DAVE
I looked down at what were once a $500 pair of shoes to see them now covered in Paul's vomit, I shook my head sadly and led him over to the garden bed before he could damage any more of my outfit. It wasn't long before Brian had joined his friend and the two of them were practicing synchronised regurgitation. Eventually their stomachs seemed to have emptied so I pulled each man to their feet and wrapped an arm around their waists, it wasn't easy supporting the weight of two men but I managed to get them inside and into the elevator, distracted by the 'excitement' I barely even noticed that Jamie was yet to leave.
"Are you two sharing?" I asked hoping that I'd receive an affirmative answer,
"I never share!" Brian haphazardly slurred, nearly falling over in the process. You are tonight I thought remembering that Paul was on the same floor as myself so I pressed the button and felt the near unconscious man's pockets for his room key, luckily it was still in its envelope which had the room number written on it. The elevator opened and I dragged the boys down the hall and found the door that led to Paul's hotel room. Using the key I pushed the door open to find Sylvan sound asleep in one of the beds so I threw the two boys onto what was clearly meant to be Paul's bed, Paul groaned and woke up Sylvan,
"What's going on?"
"They're drunk! Make sure they don't choke to death on their own vomit," I muttered before closing the hotel room door behind me and making my way to my own room.
Knowing that, until I could purchase another pair of shoes, I would have to wear my wrestling boots I binned my soiled ones and got in the shower. Soon I was climbing into my hotel bed that was always too small and either too soft or too hard, this particular one was too soft. It didn't matter though, as moments after I lay down I was fast asleep. I could never remember my dreams yet this time I woke up with an uneasy feeling and thinking of my ex wives and Jamie, it made me uncomfortable and I wanted to attempt to figure out what the feeling meant but I had a meeting to attend. I showered quickly and pulled on a pair of black slacks with a light blue shirt, eventually I had to put on my wrestling boots, they were the most uncomfortable walking shoes ever but they were all I had and I wouldn't get to the store until I arrived in Michigan, where had our next house show, but first I had a meeting to attend.
Ah, my early morning meeting, my excuse for not staying with Eli and Jamie. After getting dressed I grabbed my bags and headed down to the lobby to check out. After checking out I found my rental and headed towards Vince McMahon's hotel where the meeting was going to be held. Angie and Michelle were still on my mind as was Jamie and through the entire drive they were all that I could think of. I was reliving the two days that I discovered my wives inability to be monogamous, it was as if I was really there once again. I could see the scenes as clear as day, hear the voices as though the speakers were right infront of me. I was replaying the conversations out loud as I drove, if anyone could have heard me they would have thought that I had seriously lost the plot. Once the scenes had played out in my mind they started playing again yet this time Michelle and Angie had turned into Jamie, it was no longer my wives having the affairs. this time it was Jamie and my heart felt like it was breaking in half, I was devastated and infuriated, my heart began beating faster and my grip on the steering wheel kept getting tighter, soon my knuckles were as white as freshly fallen snow.
By the time I pulled up at Vince's hotel I was furious, I couldn't even see straight. I had slipped out of the real world and was convinced that what I'd seen in my mind had really happened. It didn't matter that I'd only just met Jamie, in my mind we were together, we had a family together, in my mind it was real. I was so close to losing it, I went to walk around the corner of a wall and my shoulder clipped the edge of it I was about to spin around and take my irrational anger out on the wall when I felt a warm hand rest on the opposite shoulder. Slowly I turned around and came face to face with my good friend Paul, known to the public as Triple H, and in his arms was his new daughter, Aurora.
"Long time no see how you going man?" Paul smiled, I hadn't expected him to be at the meeting he was on a different show to me but it was his appearance that had bought me back to the real world.
"I'm good yea. What about you? Steph's got you playing baby sitter I see"
"Nah, I kidnapped her, I missed my little girl. I'm great! Loving fatherhood"
"Great, good thing she looks nothing like you," I grinned teasing the man. The anger that I had felt moments before was now gone however I was still feeling somewhat uneasy. This time there was also confusion, why had I gotten so worked up over the mere concept of Jamie having an affair?
