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Raw went off without any problems. Randy got back to the locker room and checked his phone before hitting the shower and seen he had a text. He looked at it and smiled. Stephanie had text him, "You look good out there! I'll meet you at your hotel room; I want to talk about your weekend."
Randy text her back, "I'm hitting the showers, I'll be there shortly."
Cody Rhodes and John Cena walked over to Randy, "Dude, you wanna go out tonight? Shelton's throwing a hotel room party," John asked.
Randy smiled and shook his head, "Naw dude, I've got plans tonight."
"Plans? What kind of plans? You know we're gonna tear it up tonight." Cody replied. "Even Maryse is going to come out and kick it for awhile."
"Well that's great for her, but I can't." Randy said climbing in the shower. "Tell Shelton I'll be there next time."
John chuckled, "Man, she'd better be worth it."
Randy smirked, "Don't worry, she is."
Finally Randy got back to the hotel room and walked in to find Steph laying on the bed watching tv and working on her laptop. He smiled, "Hey babe."
Steph sat up and put her laptop away, "Hey hon. How are you?"
Randy nodded as he kicked off his shoes, "I'm good." He so badly wanted to call out Shane hitting Maryse to Stephanie. But he was trying to not say anything since Maryse and Shane were seeing each other way on the down low.
"So, what are you doing for your weekend?" Steph asked as he sat down beside her.
"Hmm…..a whole lot of nothing. Just the usual stuff. What about you? Do you ever get a weekend?"
Stephanie laughed, "Yes I do. I was wondering if you would want to come home with me for the weekend. We could hang out, go out a few times, maybe have lunch with my parents." She added quietly.
"Gosh Steph, we've only just started dating, you already want to take me to meet mom and dad? I'm not usually the type of guy parents like." Randy teased playfully.
"Oh shut up. What do you say?" Steph said wrapping her arms around him. "I promise it'll be a good time."
"Mmm….I like the sounds of that." Randy said leaning over and kissing her.
Stephanie kissed back happily. She had to admit that when she let her guard down a bit, she had so much more fun.
Randy laid her down and continued kissing her.
"I'll take that as a yes." Steph giggled.
"Yeah, I can do that." Randy said nuzzling noses with her.
"Wanna know what I can do?" Steph said suggestively.
"Damn right I do." Randy replied.
And the two continued fooling around.
Maryse got back to her hotel room around 3:30 in the morning. She had realized she had forgotten her phone, but was having way too much fun to go and get it. When she looked at it, she had about 50 missed calls and texts from Shane.
Even though she was pretty drunk she called Shane. He answered almost immediately, "Maryse?"
"Hey honey, what's up?" She tried her best not to slur.
"Are you drunk?" He asked sternly.
"Maybe just a little." She replied with a giggle.
"Where in the hell have you been? I've been calling you all night." Shane roared.
"Calm down Shane, I was out with the divas. We went to Shelton's hotel party and lived it up a bit." Maryse explained but Shane was having none of it.
"So you decided to go out and whore it up while I'm here working my ass off, is that it?" Shane shouted.
"I'm not doing this." Maryse said and hung up the phone.
That only pissed Shane off more. He called her back six times in a row before she finally answered, "WHAT SHANE?" She hollered.
"Don't you EVER hang up on me. Do you understand? NEVER will you hang up on me." Shane screamed. "I want you to fly out to my place."
Maryse softened a bit, "You want to spend the weekend with me?"
"Yes, that's why I've been trying to call you." Shane explained. He was trying to catch his temper; he knew it had flared up too much by the way Maryse responded. He knew he needed her out in New York.
"Aww….Shane." Maryse replied still sounding drunk. "I would love to."
"Your plane ticket is waiting at the airport, your flight is at 6:15am. We'll go shopping since you won't have enough clothes." Shane replied.
"I can't wait to see you honey." Maryse cooed into the phone.
"I can't wait to see you either. I'll be waiting at the airport to pick you up." Shane said calmly. "Good night hon."
"G'night Shane." Maryse said sweetly.
When she hung up, she went and took a cool shower, then took some Tylenol and drank some coffee. She packed up her stuff and by 5:00am she was headed to the airport.
Randy and Stephanie arrived in Stamford and headed to Stephanie's house. Randy couldn't believe how elegant it was. It looked like something out of a magazine his mom would read.
"Well here it is, home sweet home." Steph said with a smile.
"It's very nice Steph." Randy said as he slid his arm around her.
"So, I was thinking we'd go out and go clothes shopping and then grocery shopping. We could grab lunch out, and make dinner here and tonight just relax with a glass of wine. Then tomorrow we could meet everyone for lunch." Stephanie replied.
