Make You Smile

Chapter Twenty-One

Better In Time

"John?"

"Hi…Trish."

John hesitated for a moment as he stared back at the girl of his dreams. He slowly began to get up, dropping his purchases from his hand until he was standing upright, staring down at her tiny frame. He couldn't believe it. After all this time…all those agonising years of waiting, wishing…she was now right in front of him. This was the moment he had been waiting for, for so long.

"Hi," he repeated, exhaling deeply as he didn't really know what else to say.

Trish's expression changed a little as she slightly scrunched her face giving him an odd look, "John…what are you doing here?" she muttered quietly.

Her voice has changed, John noticed. It was more mature, and seemed less like the whiney teenager he once knew, but all the same it belonged to Trish and he automatically loved it. His thoughts broke when he become aware of the confused look she was giving him.

"Umm…I came to see you, Trish," he willingly admitted. He scoffed at the blatant atmosphere. "I've missed you so much."

"Oh, that is so sweet," Sharie's voice whispered behind them. John glanced at her and gave her a nervous half-smile before turning back to face Trish, awaiting her response.

"Way to be obvious!" James leaned into and whispered yelled at Sharie. Ignoring him, she also watched Trish eagerly awaiting her response to John.

"Answer him, answer him, answer him Trish…just answer him…" she quietly muttered over and over again.

Trish took a deep breath and relaxed her shoulders a little. She sighed and shook her head slowly, trying to formulate the right set of words to say. "John I…I mean that was so long ago, I…I don't know what to say," she finally said.

John's face fell a little. It wasn't the response he hoped for. He somewhat had the feeling that she wasn't really happy to see him, but he was determined to change that. He took a small step towards her, "Then say you'll, I don't know, meet up with me later and we can talk?" he asked buoyantly.

"John, I don't think that'd be…"

"Please?" he said quietly. Trish's heart sank when she saw the expression on his face. It was so genuine and full of hope, and never broke eye contact with her, not once.

"Okay," she said reluctantly, much to his delight. "There's a Starbucks down the street, we can meet there in about a half hour?"

John smiled and nodded. He opened his mouth to say something, but was beaten.

"I have to get back and finish my shift," Trish said uneventfully. "I'll see you soon." With that, she turned around and walked away from him.

John pursed his lips together and gave a small nod even though she wouldn't have seen. He took a step back, swinging his arms a little, making a fist into his other hand as he turned to face Sharie and James. They both gave him mixed expressions.

"That didn't really go as well as I anticipated…" John said before either of them could say anything.

Sharie gave him a sympathetic look, but James was the one to respond. "It's been ages since you've seen each other, you can't expect things to fall into place easily…just give it some time and it'll all work out eventually," he assured.

"Wow," Sharie dragged out to add emphasis. "That is like the nicest thing you have ever said to a person!" she turned towards John. "He's never given advice like that before."

John gave a small laugh. "Okay well I better go practice what I'm gonna say to Trish when I finally get a…private chat with her without snoopy Coway workers eavesdropping…" He smirked before turning around to catch one last look of Trish before leaving.

"I really do hope it works out for the poor guy," James said as they watched him leave.

Sharie nodded and made her way over to Trish who looked quite distressed as she scribbled down in a log book. "Oh my gosh Trish!" she said and stood next to her friend. She didn't realise Trish sigh and roll her eyes. "Can you believe he came all this way…for you!" she smiled, trying to cheer Trish up. "Come on, he travelled all the way to another country just to find you, that's so cute I'd love a guy to do that for me!"

"You'd just love a guy!" James called out across from the register he was on. Sharie leaned over and glared at him.

"Sharie, it's not cute…I've moved on," Trish snapped as she threw her pen down. "It's taken me so long to try and forget all those memories of John and my life back in Boston." She glanced outside to see John kicking at the pavement.

"Care to fill us in on those memories?" Sharie asked as Trish hadn't told her or James anything about John, only vague things about living in Boston.

"No, but I'm going to head off now and try to sort this whole situation out or something." Trish said as she began to walk away and gave a small wave to her two friends. "Talk to you guys later."

Sharie watched her leave before returning to her place back at the registers next to James. They both exchanged looks, not really knowing what to think in this situation. Trish had never ever mentioned anything about John before, and she was one of their closest friends!

"So, what do we do to help?" James asked, breaking the silence.

"Well…" Sharie thought for a moment. "First we're gonna get Trish to spill on all the details of her life in Boston," she replied before turning her attention to assist a customer. James nodded in agreement and leant against the counter.

