I'm sitting home working on my weekly column for the magazine I work for, waiting for my roommate and best friend Casey to get home from a concert she's at with her sort of boyfriend. Why do I say sort of? Well because this boy still has a girlfriend. Go fuckin' figure! That's a man for ya. Anyway, I'm Tonei. I'm 21 and Casey is 20. We've known each other since we were two and three in the sandbox, and we've been inseparable ever since. We share this house with one other roommate, but he'll come into play later, you won't be seeing much of him, especially since he's never home and most of the time, neither are we. Jeremi, used to be our butler, and to an extent he still is, because he keeps this house impeccable when Casey and I are away and he is always whipping up this cuisine and that when we're here. But Casey and I feel like it just isn't human for us to have a servant in our home so we just call him a roommate, that title certainly fits the bill for him.

Anyway back to the dazzling duo. Casey is white and I am black and the differences stop right there. We both are punk rockers, tatts, piercings, the whole nine yards. Casey is into coloring her hair, hell I just streak my jet-black locks, dammit that's good enough. Anyway I guess the guy she's hanging with is cool enough, he's a wrestler a sport in which Casey and I are madly in love with, so in love with it that we work for World Wrestling Entertainment. Casey is a photographer and I am a journalist and aspiring wrestler.

As for me, I'm not seeing anyone, though I kinda would like to be. I mean when my ex and I broke up about a year and a half ago, I was a wreck. I felt about ready to die. Nevertheless, there is a guy I work with, Rob; he is gorgeous. He is about 6 feet even and about 240 pounds with gorgeous brown hair and deep brown eyes. But as sweet as he is and heaven knows he is sweet, it's that body that is what is truly hot. He is the first curvaceous male I've ever encountered, he has a broad chest and shoulders; typical enough for a male I guess. Then he has this little waist, and this round thick ass, ahh; I kid you not sometimes I have to force myself not to stare. Then he has the shapeliest legs, like a woman, they go on forever, my stars he's magnificent. I always say I'm going to get up enough nerve to say something to him, but I always manage to get out of it. I guess I'm just not ready. I have to keep in mind that as charming as he is, he is a man, and I'm done with them. I am so deep in my thoughts that I don't even notice my roommate waltz through the door with a star-crossed gaze.

"Hey Tonei." She sighed flopping down on the couch.

"Hey, Case, how'd it go?" I asked absently.

I already know how it went; it went great, like it always does.

"It went great."

See? What'd I tell you?

"What'd you guys do this time?"

"Nickelback/Pearl Jam concert."

"Kick ass Case. Have fun?"

I don't even know why I asked her that, she always had fun.

"Yeah, I did."

I noticed through the T-shirt she had cut up in various places that she had a small hickey above the tattoo on her left shoulder. Oh, that just does it there.

"Casey, what's that?" I touched her shoulder.

She turned about as red as her hair, "Nothing."

"Nothing Case?"

"I must've gotten bitten by something."

"Bitten by what Casey?"

"You know, one of them bitter bugs."

I laughed out loud. "A mosquito?"

"Yeah, that it, that it."

"I thought it was an indoor show Case."

"Flies can live indoors."

"A fly didn't bite you Casey."

"Look, Tonei it was dark, I don't know what bit me."

"Or who," I smirked at her.

I have to admit, I've met her friend's girlfriend and I wasn't very fond of her. I mean she was nice and all but just wasn't right for him. They seemed like an oddball couple. Now I'm not just saying simply because Casey is my best friend, but she and this boy fit together.

"Tonei," Casey whined.

"Girl I don't like Beth no way, so if Jeff bit you, he bit you."

"Yes girl it was him." She smiled; she had such a pretty smile. "He was looking at me all weird when I was singing the Nickelback songs, like I was small or something."

"Well I bet you looked at him all weird when he sang all the Pearl Jam songs, right?"

"Well yeah, but that different."

I giggled at Casey again, this Jeff boy made her so happy, so I guess I really couldn't be mad at her. But him, I was going to have to let him know that Casey's feelings are not to be played with here. She is way too nice and fragile for that sort of thing.