Randy looked at her, "Does anything you do ever NOT have a schedule?"
Steph thought about it for a moment, "No, not really."
Randy laughed and hugged her, "Ok, next week, my place for the weekend and I'll show you how to relax and just let things happen as they happen."
They both had a good laugh.
While Randy was getting settled in, Stephanie grabbed her phone and called Shane.
It took Shane a couple rings to answer, he and Maryse were messing around a bit. "Shane McMahon."
"Where were you?" Stephanie asked with a laugh. "You always answer way before that."
"I was away from my phone. What's up?"
"What are you doing tomorrow?" Stephanie asked.
"Apparently there's a possibility of something with you." Shane responded with a laugh.
"Mom and Dad are ready to meet Randy. I was thinking maybe you would come along and help be a buffer." Stephanie said nervously.
Shane muted the phone, "Are you brave?"
Maryse looked over at him, "What?"
"Do you consider yourself brave?" He repeated again with a smirk.
"Of course, I am woman, hear me roar." Maryse said with a smile.
"Maryse and I would love to join you guys for lunch." Shane responded.
"What?" Stephanie asked shocked.
"I said, Maryse and I would love to join you guys for lunch." Shane repeated. "Do you need an interpreter?"
"Wait a minute! Why are you with Maryse?" Stephanie asked loudly.
Randy came downstairs to find out what Stephanie was flipping out about and smirked because she was finding out about Shane and Maryse.
"Maryse and I are seeing each other and this way we can double-team mom and dad." Shane said squeezing Maryse's hand.
Maryse smiled, she couldn't believe Shane felt so strongly about her that he would face his parents with her. It was like publicly acknowledging that he was dating her. She couldn't help but beam with pride. The anger issues and the argument the night before floated away and all Maryse could think of was how proud he was to be dating her.
"Oh my God! Maryse is SUCH a sweetheart! Shane, I'm SO happy for you guys! Oh wow! That's GREAT!" Stephanie exclaimed. "Shane, I'm so glad that Maryse found such a great guy like you. You're totally her type."
Randy's stomach churned with Stephanie's words. As she was sitting there pouring out the praise of how great Shane was, all he could think of was Maryse's eye and finding out that Shane had hit her."
Randy walked out of the room and went to look at the view of her backyard.
Stephanie walked up and wrapped her arms around him, "Guess what? I have great news! Shane has found himself a great girlfriend!"
Randy smiled, "Really? That's great."
"I know you guys don't see eye to eye, but this is huge. Shane has a bad rep, but he's really the sweetest thing, he's a great husband, a great guy. I know he works a lot, but it's worth it. Maryse is going to be SO happy with him." Stephanie gushed. "Can you PLEASE try to like him? It would mean the world to me. Shane and I are SO close, wouldn't it be great if the four of us did something tomorrow night?"
Randy closed his eyes. Shane was exactly the reason why he hated authority. Guys that get some power under their belt and let it go to their head and think that they're God's gift to life and use it to push people around. "Yes Steph, I'll try to get along with your brother."
Stephanie jumped up and down "Great, because I invited them to spend the night here tomorrow night and we're all going to go out for dinner and game night!"
"Game night?" Randy questioned.
"Yeah, we can play board games and have a few beers. It'll be great!"
Randy was groaning inside his head. He could see just how much it meant to Stephanie that they all get along. She had no idea of the real Shane McMahon. He hugged her close.
The two of them went out and did their shopping and were finally able to live as a normal couple. They held hands; they laughed; they kissed; Randy would playfully spank Steph on the butt from time to time. It was a very good bonding experience for them.
They went back to Steph's house that night and made a salad, chicken fettucini with garlic bread for dinner. They polished off a bottle of wine and made love to each other that night.
The next morning Stephanie and Randy drove to the airport to pick up Shane and Maryse. The whole way there all Stephanie could talk about was how excited she was about being able to see Shane in a good, stable relationship and how great it would be for Maryse to finally be with the type of man she's wanted.
Randy did his best not to vomit profusely in the car while she spoke of Shane. It was a good thing he had his sunglasses on because he was doing a lot of eyerolling.
Shane and Maryse spotted Randy and Stephanie and waved. Stephanie and Shane hugged each other tightly. "Shane, I'm so happy for you!" Stephanie whispered into his ear.
Shane smiled and nodded, "Thanks, I'm really happy too."
Maryse grinned and held Shane's hand. She had a bit of an uncertain look to her.
Randy went over and hugged her while Steph was busy with Shane, "Hey, how are you?"
"Fine. I'm fine, and you?" She replied a bit too quickly to be convincing.
Randy looked at her, "I'm fine." He replied slowly.
