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The rest of the day went by as a blur for Dani. There was so much hustle and bustle, she spent most of the time sitting in the green room and being introduced to everyone. There was so much commotion about the fact that Randy was not only going to be a husband, but a father too, it made Dani wonder what all Randy was up to when he wasn't home.
Finally it was time for the Raw taping to get underway. That part was a lot of fun for Dani to watch. It was great to hear the live crowds, and to see the show underway.
"Excuse me, you're Danielle right?" Someone behind her asked.
Dani turned around and nodded, "Yes I am."
"Good, Stephanie McMahon would like to see you in her office in 10 minutes." The woman replied.
"Ok, I'll be there." Dani said nodding. As soon as the woman walked away, she got really nervous. Randy was out in the ring, and her only other confidant would have been John, but he was in the showers.
Dani walked into the diva's dressing room, touched up her make up and fixed her hair. She headed to Stephanie's office with her heart racing. She walked up to the door and knocked.
"Come in!" She heard Steph reply.
When she walked in, she could see Steph was on her phone. Steph pointed to the chair as she continued arguing with someone on the phone.
Dani sat down and heard Steph say, "Damn it just do it. I know what I'm talking about." And Steph slammed down the phone. Now Dani wasn't just nervous, she was now officially scared of this woman."
"Sorry about that, my brother forgets that I do know what I'm talking about from time to time. Thanks for coming. What are you doing tonight?" Steph asked.
Dani shook her head, "Nothing, Randy said we're staying in town tonight and taking the tour bus with the others tomorrow to the personal appearances."
"Good, here's what we're hoping you're willing to do. Dad found a club here in town that has amateur night and each person gets 3 songs. They have the karaoke background or you can provide your own accompaniment. So, we were wondering if you would be willing to do this so dad and a few others can hear you sing, see how you do in front of a crowd, and we'll go from there. What do you say?" Steph propositioned.
Dani took a deep breath, "I would love to. I have my guitar here, but if you would like a broader range of music styles, then the karaoke background will come in handy."
"Wonderful, I'll let dad know and we'll book your time. I'll be in touch." Steph replied as she grabbed her phone.
"Can I just ask you a quick question?" Dani asked nervously.
Steph hung up the phone, "Sure, what's up?"
"You seem very down to Earth and very nice, so please be patient with me, I don't have a lot of experience with this." Dani started with.
Steph laughed, "Thank you. Go ahead, ask me whatever you want."
"Should I dress formally since your father will be there?" Dani asked sheepishly. "I would really like to make a good impression."
Steph smiled, "Since we're going to do this club, I would say no. Just wear something nice and be yourself. You are a very nice girl and you're very pretty and you have a helluva voice, and that will sell you to him."
Dani blushed, "Well thank you. And just let me know when and where."
Steph stood up and shook her hand. "You'll do great."
Dani thanked her again and walked out. As Dani was walking down the hallway, there were a few wrestlers talking about going out to a club. But by the time Dani got to the men's locker room, there were wrestlers talking about how Vince wanted as many as possible to go and listen to an audition and to give him their honest opinion. Dani's heart began to race. She wasn't just going to be singing in front of a crowd, but it was all of Randy's peers. She quickly knocked on the door.
A blonde man opened the door that Dani recognized was Triple H, but she couldn't remember what his real name was. He smiled, "I bet you want Randy."
Dani nodded, "Yes please."
"Hold on." Paul turned and hollared, "HEY RANDY, YOU'VE GOT A VISITOR."
Randy came to the door and smiled, "Hey babe, what's up?"
"Can I talk to you?" Dani asked.
"Sure." And Randy walked out into the hallway in only his towel. "What's up?"
Just as Dani was about to explain, Chris Jericho came around the corner. "What are you guys doing tonight?"
"I think we're going out dancing, but not sure. Why, what's up?" Randy replied.
"Vince wants as many people as possible to go with him to some club to listen to someone audition musically for him." Chris replied.
"Sweet, I'm all about that. Remember how awful the last one was? Vince owed us all a drink because he felt bad we wasted our time." Randy replied with a laugh. He turned to Dani, "You'll have a blast with us now, you're a music nut."
Dani just smiled and nodded.
Chris smiled, "Alright I'll see ya there." And he walked off.
Randy turned back to Dani, "Sorry about that, what did you need?"
"That's me they're going to audition." She hissed to Randy. "Vince had Stephanie set it up. Now he's having you and all of your peers come to evaluate me."
