Chapter 25

"You definitely have more things than I do…" He said while he walked from my kitchen area back to the couch "Even if it's small…" He looked around again before his eyes set on me.

"I like it this way" I mumbled while flipping on the news to check what the weather was going to be like for the next day. Higher 50's tomorrow wasn't too bad, it was definitely better than up north.

"So what do you wanna do?" he asked while taking a sip from his water bottle and leaned against the back of my black leather couch more, he already had said he needed to get one of these for his place in Vegas.

"I have to pick up my dress for the Hall of Fame down at Green Hills at some point today because I know I'm not going to have any time to grab it next week"

"You're going with me right?" He asked and I raised an eyebrow with a smirk playing on my lips

"Is that how you're going to ask me?" He shot me a brief look so I continued "I'm kidding, of course I'm going with you… do you have a suit yet?" He shook his head "Maybe we can pick one up for you today, Green Hills has the best shops." I stood up and brushed off my black leggings "I'm going to change, make yourself at home."

I walked into my room and unzipped my bag, tossing the dirty clothes into the basket on the floor "Want me to wash what's in your bag?" I called and he gave me the approval to dump his clothes in with mine and I started a quick wash while I opened up my closet and pulled off my clothes and changed into loose blue jeans and a red v neck t-shirt. I retouched my makeup and ran my fingers back through my hair so it had some volume. Once I heard the buzzer for the wash, I tossed the wet clothes into the dryer and set it on a timer so we could get out of here while the day was still young.

"Abigail!" Maria gushed as we walked into Free People an hour later. I gave her a quick hug and smiled while taking my sunglasses off now that we were in a safer place to not be rushed by fans who had been eying us while we walked around the mall.

"Hey Maria, is the dress ready?" I asked her as Dean eyed the woman store around him and then looked back at the older brunette in front of us.

"Of course and it's gorgeous! Did you want to try it on?" I nodded while she walked us to the back changing room. Maria looked over at Dean and I smiled a bit, she was always admiring the finer things in life. "Here it is!" She said as she hung the bag up on the hook on the wall and unzipped it. It was gorgeous and it was exactly what I wanted. It was a dark blue maxi dress with a very interesting cut out back and the bustier was embroiled with geometric designs with gold beads and a chain connected it in the back cut out, the flow-like midnight blue dress had small sparkles on it so it looked like stars, my god it was perfect.

As I changed, I noticed the slit running up my thigh that I wanted in the dress and hooked the dress together in the front between my breasts. Tossing my blonde curls to the side off my shoulder, I looked at myself in the mirror and walked out. Maria was talking with Dean who was leaning casually against the wall; no doubt wanting to get out of this store to go get his suit but I caught his full attention when I stepped out from behind the curtain.

"It looks marvelous! How is the fit?" She asked as she came up to me and made sure to check for herself, her fingers fixing the chain across my shoulder blades.

"Fits like a glove…" I glanced at Dean and he was still looking me over with his thinking face on.

"Doesn't she look beautiful?" Maria pressed and Dean nodded

"Yeah, yeah… you look beautiful" I smiled at his compliment and after Maria was done poking me around to make sure everything was perfect, I changed out of the midnight blue dress and Maria hung it back up in the bag and we walked to the cashier desk and I handed her my credit card after she told me it was going to be four hundred and fifty dollars.

"Four hundred for a dress" Dean muttered mostly to himself as his hand slid into mine while we walked, it was actually the first time in public he held my hand casually like this; it felt nice.

"Four hundred is a steal for this dress, I'm sure most of the girls are going to be in thousand dollar dresses that are rented" I tried to reason but he really was the type to spend less and to save his money, well I hope he knew that suits around here weren't cheap.

He budged a bit on the price of the suit after he played dress up for me at Milton's and I let him choose between the navy blue suit and the black but he picked the navy so I chose the lighter blue polka dotted tie, then he grabbed some dress shoes. "No, you can't wear black shoes with blue…" I said as I glanced at the choice of shoes.

"Seriously I don't think people are going to be looking at my feet"

"Yes they will, it's the Hall of Fame"

"Never been" I raised an eyebrow "Had a signing last year during it."

"Oh… well trust me someone will ask what is on your feet, how about these?" I picked up a tan pair of shoes and he shook his head as he picked up a lighter tan pair "Are you sure?"

"Why not go all out? I'll have walnuts on my feet all night" I couldn't help but agree because they did look like walnuts.

Setting up out dress bags in the backseat of our rental for the next two days, I sat comfortably in the front seat while he pulled out of the parking lot of the Green Hills shopping mall. "So about us going together" I started "Someone is bound to ask so what's the plan?"

