Two weeks had passed. Tomorrow John was going home with Juliette. Juliette was in the mall in a Victoria's Secret store.
"I thought that was you." Paige said coming into the store. She was holding a plastic bag.
"Hey Paige." "What are you doing here?"
"I needed some new boots." "Buying something for John?" She asked smiling.
"Tomorrow will be the first time he's coming to stay at my house." "I want it to be special and romantic."
"I'm sure it will be." "You know I really had you pegged wrong."
"What do you mean?"
"Well when you first got here you came acrossed to me as the workaholic type who didn't like to have any fun." "Since you've been with John that seems to have melted away."
"Yeah I've definitely seen things in a different light being with John."
The next day Juliette and John walked through the door of her apartment. John put his bag down.
"Nice place." John said.
"Thank you." "Here." She handed him a key.
"What's this?"
"Your key." "Want the grand tour?"
"Yeah."
"Ok." "This is the living room. "Over here is the kitchen." "Right there is the downstairs bathroom." They went upstairs. "To the right is the second bathroom."
"What's at the end of hall?"
"The bedroom." "Wanna see that?"
"Yeah." They went into the bedroom. "Wow that's a big bed."
"I like a big bed." "Normally it's just me in it but I have a feeling that's gonna change."
"If I have anything to do with it it will." "As a matter of fact I think I need to lay down right." He laid down on the bed. "Come here." She got on top of him.
"I love you so much." She said smiling.
"I love you too." They kissed.
The next morning John woke up. He decided to make breakfast for them. He was making eggs. When he cracked one open he got some of the counter. As he was looking for a dishrag to clean it up he accidently knocked Juliette's purse on the floor. Her tape recorder hit he tile floor. When it did the rewind button pressed down.
"Shit." He said. He picked up her purse. Then he picked up the tape recorder. "I hope I didn't break it." He pressed play to see if it still worked. What he heard shocked him.
"Subject, John Cena." Juliette said. "Objective, get close to and exploit John."
John's jaw dropped.
Juliette came down about an hour later. John was sitting on the couch.
"Hey honey." She said. "I was wondering where you were." John stood up and faced her. He looked angry. "John what's wrong?" She saw the tape recorder in his hand.
"Who are you?"
"John I can explain." "I'm an undercover reporter for The New York Times." "My assignment was to pose as a backstage interviewer and pick a wrestler to do a story on."
"And I was the winner?" He said angrily. "Yay for me." "I'm just your assignment, your job right?"
"No."
"Really?" "That's not what you said." "Your job is to use me."
"It started out like that but it's not like that anymore."
"Is your name even Juliette Barkley?"
"Yes."
"That story about your dad." "That was a lie to wasn't it?" "To sucker me in."
"No." "It really happened."
"You think I take steroids?" "Well I got news for you, I don't."
"I know that now that was just an assumption I made."
"I guess that's what the sex was for huh?" "To see if you were right or not."
"No." "I could get fired for that." "You're not supposed to have any physical contact with your subjects."
"That's all I was to you." "A subject."
"No." She said with tears in her eyes.
"Yeah." "It was all a goddamned lie!" He yelled. "The sex, pretending to care about me, pretending you love me!" He said looking like he was about to cry.
"No." She said tearfully. "I'm not pretending." "I do love you." "I do."
"Yeah right."
"I asked my boss to pull the story." "I begged him to." "I wanted him to so I could tell you everything." "He refused and said he would fire me and expose me to the WWE if I didn't write the story." "You did start off as just an assignment but the closer I got to you the more that went away and I fell for you." "I'm sorry."
"How in the hell do you expect me to believe anything that comes out of your mouth?"
"I know I've lied about a lot." She sniffled. "I know that I hurt you." "Please you have to believe that I love you." "I love you with all my heart."
"Yeah I have to believe that because you've been so honest up till now." He said rolling his eyes. "Give me my keys." She took his keys off her key ring. "Put them in my bag." She did. "Here." He took her key out of his back pocket and threw it acrossed the room. "I never want to see or hear from you again." He picked up his bag.
"John wait please." "I'm sorry." "I love you." "I love you and you love me.
"You have no idea how much I love you." "But that's something I'm gonna have to get over." He walked away.
"No." He slammed the door behind him. "No god, I'm sorry!" He shouted tearfully.
John was in the elevator. He couldn't believe he'd been conned by someone he trusted and loved. He wiped away a tear and took out his cell phone.
"Hi Stephanie." "I need to talk to you about Juliette Barkley."