I sat up in bed. I looked outside the window. Looked like a nice day. Maybe I'd be going to the pool later on. I went thru my bags, trying to find what I would wear to the gym. I found a pair of basketball shorts, and put them on. I kept my sports bra on and put out a Knicks basketball jersey on my bed. I looked down at the navel ring I had, wondering if I should change it. I did have the bar in for a while. But, that wasn't important. There was a knock at the door, I put my jersey on and went to answer it.
"Ready?" Matt asked.
"Yup."
I almost didn't recognize the guys without their wrestler gear on. Jeff was in sweatpants and a Pearl Jam T-shirt. Matt wore shorts and the same shirt. I put my hair up and walked to the gym.
"Nice tattoo." Jeff said poking at my arm. I a cross on what, I guess is my bicep.
"Thank, you." I said. "I have one around my bellybutton. I see you've got one too."
"Right." He picked up his leg.
We got to the gym, and no one was there. It was better that way. I wanted to warm up, so I went to a treadmill and ran for a little before moving onto the major machines. The guys showed no mercy and headed for the big stuff.
"I gotta work on my tummy." I said hitting it.
"Oh, God, not you too." Jeff said.
"What?" I asked.
"Women are always complaining about their looks, no matter how many times we say you look fine."
"Oh, no, I'm not worried about that." I said. "I just gotta tone it, that's all. I see you two waist no time there."
"This is what it's all about." Matt said lifting a 50lb free weight.
"Oh, Mr. Tough guy!" Jeff said. He matched Matt with a 55lb weight.
"Both of you are trying to show off." I said. I sat at a machine. One in which you lift over your head.
"What, you can do better?" Matt asked.
"I am not gonna challenge you." I answered. I placed the weight on an easy 70lbs.
"How many reps you going to do?" Jeff asked.
"Usually five reps of ten." I answered. I added weight each rep.
"Not bad." Matt said. "But, can you do this?"
He went to a bench press. One that you had to put on free weights. He stacked on about 175lbs for starters. Weight he lifted with ease. He got up after three lifts.
"You're turn."
"All right." I said. I sat down. "Three lifts?"
"Yup, if you can do that, I'll add more."
I lied back on the bench and put my hands on the bar. Jeff was our spotter. He helped me lift the bar off the holding area. I eased the bar down, then pushed up. Making three easy. I sat back up. "All right, tough guy. What's next?"
Matt added ten to the bar. Making the total weight 185lbs. He got down on the bench. Cracked his knuckles, and then proceeded to lift three more times. This continue until we got to 250. We could have done more, but we strained ourselves getting there.
"I think my arms are going to fall off." I said sitting up.
"Me too." Matt said. Jeff laughed.
"Hey, you didn't just do that." I said.
"You didn't have to." He told us. "Work on your legs."
"That's what I really need. My right leg never really healed."
"What happened?" Matt asked.
"I was in a car accident and I almost lost my leg. I have pins and metal bars in there. I bruised a few ribs. But, my leg was shot. I didn't think I'd walk again." I answered. "Now look at me, I wrestle."
"Must have been hard to get to here."
"Very hard. I had to do a lot of shit to get back on top, ya know. I almost made it."
I made my way to a leg press. My leg power isn't what it used to be. Before my accident I could max out this machine. Now, well not anymore. I put the weight on more than I could handle. I did that because I didn't want to seem weak to the guys. I struggled on it. Matt came over. Jeff was on a machine, his back my way.
"You shouldn't put on more than you can handle." Matt said. He got on one knee.
"I can do this."
"You're still recovering it seems. Start light." He made the weight less.
He winked and got up, going back to Jeff. Making sure that he didn't kill himself on any machine. I should have been worried about them because the two of them ended up fooling around and almost killing themselves.
"Is there ever a time for sibling rivalery? Like, I'm the better wrestler than you are. Or, just what siblings do." I asked.
"Not really. There's really no time for it." Jeff answered. "We're always together, and yes, it gets rough, but we're best friends."
"That's good." I said. "It would screw up the whole deal."
I looked back at saw a sauna. I could really use that. I got off the machine and looked at it. Didn't need any money or anything.
"I'll be in here." I said.
I grabbed a towel and went to the bathroom in the weight room to put it on. I walked out and went into the sauna. I rested my head against one of the walls and feel asleep. I woke up when I heard the door open.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know anyone was in here."
