Here is the next installment, I'm hoping to round this story off at 30 Chapters, so stay tuned...
Chapter 21
It was finally Survivor Series, November 26th, it was Sam last night before she had to return back to St. Louis for her gymnastics coaching job. Randy had asked her once again if she wanted to stay, he was more than happy to pay for anything, if she wanted it.
Sam declined explaining to the Orton how important her kids were to her, and how much she loved doing her job. Randy understood and was sad to see his future-wife leave him, but was glad she got to be with him this last night, at one of the biggest Pay Per Views of the year.
Tonight Randy and John were both in Survivor Series matches. Randy and Edge, along with three other Superstars were going up against the newly reformed DX and three Superstars of their choice. John was going to be joined by Kane, Bobby Lashley, Sabu and Rob Van Dam against The Big Show, Test, MVP, Finlay and Umaga.
Both matches were later in the evening, and were highly anticipated. The foursome was sitting in catering eating when they were joined by Dave, Paul, Shawn and Stephanie.
Stephanie took a seat next to Mackenzie and bumped shoulders with her, "Stephy, I'm glad you're here… I haven't seen you in what feels like months…" Mackenzie wrapped her arms around her best friend.
"I just talked to you last night, doofus…" Stephanie smirked.
"But it's not the same as having you physically here…" Mackenzie stated shaking her head.
"It's good to know I'm loved," Stephanie grinned saying Hi to Sam. The younger woman smiled and said hi back shyly.
"Very much so," Paul chimed in sweetly.
"Ugh, get out of here you're making me sick…" Mackenzie laughed pushing Paul away from Stephanie. "She's my McMahon so back off…"
"She swapping teams on us Cena?" Paul questioned.
"I'm starting to wonder," John laughed receiving a glare from his girlfriend.
"Whatever," Mackenzie rolled her eyes and shook her head, "Sam and I were just talking about weddings…"
"Did you and Randy finally pick a date?" Stephanie asked.
"Yes," Sam nodded with a huge grin on her face.
"What day?" Stephanie questioned.
"September 21s of next year…" The dark haired girl smiled, her brown eyes lighting up brightly.
"That gives you plenty of time to plan," Stephanie smiled glancing over at the guys who were in a deep conversation about something, more than likely, not about the wedding.
"You think so?" Sam questioned. "I was wondering if I was giving myself enough time to plan it all out…" She shrugged her shoulders. "Mack said that it should be plenty of time too…"
"Oh yeah," Stephanie nodded. "I think that's just about the right amount of time…" She nodded.
The girls continued to talk in detail about Stephanie's wedding and all the details that she had to do, giving Sam an idea of what to expect. Mackenzie had been in many-a-weddings in her day, including Stephanie's and knew what went in to planning a large wedding and reception.
"Listen to them over there, planting thoughts in to each other's heads…" Dave laughed lifting his chin in Sam, Stephanie and Mackenzie's direction. "Pretty soon you're going to be following in our footsteps…" He stated slapping a hand on John's shoulder.
John's eyes grew wide as he glanced up at Dave, "What?"
"Yeah, man… usually it's first comes love, then comes marriage… THEN comes the babies in the baby carriage…" Paul laughed smacking on a piece of bubble gum.
"They fucked that system all up," Randy grinned punching his best friend in the arm.
"I can't help it if she found me completely irresistible before we started dating, or before we fell in love…" John grinned arrogantly.
"But you'll be the next to march down that aisle and become a part of a union, something beautiful…" Shawn remarked nodding his head.
"Marriage?" John questioned shaking his head. "I don't know about that…"
"Why not?" Paul questioned. "I mean, you're having children together, you love her, she loves you… what's stopping you from popping the question?" He asked.
"I don't know… I just… I never thought about it…" John stated shrugging his shoulders. "She hasn't said anything about it, so she probably hasn't either…"
"Are you kidding me?" Dave laughed, he glanced over at John. "She's a woman for Christ's sakes John,"
"That's all they think about, listen to them over there… just talking about color schemes… flower arrangements… ugh…" Randy rolled his eyes. "I told Sam to do what ever she wanted; I just was not wearing pink… or purple…"
"You know, Randy… real men wear Pink…" Dave stated with a laugh.
