Matt, Jeff and Amy sat around the same fire Jeff had made and talked about
everything and nothing. Amy told them all the different places she and
Scott had lived and Matt and Jeff told her what it was like to live in just
one place. "Sometimes I wish I could just live in one place, but, other
times I love moving around and seeing the world." Amy told them. Matt was
leaning against the tree with Amy in front of him, leaning her head back
against his chest. Jeff was up on the lowest branch laying on his stomach
with his arms hanging down. "I'd love to travel around the states." Jeff
said. "You'll be able to when you guys become famous wrestlers." Amy said
and they smiled at her. "True. You really think we'll make it?" Matt asked.
"Definitely, you guys are the best." She replied squeezing his hand. "Yeah
big bro, can't argue with that." Jeff asked throwing leaves down on them.
"Hey! Jeff man, your dead." Matt said jumping up in the tree as Amy
laughed. "Gotta catch me first slow poke." Jeff called, already making his
way up the tree. "Slow poke? That's it." Matt said climbing faster. Jeff
laughed, standing cautiously up. When Matt almost reached him Jeff jumped
and dove into the water. "Jeff!" Matt yelled, worried that Jeff had jumped
from to far up.
"Woooo! Come on Matt, Jump!" Jeff said when he came up from out of the water. "Your crazy man." he said but jumped anyway, topping Jeff's dive by adding a flip. "Show off." Jeff said when Matt resurfaced and Amy laughed, clapping. "Come on Amy, the waters great." Jeff said. "Hell no, It's freezing you guys have to remember I'm from Florida where 75 is cold and 70 is freezing." Amy replied. "Don't be such a baby, baby." Matt said laughingly. "Baby? Me? Ha, I'll show you." Amy said and began climbing the tree as Matt and Jeff started cheering. "Amy, that's to high, you'll get hurt!" Matt yelled up to her as she climbed higher then both Matt and Jeff had. "Watch and learn Hardys." Amy said before jumping. She topped both of them, doing a double back flip. "Show off." Matt and Jeff said in unison when Amy surfaced. "And? GOD it's FREEZING." Amy said and started to swim for the shore when Matt grabbed her, stopping her. "Ut uh, where do you think your going?" he asked, holding on tighter to her as she struggled. "Oh come on Matt its to cold." she said whining. Jeff gabbed her legs helping Matt when Amy began laughing. "Stop, no that tickles!" she said struggling harder when, in a sudden burst of energy, she broke free and immediately went under water.
"Amy?" Jeff called out after she had been under for awhile. "Amy come on, it's not funny, where are you?" Matt called with no answer. "Amy! Come on knock it off!" Jeff called when they both heard a whistle and looked up to the tree to see Amy laughing. "Jez Ames, you scared the shit outta us" Jeff yelled up to her. "Serves you right Boys." she yelled before jumping into the water again, this time doing a front flip and hitting the water in a perfect dive. "Where'd you learn how to do that?" Jeff asked. "Scott taught me, my dad taught him." she answered. "Will you teach me?" Jeff asked swimming towards the shore. "Sure." Amy replied swimming after him and Matt followed.
"First just start off with a simple back filp. But you have to make sure you aren't turned when you hit the water or you'll get smacked by it and trust me, it hurt's. Now stand like this." Amy said showing Jeff how to stand and he copied her every move. "Then just push off." she added before jumping and doing a perfect back flip, hitting the water just right. Jeff learned fast and after only an hour passed he was doing back flips as well as Amy. The two teamed up and got Matt to learn, who was hesitant at first but before long Matt was going up as high as them.