"James darl, I don't mind if you're not doing anything, just try to make it look like you're productive," Jo called out to a swooning James. "Oh and Sharie could you come here, I need you to clean some baskets and mop parts of the floor, coz I'm going on break soon."

Sharie frowned discreetly so Jo wouldn't see. James chuckled, "Have fun little one!" He scoffed.

"Shut up you jerk," Sharie spat. "Stupid fucking Jo bleached haired whore…" Sharie muttered profanities under her breath as she made her way over to the stack of baskets. She turned to glare back at James, "You make me sick!" she mouthed to him.

"Just like the inside of those baskets will," he smirked and folded his arms across his chest.

JxT

Trish made her way over to John who was seated on the bench outside the supermarket. The sound of her footsteps caused him to look up at her and smile.

"I thought I'd just wait for you here and we could walk together," he explained. Trish couldn't help but smile softly at his sweet gesture.

The two walked in an awfully awkward silence to Starbucks. The only times when they spoke directly to one another was when Trish said that it was just around the corner, and when John asked where Trish wanted to sit inside the coffee house.

Once seated with their orders, the silence still remained for quite some time. They sat at opposite ends of the table. John glanced at Trish, who had been avoiding eye contact with him the whole time since they met earlier. His heart sank, why is it so different now? John just wished things weren't so awkward between them. He wanted it to be like the old days where Trish would be so close to him that people would think they were together. He wanted her to be her giggly up-beat usual self, he new she couldn't have lost all that after all these years…it was still inside her, she just didn't want to show it.

He took this moment to admire the way she had changed. She had grown up, a lot, a lot more than say Stacy had. She had so much maturity about it, the way she presented herself especially. She was beautiful though, always had been, and John knew she always would be. He could still resemble her to her teenage self, she hadn't changed in looks that much, she was still the Trish he remembered. He smiled slightly as he took in that this was his Trish, his Trish.

He noticed her look up for a second; just long enough to give him a small flash of a smile that made his heart melt.

"You look great by the way," John finally managed to say. "I just thought I'd let you know that you look beautiful…not that you ever stopped being beautiful or anything like…"

"Thanks John," she cut him off. "You look great too," she said honestly. She eyed him carefully to notice that he too had grown up. He was a lot taller and she could tell he worked out or something coz his arms were very toned.

"Uh, thanks," John blushed slightly thinking she had only said it because he had complimented her. "You know, you're a really hard person to find," he said whilst giving a small laugh hoping she too would laugh for him.

With a barely noticeable chuckled she nodded, "Yeah, it's coz I recently moved out, a lot of people still call my parents asking for me," she decided to reveal a little more about her life to John.

He nodded. "Ah okay, that explains why I called them and the answering machine said that they'd pass on messages to you." He watched her nod and take a sip of her coffee. "So uh," he continued cautiously. "You um work at the supermarket full time?"

She shook her head delicately. "No, no I only work part time there whenever I can, I'm actually in college and live with one of my um…classmates." She explained. "What about you?" she asked John back, noticing his eager expression to keep the conversation flowing. He seemed so interested in anything she had to say.

"Oh well I'm just in college too, studying criminology…"

"Criminology?" Trish interrupted. "Get out, me too!" She playfully giggled. "Wow, we both stuck to what we planned on doing!"

John grinned at her in amazement. "You…you remember that?"

Trish laughed again, "Of course I do, how could I forget that? We use to talk about all the kinds of crimes we could solve!" she trailed off with a giggle.

John beamed. He was glad that she had started to loosen up and be her old self. He especially loved that she too had stuck to the course they had discussed when they were younger. "Yeah and I said that one time I would be the investigator in some case about you puking to death on the swing."

Trish settled her soft laughter. "Oh you were saying? Before I rudely interrupted…" she gave him a guilty look.

"Ah it's okay!" John reassured. "Um yeah well I share a dorm room with Randy, you remember Randy right?" Trish nodded, saying she could never forget him and also mentioned that she still had the Hulk Hogan shirt he had given her. John chuckled, loving it every time she brought up old memories which helped his assure that she hadn't entirely forgotten about him.

"Anyway um, well Randy and Stacy are still together," John informed a fully interested Trish who leant her chin on her hand, leaning into John's words. "Well they are having a baby together and um…"

"Wait, what!?" Trish said, totally taken aback. "Stacy's pregnant!?" John nodded and laughed at her surprised expression.

