After packing as soon as he got home Hunter got a good nights sleep before he had to be up relatively early to catch his flight to the site of this evening's house show.

The entire plane ride there he thought about what Stephanie had said and how she had been and he realised there was something really important that he had to do, he had to make sure that Trish didn't breathe a word to Stephanie about him knowing the truth about Mikey. He knew they had discussed it previously but he was even more afraid now that she would say something and ruin everything that he was trying so hard to build with Stephanie.

When he arrived at the arena Hunter went straight for the locker room tossing his bag down ignoring the questions from the guys as he immediately left again and went off in search of Trish. Walking the halls he spotted her stood talking to Lita and immediately walked over to her, "Trish we need to talk."

Turning her head when she heard Hunter's voice she motioned to Lita, "and I already am talking. I will talk to you after."

Shaking his head he wasn't going to wait, "no, I want to talk to you now."

Lita was not about to get in the middle of this argument, "it's okay Trish, we will catch up later and finish the conversation off."

Turning back to Lita she shook her head, "no, Hunter can learn to be patient and wait for us to be done unless the arena is on fire and nobody else is panicking so it can't be that."

Sighing frustratedly Hunter gripped Trish around the upper arm and led her off away from Lita so they could talk in private. When they reached an empty locker room he led her inside before he shut the door firmly and let go of her arm.

Spinning around to face him Trish glared at him, "what the hell do you think you're doing? Here I am trying to convince Stephanie that you've changed and you act like that? You manhandle me for no good reason and I hate to say this but I'm disappointed, I genuinely thought you had changed and I stuck my neck out for you and this is how you repay me."

Sighing heavily he leant against the door and stared up at the ceiling briefly before he lowered his eyes and looked her in the eyes, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that and I'm sorry if I hurt you."

Trish was officially confused now as he seemed to be showing genuine remorse for his behaviour, "I guess I can forgive you. What's the problem? Where is the fire? Why do you need to talk to me so badly that you couldn't wait five more minutes for me to finish my conversation with Lita and then to talk to you?"

"You know that thing we talked about that you know that I know?"

Sighing Trish took a seat, "you mean the Mikey thing?"

Nodding his head he ran his fingers through his hair, "yes the Mikey thing. I need you to promise and swear on everything that matters to you that you will not ever under any circumstances tell Stephanie that I know."

Looking at him like he had lost his mind she thought this had already been discussed and agreed on, "haven't we gone over this already? Haven't I already told you that I won't tell her?"

"Yes but I need to hear you say it again, I need you to say that under no circumstances will you tell her."

Getting up from her seat she walked over to him and pressed her hand against his forehead, "are you feeling okay? Are you coming down with something that's making you crazy?"

Irritated by she was reacting and how all up in his personal space she was he gently removed her hand from his forehead, "I'm fine, I just need to get this sorted for the sake of my mental health."

"So what do you need from me? A promise of my first born or will my word just be enough?"

Shrugging his shoulders he just wanted to be certain that she wouldn't tell anyone, "your word is enough, I just need to know that it will stay between us."

Nodding her head she smiled softly at him, "whatever happens it will stay between us. As long as you don't drop me in it with Stephanie at any point she will never know that you found out the truth by snooping. Can I leave now?"

Moving away from the door he pulled it open, "yes you can. Thank you Trish, I appreciate it."

Looking at him nervously as she walked past she didn't know what was going on in his head but she just hoped it was nothing bad for Stephanie or she would make sure he regretted it.

Waiting a moment after Trish had left Hunter also left the locker room and headed back to the locker room taking a seat as he went through his bag pulling out his gear.

Chris Jericho had heard about the way Hunter had been with Trish and he wondered if it had anything to do with the family emergency that had apparently kept him away from the house show the day before. Moving over to where Hunter was sat he took a seat beside him, "got a moment?"

Turning his head to the side when Jericho spoke to him Hunter placed his gear on the floor, "sure. What can I do for you?"

Jericho sat back crossing his legs at the ankle, "I heard how you treated Trish, I wondered if everything was okay at home?"

Confused Hunter raised his eyebrow, "why do you care?"

"Because I heard a rumour that you weren't here yesterday because of a family emergency and now you're acting weird with Trish so either you're secretly dating her, or were and she dumped you or you are just a little stressed out and I was wondering whether to avoid you or be nice to you."

Hunter laughed softly, "isn't everyone supposed to ignore me and be scared of me or something stupid like that? Why does anyone care?"

Jericho definitely couldn't read Hunter at the minute, "strangely enough you've got a bit easier to deal with lately so I can definitely tolerate you these days."

Pulling off his boots Hunter stood up knowing he needed to just give some sort of explanation for everything, "it was just a family thing Friday night that meant I didn't sleep at all that night and wasn't up to flying out yesterday so I said it was a family emergency which was technically the truth but it was just the day before. That's been sorted though and I'm here now and ready to do my job."

Nodding Jericho was somewhat satisfied with that, "you won't manhandle Trish again though would you? I wouldn't like to have to tell Stephanie on you."

Hunter's eyes widened and he panicked a little, he didn't need this getting back to Stephanie, "nope, I'm definitely done manhandling Trish and I have apologised to her for it and she forgave me so there is no need to snitch on me."

Snorting at the comment Jericho stood up, "I will take your word for that."

Walking away from Hunter he left him to his own devices satisfied that he wasn't going to manhandle Trish or any of the other Divas today.

As soon as Jericho had left Hunter alone again he changed into his gear to do and do some work in the ring but before he left the locker room he sent his girlfriend a quick text:

I love you and I miss you both xxx