Okay guys its the weekend and that means an update on this story and the point of view of the last in my cast of players, hope you are going to enjoy it. Obviously I don't own any of the WWE superstars or anyone else mentioned in this chapter that you recognise, all I own are the OC's and the story idea.

My thanks to Writer's Madness, Starkittie, and nattiebroskette for reviewing the last chapter you're the best guys, and to those of you who have favoured or are following this story thanks so much.

Okay and now on with the show as they say.

John

Chapter seven

I was headed for the ring for my match with Randy for the WWE world heavyweight championship, my boy was walking beside me a goofy grin on his face and I knew he had just got off the phone with Kaelen, he was in love and I was glad for him. She was a nice woman and wasn't out for what she could get out of him, which was saying a lot about her, their last date had been a picnic in her front room for goodness sake. Not that I didn't think it was a romantic thing to do, it being too cold yet to go out for a picnic, but Randy would have been just as happy to pick up the tab for a dinner out. Most of us would but Kaelen was careful with money, her own and Randy's, she was as happy with an evening at home watching a movie and making popcorn as she was with going out to a fancy restaurant and paying through the nose for it. She valued his time, knowing that he did not have much of it and that he was spending most of it with her. I knew his folks had her round for dinner at least once a week even if he was on the road, his parents seemed to think a lot of her, probably the fact that she did not have her hand out all the time had a lot to do with that, or that she actively encouraged his time with his daughter.

I caught sight of Nikki and Brie talking to Bryan I expected to feel the normal tug of my heart at the sight of her instead I felt nothing at all; I was over it, over her, over us. Suddenly I felt lighter than I had in a long time and let out a little sigh of relief; guess Randy must have heard it.

"You okay bro?" He asked me making me smile at the concern in his voice. People outside don't get how close we are with the way we go at each other in the ring, always at war with each other, he's one of my best friends, my best friend in the business.

"Guess it just hit me that I am finally over it." I told him as we walked up to Gorilla. "You know it's taken me a while, but I think it's time to move on with my life."

"You were with her for a while you can't just turn off the feelings and get over it." Randy replied as we stood there waiting for our match to be announced, he knew what he was talking about, like me he was divorced, though his had not been the circus that mine had, everyone and his dog seemed to try and get in on mine, his had at least been quiet, and they had worked things out amicably, if there is any such thing.

"Yeah I know, I really thought she was the one but I couldn't give everything she wanted and she knew I didn't want a lot of that shit, I was up front with her about all that." I replied even though he knew it all anyway, we had spent a lot of drunken nights talking.

My music began to play and I made my entrance, being sure to wink at the camera knowing that Callie, Kaelen and Rhea would be watching, Callie alone would know that wink was just for her. Callie, the thought of my new friend brought a smile to my lips as I grabbed a microphone and dissed Randy a bit, hearing the crowd both cheering and booing me. Then Randy's music hit and voices began to play he appeared the title belt over his shoulder and the ring announcer played us both us to the crowd. I slid out of the ring while Randy slid in and began to pose on the turnbuckles, watching the Tron I saw his tongue snake out and wet his lips, his signal to Kaelen that he was thinking of her. They were little things really, the wink and the lips lick, but they were to let the girls know we were thinking of them.

I dived under the ropes back into the ring and the ref told us the rules before starting the match, we went back and forth I hit the AA on him, and he kicked out of the pin at two, before switching it around with me and hitting the RKO, I got my shoulders up at two and we went at it again.

"Get ready." The ref murmured to me. "Interference in two minutes." I knew what that meant that Seth would be down to hit me with the briefcase, then before he could do much, Dean would attack him making it a DQ and Randy would retain.

"Ready bubby?" Randy asked as we locked up again.

"You know it." I replied before punching him in the gut, then as I went to hoist him on my shoulders for another AA, the case slammed into my head and I went down.

