Hey hey everyone~~~~~~ I'm baaaaaccckkk~~~~ but I'm not alone!!!!! This is a new story that HardyxGirlx89 (Jamie) and I have been plotting and working on for a while now...and decided to post it!!!!!! We hope you all love it and enjoy reading it because we've had a fun fun fun time writing it! Now for our cast of characters!

Matt Hardy/Chris Jericho
Jeff Hardy/Trish Stratus
Shannon Moore/Maria Kanellis

Recurring Characters: Amy Dumas (Lita), Phil Brooks (CM Punk), Adam Copeland (Edge)
Various Others to make appearances: Randy Orton, Dave Batista, Kelly Kelly, Legacy, HHH, HBK, various others

Chapter 1

"One more year, just one more loooooong year..." Chris repeated the words which had become his mantra of the morning as he sat in his car and tried to will himself to go into the old brick school building, but he was having a bit of a hard time.

As if it wasn t bad enough that summer was over and all he had to look forward to were things like Chemistry and Geometry, to add insult to injury today just happened to look like it was going to be one of those perfect sunny days - the kind that would ve been well spent having one last hooray on the beach. The sun, the breeze, the waves, they all sounded so tempting and it'd be so easy to leave. He'd just sneak back home and grab his trunks and a little extra gas. He was sure his mom wouldn't notice since she had been so distracted with the divorce and such, but before Chris had time to finish planning his great escape his concentration shifted to a group of people that were passing in front of his car.

He recognized them because they were a familiar little group around the school everyone knew; Matt, Jeff and Trish, Shannon, and Amy- the Hardy brothers and their clan. They weren't the kind of people Chris could see himself fitting in with, and yet at that moment he found that he couldn t look away because one of them caught his eye.

There was Amy. She was pretty beautiful even with her fiery red hair and eclectic style. She was one of the few girls that could pull off having a tongue ring a big tattoo on her arm and shoulder and still look beautiful but it wasn t her.

It wasn't the blonde girl, Trish, either. She was much too busy hanging on to the younger of the Hardy brothers Jeff. Trish and Jeff. They were the kind of couple that people talked about, she was popular, he was artsy, and they d been together since Chris could remember. He wouldn t have dreamed of coming between them mainly because neither Trish, or Amy was actually Chris type.

Who was however, was the dark haired man who Chris had his eyes fixed on, Matt. He was remarkably handsome and out of the crowd he was with he was perhaps the simplest. He didn t have the knack for nail polish or eye liner like Shannon, or brightly colored hair like his younger brother, but there was something about Matt.

He looked so effortlessly comfortable in his own skin, just walking along, listening to something Shannon was saying and then he spoke. Though Chris couldn't tell what Matt had said from what he could tell it must've been something very funny because his four counterparts all began laughing, Shannon punched his arm playfully, and from there it evolved into a mock brawl that Matt won when he trapped Shannon in a side headlock and had to let go because the first bell had rang.

Sighing because he now knew he had about 15 minutes to get inside Chris tore his eyes away from the group as they entered the school, grabbed his bag off the passangers seat, got out of the car, and stood there for a moment quietly watching the people move past him, until one stopped beside him and leaned against the hood of the car.

"What're you doing?" Chris turned to face Adam, the bassist in his band, and smiled.

"Trying to convince myself being here is better than being at the beach."

Adam laughed. "And how's that going?"

"Not so good..."

"No huh? Well things should be looking up by Friday."

"Oh?" Chris feinged interest and then joined Adam leaning against the car. "And why's that?"

"There might've been an open spot at Millers..."

"And?"

"I might've booked us..."

"You might've?"

Adam smiled and nodded as he puffed on his cigarette. "We're playing at 8, and if they like us there's a chance that they'll book us regularly. So see, things are already starting to look up."

"That's great, so I'll see you tonight for rehearsal?"

"6:30?"

"Right..." Chris waved as he left Adam behind to finish his smoke, and started towards the school at a bit of a hurried pace. Thanks to his little in car musings he was already running pretty late, and leaving was once again starting to look tempting but then he saw something even more tempting.

Matt was on his way back out into the parking lot shaking his head and laughing to himself as he made his way to his truck he looked oblivious to the presence of anyone else in the parking lot, but it was evident to Chris that he was wrong when a set of dark brown eyes locked with his and the other man offered him a warm smile.

"Forgot my damn books...gotta love first days right?"

Chris smiled. "Right up there with having teeth pulled and pop quizzes..."

Matt laughed and rolled his eyes. "Quizzes...ugh. So you must have McGully too?"

"First class of the day." He replied with all the sarcastic enthusiasm he could muster.

"Me too, gonna be a long year, huh Irvine?" Chris shook his head and then turned to start away so that Matt could proceed to get his books, but once he was a few steps away he stopped and looked back at the unaware Hardy as he grabbed his things and while smiling to himself, Chris couldn't help but think that maybe it wasn t going to be such a long year after all.

Now...if you enjoyed that...Jamie and I would LOVE reviews!!!!!!!!! And the next chapter will be posted after anywhere between 3-5 reviews or more! So please please review~~~~~~~~~~~~