We were leaving that night and were headed to Richmond. In the van (we went with Matt and Jeff Hardy and thier valet, and my new best friend, Lita despie popular belief we all do get along.) I sat next to Adam. "Hey, Princess." he said into my ear. "Something wrong?" I looked out my window. And he touched my face where Gangrel had hit me and I flinched. "Look at me, Clarissa." I turned and looked at him. "Your face. What happened to your face?" he asked stroking my cheek. "Gangrel hit me." I said.
Adam looked at me with disbelief. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"I told Jason." I said quietly but fiercely. "I didn't tell you..."
"Clarissa, Why? Why didn't you tell me?!" he asked again. His face was red. I'd never seen him so mad at me.
"Becasue you had just become European Champion, why was I going to ruin your night?" I asked fighting tears. "Stop yelling at me! I'm not a child! I was so scared, but intead of coming to you to make you mad, I went to Jason because I wanted you to be happy! I didn't want to ruin your night!"
He took my hands in his and looked at me. "I'm sorry." I looked away trying to pull my hands out of his. "Clarissa, please. I really am. But listen to me. I care about you and Jay more than I do this damn belt, if there is anything ever wrong again, come to me! Promise me, Clarissa." I promised.
I woke up and noticed that I was in a hotel. The sun peeked in through the curtain, hitting Adam's blonde hair and I sat up a little bit and watched him sleep. One strand had somehow made its way into his face, but he didn't mind, and I didn't want to chance waking him to move it. Besides he looked kind of cool that way. I could see the dark circles under his eyes. Adam needed his sleep and he was sleeping so deeply. His whole body completely relaxed, breathing softly. His breath made the strand of hair move ever so slightly, tickling his nose, but he didn't even notice. I smiled and moved down a little bit and I moved closer to him. I think I fell back asleep for another 2 hours that way. Finally I woke up again. His hand began to twitch and I knew he was waking up. He buried his face into his pillow. Then he turned over and began stretching. I was silent as he did all this and my eyes followed his movements. He turned his face back toward me, hair still tickling his nose. "Hey." I said. "Hi." he said yawning. "Come here you." he opened his arms and I came closer to him. "Did you know," he said propping himself up on his elbow and with his free hand traced the side of my face, "you are a beautiful, talented, sweet lady?" I propped myself up on my elbow to look into his eyes and said, "What brought this on?" "Just your face looking into mine." he responded playing with my hair. I reached out and toyed around with the piece of blonde hair that had fallen. He stopped playing with my hair locked his fingers into mine and said, "We've got our first match without the being in the Brood tonight...are you nervous?" "No, Adam, not really. Actually I'm really psyched. Are you nervous?" I responded. "No. I am excited too. What about Jason? You think he's nervous?" he answered me. "Lets go ask him." I said. "No, no let him sleep, Clarissa." Adam said, sternly. "Okay." I said faking being upset. "What are you going to wear?" he asked me. "I don't know. Maybe that black puffy shirt..." I joked. "NO!" he laughed. "No," I said laughing with him. "I'm wearing my black tights with the ankh , Like Jason's and a t-shirt." "That will look great on you." He compliemented. "Thank You Very Much." I said. Adam laid back down and laid his head on me. "Play with my hair, babe? Just like you do when I'm sick." "Of course I will." I said. And So I did.
Just in case you care, we won our matches. I continued my reign as Women's Champion, Edge as European Champ and Christian as Light Heavyweight Champ.
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6 months later, I was very popular with the guys like Adam said I would be. I was happy with my attention as were Edge and Christian, Adam and Jay. I didn't go by Christiana Copeland Reso anymore, I went by Clarissa. Also, I made damn sure they knew I wasn't their sister. Stephanie McMahon made the announcement herself. I stood next to her and as she always did, I clapped. With that tilt she does and the same facial expression. It made her laugh and I grinned. I found out I liked making people laugh and I had a knack for it. Edge and Christian were good at it too.
Weeks later, I found someone else to make laugh. His name was Kurt Angle.
"Hello!" I said when I first saw him. He was unpacking his red, white and blue bag. I had been walking to my dressing room and had seen his door was open.
"Hello." he said shyly.
"Are you Kurt Angle, the Olympic Gold medalist?" I asked.
"My audience reconizes me! Come in, no need to stand in the hall." he laughed. So I walked in and I sat next to him.
"I'm glad to meet you, Kurt Angle."
"I'm glad to meet you too..."
"Clarissa!" I finished. "Can we be friends? My other friends are Edge and Christian and they are brothers, for a while there they said I was thier sister. Well That was when we were all in the Brood. Stephanie found out different so now I'm not really thier sister, I'm actually Edge's girlfriend."
