Chapter 6

Bad Romance

Maria sat in her locker room not liking what she was seeing. First things first if it was up to her, she would have been everywhere but her own locker room. Especially since Michelle McCool never went anywhere and that meant she had to stare at her face constantly while she went on and on to whoever she was talking to. It upset her even more when she thought about how much time John spent in that face. But that was also her motivation, because he wanted to spend time with her, and coming into the locker room she shared with his girlfriend was the perfect excuse.

But sadly for Maria things didn't work like that. It just so happened that the exact moment all her dreams were falling into place and she was finally getting somewhere with the man of her dreams and love of her life, was the same exact time that her best friends lives began to fall apart.

Candice Michelle also known as one of Maria's best friends had just about shut her out of her life. Maria just didn't get it. She understood how broken and torn Candice had to be, she knew about the break up. But Candice wasn't giving her any insight into her feelings. She probably wouldn't have told Maria about the break up if Maria hadn't told her she already knew of the relationship in the first place. But she wasn't spilling any other beans.

Especially not why she didn't really seem to give two shits that she and Matt were no longer a couple and she was pretty fine prancing around with Jeff now. She thought it was kind of gross tossing one brother aside to go after the other, but she sure wasn't one to judge others.

With the newly solidified Jandice power duo taking over, Maria wasn't the only person who was out of it with her best friends. Matt had lost a girlfriend and he was taking it hard. She knew that he saw the break up as a way to finally get Candice to admit that she had to tell Jeff soon and he had expected the whole ordeal to be over and done with in less than three days. But it had been more like three weeks and instead of her telling Jeff, he got her going out with Jeff instead. And the whole time he had to go along and be the perfect supportive brother encouraging Jeff and listening to every excruciatingly painful detail. It was killing him, and Maria was the one who saw it because it was her locker room he ran to when he wanted to get away from them.

Normally she didn't mind that. Matt was a cool chill person and she had already had a couple of deep talks with him about the whole Jeff and Candice situation. But what made it worse was when Jeff and Candice came in and decided they wanted to actually spend time with Maria. She wasn't all that thrilled with the new Heidi and Spencer Pratt. They knew Matt wanted to be away from them and they still came and rubbed their relationship in his face.

So she had to play the intermediary and make sure all hell didn't break loose between the three of them and it was sickening. Because they were all supposed to be friends. Hell Matt and Jeff brothers for pete's sake, but here they were acting faker than all of the diva's boobs trying to play nice with each other.

But even with all of that drama going on in the room, it wasn't the real reason why she was disgusted with the scene in front of here. If it wasn't enough watching Heidi and Spencer. She had to watch Kourtney Kardashian and Scott too. Only John was obviously Kourtney having to deal with Scott(Michelle's) crazy tendencies. John and Michelle sat across the room whispering to each other like two kids on the playground and it irritated her. Every time she herd Michelle's high pitched giggle, which was more like a bird squawk, she wanted to claw her eyes out.

It certainly didn't help that the whole time John was over there with Michelle, his eyes were locked on Maria's. It made her mad that he so obviously wanted her but couldn't do anything about it because they could never find any time alone to talk with each other. Or do more than talk either one was fine with her.

Luckily for Maria, she caught her break when Michelle had to leave to prepare for a match. With Michelle gone, there was no doubt that John was staring at her. All it took was a couple of pointed glares for Matt, Candice and Jeff to realize they suddenly had to leave too. And that's when her moment came. She was all alone with John Cena. The man of her dreams and there was nothing standing in the way of it now. She didn't even know what to do or say.

Candice didn't know how things got to be the way they were. Three weeks ago, she was happily in a relationship with a man she loved with all her heart and loving life. But now everything was so different. Never in her life had she felt so torn. It should have been simple. After Matt had broken up with her, she should have ran to Jeff and told him about her and Matt and got her man back. But she didn't.

But she had planned on doing it the next day. Prepared for it too. But Jeff was just so insistent about showing her things and taking her places that before she knew it she was doubting telling him.. Because he made going out fun again for her. It wasn't a chore. Everything with him was vibrant and just mind blowing. As much as her break up with Matt hurt, and it did hurt something serious, Jeff made her forget all about it.

"So I was thinking that maybe tonight we could go out to that club everyone's been talking about. I heard a lot of the guys are heading out to it tonight." Jeff looked over at her waiting for her reply.

"I'll think I'll pass tonight. But you go ahead with them. Have fun."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I have things to take care of anyway."

