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Immediately after their practice, Paul Levesque and Shane McMahon made their way back to the locker room together.
The two friends kept to themselves and to each other, ignoring all the other guys as they walked.
"Who was that redheaded chick?" Paul asked. "She's smokin'!"
"I don't know..." Shane replied, his eyes glancing around shiftily. "Never seen her around before. She must be a new student here..."
"Obviously...And she was with your girl..." Levesque smiled, his brows quirking upward.
The other man smiled, his thoughts on Stacy Keibler. He'd been harboring a secret crush on the tall, leggy blonde for the last year or so - or at least it was secret as far as Stacy herself was concerned. As it was, he'd never even so much as spoken to the girl more than once in his time at Cannon's Worth.
"Hey, I got a good idea..." Paul said as they entered the room and made their way to their lockers - which just so happened to be beside one another. "Why don't we try - no, not try...Why don't we get with these chicks?"
"Come on..." Shane said with a laugh. "You don't even know that new girl's name..."
"True, but I know I'll get to know it - and her..."
"Care to make it interesting?"
The burly football player didn't miss the look in his friend's eye - nor the challenge therein.
"You think you'd win, don't you? Just because your dad owns this damn place, and your family's got money comin' out of its ears, you're so arrogant, huh?"
Shane gave a confident little smile.
"I didn't say that..."
"But you were definitely thinking it. Look, Shane O'Mac - I'll accept your damn bet - because that's how confident I am that my little plan's gonna work..."
"Well, I know my part of it will...I bet I can get Stacy just like that..." Shane snapped his fingers for emphasis.
Paul smirked at his friend. Sometimes, the dark-haired man could be such a cocky prick.
"Okay..." Levesque said. "You're on, wiseguy..."
The two young men shook hands, sealing the 'deal.'