"Yea, yea I've heard it all from Shane," Paul laughed rolling his eyes,
"So what are you doing this neck of the woods?"
"Vince wanted Steph at the meeting and I came along because I figured it could be beneficial, besides it meant that I get to spend more time with my two favourite girls," my friend replied turning to his daughter and adjusting the way he was holding her.
"So Dave what got you so angry that you were about to take it out on this poor defenceless wall here?" Paul asked pretending to caress the wall,
"Just thinking about when I found out about Michelle and Angie."
"That would definitely get anyone seeing red. But what got you thinking about that?"
"I met someone" I sighed; I found it near impossible to withhold anything the man to whom I owed my career.
It was, the then boyfriend of the Stephanie Mc Mahon, Paul , who noticed me in WWE's developmental Ohio Valley Wrestling, as Leviathan. He saw my talent and used his closeness to the chairman of WWE to get me out of OVW and into the big leagues. I started out with a lame bodyguard gimmick as Deacon Batista but Paul pushed and eventually I became a member of his faction, Evolution. Despite Paul being 3 years younger than me, he along with Ric Flair became my mentors and good friends, they helped me get where I am today and I owed my championship to Paul.
"You meet someone every week"
"No I met someone, there was no sex just companionship and lots of laughter"
"What's her name?" I noticed Paul rolling his eyes slightly; it was true that since my last divorce I was meeting someone every week. I had no doubt that he was simply humouring me.
"Jamie Alister, she's the new…"
"Smackdown photographer right? Steph, saw her work and rallied for Vince to hire the girl," my friend explained, screwing up his face slightly as he attempted to remember the girl.
"Yea, she's got this gorgeous little boy, Eli, not Elijah just Eli. Vince is going to go ape but I've kind of become the kid's Tuesday night babysitter"
"You did what?"
"The child care lady, what was her name?"
"Serena?"
"Yea her, she kept calling him Elijah but his name is Eli, anyway he stormed out and quite literately ran into me. I offered to look after him for the evening and then took the two out for dinner where I found out she wasn't going to travel with her son and I just thought that wasn't cool. The kid doesn't have a father and he's only 3, he can't grow up with his mom barely around,"
"Dave, Vince is going to kill you!" Paul finally agreed as he slapped me on the shoulder.
"THERE YOU ARE!" Steph's high pitched voice echoed through the underground parking garage. I watched as Paul kissed his wife before kissing her cheek myself.
"Dad is waiting to start the meeting, you three are the only ones not there so he sent me as the search party," it wasn't until Steph took Aurora from her husband's arms that I realised who the third person was.
"Oh I totally forgot about the meeting, Dave just needed a bit of calming down before he created a new storage room down here," Paul explained as we began walking towards the elevator,
"What's wrong Davie?"
"Nothing, I was just thinking about my ex-wives"
"Oh Davie what got you thinking about them?" The younger woman asked wrapping an arm around my waist,
"He met the new Smackdown Photographer" Luckily at that point the elevator doors opened and we were met by the oldest Mc Mahon child, Shane, who shuffled us into the meeting where we met a scowling Vince McMahon,
"I found them daddy, they were in the garage having a chat"
"Sorry sir" I muttered before taking the seat Paul pulled out for me. On my other side was Bobby Lashley and as I looked around I noted that all my co-workers were already seated.
During the meeting I was off in a dream world, I kept thinking about Jamie and Eli, they were going to the zoo and I wondered which animals they saw first and what they were doing at that point in time. About an hour into the meeting I got a tap on the shoulder before I was passed a note,
"Paul says you met the new photographer, I must admit she's a cutie. In the words of John Cena 'I'd Hit it' " I looked behind me at who passed the note as saw Booker giving me a smug look.
"She's a human being, a mother. Yes she is extremely good looking but she's not an object and deserves better than you making such snide comments" I hastily scribbled and tossed the paper on to the table behind me, moments later I had it land back in front of me,
"She's a mom? Definitely a MILF!"
