Tough Enough Evolved

Family System

WWE Superstar Walks Out

It was just over a year that we heard World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Superstar Steve Williams, More Commonly known as "Stone Cold Steve Austin,"
had dropped everything and left the WWE. For reasons that were very unclear at the time seem oh so clear to us now. Almost as if a anniversary present it has been reported to us by WWE officials themselves that Jeff Hardy has severed his contract with WWE. We are unclear as to the reasons
now, but we have reason to suspect he has left to follow other career
goals.

Many of the WWE wrestlers weren't surprised to hear that Jeff Hardy had severed his bond with WWE. Many of them had read articles from Newspapers stating that the reason he left was for other goals in life, that he had accomplished everything he wanted. And just as they knew he was gone, they also knew that wasn't exactly the reason he had left the WWE. Many superstars threatned to leave, but none of them actually had to courage to do it. Jeff might have been the first of a very long series of WWE superstars leaving.

Of course with every superstar that left, or would soon be leaving there was another rookie brought into the WWE. This was a normal process though, since Rookies' were hired even when someone wasn't let go. Just three months after Steve walked out of the business, Josh Mathews was brought into the business as a backstage interviewer. They had more than that planned for him but for now it would stay at that stage. It took him close to two years to finally get into the business after his being in Tough Enough but he was finally able to make it and many people were exstatic about it.

It seemed everyone was happy with the addition at the time, everyone except for Josh himself. He had loved the idea of finally being able to work for the business he only dreamed about. There was only one problem, the one person he had gotten close to over the two years that had passed getting into the WWE he wouldn't be able to see as much. Of course it didn't take long before Josh's little ties with the WWE and Jordan's persistancy actually got her into the WWE as well. It took five or six months for her to get into the WWE, most of that time was spent on a developmental contract but soon she was right there with Josh and everyone else. Was it luck? Or just the fact that the owners knew they were starting something big..

Josh's insistent pace was starting to get on the nerves of the other person in the room with him. "Josh Chill out. Sit down, calm down, and than go for it. There's not much else you can do." The blonde sitting a few feet from the still pacing Josh said, trying to calm him down a bit to where he would stop pacing.

"Shan It's not that easy, I'm nervous as hell." Josh sighed heavily, running a hand through his shot spiked hair as he sat down on the bench Shannon Moore was sitting on as well. His leg was at a quick pace, it moving up and down constantly out of nervousness.

"Don't be nervous, if its meant to be than it'll happen ya know?" Shannon tried to reassure him, it had been about a week or two of Josh acting like this so most everyone in the locker room tried to get him to relax a little.

"Yeah Yeah, I know. Thats what everyone's been telling me, and I'm begining to think they're just telling me that to get me to shut up." Josh fell back against the wall directly behind the bench he was sitting on for now. The necklaces around his neck made a small click noise when they hit each other where they rested on the collar of his black shirt.

"You know you might be right about that, they might have just been saying that but it's the truth. You'll never know unless you try. And damnit your gonna try tonight or we're all gonna die trying to make you. We'll ask her ourselves if we have to." Shannon smirked slightly at the look Josh gave him. "Trust me, I was kidding. Like one of us is going to go up to Jordan and be like Jordan will you Marry Josh? That'll happen.."

"Besides I'd be more nervous that way." Josh sighed, his leg finally coming to a stop as he sat up leaning his elbows on his knees. He stayed like this for a few seconds, the room silent except for a few people walking out in the hallway. "I cannot believe I agreed to doing it on TV. It only happens on TV when its part of a Storyline, this is for real." His head tilted to the side slightly so he could look at Shannon.

"Yeah but all the fans know you two are a thing, ever since she first made her debut it's been kinda obvious. They don't let it die when you do comintary on Velocity. I think they know! Relax. Show starts in ten minutes, and your gonna be the first one out there whether you like it or not." Shannon got up off the bench, practicly dragging Josh out of the room with him. As Josh got up off the bench the back of his foot smashed against the bench making a loud clunk sound, but it was barely noticable through Josh's protest. It didn't make a bit of difference as Shannon still dragged him down the hall, Josh still dragging his feet as he followed Shannon.

"Come on, I can do it on my own I don't need you pushing me. Give me time!" Josh and Shannon both laugh at this, they couldn't help it. Josh had been planning on doing this for close to three months, he had had all the time in the world. But tonight would be the night.

"I did it myself once, and it worked out perfect! Come on it's not hard. Once you get it over with you'll be much happier." Shannon glanced at the small curtianed area in front of them, there were loud blasting noises coming from the other side, signaling that the Smackdown taping had just started. "Get out there!"

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