***Chapter 3***

Well, it was my first night for Monday Night Raw…Shane was showing me around and introducing me to all the wrestlers we came across…one of which being Paul. He said, "Hey, I know you." I said, "Hey Paul, did my dad call you, he's back in town?" Paul said, "Yea, ya know he talks about you a lot." I said, "Yea, he likes to talk to every one about me. All of his patients know me better then I know myself." Paul said, "Well I know more about you now….Mystery."

My eyes got really big and I said, "What?" Paul looked at the ground and then up at me and smiled…He said, "You're dad told me that's what he used to call you, when you were younger." I said, "Please he still calls me that, especially when he leaves messages on my voice mail and answering machine." I couldn't help but laugh…Shane came over and said, "When you're finished, I'll show you the rest of the place." I said, "Shane, it's an arena, the same arena in every town, chill out Mr. Hotpants." Shane smiled and said, "Yes ma'am." I kissed his cheek and said, "Paul, it was nice seeing you again, I'll talk with you later, I need to talk with my husband." Shane and I walked away.

Well with the coming months, Shane and I couldn't get through a single taping of Raw or Smack down without fighting about something stupid…mostly about him having me run around the arena like a watch dog, or a maid. After a year of taking his shit I pretty much ignored him when he would snap his fingers at me I would give him the finger and walk away.

Shane was getting too cocky for anyone…His ego had preceded the size of his head, leaking out his ears, and around his neck, before stopping at his chest, which he just loved to poof out when walking down to the ring. Even Stephanie noticed he was getting too big for his britches. Stephanie also on the sly, had started dating Andrew Martin…or Test (what he went by in the ring).

One night before Raw, Shane started barking out orders for me again and I said, "Shane Brandon McMahon, I'm not you're maid young man, I'm your wife, so start treating me like it." Shane said, "I'm sorry, will you please go get me a bottle of water." I rolled my eyes and walked out of his office and down the hall to where they were storing the food, and grabbed a bottle of water from the ice chest…

A familiar voice said, "So, the King wanted a bottle of water huh?" I turned around and said, "Paul…How have you been." We gave each other a hug and he said, "Fine, how about you?" I said, "Well, I'm still doing chores for the King, what do you think?" Paul smiled and said, "Never mind, dumb question." We both nodded and started walking down the hall.

By now Paul and I had become really good friends…we sat down in my medical office and as I was typing an e-mail to my sister on my laptop computer…I looked at Paul and said, "What's wrong big man? You look kind of down." Paul said, "Nothing….well maybe something…in fact I know it's something…Steph is cheating on me." I said, "How'd you figure it out?" He said, "You knew, and didn't tell me?"

I said, "Paul if I would have told you, you probably would have thought I was losing my mind." Paul said, "That's true, cause up until about 2 weeks ago, I thought Stephanie could do no wrong…she's you're best friend, can you explain to me what exactly Andrew Martin has that I don't?" I looked at him and said, "Well from where I'm standing…nothing. There were always something's about Steph that I never understood about her, but because she's my best friend I don't ask, and just except her faults."

Paul said, "Yea, well I'm not excepting any faults on her, least of her cheating on me…if she doesn't love me anymore, I wish she would have just told me…" I said, "Paul, I don't think love has anything to do with it." Paul said, "Love never had anything to do with it…or with us." I stood next to Paul and touched his shoulder and said, "I'm sorry hon, I wish there was something I could say or do, to make you feel better. Stephanie is Stephanie and she's going to be her for the rest of her life…too bad she just doesn't realize what a sweet guy you are." Paul said, "Yea, I mean we're married on Raw as Triple H and Stephanie, but behind the camera, all the reasons I fell in love with her, are the opposite reasons I'm falling out of love with her."

I said, "Paul it happens to the best of couples…I mean on the outside me and Shane look happy, but inside, I'm regretting every thing I ever felt for him…and I hate to say this, but I think he's cheating on me…I guess it must be a family thing." Paul said, "I don't think Shane would be stupid enough to do something like that." I said, "I dunno, calls in the middle of the night, just to hang up if they hear my voice…something weird is going on, and I want to know what it is, but if I'm wrong I don't want to accuse Shane of doing something he really isn't." Paul said, "Give it a while; you never know…something may turn up." I said, "Yea, I guess so."

