"So Dawn you ready to go out there?"
"No."
"Of course you are, you're going to love it," Chris said, putting his arm around her shoulders.
She shrugged him off, "I'm only doing this because I'm forced to."
"Oh come on, you know a little bitty part of you wants me."
"Shut up," she said brusquely.
"Don't you dare touch my girl!"
Chris looked up and saw Edge coming out from some dark corner or something. Geez, what had he been doing, spying on the two of them? Like he'd actually try to go for Dawn Marie. He could do ten thousand times better than her. And who was ten thousand times better...
"Oh good, you two are already here," Stephanie said, walking over.
"Speak of the devil," Chris said, "I was just thinking about you Stephanie."
"Oh, how cute of you," she said, smiling at her friend.
"Devil? That's a pretty accurate description," Edge muttered, crossing his arms, not wanting to be around the both of them at once. They were bad when they were apart, almost unbearable when they were together.
"Ooh, I'm so scary," Stephanie said, teasing him by making devil horns with her fingers.
Chris laughed hardily, "Oh Stephanie, you never fail to make me laugh."
"Of course not, you can't resist me," she told him proudly, coming over to stand in front of him.
She turned her back to him and he instinctively wrapped his arms around her shoulders and leaned his head off to the side of hers. The two of them were always touchy feely with each other and that fact never escaped any of the other wrestlers. They all figured the two of them were having an affair, which was simply not true.
"You know, you two should be thankful that I put Dawn with Chris," Stephanie said to them.
"Oh really, why is that?" Edge said sarcastically.
"Well, look on the bright side, she gets to be out there for your match."
"Yeah, on the other side," Dawn said snottily.
"But you're out there aren't you?" Chris said, leaning his chin on Stephanie's shoulder.
"You know Chris," Edge started, "You used to be so much cooler you know? I don't know why you gave that all up for her."
"Gave what up exactly?" Chris said, "A boring, mundane existence."
"You had tons of friends, everyone liked you," Dawn added.
"I like him," Stephanie said, turning her head to smirk up at Chris.
"And that's all that matters," Chris said, "Maybe you two should wise up. I'm better off with Stephanie now. She's the best friend a guy could possibly have."
"Yeah, because she spreads her legs for him," Dawn whispered to Edge.
Chris and Stephanie could both hear the whispered comment to Edge, and his subsequent chuckle. She looked up at him and gave him a devilish grin. Chris could only imagine what was going on in that pretty little head of hers. He gave her a slight nod, telling her silently that whatever she wanted to do he would be on board with it.
"What was that Dawn?" Stephanie said sweetly, "I don't think I heard clearly."
"Nothing," Dawn told her as Edge continued to laugh.
Stephanie checked her watch, "Oh, would you look at that, you're match is up next."
"Oh, so it is," Chris interjected.
"You know what?" Stephanie said, as if an idea had just popped up in her brain.
"What Stephanie?" Chris asked, pretending to be surprised, but really just playing along with her game.
"I just had a great idea!" she exclaimed.
Edge and Dawn looked at her wearily. They knew what she was capable of, and sometimes it just wasn't pretty. Everyone knew that if you got on their bad side, you were in for it. Hell, even if you weren't on their bad side, you were in for it. They simply loved toying with people for the fun of it.
"Do tell!" Chris said happily.
"After the match, Dawn, you should come into the ring and kiss Chris, since you know, he's winning and all," she said with a bright smile on her face.
"What!?!" Dawn said, her jaw dropping, "I have to kiss him!?!"
"I didn't stutter, did I? You heard me."
"Fuck!" Edge yelled, "Why do you two have to fucking control everything huh? Why do you want to make people's lives miserable?"
Chris and Stephanie looked at each other, as if contemplating the fact. It wasn't that they enjoyed watching people suffer, but they loved the power they knew they had over people. It was really rewarding to see people groveling in front of them.
"We make people's lives miserable?" Stephanie said, hand over heart, gasping in mock surprise.
"You two are just horrible human beings," Dawn said, "You feed off the misery of others."
"Am I really that repulsive to kiss?" Chris asked, joking to Stephanie.
