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Dave's P.O.V.
Dave hung up the phone with and sat down on the bed. He knew that she would be calling soon. She being the woman that had been there with him ever since the night he admitted himself. The one who he could always depend on to be there for him. He didn't know why she put up with him, but he thanked god every day. They had had their ups and their downs, lots of downs unfortunately. But he knew that if it was ever something serious, she would be there to back him up.
He found himself feeling guilty though. He knew he should tell Trish, but he didn't want to deal with that quite yet. Besides, they were far enough away to not have to face it for the time being. He knew that it would only cause more problems.
Right on time his phone rang, "Hello?" He said in his low voice.
"How're you feeling honey?" She asked.
He looked at his hand holding the phone, "Today's one of the better days. I'm barely shaking, I haven't broken out into any cold sweats. But it's still early. How are you doing?"
She smiled to herself, "I'm doing really good. I have a question for you."
"What's that?" He asked. He never knew what her questions would hold for him.
"Have you left your room yet this morning?" She asked.
"No, group is in 10 minutes, why?"
"Well, you have a package waiting for you at the admit desk. I wanted to make sure that you are being taken care of. It's all been approved, and you can have it all." The woman responded.
"Thanks." Dave said with a smile. She always took such good care of him. "You want to know my little secret?" He asked. He felt she should be the first to know.
"What's that?"
"Because of my special circumstances, they're going to move me to intensive outpatient services today. After group, I transfer out to their outpatient facility. They have dorm like rooms, and you go to your groups and what not for 6-8 hours a day and then you go back to your room. You still check in and out, but that way you have a little more freedom. You just get tested a lot more. But trust me, I'm done. I'm clean, sober and I'll never fall back into that cycle ever again." Dave explained. "I can't leave the city, but at least I can get outside of the room. And I can have visitors. "
"That's great. I have a couple days before I have to be somewhere, do you need some company?" She asked.
"I would love to see you. I'm available after 5:00 p.m." Dave answered quickly.
"Alright, I'll fly in this afternoon and I'll call you at 5:00 p.m. so you can tell me how to find the new place. Unless Ashley knows, I can always go and see her first." The woman offered.
"Yeah, how about I meet you at Ashley's? That way we can all see each other." Dave responded.
"Alright, talk to ya later." She said as she was hanging up.
"Bye Care-bear." He said into the phone with a smile.
He heard her clear her throat, "Did you just call me care-bear again?" She asked, and you could hear the smile in her voice.
"Yes I did. And I'm sorry that I ever stopped." He said to her. He had stopped calling her care-bear when he started using drugs, and he didn't know why. It all just coincided.
Carrie smiled to herself, "Then I know that you're on the road to recovery. I'll talk to you soon Dave." And she hung up.
Dave hung up his phone and looked at his watch. It was time to go to group and prove to them that yes he was ready for intensive outpatient even if he had only been in there a few days.
After group, Dave had had a meeting with his main evaluator, and he passed with flying colors. The evaluator even commented on how he was so impressed with how passionate he was to change his ways. He packed up his stuff and went to the front desk and strapped on his ankle bracelet and out the door he went. Then he turned around and went back into the desk, "Excuse me, I forgot, do I have a package here?"
The lady smiled, "Yes, I buzzed your room and didn't even think about it when you signed out." She grabbed it off of the shelf, "Here you go."
"Thanks." Dave said and headed outside. He decided he would open the package at the park on his way to Ashley's.
So Dave went for a walk in the park and found himself starting to think about the girls. He had no idea that it was going to be that hard on them. He felt really bad. He thought back to when Aly was having problems with Angie and how badly that affected her. And now to think that he was the reason she was having problems, he began to feel really bad and a little depressed. He knew that his weekend was her big state meet and that it had meant a lot to her that Dave was going to go and cheer her on and help coach, but he ruined that. He just hoped that she wouldn't let it get her down. He was really lucky to have Trish in his life. If it wasn't for her, he would still be getting stoned, he might not even have a job anymore, and the kids would be with Angie, and not that she wasn't a good mom, but it was really nice having them around. And he knew that Angie was trying to get her restaurant project off the ground, so even though she was pretty well healed, it would make it really tough to have to try and keep track of the girls and get the project started without having another person involved.
