Chapter 25- Heart to Heart with the Heartbreak kid.

Trish and the rest of the divas squinted hard at the new diva as she walked over to them, her face red with laughter. "Okay, so what's up with her?" questioned the Legs of the WWE, her eyes on Katie.

"We'll ask her, something's definitely up with that young woman" answered the Extreme diva.

When Katie finally neared them, Torrie piped up "Whatcha been doing Katie?" and then examining her self-satisfied smile, added "You certainly seem very happy all of a sudden."

The Massachusetts beauty leaned forward towards the huddled group of divas and said in a rather proud tone "I just embarrassed my worst enemy."

All eyebrows shot up, obviously surprised and curious. Embarrassed her worst enemy? How? "Well, what did you do?" asked Trish who was unable to keep the slightly eager tone off her voice.

"I had seen him head off for the fire exit with that hoe. And since I had caught that hoe telling Cena something about 'doing what he wants to do by escaping tomorrow' the previous day, I knew they were up for something real animalistic behind those doors. And so what do I do? I simply "interrupt" their love-making in my most childlike innocence."

Instantly, there were loud giggles and snickers around Katie and her smile grew even wider. The divas began to smile their own versions of evil smiles and it added to the genial satisfaction inside the young diva's heart. Finally, Torrie asked in between giggles "Oh God Katie, what were their reactions like?"

"Oh that's the best part guys" Katie let out a laugh as she said this. "Sable's eyes looked like they were about to pop off. That's still fine. But Cena…." she laughed again as his priceless shocked look flashed in her head. "He actually went RED!"

There was even more loud laughter and soon, the divas had collapsed on their seats 'cause they were laughing so hard. Katie too. This laughter session went about for just a few minutes but the divas' were already holding their stomachs and tears were threatening to fall from their eyes from all the laughing.

Trish sighed as she wiped a tear drop from near her eye before smiling again "Katie, that was totally priceless!"

"Seriously" agreed the red-head, who was close to falling off the seat since she laughed the hardest.

"That certainly gave me a good laugh Katie" said Stacy. "Suddenly, I want you to joke around like this with all the other wrestlers."

"I'd be happy to oblige" said the green-eyed diva, the familiar look of mischief returning on her face.

Suddenly, a loud female voice said announced their boarding call.

"Time to go" Torrie said happily and they all got up with their bags.

"Hey ladies, coming?" came the united voices of the Hardy brothers from the other side.

"Yeah, yeah we are" replied Trish.

Then with that, the divas casually strutted towards the already formed line for Phoenix, Arizona near the ticket counter.

Katie leaned forward and whispered against the red head's ear "I hope I don't get to sit with him again."

Lita smiled back reassuringly "Don't worry Katie. Even if you do, he'll just be subdued 'cause you just saw him womanizing someone."

The two friends shared a knowing smile and then moved forward to show their tickets and passport.

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"Phew" Katie let out a sigh as she settled onto her seat right next to the window. How come I get to sit next to the window again? Sheer luck I believe.

She looked around at the people moving in the aisles heading for their own seats. Her friends had already sat down much further ahead and the only other diva in her section was Candice. She didn't want to talk to her though since she wasn't very close with her. However, what she was really looking for above the line of seats was if a baseball cap was moving towards her row.

Please don't let him come here, please don't let him come here, she silently prayed as she continued to gaze above the line of seats, waiting anxiously for someone to fill in her companion seat. Just when everyone had almost settled down, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar cap moving quickly towards her row. Oh no, oh no, not him. I don't want to face him right now. Not him, not him. Feeling a dreadful feeling rise in her stomach, she shut her eyes.

After a few seconds, a rush of warmth pressed against hers and Katie felt her heart race inside her chest. She still wasn't ready to open her eyes. Her nose twitched a little to catch the scent of cologne to know if it really was her blue-eyed enemy. Fortunately, she couldn't and now, she was really wondering who was sitting next to her.

Slowly, very slowly, she opened her forest green eyes and cast a glance at her neighbor. And the sight that met her eyes made her want to melt right there in the seat from the sudden flow of happiness in her body. There sat next to her, staring curiously at her were the bluish green eyes that belonged to none other than her childhood crush Shawn Michaels, sporting a baseball cap on his head.

For a moment, none of them said anything. Katie was just too speechless for that matter. Having to sit next to a man who she dreamt about everyday of her childhood, this was certainly a pleasant dream for her. She was brought back to reality by The Showstopper's deep voice,

"Mind telling me why you had your eyes closed like that Miss. Katie?" There was a hint of slight mischief in his voice and a light smile played on his lips.

"Oh…n..nothing Shawn" she stammered a little like a fan girl does when she meets her idol. Shawn grinned at her "Were you expecting someone else?"

"No…well not really" she replied quietly, inwardly digesting the fact that she was sitting next to her idol and not to mention, first love. Yes, it was true. The first and the only person she ever fell madly in love with was undoubtedly the Heartbreak kid. Though now she was mature enough to know he was probably the age of her father, a warm current of love still rushed inside her veins at his still strangely handsome sight even after so many years, even after he had slightly aged. She smiled a little happily at the thought that now she was gonna sit with him for over 4 hours. Wow!

The plane suddenly began to move and the two travel companions quickly put on their seat belts. Katie looked outside the window for a long while, as the plane picked up speed over the runway and moved faster. Faster and faster and faster. And then finally after a few seconds, it took to the sky. Katie looked down at all the lights as the city slowly began to come to life. Her gaze was only for a brief while before finally, the black clouds covered her window. She sighed contentedly and turned around to look at her idol.

