Chapter 11
Leaving school Stephanie went straight home, with the image of Paul in her mind because of the injuries that she was able to see. When she got home she went straight to her room and started to do her homework. Just as she got started Shane walked into her room and went to sit on her bed and just looked at her until she couldn't take it anymore and wanted him to leave. Turning around on her desk chair she faced Shane.
"Hello Shane, why are you in my room?" Stephanie said walking to sit next to Shane on her bed.
"I just wanted to ask if you have decided what you are doing with Paul and if you are going to tell mom and dad"
"If you are going to be like this 'til I am going to tell them, fine I will tell them now" Stephanie said getting up to walk out the door and go downstairs to her parents.
Following Stephanie downstairs he went to join his mom on the couch and find out what is going on between Stephanie and Paul.
"Mom, Dad I have something to tell you" Stephanie started, "I have a boyfriend and it is…" before Stephanie could finish Linda cut in.
"Why am I only finding out now, Stephanie every time I ask you if you have a boyfriend and you have said no, why have you been lying to me."
"No, I started to date him yesterday"
"I want to meet him" Vince said simply
"Guys don't you want to know who it is first?" Shane asked trying to push Stephanie further.
"So, who it is?" Linda asked
"Paul Levesque" Stephanie said waiting for their reaction.
"WHAT?" Vince said standing up, full of anger, "The same Paul Levesque that bullies Shane, gets into trouble continuously, why would you go out with him? And Shane, how long have you known and when did you find out?"
"I've known for about a day or two and I find out when she was kissing him at school." Shane said leaving out where they were kissing because Stephanie looked like she was in big enough trouble.
"Two days, Stephanie why would you keep this from us?" Linda said looking at her only daughter.
"I never kept it from you"
"Well, I want to meet him tomorrow after school, bring him here and we will meet him. Tomorrow your mom and I are working a little later so we are going to be about an hour late. Shane is going to be here to keep an eye on you two." Vince said trying to calm himself down.
"Fine" Stephanie walked upstairs and got out her phone to text Paul.
Stephanie: Hey babe
Paul: Hey wats up?
Stephanie: my parents want 2 meet u
Paul: that can't happen I am still recovering from my injuries and the last thing I need is for ur dad 2 beat me up
Stephanie: Please its one day and then we can go on our date on Saturday ;). Do it for me please
Paul: Fine just 4 u, only if I leave with the same amount of injuries as I did when I came in
Stephanie: deal, see ya tomorrow babe xxx
Paul: l8r baby xxx
The Next day during lunch
Stephanie, Stacy, Michelle and Lita were standing by Stephanie locker talking about what they were doing for the weekend and about Michelle and Shawn's date.
"So, what are you going to wear tonight?" Lita asked Michelle.
"I don't know, something casual but not too casual, girls I don't know what I am going to do, I need help"
"How about we all come round mine tonight and you can pick out something that you like." Stephanie suggested
"Speaking of the Devil, here comes Paul and Shawn" Stacy pointed out
Paul and Shawn were on their way to the girls when they saw them. Paul went to stand next to Stephanie and put his arm around her; he smiled when she leaned into him and put her arm around his waist. Shawn went to stand next to Michelle and put his arm around her shoulder as well.
"Aww, look at the happy couples" Stacy said, getting a laugh from everyone.
"Don't worry Stacy and Lita, Shawn and I know two guys that would love to go out with you, you know John and Chris." Paul smiled.
"Ok, let's stop this convo and go to the bleachers to talk about tonight" Stephanie said.
Then all walked down to the bleachers to talked about the important details about the date. When they got there Paul sat down and pulled Stephanie onto his lap, on his right was Shawn and Michelle and on his other side was Lita and Stacy.
"Ok, so what did you need to know" Shawn said holding Michelle's hand.
"We were thinking that instead of having two separate dates that we could double date and do it tomorrow" Stephanie said
"Ok, that's cool; we will just text you the time of the movie and what time we are going to pick you up." Shawn said.
"Why don't we all go and we bring John and Chris to make it the four of us" Paul said
"Great"
"So, Paul the girls are coming over so when they get to my house you are allowed to leave." Stephanie said looking at Paul.
"How come he is going to be at your house? Wait don't tell me I don't wanna know" Lita giggled.
"Nothing like that, not even close, my dad wants to meet him and he has to come over tonight." Stephanie said
"Oh, good luck Paul, Vince is kinda scary" Stacy said
"Yeah, it doesn't help with your injuries. Vince might make it worst when he finds out that you are fucking his only daughter." Shawn said laughing
"Your funny, but Stephanie promised me that I would leave with the exactly the same injuries that I came in with, so jokes on you, ha" Paul replied.
After School
For the first time ever Paul wished that the school day would last longer, anything that would delay him from meeting Stephanie's parents. As he walked out of school with Shawn, Paul knew that he had no choice but to meet her parents. He saw Stephanie standing at the bottom of the stairs waiting for him; that was just more of a reason that he had to do it and couldn't get out of it.
"Hey baby" Stephanie kissed him.
"Hey, see ya later Shawn" he waved to Shawn and followed Stephanie to her car.
"Ok, so you will have to take off those glasses off when you get to my house"
"I can't do that they will see my black eye." Paul whined
"You have to but keep the hat on I don't want them seeing the stitches, I don't know if my dad would like it but just as long as he can't see it then that's good enough, but make sure that when he sees you the hat is facing forward and not backwards." Stephanie said starting up her car.
Ten minutes later they arrived at Stephanie house. They got out of the car and walked up to the front door.
"Nice crib baby." Paul said walking inside the house.
