It had been a week since Paige was moved into the hotel, and she was beginning to get sick of it. She couldn't stand being locked up in one small room. Even Mackenzie was starting to get annoyed with being in the hotel room, and Paige didn't blame her.
"Momma, can we go home now?" Kenzie asked her, for what seemed like the hundredth time that week.
Paige sighed, she had no idea what to tell her. First of all, she couldn't even figure out where home was to Kenzie. She didn't even know where home was to her. "In time, Kenzie. I promise." She told her daughter.
Kenzie whined, then headed over to her bed, where her dolls were all over. Paige rubbed her forehead, while getting her phone. She checked for messages, and wasn't surprised to see that she had none.
"Hey Hey! Room service!" Someone yelled, while knocking on the hotel room door.
Paige grinned as she jumped off the couch, and ran over to the door. She didn't even bother looking through the peep hole, before opening the door. "Gramps! It's so good to see you!" She exclaimed, while hugging him.
Ric Flair laughed, "It's great seeing you too, Paige." He said, walking into the hotel room. "I was in the neighbourhood, and decided to stop by."
Paige closed, and locked the door behind him. "In the neighbourhood? You know someone around here?" She asked, while sitting on the couch.
"A friend was in town, wanted to meet up for a chat. I figured I'd drop by and see how my two girls were doing." Ric said, while hugging Kenzie as she ran over to him.
Paige smiled, "Well, we're glad you dropped by. It's so suffocating in this room. I feel like we're on lock down or something. There's not much to do around here." She admitted, and shook her head. "Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it."
Ric took Paige's hand in his own. "Listen to me Paige, you do what ever you think is right. Don't let anybody's judgement cloud your own. Okay? No matter what you do, we'll support you." He told her, seriously.
Paige felt like a load of worry was taken off her shoulders. "Thank you Ric, I definitely needed to hear that." She told him. "So, who were you visiting? Do I know them? Anybody special?" She asked, while winking at him.
Ric laughed, " No no. Things are going good with the wife." He smiled for a minute, then sighed. "But yes, you do know them. And that, is why I came to advise you to stay in the hotel. Luckily, they aren't staying here, but I have no idea who else could be in the area."
Paige frowned, "Well then.. who is it? Who am I looking out for? Maria? Jeff? Hunter? Steph?" She questioned.
Ric shook his head, "No Paige. It's Dave." He told her. "And this isn't to be taken lightly. Somebody just took this to a whole other level."
Paige was confused. "What are you talking about? Did Steph send him here purposely? Just to find me?" She guessed.
"No.. Ashley got a text message the other day. It said people aren't always who they appear to be." He said, repeating what Dave had told him.
Paige laughed, "That's all? They could be talking about anybody! How would they know it's about me?" She asked, relieved that was all.
Ric narrowed his eyes. "I'm not finished. With the text, was a picture of you.. or should I say.. of Lexi." He explained.
Paige could of swore she forgot how to breathe. She couldn't believe someone was doing this to her, of all people. "Who was it? Stephanie? Linda? Who..!" She asked, her voice raising.
Ric sighed, "I don't know Paige. The number was an unknown one. I just want you to be careful, if your sticking through this. Someone's working hard to uncover your secret."
Paige groaned, "Why did I get myself into this mess?" She asked, while resting her head on the table.
Xxxxxx
Emily stretched back as she sat in the receptionists desk at the hair salon. She took the job over while Paige was off hiding at the hotel. Emily wished she didn't have to work, so she could go off with her.
"Emily? What are you doing? Where's Paige?" A voice asked, while walking up to the desk.
Emily narrowed her eyes while sitting right in the chair, and looking up. "What do you want Lissa?"
Lissa sighed, "Look, I'm sorry. About everything. I just want to talk to Paige. It's important."
Emily shook her head, "Not going to happen. Not only is she not here, I'm smarter then that." She crossed her arms over her chest.
"Dammit Em! We're not against her! Don't you realize that? We're trying to help her!" Lissa exclaimed, making Emily laugh.
