Disclaimer: I DON'T own any WWE wrestlers; this is all from the mind of a brilliant scientist.

Alyssa sat sitting on the couch relaxing after a long day at the water park. John had gotten a few strings pulled to get the park opened. They had a blast sliding down all these massive tubes. Alyssa was astounded, even though she lived many summers in Florida she never actually had gone to a water park. Think about it would her parents stop working or shopping long enough to take her? Yeah right. Most of her youth was spent watching history documentaries or doing homeschool workbooks. Her dad was determined to make sure that she'd graduate at the head of her class. Anything less than valedictorian would be deem an utter failure. Alyssa shuddered at the thought and the consequences it would breed.

"Lyss?" Alyssa tried to lift her head but it didn't work. John smiled at her and plopped down next to her. "I see someone had fun?" Alyssa did her best to sit up.

"Yeah I did. I never knew they were that much fun!" She knew she sounded giddy and dumb but hey it was true. John smiled, he liked how easy it was to make her smile. He was just sad that it was her first water park experience.

"So would you ever go back to one?"

"Totally. Well you know maybe when the water isn't freezing." John smiled.

"Are you getting smart?" Alyssa smirked in response to John's raised eyebrow.

"Yeah, and what are you going to do?" John stood up and smiled devilishly. He reached down and grabbed a pillow off the couch.

"This." Alyssa didn't get time to react before the pillow came crashing down against her body. John didn't know his own strength and knocked her over easily. He stopped and stared at her with wide eyes. "Lyss?" Alyssa smiled evilly and whacked John as possibly hard as she could with a pillow of her own. Sadly he just looked at her and smiled evilly. "Oh now you're gonna get it!" Alyssa's eyes grew large and she tried to dash away but John was quicker. Quickly he had her on the floor and tickling her. Alyssa tried to squirm away but of course John was too strong. She couldn't breathe but he wouldn't let up. Finally when Alyssa managed to roll onto her side and was drastically out of breath he stopped triumphantly. "Yeah, I'm good like that." Alyssa rolled her eyes and tried to sit up.

"You know, you never would have done that if you weren't twice my size." John rolled his eyes.

"Sure." She plopped back down on the couch with John following suit on the love seat next to her. "What time is your flight out tomorrow?" Alyssa sighed she hadn't booked the flight yet. Honestly, she didn't want to go back.

"I'll call them later." John rolled his eyes, yeah he was sure she'd do that.

"So what do you want to do later?" Alyssa looked up at him curiously, it was never her choice what should be done that was always left up to schedules or her parents. Never her. John shook his head, this didn't need to be the spectacle she was making it. Alyssa was struggling. How should she handle this? Would saying something too farfetched be bad? Or should she say nothing? She hated choices they always made her think too much. Finally, forty thousand brain cells later she spoke.

"Um, I don't know. Whatever you want to do is fine with me." John sighed, he knew the mark of a people pleaser.

"I don't want what you think you should say, I want what you want to say." John looked deep into Alyssa's eyes and saw utter confusion. He shook his head, her parents had really screwed her up. "So what would you like to do?"

"I don't really know what to say," she paused "a movie maybe?" John smiled.

"Sure thing kid." They both dozed off a few minutes later. Alyssa's slumber went from calm and serene to horrendous nightmare. Her ever reoccurring dream returned. It always started with her traveling frantically down the streets of downtown New York alone. Continuously she tried to get someone to help her, but every time she was rebuffed. Then it cut to her dad's annual gala where she couldn't find her parents. She began screaming the names of her parents only to have no one to respond. She hated feeling alone. It was nagging, it gnawed at her, it petrified her. It was a dull ache that embedded itself within the pit of her stomach. Nagging. Twisting. Crushing. She couldn't' breathe. Alyssa startled out of her slumber by her cell phone ringing loudly. Quickly she grabbed it and hit the answer button while still panting. Her skin was sweaty and she felt cold all over. Gotta love those reoccurring dreams.

"Hello?"

"Alyssa this is Steven, your mother's personal assistant. She would like to know what hotel you're staying at so I can send a car to pick you up." Alyssa's mind began to move rapidly. How would her parents react to her staying with John? This would cause trouble for sure.

"Um." John was stirring next to her and heard her voice change.

"Miss I don't have all day." Alyssa's eyes narrowed.

"And you don't have my time anymore either." She quickly hung up the phone. Why would her mother decide to care all of a sudden? John was awake now and quite curious.

"What was that about?" Alyssa's demeanor changed to a fiery rage.

"My mom's temp personal assistant. Apparently she cares all of a sudden and wants my hotel so she can send a car to get me." John shook his head, he hoped this wouldn't get her into any trouble. Alyssa angrily threw the phone down on the couch next to her. Why was it that her parents only seemed to care when she was having a good time?