"Yeah we all pretty much had the same response to the news," he chuckled. "Except Randy of course took off during the night and freaked everyone out, and then came back and…well we wont go into that, that can be a story for another time that you can remind me to tell you," he smiled at her and gave her a quick wink.

She smiled back at him. This time it was the smile she would give him back when they were in Boston. The 'best friend' smile that said things like 'you always know how to make me smile', 'I can't live without you' and the infamous 'I love you.'

John sighed at the sight of her. He admired her gentle face and the way she looked at him as if to be asking 'say whatever it is you want to say.' "You're beautiful Trish," he breathed.

She giggled. "You've already told me that," she pointed out.

"I really want you back in my life," he admitted before he had the chance to change his mind.

Trish's expression changed and she shifted uncomfortably in her seat. John mentally smacked himself across the back of the head. Stupid, stupid! Why the hell did you have to go and say that!? It's too soon and now you've made it awkward for her and yourself! Things were going fine until you opened you big, fat mouth and said…

"John, what are you doing?" she looked up at him. "Like seriously, what are you doing here?"

John shrugged, slightly confused. "I came to see you, I came here for you…didn't I tell you already?" John mentally asked himself, thinking back and recalling what he had said to her.

"Yes…yes you did, but why John? Why after all these years?" Before John could answer she spoke again, acting as f her question was almost rhetorical. "I can't, I just can't deal with this right now John. I've tried so hard to move on and I finally am, and I just can't do this," her voice began to shake.

"Trish but…"

"No," she said bluntly. "I've seriously tried so hard to move on and forget you and just everything that ever happened…" she slightly regretted being so harsh to him.

John felt his whole body just collapse on the inside. He couldn't believe Trish had tried, actually tried to forget him. She had said, and he remembered her saying she didn't regret what happened. He didn't look at her, for the first time he just couldn't look at her.

"John…" Trish said softly. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you upset…"

"Upset?" John questioned. "I'm not upset," he lied. "It's fine, now I know why we never kept in touch or anything so it's cool, I can see you've changed and that's fine like it's been ages, I just thought, maybe, we could rebuild our friendship or something…"

Trish swallowed her guilt hard. She felt terrible. John was trying to play it cool and not make it obvious that he just wanted to cry right about now. A best friend could always tell.

"We can, we can rebuild our friendship…of course we can," she said, smiling a little to try and cheer the atmosphere up a little.

John returned the smile, still a little disappointed that she hadn't just automatically wanted to be with him. He knew that he was pretty much aiming too high when he thought his whole meeting up with Trish would be like something out of the movies; the whole meeting up and staring into each other's eyes and then without saying anything, sealing it with a kiss. Yeah, that was a long shot. That never happens.

"John?"

His thoughts returned back to the beauty in front of him. "Yeah?" he said a little unenthused.

"Oh, you kinda zoned out a little there…" she laughed. "I was just wandering if you wanted to go for a walk, there's a great park nearby…with swings?" she grinned at him suggestively.

John chuckled. "I was wrong, you haven't changed at all, Stratus, you're still a little kid that plays on the swings!"

Trish laughed and playfully hit him from across the table. "Hey, as if you don't wanna do it!" she pointed out as she stood up grabbing her bag. "Coming?"

John watched her start to walk away slowly, holding out her right hand behind her for him to grab. He hesitated, but softly held onto her hand as she led them out.

JxT

"Do you remember that time I rang you at like six in the morning and made you make me breakfast?" Trish laughed.

"Uhh how could I forget!? I slaved away in that kitchen for like a million years!" John groaned. "How did you manage to eat all that anyways, there was like a tonne of food it could feed an army!?"

"Ah genius it was like a couple of pancakes and toast and like juice or whatever, that's hardly a meal for like one army guy!" Trish retaliated as she sat down on one of the empty swings.

"Yea whatever, just coz you pulled a Stacy and were a little oinker…" John muttered under his breath as he made his way around her and began pushing the swing slowly.

"I heard that," Trish snapped.

John pushed he slowly, barely letting his hands leave her lower back as she swung back and forth. He watched as she kicked her legs up each time so they wouldn't hit the ground. His mind wandered to the time when she had kissed him whilst she was on the swing. It was there first full on kiss. She tasted so sweet and he just wished that moment could have lased forever.

"Hey J.C do reckon you could push me a little higher? I'm not like two years old, I can handle it," she giggled.