Dave thought about his lady friend and realized that he had never mentioned her to Trish. He didn't know why he never brought her up, but he just never did. Was it because he was secretly falling for her? Was it because there has been an innate sense of harmony when the two were together? Dave shook his head. He knew that he loved Trish, but there was just something about the time that was shared between them that didn't match up to what him and Trish had. He had to be honest with himself, things hadn't felt the same since he confessed to Trish about sleeping with Melissa.
Dave sat down on a bench and opened up his package. He pulled out a copy of his all-time favorite book, a word-search book, some pencils and pens, a pair of slippers, and underneath everything he found a picture of Carrie and him that was taken awhile back. He couldn't help but smile when he seen it peering through the goodies at him. He took it out and seen that it was him and Carrie sitting on a porch swing snuggling under a blanket. He glanced at his watch and seen that he had to get going to Ashley's or he would be late.
As he was walking towards Ashley's a thought popped into his head, his friendship with his lady friend was almost a mirror image of Trish's relationship with Brock. Now he was concerned. He knew that him and Carrie had an on-again, off-again relationship for quite sometime. He never told anyone about her because he didn't want to hear the ragging. Yes Carrie and him were friends with benefits, yes they probably could have forever if they pursued it, but he never asked her. Sometimes he was disappointed with himself as to why he never asked her. His whole family loved her. He thought back to when he first met her.
**Thinking Back**
It was Dave's first day at OVW when this beautiful woman came walking in. She had long flowing chestnut brown hair, and the bluest eyes he had ever seen. She had on a business suit and had her hair cascading in ringlets just past her shoulders. She wasn't a wrestler, nor was associated with the WWE. It turned out that she was a friend of one of the trainers there, and she was in town on business.
Bill (the trainer) called Dave over and introduced him to Miss Carrie Young. He informed Dave that she was a very good friend of his, and she was going to change and he wanted Dave to show her around OVW and if she wanted, he could bump her a bit.
"But sir, she doesn't wrestle, I don't want her to become injured," Dave started to protest when Carrie held up her hand.
"Dave, I've amateur wrestled, and I've trained a bit, but it was never something I wanted full time. So now I'm an analyst that is from outside that comes and analyzes the facility and how it could improve to better meet it's students' needs. Bill has told me that you are one of his finer students, so I've picked you to show me the ropes, pardon the pun, if you will." Carrie replied. "Trust me, I can hold my own, and if it came down to it, I could probably out mat wrestle you."
Bill laughed, "Carrie was a state champ 2 years in high school and all 4 years in college. She was one of the first female amateur wrestlers to wrestle males and go to state."
"Oh I see, you're a spitfire." Dave replied with a smile. "I can handle that, I'll meet you at the table and we'll see how you do."
Carrie looked into his eyes, "It'll be my pleasure." And walked off with a smirk.
Dave headed off to the table, but wasn't able to shake her from his mind. Throughout the day they had come to know practically everything about each other and fast became best friends. Best friends became friends with benefits, and it all took off from there.
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Dave snapped back to reality when he heard someone whistling at him. He looked and there was Carrie pulling over to the shoulder to pick him up. "Hey sexy, you wanna ride?" She hollered.
He laughed and hopped in the car and they hugged and kissed lightly, "How's it going care-bear?"
She smiled at him, "Pretty good. How are you doing?"
"You know, I feel better just seeing you." He said squeezing her hand.
She held it and continued on to Ashley's house, "I'm so proud of you for working on getting your shit together so fast. I'm glad that you woke up and seen what you were doing to yourself. Do you still feen for it?"
