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Chapter 21
I woke up to a kiss on my forehead. I opened my eyes and it was Cody. That caused me to jump out of bed and jumped into his arms and give him a kiss. "Baby, I missed you" I looked into his eyes and smiled as he sat me back down on my feet.
"I missed you too" he gave me another kiss "I didn't see anybody in the guest room. I thought Jake was just gonna stay here"
"About that…" I took a deep breath "You should sit down" I said, so he did. We both sat on the bed across from each other.
"What happened?" he got that look in his eyes. You know that look, that 'I have to kill someone' look.
"Before you even get mad just let me explain everything. Promise?"
"I can't promise that" he said apologetically
"Ok, promise me that you wont say a word until I'm done" I grabbed a hold of his hand.
"Now that, I can do" he smiled at me
"Ok…" I took a deep breath and explained to him EVERYTHING that happened. Not the smoking thing but I explained the kiss, waking up to him in the bed with me, knocking him out, deciding I can't be friends with him right now, all of it. Then I waited for a response.
"I knew there was a reason I had a bad feeling about him. I know you can take care of yourself for sure now. You handled that perfectly, better than I would have. And I will take his advice… I can't believe just one of your punches had a marine out cold for 10 minutes" he smiled in shock. He took it better than I thought he would have.
"Ya, shocked me too. I tried to be all sweet as I was walking up to him and catch him by surprise with the punch. He just really pissed me off. I didn't think it would knock him out though" I laughed "Oh and by the way I did wash our bed sheets since he was in our bed. I know that's what you'd think about"
He just looked into my eyes "Ya know, you're getting to know me pretty well too" he smiled
"What can I say, you're growing on me" I smiled back
"A test. What do I want to do right now?" he smirked
I smirked back "Well I really want to just cuddle with you so after we're done then we get to cuddle" I offered
"Sounds great to me" he said and pretty much jumped on me.
We had an amazing night home just chilling around the house. Shadow still following me everywhere I went. She has to get used to this house before she feels comfortable. I actually like it when she follows me around. She's my baby girl. I had her picked out from the minute she was born that she was gonna be mine and she knows it.
The next morning we woke up and got everything around and since I don't know how long we'll be gone all the time I have 3 different litter boxes around the house and Shadow knows where each one is and she's used each one. Same with her food and water. I don't want her to die while we're gone.
Ya know, planes aren't ALWAYS reliable. We weren't late but we weren't as early as I would have liked. I changed into my dress suit in the car on the way to the arena. We didn't have time to stop at the hotel. As soon as we got to the arena I had to get to Stephanie's office.
"Ah Donna. Right on time" she said as I walked in.
"I would have been here sooner but the plane was being a bitch and got in late" then I covered my mouth "Sorry about that"
"You're fine. Have a seat" she offered. I didn't mean to cuss in front of her, it just comes out. I don't really see curse words as bad.
So I sat down at the chair in front of her desk "Thanks"
"Alright. I wanna know your ideas for the women's division. And I want honesty about what you think about the product" she folded her hands and put them on the desk.
"Complete honesty?" I questioned "Even if it's brutal?" I had to make sure. I don't wanna make a bad impression.
"Yes, complete honesty, no matter how brutal"
I took a deep breath "Alright…" and I explained what I thought of the current product. "All you have to do to make it better is not worry about having 'the sexiest women on television' get girls like Beth and Nattie in particular in there. You fucked up with not using Lisa and letting her go. I know you guys can't completely ignore TNA, you've seen what she's done there already, it hasn't even been a year yet and she's gone further than what you guys did with her over I don't know how many years. You guys made her a joke and you should have scooped up Jessica Kresa (ODB) while you guys had the chance. I know the majority of the wwe audience is male but they'd like to see girls kick ass too. I'm not saying all of them have to look like Beth or Nattie, they just have to wrestle. You've got quite a bit of girls that you give spots to that can't wrestle and don't deserve it"
"And who would you put in that class?" she wasn't being condescending, she was just curious. I had noticed that she was writing notes as I was talking. I couldn't tell what they were but it had my heart pounding, Stephanie McMahon is taking notes from me.