Kurt was cracking up. "You're a funny little thing. I can tell you're friends with them you act like them and yes, I'll be your friend. It's true, it's true. You were in the Brood?"
"Yes, I was in the Brood. Remember Christiana Copeland Reso?"
"Yeah, I do." he said after a pause.
"That was me."
"Really? You look completely different...in a good way."
Well it was true, I had dyed my hair to a lighter brown and I wore lots of bright colors. I never shrouded myself in black anymore. Well ocasionally I wore black but not completely.
"Thank you." I said happily. "Look, I don't mean to be rude, but I gotta run. See ya."
"Hey wait! Clarissa?" he asked quizzically.
"Yeah, Kurt?" I asked. "Accompany me to the ring? I'm going against Chris Jericho."
"Sure, Kurt!" I answered. When is your match?"
"In 10 minutes."
"I'll meet you here in 5 minutes." I said and ran to change. I decided to wear a pair of blue bellbottoms, a shirt with an American flag on it. My shoes were white. I sprayed red hair stuff into my hair and so I had red highlights. And what else? That was it. I ran out to meet Kurt and he greeted me. "You look great." he said. "Did you dress up like that for me or for your country?" "Both, Kurt, becasue I love my country and I love my American Hero." I answered. He laughed. "We're going to be great friends." he told me. "Good!" I told him.
When his music played, He went out and put his arms up and red, white and blue fireworks came up. I did the Stephanie applaude thing. He turned my way and extended his arm and I accepted it. "Thank you." he said. "You're welcome." I said. He put his foot on the bottom rope to let me in and then he took a microphone. "Hello Sacramento, California!!!!!" he said. The fans cheered for thier unknown hero. "My name is Kurt Angle! And you all know this beautiful diva, Clarissa." The fans screamed really loud for me. I applauded them. "Clarissa," Kurt said. I looked at him. "Please for your own safety..." I nodded and Again he stepped on the bottom rope to let me out of the ring. "Good luck!" I said. After I said that, Chris Jericho, came out and told Kurt that he should shut the hell up and began to tell him how much of a skank he thought I was, (backstrage we get along fine) and he was surprised when I speared him. (to spear someone is to tackle them pretty much.) Kurt looked at me. Jericho said, "Wanna go handicap? You and Angle, and me. I'll beat both your asses." he told me. "Let's go." I said. I told kurt and he was pleased. Edge and Christian were sitting at the announcers table and were watching me. I pull off my white heels. I couldn't wrestle wearing those. There was no way. Jericho looked over at me and tried to come at me first but recieved another spear. Then Kurt beat him a bit and then I pulled out a diving moonsault and the Swanton Bomb. Angle just stared at this. He and the rest of the world had never seen this side of me with all my aerodynamic moves. Finally I pulled an Impaler allowing Kurt to get a pin and the win. Kurt hugged me and I hugged him back. "Thank you!" he said. "You're so welcome." I responded. Edge through my shoes back in the ring. I made a face and tossed them back. I mouthed, "You're the boyfriend, carry me." He laughed and I stepped out of the ring and Edge picked me up. Kurt followed us and we all spoke at the same time. Kurt, Edge and Christian all began to get along very well. We all exchanged cell numbers and home numbers. After being in Sacramento we had to go to Seattle. It was a 18 hour trip so we decided to drive and get along better. I told them we could use my new van so we could fit our stuff. "If ya'll have cds with you, hold them and I'll play them." I told them. Last minute, Essa Rios's formet valet and now Hardy Boyz manager, Lita (Amy Dumas) asked if I had any more room for her. "Sure. You can sit up front." I told her. "No let me sit behind you, sit with Adam." she asked. "You like Jason, don't you?" I asked as I put Adam's bag in the back. "Nope. I like Jeff Hardy right now." she told me. "Cool." I said. "Jeff is cute. But I like Matt better. No offense." "None taken." She laughed.
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"You guys tired?" I asked looking into the rearview mirror. All I saw were Jason and Kurt wearily shaking thier heads yes and Adam was all ready asleep. Amy said, she was fine. I pulled off at a hotel and we rented rooms. "We'll meet at 10 a.m out here." I told them. Adam and Jay were going to share a room (there were two beds.) Kurt got his own room and Amy and I shared a room. "I'll call okay?" Amy said to them. THe guys went in thier rooms and Amy and I in ours. Before I went in Adam took my arm and asked me to stay outside a minute. Jason Amy and Kurt said good night to each other and left us (adam and I) alone. He didn't say a word but he just kissed me. "I love you." was all he said. That's all he needed to say to make me happy.
"I Love you too." I said putting my arms around his neck. "Promise me something." he said holding me near him. "I promise you the world." I said. "Promise me, you'll marrry me around Christmas when we have off." Adam said putting a ring on my hand.