"You might be trying to help her, but that's not what Steph has planned. Definitely not. She's called threatening Paige, she's tried to get others to help her, and she's taking matters into her own hands, and sending pictures, and messages to people." Emily explained to her. She groaned as the phone rang, and not wanting to be interrupted, she picked it up, then slammed it back down.
Lissa smiled for a minute, then stopped. "She hasn't done any of those things! I've been talking to her, and to Jeff."
Emily shook her head, "You don't understand Lissa. She doesn't need people to tell her whats wrong and whats right. She knows. And she sure as hell don't need you guys interfering and making things worse."
"How are we interfering?" Lissa asked, "We're helping! It's two completely different things."
Emily nodded, "Exactly. They are two different things. If you were trying to help her, you would realize that she needs to make this decision on her own. If not, who is to say she won't run off again. She has to be ready." Emily leaned back in the computer chair. "Are we done here? I have work to do."
Lissa sighed, and nodded her head. "Sure.. After you tell me where Paige is. If you don't trust me enough to tell me that, then at least tell me if shes okay or not." She said, concerned.
"I'm not telling you where she is. And it's not that I don't trust you Liss, it's I don't trust your friends. And Paige is fine, we talk to her daily, and visit every so often. So don't worry about her." Emily told her as the phone started ringing. Emily picked it up angrily, and put the phone to her ear. "Hello. This is Emily speaking." She said, while listening to the person on the other line.
"Hello, Is this Paige Williams?" The voice asked, a little too sweetly.
Emily narrowed her eyes, even though she knew that they could not see it. "No, This is Emily. Paige is off on sick leave, I'm not sure when she will be back." She lied.
The caller let out a little chuckle. "Oh Emily, you all humour me so much. I know who Paige is, I know her secret. I also know that you, and your little blonde friend with you are hiding her." The caller paused. "Let me just remind you of something, Em. Your best friend has caused a lot of problems, and there will be a time when everything blows up in her face."
Emily gasped, and immediately began looking around. How did they know that Lissa was with her? Were they being watched? "Who are you?" Emily asked, cautiously.
"Who am I?" The caller laughed, "I'm the girl who is going to expose to everyone, who Paige Williams really is." with that, the caller hung up the phone.
Emily slammed down the phone, and jumped out of her chair. She ran out of the salon, and looked around the street, trying to see if she recognized anyone. She knew that this women, the one that called her, had to be watching her somehow. Did they know where Paige was?
Lissa followed Emily outside and looked around as well, though she had no idea what she was looking for. "Emily? Are you alright? Who was on the phone?" She asked her, confused. She put her hand on Emily's shoulder. "Your shaking.. come back inside and sit down."
Emily turned to Lissa, and shook her head. "We're in serious trouble Lissa. Well, Paige is anyway. We need to stop this crap and work together. Someone is trying their hardest to expose Paige, and as long as I'm around, I'm going to be a constant pain in their ass."
"As long as we're around." Lissa corrected Emily. "Let's go inside, we have plans to make." She said, while walking back into the salon.
Emily nodded her head, took one more look around the street, then followed Lissa inside. They had some calls to make.
Xxxxx
Paige ran her hand through her hair as she sat in her hotel room surrounded by Emily, Shawn, Lissa, Jeff, Hunter and Steph. They had been fighting all morning about the recent text message, and phone call.
Steph was quick to say that she thought that Paige should give in, and give herself up before some one else did it for her. Though, Emily was also quick to fight back, saying that Steph was being selfish and not thinking of Paige. That argument had lasted about an hour before Lissa and Hunter finally intervened and got them to stop.
Hunter, Steph, Jeff, and Lissa were shocked to find out that Shawn had been secretly helping Paige. Hunter admitted that he had suspected it, but knew that it was Shawn's choice on what he did, and let him do his own thing. This, of course, caused Steph to freak out on both Shawn and Hunter, calling them traitors.
Jeff had pretty much been quiet all morning, hardly commenting on anything. Paige had tried multiple times to get eye contact with him, but he was constantly avoiding her.
