WWE High

Term Four

Chapter Two.

Torrie was sitting on the bench, just before the start of school, waiting for her friend Stacey. She kept thinking about Rob and how he had screwed up her letter. Stacey had told her to forget about him, but there wasn't a hour go by, when she didn't think about Rob, it was like her mind was on a little cycle, shoes, clothes, the prom, celebrities, Rob, shoes, clothes, the prom, celebrities, Rob….

She just couldn't get him out of her head. Suddenly she noticed a tall dark figure coming towards her, at first she thought it was Rob and her heart leapt but then as he came closer, she realised it was Rocky and her heart fell back into place.

"What do you want?" she muttered.

"Hey, that's no way to greet Rocky Mavia, what's up Torrie?"

"You know what's wrong, Rob won't speak to me cause he thinks I cheated on him with you."

"But you didn't, I was the perfect gentleman." Rocky smiled.

"Well, he don't think that. I sent him a note to explain but he just screwed it up and threw it in the bin."

"Well then he's not worth it Torrie, he's just a paranoid jerk who doesn't realise what a great girl he has and shouldn't give him the satisfication of pining after him like this, you get what I mean?"

"Yeah, but it don't change how I feel, I think I love him."

"Oh please! High school is suppose to be about fun and you should enjoy yourself, not making stupid commitments."

"I want to have fun but how can I? I'm gonna do rubbish on this SAT's, not get into beauty school, not have a date for the prom…"

"Well I don't know nothing about beauty school, but how about we go to the prom together?"

"I don't know, people might talk…"

"Let them talk, you and me both know that we are just there to have some fun, what do you say?"

Torrie thought for a moment and smiled.

"You know what, Okay, I will go to the prom with you, we'll have fun."

"Too right we will!" Rocky cheered.

Torrie looked to hug Rocky but then thought better of it, and sat there awkwardly.

"What you playing at?" Rocky joked and gave her a quick hug.

"Hey break it up, you two!" shouted a voice.

Torrie and Rocky looked over to see Edge and Christian coming towards them. "Now we'll sorry we had to break up you're into thing but we have big news for you Torrie."

"What's that?"

"Well as you two know, we are in charge of the Yearbook Committee and we need you to make this the best Yearbook ever!" said Christian.

Torrie looked at them excitedly.

"What do I have to do?"

"Well we were hoping of doing a kind of Year in Review with the girls and the guys and you Torrie are one of our top girls, I tell you, this yearbook will sell like mad if we have you doing an exclusive photo shoot….and get this…on the beach!" Edge said dramatically.

"Wow! I would love to do that, will I have to wear lots of outfits and be in lots of different settings like in the waves playing volleyball…"

Edge and Christian looked at each other and smiled.

"That sounds great!" They said in unison, they were going to see Torrie in a bikini!

"Are you sure your allowed to do this?" asked Rocky.

"Don't be such a goody-goody Rocky, I'm sure once they see how much we sell they will love it." Said Christian.

"Ooooo, when do we start?" asked Torrie enthustically.

"Are you free after school?"

"Yeah sure."

"Cool. You can go home, get your stuff together, then we will come pick you up, then we can head for the beach!"

"But what about football practice Edge, you can't cut that!" said Rocky.

"Sure I can, I mean it's only one practice, I made a commitment to this Yearbook and it's going above all other things and of course being my friend you Rocky can cover for me, say I'm ill or something."

Rocky looked unsure and for a moment, Torrie thought her photo shoot wouldn't happen.

"Please Rocky, cover for me this once, I really want to do this." Torrie pleaded.

"Fine, but Torrie watch out for those guys." Rocky said looking at Edge and Christian. "They mean trouble."

"I assure you Rocky I can handle Edge and Christian, at the Fall Ball…"

Suddenly the bell sounded for the start of school and Torrie's trail of speech was lost.

"Oh look, the bell, we've got the SAT's to do." Said Christian, glad that Torrie hadn't starting talking about their embarrassment at the Fall Ball.

"Yep, come on Rocky, let's go." Said Edge, grabbing his arm.

"Ill see you later Torrie." Rocky smiled as he was wrenched away. "Good luck on the test."

"Thanks for driving me to school." Said Stephanie to Hunter as they drove into the car park.

