Dear Diary,
I'm fucked. Joanie read my diary, bitch, and now I have to explain everything to my Dad. I wanted to keep things between Paul and I quiet until I was really ready to talk about it but I don't have the option anymore.
Steph xx
Paul frowned as he watched Stephanie tapping away on her phone having moved away from him to the other end of the couch, "Steph, don't we need to discuss this?"
Tossing her phone onto the coffee table she frowned, "talk about what? Shall we talk about how your ex-girlfriend is a nosey bitch who searched through my bags and read my diary? Or maybe talk about how she's an angry bitter woman who will do anything to take me down and ruin my life? Let's not start on how far she'll go to ruin things for you."
Sighing softly Paul moved across the couch until he was sat next to her again, "I'm sorry."
Shane looked at Paul like he was crazy, "why exactly are you sorry? You haven't done anything."
Paul sighed as he looked at Shane, "if it wasn't for me Joanie wouldn't be after Stephanie."
Sighing heavily Stephanie turned to look at Paul, "it's not your fault, we're in this together."
Knowing from what she was saying she was willing and ready to tell her Dad about them he was happy to let Shane know now so he took Stephanie's hand gently, "I'm ready if you're ready."
"I'm not ready but we've got no choice. I want him to hear the whole truth from me not a half truth from her."
Shane looked at the two of them together, "you're together aren't you?"
Before Stephanie had chance to answer the door opened and Vince walked back in and shut the door tightly behind him, "okay I'm back." Sitting down in the seat he stared at both Stephanie and Paul, "so who's going to tell me the truth?"
Paul looked at Stephanie to see what she wanted to do as he was willing to take the fall for her if she needed him too.
Looking into his eyes she saw everything she needed to know to know that what she was about to do wasn't going to backfire for her when it came to her relationship with him, "I'll tell you Dad."
Vince knew what she was going to say before she said it but he wanted to hear her say it, "go on then, I'm waiting."
Taking a deep breath she looked at Shane who nodded encouragingly, "Joanie has clearly read my diary because some of the stuff she said she would only know if she had read it. Going further than that I have to say that some of what she said is true and some of it is complete bullshit. Yes I am now dating Paul but we have only been dating one day, yes I did sleep with Paul after Armageddon but it had nothing to do with her as it was all about me and Joe and to a degree it was about Paul."
Paul was quick to jump in, "Joanie and I were already split up at Armageddon so in no way did Stephanie and I sleep together behind her back."
Vince looked over at his son who was being rather calm throughout the whole thing, "Shane, I think there's something you're not telling me."
Shane's eyes widened and he pretended to be innocent, "I don't know what you're talking about."
Giving his son that look he was going to get it out of him, "let me make it simple for you. You know some of what she just told me already."
Having had the look Shane knew he was in trouble if he didn't admit it, "yes I knew most of what she told me. The only thing I didn't know was that they were actually dating."
"So Shane didn't know you were dating, how did Joanie?"
Stephanie shrugged, "she thinks we've been having an affair for months so I wouldn't put much of anything into what she says about us."
Vince would normally be irate that his daughter was dating a wrestler but he'd known for a while that there was a spark there and he wasn't surprised by them now dating, "well give it a few hours and she'll probably have told the entire locker room you're dating. Are you ready for that Paul? You'll no longer have got anywhere on your own merit, it will all be because of Stephanie."
Paul shrugged, "well if they want to think that they can. I know what I know and that's all I care about."
Vince stood up, "well I guess I had better go and deal with Joanie. I don't mind that the two of you are dating but I don't want you to rub it in anybody's face and I would like you to be entirely professional at work, no make out sessions in the ring."
Shane couldn't help but make a face at that, "no make out sessions ever thank you."
Vince just shook his head and left leaving his kids alone to fight it out amongst themselves.
When Vince left the room Stephanie turned around to face Paul and leant forward blocking Shane's view and pretended to make out with Paul but all she did was give him a few quick kisses on the lips before Shane came and pulled her back by the shoulder and sat down between them, "no making out when I am in the room."
Paul laughed at Shane, "awww, are you jealous because you have a crush on me?"
Stephanie laughed, "oh my God that's so true, you have a crush on him and want him all for yourself."
Shane looked like he was about to throw up as he stood up, "I can't believe you just said that. I'm out of here before I throw up and I am going to go and call my wife."
Stephanie only smirked and waved at him as he left. As soon as Shane had left she turned and moved closer to Paul dropping the smirk on her face and cuddled into his side a little, "I'm scared."
Wrapping his arms around her Paul kissed the top of her head, "it'll be okay. No matter what Joanie says your Dad got the truth from us first and he can call her a crazy bitch and get away with it whereas you can't."
She laughed and hit him gently in the stomach, "you're cruel."
"Nah, just honest. After what she has done I don't have any feelings of goodwill towards her because she went out there to cause as much trouble for me, you and us as she could."
Stephanie just stayed cuddled against his side, she should work but her mind was too preoccupied with what was happening between her Dad and Joanie.
Whilst walking to Joanie's locker room Vince contemplated exactly what he was going to say to her as her boss and not as Stephanie's Father because if he went in there as Stephanie's Father he was sure to blow up at her because nobody treated either of his children like Joanie treated Stephanie.
Not bothering to even knock on her locker room door Vince pushed the door open and walked in, "so what is it that you found so important that you had to barge into my daughter's locker room and call her a bitch?"
Joanie stood up as soon as he had entered the room, "she's taking the title off of me all because she doesn't like me. She wasn't happy taking my boyfriend she has to mess with my career as well."
Shaking his head Vince couldn't believe what she was saying, "for one Stephanie can't decide anything on anybody's career without it going through me. Second off she only suggested a storyline and I happen to think it is a good idea so am running with it. Finally and most importantly what on Earth makes you think she stole Paul from you? He tells me you split up before anything happened between Stephanie and himself."
"And you believe him? Of course you'd believe him, he's with your sweet little Princess and he'll obviously not be able to do anything wrong."
Deciding not to get angry he was going to fight anger with facts, "how did you know Stephanie and Paul slept together after Armageddon?"
Gulping she knew she couldn't admit the truth to him, "I just did, I saw the difference in their relationship."
Narrowing his eyes he wasn't happy because he had listened to the conversation she had had with Paul in Stephanie's locker room, "how about I ask again and this time you tell me the truth? You're forgetting that I was in the room when you barged into Stephanie's locker room."
"Okay fine, I read her diary."
"And how did you read her diary Joanie? Was it laying open on the couch or the table?"
Fully aware that she had probably committed career suicide Joanie shook her head, "no, I found her diary in her bag and took it out and read it."
Nodding his head Vince simply said, "that's what I thought."
Without saying another word he turned around and walked out of the door.
