We're now back at Mike's place for the week, or well until Friday. It's well into the morning and we're all awake and hanging out outside on the roof around the pool, until I take a look at the time.

"I think we should get going to the dress fittings."

"Yeah." Aly agrees, after looking at it herself.

"And don't worry, we'll be back before you and I have to get to E3." She says to Mike.

"Alright." He nods, squeezing her hips gently.

"One thing before you go though..." He adds, and she looks at him curiously.

He just grins and leans in, kissing her gently.

"Mmm...love you too." She murmurs once he pulls his lips away.

"Same to you. I'll be back and we'll have more of that alone time that you can't quite seem to get enough of." I add, turning to Alex.

"Sounds good." He smiles and kisses me.

Then I get up from sitting on the edge of the pool, and follow Aly inside. We grab our purses and head out to the place. When we get there, Ethan is there to greet us like last time.

"How're you feeling?" He asks Aly cautiously as we walk back to the fitting area.

"I'm feeling good. I shouldn't have any moodswings this time, at least I hope not. I've had a few weeks to come to terms with how much my body's going to change so I should be okay." She replies.

He nods as we reach the fitting area. This time I let Aly go first, and she walks in to put her dress on. A couple minutes later the curtain slides open. She's standing there and looking at the dress in the mirror from different angles.

"So how does it fit?"

"Better."

"That's good."

She nods, biting her lip.

"Something wrong?" I ask.

Her eyes get watery and she fans her face.

"I'm okay."

"Another mood swing?"

"Maybe." She sniffles.

"But a totally different emotion."

"It's not a type of sadness is it?"

"No, no." She shakes her head.

"Well at least it isn't that. Happiness perhaps?"

She nods, still trying to control the tears.

"It's really hitting me that I'm seriously getting married. I mean I know I've been married for four months already but this is the real deal wedding..."

"Awwww." I smile.

She walks over to me and hugs me tightly.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be standing here this happy."

"You're welcome." I reply, hugging back.

She pulls back and fans her eyes again.

"Must not cry."

"But they're happy tears...happy tears are alright."

"Right." She laughs, wiping some of them away.

Then she heads back in, closing the curtain behind her and she gets changed back into her clothes. She comes out and sits down, letting me go in. She chats with Ethan while I'm changing. After changing I slide the curtain across and I walk out, looking in the mirror for what's gonna be the last time.

"Awwww Dolce you look so pretty."

"Just a couple weeks from today..." I smile.

"Yup. Ready to be married?"

"As ready as I'll ever be."

I admire the dress in the mirror.

"That dress is so gorgeous. It's so you." She comments.

"It is isn't it?"

"For sure." She smiles.

"I'm definitely gonna have to ask for the night off that Monday Night...the week of the wedding. I can't be bruised or in any pain at all for it."

"And hope that you don't have a bad match at the Capitol Punishment."

"Right, that too." I nod.

I look back at the mirror and then Aly checks the time.

"I hate to interrupt this but I know you don't want to take that off but we have to get going.

"Awww ok."

Then I go in to change, walking back out in my regular clothes.

"Just think, in about 2 weeks, you get to wear that for hours."

"I know. So what now? Do I come back another time before the wedding to pick the dress up or can I take it with me now?" I ask.

"Whichever is best for you." Ethan says.

"Hmmm...I think I'll take it with me today. Hah, it's gonna be fun since Alex is gonna wanna peek at it. I'll thwart his plans."

Aly laughs and Ethan goes to pack up the dress for me.

"Once he sees me carry that in, he's gonna get all excited."

"Oh yeah."

Once Ethan was done with packing up the dress for me, he comes back over to us and he hands it to me to take home.

"Thanks Ethan." I say."

"You're welcome." He replies, smiling.

"I'll see you in a couple weeks." Aly says to him and he nods, grinning.

We both say bye to him and then head out to the car, getting in and then heading back to Mike's place. We get back to the condo and walk in the door.

"We're back." Aly announces.

We hear rapid footsteps.

"Here they come.." I laugh.

Mike and Alex come flying into the hallway.

