Until a really dumb bird lands in the middle of the road. The driver has to
swerve around it so that he wont hit it. When the driver sharply turns it
sends Stephanie flying from her spot on one side of the limo crashing into
Paul's chest. Paul looks at the driver in disgust and distain.
" What the fuck was that for?" Paul yells to the driver.
" I'm sorry sir, there was a bird in the middle of the road. I did not
intentionally do it."
" It better not happen again or I'll personally fire your ass and leave you
for dead on that road right there."
" Paul!" she says lightly slapping his side, " I'm very sorry Pedro. Paul
should not have said that to you. It was completely uncalled for."
" No Steph, there's no need to apologize for me. I meant every word of it."
Stephanie moves off of Paul's chest and back to the side she had started
on.
" No Stephie, come back." He pulls on her arm and drags her back to his
chest. Stephanie is really tired and within minutes she has fallen sound
asleep on Paul. Not long after that Paul falls asleep along with her.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ They have just arrived at Stephanie's apartment. Paul has just awoken and is about to wake up Stephanie but her cell rings. He ponders on whether he should answer it or not. "What the hell" he thinks as he retrieves her cell from the clip on her skirt and answers it.
P: Hello Jay: Who is this? P: It's Paul, who is this? J: Her boyfriend. And why do you have my girlfriend's cell phone? Oh, if she did anything I'll kick her ass. P: Hold on there, she did nothing of the sort. She fell asleep on the way home. And if you as so much lay a hand on her then I'll be sure to kill you. J: Is that a threat? P: That's what it was meant to be. J: Then I'll just tell Steph and she'll never want to talk to you again you bastard. P: Shut the hell up. NO ANSWER, THE LINE GOES DEAD Paul chooses not to wake Stephanie up but to just carry her up to her apartment. What he doesn't know is that Jayson is up there and Stephanie just might be in for a beating. On the way up stairs Stephanie wakes up in Paul's arms. " Paul!" " What?" " Put me down, you have to go." He puts her down and asks, " Why do I have to go?" " 'Cause I just remembered that Jay is home and if he sees me with you he'll kill me." " No, I'm not letting you stay alone with him. I just don't trust the guy." Just then, Jay comes tromping down the stairs and sees Stephanie in Paul's arms. He grabs her hair and pulls her away from Paul. " Ow, Jay let go!" She squeals as she attempts to get out of his grasp. " That hurts!" " Shut up bitch." That did it, and Paul goes and punches Jay square in the jaw. It doesn't seem to affect Jay at all as he hauls Stephanie up the staircase by her brown mane. Her eyes are pleading with Paul to do something. He has no clue what he can do. He already tried hitting the guy and that didn't work. When things went wrong he always resorted to violence. And now even that was failing him.
" Jay get off, it really hurts." He still has a tight grip on her hair and is now roughly grabbing her left arm with his free hand. " Jay, please. I promise I won't ever see him again." She assured, with her fingers crossed. " You promise?" He questions her. " Promise, let go!!!" He releases his hand from her hair and loosens his grip on her arm. " Come on bitch." He pulls her into the apartment. " Get on the couch."
Paul can't get the image of Stephanie out of his mind. He didn't save her; he wasn't there for her. God he wishes he could go back in time and just pull her away from Jayson. Maybe if he calls her that would get Jayson off of her long enough so that she could run away. Maybe. He takes out his phone and dials her home number. When no body answers, he heads over there.
" Jay I mean it, GET OFF!" she runs into the bedroom and locks herself inside. Jay follows and is outside the door, " Baby look, I'm sorry, I love you. Please come out, I'll make it up to you. I promise." There is no reply for a while from Stephanie who now has her suitcase on the bed and is throwing random items and clothes into it. " I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!" " No you don't Stephie, you love me!" " Don't call me that! And I hate you!!! You're an ass hole." She emerges from the bedroom with her brown mascara running down her cheeks and a suitcase in her right hand. " Sweetie, please don't leave." He had tears in his eyes. " Jay, I can't do this anymore, you've hurt me to much. I'll always love you Jay. I just can't be with you right now, and probably never again. I'm sorry. Oh, one more thing. I'm going to stay with my parents for a few days. When I get back, I want you gone. Bye." " Steph, listen to me." She twirls around, locking eyes with her ex- boyfriend. " What?" " Are you just going to throw away 7 years of your life without even trying to fix it?" " WITHOUT TRYING TO FIX IT? Do you know how many times I've tried to make this work Jay? DO YOU? No you don't! This past year you haven't been there or even made an attempt to find any interest in my life! Don't you dare go telling me that I haven't tried to fix our relationship, you hear me?" " Just Go." " That's what I was planning on doing." She then walks out on her old life and literarily runs into her new one.
