"You got it," Paul said, "Do you know where they'll be next?"
"No, but I can find out." Ray said whipping out her cell phone to call Vince.
"Vince McMahon's office," Shane answered, "How can I help you?"
"Hi Shane, this is Ravyn, Ravyn Jacobs."
"Hi Ravyn, how can I help you?"
"That's Ray!" She could hear Vince practically squeal, "Give me that phone."
Ray snickered on her end of the phone, she so loved it when Vince got excited about anything.
"Ray, is that you honey? What's going on? Are you okay? How's the baby?"
"Yes it's me, nothing's going on, I'm fine, and it's an active little critter." Ray said trying to choke back her laughter as she answered all of his questions.
"What do you need Ray?"
"I need to know where you all are headed next,"
"We are headed to the Garden honey, when are you coming back?"
"That's where you come in," Ray told him, "Vince, I need your help."
"Name it,"
"I was hoping you'd say that."
"When you think she's coming back?" Shane asked looking up at Mark.
"I don't know son," Mark smiled, "She didn't say.
"I for one am just glad she's okay," Jeff said lugging more stuff in for Ray's baby shower.
"How are we going to do this if we don't know when she's coming back?"
"I don't know, Amy's orders were to lug it around until she does come back."
"I'm not about to argue with a pregnant woman, that's just the end of it," Shane said throwing his hands up.
"Good idea," Amy said walking into the locker room, her hazel eyes shooting daggers, "Matthew we need to talk."
Matt felt the dread come over him. He loved that Amy was pregnant but she was starting to drive him crazy and this was only 9 weeks in. Good heavens.
"Keep your head up Matt," Shane called after him.
"Yeah, best advice ever given," Jeff said.
"So Mark," Marc started, "When is that girlfriend of yours going to become your wife?"
"Everything is postponed until I get my daughter back. Sara wants her to be a bridesmaid."
"I see," Marc said nodding.
"Who's going to be your best man?" Jeff asked.
"Shane," Mark said quietly.
Shane looked up from where he sat in a daze, "Really, me?"
"Well, you are as close to a son as I've got right now, so yeah,"
Shane sat there shocked, he didn't know what to say, all he could think was wow, so that's what he said.
"Speaking of, you and Ray are still getting married, right Shane?"
"Yeah," Shane said, though he wasn't too sure, but the way he had it figured, there was no way she was going to carry his baby and not be his wife, just wasn't right.
"That's good," Jeff told him, "That's really good, she needs a stable home life."
"Looks like I've created a real stable one so far."
"You have, she just can't handle this son," Mark told him, "Ravyn is one of those people that lets her emotions stay trapped within her and then boom, they are too much even for her." Mark shook his head thinking about the last time he had seen his daughter, she, as much as he hated to admit it, was like a raving lunatic.
"Yeah, I've noticed that," Matthew said quietly as he walked back into the room.
"What's wrong big bro?" Jeff asked eyeing his brother's weary expression.
"Amy is really breaking my balls dude, I mean really. I don't know, is this a normal?" Matt looked at Jeff, Jeff looked at Shane.
"What?"
"Well I wasn't really with Kacey while she was pregnant, but you were with Ray,"
"What about my Ray's pregnancy, hell what about Ray is normal much less her pregnancy."
"MATTHEW!!!!" They heard Amy yell. They all sighed inwardly for Matt, at this rate Matt was going to have a nervous breakdown.
"Yes Amy," he rubbed the back of his neck.
"I'm hungry," she called, "Order me a pizza."
Matt whipped out his cell phone, "Somehow I liked it better when I didn't know."
The rest of the boys just chuckled. But Shane was in agreeance, everything was better in his world when he didn't know.
Ray sat in the back of Paul's truck bags in tow.
"And another thing young lady," he told her, "You have to learn how to let your emotions out, because when you don't you have a breakdown, something like we saw just a few weeks ago, and I don't want you to have to go through that again, understood?"
"Yes Uncle Paul,"
"I'm serious, you have to many people that love you for you not to talk to anyone. If you can't talk to your dad or Shane or anyone in that locker room, then talk to one of us," He looked at her through the rear view, "We'd be happy to talk, no matter what we're doing."
"Okay Uncle Paul,"
"Promise,"
"I promise," Ray told him, and she meant every word. She understood she couldn't keep putting those she claimed to love in such disarray.