"Whoa, goodness! You missed us that much? We weren't even gone that long!" Aly remarks.

"You know them, it doesn't matter how long we're gone."

"True..."

"That's right." Mike agrees.

She laughs as he wraps himself around her, burying his face in her neck.

"Before you hug me, just be careful okay." I say to Alex before he could hug me himself.

"Oookay..." He looks at me weirdly.

Then he sees the dress bag I'm holding and his eyebrows raise up.

"Is that what I think it is?" Alex asks.

"Yes it's my dress." I giggle, seeing the look on his face.

"And no you can't look at it." I add.

"Only one who can is Mike...since Aly's already seen it multiple times. No peeking either." I continue.

"Damn." He mumbles.

"You have any plans of peeking, I will thwart them."

He pouts.

"Oh come on DC, you can wait two whole weeks."

"It'll be hard."

"Look at how long you waited for the perfect time to propose. I think you can handle it." Aly points out.

"Now I got to go put this in the closet of our room. Mike if you wanna see it, come with me. Alex...do not follow me." I say, giving him a short kiss before walking off to the bedroom.

Mike unwraps himself from Aly and follows me curiously. After getting to the bedroom and walking into the closet, I make sure Alex didn't follow. Then after I hang it up, I unzip the bag and open it enough for Mike to see.

"Oh wow." He comments.

"Yup. Aly says it's so me." I laugh.

"It is." Mike agrees.

"Couple weeks from today..."

"Excited huh?

"It shows doesn't it?"

"Yeah." He chuckles.

"Whatever you do...don't hurt him too bad at Capitol Punishment." I say, zipping the bag back up.

"I'll try my best."

"As long as you try."

Mike nods and hugs me.

"I'm so happy for you." He comments.

"Thanks." I smile.

"Who knew that what I did in NXT would lead to this."

"Yeah."

"Thanks for that by the way. I always have to thank you for that."

"You're very welcome."

Then I pull away from the hug, and we head back out of the room and into the living room where Aly and Alex are, and she's trying to keep Alex from getting up and running into the room to peek at the dress.

"Stop it." She whacks him with a pillow.

"Heyyy!"

She sticks her tongue out. I just laugh to myself and walk over and stand behind the couch. I lean forward and wrap my arms around Alex's shoulders.

"It's okay, you don't have to try and peek anymore...for now."

He leans back into my arms.

"You can keep trying to peek, but I'll keep thwarting your plans." I laugh.

"Darn." He sighs.

"Well for just this week, seeing as I'm keeping the dress here until the week of the wedding. Take a quick trip out here to get it."

Alex nods.

"Alright...Lyssa, we have to get going now." Mike says.

"Aw."

"I got a big interview to do before the autograph signing."

"Alright alright." She reluctantly getsu pfrom the couch.

"Have fun." I say.

"We will." Mike chuckles.

She walks over to Mike, and then they grab what they need before heading out the door to go to E3. He drives along and she relaxes, hanging her hand out the open window with her head laid back against the headrest. It takes a while but they make it to the convention. He parks and then they both get out of the car and walk inside. She stays close to him as possible, hugging his arm, one hand laced with his. After walking around, they find where the interview is gonna take place, so they walk in and sit down to wait until everyone is there. She leans into Mike and smiles as his arm slides around her waist, his palm resting on her stomach.

It doesn't take long, and the other people start walking in. The interviewer and whatnot. After a bit, the interview was announced and it had started.

"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages. is proud to present WWE '12. Cory Ledesma, The Miz, thank you so much for coming."

"So good to be here."

"Miz..it's been a while."

"It has been a while Gruesome Greggy."

"I'm glad you could sub-in. I know you're not on the cover this year..."

"Yeah it's a little disappointing...Cory." Mike says, turning to look at him.

Aly stifles a laugh.

"That was MY decision not to have him on the cover..."

"Ohhh it was, was it?"

"It was MY decision to have him...low ratings in the game."

"Ohhhh so Cory..."

"I call the shots in my world."