Paul is racing up the stairs in the apartment complex when Stephanie practically dashes out of her apartment with her suitcase and runs into him. " Hi Paul." He can see in her eyes that she broke up with Jay. " Come here baby, it's okay." He sooths her. They must've stood in that hallway for 20 minutes, with Stephanie just crying and all Paul could do was stand there and hold her. " C'mon sweetie lets go to the car, we can talk there, k?" " Alright." She sniffles as she hands her suitcase to Paul and follows him to his car.
Now in the car, Paul tenderly asks, " Why?" " Why what?" " Why did you wait so long to do it?" " I don't know, I guess I just needed a good reason to." She tells him. " What was that reason?" he asks, already knowing. " You." She shyly says to him. " I love you Paul. That's why. I want to be with you not him or anybody else." " That's all I wanted to hear baby. I just needed to make sure that you loved me back and that I wasn't throwing away 3 years for nothing." A huge smile appears across her face. " You really love me?" " More then anything in this world."
10 Days Later Paul and Stephanie desperately want to be together but Paul has yet to break it off with Joan. This is one night after the house show at the hotel that all of the attending superstars are staying at. That includes but is not limited to Paul, Stephanie, Jonie, but not Sean, he was "sick" that night and could not be there. Paul and Jonie are in their room and Paul has just gotten out of the shower. " Hey baby." Joan goes up to remove Paul's towel that sits loosely on his hips and starts kissing his abs. " No, Jo we need to talk." Jo immediately thinks the worst and reluctantly pulls her hands away from the towel and sits on the king size bed. " What do you wanna talk about?" she casually asks her soon to be ex- boyfriend. " Joan, don't play dumb, I know that you've been cheating on me with Sean for months. Don't try to deny it because Steph has seen it and she's told me. And you know what I can't believe?" "Wha." " I fucking stuck up for you! I said that you would never do that to me, to us! I cant fucking believe that you would have the heart to hurt me like that! You know what? You really are just a bitch and I want you to stay out of my life and Stephanie's. You got that?" " But." " Yes or No." " Yea, but." " Shhh, I don't want to hear it. You disgust me." " Let me say my side of the story." " No, you're a bitch and I don't want to hear your excuses!!!" he then gets dressed and walks out the door with no place in particular to go. He's hoping though that he'll run into Stephanie on the way to nowhere. When he spots Stephanie she is talking to Trish who looks like she had just seen a ghost. ".You don't understand Trish, he said he was going to dump her. He wouldn't have sex with her; he said that he loves me. He doesn't love her anymore." She is now on the verge of tears. " I'm sorry Steph, I'm just telling you that I saw." " I know. But it still hurts." Paul hadn't heard a word of their conversation except the last few sentences. So he walks up to Steph and starts kissing her hair. " Get away." She spins and slaps him right across the face. " I hate you. How could you do this to me! You told me that you loved me!" " Trish, what did you tell her?" " Well you and Joan did have sex a few moments ago. Didn't you?" " No I broke up with her a half an hour ago." " Oops. Sorry." " You didn't have sex with her?" Stephanie interrupts. " Of course not baby, I love you and only you." " So does this mean that you two are like boyfriend/ girlfriend?" Trish butts in. " I guess so, but Trish, promise me you wont tell anybody, especially my dad or Shane. They would have a fit. My dad would probably ban me from seeing him so just promise that you wont tell anybody!" " Whoa, yea I promise girlie. But under one circumstance." " What?" " Go up to your room and have fun with your boyfriend. Deal?" " Deal." The new couple goes up to Stephanie's hotel room to get it on. What they are oblivious of is Shane, who is just standing around the corner, listening to every word and boy is he mad.
Jonie is sitting in Paul's hotel room feeling completely rejected. She doesn't see what she did wrong. All she did was have a little fun with a guy. Was that so bad? For god sakes Paul was fucking Miss Bitch wasn't he? Why can't she have a little fun herself? Then there is suddenly a knock at her door. " Who is it?" " Room Service" " I didn't order anything. But come on in." she screeches. " Maybe food will help." She thinks to herself. When the 'room service' comes in, it was actually Kevin. God she hadn't seen him since July. " Hey Jo, how you been?" " Well, quite frankly I felt like shit 'til you got here." " Oh, poor Joan. Maybe I can cheer her up. What would make you feel better?" " Nothing Kev, nothing." " Oh c'mon, I'll buy you ice cream." " No, it would actually be best if you just told me why you came here and then left." " Well I came to see Paul, do you know where he is?" " I don't give a shit where he is. I hate that bastard." " Why what did he do?" " Oh, what, he didn't discuss it with you. I thought he told you everything." " I thought he did too. What did he do?" " He dumped me for that slut Stephanie McMahon. Now will you just go?" " I'm real sorry Jo. I guess I will leave. Bye" " Bye."
