Lita sat anxiously buttering her toast. Matt sat on the other side of the table from her drinking his morning coffee. After a tense silence Matt slammed down his paper and walked into the kitchen. Taking this as her cue Lita spoke breaking the silence.
"About yesterday..."
"Please leave the kitchen as you found it" Matt cut in as he held an empty milk bottle that was on the kitchen table in his hand, he slightly waved it at her to make a point before he put it into the bin.
"You may enjoy living like a first year student, but some of us value order in our lives" he said bitterly.
Lita took a calming breath momentarily closing her eyes willing herself not to cry at Matt's harshness.
Eventually she spoke.
"Look you can ignore me all you like but this isn't going to go away"
Matt with his back still towards her slammed his fist onto the kitchen table making her jump.
"Matt please, I'm pregnant we need to speak about this" she begged.
"This much I know. But its not mine, its Adam's and what did he do?. Ran off back to his wife just like I told you he would. leaving me to pick up his sloppy seconds He spat harshly.
"I'm sorry" she said weakly.
Matt again slammed his fist down and spun to face her. "Sorry?. Sorry for what exactly?. Sorry that you cheated on me? Or sorry that Adam left you with that thing". He pointed to her still flat stomach. "I don't evan know why I took you back, Sometimes I wish I didn't".
Lita visibly flinched as Matt continued with his harsh tone.
"I'm sorry" she said again.
"That word!" Matt snapped.
"But I am" Lita protested.
"How would you get through your life without it Lita?. I'm sorry that I burnt your dinner Matt, I'm sorry that I got drunk and made a fool out of myself in front of your friends at the party,I'm sorry that I slept with your brother, I'm sorry I cheated on you with YOUR BEST FREIND" he roared as he picked up a pickle jar angrily and stormed towards her. he lifted it in the air as if he was going to hit her with it.
"NO!" She screamed scared as she tried to hold her hands up to protect her face.
"Matt, Lita? You guys here?" Trish called as she walked into the house and into the kitchen. Matt quickly put the jar down and turned to face Trish.
"Morning" he said smiling to her.
Lita still sat frozen in her seat.
Matt walked off into the other room and after a small amount of time Lita stood to follow him.
"I printed this off the internet" she said handing him a few pieces of paper.
Matt snatched it from her hands and looked at it.
"Relationship counselling?" He asked bitterly. "as if that's going to help" he sneered.
"I thought it would be good for us to go" she spoke cautiously.
"Oh really? Yet another decision that you've made without me?" He said tearing the paper up and throwing it at her.
"I've had enough of you making decisions on my behalf. A relationship is about two people".
"I'm sorry" she said helplessly again. All she ever seemed to do around Matt was apologise.
"Seems I'm the one that's sorry because I'm not sure that I'm going to be able to forgive you after all" He sneered before walking out. Leaving Lita to wipe her tears. She turned around and came face to face with Trish who was watching her sadly.
"I thought you came and collected your car and left" Lita said shocked"
Trish stood just looking at her for a moment before she spoke.
"You don't have to put up with it you know".
"Put up with what?" Lita asked playing dumb.
"I know Lita, I know everything. I know how you worry about never living up to his standards. About constantly disappointing him".
" It won't end" Trish continued following Lita as she walked past her and into another room.
"It will never get better he will chip away at you until there is nothing left of the person that you used to be. and I know that I encouraged you to get back into your relationship with him. I won't stand by and watch him hurt you. This is what you ment when you said that he had changed? He wasn't like this before right Lita?" Trish asked concerned.
"He's always been like this" Amy admitted bitterly.
Trish reached into her bag pulling a pile of money out.
What's that? Lita asked.
"Its your chance of freedom. I was saving up for a new house but.. I was the one who always encouraged this relationship, evan when you came to me saying you wasn't always happy I still drove you back here back to him. This is me making it right. So if or when you need it. Take it. Go and start a new life away from here. Because you deserve a happy future Lita. And you are never going to get that with Matt". She said hugging her before she left the house.
Lita stood looking at the money that trish had left in her hands. She decided to hide it in her bag that way it would always be with her. After cleaning the house she decided to go for a walk around the woods. It would be peaceful there. After a while of walking Her peace was broken.
"Hey Amy" Jeff greeted warmly as he ran to catch up with her.
She tried her best to ignore how her heart rate sped up and how she felt like she couldn't breathe when she was around him. Hearing his voice just feeling his presence made her body heat rise. She hated how he effected her.
"Please Jeff just leave me alone, I'm in enough trouble as it is" she said continuing to walk.
Matt had cut all ties off involving Jeff after he found out that Lita had slept with him a few times, five years back now during the brother fued in 2001. Despite the fact that Jeff practically lived next door to them. Matt had not seen or spoken to him. Preferring to act like he had no Brother or Jeff had died. Unfortunately for Lita matt also demanded that she stayed away from him. If matt knew that she was standing here now talking to him he would go mad!.