"I promise." I said smiling. "Good." Adam said yawning, "Get some sleep." He kissed me one more time and then went into his room. "Amy!" I said when I got in the room. "Amy! You're never going to believe this!"
Adam looked at me with disbelief. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"I told Jason." I said quietly but fiercely. "I didn't tell you..."
"Clarissa, Why? Why didn't you tell me?!" he asked again. His face was red. I'd never seen him so mad at me.
"Becasue you had just become European Champion, why was I going to ruin your night?" I asked fighting tears. "Stop yelling at me! I'm not a child! I was so scared, but intead of coming to you to make you mad, I went to Jason because I wanted you to be happy! I didn't want to ruin your night!"
He took my hands in his and looked at me. "I'm sorry." I looked away trying to pull my hands out of his. "Clarissa, please. I really am. But listen to me. I care about you and Jay more than I do this damn belt, if there is anything ever wrong again, come to me! Promise me, Clarissa." I promised.
I woke up and noticed that I was in a hotel. The sun peeked in through the curtain, hitting Adam's blonde hair and I sat up a little bit and watched him sleep. One strand had somehow made its way into his face, but he didn't mind, and I didn't want to chance waking him to move it. Besides he looked kind of cool that way. I could see the dark circles under his eyes. Adam needed his sleep and he was sleeping so deeply. His whole body completely relaxed, breathing softly. His breath made the strand of hair move ever so slightly, tickling his nose, but he didn't even notice. I smiled and moved down a little bit and I moved closer to him. I think I fell back asleep for another 2 hours that way. Finally I woke up again. His hand began to twitch and I knew he was waking up. He buried his face into his pillow. Then he turned over and began stretching. I was silent as he did all this and my eyes followed his movements. He turned his face back toward me, hair still tickling his nose. "Hey." I said. "Hi." he said yawning. "Come here you." he opened his arms and I came closer to him. "Did you know," he said propping himself up on his elbow and with his free hand traced the side of my face, "you are a beautiful, talented, sweet lady?" I propped myself up on my elbow to look into his eyes and said, "What brought this on?" "Just your face looking into mine." he responded playing with my hair. I reached out and toyed around with the piece of blonde hair that had fallen. He stopped playing with my hair locked his fingers into mine and said, "We've got our first match without the being in the Brood tonight...are you nervous?" "No, Adam, not really. Actually I'm really psyched. Are you nervous?" I responded. "No. I am excited too. What about Jason? You think he's nervous?" he answered me. "Lets go ask him." I said. "No, no let him sleep, Clarissa." Adam said, sternly. "Okay." I said faking being upset. "What are you going to wear?" he asked me. "I don't know. Maybe that black puffy shirt..." I joked. "NO!" he laughed. "No," I said laughing with him. "I'm wearing my black tights with the ankh , Like Jason's and a t-shirt." "That will look great on you." He compliemented. "Thank You Very Much." I said. Adam laid back down and laid his head on me. "Play with my hair, babe? Just like you do when I'm sick." "Of course I will." I said. And So I did.
Just in case you care, we won our matches. I continued my reign as Women's Champion, Edge as European Champ and Christian as Light Heavyweight Champ.
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6 months later, I was very popular with the guys like Adam said I would be. I was happy with my attention as were Edge and Christian, Adam and Jay. I didn't go by Christiana Copeland Reso anymore, I went by Clarissa. Also, I made damn sure they knew I wasn't their sister. Stephanie McMahon made the announcement herself. I stood next to her and as she always did, I clapped. With that tilt she does and the same facial expression. It made her laugh and I grinned. I found out I liked making people laugh and I had a knack for it. Edge and Christian were good at it too.
Weeks later, I found someone else to make laugh. His name was Kurt Angle.
"Hello!" I said when I first saw him. He was unpacking his red, white and blue bag. I had been walking to my dressing room and had seen his door was open.
"Hello." he said shyly.
"Are you Kurt Angle, the Olympic Gold medalist?" I asked.
"My audience reconizes me! Come in, no need to stand in the hall." he laughed. So I walked in and I sat next to him.
"I'm glad to meet you, Kurt Angle."
"I'm glad to meet you too..."
"Clarissa!" I finished. "Can we be friends? My other friends are Edge and Christian and they are brothers, for a while there they said I was thier sister. Well That was when we were all in the Brood. Stephanie found out different so now I'm not really thier sister, I'm actually Edge's girlfriend."
Kurt was cracking up. "You're a funny little thing. I can tell you're friends with them you act like them and yes, I'll be your friend. It's true, it's true. You were in the Brood?"
"Yes, I was in the Brood. Remember Christiana Copeland Reso?"
"Yeah, I do." he said after a pause.
