Monday morning Samantha joined Seth at the arena. He still had to do some interviews for the show that night, some meetings, photos and whatnot. She went with him to the arena to be there supporting him, but she tried to just hang back with people she knew while waiting for him. She was with some of the new girls that she met over the weekend. "There you are! I tried calling you to see when you'd get here but it kept going right to voicemail!" Renee said as Samantha sat down with them.

"Oh. I don't have a cell phone anymore." Samantha replied.

"I'm sorry what?" Renee asked as she blinked rapidly.

"I don't have one. I kept losing it and breaking it. So I stopped replacing it. Better than paying for it and service when I barely had it."

"How do you talk to people?" Renee asked in disbelief.

"We;re not Amish Renee. There is a house phone at home. And that's where I am most of the time."

"That's just crazy! What about social media?"

"Not everyone needs to post their whole life to Instagram everyday." Dean aid joining the conversation.

"Oh shut up." Renee said to her husband.

"We do have a computer at home too. But I mostly just use it to find recipes and pay bills."

"I'm right there with ya doll." Dean said to her. "Mush more old fashioned."

"How do you two live in this world?"

"Much less stressed." Dean answered as he put his feet up.

It wasn't until the early afternoon when Seth was finally getting a break. He was on his way back to his locker room when he was stopped in the hallway.

"Hey Seth!" Elias called out to him.

Seth stopped and nodded. He wondered what Elias could have wanted since the two of them never really talked. "What's up?"

"Could you give this back to Samantha for me? I was going to but I haven't seen her around anywhere." Elias asked as he handed the black bandanna to Seth. Seth raised his eyebrow looking confused. She let me borrow it last night when my gear went missing."

"Oh, okay." Seth replied.

"I was freaking out last night when I couldn't find it. Turns out Chris grabbed it by mistake. Anyway, she let me use it so I'd have one and suggested how I go about finding other things around that I could use. She tried to help. She seems really nice." Elias explained. "Tell her I said thank you again."

"Sure man I will." Seth said then continued to his locker room.

He turned down another hallway towards his small private room. He saw the door was ajar and could see a glimpse of Samantha sitting on a folding chair deep in conversation. He pushed the door open and saw she was talking with one of the women who worked backstage.

"Hey Janet, do you think you could give us a minute?" Seth asked her.

"Sure. I need to get back to work anyway. I'll see you around later." Janet said as she turned to leave.

"I'll catch up with you later." Samantha said to her as Janet left mostly closing the door behind her. "How'd everything go?" She asked Seth once they were alone.

"Do you wanna tell me what this is?" He asked as he held out the article of clothing out in front of him.

"I'm pretty sure it's a bandanna?" She answered confused. "Are you feeling okay?"

"Wanna tell me why Elias just handed it to me and asked me to thank you?" He said angrily and threw it at her.

She immediately stood up. "Whoa, Seth calm down. He was a mess because he couldn't find his stuff so I have it to him so he'd have something. I also told him he could probably find other stuff around the arena if he looked. That's all."

"And how exactly did you end up alone with him last night?" Seth asked standing right in front of her, almost as if he was accusing her.

"I wasn't alone. I was with Finn and Baron, then Elias came over."She started explaining to try and calm him down, but he ended up interrupting her seeming more upset.

"You were with that asshole too?!"

"Seth. That was just mean."

"I don't know much about Elias, but I've heard stories about Baron. I don't want you near him."

"He seemed nice." Samantha said absentmindedly.

Seth almost growled at her comment. He wrapped his hand around her throat and violently pushed her up against the wall. She grabbed at his wrist as she struggled to breathe.

"I said I don't want you near him, you hear me?" He yelled in her face. She tried to nod as best as she could. "In fact, I don't want you alone with any man around here again. Even half the women that run around here are questionable."

He released her and the collapsed onto the ground gasping for air.

"You better hope I never find a piece of your clothes with another man again."

He walked over to the door that was still slightly open and slammed it shut.

Samantha spent the rest of the night in Seth's locker room. Not only did she not want to face anyone right now, she was afraid to. SHe didn't want to end up with the wrong person and make Seth more upset. His temper varied and it was getting to the point where she didn't know how he'd be from day to day. When they met he was so gentle and kind, she never even saw him upset. Over time, she started to see him angry. But at just normal everyday things that would upset anybody. Sometimes he yelled at her, sometimes he just yelled in general. After that he would start to throw things in anger. It wasn't until months in he actually started to take his anger out on her. Little by little. But that was the real reason she didn't have a phone anymore. They had gotten into an argument one night about her being on it too much when he was home and not spending time with him. And using it too much when he was on the road talking to other people. During that argument he ended up smashing her phone, throwing it onto the ground and stepping on it. He said he didn't see any reason why she needed it. He needed a cell phone because of all the traveling he did and the only reason he used social media was because of work. She didn't need it because she was at home and there was a phone there. She was free to use it and call her family and all, but she knew he was monitoring it. He looked over the phone bill every month to see what numbers had been called and how long the conversations lasted. And she wasn't lying to Renee. There was a laptop at home that she was free to use, but it was also linked up with all of his accounts so from his phone he could see everything she did on it.

