1Lita rubbed her temples. When did Trish get so damn stubborn? She had thought her friend was level-headed, but it turned out that she wasn't. And she was the lucky person to be reaping all of those benefits. Somehow, she had ended up getting the lucky job of talking to Trish. Ok, it wasn't luck so much as it was her picking the short straw. Damn Christian for making them do that stupid game. They didn't have to do that little gloating dance when she lost. She was going to murder Chris, Stephanie, and her boyfriend in their sleep.

"And then he brought me a daisy, like that was suddenly supposed to make me fall in love with him or something. Can you imagine? I mean, a freaking daisy, what do I look like, a fifth grader just waiting for her first crush to notice her, can you believe the gall of this guy!" Trish rambled on and on as Lita yawned.

"Trish--"

"And then he practically asked me out on a date. I can just imagine what a date with him would be like...it would probably end with an ambush, knowing him. He'd walk me to my door, and just when I walk into my room, I'd get jumped, it's all so transparent."

Lita sighed, "Trish, how do you know his intentions are wrong?"

"Because he's part of Evolution, that's how I know that they're wrong. Do I need any further proof of that?"

"Him being a part of Evolution is not indicative of his person."

"Isn't it though, aren't you only as good as the company you keep?" Trish said, thinking that she got away with one right there.

"But maybe he's different and maybe you're not giving him enough of an opportunity to show that."

"So what are you trying to say?"

"Go out with him once. See how it is, if he turns out to be horrible, then I give you permission to tell me about it for the rest of my life...which you'll probably do anyways," Lita muttered that last part under her breath.

"What was that?" Trish asked, her eyes becoming narrow slits of suspicion.

"I said, just trying it out. See if you like going out with him. You never know, he could turn out to be a really great guy. Give him a chance."

"I can't believe you are telling me to go out with a guy who is horrible. Who is a part of Evolution even! I mean, what good qualities could he possibly have?"

"He's good-looking."

"Yeah, maybe if you're legally blind and you can't properly see him," Trish spat out.

"Oh come on now," Lita said, tilting her head to the side to give her friend a look, "You know that he is gorgeous, even I can say that he's gorgeous and you know that I have Christian."

"Well then that's your problem Li, because I find him utterly repulsive."

"Why are you fighting this?"

"Fighting what?" Trish asked, staring Lita head on. She didn't understand what everyone else was seeing. She thought they were crazy to see anything at all. It was like they could look past the fact that he was in Evolution, but they obviously didn't understand Evolution if they thought that the four men were anything but scumbags.

"Your attraction to Randy," Lita answered as if Trish should know this already. "Just admit that you like him, or you're attracted to him, I promise you that it'll make you feel better."

Trish laughed loudly at her friend for several moments, actually grabbing her stomach in laughter. That was the silliest thing ever. Her have feelings of attraction for Randy Orton? The same Randy Orton who touted himself as the "Legend Killer," which consisted of beating up on old ladies and men. No, she did not find that kind of behavior attractive in the slightest.

"You've got it all wrong Lita. I have nothing but disdain for the man, and that's not going to change."

"You're worse than Chris and Stephanie, you know that. I mean, the two of them hated each other just to cover up the fact they liked each other and what did it bring them, nothing. When Chris dated you, could you say he was happy?"

"He was happy," she lied, knowing that wasn't the truth. In Chris's life, she had been a placeholder. Of course, Chris had never said that or treated her like that, but she knew; she knew that his heart was elsewhere, even though he cared about her very much.

"Yeah, he was happy, but Trish, was it what he wanted?" Lita said, prompting her friend to answer in the way she wanted so that she could goad Trish into admitting what everyone else knew.

"No! Fine, is that what you want to hear, no, it wasn't what he wanted!" she said her breath coming out in pants she was so angry.

"Trish, you like Randy, ok, maybe it's because he's been lavishing you with attention, but you like him."

Trish looked away from Lita and folded her arms, "He's not what I want."

"Give yourself a chance, give him a chance. You never know what you're going to be missing when you don't take a chance. I took a chance with Christian. Sometimes you have to take that chance before it slips away."