"Hey, I'm here to look after you, it's the least I could do." Hunter said, pulling the key out of the lock and opening the door.

"So you worried about the SATS?" He asked.

"A bit. My dad really wants me to get into a good University, I want to work in the family business but as a backup I'd love to be an actress." She smiled, it was the first time she smiled in ages and Hunter was pleased.

Stephanie stepped out of the car and looked around as the hundreds of students walked up the path to the main entrance, it felt weird being back at school and part of her wanted to run away and climb back under her duvet but she was confident now that Hunter was with her.

"Are you sure your be able to walk home on your home, I would take you but I really need to go to football practice…"

"Hunter, its' fine, there will lots of people around then, Ill be fine."

"Good." Hunter smiled. He clutched her hand and they walked up the steps towards the school.

Chris walked across the lawn, his rucksack over his leather jacket, his blond wavy hair resting on his shoulders. He spotted Hunter and Stephanie walking up the steps and sneered.

So after all this, they are still together. Thought Chris. Even Steph kissing another guy obviously wasn't enough of Hunter to dump her.

"Chris! Hurry up!" called Lita.

Chris pulled his eyes away from Stephanie and walked towards his friend Lita. However he was determined to speak to Stephanie alone by the end of the day…he had to explain about that night…

The summer sun streamed in through the windows of the senior class classroom. The students sat in alphabetical order and everyone was halfway through their SATS exam, some were busy writing away, whilst others chewed nervously on their pencils, and some for example Chris, just flicked pieces of rubber off the desk, not paying attention at all.

Hunter sat at his desk, staring at the paper but his mind was on other things…

If Stephanie had gone to meet Chris, someone must have known, maybe Shane, she tells him everything…

He looked ahead to where Chris sat in front of him, trying to see what he was thinking…

After school I'm going to go straight to Steph and explain, why hasn't she come to talk to me, a moment ago she was crazy about me and now…she's staying with Hunter, that boring jerk, what does he have that I don't….Stephanie's beautiful…smart…Chris suddenly gasped realising what he was thinking. I hate her, I hate her, I hate her. He said to himself over and over again before turning back to the test, well not before flicking a piece of rubber onto Kurt Angle…

I've been waiting for this test all my life…it's so easy….Harvard here I come, I mean I'm a straight A student, wrestling champion…there's no way they can turn me down…smiled Kurt as he moved onto the next page.

Come on Kurt, move your arm, thought Christian as he peered over at Kurt's page, he couldn't answer any of the questions and Kurt was going through them so quickly that it was getting increasing hard to copy…Torrie looks to be having trouble too, thought Christian as he looked across the room…oh tonight is going be so great, just him and Torrie on the beach, well Edge as well but he can rid of him…then it will just be Torrie, swimming….

I am so great, thought Rocky, I'm gonna do great on this test…got a beautiful date for the prom…Rocky smiled to himself…he looked over at Rob and smirked…he was so pathetic…he is totally gonna flip when he hears that I'm taking Torrie to the prom…well mate…you missed your chance….she's Rocky's girl now….

"Ok class, your time is up, put your pens down and face the front, No talking until I have collected all the papers." Said the teacher as stood up from her seat.

Oh God, that was so hard, thought Stacey, she looked around and grimaced nervously at her best friend Torrie, signally that she didn't think she did well.

Chris looked at his paper, he hadn't finished it not that he cared, waste of time, if you asked me, he quickly scribbled his name on the top and passed it to the teacher.

Stephanie ran quickly through the paper, checking all her answers made sense, she really wanted to do well on this, almost too soon the teacher took her paper away, she turned around and Hunter looked at her.

He gave her thumbs up and she smiled back, nodding her head.

"Ok class, that's it, you will be receiving your results next week."

The class immediately jumped out of their seats running to their friends and asking how they did….

"We'll pick you up later Torrie." Said Edge and Christian. It was the end of the day and most people were going home. "Remember Rocky, after the SATS I left really sick so I couldn't make it to football practice." Said Edge staring at Rocky.

"I've got it." He replied as Edge and Christian ran off to get ready.

"Where are you going?" asked Stacey.

"Oh, it's so cool, with Edge and Christian being head of the Yearbook Committee, they want to do an exclusive photo shoot with me on the beach, for the yearbook."

