Chapter 54 – The Road To Wrestlemania Begins
"CONGRATULATIONS BABY!" Lita exclaimed, immediately jumping up into the arms of the 3rd generation superstar and engulfing him in a warm embrace as soon as he opened the door "You did it!"
Randy wasn't arguing and hugged the red head right back. Her toned legs wrapping tightly around his mid-section as his arms around her balanced her and fought against gravity to keep her above the ground. Randy couldn't help but smile as he finally distanced himself enough from Lita to look directly into her hazel eyes. Her face was absolutely beaming making her look that much more beautiful tonight. Her hair half back with some cool braid things – the only description that Randy could actually give of Lita's currently hairstyle. Her toned legs were exposed tonight by her choice of some very sexy frayed denim shorts teamed with white boob tube that rested underneath the amethyst pendant that Randy had brought her back from Hawaii a few months prior. She certainly didn't look like a woman who had given birth half a year ago. She did, however, look absolutely and effortlessly gorgeous tonight as usual. Randy couldn't help but smile as his eyes travelled over every inch of her body. The red head remained in his arms as she smiled back at him.
"Congratulations Mr Royal Rumble," Lita repeated, re-adjusting her arms around Randy's neck.
"Why thank you," Randy replied, smirking at his girlfriend as he leaned forward and placed a soft kiss on her lips.
"How does it feel to be the winner of the Royal Rumble Mr Orton? Therefore guaranteeing a place for YOU," Lita continued, using a free hand to point a finger to Randy's chest "A spot in the main event at Wrestlemania! Wooooo!"
Randy couldn't help but roll his eyes and at the same time laugh at not only Lita's try-hard impression of the Nature Boy Ric Flair's signature 'Woooo' but at her short melodramatic performance just now.
"I can't believe you are this early by the way," Lita commented before Randy could utter another word "I mean usually it takes you a couple of years to take a shower, but it's usually a decade when you've had a big match. I was expecting you much later."
"You are lucky that it was me that walked through the door first and not Cena," Randy changed the subject with a small chuckle as he turned to face John Cena who was now standing next to him after closing the door behind them both.
"It would have, however," Cena commented with a smirk "Have been very lucky for me."
Both Lita couldn't help but laugh as Randy rolled his eyes at his friend.
"Get inside the damn house Cena and leave the poor girl alone," Jeff Hardy suddenly spoke, drawing all three sets of eyes to the colourful haired Hardy standing in the doorway of the kitchen "And can you two at least try and contain yourselves while you're still standing in the front doorway."
"It's your house Jeff," Randy said shrugging as Lita finally detached herself from the Legend Killer and settled herself back on the ground "Your rules."
"Aye aye captain!" Cena exclaimed with a salute before he headed to the left and in the direction of Jeff Hardy's living room.
The Royal Rumble had been in Cameron, North Carolina tonight and Jeff had decided to host a little WWE get together for some of his closest friends in the business to not only celebrate the rumble itself, but to also celebrate the fact that Jeff would be returning to the WWE in a matter of months after his old contract with TNA had expired and once his new TNA contract had been teared up minus his signature. Lita was half to blame for the whole situation Jeff had found himself in employment wise. Half because she had been pestering him for months to come back to WWE and half because he really did miss getting to spend ridiculous amounts of time with Lita and their other mutual friends in the WWE while they were on the road. TNA was hardly the family that the WWE was for Jeff.
"Are you excited that Jeff is coming back to the WWE Randy?" Lita asked the Legend Killer as the couple walked hand in hand in the direction of the kitchen and Jeff Hardy.
Lita
was grinning like an idiot due to topic she'd just brought
up
"Indeed I am," Randy said honestly, glancing at Jeff as he
and Lita finally reached him "But clearly not as much as you are my
dear."
Jeff rolled his eyes as Randy pulled Lita towards him so they were now attached at the hip and so he could place a kiss on Lita's head.
"If I didn't know how much you two had been through to get here," Jeff spoke pointing to Lita and then Randy "Your lovey-doveyness would definitely be making me sick right now."
"You know I think our next mission is to find this single man a date," Lita mock whispered to Randy, complete with hand gestures, before throwing at joking smile at the Hardy brother.