Stephanie turned around to face him and ran her hand languidly down the side of his face. She leaned in and leaned in, until she was mere inches away from his mouth. Chris knew that Edge and Dawn were probably watching, hoping that as soon as Stephanie's lips touched his, they would be able to run off and tattle to Hunter. But of course, at the very last moment as Chris could feel Stephanie's breath upon his own mouth, she pulled away and looked at Edge and Dawn.
"I wouldn't know," she told them, "But pretty soon Dawn will."
Dawn scowled as Edge's music started to play. He gave Chris and Stephanie a scornful glare, then quickly kissed Dawn as he walked out onto the ramp. Dawn looked a little apprehensive being left alone with the two of them. As soon as Edge was down to the ring, Chris's music went off, and he gallantly offered his arm to Dawn, which she refused. He laughed and gave Stephanie a wink as he went out for his match.
Stephanie stood by the gorilla, watching on the monitor. She could tell by looking at Dawn that she was not pleased to be rooting for Chris. She had to give a little laugh at that. As Stephanie was watching, she felt two strong arms wrap around her waist and she felt herself get pulled against the man protectively.
"Baby, let's go back to our locker room," Hunter said, kissing her neck.
"I'm watching."
"You can watch in there."
"But you'll want to do other stuff, and then I won't be able to watch."
"Why do you care so much?" Hunter asked, not really asking about the match, but asking why she cared so much about Chris.
Stephanie stared at the screen for a moment, watching as Chris gave Edge a bulldog, "I just like to watch Chris's matches."
"Come on, you can miss one," Hunter said, kissing her neck some more, "I never get to see you."
She turned around briefly, "You see me all the time."
"So, I want to see you more."
"What are you getting at Hunter?" she asked impatiently, crossing her arms underneath her breasts.
"I want you to move in with me."
For once, it was Stephanie who was in shock. She hadn't expected that to come out of his mouth. She honestly thought he just wanted more sex, which would have been easy for her to comply with. But moving in together? They had been going out for eight months, but moving in together, that was a whole other level.
"Hunter, I mean, I don't know."
"Come on," he said, grabbing her hands, "I want you to live with me, I want to see your face when I wake up in the morning and when I go to sleep at night."
Stephanie almost gagged at the utter cheesiness that statement afforded her. If he had said something more realistic she wouldn't have laughed, but hearing that, she burst out laughing, much to Hunter's bewilderment. She clutched her stomach from laughing so hard.
"What's so funny?" he asked.
She tried to contain her laughter, "Nothing, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to laugh."
"So please, move in with me?" he asked nicely.
Stephanie didn't know what to say. Luckily for her, Chris came bounding down the steps at that moment. He smiled and opened his arms to her. Glad for the interruption, she ran over to him and gave him a huge hug, despite being sweaty from his match.
"So how was I?"
"I didn't really get to watch," she said, "Um, Hunter was here."
"Oh," Chris said, a little disappointed, "Hey Trips."
"If you'll excuse us Jericho, we were discussing something," Hunter said coldly.
"Well, it must not have been important if Stephanie would rather come see me than talk to you," Chris shot back.
"Hunter, I'll be with you in a minute ok? I really need to talk to Chris. Just go back to the locker room."
"Why are you always going off with him?" Hunter asked.
"No reason, he's my friend, I want to talk to him!" she said irately.
"Fine, see ya," he said, walking off with a frown on his face.
"God, why do you stay with that asshole?"
"Because...I love him," she said, grabbing Chris's hand, "But we need to talk NOW!"
"But I want to talk to Edge and Dawn. I slipped her the tongue during our kiss, it was great seeing Edge's face," Chris chuckled.
"I'm sure it was, we need to talk," she repeated, dragging him towards his dressing room.
"Whoa, this must be serious if you can't even stop to talk about one of our little schemes," he said.
"It is," she said, practically throwing him into his locker room.
He stumbled inside and sat on the couch, looking up at her, wondering what could have gotten her so spooked. Stephanie wasn't the type of woman who could easily be surprised. He half expected this to be one of her ploys and for her to turn around and pretend to seduce him.
But when she turned around and started pacing the length of the room, he knew that something was wrong with her. He folded his arms and looked at her. He had never seen her like this. Had something happened with Hunter? If he had touched her, he would kill him.
"Stephanie?"
