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"Adam, come on! We gotta meet Chris at the club in like an hour! And we still gotta check into the hotel and-"

"I'll meet you at the hotel Jay, just go!"

Jay sighed and walked away at the hopelessness of his best friend. Adam had told Jay that he hadn't got a good night sleep for a fortnight and was worried that something was wrong. As a result of Adam's anxiety in addition to his exhaustion, his wrestling skills were getting sloppy and Vince was not happy about it.

Adam massaged his temples, trying to ease the pain from his head. It felt like someone was drilling a hole through his skull and he could do nothing to stop it but take weak pain pills the doctor had carelessly prescribed. After swallowing 2 pills that morning, 2 pills that afternoon and 2 pills 5 minutes ago, Adam decided that the pills were just as handy as tic tacs and threw them aside.

Adam opened the door and sighed in misery, he was on the verge of getting fired due to his migraine and insomnia which doctors could not pinpoint the cause of. He walked down the empty corridor, his head hung down and his green eyes stared at the concrete below him. He walked in silence before he crashed into another person, sending the contents of their bag flying everywhere.

"Oh jeez, I'm sorry." Adam said apologetically picking up the contents at random.

"Don't worry I didn't see you either."

Adam looked up at the person he had just collided with. For a moment he got lost in himself, he couldn't believe there was someone so beautiful with such striking features, more enough he couldn't believe there was such a person in the WWF he hadn't met.

"Uh…Here you go…" Adam said, turning away quickly. He didn't want her to think he was some sort of idiot. Adam handed her all her things and stood up, "So um…Are you new here?"

"I've been here for a few months, haven't done much wrestling but I'm gonna start soon hopefully." She said as she smiled at Adam. He observed her features and noted her baggy pants, tank top and was perplexed to see a large tattoo on her arms. He then continued to examine her long auburn hair before he looked into her kind, hazel eyes, they took his breath away.

"I'm Adam but my ring name is Edge." Adam said nervously.

"That's a weird ring name…Edge."

"Yeah well it's better than my old one, Sexton Hardcastle."

Amy laughed, as Adam smiled sheepishly. He guessed he didn't have the best name choice. Finally Amy took in a deep breath and said.

"My name is Amy but my ring name is Lita," Amy's watch started beeping, she looked at it and gasped, "Oh shoot, I'm late. Well, I'll see you around Adam."

"Yeah, bye." Adam called as she spun around and walked off. For Adams sake, he hoped he did see her around, because now that he had met her, he wanted to stay with her forever.

Adam shuffled uncomfortably; he turned and punched the pillow. He couldn't catch a wink of sleep and it wasn't due to the God-awful headache he had, it was because he couldn't rid himself of thought's of Amy and how'd he had so carelessly tossed her aside.

He punched the pillow again, he hated himself and as a result he mind refused to let him sleep even though his body was terribly worn out from his busy schedule and from being blindsided by Dave Batista. He felt guilty beyond anything, even though he did what was right for Amy, he did it to protect her. To protect her…

Adam sat up and raked a hand through his long blond hair. Those last three words ran through his mind, to protect her. Adam sighed; he could have told Amy about Vickie tyrannous barrier. But then again, if he had told Amy, she would no doubt try to find a way around Vickie's obstacle and Adam knew Vickie well enough to know there was no way around her.

Also, if he had told Amy about the barricade, she would go on knowing that if she was seen glancing at Adam for less than a second she would be assaulted by Vickie's henchmen. How could Amy go on loving Adam if she would be hurt just gazing at him? How could Adam resist Amy after all the years they had been parted? And if he didn't resist her, if they managed to meet up behind Vickie's back, they would have to spend all their time together in fear of being watched and Adam couldn't bear being constantly afraid when he was with Amy.

No, the only way for Amy to be safe was if she really hated him and there was no hesitation that she hated him now, Adam just thanked God for her relief. Adam mentally thanked Phil Brooks for helping Amy and, in a way, helping Adam. Adam couldn't tolerate Amy being miserable and it seemed that Phil Brooks was acting as her consolation and for that, Adam was indebted to him immensely…

Adam swiped the hotel key card through the door. He stepped through the doorframe and saw Jay's belongings all over the place. On the bed he saw a note.

'Went to the club with Jeff, Matt and Chris. Hope you don't mind. Jay.'

Adam didn't really care, he wasn't in the mood for clubbing anyway. He guessed he would spend the rest of the night trying to get some sleep, Adam took his shirt off and lay down on the bed trying to barricade any thoughts from entering his mind.

As Adam barely began to drift off, his mind wandering momentary before a loud noise pulled Adam out of his near-sleep. He sat up and sat Jay march into the room, unknowing that he broke Adam's bridge to finally getting some sleep.

"Back so soon?" Adam asked with a scowl, even if he knew Jay didn't mean any harm, Adam was still angry.

"Yeah, Matt brought his girlfriend along and they decided to turn in early. Well, that's what they said, I'm sure their not planning on getting any sleep…Poor Jeff, he's sleeping in Chris' room tonight and you know how Chris is…"

Adam yawned, he wasn't really paying attention to Jay's digression, his mind was glued on the fact that he got about 2 seconds of sleep before Jay strode in.

"…I think her name was Amy or something…"

"What!?"

Jay jumped at Adam's reaction, he was pretty sure Adam wasn't paying attention but as he looked into Adam's wide eyes he doubted it.

"I said that Matt's new girlfriend is a real looker, I mean-"

"No no after that. What was her name?" Adam asked, could it be the same girl he collided with earlier? Surely not, it was probably just some hellova coincidence.

"Oh, it was Amy. She joined the WWF a couple months ago. She had long red hair, a cool tattoo on her right arms and ha-"

"Hazel eyes…" Adam finished. The Amy he had fallen in love with had turned out to be one of his best friends' girlfriend. Adam thought about the brief encounter he had with Amy, even if he didn't know much about her, he was still engrossed by her.

Adam lay back down, thinking of Amy's beautiful smile. Before he knew it he had drifted off to a peaceful and quiet sleep, thoughts Amy conquered his dreams as he drifted further and further into his long-awaited slumber…

CHAPTER 13

A/N- This chapter was specifically for Renee. I hope I summed up why Adam didn't tell Amy.