Meanwhile Paul and Stephanie are three floors from Joan, necking on the black leather couch that lay in the 'living room' area of the hotel. All of a sudden Shane comes bursting in the door without even knocking. " Get your paws off my sister you perv!!" he goes to grab Stephanie's arm but she moves before he is able to. " Shane stop! Get out of here!" " No I 'm not gonna let him hurt you!" " Shane he's not gonna hurt me! He loves me and I love him back!" " But Stephie, you two haven't even been together 1 hr." " So, we have always loved each other." " Oh you have? Have you?" She weakly nods her head. " I don't trust him Steph, that's all." " What's not to trust about him Shane? Has he ever done anything non- trustworthy? I don't think so. I really love him." " Okay Steph, I'll play along. You'll get tired of him in a few months and then you'll find another man, I'm sure of it." " You said that with Jay, and we were together for 7 years. You were wrong. But this time, it's gonna last forever. You can bet your money on that." " I'm telling dad." " No Shane, please, please don't." she begs her brother. " Give me one good reason why." Paul gets up and puts his fist centimeters away from Shane's face and asks, " Is this a good enough reason?" " Yes it is. I promise I wont tell dad until you two are ready to." " Good. You better not or we'll both kick your ass." Shane hurries out of the hotel room. He is on his way to his father's room.
" Steph?" " What?" " You really think we are going to be together forever?" " I don't know, we might be. You never know." " Okay." There is a long uncomfortable silence in the room. " Would you want to be together for ever?" she finally asks. " Maybe. I really don't know." " Okay well." her voice drifts off as she thinks that he's not listening. " Well what?" " Nothing, I love you. I'm going to go to sleep, wanna join me?" " Well of course." They hop in bed for what they hope is a full night of action.
Shane has just got to Vince's room and knocks at the door. " Come in." " Hi dad, I have something to tell you." " What is that, son?" " Stephanie and Paul, well they are sort of dating." " WHAT?!?!?!" an enraged Vince storms out the door and up to his daughter's suite.
" Stephanie Marie McMahon!!!" " Daddy." She shoots her head up from the 'position' it had been in moments earlier and come out from under the blankets. Luckily, Vince didn't see Paul, who was hiding under the sheets. " What are you doing here?" " You know damn well why I'm here missy. Shane told me that you and Paul, also known as Triple H, were well, seeing each other." " Well if you mean seeing each other as in seeing each other at work, then yes, or as friends, yes, but if you mean that we are dating seeing each other then no, we are not. I can guarantee you that." " You swear." " Across grandpa's grave." " Alright then, I'm sorry to disturb you." He walks out mumbling something about how he needs to knock some sense into that damn son of his. Once they are sure that Vince is gone, Paul gets up and says, " Wow, that was close baby. You're very good at thinking on your feet." " Thanks, that's what I was trained to do. And besides, I had about a million excuses for why you were here if he saw you, so I just used one of those minus a few sentences." " You are so friggen smart, did I ever tell you that?" " Actually, yes you have. But thank you." Paul takes her hand in his in an attempt to get her back in bed. " No, Paul, I'm not in the mood anymore. And look at the time. Its already 4:03 in the morning and we have another show tomorrow and remember, the flight leaves at 12:30 sharp, so we need to be up no later than 7." " Fine. Night baby." " G'Night."
The next morning when Paul wakes up he reaches over and expects Stephanie to be there, but she's not. He gets up and looks in the bathroom, she's not there, then he gets dressed and heads down to Shane's room, and Shane isn't there. " Jesus, where the fuck is everybody?" he thinks to himself. Then he glances at the clock. It is already 1 in the afternoon. It finally dawns on him that they have all went to Bangor, the site of the next house show and he has already missed the flight. " Damn it, I must've over slept!" he dashes up to Stephanie's room to gather his things. When he realizes that their not there, he remembers that his suitcases are in his and Jonie's room. He chooses to take the stairs instead of the elevator. (He thought it would be faster.) When he enters the room, he sees that it is an absolute mess. Glass is all over the floors, telephones all bashed up and many other items carelessly sprawled out across the beige color carpet. Then, Paul goes to get his bags out of the closet. They are not there, but there is a note attached to the closet door. It read:
Paul~
I f*cking hate you. I will make your life a living hell. And I've already started. If you want to know what I mean, then just look out the window and look straight down.