"I'm exhausted. "Amy said plopping down under the tree as Matt got the fire started again. "Amy your arm." Jeff said pointing to her left arm. When she looked at it she noticed that her shirt was stain red. "Ah shit." she said lifting up her sleeve. "I know Dave grabbed it to hard. Stupid son of a Fucking...UGH." she said. "Here." Matt said running to get his shirt that was drying on a tree branch. He walked up to her and tied his shirt around her arm tightly. "To tight?" he asked and she shook her head. "Thanks." she said softly, then sighed. "God, can anything else go wrong tonight? I think I'm going to sleep before I brake something." she said leaning back against the tree. "Good idea." Jeff said taking his place back up on the branch in the tree. Matt hesitantly came to sit next to Amy. She smiled up at him and took his arm, pulling his closer as he smiled. "Night all." Jeff said sleepily. "Night Jeff, night Matt." Amy said as she leaned her head on Matt's shoulder. "Night Jeff, night Amy." Matt said and he couldn't help the goofy smile in his face as he pulled Amy closer.
Matt slowly opened his eyes to bright sunlight. Stretching, he noticed something was missing. Looking next to him he realized Amy wasn't their anymore. He quickly scanned the area around them for that familiar flash of red when he spotted her in sitting on the shore; close enough so she could put her legs in the water. Quietly, so he wouldn't wake Jeff up, he made his way over to her.
"Your up early." Matt said when he got close enough and Amy jumped then, seeing it was only him, she smiled. "Morning Matt, how'd you sleep?" she asked returning her gaze to the breathtaking view of the sunrise. Matt came to sit next to her and put his arm in the now familiar place, around her waist. She leaned into him and smiled to herself. "Good, how's your arm feel?" he asked, his hand coming to rest on her left arm. "Feels a lot better." she answered as Jeff walked up sitting next to Matt and they fell into their comfortable silence, just enjoying the view and being together.
After the beautiful sunrise they all sat around talking, making out a plan for the day and deciding if they wanted home when Jeff stared coughing more often. "You okay Jeff?" Amy asked with a worried expression on her face. "Oh sure, I'll be fine, it's just a little cold out here." he replied and Matt and Amy exchanged looks. "Dude, it's got to be at least eighty five out." Amy said and placed her hand on his forehead. She immediately snatched it away and her worried expression grew. "Jeff your burning up." she said. "Calm down guys, its just a little cold, I'll be fine." he replied. "I don't know. I think you should go on home so you can get some medicine or something." Matt replied and Jeff shook his head. "No, no way If I go home you know I won't be able to lie to dad, if he even looks at me I'll blurt out where you guys are and If you come home with me Amy will be out here all alone and I don't want that either. Besides I feel...I feel..." he said but had to pause when he sneezed. "I feel fine." he finished sighing. "Jeff come on, it's okay, lets go home, you could get worse if you stay out here and I don't want it to be because of me." Amy said and Jeff sighed again, looking down. "Oh alright, I'll go" he replied and Matt and Amy let out a sigh of relief making Jeff smile.
"They're you guys are" Scott said when the three walked up. "What happened to Jeff?" he asked and Matt and Lita turned to Jeff. "He looks really pale." Scott added offering Jeff a seat. "Scott go get Mom." Amy told her brother and he went without question. "I...I don't feel so good you guys." Jeff got out before going into a coughing fit. "Jeff, calm down, take deep breaths." Matt instructed patting his back. "What in god's name did you do- dunk his head under water until he turned blue?" Amy's mother asked checking his temperature. "No...we just all went swimming last night and-" Amy started but Mrs. Dumas cut her off. "Swimming? Are you out of your mind?! You all could have caught pneumonia! You know better than that, now go to your room Amy." she said pushing her away. "But I want to help." Amy pleaded. "Now!" her mother said and Scott gently grabbed her arm and pushed her to the door. "Best go get your father Matt." Amy heard her mom say before she ran to her room and slammed the door, falling onto her bed. It wasn't her fault! She's the one who said it was to cold in the first place and now she was getting punished. She wanted so badly to be out there helping them, especially Matt. He had told her about his mother and what he went through. She didn't want to even think about what would happen if Jeff would have to go to the hospital, not to mention what it would do to Jeff, they were both so afraid of hospital's.