John apologised. He noticed that she had called him J.C, which she'd call him when they were younger. He gave her a harder push so her feet left the ground without her having to lift them higher and then walked around so that he was now in front of her, far enough so she wouldn't knick him in the face, but still close enough so if he reached out he could touch her.

He followed her movements back and forth, until she came to a subtle slow and looked back at him smiling.

"Whatcha thinking about babe?" she said naturally. It became more and more obvious that she was starting to relax around John and be her old self.

John shrugged. "You….naturally."

Trish arched an eyebrow at him. He hoped to god that he hadn't gone too far again. "Yeah I'm pretty spectacular, I wouldn't be surprised if everyone who walked past me just automatically thought about me 24/7," she joked. "So um, it's getting kinda late, I think I should probably go home," she said looking down at her watch. "Yeah, Ron must be getting a little worried…"

She said the last part pretty quietly, but John still heard. "Ron?" he asked, already thinking about the worst.

Trish looked up at him almost as if she was kicking herself for letting the mention of Ron slip out. She saw John's eyes burning into her, she knew this was gonna take him down, hard.

"Um…Ron, he's well, I live with him…" she said quietly, looking down at her shoes. She hesitantly looked up slowly at John who still had piercing eyes at her, wanting her to say what he didn't want to necessarily hear. "He's…he's my boyfriend."

John stayed quiet for a moment to let it all sink in. Why hadn't she just said that before? After this whole time together, it was like she wasn't even going to mention the fact she had a boyfriend! Determined to not let this affect the day he'd spent wit her, he just nodded. "Oh okay, been together long?" he said coolly.

"A couple of months…" she replied.

John sighed discreetly. So it wasn't that serious yet, he hoped. "Well, can I walk you home then?" he asked, wanting desperately to change the topic. Trish nodded and hopped off the swing. She strode towards him and grabbed onto his arm, almost hugging it, hoping he wasn't angry about the Ron thing. John returned by pulling her in for a hug and then grabbing her hand as they walked off to Trish's place.

JxT

John lent against the wall next to Trish's apartment door. It was a nice place, and seemed very college-y. He rested his head on the wall as Trish fumbled through her bag looking for her keys.

"You always lose everything," John said, his eyes closed as he relaxed against the wall.

"You know what?" Trish said a little aggravated. "Shut up, okay? Just shut up, I haven't lost them, there just impossible to find in this stupid bag!" she cursed as she began furiously shoving things out of the way.

John laughed at her aggravation. He opened his eyes when he heard the jingle of the keys. "Finally…" he muttered smugly.

"Finally!" Trish mocked in a high pitched voice. John poked his tongue out and gave her a light shove.

She chuckled a little, before clearing her throat. "Well it was actually really nice spending this time with you John…" she admitted and fiddled with her keys.

"Yeah, it really was," John smiled, showing off his dimples. Trish tensed up at his cuteness. "Anyway I have your number, I'll call you?"

"Yeah," she replied simply.

John swung his arms a little and propped up on his tippy toes as an attempt to not have to leave so soon. After neither of them had anything to say he finally gave up. "Well, I'll see you soon…bye…" he said silently and turned to walk away.

He was immediately stopped by Trish's voice. "Are you joking? Are we best friends?"

"What?" John asked, slightly confused.

"We're best friends, that's not the way we do it…" she said as she walked up to him.

Before John could say anything he felt her lips attach to his. As he tried to savour the kiss, she had pulled away much to his dismay. She gave him a sultry look as she stepped backwards a couple of times.

"That's how we say goodbye," she said with a wink before opening her apartment door and disappearing inside, leaving John with his fingers to his lips she had just kissed.

Trish sighed deeply as she dropped her bag onto the floor next to her. Before she could think about John anymore she was interrupt by a greeting from her boyfriend.

"Hey honey, how was work?" he asked as he made his way over to her and gave her a peck on the lips.

Trish didn't reply straight away. She felt different and she didn't know why. She made a face which in turn made Ron make a confused face back at her. "Oh, it was okay…" she replied and made her way over to the couch and took a seat.

"Okay…and did you go out after?" he asked her as he disappeared to the kitchen area.

"Um yeah, just with a friend…" she said, being a little unrevealing. She rested her head against her hand as she propped herself up with her arm.

Ron reappeared with a sandwich and glass of wine in his hands and took a seat next to her. When she didn't respond her looked at her with concern. He scooted towards her and rested a hand on her thigh.

"Baby are you okay?" he said, his voice showing worry. "Did something happen?"