~Jo
" Damn it Jonie." He slithers to the window and as she said, he looks directly down. All of his clothes and anything else that was in his suitcases was either on the balcony, which was 4 floors below, or spread out across the brown-green grass that the hotel called a lounge area. Just then the garbage truck man comes and tosses the clothing and other various objects into the back of his truck. In that pile was Paul's $300 dollar leather jacket that Lynn (his sis) had gotten him for his birthday. " I'm gonna kill her." He thinks to himself when he sees that his jacket was among the mess on the lawn. If he had time, he would've went down there and gotten it back, but he didn't. He needed to get to the airport as soon as possible.
Stephanie is still on the jet and she is worried-sick about Paul. About an hour earlier she had phoned him at the hotel, but nobody answered. Then she tried his cell and he didn't answer that either. " Paul, where are you? Where the hell are you?" " Hey Steph." Her brother coldly says as he walks up to her. " What do you want?" " I want to know why you lied to dad. Do you know that you made me look like a fool? And if you didn't, well it did. Are you happy now?" " Shane I didn't try to make you look stupid or nothing, but you did promise that you wouldn't tell dad. And you did, didn't you? Besides that what was I supposed to say to him Shane? 'Yea dad. I'm sleeping with one of your employees, one of your top freakin' stars.' Was I Shane? Was I?" " Well I never looked at it that way. I'm sorry Steph." " What ever. Just don't bug me right now. K?" He doesn't reply but just simply returns back to the cockpit, giving the pilot some directions.
It is now 2:28 and the show is planned to start around at 5:00. Paul has just gotten on a direct flight to Bangor. The plane is scheduled to arrive at exactly 4:37. But even if Paul gets there a little late. It won't affect his match for he is in the main event. Though it would interfere with the promo that him and Steph are supposed to cut.
Later that Afternoon- Around 5ish Steph is pacing in her 'office'. It is 5:10 and Paul still isn't here. The camera crew is just outside her door waiting for her to tell them its okay to film. Later that week on Smackdown they need this promo. " Look I really don't know where he." she tries to explain to Kevin (Dunn) when her cell rings. " Hold on just a second." She glances at the caller ID and discovers that it's Paul. S: Where the hell are you? P: I'm sorry baby I slept really late. S: Paul I don't want your petty excuses. P: Then what do you want? * He asks, with a hint of desire in his voice. * S: I want you here, in my office in 10 minutes. Do you fucking know how much time I have wasted today because of you? Now just get your ass down here now before my dad realizes that your not here. Okay? P: I'll be there as quick as I can. S: Good. I love you, bye. P: Love you too, bye. She hangs up the phone and turns to the cameraman. " He'll be here in 10 minutes. I promise." " Well Ms. McMahon, we have to leave in 15. You two better be fast talkers. We will be, I promise." " Okay."
Ten minutes later Paul still isn't there and Stephanie is starting to get very pissed off at him. " I'll just 'punish' him later." She says to herself. " Ms. McMahon, we really have to go now. I'm truly sorry that Paul didn't show." " It's okay, you just need to do your job. Bye." " Good bye ma'am." The crew exits and heads down the hall on the way to their truck.
Meanwhile Paul is just entering the building carrying only his duffel bag and passes right by the men who were going to shoot their promo. He continues walking directly to his new girlfriend's office. When he gets there he can't even step one foot in before hearing Stephanie yell at him. " Where Were You? Do you know that I waited here for hours waiting for you to come? And then you show up not even 5 minutes after they left! I cannot believe you! Right now I hate you! I mean, I spend my time planning these shoots and then when you don't have the decency to show up, that's just shit Paul! Complete shit!" she eyes him, expecting him to blow up in her face. " Look Steph! I'm sorry, I don't know what else to say. I slept late and then things happened. Sorry if I screwed up your plans." Since he didn't do what she had anticipated she couldn't fire back with all the comments that she was going to. So instead all that came out of her mouth was what her heart told her. " It's okay. Just don't do it again. K?" she smiled. " Got it boss." He added with a laugh. Her smile faded and her eyes go wandering. " What's the matter?" he asks with a voice full of concern. " Nothing, I'm just thinking about what we are going to do for that 4 minutes our promo is supposed to fill." " Well why don't we just tape it when we are there, you know like live for the crowd." " We could do that, but Paul, you know how we are. We almost always mess up on what we are supposed to say. " True. If we cant do that, then what do you propose we do?" " I don't know, how about we just sleep on it and talk in the morning. Anyways you need to go get ready for your match and I need to go back to the hotel." " Okay see. wait, your not going to accompany me to the ring?" " No Paul, I'm sorry, I need to get back to the hotel to set some things up. But I promise that I'll be waiting for you when you arrive." " Fine. See you." He gives her a light peck on the cheek and heads off toward his locker room to change. " Now time to set up your 'punishment,'" she evilly says once he has exited the office and is on her way back to the hotel.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ They have just arrived at Stephanie's apartment. Paul has just awoken and is about to wake up Stephanie but her cell rings. He ponders on whether he should answer it or not. "What the hell" he thinks as he retrieves her cell from the clip on her skirt and answers it.
