Chris started to stir and Kristen's heart jumped into her throat. He leaned up, with his hand to his head.

"Owwwww!" the after effects of heavy drinking had taken their toll on him as well. Especially since Chris wasn't a heavy drinker, so he had a low enough tolerance for the liquor to be a MASSIVE problem on his head.

He looked over and saw someone in his bed. His vision was still foggy; he shook away the sleep and realized it was Kristen.

"Kristen? What are you doing in my ro…" he looked down and realized he was naked; he looked back over at Kristen and saw that she was naked as well. She said nothing, just raised the condom wrapper up for him to see.

"Oh, no…." Chris started. Before he could say anything else, Kristen flew off the bed. She grabbed at her clothes and roughly put them on.

"I need to leave." she mumbled.

"What are you talking about?" Chris asked as he dressed himself in his boxers and a t-shirt.

"I can't be here now, not that we've been together. I don't screw my way to the top like some of the other girls here might do. There's no way I can continue on here, there's no way you would want…. me around." Kristen turned around sharply, to hide the tears that were forming in her eyes.

"Kristen," Chris got up and walked over to her. "Why would you think that?"

"Because you probably think I am some immature, easy slut." The tears started to flow.

"Hey," he turned her around so she was facing him. "I do NOT think that about you, I have no reason to. We got a little tipsy and something happened. That doesn't make you less of a person in my eyes. I'm not disappointed in you at all. I am not upset that it happened, I am just upset at HOW it happened. I would like to be clear of mind when I make love to you."

Kristen looked down at the ground, but Chris lifted her chin with his big fingers.

"I know it's sudden and all but...I love you."

Kristen froze, she couldn't move, or breathe. Did he just say he loved her?

"Are you serious or are you just saying that because of what happened?"

He sighed.

"This is hard for me to say, I am a really shy guy when it comes to my emotions but, over the last few months I have found myself falling more and more in love with you. I think I fell for you the moment I saw you, that would explain why I was acting like that when I was working with you on your audition. You're the only person to ever have my heart all twisted up like this, and I love it."

"Oh Chris, I..I..I love you too. I have for a long time, way before we even met. I held on to you when I was falling in and out of reality. You kept me grounded with your matches and in the process, I fell in love." Kristen wrapped her arms around the taller man's thick neck. Chris hugged her back tightly, and then frowned.

"If you are to stay in the competition, we can't let the other students know about this. See, we aren't supposed to have relationships with any of the students. If they knew, they'd have you kicked off. That was also one of the reasons why I was so reluctant to say anything when I realized how I felt. I didn't want it to interfere in your chances here."

"For the time being, we have to act like nothing has changed. Like we can't act affectionate or anything that would give it away."

As much as that hurt Chris to have to do, he knew Kristen was right. The last thing he wanted was for her dream to end because of his selfish needs. After a few more hugs and kisses Kristen went back to her room.

Chris signed to himself as he finished getting dressed. A knock came at his door a few seconds later, Eddie stood there waiting to be allowed in.

"What's going on?" Chris asked.

"It's time for old Latino Heat to make his exit, stage left. I need to get home to Vickie and the girls and get back on the road."

Chris nodded. They embraced in a hug, as Eddie turned to leave, he looked over his shoulder.

"Hey Chris?"

"Yeah, Eddie?"

"Don't loose her. She just might be your Vickie Lara." with that, Eddie Guerrero was gone.

Chris nearly teared up, he knew that Vickie had saved Eddie's life and that his family meant everything to him. He was nothing without Vickie and his girls. Chris had longed for that feeling for a long time and maybe, just maybe Eddie would be right.

For the next few months, Chris and Kristen would sneak kisses in closets, or squeeze each other's hands under the table. Pretty soon it was the last weekend of TE5 and only 4 people, including Kristen, were left.

Everyone was flown back to NYC and the season finale was to start taping on that Sunday. Because they were in separate hotel rooms, the rest of the students could go and come as they pleased without anyone seeing them. Kristen snuck off to Chris' room whenever she could. They would just cuddle and sleep.

Chris never implied he wanted to have sex, even though he REALLY wanted to, he wanted to wait until Kristen was comfortable again with it. He wanted it to be special and he wanted her to feel as good as possible. It was just something he felt he needed to provide as a man. A safe, calm feeling for her. And he did that well.