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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

Bianca was startled awake by someone knocking on the door. Jay was sound asleep behind her, apparently not hearing the knocking. She groaned softly when the knocking continued and climbed out of bed. Grabbing the blanket that was at the end of the bed, she wrapped it around her naked form and headed to the door. Opening it a crack, she inwardly screamed out when she found Beth standing outside the door.

All her jewellery was still on her and her hair probably looked like she'd just been had an electrical jolt shot through her.

Opening it a crack, she inwardly screamed out when she found Beth standing outside the door.

You have got to be kidding me she thought.

Why did the woman feel the need to come and interrupt her sleep? She couldn't possibly want to talk bridesmaid plans now- could she?

Whatever the reason, Bianca she knew she didn't need Beth blurting out the so called truth. Working up enough strength, she opened the door and the next thing she knew, Beth was hugging her tightly, whimpering into her shoulder. Bianca was thankful she'd kept tight hold of her blanket, careful not to lose it.

Jay was startled awake as the woman's crying became louder. He stood up, forgetting he had no clothes on and quickly picked up the blanket, smiling awkwardly at the brunette whose eyes widened in surprise as he covered himself before she started crying harder.

Bianca looked over at Jay, silently pleading him for help. Jay sighed heavily, running a hand down his face before motioning for her to shut the door. He grabbed his boxers and yanked them on. Once semi-dressed, he dropped the blanket back down onto the bed.

The brunette scanned the room and Jay was somewhat proud to say the scattered clothing, messed up bed and their appearances all summed up to one thing. A great night. He stepped over his jeans and socks as he walked round the bottom of the bed. His eyes focused solely on the woman clad in nothing more than a blanket and silver jewellery.
Bianca motioned for Beth to sit in the chair at the table as Jay sat in the one opposite her.

"So, what's wrong?" he asked as Bianca sat down in his lap, his hand slipping round her waist as he pressed his lips to her bare shoulder.

Beth seemed genuinely disgusted by how openly affectionate Jay was being with Bianca; running his fingers along her forearm and over the palm of her hand before threading them with hers. Jay saw it, but she covered it before Bianca looked up at her. She needed to get Bianca on her good side, Jay knew it and he was gonna find a way to get Bianca out of her predicament. If only she could tell him what was stressing her out so much.

Beth felt sick in her stomach. Why did the woman seem to get such attention from a man who she had practically shoved aside the feelings for the years when she'd still been with them?

Yes, Beth knew everything that had happened all those years ago. Jeff had told her of how afraid he was that Bianca was cheating on him with Jay and Beth had always been somewhat jealous that Bianca had been sought after by another man while dating Jeff.

The blonde Canadian looked at the brunette, his eyes clearly warning her as to how mean he could be if provoked. "Jeff and I had a fight- I think. I don't know. He yelled and then I yelled-"

"-And then you wound up here. Why not go to Matt?" Bianca inquired, shifting slightly in Jay's lap.

"I need a woman to talk to," Beth remarked, looking at Bianca who glanced around awkwardly. "Please. I just-"

"Look Beth," Jay started, "Bianca isn't exactly the right woman to talk to considering her opinion and mine on the man in question who you're upset with. I think I know someone who can lend a friendly ear for the night. I'll take you to them. How's that sound?" he said and Beth glanced at him, smiling a little and nodding, saying thank you.

As Jay grabbed his t-shirt, Bianca looked at the woman who was standing at the door, waiting for him. "You know either way- they get over it in the end. They just have too much pride to agree when they're wrong, right Jay?"

He smirked seeing the cheeky smile on her face and nodded. "Somewhat."

Jay kissed her cheek as he passed by, saying he'd be back in a few. Bianca crawled back into bed after finally ditching the jewellery which had marked her skin. Jay returned three minutes later and stipped off before joining her again. "Who'd you pawn her off to?"

"Jillian, Barbie and Michelle," he answered, wrapping his arms around her body. "Jill said she'd keep a close eye on her and make sure she doesn't come and annoy us again."

"Jay, you know this is gonna be hell. She said I have to be involved in as much of the wedding as she wants. So, don't be mad at me if the phone starts ringing off the hook when we get home tomorrow," she murmured. Since neither of them were scheduled to compete in the live events for their return week so they both agreed going home was better than spending the week travelling. They could relax at home. It felt weird still, but she now considered Jay's home, her home.

Well, he'd said she wasn't leaving him, so it was her permanent residence here in the states. It meant she wasn't coming and going from Amy's at all hours and she had her very own cuddly, travel buddy.

He shook his head. "I won't get mad at you, ever again. I know you're only doing this cause Matt asked you to." With that Jay kissed her deeply and the pair settled back into sleep, both hoping to finish the night peacefully.