"Huh! How come they didn't ask me!" protested Stacey.

"I guess I just have that extra sparkle in front of camera." Said Torrie twirling around.

"Oh please, I can guess why, Edge and Christian are just going to try and compete for you again, like they did before the Fall Ball, it's so obvious, especially now you broke up with Rob."

"Yeah, but I'm going to the prom with Rocky now." Said Torrie grabbing Rocky's hand. "So they don't stand a chance."

"What! Are you two really a couple now?" said Stacey, eager to get some new gossip.

Torrie looked at Rocky expectedly, hoping for an answer.

"Well, we are just really really good friends." Said Rocky.

"Sounds like you're a couple to me." Said Stacey.

"Ummm, well you can say what you want Stacey, but I'm late for football practice. " said Rocky. "Enjoy your evening Torrie." Said Rocky as he walked down the corridor leaving Stacey and Torrie giggling by their lockers.

"Are you really never going to speak to Torrie again?" asked Hunter to Rob as they got changed into their football gear.

"Why should I? I mean if you found Stephanie in her room with another guy would you take her back?"

Hunter not wanting to answer the question, turned the subject back to Rob and Torrie.

"I know you still love her, maybe you should just talk to her."

"There's nothing to talk about, she cheated end of story."

"You don't know that for sure, you just jump to the worst conclusion." Said Hunter tying up his shoes. "If you continue like this, Torrie's gonna get another date for the prom."

"I don't care what she does. I hate the prom anyway." Said Rob, he picked up his helmet and headed for the door.

"Your regret not speaking to her." Called Hunter, but Rob wasn't listening as he ran onto the field.

Stephanie walked along the sidewalk, past the shops, and along the private road towards the McMahon mansion. She looked up to see the green trees covering the road, it was peaceful and Stephanie liked it like this.

Suddenly she heard someone call her name, she turned around but no-where was there, she began to get scared and images of the park came back to her so she carried on walking faster and faster, the road never seemed so long before.

Then a muscular arm grabbed her shoulder and Stephanie immediately screamed, trying to run away but the person was too quick as he put his hand around her mouth and held her close.

"Steph, calm down, calm down, don't scream, it's me." Said a male voice.

Stephanie looked over to see it was Chris Jericho, but his presence didn't comfort her, in fact, she was still scared and nervous.

"I'm not going to hurt you, I just want to talk."

He gently took his hand off her mouth and she closed it shut, calming herself down.

"So what do you want?" she said gruffly.

"I wanted to speak to you, you've been ignoring me since you came back to school, what's wrong?"

"It doesn't matter now." Stephanie said coldly, walking up the road. Chris caught up with her, walking by her side.

"I am sorry for not turning up at the park, I didn't mean too, well I suppose I did, but I did feel bad."

"I don't think feeling remorse is in your brain."

"Look Steph, I didn't want to come, I've got a girlfriend Trish…"

"Well, it wasn't just cold and dark but thanks to you, I got mugged as well, the mugger took my ring and my purse, if you had just turned up, it never would have happened, so thanks to you, this last week has been the worst of my life!" Stephanie said angrily.

"Steph, I'm sorry."

"Your not sorry."

"I am, I may have done a few tricks in my time but I know how it feels like to be seriously hurt, not just physically but in the head as well, after my accident, my whole body was in plaster and…"

"Chris, your accident has got nothing to do with me being attacked, so don't pretend you know how I feel, you know nothing about me."

"I do." Chris said quietly.

"Oh, like what?" said Stephanie turning to face Chris.

"Erm…I know you like Mars Attacks!" Chris said hopefully.

Stephanie held back a laugh and carried on walking.

"Look it doesn't matter, Hunter has been really supportive and…"

"Why are you still with that jerk?" asked Chris.

"Er, excuse me, Hunter is the nicest and most supportive guy in the whole world, I couldn't have got through it without him."

"Oh please, spare the compliments, if you knew the real Hunter."

"That is the real Hunter, Chris, not everyone is as selfish, egotistical asshole like you."

"Hey, I'm trying to be nice here…"

"Your not trying to be nice, your just trying to get into bed with me like you tried in the resturant, like you really give a damn whether you have a girlfriend or not."