Paige groaned as Stephanie and Emily began to fight again. She was really starting to get sick of listening to them, even if they were both just trying to do what was best for Paige. "Enough!" Paige yelled, making both of the girls stop arguing. "This is crazy, you both need to stop. I get that you both want the best for me, but fighting is not helping."
Jeff nodded his head, finally talking. "Paige is right, fighting is not helping. For the sake of Kenzie, we all need to get along and work together. Plus, If this person is set on exposing Paige, we will all go down with her. In case you all forgot, we have been hiding her."
Steph's mouth widened as she realized that Jeff was right. "Fine.. No more arguing." She promised, unhappily.
Paige looked over at Emily, and narrowed her eyes, waiting for her to answer as well.
Emily sighed, and rolled her eyes, "Alright, alright. I'm done, it's over."
"Thank you. Both of you." Paige said, while doing her best to smile happily at them. She then turned to Hunter, "Do we have any idea who could be doing this?"
Hunter shook his head, "You have a lot of enemies Paige. You always have, even before you left, to be honest with you."
Lissa frowned, "You had enemies even before? I really can't imagine why anyone would hate you... What went on behind the scenes?" She asked, with a confused look on her face.
Paige couldn't help but chuckle at Lissa. Back then, Paige made sure to keep her private life, private from all of the fans. She did a pretty good job at it as well. "There were a lot of things I did my best to keep private. Like, for example why I left and what really happened." She pointed out. Many fans had no idea about why Paige and Randy broke up, just that they did.
"Dad wanted to make a whole story line out of it, he wanted Steve and Randy to eventually get into a feud since really, Randy's the reason Paige left." Steph told them. "There was no way Steve would allow it though. He wanted Paige's drama to be left private, and knew that Paige would be furious about it."
Nodding her head, Paige ran her hand through her hair. "There was a lot of people that I didn't get along with. And back then when I didn't get along with someone, everybody knew it. It was constant arguing, Candice was probably the one I fought with the most. No matter what, we just could not get along."
Steph laughed "Then there was Liz, and Tori, and the feuds with Kelly.." She reminded her.
"Yeah, Yeah. Long story short, I have a long list of people who would love to expose to me everyone." Paige told all of them. "But the question is, who would have been able to figure me out?"
Emily shrugged her shoulders, "I honestly have no idea. You guys said that Melina knows about you, right? Could it be her?"
Stephanie shook her head, "No, I doubt it. She was dead set against exposing Paige like that when we last talked." She said, with an innocent look on her face. She wasn't going to explain how it came up in conversation, but she had a feeling they all knew.
"Most likely, this person made sure that none of us are aware that they know about Paige. They could have found out at any time, as well. They have obviously thought this through." Shawn told them.
Sighing, Paige grabbed the bottle of water beside her, and took a sip of it. She wasn't sure how much more of this she could take. Paige hated having to constantly hide, and be cautious. She looked up as she noticed Jeff leaving the room, and going on to the balcony.
Paige glanced around, noticing that everyone was chatting with each other, and no longer paying attention to her. She slowly got up, then made her way across the room, and out to the balcony where Jeff had gone.
Jeff was leaning against the railing, looking out over the city. He turned his head when he heard the sliding door open, and close. He turned his head back as he noticed it was Paige, and didn't say a word.
"Look, I don't know what exactly I did, and I don't know what exactly to apologize for, but I am sorry. The hardest thing about all this is not being able to go to you about everything, and not getting your opinions." Paige told him, truthfully. "Kenz asks for you everyday, and it kills me to have to tell her that I have no idea when she will see you next, when I will get to see you next. Your my best friend Jeffy, you have been for a long, long time. And I miss you so much." By now, pain was obvious on Paige's face, and tears were beginning to form.
Jeff couldn't handle it anymore, and turned towards Paige, and pulling her towards him, hugging her. "I miss you too Paigey." He whispered to her.
