Thank you to everyone who reviewed the last chapter, now here's chapter 4.
After Ashley had gotten John's text message, she had immediately called Mickie, and told her that she had to get to her hotel room right away. So now she sat on the couch waiting for Mickie to get there; finally there was a knock on the door, Ashley jumped up and answered it, "Okay this better be good," Mickie said walking into the room and dropping her bag on the couch and turning to face Ashley.
Ashley closed the door, and turned to Mickie, "Oh it's good, guess who I'm having lunch with today?"
"Um I don't know, who?" Mickie questioned
"John Cena," Ashley said getting this dreamy look on her face.
"Um, Ash can I ask you something?"
"Yea, of course, what?" Ashley asked, as she sat down on the couch.
Mickie sat next to her, "Why are you so excited about this? I mean you do kind of have a boyfriend."
Ashley, who had some how forgotten about Chris, suddenly remembered that fact, "Oh shit, Chris."
"Okay, what is going on with you two? Where is he anyway?" Mickie asked in a demanding voice.
Ashley stood up and shrugged her shoulders, "Nothing is going on with us, and I don't know where he is."
Mickie stood up and crossed her arms, "Ash come on, talk to me, I know there is something not right with you two. Why don't you just break up with him? You don't love him."
"How do you know that I don't love him?"
Mickie rolled her eyes, "Well it's been pretty obvious these last couple weeks. All you two do is argue, and every time I come over here he's never here, and you guys don't act like you used to when you first started going out. I mean you guys did look like you loved each other, but I don't think it's like that anymore."
Ashley sighed, "Okay look I think me and Chris are just having a little problem, but I think we can get back on track."
"Okay, then why are you going to lunch with John?"
"Because he said that he had something important to talk about with me."
"Ash, I know that's not the whole truth, look if you like him even a little bit, just tell me," Mickie said quietly.
It was silent for a couple of minutes, "Fine, I do kind of like John," Ashley finally admitting.
"Aww thank God," Mickie said throwing her arms around Ashley in a hug.
"What are you talking about?" Ashley asked extremely confused.
Mickie removed her arms from Ashley and looked at her with excitement written all over her face, "Ash, please I can't stand Chris, I think he's an arrogant, cocky, jackass and you're too good for him, but John is so sweet, and I'm pretty sure that he likes you."
"So you want me to break up with Chris and go out with John?"
"Yes!"
"Mickie, I can't do that."
The smile fell from Mickie's face and was replaced with a frown, "But why?"
"Because even though Chris can be a pain in the ass sometimes, I do truly love him," Ashley lied
Mickie sighed, "Well you might think that now, but we'll see what you think after your lunch with John."
Ashley sighed, "Maybe I shouldn't go to the lunch."
"But you have to," Mickie said, since she knew that John was going to talk to her about the 'Chris' situation
"Why?" Ashley asked
"Because, he probably wants to talk about that storyline," said Mickie, "Plus it would be good for you guys to hang out, so you can do the storyline really well."
Ashley rolled her eyes, slightly amused at how much Mickie wanted her to go to the lunch, "Okay fine I'll go, but you have to help me find something to wear, he's picking me up in an hour."
Mickie giggled, "Of course I'll help you, but we better get started, an hour doesn't give us a long time," she said as she got up and grabbed Ashley, and dragged her to her clothes.
Ashley just laughed and let Mickie lead her to find an outfit.
45 minutes later Ashley was finally dressed, she was just finishing up her makeup. She was wearing, a pair of black skinny jeans, a white t-shirt layered with a silver tank, and a black hoodie over that, and a pair of black boots over the jeans, she looked really good. She had on black eye shadow and black eyeliner. Her hair was straight.
"Well what do you think," Ashley asked as she modeled her outfit for Mickie.
"Wow you look great; John is going to love it."
