Author Note: BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG THANK YOU to Ayda. Talking to you helped me so much, and this chapter is for you.

Chapter 15

Sitting by himself upstairs in the kitchen, Ryan laid to velvet box out in front of him. He sat there, and stared at it. And stared....and stared... The gold outlining around the edge of the box was blinding him; the light from over his head causing a glare that went straight to his eyes. But he sat there, and stared at the black velvet box....and stared...and stared. Opening the box, he glanced at the gold that laid in front of him.

It was a bracelet that his older brother helped him buy. A 10K gold chain that would probably go all the way up to her elbow becuase of her boney wrist he always use to tease her about. Playing with the gold chain around his hand, he wiped a tear away from his eye. "Fuck, I'm such a pansy," he murmered to himself.

"I think you're a nice guy." Ryan turned around, bracelet still in hand, only to see Dawn Marie in the doorway, arms across her stomach. "Ryan....What's wrong?" Dawn asked, putting an arm around his shoulders.

"I'm the only person that remembered her birthday," he told Dawn quietly, placing the bracelet back in the box. "I was going to give this to her, when it was just me and her. It was all planed out man. Come back here after the show, me and her hang out by the river, just out there," he pointed out the window where it looked over the body of water, "and then, we were going to sit on the tree that hangs over the river, and swing our feet back and forth, like we used to. I was going to give her this, and....Tell her how I feel." Ryan looked down at his feet, shamefully. He didn't except to open up to Dawn the way he did. "I......I....." He put his head into her shoulder, and sobbed. His body shook with the quick, short breaths that he was taking. Wrapping her arms around him, Dawn tried to soothe him the best she could; running her nails up and down his back, every now and then through his shaggy hair.

Taking her arms off of him, Dawn picked up Ryan's head so she can look him in the eye. "Ryan, honey, I'm sure she'll be ok," she tried to assure him. "Is there a special spot she always liked to go to whenever she felt alone?" Ryan was in deep thought, which Dawn coould easily read on his face. His brown eyes widend and a smile appeared on his face. "Ryan.....Are you ok?"

"The airport!" Dawn looked at him questiongly.

"I think you've lost it," Dawn told him convincingly. She began to walk out of the room, but Ryan grabbed her arm and spun it around.

"Sorry if I hurt you," he quickly apologized, "but, I know this is stupid, but she's always been an odd one. Just listen to me, please. Lex use to go to the airport whenever she felt uneasy or like, felt like she needed to be loved, because she likes watching the people come back from their trips and see the people that are waiting there for them. That's why Nick and Lola and all of them were there to greet her, because she's never had that done to her before." Dawn looked at Ryan in amazement. In the past few months that Dawn spent with Lex, she thought she really knew her, but there was so much more to the girl then the tattoos and the superstar Dad. She just wanted someone to love her. "Dawn? Yo, Dawny, you still with me?" Snapping back to reality, Dawn nodded her head. "Good. Get everyone else, we're going to the airport."

Meanwhile.......

Storming into the hotel lobby, John went to the elevator, cursing that it wasn't going fast enough. Just when the doors opened, his eyes got wider.

"You, you, and you, come with me, now." John tugged at their arms, literally dragging them along with him. Feeling a jerk in his hand, he let go of the person, smiling when he got a second look at them. "Hello, Miss Jackie." Jackie gave him a quick smirk and jerked her head towards the two guys she was with. "Mark, Charlie," John acknowledged.

"It's nice that you came here to get us, but we were just going back to the studio...."

"No need for that," John told them, cutting Mark off. "Lex just got up and left. No one know's where she is, we gotta find her. You guys will help, right?" All three of them nodded their head as they headed outside the hotel and into John's car.

So, While everyone else was busy...............

Lex thanked the person that drove her to the airport and slammed the door. Running up the steps, she was eager to get inside, the rain bringing down her adreanline.

Going inside, she ruffled her hair, trying to make herself look somewhat presentable. Looking past all the weird glances she was getting from adults, she finally managed to find a a chair that was occupied. Sitting down, she picked up a magazine that was laid out in front of her on the table, and scanned through the pictures. Hearing an annoucement of an airplane coming in, she turned to see everyone get up and greet their loved ones that we arriving.

She smiled as she saw people embrace others with hugs and tears streaming down their face; but her heart sank. Yea, it was nice that her band came and greeted her when she returned, but she never had her parents greet her. Not once. That's what tore her up the most.

Remebering the time that her and Kate went to the Boston Airport, just to see the wrestlers arrive. She saw her father, and waved franticaly. He saw her. He knew who she was. Kate called him over to talk to him, but he ignored their calls and just kept walking. The look on Lex's mom's face was the only time she ever saw her look hurt. Her heart was crushed when she saw her moms face. They walked out of the airport together, hand in hand, both crying.

"Next time he comes, then he'll say hi to us," she remember Kate saying.

The next time Lex saw John was in Toronto, when she met him for the first time.

Wiping a tear away from her cheek, her thoughts were broke when she heard someone call her name. Shaking her head, she refused to accept what was happening. She heard it again. Just when she was conviced she was going crazy, her cell phone rang.

"Hello?" Her voice was shaking, scared that she was just picturing things.

"You can look over your shoulder now." Looking over her shoulder, she saw Ryan on a cellphone, waving to her. Behind Ryan was Lola, Nick, Gusgus, Jack, Charlie, Jackie, Dawn, Mark, and John. Picking up her schoolbag, she walked over to them, with her head down. The first person to embrace her in a hug was John.

"I'm sorry I forgot your birthday, pumpkin," he told her quietly, not wanting anyone else to hear him. "I know I haven't been much of a father to you these past fifteen years, but please, don't runaway on me like that. I was worried sick. So was Dawn, and Jackie, and Mark. For God's sake Lex, Mark!" Lex giggled ash she buried her head into her fathers chest more, breathing in the scent of him. It was a new scent, a scent she would like to get used to. "I promise I'll try to be there for you as much as I can. Please, just, a second chance?" Lex looked up at John, and saw his eyes, drowned in tears. Wiping her tears away, she leaned back into her father.

"I can do that, I guess." John grinned and picked up Lex, spinning her around.

"Thank you," he whispered, giving her a kiss on the head.

"Hey, I'm a Cena, am I not?" She got a grin out of John, which made Lex grin back. "Just....No more skanky girlfriends.....Keep Dawn. PLEASE KEEP DAWN!" Lex shouted not caring who heard her. John agreed and invited Dawn in for a group hug. When John left the two girls, Dawn leaned down to whisper in Lexi's ear.

"Ryan has something for you."

Author Note: OK, few more chapters! Oh, Latisha C: Yes, I'm Canadain, and I'm in the province of Ontario.