"I'm glad at least you think you're funny Red," Jeff teased with a cheesy smile before turning heel and heading into the kitchen "Now you two go and mingle while I grab the rest of the booze."
"Hey I'll give you a hand Jeff," Randy called out after Jeff who had already disappeared into the kitchen.
"I'll
go and join the party then," Lita added as Randy's eyes fell upon
her.
"I'll come and find you later sweetheart," Randy
replied with a smile, leaning down to accept a short kiss on the lips
from Lita.
"Bye," Lita replied once the kiss was broken before heading off in the direction of the loud music emitting from Jeff's living room down the hallway.
"So what's up?" Jeff immediately questioned as Randy entered his kitchen.
Randy looked at Jeff with a puzzled look as he watched him search around in his ridiculously large fridge before retrieving two six packs of beer.
"What makes you think something's up?" Randy asked curiously as he headed over to Jeff and accepted the two six packs while Jeff turned back to the fridge and retrieving more alcohol for the party.
"Well actually," Jeff replied as he retrieved two more six packs, placing them on the adjacent kitchen counter before turning to face Randy Orton "I was actually just asking 'what's up', but there's clearly something on your mind considering the completely guilty response you just gave me."
Randy sighed and bowed his head before finally raising his eyes to meet Jeff's. Randy couldn't help but break out into a smile, and almost a laugh, when he caught the expression on the face of Jeff teamed with a cocked eyebrow.
"You got me," Randy said, admitting defeat, as he leant himself over onto the kitchen counter before him with his elbows resting on the cool surface.
"You're a little too easy to read sometimes Orton," Jeff added as he pulled up a seat on the side of the counter he had been standing on "OK, you're very easy to read all of the time, but I think the real problem is that you give yourself away too easily my friend."
"You think?" Randy questioned with a smile.
"Well it could be that," Jeff replied nonchalantly "Or I'm just the bomb. Either one."
"A true Jeff Hardy response," Randy replied with a chuckle before reaching across the table and opening up a can of beer to help himself to.
"So c'mon," Jeff spoke once more, diverting the conversation back to the real reason the two men were in the kitchen to start with "What's up?"
Randy sighed, trying to find the right words in his brain before he finally spoke his problem to someone else out loud.
"Well it's nothing bad or anything if that's what you were originally thinking," Randy immediately started defending himself "Nothing is wrong at all. In fact everything is pretty much perfect at the moment. Me and Li have never been happier."
"So what's the problem then?" Jeff inquired, not really sure where this conversation was exactly going with the way that Randy had started it.
"Well it's not really a problem so much in the sense that it's actually….," Randy started up again.
"Geeze Orton!" Jeff exclaimed with a laugh as he interrupted Randy mid-ramble "You are worse than Lita when it comes to verbally dodging problems."
"I'm not dodging the problem!" Randy exclaimed with a laugh also as he once again tried to defend himself.
"You are definitely dodging the problem Randy," Jeff replied with a simple nod.
"Do you think that Lita would say yes if I asked her to marry me again," Randy suddenly blurted out, surprisingly not only himself, but also Jeff Hardy "That was what I was trying to get out before you accused me of 'dodging the problem' smart ass."
Silence engulfed the room as both men simply sat there staring at the kitchen counter infront of them both. Randy was absent mindedly twiddling his thumbs while Jeff was just sitting there clearly mid-thought, his head occasionally nodding for some unknown reason.
"I have to admit," Jeff spoke, causing Randy's eyes to immediately divert to the man across the counter "I'm not surprised to hear you say that actually."
"I'm that easy to read right?" Randy inquired with a shrug.
"That being true," Jeff commented, raising a finger "No that wasn't it actually."
"What gave me away then?" Randy inquired once more, clearly wanting a clear answer from Jeff as to why exactly he wasn't surprised by the confession Randy had just made.
"I have never seen Lita happier than she is with you," Jeff started "I mean I've told you that a hundred times before but I honestly wouldn't say it if I didn't mean it wholeheartedly and you know that right?"
Randy immediately nodded, trying to prompt Jeff to continue with what he was saying.
"I had my doubts about you and her at the very beginning," Jeff confessed "I'm sorry that I still had my doubts about you before Heidi was born. Whether you were actually going to go through with this. I mean it's different to love somebody with all your heart and soul, but it's another to have a child move into the picture. It's completely different."
