Crowned
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Chapter29
Between Paige's breakdown, his parents, brother and sister, Randy had forgotten the reason he went on the hunting trip in the first place. Sure, he had bonding time with Mr. Santino, but he never got him alone to ask him. Paige had made the threat that she was going to resign her title, but when she got home she decided that there was no chance in hell that she was going to give up her ultra swanky penthouse apartment because of her mother. Randy and Paige had gone to the airport with Peter to see Mel and Holly out of the city. Holly's flight was first. The group slowly approached the gate. Holly turned to Paige and Mel.
"Well, this is it." Her eyes were beginning to glaze over with a fresh batch of tears, the three quickly embraced each other as they all began to cry. Now boarding flight G18 first class non-stop to Chicago. It said over the intercom.
"You made me cry you bitch," Paige said and the three laughed as the faint black lines of mascara began to run down their cheeks. Holly went over and hugged Peter and then Randy.
"You better take care of my girl, or I'll be on the first plane back to kill you." She told him as she hugged him. "Oh yeah, and thanks for the first class ticket." Holly smiled brightly at Randy.
"No problem," He told her and handed her carry-on bag to her before dropping a kiss on her cheek. "Take care of yourself Adams." He said. Paige pulled Holly into a tight hug, the two pulled apart.
"Never goodbye," Paige whispered as the two hooked their pinkies together and smiled tearful smiles.
"Maybe this is the right time to tell you the truth." Holly started.
"Tell me what?" Paige asked.
"I didn't lose my virginity to a film student sophomore year." Holly said.
"Who did you lose it to?" Paige asked.
"I lost it to Luke after our high school graduation." Holly told her.
"Holly!"
"I know, it was sort of a heat of the moment thing." Holly said quickly, leaving Paige stunned.
"You better call me as soon as you get there." Mel told her, and with that Holly was gone.
When they reached Mel's gate, the process was somewhat the same, more tears, lots of kissing between Mel and Peter, and soon Mel was on her plane too. The three began walking in the direction of Paige and Randy's flight to Texas for a tri-brand super show. Paige had begun to wipe away her tears as Randy threw his arm around her waist. Just then…..
"Peter!" Someone shouted, the three turned around to see Mel running towards them; Peter wrapped his arms around her as she kissed him.
"What the hell are you doing, your flight is leaving." He said to her.
"I'm not going, I've loved you for as long as I can remember, and now that I have you I just can't let you go." Mel said breathlessly
"But what about your job?" He asked.
"I can get another one right here in the city." Mel kissed him again. Paige and Randy just stood there, watching the scene unfold. Peter and Mel were in the middle of a serious make-out session. Randy looked at his watch.
"We really need to go babe," He told Paige.
"Guys," Paige said to them and got no response. "Okay, well, Randy and I are going now, Mel since you're not moving anymore, I'll see you when I get back." Paige said, Mel waved a dismissing hand at them without even breaking from the kiss. Randy wrapped his arm around Paige's waist as the two headed for their gate again.
"I've missed having you on the road with me." He told her.
"I know me too." Paige responded Randy placed a light kiss on her forehead as the two reached their gate just as the plane was boarding.
When the couple reached Texas around six in the morning, Paige kept her large Dior sunglasses pulled down over her eyes to hide the fact that she was more asleep than awake. Randy held her hand as they walked through the airport with their bags, the two were picked up outside by the hired transportation, compliments of the company.
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That night, Randy had a match against John. Randy had Paige come with him down to the ring, she stood on the side and watched the match intently, she was beginning to understand everything pretty well, taking down head notes of what the moves were called, John hit Randy with the F-U and had him down for the pin, but it was interrupted by Chris Masters and Johnny Nitro, the two began beating John down, something in Paige's mind was telling her to help him, another part was telling her not to.
"Randy's is going to be so pissed at me." She said to herself before sliding into the ring.
"Stop it," She simply said.
"You're defending him, you don't even like him." Johnny said to her.
"I'm not defending him, but this is wrong. So, I'm asking you, as my friends to stop, get Randy, and go up the ramp." Paige pointed up the ramp and the two reluctantly did as she asked. Paige kneeled at John's side.
"Hey, do you think you can get up?" She asked with a weak smile.
"Yea, why are you helping me, I thought you hated me." John looked at her confused.
"You and I being broken up, doesn't change the fact that I still care." Paige said to him. She crouched down and slung his arm over her shoulder and slowly pushed them upward to a standing position.
When they reached the backstage area, Randy walked up looking very angry. John immediately removed his arm from around Paige's shoulder.
"You helped this scumbag?" Randy asked his blue eyes boring into Paige.
