I know, I know, I'm a horrible person for keeping you all in suspense. Don't ya just hate it when real life gets in your way. Anyway, my apologies to all. I hope you all have a great holiday with your loved ones.

Chapter 9

You know a Raw show is bad when Khali debuts, and they have a feud between a fake Rosie O'Donnell and a fake Donald Trump. Kaylie and Janna were so angry they just left Beth, in Birmingham, Alabama, to deal with it and hit the road. So when they got to Atlanta at midnight, instead of 1 or 2 in the morning, Mark insisted that the girls join him and Dave for a bite to eat. The guys have yet to decide on what hotel to stay at so why not make all those plans together. So the girls pull up to the local Outback steak house, and surprisingly enough, they were both starving. They walked in and spotted the guys right away. I mean, come on, how can you not spot 2 huge men? Dave spotted them first and went to go greet them.

"You girls made great time." Mark commented as the girls sat down.

"We need to have a pow wow with your fuckin writers." Janna gripped.

"ya, can you arrange that?" Kaylie asked the guys.

Dave looked at Kaylie. He could tell the show was bad just by the look on her face. "What happened?"

"Whoever thinks that Khali being on the fucking roster is a good thing, is going to get a beat down." Kaylie cracked her knuckles to make her point.

"Ya, and who fuckin thought it was a good idea to have Trump and Rosie 'wrestle'. We were so mad, we just ditched Beth and left early."

"where the hell is that waitress? I need beer, stat." Kaylie looked around, like she knew which waitress was their waitress anyway.

Mark laughed at Kaylie, but stopped when she shot him a look. The girls were really mad about the show. "Oh come on, it can't be that bad."

Kaylie looked at him in shock. He was defending that...that CRAP they called a wrestling show. "You weren't there ok. It was the first time EVER I have regretted supporting this business. It's a very big deal! I was ready to march my ass backstage and demand Vince himself give me my money back."

Janna stopped her flirting with Dave, "It's true, I had to drag her in the other direction to leave."

Kaylie finally took in the sight in front of her, she somehow missed it when Janna sat next to Dave. He had his arm around her and they were leaning in and talking to each other real low. She turns and looks at Mark, "When did that happen?"

"When you started looking for our waitress." Mark laughed at her.

"ya well, I still don't have my beer." Kaylie muttered. Mark shook his head at her and chuckled. He waved over the waitress and Kaylie found herself fighting off the urge to vomit. The waitress was one of those overly starved, super skinny, bleach blond bimbos that make her skin crawl.

Janna started to laugh when Kaylie shot the waitress a death glare when she called

Mark 'honey'.

"Well Sarah, our friends here would like some drinks. Kaylie here would like..." Mark looked at Kaylie to find out what kind of beer she wanted when he saw her seething. Mark rubbed her back to get her out of her daze, which caused goosebumps to form over her skin.

"Bud Select please, Sarah, dear." Kaylie and Sarah were having a stare down. It was clear to everyone at the table that Kaylie was daring the waitress to say something to her. When Sarah scurried away to get Janna her diet pepsi and Kaylie her beer, the entire table busted up laughing. Well, everyone but Kaylie that is.

Mark leaned down and whispered in her ear, "Are you jealous or somethin?"

Kaylie whipped her head around and looked at him. Jealous? Jealous?!?! 'oh

my god, I was jealous.' Kaylie thought to herself. "No, of course not, she was just taking her time and I wanna drink damnit!" Mark sat back and looked at her. They both knew she was full of shit.

The foursome sat, ate, laughed for a couple hours. When Dave looked at his watch and saw it was almost 3:30 am, they all decided to head out to find a hotel. Dave and Janna went in the girls car, they were going to head to the hotel to get them rooms. Mark and Kaylie hopped in Mark's rental trunk to follow them, but also so Mark could fill up with gas. It was clear to everyone that Dave and Janna also wanted some time by themselves. Same thing for Mark and Kaylie so it worked out perfectly. Mark got out of the trunk

and stretched. All that sitting in the restaurant and then getting into the trunk caused his legs to become stiff. He started to fill his tank with gas, he walked over to Kaylie's opened window and leaned down.