"I know," Randy commented with a nod.
"But now you have Heidi and she is now always going to be the ribbon that ties you and Li together," Jeff continued "You two are always going to be connected by Heidi and I can, Li can and everybody else can see that you wouldn't have it any other way now. We all see the way that you are with your daughter and we all see the way that you three are together as pretty much a family. All my doubts about you and Li and just about you, have gone."
"Thanks," Randy replied honestly.
"Heidi has only brought you and Li closer together and now you guys know that nothing can keep you two apart because you love each other that much," Jeff continued "I naturally assumed that it would only be a matter of time before you wanted to propose again and put that ring on her finger."
"It just feels like the right time," Randy explained, the twiddling of his thumbs ceasing so he could fully concentrate on what he was saying "Everything has settled and everything is exactly the way I had always wanted it to be with me and Li, especially with Heidi, and now I want to finish it off. I want to make it official, if you will, and to make things right. I want to make things right for Heidi too. Give her a real family."
"You guys are a real family," Jeff corrected Randy "Whether or not you and Li are married. You're a real family already."
Randy simply nodded, the thought of Lita and Heidi and the three of them as a family bringing a smile of happiness to his handsome face.
"So, once again let me pose this question," Randy spoke again, interrupting his own thoughts "Do you think she'll say yes this time?"
Jeff nodded his head straight away and smiled back at the Legend Killer.
"Like I said before," Jeff answered "You and Li have only been brought closer by having Heidi with you. I don't think you've been closer than this before and I don't think you could get any closer with or without marriage. I think you're right when you said it's the right time. Li's completely settled with Heidi and her life is back to normal. Everything is running smoothly for her for the first time in a really long time. She's so happy Orton and I know you can see that. I'm sure it'd just make her that much more happy if you asked her to marry you again."
"I was thinking that with her as the women's champ and me being the no.1 contender at Wrestlemania this year we could very well be too busy to get married right?" Randy suddenly questioned.
"Hell if you guys are too busy," Jeff completely brushed off "Just have a really long engagement! I mean a long engagement, a short engagement, a day engagement – what does it really matter? You'll still be engaged right?"
"Right," Randy nodded, admitting defeat on that question "So you really think she'll definitely say yes this time?"
"She's probably just waiting for you to ask her anyway," Jeff also brushed off "You love her and she loves you. What could possibly be stopping her from saying yes this time? You guys have already been through everything possible and now there's nothing standing in your way. Go for it and then there's nothing you can regret."
Meanwhile, over the other side of the Hardy house…
"You and Randy are both going to be headlining matches at Wrestlemania this year," Vikki commented as she swirled her champagne around in her glass.
"Exciting thought isn't it?" Lita replied with a smile as she downed the last bit of champagne in her glass before placing it on the coffee table next to her "He hasn't been in that many rumble matches and I'm so proud of him for pulling it out tonight!"
"Which thankfully prevented somebody stupid like Matt Hardy from winning the rumble, which is definitely awesome news," Vikki commented before rolling her eyes and smiling at her best friend "And will you stop staring at my ring already!"
Vikki and Lita were currently the only two divas that were not engaged in a game of drunk Twister over the other side of Jeff Hardy's living room. They were simply enjoying their celebratory champagne. Lita had successfully defended her Women's Championship tonight against Trash Stratus and while Victoria only participated in a diva's segment for the PPV, she was celebrating and definitely drinking to Randy and Lita's joint success after Randy had won his first Royal Rumble.
Lita suddenly snapped out of her thoughts and shook her head at Victoria.
"I was not staring at your ring!" Lita spoke in her own defense.
"Ya huh you were," Vikki replied nonchalantly as she took another sip of champagne as he eyes wandered back to drunk Twister "And Christy's arm should definitely not be at that angle or in that position for that matter."
Lita didn't speak a word in reply causing Vikki to suddenly turn her attention away from her fellow WWE employees and stare at her friend.
"I want Randy to ask me to marry him again," Lita suddenly blurted out causing Victoria to almost choke on the remaining champagne in her mouth.
"Don't die on me Vik!" Lita exclaimed, half laughing as she patted the raven haired diva on the back as Vik proceeded to try and cough out the champagne she'd choked on.