Randy glared at him and turned his attention back to John, "You don't have to marry her tomorrow man, just think about it…"
"Yeah, I'll do that…" John stated glancing over at his girlfriend who smiled at him before turning back to talk to Sam about possible colors for her wedding with Randy.
Why did people always do this to him? Why did they insist on asking him questions that he wasn't ready to answer? Or that he hadn't even asked himself yet? He had briefly thought about marriage, but when the topic never came up between the two of them, he didn't think much else of it.
She's waiting for you to bring it up, John thought. That's how Mackenzie operated. She had dropped him subtle hints that he just was now realizing; especially two weeks ago when she made the comment about Sam's dress. He shook his head, how come he hadn't seen it before?
John was lost in his thoughts when Mackenzie's voice brought him right back out of it.
"What are you thinking about?" She asked him, they were the only ones left at the catering table now; everyone had gone their ways to talk or prepare for their matches that night.
"I-um… was thinking…" John stuttered not wanting to flat out tell her what he was thinking and she cocked an eyebrow; she saw the contemplation over his face and shook her head.
"Don't lie to me Jonathan Felix…"
"Weddings, I was thinking about weddings…" John stated defeated.
"What about them?" Mackenzie asked confused.
Why had John been thinking about weddings? Had someone said something to him? Had Sam or Stephanie told him about their late night talks about her wanting John to marry her? Or had they told one of their guys, who told her guy?
"Just with all the talk about Sam and Randy…" He glanced down at her stomach and put a hand to it. "Would you want one?" He questioned softly, low enough where Mackenzie had to strain to hear him.
"A wedding?" Mackenzie asked just as quietly. "Every girl dreams of having one," She sighed.
"So, you'd want to marry me?" John asked pursing his lips together in thought.
Mackenzie laughed and tried to hold back the tears that were threatening to fall, "Of course," She answered, knowing full well that with the hints she's been dropping that she would marry John Cena in a heartbeat.
"So, it's settled, we're going to get married?" He questioned her.
Mackenzie stared at him, tears falling freely from her eyes as she tried to hold back her laughter "Was that your unconventional way of asking me to marry you?"
"Yeah, it was…" John's smile grew wiping her tears away with his thumbs.
"Consider yourself, spoken for…" She grinned pressing her lips to his.
In to the night, Rated-RKO's Survivor Series match was over, and they lost to Team DX, which consisted of Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Jeff and Matt Hardy, and CM Punk. It was the first time that none of the winning team had ever been eliminated.
After a few more cards, John was leaving to go for his match; he had been gone for quite some time talking with the other members of his team to get ready for the big match. Sam and Mackenzie decided to sit out in the crowd behind JR and the King, to get a good view of the match first hand.
The Big Show's team was introduced first, followed by John's team. The match got underway and within minutes Umaga was eliminated by Disqualification. He attacked RVD and Sabu with the Television Monitors. Sam and Mackenzie watched as RVD was in the ring with MVP, moments later after a Five Star Frog Splash, MVP was eliminated from the match.
The match continued, RVD was eliminated by Test, Test eliminated by Sabu. Sabu was choke slammed by the Big Show and pinned for the three count, eliminating him from the match as well. Big Show stayed in the match with Kane, as the ref looked away Kane was hit upside the head with Finlay's shillelagh, and then choke slammed by Big Show, being eliminated next.
Mackenzie winced as John was attacked by Finlay from behind; Sam closed her eyes feeling the pain for the guys that were in the ring. It was down to four men, two from Team Cena, and two from Team Big Show. Finlay and Lashley were battling it out between the two of them. Finlay got the upper hand but the fans got behind Lashley as he got ready to Spear an unsuspecting Finlay.
