Author's note: Well here comes the next chapter I hope you like it. Have fun reading it 'hugs all readers and reviewers'
Quick word to my reviewers:
qtea-angel: Hehe... I'm good with cliffhangers... That keeps the reader hooked up to the story... and I hope you like the new part 'hugs' And don't worry John will show up soon...
Roxxy1984: Thanks for the review and the compliment... well I for my part think that there are a lot writers out there who are way better than me... but I do my best for my reviewers... hope ya like the new chapter. 'hugs'
angel40689: Hmm... get the feeling ya like Dave 'grin' anyway... thanks for the review 'huggles' yepp... Alexi's stubborn... just like I am too 'grin' And if she talks to Shawn... well you just have to wait and see 'grin'
Zanderlover: 'grin' I know what ya mean... I'm still hiding Randy in my closet 'grin' Yeah well... during the time I was blind the last thing I wanted was pity... and I figured Alexi would be a way more interesting character if she didn't want pity but tries to be strong and yepp I know what you're trying to say that it's just a part of Alexi...
And I'm really honoured that you think so much about my story... it makes me proud... hey as you may have already figured out I wouldn't mind to be in Alexi's place too... and well about sharing Chris' bed... let me see what I can do 'grin'
As for the part if there has been something between Alexi and Chris... well you, like everybody else, have to wait until later chapters 'evilgrin'
I'm glad that Shawn came over the way I wanted him to appear... well I wasn't too sure if he was too much out of character or not... glad you liked that part...
'grin' Well I just figured that Vince is the bad boy in many stories so I decided to make him a good guy for once... and I need him to be that way or Chris wouldn't have the chance to be at the hospital with Alexi or to take her with him... so the story wouldn't happen... see why I made him a nice guy 'grin'
Well for 'Sid Eudy'... it wasn't my idea... Sid Eudy really exists... he was never Shawns manager but he was involved with him in other ways in reality... in the story he is Shawns manager... and you'll find out who he is soon enough... 'grin'
Take care too...
Oh yeah I'll answer your e-mail later... my e-mail programm won't let me login for some reason o.O
Disclaimer: None of the characters you recognise belong to me... 'hides Randy in her closet'
Oh yeah: something in italics is thoughts and something in bold and italics is someone speaking through the phone
Chapter 6: Insecurities
Shawn had left Vince's office and had nearly reached his hotel room. He was still confused about his talk with Vince. And his emotions were pretty much messed up right now since his thoughts kept drifting back to Marissa.
"Why now? What the hell is going on here?" He murmured in wonder while entering his hotel room.
His roommate for this trip, Shelton Benjamin wasn't there at the moment and Shawn was glad for that. He slowly walked over to his bed and sat down on it.
After staring at his nightstand for a while he finally opened the top drawer.
HBK took out a book and opened it. Between two pages there was an old
photograph.
The Heartbreak Kid stared at it. He had never shown
it to anybody. The photo showed a much younger version of himself,
smiling, with his arm around a sixteen-year-old girl with black hair
and green eyes.
After looking at the picture for a while Shawn started to wonder.
How the hell could something that good get screwed up so much? He thought sadly.
He had sat in silence for a few more minutes and stared at the picture when he finally made a decision. He was going to do something he should have done twenty years ago.
Shawn picked up the receiver of the hotel phone. He quickly dialled a number.
"Hello, yeah… well I need the phone number of Marissa Reed."
I just hope she's not married and has changed her name…
"Just a minute please…" The friendly female voice from the directory enquiries replied.
Shawn waited and after a few seconds the female voice spoke up again: "Umm…we have three entries for a Marissa Reed. Do you know her address?"
"No I don't… sorry…the only thing I can tell you is the date of her birth if that's helpful."
If I knew her address I wouldn't call
you for her phone number… Shawn thought and rolled his
eyes. The girl at the other end asked for the birth date and Shawn
told her.
About a minute later he hung up the phone and stared at
the piece of paper in his hands he had written the number down on.
After a few more minutes of thinking and gathering his courage he picked up the phone again and dialled the number on the paper with shaking hands.
For about a minute after he had dialled he heard the monotone beeping of the phone, signalling that it was ringing at the other end of the line. Shawn was about to hang up when suddenly the beeping was replaced by a warm, female voice.
"Reed?"Shawn froze when he actually heard the voice. It was a voice he hadn't heard for nearly twenty years but still he would recognise this voice everywhere.
It was the voice of Marissa Reed, the woman Shawn had loved more than his own life.
"Hello? Who's there?" The voice asked again.
Shawn was about to answer her when suddenly the door to the hotel room opened and Shelton came in.
"Hey Shawn…" He greeted cheerfully.
Shawn quickly dropped the phone and ended the call.
Damn… He cursed. Couldn't he have come a few minutes later?