"I won't lie, there are times where I am craving it more than I ever knew was possible, but when that happens, I just find other things to do to occupy my time. And I make sure not to think about it, and I know that by surrounding myself with sober surroundings, it will make this a lot more comfortable." Dave replied. He knew that he could be brutally honest with her and she would understand.
"I am so proud of you Dave. This is taking a lot less time than I thought it would." Carrie said patting his hand. She pulled into Ashley's driveway. "So did you get my package?"
"Yes I did, where in the world did you find that picture? I remember that day like it was yesterday." Dave said with a big smile.
"I found some film that hadn't been developed yet, so I took it in and when I got them back I knew that you needed to see it. That is my favorite picture of us yet." She said with a smile. "So I was hoping that by seeing it, it would help to cheer you up."
They got out of the car and he grabbed her and pulled her to him to give her a big hug, "thinking of you cheers me up, and the picture put me on cloud 9, and seeing you again just puts me over the top."
She smiled, "Oh stop. You didn't miss me."
He opened his mouth wide, "Now why would you say that?" He insisted.
"Because if you missed me, you would have kissed me by now." She fake sniffled.
He pulled her close and kissed her lovingly. It sent shivers through her, it had been so long since the last time they had seen each other. She had a hard time telling herself that they were only friends, but she knew that she loved him. She knew that she understood him in the way that he needed. When he pulled away, she took a deep breath, "Well, at least I know that you still know how to make me weak in the knees." She joked, "Let's go in before Ashley freaks."
Dave nodded and put his arm around her waist and escorted her into Ashley's house. As the night progressed, the all sat around talking and laughing. After dinner, Dave and Carrie decided to go shopping for some things for Dave's new place, and then he would take her there so she could see it.
Carrie and Dave went out to a few stores, and if anyone seen them, they would have thought that they were moving in together. They held hands and played around and they argued back and forth on colors and patterns. Dave was having a great time.
They got back to Dave's new "residence" and began to unpack the new things and the stuff that he was allowed to have with him when he was inpatient. After everything was set up, they settled on the bed and watched a movie. They held hands and Carrie rested her head on Dave's shoulder. "So Care- bear, where are you staying tonight?" He asked her.
"Well, actually I fly out at 3:15 a.m." She replied slowly. "I'm not in town for that long, I'm headed out to the West Coast to evaluate some new facilities and gyms that are going up."
"Oh." Dave replied. He really didn't want to let her go. It felt really good to be with someone again.
"Hon, I'm sorry. I'm only gone for a couple days and then I have two weeks off. If you would like I could come back here and we could spend some quality time with each other." She said as she climbed on his lap.
He looked her in the eyes and met her nose to nose, "What if we spend some quality time together now?" He asked her in his deep, seductive voice.
She leaned in and kissed him passionately, "I say what are we waiting for?"
After a few hours of fooling around, they laid there on the bed listening to the rain falling outside. Carrie's watch alarm went off. She nudged Dave awake, "Hey, I've gotta go."
He held her close and kissed her cheek. She got up and got dressed he grabbed her bags and they walked out to her car.
She looked at him, "It was really good seeing you again. We can't let that much time pass anymore."
He shook his head, "No we can't."
She went and held him one more time. She didn't know how he felt, and for all she knew she was just benefits too him, but in her heart she felt that he felt more than that for her. She kissed him and got in the car.
"You drive careful." Dave said to her.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine. I'll talk to you tomorrow at our normal time." She said.
Dave couldn't get over the emotions he was feeling. But for some reason, parting hurt him deep inside. "Bye care-bear." He said quietly to her.
He watched her drive away and he headed back inside. He laid down in bed and began to doze off. But he was still able to ponder the thought of why he didn't think about Trish the entire evening.
**Well, please let me know what you are thinking at this point. Tomorrow's chapter will be the first day of Aly's state meet. Please continue to read and review!! Thanks!!! **
Dave's P.O.V.
