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Stacy was feeling pretty angry as she returned to the backstage area and then locker room with Test.
The big Canadian man was grumbling about what had happened out in the ring - complaining about Jericho, Christian, and, even to her utmost shock, Shawn Michaels!
"I've said it before and I'll say it again, Stace - I am gonna kill that little punk Jericho! And what the hell was Michaels trying to prove??!"
"He wasn't trying to prove anything, Andrew! He saved me!"
The blond man's expression grew annoyed as well as snide.
"He's trying to rescue my property???"
Stacy turned sharply toward him, by now, steaming. How dare Test call her his property! She was no one's property! Of all the nerve... Test would be lucky if she didn't end up scratching his eyes out - or worse!
"Excuse you?!"
The tall blond met her enraged glare, confusion on his face for a beat until he got the reasoning behind her reaction.
"Hey, don't sweat it, baby..." he said, his face breaking into a smug smile. "You know what I mean..."
"Yeah, I'm afraid I do..." Stacy spat, her hands coming up to rest on her hips as she glared at him with a mixture of consternation and disapproval. "And you'd better change your neanderthal way of thinking, Andrew - because I am not your property, nor will I ever be!"
"Jeez..." Test said, the expression on his face infuriating the leggy blonde even more. "Well, excuuuse me! I'm sorry, okay?"
"No, it's not okay!" Stacy shouted, an uncertainty consuming her mind. She wasn't sure how much longer she could put up with this charade - she hated pretending she was in love with him, that she even cared about him anymore... Not after all the horrible things he'd done to Lita... And she'd be damned if she continued to give him sex! She thought she might become violently ill if she did so... However, in any case, she didn't want to blow her cover just yet. Lita and Edge were counting on her - as was Chris.
"Oh, so you don't forgive me?" Test's voice pervaded her thoughts.
Stacy looked into his smug, handsome face, her heart completely hardened against him. She felt absolutely no tender feelings toward him any longer - but at the same time, she knew she had no choice but to continue on the way she'd been doing these last few weeks...
"Fine - I forgive you..." she said, hoping that would shut him up. "Hey, why don't you go on to the hotel without me? I've gotta take care of something real quick..."
"Take care of what?"
"I just have to discuss something with Trish Stratus, that's all," she lied. "I'll be along soon..."
"Well...okay..." Test said, giving her a strange look. "See you in a bit, I guess..."
"Yeah..." Stacy went to the door of the locker room and let herself out.
The moment she was alone, she walked briskly toward Shawn Michaels' locker room.
The way things were going as of late, she felt the Heartbreak Kid needed to know the true story
of what was going on...