He was staring off into the space and Katie could make out that he was in deep thought. Not wanting to disturb him, she pulled out a magazine from the back pocket of the front seat and began to read it.

She had only went halfway through a page when the deep voice belonging to Mr. Wrestlemania cut in,

"Katie?"

Green eyes looked up to meet his intent gaze "Yeah?"

He let out a small sigh before saying "You know it's obvious you've got something going on with the Champ right?"

Katie was taken aback. Very taken aback by this one question. "Huh? What does that mean?" she asked, not wanting to be rude to her childhood crush.

"Well, you know, I kinda sensed there was something between you two when he dared you to kiss him" he said, rather quietly.

"He's just a jerk, nothing else" Katie stated matter-of-factly.

"You can tell me if there's something bothering you Katie. And I know there is."

The green-eyed diva shook her brown head "No Shawn, really there's nothing."

"Katie, you're hiding something" he smiled knowingly at her.

"No I am not."

"Yes you are."

"I am not."

Suddenly, Shawn placed his warm hand on hers which was resting on the arm piece. Katie resisted the urge to let out a sigh. He stared deeply at the brunette and then softly said "Katie, do you really look up to me?"

The Massachusetts beauty nodded slowly.

"Is it true you've loved me since time immemorial?"

A look of surprise crossed Katie's face. But she didn't hesitate to reply "Yes."

"Then it's obvious if you love someone, you'd want to share all your feelings with him. Trust him to keep your secrets."

"But Shawn" Katie said in her innocent voice "You're already married. It won't be right."

The Heartbreak kid let out a deep chuckle at this statement. "Katie, Katie, Katie" he shook his ash blonde head at her "Of course I didn't mean it that way. I meant loving in the sense of loving an idol."

"Oh." Came the embarrassed reply.

"So aren't you gonna tell me what's bothering you?"

"Well…" she hesitated for some time but the look, the encouraging look Shawn gave her accompanied with a smile also gave her the courage to trust him enough to tell him about her past with the Champ.

"Well, you see, I've known John since I was a kid."

"Go on."

"And we weren't the best of friends if you think so. We were the worst of enemies and the entire hood knew about this. That's how intense our enmity was."

"It wasn't just the I-hate-you or You-hate-me thing. We sure did despise each other but what was worse was that we constantly played cruel pranks on each other to make our hate obvious."

"And then things got out of hand and everything became a huge mess. Our families were fed up, who could blame them? There were so many tensions in both our houses because of our pranks and God…" her voice trailed off.

"So what happened?"

Katie let out a weary sigh "One day, no one could handle it much longer 'cause our pranks were adversely affecting them too and soon, a decision was made for one of our families to move out."

"So?"

"Eventually, my family had to move out" she sighed again, her voice growing rather tired. "And I've hated him ever since. That's all there is."

"So that's why you looked so baffled at the thought of having to kiss him that evening."

"Yeah" she nodded.

"Do you ever wonder why he asked to kiss you?"

"I don't have to wonder about it 'cause I already know the reason why."

"Why?"

"He just wanted to make me another notch on his bed like he has done so with so many other poor women. Kissing me was the first step in trying to get close to me. And after that, he was gonna make me believe that he loved me. And then one fateful night, get me laid and leave the next day for another victim. He just wanted to hurt me. That's all he's ever done his entire life."

Shawn arched an eyebrow "The divas been telling you stuff I guess."

Katie nodded.

"How sure can you be that you were gonna be just another one-night stand?"

"I confronted him one night. That made me sure that I was gonna be another one-night-stand."

"What did he say?"

"That's the thing. I had told him that I knew he just wanted to get me laid and that's why he kissed me twice so that he could get one step closer. He didn't say anything to that."

"Kissed him twice?"

Katie went slightly red. "Well yeah. When I met him in his room that night, he had kissed me again."

"Oh, I see. When did you go meet him?"

"Right after we returned from the resort."

"And because he remained silent, you think you're right in believing he wanted nothing more than sex?"

Now Katie looked puzzled. "Why should I think about it? I know I'm right. All his life he's done nothing but hurt me. Why would he suddenly try to be nice? And besides, he has Sable with him. Then why should he want to be with me? And don't tell me you don't know he's the biggest womanizer in this industry Shawn."

"I'm all too well aware of that fact Katie. I know he's a womanizer and gets one-night-stands every single night, despite having Sable with him. But I even know for a fact that he doesn't hate you anymore Katie."

Katie was shocked. "What?!"

"He's told me so himself. He says he doesn't hate you anymore Katie. People change you know."

"I don't think so Shawn. Sure people change but relationships don't."

"How sure can you be about it? You never know tomorrow, something bad might happen to John and you'll be the first one on the scene to hold his hand."

Now Katie was petrified. "No! Never in a million years Shawn. Don't tell me such things. It might give me nightmares."

"You know something Katie, it's happened many times that people use hate as a cover for the love they have in their hearts for someone." He winked at her.

"Shawn, you're really scaring me now. Stop this talk for God's sake!"

"It's true Katie. People who hate someone are really pretending. They don't want their love to become obvious."

"Shawn!"

"Okay, okay, fine I'll stop." Then he gently tugged her arm so she was lying on his shoulder. "Don't worry much about my words Katie" he softly said, knowing the diva was very disturbed and upset with what he said. He lightly brushed his fingers through her brown locks and whispered "I'm sorry for having scared you like that."

"Its okay" came the mumbled reply.

But really inside Shawn was thinking "It's gonna happen soon Katie, don't you worry. You'll fall in love with your worst enemy."