The damage was already done, the rot had already set in. Every television show was talking about it. They all wanted to know how much truth was in Justine's rumours. Nathen was hounded with faxes and phone calls, more then once shooting had to be stopped so undercover reporters could be escorted off the set. Eventually it was called of all together and Nathen escorted Ava straight to her car.

"Josh called. He's flying back the end of this week."

"What for?" Ava asked, pulling off her shoes as soon as the door to the car closed.

"Crisis talks, to show a united front. So the whole world can see how much crap this really was. We need to do damage limitation starting now."

"There's no damage done."

"Ava have you read the papers." Nathen paused. "I really need to know, what's going on with you and John, you can trust me."

She rolled her eyes and was more interested in taking her work make-up off and applying every day make-up before they reached the hotel.

"We...are...friends." She told him slowly. "Get that through your head."

"You're going need John to sign a few forms, so he won't sell his side of the story."

"There is no story!"

"Ava this is your career! Your life! Everything you built, everything we built and I refuse to let you waste it!"

He had gone red in the face and Ava had stopped applying her eyeliner.

"Fine." she said quietly. "Whatever."

John saw the reports they showed on the news, when they played every hour he couldn't escape them. First a picture of Ava at some premier would show in the corner with the headline 'Ava's Affair'. Then the report would start up:

"Hollywood movie star Ava Carson is said to be devastated over the rumours her sister spread that she was having an affair. Justine Ashcroft stated in a magazine that Ava was having an affair with childhood friend and WWE superstar John Cena. Today she admitted the reports where a lie, but this has not been enough to silence critics."

Requests from newspapers came after every news programme, John wasn't sure how they got his number. He had to speak to her and find out how she was, but his last e-mail had gone unanswered and she usually replied within an hour. John was worried and he was beginning to realise why. He'd been in love with her for years, why else would he follow everything she did with the same obsession that is usually reserved for teenage girls and boy bands. He'd always tried to fool himself and claim it was because he knew her and he wanted her to do well. But we know this isn't true, after all hadn't he expected Ava to fail? Of course John wouldn't admit it, why would he? Hear it yourself.

"I'm in love with a Hollywood actress."

You'd laugh right. Try it again.

"I'm in love with a Hollywood actress and she's married."

It just gets more absurd.

"I'm in love with a Hollywood actress, she's married and I missed my chance with her nine years ago."

But take all that away. Take away all that what we know Ava is now and for a second pretend she's normal.

"I'm in love with Ava Carson."

See, doesn't sound so absurd now does it? That's exactly what John thought when he said it out loud after going through them all. That's exactly what John though before his heart stopped, he groaned and his confession was followed by:

"Oh no."

The movie was halted for the week and Ava flew home to wait for Josh. She didn't dare go near her computer and on the morning he arrived the hairdressers and make-up artists arrived to make her....well usually I would use to word beautiful, but here I can't because she already was. She dressed in a blue silk top sent by Gucci a few weeks earlier, skinny jeans and Stella Mc Cartney shoes. Josh was waiting at the bottom of the stairs wearing sunglasses and a suede jacket.

"You look great." he commented. "It must be all the extra martial sex you've been having."

"You don't really believe that do you?" Ava asked.

He shrugged. "Should I?"

And then, what happened, what was said next even shocked Ava herself.

"Give me some more credit Josh. John Cena? If I was going to have an affair I'd go after Jude Law."

Josh smiled. "I know. I knew John was below you, but look at you. I couldn't help but worry."

She took off his sunglasses and gave him a kiss. "Don't worry."

Another kiss was off the cards though, strange considering they'd been apart so long. Josh pulled back.

"Gloria and Nathen are coming over tonight to help us fix this."

"We don't need them for everything."

"Ava, this is our careers, this involves them."

"I be to differ. This is our marriage, it involve us."

Wow, did you just hear that. The same attitude and tone she had taken with Nathen not so long ago was spreading to Josh. Here to goes.

"Ava what has gotten into you? I know, John Cena. Me and Gloria agree you shouldn't have any contact with him, it only causes trouble."

"Josh! John is my friend."

She sounded like a spoilt friend.

"Make friends with Angelina, she's better for you."

"Angelina Jolie, your ex?"

Josh sighed. "Don't fight me on this Ava, you won't win. It's for the best. Now come on, Gloria has given us the go ahead to talk to the press and they are all at the gates."

He put his arm around her waist and opened the door. They walked down the gravel path and stopped just behind the iron gates. Cameras and voices started immediately, Josh raised his hand and they fell silent.

"Me and Ava are here today to not only quash all rumours of an affair, but deny having any involvement with John Cena at all."

He stopped, Ava's turn to take over. Her throat had gone dry. Could she do this? Of course she could. Her Oscar said so.

"Josh is right. The extent of my relationship with John Cena in recent months has been a five minute conversation between me and him at my mother's wedding. We aren't even friends."

That was the sound bite they began playing on the news as of then.

Poor John.

Ouch