Seth and Randy looked at each other and Seth began to pull me up to my feet, before Dean shot under the bottom rope into both of them. The bell rang as Dean and I fought Randy and Seth and drove them from the ring, my music hit as they retreated up the ramp, while Dean and I posed in the ring to close the televised part of the show. The dark match was a tag match, Dean and I versus Randy and Seth, one we were going to win.

The fans went home happy after our match and we all headed to the back laughing and joking with each other when we hit the backstage area. I saw Joe waiting for us a smile on his lips and I guessed that he had been talking to Rhea; I knew he saw my friend's friend as a kind of sister and that they had gotten close to each other since we met up with all the girls just before Christmas.

"So what did he get her this time?" I asked referring to the secret admirer that Rhea had managed to score herself, who had made himself known at Valentines.

"A nice box of expensive Belgian chocolates." Joe replied with a grin of his own, we all know its driving the poor girl nuts she has no idea who he is, the postmark is always St Louis and the writing is the same every time.

I could not help noticing the frown on Jon's face as he heard what Joe had to say, out of the ring we use our own names, while using our ring names when we are out there, so he had stopped being Dean and was Jon again.

"Nice." I replied. "You have to give the guy props for good taste."

"Yeah and for opting for Rhea she's a nice girl." Joe replied as we all headed for the dressing rooms and the waiting showers.

Jon grunted making us all look at him but as he said nothing we went back to chatting as we walked discussing what we were going to do for the rest of the evening. The conscientious was that we should head back to the hotel for a quick snack and then head to one of the bars for a couple drinks before bed. No one said anything, but we all knew that Jon would probably score some ring rat or fan to bang somewhere in the course of the night.

Standing in the shower my thoughts turned again to Callie, now I felt ready to move on with my life I began to think about my relationship with the pretty girl from St Louis. We had been friends for two months now since it was coming up to the end of February and we had contacted each other every day since Randy had, had Callie and Rhea brought backstage to meet us and to be with Kaelen. I liked her as a person, she was sweet and funny and not demanding in any way of me, she respected that I did things with and for fans, especially regarding make-a-wish. In fact the more I thought about it, the more I realised that Callie was really supportive of me and my career, she was always encouraging me and making me smile.

I finished my shower and wrapped a towel around my waist before wandering back into the locker room. Randy was sat on a bench his phone to his ear, a smile on his lips; he had to be talking to Kaelen. He was a man in love if ever I saw one, Kaelen was good for him, she made him happy, and for that reason alone, I would always be her friend.

"So is she good?" I asked as he hung up his phone and began to strip off.

"Yeah the girls were watching RAW round at Callie's." I already knew that. "They were cheering for us."

He smirked at that, which I knew meant Callie was cheering for me and Kaelen was cheering for him, I couldn't help wondering who Rhea had been cheering for. I knew from Callie that she had been really hurt by Jon treating her like a ring rat, even if he hadn't managed to turn her into one. I knew he used to be her favourite superstar, now however I wasn't so sure. Not that it seemed to bother Jon, if anything he had been even worse this year than he had before, banging fans, ring rats and any other woman he could get his hands on indiscriminately. At least, according to Joe, he was using protection, or he could have ended up with something nasty by now.

"So is Kaelen gonna see sense and join the C-Nation?" I asked him with a grin, as he headed naked for the showers.

"You wish." He chortled as he walked away from me. "She worships the Apex predator."

I just smiled in response and dug in my bag for some clothes, getting dressed while he had his shower. Of course I began to think about Callie again, I could see her sweet face in my mind's eye and I began to think about her pretty face, her blue eyes, and the way her raven locks hung down to her shoulders. That cute natural little figure, the way she fit into my arms when I gave her a hug, not that there had been many of them. I sat down on the bench my T-shirt in my fingers remembering how good it felt the few times I had held her in my arms.

"Hey buddy you gonna sit there all night with that dreamy look on your face?" I looked up to see Randy standing in front of me, that cocky grin on his face.