"Oh listen. You know what? Cory's been literally...he hasn't been talking about, he didn't do anything about the game. He's been in his office for one year for this interview right now. He's been writing comebacks like 'Alright, Miz...Miz made fun of me last year on the show, so I need to make comebacks the entire time. And I'm gonna make him not on the...', yeah okay okay. You have that control...you don't. The fans...the WWE Universe has that control."

"Why aren't you on the cover though?"

"Because the...I'm not liked, I'm a bad guy. People don't like me, people like Randy Orton 'cause they cheer him. They love John Cena, because they cheer him."

"Miz Miz Miz...I like you."

"Thank you Gruesome Greggy."

Aly giggles quietly.

"I also like what I see in WWE '12 so far. Cory tell me about some of the improvements we got here."

"Uh, it's a big year for us. Obviously we have a brand new name, the franchise has been rebooted, re-packaged, and we have brand new technology. So the game has been built on the new animation, which means we basically have much more fluid, smooth, motions." Cory describes and goes on with the techy talk.

"The game's looking great. Don't you agree?"

"Yeah, honestly you just spoke nerd for about ten minutes. Like...everyone's looking at you like 'huh?'." Mike jokes.

Aly laughs and nods.

"I'll slow down and use smaller words for you."

"No it's not smaller words, it's the way you put the words together. Listen this is what it's gonna be. Listen go to...go to your little Harry Potter movies, you know go get your wizard wand and your invisible cloak and start running around here at E3. By the way I call him King of E3, 'cause we walk around and Cory Ledesma is very popular around here. Like all the guys like literally go 'Cory Ledesma...dude that's Cory Ledesma bro. Dude at real Cory Ledesma on Twitter, oh my god'."

"Yeah yeah, he's a big deal around here."

"All the chicks are just talking about him. Right? You're talking about him all the time. Right?" Mike asks the girl who introduced the game.

"Is anybody giving you the time of the day Miz?"

"What's that?"

"Is anybody giving you the time of day?"

"Whenever I'm around Cory, no. He's the head honcho, King of E3..Cory Ledesma. The only girls that are giving me the time of day are the ones that want to talk to my wife."

She laughs.

"What do you think of your character model here, what do you got going on?"

"I think I look absolutely terrific, I mean granted every year I always say the same thing. They can make me bigger, and I think if they made me bigger and more cut, it'd be more in reality. But the way I move, the way I am, I mean they have all my moves in it..the Skull Crushing Finale. Wait, I'm setting up for the taunt..." Mike says as they both look at the screen that's showing the game footage.

"...and the Skull Crushing Finale. The most devasting..."

Then they all start talking over each other as you see that Randy got up quickly from getting the Skull Crushing Finale.

"No! No! No one comes back to my finisher. No one has ever kicked out of my finisher. This is...are you kidding me? I hit the Skull Crushing Finale, that should be a 1-2-3. There is a glitch in the game!"

Aly's trying not to laugh as Mike gets all mad.

"Authenticity."

"Authenticity...I don't like Cory Ledesma anymore." Mike states.

"Your wife thinks it's funny." Cory retorts, pointing to Aly.

Mike looks at her and she's trying to keep a straight face.

"Sorry." She giggles.

"Not many people do, but Cory what about these comebacks. Tell me about them."

"Wake up taunts as well as the dynamic comeback. You know, you want to have a momentum swing in the match, so that if you are getting beat down, you are hitting critical damage...you do have one chance to make a comeback. And it's a combo sequence that plays out, the opponent does have an opportunity to reverse it." Cory explains and keeps going on with talking about the comebacks and stuff.

"I'm not happy about this. I'm not happy about this comeback mode. 'Cause that's not what happens when I hit the Skull Crushing Finale."

"We don't have a comeback for you in the game."

"Well I don't need it, I'm never down. Look at me whooping on Randy Orton right now, that's what happens in real life."

"Are you just toying with us right now?"

"That's what I do, I toy with everybody. Look at that, BOOM! In your face!" Mike exclaims, as they watch him kick Randy in the game.

"Now I'm taunting again. Now can he do another comeback mode? If he does I might smack you."

"He only gets one..."

"I might smack you."

"He only gets one, so he missed his opportunity."

"It needs to be over right now."

