Chapter 5: Hurt

After the fiasco with running into Paul, Laura was backstage helping get everything together before they went on air. She spent most of the time with Daryl, since It was her last day on RAW, and they didn't get to see each other very often. The girls giggled as they watched each wrestler walk by them in just trunks. "I love this job." Laura said laughing as Daryl agreed.

"Well I better get going, I need to talk to Vince about the move to Smackdown!" Daryl said as the two parted ways.

"Alright, I'll see you later girl." Laura said walking past the mens lockeroom, and into the Womens lockeroom. She heard giggling and arched her brow. When she got in, she looked over and saw Ashley sitting on top of Randy Ortons lap. She made a disgusted face and started to leave as Randy said "Where ya going Laura?" She turned around. "Last thing I knew, this was the WOMENS lockeroom." She said looking at Ashley and Randy and rolling her eyes, while leaving.

Laura closed the door behind her. "God that girl and that asshole get on my nerves." She said in a low voice.

She really had nothing left to do, so she decided to go hang around the catering area, hoping Jillian was over there to talk to. She saw a bunch of the wrestlers sitting down and looked over at Paul all alone. 'Wait a second..Ashleys with Paul, and she was just making out with Randy in the lockeroom.' She thought to herself. It just clicked in her head that the slut was cheating.

Just then, Laura didn't notice Paul waving her to come over, until she snapped out of her thoughts and looked over, as Paul waved "Hey Laura, come join me." He said waving her over again. She gulped, "Should I tell him about Ashley and Randy, should I just talk about other things?" She thought shaking nervously, no matter what she said to him, she knew she was going to be a nervous wreck.

She smiled and sat infront of Paul. "I guess its just me and you. Ashley cancelled, she said she had a meeting with Vince." Paul said shrugging and dipping his fries into ketchup.

Laura sat there watching him eat the fries and watched him lick his lips. She couldn't stop staring. "Uh oh, yeah a meeting..I'm sure It was important." Laura said trying not to sound annoyed.

"So tell me about yourself Laura. How old are you? Where are you from? What got you into wrestling?" Paul asked curiously, as he knew almost nothing about this girl.

Laura hated talking about herself, especially to this guy, this guy was different…she couldn't put her finger on it, but he was..special. "Well.." she began talking, while putting her hands on her lap so Paul wouldn't see her hands practically shaking. She continued "I'm actually fairly young for this job, I'm 18, I'll be 19 in just two weeks. I've lived in NY all my life. My brothers are into wrestling, always have been, so I've pretty much been into it all my life, it was always on my TV while growing up, and I just loved it." Laura said trying to relax.

Paul nodded his head. "Almost 19, that's pretty awesome. People tell me I look younger than 27, well I act it too." Paul said laughing and smiling. "Anyway, I'll be sure to get you a birthday present." He said winking to her.

Laura instantly blushed. "You don't have to, don't worry." She said, as Paul stopped her. "No, no, I insist." He said, while pushing his food over to Laura. "Want some? Help yourself."

She had no idea if she had an appetite or not, her stomach was just about flipped over, she felt butterflies, and felt unfamiliar things, it was so different then what she felt when she was dating Randy. "Oh, don't mind if I do." Laura said grabbing a couple of fries as the two shared them and continued talking.

'Should I tell him?' Laura thought to herself. But nope, she didn't have to. As soon as she stopped thinking about whether to tell him or not, Jillian came running over "Oh my Gosh, did you guys see Randy and Ash…." Jillian stopped realizing Paul was at the table. Paul looked at her confused. "Ashley?" he asked.

"Uh.." Jillian said taking a seat beside Laura.

Laura looked up at Paul."Well..Paul, I hate to tell you this. But Randy, my ex, aka asshole was sitting in the Womens Lockeroom with your, uh, girlfriend on his lap." She said closing her eyes.

When she opened her eyes, she saw Pauls expression on his face, he was hurt and confused. "I'm so sorry Paul.." Laura said not wanting to see the pain in his eyes.

"This is the second time she's done this…" Paul said getting up. "And the last time she's going to." He walked away, as Laura looked at Jillian.

"Well atleast he'll be single now." Jillian said laughing, while Laura sat there, just replaying the look on Pauls face, how hurt he looked. She felt horrible, he was single which was great, but she hated seeing that man hurt. What was she going to do? Be there for Paul as a friend, or make a move on him?