She swerved her car over to the side of the road and came to a stop. Her eyes burned with tears she hadn't cried yet, and her stomach churned at what she'd just seen through the window of her boyfriend's hotel room.
Apparently, her boyfriend, Edge didn't get the memo.. Apparently, he'd been too busy fucking her big sister to even bother to check his voicemails or missed calls. The urge to vomit hit her, and she opened her car door, throwing up on the side of the road as the dire straights she found herself in currently really started to hit home.
She knew two things with absolute certainty.. One, she was pregnant with Edge's kid and two, she was now seeing everything about him she'd been blind to before. Tonight was supposed to be a happy one for them, they should have been celebrating their good news as a couple.
Instead, she was sitting on the side of the interstate, staring at an engagement ring that felt right now like a knife twisting into her heart everytime she looked at it.
She picked up her phone and dialed her best friend Maria's cell phone, waiting. When it also went to voicemail, she growled and threw the cell phone down into the passenger seat. At least Edge hadn't even bothered to stop and seen her come to his hotel room door, so he'd be completely oblivious as to her having been there, left after seeing him with her sister, Lita.
"Damn you, Adam." she muttered to herself as she toyed for a moment with the idea of calling her sister's supposed boyfriend Matt, who was at home right now, on medical leave, he'd had an extensive knee surgery performed and he was still healing.
Lita should have been there, taking care of him.. Not with Adam, on the road, fucking him.
"Two wrongs don't make a right, and anyway, Matt kinda hates you, Destiny." she muttered to herself as she put the car into drive and just drove. She wound up in Cameron and before she realized it, she was pulling into Jeff's driveway.
Jeff raised a brow as he looked out the window, saw Lita's little sister's Camaro parked behind his own in his driveway, but for some reason, he went out and called from the porch, "What's wrong?"
"Everything, Jeff." Destiny said as she looked at him and got out of her car, walking up the walkway and asking, "Maria's not here.. is she?"
"No. We actually sort of broke up earlier.. Found out she was screwing around on me with CM Punk."
"Is she insane? Punk is a jerk. He's only going to hurt her." Destiny said as she stepped onto the porch and wiped her eyes, hoping Jeff couldn't see she'd obviously been crying in the darkness of the night around them.
But, unfortunately, he did and then asked, "Desi? Are you okay?"
"Not really, Jeff." Destiny muttered as she bit her lip and asked shakily, "Can I just come in for a few minutes? I promise I'm not gonna stay long or anything.."
"Sure.. I mean I doubt Maria comes back here, she made it pretty clear where she was headed when she left, but.." jeff said as he looked up momentarily, wondered if this was some kind of sign or something..
He'd been thinking tonight was a damn good night to relapse, and he'd been just about to leave, go get some stuff to take, something, anything he could get his hands on, really, when Destiny showed up out of the blue at his house..
Destiny stepped inside and then sank down into the couch as she looked at her hands and said "I'm breaking up with Edge."
"Why?" Jeff asked as his brow quirked. He'd always sort of assumed that Edge and Destiny had a fairly decent relationship, even though it pissed him off to watch Edge skeezing it up with other girls when Destiny couldn't make it out to his shows while they were all on the road and she was stuck at work or at college.
"Because.. I walked in on him with another woman tonight.. And he just asked me to marry him not even a week ago.. Great way to prove your love, huh?" Destiny laughed hollowly, as she leaned back, squeezed her eyes closed because she felt like she'd cry again at any moment and the last thing she wanted to do was be a burden to Jeff. He'd always been sweet to her, even when Matt was being a complete asshole.
"Who?" jeff asked out of curiousity, more than anything, as he looked at her and put his arm around the back of the couch as he said quietly, "Go ahead and cry if you want. Hell, I cried earlier when Maria and I broke up."
"You don't want me to answer that, Jeff.. because I know how much you love your brother, and my answer kind of affects him.." Destiny muttered as Jeff raised his brow then demanded gently, "Now I really have to know who.."
"My sister. I walked in on Edge with my damn sister. Of all the people he'd fuck around on me with.. It has to be my own damn sister.. I thought I could trust her." Destiny said in shock as Jeff exhaled sharply and then said "And now I see why she was acting so damn funny last time she visited Matt and Edge's name came up."