Shawn knew that he could still have continued the call even with Benjamin there, but this was something he wanted to do without anyone present.
If I get the courage to call again… He thought.
Funny… the tough Heartbreak Kid is
afraid of a simple phone call… Shawn chuckled at that
thought.
Who knows… perhaps she doesn't even
recognise me…
"Shawn? You still with me?" Shelton asked a little concerned.
Then he realised what Shawn had been doing before he had come in. Perhaps he was angry that Shelton had interrupted his call.
"Sorry… did I interrupt your call?" Shelton voiced his thoughts out loud, offering an apology.
Shawn quickly shook his head.
"I was just finished anyway…"
Benjamin frowned, not really believing what he was told but he knew that this was none of his business.
So he decided to change the subject.
"So, ready for your big match tonight?"
"Which one do you mean? The one against Christian or the tag-team match with Batista against Christian and Chris Jericho?"
"Tag-team match?" Shelton questioned. "I didn't know that there would be a tag-team match tonight…"
HBK shrugged.
"Vince has just told me. It will be because of the match with
Christian. Dave will come to help me after Y2J starts to attack me to
help Christian. Then Eric will come out and schedule the tag-team
match."
"Oh I see… new storyline…" Shelton realised.
"Yepp…" Shawn nodded, pushing all thoughts of Marissa into the back of his mind and quickly put the piece of paper with her phone number into the book where he kept the photo.
Then he stood up from the bed.
"We should better go to prepare for the matches… I mean you'll face Hassan later."
Shelton nodded and with that HBK and Benjamin headed to their cars to drive to the arena where tonight's show would be.
"And I couldn't even say goodbye to Alexi…" Randy complained when Batista and him had entered their hotel room. "She must think that I didn't want to say goodbye… or that I have no manners."
Batista chuckled a little.
"Well for the no manners part... she would be right to think that…" Dave teased but when he saw the look in Randy's face he quickly held his hands up in defence.
"Don't worry too much Randy, I guess Chris will explain it to her and I'm sure she won't be mad…" The Animal said and started to pack his bag with the things he needed for the show tonight.
Randy just fell down on the bed, crossing his arms behind his head.
"I hope you're right. We had such a nice time… and it was a
shame that it did have to end this way."
Batista's grin broadened. He could see the dreamy look in Orton's eyes whenever he spoke of or thought about Alexandria.
"I'm sure you'll have the chance to see her again very
soon."
Randy nodded. Actually he was sure of that too because he
would make sure that he would see her again.
"I'm going to call John now." Randy announced, not bothering to reply to Batista's comment.
"I wanna find out the details of his draft."
Dave nodded. "And
I'm going to take a shower and prepare for the match." With that
Batista vanished into the bathroom because he didn't want to
disturb Randy and John's talk. The Animal in fact was already
thinking who could and would want to be his new roommate.
Randy took out his cell phone and made himself comfortable on the bed and waited until he heard the water running in the bathroom before he dialled Cena's number.
"Hey RKO." Cena's voice came through seconds later.
"Hey JC." Randy answered, smiling.
"Sorry again for ending the last call that abruptly. But somehow I felt that it was better to end it with what was happening. Chris was acting weird."
"And what's new about that?" John questioned jokingly.
Randy laughed. "Seriously John, something fishy is going on here…" Randy explained. The Legend Killer could almost see John raising his eyebrow in confusion.
"Looks like I'm going to face an interesting time when coming to RAW."
"Yeah looks like it. You can help me to annoy the truth out of Dave and Chris when you get here."
"What d'ya mean?" Cena questioned.
"Well you remember what I've told you about Alexi… well the bit I know about her past. And now I think Y2J has told Dave the whole truth and Dave won't tell me. Shawn's involved in it somehow too, even though I haven't figured out how… yet."
John was speechless for a second before he started
to chuckle.
"You sure that you're not talking about a
new storyline? I mean this sounds just so… so Vince."
Randy had nearly laughed out loud at that, hadn't the situation been so serious.
"I really wish it was…" He sighed.
The tone in Orton's voice made John realise something.
"You like her, don't ya Randy?" He questioned in a serious tone.
Randy nodded to himself but he wasn't in a hurry to admit to John that he was right.
"Of course I do John, she's a nice girl. I mean she's a good
friend already."
John sighed in annoyance.
Randy sighed. John just knew him too well and the Legend Killer knew that John wanted an honest answer or he wouldn't have called him RKO.
"I think I do JC…" He said softly.
He could almost see the grin searching its way onto Cena's face.
"That's great news Randy. I was beginning to think I need to set you up myself." He told his best friend.
Randy laughed lightly but then he wanted to know: "You really think that it's great?"
"Of course I do… I mean I don't know Alexi but why wouldn't it be great?" John was confused by now.
Randy shrugged.
