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Chapter 10 – Avoiding Randy

Two Weeks Later

It had been two weeks since Danielle had found out about Ric being her father. She had decided to go on the road with the WWE so she would get the chance to get to know Ric better. So far it was working. Whenever Ric had a free moment when he wasn't doing wrestling stuff, he and Dani would go out, explore the cities, and just talk. It was so nice for Danielle to have someone to share her memories of her mom with. She thought it would be difficult to talk about her mother but she actually found that it helped her to work through the pain of losing her by talking about her. While Danielle's relationship with Ric was improving, her friendship with Randy was going no where. Ever since she had seen Randy enter his hotel room with that girl she hadn't talked to him. Actually she had been avoiding him for the past two weeks. She didn't want to believe that Randy was like that but she didn't really know what else to think since she didn't know him very well.

Danielle was backstage watching Raw that Monday night contemplating whether she should finally stop avoiding Randy when Ric walked into the locker room looking very worn out and tired.

"Hey Dani."

"Hey Ric. That was a brutal match. Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. Trust me I've been in harder matches than that." It still pained Ric that Danielle wouldn't call him 'dad' yet but he knew that she would when she felt comfortable doing so.

"Hello, earth to Ric." Dani said while waving her hand in front of Ric. "You kind of blanked out on me there."

"Oh sorry sweetie." Ric apologized. "I was just thinking about something."

"Really? Anything important?" Dani asked with a puzzled expression on her face.

"No, I was just wondering why you've been avoiding Randy. I thought the two of you had become friends."

"Yeah, we did. I haven't been avoiding Randy." Danielle said with a feigned expression of confusion.

"Dani, you haven't talked to him since the first night you talked to him." Ric replied with a knowing expression on his face.

"No" Dani lied "I've talked to him lots of times. You're not with me all the time you know." She replied with the same knowing expression Ric had pulled on her.

Ric went over and put his arm around Danielle then smiled and said "Dani, Dani, Dani, if you're going to lie try doing a better job at it. If you have talked to Randy why did Randy just ask me if everything was all right with you, since he hadn't talked with you since that night."

"Um…" Danielle looked down at the floor looking worried and was trying to figure out what to say next.

Ric took his arm away from around Danielle's shoulders. He then took his hand and lifted Danielle's chin so she would look at him. "Dani, why don't you just go talk to him. I don't know what happened between the two of you but I'm sure it can be solved if you just go talk to him. He has seemed a little down lately."

Danielle then pulled away from Ric's touch. "Ric, nothing happened. Its just…its just complicated." Danielle let out with an exasperated sigh.

"Danielle I don't really care what happened or what you do, I'm just simply saying that I feel you should talk to him." Ric said heading out the door but returning right after with a gift in his hands. "Here, I saw this and I thought it was something perfect for you and the new relationship we have." He said handing Danielle the gift. "Just know that I'm always here for you."

"Thank you. I'll take your fatherly advice into consideration." Danielle said with an emphasis on fatherly.

"That's all I ask." Ric said as he left the locker room to go do a promo.

Danielle decided she should open the gift to see what Ric had gotten her. It seemed like he was always giving her a gift. She assumed he was making up for all the years he had missed but she didn't think he needed to. Even though she did like being spoiled just a little bit. It was nice. Danielle pulled the cover off the box and pulled back the tissue paper to find a cute pink velour track suit. She absolutely loved it because it was really soft. She turned the jacket around and saw that the back of the jacket said "Daddy's Girl". This really touched Dani. She hadn't been able to call Ric 'dad' yet so she figured it was his subtle way of telling her it was okay to call him dad but she still wasn't ready. Even though she couldn't call him 'dad' she really liked the suit and decided to put it on. She figured it was her subtle way of showing Ric and everyone else that she was getting more comfortable but not completely comfortable yet.

So she put the track suit on and it fit her perfectly. It hugged her curves in all the right places. She had her hair down so the back of the jacket wasn't showing but Danielle wanted to show it off so she pulled her hair to the side in a low side ponytail. It actually looked really cute on her and it made her wavy brunette hair curl down in front on one side of her torso. She slipped on some black flip flops and decided to head to catering because she was hungry.

Randy's visit from Kellie had really affected him. Kellie had been his first real love so when he had found out that she was cheating on him he had been devastated. That was probably the reason Randy hadn't seriously dated anyone since. He had given his heart and soul to someone and they had just ripped it out. Since then he hadn't allowed himself to get too close to anyone because he didn't want to be hurt again. That was why he was a casual womanizer. Ever since Kellie's visit though, Randy had not been out at all. He did his wrestling stuff, then just kind of sulked around his hotel rooms. It wasn't that Randy still loved Kellie because that ship had sailed a long, long time ago when she had cheated on him and he could never forgive her for that. At one time though Kellie had been a huge part of his life. It was difficult to let go of that. He was also curious about how Danielle was doing because he had not talked to her since the night that they had met.

