It was a late Saturday afternoon and Danielle sat in her jacuzzi drinking Bacardi. All she could think about was the fight she had with Shane before he left her house on Friday. Shane didn't like the idea of Jeff staying in the house alone with her. She had tried to tell him that Jeff was only a friend now. Shane still didn't want Jeff alone with her, he said he trusted her but he knew Jeff would make his move sooner then later. Shane had to catch his plane and they said good bye on bad terms. Danielle felt terrible about it, she had tried to get a hold of Jeff before he left but he was already on his way. She was going to tell him not to come. Now all she hoped was this visit with Jeff would show Shane he had nothing to worry about. She had promised Amy she would go to Raw with her since it was her first show back since having neck surgery. Monday would be the turning point and she was scared about it. Shane had become her security blanket; he had been there for her through the whole Kyle situation. Danielle let out a sigh as she opened up another bottle of Bacardi.
"Hello?" Jeff called opening up the front door of Danielle's house, he had knocked a couple of times with no answer. He tried the door and it was opened so he walked in.
"I'm on the patio" Danielle called back, a couple of seconds later Jeff appeared in the doorway.
"Hey, what's going on here?" Jeff asked noticing about 4 empty bottles of Bacardi with more stacked by her ready to drink.
"I just felt like drinking" Danielle answered taking another large sip of her drink.
"Something's going on here though. Why else would you be ready to drink this much?" Jeff told her pointing at what she had left to drink.
"Ok fine, Shane and I had a fight" Danielle replied setting down her drink.
"See I knew there was something. I'm gonna go set my bag up in the guest room and change into my shorts, then we can talk about it, ok?" Danielle nodded not really listening to him; she was off in her own world. Jeff looked at her before going back into the house. He didn't know what Shane and Danielle had fought about but he intended to find out.
"Shane, hey man" Rob replied walking up to Shane in the hotel restaurant.
"Hey Rob, what's up?" Shane asked as Rob sat down at the table.
"I just got done talking with JR and he thought talking to Danielle face to face about a development contract would be better then a phone conversation" Rob began and stopped noticing Shane looking bummed about something, "What's up with you? Did something happen?"
"Danielle and I had a fight before I left about Jeff. Things were just left on bad terms, which make me worry about her and Jeff alone in her house together" Shane answered as Rob nodded.
"Sorry man. Then do you think she is coming to Raw this Monday?"
"Yea she is, its Amy's first match back and she promised her she would be there for it" Shane explained to him.
"Good because I think this would be the perfect opportunity for JR to talk to her" Rob told him as Shane agreed.
"Yea it is"
"Ok well then I'm going to let JR know, cheer up man I'm sure when you see each other Monday things will be better" Rob replied getting up, "I'll catch ya later"
"Yea see you later" Shane watched Rob leave and then looked over at his cell phone. He had tried to reach Danielle earlier but had no luck. He decided maybe dropping a little text message would help things since he couldn't get a hold of her. He thought for a second of what to say then put it into the phone:
Baby, I'm sorry we had that fight. I'm looking forward to seeing you Monday. Let's just talk through it next time, no fights. Miss you! Shane
Jeff stood at the doorway looking at Danielle again. She looked miserable and sad; he didn't like seeing her like that and drinking so much. He wanted her to himself so bad instead of her being with Shane.
"Ok hun let's talk" Jeff replied walking over and getting into the jacuzzi.
"I really don't think we should talk about it. Shane wouldn't really want you to know that we were fighting about that." Danielle answered leaning her head back and closing her eyes.
"Maybe you had enough to drink" Jeff told her noticing more empty bottles off to the side.
"Yea everything is starting to get fuzzy, maybe I should go lay down for a little bit" Danielle answered starting to get up but tripping over her feet into Jeff's arms. They both made eye contact and Danielle stayed silent as Jeff spoke up.
"You know if you two are fighting already doesn't that tell you something? " Jeff replied as Danielle was about to speak up with Jeff interrupted her, "I have to see something" Jeff leaned in and kissed her on the lips as Danielle kissed him back.
"No" Danielle replied pushing Jeff away and stumbling out of the jacuzzi. "Shane was right; he said you would try to make a move on me. That's what we fought about too, and I defended you. Oh god and I kissed you back."
"Danielle that means something, why else would you kiss me back?" Jeff replied moving to reach for her hand but she pulled back.
