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Lita smiled as she stood in front of the vanity mirror in the women's locker room.

She was feeling terrific - both physically and mentally - and was thrilled to be back in the WWE after the long year and a half she'd been out with a healing neck.

She was grateful also for the fact that the roster split had finally come to an end. She'd dreaded returning and having to be on one show while Edge, whom she'd begun dating four months earlier, would be on the other.

Edge... She and the tall blond Canadian had always been good friends, but just a short time ago, their friendship had evolved into romance. The truth was, Lita had always had feelings for the tall man, but she'd been too bashful and scared to say anything. She'd thought it almost hysterical when Edge had admitted the exact same sentiments once he'd kissed her for the first time.

Never in a million years would she have thought such a gorgeous man would be so shy and nervous. After all, she certainly didn't consider herself all that beautiful - with her tongue piercing and big shoulder tattoo, she was pretty much used to being seen as 'one of the guys.'

"Lita!"

The redhead turned around at the happily-squealed voice that issued her name, her smile blossoming into a full-fledged grin as she spotted Stacy Keibler standing just inside the doorway. The tall blonde diva's pretty face wore an excited smile and her arms were wide open as she awaited a hug from her friend.

"Stace!" the redhead exclaimed, and she rushed forward to meet the blonde halfway. The two divas embraced.

"Wow, you look amazing!" Stacy cried a moment later as she held Lita back a bit to examine her. Because of her hectic schedule, especially while the rosters had still been split, she hadn't gotten a chance to see her redheaded friend in awhile.

"Thanks..." Lita replied sheepishly. "I'm so glad to be back!"

"Trish told me you'll be making your first appearance back tonight?"

"Yeah! I can't wait..."

Earlier that evening, the redhead had hung out with her good friend Trish Stratus, with whom she'd be working for awhile. She was thrilled that General Manager Stone Cold Steve Austin had chosen thise particular angle for her, because she'd always enjoyed working with the little blonde, and it had been over two years since they'd last worked together. And while she and Trish had met up, they'd gotten to catch up on their girl talk... They'd been doing plenty of it during Lita's injury, but face-to-face, up close and personal was so much better. And of course, Trish hadn't been able to stop yakking about her boyfriend, Shawn Michaels - the blonde and the man known as the Heartbreak Kid had become an item some eight or so months earlier...

"I'm just so glad you're back, Lita!" Stacy was saying. "Maybe your being here will make my storyline a little more tolerable...I hope..." The leggy blonde was referring to the story in which she, Test and Scott Steiner had been involved over the last several months. She'd found out the hard way that both men were creeps - all they'd done was to hit on her, and after she'd rejected both time and again. Luckily for Stacy, she'd just started dating Sean O'Haire - and, ever since, both Test and Steiner backed off on her, as they both knew O'Haire wouldn't take kindly to his girlfriend being hit on.

"And I'm so happy to be back!" the returning diva exclaimed, the grin returning to her face. In her joy, she reached out and hugged the leggy blonde again, neither of them taking notice of Torrie Wilson - who'd just returned and was openly staring at them... Nor did they notice the displeased expression that crossed the platinum blonde's features...