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Chapter 23

Amy couldn't believe that her sister had said that, and just stared Nicolette, who looked really sad.

"I'm not sure if I can marry him. There is so much going on..." She tried to explain.

"This freud with Hunter and Matt is over, or at least it will be soon." Amy said.

"Actually, I'm not thinking that. I actually believe what Matt said, that he won't be bothering us two anymore." Nicolette sighed. "But why we have to get married, isn't it enough that we just are together?"

"Why did you say yes to Dave then, if you feel like this?" Amy asked.

"It came so suddently... And I do love him more than anyone else, I do want to be with him."

"You just don't want to marry him." Amy stated and then a thing came to her mind, which might explain this sudden change of mind. "It's because what happened with Steven, isn't it?"

"Yeah." Nicolette admitted quietly.

"I suppose Dave doesn't know anything about what happened with him? And he doesn't know, how you feel either?"

"No, he doesn't."

"Nikki, Dave isn't Steven." Amy took her both hands on hers. "He is much more better guy. He wouldn't do anything like that. And if he would, he would regret that he was never born."

"I would never even think he would do something like that, not even close." Nicolette was a bit surprised, that Amy said that. After the proposal, she hadn't even thought that Dave would want to marry anyone else, like Steven had apparently wanted.

"You should forget Steven." Amy sighed.

" I have forgotten him, just not what he did. This isn't about him though, this is about me. I know this is wrong towards Dave, but our life is so busy. We are hardly ever home, when Dave isn't on tour, he is on the gym or in promo tour. I am busy taking care of other wrestlers, I don't know how to be a wife, Matt hates me nowadays, probably Dave is going to hate me..." Nicolette started to be a little hysterical and Amy took her a tight embrace.

"Relax, Nikki. You don't have to get married on this second, I'm sure Dave agrees to wait, if you just ask him. I doubt he is going to hate you, he loves you too much." Amy said gently. "And you are our trainer, you work with Dave almost daily basis and when you aren't on work, you are still together. And you learn to be a wife, I doubt it's too difficult with a man like Dave."

"I just don't know what to do, Amy." Nicolette looked at her sister tears in her eyes.

"You will do the right thing." Amy said.

When Nicolette left, Amy went to door with her and when she watched worried after her sister, she saw Shawn coming towards their room. She waited him, and when he was on the door, he saw immediately her worried expression.

"What's wrong?"

"I did told you about Nikki and Steven after Dave had proposed her, didn't I?"

When Shawn had nodded and entered the room, Amy closed the door and sighed.

"We are going to have problem concerning what Steven did. Nikki is having second thoughts about marriage."

When Amy had told Shawn what she and Nicolette had talked about, she went to see Jeff, who maybe could help her. He and Nicolette were almost as close as he and Amy, and she thought that Jeff should talk to her before she would do anything she would regret later. Jeff wasn't too pleased when Amy told him. He knew about Steven and he remembered who Nicolette had acted after he had come back from Europe. He agreed with Amy on that they should talk with Nicolette, she should realize that marriage wasn't a bad thing, when she would marry the right man.

When Nicolette went back to her and Daves room, she tried not to show Dave, that something was bothering her. She told him what Matt had said to her and Amy and that brought a wondering expression to his face.

"Do you believe him?"

"Actually I do. I think that he as tired to this freud as we are." Nicolette smiled weakly. "But I don't think that we'll be friends like before ever anymore."

"Don't worry, you have me now. Who needs Matt Hardy anyway?" Dave grinned.

"Yeah, I have you." Nicolette answered and then he went towards bedroom.

"Nikki." She turned to look Dave. "Did you find something for Randy and Samantha?"

"Yeah, we did." With that she went to bedroom closing the door behind her and leaving Dave to look after her. He had noticed that something had been bothering her for a while, but he hadn't ask anything about it. He thought that it was perharps time to do that, he had a bit bad feeling in his stomach concerning it although.

While Nicolette was taking a shower, Jeff and Amy knocked on her and Dave's door. When Dave let them in, he saw the serious expression on both faces and wondered that what was going on.

"Dave, we have to tell you something." Amy sat on the couch. "Where's Nikki?"

"She's taking a shower."

"Alright. I think she should be present, but we can tell the short version." Amy said. "Have you noticed, that she has been acting a little weird during the last week?"

"Actually I have. It seems like something is bothering her." Dave said. "I guess that it is this thing with Matt and Hunter."