"No, it's fine." I said. "You're Christian aren't you?"
"The one and only."
"Destiny." I said.
"The new chick. I saw ya fight last night with the Hardys." He said.
"Right."
"You did good." He said. "Pretty impressed."
"Impressed huh." I said.
"Well, for a new comer, you seem like you fit right in." He told me. "Don't worry, we're easy to get along with."
"So far, I know two that are. The third's looking pretty good." I said with a smile.
"Matt and Jeff? Yeah, they're some nice guys. Insane, but sweet."
"Insane?" I asked.
"Well, we all are. You have to be insane to be doing this."
"That's so true." I said. "Never thought I'd be this sore."
"That you'll get used to. You'll be working at it almost everyday that it doesn't bother you anymore."
"Well, I can't wait for that." I said. I changed positions. "When I did the schooling for this, I thought how can someone do this? How the hell can you pull this off. But, now that I am actually doing this, I see how. I'm not saying it's easy. But, it's not what I thought it was."
"Never is." He said. "And, you never get used to anything you do. You can do a move a million times, hear your theme music a million times, walk down the ramp a million times, and you feel the same way you did the first time you did it."
"Really?"
"Well, for me it's that way. I still feel the same way I did when I walked out the first time."
"Well, maybe it's a good thing. Cuze, that might be a feeling you want to hold with you for the rest of your life."
"This is my life. When I decide to not do this anymore, I'm going to make sure I left a huge scar in the WWF. I want to go out with a bang."
"That can't be a hard thing to do." I said.
"I want people to look at the matches after I'm gone and say, 'Christian did that', or 'Christian started that'."
"Gives you something to look forward to." I said.
"Can I join the party?" I looked up and saw Christian's best friend and tag team partner Edge.
"Come on in." I said.
"Hey! You're that new girl!" He said. He slapped my hand.
"Right, the new girl." I said more calm.
"Dude, what's wrong with you?" Christian asked.
"I just got back from a breakfast buffet." He answered. "Huge stock of jelly doughnuts!"
"Oh, man." Christian said shaking his head.
"Where are those Hardys?" Edge asked.
"Working out." I answered.
"Oh, I see." He said. "We're leaving here tonight."
"Where are we headed?" I asked.
"I think Boston." Edge answered.
"Sweet." I said. "I better get out of here, I'm gonna start looking like a prune."
I got up and changed back into my clothes. Matt and Jeff were still on the machines. Their shirts and pants, or shorts in Matt's case, were wet with sweat.
"Well, it's good to know y'all work hard." I said touching Jeff's shirt.
"Looks like you were talking to Edge and Christian." Jeff said.
"Yup. Christian's sweet, Edge's a psycho."
"Both of them are psychos." Matt said. "Maybe Christian was just tired or something."
"They said we're going to Boston later on tonight." I said.
"Yeah, I know. We have like three days there. First day we have to rehearse the moves. Then we have the match, then we can just chill." Jeff told me.
"I'm going to the pool." I said. "You can join me if you want."
I went back to my room to change into my suit. I walked outside and took a lounge chair. I put my diskman on, jamming to The Doors. I worked on getting a tan before swimming. I was lying there when my sun was being blocked. I looked up and saw two bare chested bodies in my way. Those bare chested bodies were Matt and Jeff.
"We're taking you up on that offer." Matt said sitting in the chair next to me. I took my headphones off.
"It's a nice day." I said. "Nice July day."
"Very nice." Jeff said.
"And, we got the pool to ourselves." Matt said.
He went to the diving board and did some of the moves he does off the turnbuckle. They looked even cooler going into the water. Jeff saw this as a challenge, or as a fun way to show off what he knows. I sat up and watched them. Laughing when they screwed up.
"Oh, you think you're so hot?" Jeff asked.
He ran over to me and flung me over his shoulder. He ran with me to the diving board, and while on his shoulder, jumped in. I surfaced.
"What are you doing?" I yelled. I swam to him and dived at him.
I got out and went back on the diving board. I walked to the far edge and then ran and flipped in. Just like the guys were doing. As childish as it may seem, it was actually very fun. Seeing who would mess up and slam their backs or bellies onto the water.
"OK, I've gotta stop. I'm getting dizzy." I said. I swam to the shallow end.
"Yeah, good idea." Matt said diving out and swimming my way.
"Swanton bomb!" Jeff yelled. He did that into the water before coming our way.
