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A couple of hours later, a messenger knocked on their locker room door and announced that the steel cage was set up so if Mickie and Kadence wanted to practice they could. Kadence thanked the messenger and moved to gather up her wrestling gear.

"Are you going to come with me?" Kadence was looking at the floor when she asked Dave.

"I can if you want me to." Dave was a little surprised by the request. Normally Kadence didn't want anyone around when she was practicing. She said it threw off her rhythm and she wasn't able to focus.

"Please." Kadence looked up and Dave could see the apprehension on her face. "I'm kind of scared of some of the moves and I would feel better if I knew you were there."

Dave nodded in agreement and grabbed a water bottle before heading towards the ring with Kadence. On the walk there, Dave smiled on the inside as he realized that maybe just maybe Kadence was starting to trust him a little.

Mickie was already in the ring going through some warm up moves. Kadence stepped through the door, into the ring and began her own warm ups.

"I'm really sorry for the way I acted earlier." Kadence apologized as they helped each other stretch. "I shouldn't have reacted that way. Forgive me?"

"Of course, you want to talk about it?" Kadence shook her head at Mickie's question. "Okay, well if you ever need anyone to talk to, you know I am always here." Kadence smiled at Mickie, nodding her head.

After they finished stretching, Kadence and Mickie locked up in the middle of the ring and started running through some simple moves. They continued to run through moves, getting increasingly harder the longer the worked out. Before they had time to work up to the final move, they needed to clear out of the ring and get ready for the show.

"You looked good out there." Dave placed his arm around Kadence's shoulder, giving her a squeeze. "I think you should be able to handle anything they through at you." Kadence smiled gratefully at him as they walked backstage.

Since the show was only a house show, Kadence and Dave were in a mixed tag team with Mickie and Shawn. As they waited for their match to be called, the four of them sat in the back and played cards with Hunter and Stephanie. Finally their match was called and DX made their way to the ring amidst many boos. When Kadence's music started, the arena erupted into cheers as the women's champion stepped into the spotlight. They continued to cheer as she paused and waited for Dave to join her before they made their way down to the ring, accompanied by Dave's music.

The match was fairly simple with no high risk moves. After about thirty minutes of wrestling, Dave hit Shawn with the Batista Bomb, effectively ending the match. DX made their way to the back, leaving Kadence and Dave to celebrate in the ring. After posing in the ring for a couple of minutes, they climbed out of the ring. As always after a win, they took the time to shake hands with their fans. On the way to the back Kadence spotted Dillon. She ran over to him, throwing her arms around his neck, causing Dillon to laugh. As the crowd cheered, Kadence kissed Dillon's cheek before heading towards the back.

Dave, feeling jealous after watching Kadence kiss Dillon, immediately headed towards the locker room to get ready to head back to the hotel. Kadence watched him walk away; wondering what was wrong before turning and heading towards DX's locker.

"Hey guys." Kadence poked her head into the locker room after getting an affirmative answer to her knock. "I just wanted to let you know that I won't be riding back to the hotel with you."

"Okay." Mickie acknowledge, throwing Kadence a smile before turning back to her conversation with Shawn and Hunter.

Kadence made her way towards her locker room, thinking about her family. At times she really wanted to tell her friends about them but she knew what could happen if they ever found who she really was. Even though she trusted her friends, she wasn't going to take the chance that she could be hounded by the media day and night again. Because of this, she kept quiet about her relationship with Dillon. She knew that some people probably assumed she was having an affair and she knew that she couldn't help the opinions they formed, but it still hurt when her friends looked at her like she was doing something wrong.

Slowly she opened the door to the locker room still lost in thought. Entering the room she noticed that Dave was already gone and she felt her heart break a little, knowing he was unhappy with her. Quickly she gathered up her things and headed towards the front of the arena to meet up with Dillon. She kept her eyes open for Dave so she could tell him where she was going but she didn't spot him. Walking out of the arena, she spotted the white stretch limousine with her brother standing next to it and started to laugh.

"Your white limo awaits you, my lady." Dillon bowed, sweeping his arm towards the open door.

"Why thank you kind sir." Kadence pretended to curtsey before climbing into the back of the limo. "I can't believe you got a white limo for tonight!"

"Why wouldn't I get you a white limo? I remember when that was the only thing you wanted, your very own white limo."

"And I remember how mad Dad would get at me every time I asked for one? He would always tell me how it was a waste of money and the limos we already had were good enough. There was no way he was going to buy one just for me."

"You wore him down though. If I recall, he bought a white limo when you were 13 and that was the only car you would ride in from that day on."

"I know. Mom would get so mad at me when I would insist on taking the white limo every time we went out as a family. I was the embodiment of spoiled bitch." Kadence smiled as she reminisced with her brother on the way back to the hotel. Once they arrived, Kadence ran up to her room to shower quickly and change while Dillon waited in the limo. After changing, she stopped by Dave's room to see if he wanted to go with them, but he wasn't there. She scribbled him a note and left it on his bedside table before leaving.