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The next morning didn't go as well as either of them had hoped. They'd woken up early, despite the number of interruptions the night before and packed, for an early getaway, when Jillian returned the one thing neither of them wanted to deal with. Beth. Bianca was in the bathroom, brushing her teeth and straightening her hair when Jay came in and whispered that Beth was at the door. She groaned and stamped her foot impatiently. Couldn't the woman take one hint? Bianca wanted nothing to do with her unless it meant planning the wedding. Even if she was only helping "under protest".

"Easy there, sweetie, you'll singe your hair," he commented, pulling the straightener away, just before she burnt the crimson coloured locks and kissing her forehead.

"I swear, if keeping her from blabbing things, I don't want people knowing, means being her best friend, I think I'd go for letting her blab," she muttered as his lips moved down the bridge of her nose before finding her lips in a gentle kiss.

She pulled away and giggled a little. He'd forgotten she was brushing her teeth and as such had gotten most of the paste foam on his face. He wiped it away and she quickly rinsed her mouth before turning off her straightener. She yawned a little as she followed Jay out into the main room, sliding her arms around his middle and hugging him from behind.

"I love you," she whispered and noticed that Beth had moved from the door to the table, watching them both. Bianca pulled away from Jay and looked at the brunette. "You still haven't talked to him?"

She shook her head. "I'm not playing Cupid here. I agreed to one thing and one thing only and that was to be a bridesmaid. Jay is not going to be doing anything since he has no obligation to. Now- we have to get going so I suggest you head back to Jeff's rooms cause I can't, and won't be the one stuck in the middle of you and him fighting."

The hurt look on Beth's face didn't seem to phase the petite red head who glanced at her boyfriend once she had left.

He playfully growled at her. "You're cruel."

She shook her head while pulling her semi-controllable hair up into a messy ponytail. "No- I'm honest. People can mistake those two things." Jay smirked at her before picking up her bags. "What are you doing?"

"Taking them down to the car, while you go say goodbye to Melina and that," he remarked, using the Divas as a defence for carrying her bags. He disappeared and she shook her head before leaving the room and heading down the hallway. The loud shouts from one of the rooms told her the boys were in there more likely than not playing Greg's PS2. She quickly found the room and pushed the door open. Sure enough, Greg, Matt, Adam and more of the male roster were in Matt's room - his date from last night missing - and all of them were wrapped up with the video game on the screen.

Some car one.

She preferred the Fantasy games.

"Whoa look out. There is a girl in the room," Adam joked as she sat on the arm of the chair he was sitting on, his arm sliding round her waist to keep her steady. She wrapped her arm around his shoulders. "You feeling alright?" he asked her quietly once the boys went back to the game.

She looked down at him and nodded. While he could be a real big sleaze at times, Adam was a very caring man, especially when it came to Bianca.

He'd been protective of her since the night it had taken him and Matt to hold back Jason Arhndt, an old friend of the Hardys from OMEGA, when he'd been in the locker room during Bianca's first month in the company. J.R. and Vince had been outside their locker room and when Bianca had tried to calmly stop him from going outside, things had gotten a little out of hand and Matt had physically restrained him while Adam threatened to kill him even if he was under the influence of drugs because he had tried to hit Bianca. He was like a big brother, only he cracked onto her playfully half the time. "I'm fine. I just felt a little sick is all." She lied of course, but he seemed to accept her answer as he turned back to watching the television. "I- Jay and I are gonna head back to Tampa. We aren't being used for the rest of the week and it gives us a chance to relax before the real load piles on."

Adam looked at her and nodded, smiling as she ruffled his hair and kissed his cheek, earning catcalls from the rest of the room. She laughed at them all and Matt when he complained that he wasn't getting a goodbye kiss. The boys packed the floor and so the only way she could get to Matt was by leaning over in front of Greg who leaned back, hands and controller in the air, saying he wasn't touching, he was being good.

Everyone cracked up at the goofy look on his face as his eyes fell to her butt jokingly and he wiggled his eyebrows playfully.

Jeff sat on the other side of Matt and he saw Bianca look at him before she kissed Matt on the cheek and pulled back. His lip curved up slightly when everyone made baby noises when she kissed Greg's cheek and ruffled his hair lightly, making him go red.

"You were always my fav superhero buddy," she told him which had Matt laughing loudly at his friends expense.

"I'll see you lot when we get back on the road next week." Jay entered the room just as she was about to leave and he shook hands with Adam before saying goodbye to the rest of them.
It made him shake his head and chuckle as they all pretended to be gay and give that really girly goodbye in which they even gave the little wave with their fingers.

Bianca shook her head at them. And you wonder why the hotel's guest on the floors above and below complain about the noise on the superstars floor? Years ago it had cost a fortune just to keep them in hotels because they did mess of the rooms up in drunken stupors and a little wild partying.