"When do we leave?" I asked.
"Not sure." Jeff answered. He went under and took Matt's feet right out from under him.
"Jeff, you dick!" Matt yelled.
Matt tackled Jeff and the two went under. I laughed as the two grown men play fought. After a ten minute session they calmed down and we went inside. We saw Edge and Christian in the arcade room.
"Hey guys." Jeff said.
"Hey! It's Jeff and Matt Hardy!" Edge said.
"It's Edge and Christian!" Jeff said. The two guys hugged.
"Nice to see you again." Christian said. "And, better dressed."
I smiled and looked at the floor. Edge told Matt and Jeff that they were getting ready to leave soon so get everything ready. We all went to our hotel rooms and packed everything up. Then, went to the airport to return the cars. There, the bus picked us up to drive to Boston. We were in Philly, so the drive wasn't that long.
"Ready?" Vince asked us all.
We grabbed our things and headed to the bus. It was now when I felt out of place and uncomfortable. Here I was, in the middle of a federation. Cliques were everywhere. Even Jeff and Matt seated themselves with Edge and Christian.
"You look lost."
"I am." I said.
"Come, sit with me." I seated myself next to Stephanie McMahon.
"Thank you." I said with a smile.
"I know, it takes getting used to." She replied. "Don't worry, in no time you'll fit right in."
"Hope so, but I am used to seeing new people all the time." I told her.
"Maybe I can help you out." She said. "Honestly, there really aren't any bad people. Once the cameras are off, these guys are very close. There isn't any rivalries or anything like that."
"Didn't think so. This morning I was seeing The Rock talking with Triple H and all that."
"We're one big family." She said. "Welcome to the family."
I smiled. The bus was like a tour bus almost. Just minus the beds. Half hour into the ride there, the bus started getting restless and people started moving around. Some played video games while others played cards. I put my diskman on and tried to sleep.
When I woke up we were coming into Boston. I woke up to see the lights of the city. I rubbed my eyes and saw that half the bus was out. I looked to my right and saw Jeff getting his hair dyed by Christian.
"Good morning." He said to me.
"Hey. Christian, do you know what you're doing?" I asked.
"Yeah. I do this all the time to him." He answered.
"Good. Wouldn't want screw up his hair." I said.
Edge came walking down the bus in a skirt and heels. Why? Who the hell knows, but him and Christian are known for being, well, different. I saw him and laughed.
"It looks good on you." I said.
"Naturally!" Edge said.
"But, the glasses have got to go."
"No!" He shrieked. "I love these glasses!"
"They are cool." I said. I reached up and took them. "What do you think?"
"They are so you!!" Matt said popping up from the seat in front of me.
'"You scared the crap out of me." I said putting my hand on my heart.
"Sorry." He said.
"No one looks good in the Edge glasses than Edge." Edge said.
"Edge glasses?" I asked. I shook my head.
"What?" Christian asked.
"You're not much different!" I said.
"I'll finish this in the hotel." Christian told Jeff.
We pulled into the hotel and got out. Finding our rooms. I told Christian that I was going to go to his and Edge's room. I put all of my things away and ran to their room.
"Hey." I said. Edge let me in.
"Come into the mad house." Edge said laughing.
"Oh, no." I said.
"Jeff's in the bathroom." Matt said. He brought Play Station into the hotel room and was playing WWF Smackdown 2. He was himself playing a tag match against Edge and Christian.
"As if you couldn't get enough in real life." I said sitting down.
"This game rules!" Matt said.
"Looking good, Jeff!" Edge said.
"Hey, Christian, how about doing me up?" I asked. "My hair."
"Oh, yeah sure." He said. "Come into the barber shop of Christian."
"Thank you." I said.
"I've only got purple and blue left." He said. "So, I'm gonna have to do ya like Jeff."
"That's fine." I said.
"So, what do you think?" He asked.
"Of...?"
"Us, the WWF."
"Oh, that. Well, so far so good I guess. I have yet to experience it all." I said.
"Don't worry, in time you'll fit right in and it'll be like you were here forever." He told me. "You've got personality, it won't take long."
"Enough bus rides, that'll do the trick." I said.
"Or, just some time in the hotel." He added. "Wow, this looks good!"
"Let me see!"
"I can't turn you around yet, not until I am done."
"What's going on in here?" Matt asked thru the closed door.
