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Never Say Never

Chapter Six

This morning Lorelei and Paul were going back on the road. The last two weeks the pair had become a bit more peaceful. They could normally be civil around each other and though they couldn't admit it to anyone except themselves they were actually beginning to enjoy each other's company.

Paul almost had to laugh at his wife's inability to sit still. There were so many things about her that made him happy. She was so innocent and full of energy that it amazed him.

Lorelei was so excited about being able to see Shawn again. They rarely ever got to talk in person, but when they did it was always amusing. "Paul, you're probably not going to like this but I'm going to say it anyway," Lorelei told him. "I am good friends with Shawn Hickenbottom. I'm probably going to be come friends with some of the other guys backstage too."

She didn't want there to be any surprises in their already fragile relationship. She was going to be honest with him and hoped that he would do the same for her. She thought he would but then again he was full of surprises. The tenderness and passion that he showed at times was one of those surprises.

That one shocked Paul. Where the hell would she meet someone like Shawn? He asked just that.

"You don't think that you were the first person my father tried to sell me too?" Lorelei asked. "He tried to sell me to Shawn like four years ago, right after he met Becca, but I was only sixteen, and he really liked Becca. There were a couple business men he tried to sell me to also, but they realized what a creep he was before things were final."

Lorelei was almost laughing at him. She couldn't believe that someone as smart as he was he didn't see right through all that creepiness that her father was. He always seemed that he was a pretty good judge of people's motives.

"Great thanks for making me sound desperate," Paul said.

"Hey you've said it yourself the man is creepy. I don't like him and I'm his daughter, it's like an unspoken rule that I have to like him," Lorelei said.

"I can't believe that he would try to sell you that many times. I mean it's low try it once but four different times."

"I would say something, but out of fairness I'm not going to," Lorelei said barley able to keep her comment to herself. She knew she had to though, because he wouldn't take it to nicely.

He tried to get it out of her for a little while but when she rested her head on his shoulder he stopped. He was beginning to enjoy the feeling of her near him, and hadn't been able to talk himself out of it. It was annoying too because it caused him to start arguing with himself and some say that is one of the first signs of insanity.

The rest of the plane ride went smoothly. Paul had been awake for the whole boring thing while Lorelei slept most of the way. He had to wake her up when the plane landed.

About twenty minutes later the pair arrived at the arena. They were some of the first people there. "I'm going to go find Shawn so he doesn't have to kill you when he sees us together," Lorelei told Paul.

"Wonderful," Paul said sarcastically letting go of her hand. 'Wait a second,' he told himself, 'when did I grab her hand?'

Lorelei went off to explore a little bit and try to find Shawn. She knew she'd done the right thing when she hadn't told him yet, because just like on TV he really didn't like Paul. It had been rather annoying though listening to him trying to get it out of her.

It only took her about five minutes to find him. She came up behind him and covered his eyes. "Hey stranger," she said.

"Lori, what are you doing here?" Shawn asked.

"I told you I'd see you in a couple of weeks. Here I am," she said with a flourish.

Shawn looked at her. When she made the big flourish with her hands he noticed the wedding band, but it didn't gave away anything about who might have placed it on her finger. "Okay, then who did you marry since the last time I saw you?"

"This says between us and you will not hurt anyone when I tell you," Lorelei told him. She wasn't going to take nicely to him attempting to roughing up her husband.

"Fine," Shawn said impatiently, "just tell me."

"Okay, I married Paul," Lorelei told him. She saw his ears turn red and the steam practically pour out of them. If she didn't know how seriously he despised Paul then she wouldn't have been able to suppress laughter. She was barely able to do it knowing that.

"You can't be serious," Shawn said. "You married that bastard."

"It's not like I had a lot of choice. He's really not that bad anyway," Lorelei told him. "Let's grab some food and talk."

Shawn agreed under much protest. If she didn't want him to rough Paul up then Paul seeing the two of them together probably wouldn't be the wisest thing. She told him that Paul knew they were friends but that didn't help to much.

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Paul went into the Evolution locker room in a pretty bad mood. He wasn't happy that his wife was friends with someone he despised with all his being. He wanted her here. Probably another result of his controlling nature. He had to be in charge.

"I thought Lorelei was coming," Ric said seeing his companion in a foul mood.

"She's here. She's talking to the Show Stopper himself," Paul said his voice dripping with sarcasm when he used Shawn's nickname.

"How the hell does she know him?" Ric asked.

"Her creepy father tried to get him to marry her like for years ago. They've been friends ever since," Paul said. He hated that Shawn was closer to his wife than he was. He wanted to find him and beat the hell out of him, but didn't want to risk the wrath of his wife.

"Relax man. You have her. She wouldn't do anything like the things that Stephanie did. Lorelei's got more class in her little finger than Stephanie does in her whole being," Ric told the younger man.

Little did they know there was someone lurking outside their locker room, listening to their conversation. She was getting more and more angry at every word that was being spoken. She was going to get what she wanted by any means necessary.

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