Jon lay on the bed next to Lauren, "That was amazing; we'll have to do that again sometime." He chuckled. Lauren stretched out with a smile. Their roleplaying adventure in the living room had been very exciting; she had enjoyed the slightly more aggressive side of Jon.
"I have to say; I did enjoy that part where you pushed me over the arm of the couch, oh and the parts after that." She smiled. Her thoughts were interrupted when Jon's cell phone buzzed. He had received a text message. He recognized the cell number as Renee's; he sputtered some expletives and opened the message. "That good huh? Ex-Girlfriend?" Lauren laughed.
"That crazy fucking bitch! I swear to god; if she goes through with this, I'll kill her my goddamn self!" Jon roared, throwing his phone across the room. It startled Lauren.
"What is going on Jon?" Lauren put her hand on his shoulder. "Tell me what's happening."
"Renee. She found out somehow what you do for a living; she's saying that if you don't leave me alone, she's going to let the world know." Jon raked his hand through his hair. "I'm sorry Lauren; if I had known she was going to be such a psycho I never would have hooked up with her."
"Well; she is a crazy bitch, I'll give her that. Is that all she's got? That she's going to tell everyone that I run an escort service? Does she honestly think that is going to scare me off?" Lauren got off the bed and grabbed Jon's phone. She sent a text back to Renee. "Dear Blondie, I'm not going anywhere. Be careful what you wish for!"
"Lauren, what did you just do? Why would you taunt her; she's going to tell people about you and your service. You could go to jail or prison!" Jon grabbed her by her shoulders, feeling suddenly very anxious.
Lauren smiled at Jon. "Jon; I am extremely well protected, the service is well protected. She can tell anyone, anything she wants. Do you honestly think I haven't had people try and pull this before? Trust me; she has bitten off more than she can chew with me. She's started a game with the woman who wrote the rule book."
"She's going to tell everyone you're a prostitute!" Jon said, grabbing her up in a hug.
"I was a prostitute Jon. I told you I need someone who isn't ashamed of me or what I did; can you deal with what's going to happen? When your bosses or co-workers find out about me; are you going to be able to hold my hand and look people in the eye? If you can't, I understand; but I need to know that now." She looked him in the eye.
"I can deal with whatever comes our way. I love you! Tell me what the plan is to deal with this." Jon kept her in his arms.
"She is going to most likely start where it's easiest for her; your co-workers and bosses. She'll spread the news you're sleeping with me and tell everyone what it is she found out. That will be the challenging part for you; you can't go and shove her around or threaten her. She'll just use that to get you fired or something ridiculous and petty like that. As soon as she realizes that it's not bothering you or I that everyone thinks they know about me. She'll most likely then try going to the media and law enforcement. Law enforcement will toe the line and inform her how many times they have investigated the service and me personally and have never found anything illegal to charge me with." She smiled when Jon looked surprised.
"Why would law enforcement back you up?" Jon asked confused.
"It's simple; the service is a dating service, that's how I set it up when I took it over. The company pays federal and state taxes every year, as do the ladies. The bookkeeping is completely legal and shows that the girls have benefits and taxes taken out of their weekly check. As far as drugs; I have records showing that the service randomly drug tests every month. All my girls are clean. Now; I can't lie, it also helps that the Mayor is a client, the police commissioner, and if she managed to make enough noise; I also have several senators and representatives who are clients. None of them want their personal business aired out in public. She'll no doubt ask where I got the money to take over the business. That is under control as well; I'm willing to publically admit that when I was younger, I ran away from home and in order to survive me did what I needed to do and was a prostitute. However, I also know that Lorenzo will come forward and say he fronted the largest sum of cash, so that his wife at the time could start her own business." Lauren grinned at the awe-struck look on Jon's face.
"Like I said; this is the first time someone has tried this. I should make you aware of something though; so you are prepared for fallout if there is any. If Renee does start this; it is my intent to bury her, figuretively. I intend to do as much damage to her; her job, etc. I'm going to make her life a living hell. She will be very sorry she picked this fight with me; I don't know how many friends she has in your workplace, but it could get chilly there for you." Lauren hugged him.
"If she does this; she deserves anything you do to her! Things are going to get chilly for her around there to." Jon said looking very determined. "I tried to break things to her easy, several times. I tried being blunt with her; thinking she'd get the hint then. The last few times; I've resorted to just saying not interested in being a couple, we aren't a couple and go away. Still in her head; she and I are together! Now she's messing around with a chance to get something back I lost. I'm not going to let that happen."
