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It was like something out of a movie.
On one side of the door right behind him stood the very beautiful, very rich and wise yet deadly Stephanie McMahon.
On the other, in front of him, the sometimes sinister, sometimes psycho, yet adoringly lovable and caring Victoria.
And he was in the middle of the two...
They both stood there watching him, watching each other, watching him, neither of them moving, neither of them doing much of anything..and he could not believe this was happening.
He didn't know what to do.
He never thought the day would come where he'd be trapped between the two.
Granted neither of them told him otherwise he knew better...
He'd have to choose eventually.
He'd not only have to choose between the two very beautiful and intelligent women, one of which he always loved and one he had grown to care about, a current best friend, but possibly face major repercussions at the hands of his male best friend who in turned cared for the two standing here before him today.
Reaching forward the blonde shook away his current thoughts only caring about the moment and pulled his friend close into a tight hug. "Vic! How's it going?"
The woman simply let him hold her for a moment, before looking behind him at the other woman only attempting to pull back and catch his gaze after catching Stephanie McMahon's. She shook her head. "It's going."
Holding his friend at arms length the blonde studied his friend as if she was some kind of specimen that needed studying and squinted his eyes. "You look different," He stated.
"Nonsense," Victoria answered. "You saw me just yesterday."
The guy scratched his head his brows going up in confusion. "Yeah...But still something's different."
Victoria shook her head going to answer her friend but before she could do just that the woman behind the male cleared her throat and both looked her way.
"Oh right.." The guy muttered. "Vici why don't you come on in."
"Yes..Do." The other woman spoke up.
Two pairs of eyes caught Stephanie McMahon's and she raised her brows, shrugging in the process. "I'm just trying to be polite," She simply stated.
There was silence as everyone made their way back into the male's living room to sit.
Everyone in the room knew there was less than friendly feelings between the two females. Hell, the whole locker room knew it. There was an unspoken resentment toward the other and it was hard to figure out why..but it was there.
"So.."
"Chris and I were just talking about getting together later tonight," Stephanie threw out just to get a reaction out of the other brunette.
It worked.
Victoria nodded, looking down to the floor. "I see."
The guy gave Stephanie a look and she shrugged again. "What?"
Ignoring her question he looked to his friend to see her arms quickly band themselves around her midsection.
"Vicki?"
Slowly raising her head the energetic beauty met Stephanie's gaze..again. "I have to tell you something."
Raising her eyebrows Stephanie threw a hand onto her chest dramatically, her eyes going wide. "You..have something to say..to me?"
"No."
"But you just said-"
"I wasn't talking to you."
"I see," Stephanie said. "Care to share anyway?
"No, not really," Victoria answered. "It's kinda private. Would you care to leave?"
Stephanie sneered at the other woman and the male jumped up off the couch.
"Okay and that is enough!"
"What?" Both females asked, glaring at each other after realizing the sync they had.
"You." He pointed to Stephanie.
She had the nerve to look remotely offended.
"And you," He finished pointing to Victoria. "You're both unbelievable. Everytime you two meet up it's like the barbs have to automatically start up, the glares are shot out, the tension rises. What is it that has you two so on edge whenever you come together," The guy asked unknowingly.
Stephanie gave the man before her a disbelieving look and Victoria shook her head looking away.
"You don't know," Stephanie ground out.
"I..I...well, no. What is it? Tell me please."
"Simply put," Victoria looked her best friend's way and struggled to give a small smile. "It's you.."
"Me! What have I ever done to the two of you besides befriend you?"
"You're the trouble," Stephanie gave the guy a pointed look and his expression grew grim.
"I don't buy it. This is a bunch of bullshit that what's it is. All these words you two spew are directed toward me?"
"No," Victoria answered.
"OK then what is it!"
For once Stephanie gave the woman beside her a small smirk. "I swear he can be so dense at times."
Victoria nodded.
And all at once everything returned to normal. Gone was the smirk and gone was the joke and the only thing left in the large room was the tapping of feet as the blonde in front of the two women walked to and fro pacing his way across the floor.