"No, it isn't." Jeff said. "That is something what happened before she began working as our trainer."

This was a surprise for Dave and he got really interested. He had thought that it was all this freud with Matt and Hunter and what has happened with them, including the accident which Nicolette had.

"What happened then?"

"I think that Nikki should have told you this herself. And she should have told it earlier." Amy stated. "It's something what happened with Steven."

"Her ex boyfriend?" Dave asked. He had heard about him, but Nicolette seemed hesitant talking about him and he had never asked, what really had happened.

"Yeah." Amy nodded.

"That bastard." Jeff muttered.

"What happened with him? Nikki has been quite hesitant talking about him." Dave asked, he was very curious.

Amy told him what Steven had done and after that all three were silent for a moment.

"So that is the reason why Nikki has been deep in her thoughts once in a while during last week." Dave said thoughtfully.

"Yes, that is the reason for it." Amy said and hesitated. "I'm not sure if I should say this... But Nikki is thinking should she marry you after all."

Both, Amy and Jeff watched how expression in Daves face turned to pure shock.

"But... I wouldn't do anything like that." Dave said when he got his ability to speak back again. He was shocked, he never thought that Nicolette would really think that she couldn't trust him and above all, that he wouldn't love her.

"I know that." Amy watched Dave straight to his eyes. "And Nikki knows that."

"Hell, even I know that." Jeff stated.

Then they heard the bedroom door open and all three turned to look Nikki, who stood by the door. She sensed that there was something serious going on. Dave seemed to be somehow shocked and Amy and Jeff, who for her surprise sat both on the couch, seemed just weird.

"What?" She asked squinting.

"I'm sorry, Nikki. I had to tell Dave." Amy said before anyone else had the change to say anything.

"Tell him what?" Nicolette asked, thought she had the bad feeling about what the answer would be.

"About Steven." Amy said simply.

Nicolette stared at her sister.

"You had no business to tell what happened with him."

Then Dave stood up and went to Nicolette and took her both hands on his.

"Nikki, I would never ever do something like that. I want to marry you, no one else."

"I know you wouldn't." She said quietly and watched again to Amy. "But still you shouldn't have told him."

"I'm glad she did. I've been wondering what is the thing what clearly has been bothering you. And you clearly didn't want to talk about it."

"I would have eventually."

"But when? Or were you planning to leave me stand on the altar like a fool?" Dave got a little angry, because he was a little hurt, that Nicolette hadn't spoken about this with him.

"I would never do something like that." Nicolette watched at him a bit amazed, but in the other hand she understood why Dave was a little hurt, she should have told him about Steven.

"How can I be sure?" Dave barked.

"Come on, Dave. Let her explain." Jeff stated from the couch. "And you should listen to her."

"He is right, Dave. You should sort this out, right now." Amy stated standing up. "Let's go, Jeff. We are done here."

When Amy and Jeff had left the room, Nicolette sat to couch and watched up to Dave, who still seemed a little hurt.

"I guess Amy told everything what happened before I started as your trainer." She said.

"Pretty much, I think." Dave said and sat next to her. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"Honestly, I don't know. I guess I didn't even think myself that it would effect our relationship at anyways." She sighed.

"It clearly does." Dave stated.

Nicolette watched him for a moment in silence, she didn't want to start a fight over this.

"It seems so." She admitted. "I want you to know, that I want to be with you. I just..."

"You just don't want to marry me." Dave said quietly.

"No." She said. "I can't. Not yet anyway."

"I'm sorry, that you feel like that. I love you, Nikki."

"I love you too. Maybe more than you can even imagine." She said quietly. "I'm sorry, that I didn't tell you this before you proposed. Or I should have told right after, or..."

"Nikki, is there something I can do?" Dave interrupted her and took her hands on his.

"Two things." She said without hesitation. "Don't leave me. Give me a little more time."

"I can do that. I have no hurry to get married myself either." Dave said. "And I would never even think of leaving you."

Nicolette wasn't sure if she was fair to Dave, when she asked this, because she had to admit, that she didn't know even herself what she would do after all.

Nicolette woke up in the middle of the night and watched Dave, who slept next to her. He seemed so peaceful, but she had had the impression that Dave didn't totally understand what she had been thinking. The truth was, that she didn't know it totally herself either. She didn't want to leave her job, though that had come to her mind, but the truth was, that she loved her job despite some disadvantages and she felt like she had a second family in WWE. Before she fell asleep, she thought that maybe Amy and Shawn would help her in making that decision.