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Kimi watched as Mark loaded the last of the stuff from the den. That had been the hardest, she had kept several things of his, his degree, which she left hanging and his old baseball trophy's , she had boxed up some of the things he thought Sin's parents would like to keep and mailed them yesterday.

Mark walked over. "Okay..I'm going to take this to the thrift store, you want to come?"

Kimi shook her head. "I think I'll shower and relax a bit."

Mark nodded and hugged her. "I'll be back in a bit."

Kimi nodded and went back in the house, she made her a cup of tea and sat out on the back deck.

She had her mind occupied the last couple of days with the task at hand, but now, her mind was drawn to Jeff, why hadn't he called.

She unclipped her phone and dialed his number. Once again his voice mail picked up. "Sakima, I miss you..I wish you would call me, I have to work at the university about a month and do a paper, but I'll be visiting Mark in about a month, I would like to see you..call me."

Kimi hung up, she felt pathetic begging Jeff to call, but she had realized when she was away from him, that her feelings were much deeper than she first thought.

She had found herself dreaming about him, not just sex, yea she dreamed about that, but she dreamed of the times they just sat together watching TV or when he came down and helped her with her work, she knew the symptoms, she couldn't fool herself, she knew what love felt like, and it took her leaving him for her to realize she was in love with one Jeff Hardy. The problem was he had effectively seemed to cut her out of his life.

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Mark found her on the deck deep in though. "Hey girly, you okay." he asked parking his big frame in the chair next to hers.

Kimi smiled. "Yea."

"You don't sound too convincing." Mark said.

Kimi sighed. "When you get back on the road, will you ask Jeff to call me, I been leaving messages and he's not calling me back, I just wonder if he's okay?"

Mark looked at Kimi. "Did you two sleep together?"

Kimi laughed, no wonder her and Mark got along so good, both were blunt and to the point. "Yes..and I thought there was something there, but he wont answer my calls."

Mark frowned. That didn't sound like Jeff, he wondered what the hell was wrong with the boy.

"I'll talk to him."

Kimi smiled at Mark. "I didn't say beat the hell outta him or harass him, if it was just a few nights of fun for him fine, I just want him to tell me that, and I wont bother him no more."

Mark grabbed Kimi's hand. "Are you in love with him?"

Kimi nodded and Mark sighed, he had a feeling Kimi was going to come out of this hurt again.

Mark left the next day, he had to get back to do the next show. Kimi saw him off at the airport. He hugged her before he boarded. "Call me if ya need anything..I love ya Kimi girl."

Kimi grinned. "I love you too Mark, be safe."

Mark nodded and took off.

Kimi turned and left, she had to be back at work at the university tomorrow, she really had to get her mind straight, she hoped Jeff would call.

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Mark checked into the hotel and then went straight to the arena, he had only a couple of hours before the show.

As soon as he dumped his bag in his dressing room, he went looking for Jeff. He found him in the main locker room and walked over to him. "Jeff I need to talk to you."

The last thing Jeff wanted was to talk to Mark, the thought of him and Kimi together was making him sick.

But he followed Mark out in the hallway. "Kimi asked me to have you call her, whats the deal, she's worried sick about you."

Jeff looked at Mark. "How can she miss me, she had you with her."

Mark just shook his head. "I just went to help her get Sin's stuff loaded up and out of the house, she's having a hard time, she could use a friend, call her."

Jeff shook his head. "Me and Kimi are done, its better..we just break it off clean rather than dragging it out." Jeff said and walked off.

Mark just didn't get it, Jeff wasn't the type to sleep with someone and ignore them, what had crawled up Jeff's ass he wondered.

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Randy was sitting the locker room getting ready to shower when Jeff walked in and slammed the door almost off the hinges.

"Dude what the hell is wrong?" Randy asked as he shed his clothes and walked over to a shower stall.

"Mark, he came down on me about Kimi, and how I need to call her, and all this shit, he acts like her dad or something." Jeff said and plopped down a bench.

Randy turned on the water and soaped up. "Jeff just chill, I mean you seemed to really like her, maybe she has feelings for you, if you don't dig her like that maybe the best thing to do is call her and tell her."

Jeff sighed, Kimi had been sleeping with other guys, he couldn't forgive that, he did not what to talk to her, she would get the hint if he kept avoiding her calls.

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Kimi had been back at work for a month and fell into the swing of things. She was teaching a history class twice a week, and she had finished her paper, shipped the artifacts back to North Carolina.

Kimi finished grading papers and laid her head on the desk, she was so damn tired here lately, she didn't feel like moving.

Kimi had upped her dosage of vitamins, thinking maybe she had low blood or something, all she wanted to do was sleep.