She tapped me on the leg, "Hey, I meant to tell you, Rob asked Jeff about you."

"Really?" I asked calmly all the while my stomach is doing moonsaults. "What did he need? My appointment to interview him isn't until Monday night on Raw."

"Yeah, I know. He was asking if you were single and such."

"Well what did Jeff tell him?"

"Jeff didn't know, so he came and asked me."

"And what did you tell him?"

"I told him you weren't dating anyone seriously."

"Good girl."

Oh, how I crave that man.

"You should say something to him, you know he likes you." Her eyes lit up, "Maybe we could double date."

I shook my head, "Nah, that's okay. I don't need that kind of attention right now. What about Jeff's friend Shane?"

Shane was Jeff's friend. Cute, bad ass body, if maybe a little bit goofy. He looked out for me though, Casey too. He was sweet, despite his goofy ways.

"Shane's hot."

"Girl I know, but I just need someone to hang out with. Next time you and Jeff go out, tell him to invite Shane and then I'll go."

"Sounds good, but you know that's not the one you want."

"So what Casey, goodness gracious, can't you ever just cooperate?" I giggled.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah." She said, "Let's go watch a DVD."

"You pick?" I raised my eyebrows.

"How about Survivor Series?"

"Sounds good, I'll make the popcorn." I said.

"And I'll make the drinks."

We sank on my bed watching the show. I wouldn't know what to do without my best friend, and I'm pretty sure she wouldn't know what to do without me.

Jeff still has a girlfriend. I thought as I watched TV with my best friend Tonei. He has shown interest in me and yet he still goes home to her. Life could be so cruel. My name is Casey, I'm 20 years old and I'm a photographer for World Wrestling Entertainment. You may know my Jeff; he is the infamous Jeff Hardy, younger brother to Matt Hardy of the Hardy Boyz. I guess when you think about who he is, I'm nothing special to look at, but I'm not ugly. I'm about 6 feet tall, I have hazel eyes, and I don't even remember what my natural hair color is. For now my hair is red and yellow, it'll change by the end of the week. I have piercings and so far just one tattoo. I'm thinking of getting another, only if I can talk my roommate into getting another one too.

Tonei has been there for me since day one and me for her. I'm worried about her lately because I spend all this time without her, but Jeff is really important to me. I know how important Rob is to her, and it's a lot more that she lets on. I think that Shane is just a cover up for her crush. Little did she know and what I haven't told her yet is that Rob is going to ask her out Monday night. However, I think that I'll keep that my little secret.

Jeff and I went to a concert tonight, we made out a little; he left a hickey on what he calls his tattoo. Funny how he calls it his tattoo, when I was the one that had to endure an hour of pain to get it there. The tatt on my shoulder is their notorious HB symbol; I think it's cute. As cute as my tatt is I think that Tonei's tatt is hot too, she has the yin yang symbol tattooed on her lower back. Instead of traditional black and white, hers is red and black and is set in blue flames. She'll never admit it, but I know she got the tattoo because of Rob; he loves a good yin yang.

Back to Jeff, those that have seen him on television knows what he looks like but as for the rest of you, he's about my height and about as eccentric a person as I've ever met, besides Tonei that is. Like me, he's always coloring and re-coloring his blonde hair. He has two tattoos, piercings and intense green eyes. The way we met was by accident, thanks to Tonei, she introduced us and sent us on our first 'date'. I know he likes me, but I don't know if he likes me enough to leave his current girlfriend. So far, I've been waiting patiently against the advice of my best friend.

"Girl you better start dating someone else. Boys never want to play with the toys until the toys belong to someone else." Tonei would say to me.

"Someone like who?"

"Try Shane, try anybody, I don't care."

"I don't care for Shane like that, I mean don't get me wrong I wouldn't kick him out of bed or anything like that, he's cute as he wants to be but it's Jeff I love."

"I know that but Jeff had better start acting like he loves you too. I mean spending all this time with you and then going home to Beth is not cute."

"I know," I say sadly.