"I take it that he is still hung up on the whole edge thing then. My guess is he is going to be for a long time. I mean come on he is still hung up on the you and me thing and that was years ago" Jeff said walking next to her.
She stopped and looked at him. He could tell that she had been crying. "I really don't know what I'm going to do" she admitted.
"I do".
"What do you mean?" She asked confused.
"I mean.. What I mean is...".
she gave him an expectant look waiting for him to continue.
Jeff sighed and nervously put his hands into his pockets.
"I I I'm sorry don't worry" Jeff stuttered out.
Lita turned and began to walk away from him.
"I love you Amy" he said bravely.
She turned and looked at him in shock. He had called her by her real name. Something that she hadn't been called by in awhile. Matt had taken to calling her Lita her wwe name. She was of course shocked that he said he loved her as well. Turning she began to walk off again.
"Amy wait" Jeff called desperately as he again caught up with her and gently placed his hand on her arm causing her to stop and face him.
"I don't plan to add to your problems I want to make them go away".
He said desperately.
"but Jeff I..".
Listen he said cutting her off.
"If you asked me to, I would be with you no matter what. It will be worth it because we will be together. You, me, and the baby" He said glancing to her stomach briefly.
"Who do you think you are laying this on me?" she said angrily.
"I am with your brother, we are getting married he loves me".
"If he loved you like I love you then he would understand why you did what you did. He would accept and love the baby as if it was his own like I am willing to do for you. I'm not my brother Amy. I will not demand that you abort the baby or put it up for adoption. Its your choice and I'd respect the fact you want to keep it. I'd be a father to that child".
"He does love me" Lita snapped gritting her teeth deciding not to say anymore about what he had said.
"And I love him" she glanced away from him as she said the last part not being able to look into his eyes. He would see her hesitation.
"Like you love me?" Jeff asked gently grabbing her face with his hands and making her look at him.
Lita didn't answer him.
"Ok, ok I know that I can't offer you everything that matt does, you know security, money, posh meals".
Lita frowned at him as he continued.
"Look all I can offer you is everything that I have. Which isn't much but its yours. Bacon sandwiches with tomato sauce, beers under the stars. Hugs, bad jokes, honesty. Making sure that your safe. And love, that's me".
She smiled at him through her tears.
"Please Amy, please" he begged softly resting his forehead against hers and closing his eyes.
"Loving you this much but not being with you... its killing me. You are everything".
Lita closed her eyes briefly leaning into his touch and then wordlessly left his embrace and walked off. Leaving him standing watching her walk away.
A few hours later Lita sat anxiously fiddling with her fingers as she waited for matt to return home. She stood up from the sofa when she heard him walk into the house.
"Hey" she greeted warmly.
Matt didn't answer her, didn't evan acknowledge her.
"I've brought you a little something" she said happily after a small pause.
She walked into the other room and returned with a pair of wrestling boots.
"Well well" matt spoke for the first time coming over to look at the boots.
"Brand new and I got your initials sown into the insides of them. Why don't you check inside of that one".
She said pointing to the boot that was in his hand. Matt reached in and pulled a card out.
"Dear matt save the date, please attend the wedding of Matt Hardy and Amy Dumas on the twenty fourth of July 2006. Yet another decision you've made without me". He snarled slamming the piece of card down when he had finished reading it.
"I know that I should have spoken to you before but this time I thought it would be a nice surprise. I just wanted to show you how much you mean to me Matt". Lita tried to reason.
"You've put me through a lot Lita".he sighed. Lita cringed still using that name.
"The lies, the cheating. The constant need to make decisions without talking to me about it first. But as decisions go this is one of the better ones. I love you". He smiled and kissed her on the head.
"I love you too"
"You know your attempts to make everything right? It could be working" Matt said with a small chuckle.
"Everything is going to be just perfect I promise" Lita said eagerly.
"Almost perfect" Matt said.
"What do you mean?" Lita asked in confusion.
"Well like I said one of the things that I love about you is that you try to do everything right evan if you do fail. Like with the baby. I asked you to get it aborted but would you?... no!".
"Your sick" Lita shouted.
"No your sick!" Matt roared. "Not only did you cheat on me with Edge one of my best friends, but you also spent two weeks whoring yourself out to my brother!".
"That was years ago Matt, you had broken up with me I was upset and Jeff was there for me".
"Did he get you drunk for the whole two weeks did he? Hmm. or did he offer you some of his drugs to get you off your face so he could take advantage. No no that's not like Jeff at all he wouldn't do that especially to you. I reckon it was the other way around. You knew he was vulnerable after Beth left him. I bet you waited for him to be drunk and then took advantage of him" Matt sneered in her face.
