four hours later, Shawn woke up Courtney and the two of them headed back to the airport. This time, the two of them were able to finally get on a plane. They booked two first class seats and situated themselves comfortable in them. Shawn let Courtney have the window so she could lean over and fall asleep on the wall. A stewerdess came over and helped them with pillows and anything that they needed.

"Would you like any drinks or food?" she asked Shawn.

"I'll just take a coffee, and-" he looked over at Courtney, but she fell back in her slumber. "-Nothing for her right now, I'm just going to let her sleep."

"Okay. I'll be right back." the stewerdess said.

"Okay, thanks." Shawn replied. He planned on staying up since he was going to be doing all the driving back when he got down to Phoenix, to Chandler. He needed something to boost him up.

As the stewerdess came back with his coffee, she poured some in a cup, and put the other things in it that he needed. Leaving, he took a sip and just relaxed.

Shawn looked back over to Courtney and placed his hand on her's, in a comforting way. He smiled at the sleeiping beauty. The trip wasn't even started, but he was enjoying it already.

"Wakey-wakey." chirpped a welcoming voice.

The aroma of meat, bread, and food teased Courtney's nose. Her tired and weary eyes opened up to the sight of Shawn waving a burger in her face to get her up.

"Ah, there you are. I got you some breakfast." he said.

The half-asleep zombie stretched her arms and yawned. She smiled, greeting him back. Her voice was groggy. "What'd you get?"

"In-And-Out."

"In-And-What?" Courtney blinked.

"You've never heard of In-And-Out?" Shawn asked.

The Laughlin shook her head.

"They have THEE best food ever." he said. "Try some."

Courtney smiled, taking the burger from his hands. "Okay."

She took one bite of it and let her taste buds wrap themselves around it. Her facial expression turned satisfied and enjoyed.

"Like it?" Shawn asked.

Courtney nodded, brightly. After she chewed her bite, she swallowed it down to ask Shawn a question. "What time is it?"

"Around seven."

Courtney groaned slightly. "Ugh, I hate waking up this early. I am so tired."

Shawn understood, rubbing her shoulders. "Yeah, I know, me too. But don't worry, you can take a nap when we get to a hotel."

"Alright, thanks." Courtney said. She took one of the available drinks and took a sip out of it, washing down more of the In-And-Out burger. Her eyes fixed upon the sky and was instantly amazed by it. "Oh, wow!"

"What's up?" Shawn responded to her.

"Look at that sunrise, it's so beautiful!" Courtney said.

"Ah, yeah. An Arizona sunrise, they're the best." Shawn agreed. "But you should see the sunset over at my parents' house. It's amazing."

"Your parents?"

"Yeah, haven't you ever met them before?" Shawn asked.

Courtney shook her head again.

"Wow, well, wait till you meet them, they're good people." he said.

"Well if they raised you, they have to be." Courtney giggled. Shawn chuckled.

They booked a room in the hotel and settled there for the night. Then after putting everything away, they got back in the car and rode off to Shawn's parents. They stayed there for a while and visited with his family.

The two of them took a walk to A.J. Chandler Park for a little bit. It was around six PM, and the day was growing down and tired. The sky was mellowed out and fusing into an orangey and pink dusk.

"This place is gorgeous..." Courtney said.

"Yeah." Shawn muttered. "Have you ever been to Arizona before?"

"Other than Phoenix, no." she said. "Oh, and Valerie was right. That place isn't so incredibly wonderful."

Shawn nodded. "Yeah, I know. But getting away from major cities like that, down to where we are, it's a lot better. A hell of a lot."

"Yeah, true." Courtney said. "Remind me to take you to Yonkers one of these days when we're free again."

"New York?"

"Mm-hm." Courtney replied. "It's not amazing, but it is my home and I love it. I live with Tommy right now and Trisa, but I'm planning on trying to get a place of my own."

"Beulah? Wow, I haven't spoke to her in years. How's she doing?" Shawn asked, interested.

"Pretty good. She's taking care of the girls, and is a full-time house wife." Courtney explained.

"That's good."

Courtney had a lot on her mind. She wanted to ask Shawn something important, but she was too afraid to bring it up. It involved the both of them, but she was afraid that he still had Rebecca on his mind. Courtney was starting to like him a lot, but did he like her just the same.

'Oh well, just ask him, girl. It's better now, then never.' Courtney thought to herself. She swallowed hard and took it head on. She was just afraid that it was going to wreck everything though.

"Shawn." she finally managed to say his name.

"Yeah?" he gave his attention to her. Courtney remained silent. Shawn stopped for a minute, and looked into her eyes. He knew she wanted to say something, but nothing was coming out. "What is it?"

Courtney forced it out of her. "Shawn, we've known each other for a while, right?"

Just then, Courtney was mentally kicking herself for what she just say.

'Oh, my GOSH. That was the cheesiest line, EVER!' Courtney thought. 'Great. I just hope I don't word-vomit. WAY TO GO, SELF.'

Shawn followed on. "Yeah, why?"

Courtney swallowed hard again. "Shawn, I-(she sighed and looked him from the ground, to straight in his eye)-I know this isn't probably the best time, and frankly, I don't know why I'm even doing this. But for the passed weeks, I have felt some things that I didn't know were even possible to feel. I've always seen you as my friend for so long, though..."

Courtney's hands were shaking and unsteady, and so was her breath. She was so nervous. She didn't want to ruin her and Shawn's friendship by the words she wanted to say.

"...I really have these deep, strong feelings for you. And I want to try something, if you are willing to..." she finished.

Shawn nodded, taking it all in. He half-smiled. "You know, it's funny, because, something on the lines of the exact same thing was going on with me. Courtney, I think you're an amazing, cute, beautiful girl. I do have strong feelings for you, too. But I don't think I'm exactly ready yet."

At this point, Courtney didn't know if she should be crushed, or relieved. But she had to say something.

"I understand." she said. "But even if it's just a short while, I won't mind. I know you're still very much connected to Rebecca. Though, I just want to see if this is right. I know how you feel when to get your heart broken. But Valerie helped me out of my shell and I wanna try and help you. If you don't want to do this at all, I get it. I'll stop. I'm not forcing you to do anything."

Shawn knew she was right. Rebecca wasn't coming back. He would still visit her and the kids when he could, but time wasn't going to last forever for him.

"Okay." Shawn said. "I'll do it."