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Chapter 4 – Shopping and Making Evening Plans

The whole of the afternoon was spent on shopping, thanks to Ashley. The boys ended up carrying her bags but at the same time, they had fun.

"Is this our last stop?" Paul asked as they stopped outside a shoe store. "I think our arms are gonna fall off in any second."

Ashley laughed. "I haven't made a thought about that yet. I mean we haven't checked the whole town, have we?"

"Ash, with bags like these," Brian began to say with a knowing look on his face. "People will think we've already checked the whole town."

"I guess you're right," Ashley said with a giggle. "Okay after this one, we're heading back to the hotel."

"Praise the Lord!" Paul exclaimed.

The threesome laughed and then stepped into the store. Fifteen minutes later they came out and Ashley had a big smile on her face.

"Finally I got a new pair of combat boots!"

"So?" Paul began to say.

"So we can finally go back to the hotel," said Ashley with a roll of the eyes.

"Just checking," Paul chuckled.

"Let's get a pizza before we go," said Brian. "I'm starving."

"Me too," said Ashley. "Pepperoni's on me!"

"With extra cheese," Brian added.

"Of course!" Ashley beamed. "And mushrooms as well, Paul?"

"You can turn the pizza into a mushroom pie for all I care. I just want to get to the hotel!"

They laughed.

"I'm sure you just as hungry as we are now," said Brian.

"Well maybe I am just a little," said Paul. He caught their looks at him and then retorted, "Okay okay I'm starving to death, happy?"

"Good," Ashley giggled. "Now let's find the nearest pizza place before Paul gets worse."

"I think I saw one down at the street we've passed to get here," said Brian.

"Oh cool. Let's go there then."

Then they turned back to the direction from where they came as they walked along the street.

"Brian, we seriously need to start charging Ashley for carrying her bags."

Brian laughed. "Yeah I think so too!"

"How much?" Ashley asked with a playful smirk.

Paul went deep into thought for a minute. "Let's see. The charge will be made for each bag including the small ones…so we have about twenty? So your bill comes up to…ten thousand dollars!"

"Ten thousand whazza?" Ashley said with a look of shock on her face.

"It's five hundred per bag if you're wondering."

Ashley sighed. "There's goes getting a new tattoo."

"Ah well there's always the lottery," said Brian.

"You guys are terrible!"

"We know," the boys said in unison. Then the three laughed together as they went down the streets with Ashley walking between them. Brian looked across at the dirty blonde and her smile was still there. He couldn't help but to think how cute she looked when she smiled.

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They finally arrived back to their hotel as they went through the lobby.

"Do you guys smell that?" Paul asked.

"Smell what?" Brian asked him.

"The smell of home! We're finally here at last!

Brian chuckled while Ashley made a playful roll of the eyes.

"Whatever Paul," Ashley said and laughed.

They were heading towards the elevator when a voice called the dirty blonde's name from behind and this prompted Ashley to stop and turn around and Paul and Brian did the same…and Brian's smile turn disappeared from his face and a frown had taken its place when a man walked up towards them.

Oh great, he's here…

"Oh hey CM!" Ashley grinned. "What's up?"

"I just got back from training a while ago. Looks like you guys have done a lot today."

CM looked down at the bags that Ashley and the boys were carrying and Ashley chuckled at this.

"Yeah. Most of the stuff belongs to me."

"It's pretty obvious isn't it?" Paul asked him.

"I think so," said CM with a smirk.

"Oh shut up Paul!" said Ashley. "Anyway, how are you?"

"Not too bad," said CM. "How about you?"

"I'm doing great thanks," Ashley said with a smile. "Oh I just want to say that I had a really good time with you last night."

"I had a good time with you as well," said CM. "I hope we can do it again sometime."

Brian made a roll of the eyes but they didn't seem to notice this.

"Sure! Is tonight okay? I don't have any plans then."

Brian made a slight shake of his head. Tell her no. Tell her no.

"Sounds great, yeah tonight is fine."

You're supposed to say no you idiot!

"Awesome!" said Ashley. "Well see ya tonight."

"Alright," said CM with a smile. Then he turned to the two men. "Well it's good to see you both. Nice to meet you Paul."

"Yeah same here with you," said Paul. He was going to put out his hand out to him but then he forgot that he couldn't and rolled his eyes at this with annoyance.

"I would have shaken your hand now but as you can see, I got my hands full. Blame Ash for that."

CM laughed. "That's okay."

"What about Brian?" Ashley asked.

Brian made a smirk at the mention of his name.

Yeah, what about me?

"Oh, didn't he tell you?"

"Tell me what?" Ashley asked with bewilderment as she looked at the brown haired man.

"We met this morning at the same floor you guys are staying at."

"Really?" Paul turned to him. "Is that true?"

"Yeah Bri, you met him?"

"Uh yeah," said Brian.

"And you didn't tell us?" Ashley asked with disbelief.

"I guess it must have slipped out of my mind."

Ashley made 'how could it?' look and Brian simply shrugged.

"Well I'm going to get a bite to eat," said CM. "So I'll see you around eight?"

"Sounds perfect!" said Ashley.

"Alright see ya then."

"Bye."

CM turned and went to the restaurant. Ashley and Paul turned to face Brian.

"What?" Brian asked.

"You know what," said Ashley and gave him a slap on his shoulder. "I can't believe you didn't tell us! Especially me!"

"So I forgot about mentioning it," said Brian with a laugh. "Is that a big deal?"

"No but still I would like to know about it. So what do you guys think of him?"

"Well he is a cool guy," said Paul.

"And what about you Brian? Since you met him before Paul did, I'm sure you must have something to add!"

But he didn't have anything to say about him. Not about his personality anyway.

"He's okay," was all Brian could came up with.

"Okay?" Ashley scoffed. "That's it? What kind of an answer is that?"

"Well you want my thoughts on him so there you have it. What more do you want?"

"There's gotta be something other than okay!"

"We didn't talk for that long anyway. I haven't had much thought about him."

It was true, he didn't. He only jumped to one conclusion that he wouldn't like CM Punk one bit. Reason being was that he was dating Ashley.

"Oh well," said Ashley. "At least you guys met him so that's what matters."

Soon they got to the elevator and went in. Brian had one thing in his mind that Paul and Ashley didn't know about.

There's no way I'm gonna let him win. Oh no. Not if I can't help it!

Next chapter: Brian starts a secret mission to spy on Ashley and CM on their second date. But little does he know that he's been followed by Paul.