"That was me."
"Really? You look completely different...in a good way."
Well it was true, I had dyed my hair to a lighter brown and I wore lots of bright colors. I never shrouded myself in black anymore. Well ocasionally I wore black but not completely.
"Thank you." I said happily. "Look, I don't mean to be rude, but I gotta run. See ya."
"Hey wait! Clarissa?" he asked quizzically.
"Yeah, Kurt?" I asked. "Accompany me to the ring? I'm going against Chris Jericho."
"Sure, Kurt!" I answered. When is your match?"
"In 10 minutes."
"I'll meet you here in 5 minutes." I said and ran to change. I decided to wear a pair of blue bellbottoms, a shirt with an American flag on it. My shoes were white. I sprayed red hair stuff into my hair and so I had red highlights. And what else? That was it. I ran out to meet Kurt and he greeted me. "You look great." he said. "Did you dress up like that for me or for your country?" "Both, Kurt, becasue I love my country and I love my American Hero." I answered. He laughed. "We're going to be great friends." he told me. "Good!" I told him.
When his music played, He went out and put his arms up and red, white and blue fireworks came up. I did the Stephanie applaude thing. He turned my way and extended his arm and I accepted it. "Thank you." he said. "You're welcome." I said. He put his foot on the bottom rope to let me in and then he took a microphone. "Hello Sacramento, California!!!!!" he said. The fans cheered for thier unknown hero. "My name is Kurt Angle! And you all know this beautiful diva, Clarissa." The fans screamed really loud for me. I applauded them. "Clarissa," Kurt said. I looked at him. "Please for your own safety..." I nodded and Again he stepped on the bottom rope to let me out of the ring. "Good luck!" I said. After I said that, Chris Jericho, came out and told Kurt that he should shut the hell up and began to tell him how much of a skank he thought I was, (backstrage we get along fine) and he was surprised when I speared him. (to spear someone is to tackle them pretty much.) Kurt looked at me. Jericho said, "Wanna go handicap? You and Angle, and me. I'll beat both your asses." he told me. "Let's go." I said. I told kurt and he was pleased. Edge and Christian were sitting at the announcers table and were watching me. I pull off my white heels. I couldn't wrestle wearing those. There was no way. Jericho looked over at me and tried to come at me first but recieved another spear. Then Kurt beat him a bit and then I pulled out a diving moonsault and the Swanton Bomb. Angle just stared at this. He and the rest of the world had never seen this side of me with all my aerodynamic moves. Finally I pulled an Impaler allowing Kurt to get a pin and the win. Kurt hugged me and I hugged him back. "Thank you!" he said. "You're so welcome." I responded. Edge through my shoes back in the ring. I made a face and tossed them back. I mouthed, "You're the boyfriend, carry me." He laughed and I stepped out of the ring and Edge picked me up. Kurt followed us and we all spoke at the same time. Kurt, Edge and Christian all began to get along very well. We all exchanged cell numbers and home numbers. After being in Sacramento we had to go to Seattle. It was a 18 hour trip so we decided to drive and get along better. I told them we could use my new van so we could fit our stuff. "If ya'll have cds with you, hold them and I'll play them." I told them. Last minute, Essa Rios's formet valet and now Hardy Boyz manager, Lita (Amy Dumas) asked if I had any more room for her. "Sure. You can sit up front." I told her. "No let me sit behind you, sit with Adam." she asked. "You like Jason, don't you?" I asked as I put Adam's bag in the back. "Nope. I like Jeff Hardy right now." she told me. "Cool." I said. "Jeff is cute. But I like Matt better. No offense." "None taken." She laughed.
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"You guys tired?" I asked looking into the rearview mirror. All I saw were Jason and Kurt wearily shaking thier heads yes and Adam was all ready asleep. Amy said, she was fine. I pulled off at a hotel and we rented rooms. "We'll meet at 10 a.m out here." I told them. Adam and Jay were going to share a room (there were two beds.) Kurt got his own room and Amy and I shared a room. "I'll call okay?" Amy said to them. THe guys went in thier rooms and Amy and I in ours. Before I went in Adam took my arm and asked me to stay outside a minute. Jason Amy and Kurt said good night to each other and left us (adam and I) alone. He didn't say a word but he just kissed me. "I love you." was all he said. That's all he needed to say to make me happy.
"I Love you too." I said putting my arms around his neck. "Promise me something." he said holding me near him. "I promise you the world." I said. "Promise me, you'll marrry me around Christmas when we have off." Adam said putting a ring on my hand.
"I promise." I said smiling. "Good." Adam said yawning, "Get some sleep." He kissed me one more time and then went into his room. "Amy!" I said when I got in the room. "Amy! You're never going to believe this!"