"We're both loners so you asked me to come with you so you didn't look like a loser" He made up the story on the spot and it made me hit his arm playfully which caused him to chuckle "Wanna piss management off?"

"Maybe" I mumbled with a tiny smirk "But they're still putting me with Seth when The Shield breaks apart so…"

"So we'll piss management off and show them you should be with me" His hand slid off the steering wheel to my thigh and gave it a small squeeze.

"Sounds good to me" I put my hand over his and laced my fingers with his.

After dropping our clothes back at my place, we hopped back in the car and drove around until the darkness spread over downtown and all of the lights turned on to show just how country this city was. I brought him to all of the famous tourist attractions and then we ended up at Jackson's for dinner and drinks while an up and coming country singer sang acoustic songs up on the far stage. That's why I loved this city, there was live music in every bar every day of the week; you couldn't find that anywhere else. Screw Hollywood, this was where people should come to make their dreams come true.

"This accent, we need to talk about it" Dean muttered later that night

"What about it?" I asked, looking up from the table. Somehow we ended up on my floor playing a card game on my coffee table with beers, lots of beer.

"It's for show right? You don't sound like this all the time" I sighed deeply and shrugged

"It just comes out more when I'm home I guess, being around other southerner's I guess; you hate it right?" I took a sip of my beer and watched him put a jack of hearts down on the table and then I glanced at my cards quickly.

"It's actually fucking adorable, say y'all again" I narrowed my eyes at him but indulged him anyways

"Y'all" He grinned and chuckled "Stop, I'm not some alien" I put an eight down and he picked it up and put three eights down on the table in front of him and I pouted.

"Sorry, sorry but you're adorable" I smiled and picked up the king he placed down and put down the four kings in front of me "I take that back."

"All a luck of the draw darlin'" I said and he grinned. I won that round to say the least but he won the game because he reached 500 points first.

We set up in my bed next after he complained about my closet and the shoe collection I had, he was actually really surprised at how many shoes I had considering I usually worse converses or flats. "I am not a diva" I said against his shoulder while he brought it up again.

"You own a hundred pairs of heels" He deadpanned

"No, I have like twenty tops and I've worn them all so… shut up"

"Too many if you ask me"

"I don't think anyone asked you, I could always complain about how you have too many honey oats bars in your kitchen in Vegas but I'm not am I?"

"Food and shoes are completely different Abs"

"Not really, not to a woman" He laughed at my serious tone

"By the way you weren't complaining about those bars when we were there last week, in fact you were up eating them at four in the morning"

"What? They're good, I never said they weren't" Our weird conversation ended after that because we were both exhausted, he fell asleep first like usual and I fell asleep a couple minutes later.

Our Thursday morning was filled with 'make your own pancakes' at the corner diner and he piled on so much junk to his pancakes that I was sure that he was going to throw up after eating them. He patted his stomach as he leaned back in the booth and I grinned while I sipped on my hot coffee. "I'm surprised you're not fat, I'd eat here all the time if I lived here."

"I'm not here much" I said "But I do know that your stomach is going to hate you later after eating all of that shit" He shrugged and sipped on his Orange Juice while a woman walked by the table and I turned my attention to her.

"Sorry to bother y'all this morning but there's a concert in the park tonight" She handed me the light blue flyer and I glanced over it casually "Hope to see you there" I nodded at her and smiled. Another reason why I loved this city, the locals weren't at all shy to talk to you.

"Who's playing?" He asked and I looked at the flyer again

"Chase Rice, I've seen him a few times; pretty decent" I said as I handed him the flyer

"Wanna check it out later?" I nodded with a smile; we'd be more than just checking it out.

We ended up at the new gym downtown a couple hours later and we parted ways so I could check out the cross fit gym that connected to the regular facility. "You look like you know your way around a cross fit gym" I heard at the counter while I walked up to get a spotter.

"Been around one a time or two, is there someone available to set me up?" The thirty something year old nodded

"Me of course, I'm Tommy" He put his hand out for me and I smiled and shook it gently

"Abigail, pleasure"

"So what were you looking into doing today?" He asked while he grabbed some chalk and a clipboard with a few papers on it, sticking the pen behind his ear. We walked up to the wall length chalk board and scribbled down "WOD".

"Usually I'm doing Plyometrics and body weight exercises" He wrote those down in order of what to do, we were going to be doing the body weight exercises first apparently. As he wrote it all down, I took a few sips from my water bottle and placed it down with my towel at the wall and started my easy stretches.

"What's your box?" He asked and I glanced over at him

"24" He raised an eyebrow but nodded anyways and pushed over the 24 box block over and I stretched backwards and shook out my legs a bit.