"Nothing." Christian yelled back. "I'm almost done."
"I'm getting tired. What time is it?"
"Uh, like 9:30." He answered. "Done." He said about a half out later.
"Let me see." I said. I jumped up and looked into the mirror. "Christian, you are good!"
"Told ya!" He said.
"Shit!" We heard Matt yell. I ran out.
"What?" I asked.
"I lost!" He cried. "Wow."
"What do you think?"
"Hey, man!" Jeff said. Edge clapped his hands.
"Hell ya." I sat on the bed. "So, what do you guys do in your free time?"
"Wrestle." They all answered at the same time. Freaky.
"Seriously?" I asked.
"Most of the time. It could be on video game, on the beds, or just anywhere really. One time, we all put our mattresses out in the hallway of the hotel we were at and wrestled on that." Matt answered.
"You don't get sick of it?"
"Not really." Jeff answered. He stood on the next bed. He jumped at Edge knocking him only an inch from where I was.
"OK, enough." I said pulling them apart.
"What?" Edge asked like a child.
"You almost killed me." I yawned then continued, "so cut it out."
I curled up on Christian's bed and soon fell asleep. And, I woke up with Christian next to me. I forgot last night for a second and thought something else happened. But, I saw the Play Station out and it came back to me. I looked at myself in the mirror. Cool hair dye.
"Good morning." Christian said. He rolled over.
"I almost got the wrong idea." I said.
"I am wearing boxers." He showed me.
"Matt and Jeff are in their room?" I asked.
"Yup. They left at around midnight, you were out cold by then." He said.
"Like Edge?"
"Yes, like Edge." He laughed.
I put my hair up in a bun and sat at the edge of Christian's bed. I stared out into space. There was a knock at the door. Christian got up to get it, as I continued to stare.
"Hey, man." Jeff said to Christian.
"Good morning. What brings you here?" He asked.
"Breakfast. Want to go?"
"Yeah, sure." Christian answered. "I'd have to wake Edge up. Come on in."
"All right, but only for a little I'm waiting for Matt to come out of the bathroom."
Jeff walked in and said hi to me. Then, I snapped out of my trance. I looked at him a smiled. He smiled back then went into the bathroom that he so desperately needed to use.
"Want t0 know one of the best things about being this dude's partner?" Christian asked me.
"What?"
"Fill this with ice, and I'll show you." He said.
I grabbed the ice bucket and went to the ice machine down the hall. I put a dollar into it and filled the bucket up. I was walking back when I saw Jericho walk down to the elevator.
"Hey." He said to me.
"Hi there." I replied back.
"You're new here. I wanted to say hi and welcome to the WWF." He said.
"Thank you, Jericho."
"Now, that's not fair." He said. "You know my name and I don't have a clue as to what yours is."
"Destiny." I said putting my hand out.
He took it. "Nice to meet you." Then left.
I smiled walking back to Christian's room. Jeff had already left by then. I handed him the ice bucket.
"Here is the best thing about working with Edge." Christian said.
He took the ice and one by one, placed cubes down Edge's boxers. Edge freaked and shot up. I stood there and laughed as Edge and Christian had it out for a while. Then, Edge went into the bathroom.
"The ass sleeps all the time, so waking him up is the best."
"That's great to know." I said, still laughing.
"Christian, it's us let us in." Matt yelled thru the door.
"Hey, just waiting on Edge." He said.
"What am I going to wear? I have no time to go back to my room."
"Here." Christian said.
He tossed me a pair of sweat pants and a shirt. Stuff I knew would be way too big for me, but I had no choice. I made a quick change and went with the guys to breakfast.
"Where do you want to go to eat?" Edge asked.
"Oh, I dunno." I answered.
"Can we go to McDonald's?" Christian asked.
"Yeah!!!" I interjected.
"Sure." Matt said.
Vince did the car rentals. So, the four of us took one of the cars and found a McDonalds. Hardly anyone was there.
"McDonalds rocks the body that rocks the party." Edge said. Where have I heard that before?
"Sure does dude." Christian said.
"So, we have to go to like a rehearsal after this?" I asked.
"Yeah, something you didn't do on your first match." Matt told me.
"I wasn't told I had to." I said.
"We have fun at these things." Edge said.
"Do you actually practice?" I asked.
"Yes, most of the time." Christian answered. "Sometimes we just screw around."
"This is going to be fun." I said. "Do you all get the ring at once?"