"This is it, this is it."

"1-2-3."

"Thank you, thank you. I do, you know it is easy for me. For most people it's very hard."

Aly giggles quietly.

"Cory we didn't get to see there, because you know Bryan is afraid to play a real opponent. But when you're playing a real opponent, you're talking about now the pin meter jumps around and harder to kick out."

"That's right uh...you know we had some users that were mastering that timing or basically they knew exactly where that little target zone was, so they could hold the button to hit it right there. But this year not only does the target zone get smaller as you get more damage, but it will randomly change as well so you can't master that timing, it's different each time. Also we have some cool things popping up where the meter won't pop up right away on the 1 count, it actually gets delayed after a finisher, so you only get one chance at the very end to kick out of the pin."

"So now WWE '12, that's the name of this game. Why drop Smackdown vs Raw?"

"Uh you know, I think it's kind of appropriate. We have this new technology, uh the franchise has been stale for a while. That name doesn't really mean anything...Smackdown vs Raw as far as WWE programming. So, it's also a mouthful, I'm sick of con...we say SvR for short because it's a big name. But uh...I think it's just the perfect year to do this, we have a new experience for this year's game, new technology. We dedicated all our resources to gameplay this year, gameplay's key. So we just felt it was a perfect year to do the rebrand with the new technology."

For most of the time, Cory just did more tech talk about the game and everything, until Mike interjects.

"You just don't shut up do you?"

Aly tries to snicker quietly.

"Sorry."

"Miz was that too much nerd speak for you?"

"I mean literally he just talked for fifteen minutes and I'm literally like 'uh huh, uh huh, uh huh'. It's boring like...you know what I mean like when he talks, he talks and gives you all the information but he needs jokes inside. He needs more of a better flow. She's staring at you like you're an idiot. She really is, and I was sitting here like listen to this guy. I mean granted it's good information, but snap in a joke there once or twice. Give them a little something."

"Here's the problem. How long have you known Cory Ledesma?"

"I've known Cory Ledesma for about 3 years now. And let me tell you something...by the way I did an autograph signing before, and I had Cory. I was like...you know me and Cory go way back, he'll give me a great introduction right? He walks up there, grabs the microphone and goes 'Hey everyone, um...the awesome one is here, uh come on give it up for him. Give it up for him guys'. So where I had to literally grab the mic and get the crowd back. It took me a little bit, but I'm very good at getting the crowd back. Kinda like what I'm doing right now. Like when Cory was just talking about that whole thing, not entertaining...not that good. Now look at her, she's smiling, she's happy. She's ready to go, boom let's do this thing right up. Now ask him another question so he can nerd it up again."

"No no no no no. Now what we do is now you boil everything Cory now said, and you give it to me the Miz way."

"Thank you."

"So Miz tell me about the game. What is the predator technology mean?"

"Predator technology means to me, that basically it's making the game absolutely better. I mean it's more free flowing, it's fun..."

"Ohhhh! Look at Randy Orton own you!"

"That is not funny."

Aly pats his leg, trying not to laugh.

"The comeback mode that he's having and..."

"Ohhh! Oh my god the Viper is striking!"

"See this is not the predator mode that I enjoy. This is...the predator mode that is gonna happen is where I move right now. That was me move...whoever's playing the game move." Mike says, after they all see Randy drop a knee to his face in the game.

"This is getting...this is getting out of control ladies and gentlemen. Before this all happens, before the RKO can hit, Cory when does this game come out...ohhh too late."

"Ohhh!"

"He set the comeback mode. Give him another! Give him another! That's how it's done! That's how you play the game! WWE '12, November 22, 2011!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, WWE '12. Naomi get me the hell out of here."

She says thanks, and then the interview ended. Mike says his goodbyes to the people and they go off to roam around a little bfore his autograph signing. They roam around, until Mike stops when he recognizes someone. It turned out to be Mark Long, and they started talking, while some fans came up to talk to Aly. She answers their questions, mostly dealing with the baby and things like that. It took a while for Mike to finish talking to Mark, but he finally realizes the time and he finishes the conversation, then they walk over to where the autographs are gonna be taking place. As usual when they sit down, he pulls her chair right up to his and pulls her legs over his knee.

