Chapter Twenty-Five: Jessica's P.O.V.

I sat across the table from Adam, picking at my food and thinking about our conversation earlier.

"What's wrong, Jess? You seem kind of down," Adam asked, setting his fork on his plate.

"Nothing," I lied, not looking at him.

"Don't try and pull something over on me. There is obviously something bothering you."

"Seriously, Adam, I'm fine."

"Alright, I give up," he replied and continued eating.

Everything was silent until a few minutes later, Adam's cell phone rang. I tried my best not to eavesdrop on Adam's half of the conversation but something definitely sounded wrong.

"Hold up, Jay…Say that again…Orton got beat up? By who?...Are you serious? How bad?...He's gonna get in some deep shit for this. Do you know what set him off like that?..."

The suspense was killing me. I stopped picking at my food and looked up at him. "What's going on?" I asked.

"Listen, Jay, I'll call you back later, okay?" he said and hung up.

"What's going on?" I repeated. "What happened to Randy?"

"Batista beat him up."

"What! Why!" I yelled, causing the entire diner to stare.

"I guess Orton said something that set him off. Jay says everyone he's talked to doesn't know what it was, but from what he says Orton's in pretty bad shape. They think he might have a broken nose and he's going to need stitches in his lip. I guess it took them like twenty minutes to get off and that was with Trips, Flair, Shelton and Jay."

"Oh my God, Adam. Dave is going to get into so much trouble."

"Who cares? Maybe he'll get fired. One less part of Evolution we'd have to break up."

I was about ready to start arguing with Adam but remembered what he and I had planned. I didn't want to say the wrong thing and cause him to get angry so I did only what I could to make him happy. I agreed. "Yeah, I guess so."

"As a matter of fact, Jessie, it doesn't even look like we have to break them up. They're doing it on their own. Maybe in a couple of weeks they'll be begging you to split them up," he chuckled.

"So are we just aborting this whole plan?" I asked, hopefully.

"Not yet, I think we need to keep with it just for a little reassurance. So keep doing what you are and it will only be a matter of time."

I reluctantly nodded my head in agreement. 'Why can't you just tell him what you really think? He'll understand,' I told myself. 'For the past two years he's been the only one that has understood you. Why are you so afraid?' I shook the thoughts out of my head as Adam stood up.

"I'll go up and pay the ticket and then we can leave," he told me.

"I can do it," I replied.

"No, I'm paying for it and that's final," he said, flashing me a smile and walking up to the counter.