Then when she slept all she did was dream of Jeff. He still hadn't called her and when she had talked to Mark, all he would say was Jeff was being a prick and to forget him. Easier said than done, she couldn't get the man off her mind. She wondered if that had anything to do with her physically feeling like crap.

She got up and decided to head home for the day, maybe grab some extra sleep. She was leaving next week to catch up with Mark, in Tennessee, she needed a break in her routine and decided hanging out with him a couple of weeks was just the thing to lift her spirits.

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Randy grabbed the bottle of Jack away from Jeff. "Thats the last thing you need. Jeff why don't you tell me what the fuck is wrong with you?"

They were at a club and Jeff was drowning his sorrows, whatever the hell they were, he wouldn't talk about them.

"Randy give me the damn bottle back." Jeff demanded.

"No..talk, okay..what is the damn problem?" Randy asked.

Jeff sighed and propped his head in his hands. "Kimi. I'm in love with her, and she turned out to be a slut, but I cant stop loving her, hows that for a problem?"

Randy shook his head. "Okay first off, I really don't see her as a slut, why do you think that?"

Jeff looked at his friend. "Twice when I called her, once some strange guy answered the phone, and it was a young guy, since she keeps her phone with her all the time, well you know what that means, and then early one morning I called her, and Mark answered the phone , you could tell he was asleep and then I heard Kimi in the background, asking who it was, and she had been asleep to, what would you think?"

"Well first off, I would talk to Kimi before I jumped to all those conclusions. I mean there could be a simple explanation, where was she when you called the first time?"

Jeff looked down at the bar, depressed as ever. "She was at her parents."

Randy shook his head. "Okay, well maybe a young male relative, I hardly think Kimi would be shacking up with some guy in front of her parents."

"Okay, maybe she was at a hotel with some guy." Jeff said.

Randy popped him in the back of the head. "Thats a lot of maybes, dumb ass, talk to the girl."

Jeff rubbed the back of his head and glared at Randy. "Okay what about Mark?"

"Listen closely Dumbo, didn't you get in trouble the last time you jumped to conclusions about the two of them?"

"Well yea, but they were both asleep, together." Jeff said turning to look at the dance floor.

Randy just shook his head. "Jeffro, think, Mark and Kimi are close friends, he was good friends with her husband, thats a tie to the man she was married too, he told me when he got back, he went down there to help her get all of her husbands stuff boxed up and carted away, do you realize how hard that must have been for her, so she called her best friend, so what if they were sleeping in the same room, Mark told you there was nothing between them, Mark don't lie, you know that."

Jeff was more confused than ever, had he been to quick to think bad of Kimi?

"Maybe you were scared of what your feeling for and was looking for a reason to dump her, you know Mark said she was coming to hang with him for a while, next week I think, since you aren't interested anymore, maybe I'll ask her out." Randy said smirking at his friend.

Jeff jumped up and glared at Randy. "Go ahead, I don't give a shit." He snapped and left.

Randy just smiled. Oh yea, he could see Jeff didn't give a shit.

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Kimi packed her bags and set them by the bedroom door. Her flight was out early in the morning. She went and fell back in her bed. She was exhausted. She picked up her cell and called Mark. "Hello."

"Hey Mark."

"Kimi girl, when is your flight out?"

"First thing in the morning..I'll get into Tennessee around four." Yawning Kimi tried to keep her eyes open.

"Kimi you sound tired, you getting enough rest?" Mark asked.

Kimi laughed. "Hell all I do is sleep..I don't know what wrong with me."

Mark frowned. "Have you been to the doctor?"

"Uhh no , I've just been a little tired, I'm not sick." She said turning over to her side.

"Kimi, being tired can be a symptom of other things, I'll take ya to see our doctor while your here." He said making it sound d final."

"Mark, he works for the WWE , he's not paid to look at your friends." She said closing her eyes.

"You're going, whatever." He snapped.

Kimi stared laughing. "Yes daddy."

Mark couldn't help but grin. "Thats right and don't forget it."

"Good night Mark, I love you."

Mark smiled. "I love ya too, get some sleep."

Kimi laid her phone down and curled up, she loved sleeping these days, she just couldn't seem to help herself, she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.

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Kimi looked around for Mark, he said he would meet her, when she got off the plane. She wondered around the area for a few minutes.

"Hey Kimi."

Kimi turned around to find a good looking young man with short hair and intense blue eyes smiling at her. He had on form fitting blue jeans and a white t-shirt that just showed off the muscles and tattoos, then she recognized him from the first night she had that run in with Jeff, she had met him briefly, the flirter. "Nice to see you again Randy." She said smiling at him.

Randy looked surprised and pleased. "You remember me?"

Kimi grinned. "Of course, you were the handsome gentleman that flirted with me."