P: Hello Jay: Who is this? P: It's Paul, who is this? J: Her boyfriend. And why do you have my girlfriend's cell phone? Oh, if she did anything I'll kick her ass. P: Hold on there, she did nothing of the sort. She fell asleep on the way home. And if you as so much lay a hand on her then I'll be sure to kill you. J: Is that a threat? P: That's what it was meant to be. J: Then I'll just tell Steph and she'll never want to talk to you again you bastard. P: Shut the hell up. NO ANSWER, THE LINE GOES DEAD Paul chooses not to wake Stephanie up but to just carry her up to her apartment. What he doesn't know is that Jayson is up there and Stephanie just might be in for a beating. On the way up stairs Stephanie wakes up in Paul's arms. " Paul!" " What?" " Put me down, you have to go." He puts her down and asks, " Why do I have to go?" " 'Cause I just remembered that Jay is home and if he sees me with you he'll kill me." " No, I'm not letting you stay alone with him. I just don't trust the guy." Just then, Jay comes tromping down the stairs and sees Stephanie in Paul's arms. He grabs her hair and pulls her away from Paul. " Ow, Jay let go!" She squeals as she attempts to get out of his grasp. " That hurts!" " Shut up bitch." That did it, and Paul goes and punches Jay square in the jaw. It doesn't seem to affect Jay at all as he hauls Stephanie up the staircase by her brown mane. Her eyes are pleading with Paul to do something. He has no clue what he can do. He already tried hitting the guy and that didn't work. When things went wrong he always resorted to violence. And now even that was failing him.
" Jay get off, it really hurts." He still has a tight grip on her hair and is now roughly grabbing her left arm with his free hand. " Jay, please. I promise I won't ever see him again." She assured, with her fingers crossed. " You promise?" He questions her. " Promise, let go!!!" He releases his hand from her hair and loosens his grip on her arm. " Come on bitch." He pulls her into the apartment. " Get on the couch."
Paul can't get the image of Stephanie out of his mind. He didn't save her; he wasn't there for her. God he wishes he could go back in time and just pull her away from Jayson. Maybe if he calls her that would get Jayson off of her long enough so that she could run away. Maybe. He takes out his phone and dials her home number. When no body answers, he heads over there.
" Jay I mean it, GET OFF!" she runs into the bedroom and locks herself inside. Jay follows and is outside the door, " Baby look, I'm sorry, I love you. Please come out, I'll make it up to you. I promise." There is no reply for a while from Stephanie who now has her suitcase on the bed and is throwing random items and clothes into it. " I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!" " No you don't Stephie, you love me!" " Don't call me that! And I hate you!!! You're an ass hole." She emerges from the bedroom with her brown mascara running down her cheeks and a suitcase in her right hand. " Sweetie, please don't leave." He had tears in his eyes. " Jay, I can't do this anymore, you've hurt me to much. I'll always love you Jay. I just can't be with you right now, and probably never again. I'm sorry. Oh, one more thing. I'm going to stay with my parents for a few days. When I get back, I want you gone. Bye." " Steph, listen to me." She twirls around, locking eyes with her ex- boyfriend. " What?" " Are you just going to throw away 7 years of your life without even trying to fix it?" " WITHOUT TRYING TO FIX IT? Do you know how many times I've tried to make this work Jay? DO YOU? No you don't! This past year you haven't been there or even made an attempt to find any interest in my life! Don't you dare go telling me that I haven't tried to fix our relationship, you hear me?" " Just Go." " That's what I was planning on doing." She then walks out on her old life and literarily runs into her new one.
Paul is racing up the stairs in the apartment complex when Stephanie practically dashes out of her apartment with her suitcase and runs into him. " Hi Paul." He can see in her eyes that she broke up with Jay. " Come here baby, it's okay." He sooths her. They must've stood in that hallway for 20 minutes, with Stephanie just crying and all Paul could do was stand there and hold her. " C'mon sweetie lets go to the car, we can talk there, k?" " Alright." She sniffles as she hands her suitcase to Paul and follows him to his car.