Chris had had enough of Stephanie's attitude and stared at her angrily, he didn't want to say what he was about to say, but she deserved it, he wanted to hurt her now.

"Steph, your even more stupid than I thought!"

"What did you say?" asked Stephanie in a surprised tone.

Chris almost said nothing but then seeing Stephanie's ignorant, unforgiving face the words just came gushing out.

"I said your more stupid than I thought, Hunter saw us!"

"What do you mean?"

"Trish and I decided to try and break up you and Hunter up and the only reason I kissed you in that restaurant, is because Hunter was watching, I enticed you to meet me afterwards, hoping that Hunter would find us and he did! I don't like you, in fact I hate you and it was all a trick, unfortunately Hunter is so stupid he just pretended he didn't know and continued as normal, but don't you ever think that I liked you, it was just all a bit of fun for me so I don't care what you think of me, your just a spoilt brat who thinks the whole world revolves around her!" Chris shouted angrily into her face.

"You're lying! I know it!" said Stephanie, her lip trembling.

"No Steph, this is the only time I'm telling the truth."

"I hate you!" She shouted.

She ran past Chris, heading up towards her house, her high heels clicking against the pavement, wiping away her tears, she smeared her mascara across her face as she ran as far away from Chris…back home.

"Fabulous Darling! Just a bit to the side." Christian said as he snapped the camera.

Torrie was posing on the beach , since she was doing the cheerleader photos, she held two pomes pomes in her hands.

"Ok, five, six, seven, eight, pose, and pose, and pose, and pose, and freeze!" Christian shouted as he took one final shot. Torrie smiled away obviously enjoying herself.

"Ok, that's a wrap, now we are gonna move to the ocean and take some shots for the swim team." Edge said, putting the camera round his neck.

"Okay, Ill just go get changed." Torrie winked as she headed up the beach.

Edge and Christian watched her go, before collecting up the equipment.

"Man, this is awesome!" Edge cheered. "I wish we could do the whole yearbook on Torrie, we should call it Torrie High!"

"Come on Edge, I think people would like a bit of variety." Christian noted.

"I know." Edge sighed. "But she's just so hot!"

Suddenly Torrie came running down the beach, dressed in her swimsuit and sarong.

"Ok guys, where do you want me?" She asked cheerfully.

"Well I was thinking, if we do a few swim poses in the shallow end, we can capture the sunlight just right." Said Christian looking at the sky.

"Are you sure I look all right?" Torrie said, twirling around. "I didn't think blue suited me."

"Torrie you look hot in anything." Said Edge.

Torrie smirked at the brothers and chuckled to herself. "Do you still have a crush on me Edge?"

"No of course not! Your like a sister."

"Really?"

"Yeah!" Edge said. "Come on lets go."

Christian ran up alongside Torrie as they walked towards the sea.

"So do you think I have a crush on you?" He winked.

"No of course not Christian." Torrie smiled. "You know I think I know the person who would be the perfect match for you."

"Who?" Christian said excitedly.

"Lance Storm, he's head of the debate team, plus I think he's really fit, Ill introduce you to him sometime." Said Torrie.

"Great." Muttered Christian. Just Great.

The football players had finished their warm-up and ran up to the coach who stood in the middle of the pitch, whistle in hand.

"Now team, this will be our last and most important match and I want to speak the best team, so its up to you to impress me today as not all of you will be picked."

Rocky looked over at Rob and sneered, they both played in the same position and only one of them would get that place and Rocky was determined to make sure he won.

"Ok so lets get into positions and lets see what you're made of!" The coach shouted as the players gathered into there positions.

Rob received the ball and began racing towards the touchline, he dodged one player but as he ran he heard someone gaining pace alongside him, suddenly Rocky charged into his side, knocking him to the ground, he lay hard, the ball rolling alongside the grass. Rocky picked it up and ran in the opposite direction. Rob still down on the grass, looked up to the coach shaking his head.]

"Come on Van Dam, get the hell up!"

Rob pulled himself up and realised that Rocky had scored a goal.

He walked up towards Rob a smirk on his face. "Hey Rob, you fall down like a sack of potatoes!" Rocky laughed.

Rob just concentrated on the game and tried to ignore Rocky's comments, although it was hard when he could see him laughing from the corner of his eye.