"Jeff I think it would be better for you to leave" Danielle replied as she stumbled back into the house and made her way up to her bedroom. She ignored Jeff calling for her as she got into her room and locked the door. Danielle began to cry knowing she just made the worst mistake in the world as she sat on her bed. She heard her cell phone beep telling her she had a text message. She looked at it and saw it was from Shane. Danielle read it and then dropped her phone falling back onto her bed. She ended up crying herself to sleep.
"I got the word before I left for the weekend house shows; I wanted to surprise you so I pretended as if I was going to do the weekend house shows. I've been here in Albany, New York the whole time instead" Matt explained to Amy as she was smiling from ear to ear.
"This is so great, now we're back on the same show. We would hardly have seen each other being on separate shows" Amy answered as Matt agreed.
"See I told you I would solve everything baby" Matt smiled leaning in to kiss her. As they pulled apart they saw what looked like to be Danielle come into the hotel lobby past the restaurant they were in.
"Was that Danielle?" Amy asked pointing at the girl who looked completely different then she would ever dress. She covered her face with sunglasses and a hat along with a pair of sweatpants and a t-shirt on.
"Yea that's her. I talked to Jeff last night and he told me Danielle and Shane had a fight about him. When he went to her house she was drinking up a storm" Matt began to tell her.
"Oh great, that's the last thing they need to be arguing about" Amy sighed.
"Yea that's not the only thing. Jeff ended up kissing her"
"What?! Shane is going to want to really kill your brother now" Amy replied, "What did Danielle do?"
"Well she kissed him back for a second but then pushed him away and told him to leave and that's how it ended" Matt explained to her as Amy shook her head.
"I had the feeling something like this would happen. I'm going to go see how Danielle is doing. Hopefully I can get her to cheer up a little. Is Shane showing up late tonight or early Monday morning?"
"I think sometime late tonight so he can sleep in, that's what he usually does" Matt told her.
"Well let me go get her and see if she wants to go out to dinner later" Amy told him.
"Actually why don't you two have a girl's night out, it will probably help her to talk to you about it before talking to Shane" Matt suggested.
"Thanks you're great; I'll see you a little later then" Amy replied giving Matt a kiss and then going to the front desk to find out what room Danielle was staying in.
"Excuse me, can you tell me what room Danielle Channing is staying in?" Shane asked the lady at the front desk. It was in 2 in the morning and he was tired as hell all he wanted was to just get in bed next to Danielle and fall asleep.
"She is in room 248 sir" she smiled recognizing who he was.
"Could I by any chance get the key? She's my girlfriend and I don't want to wake her up to get into the room" Shane asked.
"Yea actually she left a note here to give you the key if you asked for it" She told him as she handed over the key.
"Thanks" Shane answered taking the key and taking the elevator up to the second floor. He could barely stay awake now as the doors opened to the second floor. He walked to Danielle's room and quietly opened the door not wanting to wake her. As he walked in he saw she was fast asleep, he put his things down and quickly stripped down to his boxers. Shane then got into bed next to Danielle wrapping his arms around her waist.
"Shane?" Danielle called softly.
"Shh baby, yea it's me you can go back to sleep" Shane whispered into her ear.
"I need to talk to you about something though" Danielle replied turning around to face him. Shane put his finger to her lips, "We can talk in the morning I'm exhausted. All I want is to sleep with you in my arms" he leaned in and kissed her softly on the lips. "Good night baby"
"Good night" Danielle whispered back as a tear rolled down her check. She knew that this could be the last night Shane slept in bed next to her.
"Shane?" Danielle called through the hotel room as she walked out of the bathroom from taking a shower. Shane had gone to get breakfast when she went to take a shower and he hadn't come back yet. Danielle began to worry because she had told him when she woke up she really wanted to talk to him and he put it off again saying they could after he got some breakfast for them. Danielle sighed and grabbed her hotel key she was going to go find Shane and make him let her talk to him about what happened between Jeff and herself. In the pit of her stomach she felt as if something was going down because Shane hadn't come right back up to the room right away. As the elevator doors opened to the lobby she got off and looked around and saw a bakery in the back part of the lobby. She headed towards the back and turned the corner to the bakery and stopped dead in her tracks. There stood Shane and Jeff face to face looking really pissed at one another. She stayed where she was to try to see if she could overhear what they were saying but couldn't make it out. Then Shane punched Jeff right in the jaw and him and Jeff started to go at it. Danielle ran over to them quickly and got in the middle of them.