Now in the car, Paul tenderly asks, " Why?" " Why what?" " Why did you wait so long to do it?" " I don't know, I guess I just needed a good reason to." She tells him. " What was that reason?" he asks, already knowing. " You." She shyly says to him. " I love you Paul. That's why. I want to be with you not him or anybody else." " That's all I wanted to hear baby. I just needed to make sure that you loved me back and that I wasn't throwing away 3 years for nothing." A huge smile appears across her face. " You really love me?" " More then anything in this world."
10 Days Later Paul and Stephanie desperately want to be together but Paul has yet to break it off with Joan. This is one night after the house show at the hotel that all of the attending superstars are staying at. That includes but is not limited to Paul, Stephanie, Jonie, but not Sean, he was "sick" that night and could not be there. Paul and Jonie are in their room and Paul has just gotten out of the shower. " Hey baby." Joan goes up to remove Paul's towel that sits loosely on his hips and starts kissing his abs. " No, Jo we need to talk." Jo immediately thinks the worst and reluctantly pulls her hands away from the towel and sits on the king size bed. " What do you wanna talk about?" she casually asks her soon to be ex- boyfriend. " Joan, don't play dumb, I know that you've been cheating on me with Sean for months. Don't try to deny it because Steph has seen it and she's told me. And you know what I can't believe?" "Wha." " I fucking stuck up for you! I said that you would never do that to me, to us! I cant fucking believe that you would have the heart to hurt me like that! You know what? You really are just a bitch and I want you to stay out of my life and Stephanie's. You got that?" " But." " Yes or No." " Yea, but." " Shhh, I don't want to hear it. You disgust me." " Let me say my side of the story." " No, you're a bitch and I don't want to hear your excuses!!!" he then gets dressed and walks out the door with no place in particular to go. He's hoping though that he'll run into Stephanie on the way to nowhere. When he spots Stephanie she is talking to Trish who looks like she had just seen a ghost. ".You don't understand Trish, he said he was going to dump her. He wouldn't have sex with her; he said that he loves me. He doesn't love her anymore." She is now on the verge of tears. " I'm sorry Steph, I'm just telling you that I saw." " I know. But it still hurts." Paul hadn't heard a word of their conversation except the last few sentences. So he walks up to Steph and starts kissing her hair. " Get away." She spins and slaps him right across the face. " I hate you. How could you do this to me! You told me that you loved me!" " Trish, what did you tell her?" " Well you and Joan did have sex a few moments ago. Didn't you?" " No I broke up with her a half an hour ago." " Oops. Sorry." " You didn't have sex with her?" Stephanie interrupts. " Of course not baby, I love you and only you." " So does this mean that you two are like boyfriend/ girlfriend?" Trish butts in. " I guess so, but Trish, promise me you wont tell anybody, especially my dad or Shane. They would have a fit. My dad would probably ban me from seeing him so just promise that you wont tell anybody!" " Whoa, yea I promise girlie. But under one circumstance." " What?" " Go up to your room and have fun with your boyfriend. Deal?" " Deal." The new couple goes up to Stephanie's hotel room to get it on. What they are oblivious of is Shane, who is just standing around the corner, listening to every word and boy is he mad.
Jonie is sitting in Paul's hotel room feeling completely rejected. She doesn't see what she did wrong. All she did was have a little fun with a guy. Was that so bad? For god sakes Paul was fucking Miss Bitch wasn't he? Why can't she have a little fun herself? Then there is suddenly a knock at her door. " Who is it?" " Room Service" " I didn't order anything. But come on in." she screeches. " Maybe food will help." She thinks to herself. When the 'room service' comes in, it was actually Kevin. God she hadn't seen him since July. " Hey Jo, how you been?" " Well, quite frankly I felt like shit 'til you got here." " Oh, poor Joan. Maybe I can cheer her up. What would make you feel better?" " Nothing Kev, nothing." " Oh c'mon, I'll buy you ice cream." " No, it would actually be best if you just told me why you came here and then left." " Well I came to see Paul, do you know where he is?" " I don't give a shit where he is. I hate that bastard." " Why what did he do?" " Oh, what, he didn't discuss it with you. I thought he told you everything." " I thought he did too. What did he do?" " He dumped me for that slut Stephanie McMahon. Now will you just go?" " I'm real sorry Jo. I guess I will leave. Bye" " Bye."