Randy started laughing and Dani got a little upset. "Stop laughing, now I'm scared to death and all you're doing is laughing."
Randy smiled, "Sweetie, you'll do fine. You have a great voice. Don't worry about it."
Stephanie came walking down the hall and waved to Dani. "Ok, be ready to go in 20 minutes, the car will pick you up. You're set is at 12:15am."
Dani nodded, "Ok, thanks."
As Stephanie walked away, Randy rubbed her back. "You'll do great. I have to go and get ready. Don't worry, I'll be cheering for you." He kissed her cheek and walked in the bathroom.
Jason Reso walked up to Randy, "So you're I hear that your fiancé is the one auditioning for Vince tonight. You never said she was an inspiring singer."
"Yeah, I guess. Out of the blue she's singing with a band and telling me about how she's always loved to sing and I think it's some sort of mid-twenties thing. I think it's just a phase." Randy said shrugging his shoulders. "But I have to admit, she is really good."
"Well we'll get to see how good she is tonight. Are you going to go?" Jason asked.
"Do you think she'd let me not go?" Randy replied as he got dressed. "She'd kill me."
Jason laughed, "Good point. See ya there." And he walked out of the locker room.
Randy quickly called Stacy to see if she was going to go and see Dani and to see if her and the girls wanted to just carpool with him and some of the other guys. They worked out a meeting spot and Randy fixed his hair and then left the locker room.
Dani walked into the ladies locker room and started to search through her suitcase. She had to find something decent to wear that didn't scream pregnant. Trish and Molly walked in and seen her digging through her suitcase.
"Need some help?" Trish asked.
Dani looked up, she didn't know them very well and she wasn't sure what to think of them, but she caved in. "Yeah, I'm trying to find something to wear for the club and that doesn't scream pregnant."
"Let's take a look, we'll get you dressed for the occasion." Trish said. "How long do you have?"
"Stephanie said to be ready in 20 minutes." Dani replied.
"Molly hold up the clothes, I'll start doing her hair." Trish said grabbing a hairbrush. Before Dani could say anything, Trish was doing her hair and choosing clothes.
"Ok, don't laugh. But I have this really cute halter top that would look great with your black pants and it wouldn't be a maternity top." Molly suggested. "I'm a little bigger than the rest of the girls."
Dani smiled, "What if I stretch it out though?"
Molly laughed, "I'm so not worried. Let me grab it." And she started digging through her bag. "Here ya go."
Dani smiled, it was really cute. It was red, black and white patterned and it wasn't a tiny halter top, it was dressy looking. "I love it. Thank you."
Trish finished giving Dani a great-looking up-do and helped her touch up her make up. "If your voice is as good as you look, you've got whatever it is you're going after. Knock 'em dead!"
"Are you guys coming tonight?" Dani asked. She was starting to get nervous.
"Hell yeah we're coming. We wouldn't miss this for the world." Molly replied.
As they were walking Dani to the car, Dani turned to Molly. "Can I ask you a silly question?"
"Sure, what's up?"
"Last I knew, you're really name was Nora. But why does everyone call you Molly?"
Trish laughed, "It's a force of habit. There are times where we still call Paul "Hunter." With Nora, there's a great story behind it."
"Do tell!" Dani exclaimed.
Molly shook her head as Trish began. "Well you see. When she first got hired, they introduced her to the group at the meeting as "Molly Holly." So, when we got out of the meeting, and got back to the dressing room, we all asked her what her name was, and she would only reply Molly. She thought that no matter what she should be kayfabe and only say her name was Molly. And it wasn't until a week later when she realized that there were a lot of wrestlers with character names but yet when they weren't working, we used their real names!" And everyone was laughing. "So she had to come back around and introduce herself, and by then we had been calling her Molly for so long, that we couldn't call her Nora. So now we're back to Molly a lot."
"But you can call me whatever you want." Molly/Nora replied.
"Really? Does that go for me too?" Trish asked excitedly. "Whatever I want."
"Definitely not you." She replied with a smile.
Dani got to the door and there was her guitar waiting for her. She smiled, "Randy must have brought this in for me." She said quietly.
"Well, here you go. Good luck and we'll see you soon!" Trish said giving her a hug.
Molly hugged her too, "You'll do great. I can feel it."
Dani smiled, "Thanks guys, you've been great." And she walked outside and got in the car and it took off.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------How will it go? Will she impress everyone? Will all of Randy's peers give him hell about it? What is in Dani's future? (Besides a wedding that is coming faster and faster?) Thanks for being so patient, please continue to read and review!