Dave hung up the phone with and sat down on the bed. He knew that she would be calling soon. She being the woman that had been there with him ever since the night he admitted himself. The one who he could always depend on to be there for him. He didn't know why she put up with him, but he thanked god every day. They had had their ups and their downs, lots of downs unfortunately. But he knew that if it was ever something serious, she would be there to back him up.
He found himself feeling guilty though. He knew he should tell Trish, but he didn't want to deal with that quite yet. Besides, they were far enough away to not have to face it for the time being. He knew that it would only cause more problems.
Right on time his phone rang, "Hello?" He said in his low voice.
"How're you feeling honey?" She asked.
He looked at his hand holding the phone, "Today's one of the better days. I'm barely shaking, I haven't broken out into any cold sweats. But it's still early. How are you doing?"
She smiled to herself, "I'm doing really good. I have a question for you."
"What's that?" He asked. He never knew what her questions would hold for him.
"Have you left your room yet this morning?" She asked.
"No, group is in 10 minutes, why?"
"Well, you have a package waiting for you at the admit desk. I wanted to make sure that you are being taken care of. It's all been approved, and you can have it all." The woman responded.
"Thanks." Dave said with a smile. She always took such good care of him. "You want to know my little secret?" He asked. He felt she should be the first to know.
"What's that?"
"Because of my special circumstances, they're going to move me to intensive outpatient services today. After group, I transfer out to their outpatient facility. They have dorm like rooms, and you go to your groups and what not for 6-8 hours a day and then you go back to your room. You still check in and out, but that way you have a little more freedom. You just get tested a lot more. But trust me, I'm done. I'm clean, sober and I'll never fall back into that cycle ever again." Dave explained. "I can't leave the city, but at least I can get outside of the room. And I can have visitors. "
"That's great. I have a couple days before I have to be somewhere, do you need some company?" She asked.
"I would love to see you. I'm available after 5:00 p.m." Dave answered quickly.
"Alright, I'll fly in this afternoon and I'll call you at 5:00 p.m. so you can tell me how to find the new place. Unless Ashley knows, I can always go and see her first." The woman offered.
"Yeah, how about I meet you at Ashley's? That way we can all see each other." Dave responded.
"Alright, talk to ya later." She said as she was hanging up.
"Bye Care-bear." He said into the phone with a smile.
He heard her clear her throat, "Did you just call me care-bear again?" She asked, and you could hear the smile in her voice.
"Yes I did. And I'm sorry that I ever stopped." He said to her. He had stopped calling her care-bear when he started using drugs, and he didn't know why. It all just coincided.
Carrie smiled to herself, "Then I know that you're on the road to recovery. I'll talk to you soon Dave." And she hung up.
Dave hung up his phone and looked at his watch. It was time to go to group and prove to them that yes he was ready for intensive outpatient even if he had only been in there a few days.
After group, Dave had had a meeting with his main evaluator, and he passed with flying colors. The evaluator even commented on how he was so impressed with how passionate he was to change his ways. He packed up his stuff and went to the front desk and strapped on his ankle bracelet and out the door he went. Then he turned around and went back into the desk, "Excuse me, I forgot, do I have a package here?"
The lady smiled, "Yes, I buzzed your room and didn't even think about it when you signed out." She grabbed it off of the shelf, "Here you go."
"Thanks." Dave said and headed outside. He decided he would open the package at the park on his way to Ashley's.
So Dave went for a walk in the park and found himself starting to think about the girls. He had no idea that it was going to be that hard on them. He felt really bad. He thought back to when Aly was having problems with Angie and how badly that affected her. And now to think that he was the reason she was having problems, he began to feel really bad and a little depressed. He knew that his weekend was her big state meet and that it had meant a lot to her that Dave was going to go and cheer her on and help coach, but he ruined that. He just hoped that she wouldn't let it get her down. He was really lucky to have Trish in his life. If it wasn't for her, he would still be getting stoned, he might not even have a job anymore, and the kids would be with Angie, and not that she wasn't a good mom, but it was really nice having them around. And he knew that Angie was trying to get her restaurant project off the ground, so even though she was pretty well healed, it would make it really tough to have to try and keep track of the girls and get the project started without having another person involved.