Before could Trish could think she replied, "Yes."

Ron blinked at adjusted himself in his seat. "Well what was it? Is there something I can do to help?" he held her hands.

Trish wriggled out of his grip and scooted away, which failed as she was right in the corner of the couch. "Ron, we need to talk…" Ron just looked at her, trying to urge her to go on, but his eyes fearing for what she was going to say next. "This…this isn't working, I think we should…I think it's over…" She said before she could stop herself to try to reconsider breaking this man's heart. He had been so good to her and she had just dumped him without giving him her explanation.

Wait, why did I just do that?

YES! WHY DID SHE DO THAT!? DOES SHE POSSIBLY HAVE FEELINGS FOR JOHN!?

Phew! Anyway that was like so hard to write!! It's difficult when i havent written in like weeks...or is it months!? Okayyy so its been ages and i totally admit that i neglected this story. I have exams coming up in 4 days so you are all lucky i sat down and wrote this! Okay now i sound like a bitch... sorry :P
Anyways i feel terrible that i left this story in the gutter all helpless and abandoned! But, I've picked it up again, and brought out a new chapter!!

I hope you guys like it, I'm not sure, i have a feeling i'll get a mixed reaction. Anyways please review and tell me whatcha thinkles! Kay?

Annnnd i dont own wwe or the superstars duh or the songs i use as titles..double duh.

Review Shout-Outs lol thanks :) yay he found her! double yay! they are pretty much friends!

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Jerico the savior i know FINALLY!! Like seriously could John take any longer!? lols, and lol i can only imagine what Randy's dad would do...but i wont go into that i dont think.

Trishrocks Hmm Trish had a mixed reaction, but luckily she isnt married, but she was in a relationship...but for how much longer O.o

pierzynskifan12 aww i felt bad for michelle too! she was nice and i totally made John abandon her :(( Lol and yeah i am writing the Coway kids in as Trish's friends, i would have used real wrestlers but i didnt wanna overdo it coz the majority of them went to school with her and i really dont like some of the other divas and lame superstars ;P Unless you dont like the Coway kids??

WWEAngel oohhhh im trying to make them happy, but i need a storyline! thats wy im doing it the way i am! sorry if you just want Trish to jump into Johns arms, if it were any other story i'd totally do that, but i cant right now :( but if it were real life, i would totally be for it ;D

JohnxoxTrish haha you wrote so much for me to reply to!! Ok i'll take it in steps:
1. I'm glad you like the story
2. The video WAS cute! I totally wish they were together in real life :) they'd be awseome!
3. I like your videos, so i subscribed :))
4. Lol Trish and John have a baby? We're just gonna leave the baby thing to Stacy and Randy for now, until John and Trish get together ;D
5. Again with Michelle, it was pretty spontaneous what happened between her and John, but i did feel bad for breaking her characters heart :(
6. I freaked out too when i saw Trish on raw, even though that was like forever ago now!

cenazlilbabeethug YAY im glad everyone's happy that he finally found her! And i know i didnt really make Trish react to John how everyone would like, but we'll see what her heart tells her soon ;D PS YOU KILLED TRISH OFF YOUR STORY!! NOOOOOO its so upsetting :( i wanted to cry! Okay im done now :)

TrishOrton ARRGHH i didnt update soon! Im sorry, it was so bad of me :( this story doesnt deserve me! But my exams and shiz have really put me off and im so stressed! But i hope you liked it! And im so glad i watched raw that day too :)

Da-Real-Mrz-Cena102100 Okay so you can now tell me if you liked what happened between John and Trish, and stuff you didnt like co i need the feedback, the good and the bad! Andd what was the other thing, oh yeah she did find out about Stacy's baby, but she still doesnt know that they are here and Stacy and Randy dont know about Trish because John was keeping it a secret remember coz they always diverted John from doing that...if that made sense...they might eventually find out what John has been up to though :)

La La ohhh okay i'll look into it and have a listen, coz i am going on the plan on finishing each story i write before i start a new one coz im no good at multi tasking lol. But i'll try and do my best :)

Inday yes! FINALLY!! haha.

SimplePlanFan188 lol review vacation..all is forgiven i do that too! :) tell me what you think about this chapter :)

Tom 67 yeah i really wanna know what you think of this one though! i wasnt sure on it but i know where im going with this just in case you were like "okay wth she just wrecked the story with this chapter". Anyways, poor Trish! Unchain her at once, she has a yoga studio to manage!! LOL

x Peace.