Chapter 17

PAUL

The last couple of days have been amazing. Randy is finally starting to see that I really meant what I said to him that night that we had the double date with him and his wife. I remembered that I told Randy that I wanted to marry Alexandria and start a family with her if she wanted to. The more I think about it, the more I want it to happen. Since her dad was scheduled to appear at an event today, I am taking it upon my hands to talk to him.

"How you doing Paul?" he asked as I walked up to him.

"I'm doing good. How you doing?"

"Couldn't be better." He replied.

"Hey, I was wondering if I could talk to you for a couple of minutes. Maybe in private?" I asked him hoping that he'd say yes.

"Alright."

I took him somewhere I knew that we would have a lot of privacy since we weren't at the arena and we couldn't go to my office.

"Is everything okay?" he asked. "Is something wrong with my daughter?" he asked concerned.

"No. Nothing is wrong. She's perfect."

Indeed she is.

"I just wanted to talk to you because of something that I've been thinking about a lot lately."

He looked at me curiously.

"As you know, your daughter and I have been together for a while now and I have been thinking about marriage."

"Marriage?" he asked surprised. "She never mentioned anything to me and her mother about marriage." He added.

"That's probably because I only mentioned it once. Randy and I went out to see if we could talk to each other man to man. I wanted to show him what I was really about and how I am with Alexandria. She and Sam were with us that night and I said that I would marry her. After giving it some thought, I wanted to talk to you about it and ask if I could have your daughter's hand in marriage."

He looked like he was trying to take it in, what I just said.

"So let me get this straight...you want to marry my daughter?" he asked.

"Yes. I'm in love with her. I realized that I want to spend the rest of my life with her. I don't want anyone else. I want her. I just wanted to ask you first. I thought that it was the right thing to do by asking you first. May I have her hand in marriage, Sir?" I asked nervously, wondering what he would say.

"Are you sure that this is what you want? Because I don't want you to say that you want to marry my daughter and then you back out of it.I'm not going to have my daughter heartbroken. By anyone."

"I promise you Sir, that I won't break her heart. Like I told you, I love her. I want to spend the rest of my life with her. No one else." I replied.

"Well then. You may have her hand in marriage."

I smiled as I let out a sigh of relief. "Thank you, Sir. You will not regret it. I promise you that."

"By the way, does she know about this?"

"No. She doesn't know that I'm asking you for permission, and she doesn't know that I'm going to propose to her. It's going to be a surprise."

"Good luck then."

"Thanks."

Now I just have to get a ring. Maybe I can get Kelly to help out, seeing that they are like best friends here.

ALEXANDRIA

I was in the hotel room that Paul and I were sharing. Why not share a room instead of having two seperate rooms when we end up sleeping in the other one's room for? I didn't mind anyways. It meant waking up in his arms every morning and going to sleep in his arms every night. That's more money that we don't have to spend and that we could save up. Paul came in a couple of minutes after I woke up from my nap with a smile on his face.

"You look happy." I told him as he gave me a kiss.

"Just in a very good mood today." He replied.

He took off his shoes and dropped himself on the bed and fixed himself so his head was on the pillow. I plopped myself next to him and let my hair fall over my face as I looked at him. I heard him chuckle as he fixed my hair.

"I just woke up from my nap and I don't know what to do." I told him. He put his arm around my waist and pulled me towards him.

"We could do this." He leaned his head down and kissed me. It quickly turned into a make out session. I wasn't complaining either. I really love his kisses. We heard someone knock at the door and I heard Paul let out a frustrated groan.

"I'll get it." I told him as I got out of bed.

"I mean, we could just ignore them hoping that they go away and come back later." He replied.

"What if we're busy later?" I asked.

He thought for a moment. "True." I smiled and walked to the door.

"Oh, Alexandria."

"What is it, Stephanie?" I asked.

"It's Ms. Levesque to you." She replied. It really bothered me that she still had his last name. "I'm looking for Paul."

"What do you want with him?"

"It's none of your business since it has nothing to do with you." She told me.

"I'm her boyfriend. Of course I'm her business." I heard a voice say from behind. I looked back and saw Paul in a wife beater and sweats that he changed into. "What do you want Stephanie?" he asked.

"Can I talk to you?" She managed to get out after not knowing what to say.

"About what?"

"Some business." She replied.

"Do we have to do this now?" He asked as I felt him put his hand on my waist.

"Now or later. You choose."

I looked up at him and knew that he didn't want to do this now or later.

"Let me put a shirt on. I'll be quick." I heard him say. "Shit!" I heard him say when he went to put on a shirt. I tried to keep myself from letting out a laugh.

"Alright, Baby. I'll see you later." He told me as he came back up to me.

"Okay. See you later."

He gave me a hug and held me as if he didn't want to let me go.

"I love you." He told me as he pulled away slightly.

"I love you, too." I replied as we shared a kiss.

"I'll make it up to you when I come back." He whispered softly in my ear as he gently squeezed my butt.

"Okay. Now go. I don't want to have to beat her up for annoying the hell out of me."

We kissed again and he left with Stephanie. I saw her look back and smirk at me. What in the hell could she be up to?

