Chapter 9

Normally a woman would be really happy, if she gets a chance to go for a dinner with six handsome men. But I wasn't exactly jumping for the joy, because I had a bad feelings about the whole thing… I was just happy that Stephanie was with us, so I wasn't the only woman.

I drove to the restaurant in the same car with Dale, Mark and Randy. We were at the parking place same as my brother, Steph, Dave and Ric, so we went inside to the restaurant together. There I sat next to Dale and Dave sat to my other side. For the first hour we talked about everything from wrestling to Nascar.

"So Rales, have you talked with mom lately?" Paul smiled a bit, he just loved to tease me about the fact, that mom wasn't happy about my job in WWE.

Uh-huh, I was afraid that everything wouldn't go like I hoped...

"No."

"Have you tried to talk with her?"

"No."

"That's my little Kofi Annan!" He laughed.

"You should try to talk with her." I muttered.

"But she loves my job. I am the Game." He laughed and made others to do the same.

"Oh yeah, you are the Game, the Champ, the Man… What ever…." I so didn't want to talk about this. Someone, change the subject, please.

"Rales, Paul told me that you have something going on with Rob Conway." Dale said suddently. Whoa! Absolutely not the subject I wanted to talk about!

"Wha… What… WHAT!" I just couldn't say anything else, he had totally catched me by surprise. I looked almost terrified when I glanced to Dale and Paul.

"Everyone knows that Rob is smitten with you." Paul said smiling.

"No, no." I just couldn't get anything reasonable out of my mouth on that moment.

"But Rales, why haven't you told me about this? You tell me everything. What's happens in work, your fights with Randy, Dave…"

"Dale!" I interrupted him praying that others, especially Paul, had't heard that last thing… But not a change.

"Dave? What about Dave, Raleight?" My brother looked at me and Dave.

Uh huh, he rarely called me Raleight. This wasn't good… And he didn't look happy, not at all…

"We… We are just good friends. Right, Dave?" I glanced at the man beside me, who looked like he had no idea what we were talking about.

"Of course we are. Just good friends." He smiled a little.

"There you heard, Paul." I looked at my brother who did seem to be satisfied with that. Thought I saw that Stephanie winked to me…

Then I turned to Dale and whispered.

"I hate you."

He just smiled sweetly.

"No you don't. You love me."

I showed tongue to him and continued eating my dessert.

After the half-disasterous dinner Dale and Mark came to our hotel. First we popped in my room and then we went to hotels bar. Dale and Mark saw Paul, Steph, Dave, Randy, Stacy and Amy sitting in one table and navigated to that direction. Mark sat on the last vacant chair and I was left to stand beside Dave. Soon he wrapped his arm around my waist and pulled me to his lap.

"Dave, what are you doing?" I groaned.

"You don't have to stand when you fit well to my lap." Dave said and smiled that gorgeous smile of his.

Steph glanced at us smiling and Paul looked like his frontal vein was about to explode, but he didn't say anything. Steph put her hand to his arm and he seemed to relax a little.

We chatted for a while and then I heard first sounds of Our Lady Peace's song Not Enough from the bars speakers and because I love that song, I started to move along the music, and I did this still sitting in Daves lap.

"Rales? Could you be still? I'm starting to feel a bit uncomfortable here…" He whispered and I felt my self blushing and then I practically froze. I didn't want to make him feel uncomfortable…

I happened to glance at Mark, who was sitting next to us and judging his expression, he had heard what Dave said. He looked like man who had a big, big secret…

We sat few hours in the bar, and after that Dale was on that kind of condition that I had no intentions to let him drive home. I suggested that he could sleep in my room and he agreeded with that. Mark thought took a cab and went home.

On the next morning we had to wake up at nine, because we had flight to Milwaukee at 1pm. I was going with him to his car, when I saw Rob standing almost behind my room door. He didn't look too pleased…

"Morning, Rob." I said a little hesitantly.

He didn't answer, he just went to his room and slammed the door behind.

"Oh no…" I whispered.

"You really should speak to him." Dale stated.

"Yeah, I know."

When we were at Dales car, I gave him a tight, long hug.

"Call me, Rales."

"You bet I will." I answered.

When he drive away I looked after him and when I couldn't see the car anymore, I gave a sigh and went back inside.

I knocked Rob and Sylvains door and Sylvain opened it.

"Morning, Syl. Is Rob in?"

"Yeah. You came to talk to him, didn't you? He's a bit in bad mood..." He answered.

I nodded.

"Good. I'm in next door, so I'll heard if everything doesn't go well." He said knowing that it will be heard far away, if we would start to yell.

Sylvain stepped out and I went in. Rob sat on the couch and turned to me.

"What are you doing here?" Oh yeah, he was pissed...

"We have to talk"

"About what?"

"About what's between us... Or isn't." I didn't know how I would make my statement. "I know that that you like me. I like you too, but only as a friend..."

"I like you a lot, Rales. Despite that you jump in and out of bed with others. Like Randy and that Earnhart guy..."

"Nothing like that hasn't happened between me and Dale. He's my best friend. But that's not relevant now... You are a good friend, but..." I interrupted him.

When our conversation went further, we started to yell to each others.

"I can't talk with you" I finally snorted and went to the door.

He was faster and was stood infront the door preventing me open it. He grabbed my arm and walked me back to livingroom.

"Ouch, that hurts." I cried out.

He ignored that and continued yellig. Finally I had had enough and slapped him on the cheek. At the same time as I felt his hand to slap my cheek, I heard the door open and Daves voice.

"What the hell here is going on ?"

When I fell to the floor, I saw Sylvain, Dave and Adam rushing in. Adam and Sylvain were pulling Rob away from me.

"What the fuck are you doing! Did you hit her?" Adam yelled when Dave kneeled next to me.

"Are you alright?"

I nodded and stood up. Then I rubbed my cheekand Dave looked closely at me.

"We have to get ice for it."

"Go to hell, slut. I can't understand what I saw in you." Rob yelled while Adam and Sylvain were still holding him.

"Hey, watch your language, Conway. You talk about my sister." I heard my brothers voice from the door and turned to look at him. He stood there with Steph.

She came to me and took my hand.

"Come on. We have to get some for your cheek." She said and when we were on the door, I turned to Paul and others.

"Don't do anything to him."

We got some ice and when I went back to my room, I packed my things. When I was leaving, I heard yelling from the corridor and shoved my head to corridor to see what was going on. I saw Randy yelling behind Rob and Sylvains door. Amy was hanging in his arm.

"Randy, come on. Let's go away, you'll just make things worse." She said trying to pull him away from the door.

"Randy, Amy." I called them and both turned to me.

"Dave told what happened. Are you alright?" Amy asked worry in her voice."

"I'm alright." I noticed that Randy looked my cheek closely and I said to him. "There will come a bruise but otherwise I'm just fine."

"Are you sure?"

"I am. Shouldn't we leave to the airport?" I answered.

"We were just leaving. Our bags are downstairs already." Amy said.

"See you on the airport then. And Randy, you have to let this thing go." I said to him seriously.

"But..."

"No buts. You don't touch him." I interrupted.

Randy just sighed and then he nodded. I took my bags and went to Paul and Stephs door, because we were driving together to the airport.