"Good," he nodded, "And when you drop that baby, we want pictures,"
"I got you one better, I want it video taped,"
"Is that right?" he looked at her again as she smiled, her pretty grey eyes sparkling in the moonlight, she had such happiness in her eyes.
"Yeah, and thank you for driving me to the Garden."
"You're welcome kid," he looked back at her, "Now yous twos gets some sleep, this instant."
Ray smiled, "Yes sir," she said quietly and slept through the entire ride.
When Ray arrived at the Garden she put her plan into motion, she called Vince and had the security guards escort her to his office.
"Were you seen?" Vince asked giving her a big hug, being extremely careful of her belly.
"Nope, worked like a charm,"
"Sit down young lady, you and I need to have a little chat."
"Somehow I knew that was coming."
"You bet it was. Now what's with this running away thing?"
"Things were crashing in on me Vince," Ray said quietly, "It was like I was imploding, I couldn't take it any more. I felt like I couldn't breathe, I just had to get away for a little while. I just had to."
"I understand that, but baby doll, with the threats we've had on your life, do you realize that it is not just your life you put in danger but your baby's as well. Shane almost had a conniption here without you. It was all we could do to keep him sane."
"I know, I felt really bad, but surely you understand,"
Vince sent her a warm smile, "Of course I understand, call Shane,"
Shane's phone rang twice, "Ray?" he said quietly.
"Yeah, it's me."
"How are you? How is the baby?"
"We're both fine Shane, how are you?"
"Don't worry about me. Don't worry, I'm fine, you just worry about getting back here."
"That's what I called to talk to you about," she smiled, "I'm not coming back,"
"What?" He screeched, "Why?"
"Shane, don't make this hard," she said looking at Vince, "Let' just say our good-byes and pretend like this never happened."
"Pretend like this never happened? Girl are you mad?"
"Good bye Shane."
"Ravyn Jacobs don't you dare hang up on me."
Ray hit END on her cell phone and looked up at Vince, "Now what?"
"Now I'm going to go rally the troops."
"Who was that son?" Mark asked.
"Guess," Shane said quietly.
"What did she say?"
"She can't keep doing this to me," Shane said throwing his phone, Mark caught it before it hit the ground.
"I know son," he said holding the boy close, "I know."
"It's not fair Mark, I gave her everything, everything I had, and now, now she won't even come back and let me see my kid."
"She'll come back," Mark coaxed the boy, "she'll come back. She's just confused and lost right now, and she needs to sort through some things."
Shane looked up at the older man, "Are you sure?"
"Have I ever lied to you before?"
Shane smiled, "Alright big man,"
Just then, Vince's voice bore over the loudspeaker, "Will all WWE superstars please report to the stadium for a mandatory meeting," he said, "I repeat, all WWE superstars please report to the stadium for a mandatory meeting."
Shane heard that and grumbled to himself, "What in the hell could he possibly want to meet with us about?"
"Well let's go find out."
Soon Shawn, Matt, Jeff, Amy, and Adam joined Mark and Shane in the hall.
"Anybody know what this is all about? Adam asked.
"Not a clue," Shawn said, "All I know is it's mandatory which means we have to be there."
"I don't feel like this right now," Shane said.
"What's wrong Shane?" Adam asked.
"Darlin' just called him and told him she's not coming back," Mark said gravely.
"What?!" Adam and Shawn yelled at once.
Jeff shook his head, "That poor girl."
"I know," Mark said.
Oh sure, Shane thought in his head, feel sorry for her, I'm just the one she left here. I'm just the one who feels like my heart has been ripped in two. I'm nobody special.
Soon all the superstars had gathered around the ring, on the ramp and in the stadium itself with Vince in the middle of the ring.
"I have an announcement from one of our own divas."
I already know Vince, Shane thought, she called to tell me personally.
"I would tell you all but it would take all the fun out of it," Vince said, "So I'm not going to tell you."
You could hear the awwwww's echoing throughout the arena.
"Instead I'm going to let her tell you herself."
SHOUT!
HEAVY YOU WANT IT HEAVY!
WELCOME TO MY WORLD
Shane's head perked up just long enough to see Ray's body waddle on stage, "I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!!!!!!!!!" Shane smiled as she winked, "You didn't really think I'd stay away from the people that love me, did you?"