"And if I get beat up because of it? If I walk into a trap?"

"Then you can tell me, and Christian, and Chris, and Stephanie that you told us so, and you can gloat about it for the rest of your life, and we won't say anything at all."

"Do I have your word on that?" Trish said, extending her hand. Lita rolled her eyes and stuck out her hand to shake with Trish. Trish smiled triumphantly. "You just wait and see Lita, he's up to something, and when he finally pulls whatever lame plan he has out of his bag, I will be able to gloat forever. I might even do it every time we see each other."

"And if you like Randy and you end up with him, then you know what Trish? Me, and Christian, and Chris, and Stephanie, we all get to gloat to YOU, and you can't say anything," Lita said with a proud smile. "So I hope that you can handle that when it turns out we were right."

"Ha! Not going to happen," Trish said.

"Whatever Trish, whatever," Lita said, "I'm outta here, Christian is taking me bungee jumping at this theme park place."

"Christian is going bungee jumping?" Trish asked incredulously. "Since when does Christian bungee jump?"

"Since he took a chance on me," Lita said waving and walking out the door. She blew out a breath of relief to be away from Trish for at least the rest of the afternoon and evening. That stubborn behavior of hers was a handful and hopefully Randy could keep it in check once Trish realized the truth. And she would realize it, Lita had faith. She walked to her hotel room to find Christian, Stephanie, and Chris all waiting anxiously.

"So how did it go?" Stephanie asked.

"I want to kill you guys for making me go."

"It was up to the straws babe, nothing you could do since we did it in a dignified and unbiased manner," Christian said.

"You only say that because you didn't get the damn short straw," Lita said, pulling said straw out of her pocket and throwing it at her boyfriend. "Although I think I got through to her, if nothing else."

"Then see, you were the best person for the job," Chris said with a smile. Lita gave him a dirty look in exchange. One that could freeze up every ocean. "Or not..."

"Next time I am exempt because I had to listen to her ramble on and on about how much she hated Randy, and it was tiring you guys, so tiring."

"But you think that you got through?" Stephanie asked again.

"Yeah, I think I got through."

Trish ran a hand through her hair, trying to get rid of any of the loose knots in it. She checked her makeup one more time before she went to look for Randy. If she was going to be giving this guy the benefit of the doubt ONE time, and one time only, she was at least going to look as awesome as possible. It would make that bastard regret ever having a plan with her.

She went out into the hallway and started to go down to the lobbv where she knew the wrestlers congregated. She was no more than fifteen feet when she saw two people talking in front of a door. Upon closer inspection, she found it to be Stacy and Randy. Stacy looked to be sidling up to Randy as he stood there.

"So Randy, you can take me out can't you? I mean, you don't have a girlfriend right?" Stacy said coyly, flipping her hair out of her face and against her back to show off her long neck.

"I don't feel like going out tonight Stacy, if that's alright with you," Randy said. He wasn't in the mood to go out since Trish had rejected him once again. It was Trish that he wanted, and he didn't want to stop until she was his.

"Come on Randy," Stacy said, pulling at his collar. "I really want to go out and I want to go with you."

"I'm sure you could find a bunch of guys that would love to go out with you tonight. You should go find one of them and have them take you out."

Stacy had to lay it on thick now, she really wanted Randy to take her out. She had had her eye on him for a long time, and now that she had confirmed that he wasn't seeing anyone, she wanted him all for herself. She just hoped that he was going to give in to her charms and take her out. And then after he took her out, she could show him a good time in her hotel room.

She took a small step closer to him so that there were only a few centimeters apart and Randy stared blandly into her eyes. She licked her lips in what she thought was a tantalizing manner, but to Randy, it seemed kind of desperate. She leaned in closer when Randy felt someone else's presence and turned his head to the side to see Trish standing there, her arms crossed and her foot tapping against the ground impatiently.

"Trish!" Randy said, literally pushing Stacy out of the way like she was a pile of trash ready to fall on him. He rushed over to Trish and catching his breath, coolly said, "Hi, how are you?"

