Chapter 27: My Singing Debut

~Sam's POV~

The weekend went by fast. I got the opportunity to spend time with my mom and be there for Jeff. It's now Monday afternoon and I'm in the hotel room with Paul. Paul was sitting on the bed reading the script that was given to him from the meeting as I sat at the table finishing my homework. I was working on one assignment that I needed to take care of. I had another one after this and I wanted to finish it before Raw tonight. I was struggling with a math problem and was working on it for quite sometime. "What am I doing wrong?" I said in frustration.

"Babydoll, you doing all right?"

"Yeah, I'm just struggling with this last math problem that I have. The answer keeps coming up wrong," I replied as I got another piece of paper.

"How do you know it's wrong?"

"Kellie gave me the answer for it and told me for work on it. She noticed that this kind of problem is one of my weaknesses and wants me to work on it before moving on."

"Why would she do that?"

"She said that I'll be dealing with something similar to this in the next chapter."

"Now I get it," he replied. "Do you need any help with it?"

"Well, let me just try it once more by myself. If I can't get it, then I'll ask you for help," I replied as I looked back down to the problem.

"All right," he said.

I continued to work on the problem and got the right answer. I looked back at the problem and compared it to what I did before and I realized what I did wrong. "Now I see what I did wrong."

"Did you solve the problem?"

"Yeah, I did and I see what I did wrong."

"Good, I'm glad that I didn't have to help you with that."

I snapped my head and looked at him, "What do you mean by that?"

"Nothing," he smirked.

"Yeah, right. Then how come I don't believe you and you're smirking?" I asked as I turned around in my seat to face him.

"I don't know what you're saying," he said as he continued to smirk.

"Yes, you do and you're just dragging this out because you want me to act up on you, ain't it?"

"Nope, I'm just saying that I don't do good with math," he said as he nodded.

"Ok, whatever," I said as I turned back to my seat.

"What are you doing now?"

"I need to do my art assignment. That's the last thing that I need to take care of and I'm done with my homework."

"You're almost done?" he asked as he looked at me shocked.

"Yeah, I am. I want the next two days off to be focused on training," I responded.

"Smart," he said. I went back to start on my art homework. As soon as I got it out in the open, I just sat there, looking at the blank paper. I had to draw something that will represent my graduating class. I talked with Chrissy and got some advice from her and see what I could do. I closed my eyes and started to visualize what my graduating class means to me. I started to feel the paper and ingrained it in my mind. I felt for my pencil and eraser. I started to blindly draw what I saw in my mind. I had no idea what it was going to look like on paper and I didn't want to know until I finished.



~Paul's POV~

I looked up from my script after finished reading it and saw Samantha drawing something with her eyes closed. I decided to walk up and watch what she was drawing. As soon as the drawing came into view, my jaw dropped. It amazed me to see how beautiful the drawing was. After some time, she had stopped and she opened her eyes and looked at it. She picked it up and put it under better light and it looked absolutely gorgeous. "Babydoll, how did you do that?" I asked softly.

My voice had startled her, she put the drawing back on the table, "I don't know. I just closed my eyes and saw something inside my mind and started to draw it. I knew that if I hade drew with my eyes open, I wouldn't get anywhere."

"What's the drawing for?"

"Kellie told me that the school staff had asked the senior class to draw something that will represent the graduating class. I saw this in my mind and thought that it would be a good mural for our class."

"It is, babydoll," I said as I picked up her drawing. I looked at it more carefully. It had the Canadian flag in the center with the flower that represents their city bordering the flag.

"Daddy, can I have that back? I'm not quite finished yet," she asked as I nodded and put it back on the table. Then she wrote the class name, class color, graduating year, and school mascot on it in beautiful writing. Then on the bottom she wrote, 'Overcoming our fears will only make us stronger.' "Now, all I have to do is put some color in it."

"It really does look beautiful, babydoll."

"Thanks, daddy," she said as she put it away.

"So now what are you going to do? We do have a couple of hours before going to the arena for Raw tonight," I said as I sat across from her.

"Well, I need to pick a song that I'm going to sing. I promised Vince that I would do that tonight," she said as she stretched.

"Do you have all of your CDs with you?"

"Only the ones that I might be using, but not too sure."

"All right. You do have some time now to decide which song to use," I replied.

"Yeah, I know. I just need to get my CD case out, but I don't wanna," she whined.

"You need to, babydoll."

"I know," she said as she got up and went to her bag and got her CD case out along with her CD walkman. She came back to the table and decided which CD to listen to first. When she finally did, she started signing along to the music. I sat back and watched her. She totally got lost in her own world. She seemed so content in her own little world. Someone had knocked on the door, which woke me from my thoughts. I got up and opened the door, "Jeff, what are you doing here? I thought you were with your family." "I was, but I came early because it seems that my mother is doing better now and she wants us to go back to work and not to worry about her right now," he replied.

"I see, want to come in?"

"Yeah, sure," he said as I stepped out of the way and let him come into the hotel room. "What's Sam doing?"

"She's trying to decide which song to sing tonight," I replied as I sat across from Samantha. She looked up and smiled. I smiled back at her and motioned to look behind her. She looked back and her mouth opened.



~Sam's POV~

I took the headphones off when I saw Jeff standing there behind me. I stood up and went up to him and hugged him. "What are you doing here?" I asked as I broke off the hug.

"Well, my mom is doing better and she wanted us to go back to work, so here I am," he replied.

"That's good to hear," I replied as I took Jeff's hand and led him to the chair. He sat down and wrapped his arms around my waist as soon as I sat down on his lap.

"What are you working on?"

"Trying to decide what song to sing for Raw tonight."