Randy smiled and took her bag, she looked really tired. "Mark sent me, Vince called him in some meeting at the last minute, but he'll meet you at the hotel."

Kimi nodded and followed him out the airport , to the parking lot. Randy stopped in front of his rental and threw her bags in the truck, he went around and opened the door for her and waited till she had got herself settled and shut the door.

Kimi looked at him when he got in, she knew he and Jeff were friends, she wanted to ask about Jeff, but she stopped herself, Jeff had made it clear with his silence, he was done with her.

Tears pricked her eyes and she blinked them back, she hated that she loved him, but that was not going to change, she would just have to learn to live with it.

Randy pulled onto the highway. "So Mark told me you had been teaching some, this is a vacation, hanging around with a bunch of sweaty muscle heads?" He asked grinning.

Kimi smiled back at him. "Yea...this will be relaxing for me, I wont have to think for a while."

Randy nodded, he looked at girl, she was truly beautiful, and she seemed so sweet, Jeff was a first class idiot, but he knew Jeff's insecurity's came from Becky, she had cheated on Jeff so many times, Randy had lost count, he knew in the beginning of their six year relationship, Jeff had been crazy about her, he had meet her at a diner, in his small home town of Cameron, Jeff had been instantly smitten, but in Randy's opinion, she had just wanted along for the ride, because of who Jeff was, simple as they, she had cheated the first three months the two were together, Jeff forgave her time and again, even catching her in the act a couple of times, and blaming Jeff because he worked all the time.

Randy could almost understand Jeff being suspicious, but he had to realize that every girl he met was not like Becky, and he was going to wake up and realize what he had lost in Kimi, but then it would be too late.

"Okay so tell me one of your stories, Mark says you're a story teller, or that you know tons of them, and some fables too." Randy asked giving her his most charming smiled.

Kimi laughed. "Okay then , let me think."

Randy smiled. "Come on now, we'll be to the hotel in a few minutes."

Kimi laughed. "Okay..I got one ..Its called Coyote and the origin of death."

Randy nodded.

Kimi started and Randy noticed immediately the pitch of her voice changed and how for each character she changed her voice. "In the beginning of this world, there was no such thing as death. Everybody continued to live until there were so many people that the earth had no room for any more. The chiefs held a council to determine what to do. One man rose and said he thought it would be a good plan to have the people die and be gone for a little while, and then return. As soon as he sat down, Coyote jumped up and said he thought people ought to die forever. He pointed out that this little world is not large enough to hold all of the people, and that if the people who died came back to life, there would not be food enough for all.

All the other men objected. They said that they did not want their friends and relatives to die and be gone forever, for then they would grieve and worry and there would be no happiness in the world. Everyone except Coyote decided to have people die and be gone for a little while, and then come back to life again. The medicine men built a large grass house facing the east. When they had completed it, they called the men of the tribe together and told them that people who died would be restored to life in the medicine house. The chief medicine man explained that they would sing a song calling the spirit of the dead to the grass house. When the spirit came, they would restore it to life.

All the people were glad, because they were anxious for the dead to come and live with them again. When the first man died, the medicine men assembled in the grass house and sang. In about ten days a whirlwind blew from the west and circled about the grass house. Coyote saw it, and as the whirlwind was about to enter the house, he closed the door. The spirit of the whirlwind, finding the door closed, whirled on by. In this way Coyote made death eternal, and from that time on, people grieved over their dead and were unhappy. Now whenever anyone meets a whirlwind or hears the wind whistle, he says: "Someone is wandering about." Ever since Coyote closed the door, the spirits of the dead have wandered over the earth trying to find some place to go, until at last they discovered the road to the spirit land.

Coyote ran away and never came back, for when he saw what he had done, he was afraid. Ever after that, he has run from one place to another, always looking back first over one shoulder and then over the other to see if anyone is pursuing him. And ever since then he has been starving, for no one will give him anything to eat."

Randy grinned at her, thats great and the way you tell it..I bet kids would love for you to tell them stories."

Kimi grinned. "Well I am a native lore story teller, so I've had lots of practice."

Randy looked confused. "It means my mother, is a story teller and she taught me, we pass on native traditions and folklore to the new generation."

Randy smiled. "Okay I get it...look I know you're probably tired, but I was wondering, when you get rested, maybe in the next town, maybe we could have dinner or something?"

Kimi knew it was most likely a bad idea, he was Jeff's friend, but Jeff didn't want her for some reason or another, why shouldn't she go out, and have a nice time, she wasn't breaking any laws.

Kimi looked at Randy and smiled. "I would love too."

Randy turned into the hotel parking lot. "Great." He said.

He knew Jeff would have a fit, but hell he didn't want her, he was being a ass, and he saw for himself, how sweet and interesting Kimi was, Jeff would just have to suck it up.