"You gonna stay all the way over there? Why don't you come closer so we can actually talk to each other?" When those words came out of John's mouth Maria almost fainted. But it didn't take long to recover. Two seconds later she was taking slow deliberate steps over to John. An outsider looking in may have thought it was part of her ploy to seem sexy around him but the truth was she was doing it so she didn't slip up and run over and jump in his lap.

Once she was securely next to John she took in a couple of slow breaths and inhaled a couple of deep breaths to fully take in his scent.

"So, we never got back together for that rematch you promised me." He was so close that she had no idea what to do. She wanted to fall into him and just breath in his scent for the rest of her life. Or maybe kidnap him and lock him away as a sex slave. That was a better alternative because then he's be there whenever she wanted him. But he couldn't be locked up at all times. She would give him free time to hit up the gym because he really needed to keep that sexy body in shape. She looked back up at his face and realized that he was expectantly waiting for an answer.

"Oh well, I'm down for any time. It won't take much to repeatedly kick your ass over and over again."

"What makes you so sure that it's my ass that's going to get kicked?" He leaned in closer to her when he said this and she could feel his breath ghosting along her neck. They were sitting next to each other but she was constantly looking away from him, because she knew if she looked at him, she'd be gone and all over him. She could only resist the temptation for so long.

"I think the ten times I kicked it before make good proof of whose ass is going to get kicked. I doubt you improved your skills since then. Even if you did, I'd still be able to kick your ass half way into Sunday. I am the master. I know your moves better than you do. I could beat you with my eyes closed. I could kick your ass with a hand tied behind me back. I could rip you a new one hopping on one foot while singing everyone's entrance themes and hopping laps around you." He started dying of laughter and she wanted to shoot herself. She had gone and ruined the moment with her stupid rambling again.

"What if I told you I let you beat me all of those times?"

"There's no reason to defend your masculinity." She could see the proof very well and clear. "Why would you let me beat you? If I can kick someone's ass in a game, I'm gonna do it not hold back."

"What if I did it because I knew it would get me more alone time with you?" And just like that, the mood was back. He was close again and this time it wasn't just his breath ghosting over her neck. His lips were just centimeters away and she wished he would just hurry up and do something. But it seemed she was going to have to make the first big move. She turned to look at him and almost melted on the spot. His eyes were boring into her and they looked like liquid sex. She could literally see the want and desire in them and she knew hers were probably a mirror image. But soon his eyes shifted and they were staring intently at her lips and she knew what he was thinking.

"If that was your game plan, then I'd have to give you your kudos because it was damn smart." Her voice came out as a harsh whisper afraid that anything louder would break the moment. His gaze never left her lips and she felt the gravity and electricity between them pulling them in closer. And just like that, there was no distance between them. Their lips softly collided and Maria swore at that moment she had died and gone to heaven. No it was too good for even heaven. Quickly her arms were around his neck locking him in place, daring him to pull back. But that wasn't needed because one of his hands was pressed just as firmly behind her head.

Maria could feel it building up, the moment where things started to get hot and heavy. But before they could get the kiss off the ground from innocent school kids style the door busted open and instantly they both pulled away from each other. At the same instance they pulled away they both jumped back to put comfortable distance between them.

She wanted to kill the person who came in the room but she had to calm herself down before she gave away what they had been doing with her flushed face. She was also praying that if the person was Michelle that she was as stupid as she acted sometimes and hadn't seen anything and would believe whatever lie they would tell to explain their positions.

"There's my favorite girl. I've been looking all over for you." The voice was all she needed. She was going to kill Ted Dibiase in a slow painful death.

When she looked up she saw his smug face. He knew exactly what he had did and he was loving every second of it. She looked over at John and saw that he looked confused, but relieved. Probably thankful it was only Teddy and not someone else like Michelle.

"I think that's my cue to leave now." John got up and stretched and Maria really wanted to kill Ted when she saw his grin widen. "I'll talk to you later though, so we can work on that rematch." He gave her one last leg weakening smile and then he was out of the door.

"God Ted! Can you have a worse sense of timing?" She sank back into the couch with her head in her hands. Trying to forever remember the feeling of John's lips on hers. They were so soft and plush. Like kissing clouds. Not just any clouds, but the big fat fluffy ones on a nice summer day. No they were more like a nice big fat juicy rain cloud. Moist and fluffy at the same time. No maybe winter storm clouds. Those clouds weren't overly wet like rain clouds were.

