Hey everybody! Sorry I have not worked on this story for about a week or so. I don't know why I didn't work on it, no excuses. Anyways, a major thank you to coolchic79260 and vampiregirl2009 for reviewing again! Love you ladies!! Carrie, it is unfortunate that Punk and his crew had to interfere and ruin the sex celebration. But I can guarantee that they won't be showing up for Maria's concert after the match in this update! Danni, I forgive you about the mistake about my age. As for the request... I still can't do it. Only because I have other stories to update and put up. Could you ask someone else to do it? No offense, but I might be too busy to do the request as far as my stories and the fan fiction site goes. Sorry.:(

*BTW, this chapter takes place on the day of Extreme Rules, which is April 25th. But this is the chapter before the actual match itself. It will be in the next installment.

Chapter 14: Relationship On The Line

In the morning...

"Good morning, Adam," Maria sleepily stated, turning around in bed to look at her boyfriend. The two lovebirds were at a hotel in Baltimore because they would be part of the Extreme Rules pay per view event tonight. Adam and Phil would be facing off for the right to marry Maria on Smackdown during the summer.

"Mornin', my little minx," Adam replied, putting his arms around Maria. "So, how do you feel about tonight's match?"

"I'm feelin' kinda nervous about tonight," said Maria, playing with a piece of her hair.

"Ria," Adam said, taking Maria's hands away from her hair. "There's no need to worry about our match tonight. I'm pretty damn confident that I will walk out victorious tonight."

"Well... What if Luke, Serena and Vickie try to make it so that Phil wins?" Maria asked nervously.

"Don't worry babe. Mark and Glen will help us out if we need them."

"But why them? I mean, two rough and tough men like them aren't going to be interested in helping to create a happy ending for a love story." Maria shook her head and shrugged her shoulders fairly quickly.

"Why not? Don't you remember the night we got back together?" Adam asked.

"Uh... Yeah?"

"Mark and Glen showed us the video of the two of us. They're the ones who helped us reunite, Ria. Thought you'd know that by now." Adam shook his head and chuckled at her.

"What? I just thought it was weird that the two of them, specifically Mark, would even want to help us out anyway," Maria replied to Adam, shrugging again.

"I don't know why either, but... You want me to call Mark and ask if we're still on for during the match tonight?"

"Sure. Don't see why not. Especially considering how he saved me and you from Vickie and the Straight Edge Society during our celebration last month," Maria pointed out to her lover.

Adam looked at the clock next to the hotel bed. Then he let out a small chuckle.

"What?" Maria wanted to know.

"It's now about 7:45 in the morning. So... I'd imagine that Mark must still be asleep."

"Then, just wait to call him and let him wake himself up," said Maria.

"Ria, do you want to know if he'll help us tonight or not?"

"Okay okay. Sorry," Maria quickly apologized.

"It's okay, baby." Adam gave his girlfriend a kiss before picking up the phone and dialing Mark's room. Hopefully he would help the two lovers out tonight...

Mark's Hotel Room

In another room at the busy hotel, Mark was in his bed, sleeping the day away. Sometimes he wasn't really a morning person, like most other wrestlers probably weren't. But sometimes if he was home, he'd get up early to play with his kids before Chasey had to go to school. At 7:50, he was woken up by his phone ringing.

"What the hell, man?" he thought to himself, looking at the clock. "Who has the right mind to call me so early in the morning?"

Mark sat up, stretched, and picked up the phone.

"Hello?" he yawned.

"Hey big man. It's Adam and Maria," Mark heard Adam tell him through the other end.

"Hey Adam. Hey Maria," Mark said quickly.

"Hi Phenom. What's going on?" Maria asked after she had taken the phone.

"Not much, really," replied Mark. "Just trying to get some sleep before the Extreme Rules taping for tonight."

"I see. You remember how a couple of weeks ago we talked about you coming out and helping me and Adam?"

Mark was very quick to reply with, "Of course I do." After the Smackdown taping 2 weeks ago, the three coworkers had talked about how Mark would basically give Adam and Maria the right to marry each other.

Adam took the phone back and explained, "So... The referee will get knocked out, and while the Straight Edge Society goes after Maria and taunts her, that's when you come in and scare them off. Then Vickie will come out to try to affect the outcome, but you will prevent her from doing so by dragging her into the ring and giving her a Tombstone Piledriver. Phil will get distracted by what happened, and I will give him one last Spear to win it all."

"Um... Okay. Sounds good to me," Mark replied. "So, I'll see you guys tonight, I guess."

"Bye Mark," both Adam and Maria said at the same time.

"Goodbye, you two lovebirds," Mark muttered, chuckling before he hung up the phone.

"Oh boy. What in the blue hell did I get myself and my character into?" he finally asked himself before going back to sleep.

Finally this chapter is d - o - n - e! Sorry this one took me so long. I had absolutely no idea what to put in this one. Let me know what you think!

~Jen W.