Just then Scott walked into her room. "What's happening?" she asked standing up. Scott cleared his throat, shaking his head. "They're taking Jeff to the hospital, just to be safe. Mr. Hardy just thinks it's the flu but he wants to make she he doesn't have pneumonia." Scott explain and Amy fell back onto the bed. "It'll be alright, he was already looking better." Scott said reassuringly coming to sit next to her on the bed. "This is terrible. How is Matt taking it?" she asked. "I think he was more worried than Jeff." Scott replied and she sighed sadly, shaking her head. "Hey, no one blames you for this Amy, not even mom. You know how she can be, she just overreacts sometimes, she'll be in here apologizing as soon as she gets home." Scott said but Amy shook her head fiercely. "No...no this IS my fault. It wouldn't have happen if I hadn't run away when Dave hit him, I always run away from everything and-" Amy said but Scott interrupted her. "Dave HIT you?! Why didn't you tell me? I'll kill him!" he said jumping up but Amy just shrugged. "I don't know, I probably deserved it." she replied making Scott even more mad. "Amy Dumas if you ever say that again *I'll* hit you! You never EVER deserve to be hit by a man, or anyone for that matter no matter what the reason." he said making her look him in the eye and she finally nodded. "I know you right, I won't let anyone treat me like that, I promise." she replied. "Good, how bout you take a nap, we probably won't here anymore about Jeff until tonight, maybe tomorrow." Scott said and walked to the door. "I'll have a talk with Dave and mom." he said before leaving.
Amy sighed and laid down on her bed thinking for a while before finally taking out a bag from under her bed. Reaching into it she pulled out a prescription bottle. A few years back she went to the doctor because she could never sleep and he gave her some sleeping pills. She had to admit they worked, she had been getting more sleep than ever but he still made sure she had some just incase she ever need them. Sighing she took one out and popped it into her mouth, swallowing it. She put the bottle back into her bag and her bag back under her bed, and then slipped under the covers. She closed her eyes tightly not wanting to think about anything anymore, she just wished it all never happened until finally she fell into a deep sleep.
Someone whispering in her eye and gently shaking her awakened Amy that night. "Amy, wake up...come on please wake up." she heard the person say and recognized the shaky voice as Matt's. Opening an eye she turned in her bed so she faced him. "Matt? What's wrong?" she asked sleepily as she sat up. "I'm sorry I woke you up I just... I need to talk to someone. Will you go for a walk with me? Please?" he asked kneeling next to her bed. "Yeah, sure, of course." she replied throwing on a pair of jeans over her PJ bottoms and grabbing a jacket.
They left the house quietly and made their way down the street to the park. Amy was dying to know how Jeff was but she didn't want to make Matt talk until he was ready. Glancing up at him she saw that he had a far away look in his eye and that he could break down at any minute and cry. She reached over and slipped her hand into his giving him a gentle squeeze. Matt turned and looked at her as if just noticing she was there and smiled, putting his arm around her.
When they reached the park Matt lead Amy over to the bench, both still silent. After a few minutes though, Matt spoke. "I'm so scared Amy." he whispered finally making eye contact with her and when he did she wanted to look away from the immense sadness she saw in his eyes but didn't. "Scared of what Matt?" she asked comfortingly rubbing his arm. "What if...what if something happens to Jeff? I couldn't bare to lose him to." Matt said, his voice cracking. "Oh Matt" Amy said pulling him into a hug and she felt him relax in her arms. "Jeff will be fine, I know he will be." she said confidently as she rubbed his back soothingly. "I promise Matt, and you know I wouldn't lie. Well," she said pausing to chuckle. "To you anyway." she added and felt him smile against her. "Feel better?" she asked and he hugged her tighter, kissing her cheek. "Much, thanks Ames. I don't know what I'm ganna do when you have to leave me." he said sadly. "I won't leave you Matt. We're ganna be together forever. You me and Jeff will be Forever Friends." she said. "Yeah, no one will be able to tare us apart." he added pulling back so he could look her in the eye.