"At the very top would be Barbie Blank. She's not too bad but when she's on the defense, having to make her opponent look good, she just sucks. Maryse is getting better, so is Michelle McCool, I don't think either one is title worthy but that's just my opinion. Layla's not too bad. Bella's you can just get rid of, you guys don't do shit with them. They just accompany the guest hosts to the ring. You're pretty much paying them to do nothing. Those are just off the top of my head. And I'm not saying to just release them with no warning like you did with Maria, who I think was doing a lot better, you just didn't have anything for her, rather 'couldn't find anything' I think you should atleast warn ALL the girls that, now this is if you guys actually go along with my idea, you guys are gonna start making cuts. Let them prove themselves. Lessen the bra and panties bullshit. Those matches are better when it's girls that can actually wrestle and usually don't reveal a lot. Actually makes the guys want to tune in even more cause they never see that side of them. You should judge them on their abilities, not their looks. Try not to hire very many girls cause you have too many, that's why you can't find anything for some of them" I explained my idea. Now to find out what she thinks.
She just looked at me like she was amazed "I think you really have something here" she smiled
"Seriously?" I had to ask
"Yes, I'm serious"
"Wow" I had to take a few minutes to catch my breath "Sorry, it's just that I love this business, I don't look at it like most fans…"
"I can tell that" she interrupted
"Ya, well this business… I just feel like I'm supposed to be here ya know. I mean, you were born into it so I don't know if you know how I feel but… I just can't really explain it. This business, not just this company, the wrestling business consumes my mind so much that it got me to loose 100 pounds so far, I still wanna loose another 30 atleast. I want to wrestle. And I'll be honest, because of the way you guys treat the women's division I want to go to TNA. But Uncle Ted didn't want that, that's why he told Vince about my idea and why I'm talking to you now"
"100 pounds?! Wow. That is amazing. Have you trained anywhere yet?" she asked
"Not yet. I wanna finish loosing this weight first. I was gonna go to the Funking Conservatory but Teddy and Cody said they'd train me. So I think I'm gonna go with that since it'll be free"
"Ya know, with this idea of yours you'd have plenty of money to go to the dojo if you still want to and still have plenty of money left over" she smiled
My eyes went wide "You want to pay me for this idea?"
"Yes. Granted they're not competition yet but the Monday Night Wars are back. We need to be better than them in all aspects and when dad told me the gist of this I had to agree with you. I think this will really help us"
"Wow, thanks"
"No problem. You got any other ideas for anything else?"
"Not right off the top of my head, for the past week I've just been thinking about what I was gonna say to you but I will say this; You guys are starting to get a bit too predictable and you guys should try to make less promos and more wrestling. I'm not the only one that's realized that one"
She looked at me like she was thinking "Now I can't guarantee you a spot here just cause you're gonna get trained by some of our talent. I know dad's offered for other guys to help you too…"
I cut her off "I don't expect it. I'd be hypocritical if I expected that. I'd want you to judge me like you would any of the other girls" oh my god, I just interrupted Stephanie McMahon "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you, I'm sorry" I started to panic a little
She laughed "Donna, you're fine. But what I was trying to do was offer you a job on creative" she smiled
My jaw dropped "Seriously?"
She laughed at me again "Yes, seriously. I want you to be my right hand girl"
I had to catch my breath again "I'm sorry, I just admire all you guys and you guys are huge ya know. So I hear you guys say stuff like that and I kinda mark out on the inside. I have to get used to it. I'm sorry" I felt the need to apologize
"It's cool. Very understandable. So what do ya say? I'd love to hear more of your ideas. I want you on creative with me"
"But I don't have a degree in anything. I dropped out of college after 2 months cause I was so determined to wrestle, I didn't care where it would be, it could be the indies the rest of my life, I just wanna be in that ring. I have no experience on a sitcom. None of that stuff. Best experience I've got creative wise is that I write fan fictions and I don't think they're very good" I didn't want her to assume stuff about me.