"Does Edge know you know?" Jeff asked as Destiny shook her head without looking up and added quietly, "The worst of it is.. I'm pregnant. And there is no way in hell I'm going to marry a man I just don't trust."
The second she said the words she'd just said, Jeff got this nagging feeling in the pit of his stomach, but for the moment, he ignored it. After all, he didn't want to further make the mess worse when he told her that he'd been having really, really vivid dreams about her, about them, since the last time he'd seen her, right?
Because that's all they had to be, were dreams.. he'd never logically do that to Maria, and he knew she'd never do that to Edge. She'd had a few chances, hell, Batista hit on her quite often when she came to visit Edge on the road..
But she never took any of them.
"Jeff? If you were me, what would you do?" Destiny asked as she made herself look up into his jade green eyes and raked her hand through her hair, studying him a moment. Something was bugging him right now, she could sort of tell. And she still couldn't figure out for the life of her, why she'd come here, to Jeff's house when she could have just as easily went to Christian's hotel room or Trish's.
So why had she driven over 3 hours to Jeff, someone she considered a friend, but not a really close one like Christian, Maria or Trish?
She couldn't explain it, but for a moment, she wondered if it had to do with the bizarre daydream she'd had during class earlier in the week.
She shook it off and then sighing said "When it all goes to hell.. It literally all goes to hell, doesn't it?" mostly to herself as she stared at a television that wasn't turned on.
It was then she happened to look at Jeff and realized that he was dressed as if he were intending on leaving when she'd shown up, and he had his keys in his hand.
"I screwed up your plans.. I'm gonna go now.. Maybe Maria's at her hotel room and she's alone." Destiny muttered as she stood and started towards the door.
The craving for his addiction was still pretty much ruling Jeff, but he remembered the promise he'd made his older brother and stood, putting his hand over her hand on the doorknob as he said "Do you mind, umm.. Staying? Just for a little bit.. Maybe we can talk or something.. Maybe Maria will come back here.." he lied as he looked at her, hoping the desperation didn't show in his eyes when he looked at her. He suspected that she really didn't talk to him all that much outside of the last time they'd seen one another, over a month ago, at one of Matt's 'get togethers', because she knew about the drugs, and she'd dated a user a long time ago who'd really done her wrong, he'd really hurt her, and maybe the fact that Jeff was still very much 'in recovery', scared her, because she couldn't be sure which way he'd go..
"I.. Sure.. Are you sure I'm not screwing up any of your plans though?" Destiny asked as she studied him a moment. She got this feeling he needed her to stay, and she said nothing, but internally, she was curious.. They barely talked, really didn't know one another, even though he'd been dating her best friend until earlier tonight, apparently.
"No." Jeff stated firmly as he shut the door and flopped onto the couch, turning on the tv, trying to find something to watch. The knock on the door a few moments later had him raising a brow and Matt called out, "Desi? Edge is looking everywhere for you girl, why are you at Jeff's? He's really freaking out."
Jeff grumbled and then stood, opening the door as he let his brother in, ignoring the glare his brother gave him, shrugging casually as he gave an apologetic smile to Destiny.
Destiny bit her lip and then said quietly, "Because when I went to his hotel room tonight, Matt, and I saw him fucking another girl."
"And? You came to Jeff's house, why?" Matt asked as he looked at her, trying not to be a dick, but at the same time, trying to keep his defenses up, remembering everything her sister had told her that Destiny was capable of.
Destiny smirked. She'd picked up on the tone in his voice just now and she asked a question of her own.. "Hey Matt? Where's Lita tonight?"
Jeff looked at his brother and waited, wondering what Lita had told him to get out of making the trip to check up on the man she supposedly loved with 'all her heart'.
"She's with Trish or something." Matt said as he glared at Destiny, wondering what she'd meant by her own question, getting the feeling that she knew something he didn't.
"What'd you ask me that for. She's your sister, you should know.. Maybe if you weren't over here breaking up Jeff and Maria, then you would." Matt said coldly as Jeff growled and said in a deathly calm voice, "Get out, Matt. Now."
