Chapter XIX – Ajar doors

"God, that felt so good!" Cleo said while cracking her knuckles and neck. She, Dave and Ric were on their way to the locker room again. "My brother's gonna be soo proud."

The other two laughed. Dave put his arm over her shoulder. "Yeah, we're also proud of you." She smiled at him and was about to say something, when suddenly Christy appeared coming from a side hallway.

"Hey Lee. Listen, they want all the divas on the locker room, I think it's about some photoshoot or something." She told her quickly, while playing with her hair. Cleo made a bored face, and grabbed Dave's hand that was still on her shoulder. "Hmm, can't you go and then tell me what's it about? I really don't wanna-" "NO! You have to come!" she grabbed Cleo's arm and pulled her with her, only giving her time to look at Dave and shrug her shoulders, saying 'See you later'.

When they got to hallways away from them, Cleo asked her what the hell that was about. "Chris wants to talk to you, silly!" Christy told her.

"Chris? My uncle Chris?" her friend asked. The readhead nodded. "I just didn't wanna say it in front of them!"

"Oh, Dave alredy knows. He kinda found out when you guys 'attacked' me after my match. Then I explained everything to him in our walk today." She said simply.

Christy stopped walking and looked at her shocked. "You told him everything?" Cleo sighed impaciently and made a gesture telling her to keep walking. "Well not everything." She started once the other girl started walking. "I didn't tell him about the plan, if that's what you mean."

Christy sighed. "Good."

"Well, not yet."

"WHAT?" She stopped yet again, next to an ajar door. "What do you mean, not yet?"

Cleo sighed again, this time looking a little guilty. "I don't feel good lying to him like this."

"You're not really lying." Christy told her. "You're just omiting the truth." She ignored the dirty look Cleo sent her. "He's a member of Evolution. Do you think he's gonna have a good reaction when he finds out you're trying to destroy his team? Let alone that you only joined to get an ally inside and do it!"

They started walking again. "I know..." Cleo said "But I he would be that angry though..."

This was Christy's time to sigh. "Ok, but I think you should wait a little before you tell him." At that point they had arrived to Chris Benoit's locker room. "Ok, there you go." Christy said. "I'll be in the diva's locker room if you wanna find me."

"Kay." Cleo said, knocking, while she left. "Uncle it's me. Can I come in?" She heard some noise, then Chris' voice. "Come in." She opened the door and did so.

Little did she know that someone had overheard her conversation with her friend when they stopped for the second time. There was someone behind that door, and that someone was very happy to hear all of that conversation (although they only heard part of it, untill they started walking again). Happy, not so for the content of the conversation itself, but more for the possibilities that information gave them. "Well, well, well. It seems this little lady isn't as much of a saint as she appeares to be... I know just what to do... that'll show her not to mess with me!"

Meanwhile, outside the Evolution locker room, someone was knocking.

"Do you think it's Lee alredy?" Ric asked while he went to open the door.

"I don't think so, we just left her with Christy." Dave said. "She wouldn't have time to go to the Diva's dressing room and back."

Ric opened the door. "Yes, wh-" He stopped in mid sentence when he noticed nobody was there. He looked left and right looking for whoever knocked, and found no one. It was just when he was about to close the door that he noticed a little white envelope on the floor. He picked it up. Right in the middle there was a name written. 'Cleo Guerrero'.

"Hey guys, look at this." He closed the door and went to show the others the envelope. "Someone left this here for Cleo."

"What?" Dave asked. Ric showed him and H the envelope.

H frowned. "Who's it from?"

"I don't know, it doesn't say." Ric answered, looking at it.

"Well, let's wait for Lee and then give it to her. It's probably nothing big." Dave suggested. The other two agreed.

"So... what did you want to talk about?" Cleo asked her uncle, once inside his locker room.

"Just a sec." He picked up his cell phone and dialed a number. Then he waited a little for the person to answer, under Cleo's confused look.

"Oh, hey! How ya doing, brother? She's here. I'll put you on speaker."

"Hey, chica!" she heard from the phone.

"Eddie!" she greeted cheerfuly. Then she turned to Chris. "Did you wanted me to come here just to talk to him?"

"Well... we both want to talk with you." He slowly said.

She was starting to get a little suspicious. "About what?"

"You... and Batista, chica."

"Oh, no!" she let herself fall on the couch. "You two just entered 'big brother mode' didn't you?"

"Yep."

"Pretty much."

She had to listen to a fifteen minute speech about how sometimes people aren't what they seem, and that she was very inocent, and if she was sure about them, and bla, and bla, and so on and so forth. It seemed endless, but if finaly had an end.

"No quiero que sufras, cariño."

"I know. And I love you for that. But I think I'm old enough to make my own judgements and choices, am I not?"

"Yeah. You're grown up now. I gotta get used to that." He chuckled a little.

"Te quiero mucho, hermanito." Cleo said.

"También te quiero mucho, chica."

She also said goodbye to Chris and got back to Evolution's locker room. When she opened the door and got in, she went right to the couch where Dave was and again let herself fall over it. He put an arm over her shoulders and kissed her head.

"I missed you." He said.

"I missed you too." She leaned to plant a small kiss on his lips, that soon had gotten into a bigger kiss. Just when it was deepening, Ric interrupted it.

"Someone left a letter for you." He said, smirking.

She pulled away from the kiss and got up, also smirking deviously to Dave. "Really? Who did?" she asked, when she got to the table where Ric was.

"I don't know, they just left it in front of the door." He answered, handing it to her.

"That's odd." She said, smiling. She opened it and removed a small piece of paper from it. While she read it, the smile slowly turned into a both angry and confused look. The others noticed it.

"What does it say?" Dave asked, concerned. She had frozen on her spot and was gripping the letter strongly.

"Nothing. It's just a joke. A stupid joke." She said agressively, ripping the paper into tiny pieces. She went to the bathroom, closed the door and flushed the pieces down the toilet. The she leaned onto the sink and looked at herself on the mirror. Although the letter had gone down the drain, the words written on it were still echoing in her head.

'You should be more carefull. Who knows who's behind an ajar door?

I know your secret. You wouldn't want me to let anything slip in front of people...

Specially one person...

You'll hear from me again, sweetie. Enjoy what you have before it's too late...'

A/N:

I'm so sorry for the extremly late update, but I haven't been having any time at all. Not only I have mid-terms, but I also have to start studying for my final exams.

Well, anyways, I hope you liked this chapter! Here are the translations for the spanish expressions in this chapter:

No quiero que sufras, cariño – I don't want you to suffer, honey.

Te quiero mucho – I love you very much.

Don't forget to review! Oh, and thank you to all my lovely reviewers! (who happened to be just two for the last chapter!)

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Yours as always,

Ari