"Don't care. We need atleast 1 person that's a legit fan and sees the business like you do… Fan fictions?"
"Ya. I can write somewhat, I'm just not good at making up my own characters so I just use characters from a world I already know. Not trying to do any copyright infringements or anything. It's just for fun"
"Actually, I have read a few fics on there. How many have you written?" she asked
"Well a few have sequels but including those, 17"
"Wow. Ok, what I would actually like for you to do is print off what you think is your top 3 fics, I'd like to read them if you don't mind"
"Seriously?" she just looked at me "Sorry. Can do. You sure you want me to print them off though. My best ones are rather long"
"Good point. How about I give you til next Sunday to go over them and decide which ones are your best and I'd like to spend the day with you on Sunday and we can go over them together"
"Alright. Where are we gonna meet at?" my heart is beating so fast right now
She looked over her papers "Next Monday we're in St. Louis and I'm sure you and Cody will go a few days earlier to see Randy so how about we just go to a nice quiet place there like a coffee shop or something… Ya know what, we'll see if Randy's cool with me coming to his place and we can just lock ourselves in one of his rooms or something. That way I know we'll be left alone and we won't get interrupted by fans"
"Wait, you know about me and Cody?" I was shocked
"Honey, I know everything. I know a lot more than what my dad knows" she smirked
"Everything?" I asked, I wonder if she knows about the whole Ted thing.
"Pretty much. Example; I know Ted's not really your cousin. He didn't have to say that to get you back here ya know"
"Oh. Too late now, we're like cousins"
"I've noticed. I won't tell anybody you guys secret. Cause if you're good and we hire you as a talent then I think it'd be cool to have another DiBiase, I know the story is that it's on his moms side but we change a lot of things for storylines sake. If this women's division goes like we plan then we could have you and Ted tag together"
"Steph… can I call you Steph or would you prefer Stephanie?"
"Steph's fine"
"Ok but ya, that would be awesome"
"It would be" she looked at the time "Crap, I got somewhere else I gotta be. So I'll let you go and have a good week before you start work on Monday. I'll get a hold of Randy and I'll be there Sunday around 11 am. If anything changes then I'll call you"
"Alright. Sounds good" I said and we traded numbers.
"Great. See ya then" she said and I left her office.
I took a few steps out after I shut the door and I couldn't contain it anymore, I didn't care if she heard me or not "WOOOOOHOOOO!" I shouted. This is crazy as all get out. I'm Stephs right hand girl. I just couldn't get that out of my mind as I walked to Legacy's locker room. Cody and Ted must have been elsewhere cause when I got in there Randy was the only one in there.
"So how did it go?" he asked as I sat down on the bench, then he sat down next to me.
"First. You mind if Cody and I crash at your place on Saturday and Sunday. If it's cool with you, I'd like to meet Sam and Alanna"
"Ya, dude that's cool. Now how'd it go?" he was anxious
"One more question. You mind if Steph comes over on Sunday. We have like a meeting and we don't want to be bothered and she thought to ask you since RAW's in your hometown next week"
"It went that good? Ya, that's fine" so I texted Steph and let her know that it's ok.
"Oh hell ya dude. I'm Steph's right hand girl" I smiled proudly
"Woah there. Now just tell me what you guys talked about"
I took a deep breath "Alright…" I started and explained everything to him.
"Wow. I don't know why they didn't think of that before. I'm glad they're finally gonna do it though. I'm proud of you" he gave me a hug
"Thanks Randy. That means a lot coming from you" I told him and we sat there just talking for a while before Ted and Cody came back and I let them know what happened. They were so excited for me. I'm excited too. I never thought this would happen in my wildest dreams.
A/N: BLAH, WHAT DID YOU GUYS THINK?