"What do you do for a living if I may ask?" He asked after I completed the three sets of 10 block jump. I wiped the sweat from my brow and took in a deep breath.

"I'm a pro-wrestler" I told him, taking a sip of my water and started on my squat jumps in which he timed.

"A pro-wrestler huh? Which promotion?" he asked after I finished the last squat and landed on my feet. The burn in my quads and hamstrings was intense.

"WWE" I said casually

"Really now? I haven't seen you on their"

"I've been off television because of an injury but I'm all healed up now. I'll be back right after WrestleMania" I told him as I set up for my burpee's.

"What's your name on television?"

"Abigail Savage" I said and then started on my burpee's and he pressed start on his timer in his hand.

"Savage? Oh shit you're not the Macho Man's daughter are you?"

"I am" I huffed out, wishing he would stop asking me questions while I worked out but this just caused more questions to flow out of his mouth.

"In real life or?"

"Yes in real life" I grunted "Could we get back to the work out?" I asked and he nodded.

Handstand push-ups were next and as I was on my hands holding myself up against the wall doing them, Dean walked in with his towel on his shoulder and his shirt off. He smirked at me while I made a face at him as I pushed through the pain traveling up my arms and shoulder. As I finished, I tipped over onto my knees and lifted myself up slowly. Dean tossed me my towel and I patted my head "Holy shit, no way you're that Abigail?" Tommy said and I sighed deeply but nodded anyways, walking over to the hanging bar and jumped up and started on the knee's to elbow's.

Thankfully a woman needed help and Tommy looked back over at me "No, no I'll be fine Dean's done this before."

Dean took the chalk from him and glanced over at the board to see what else I needed to do while my knees touched my elbows once again. "Thank fucking god" I huffed

"Fan boy?"

"He wouldn't shut up" I jumped down onto the floor and shook out my sore arms, wiping my forehead again before going over to the rings and he actually had to help me up on them because they didn't adjust to height. I did fifty muscle-ups and jumped down onto my feet completely exhausted. "I'm actually surprised you got done before me" I muttered while I downed the rest of my water bottle.

"Only needed to work on a few things, looks like that was your personal best" He wrote it down on the chalk board and I chuckled

"Seth's going to be so pissed I just beat him" I pulled my phone out from the small bag I brought and snapped a photo of it and sent it to him and then to twitter with the caption 'Got the go ahead to start working out, looks like I just beat WWERollins PR on muscle-ups #MachoPrincess #GameOn'

Tossing the phone back in my bag once I got Seth's text saying 'I'm going to the gym right now to beat that' I laughed and told Dean. We left after that to get to my place to shower and change for the night's events. To have friends in town the same night as I was, was really rare and I was going to take full advantage of it.

"Wait where are we going?" He asked while I held onto his hand and dragged him along behind me towards the parking lot, not the park "I'm no local but I'm pretty sure the show it that way babe."

"You really wanna watch the concert on the grass?" I asked him and looked both ways as we cross the street and I knocked on the tour buses door a few times.

"Trying to pull some strings?" He asked, his fingers intertwining with mine a bit tighter.

"Something like that…" I mumbled as the door was pushed open

"No fuckin' way!" Brian Kelley said as he jumped down from the stairs and hugged me tightly, Dean's hand was pulled away from mine rudely. "When the hell did your cute ass get in town?" He asked me as he let me go and I smiled up at him.

"Yesterday actually, here 'til tomorrow morning…" I glanced at Dean quickly "This is Dean"

"We've met actually" Dean said as the two shook hands and I raised an eyebrow in confusion "When Monday Night Raw went country" he said to me and it cleared my confusion, that's right the boys did perform that night.

"That's right, slipped my mind considering I wasn't on the main roster yet" I said as Brian's arm wrapped around my shoulders

"Jesus, the boys are going to flip you're in town. We're having a few beers before the show starts, want in?" Brian asked me and then turned to Dean and he nodded. He was never the one to turn down a couple drinks.

"Found a lucky little gem outside…" Brian said as he pulled me from behind him and sitting there on the two couches was Chase and Tyler as well as Tyler's girlfriend Hayley. They both hugged me way too tightly but I gave Hayley the biggest hug because she and I actually became great friends over the past two years of her dating Tyler.

Chase was the only one who didn't know Dean so of course they would sit and talk with each other while they threw back a beer. "So you two…?" Hayley asked and I nodded, tipping back the beer against my lips and took in a long gulp "Serious? I mean you two are here at your house…"

"We were at his place last week on our days off, we just like being together I guess" She smiled wide "What?" I asked

"I'm happy for you, haven't seen you this content and happy ever so it's good" I smiled wide and tapped the neck of my bottle against hers gently and we cheers to being happy.