Chapter 9: Hoopla Party
"Who are you talking too?" Bobby Fish asked reaching for Jackie's phone which the redhead tilted back to herself. "None of your business." She said pushing his hand away from her. "Oh I get it! You're all being all nasty and you don't want your good old friend Bobby knowing about it. I get it." He grinned causing Jackie's cheeks pinken and her eyes to roll.
"If I was being nasty Bobby its none of your business. And if it was I would tell you with my big brother standing right there." She said nodding her head at Mike who shook his head, "I didn't even like hearing about your sex life with Adam."
The lightheartedness that was in Jackie's features faded as she looked down at her feet.
Comments like that still stung her.
"Well here's an idea Mike, if you don't like it don't ask questions." She shot shoving her phone into her jeans pocket. "She has a point Bennett." Bobby laughed. "He's just jealous that Adam and I had more sex than him and Maria." "Stop it now Jackie, I mean it." He laughed and shook her head. "Sorry big brother I am just not as innocent as you wanted me to be." He rolled his eyes and swatted at her. She laughed again and moved away from him.
Adam looked up when the locker room door opened and rolled his eyes seeing Matt Hardy standing there as much as he liked working with the older man, his words directed to Jackie had pissed him off.
Sure they weren't together anymore but it didn't stop him from still caring about her.
"What do you want?"
"Oh easy there champ. I just wanted to talk to you."
"About Jackie?" The older man flattered in the doorway, "Yes."
"I don't want to hear it. She is still my manager and my friend and the words you are saying about her aren't true."
"If they aren't true then why was she with Taven?" "They are friends, she has known him longer than me." he said pulling his long hair back into a bun again.
"It didn't look like that was the case yesterday." Adam shook his head, "Let me worry about that Matt and leave Jackie alone, I have caused her enough pain without you stepping in and being a jackass."
The Hardy boy nodded his head and moved to sit down. Adam tightened his hair as his words replayed in his head, Taven and Jackie had looked pretty cozy the previous morning and she had ridden with him and the Hoppla Hotties that day to the shows. She couldn't have moved already.
Could she?
"Come on Jackie, you have to come out with us tonight. It will be fun!" Scarlett said looping her arm through the taller redhead's. "I don't know. The last time i went out with you guys I lost a shoe and had to call Adam to come get me." Seleziya shook her head, "No none that. You aren't allowed to talk about Adam. He left you, i wouldn't even let him near me."
"I still love him.' ""Oh honey, I know but Matt wants us to make sure you have some fun and not be so sad all the time." Scarlett said squeezing her arm. "I am not sad." "Yes you are."
The ravenette spoke, "We can see it, it can't be easy on you being around him." Jackie lowered her eyes to the ground, she didn't want them to see how weak she was. "Okay fine, I will go but you both have to tell my brother that you are taking me out and Taven is responsible for me."
"Deal.' Scarlett agreed as Seleziya nodded her head moved away from the redhead duo. She was going to handle this now so they could leave right after the show. "Come on Jacks, let's go find you something to wear that make Adam regret leaving you." Scarlett said steering her towards the locker room she and Seleziya shared with Taven and Truth.
"You okay?" Jackie's soft voice brought Adam crashing back down to the world of the living. He had been lost in his thoughts since he was left alone in the locker room. He looked up from his title belt and smirked at her. "I'm fine." "You don't seem fine." "What's going on between you and Taven?" He asked putting the belt and motioning for her to come sit next to him. "Nothing we are just forging a friendship like Mike wanted years and year ago." She said softly sitting next to him and looking at the title belt.
"Why do you ask?" "Matt said something." "Don't believe everything that washed up has been says ,"there's only one man I have ever loved or wanted to be with and that's you." Jackie said before she leaned over and kissed his cheek.
"I will see you later I am going to hang out with Scarlett and Seleziya, I just wanted to check on you first." He nodded his head watching her stand up and go towards the exit. He got up quickly and followed her to the door and held it shut, "stay here with me for awhile please. Please." Jackie licked her lips and nodded her head before turning back around to look at him. "Just for a little while."
After the tapings ended Scarlett pulled Jackie out of the building in the crisp fall air. She shivered slightly and looked around the surrounding area. "What hell are we going to do in Hopkins Minnesota?" "Leave that to us." Seleziya commented from behind them, "Just don't ask questions because we won't give you any answers."
Jackie turned to look at her and frowned there was no way she was going to walk away from this unstarched, she glanced over at Adam who was leaving with Matt Hardy and shook her head, she had made another mistake of staying with him but seeing him so torn and confused about what was going on with the winning the title and being the champion. Made her stay. She was weak when it came to him and she knew it.
She shook her head and looked at the two hotties who were looking at her. "Get me drunk ladies and what happens after that I really don't care." "That's our girl." Scarlett beamed as the woman next to her handed her a flask. "Cheers." she muttered holding it out to her in a salute and downing the clear liquid in a glup.
"Hey Jacks wake up." Mike's familiar voice said the next morning, Jackie whined and rolled over burying her face into the pillow that was behind her head. A familiar laugh met her ears causing her eyes to fly open and her head to turn. She shrieked seeing how close she was to Taven. The curly haired man laughed even harder. "What the hell happened last night?" She asked pushing her fingers through her matted hair. "We were hoping you could tell us.." She glanced down and pulled the sheet covering her better. "I don't know, where's Scarlett and Seleziya? They were with me they would know." She answered, she couldn't believe she let herself go like that and then to come back and crawl in bed with Matt. What the hell was she thinking?
