PART FOUR
A FEW WEEKS LATER
Kristen and Adam made their way towards Adam and the other guys' locker room, both of them laughing loudly as they walked down the hall. The two of them had been spending a lot of time lately as well, much like Kristen and Paul Levesque. The only difference between her spending time with the two of them was that Rob actually liked Adam and didn't mind her hanging out with him – Paul, on the other hand, was a *very* different story. Kristen's brother had made it quite clear that he wanted nothing to do with Paul… which in turn meant that he wanted *her* to have nothing to do with him as well. Kristen didn't understand why Rob hated Levesque so much anyway… he seemed like a nice enough guy. In fact, they'd had some pretty in depth conversations over the past few weeks, a good amount of them about one topic in particular…
Adam.
Kristen glanced up at the tall Canadian as she thought back to the talks she had with Paul about him. For a while now, Adam and Kristen had spent a lot of time together, and they had become very close friends. So close, in fact, that Kristen realized that she was slowly but surely falling in love with him. The only problem with that was, she wasn't so sure that he felt the same way. The two of them had been especially flirty over the last week or so, and Kristen wasn't sure what to make of it. Was Adam just a normally flirty person… or was there something more to it? She wasn't sure, and it was starting to bug her. She wanted to talk to him about it – to find out what was going on in his head – but she just wasn't the type of girl to flat out ask a guy if he liked her. In her mind, it just wasn't right to do that.
"Hey! Earth to Kristen!" Adam's voice called, and suddenly a waving hand appeared in front of Kristen's face. She tucked a strand of brown hair behind her ear, laughing quietly as she shook her head.
"Sorry about that… I drifted," she said, her cheeks turning a very light shade of pink.
"It's alright, just wanted to make sure I didn't completely lose you," he said, casually tossing his arm around her shoulder as they walked down the hall. Now was one of the moments when Kristen didn't know whether to be happy or upset or confused. Was him placing his arm around her a sign of affection because he really liked her, or because he was just a friendly guy?
"No, I… I'm still here," she said tentatively. She tried to push the confusing thoughts out of her mind and tried to simply enjoy being around Adam. She managed to do so, and by the time they reached the locker room, she didn't want him to go in.
"Well, we're here…" he said slowly, glancing around the hallway for a moment as he turned and leaned up against the door. Kristen stood in front of him, looking up at him intently.
"Yup, we are," she said. Her gaze traveled down as she noticed that he was shifting back and forth on his feet. He looked so – awkward was the word she was thinking of – standing there. It seemed as though he wanted to leave to get in the locker room, but at the same time, he wanted to stay out there with her a little longer.
"I, uh… I guess I better get going," he said, gesturing to the door behind him.
"Yeah," Kristen replied quickly. "Go ahead, I'm gonna head out and find Dawn, maybe my brother is with her."
"Yeah, probably. I, um… I'll talk to you later," he said, but he didn't move from his spot.
"Okay," Kristen replied. As she was about to turn away, Adam grabbed her and pulled her into a hug. She sent him a soft smile before turning and finally walking away.
Once she was around the corner and positive that he could no longer see her, Kristen squealed and jumped up and down. He *had* to like her… the way he looked at her when he pulled her into that hug, he just had to. He seemed so shy around her today, and he had never been like that before. Kristen felt like she was back in high school again. Her day had just gone from good to great. She smiled widely as she continued on down the hall…
She was *so* glad that she let her brother talk her in to traveling with the WWE.
LATER THAT NIGHTKristen found herself once again walking down a hallway with Adam, this time in the hotel. They were going to pick up Jay, and then the three of them were going to meet some of their friends at a club. Kristen would have went with her brother, but Rob had left earlier so that he could get something to eat with Dawn Marie. The two of them had also been spending a lot of time together lately, and it made Kristen wonder just what was going on with them as well. The two of them had been friends for a very long time, dating back to their days in ECW, so it just seemed right for the two of them to develop feelings for one another. As the two of them reached Jay's hotel room door, Adam stepped up and knocked. They waited, and waited, and waited, and there was no sign of Jay. Sighing, Adam banged on the door harder.
"Come on Jay, we don't have all night!" he yelled, hoping to get his best friend's attention. When Jay still didn't answer the door, Adam looked over at Kristen, rolling his eyes in annoyance. Figuring it was worth a shot, he reached out and twisted the handle of the doorknob, surprised to see that it was open.
"I guess you're going in to get him," she said, looking up at him curiously. Adam grinned at her, nodding.
"I guess I'll have to. I bet you he's in there doing his hair, or primping himself in some other way. I swear he's a woman," Adam replied jokingly, shaking his head as he walked in the door. "I'll be right back Kris," he called, pulling the door shut behind him.
Kristen laughed quietly, moving away from the door and leaning up against the wall as she waited for Adam to get Jay and come back out. She could hear him calling Jay's name, yelling at him to hurry up. She glanced around the hallway, grinning widely and waving as she saw Randy Orton wink at her and wave from down the hall. As he stepped into the elevator, Kristen figured that he was most likely also going to the club. From inside the room, she could hear the voices of the two blonde Canadians. She moved closer to the door, listening in to hear what they were talking about.
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"I'm sorry dude," Jay's voice called. "I would have come out when you knocked, but you told me earlier you were going to have Kristen with you."
"What does that have to do with anything?" Adam asked in a very puzzled tone.
"I thought maybe you'd want to a little extra time with your girlfriend… I thought I was being a nice guy by stalling," Jay replied plainly, a playful gleam in his deep brown eyes. Adam shook his head.
"What is it with you and calling her my girlfriend? She isn't," the taller man responded. Jay laughed, pointing a finger at him.
"She might as well be… you only spend every waking minute with her. At least, the minutes she's not with Levesque. You better watch him man, or he might up and snatch your woman," Jay pointed out. Adam narrowed his eyes at Jay – it was times like these that he wondered why in hell he became friends with such an immature man.
"She's *not* my woman!" he cried, slapping himself on the forehead.
"Yes, she is, so don't deny it. You can't honestly tell me that you don't like her," Jay insisted seriously.
"Jay, you're… I like her, but not in that way. She's like my little sister, that's all. I swear, if I felt anything more, I'd tell you," Adam swore, putting his hands up in the air in protest.
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Outside the door, Kristen felt her heart sink. A little sister? She should have known… what could Adam Copeland have possibly seen in her? It was just what she had thought was going to happen when Rob first invited her on the road… she had become the tag-along. Adam was hanging out with her because he saw her as Rob's cute little sister, not because he actually liked her. Suddenly, she felt tears stinging at her eyes, and she did her best to fight them back. She had been so stupid, letting herself think that Adam really wanted to be with her, knowing full well it could only be some dumb fantasy. Without thinking, she turned and walked away from Jay's hotel room door, her pace only increasing as she felt the tears beginning to leak out of her green eyes. As she jogged down the hall, her eyes blurry from the tears, she quickly thought of where she could go. She had to get somewhere fast – there was no way she could let Adam, or Jay for that matter, see her like this. She ran faster and faster down the hall, knowing that there was only one place she could go, one person who would be in his room and willing to listen to her…
She had to talk to Paul.
Another story that took me forever to update! Please review this guys, I wanna know if you like it or not!!! **Britney