It had been two weeks since that incident in the hallway with Cody and Dean. I elected to stay by myself than be with Dean. I had been hurt by Cody and that was enough to stop me from being with anybody else and that included Dean. Currently I was in my room at the hotel. There was one thing that if I had my own room the guys had to agree on with was that I was in the middle of them. Ro was on one side Seth on the other and Dean across the hall. They all had their ears opened in case I needed anything. As I was in my own little world on my laptop my phone decided to ring. I picked it up without looking at the caller id.

"Hello?"

"Don't you ever look at the caller id?"

"Nope." I said with a laugh as I shut my computer up.

"Want to go get something to eat?"

"Who's all going?" I asked standing up and looking in the mirror fixing my hair.

"The usual."

"So you and the two goons?"

"That's the usual, Lou."

"I'll be waiting outside the door for you." I said hanging up and walked out the door.

Sure enough outside the door, the guys were waiting. Ro and Seth were standing against the wall next to my door while Dean was still in his room. I went over and hugged the guys. As I pulled away from Roman, Dean walked out of his room. He smiled ever so lightly at me. I smiled back at him. We all started down the hall to the elevator. With me and Roman hanging back a little.

"You know you should really look at the caller id before answering your phone, Lou." He said nudging me just a little.

"It's an old habit I have."

"You should talk to him." He whispered to me.

"He doesn't want to talk to me." I whispered back.

We got to the elevator and got in. Roman nudged me forward. Seth took the spot I had making me stand next to Dean. I looked over my shoulder and stared at the two now behind me. Seth stuck his tongue out at me. I turned back forward and looked at a spot on the floor. Dean decided to put his arm over my shoulders and pulled me closer to him.

"I want to talk to you, baby." He whispered in my ear. This caused me to turn a shade of red. I just nodded my head.

When the elevator came to stop we all got out. Dean and I hung back. He pulled me down a hallway. Once he was sure there was nobody there he pushed me up against the wall. He put a hand on either side of my head boxing me in.

"Are you scared of me?" He asked with his face just inches from mine.

"No,"

"Good."

He leaned down and kissed me. It was the most breathtaking kiss ever. After just a few minutes I pushed him away from me. He looked at me with confused eyes. I just shook my head at him before I moved one of his hands from the wall.

"What's wrong?"

"I made a mistake with Cody. I'm entitled to that being only 16 but I don't want to screw this up."

"There's no screwing this up, baby." He put his hand under my chin making me look at him. "I'm the screw up, not you. You were just in a very fucked up situation. I'm not going to let that situation happen any more." He leaned down a kissed me again.

"I don't want anything to mess what we have up, though." I moved away from him only to have him pull me back towards him.

"We'll go slow then." He pushed some of my hair out of my face. "Let's go eat then head to the gym to train." He pulled me along with him to the restaurant that Roman and Seth had went to. "It's only a matter of time before your pretty ass is in the ring with me." He said just as we got to the door.

"I can't wait." I said more to myself than him.

I stood in the gorilla position with John. We were waiting on his cue so we could go out there and start my new storyline with the Shield. I had on my blue jeans and a multi color tank top. John put my hand through his arm and we walked out when his music hit. I was all smiles and everything. We got to the ring and John picked up his mic.

"As you all know, I have a match later on this afternoon. I just wanted to say a few words to Ryback before that. You see, Lou here came up with an idea. Ryback you want a match with me. How about we have a number 1 contenders match. I mean, let's make this interesting, How about Ryback and Mark Henry got at it again just to see who gets their title match with me." He smirked at the camera as the crowd booed and cheered. He held the mic up to his lips to speak again only to be interrupted.

Sierra
Hotel
India
Echo
Lima
Delta

Shield...

John dropped the mic and pushed me behind him. I stood behind him holding on to his shirt. Roman, Seth, and Dean walked down the stairs. They jumped over the barricade and surrounded the ring. They hopped on the apron and waited for their cue. I kneeled down and delivered a low blow to John. He went down on his knees and I backed up and sat on the middle rope and watched as the guys got in the ring and demolished John. I pretended to look at my nails as the guys did their work. I got off the rope and put my hand in the middle along with the other three. I smirked into the camera as Roman yelled.

"Believe In The Shield!"