"Watch it or I'll come back there and flatten your ass"
"Whoa someone's a bit touchy today"
"She deserves better than you acting like she is some prostitute or something"
"Whoa, SORRY!"
"DAVID, BOOKER! Passing notes? Are you two still in high school? You can discuss Dave's love life AFTER the meeting, now pay attention." Vince interrupted successfully embarrassing me in front of my co-workers and causing Paul to nudge me and give me a look that asked 'what the hell?' I just shrugged and sent a look back to Booker before rolling my eyes at Paul, knowing that he would understand what I was getting at.
I attempted to listen to what Vince was telling us, it had something to do with me and my feud with Booker, I'd won my title back from him just recently and it was nearly time for the feud to come to an end. Yet it wasn't long until I had drifted back into my dream world, this time I once again wondered why the simple thought of a women I barely knew having an affair had me about to re-design the garage of the hotel. I loved both Angie and Michelle but they had never had this reaction on me before, naturally when I met them the thought of infidelity wasn't there, even with Angie I went in to the relationship with a sense of naivety. The thing was with Michelle and Angie I wasn't having daydreams of a future together within the first 24 hours of meeting them.
Michelle and I had met at a club I was bouncing at, we hit it off pretty well and I asked her out for breakfast once I'd finished my shift. I thought she was pretty hot, especially in her mini skirt and sparkly midriff; her long blonde hair was tied back and covered in glitter as was her taunt stomach that was being displayed under her shirt. I will admit to begin with I was looking for a good lay and about 6am that morning I got it; however I was shocked as hell when basking in the after glow there was a small voice from the doorway. The person connected to the voice was complaining about being hungry and as her mother was dead to the world I felt compelled to feed the child and stay with her until her mother woke. The rest is history, I suppose looking back on it that little girl was what turned an one night stand into an actual relationship then her and our two daughters, who arrived later, are what kept us together so long.
I was wrestling in OVW when my old friend, Craig, introduced me to Angie. Craig figured that I needed to start dating again and since he was one of my best friends and she was his wife's sister I decided to humour him. When I met her I was immediately attracted, I'd picked her up from work so she was wearing a simple Navy skirt and matching jacket that covered a nice white blouse. Her auburn hair was in a professional bun and her green eyes shone with life. I took her to a nice restaurant for dinner and we hit it off straight away, I was smitten. We started to see each other on a regular basis and I soon fell in love. Angie liked the fine things in life and I did my best to give them to her, this however did tend to upset my daughters. They never seemed to get along with Angie yet I just figured it was because she wasn't their mom. After I'd found out about Angie and her doctor I headed straight to Craig's place, I had the intention of flattening him, after all he was the one who had introduced us, yet when he answered the door I just broke down. I couldn't accept that it could happen to me a second time, Craig of course felt guilty as hell as he felt responsible, then felt even worse when he discovered that his wife had known the entire time.
"Dave! Davie hon are you alive in there?" Steph waved her hand in front of my face snapping back to reality.
"Yea sorry, what happened?"
"The meeting is over. Come on Paulie will drive you to the airport"
"I'm fine Stephie, I promise"
"You keep drifting off into la-la land and I don't want you doing so in the car and getting yourself killed."
"Yea come on Dave, let me drive you to the airport. We haven't really caught up in a while," Paul wrapped his arm around my shoulders,
"Besides I can fill you in on what you missed while you were thinking about that photographer." I blushed slightly; I didn't know what was up with me. I had blushed more in the past 24 hours than I had my entire life. I allowed Paul to lead me towards my rental and got into the passenger seat as he took up the role of driver.
At the airport we once again met up with Paul's family before we checked in and went through security before going our separate ways; Paul, Steph, Aurora, Vince and Shane all headed to the McMahon's private jet to fly home. Waiting for my flight I decided to make a call…
A/N: Alright I don't know what Angie and co look like so I simply made it up. This was just a filler chapter, I hope you enjoyed it.
Also I'm loving all these reviews but I would absolutely love it if you would tell me what is wrong and what I can improve on, all these 'its great' reviews are driving me slightly bonkers :-p.