Vikki finally took a deep breath and swallowed hard as she caught her breath and regained her regular breathing. Her eyes still wide in shock as she turned to look Lita straight in the eyes.
"You said what just now?" Vikki inquired immediately and fast, hoping to prompt a similar fast response from the red head.
Lita sighed, smiling lopsidedly.
"I want Randy to ask me to marry him again," Lita repeated herself.
"That's what I thought you said," Vikki nodded, trying to calm herself down so that Lita would open up a little more about what she'd just admitted clearly for the first time to anyone "Look I didn't mean it like that with the way I just reacted, I was just a little surprised. I mean that was the last thing I thought you were going to say after I told you to stop staring at my wedding ring."
"I know Vik," Lita brushed off immediately, knowing full well that Vikki was and had been nothing but supportive of her and Randy right up to this point already.
"So I think now you need to explain," Vikki continued, raising an eyebrow at her friend and relaxing back into Jeff's black leather recliner, awaiting the story and explanation.
Lita sighed.
"It's just I really think I'm ready for it for this time Vik," Lita started "I know that I'm ready this time for Randy to ask me and I know that I'm ready this time to say yes."
"What made you finally see it?" Vikki asked curiously.
"I don't really know," Lita confessed
The red head's eyes travelling to a spot of white carpet beneath her feet as she leant forward on her legs to rest her elbows on her knees.
"I guess it's everything," Lita continued "I mean the way he is with Heidi. The way he is with me. The way I feel so happy whenever I'm with him. Things I've seen for ages and things I've always seen, but things I guess I never really truly thought about not having around. Things I never really appreciated fully until I tried to imagine my life without them. My life without Randy."
"And you can't imagine it can you?" Vikki commented, reaching out a hand to touch the knee of the red head, causing Lita to lock eyes with her best friend again.
Lita simply shook her head.
"I can't imagine my life without him it in Vik," Lita continued "I love him so much and I want to marry him and spend the rest of my life with him. Just like you and Christian."
"I am so happy for you," Vikki immediately blurted out before Lita could even think of anything else to say "You deserve all this. I mean everything. From Heidi and Randy – your happy family – to the women's championship. Does it make going through hell worth it to know that you've ended up with everything you could have ever wanted? Whether or not you knew at the time that this was actually what you always wanted?"
"Yeah," Lita simply nodded, beaming at Vikki "It makes everything worth it."
"OOO!" Vikki suddenly exclaimed excitedly as she practically lunged forward to engulf Lita in a massive hug "I can't believe you're going to get married!"
"Whoah!" Lita suddenly exclaimed, pulling away from Vikki and immediately pressing a finger to her friend's lips "You need to shush first!"
"Oh yeah!" Vikki exclaimed in a hushed whisper "My bad."
"Randy hasn't even proposed yet," Lita explained resting her hands on both of Vikki's shoulders "And we don't want the entire world to know that I want him to either."
"Why not?" Vikki inquired honestly "Maybe it'll make him propose again sooner right?"
"No!" Lita shook her head violently "I don't want him to know that I want him to propose. I want him to propose when he feels it's the right time."
"Then you can be surprised!" Vikki added with a nod.
"Exactly," Lita replied with a nod of her own "I don't want to rush him into it. He'll do it when the time is right."
"And hopefully that time is soon right?" Vikki said wiggling her eyebrows at her friend in a cheeky manner.
Lita pursed her lips together, trying to postpone herself from breaking out into a wide smile, but eventually it did happen.
"Hopefully very very soon," Lita finally admitted, causing the two divas to break out in giggles just like a bunch of schoolgirls.
A/N: Hey everyone! Hope you liked this chapter… it took me so long to write because I ran out of ideas for what this chapter was going to consist of leading up into Chapter 55 – 4th Time Lucky which I will hopefully get done very VERY soon! Thank you for all the reads and reviews for the last chapter! I love that people are reading and reviewing every chapter! Thanks so much guys – you know who you are! I reply to all reviews… well I am making an effort to at the moment… so if you have any queries about chapters or if you have anything you'd like to ask or say… just pop in a review and I'll get back to you! PLEASE READ AND REVIEW! We are one review away from hitting 520 – which is crazy! Until next time, God Bless, Mrs Bridget Orton xoxo
