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Right Where We Left Off

Chapter 4

After John and Paige's plane landed Sunday night, they had to go to the arena quickly so John would make it to his match on time. Their plane ride took much longer than it was supposed to so they had to rush to the arena.

Once they made it to the arena, John showed Paige his locker room, changed into his ring gear and then he was gone. Paige immediately laid down on the couch and decided to take a nap so she could try to sleep off her jet leg. Her mind kept drifting to what a risk she took by just up and leaving Boston to take a job with her ex-boyfriend whom she barely knew anymore. She also thought about how excited Carol had been when she told her she was working for John now. Paige always knew that Carol hoped John and her would end up together but she hoped she would soon realize they were just not meant to be. She slowly drifted off to sleep, hoping John would come back soon so they could get to the hotel.

She woke up roughly half an hour later by voices. John never said anything about sharing the locker room with anyone but she knew it was likely that these voices were wrestlers that also used this room. Paige just stayed on her side with her eyes closed and listened to them talk.

"Hey man, who's that?" One voice asked the other, pointing to the couch, stopping their current conversation about their matches tomorrow.

"I'm not sure, I've never seen her before." The other voice responded, standing next to his friend to observe the sleeping girl on the couch.

"Think she's with John?" The first voice asked.

"I don't know. He's not really the type to bring girls back here." They both shrugged and went about their business. She obviously wasn't a crazy fan or else she would be jumping all over them, not sleeping on their couch. She seemed to be with one of the wrestlers.

"She sure is cute though." The second voice said breaking the silence that enveloped the room.

"Yeah, not bad at all." The other said. They looked at each other confused when they saw her smile. So she was awake? They got evil grins on their faces. "Oh man! The things I would do to her." One said as they laughed.

"Hey!" Paige popped up, standing up. "Watch it Bud!"

Both men looked at her in amusement. "Ah, look who's up." The smaller man said, and by his voice she could tell he wasn't the one that made the rude comment.

"Where do you get off making comments like that?" She asked to the bigger man with her hands on her hips.

"Well I thought since you were faking sleep," She blushed when she realized they caught her faking sleep. "and listening to our conversation, I would have a little fun with you." He said with a smile that left Paige speechless. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean any harm." He said sincerely.

"Well I guess I'm sorry too." She said offering them a smile of her own.

"So, not to be rude, but who are you?" The smaller man asked.

"Oh! I'm Paige." She said offering her hand to them. The smaller man's eyes widened in surprise; he recognized that name as John's old girlfriend.

"I'm Randy." Said the smaller man, shaking her hand.

"I'm Dave." The bigger man said, also shaking her hand.

"Nice to meet you. Sorry if I caught you guys by surprise being in here but John just left me here and I didn't have anything else to do."

"John?" Dave asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah, I'm his new person assistant." Randy closed his eyes and shook his head, what is John thinking, he asked himself.

"Oh good! You're up!" John said when he burst through the door. "Ready to leave?" He asked and smiled at Randy and Dave as he walked to get his bag.

"Sure." Paige said, sticking her hands in her pockets and walked out the door as John held it open for her.

"John, can I talk to you for a minute?" Randy asked before he could leave.

"Uh, sure." John said then turned to Paige. "Why don't you meet me at the car?" He suggested, handing her the car keys. She nodded and turned to leave.

"Hey, wait up! I'll walk with you." Dave said as he put his bag on his shoulder. "I'll meet you at the car." Dave said to Randy and slapped John on the shoulder before he joined Paige and they left.

"What's up man?" John asked Randy.

"You asked her to be your assistant? What were you thinking?" Randy asked.

"I know but she needed a job and I felt bad for her. Besides, I want to get to know her again and become friends with her again. I feel so bad about how we ended things." He explained.

"How noble." Randy said rolling his eyes. "You remember Carla right? Your girlfriend?"

"Of course I remember her!" John said angry he would question such a thing.

"And you know she's coming back soon right?"

"Where are you going with this Randy?" John asked after Randy grabbed his bag and they walked into the hall.

"I just don't want you to do something stupid."

"Are you serious right now? I don't have any feelings for Paige anymore. We are different people." John said and wanted to tell Randy he loved Carla but he didn't know if he meant it anymore.

"Have you told Paige about Carla yet?" Randy asked curiously.

John sighed. "It hasn't come up."

Randy shook his head. "I know you said you don't have feelings for her but what if she has feelings for you?" Randy asked and John was silent. "Just be careful." Randy said as they made their way down the hall.

"So Paige, how did you meet John?" Dave asked after they left the locker room.

"Well we met in high school and used to go out. We just had a high school reunion this weekend and we ran into each other." Paige explained as she admired Dave's huge arms.

"Wow, that's great. So did he just offer you a job?" Dave asked curiously.

"Yeah, pretty much. I told him I used to be a personal assistant to a designer but they moved and then he told me he was looking for one."

"That's nice of him."

"Yeah, I really appreciate it." She said as they entered the garage. "So are you a wrestler?"

"Yeah, so I'm assuming you don't watch the show?" He asked, glancing at her and smiled when she laughed.

"Nope, not once." She said and stopped when they approached Dave's rental car. "So how long have you been wrestling?"

"Well, I've only been wrestling with the WWE for six years but it feels like a life time." Dave responded as he put his bags in the trunk.

"Wow, have you always wanted to wrestle?" She asked amazed he was so committed.

"Pretty much. I was a pretty angry kid growing up. It was a good way to take out my frustrations." He said with a smile. "Don't worry though, I'm a happy guy now." Paige laughed and pushed her hair behind her ears. She was about to respond when out of the corner of her eye, she saw Randy and John approach them.

"Alright, let's go." John said as he grabbed his keys from Paige and made his way to the car. Randy did the same, taking the keys from Dave and threw his bags in the trunk.

"Well, it was fun talking." Paige said with a smile.

"Yeah, we should get together sometime and get to know each other since it seems you'll be on the road with us from now on." Dave suggested also with a smile.

"I would like that." They stood there just looking at each other before a honk interrupted them.

"Dave! Let's go!" Randy said with his head poking out the drivers side window. Well that was rude, Paige thought to herself.

"Well, I better go." She said as she slowly walked backwards.

"Yeah, me too. See you later." Dave said and walked to the passenger seat. She waved to them as they drove by her before she finally sat down in the passenger seat of the car.

"See, I told you, you'd make friends." John said as he pulled out of the parking garage.

"Yeah." She said with a smile.

"Tired?" He asked when he noticed her eyes slip shut a couple of times and she popped them back open right away.

"Yeah." She said sleepily.

"Go to sleep." He said, reaching over with one hand and rubbed the top of her head lovingly. He watched her out of the corner of his eye on the ride to the hotel and couldn't help but notice how beautiful she looked.