The show had to have been winding down. She heard a lot more hustle and bustle in the hallway. Usually that meant people going back and forth getting everything they needed to start heading out. And she knew that Seth had left some time ago for his match and he was in the main event. So it couldn't be long now.

Shortly, Seth came back into the room. He got changed silently and got all of his gear together while she just sat there watching him.

"Did you eat yet?" He asked breaking the silence.

She just shook her head. For most of the night, she really wasn't hungry. And even if she was, she was too afraid to go to catering on her own in case she ended up with the wrong people, and she didn't see anyone around that she could have gone with.

"Let's run by catering on the way out and grab something to take with us from what they have left." Seth suggested.

She didn't reply. She just stood up and grabbed her fleece jacket and zipped it out. Seth grabbed his bags and they walked out of the locker room in search of food. There were a handful of other people in the catering area doing the same thing they were. Samantha just grabbed some fruit and a bag of chips and stood against the wall waiting for Seth. She was just zoning out and didn't notice when someone walked up next to her and jumped when they spoke.

"Hey Darlin, where were you hiding? I didn't even know you were here."

"Jesus Finn." Samantha said as she clutched her chest.

He chuckled. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you. Hey, are you feeling okay?" He asked, noticing she looked a little off.

"Yeah I'm fine. I'm just tired." She replied trying to sound normal.

"Are you coming down with something?"

"Probably, being around all of these people."

"Can I get you anything?" Finn offered.

"No thanks. I'll just get some tea when I get back to the hotel and rest."

She noticed Seth walking back over to them and she straightened up.

"Hey man. Hell of a show tonight." Finn greeted.

"As always." Seth replied with a smile "You getting ready to head out?"

"Yeah I was on my way out now." Finn replied.

"You wanna ride back with us? We were just leaving." Seth offered.

"Sure. But if Sam ends up getting me sick I'm going to kick your ass." Finn joked as he picked up his bag. "Whatever she's coming down with, I don't want it."

Seth looked at him a little confused as he followed Finn out of the building. Samantha hopped into the back seat of their rental car allowing the two men to sit up front together. They made small talk along the ride back to the hotel. Once they were alone in their hotel room, Seth questioned her about earlier.

"So what the hell was Finn talking about?"

"He asked where I had been because he hadn't seen me. I told him that I was just relaxing and tired and he kind of took it that I was sick. So I just went with it." She replied.

Seth seemed satisfied with her answer and left to go get a shower. When he was dried off and dressed she was already laying in bed. He got in next to her and draped his arm over her.

The next morning, there was still no discussion of what happened the previous day. No apology, no asking any questions, he just acted as if nothing had happened. She somehow convinced Seth to let her stay back at the hotel that day. He knew she felt weird being there and only showed up for him, and he wasn't wrestling that night. And there was already word going around that she didn't feel well, so he didn't fight her on it. Part of her didn't want to stay back because she was missing out on the last day with her friends, but a big part of her didn't think she could go and face them right now. She wasn't even really sure how to act around Seth right now let alone other people. He rarely ever put his hands on her, but this weekend wasn't bringing out the best in him. She just tried to tell herself it was due to all of the stress of the shows.

She spent most of the day just laying in the bed and watching television. Seth had called her a few times on the hotel phone to check up on her. At first it was nice and seemed like he was going back to his caring self. But after the third time, she just found it annoying. It was more as if he was checking to see if she was actually there rather than just checking in on how she was feeling.

That night Seth and Finn rode back to the hotel together again.

"How's Sam feeling?" Finn asked during their drive.

"She's okay. I think she just needed some rest. She's not used to this kind of a schedule, especially with everything that's going on this week. I think it's just a lot for her to take in." Seth replied while driving.

"Good, good. I um, I have another question that I wasn't to ask. I'm not really sure how to ask it, but I feel like I have to."

"Okay…"

"Last night when I was talking to Sam, she seemed a little bit off, and I noticed she had some marks on her throat that weren't there when I saw her on Sunday."

Seth sighed and rubbed his forehead while driving.

"What happened?" Finn asked.

"We got a little crazy while celebrating the other night. Got a little rough and carried away and didn't realize it until later. I was hoping the marks wouldn't have lasted, but looks like they did." Seth lied.

"Ah." Finn nodded.

"Don't mention anything to her about it though, okay? She'd get really embarrassed about someone knowing something like that."

"I won't say anything." Finn assured. "She really does seem like the quiet shy type."

"She is. She'd probably ever be able to look you in the eye again if she found out you knew about this."