"No, if we did that then we wouldn't have enough room." Jeff said. "We rent out like a gym kind of thing and they set up a few rings for us."
"One time, we took the mat out of the ring and filled it with water." Edge said.
"I can only imagine." I replied.
"We threw Trish in there along with Tori, and well-"
"Enough." Jeff said. "Not one of my finest hours."
"Really? I find that unbelievable."
"Tori, maybe, but Trish? I am sorry, not for me." Jeff said.
"Not for you huh?" Edge asked. "Well, that one time we found ya in the closet with her."
"That I had no control over." He said starting to get defensive. "You were just as drunk as I was."
"Drunken men stories, gotta love them." I said sitting back.
"Yeah, I hear ya." Edge said realizing it all. "I jumped out the window."
"Oh yeah man!!! I remember that!" Christian said. "It was on the first floor and-"
"I woke up with this pain in my back and I asked what happened. Christian told me that I jumped out the window. And I was like, dude no way! He said, yea man you bet everyone you could fly. Then I was like dude why didn't you stop me? Then he said coz I bet them $20 you could do it!"
"Oh, man." I said.
"Do you have any drunken stories to tell us?" Christian asked.
"Drunken stories? Yes, I have a few."
"All right, share." He said, looking me in the eyes.
"Lets see, where to start? OK, I've got a good one. One time a few friends and I got together and went out clubbing. New York is the best place for that. Anyways, none of us own cars we walk everywhere we go. One Friday night we were walking back to my place for some more drinks. We stayed up very late at my apartment and drank all night. My friend, Jake, ran around the building naked. That, well that wasn't something I want to see ever again. Then, well this is the embarrassing part."
"Hey, I just told you I thought I could fly out of a first floor window." Edge said.
"And I was in a closet with Trish." Jeff said, he shuddered when he said it.
"Here, I'll tell you one." Christian said adjusting his weight. "After a match me and Edge went out for some drinks. It was in LA, so we stopped at a beach to walk around in the water. I almost died in not even a foot of water."
"Damn man!" Mat said.
"Hey, what about you!" Christian shouted.
"What about me?" Mat asked.
"How about the time you got drunk and Jeff found you in the shower masturbating with ice-cubes."
"Oh yeah, that."
"See, everyone is screwed up when they are drunk!" Edge said. "And, you were saying?" He looked at me.
"Lets just say I had my first lesbian experience that night." I slid down in my chair.
"Oh, hell ya!!!" Edge said.
"It's not that funny." I told them.
"Oh, I know, but lesbians rule!!" He shouted.
"You are such a guy." I said back to him. "You think with your little head instead of the big one. And, it is little."
"Oh, harsh." Christian said.
"That was wrong, man." Edge said. "It's not little."
"If you say so." I said.
"Want to see for yourself?" He asked.
"These are how rumors get started." I told him.
"I don't care about rumors." He said. I knew he meant it.
"Know what, neither do I." I said.
I grabbed his hand and led him to the girls room. I was only on this thing like two or three days and was starting. At this pace I'd be like Trish. No, wait, no one is as big a slut as Trish.
"What just happened?" Mat asked.
"I think Destiny led Edge into the bathroom." Jeff answered staring at the door.
"This isn't right." Edge said to me, taking my shirt off.
"Oh, I know." I replied doing the same to him.
"Then, why are we doing this?" He asked.
"Why not?" I answered directing him to a stall.
"That's not fair!" Christian said after a while.
"They better hurry, we have to go soon." Mat said looking at his watch.
"Well, we shouldn't be here too long." Christian said with a laugh. "Edge is a pretty quick guy."
"They're gonna start asking questions." Edge said.
"They already know." I said.
He pushed me against the wall. "Ow." I said. Damn toilet paper roll thingy. Anyway, I hadn't done anything like this in a while. Pretty damn fun! Anyways, it felt great, and well I was very happy. Hell, anyone within a few miles could have known that one.
"All right, I can't wait anymore." Jeff said.
"We better go." Edge said in between breathes.
"Yeah." I said, just the same. Out of breath.
"I can never look at a bathroom stall the same way again." He said reaching for his clothes.
"Yes, well." I said getting mine.
"I know what they're going to say." Edge said. He changed faster than I did and was headed out the door.
"Edge!" I called to him. "You're right, it isn't small at all."
He smiled and left. I smiled and dressed.