Back in her hotel room; Renee looked at the return text from Jon's phone and screamed like a banshee. Fine! If this is how she wants it; she could have just walked away, but no! She forwarded the information she had found anonymously to Stephanie and Paul. Being sure to note in the e-mail that this was the woman Jon was screwing. She imagined there would be a meeting in the morning to address that. So much for WWE's PG image; she smiled with satisfaction. Jon would have to come back to her after the company got involved; he wouldn't want to risk his job. She would get what she wanted; and she didn't care about the woman who she would destroy in the process.
The next morning as soon as Jon walked into the backstage area of the arena; one of the production assistants found him and let him know that Stephanie and Paul needed to see him immediately in their temporary office. He went to the locker room he was sharing with Colby and Joe and set his stuff down. Both men were looking at him. "Everything ok man? Stephanie and Paul are looking for you." Joe asked.
"Renee is trying to start problems; I'm going to go see them right now. She really has over-stepped this time and I'm sick of her crazy shit." Jon said irritated before walking out of the room and heading to see his bosses. He knocked on their door and waiting to hear Stephanie say 'Come In'. He poked his head in and she motioned him inside, signaling to a chair.
"Jon; good to see you this morning, thanks for coming to see us." Stephanie said. "Jon we called you in because we received an e-mail last night concerning a woman you're seeing. Normally; we stay out of the personal lives of our employees, however apparently there is some concern about illegal activity. Can you tell us anything about this?" She asked trying to be as sympathetic as she could.
"Nice to see you also Stephanie; Paul, I do not know of any illegal activity that my close childhood friend would be involved in. I can tell you who sent you that e-mail and why she sent it." He said calmly. "Renee sent me this text last night; basically saying that she would show this ridiculous information she found on the internet to everyone, unless Lauren stayed away from me. Renee is crazy. As you can see the text is from last night and it is a threat." He handed his female boss the phone.
"Yes; that certainly appears to clearly be a threat. Out of curiosity Jon; is this the same woman from the charity auction?" Stephanie responded, showing the message to her husband beside her.
"Yes, Lauren and I have been close friends since we were teenagers. She was the one who bid on me at the charity auction; and Steph, you saw Renee's reaction to her that night. Renee is crazy and not in a cute way. She thinks that she and I are a couple; despite me stating several times that we were not. Lauren suffered a really horrible childhood; it is not fair that she now has to put up with being harassed. She will be the first to tell you that she was out on the street by the time she was 13; by the time I met her on my sixteenth birthday, she was involved in illegal activity because she needed to have money to survive. However; from my knowledge about her now, she is not involved in that lifestyle anymore. Renee needs to stop." Jon answered.
"Jon, we'll have a discussion with Renee; it does say in the article that no charges have ever been brought against Lauren. However, it also does imply that it's not because the police haven't tried. We of course can't tell you who to see in your personal life; I would just caution you to be careful, I know what rumors can fly around in the back." Stephanie said with a smile.
"Thank you, Stephanie. I appreciate your concern; and also that you'll speak to Renee, I don't want to cause trouble for her but she needs to back off and leave me alone." Jon responded and shook Stephanie's hand. As Jon left and headed back to his locker room; he couldn't help but notice a group of superstars hanging around in a huddle near one of the walls. When he walked over; a copy of the article was hanging on the wall and people were whispering about it. He didn't even bother tear the thing off the wall. He headed into his locker room.
"Jon; I don't mean to piss you off Brotha, but your friend Lauren. Is she a prostitute?" Joe asked trying not to sound as surprised as he was feeling. She had seemed like a very nice woman the night Jon had introduced her. Jon sighed and sat down.
"Look; she was, back when she was 16. She was a runaway and needed the money to survive; not to mention the fact that her pimp was a real violent, piece of shit. If she had tried to leave; he would have killed her and not blinked. I know; cause he was my mother's pimp to. Anyways; she's not doing that anymore. The fact that everyone around here knows is because Renee wanted to cause trouble." Jon answered truthfully. "Lauren isn't ashamed that she had to do that in order to live. I had wanted to take her with me when I headed to the Indies; I even asked her to go with me, I loved her back then guys. She told me that she'd only hold me back. Now that we've reconnected; I don't know I just feel like I can't lose her again."
Joe and Colby looked at their friend; surprised to hear that kind of emotion from him. Joe finally walked over and put his hand on Jon's shoulder. "You know we have your back; Lauren seemed like a really sweet woman when we met her, I liked her. Past is past; Renee shouldn't have been so dirty to pull up stuff like that on her. If either of you need anything we can help with; you'll let us know right?" Jon nodded to his friend. "You know brotha; the way you just talked about Lauren that was some serious straight-up love talk. You hold on to this one!"