"Amy...I....I just want to tell you that...that no matter what happens I'll..." Matt stammered out and Amy smiled encouragingly. "You'll what Matt." she asked. Taking a deep breath he pushed her hair back away from her face and out of her eyes. "That I love you, and always will." he said and watched her face carefully for a reaction. Her smile widen, her eyes shined happily and she pulled him down for a kiss. "I love you to Matt." she replied when they broke apart.
"Woooo! Come on Matt, Jump!" Jeff said when he came up from out of the water. "Your crazy man." he said but jumped anyway, topping Jeff's dive by adding a flip. "Show off." Jeff said when Matt resurfaced and Amy laughed, clapping. "Come on Amy, the waters great." Jeff said. "Hell no, It's freezing you guys have to remember I'm from Florida where 75 is cold and 70 is freezing." Amy replied. "Don't be such a baby, baby." Matt said laughingly. "Baby? Me? Ha, I'll show you." Amy said and began climbing the tree as Matt and Jeff started cheering. "Amy, that's to high, you'll get hurt!" Matt yelled up to her as she climbed higher then both Matt and Jeff had. "Watch and learn Hardys." Amy said before jumping. She topped both of them, doing a double back flip. "Show off." Matt and Jeff said in unison when Amy surfaced. "And? GOD it's FREEZING." Amy said and started to swim for the shore when Matt grabbed her, stopping her. "Ut uh, where do you think your going?" he asked, holding on tighter to her as she struggled. "Oh come on Matt its to cold." she said whining. Jeff gabbed her legs helping Matt when Amy began laughing. "Stop, no that tickles!" she said struggling harder when, in a sudden burst of energy, she broke free and immediately went under water.
"Amy?" Jeff called out after she had been under for awhile. "Amy come on, it's not funny, where are you?" Matt called with no answer. "Amy! Come on knock it off!" Jeff called when they both heard a whistle and looked up to the tree to see Amy laughing. "Jez Ames, you scared the shit outta us" Jeff yelled up to her. "Serves you right Boys." she yelled before jumping into the water again, this time doing a front flip and hitting the water in a perfect dive. "Where'd you learn how to do that?" Jeff asked. "Scott taught me, my dad taught him." she answered. "Will you teach me?" Jeff asked swimming towards the shore. "Sure." Amy replied swimming after him and Matt followed.
"First just start off with a simple back filp. But you have to make sure you aren't turned when you hit the water or you'll get smacked by it and trust me, it hurt's. Now stand like this." Amy said showing Jeff how to stand and he copied her every move. "Then just push off." she added before jumping and doing a perfect back flip, hitting the water just right. Jeff learned fast and after only an hour passed he was doing back flips as well as Amy. The two teamed up and got Matt to learn, who was hesitant at first but before long Matt was going up as high as them.
"I'm exhausted. "Amy said plopping down under the tree as Matt got the fire started again. "Amy your arm." Jeff said pointing to her left arm. When she looked at it she noticed that her shirt was stain red. "Ah shit." she said lifting up her sleeve. "I know Dave grabbed it to hard. Stupid son of a Fucking...UGH." she said. "Here." Matt said running to get his shirt that was drying on a tree branch. He walked up to her and tied his shirt around her arm tightly. "To tight?" he asked and she shook her head. "Thanks." she said softly, then sighed. "God, can anything else go wrong tonight? I think I'm going to sleep before I brake something." she said leaning back against the tree. "Good idea." Jeff said taking his place back up on the branch in the tree. Matt hesitantly came to sit next to Amy. She smiled up at him and took his arm, pulling his closer as he smiled. "Night all." Jeff said sleepily. "Night Jeff, night Matt." Amy said as she leaned her head on Matt's shoulder. "Night Jeff, night Amy." Matt said and he couldn't help the goofy smile in his face as he pulled Amy closer.