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Jay glanced at Bianca who sat in the passengers seat, feet propped up on the dashboard. Since the stop at the gas station, she'd been dead quiet. She wasn't even humming along with the CD he'd put in. It was a mix of all the songs they'd use to listen to and a lot of them were brand new that he'd put on while they'd still been home.

He was racking his brain trying to figure out what it could possibly be that Bianca was so afraid to tell everyone that she'd let someone use it against her. "You alright?" he asked and saw her jump a little before she looked at him.

"Yeah, I was- just thinking," she answered, smiling sweetly at him. He reached over and took hold of her hand, bringing it up to kiss her knuckles gently. She giggled as his beard tickled her a little before she went serious. "You and Denise? Did you always fight?"

"No," he answered and she nodded, looking straight ahead of her. "We- I did love her, but I don't know its just so hard to explain. We drifted I guess."

He realised then that he hadn't signed the divorce papers yet. "I forgot to sign the papers," he groaned, talking to himself for a moment. Bianca looked back at him, watching as his attention seemed to wander.

"Jay. You can sign them when you get home and then send them. I'm sure everyone can understand, I mean, I did kind of distract you those few days after you got them out of the mail."

And what a distraction! He had been pissed off because Denise had put a letter in the folder before mailing them, it had basically been an insulting one towards Bianca more than him and as much as he had hated his wife at that point in time, Bianca had calmed him down in one way or another. The letter hadn't seemed to have even affected her. A
dam had called in the middle of one such occasion and that had been fun, screwing around with him while Bianca had been busy stripping him of his clothes.

They were only a few minutes away from home and Jay bit his lip, trying to not get too turned on by the flashbacks of her being completely naked on his couch. This had to be unhealthy; to want something as dangerously sweet as Bianca nearly everyday. Adam had said it was just because he had waited so long and that they would calm down a bit in a little while.

Bianca was watching him up until he pulled into the driveway and cut the ignition. They were home. He sighed heavily and turned as he undid his belt, looking at her.

"Bianca- I promised to let you tell me about everything slowly, but please I can't take this anymore." The stressed look on his face hurt her a lot, but Bianca knew that he would more than likely never sign those papers when he found out what she was hiding from him.

She knew it would be a lot to handle. Correction- he'd have to be very strong to deal with the news that she'd had Jeff's son. Its not the best thing she wanted to break to someone who hated the man in question whose child she'd had.

"Jay-" she started.

"Look Bianca, I love you and nothing is going to change that," he interrupted. Nothing in her life could really make Jay hate her unless she truly had been married to some guy who had ended up leaving her for whatever reason. He wanted to be the one who she spent her life with and wanted to be the only one she did tie the knot with, when it came to that. That was the only thing Jay had ever truly been afraid of. Another man marrying her. Sure, he'd been married, because he'd never thought she'd come back. He had tried to make Denise Bianca, in a way. It hadn't worked out. He'd said they had drifted. That was a lie.

Adam had been the one to push him into the wedding, saying how good they looked together and that he could be happy with Denise. It had only taken two years and then they had started fighting each other. "Bianca."

She lowered her eyes. "Jay-"

"Let's go somewhere tonight," he said suddenly, climbing out of the car, knowing she was going to try and talk her way around it. She'd done it years ago when- well, it had only happened once but that one time Jeff had hit had been enough. Adam had nearly strangled him that night and had Matt not stepped in and sorted everything out, Jeff probably wouldn't be even walking this planet. He forgot the reason as to why Jeff had done it, but he knew that the pair had been fighting at the time and Jay hadn't even thought Jeff had the guts in him to do something like that.

He watched her stay where she was for a minute before following him.

- - -

They had both stayed quiet when they got inside. Barely staying in the same room as one another. It was the tension of her not wanting to tell him and him wanting to know. He didn't hold it against her, it was just she couldn't seem to trust him enough yet, even after everything to tell him.
When the phone rang, Bianca answered it. Jay stood in front of her, leaning against the wall. He had gotten up from the table where he'd just finished signing the papers when it had started to ring.

"Hey mom."

Bianca's eyes lowered to the ground as she watched him shift slightly. "Hey. Uh-"

Before Bianca could even protest, Jay had taken the phone from her and slammed the receiver down. Hard enough to make her jump. "No more stalling, Bi. I talked to Amy the other night. She said that whatever it was you had to tell me, you needed to tell me in your own time and I know I am probably not being a great boyfriend be-"

"Its not you, Jay. I'm just afraid to say it," she mumbled. He caught her chin in his hand and made her look up at him.

"Why are you so afraid that I'm going to leave you?" he questioned softly.

"Because Jeff did." He saw the tears welling up in the depths of her dark brown eyes.

"I'm not Jeff," he whispered. "I never will be. Now, tell me."