Never Say Never
Chapter 14
It was Monday afternoon. Lorelei hadn't seen Paul in almost a week except for business. She still felt her heart shattering.
She'd hung out mostly with Jay, Adam, Matt, Shane Helms, and the mutlitudes of other people that always seemed to be around them.
She wasn't sure how she was going to convince the world that she was still in love with Paul. Everytime she saw him she wanted to hurt him as badly as he hurt her. She couldn't do it and if she could figure it out probably wouldn't do it anyway.
She'd been trying to be a good sport about doing normal people things and not being sulky, but there were times when she saw Matt and Amy and wished more than anything it was her and Paul
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Paul had been miserable. He'd been in a foul mood all week even around his fellow Evolution members. He was worse than when he and Stephanie first divorced.
The guys in Evolution weren't exactly thrilled about the actions of their fearless leader which made Paul in a worse mood if possible
"Stop pacing and tell her you fucked up," Ric told Paul. "The longer you wait the more pissed with you she'll be."
"I told her it was a mistake," Paul said.
"You told her but you have to prove it to her. Talk is cheap," Dave said. He thought Lorelei would have to be crazy to take him back but decided saying it would do more harm than good.
"She thinks that your not over Stephanie and she's hurting," Randy said recalling the conversation he'd had with the woman a few days prior.
"How come women don't let us know what they're thinking?" Paul asked sourly. "How come my marriage has become such a topic of interest?"
"Lorelei is like a sister to me, and you hurt her. She doesn't know from moment to moment what she's thinking, and your sulking instead of being ad man and admitting you made a mistake and trying to fix it.," Randy said feeling his angry rise.
"Trust me Orton, I'm more of a man than you'll ever be," Paul said. He wasn't going to admit the younger man might be right.
"A real man wouldn't have slept with a whore like Stephanie. While his wife was worried sick about her best friend. She was tired, hungry, and upset. She wanted nothing more than for you to comfort her," Randy countered.
"You don't know anything Randy so shut it," Paul said vehemently.
"You were pissed that for once Lorelei's focus didn't center completely around you, so you did the first thing you could think of to relieve the anger. Stephanie knew you well enough to know how you were feeling and took advantage of it," Randy stated with deadly accuracy. His hands were clenched at his sides. He was determined not to hit the older and bigger man.
"We agree that Stephanie took advantage of me," Paul said.
"And the point of my little speech wasn't that. If that's what you thought it was then you aren't taking responsibility for your actions. Though Stephanie did take advantage of you, but she didn't rape you," Randy said. "Since you can't admit that it was partially your fault than maybe Lorelei is better off without you."
"Fuck you Randy. You don't know anything about Lorelei and my relationship," Paul said.
"I don't even know why I try. You've got your head to far up you ass to even consider that someone might be trying to help you," Randy said leaving the Evolution locker room before the encounter came to blows.
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Lorelei wandered around backstage before the taping of Heat began looking for noone and someone at the same time when she ran into Stephanie.
"I'm sorry you weren't woman enough to keep Paul," Stephanie said.
"And you know what? I'm sorry, I could have saved you and myself the time and just gave him back to you," Lorelei said. She didn't feel like arguing with the woman. It wasn't worth it. Lorelei refused to be foolish again and fight for something she never had.
"You know I guess it just wasn't meant to be," Stephanie said.
"Damn it Stephanie, I agreed with you. What more do you want?" Lorelei asked. "It's not enough that you took my husband, not you have to try to humiliate me too. Don't you ever just give up?"
"You make it so easy though. I mean you still have to make the world think that your in love with the man," Stephanie reminded.
"Stephanie, please stop. I know this so just live you happily ever after and I'm just a fool. Let's get over it already," Lorelei said pushing past the woman. She felt like crying and would be damned before she did it in front of Stephanie.
She ran to find a secluded place to let all her bottled up emotions out. She slumped in a corner of a dead end hallway no longer caring who saw her cry. She needed the release.
When she finished she knew that she needed to look at the script for the night praying that there was no physical contact between her and Paul. She knew she couldn't touch him.
She knocked on the door of the Evolution locker room for the first time ever. She prayed that Paul wouldn't answer the door. She wasn't sure if she could take seeing him.
Ric opened the door. "What did you want Doll?" he asked.
"I need my copy of the script. I assume it was brought here," Lorelei said.
"Yeah, come in while I get it," Ric said.
"I don't think that's a wise idea. It's better to stay out here," Lorelei told him.
"Paul went to practice. I promise he's not in here," Ric told the woman. "He does feel like a dunce though."
"Ric, I don't want to hear it. I'm sure I feel like a bigger dunce than he does," Lorelei told him. "I trusted him enough to think that he wouldn't do something like that."
"Does it help any that he's miserable, too?" Ric asked.. "He's been making the rest of us miserable, too."
"Not really. I wasn't the one who betrayed him. The first thing out of his mouth was that it was a mistake. He didn't apologize until I started packing all my stuff. I'm not sure he even apologized for what he did. It might have been just that he got caught. He said she took advantage of him before he even thought about saying sorry," Lorelei said. "Confronted him and he did the on thing I've always imagined someone doing. He proposed to me properly. I don't know what to do anymore. He ripped my heart out then asked me to be with him forever."
Ric couldn't help but feel badly for the woman in front of him. The business had put a lot of strain on his marriage at times . "If you don't want to go somewhere over break you're welcome to come with me," Ric offered.
"No thanks. I think I'm going to see Shawn," Lorelei said. "I don't want you to get put in the middle of my problems with Paul."
"Okay, Doll, if you need anyone to talk to let me know," Ric said.
"Don't worry about me and I promise I will," Lorelei said. She took a moment to look over the script for the night. She cursed aloud when she saw she had to kiss Paul after his victory. She didn't want to touch him.
"Doll, it'll all turn out okay in the end," Ric reassured her before she left.
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Paul knew Lorelei had befriended Jay Reso and his friends. He also knew that she was staying with them. He wasn't exactly happy about it either. Lorelei was his wife.
He had a match that evening with Copeland and knew the man was going to be extra stiff to release the anger he'd built up. He knew Copeland wanted to hurt him; hell half the locker room, females included, wanted to hurt him. He was more of a marked man than usual.
He was supposed to be practicing, but he wasn't even in the ring before he realized his inability to focus. He'd been known to have the inability to focus on things, but wrestling was never one of those things.
The only thing Paul could focus on was Lorelei. That's when he realized he loved her more than anything. "I guess you don't know what you have until it's gone," he muttered. Unless he thought of something quickly he was going to lose the most amazing woman he had ever met.
When she returned to the woman's locker room she got several questioning looks, but no one spoke a word. She knew her eyes were still red and puffy from crying when she saw Ric and most likely had racoon eyes. She silently thanked the women for not questioning her.
She was sure they knew it had to do with Paul. Almost everything she was upset about lately had to do with Pau and/or Stephanie, but no one ever mentioned it. They only watched as she reapplied her makeup to cover as much of the damage as she could.
She was also getting herself in the zone. She had to put her personal feelings aside and do what she was being paid to do, entertain. She had people counting on her.
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Almost all the way up to the time of his match Paul was thinking and planning this was more important than any other scheme in his life. This was for all the marble so to speak This was for something more important than furthering his career. When the time for his match came he still didn't have any idea how to get his wife back, but it had to be put on the back burner until after the match.
He wasn't going to lose Lorelei without a fight.
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