Chapter 57.......the end.

She'd been in Australia for a couple of months before she called her Dad. He was thrilled to hear from her, he'd been going out of his mind with worry & she felt really bad. She didnt tell him about the crap she was going through. She had a shitty, run down one bedroomed appartment with damp walls & roaches in the kitchen.She worked 2 jobs, one cleaning up in a local factory from 5am 'til 9am every morning & the other in a shitty bar every night, getting groped by drunk old men & getting paid very little money. But it put a roof over her head & food in her belly, she just put up with it.

4 months after she'd gone to Australia her dad called to say Rhett & Jenny had a beautiful baby girl. It was more than she could handle right at that time but she decided to turn up on their doorstep one morning after a shift in the factory. They were overjoyed to see her....and so were Michael & Pat who happened to turn up there at the same time!

Mike had followed her home, unbeknown to her & had gone ape shit at the state of the place where she lived & immediately moved her into his appartment & filled her pockets with money! This wasnt what she wanted but Mike was a hard guy to argue with.

5 months after leaving Cameron, her mother died. Gemma thought maybe she should care, but she didnt. Alcohol-related death according to the corroner....whatever.

A year after her arrival in Australia there was a fight in a bar. Michael, always the peacemaker, stepped up to try & stop it. He was stabbed in the throat & died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. MTV covered the story 15 minutes after his death. Not the ideal way for Gemma to find out. The world mourned the loss of a superstar. Gemma mourned the loss of her brother & her best friend. Two men were arrested for his murder.. Turned out the argument started over who's turn it was to pay for the drinks! Ironically it was another alchohol-related death to hit her family. Michael was a huge part of Gemma's life, more so in the past year & the last part of the 'old' Gemma died with him. She'll never forget him.

It's now 2 years since she left that old Gemma behind in Cameron. She still lives in Michaels' appartment & the money he left her has helped her to start freelancing again. Some of her work is published in an Australian woman's magazine on a regular basis. She mostly writes romantic slop....99% of her stories are entirely fictional. Only one story she's written is the truth. (Take your time....you'll get it!!)

Sometimes she watches the WWF on TV! It brings a smile to her face to see how well Adam is doing! She heard on the grapevine that he recently got married & she was happy things were working out for him. Her one wish for Adam is that his new wife can 'love him like that'! He deserves it!

She cant watch The Hardy Boyz. She caught a glimpse of Jeff on TV one day & it was too much for her to take. She turns off the TV when she hears their entrance music.

So she sits, and she writes, and she types, Every now & then she gets up & goes into her room to look at the little angel that sleeps in the cot beside her bed. He's 15 months old. His name is Michael Matthew Hardy. He is the centre of Gemma's life. He looks a lot like his Dad. Gemma will tell him all about him someday, maybe when he's old enough she will let him read this story. Maybe.....

The End.



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