PAUL

"Okay Stephanie. What is it and please make this quick." I told Stephanie as she took me to a room near the conference room that was here in the hotel that we were staying in.

I hated not spending enough time with Alexandria. All I want to do is spend time with her and when we're out on the road, it can be hard to do that sometimes. I was fine being with her right before Stephanie came.

"Why the rush?" She asked.

"Because I plan on spending the rest of my day with Alexandria, seeing as I didn't have anything else planned for the rest of the day. Now please make this quick before I do by leaving this conversation for another day." I replied in a calm voice.

"Spending the rest of the day with her?" She asked in disbelief. "Why?"

"What do you mean why? She's my girlfriend. I want to spend my day with her. What the hell do you want to talk to me about that you had to drag me away from her, Stephanie?" I asked annoyed.

"I want us to spend some time together."

"Because...?"

"I want us to go back to the way that we used to be when we were together." She replied.

"Then you should've never done what you did. Maybe we could have still been happy together. But we're not. I'm happily divorced from you and I'm happy with someone else. Now if you don't have anything of importance to tell me, then I will go back to my room and back to my girlfriend."

"Please, Paul. I know how much of a good time we had together. We can have that again."

"What I have now is a woman that I'm madly in love with. A woman who wants nothing from me other than to be loved and taken care of. So that's what I'm doing. I'm loving her every single minute of the day and I make sure I take care of her the best way that I can. It's a hell of far cry from you and what you wanted when we were together. Why would I want to go through heartbreak again when I can have someone who will never break it? Someone who will always take care of it? We're done Stephanie. We will never get back together. That's it. We're done." I told her as I saw the look of shock on her face by what I told her.

I left her standing where she was at and tried to calm down as I walked away. I got to the elevator and saw her walking out of the room that we were just in. I pushed the button for the elevator as if it would make it come any faster. I was just in luck as it came just as she was close to reaching me. When I got to the floor that my room was on, I quickly made my way to my room. I knocked on the door after I realized that I didn't bring the key and hoping that Alexandria was still in the room. She opened the door and I couldn't help but smile when I saw her.

"Hey. That was quicker than I thought it would be." She said as I walked in.

"Yeah. It wasn't anything serious." I told her hoping that she wouldn't realize that I was still a little upset by what happened a few minutes ago between Stephanie and I.

"Oh. Okay."

I saw her lay down in bed and pull the sheets up. "You alright, Baby?" I asked her.

"I'm a little cold."

I checked and the air conditioner wasn't on. I hope she wasn't getting sick. I took off the shirt that I put on when I left the room with Stephanie, as well as my shoes. I got in bed and laid down next to her, as I wrapped my arms around her pulling her close to me.

"Feel better?" I asked as I looked into her blue eyes. She nodded and snuggled closer to me. I felt the warmth of her hand on my waist and I couldn't help but cherish this. I have to admit, I like moments like this. No, it's not sex or even just kissing, as much as I love those two things with her. It's just her in my arms and knowing that she's okay. Knowing that I love her and that I'm with her.

"You alright?" She asked me softly.

"Yeah." I replied as I placed a kiss on her head. She looked up at me and I leaned my head down to give her a kiss on the lips. "Still feeling cold?" I asked when I pulled away.

"A little."

I pulled the sheets a bit higher and pulled her closer to me. I stroked the small of her back with my thumb and made sure that she was comfortable. I saw that she doze off to sleep a few minutes later. I kissed her forehead and saw her scrunch up her nose which caused me to smile. I heard the door knock and became annoyed quickly. I wanted to ignore it, but they kept knocking. I got out of bed gently enough to not wake up Alexandria to go answer the door.

"Randy?"

"Yeah look, I'm sorry. Didn't mean to interrupt anything. But I was going to grab a bite to eat and wanted to know if you and Alex wanted to come."

"Where are you going to eat?" I asked.

"I don't know. If you guys come along, I'll eat whatever as I long as I like it." He replied.

"Let me go ask Alex if she wants to go."

I went back to the bedroom to see her sitting up in bed.

"Who's at the door?" she asked.

"Randy. He wants to know if we wanted to go out to grab a bite with him."

"What did you tell him?"

"I was going to ask you to see if you wanted to go or not. He's waiting."

"I'll go."

"You sure?" I asked her.

"Yeah. I'll go." She replied.

"Okay. Let me let him know."

ALEXANDRIA

Paul went to tell Randy that we would go out with him to grab a bite to eat. I don't know why, but for some reason, I felt cold today. The air conditioner hasn't been on all day today in this room and I don't have anything on that would help make me feel cold. I just hope that I'm not getting sick. I have a pay-per-view match this Sunday against Eve at Survivor Series and I don't want to miss out on it because I got sick.

I started to look for something that I could wear to go out when I felt Paul wrap his arms around me. I relaxed in his arms and felt the warmth of his body.

"You sure you okay, Baby?" he asked.

"Yeah. I'm okay. I just feel cold. I don't know why." I replied.

He pulled me close and saw him look at me with concern as I looked in the mirror in the room.

"I just want to make sure you're okay. That's all." I heard him say quietly in my ear.

"I know."

We got dressed quickly and I hugged Randy went I walked out of the room and into the living room. I really hope I'm not getting sick. I can't get sick. I just can't.