Chapter 17

"What about those, they're nice" Chris suggests pointing to a design in the catalogue as they sit on Steph's bed flicking through her brochures and catalogues.

"Uh-huh they're great if you want black leather and leopard print in your bedroom!" Steph laughs sitting back against him carrying on scanning the glossy pages.

"Well what if I want black leather and leopard print in my bedroom!" Chris laughs sliding her off of his lap and taking the catalogue. He lies on his stomach and carries on looking "It's my room"

"Yeah but it'll soon be our room and I don't want to be sleeping in a rock star express bedroom" Steph lies on her stomach next to him and tucks her feet around his. "Seeing you in the morning is enough to give me nightmares anyway, I don't need anything else to add to that"

"Ok then, so no black, leather or print but if I cant have that you cant have pink or lavender or any of those other girly, disgusting, yucky, Barbie colors! Is it a deal?" Chris asks putting his hand out for her to shake.

"Yeah ok, deal!" Steph shakes his hand and leans in to kiss him.

"I should go, your mom said that Vince would be home soon and you know how much he hates having me in his house" Chris laughs sitting up.

"Since when did you care what my dad thought?" Steph laughs sitting up too

"Well I don't but he hasn't said anymore to us about seeing each other or getting married so I might as well try not to give him any reasons to kill me" Chris climbs off of the bed and pulls his sneakers on. "You gunna walk me out?"

"Sure" Steph takes Chris's hand that he holds out to her and they head downstairs. Chris grabs his jacket and slips it on.

"See you later" Chris says standing at the doorway to the lounge, waving to Linda.

"Bye Chris" Linda says smiling at him, he walks back out into the hallway and over to Stephanie. He puts his arms around her waist and kisses her.

"Are you going to Raw tomorrow?" Chris asks as he starts pulling his leathers on over his jeans and picks up his helmet.

"Mmm, that depends. Do you want me to be at Raw?" Steph zips up the front of his jacket.

"Yeah of course I do.. You can watch me loose some more!" Chris laughs; Vince had made the writers put him on a bit of a loosing streak recently.

"Sorry about what he's done" Steph mumbles.

"I don't mind honestly, yeah It gets a bit embarrassing losing to Spike Dudley all the time but if it's what I gotta do then I'll do it" Chris says "Anyway I better go before the dragon himself gets home" Chris laughs, he kisses Steph before heading outside. Steph follows him and stands on the front door step watching him leave just as her dad pulls into the drive way.

"Was that Chris?" he says getting out of his car and walking towards the front of the house.

"Yeah it was" Stephanie says heading back into the house and upstairs.

******************** "Have you seen Steph tonight?" Chris asks entering the lockeroom and looking around him quickly.

"Na sorry, maybe you should ask him" Paul nods in Vince's direction who is standing talking to Ric Flair, Chris looks over and sees them.

"Orrr maybe not" Chris laughs "I've got my little interview in a bit and she said she'd be here tonight" Chris thinks again about going and asking Vince and then decides against it. "What time does Vinnie leave here after the shows?"

"Late, a few hours after we've all gone, why?" Paul says looking at Chris trying to figure him out.

"No reason" Chris says grinning.

"Don't you have a match tonight then?" Paul says pulling on his boots and lacing them up tightly.

"Nope, doesn't look like it. I looked at the list and it says I just have a little segment with an interview and that's me done for the evening, anyway see ya later" He walks back out of the lockeroom to go get ready, it was quite early on in the evening of Raw so he would be able to get it over and done with and go to see Steph. He would normally hang around and watch the rest of the show and have a few drinks with the others but he didn't care about missing that.

His segment went quickly and wasn't really worth the trouble but even though Vince was keeping him out of good winning matches he did make sure that Chris did a segment or match every show. Chris walks back to the lockeroom to get his things, he pulls out his cell and calls Steph.

"Hey you" Stephanie says from the other end of the phone as he holds it to his ear trying to pull on his biker gear at the same time.

"Where were you tonight, I missed you" Chris says managing to do up his pants and take the phone in his hand again.

"I didn't really feel like going to the show, I would have had to go in with dad and we had an argument last night after you left" Chris couldn't help but feel angry at Vince again.

"Look honey, I've got to go now," Chris says.

"Ok, g'night. I love you" Steph whispers down the phone, Chris smiles to himself.

"I love you too" They both hang up and Chris puts his cell away, so she was at home so he could go pay her a surprise visit. He starts up the bike after securing his bag to the back and pulling on his helmet and he heads to the McMahon house.