Later that evening, Randy wandered into catering and he noticed Danielle standing there in a pink velour track suit. Danielle's long wavy locks were pulled to the side in a low ponytail so Randy could see that the back of the jacket had white lettering that read "Daddy's Girl." Randy found himself smiling about that and wondering if Ric and Danielle had really grown that close in only two weeks time. Randy walked in at just the right time so Danielle didn't see him enter. He decided that this would be the perfect time to finally talk to Danielle since there was only a few people in catering.

He walked over towards Danielle who was deep in conversation with Trish Stratus. Danielle had only been traveling with the WWE for two weeks but a lot of people knew who she was and even liked her. She had especially grown close to Trish and the two had become close friends because Danielle looked up to Trish who had become almost like a big sister.

"Hi Trish." Randy said kind of interrupting the conversation the Dani and Trish were having.

"Oh, hey Randy. You haven't come out with us lately. How are you?" Trish said not really noticing the annoyed and worried look Danielle had. She had tried really hard to avoid Randy and here he was talking to her best friend.

"I'm doing fine. I just haven't really felt like going out lately." He said with a small smile because he had noticed the look on Danielle's face.

"Oh, well you should tonight. I finally convinced Danielle to come out with us." Trish said turning towards Dani with a smile. "Oh wait, have you met Danielle. She's Ric's daughter."

"Yeah we have met before. Its nice to see you again Danielle." He said turning towards Dani. "How have you been?" He said really emphasizing ever word to make a point that he was talking with her.

"Fine thank you." Danielle replied with look of death towards Randy.

"I see you're getting along with Ric now." Randy said gesturing towards Dani's outfit.

"What?" Danielle asked with a confused expression.

"Your jacket says 'Daddy's Girl' on it."

"Oh right. Ric just gave it to me and I like it." Danielle replied with a little attitude.

"Oh, really? Is he spoiling you like you were daddy's girl?" Randy couldn't help teasing her even though he knew he shouldn't since she was already mad at him for some unknown reason.

"Not that its any of your business but yes, Ric does enjoy buying me presents." Danielle replied emphasizing Ric and giving Randy a death stare again.

Trish noticed the tension and wondered why it was there and how Danielle and Randy knew each other. She decided she should try and let Danielle and Randy work out there issues.

"Well Danielle and Randy it was nice talking to both of you but I really should go get ready for my match. Danielle I'll see you later tonight and Randy I hope you come out too." Trish said walking away. Danielle sent her a pleading look to take her with her but Trish ignored it because she figured the two of them just needed to talk.

"Thanks for the invitation Trish. If Danielle is going maybe I will just have to make an appearance." Randy replied with a smile towards Danielle. Danielle replied to his smile with another death stare. Trish just walked away shaking her head at the antics of the two.

Danielle and Randy just stood there in awkward silence but as soon as Trish left catering Danielle walked away from Randy because she really didn't want to talk to him. She felt someone grab her arm so she turned around. "Randy please let go of my arm." She said with anger in her voice.

"Danielle I can't do that because you have been avoiding me and I just want to know what I did to deserve it. If I did something wrong I think I deserve to know what so I won't do it again because I really did enjoy talking to you." Randy said while still holding on to her arm.

"Randy you didn't do anything wrong."

"Obviously I did or you wouldn't be avoiding me." Randy replied letting go of her arm and running his fingers through his hair because he was just so confused by Danielle.

Danielle noticed how upset her ignoring him was really making him. "I'm sorry for avoiding you Randy, but it just upset me when I found out you weren't the sweet guy I thought you were."

"What are you talking about?" Randy asked with a confused look on his face.

"I saw you enter your hotel room that night with that girl."

Randy looked confused then a knowing look crossed over his face. "Oh, you saw me with Kellie?"

"So you actually knew her name?" Danielle asked with a smirk.

Randy couldn't help himself from starting to laugh. "You completely got the wrong idea."

"What are you laughing about?" Danielle asked with anger now because Randy was laughing at her.

"Kellie was an ex-girlfriend who I completely hate because she cheated on me."

"What?"

"Kellie came back to try and get back together with me but we argued about old issues and I decided that fighting in the hotel lobby wasn't a bright idea so we went back to my room to talk."

"Oh." Danielle said with surprise and confusion.

"You were jealous of me being with some other girl, weren't you?" Randy said with a smile

"I was not." Danielle stated with authority.

"Oh, c'mon. Why else would you be so upset?" Randy said with the smirk still on his face. He was impressed with himself that he could make someone jealous that easily having only just met them and only talking to them for a little while.

"I wasn't jealous. I was just…I was just…" Danielle didn't know what to say.

Well I finally updated. I'm sorry to my loyal readers but I just couldn't decide how to continue this story but I finally did and I'm happy with the outcome. Just to let you know Randy's hair is not cut short in this fic therefore he can run his fingers through it still because that's the way I like it. I hope you enjoyed and stay tuned for the rest of Randy and Danielle's conversation in the next chapter. Why was she upset? Hmm I'll have to figure that out for myself before I can update. LOL. Thanks a lot for reading and please review!

Kim