"Glenn! Dude, wait up!" I called after Kane running behind him. He turned and greeted me with a great big bear huge that lifted me off the ground. He set me down as gently as a six foot, three hundred pound man could. Out of all the superstars that I had met, Kane was my favorite.
"It's good to see you. How are you settling in?" Kane asked.
"Fine, but I cant' believe that Vince made John Cena my guardian-person thing. I really don't think he likes me that much." I said knowing that I could be honest with him.
"Well, maybe that's why. He doesn't think that John will let you get away with anything. He probably could already tell that you are just a huge troublemaker." Kane answered trying to make me feel better about the whole John thing.
"Yea, well if he thinks that I still won't be sneaking out then he is insane. The only reason I took this internship was so I could party." We continued walking, laughing at the thought. We got a couple of feet and Kane got serious.
"John is really busy and he is the champion that does make the most sense. He probably needs the most help. You are basically acting as an assistant." Kane wrapped his arm around me and messed up my hair with the other. We were walking down a hallway when we ran into John. "Hey, I was looking for you." John approached me and Kane and appeared to be in a really happy mood.
"Really," I smiled; relieved at the new attitude he seemed to have taken.
"Yea, I need to stretch before my match and talk it out with Carlito one more time. I swear the boy doesn't listen. So, could you get me a cup of coffee preferably black?" John smiled and continued with his order, "I'll be in the locker room just knock on the door and I will answer. Thanks!" The cheery tone in his voice was oddly disturbing and his chipper smile creeped me out.
"You're right he needs my help real bad." I said sarcastically to Kane as John walked away.
"Okay, so maybe I was wrong." Kane shrugged his shoulders at the odd display that the champion had just displayed. "Well, I would stay and chat but I have a tag team match tonight with Show for the titles. I'll see you later?" Kane started walking away and I waved nodding my head to his question.
Why does everyone have the preference for leaving me alone? I thought to myself as I stood in the hallway thinking what to do now.
Luckily I saw a familiar face. Well, actually not familiar from my meetings from the previous days but from my days of watching Raw. I walked over to the blonde who was having trouble keeping her child in line and carry a big stack of papers. I ran over taking the papers into my hand smiling at the face that obviously was thankful for the help.
"Thanks, I really don't think I could have made it all the way to my dad's office on my own." I looked at Stephanie, smiling but she gave a questioning look, not recognizing me. "Who are you?" She asked after a few seconds of walking to the office.
"I'm Michelle, the new intern." I gave her a little smile and continued walking.
"When they said that you were young, I never assumed that they meant young young."
"Yea, well, when they said young they meant sixteen." I chuckled slightly as I opened the door, allowing her to walk in before me.
"Well, that is quite young. You must have done something really great with that essay for them to choose you. No offense intended, I just mean that you're pretty young."
"None taken, I am young." I placed the papers on the desk, turning to look at the toddler running around the office, her mother looking a little run down, like my sister did after she had her son.
"So, how do you like it here?" She looked up at me, obviously fighting back sleep.
"It's fine. Being stuck with John all the time isn't exactly a walk in the park but it's all good."
"John not being very welcoming? That's not like him." Stephanie sat up giving me a questioning look.
"That's what everyone keeps telling me. I just think that…"
"Aurora, no, baby you're gonna fall." Stephanie jumped up to get her daughter, who was now standing in the chair behind the desk. As we both reached the chair it was leaning back and the little girl almost fell out but kept her balance.
"Oh, I've got some much work to do but I can't leave Aurora alone for over two seconds." Stephanie was now holding her daughter and Aurora was wiggling in her mother's grasp.
"I'll watch her for you, I love kids." I walked over and Stephanie, hesitantly, handed me her daughter. I sat down on the couch, holding the toddler in my lap, and began play peek-a-boo with her as I did with my nephew. "Where's Aurora, where is she?" I held my hands over my eyes. "There she is!" I lifted them. I repeated this process several times, until Aurora started to laugh and raise her hands with mine.
"I guess you have everything under control. I'll be back later. Here's her bag with everything she should need in it. If John decides to leave before I get back just find Paul or my dad, and let them take over, okay?" I nodded as she walked out. At least now I had a reason to act like an idiot, keeping a toddler happy was hard work. The door opened, but I didn't look up, steadily playing with Aurora.
"Vince, I can't find that girl anywhere!" John said entering the room, freezing when he saw me. "Weren't you supposed to get me some coffee?"
"Yes, but I ran into Stephanie and she was kind of in need of help, so I offered to help watch Aurora for her. I think she needed more than you did at the moment." I raised myself from the floor, looking at John whose face seemed genuinely sweet as he looked down at the toddler that was tugging on his arm.
"Well, I guess I can forgive you for that, but make sure it doesn't happen again." He said, waving good bye to Aurora and starting toward the door. "And be sure to be ready when I'm going to leave."
"I'll do my best. Just give me a few minutes beforehand, so I can get her to someone." I said, nodding my head at the child to indicate my point.
"Sure whatever." He said as he left.
I was strangely content with this. Even though I was only it felt good to be copped up in an office playing with the youngest of the McMahon family. I didn't even notice the knock on the door an hour or two later when John came in to tell me it was time to go.
"Ready?" He asked, in a less than pleasant tone.
"Sure, just let me find Stephanie, Paul, or a suitable person to leave the kid with." I replied, standing and picking up Aurora. John rolled his eyes and sighed heavily with agitation.
"Five minutes. You're not in the garage I'm gone." He turned and left again. I rolled my eyes at his attitude which to say the least was inhospitable. I followed after him, desperate to get the child of my hands to get back to the hotel for a hot bath.
I found Stephanie within five minutes and went out to the parking lot, sadly John was gone. "Ugh…" I grunted, turning back around, looking for Candice or Glen to take me back to the hotel. I didn't find either though and the time I had wasted looking for them just gave everyone else time to get out of the building.
I went back to the parking lot hoping to find someone going back to the hotel to hitch a ride with. I found… no one. I was stranded there with no way of getting back to the hotel. I was so irritated but more than that I was frantic. I knew I could call Vince and tell him what John did but I didn't want to cause any trouble.
"Hey!" I heard someone yell behind me. I turned to see The Undertaker approaching me.
"Hi." I said.
"I'm Mark. Are you the new intern?"
"Yea, I'm Michelle." I answered, happy that he was being nice.
"Aren't
you supposed to be with John?" I nodded my head in reply. "Oh,
well I could've sworn that I saw him leave like an hour ago.
"
"You did. He left me here."
"He left you here?" I nodded again. "So, how are you getting back to the hotel?" I shrugged my shoulders.
"He told me that if I wasn't ready by the time he was he'd leave me and that's what he did. I'm on my own for getting back I guess."
"Really, well, I'm heading back to the hotel now. You can hitch a ride with me, that is, if you don't mind riding on the back of my bike."
"Do I really have any other options?" I asked, already aware of the answer.
"No, I guess not."
He grabbed my hand, leading me like I was a child. When we got to the hotel I went straight up to my room and looked for John in the adjoining room but he wasn't there, so I just decided to go straight to bed.
A few moments after I fell asleep John opened the door, anxious, hoping that I was there. He saw me laying in bed and gave a sigh of relief. He hadn't lost me after all, and he gave a silent thank God for my being safe. He closed the door and allowed me to sleep until the morning.
I woke up to John pulling on my arm. "Time to get up. We got to go."
We left and began our travel to the next arena. The previous night didn't come up through the trip and I wasn't entirely sure that I wanted it to come up. I didn't talk to him and he barely said three words to me. I thought he was a jackass before this but now I was sure of that fact.
