Six days had passed. John stayed with Riley through the surgery like he said he said he would. Monday she went to work as if nothing ever happened. She told everyone at work she had a problem with her intestines. John had an autograph signing in San Diego tomorrow. He was driving to San Francisco after to see Riley. Riley was sitting in her classroom during her free period. Ashley came in and shut the door.

"Hey." Riley said.

"Hi." "What happened Riley?"

"With what?"

"You." "Why did you really go to the hospital?"

"I told you." "My small intestine was bleeding."

"Riley did something happened you your baby?"

"What does it matter?"

"If something did you should talk about it."

"I don't want to."

"Riley it's not healthy for you to keep this bottled up."

"Ok fine." "I was pregnant." "Now I'm not." She said tearfully. "Are you happy?"

"What happened?" "Did you have a miscarriage?"

"No." "The baby wasn't in the right place." "It was in my fallopian tube." "Not my uterus where it should've been." "They had to do surgery to take it out and there was no way to save it."

"Riley, I'm so sorry." "If there's anything I can do just let me know."

"There is."

"Just name it."

"I never wanna talk about this again." "Don't bring it up anymore."

"Ok."

John was in Wisconsin. He and Randy were having lunch.

"So." Randy said. "Is Riley ok?"

"She's fine."

"What was wrong with her?"

"She lost our baby." He whispered.

"She was pregnant?"

"Yeah."

"How far along?"

"Six weeks."

"Oh man." "I'm sorry."

"Thanks."

"Do you love her?"

"Yes."

"Do you still love Nikki?"

"Yes."

"How did it all this start?"

"I met Riley about a month after Nikki broke up with me." "It was at an autograph signing." "Three weeks later when I was just about to ask Riley to be my girlfriend, Nikki said she wanted to get back together." "I tried to break it off with Riley but instead we ended up having sex." "That's when we both decided we didn't want things to be over."

"So this has been going on for awhile?"

"Five months." "I wish they could be one woman." "It sucks." "I know Riley feels like I favor Nikki." "I hate that I make her feel that way." "I never meant for any of this to happen." "Now I'm in love with two women and I don't know what to do."

The next evening John was waiting for Riley at the hotel. She came through the door.

"Hi." John said. "He could tell something was on her mind.

"Hi."

"What's a matter?"

"John, I can't do this anymore."

"What?"

"I can't be with you."

"Riley don't do this."

"It's over John."

"But Riley, I love you."

"I love you too." "That's why this hurts so much."

"Then don't do it."

"I have to."

"Why?"

"I don't want this type of relationship anymore." "I wanna be with someone everyone can know about." "I wanna be with someone I can talk to my friends about." "I want to be known about." "None of your friends or family have any idea I even exist."

"That's not true." "Randy Orton knows about you."

"He does?"

"He was in the car with me that day last week." "Just yesterday I was telling him how we met and how torn up I am about you and Nikki."

"That's just the point I don't want to compete with her anymore." "She always wins."

"That's not true."

"Who do you spend more time with?" "I want to be number one." "Not number two."

"I stayed with you through everything last week."

"Until morning then you had to leave."

"Riley please, I love you."

"I'll stay." "If you break up with Nikki."

"I can't."

"Goodbye John." She left.

Riley went out to her car. She put her head against the steering wheel and started to sob.