"Sorry just thinking." I replied, standing up and pulling my shirt over my head.

"Would you happen to be thinking about a certain little St Louis native that we both know?" Randy questioned me with a grin.

"Yeah, I was thinking about Callie." I confessed. "She's so sweet and I talk to her every day, I'm just realising that she makes me happy, you know?"

Randy clapped me on the back. "Oh yeah I know, when I met Kaelen I just knew there was something about her, if I hadn't been burned before I would have asked her out before Christmas, as it was the whole Valentines thing has her thinking I'm this big romantic." He was smiling again. "I'm always counting down the days till I can get home and see her, even though we talk every day plus she's so understanding about my little girl, she never begrudges me the time I spend with her, in fact she encourages it."

"That's great buddy," I replied to him even though I knew all that, I was still glad for him that she was the way she was.

"You know if Callie makes you half as happy as Kaelen makes me you really should go for it." Randy tells me making me stop in my tracks.

What if he was right, what if I should take a chance with Callie? She was a sweet woman and I talked to her in one way or another every day. That was something that I looked forward to talking to her, often it was on a video chat along with Randy, Joe, Kaelen and Rhea. It was nice that we were all friends, I had a feeling that if not for the fact that Jon got there first, Joe might have thought about hooking up with Rhea. Knowing though that his friend had gotten the girl first, I knew as did Jon, that Rhea and Joe would never be anything but friends. She seemed like a nice girl from what I knew of her, however being a nice girl did not make them immune to Jon's charms, and he had been laying it on with Rhea that first night we all met. He had been determined to get some and it was obvious Rhea liked him with the T-shirt and the sign she had so he had known she liked him, it was just a pity about the way he treated her after the event.

I looked at Randy; he was obviously waiting for me to do something, at least he was letting me think about what I was going to do. What was I going to do though that was the question? Callie was in my life now as my friend, did I risk losing that if I tried for something more, was it worth the risk of losing her if things didn't work out? I couldn't imagine my life without her in it now, but I also knew in my heart of hearts that being friends wouldn't continue to be enough for me. I asked myself, how would I feel if she met someone, how would I cope if she met a guy she liked and they started dating, would she have the time for me then that she did now? The thought of her with someone else hurt more than it should have, it was something I had never let myself consider before. That, more than anything else, that feeling of loss, I got thinking of her in the arms of another man, made up my mind for me.

"I'm going to do it." I told Randy my mind made up. "When we get to St Louis in March I'm going to ask Callie out on a date."

"About time." He replied, as my thinking done we set off to meet up with the others.

Heading out to the parking lot we met up with Joe, Colby and Jon and headed back to the hotel, we dropped our bags off in reception intending to collect them later since we were all pretty hungry. Heading into the dining room we snagged a table and started looking over the menu, I was in the mood for fish. Randy said something about fish and chips when I said I wanted fish, it took me a moment to realise that he was talking about English chips rather than our American ones. Maybe it was something that Kaelen had cooked for him, she did rather a lot of English food, I think he enjoyed the variety in cooking. Once the others had made up their minds we gave our order to the waitress who was happily flirting with Jon. Seriously though, the guy put the energiser bunny to shame; I had no idea where he got the energy from to keep up this kind of pace with the women that he met.

We made a quick dinner and I noticed the waitress slip Jon her number, he simply smiled and asked her when her break was, I sighed softly and heard Joe echo it.

"I worry about him." He confessed as we followed the others to the bar. "I keep thinking someday he'll slip up and get some skank pregnant or worse he'll catch something nasty." He looked over at me and I nodded my head agreeing with him. "I just wish he could meet a nice girl and settle down."

"You really think that's going to happen with women throwing themselves at him and him only too ready to avail himself of them?" I asked as we walked into the bar.

"I can hope for him, hell I thought maybe he had." Joe replied before we spotted some of the others and headed over to join the group, I knew he meant Rhea when he said that.