Matt slowly opened his eyes to bright sunlight. Stretching, he noticed something was missing. Looking next to him he realized Amy wasn't their anymore. He quickly scanned the area around them for that familiar flash of red when he spotted her in sitting on the shore; close enough so she could put her legs in the water. Quietly, so he wouldn't wake Jeff up, he made his way over to her.
"Your up early." Matt said when he got close enough and Amy jumped then, seeing it was only him, she smiled. "Morning Matt, how'd you sleep?" she asked returning her gaze to the breathtaking view of the sunrise. Matt came to sit next to her and put his arm in the now familiar place, around her waist. She leaned into him and smiled to herself. "Good, how's your arm feel?" he asked, his hand coming to rest on her left arm. "Feels a lot better." she answered as Jeff walked up sitting next to Matt and they fell into their comfortable silence, just enjoying the view and being together.
After the beautiful sunrise they all sat around talking, making out a plan for the day and deciding if they wanted home when Jeff stared coughing more often. "You okay Jeff?" Amy asked with a worried expression on her face. "Oh sure, I'll be fine, it's just a little cold out here." he replied and Matt and Amy exchanged looks. "Dude, it's got to be at least eighty five out." Amy said and placed her hand on his forehead. She immediately snatched it away and her worried expression grew. "Jeff your burning up." she said. "Calm down guys, its just a little cold, I'll be fine." he replied. "I don't know. I think you should go on home so you can get some medicine or something." Matt replied and Jeff shook his head. "No, no way If I go home you know I won't be able to lie to dad, if he even looks at me I'll blurt out where you guys are and If you come home with me Amy will be out here all alone and I don't want that either. Besides I feel...I feel..." he said but had to pause when he sneezed. "I feel fine." he finished sighing. "Jeff come on, it's okay, lets go home, you could get worse if you stay out here and I don't want it to be because of me." Amy said and Jeff sighed again, looking down. "Oh alright, I'll go" he replied and Matt and Amy let out a sigh of relief making Jeff smile.
"They're you guys are" Scott said when the three walked up. "What happened to Jeff?" he asked and Matt and Lita turned to Jeff. "He looks really pale." Scott added offering Jeff a seat. "Scott go get Mom." Amy told her brother and he went without question. "I...I don't feel so good you guys." Jeff got out before going into a coughing fit. "Jeff, calm down, take deep breaths." Matt instructed patting his back. "What in god's name did you do- dunk his head under water until he turned blue?" Amy's mother asked checking his temperature. "No...we just all went swimming last night and-" Amy started but Mrs. Dumas cut her off. "Swimming? Are you out of your mind?! You all could have caught pneumonia! You know better than that, now go to your room Amy." she said pushing her away. "But I want to help." Amy pleaded. "Now!" her mother said and Scott gently grabbed her arm and pushed her to the door. "Best go get your father Matt." Amy heard her mom say before she ran to her room and slammed the door, falling onto her bed. It wasn't her fault! She's the one who said it was to cold in the first place and now she was getting punished. She wanted so badly to be out there helping them, especially Matt. He had told her about his mother and what he went through. She didn't want to even think about what would happen if Jeff would have to go to the hospital, not to mention what it would do to Jeff, they were both so afraid of hospital's.