I know she's right but I can't let him go, I've loved him since I was 14, it's hard to let something like that go once you've caught it, you know?

Suddenly as if she knew what I was thinking, Tonei sat up and looked at me.

"Casey, I know you love him, but you have to look out for you too, you know?"

"Yeah, I know Tonei."

"So what are you going to do about it hon?"

"I don't know," I said softly, I knew where she was going with this.

"Well tomorrow when we go to work, I intend to say something."

"I know. I know."

"Oh don't get me wrong, you know I would never disrespect him, but, he needs to know."

I squeezed her calf; it was the closet thing to me.

"What?"

"I love you Tonei."

"Girl I love you too. I'm sleepy; I'm going to bed." She pulled her yin yang comforter over her head. "You going to sleep in here?"

I thought about it, "Nah, I'm going to sleep in my room."

"Okay," she said and rolled over.

She has to know what it's like. She is madly in love with Rob, she won't admit it, but she watches his every movement. She makes it her personal business to spot him whenever we all get together to work out. When we were in California we just had to visit his comic book store, she damn near bought every comic in the store. She's bought and watched everything he's ever played in. She has to understand me. Besides, if Jeff and I weren't meant to be together, why did she introduce us?

I padded off downstairs softly. Jeremi, our other roommate came bounding into the house in his flaming way.

"Hi Jay," I said walking past him.

"Hey sexy lady, what's that on your shoulder?"

I threw my hands up, "Mind ya business playa, just mind ya business."

He giggled at me, "That delicious Jeff Hardy got a little too playful, did he?"

"I got bit by a bug, Jay."

"Yeah, the 'I love Jeff Hardy biting my shoulder' bug."

God I hate it when he's right. Between him and Tonei, somebody could go crazy around here.

"What did you do tonight?" I asked him taking the heat off me for a while.

"Oh I met this hot sexy man, we partied all night long."

"Oh really?" I opened the fridge passing him a drink, "Was he cute?"

"Yeah, too bad he was straight."

"Yeah, too bad." I rolled my eyes taking a sip of my soda.

"Yeah, I was at a straight club, all he did was talk about this chick he works with and how hot she is."

Jeremi admitted with a roll of his ice chip blue eyes. "Blah, blah, blah. He did have a cute ass." he finally commented with a sigh.

Something about that last comment made me ask, "Did you at least get his name?"

"Robert something or another." He shrugged, "What's it matter, he's straight as an arrow."

"Yeah, I guess."

Could that have been Tonei's Rob? Well after meeting and dating Jeff Hardy, I don't rule out anything.

"So by the looks of things, you had fun tonight. Where's Miss Tonei?"

"Upstairs asleep."

Jeremi rolled his eyes. "You know every since she broke up with what's his name she doesn't do anything."

"Yeah I know," I agreed, and it was true. Tonei's break up with her last boyfriend hit her hard, but that was pushing two years now. Now she has a job where she's around hot men everyday all day, she needed to snap out of it.

"Let me guess, she spent the night working?" he mocked her.

"Yeah, her column is due."

"That damn thing isn't due 'til the end of the week."

I shrugged; I have learned to let Tonei do her own thing, though lately I think it might help if I run a little interference.

"Casey, come on now hon," Jeremi pressed on, "When is she going to get out of this house?" he shook his head, "The only time she does is when you and her go off to work."

"I know, I know."

"And besides, I think she might've liked that Rob guy I met tonight. Seems like her type."

"Really? How so?" I asked.

Jeremi shrugged, "I don't know, just seemed like he would fit."

I shrugged again.

"How long are you guys gone next week?"

"Well at least 2 weeks, plus I think Tonei's try out is coming up soon."

Jeremi's eyebrows hot up, "How do you know this?"

I looked at him, "Do you even have to ask?"

"I guess not." He sniffed.

"Well, I'm not going to tell her."

"Good idea, because she would lose what little bit of mind she's hanging on to."

"Right. Well goodnight Jay, I we have to get up in the morning."

He kissed my cheek, "Goodnight babe."

"Yeah goodnight." I said heading off to my room.