Never Say Never

Chapter 21

It had been almost two weeks since Stephanie told him she was pregnant, but now he had to do the DNA test.

This was taking it's toll on Lorelei. She wasn't acting like herself recently. He had to assume that the drama Stephanie caused only stressed her out more and was making her rethink her decision to try and make them work. She hadn't talked to him so he wasn't really sure what she was thinking.

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Lorelei had returned to her habit of holing herself up in the library. She knew Paul was probably having as much trouble with this as she was, but she couldn't help it.

She knew Paul had increasing proof that Stephanie was actually pregnant. She was afraid that if the baby was Paul's she wasn't going to be able to handle it. Things were just beginning to get back to normal, and Stephanie dropped this bombshell on them. She wished that she was a big enough person to be sure that she wouldn't hold anything against this baby. She knew the baby was the innocent one in the messy triangle that had become Paul, Stephanie, and her. She was having more issues than she thought with everything ha was going down recently.

She knew Stephanie had used him, probably in hopes she would get pregnant to win him back. Part of her thought that Paul wouldn't want to share the baby with anyone, including her and Stephanie.

Lorelei took a deep breath and knew she had to go tell Paul this wasn't working, and she really did want this to work. She'd learned one while she was with Chris and that was that she needed Paul She didn't want to alienate him more than she already had.

She went into his office. "What's up?" she asked.

"I'm pretty sure Stephanie's pregnant. We have to figure out if it's mine," Paul told her.

"We haven't talked about it, but what are we going to do if it is yours?" Lorelei asked.

"I don't know," Paul honestly admitted, "but I can't leave Stephanie high and dry with my child."

"Stephanie's going to do everything in her power to use this child to get you back," Lorelei pointed out. She knew that Stephanie wasn't going to change.

"As much as I want this baby to change her, I know it probably won't," Paul said. "That doesn't change that I'm not going to abandon the baby if it is mine."

"Paul, I'm not expecting you to abandon it. I just want to know how we're going to handle everything that goes along with this baby," Lorelei told him. "I'm going to be the one made into a bad guy because Stephanie hates me with a passion, not you."

"I honestly don't know, Lorelei. I know this has been difficult for you, but it hasn't been much easier for me. The whole time we were together Steph didn't want children," Paul told her. "I imagined that it would be us having children, not Stephanie or anyone else."

"I imagined the same thing, but right now things need to calm down before we even think about that," Lorelei told him.

"I know there's nothing that I can do to make this easier on you, but your not the only one who's having trouble with this," Paul said. "Do you think I like the idea of sharing a child with Steph?"

"Paul, I don't' think you like it, but it's hard to accept. Had you conceived this child before I was in the picture it would have been totally different. Right now I feel like the other woman, and I'm your wife. Stephanie is the other woman," Lorelei told him. It was the best way to make him understand what she was feeling.

"I'm sorry that I have a sense of morality. First, I was a cold hearted bastard, now the sense of morality is getting in our way. What am I supposed to do?" Paul asked. He was getting angry. He as trying to be understanding and she as being a bitch.

"I want Stephanie out of our lives. Is that to much to ask for?" Lorelei asked. She knew she wasn't being as rational as she should, but she'd put up with Paul's moodiness for a long time.

"Well that doesn't exactly look promising does it? There has to be reasonable cause to take the baby from Stephanie," Paul said.

"And her actions in the last four or five months haven't been reasonable cause?" Lorelei retorted. "She's only going to use the baby to get you back and continue to make my life a living hell."

"Look, we don't even know if the baby's mine. We can talk about it when we know for sure. It's not going to do us any good stressing over it until we know for sure," Paul said. he knew Lorelei had a point, but he still thought it was pointless arguing about it at the moment. It put both of them under to much stress.

"You're right," Lorelei said. "What's up for tonight?"

"Well I thought we could go upstairs and watch a movie," Paul said. "I didn't plan on going out tonight."

"Sounds good," Lorelei said. "What kind of movie?"

"Don't care," Paul said already starting up the stairs.

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A couple weeks later Stephanie seen Paul, who wasn't wrestling just yet just doing promos, and Lorelei together around the arena, and she instantly sensed that both of them seemed stressed out. She knew exactly how hard it was for a relationship to recover from one person being unfaithful. Hers never recovered from it.

She almost felt bad for Lorelei, but remembered the disrespect that Lorelei had shown her. She couldn't remember the woman saying one polite thing to her ever. The last time they talked, the woman hadn't been rude, but she hadn't been nice either.

Lorelei admitted Stephanie won, but Lorelei was the one he was holding tonight not her. Lorelei had thrown her off track. This meant war. Stephanie never intended on giving up.

Professionally Lorelei was headed toward a onscreen relationship with Randy Orton, who wasn't on HHH's good side. Paul was just as jealous as the character he played. It would only be a matter of time before Lorelei and Randy were caught in an innocent but compromising position that Paul wouldn't think of as so innocent. Stephanie knew all about those things.

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Lorelei was getting back into the game, but Paul couldn't work in the ring for two or three more weeks, but he was doing promos and stuff.

She wasn't sure that she liked the idea of being in an onscreen relationship with the man she considered her brother. It was kind of really weird. She knew it may give him and her a little more prestige both of them being young champions. Hell, she was the youngest woman's champion ever at barely 21, and as had been well documented Randy was the youngest world champion ever.

She knew that Stephanie had something to do with the current story line. She was probably hoping that Lorelei and Randy got caught in some compromising position or other. It would be expected.

Lorelei wasn't sure what to think about the situation at hand. She had to get over this rut that she and Paul were in. Maybe if they took the honeymoon that they never had then it would help. They deserved it.

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Paul didn't understand what was going on between Randy and Lorelei. He knew Randy and Lorelei wouldn't do anything behind his back, but he couldn't help the jealousy that was creeping up. He was never the type to share well. He knew that by the end of this story line she was going to be absolutely crazy.

"What does my beautiful wife has planned for tonight?" Paul asked.

"I just thought that I would work out," Lorelei told him with a smirk.

"You know, I know a great work out," Paul said. "Want to see what it is?"

"Something tells me we've tried this work out before," Lorelei said before taking the initiative to kiss him.