Later that night Stephanie was sitting at her desk getting some work done. She was just starting on looking over the figures for the ratings from the last pay per view when someone knocked on the door.
"Come in?" She called out. She glanced up when she heard the door open and saw Kelly walk into the room.
"Hey Steph can I talk to you for a moment."
"Sure what can I do for you?"
"Well I was wondering if the rumors were true,"
"What rumors?" Stephanie asked looking back down at the papers in front of her for a moment.
"The ones saying that you cheated on Paul with John, and that now you and John are an item."
"Wow word spreads fast." Steph said exasperated. She didn't want everyone to know her business, especially something as personal as this.
"So they are then?"
"Yeah I suppose they are true, I did cheat on my husband. I feel badly for it though, I never meant to hurt him. And I guess John and I are sort of a couple now."
"Wow then you really are a slut then." Kelly said with a smug smile on her face before turning to leave the room.
Kelly had just reached the door and had her hand on the handle when Stephanie called out to her. "Kelly just a moment."
She stood up and walked over to her. She reached her and Kelly turned to look at her. She smiled at her a little hoping that she wasn't about to get smacked or something. She knew that Stephanie had a mean slap and she never wanted to experience that.
"If you or anyone else in this arena call me a slut one more time, or say anything of the sort to John about it then you or anyone else will be fired before they can say sorry got it?"
"Yeah Steph I understand." Kelly said before walking out of the room.
Just outside the door she saw her friends, Candice and Mickie, waiting outside the room. She walked over to them and smiled a little.
"Did you call her a slut?"
"Yeah, it was great. But then she got all rude and crazy on me."
"What did she do?" Candice asked.
"She said that if I or anyone else in this arena called her a slut, or said anything to John about it that they would be fired faster than they could say sorry."
"Oh my god, she has a problem. I mean she can call me a whore from when I was with her father." Candice said like it wasn't a big deal that she had slept with her boss.
The other two gave her a look of disgust before rolling their eyes and continuing with the conversation. As they were talking they saw John walk by and toward Stephanie's office. Kelly smiled at him as he walked by, and he sent her a small one back before walking into the office.
"Hey baby what are you doing?" He asked walking over to her desk and leaning against a part of it that wasn't covered in papers.
"Working what does it look like I'm doing?" She asked looking at him with a smile on her face.
"Well you look sexy while doing it baby."
"Thank you very much Johnny."
She stood up and walked the couple of steps to him. She stood in front of him and wrapped her arms around his neck leaning against him.
He wrapped his arms around her waste and pulled her closer to him before leaning in to kiss her. He made the kiss deeper dipping his tongue into her mouth, tasting the faint taste of strawberry from her lip gloss.
Paul walked down the hall toward Stephanie's office. He needed to talk to her. He loved her and wanted to work on their marriage and hoped that she felt the same way that he did. He knew she had made a mistake in cheating on him with Cena but he was willing to look past all of that.
He got to the door and reached out to grab the knob to open the door. Just as he was turning it to open the door someone called out his name. He took his hand off of the door knob and turned to see who had called out his name.
"What can I do for you Vince?"
"I need to talk to you about your contract for the upcoming match between you and JBL."
"Right now? I need to talk to Steph about something."
"Paul you two are married you can do that later, it's not like you won't see her. Besides John is in my office ready to sign if you are."
"Fine Vince but I need to talk to her before the show starts and she's busy running the show."
"Don't worry it won't take too long."
Paul followed Vince down the hall toward his office. He didn't want to do this right now, he felt his personal life was more important, but he did love his job and Vince wouldn't hesitate to suspend him or punish him in some other way.
Meanwhile Stephanie was still making out with John in earnest. He had managed to get his hand under her top and was playing with the clasp of her bra. She moaned against his mouth before pulling away.
"Not right now Johnny I have work to do remember?"
"Can't you do that later?" He asked pouting at her slightly.