"To be honest John, I'm just insecure when it comes to Alexi. I mean, don't get me wrong, I was happy with Stacy and we parted on good terms, but for the first time I have the feeling that a girl likes me for who I am and not for my looks or because I'm famous. It's just so totally different and I can't really explain it."
For a moment there was silence on the other end of the line and Randy knew that John hadn't expected this confession.
"RKO, don't worry about it too much… I'm sure it will all work out…" John tried to reassure his best friend.
"Thanks bro. And please… what I've just told
ya needs to stay between us two. I mean this whole story about Alexi
hating wrestling and me liking her is just so complicated."
"I
won't tell anybody Randy…" John promised.
"Thanks… I mean it would ruin my tough Legend Killer image…" Randy tried to joke to lighten the mood a little.
John laughed at that.
"What tough image?" And after a
short break he said: "Okay… can't do that… the fans
would never forgive me for ruining your Legend Killer reputation and
I want to make a good first impression on the RAW crowd."
"That
reminds me. When will you be introduced to the RAW roster? And do you
know who's going to replace ya on SmackDown?"
"Nope, I
don't know who's gonna replace me. But I'll be at your hotel by
tomorrow evening. I'm actually packing my stuff right now."
A
smile crept into Randy's face.
"That's great. I'm really looking forward to us travelling together…"
"Me too…" Cena smiled.
Randy was about to say something when there was suddenly a knock on the door.
"Sorry John. There's someone at the door. We
have to continue our talk tomorrow… in person this time."
"Okay,
bye RKO…see ya tomorrow."
"Bye JC." With that
Randy ended the call and went to open the door.
To his surprise it was Chris standing outside.
"Chris? Is everything okay?" He questioned, letting the blond man into the room.
"Yeah. Everything's okay. Where's Dave?" Jericho questioned after only seeing Randy in the room.
"He's taking a shower. So what's up?" Randy asked, falling
down on the bed again.
"Sorry to bother ya Randy, but I need a
favour again." Chris began.
Randy raised an eyebrow in question and waited for Y2J to continue.
"Actually… well Randy… what are ya doing tonight?"
"Well I was going to watch the show and perhaps go somewhere to get
something to eat." Randy replied
Chris nodded.
"Umm… would you mind keeping Alexi company tonight well at least until the show is over? I mean… I don't want her to spend the evening alone. She would just think and worry too much about the surgery. And I can safely say that she would like to spend the evening with ya. You can perhaps go out to grab something to eat." Jericho explained nervously. He just hoped that Randy would be okay with it.
The smile on Randy's face made all of Chris' doubts vanish. He knew that Randy indeed didn't mind to spend the evening with Alexandria.
"Sure thing Chris. If you're okay with it, I'll take her out to dinner tonight and keep her thoughts away from the surgery. I mean I know how it is… the last night before a big operation…"
"Thanks Randy, I owe ya one…" Chris said, relieved that Orton would take care of Alexandria.
He was about to turn around to go back to Alexi to tell her when suddenly Randy called him again.
"Chris… what have ya told Dave that I can't know about?" He
questioned.
Chris stiffened. He turned around slowly to face the
Legend Killer.
I can't tell him the story… at least not right now. He looks up to Shawn… and if I tell him right now he could do something he might regret with the temper he has…
"Randy, I can't tell you right now, please try to understand that…" He said because he had no other idea what to say right now.
Orton looked slightly hurt.
"And why could you tell Dave and not me?" He questioned, the hurt evident in his voice.
Batista choose exactly this moment to come out of the bathroom and heard the last sentences.
"He told me because I threatened him… and you know how I can be…" Dave said and did one of his usual and favourite ring poses.
Randy just had to laugh at that. Chris on the other hand mouthed a 'thank you' to Batista, who just grinned in return.
"Well then… I'll go back to Alexi to tell her and to get ready myself. I'll be back in about ten minutes and then we can drive to the arena Dave."
With that Jericho turned to leave the two alone again.
When he was nearly out the door he turned back for a second.
"Oh yeah Randy, I told Alexandria that you're responsible for the promo-filming and because there won't be any promos filmed tonight you have the night off… just in case Alexi asks."
And with that he was out the door before Randy could nod his okay.
The Legend Killer just shook his head.
"John was right…" He grinned.
"About what?" Batista asked confused.
"About Chris… can't explain it to you right now because that would take too much time and you won't get ready on time for yer match." Randy teased.
"And I need to get ready too." With that Orton stood up from the bed and vanished into the bathroom before Batista had a chance to react.
Dave just grinned and shook his head in mock annoyance before he finished packing the stuff he needed for the match later.
He was just finished when there was again a knock on the door.
In a flash Randy was out of the bathroom, fully dressed and grinning like mad.
"Don't be too obvious Randy…" Batista said sarcastically.
Randy just shrugged and smiled brightly, while Batista went to open the door.
to be continued if ya want me to