"Chris, something horrible has happened," she said, turning to face him.
"What? What is horrible enough to happen to mar that beautiful face?"
"Hunter," she said, sitting heavily down in a chair, which was very unusual for her, considering she never slouched.
"Did he do something to you?" Chris asked suspiciously.
"He asked me to move in with him," she mumbled.
"Shit," Chris said, "No wonder you're freaked."
She looked at him with a smile on her face. She always knew that Chris would understand where she was coming from. She got up and went over to him slowly. She sat down in his lap and threw one leg over his and straddled him. She leaned in and laid her head against his chest.
"Don't do it Stephanie."
"He loves me Chris."
"Are you having a human moment, I don't like it," he told her.
"I hate it, but it's here and I can't stop it from happening."
Just then, Hunter walked in, "What the fuck is going on here?"
Stephanie quickly got off of Chris's lap, "We were talking."
"Oh, and talking to you requires that you fucking straddle him like you two are going to fuck!?"
"No!" she protested, "We were just sitting here!"
"Come on," Hunter said, grabbing her arm, "Let's go."
"Don't you fucking pull me," Stephanie said, getting out of his grasp using some force.
"Stephanie, I don't like you hanging around him."
"And I don't give a flying fuck what you think, I can and will hang out with whoever the hell I want to."
"Fine, you know what, I take back the invitation," he snarled.
Stephanie shook her hair out a little and put on her cool face. She walked right up at him and stared him straight in the eye. He found himself mesmerized by the blue of her eyes. She kissed him softly, and all the anger he felt melted away.
"That's too bad, because I was going to say yes," she told him huskily.
Chris looked down in an attempt not to let out a stream of laughter. Stephanie always knew how to get what she wanted. She was so wily sometimes he amazed her. She was quite the woman.
"I'm sorry Stephanie, I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions with you and Chris."
"Oh, I forgive you, now let's go have some fun," she said, giggling at him.
She linked her arm through Hunter's and proceeded to walk out. She turned and gave a smirk to Chris, and he couldn't help but grin at her. He had to hand it to her, she had really gotten herself out of that one. They walked out and he watched as she closed the door.
"What a woman."
"No."
"Of course you are, you're going to love it," Chris said, putting his arm around her shoulders.
She shrugged him off, "I'm only doing this because I'm forced to."
"Oh come on, you know a little bitty part of you wants me."
"Shut up," she said brusquely.
"Don't you dare touch my girl!"
Chris looked up and saw Edge coming out from some dark corner or something. Geez, what had he been doing, spying on the two of them? Like he'd actually try to go for Dawn Marie. He could do ten thousand times better than her. And who was ten thousand times better...
"Oh good, you two are already here," Stephanie said, walking over.
"Speak of the devil," Chris said, "I was just thinking about you Stephanie."
"Oh, how cute of you," she said, smiling at her friend.
"Devil? That's a pretty accurate description," Edge muttered, crossing his arms, not wanting to be around the both of them at once. They were bad when they were apart, almost unbearable when they were together.
"Ooh, I'm so scary," Stephanie said, teasing him by making devil horns with her fingers.
Chris laughed hardily, "Oh Stephanie, you never fail to make me laugh."
"Of course not, you can't resist me," she told him proudly, coming over to stand in front of him.
She turned her back to him and he instinctively wrapped his arms around her shoulders and leaned his head off to the side of hers. The two of them were always touchy feely with each other and that fact never escaped any of the other wrestlers. They all figured the two of them were having an affair, which was simply not true.
"You know, you two should be thankful that I put Dawn with Chris," Stephanie said to them.
"Oh really, why is that?" Edge said sarcastically.
"Well, look on the bright side, she gets to be out there for your match."
"Yeah, on the other side," Dawn said snottily.
"But you're out there aren't you?" Chris said, leaning his chin on Stephanie's shoulder.
"You know Chris," Edge started, "You used to be so much cooler you know? I don't know why you gave that all up for her."
"Gave what up exactly?" Chris said, "A boring, mundane existence."
"You had tons of friends, everyone liked you," Dawn added.
"I like him," Stephanie said, turning her head to smirk up at Chris.
"And that's all that matters," Chris said, "Maybe you two should wise up. I'm better off with Stephanie now. She's the best friend a guy could possibly have."
