After Mickie left, Randy and Sam just stood in a very uncomfortable silence. Randy could tell by the look in Sam's eyes that as much as she wanted to, she didn't buy the quick lie Mickie had come up with. That didn't really make Randy feel a hell of a lot better. He felt so trapped at the moment and that made him nervous. He didn't want to lash out on accident just because his wife was about to confront him on something that he didn't want to come to terms with yet.

"She stayed in the other bed huh?" Sam said quietly. She folded her arms over her chest.

"Yeah," Randy tried to insist. He didn't want to be caught right now. "Why, do you not believe her or something?"

"I almost did believe her. I really did. But then I looked into your eyes and I knew that she was lying."

Randy cursed under his breath. With all the time he had been spending with Mickie, he had forgotten that Sam did know him really well. Maybe she didn't know him as well as Mickie did anymore, but she still knew him better than most people. "Sam--"

Sam held up her hand to silence him. "Just stop for a minute," she pleaded. She sank down on the bed. It looked like she was trying to keep herself from breaking down completely. "Just give me a minute."

They went back to just being silent for a long time. Randy didn't know what to do. He started to sit down next to her, but he stopped because he didn't know if that was a good idea. But then he couldn't just stand there, so he tried to go near her again. But then he got afraid of her freaking out on him, so he just stood still again.

Sam finally sighed and looked at him sadly. "Have you slept with her?"

"Yes," Randy admitted quietly. He knew he couldn't lie anymore.

She got up and slapped him across the face. "Why?" she half asked, half sobbed. "What the hell does that bitch have that I don't?"

"Don't call her a bitch."

"I'll call her whatever I want to!" She smacked him again. "What the fuck does that whore have that I don't? What can she give you that I can't?"

Are you going to let her keep hitting you? one of the voices asked Randy. Is that the kind of man you are now? Are you going to let yourself get smacked around by a woman?

Just shut up! Randy's mind screamed at the voice. You're the fucking cause of all this! You fucking made me do all this!

Oh come on Randy! the voice snapped. You know you like it when I take the wheel. Just let me take the wheel and I'll make all of your problems go away.

"Randy?" Sam said uncertainly. "Randy answer me! Stop fucking around with me!"

Randy took several deep breaths and focused on thinking about Mickie until he could regain the control that had been slipping away from him. "She makes the voices stop," he confessed quietly. "Awhile back, the voices started haunting me constantly. "Nobody could make them stop, not even you." He shook his head. "This whole thing isn't just about sex. Mickie is the only thing keeping me sane at this point. I need her Sam. I never wanted to hurt you; I just needed something to keep me from losing my mind completely."

Sam stared at him for a moment before shaking her head. "So that's it then huh? After all we've been through, it's come down to this? What am I supposed to do Randy? Do you expect me to just accept this and let you run around behind my back with another woman?"

He shook his head. "I just want you to understand that you didn't do anything wrong. It's not about you. I'm the one who's fucked up. I'm the one to blame here."

"Oh I know that already. I don't need you to fucking tell me that." Sam backed away from him. "I can't do this Randy. I don't want to hear your reasons because I officially don't care. You want Mickie so badly? Have her. I'll make your decision so much easier for you. Alanna and I will be gone by the time you get back home."

Randy shook his head. "Sam don't do this."

"Don't tell me what I should do Randy!" She looked like she was about to cry. "Damn it Randy, I fucking loved you! I gave you everything I fucking had, but it obviously wasn't enough! And I'm not going to be the dumb bitch who takes her cheating husband back only to get left in the end. I won't do it."

He looked down at his feet. He knew that she was bringing up some very good points. He also knew that she had every right to be as upset as she was. She had been as good of a wife as she possibly could have been, and there had been a time when he had believed that she was the one he was meant to be with. But now that time had past. As much as he still loved and cared about her, he suddenly realized that he was being completely unfair to her by not actually being IN love with her. "You're right," he said. "You deserve a hell of a lot better man than I am."

Sam looked startled by his admission, and that seemed to take the fight right out of her. She started to say something else, but she lost her nerve and just bailed out of the room. Randy stood there for a long time, not knowing what he was supposed to do next. He felt like he had just been in a car wreck, only all the damage was inside of him. Finally he just laid down on the bed and stared up at the ceiling. He just kept staring and staring and staring…

"What the hell is wrong with you?"

Randy blinked and saw AJ standing over him. "What are you doing here?" he asked.

"Someone left your door open," the Phenomenal one answered. "What happened to you? You look like you got hit by a truck or something."

Randy sighed. "Sam found out about Mickie and I. She came to surprise me and found us in our room. Mickie came up with a decent excuse, but Sam just looked at me and knew. She's leaving me now."

"Oh shit. Did you tell Mickie yet?"

"Not yet. I need to."

"Well before you do, there's one thing I need to tell you."

"Yeah? What's that?"

"Don't stay with Mickie just because your wife finally dumped your sorry ass. If you can't love her one hundred percent then--"

Randy got up and got in AJ's face. "I do fucking love Mickie," he snarled. "Don't you dare insinuate that I don't."

AJ nodded. "Alright then. That's all I needed to hear."

Randy shook his head. "Just get the hell out of here. I need to go find Mickie and talk to her." And tell her that I finally know what needs to be done.