Meanwhile Paul and Stephanie are three floors from Joan, necking on the black leather couch that lay in the 'living room' area of the hotel. All of a sudden Shane comes bursting in the door without even knocking. " Get your paws off my sister you perv!!" he goes to grab Stephanie's arm but she moves before he is able to. " Shane stop! Get out of here!" " No I 'm not gonna let him hurt you!" " Shane he's not gonna hurt me! He loves me and I love him back!" " But Stephie, you two haven't even been together 1 hr." " So, we have always loved each other." " Oh you have? Have you?" She weakly nods her head. " I don't trust him Steph, that's all." " What's not to trust about him Shane? Has he ever done anything non- trustworthy? I don't think so. I really love him." " Okay Steph, I'll play along. You'll get tired of him in a few months and then you'll find another man, I'm sure of it." " You said that with Jay, and we were together for 7 years. You were wrong. But this time, it's gonna last forever. You can bet your money on that." " I'm telling dad." " No Shane, please, please don't." she begs her brother. " Give me one good reason why." Paul gets up and puts his fist centimeters away from Shane's face and asks, " Is this a good enough reason?" " Yes it is. I promise I wont tell dad until you two are ready to." " Good. You better not or we'll both kick your ass." Shane hurries out of the hotel room. He is on his way to his father's room.
" Steph?" " What?" " You really think we are going to be together forever?" " I don't know, we might be. You never know." " Okay." There is a long uncomfortable silence in the room. " Would you want to be together for ever?" she finally asks. " Maybe. I really don't know." " Okay well." her voice drifts off as she thinks that he's not listening. " Well what?" " Nothing, I love you. I'm going to go to sleep, wanna join me?" " Well of course." They hop in bed for what they hope is a full night of action.
Shane has just got to Vince's room and knocks at the door. " Come in." " Hi dad, I have something to tell you." " What is that, son?" " Stephanie and Paul, well they are sort of dating." " WHAT?!?!?!" an enraged Vince storms out the door and up to his daughter's suite.
" Stephanie Marie McMahon!!!" " Daddy." She shoots her head up from the 'position' it had been in moments earlier and come out from under the blankets. Luckily, Vince didn't see Paul, who was hiding under the sheets. " What are you doing here?" " You know damn well why I'm here missy. Shane told me that you and Paul, also known as Triple H, were well, seeing each other." " Well if you mean seeing each other as in seeing each other at work, then yes, or as friends, yes, but if you mean that we are dating seeing each other then no, we are not. I can guarantee you that." " You swear." " Across grandpa's grave." " Alright then, I'm sorry to disturb you." He walks out mumbling something about how he needs to knock some sense into that damn son of his. Once they are sure that Vince is gone, Paul gets up and says, " Wow, that was close baby. You're very good at thinking on your feet." " Thanks, that's what I was trained to do. And besides, I had about a million excuses for why you were here if he saw you, so I just used one of those minus a few sentences." " You are so friggen smart, did I ever tell you that?" " Actually, yes you have. But thank you." Paul takes her hand in his in an attempt to get her back in bed. " No, Paul, I'm not in the mood anymore. And look at the time. Its already 4:03 in the morning and we have another show tomorrow and remember, the flight leaves at 12:30 sharp, so we need to be up no later than 7." " Fine. Night baby." " G'Night."
The next morning when Paul wakes up he reaches over and expects Stephanie to be there, but she's not. He gets up and looks in the bathroom, she's not there, then he gets dressed and heads down to Shane's room, and Shane isn't there. " Jesus, where the fuck is everybody?" he thinks to himself. Then he glances at the clock. It is already 1 in the afternoon. It finally dawns on him that they have all went to Bangor, the site of the next house show and he has already missed the flight. " Damn it, I must've over slept!" he dashes up to Stephanie's room to gather his things. When he realizes that their not there, he remembers that his suitcases are in his and Jonie's room. He chooses to take the stairs instead of the elevator. (He thought it would be faster.) When he enters the room, he sees that it is an absolute mess. Glass is all over the floors, telephones all bashed up and many other items carelessly sprawled out across the beige color carpet. Then, Paul goes to get his bags out of the closet. They are not there, but there is a note attached to the closet door. It read:
Paul~
I f*cking hate you. I will make your life a living hell. And I've already started. If you want to know what I mean, then just look out the window and look straight down.
~Jo
" Damn it Jonie." He slithers to the window and as she said, he looks directly down. All of his clothes and anything else that was in his suitcases was either on the balcony, which was 4 floors below, or spread out across the brown-green grass that the hotel called a lounge area. Just then the garbage truck man comes and tosses the clothing and other various objects into the back of his truck. In that pile was Paul's $300 dollar leather jacket that Lynn (his sis) had gotten him for his birthday. " I'm gonna kill her." He thinks to himself when he sees that his jacket was among the mess on the lawn. If he had time, he would've went down there and gotten it back, but he didn't. He needed to get to the airport as soon as possible.