"No.. Not until she tells me why she's here, and not with Maria or Christian, or someone.. Don't be stupid, Jeff, you love Maria. Do you really wanna throw that away on her?" Matt asked his brother, his disdain for Destiny, for what he knew (or thought he knew) her to be evident in his tone of voice.
Destiny snapped and then said calmly, quietly, "You didn't even ask me who was with Edge when I caught him."
"Who? And why should it make a damn to me?" Matt asked, rolling his eyes in annoyance as Destiny said "My angel of a big sister's with him, right now."
Matt growled and then went for her, but Jeff stepped between them and said "She's telling the truth, Matt.. Lita's the one who's been lying to you.. I've known she was screwing around for a few months now.. just didn't know with who, until tonight when Destiny came here."
Matt felt sick to his stomach as he tried to call Lita's phone and realized it was cut off.
"Her phone's off."
"If you still think I'm a liar, Matt, they're in room 308 at the Hilton Inn. It's Edge's room." Destiny said as she pressed the cordless phone from Jeff's end table into Matt's hand, held his gaze challengingly.
Matt took the phone and within seconds, he was slamming the phone down, storming around the house.
Destiny stopped him and shook her head as she said "What you do is go back to work, act normal, pretend you don't know and then drop the boom on her." before sitting back down on the couch beside Jeff.. She could feel the warmth of his skin against her skin and she could swear for a moment that there was an electric current passing through their bodies, but she did her best to pretend otherwise.
Even though her even being here, in his house, sitting with him felt a little too familiar, she did her best to ignore that and focus on what'd bought her here tonight, not why she'd chosen here of all places to come to.
Matt eventually left, and Destiny sighed as she said quietly, "I shouldn't have done that."
Jeff shrugged and said "My brother kind of asked for it, being an asshole like he was.. I don't get it.. For the past month and a half, he's went out of his way to make your life a living hell when he sees you.. And he's constantly telling me that I don't wanna mess up what I have with maria.. had, I mean."
Destiny shrugged and said "Lita probably filled his head full of shit or something, I don't even know, really, don't actually care.. It's late, I really should get going or something.." Destiny muttered as they locked eyes again, and she found herself zoning out and oddly enough, going back to the daydream she'd had earlier in this week about Jeff, about them, together..
"You can stay.. I'll sleep on the couch.. You can take the bed or something." Jeff offered before he could really stop himself as he kept thinking about the bizarre dream he'd had earlier in the week, the dreams he'd been having..
"If you're sure.." Destiny said as she looked at him uncertainty in her eyes, raking her hand slowly through her hair.
"I'm sure.. Actually, I should thank you.. Before you came here tonight.. I was on the verge of a relapse.. If you hadn't shown up, I'd have done something really, really stupid."
Destiny blinked then said quietly, "Jeff.. Look, we really don't know one another, but you used to date my best friend, and you were a really good guy to her.. So, I care about you.. If you ever feel like you want to do that again.. Talk to someone.."
Jeff nodded quietly, and then said "Thanks, umm.. Maybe we can be friends? I mean we never really get to talk much.." as he smiled at herand she nodded and said "I'd like that a lot."
He went down the hallway, collapsed onto his bed, drained from the day he'd had so far as he stared at the ceiling, thought about tonight, everything that'd happened and what he'd almost done.
And when he fell asleep, he started having that dream again, of course.
Destiny settled in on the couch as she closed her eyes, began to just drift off to sleep. She was surprised when she realized that seeing Edge cheating on her actually hadn't shocked her like she'd thought it would.. That's when she realized that as stupid as Matt must have felt about knowing Lita was getting with Edge behind his back, she should really feel stupider.. because Edge had been spending less and less time with her for the better part of almost 5 months now and for a while, she'd wondered why.
Now, sadly, she had her answer.
As she started to sleep, she started to have the same vivid 'daydream' she'd had earlier in the week.. And something about it kept nagging at her.. She figured she'd try and make heads or tails of it in the morning when she'd had sleep and time to think about what she was going to do to Edge, how she was going to end things with him.