Randy went to the bar and came back with a tray of drinks before passing them round to our little group, and we settled in for some partying. After a few drinks, my mind returned to my desire to make a go of things with Callie and I pondered my decision again, it was all very well to decide to date her if she'd say yes to me of course, but what about all the time I was on the road would she understand that.

"Come on John drink up it's your round." Randy nudged my arm, pulling me out of my thoughts.

I drained my glass and got up heading to the bar; catching the bartender's eye I placed my order and loaded up the tray before heading back to the table. Passing round the drinks I noticed Jon was missing and figured he was off somewhere banging some chick. Settling down in my seat I swirled my drink round in the glass thinking about Callie again.

"Do you think she'll be okay with the amount of time I'm on the road; you know that's been a deal breaker in the past?" I said to Randy who for a moment looked confused. "Callie, if I ask her to go out with me and we click, do you think the amount of time we spend on the road will have an adverse effect on things?"

"To be honest with you I think she will understand, she's a fan right, she knows how hard we work and that we spend a lot of our lives on the road." He smiled at me. "It's not like she's in Kaelen's situation."

"What do you mean I thought you two were happy?" I replied confused.

"Yeah we are, but you know she's English right?" He looked at me to confirm I knew what he meant before continuing. "Well Jim's having problems with the shop, I mean he's keeping his head above water, but there's not the work like there used to be and well, Rhea leaving to concentrate more on her own business helped out a bit, but frankly he's worried he won't be able to keep all his staff on, if that happens, well Kaelen is out of a job. " I could see he was really worried about it. "If she loses her job and can't find another one, she may have to leave the country."

"Shit." I muttered looking at him.

"It's early days yet and it might all be okay, but I don't want to lose her John I love her." He took a mouthful of his drink.

"We'll put our thinking caps on buddy and we'll work something out, if it came to it you could hire her as your live in house keeper or something till she found something else." I tried to reassure him.

He nodded his head, but I saw the doubt in his eyes, and realised he was worried Kaelen wouldn't let him do something like that. Before we could get serious about it though Jon turned up with a shit eating grin on his face like the cat that got the cream, more likely the girl got the cream from him. Sliding into his seat he grinned at Joe who just looked at him before looking away. None of us had to ask where he had been or what he had been doing, hell we probably even knew who, that waitress.

We got talking about sports, a safeish topic for us to get on and slowly we started swapping stories about school and college days, things we had all talked about before, though we got some new stories from Joe about things that happened when he played pro ball. Finally all of us decided to call it a night and some tipsy and drunk Superstars and divas headed up to their rooms, us among them. I was sharing with Randy and we opened up the door and went into our room. I flopped on my bed and let him use the bathroom first, when he was done I took my turn and by the time I was through he was snoring in bed.

I finished undressing and then slipped on a clean pair of boxers before climbing into my own bed and flicking off the lights. With the room in darkness I was alone with my thoughts which at once turned back to Callie. On impulse I grabbed my phone from the bedside table and sent her a quick text, a few moments later my phone beeped with an answer for me. I hoped I hadn't woken her and then sent a reply. We texted back and forth for the next few minutes, until I finally wished her good night and pleasant dreams before putting my phone down and settling myself to sleep.

Maybe I could drop a few hints to her over the next couple of weeks, that I would like us to get closer, maybe sound her out a bit as to how she would feel about the two of us having a relationship. One thing was for sure however, the next time I saw Callie in the flesh, I was going to ask her out and if the date went well, because no way would she turn me down, then I would ask her to be my girlfriend. Smiling to myself and happy with my decision I closed my eyes and started to drift off to sleep, hopefully I would have dreams of what soon would be a reality for the two of us.

Okay guys there you have it John's point of view, having gone through a chapter for each of my characters the next chapter will be from no one's point of view, it is going to be a long one probably over 10,000 words just letting you know. It will jump to the next show in St Louis and everyone will be meeting up again.

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