"So having fun?" He asks.

"Uh-huh."

"I'm sure another interviewer is gonna find me, so we can't get too comfortable."

"Darn."

And not too soon after that, there was an interview and a camera coming over.

"See?" He chuckles.

She laughs and moves her legs. Mike gets up and walks around to the front of the table for the interview.

"So Jonathan Holmes here uh from Destructoid dot com, with the new people's champion in my opinion The Miz. As you may know, I was on Road Rules Season Five. The Miz was on uh..."

"You were on Road Rules Season Five weren't you? I tot-...you had longer hair." Mike says amusedly.

"Yeah I had hair, um...you know and since..."

"I actually remember you."

"You were on the uh...Real World..."

"Back To New York, Season 10."

"That's right, since then..."

"I just saw Mark Long..."

"Did you?"

"Mark Long from Road Rules Season One. It's a huge huge MTV reunion right now."

"Yeah it's awesome and since that time, you have gone on to become a WWE Champion, sex symbol, uh...idol to millions..."

"I don't mean to brag about it but I went on to become the most must see WWE superstar in history, I've won many championships uh...the WWE Championship, United States Championship twice. Uh the Tag Team Championships four times, uh Mr. Money In The Bank, uh I mean the list goes on. I'm two time Slammy Award winner, but I don't wanna brag about it...I don't want to brag. I'm on a video game uh..WWE '12, I don't know if you knew."

"Yeah I can't wait."

"They've revamped the whole thing. It's no longer Smackdown vs Raw, which I was on that video game too. Hahahahaha, but who's talking."

"Since then I've gone bald and work for a video game blog."

"You work for video game-...are you complaining? It's got to be the greatest job in the world. You get to go to everybody and talk about video games. This is like every kid's dream."

"We're both living the dream."

"We are living the dream. I'm in video games and you talk about video games it's perfect."

"Yeah. So I can talk about you and you can look at me talking to you about you."

"I love talking about me, it's fantastic. When people talk about me, it's one of my favorite things."

Aly sitting in her chair laughing.

"So what're you most excited about for the revamped uh...game coming out?"

"Well other than myself being in it, I mean do you have literally any idea what it's like playing a video game and calling your friends going 'Dude come over, let's hang out or whatever'. And then you put on the video game and you're playing, and then they come in and it's like 'Oh, I was just playing oh...oh I'm on the video game yes that is me, that is my character and people do play my character'. It's incredible, I mean it's one of those wonderful things and then WWE '12 this year, they revamped it. They took it apart...Smackdown vs Raw...they took it apart, put it back together and made it bigger, badder, better...it's an incredible video game. Uh...the reviews have been through the roof so, I'm excited about it, everybody's excited about it and uh...it's gonna be huge."

"I can't wait, I can't wait. Anything you wanna tell the people before we part? I know you got to sign some stuff."

"Of course. Listen, we both have come from Mtv. We're standing here right now, talking to you all. And the reason why we're standing here, is because we're success stories. We have made it in the eyes of everybody around. The millions watching right now think that we're successes, which we are. Because we are awesome."

After the camera was shut off, they walked away and Mike walked back to the table and sat down, and pulls Aly's legs back over his knee.

"You're such a goof." She kisses his cheek and giggles.

"Love you too." He grins.

She laughs and shakes her head. Then a few moments later, it reached 2pm and the autograph signing had started. During the signing Aly ends up signing about as much as he did. There were quite a number of pictures taken and many, many congratulation wishes from the people coming up to the table. The hour seemed to pass by awfully quick, and once the last person went through, the table was cleaned up and they both sat there and relaxed for a while. Aly's leaning against him with her eyes closed while he rubs her belly like he loves to do.

"So after we leave here, we can go get something to eat if you want."

"...sure."

"Then we have the rest of the day and night to ourselves."

"...sounds good."

"You sound tired."

"Mmm...yeah."

"We can leave now and head back so you can take a nap if you want."