"Guys stop, please" Danielle yelled as they finally stopped and Danielle looked up to see the most hurtful look in Shane's eyes. Right then and there she knew that Jeff had to say something to Shane.
"How could you go and kiss him?" Shane asked her as Danielle felt tears coming to her eyes.
"Shane I didn't even realize what I was doing. I was so drunk, I hardly even remember it. I pushed him away; he's the one that kissed me. I've been trying to talk to you about it but you put it aside twice." Danielle tried to explain to him but knew it sounded stupid.
"I gotta get out of here right now" Shane replied shaking his head not wanting to hear any of it right now and walked away.
"Shane, no please lets talk" Danielle called and was about to go after him when Jeff pulled her back to stop her.
"Let him go, he needs time" Jeff told her.
"Please don't touch me" Danielle cried pulling away from Jeff, "I can't believe you told Shane, I was going to tell him and you told him before I could. That was the worst way for him to find out"
"I thought you had told him already, I was just trying to fix things" Jeff told her honestly, "I know I shouldn't have kissed you, it was a mistake to interfere with you and Shane's relationship and I'm sorry"
"I know your sorry Jeff, things are just screwed up so bad now" Danielle sighed, "I know you don't want to hear this but I'm falling for Shane, hard". Danielle's cell phone rang before Jeff could answer her back, "Hello? I dunno I really don't feel like it. Ok, I'll be there." Danielle put her cell phone away and looked back up at Jeff, "I gotta go, Rob wants me to meet him at some restaurant on the corner here for something important I guess."
"Ok, I'll see you around then" Jeff told her and Danielle nodded and made her way towards the restaurant.
Shane walked into the hotel room grabbing all of his things as quickly as possible. He was so pissed off and hurt that Danielle kissed Jeff. He stopped all of a sudden and sat down on the bed taking everything in. "Why would she kiss him for even a second?" He thought how much he really loved her and how much he wanted her in his life. All he could see in his head was the tears in Danielle's eyes with a scared expression. He was interrupted in his thoughts as he heard a knock on the door. Shane sat there for a moment before deciding to answer it.
"Amy, Danielle's not here right now. Was there something you needed?" Shane asked not in the mood for conversation with anybody.
"I know she's not Shane. I heard what happened downstairs, I talked to Danielle last night and I thought you should hear what she told me" Amy explained hoping it would help the situation. Shane moved out of the way to let her in before shutting the door. They both went over and sat down on the couch.
"Do you know how drunk she got that day?" Shane asked curious of how drunk she had gotten.
"I'm not sure how many exactly but I know she had enough to make her a total mess because yesterday the after effect was horrible to her. Shane's she scared to even be without you." Amy began. "She told me that it's hard to imagine what it would be like without you now because she has depended on you through the whole Kyle situation. You were her security blanket."
"Amy that's what scares me, she's so dependent on me now. Before she was never like that, she was so independent it wasn't funny. The whole Kyle situation made her lose herself a little. Actually now that this happened early on kinda makes it better, which I hate to say. Don't get me wrong she means the world to me, I would do anything for her and I can see myself spending the rest of my life with her one day" Shane told her as Amy was a little shocked to hear him say that.
"So you're going to end the relationship with her?" Amy asked.
"I think I would like to say take a break. There may be some things she needs to work out with Jeff still. I don't want to be in the way of things or have her regret not seeing what's there. Also I think having her get back to her routine of being able to be independent of herself would help a relationship between us last longer" Shane explained as Amy was starting to get his point now.
"I just hope she sees it as good as me, are you afraid she might take it hard because of her being so dependent of you?" Amy questioned him as Shane nodded.
"Yea I think she might be a little in shock at first but then she will realize that I did this for a better relationship in the long run. I don't want either one of us having any regrets"
"You think it will affect her wrestling career?"
"Actually I know she's having lunch with Rob and JR as we speak. The WWE is going to offer her a development contract. They have been watching her and have been interested in her" Shane told her.
"Oh my god that's great for her" Amy smiled, "Well I gotta go start getting things ready and stuff so I'll see you later tonight at the show"
"Ok I'll see you there" Shane answered as he walked her to the door, "Thanks for the talk it actually helped me. I think I'm doing the right thing"
"Are you scared you two might not get back together because you seem so confident" Amy asked as she stood in the doorway.
"Yes but I guess that's the risk you got to take when you love someone that much" Shane replied as Amy nodded and left Shane standing at the doorway.