Ashley giggled as she put on some lip gloss; she then grabbed her purse, and put her wallet, room key, and ipod in it. She stuck her phone in the back pocket of her jeans. She was checking her hair one last time, when there was a knock on the door; Mickie squealed softly, "That's him."
Ashley smiled, and ran a hand through her dirty blonde hair as she opened the door, "Hey John," she said.
"Wow," John said, "You look great."
Ashley smiled, and blushed, "Thanks you look great too." In a pair of jeans, and a short sleeved blue t-shirt, John looked better than great, he looked hot, and Ashley couldn't get over it.
Mickie suddenly appeared behind Ashley, with a smile on her face, "Hey John."
"Oh hey, Mickie," he said, finally tearing his eyes away from Ashley long enough to look at Mickie.
"Well I better go," Mickie said, "I'll see you later Ash, have fun guys," and with that Mickie was gone.
"Well we should probably get going," John said
"Okay," said Ashley as she closed the door, behind her and locked it, she then turned to John and smiled at him, he returned the smile, and they walked silently to his car. John being a gentleman opened the door, for Ashley, "Thanks, but John you don't have to do that."
"I know that I don't have to do but I want to," he said.
When Ashley was inside the car, he closed her door, and got into the drivers side, he started the car, and turned the radio on, he had his ipod connected to the radio, and when he put it on the song, "Guardian Angel" by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus started. John backed out of the parking spot and starting down the road away from the hotel, "I love The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus," Ashley said as she hummed along with the song.
"Oh yea, they're awesome," John said, "So um there's a little restaurant down here, that I thought we could go to, if that's alright with you."
"Oh, yea it's fine," said Ashley.
"Good, because we're here," John said flashing Ashley an adorable smile.
Ashley smiled back. They both got out of the car, and walked into the restaurant, it was a cute little place with cream colored walls, and flowers all over the place, the windows had little white lights all around them, and light red curtains with lace on them. The waitress took them to their table, which had a white table cloth on it, and a small bouquet of flowers in the middle of the table, they were next to one of the windows, that Ashley kept looking it, "John this place is so nice."
John smiled, "I thought you might like it," he said as he picked up the menu.
It was silent for a while, as they both looked at what they wanted, the waitress then came and got their orders, when she left John thought about how he was going to begin the conversation that he had to have with Ashley.
"So um John, what do you have to talk to me about?" Ashley asked looking right at him.
John took a deep breath, "Okay um look I don't want you to get mad at me, because this isn't something I would usually do, but I'm doing this because I care about you, even though we don't really know each other that much."
"John what are you talking about? What do you have to do?" Ashley asked, very confused by what he was saying.
"Um, see last night, Mickie and Maria came to talk to me, about you. They said that they've noticed you changing, over these past couple of weeks, and they think it's because of Chris, and they wanted me to talk to you about it."
"I can't believe this, I just, I can't believe they would go to you."
"Ash don't get mad, they just care about you, and honestly you have changed," said John
"You think I don't know that?" Ashley asked raising her voice a little bit.
"Wait, what are you talking about?" John asked, now being the confused one.
"I know that I have changed, and in all honestly I've had to."
"Ashley, what are you talking about, why do you have to change, is it because of Chris?"
Ashley looked up at John, with tears burning her eyes, suddenly she jumped up and ran out the door, John ran after her, and caught up with her quickly, he grabbed her wrist, and something on her wrist caught his eye, as Ashley gasped in pain and pulled her wrist away, as John stood with his mouth open, because of the huge bruise he had seen on Ashley's wrist. They both stood across from each other, and we're silent for a couple of minutes, "Ashley, please just tell me what is going on, you can trust me, I swear, I can help you. Do you believe me?" he asked looking directly into her eyes.
Ashley looked into John's soft blue eyes, and saw concern, concern that she knew was for her. She nodded her head, "Yes, I believe you."
"Okay good," John took a deep breath, before asking her the next question, "Ashley has Chris ever hit you?"
