November 22nd, 2011

The next morning, Mary was unusually chipper. She woke up next to AJ, fully clothed, which did make Mary pout a little, but she knew it was for the best. A sense of relief that she hadn't felt in years was now engulfing her entire being. She should have been honest with John from the very beginning, but she was only human. She was bound to make mistakes. Today was a new day. She had years to make up for, and she was going to start right then and there. She showered and began getting ready for the day. After getting dressed and doing her hair, she pulled out her phone, dialing Rey Mysterio's number. She tilted her head as she thought she heard a familiar ring tone coming from the main door of her hotel suite. Blinking, she waited to see what happened next.

"Open the door," Rey's voice came through her phone, echoing through the doorway as he laughed.

Mary shook her head at herself as she opened the door and hung up her phone. "Well, then. Good morning. Is everything alright? Is Marcus is okay?"

"Angie has your number, bella dama. If there was an emergency with your son, she'd call you personally," Rey chuckled.

Mary blinked, nodding. "Right, right." She stepped aside to let her friend into her room, pointing toward the bedroom to show a sleeping AJ on the bed and motioned for him to stay at least somewhat quiet.

Rey smirked, raising his eyebrow at his friend playfully. "A little fun on the side?"

"Ha. Ha." Mary rolled her eyes. "I'm open to that, but no. AJ and I just fell asleep watching a movie."

The Hispanic gentleman nodded, taking a deep breath. "So why were you calling me?"

Mary found a chair to sit in, waiting for Rey to do the same. "I'm ready."

It didn't take much for the man on the other side of the table to know exactly what she was talking about. "That's actually the reason why I'm here. Well, it's on that subject anyway. I'm sure John is hung over right now."

Mary bit her lip as she propped her elbow up on the table. She closed her eyes as she rested her forehead on her palm. "I should have seen it coming. We... sort of had a moment last night."

Rey nodded, understanding that the whole situation was a huge mess. "I don't think that you're the only reason his marriage is falling apart," he offered in hope of making her feel a little better on the subject.

Mary swallowed hard, running her fingers through her brunette locks. "He doesn't know how old Marcus is. Randy just told him that I may have ended things because of my son. John just seems to assume that he's like six, or something."

The older man shrugged, "well, there is no time like the present to tell him. Are you sure that you are ready for this?"

Mary took a deep breath as she nodded, "yeah, I want to get through telling John everything before starting this plan that I have. That's what I was about to call you about. Do you think that it's okay if I have him meet me at your house on Friday? The best way to tell him is to show him in this case."

"Yeah, of course," the man nodded as he turned to see AJ stirring. "I'll call Angie and make sure everything is set up. I'd call Marcus tonight, if I were you. Wait until after the SmackDown tapings, he has wrestling practice."

Mary giggled, nodding. "Yeah, she's a little awkward. She may freak if you're here when she wakes up."

Rey smiled, getting up and kissing the top of Mary's head. "See you at the show." He walked over to the door, letting himself out.

Mary got up and stood in the doorway of the bedroom area of her hotel suite as AJ slowly sat up. "Morning sleepyhead," she smiled at her young friend.

"We didn't..." AJ rubbed her head, looking around in confusion.

The older girl couldn't help but laugh. "April Jeannette Mendez, are you serious? Don't you remember attempting to watch the Battleship movie last night?"

"Oh yeah... right, right," she blushed, stretching. "I also remember raiding the minibar. That's why I asked."

Mary shook her head as she sat down on the bed. "Nothing happened, AJ. I care way too much about you to let something like that happen. My first time that counted was with Randy. It was beautiful and we were both one hundred percent sober. I want nothing less than that for you." Just as she got the last bit out her phone began to play "Voices" by Rev Theory. The girls shared a laugh as Mary stood up, answering the phone. "So... are we in trouble?"

"No, in fact that segment is the most talked about from last night. You all did an amazing job," the grin on Randy's face showed in his voice.

"Are we allowed to hit Laurinaitis? I was already going through enough shit last night. That was uncalled for," Mary sighed.

"That's sort of why I wanted to talk to you. What's up with you and Punk? Since when you were you friends with him?"

"I'm not," Mary shrugged, despite the fact that Randy couldn't actually see her. "Well, at least not yet. He seems like a cool guy, though." She turned to look at AJ who was making her way to the bathroom, "go ahead and shower in here, you never made it to your room, so your stuff is in here."

"Don't tell me you fucked someone last night," Randy sighed into the phone. "You may get another chance with John. I know you want that."

Mary couldn't help but laugh. "No, I just shared my bed with a cute little virgin. We attempted to watch a bad movie and fell asleep."

"Oh, so that's where AJ ended up. Celeste was wondering." Randy took a deep breath, "now for the serious..."

"I've already gotten some of the serious this morning. Rey was just here. John is most likely hung over. I'm telling him on Friday," Mary quickly got out before Randy could finish.

"What exactly are we telling him now?" Randy asked, wanting to keep things straight.

"Well... I am going to start with telling him that I was never in love with you, then I'm going to introduce him to Marcus," Mary swallowed hard, still afraid of how John would react. "Hopefully things fall into place after that."

"Sounds good to me. I think I'll go check on my best friend. Well, I'm going to see if he still is my best friend..." Randy sighed into the phone.

Mary bit her lip. "I'm sorry, Randy. You know I am."

"It's not your fault, I am the one who let it get to this. Let's just hope that he's not too far gone. I'll see you in a few hours." Randy hung up before Mary could say anything else.

Mary shook her head as she opened the text message editor on her phone and selected John's name. She took a deep breath as she entered a brief, yet definitive message.

"If you want answers. I'm ready to give them to you. Come to San Diego on Friday. Meet me at Rey's house for dinner."

She sent the message, somewhat hoping that that John would get the message before Randy made it to his room.

…

John Cena woke up slowly, groaning as he sat up. As he opened his eyes, Zack handed him a cup of coffee. "Thanks man," he took the cup, immediately taking a drink. "Did anyone get the number of the train that hit me?" he laughed at himself.

Zack laughed as he picked up John's phone, seeing a new text notification window pop up, just as there was a knock on the door. "It's from Mary..."

John quickly took the phone as Zack got up and answered the door for his friend. He opened the message, his eyes widening as he saw Randy walk into the room. "Okay, I really need to figure out what happened after Mary hit the showers last night."

"It seems that she got cock slapped by reality, and seeing you helped," Randy sat down in a chair by the bed.

John shook off the image that put in his head and took another drink of his coffee. "It looks like she may be mine just yet..."

Randy nodded, "she wants to tell you. This is huge."

Zack coughed, looking toward John's wedding ring.

John shrugged, setting his phone down. "I think that Liz may be cheating, anyway."

Randy sighed sympathetically. "They can't all take us being on the road all of time."

The hung over man sitting on the bed nodded. "It happens. I think that everyone knew I wasn't meant to be with her, anyway."