Before Randy could say anything further, Steph turned and gave Maryse a big hug. "I'm so happy for you guys!"
Maryse winced beneath the hug, but only Randy caught it. He shot Maryse a look, but she quickly looked away. "Thanks Steph, I appreciate that. We're pretty happy too."
Shane put his arm around Maryse and they walked through the airport out to Stephanie's car.
"Girls in the front, boys in the back." Stephanie announced as they got to the car.
Shane and Randy both shot each other a look and climbed in the back seat.
Maryse and Stephanie started gabbing about different things. Randy glanced over, and noticed that Shane had some interesting scratches on the side of his neck towards his shoulder blades. His eyes narrowed beneath his sunglasses.
Shane looked over at Randy, "So, what do you think of Stamford? I bet it's a lot different than Missouri."
"Yup, it sure is. It's ok. Just different." Randy replied. It was taking every ounce of will out of him to not start beating on him right there. But he couldn't jump to conclusions.
They arrived at Vince and Linda's mansion and Randy was in shock. The house was HUGE. As they got out of the car, Randy noticed Maryse limping a bit and Shane had his arm protectively around her.
"Maryse, what's wrong?" Randy asked. He knew he was stirring the pot, he didn't care.
Maryse looked at him with an almost frightened look, I fell down Shane's stairs last night. I'm just a little banged up and sore."
Shane nodded, "Yeah, she'll be ok. But she won't be going overseas with you guys anymore."
"What?" Randy replied surprised.
Maryse shook her head, "No, it's not fair if I go injured. I'd rather give the opportunity to someone who is healthy and can give them the show they deserve. So I'm going to stay with Shane and he's going to nurse me back to health."
Steph frowned, "I'm so sorry Maryse."
They walked into the house and Randy and Maryse both looked around in awe. Linda walked out and smiled. "Hi!"
Everyone smiled and said hi back. Stephanie and Shane greeted their mom with hugs and kisses. Maryse walked up with Shane and shook Linda's hand. Randy followed suit.
Vince came downstairs and greeted everyone as well. He escorted everyone into the sitting room. Everyone sat down and they began having small talk.
They soon began talking about Linda's senate run. They were talking about a few issues that were very important. Randy cleared his throat, "I must say that for me, one of the issues I hold close is the fight against domestic violence towards women."
As he explained himself a bit, he could feel the eyes burning through him. Maryse sat there as silent as she could be. She couldn't believe Randy had said something like that.
What felt like forever later, they finally went to the dining room for lunch. They sat around the grand table and they discussed them dating, and making sure the good intentions are there.
After lunch, they all sat around and just made more small talk. Vince stood up and cleared his throat and called Randy and Maryse to go speak with him in another room.
"Now I have known both of you for sometime. Randy, I've known you for the longest. Maryse, I've known you for awhile as well. I know that we're all adults here, and I know that you guys understand why Stephanie and Shane are so cautious. I just want you guys to know that I appreciate you being so understanding about the needing to keep a high level of privacy."
Randy and Maryse both sat there nodding.
Vince looked at Randy, "Stephanie is a very strong, powerful woman. With that being said, she's also my baby girl and she has a vulnerable side to her as well. You need to treat her with graciousness and respect and she will do the same.
Vince looked at Maryse, "You are in a different situation. You're with my son. He's a very head-strong man. He's a man of high society. He works hard, but he's also a very honest, trust-worthy and loyal man."
Randy almost caught himself rolling his eyes. How is it that Shane had everyone fooled so well?
Linda had pulled Shane aside while Stephanie took care of some business. She looked at Shane. "Now Shane, we're not going to let happen with Marissa happen again are we?"
Shane shook his head but looked down to the floor. "No mom."
"You haven't done anything already, have you?" Linda asked looking him coldly in the eye.
"No." Shane mumbled avoiding eye contact.
"You're telling me you haven't laid a finger on her? You haven't forced her into anything? Yet her best friend Randy makes the comment that he did? Look me in the eye and tell me the truth Shane." Linda said sternly.
"She's not going to say anything." Shane started to try to cover himself.
Linda slammed her fist to the table, "Dammit Shane, your father and I are not paying off another woman to keep her mouth shut because you can't keep your hands to yourself."
"Ma, I'm doing the best I can, ok? I'm taking the stupid anger management courses, I've cut back on my drinking, I'm working on it, ok?" Shane snapped as he stormed out of the room.
Shane ran his hand through his hair, he was stressed…he needed a drink.
**Hmm…family secrets begin to un-ravel….what else will be revealed? What will happen when Randy is gone for a month and no one is around to protect Maryse? Is this a sign that things are going to get very dark? Please continue to read and review! THANKS!**