Dave thought about his lady friend and realized that he had never mentioned her to Trish. He didn't know why he never brought her up, but he just never did. Was it because he was secretly falling for her? Was it because there has been an innate sense of harmony when the two were together? Dave shook his head. He knew that he loved Trish, but there was just something about the time that was shared between them that didn't match up to what him and Trish had. He had to be honest with himself, things hadn't felt the same since he confessed to Trish about sleeping with Melissa.
Dave sat down on a bench and opened up his package. He pulled out a copy of his all-time favorite book, a word-search book, some pencils and pens, a pair of slippers, and underneath everything he found a picture of Carrie and him that was taken awhile back. He couldn't help but smile when he seen it peering through the goodies at him. He took it out and seen that it was him and Carrie sitting on a porch swing snuggling under a blanket. He glanced at his watch and seen that he had to get going to Ashley's or he would be late.
As he was walking towards Ashley's a thought popped into his head, his friendship with his lady friend was almost a mirror image of Trish's relationship with Brock. Now he was concerned. He knew that him and Carrie had an on-again, off-again relationship for quite sometime. He never told anyone about her because he didn't want to hear the ragging. Yes Carrie and him were friends with benefits, yes they probably could have forever if they pursued it, but he never asked her. Sometimes he was disappointed with himself as to why he never asked her. His whole family loved her. He thought back to when he first met her.
**Thinking Back**
It was Dave's first day at OVW when this beautiful woman came walking in. She had long flowing chestnut brown hair, and the bluest eyes he had ever seen. She had on a business suit and had her hair cascading in ringlets just past her shoulders. She wasn't a wrestler, nor was associated with the WWE. It turned out that she was a friend of one of the trainers there, and she was in town on business.
Bill (the trainer) called Dave over and introduced him to Miss Carrie Young. He informed Dave that she was a very good friend of his, and she was going to change and he wanted Dave to show her around OVW and if she wanted, he could bump her a bit.
"But sir, she doesn't wrestle, I don't want her to become injured," Dave started to protest when Carrie held up her hand.
"Dave, I've amateur wrestled, and I've trained a bit, but it was never something I wanted full time. So now I'm an analyst that is from outside that comes and analyzes the facility and how it could improve to better meet it's students' needs. Bill has told me that you are one of his finer students, so I've picked you to show me the ropes, pardon the pun, if you will." Carrie replied. "Trust me, I can hold my own, and if it came down to it, I could probably out mat wrestle you."
Bill laughed, "Carrie was a state champ 2 years in high school and all 4 years in college. She was one of the first female amateur wrestlers to wrestle males and go to state."
"Oh I see, you're a spitfire." Dave replied with a smile. "I can handle that, I'll meet you at the table and we'll see how you do."
Carrie looked into his eyes, "It'll be my pleasure." And walked off with a smirk.
Dave headed off to the table, but wasn't able to shake her from his mind. Throughout the day they had come to know practically everything about each other and fast became best friends. Best friends became friends with benefits, and it all took off from there.
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Dave snapped back to reality when he heard someone whistling at him. He looked and there was Carrie pulling over to the shoulder to pick him up. "Hey sexy, you wanna ride?" She hollered.
He laughed and hopped in the car and they hugged and kissed lightly, "How's it going care-bear?"
She smiled at him, "Pretty good. How are you doing?"
"You know, I feel better just seeing you." He said squeezing her hand.
She held it and continued on to Ashley's house, "I'm so proud of you for working on getting your shit together so fast. I'm glad that you woke up and seen what you were doing to yourself. Do you still feen for it?"
