Chapter Four: Dave's P.O.V.
She turned around quickly and looked at me, almost frightened.
"Did I scare you?" I asked, trying not to smile.
"A little bit," she admitted in her quiet voice.
"Well that's not what I was going for. Would you mind if I walked with you?"
She slowly shook her head in response.
We walked around the arena in an uncomfortable silence and eventually ended up backstage. I got a couple of weird glances from some of the other Superstars, but I shrugged them off.
"So, your name is Jennifer?" I asked after about ten minutes of silence.
"Actually, it's Jessica," she said, matter-of-factly.
'Strike one' I thought to myself. "Sorry, I'm not very good with names. I'm Dave by the way."
"I know who you are. I write your storyline every week."
"Oh, yeah. So would you…uh… like to go out sometime?"
She stopped walking. "Listen, I don't know what you're trying to pull but whatever it is, I'm not going to fall for it."
"What are you talking about?" I asked, puzzled.
"I know how you guys are. You and your Evolution buddies. You use girls then you lose 'em. Well, I don't know what you want to use me for but it's not going to happen," she said and walked off down the hall.
I stared after her, now thoroughly confused. All I wanted to do was talk to her, get to know her better.
I sighed before walking to the Evolution locker room.
"Dave, finally, you're here," Paul said when I walked in the room.
"Why? What's going on?" I asked, curiously.
"See, there's this little rumor that you've been hanging on the other writer this afternoon."
"I wasn't hanging on her. We were just talking. But what does that have to do with anything?"
"It has to do with everything," he smiled. "You see, Steph is pregnant."
"Awesome, man. Congratulations."
"Yeah, whatever. Anyway, she wants to quit writing now and get ready for when the baby comes and then not have to worry about having to work and take care of the kid at the same time. That's where you come in, big man. You get in good with this other writer and make sure that Evolution stays on top."
"But, H, I don't really want to take advantage of this girl," I told him.
"Then get ready to lose those tag titles that you and Ric have, get ready for Randy to lose the Intercontinental Championship and worst of all, get ready for me to lose my World Heavyweight title. You don't want that to happen, do you?"
"No, not really."
"So, then you'll do it?" he asked.
I was caught between a rock and a hard place. I didn't want to use Jessica, especially after how she had reacted towards me just a few minutes before but then Evolution was my family, my brothers. I couldn't let them down.
"Yeah, Paul. I'll do it."
"Thanks, big man. I always knew I could count on you."