"Who are you calling a scumbag, I'll beat your bitch ass down right now." John stepped up to Randy. Paige stepped in between the two placing her hands on their chests and forcefully pushing them apart.
"What is up with you Paige, why are you protecting him after everything he did to you?" Randy asked.
"Because this needs to stop, face it, we're all adults and we're acting like children, and quite frankly I'm fed up with this back and forth!" She exclaimed switching her view from one to the other. Paige's phone rang and she stepped away from them to answer it.
"Hello,"
Hello, Paige?" A man's voice came through the phone.
"This is she, who's calling?" She asked politely.
"Hello, I'm Mike Freemont for the District Attorney's office, we need you to testify against Jeremy Peterson." He said, Paige felt the weeks of binging and purging finally catching up to her. Paige was terrified of ever seeing him again, she felt herself slowly losing grip of her surroundings.
"I'll have to call you back Mr. Freemont." She said and hung up the phone. She walked back over to Randy, John had left by this point and Randy was still angry.
"Paige, what the hell were you thinking?" He started firing off at her.
"Randy…"
"Is there something going on between you two?" He asked.
"No, you don't understand…" Paige was barely hanging on at this point.
"You're right, I don't understand why you would even want to talk to him after everything." Randy said bitterly. Her vision was swirling and Randy's words began to echo as if they were coming from a distance, and then the awful ringing sound in her ears.
"I'm sorry!" She exclaimed, Paige's vision went completely balck and she collapsed to the ground with a thud.
"Oh my God, Paige!" Randy's mood completely changed from anger to worry as he knelt at her side and propped her head up in his lap. "Paige!" He called to her again, she opened her eyes for a moment and then they slowly rolled back into her head.
"Someone call an ambulance!" Randy yelled at a stage hand. He held Paige's non-responsive hand. "What have I done," He said to himself.
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Randy, Johnny, Adam, Melina and Amy sat in the hospital, waiting to see what was wrong with Paige.
"I shouldn't have pounced on her like that." Randy said as he stared blankly at the floor.
"This isn't you fault, she's going to be fine." Melina told him. Finally a doctor came out.
"Are you here for Ms. Santino?" He asked.
"Yes, I'm her boyfriend," Randy responded. "Is she going to be okay?" He asked.
"Initially, we thought she passed out from exhaustion, but we ran some tests and found that her nutrition level is dangerously low," The doctor told them.
"How is that possible, she eats all the time?" Randy asked, trying to grasp the situation at hand.
"There was also something else that concerned me. Her esophagus shows some signs of abrasion on the sides, from excessive vomiting." He told them.
"In english please," Melina said.
"Her throat is slightly worn down in some parts from a lot of throwing-up." He told her.
"You mean she's been making herself throw-up?" Randy asked.
"All of the signs point straight to bulimia." He told them.
"Can I see her?" He asked.
"Sure, you can go right in." Randy nodded a thank you and told the others to stay there. Randy walked into the room and saw that Paige was wide awake, staring out of the window.
"So, my secret is out, I'm bulimic." Paige said as she turned her head to face him.
"Why didn't you tell me?" He asked.
"I knew you would hate me." She told him. Randy sat in the chair next to her bed.
"I don't hate you." He told her.
"I've tried to stop it so many times Randy, it's been eating away at my life, but I can't stop it." Paige began to cry as Randy made little circles on the back of her hand with his thumb.
"You can't fight this on your own, you need help." He said softly.
"I already fought it Randy, when I was sixteen." Paige paused for a moment to wipe her tears away. "The pressure of school, skating and the pageants drove me to it initially, I felt like I had no control over my life, at first it was like a release, it was like everything I ate was toxic and I had to get it out. I found out that flushing too much vomit down the toilet will clog it, so I started throwing up in jars and sticking them in the back of my closet until I could throw them out the next day. I lost ten pounds, ten turned to fifteen, and fifteen turned to twenty. Luke found me doing it in my room one afternoon and he told my parents. If it weren't for that one time, I probably wouldn't have even made it to my senior year." Paige looked out the window because if she looked into Randy's eyes, she would fall apart.
"Why didn't you tell me all of this?" He asked as he ran his hand through his hair with slight frustration, he had always been there for her, but at this moment he felt completely helpless in the situation.
"I've tried to so many times, but I was so scared that I might lose you." Paige told him in barely a whisper as the tears began to spill over her cheeks faster. Randy lifted her chin to make her look at him.
"I'm not going to lie to you, I'm shocked and dissappointed..." He started. "But you're not going to lose me over this." He told her and kissed the back of her hand. "If you haven't gotten it yet, I love you."
Her secret is out, please review and let me know what you think, remember, the more reviews i get, the more motivation i have to write the next chapter, thanks guys xoxo Leila