"Yeah, because she spreads her legs for him," Dawn whispered to Edge.
Chris and Stephanie could both hear the whispered comment to Edge, and his subsequent chuckle. She looked up at him and gave him a devilish grin. Chris could only imagine what was going on in that pretty little head of hers. He gave her a slight nod, telling her silently that whatever she wanted to do he would be on board with it.
"What was that Dawn?" Stephanie said sweetly, "I don't think I heard clearly."
"Nothing," Dawn told her as Edge continued to laugh.
Stephanie checked her watch, "Oh, would you look at that, you're match is up next."
"Oh, so it is," Chris interjected.
"You know what?" Stephanie said, as if an idea had just popped up in her brain.
"What Stephanie?" Chris asked, pretending to be surprised, but really just playing along with her game.
"I just had a great idea!" she exclaimed.
Edge and Dawn looked at her wearily. They knew what she was capable of, and sometimes it just wasn't pretty. Everyone knew that if you got on their bad side, you were in for it. Hell, even if you weren't on their bad side, you were in for it. They simply loved toying with people for the fun of it.
"Do tell!" Chris said happily.
"After the match, Dawn, you should come into the ring and kiss Chris, since you know, he's winning and all," she said with a bright smile on her face.
"What!?!" Dawn said, her jaw dropping, "I have to kiss him!?!"
"I didn't stutter, did I? You heard me."
"Fuck!" Edge yelled, "Why do you two have to fucking control everything huh? Why do you want to make people's lives miserable?"
Chris and Stephanie looked at each other, as if contemplating the fact. It wasn't that they enjoyed watching people suffer, but they loved the power they knew they had over people. It was really rewarding to see people groveling in front of them.
"We make people's lives miserable?" Stephanie said, hand over heart, gasping in mock surprise.
"You two are just horrible human beings," Dawn said, "You feed off the misery of others."
"Am I really that repulsive to kiss?" Chris asked, joking to Stephanie.
Stephanie turned around to face him and ran her hand languidly down the side of his face. She leaned in and leaned in, until she was mere inches away from his mouth. Chris knew that Edge and Dawn were probably watching, hoping that as soon as Stephanie's lips touched his, they would be able to run off and tattle to Hunter. But of course, at the very last moment as Chris could feel Stephanie's breath upon his own mouth, she pulled away and looked at Edge and Dawn.
"I wouldn't know," she told them, "But pretty soon Dawn will."
Dawn scowled as Edge's music started to play. He gave Chris and Stephanie a scornful glare, then quickly kissed Dawn as he walked out onto the ramp. Dawn looked a little apprehensive being left alone with the two of them. As soon as Edge was down to the ring, Chris's music went off, and he gallantly offered his arm to Dawn, which she refused. He laughed and gave Stephanie a wink as he went out for his match.
Stephanie stood by the gorilla, watching on the monitor. She could tell by looking at Dawn that she was not pleased to be rooting for Chris. She had to give a little laugh at that. As Stephanie was watching, she felt two strong arms wrap around her waist and she felt herself get pulled against the man protectively.
"Baby, let's go back to our locker room," Hunter said, kissing her neck.
"I'm watching."
"You can watch in there."
"But you'll want to do other stuff, and then I won't be able to watch."
"Why do you care so much?" Hunter asked, not really asking about the match, but asking why she cared so much about Chris.
Stephanie stared at the screen for a moment, watching as Chris gave Edge a bulldog, "I just like to watch Chris's matches."
"Come on, you can miss one," Hunter said, kissing her neck some more, "I never get to see you."
She turned around briefly, "You see me all the time."
"So, I want to see you more."
"What are you getting at Hunter?" she asked impatiently, crossing her arms underneath her breasts.
"I want you to move in with me."
For once, it was Stephanie who was in shock. She hadn't expected that to come out of his mouth. She honestly thought he just wanted more sex, which would have been easy for her to comply with. But moving in together? They had been going out for eight months, but moving in together, that was a whole other level.
"Hunter, I mean, I don't know."
"Come on," he said, grabbing her hands, "I want you to live with me, I want to see your face when I wake up in the morning and when I go to sleep at night."