A huge smile was now on Paige's face. She was glad to have Jeff back, he was like her rock. He had been with her through everything, and understood more then Lissa, and Emily. But that was only because he was around when Paige was still living her WWE life.
Paige pulled away from Jeff as she thought she saw something flash, and quickly looked around. "Did you see that? Please tell me you saw that!" She exclaimed while turning to Jeff.
Jeff looked at Paige, with a confused look on his face. "What are you talking about? I didn't see anything."
"How did you miss that? There was a flash, like a camera!" Paige told him, while leaning over the balcony and looking to see if she could see anything, or anyone.
Jeff shook his head, and had an amused look on his face. "Paige, I didn't see anything. You were probably just imagining it." He told her, then glanced through the balcony doors into the hotel room to see Lissa motioning for them to come inside. "Now come on, looks like we're being summoned."
Paige groaned then followed him inside and went back to where she was originally sitting. "What's up? Why did you call us back inside?" She asked them.
"I'm hungry and decided it's time for a lunch break." Shawn told them, while grinning.
Paige could tell by looking around that Steph and Emily both wanted to continue figuring things out and were not happy about stopping for lunch. "Lunch sounds good. We all need a break." She told them, while grabbing her jacket and purse and heading to the door.
Xxxxxx
Randy sighed as he sat around the kitchen table at his parent's house. He was joined with his father, Ted Dibiase Jr and Sr.
The first thing Randy did when he found out about him possibly having a daughter, was call his father. His father had told him that the next time he had a couple days off, he was to get back to their house so that they could figure this whole thing out.
"And you're sure that they heard a little girl? It could be all in their heads." Ted Sr asked, as he leaned against the counter. "Maybe they were just trying to get you going Randy."
Ted Jr shook his head, "I've seen the way they are all acting. They seem more freaked out then Randy does."
Randy refrained from rolling his eyes at Ted Jr's comment. "Anyway, Trish told me that the day Paige.." Randy paused, trying to find the right words. "found me.. she had just found out that she was pregnant. They said she told them that they miscarried, but they figure she must have lied to them."
Bob Orton sighed, while looking at his son. "I called Steve as soon as you told me, I wanted to make sure that they weren't lying to you." He admitted to his son, and put his hand up as he could tell that Randy was about to yell at him. "Just hold on a minute, I'm not finished. Luckily, he was with Jeannie at the time and they both told me that they heard the little girl call Paige mom."
Randy narrowed his eyes at his father. "Did they say anything else?"
"Nothing that important. We talked about how surprised we all were that Paige would hide something that big from her family. If any of us hears anything, we agreed to tell each other. We also agreed that if you do, infact, have a daughter, you deserve to know her, and be able to be a father to her, if you wish." Bob told him. He decided to leave out that he had quite the argument with Steve about it all, and that if it wasn't for Jeannie, none of that would be true.
Randy stood up, and threw his arms up. "Of course I'd be a father to her! This girl.. If she's mine.. like hell if I'm going to let Paige keep her from me!" He exclaimed.
Ted Jr couldn't help but let out a chuckle. "Yes, and Maria is just going to love that. I don't know if you've realized it yet, but Maria tends to hate anything that ties you to Paige."
Bob Orton shook his head at the mention of his soon to be daughter in law. "She will just have to deal with it. You sure picked an interesting one there son. Why you left Paige for her, I will never figure out, son."
"Yeah, well you'll get over it, considering I am planning on getting married to her." Randy pointed out to him.
Ted Jr immediately began to laugh, "Wait, you mean you finally figured out a way to get around everything and get married to Maria?" He asked.
Randy's eyes widened and he motioned for Ted to shut up. "Yeah.. don't worry about that. I got it all figured out." He said quickly, hoping his father, or Ted Sr wouldn't pick up on anything.
Ted Sr frowned. "What are you talking about boy? Get around what?" He asked, confused.
"Randall.. That better not mean what I think it means.." His father, Bob, ordered.
Randy closed his eyes, and nodded his head. "Sorry Pops. But your right, the divorced was never finalized. Paige and I are still technically married.."
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