Stephanie is still on the jet and she is worried-sick about Paul. About an hour earlier she had phoned him at the hotel, but nobody answered. Then she tried his cell and he didn't answer that either. " Paul, where are you? Where the hell are you?" " Hey Steph." Her brother coldly says as he walks up to her. " What do you want?" " I want to know why you lied to dad. Do you know that you made me look like a fool? And if you didn't, well it did. Are you happy now?" " Shane I didn't try to make you look stupid or nothing, but you did promise that you wouldn't tell dad. And you did, didn't you? Besides that what was I supposed to say to him Shane? 'Yea dad. I'm sleeping with one of your employees, one of your top freakin' stars.' Was I Shane? Was I?" " Well I never looked at it that way. I'm sorry Steph." " What ever. Just don't bug me right now. K?" He doesn't reply but just simply returns back to the cockpit, giving the pilot some directions.
It is now 2:28 and the show is planned to start around at 5:00. Paul has just gotten on a direct flight to Bangor. The plane is scheduled to arrive at exactly 4:37. But even if Paul gets there a little late. It won't affect his match for he is in the main event. Though it would interfere with the promo that him and Steph are supposed to cut.
Later that Afternoon- Around 5ish Steph is pacing in her 'office'. It is 5:10 and Paul still isn't here. The camera crew is just outside her door waiting for her to tell them its okay to film. Later that week on Smackdown they need this promo. " Look I really don't know where he." she tries to explain to Kevin (Dunn) when her cell rings. " Hold on just a second." She glances at the caller ID and discovers that it's Paul. S: Where the hell are you? P: I'm sorry baby I slept really late. S: Paul I don't want your petty excuses. P: Then what do you want? * He asks, with a hint of desire in his voice. * S: I want you here, in my office in 10 minutes. Do you fucking know how much time I have wasted today because of you? Now just get your ass down here now before my dad realizes that your not here. Okay? P: I'll be there as quick as I can. S: Good. I love you, bye. P: Love you too, bye. She hangs up the phone and turns to the cameraman. " He'll be here in 10 minutes. I promise." " Well Ms. McMahon, we have to leave in 15. You two better be fast talkers. We will be, I promise." " Okay."
Ten minutes later Paul still isn't there and Stephanie is starting to get very pissed off at him. " I'll just 'punish' him later." She says to herself. " Ms. McMahon, we really have to go now. I'm truly sorry that Paul didn't show." " It's okay, you just need to do your job. Bye." " Good bye ma'am." The crew exits and heads down the hall on the way to their truck.
Meanwhile Paul is just entering the building carrying only his duffel bag and passes right by the men who were going to shoot their promo. He continues walking directly to his new girlfriend's office. When he gets there he can't even step one foot in before hearing Stephanie yell at him. " Where Were You? Do you know that I waited here for hours waiting for you to come? And then you show up not even 5 minutes after they left! I cannot believe you! Right now I hate you! I mean, I spend my time planning these shoots and then when you don't have the decency to show up, that's just shit Paul! Complete shit!" she eyes him, expecting him to blow up in her face. " Look Steph! I'm sorry, I don't know what else to say. I slept late and then things happened. Sorry if I screwed up your plans." Since he didn't do what she had anticipated she couldn't fire back with all the comments that she was going to. So instead all that came out of her mouth was what her heart told her. " It's okay. Just don't do it again. K?" she smiled. " Got it boss." He added with a laugh. Her smile faded and her eyes go wandering. " What's the matter?" he asks with a voice full of concern. " Nothing, I'm just thinking about what we are going to do for that 4 minutes our promo is supposed to fill." " Well why don't we just tape it when we are there, you know like live for the crowd." " We could do that, but Paul, you know how we are. We almost always mess up on what we are supposed to say. " True. If we cant do that, then what do you propose we do?" " I don't know, how about we just sleep on it and talk in the morning. Anyways you need to go get ready for your match and I need to go back to the hotel." " Okay see. wait, your not going to accompany me to the ring?" " No Paul, I'm sorry, I need to get back to the hotel to set some things up. But I promise that I'll be waiting for you when you arrive." " Fine. See you." He gives her a light peck on the cheek and heads off toward his locker room to change. " Now time to set up your 'punishment,'" she evilly says once he has exited the office and is on her way back to the hotel.
