Perfect Melody
Chapter One

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Melody looked at her reflection in the mirror. And she stuck her bottom lip out in a little
pout. Shane smiled and watched his god-sister with amusement.

"You all right?"

"How do you do this all the time Shane? How do you go out in front of millions of people
and keep your cool?"

"It's just debut jitters, you'll get over it quickly."

"But what if I fall on the way down to the ring?" That thought almost brought tears to her
eyes. She turned to face the mirror again. She studied her leather pants. Her TIGHT
leather pants. She was trying to figure out how to breathe when Shane interrupted her
thoughts.

"You wouldn't be the first to mess up on camera. Besides, everyone will think your cute
and no one will care."

Melody flashed him a sassy look and then turned back to the mirror. Everyone always
thought she was just "cute". She'd grown up being called the "cute" one. Just once she
wanted to feel sexy and not cute. She was a mature woman but her aqua eyes shown of
pure innocence. Her dirty blonde curls fell to the middle of her back she nervously played
with one of her curls when she heard a knock at the door.

Shane walked over and opened the door to show a very nervous stage hand standing there
with a box. Shane eyed him curiously until he finally stammered that he had a package for
Melody and that she was needed backstage in 15 minutes. Melody happily smiled and
thanked the stage hand and took the box from him. She placed it down on the table and
opened it gently. She smiled knowingly as she pulled a small necklace from the package.
She looked inside the box and pulled out a small note. She smiled as she read it to herself.

~Mel,
Hey darling, good luck tonight.

Melody placed the necklace around her neck and turned to face Shane.

"What do you think?"

"Nice touch, but who sent it?"

"That's for me to know and you to find out." She said and stuck her tongue out at Shane,
he returned the favor and she exited the room to reveal herself to the fans. Shane looked
at the box and sighed, his dad wasn't going to like this.

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Rick Flair was talking on stage to Vince who was standing in the ring. He told Vince he
had a little surprise for him. And with that a beautiful guitar riff began to play and out
walked the nervous little Diva herself. Vince acted like he'd seen a ghost and Melody was
in awe of the crowd's response to her.

"I do believe you recognize your beautiful God-daughter, don't ya Vince?" Rick said with
amusement.

Melody tossed her long beautiful curls out of her face and smiled sweetly. Her black
leather pants seemed to be almost painted onto her sensual curves, and her white T-shirt's
plunging neckline revealed that she was well endowed in other areas and certainly didn't
need the help of plastic surgery, unlike her god-sis Steph, even though she'd never admit
it. Around her neck was a gold necklace with a small music note on it. And in the center
was a glistening diamond.

Backstage, illuminated only by the glow of a small monitor, her best friend sat watching
her. He loved her, this much was obvious to him. He smiled with pride when he saw she
had worn the necklace.

"Now, if I can only get the courage up to tell her."

He mumbled to himself. He was in love with a forbidden fruit. Whose guardian could
crush him if need be. The fact that he didn't mind the fact that he could lose his job shows
how much he cares. He wondered if she felt the same way. And he wondered, if the day
would come when he wouldn't be admiring her from afar. But instead, holding her tightly
to him, on and off camera.

He leaned back in his chair and watched her quietly. He had to come up with a plan, and
he had to do it quick before some other jerk thought he was worthy enough for her. He
leaned forward as the monitor showed a close up of her beautiful face. He smiled and ran
his fingers over the screen.

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Melody smiled, she'd did it. She was so happy she thought she was going to burst. When
Vince had finally gotten backstage he gave her a hug.

"You were great, just don't start talking to me like that off camera."

"OK Mac." She'd called him Mac since she was little, it's what her parents used to call
him.

Vince smiled and continued on his way to his private office to do some paper work until
he was needed on camera again. Melody stood there for a moment, normally she would go
off in search of the one person that made her feel special enough to share her happiness
with. But she knew he had a knack for showing up when ever she needed him, so she
continued her walk down the hallway.

Suddenly an arm reached out from behind a curtain and grabbed her mouth and pulled her
behind it. She was then spun around to face her kidnapper and came face to face with
"him". She playfully slapped him arm.

"You scared me!"

"No I didn't."

"Well, you could have." She pretended to pout which made him smile wider. It was a
shame more people didn't see him smile. He looked down and rubbed his fingers over the
cool metal around her neck.

"You wore it."

"Of course! It's so beautiful how could I resist?"

He grinned with male pride at the realization he'd made her happy. He stroked a curl out
of her eyes and took a deep breath.

"Mel, there's something I have to tell you."

She looked at him, her aqua eyes shinning with encouragement.

"You know you can tell me anything."

"Mel, I..."

His words were cut off by the shouts of Shane looking for Melody. She placed a finger
over his lips and winked.

"Tell me later all right?"

He nodded and she slipped out from behind the curtain. He felt like punching Shane but
instead his fists connected with the wall as frustration ran through him.

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Melody listened to Shane go on about some new storyline Vince wanted her to do.
Melody's mind was drifting back the earlier encounter behind the curtain. She kept seeing
the look in his eyes, she'd never seen that type of emotion in them before. And she couldn't
place what it could be. She just hoped he'd be all right. Melody tryed to tune back into
Shane's words but then she saw him pass by. He walked by slowly taking in a good long
look at Melody. He pressed his lips together so not to give away his longing to talk to her.
Shane noticed him walk by and then turned to face Melody.

"I wonder what's up with Raven?"

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(TBC)