Stephanie almost gagged at the utter cheesiness that statement afforded her. If he had said something more realistic she wouldn't have laughed, but hearing that, she burst out laughing, much to Hunter's bewilderment. She clutched her stomach from laughing so hard.
"What's so funny?" he asked.
She tried to contain her laughter, "Nothing, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to laugh."
"So please, move in with me?" he asked nicely.
Stephanie didn't know what to say. Luckily for her, Chris came bounding down the steps at that moment. He smiled and opened his arms to her. Glad for the interruption, she ran over to him and gave him a huge hug, despite being sweaty from his match.
"So how was I?"
"I didn't really get to watch," she said, "Um, Hunter was here."
"Oh," Chris said, a little disappointed, "Hey Trips."
"If you'll excuse us Jericho, we were discussing something," Hunter said coldly.
"Well, it must not have been important if Stephanie would rather come see me than talk to you," Chris shot back.
"Hunter, I'll be with you in a minute ok? I really need to talk to Chris. Just go back to the locker room."
"Why are you always going off with him?" Hunter asked.
"No reason, he's my friend, I want to talk to him!" she said irately.
"Fine, see ya," he said, walking off with a frown on his face.
"God, why do you stay with that asshole?"
"Because...I love him," she said, grabbing Chris's hand, "But we need to talk NOW!"
"But I want to talk to Edge and Dawn. I slipped her the tongue during our kiss, it was great seeing Edge's face," Chris chuckled.
"I'm sure it was, we need to talk," she repeated, dragging him towards his dressing room.
"Whoa, this must be serious if you can't even stop to talk about one of our little schemes," he said.
"It is," she said, practically throwing him into his locker room.
He stumbled inside and sat on the couch, looking up at her, wondering what could have gotten her so spooked. Stephanie wasn't the type of woman who could easily be surprised. He half expected this to be one of her ploys and for her to turn around and pretend to seduce him.
But when she turned around and started pacing the length of the room, he knew that something was wrong with her. He folded his arms and looked at her. He had never seen her like this. Had something happened with Hunter? If he had touched her, he would kill him.
"Stephanie?"
"Chris, something horrible has happened," she said, turning to face him.
"What? What is horrible enough to happen to mar that beautiful face?"
"Hunter," she said, sitting heavily down in a chair, which was very unusual for her, considering she never slouched.
"Did he do something to you?" Chris asked suspiciously.
"He asked me to move in with him," she mumbled.
"Shit," Chris said, "No wonder you're freaked."
She looked at him with a smile on her face. She always knew that Chris would understand where she was coming from. She got up and went over to him slowly. She sat down in his lap and threw one leg over his and straddled him. She leaned in and laid her head against his chest.
"Don't do it Stephanie."
"He loves me Chris."
"Are you having a human moment, I don't like it," he told her.
"I hate it, but it's here and I can't stop it from happening."
Just then, Hunter walked in, "What the fuck is going on here?"
Stephanie quickly got off of Chris's lap, "We were talking."
"Oh, and talking to you requires that you fucking straddle him like you two are going to fuck!?"
"No!" she protested, "We were just sitting here!"
"Come on," Hunter said, grabbing her arm, "Let's go."
"Don't you fucking pull me," Stephanie said, getting out of his grasp using some force.
"Stephanie, I don't like you hanging around him."
"And I don't give a flying fuck what you think, I can and will hang out with whoever the hell I want to."
"Fine, you know what, I take back the invitation," he snarled.
Stephanie shook her hair out a little and put on her cool face. She walked right up at him and stared him straight in the eye. He found himself mesmerized by the blue of her eyes. She kissed him softly, and all the anger he felt melted away.
"That's too bad, because I was going to say yes," she told him huskily.
Chris looked down in an attempt not to let out a stream of laughter. Stephanie always knew how to get what she wanted. She was so wily sometimes he amazed her. She was quite the woman.
"I'm sorry Stephanie, I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions with you and Chris."
"Oh, I forgive you, now let's go have some fun," she said, giggling at him.
She linked her arm through Hunter's and proceeded to walk out. She turned and gave a smirk to Chris, and he couldn't help but grin at her. He had to hand it to her, she had really gotten herself out of that one. They walked out and he watched as she closed the door.
"What a woman."