"I"m fine, you look good too, with Stacy and everything like that. I'm sorry to bother you, I was just taken by surprise," Trish said, then her voice lowered to a venomous hiss, "I guess this is the kind of game you like to play huh? I guess I walked in on whatever would've happened to me had I agreed to go on a date with you. So not only is Molly in on this little scheme, but now Stacy is too. How convenient. Do you have any other crazy divas hanging around ready to kick my ass? Is Gail Kim right around the corner?"

Trish knew this was going to happen. She was right and Lita and the rest of them were wrong. She was going to gloat about this one for a very long time. She knew that she had been right all along. She never should've listened to Lita; she knew it would only end up with her looking like a fool.

"Trish, Stacy is the one that--"

"You're not welcome here Trish," Stacy said, a sneer on her face as she regarded the other blonde in the hallway. She wasn't about to lose Randy to this short, little runt of a woman.

"It's the hallway Stacy, and if I'm correct about this, I think it's free to walk down if I so desire."

"Just leave us alone," Stacy said, not caring what Trish was talking about, "Randy and I were having a serious discussion."

"About what, where your brain fell out so you could retrace your steps and find it again," Trish responded as Stacy huffed and stomped her foot. Randy chuckled a little at the display which only served to make Stacy more upset.

"Randy, are you just going to let her talk to me like that?" Stacy asked, frowning as Randy kind of gave her a half-shrug.

"I thought it was kind of funny, actually."

Stacy's face scrunched up in anger and she stomped her foot again in petulance. She opened her mouth to say something but nothing came out. She frowned once more and then opened her mouth to speak, but staring at Trish and Randy, she just let out a frustrated squeal and stomped off in the other direction.

"I thought I saw flames in her eyes," Randy said, turning to Trish, who was surprisingly still there.

"Yeah," Trish said, then stood uncomfortably. "Look, I was just--"

"I didn't want to go out with Stacy, she was coming on to me. I really didn't--"

"I don't care," she said, interrupting. "Look this is how it is...I was talking with Lita and she and some of my other friends are convinced that I should give you a chance. A date."

Randy's heart stopped at the word, "date." Trish had just said the word, "date." In context to him and her, a date. He almost couldn't process the concept. Was she going to agree to a date? He almost couldn't believe that this was true. If he pinched himself, would it hurt? And who besides Lita helped Trish discover this because he had to send them a fruit basket or flowers or something to adequately show them how joyous he was.

"So what do you say?"

Randy realized he hadn't been listening to what she was saying as her voice had faded ot just background noise to his own inner conversation. "Um, what did you say again?"

"I said, we can go out on the date you so desperately want to go out on, but I swear to God, one mistake Orton, ONE mistake and I will be so gone you'll think I disappeared."

"I promise that won't happen."

"Another condition, I don't want to see any of your Evolution buddies on our date. If I see the whites of their eyes, I will have my friends kick your ass. And Evolution's too for the hell of it."

"Ok, I can live with those stipulations," Randy nodded. He would've agreed to anything in that moment just to get a date with Trish.

"Good, as long as we're clear on the stipulations of this date, then you can take me out at your convenience, I'm free whenever."

"Tonight? Are you free tonight?"

She nodded, "Yeah, I can do tonight, if that's what you want."

"Fine, then tonight I'll let you take me out, but Randy, you screw up, and you will never see me again. My friends are the one who are deluded enough to think that I'm attracted to you or you are attracted to me, and I feel they are very wrong. I am going on this date so that I can gloat to them about the fact that I hate your guts. I just wanted you to go into this date knowing that my only intention is to prove to my friends that you are a nasty, vile human being and not someone that I want to spend my time with. I'll see you at seven."

Well, that seemed to take the wind out of his sails a little, but at least she was being honest with him. He would just have to make this date the best one she had ever been on and make sure that nothing went wrong. He only had a few hours to plan it, and that would be a tight schedule.

But he had to do it. He wasn't going to screw this up.