She didn't say anything, but then her eyes filled with tears, and she nodded her head, "Yes, he's hit me many times."
John closed his eyes for a second, then opened them and pulled the sobbing diva into his arms, and tried his best to comfort her, "Shh it's okay, it's all going to be okay."
Ashley sobbed against John's chest, not believing that she had just told him the biggest secret that she had been hiding for the longest time. After a while, they broke apart, and John led Ashley over to a bench and they sat down, "Ash why didn't you tell anyone?" John asked
"I was just so afraid, Chris said that he would just kill me, and anyone close to me, and I believed him, John he's dangerous, if he finds out that I told you, he might try to hurt you," Ashley said, suddenly worried.
"Don't worry, he can't hurt me, plus I'm more worried about you," John said, "You have to tell Vince, he can fire Chris, and probably get him thrown in jail."
"John, I can't do that, he'll get out of jail and then he'll come after me, and anyone close to me."
"Ashley, we have to do something, I can't let him get away with this, if he's as dangerous as you say then you can't be with any more, he could really hurt you."
"I know that, but I'm just so scared right now," Ashley said as a few tears fell down her face.
"Hey don't be, I'll protect you," John said softly as he moved closer to her, and wiped her tears away. Ashley looked up at him, their faces inches apart, then suddenly, she moved closer to him, and they started kissing, it was a gentle, but passionate kiss, Ashley could feel how much John cared about her. She deepened the kiss, by wrapping her arms around his neck, and John's hands got tangled in her long hair. As fast as the kiss had started, it ended that fast as Ashley suddenly broke apart, "Oh my God, what am I doing?" she wondered aloud, as she moved away from John.
"Ashley I'm sorry, I didn't mean to," John said.
Ashley stopped and looked at John. All these emotions and flashbacks came flowing to her brain. The emotions were mixed and confused; passion, happiness, sadness, pain, and many more. Then there were memories of her and Chris, first of them happy, and in love, but then the bad memories of him withdrawing from her, and all the pain and agony. In all those memories she realized that she never felt the way about Chris that she did about John. She never had the passion and happiness that surprisingly enough she was having right now, it was in that very moment, of much confusion, that she realized, she did not, and never did love Chris, and that she wanted to be with John, no matter what it took.
"Um Ash are you okay?" John asked
"I'm fine; I just, um realized something."
"What's that?"
"I want you, I want to be with you, and I like you John."
John smiled at Ashley, and Ashley smiled too, "I just have to break up with Chris," Ashley said as her smile was replaced with a frown.
"You don't have to, we could just go to Vince and tell him what's going on," John said quietly.
Ashley shook her head, and took a deep breath, "No, I need to do this."
"Okay, well do you want me to be there with you?"
"No, I think I'll need you afterwards."
John took Ashley's hand, and kissed it, "I'll be there for you."
Ashley smiled, but on the inside she was incredibly scared of having to break up with Chris.
John drove them back to the hotel, and walked Ashley to her room, they stood outside the door, "Are you sure you don't want me there?" John asked.
Ashley turned to him with a smile, "No I'll be fine, go to your room, and don't worry about me."
John didn't smile at her, because he was really worried, he though it was a bad idea for her go talk to Chris, but for some reason he, he listened to her.
"Okay," he said. He then started towards his room, and when he was out of sight, Ashley took a deep breath, and walked into the room. She saw Chris sitting on the couch watching TV, he looked up when she walked in, "Hey babe," he said cheerfully.
"Hey," Ashley said as she closed the door behind her. Chris got up, and walked over to her, and kissed her on the lips. Ashley was confused as to why he was acting this way, she thought he would be pissed, since the last time that had spoken to each other; he had gotten mad at her.
"So what's up?" he asked her.
"Chris we need to talk," Ashley said with a serious tone in her voice.
Chris looked up at her with a concerned look on his face, "What's wrong?"
Okay, there's the end of that chapter.
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