Illyria was woke up the next morning by her cell phone ringing and she quickly grabbed it off the night stand before it woke Jim or Tyler up. "Hello?" She whispered.
"Lyria?"
"Rob? That you?"
"Yeah it's me, why are you whispering?" Rob asked and she smiled.
"Jim and his son Tyler are still asleep and I don't want to wake them up. Hang on, I'll go in the bathroom so you can hear me better." Illyria stated, moving out of bed as easily as she could.
"Why don't you just come out in the hall? Seeing as that's where I am right now." He suggested and she gasped.
"You're what?" Illyria exclaimed and immediately covered her mouth. She looked over to see that neither Jim nor Tyler had even barely stirred. "What do you mean you're out in the hall?" She questioned, her voice dropping again.
"My suspension's lifted and I start back next Tuesday. Now are you going to come out here and see me or am I gonna stand in this hallway all day looking like a damn fool?"
"Yeah, yeah...I'm coming." Illyria muttered, slipping on a pair of sandals before closing her cell phone. She walked over to the door and opened it to reveal her brother leaning against the opposite wall with a smile on his face. "Rob!" She ran and jumped in his arms, hugging him tightly. "Damn, I've missed you."
"I've missed you too little sister. Tell me something..." Rob trailed off, looking at her strangely.
"What?"
"Is there any truth to the rumor that you slept with Levy behind Jim's back?" He asked and Illyria groaned in embarrassment.
"Not exactly."
"What do you mean by that?"
"I...uhm, slept with both of them at the same time." She muttered, blushing.
"Illyria Ann Szatowski!"
"Rob shhh, keep your voice down. Look, it was something that was decided between Scotty, Jim and I. It's really no one else's business but ours and I can assure you that it's something that's never going to happen again. Have you heard the other thing?"
"What else could possibly be worse than that?" Rob questioned and Illyria rolled her eyes.
"Andrew Martin came to Jim and I last week and told us that he overheard Michael talking to someone about how he was going to get me alone and rape me." She saw his face change from a look of surprise to a look of intense anger. "Rob don't, things happened and I went into my own little world again like last time when Jim left for WCW but Kevin Fertig..." Illyria trailed off, giggling at his confused expression when she mentioned Kevin's name. "I'll explain later. Anyway, Kevin's the one that brought me out of my own little world this time and once he did I realized a lot of the shit Andy said didn't make sense so I had Kevin go with me to talk to Michael without Jim knowing. Well, sure enough I found out Andy was lying and eventually called him out on it. I guess he's still hung up on the fact that I'm one of the few women he can't get in bed."
"Why does all this shit happen when I leave?"
"Your guess is as good as mine. I imagine you've been watching the show over the past couple of weeks right?"
"Yeah and you're doing a hell of a job out there, I'm proud of you." Rob said and Illyria smiled.
"Thanks." Illyria replied and jumped a little when her cell phone rang. "Hello?"
"Baby where are you?" Jim's tired voice came across the line and she giggled.
"Right outside in the hallway talking to Rob."
"He's here?"
"Yeah, called me a little bit ago and shocked the hell out of me so I came out here to talk to him. That way I wouldn't wake you or Tyler up." She heard a click on the other end and pulled the phone away from her ear, looking at it in shock. "He fucking hung up on me."
"That's because I can't bring the fucking phone out here with me." Jim said, opening the door and stepping out in the hall behind Illyria. "Nice to see you man."
"You too. Tyler's here with you?"
"Yeah, came to stay with us for a while since it's summer vacation but he'll be going back home in a couple of weeks. Do you think you could take him out to breakfast? There's something I need to talk to Lyria about." Illyria turned to look up at him and was surprised by how serious he looked.
"Sure, he awake?"
"He should be, come on in." The three of them walked back into the hotel room to find Tyler sitting on the couch watching tv.
"Hey Rob! Good to see you." Tyler greeted him.
"You too Tyler, I was wondering if you wanted to go get some breakfast?"
"Yeah sure."
Illyria watched Rob and Tyler walk out of the room then she turned to Jim. "All right, what's going on? Why are you so serious all of a sudden?"
"Sit down, there's a couple of things I want to talk to you about." Jim whispered, pointing to the couch. Illyria sat down and watched as he sat beside her. "I've been thinking a lot here lately and you know this shit isn't easy for me so I'm just gonna come out and say it...I want you to trash your pills." He stated and Illyria looked at him in shock.
"You want me to what? Jim I just got this job with ECW being your valet and now you're saying that you want me to trash my pills so I can get pregnant?"
"I'm not finished yet all right?"
"Okay, sorry." She apologized and sat watching him intently, waiting for him to go on and Illyria saw him suddenly become really nervous and jittery.
"Lyria we both know I'm not good at this romantic bullshit, I never have been and I probably never will be so...the reason that I said that is because I...want us to get married."
Illyria's mouth fell open and she sat there looking at him in utter shock and amazement because she never thought she'd heard those words come from his mouth. "Jim we haven't been together all that long...are you sure?"
"We've not been together long but we both fucking know that we've been in love with each other for a hell of a long time, right?"
"Well...yeah, of course."
"Then let's just do it, let's go get married and get on with the rest of our lives together." He said, looking at her expectantly.
"You know what...all right, let's do it. I love you with everything that I am and I don't want anyone else so let's get married. I'll warn you though, you come off with that 'Life's a bitch...then you marry one.' line and I'll cut your dick off in your sleep." Illyria teased him and he laughed.
"Don't worry baby, that ain't true this time."
