For the next couple of weeks things have been progressing nicely. Kara loved being a heel and working with Paul. Working with Paul has been has been a huge boost for her, personally and business wise. But one thing was bothering Kevin, which he could never find the time to talk with Kara about: their feelings towards each other. Every time, Kevin tried to talk with her, she was in some kind of meeting or some kind of issue needed her attention. He decided to bring it up to Paul. "Hey man, how you doing?"
"Can't complain about anything. I mean my career is climbing and my relationship with Steph is deepening. Really can't complain about anything," Paul said, happily.
"That's good to hear."
"How about you?'
"It's all right," he said.
"Just all right?"
"What do you want me to say? My career isn't climbing like yours and don't have a girl either. So it's all right."
"I thought Kara was your girl?" he asked, puzzled.
"We never really talked about it. Plus it was something that I needed to talk to you about."
"What's up?" he asked, realizing that Kevin really needed his attention.
"What's going on with Kara?"
"What do you mean by that?" Paul said, clearly puzzled.
"I mean, I've tried to find some time to talk with her, but every time I try, something always comes up. I know that it's partly because she's working with you, but the other superstars are like coming up to her and asking her to help them with things that they could have done themselves," Kevin explained.
"I see. Kev, do you realize that Kara not only works as with me as my manager but also as an agent for the superstars?"
"What?" he asked astounded. This was news to him.
"Yeah, she told me about it when Vince talked to her about it. I thought that you knew."
"No, I didn't."
"She told me that she was going to tell you about it. I don't know what happened."
Kevin recalled one evening when he was trying to talk to Kara and remembered that she had some exciting news to tell him but someone interrupted. "Now I remember."
"Remember what?"
"She was going to tell me, but we got interrupted," Kevin said, relieved that it wasn't his fault for pushing her away.
"Did you really think that it would be your fault?"
"Would you believe me if I told you that I didn't?"
"I'd call you a liar," Paul stated, laughing. Kevin joined in.
"You know me all too well." They continued to chat until Kara walked in and spotted them.
"This seat taken?" she asked.
"It's available just for you," Paul said.
She laughed as she put several files on the table and sat down. "That feels so much better." She said, taking her heels off and rubbing her feet.
"Long day?" Kevin asked.
"Yeah, it's starting to take effect right now." Kevin pulled her chair so that her back was facing him and started rubbing her shoulders.
"Give me your feet," Paul said as he started to rub her feet.
"Looks like someone's in heaven," a voice said. Kara looked up and smiled.
"Yep, that's where I am, Ric," she said laughing.
"Mind if I sit down and kept you company?"
"Go for it," she said as Ric sat across from all three of them.
"What's going on with the files?" Ric asked when he saw the files on the table.
"New talent," she replied.
"What are you doing with them?" Ric asked puzzled and got even more confused when Kara started laughing.
"Don't you know that I'm an agent for some of the superstars?" she asked after she calmed down from laughing.
"You are? This is news to me," Ric said.
"I thought I told you?" she asked. Ric shook his head. "I keep forgetting who I've told, but I know that I told you," she said, pointing to Paul.
"Yep, you did," Paul said, putting her feet down. "Long day?"
"Too long," she replied. "I just can't wait to get some rest after everything's done."
"You doing anything after Raw is finished tonight?"
Kara groaned. "Well, after my promo and your match tonight, I've got one last meeting to go to and then Vince wants me to go to Titan Towers for the rest of the week to finish up the paperwork for the new talent. Plus Vince also needs my help preparing the talent list for the draft that's coming up."
"Why are you taking such a big load?" Kevin asked.
"I just didn't want to go out there and look like a piece of meat. I want people to treat me with respect, you know," she replied.
"I'm going to have to disagree with you there," Paul said, "All of us know that you are a smart woman, Kara."
"I know what you're saying, Paul, but the fans don't know that. They haven't seen me that much live and on television. I know that it shouldn't bother me, but it does."
"You're underestimating the fans, Kara," Kevin said, who has been quiet for the most part. "The fans won't think that. Do you know how many websites there are out there about each of the superstars? There are so many of them that there are more websites than the superstars, crew, and everyone working in the WWE put together. They already love you and you've only made a couple of appearances on Raw."
"Kevin's got a good point. I mean, I've been in this business since I can remember and the fans have supported me in ways that I can never imagined and I've been heel for almost my whole career," Ric explained. "The fans know that I'm not a bad guy off camera."
Kara looked at him warily. "Do you really think that I should reduce my load?"
"That's up to you, but I will say this, and I'm sure that the guys agree with me, I'm proud of you because you're smart and you want to use your intelligence. Plus you love this business as much as any one of us here. That shows something," Ric said. Kevin and Paul chimed in their agreements.
"I guess, I could take a lighter load. I'll talk to Vince and see what I can do, but do you really think that I'm smart?"
"Kara, how could you ask such a thing?" Kevin asked. "I mean, if you weren't as smart as I know you are, do you really think that you could survive handling all of the superstars that are under your wing? Do you really think that Vince would hire you based on your looks?"
Kara didn't answer, but someone did, "Kevin's right. I wouldn't hire a person based on their looks." Kara looked up and saw Vince. She immediately stood up and tried to look presentable in front of him. He motioned for her to relax. "Look, this isn't an army. I want you to relax. I've been listening to this conversation for some time now and I have to agree that I've given you a quite a big load as an agent and I have a reason for that. I have so many superstars asking me to have you as an agent. I just kept giving them to you without realizing how many superstars you had, not until Linda asked me how many were with you. I do want to have a meeting with you, myself and Linda to discuss this. If you still want to be an agent, that's fine, but you get to select how many superstars will be working with you and who."
"Are you serious? Because if you're kidding around, I'll threaten to leave this business."
"I'm serious. Besides, I can't lose you. You're too precious to me," he said.
"Vince, thank you so much. I don't know what to say," Kara said.
"You don't have to say anything, because I know how much you love this business. I want you to take the rest of the night off after Paul's match tonight because starting tonight and until our meeting, you'll no longer be agent. Now if you could hand me those files of the new talent," Vince said. Kara picked up the files and handed them to Vince. "Have a good night everyone."
"I can't believe he was listening to the conversation," Kara said after watching Vince leave with the files and talking to another agent.
"I actually asked him to be here," Ric confessed.
"Why?" Kara said and noticed Paul and Ric looking at each other.
"Because Ric and I noticed that you were under a lot of stress and didn't have a lot of free time and whatnot, so we took it upon ourselves to talk to Vince about it. We asked him not to bring us into it because we knew you wouldn't have the courage to talk to Vince about it," Paul explained.
"I would have talked to him," Kara said, trying to retort back.
"No, you wouldn't and you know it," Ric pointed out.
Kara smiled, "Ok, you're right; I wouldn't have talked to Vince. I hate you guys." All of the guys laughed at the lack of heat in the accusation and Kara couldn't help joining in the laughter. "So what have you guys been up to? I don't get a chance to catch up with you all." They had about an hour before they all left to get ready for the night's show.