"So, what do you want to do tomorrow after the show?" Kaylie turned and looked at him and for the first time really noticed how green his eyes were. She was just staring at them when she suddenly saw a couple of fingers snapping in front of her face. "earth to Kaylie. Come in Kaylie."

Kaylie could feel her face turn beet red. "Doesn't matter to me. Do you go any place specificly after a show?"

"Not really." Mark shrugs, and then smiled after he remembered Kaylie making

fun of him for doing that. "Wanna just play it by ear?"

"Ya, sounds good." Mark went inside to pay for the gas, Kaylie took that time to smack herself repeatedly in the head. "Stupid stupid. Stop acting like you've never liked a guy before." Kaylie thought to herself.

Mark got back into the trunk and decided not to ask Kaylie why she was beating herself up. He could always find that out tomorrow. "Have you heard from Janna with what hotel they found yet?"

"No, but seeing those two, they're probably on the side of the highway, making out or something." Kaylie smirked at him. She had a plan. When Mark asked her what that look was for, all she said was 'paybacks are a bitch.' Mark pulled out of the gas station and started to head downtown. Kaylie pulled out her cell phone, making sure to block her number, and dialed Janna's phone.

The phone was answered right before voicemail, and it wasn't Janna. It was an out of breath Dave. "What do you want?" Kaylie could hear Janna giggling in the background. Obviously she interrupted something. 'good' she thought.

"Yes, hello, I'm sorry, I was looking for a Miss. Janna Johnson. This is her doctor's office. I just got the test results back and I'm sorry to say...it is as we feared…she does have herpes."

"It's what?!?!!? Herpes?!?!!" Dave screamed into the phone to which caused

Janna to scream 'KAYLIE, YOU BITCH!' Mark and Dave both started to laugh.

"Where are we staying asshole? Or were you two busy attacking each other to look for a place?"

"We are actually at the Marriott waiting for your sorry asses to show up."

"That's all I needed to know, Thanks dear." Kaylie hung up the phone and smiled at Mark.

"You are evil." Mark pulled into the parking garage for the Marriott, grabs his bags and opened up the door for Kaylie to get out. The four of them head to their rooms and catch some zzz's for the next day.

A couple hours later, Kaylie was still tossing and turning. She was actually getting nervous about her time with Mark tomorrow. She decided to head to the exercise room and run on the treadmill. She put her headphone on and heads downstairs. "What do I want to listen to today?" Kaylie thinks as she's scrolling through her Ipod. She can't decide on what to listen to so she just puts it on shuffle. She turns on the treadmill and sets the timer for 20 minutes. About five minutes into her run, Taker's theme "You're

gonna pay" comes on. "OH COME ON!" Kaylie ripped off her headphones and

heard a chuckle behind her. She turns around and sees Mark smiling at her.

"Couldn't sleep either huh?" Mark asked as he sat on the weight bench.

Kaylie kept on running, "Ya."

"Something on your mind?" Mark raised an eyebrow at her continuing to run and try and avoid him.

"I'm nervous about tomorrow." Kaylie could feel her cheeks turn pink. She can't believe she just told him that.

"Oh ya? Why?"

"It's been a long time since I've been asked out by a guy I'm attracted to." Kaylie looked at the ceiling. 'shut up you fuckin idiot! look at him smiling at you now. you're fuckin done.' Kaylie continued to lecture herself she didn't realize that Mark was in front of her until he pushed the power off button on her treadmill.

"Well Darlin'. It's been a long time since I've had to ask. So we're on the same boat."

Mark looked at her and brushed a stray hair out of her face. Mark's hand lingered on her face. Kaylie once again found herself staring into those green eyes, those damn green eyes that are staring right back at her with an intensity behind them she hasn't seen since...well she didn't want to think about him. Not when this gorgeous man was leaning his head down to her face. She closed her eyes and waited for him to kiss her. He kissed her on her nose and then rested his forehead against hers. She once again opened her eyes and looked at him. She could tell what he was feeling. She could see his doubts, his worries, his concerns as clear as day. She rubbed her nose against his and saw his eyes sparkle. She smiled at him, "I feel it too big man...I feel it too." They stayed like that for a little while, just resting against each other, trying to get strength from each other. Kaylie finally started to get tired and Mark walked her back to her room.