"Thanks, come with me and we can go to the living room, my parents will be home in about an hour" Stephanie said sitting down on the couch
Paul sat next to her and put his arm around her, moving to sit closer to her. He looked at her and kissed her. Just as it was getting deeper, the door opened and Shane came in. Neither Stephanie nor Paul heard him come in as they were too interested in each other's lips. They only realised that there was someone there when Shane went over to them and pulled them apart and sat in between them.
"Shane what are you doing?" Stephanie asked as Shane squeezed himself between her and Paul.
"Wait, Shane is your brother, the nerd Shane. Your parents are going to hate me." Paul said looking at Stephanie across Shane seriously.
"I hate you as well, I really don't like how you come into my house and make out with my sister and call me a nerd." Shane said
A long hour later, Stephanie's parents walked in. They walked straight into the living room to see Stephanie and her boyfriend separated by Shane who was in the middle of them two watching TV.
"Hello, kids," Linda said walking further into the room, she held out her hand for Paul to shake "Hi, I'm Linda; Stephanie's mother and this is my husband Vince."
Paul shook Linda's hand and then held out his hand for Vince to shake, which he never he just looked at it. This is off to a good start, he obviously knows who I am then, Paul thought.
Stephanie stood up and whispered in Paul's ear "baby, take the glasses off and turn your hat around so it is facing forward." Paul did just that, he took of his glasses and turned around so he wasn't facing anyone so that he was able to take off his hat and put it back on.
"Nice to meet you Mr and Mrs McMahon."
"Have a seat, I will just warn you now don't sit next to Stephanie" Vince said glaring at the younger man.
"Vince, leave the poor boy alone, please sit wherever you would like" Linda said, sitting down next to her husband.
Paul sat back down where he was before, with Shane between him and Stephanie. The last thing Paul wanted to do was get on Vince's bad side. When he sat down he was getting himself ready for the interrogation.
"Paul, how old are?" Vince questioned
"17 almost 18" Paul said
"So, Paul, what makes you think that you can date my daughter who is a year younger than you, might I add, after all of these years of bullying my son?" Vince asked
"I my defence I never knew that they were related" Paul said, trying to defend himself.
"Daddy please stop." Stephanie said seeing where he was going.
"Ok, fine, let's try another question, what happened to your eye?" Vince said, not being able to take his eyes off of the bruise since Paul has taken off his glasses.
"I'm sorry but I can't tell you that, it is information that can't be shared." Paul said trying to cover up his eye and hide the anger in his features remembering how he got it.
"Why? What happened that you have to keep a secret?" Vince said knowing this is the way to get to Paul.
"Dad don't ask, please let him have this as a secret." Stephanie said seeing the anger start to build up in Paul.
"Vince, leave it alone…" Linda was interrupted by Vince.
"No, and why do you have a hat on inside, could you please take it off?" Vince said not liking that he was wearing a hat in his house.
"No" Paul said
"WHAT?" Vince shouted
"Paul just take the hat off they should know that this is for a reason, while you are at it take off your t-shirt." Stephanie said knowing her dad won't give up.
"What don't take off your t-shirt, Stephanie what is wrong with you?" Shane said, not wanting to see Paul without a t-shirt on.
"Don't worry Shane it all adds to why he has a hat on and a black eye."
Paul stood up and slowing took off his hat making sure not to get the stitches; he gets them taken out on Saturday morning, which was perfect timing for his date with Stephanie. He placed his hat on the table in front of him and the started to take off his t-shirt to show the bandages around his stomach.
"Oh my… what happened? It looks like you had a car crash." Linda said looking at the state Paul was in. seeing the stitches and the bandages.
"I was beaten up" Paul said not mentioning anything else. He picked up his t-shirt again and put it back on, "Please don't mention it to anyone."
"Will do, what did your parents say about this?" Vince said not knowing they were linked.
"My mom walked out on my dad and I when I was 7 and I haven't seen my dad all week." Paul said making a fist by mentioning his dad.
"I'm sorry about your mom, but why haven't seen your dad?" Shane asked, joining in on the conversation.
"I moved in with Shawn after my accident"
Stephanie could see the anger in Paul, so she moved next to Paul and held his hand. Hoping it would calm him down. Paul look at her and leaned forward to whisper in her ear. "Baby, I don't think that I can deal with this or talk about it. So can you tell them what happened and I will be waiting outside" Paul got up and walked out of the room.
"Where did he go?" Linda looked as Paul walked out of the room.
"It was the conversation about the accident and his parents," Stephanie started, "His dad Randy was the one that cause his injuries…"
"WHAT?" they all shouted
"How can someone do that to their own flesh and blood?" Linda asked
"Wait, let me finish. It happened on Tuesday when I suggested to Paul stay at Shawn Michaels' house because it was the day after Randy punched him first and then the next day after school Trish who is Randy's girlfriend came to pick up Paul said that Randy went mental and that he needed to get home. And after I called Shawn to go to the house and check on Paul and he took him to the hospital."
Vince stood up and got the phone and started to dial 911. Vince wasn't going to let his daughter's boyfriend continue to get beaten up by a son of a bitch that was meant to be his father, and to take care of Paul since his mom left.
"Dad what are you doing?" Shane asked seeing his dad walk to the phone.
"Calling the police" Vince said simply.
"No, don't" Paul said walking back into the room hearing the conversation being over.
"I'm sorry, son, but I can't let your dad do this." Vince turned back to the phone, "Hello, can I get police please."
Paul ran out of the house and straight towards his house needing to get to Randy and warn him. Not many people would understand his reason for wanting to stop Randy from going to jail but he was the last parent that he had so he was going to do whatever he could and save him, even if it meant that he kept getting beaten up but it was worth it as long as there was one parent with him.