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The next morning, Kadence went to the hotel her family was staying to have breakfast with them. After they finished eating, Kadence helped them load the car that would take them back to the airport. Deciding not to go with them, Kadence headed back to the hotel after seeing her family off amidst many tears and promises to stay in touch.

When Kadence arrived back at the hotel, a WWE messenger was waiting for her with a copy of the script. Heading up the stairs, Kadence started to look over the script. The first thing she noticed was that Dave would be re-joining the Raw family. She continued to flip through the script until she found her match. Shocked she stopped in the middle of the hallway and stared. She couldn't believe what she was reading. They actually wanted her to win the title on Monday night.

Since that would mean she would have to wrestle Ashley, Kadence felt slightly apprehensive. With Ashley being on Smackdown, they had never had the opportunity to eve practice together. Recovering enough to get to her room, Kadence sat on her bed to think. Even though none of the divas had been mean to Kadence when she had started, they hadn't gone out of their way to make her feel welcome either. As she considered what her options were, she continued to read through the script. She soon realized that her feud wasn't going to be with Ashley, but instead with Mickie James. That made her feel a little better because she had done a lot of work with Mickie and she knew that they could put on a really good show since their wrestling styles were similar.

Later that afternoon, Kadence headed down to the arena, where they had already set up the ring, in hopes of running into Ashley. Luck was on her side because when she walked into the arena Ashley was there with Dave and Triple H.

"Oh good you're here." Ashley walked up to Kadence. "I guess we're finally going to get into the ring together. I just want you to know I'm really excited to be able to work with you. You have an awesome presence in the ring."

"Thanks." Kadence said shyly. "Do you think we could work out together over the next couple of days to hammer out some of the kinks that could come up in the match?"

"I would really like that." Ashley and Kadence moved down to the arena, talking about different strategies they could use. Since they were both faces, at the end of the match Ashley was going to shake Kadence's hand and walk out of the arena, leaving Kadence to celebrate alone. At that time Mickie James was going to run down to the ring and attack Kadence.

Ashley and Kadence climbed into the ring and started to run through a couple basic moves. They quickly found a good rhythm and spent the rest of the afternoon working out. Towards the end, Mickie arrived and ran through some of the moves that she was going to use with Kadence. The three divas made their way to the back, where they agreed to meet again the next day to run through some new moves together. Ashley spotted her boyfriend, Matt, and after saying goodbye, ran off to join him.

"Do you have plans for tonight?" Mickie walked into the locker room to grab her bag.

"I think I'm going to rent movies and pig out on junk food." Kadence shrugged as she picked her bag up off the bench.

"Want any company? I realize we haven't really hung out, but since we are going to be working pretty close for awhile, I figured it would be good if we got a chance to get to know each other."

"Sure that would be awesome." Kadence left Mickie with a smile and a plan to meet in the lobby later that evening to go rent movies.