She opens her eyes and nods. He moves her legs, and then they both get up, heading through all the people to the doors. Once they're outside, they get into the car and start heading back. On the ride back, she ends up falling asleep. When he pulls up and shuts off the car, he tries to wake her up, telling her that they're back so that they can get inside. She just turns over in her sleep. He then gets out of the car and comes over to her side, opening her door. He unbuckles her seatbelt and reaches down, picking her up carefully and taking her out of the car. He shuts the door with his foot, and then starts to head inside. Mike gets to the door and taps on it until he hears footsteps. I open the door.

"Looks like someone had a little too much fun." I laugh, stepping aside so he can walk in with her.

"Guess so." He chuckles.

He walks right to the bedroom, closing the door with his foot after he walks in, and then places her on the bed before climbing onto it to lay next to her. She rolls over and snuggles against him, tucking her head against his neck. He smiles and kisses the top of her head, before getting more comfortable, falling asleep with her. I close the front door and go back into the living room by Alex.

"I think she had a little too much fun at E3."

"Why?"

"Mike had to carry her in, because she was sleeping."

"Oh." Alex chuckles.

"How're you holding up with the no peeking at my dress?"

"I'm alright."

"You sure now? I know how anxious you are to see it." I laugh.

"I am but for you, I'll wait."

"Good choice."

He kisses my cheek.

"Two weeks from today..." He says.

"I know." I smile.

"Really excited." I add.

"You get me all to yourself soon." I continue.

Alex chuckles and kisses behind my ear.

"That's right."

"It'll be easier to wait if you make it easy to..." He adds.

"But where's the fun in that?" I giggle.

"Says you..."

"Hey, you know you have just as much fun torturing me as I do torturing you."

"That's right, which I have yet to do today." He smirks.

"Uh-oh."

He suddenly picks me up and hoists me over his shoulder, heading in the direction of the bedroom.

"Alex!" I exclaim.

"Must you do this all the time?" I laugh.

"Yes."

"...dork." I comment as he walks into the bedroom.

"Yours."

"And will be forever in two weeks." I add.

"Exactly." He chuckles.

Once he shut the door and walked over to the bed, he dropped me onto it.

"A little warning next time would be great."

"We'll see." He smirks.

"I'll take that as a no then." I say amusedly.

"Like I said, we'll see."

"Uh-huh...suuure."

"You talk too much." He says, moving onto the bed and hovering over me.

"So you tell me all the time."

Alex doesn't answer, capturing my lips with his. After a while his hands start wandering, before resting on my hips. I didn't realize it until I felt it, but his hands seem to find their way underneath the bottom of my shirt. He drags his fingers up my sides. I shiver, and pull away from his lips for a moment and lean my forehead against his.

"I'm not even close to being done with the torture yet..." He comments.

I groan.

"Alexxxx..."

"Hey, you're not making things easy for me, I'm not gonna make it easy for you. I'm fighting back."

I groan again. He just grins and presses his lips back to mine, continuing to drag his fingers along my sides. Then he starts to move them to my back, I arch a bit and I grip onto his shoulders tighter as he drags his fingers along my back. I let my hands slide down his chest to rest on his abs. I feel him tense up underneath my fingertips and I smirk against his lips. He pulls away from my lips and gives me a look.

"You deserve that." I giggle.

He lets his eyes drift fown to my neck.

"Ohhhh no."

He begins to smirk.

"No shark today."

"And why not."

"Because I say so."

He leans down and starts kissing my neck lightly anyway. He didn't leave any marks, and he finished like he always does with moving back to my lips, and then pulling away a few minutes later. I look up at him.

"Love you."

"Love you too."

"So is there something you want to do?"

"I'm actually pretty content on staying right here."

"Okay." I giggle.

"But you can remove your hands now you know." I add.

"Aww."

"It just gives you the temptation to get carried away. We can't have that happening just yet."

He nods, reluctantly taking his hands out from under my shirt.

"That goes for you too." He says to me.

I laugh lightly and torture him one last time before removing my hands. He moves so that he's laying next to me, and he pulls me over into his side. I lay against him, resting my head on his chest. I wasn't feeling tired, but the sound of his heartbeat made me drift off.