He just didn't get it. He couldn't figure it out.
He never could with these two.
All a sudden a shrill ringing broke the silence in the room and Victoria's eyes grew wide.
Shoot! This was not working out the way she had planned. She was supposed to have told him by now. The call was to make sure she had actually gone through with it. Let him know...
"Aren't you going to answer that?"
Victoria placed a hand on her Jean pocket which had the phone enclose in it and closed her eyes, the vibration nearly driving her crazy.
Reality was killing her these days.
"Hey Vic-" "Victoria! Are you going to answer that stupid phone," Stephanie yelled.
She shook her head a loud huff of breath leaving her body quickly. "I'm scared," She whispered.
"Scared," The blonde asked.
"Scared," Stephanie repeated looking over Victoria's way.
"I..I uh..Roc I really need to talk to you."
"I know, you already said that before but aren't you going to answer that phone first?"
"The phone call deals with-"
"Oh forget this," Stephanie cut in reaching over to promptly reach in the other woman's pocket and gather the phone into her small palms. "I'll answer it myself since Victoria here...is so scared," She mocked.
The other two occupants' eyes grew wide, one in surprise, one in fear and the brunette desperately tried to grab a hold of her phone from the other woman. "Stephanie no!"
But it fell on deaf ears as Stephanie flipped open the phone in her hand her eyebrows drawn upward in amusement as her mouth twitched desperately ready to spout off whatever news Victoria had to tell.
Obviously it was really important in order for the all mighty Victoria to be scared.
She'd be pleased.
"Hello," She spoke into the phone and the other woman's gaze met the man's face as he watched Stephanie in wonderment.
"I'm pregnant," Victoria muttered
"Did you-" Was the only thing Stephanie could manage to hear from the phone before Victoria spoke up.
"What?" The guy's gaze slowly went to his friend on the couch.
She looked down to the floor and Stephanie's mouth fell open in shock.
"Hold on, hold on, hold on. This is to good to be true." Stephanie exclaimed closing the phone in her hand cutting off any further words from the male on the phone not realizing it was her best friend trying to reach Victoria. Stephanie jumped up off the couch her hands grabbing her sides. "What did you say?"
"I.." Victoria looked up.
"Pregnant," The guy dumbly asked.
Victoria nodded.
"It's Steven's isn't it?" Stephanie asked doing nothing to hide her happiness at the brunette's news and the blonde beside her slowly started to shake his head.
"Oh no," He mumbled over and over. "No.."
Victoria sighed not really caring that the other woman was marveling at the expense of her news.
It was already out in the open it wasn't like anything much worse could happen to her at this time.
"Awww. Well, isn't that great? I'm pretty sure me and Roc are happy for you, aren't we Roc?"
Stephanie gave the male a little nudge on the side but he continued to sit there and look as if he had seen a ghost.
"How," He asked.
"You know how," Stephanie threw back continuing to size Victoria up her arms now crossed directly in front of her chest a full blown smile taking over her face.
"When?"
"Four weeks ago."
"Are you and Steven back together?"
There was a moment of silence before Stephanie's laughter broke out all over the room. "Of course they are!" She turned to look at the male beside her and that's when she realized he was in fact serious. But he looked anything but happy..
Her smile dropped as did her arms.
"What.." She whispered.
The guy continued to look at Victoria as she did him and Stephanie's heart broke.
She tried again. "I don't understand. Are you two.."
A question that everyone had no answer to.
It would seem as if Victoria and the love of her life had done nothing but simply court each other for the most part of the year but they never said..they never let anyone know..they...
It felt as if the rug had been pulled out from under her feet because the next thing Stephanie knew she was on the ground staring at Victoria's feet her breath coming out in quick pants.
Were they together she silently asked herself.
She wanted to scream.
She loved this man! Didn't he know that? Hadn't he known that?