"No but I can do you later when we get to the hotel." She said smiling at him and leaning in to kiss his lips again.
"Fine I can wait if I have to."
"Good because you do." She laughed as she pulled away from him and sat back down in her chair.
"You're no fun." He said smiling at her so she would know that he was just joking.
"That's not what you were saying earlier," She said not looking at him but picking up her work again.
"Well I was pretending."
She stood back up and wrapped her arms around his neck again. "You were huh?"
"No but I knew you'd come back over here if I said that." He said wrapping his arms around her slender waist so that she couldn't go anywhere.
She smiled at him and shook her head before leaning in to kiss him once again. Things were just heating up when her father walked in unannounced with Paul behind him. He had needed to discuss something with her so he had come with Paul.
Stephanie jumped back away from John and looked at her father and husband with wide eyes. "What are you doing here daddy?"
"I could ask the same of you young lady."
"This is…Well John and I are…"
"She cheated on me with him and I guess she decided she'd rather be with him Vince. You know Steph I am so stupid, I was coming in here to tell you that I wanted to try to work on things with you. But apparently that's not what you want."
With that he stormed out of the room and she turned to look at her father again. "How could you Stephanie?"
"I learned it from somewhere didn't i?" She yelled before storming out of the room after her husband.
Vince looked flabbergasted for a moment before turning cold eyes to John. "How could you ruin my daughter's life like this? Don't think you're not going to be punished for this Cena." Vince yelled before leaving the room.
After a moment Vince turned and left the room as well, leaving John alone with his thoughts.
Stephanie had caught up with Paul a few hallways over where he had been sitting on a trunk. "Can I sit?" She asked walking over.
"Why what's left to say?" He said not dignifying her with a look.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean for any of this to happen."
"Then how did it happen, I thought we had a happy marriage."
"We did, but Paul I wasn't happy there for awhile because you were ignoring me and it didn't feel good."
"I never meant to do that to you Steph."
"I know, and I never meant for things with John to go as far as they did. I had been crying the night we started our relationship. I was upset and he made me feel better, so I kissed him. I ran out of the room after because I didn't want something to happen but he came after me and something did happen."
"Well it's obvious that you want to be with him, judging from what I saw anyway." He said glancing up at her face.
"That's not necessarily true Paul, I just…I'm confused about us right now."
"You're my wife, I'm your husband how can you be confused about us?"
"Because lately I don't think we have been more than just two people living in the same house."
"I agree with that one."
"I do love you Paul, more than anything."
"If that were true you wouldn't have cheated Steph."
"It is true, I don't love him Paul I love you." She said standing up from next to him and standing in front of him.
"I love you Steph and I want to work on things but I don't know if I can."
"I want to work on us too Paul."
"Well if that's what we both want to do then I think that's what we need to do."
"I agree."
Stephanie walked back into her office about an hour later knowing what she had to do. She walked into the room and saw John sitting on the couch, just like she knew he would be.
"Hey baby I've been waiting for you. I just had a great idea for this weekend."
"John we need to talk." She said smiling sadly at him.
"What's the matter baby, did he upset you again?"
"No it's not that." She walked over and sat down next to him on the couch, turning a bit so she could look at him.
"Paul and I talked, and we decided we wanted to try and work on things."
"What?" He asked not knowing where this was coming from. He had thought by the way she was acting earlier that she wanted to be with him.
"I love him John, I really do. I need to do this for me you know?"
"Whatever Steph." He said starting to stand up.
She grabbed his arm stopping his movements. "I am so sorry, I really like you. But I need to work on my marriage."
"Yeah okay fine."
"I got you a new locker room a couple of halls over, it's the one next to Matt Hardy. And don't forget your match is the second to last on the card."
"I know Steph." He said getting up and grabbing his things before leaving.
"I'm Sorry John, really I am." She called out as the door closed.
Now she just had to hope she had made the right choice with all of this.