"Oh please you should be thanking me. Michelle's match just ended. Would you have rather she walked in here with you tow half naked going at it?" He walked over and took John's recently vacated spot next to Maria.

"Actually I wouldn't have minded that at all." She hated to see herself as a home wrecker, but in this case she really didn't care. Technically John was Maria's first. Michelle just luckily swooped down and stole him first. It was annoying and pissed Maria off that she did that. All of her anger towards Michelle was what usually pushed about seventy percent of her evil revenge plans. The other thirty was driven by John's god like looks. So breaking them up had a nice ring to it in her opinion.

"I can't even say anything to that. Just be glad I saved your asses this time. But I'm not the watch boy. If you guys keep acting so carelessly she's going to find out, and I hate to say it, but something tells me John isn't just going to throw away his relationship for some quick fling with you." He hated being so harsh to her, but he'd resort to any means necessary if it mean he had one up over John, even if it mean playing a little dirty.

Candice took in a deep breath as she knocked on Jeff's room door. She had to do this. She owed it to the both of them. She felt like the ultimate slut of all sorts and it was eating away at her that she had done something as dirty as she had without talking to anyone about it.

The door opened and she saw Matt boring holes into her skull with his eyes. Like he did everyday. No matter how many times she had to deal with it, it didn't make it any better.

"Jeff's not here sorry." And with that said he began to shut the door on her. But she quickly caught it with her hand stopping him from closing it.

"I'm not here to talk to Jeff. I want to talk to you." Matt sat there and debated if he should let her in or not. He didn't want to have to deal with the drama if it all. If he could just forget about it all he would have, but for him life didn't work that way. And if he continued to let it go he knew one day it was going to explode out of him in the worst possible way. So he sighed, opened the door, and let her in.

"So what are we talking about?" Candice sighed. She could already tell this was going to be a long and hard conversation. Matt had already put up his defensive walls and that meant it was going to be impossible to get through to him.

"Matt….I really wish it wasn't like this. You don't know how much I wish I could have just listen to you and taken you advice so we wouldn't be in this position right now. It would have been so much easier that way." He let out a little chuckle and that cemented the fact that he was beyond pissed.

"Candice, I can't believe you're copping out like this."

"What are you talking about?" He laughed again.

"Where we're at right now. It's not because we dated for almost two years without telling Jeff. You know what, no, I'll go ahead and give you that. Let's just say that part of it was due to that fact. Truth of the matter is, that doesn't really change the facts of the situation we're in right now. You could have went on ten million dates with Jeff. Would I have stood for it, no, but it still wouldn't have put us here." To say she was confused would have been and understatement. He wasn't making any sense.

"Matt, I'm not following you."

"So I'm a little pissed that you went out on a date with Jeff. So what? I knew that was going down already. But what I didn't know was that you were already feeling something for him. Like I said, you could have went on ten million dates with him and I would have been annoyed, but the fact that we're not together and your with him, that's what really pisses me off.

"I'm the one that has to sit around and act like everything's fine when it's not. We were together almost two years Candy, and you just threw it our the window to be with him and there's nothing I can do about it. All I can think about is how long were you going around with these feelings for him and how much of an idiot I am. Some guy swooped in and stole my girl and I can't do shit about it because that guy's my brother and my girl fuckin wants it."

"It's not like I've been running around wanting Jeff this whole time. You don't understand. I was done with it. I was going to tell him that next day. But then I don't know. The kiss threw me off and then I wasn't even sure if you were going to take me back. I love you Matt. But with Jeff I just don't know. I love him too. At first I thought it was just a brotherly love, but now I really don't know. Everything's so confusing. But what I do know is that I'm so sorry. I wish I could be able to come here and tell you I made a huge mistake and beg you to be with me again, but I really just don't know." Matt sighed and flopped back down onto his bed. She could see the beginnings of tears in his eyes but she knew he wouldn't let them fall while she was around.

"I was only bluffing. I broke up with you to push you into telling Jeff about us but I guess that backfired on me." Candice let out a sigh of her own and sat next to him on the bed. She then leaned in and laid her head in the crook of his neck and wrapped her arms around him. Matt had to be one of the most comfortable people she ever meet. At times he was better than a bed. He wrapped his arms around her and squeezed her tight. "You don't know how much I wish it was anybody but him." He said it so low Candice almost didn't catch it.

"You don't know how much I wish it wasn't anybody at all." She lifted her head up to look at him. But it was his turn to rest his head on her shoulder. But that wasn't all he had in mind. She quickly felt slow deliberate kisses placed on her neck.

