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Summary: Jeff Hardy has got a lot more then wrestling on his mind lately, and it all centers around a certain WWE Diva. Will he admit his true feelings in time or will he lose his chance forever.
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Authors Notes: A Note of thanks to all who reviewed and/or read the first two chapters, I hope I can keep you interested with the third. As always, read and review but its not mandatory. I just like that it's being seen.
The ladies locker room was afire with talk. The women of Smackdown were rambling about who was caught with who in the backstage area and the room was awash with women in towels and wet hair.
Ashley sat and watched the whole scene unfold before her shocked as to why she was even in here to begin with. Growing up she had never felt like one of the girls, more content to hang out with the boys in her neighborhood and play with cars and start fights with each other. She was a tomboy all right and everyone in her family had come to terms with it a long time ago.
So why aren't you sitting in the guys locker room right now?
If she had the answer to the questions that plagued her mind then maybe she would be doing something about it. Truth be told, months ago when she had dated Matt, she spent more time there then where she was right now with the women and it had sort of caused a stir within the company. People never liked things that went against the grain and if Ashley was known for anything, it was for going against everything and everyone.
She remembered what it was like hanging out with Gregory, Matt and Shannon on the locker room for all those months and then having that carry over back home to where the boys lived in Carolina. Those set of men were the best in the business and in the world she knew so far and she would go to the ends of the earth to spend time with them,
But there was more to what was going on with her lately then just wanting to hang out with the boys. He had been coming around the show a lot lately, and had been known to watch her in the halls. She always knew eyes were on her when she stretched but had been shocked to see that the person looking had been him.
There had been times when she wanted to admit that she saw him watching her and to proceed to tell him that she kind of liked that he was looking at her but something always got in the way of that.
Maybe the fact that you dated the mans brother might put an end to your plans.
And that was the truth right there in black and white in her mind. She had dated Matt, had even thought at one point that she loved the man more then anything before, but times had changed and they had both moved on. She wanted to stay friends with him, not because it was the normal thing to do when you broke up, but because it wasn't. Matt was amazing and she had assumed if they had stayed more private then maybe it might have worked out better, but that was neither here nor there anymore because it had been over between them for some time.
But what she felt when Jeff watched her was something else entirely. She felt her body sweat more when he was around, she felt herself blush more, act more like the girly girl instead of the strong willed rock chick she was known on TV to be. No man had ever brought that out in her, the urge to throw caution to the wind and just be a girl again. Not even Matt, but with Jeff she found that she did.
It's a rule that you don't go out with family members.
Sometimes she hated the rational side of her brain. She knew that the way she had been watching Jeff lately and how eagerly she wanted to get inside his head wasn't healthy for either of them. But sometimes she felt herself push the rational away and just crave him.
But she knew she would never tell him how she was feeling, and that eventually, she hoped it would just pass without incident. She was deep in thoughts about that when she heard the girls get louder and then realized just what they were talking about.
"I swear I think it's going to happen!" Michelle said, trying to contain the fit of screams and giggles that were threatening to erupt.
Ashley looked up, throwing a questioning look at her locker room companion and smiled. "What is going to finally happen?"
"I think I finally got to Jeff Hardy and he is going to ask me out!" she shrieked, almost knowing Ashley down with the force she used to throw her hands around the other divas neck.
"What makes you think that? Has he said anything?"
She blushed then and Ashley wanted to burst out laughing. Apparently she was not the only one who had gotten infected by the Charismatic Enigma himself. At the very least she didn't feel bad about the way she felt now, seeing Michelle do the same thing.
"No but apparently Kelly Kelly heard him talking the other night when they were all over on ECW, and he was overheard being told to just go ahead and ask the girl out."
Ashley was astounded, her and Jeff had been close for some time now, hanging out most chances that got but she had no indication at all that he was interested in dating anyone. He had only recently broken up with Beth had just seemed to be taking it too hard.
It was then that she realized that as much as she had her mind wrapped around Jeff Hardy lately, she was going to have to stop. If Jeff wanted to ask Michelle out, then there was no way she was going to be able to compete with her. She ran her towel through her almost dried hair one more time and wished her companion good luck before heading out the door.
She was meeting the guys for another get together and the last thing she wanted to do knowing what she did now was be late. She needed answers and she needed them now.