This time Rob went long and Hunter threw him the ball as he stood by the touchline. The ball sailed through the air as Rob watched it closely as he continued running….

"Hey Rob, you call that running!" Rocky called.

At Rocky's comment, Rob took his eye off the ball for one second and it landed smack on his head, Rob stumbled to the ground as the ball bounced over the touchline.

"Van Dam, what is wrong with you! You gone blind all of a sudden!" The coach shouted.

Rob angrily got himself up and walked towards Rocky, his eyes staring him down.

"What are you playing at?" he shouted, pushing Rocky backwards.

"Hey, not my fault you can't catch." Rocky laughed.

"It was your fault, I would have got that if it weren't for you!"

"Rob stop being such a baby, seems like you just haven't got that touch since the accident." Rocky sneered. It was too much for Rob, anger roared up inside him and he ran at Rocky, spearing him to the ground, continuously punching at his face and chest.

Rocky grabbed his neck, pushing him back as continued fighting on the grass.

"Fight! Fight! Fight!" The other players cheered as they surrounded Rob and Rocky. Eventually Hunter ran forward pushing Rob off Rocky and preventing him from fighting back

"Stop it! Right now!" Hunter shouted as he stood in the middle of them.

"He started it!" shouted Rob.

"Your just bitter cause your no longer the star of this team, I am!"

"Oh yeah, how come I was offered a NFL Trial then, where was your offer Rocky? I here they came to your school too."

"Well I obviously not interested now, you're a pathetic loser Rob, you can't even keep a girl."

At the mention of Torrie, Rob raced forward to punch Rocky but Hunter held him back.

"Oooo, touched a nerve did I? Well your be pleased to know, that I am taking Torrie to the prom, yeah, that's right, I'm going with Torrie and you are going with no-one! Oh by the way, she's not only hot but she's a great kisser too, ummm, I can still taste her lip gloss!" Rocky laughed.

Even Hunter couldn't hold Rob back now as he lunged at Rocky, they started fighting once more and it wasn't until the coach threw a bucket of water over them that that they finally stopped…

"This has been a great evening, hasn't it?" smiled Torrie. She linked arms with both Edge and Christian as they walked along the promenade by the beach.

"Yeah, we got some great shots." Said Edge looking at the camera. "Kurt is gonna go crazy, when he sees how totally awesome these pics are!"

"I'm just glad I could help, I think it be great if we have a good yearbook, then everyone will remember us."

"Hey! No-one is going to forget the great Edge and Christian." Christian laughed. "Especially me." He muttered.

Edge rolled his eyes and continued walking.

"We should definitely all keep in touch, the whole gang, you, me, Steph, Hunter, Stacey, Rocky, Rob, Kurt, we'll never lose touch."

They continued walking along, the promenade was home to many homeless people, they were all crouched up under blankets and wrapped in newspaper, clutching there few belongings.

A poor elderly man played the violin, a few coins laid at his feet.

"They should really set up a shelter or something." Torrie muttered. "They're ruining the beach."

Edge and Christian looked over as they saw lumps obviously people hidden under blankets. They looked at them longingly.

"Got any change love?" one woman cooed at Torrie. It really was a sorry sight.

Edge looked at their blank, hairy worn faces. He then caught sight of one guy, he was young and sat huddled in badly torn clothes, his long hair straggling across his shoulders. Something about him reminded him of someone he knew, he looked so familiar, wait…

Wait….

"Holy Shit!" Edge shouted running towards the guy.

"What is it?" asked Christian and Torrie in unison.

Edge ignored them and ran over to the homeless guy.

"Shit. It's you. I don't believe it, it's you, isn't it." Edge said, not believing his eyes, he thought he was gone, he was dead, the house…the missing body….

"Jeff is that you?" He asked kneeling down.

The guy looked up and Edge gasped, his facial features behind the short beard were totally clear. It was him, it was him.

"Yeah. Its me, Its Jeff."

Edge, Christian and Torrie stood back in shock as Jeff stared at them, an embarrassed smile on his face. Jeff wasn't dead, he was living on the promenade, homeless, right by the beach…

In the Next Chapter.

Edge persuades Jeff to come home and Stephanie is shocked by the identity of her attacker.