"We were both drunk the first time that it happened. it was a one time thing Matt. And then we just kept going back to each other. But as soon as you wanted me back I left him for you. He ment nothing to me compared to you. We've moved past it. It was five years ago now. Why can't you get passed it?". She snapped.
"Was it just the once tho? Or was you going at it all night, over and over again. He must have been good for you to continue going back to him with your legs open night after night. Tell me who's better, who's got the better body, who's the better lover. Or do neither of us compare to Adam" Matt hissed.
"Shut up" she shouted crying in anger.
"I beg your pardon" Matt asked darkly.
"You heard" Lita shouted bravely.
"Its bad enough what you've put me through but I will NOT have you treat my baby like a worthless unloved child. I loved you Matt. Maybe if you treated me right then I would have never gone to Jeff and Adam. You only have yourself to blame. Goodbye Matt." With that said she walked towards the front door.
"Where do you think your going Lita? Don't you are walk away from me!. Go through that door and be prepared to face the consequences" Matt roared seething.
Lita looked at him one last time before she walked out and slammed the door shut behind her.
"LITA!" Matt roared as he through a glass at the closed door.
Jeff was in his front yard Completely unaware of what just happened between Matt and Lita. He sighed as he continued cleaning his car. He lifted his head as he heard Lita call out to him.
"Jeff!" Lita called as she ran to him.
Jeff put his sponge down back into the bucket of soapy water before he wiped his wet hands on his blue jeans and walked the short distance to meet her.
"I'm so sorry" she said when she was standing in front of him. Jeff said nothing he was just looking at her so she continued.
"What I said before. I didn't mean it".
"Sounded to me like you ment every word. Please Amy don't play games with me. You used me back then for two weeks before you jumped out of my bed and hopped straight back into bed with Matt. I can't take the pain again" He said looking away from her.
"Jeff back then it was different you had just broken up with Beth and I had broken up with Matt. we were both vulnerable and we were both there for each other. I will admit I didn't love you back then. As much as I enjoyed our two weeks together and I really really enjoyed our night's in bed together. But you was just a distraction to me. As soon as Matt asked me back I couldn't resist. But Jeff you don't know how many times I've regretted my decision to go back to Matt. The amount of nights I've laid in bed feeling so cold without your body laying next to mine. Without your arms wrapped around me. When Matt kept us apart it killed me having you live so close but not being able to talk to you. That's when I realised that I had made a huge mistake. I always loved you and after all these years I still love you. I feel so stupid I should have just ended things with Matt ages ago. I should have come to you instead of Edge. You wouldn't have ran away leaving me pregnant with your child. I I god Jeff I don't know what else to say. Please say something. Tell me how you feel". She begged when she realised that he had been quiet the whole time.
"I loved you. Back then. Way before them two weeks. I've loved you since not long after I first met you. Matt knew of my feelings and got to you first. I've suffered years having to watch Matt rub you in my face. Those two weeks we had I was in heaven I thought you was finally mine. I was wrong. You could never be mine. You proved it yourself when you told me that you was ending it between us so that you could go back to Matt. You destroyed me Amy. And despite that I still crave you. I still need you".
"Please" she whispered grabbing onto his tank top gently.
"Just forget it" I feel the same way too. I want it to be me,you and the baby" she said gently cupping his face "I want it to be you, your name that I moan out in my moment of passion, I want it to be you that I wake up next to for the rest of my life". She said softly.
"Is this a joke" he asked her seriously.
Shaking her head she pulled him into a tight hug which she was pleased when he hugged her too him just as tightly.
Pulling back from the hug he claimed her lips in a deep kiss. Eventually Lita pulled back. "Does that mean that you will have us?" She asked hopefully.
Jeff placed a gentle hand on her stomach. Before he locked eyes with her. "Of course You have no idea how long I've been dreaming of you coming to me. This time to stay. I love you".
"I love you too" she said pulling him into another long passionate kiss.
Matt sat in his bedroom looking out the window. An angry glare was on his face as he watched Lita and Jeff hungrily kiss each other like they were trying to eat the others face. He turned away from the window no longer wishing to see the pair. He always knew that something would happen between them. How right he was.
He could sit up there all day and feel sorry for himself but that wasn't like him. He had plans of revenge to make. He warned Lita that if she left him there would be consequences. It was time to set plans into action. For now he would let things play out, Let them think that they had their happy ending, let them embrace the calm before the storm. But He would make both of them pay that was for sure. Looking down into his lap Matt held his phone. looking in the phone book he found Adams mobile number. Smirking to himself he placed his phone back onto the table. That one is best saved for a rainy day.
END
Depending on demand I may or may not write a sequel to this. Maybe bring Edge back. What do you guys think? Reviews are hugely appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to read.