Just then Scott walked into her room. "What's happening?" she asked standing up. Scott cleared his throat, shaking his head. "They're taking Jeff to the hospital, just to be safe. Mr. Hardy just thinks it's the flu but he wants to make she he doesn't have pneumonia." Scott explain and Amy fell back onto the bed. "It'll be alright, he was already looking better." Scott said reassuringly coming to sit next to her on the bed. "This is terrible. How is Matt taking it?" she asked. "I think he was more worried than Jeff." Scott replied and she sighed sadly, shaking her head. "Hey, no one blames you for this Amy, not even mom. You know how she can be, she just overreacts sometimes, she'll be in here apologizing as soon as she gets home." Scott said but Amy shook her head fiercely. "No...no this IS my fault. It wouldn't have happen if I hadn't run away when Dave hit him, I always run away from everything and-" Amy said but Scott interrupted her. "Dave HIT you?! Why didn't you tell me? I'll kill him!" he said jumping up but Amy just shrugged. "I don't know, I probably deserved it." she replied making Scott even more mad. "Amy Dumas if you ever say that again *I'll* hit you! You never EVER deserve to be hit by a man, or anyone for that matter no matter what the reason." he said making her look him in the eye and she finally nodded. "I know you right, I won't let anyone treat me like that, I promise." she replied. "Good, how bout you take a nap, we probably won't here anymore about Jeff until tonight, maybe tomorrow." Scott said and walked to the door. "I'll have a talk with Dave and mom." he said before leaving.
Amy sighed and laid down on her bed thinking for a while before finally taking out a bag from under her bed. Reaching into it she pulled out a prescription bottle. A few years back she went to the doctor because she could never sleep and he gave her some sleeping pills. She had to admit they worked, she had been getting more sleep than ever but he still made sure she had some just incase she ever need them. Sighing she took one out and popped it into her mouth, swallowing it. She put the bottle back into her bag and her bag back under her bed, and then slipped under the covers. She closed her eyes tightly not wanting to think about anything anymore, she just wished it all never happened until finally she fell into a deep sleep.
Someone whispering in her eye and gently shaking her awakened Amy that night. "Amy, wake up...come on please wake up." she heard the person say and recognized the shaky voice as Matt's. Opening an eye she turned in her bed so she faced him. "Matt? What's wrong?" she asked sleepily as she sat up. "I'm sorry I woke you up I just... I need to talk to someone. Will you go for a walk with me? Please?" he asked kneeling next to her bed. "Yeah, sure, of course." she replied throwing on a pair of jeans over her PJ bottoms and grabbing a jacket.
They left the house quietly and made their way down the street to the park. Amy was dying to know how Jeff was but she didn't want to make Matt talk until he was ready. Glancing up at him she saw that he had a far away look in his eye and that he could break down at any minute and cry. She reached over and slipped her hand into his giving him a gentle squeeze. Matt turned and looked at her as if just noticing she was there and smiled, putting his arm around her.
When they reached the park Matt lead Amy over to the bench, both still silent. After a few minutes though, Matt spoke. "I'm so scared Amy." he whispered finally making eye contact with her and when he did she wanted to look away from the immense sadness she saw in his eyes but didn't. "Scared of what Matt?" she asked comfortingly rubbing his arm. "What if...what if something happens to Jeff? I couldn't bare to lose him to." Matt said, his voice cracking. "Oh Matt" Amy said pulling him into a hug and she felt him relax in her arms. "Jeff will be fine, I know he will be." she said confidently as she rubbed his back soothingly. "I promise Matt, and you know I wouldn't lie. Well," she said pausing to chuckle. "To you anyway." she added and felt him smile against her. "Feel better?" she asked and he hugged her tighter, kissing her cheek. "Much, thanks Ames. I don't know what I'm ganna do when you have to leave me." he said sadly. "I won't leave you Matt. We're ganna be together forever. You me and Jeff will be Forever Friends." she said. "Yeah, no one will be able to tare us apart." he added pulling back so he could look her in the eye.
"Amy...I....I just want to tell you that...that no matter what happens I'll..." Matt stammered out and Amy smiled encouragingly. "You'll what Matt." she asked. Taking a deep breath he pushed her hair back away from her face and out of her eyes. "That I love you, and always will." he said and watched her face carefully for a reaction. Her smile widen, her eyes shined happily and she pulled him down for a kiss. "I love you to Matt." she replied when they broke apart.