"Stephanie," The blonde superstar said his eyes immediately shooting to the woman on the floor. He sunk down to kneel behind the woman. He knew her..what she was capable of. He knew she wouldn't show weakness in front of others but she sure as hell would show her fury in front of everybody else. He'd be ready to catch her.
"You two.." Stephanie asked.
"She's my best friend..and I was there for her but.."
"Wh-" Stephanie didn't even get to finish her sentence before her world decided to take a big spin and she dropped forward falling out.
Victoria's eyes looking elsewhere but at the two on the floor. She was ruining any chance her best friend had with the woman he loved. She should have known that. She was so selfish. She didn't mean to come over and cause trouble.
But she couldn't help the feeling that crept over her right now. It felt like someone was squeezing her heart for good measure and she would die anytime soon.
Why did she have to feel like this right now? Why did she have to tell him? She truly didn't deserve the friendship they shared now...
She should have just pushed him away like she wanted to that very first day.
Stephanie's body lied there unmoving on the floor before the other two in the room and the male's eyes grew wide. She looked so unfamiliar now. The weakness Stephanie had showed had not been expected. He felt so cold, so dark.
"Does she hate me," He simply asked as he continued to stare down at Stephanie's still body.
He was so into his thoughts about the woman on the floor before him that he didn't take notice of the one on the couch as she stood up and watched him.
She wanted to slowly make her way over toward the door but she couldn't seem to take a step right now.
Maybe she truly had no choice when it came right down to everything.
She knew for sure that she could never go back to Steven and that she didn't love him anymore but she refused to stop her best friends happiness. She couldn't help the feeling that had crept up into her heart earlier at seeing Stephanie and him together today.
Out of all the days.
"I don't know anything anymore...I just don't know."
She had made only about three steps on her trek to the door before her friend decided to look up at her his eyes full of unshed tears. "What have I done Vicki? What have I done?"
'My God. This man..this wonderful man thinking he's at fault..'
"Come here," Victoria motioned, opening her arms to her friend on the floor and he slowly stood but it was her making her way to him.
The gap between the two closed quickly and before either one of them knew it she had him wrapped tightly in her arms.
He was crying. "Shh. It's not your fault, It's not your fault." She tried to reassure him. 'It's mine. I should have never gotten involved..'
"Is it.." He pulled away to stare into his friend's eyes and she slowly wiped away the tears. He was going to make her cry..and god only knew that was all she did when she first met him.
She knew what he was asking and she thought she had the answer figured out, the one he wanted to hear.
Victoria backed up grabbing her best friend's hands into her own. "No," She said. "No."
"Are you sur-"
"Yes."
"Would you be happy for me?"
"Of course."
And that was the last words that were spoken between the two before her best friend gave her hands a light squeeze only turning to study the woman on the floor afterwards.
Moments later she found herself on the porch outside of the house phone in hand.
The phone rang and she nodded. She knew this man all to well.
But not well enough like the one in the house behind her..
Slowly bringing the offending object up to her ear after opening it she waited for the worried voice to speak to her.
"Did you tell him?"
"I told him what he needs to hear..."
"But does he know-"
"That I'm pregnant? Yes. That it's his? No. I can't tell him Kurt, I just can't."
There was a sigh on the other side of the line before the Olympian spoke again. "I'm sorry Victoria. I'm so sorry.."
Victoria shrugged even though she knew her friend couldn't see it. "Hey..no biggie."
They both knew that was a lie.
"He truly loves her you know?"
"I know," Kurt answered. 'I love you Victoria.' "So um..do you maybe want to come over and hang for a little bit? I'll cook for you while we watch a sappy chick flick, or we could listen to some music as you help me out, your choosing."
She knew she really had no choice but she had to try. "I really don't.."
"Toria," Kurt sighed.
"I'll be over in a little bit."
"Can't wait." Both hung up and Victoria looked to the sky.
Funny thing...she didn't notice the clouds before.
It was as if her feelings were all out in the open for everyone to know yet her best friend couldn't see it..or see her.
She'd better hurry before Kurt called again.
Victoria ran off the porch and down to her car never looking back...
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A/N2: Wow!