After the spear Lashley got the pin, and soon what was left of Team Cena was double teaming the Big Show to get him down. Within minutes Lashley speared the Big Show making him immobile as John played up the crowd. Sam and Mackenzie yelled along with the crowd and waited to see if John delivered the Five-Knuckle Shuffle or the STFU.
Everyone gasped as the Champ lifted up the Seven Foot, Four Hundred Pound wrestler in to the air and performed his signature move, the FU. Mackenzie winced as John struggled to keep the 400 lbs man in the Fireman's carry and down to the ground.
"Oh my god, he's going to kill himself…" She muttered shaking her head.
"He's ok…" Sam stated pointing as John climbed on top of Show and pinned him for the win. Lashley and John had their hands raised in victory as Show rolled out of the ring in pain.
Mackenzie and Sam stayed out for the rest of the show, knowing that both Randy and John were probably wondering where they were. As the show wrapped up Sam and Mackenzie made their way to the back of the arena.
"Hey, aren't you Mackenzie Roddick?" A voice called from the left of them.
Mackenzie stopped and looked to see a group of John Cena fans, she smiled and nodded her head.
"You're so much prettier in person," The teenage boy continued. "Can I have your autograph?" He questioned.
"Of course," She smiled and signed the shirt he was wearing.
Sam and Mackenzie spent a few minutes with them talking, and Mackenzie was asked to sign a few more things before being escorted to the back of the arena by security. She smiled looking over at Sam.
"Is it weird being recognized?" She asked.
"It can be," Mackenzie nodded. "I can only imagine how the guys feel; they get it ten times as bad,"
"I know, Randy's signing autographs on the plane, as soon as he gets off the plane, while we're waiting for his luggage… it's crazy, but he loves it…" Sam grinned.
"I know how you feel," Mackenzie nodded her head with a small smile, "John could sit at signings all day long, he won't leave until everyone has gotten an autograph, or a picture, or something…" She noted.
The girls talked finding their way backstage as a pair of arms wrapped around their shoulders, Mackenzie and Sam looked over to see Paul grinning at them deviously.
"Where have you two been?" He asked.
"We sat behind JR and King for the rest of the night," Mack retorted.
"Well Cena and Orton are going insanely berserk trying to find the two of you lovely gals," He responded with a smirk, chewing his infamous piece of gum.
"How insane?" Sam asked wincing at the thought.
"Mmm… I think Vince is about to kick them where the sun don't shine if they don't stop barging in to everyone's locker rooms…" Paul shrugged. "See you beauties later," He winked at them and turned down a corner as the girls tried to locate their missing boyfriends.
They turned a corner and saw a livid John Cena and an equally livid Randy Orton thrashing down the hallway, the girls glanced at each other and felt like hiding. The two older men noticed the two brunettes at the end of the hall, and the redness on their faces deepened.
"Where the hell have you guys been?" John asked glaring down at Mackenzie who put a protective hand over her stomach.
"We sat in the audience to watch your match, and we stayed for the rest of the show…"
"The show ended twenty minutes ago, do you have any idea how worried we were about you?" Randy asked grabbing Sam's face in his hands.
"What could happen to us, there is security all over this building…" Sam noted as she watched the redness fall from Randy's face.
"Anything, there could be some psycho fan trying to kidnap our girls because they're… psycho…" John stated as he pulled Mackenzie against him in a giant hug.
"We're ok, we just got stopped by some fans, I signed a couple of autographs… and that was it…" Mackenzie shrugged hugging him back, as the WWE Champion relaxed in her arms.
"C'mon lets get out of here, we have a night of partying ahead of us," Randy stated as he pulled Sam towards the locker room.
"Partying?" Mackenzie glanced up at John.
"We're going to celebrate, and kind of a sending off party for Sam," He shrugged his shoulders.
"That sucks," Mack groaned. "I get to play DD, while the rest of you get drunk off of your asses…" She complained.
"But, that's why you love us baby…" He grinned giving her a sweet kiss as she changed in to clothes that were more appropriate for going out.