Alyssa was sitting at her desk in her room readying to watch a documentary on her computer. It was yet another Friday night where she would spend sitting in front of her computer, alone. Tonight's subject would be the doomed German zeppelin, the Hindenburg. Even though she already knew all about it, she had no problem looking at another perspective. Her roommate had left with her friends earlier snickering and leaving a trial of insults behind them. Shaking her head, Alyssa settled in for the long haul. It wasn't that she didn't want friends it was that she had a hard time trusting people. After trying for so long to make friends who'd she could trust she just decided it was better to stay alone. There was no point, they'd leave eventually anyway. An interesting note was that Alyssa was an avid forum hunter. She had tag names on all the major computer and history forums. Each of which had their own clique but she would never call these people friends, they were merely acquaintances you talk you when you have a specific problem or need someone to help you trouble shoot a problem. Soon she was underway on her movie watching. Somehow the images on the screen captivated her and she found herself quite enthralled with the subject matter. It was almost to the point where the zeppelin would actually explode, but it didn't happen because her screen paused as an iChat window with an unknown username popped up. Grunting Alyssa angrily tapped on the icon. If it was one of those stupid kids needing help she'd murder them. But who popped up on the screen surprised her drastically.

"John?" There smiling cheesily at her was John Cena.

"Yes and you sound surprised why?" Alyssa scoffed. It had been two weeks since Thanksgiving and John had promised to keep in touch, but this was the first time she'd talked to him since. Honestly, she had just figured he said it to be polite. In response she just shrugged. "Sorry about the delay, I'm on set shooting my next movie and I haven't had any time." Alyssa just looked at him, if anyone knew about not being someone's first priority and being pushed aside for work it was her.

"Well that's nice, but you're interrupting a very riveting documentary." His eyebrows rose.

"Oh really?" She nodded.

"Yup." There was an awkward silence between them. Alyssa was trying to mask her hurt and her surprise while John was just simply trying to figure her out. "So yeah if you're not gonna say anything I'm going to talk to you in another two weeks I guess." A light bulb went off in John's head, she had thought he cared only to be thrown to the wayside yet again. He silently cursed himself for being so blind. He knew about her parents. He knew how that bothered her, and he'd trampled on it. He felt really low.

"Lyss, I'm sorry I haven't contacted you before but honestly I will try to call or text your or something as much as I can." Alyssa's eyes narrowed.

"I don't need your pity."

"It's not pity, I actually kind care about you." She rolled her eyes.

"Sure." John sighed. "So do you have a reason to continue bothering me or…?" John sighed this would be a hard wall to break through.

"I just was just wondering what you wanted for Christmas?" Alyssa didn't know how to respond, no one ever asked that before. With her parents it was all about 'you get what I give you if I remember to buy you something'. So for anyone to ask her what she wanted left her utterly speechless.

"I um, well um anything I guess." John groaned inwardly, what kind of kid didn't expect to be asked about Christmas?

"You sure, there's got to be something you want for Christmas." Alyssa sighed, yeah she wanted her parents to pay some attention to her rather than shoving her to the wayside, but hey santa was for real wishes right? She shrugged.

"I'm not gonna expect anything." John's heart constricted at the coldness in her voice. Clearly she was trying to protect herself. Don't expect anything and when you get nothing you're not hurt. He figured he'd change the subject or at least alter it a bit.

"So you're with your mom for Christmas right?" Alyssa nodded sadly.

"Yup, well for Christmas day, but I'm with Dad for Christmas Eve. I leave home the 23rd and meet him in California for his annual Christmas Eve party." John's eyes narrowed.

"What about those days leading up to the 23rd?" Against she shrugged.

"I'll be at home. I have a live in nanny so she watches me."

"Alone?"

"Yeah I'll be alone. I'm used to it. I have the guest house now so it doesn't matter. It's kind of like an apartment if you think about it." John's eyes said just what he was thinking. Alyssa tried to make it better. "Don't worry, I'll just do what I need to as always. I'm good like that." John shook his head, that was the problem. She knew how to take care of herself cause no one else did. He was disgusted. A kid alone for two weeks? Especially during the time of the year for families. He began to grind his teeth. Some people just don't deserve to have children. He could tell by the way Alyssa was speaking that she was wavering between sad and angry. He had an idea.

"You know what? I'm off to shoot this movie until mid-January. Why don't you come out here with me until you have to go to your dad's?" Alyssa sat back in her chair. This was quite the unusual proposition. She'd never imagined that John Cena or anyone that matter would be sincerely trying to make her happy. She was touched really, but of course she tried to play it off.

"Don't you have some family or something?" John smiled, she was trying to keep up her distant uncaring persona. He knew he had cracked that shell to her innermost layer.

"I do, but I'm not going to see them until the 20th so it'll be just me and you on the set," He paused briefly. "Whadda say?" Alyssa chewed her nail. The repercussions for this could be catastrophic, but why should she stop her one shot at happiness for people who could care less about her?

"Um, yeah I guess so. Erm thanks." John smiled at her while Alyssa shook her head at his cocky smile. Christmas break with John Cena…who would have ever thought of that?

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