"Matt, stop." She gave him a weak pathetic push away from her but it didn't move him or thwart his actions.

"Stop what?" The words were said onto her neck and punctuated with a light nip at her neck that had her seriously loosing her mind.

"Seriously Matt, this isn't going to help anything." He was working his way up her neck to across her jaw until he reached her ear.

"You never know." This time the words were whispered directly into her ear and punctuated with a lick to her outer shell and made her whole body shake. He knew just what buttons to push to make her all hot and bothered.

That was all it took before she grabbed his head and smashed their mouths together. It was hard to believe something that started off so sweet could turn into what they were doing. All of the pent up emotions they were feeling were unleashed into the kiss. Their teeth clashed together at times as the kiss was rough. Her hands quickly went from his head to his chest as she reacquainted herself with it.

Quickly the clothes began to fly off and Candice knew they were reaching a point of no return, but even with her thought clear about how wrong everything was, it didn't stop her body from going through the motions.

She didn't stop him when she felt his hands underneath her shirt. In fact she lifted her arms up as he removed her shirt, and then she helped him with his own shirt. She still didn't stop him when she felt her bra being unhooked and the straps slid off her shoulders. She responded by unbuckling his belt at watching as his baggy pants fell to reveal a body she had seen countless times and still couldn't get enough from.

She knew she should have stopped him when she felt his hands and lips trailing continuously lower on her body. But she didn't know what would have been the bigger sin. Having sex with her ex-boyfriend who just so happened to be her current boyfriend's brother, or stopping him, from giving her pleasure only he seemed to know how to give. All it took was three tantalizingly slow licks from his tongue for Candice to get her answer. She threaded her fingers in his hair, pushed his face in deeper and closed her eyes in preparation for the pleasure she knew he was about to give her. She felt him smile against her, knowing he had her where he wanted, and even that didn't change her mind. She was too far gone at that point.

Maria sat on her bed with a book in her hand. She wasn't afraid that many of her plans came from Harlequin romances. They gave her inspiration. If those women could turn crabby men, unforgiving exes, and total strangers into the perfect husbands it gave her hope and inspiration for her and John.

She had just gotten to the point where Suzanne was about to open her paternity test to see if the dangerous and mysterious Brad was the baby's father, or calm level headed Steve when her cell phone rang. She looked over to where it was on the night stand and saw that it was a number she didn't recognize. Her gaze went back to the book, then back over to the phone. After one last long stare down she decided to answer the phone.

"I swear somebody better have died or I better have won a seriously big gift."

"Is this a bad time?" And just like that all thoughts of the book in her hand were gone.

"Oh John I'm sorry. It was nothing, this is a perfect time." She wanted to kick her self in the face.

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, yeah it's fine." They then sat there in an awkward silence for about a minute.

"Oh well, I was just calling to see what you were doing. I'm bored out of my mind and it seems as though everyone has something to do tonight except me." She let out a silent squeal at the thought that he picked her as a means of entertainment. So what if it was because everyone else was doing something. He still went through the trouble to get her number to call her. That was enough for her.

"I'm just sitting here catching up on some reading."

"Awww shit, am I interrupting you? I'm sorry, I shouldn't have called you."

"No, no trust me it's nothing that can't wait" was her response as she quickly threw the book to the other side of the room, where it hit the wall with a loud bang.

"Well would you be up for doing something? I mean I know it's kind of late and very last minute and would completely understand if you said no…"

"No!, I mean yes! I am up for doing something! Anything you like!" She didn't know weather she should slap her head or not for adding that last part on. It would either come off as desperate or slutty. It was safe to say, she would rather it be slutty than desperate.

"Oh good. I'll come over to your room in a bit and we can decide what to do from there."

"Sounds perfect"

"Okay see you soon" Maria, quickly hung up the phone and stood on top of her bed and began to do a victory dance. She was so exicted that she never realized John didn't need to ask for her room number.

AN: So it's been a disgustingly long time since I've updated. The worst part is this chapter has been done for over three months, I literally added maybe a hundred and fifty words into it. First semester of college = kicked my ass. I thought it'd be okay, but time management isn't my best forte, and spending weekends doing nothing but recovering from the bullshit the professors spewed all week wasn't the best way to deal. but it's all irrelevant now. Because I have six weeks until I go back there and will spend most of that time writing, because it is what I love and I do miss it. Sorry for the wait. Hope you liked it and thank you for still sticking with this story!