"Cool. Do you need any help with that?"

"No, not really. I think I decided already but I'm still thinking about it. I'm hoping to decide before leaving for the arena tonight."

"What time are you leaving?"

"In an hour and a half. I need to decide soon," I replied as I put the headphones back on again and listened some more. About an hour later, I had finally decided on Shania Twain's 'Whatever You Do, Don't.' Paul had to go and situate a match with Chris and Jeff was lying atop of the bed watching TV.

When I took off the headphones, I heard Jeff ask, "You pick a song?"

"Yeah, I did," I said as I started to gather my things together.

"What's the song?"

"You'll find out when I sing it tonight," I replied, smirking.

"Mm-hmm, ok whatever," Jeff said as he rolled his eyes. I went to the bed and grabbed a pillow and threw it at his head. He gave me an evil eye and asked, "What was that for?"

"What was what? Can't you see that I'm trying to pack up my things?" I said as I started to pick up my things from the bed.

"You know what you did."

"No, I didn't. What did I do?"

"You threw a pillow at me,"

"Moi? Little ol' me?" I asked innocently.

"Yes, you!" Jeff said as he headed toward me.

"I didn't do nothing!" I said in my best southern accent.

"Yes, you did. I'm going to tickle you until you admit that you threw a pillow at me," Jeff said as he started to tickle me and I started to laugh. After about 5 minutes, he asked, "Are you going to admit that you threw a pillow at me?"

"Never!" I said through my laughter and tears. We heard the door open, but Jeff still tickled me. I saw Paul standing by the entrance watching us. "Daddy!! Make him stop!!" I said as I continued to laugh.

"What happened?" he asked, smiling.

"I'm trying to make her admit that she threw a pillow at me," Jeff said.

"Continue your job, Jeff," Paul said. I couldn't say anything because I was laughing too much.

"Stop!! Ok, I threw a pillow at you!!" I said as Jeff stopped tickling me. All three of us just laughed and enjoyed our company with each other. By the time, I had finished packing up; it was time to leave. I took my CD and my walkman with me.



~At the Arena~

I had gone to Vince's office immediately and told him what song I was going to use. He smiled at the song I decided to use. I was heading back to Paul's locker room, when I bumped into Dwayne and Chris (Jericho). "Hey guys, how you doing?"

"Doing real good," Chris said.

"I'm fine, and yourself?" Dwayne asked.

"I'm doing a lot better now. I feel more calm than I did last week," I replied as I smiled up to the guys.

"That's good to hear," Chris said.

"So what are you doing now?" Dwayne asked.

"I'm heading over to Paul's locker room and get ready. Vince asked me to sing tonight and he wants me to sing after the dark matches are finished," I replied. Now the dark matches had started and they had three more matches, which didn't give me much time.

"Well, we better let you go and get all made up since there isn't much time left," Dwayne said.

"Yeah," I said as I looked at my watch. "Ok, well it's good to see you guys. Promise me that you'll watch when I go up and sing?"

"We most definitely will, sweetheart," Chris said as Dwayne nodded.

"Great, then I'll talk to you later," I said as I ran off towards Paul's locker room. I had changed my clothes as soon as I got into the locker room and headed toward the make up area to get my face done. By the time I got to the gorilla position, Vince was already there, waiting, "Hi, Vince," I said, out of breathe.

"You just made it in time," Vince said. "I'm going to go out and introduce you and whatnot. You come out once I call your name and what you're going to be singing, ok?" I nodded as he explained to me what's going to happen. He went out as soon as his music came on. One of the stagehands came up to me and gave me a microphone; he told me when to turn it on and told me to wait for his signal. I stood there waiting to go on and do my singing debut. Vince was ready to introduce me and I waited for my cue. I looked at the stagehand and he motioned for me to go. I walked out of the ramp to Undertaker's music and went down to the ring. Vince had left the ring and headed up the ramp.

I lifted up the microphone and said, "This is for all the female fans out there." The music started and I waited for my cur. When I heard it, I started singing.



Deep in Denialville

Tryin' to fight the way I feel

I go to jello when you smile

I start blushin'

My head rushin'

If you stand too close to me

I might melt down from the heat

If ya look my way one more time

I'm gonna go out of my mind

Whatever you do.

Don't even think about it

Don't go and get me started

Don't you dare drive me crazy

Don't do that to me, baby

You stop me in my tracks

My heart is pumpin' to the max

I'm such a sucker for your eyes

They permantly paralyze

Whatever you do.

Don't even think about it

Don't go and get me started

Don't you dare drive me crazy

Don't do that to me, baby

Whatever you do

Don't do that to me

You got my heart under attack

You give me shivers down my back

D'ya have to walk the way you do?

I get weak just watchin' you

Whatever you do.

Don't even think about it

Don't go and get me started

Don't you dare drive me crazy

Don't do that to me, baby

Don't even think about it

Don't go and get me started

Don't you dare drive me crazy

Don't do that to me, baby

Don't do that

Don't do that



The fans started cheering for me as I finished the song, I stood there taking it all in. I couldn't believe that the fans were cheering for me. I could tell that most percent of them were singing along with me. I left the ring and gave the fans my salute. I walked back through the curtain and almost all of the Superstars and crew were standing there, applauding. I looked around and my eyes were getting watery. Adam had come up and hugged me. I hugged him back and the tears started flowing. Once he had let go, one by one people were approaching me and telling me what an amazing voice I had. It really encouraged me so much that I had decided to keep singing weekly. I had finally got back to the locker room to get dressed to do my promo and my first match.







~Author's Note: 'Whatever You Do, Don't' by Shania Twain~