A couple of weeks later, Shane started in on me again…I said, "Why are you acting like such an ass…you know when we first fell in love, you was the only one I could ever see myself being with forever." Shane said, "Yea, well nothing lasts forever…besides every time I turn around I always see you constantly talking with Paul…what's up with that?" I said, "Well, he figured out my best friend and his girlfriend was cheating on him, he's not stupid ya know…his big but certainly by no means dumb." Shane said, "I swear if I find out anything is going on between the two of you, I'll…I'll…I don't know what I'll do, but it will be really, really bad."

I said, "Shane, Stop…this is ridiculous…every time we get around one another in these stupid arenas, we can't stop fighting. Listen I didn't marry you, just so I could run and cheat on you with someone I hardly know." Shane said, "But that's just it, you have known him for a while, and now you guys talk on the phone constantly, more then you and me and more then him and Steph. Those cell phones should be sewed to your ears." I said, "Maybe it's because every time I call to talk to you, you hand the phone to Steph or who ever else just happens to be in the room, you are forever pawning my phones calls to you off on someone else. Do you even know how that makes me feel?" Shane said, "I do not, I always talk to you, but you usually call when I'm right in the middle of something."

I said, "Yea, something so important, that you can't take 10 minutes out of to talk to your wife, who is desperately trying to not forget what made her fall in love with you. Shane I love you, but we can't keep going on like this…we just can't." Shane said, "I love you too Michelle, but I have to run the company with dad being in Hawaii for the last 2 months, everything is resting on my shoulders until he gets back." I said, "I understand that, but when something else is more important then a fast 10 minute call from your wife…something is going wrong somewhere."

I left and retreated to Paul's dressing room, me and him were talking about it, when I looked over at the monitor, and saw, Shane on the monitor, madly making out with some chic in his dressing room…I stood up knocking over the metal chair I was sitting in…Paul said, "Maybe you should calm down before you go to his office and beat his face in." I said, "Maybe you should get bent." Paul smiled, he'd never seen me that angry before, he liked that side of me…I walked out to the production truck and had them make me a copy of what I had just seen…and then I took the tape back to Shane's office.

When I walked in Shane, Stephanie, Andrew and the chic all jumped up and Shane said, "Hey baby…" I said, "Fuck you." And threw the video tape at him…I said, "How could you, you piece of shit. You didn't even try to hide it…you just sat there kissing that nasty bitch on TV." The girl said, "I think…( She looked at me, and knew I was going to hurt her or someone in the room) I think I should leave." I grabbed her by the hair and said, "Where in the hell do you think you're going?" and yanked her hair so hard her ass hit the floor and slid a few feet, she stayed in the corner and didn't move.

I looked at Stephanie and said, "And you, how could you stand there knowing he was cheating on me with some piece of garbage, and act like he wasn't doing anything wrong? You've been my best friend for almost 17 years, and you just sat there…you never said anything to him did you?" Stephanie started to say something, and I said, "SHUT UP!…I guess it's a family thing then huh? You cheating on Paul with that piece of shit (pointing to Andrew) and you're side kick cheating on me with that…that whore." Shane said, "Now, Michelle let's talk about this rationally."

I said, "Rationally was last week, this week, it's time to kick someone's ass…I sat at home trying to remember why I fell in love with you, 8 years…9 if you count the one we've been married…9 years Shane…those 9 years were a joke, they were fake…the fake marriage, the fake love, the fake…EVERYTHING!…Why me? Why did you do it? I never did anything but love you unconditionally for the last 9 years of my life…time in my life when I could have been doing something else…loving someone who really loved me back…I mean the shit you guys put on Raw and Smackdown isn't real love…it's all bullshit, but the love I had for you was real…my life isn't a soap opera…and it's not for sale to make into a soap opera…I forgot all the reasons I married you and forgot all the reasons I fell in love with you…Well you can take this marriage and shove it (I took my wedding rings off and threw them at Shane)…I want out…I'm not going to stay married to someone who doesn't love me or respect me…I want a divorce."

I was like WOW when I walked out of the dressing room…I could have sworn I heard Shania Twain's song "I Feel Like A Woman" playing as I left the arena that night. I desperately wanted to go back in and beat the crap out of if not one then all four of those morons in that dressing room, who just looked at each other and knew they got off way too easy, without an ass beating. Like I said at the beginning, I'm shy about some things, but not shy about most. And fighting for what I believed was definitely something I wasn't ever shy about.