"I won't lie, there are times where I am craving it more than I ever knew was possible, but when that happens, I just find other things to do to occupy my time. And I make sure not to think about it, and I know that by surrounding myself with sober surroundings, it will make this a lot more comfortable." Dave replied. He knew that he could be brutally honest with her and she would understand.
"I am so proud of you Dave. This is taking a lot less time than I thought it would." Carrie said patting his hand. She pulled into Ashley's driveway. "So did you get my package?"
"Yes I did, where in the world did you find that picture? I remember that day like it was yesterday." Dave said with a big smile.
"I found some film that hadn't been developed yet, so I took it in and when I got them back I knew that you needed to see it. That is my favorite picture of us yet." She said with a smile. "So I was hoping that by seeing it, it would help to cheer you up."
They got out of the car and he grabbed her and pulled her to him to give her a big hug, "thinking of you cheers me up, and the picture put me on cloud 9, and seeing you again just puts me over the top."
She smiled, "Oh stop. You didn't miss me."
He opened his mouth wide, "Now why would you say that?" He insisted.
"Because if you missed me, you would have kissed me by now." She fake sniffled.
He pulled her close and kissed her lovingly. It sent shivers through her, it had been so long since the last time they had seen each other. She had a hard time telling herself that they were only friends, but she knew that she loved him. She knew that she understood him in the way that he needed. When he pulled away, she took a deep breath, "Well, at least I know that you still know how to make me weak in the knees." She joked, "Let's go in before Ashley freaks."
Dave nodded and put his arm around her waist and escorted her into Ashley's house. As the night progressed, the all sat around talking and laughing. After dinner, Dave and Carrie decided to go shopping for some things for Dave's new place, and then he would take her there so she could see it.
Carrie and Dave went out to a few stores, and if anyone seen them, they would have thought that they were moving in together. They held hands and played around and they argued back and forth on colors and patterns. Dave was having a great time.
They got back to Dave's new "residence" and began to unpack the new things and the stuff that he was allowed to have with him when he was inpatient. After everything was set up, they settled on the bed and watched a movie. They held hands and Carrie rested her head on Dave's shoulder. "So Care- bear, where are you staying tonight?" He asked her.
"Well, actually I fly out at 3:15 a.m." She replied slowly. "I'm not in town for that long, I'm headed out to the West Coast to evaluate some new facilities and gyms that are going up."
"Oh." Dave replied. He really didn't want to let her go. It felt really good to be with someone again.
"Hon, I'm sorry. I'm only gone for a couple days and then I have two weeks off. If you would like I could come back here and we could spend some quality time with each other." She said as she climbed on his lap.
He looked her in the eyes and met her nose to nose, "What if we spend some quality time together now?" He asked her in his deep, seductive voice.
She leaned in and kissed him passionately, "I say what are we waiting for?"
After a few hours of fooling around, they laid there on the bed listening to the rain falling outside. Carrie's watch alarm went off. She nudged Dave awake, "Hey, I've gotta go."
He held her close and kissed her cheek. She got up and got dressed he grabbed her bags and they walked out to her car.
She looked at him, "It was really good seeing you again. We can't let that much time pass anymore."
He shook his head, "No we can't."
She went and held him one more time. She didn't know how he felt, and for all she knew she was just benefits too him, but in her heart she felt that he felt more than that for her. She kissed him and got in the car.
"You drive careful." Dave said to her.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine. I'll talk to you tomorrow at our normal time." She said.
Dave couldn't get over the emotions he was feeling. But for some reason, parting hurt him deep inside. "Bye care-bear." He said quietly to her.
He watched her drive away and he headed back inside. He laid down in bed and began to doze off. But he was still able to ponder the thought of why he didn't think about Trish the entire evening.
**Well, please let me know what you are thinking at this point. Tomorrow's chapter will be the first day of Aly's state meet. Please continue to read and review!! Thanks!!! **