The next few months were very bittersweet for us. But I tended to push away the bad things, like Mark and Paul and everything and acknowledged everything that had become more wonderful. Saphrin and I were becoming very close as friends…same with Amber and Raven. It was funny. None of us would ever even consider having affairs or whatever but it was just the way everything worked out. Like I had more in common with Saphrin than I did with Raveyboy as I had started to call him, just as Amber had more in common with him than she did with Saphrin.
But as I said the next few months were filled with good and bad. One of the more enjoyable times was in Albany. Amber and I were in our room, getting dressed, warming up. Claudette had been able to sit up by then and so she sat on the floor, playing with Jake. It was then that Raven popped into the room.
"You guys... " he said mischievously. I sighed, wondering what he d done this time. Amber let out a laugh as well, putting Claudette down on the floor as she had started crawling at stuff.
"What's up Raveyboy?" I asked him. He flipped me off and then let out a giggle.
"I proposed to Saphrin."
Amber squealed and ran over to him, giving him a hug. And I smiled, not showing as much emotion as my wife. "What'd she say?!?!?!" Amber asked him.
He grinned. "C'mon, Amber. Look at me. Who would say no to this face?"
Jake let out a quack also at the commotion, causing Raven to jump. He went pale staring at our feathered friend. Jake stared back. Jake seemed to like staring contests.
"Quack!!" Jake said. Raven took a few steps backward.
"Kane... what is he doing... ?"
"Having a staring contest. Be careful, he gets angry when people don't play with him," I said. Raven freaked, eyes locked on the duck. He was getting frantic. Amber looked at me scoldingly.
"What do-"
"QUACK!!"
"-I do?"
Neither Amber or I answered him. I laughed at the absurdity of it as he edged closer and closer to the door. Amber rolled her eyes and made some statement about getting some coffee and left the room. Raven stood there still, eyes wide, frozen, afraid. I just rolled my eyes and looked to Jake. Jake stood still, staring at him, challenging him. A minute or so later Saphrin appeared behind Raven, unbeknownst to him, with a huge grin on her face. She put her pinkies in her mouth and whistled before jumping onto his back. Jake began to run... or waddle really fast towards them both. Raven screamed and turned and started to run away, Saphrin still piggy backing him. Jake was quacking and chasing them, leaving me in confusion. It was about that time that Amber came back in, a crooked smile on her face.
"Where's the fire?" she asked. Just as she asked it Mick Foley popped into the room as well, giving a question of his own to respond to hers.
Alarmed, he exclaimed: "Oh my God you guys! Where's the Al Snow match?!?!?!"
I doubled over laughing.
"Jesus Kane don't start with the laughing again..." he muttered. "Well I mean I was just passing by and I saw Raven being piggy backed by his green haired fiancée and chased by a duck. And... being as you two are the only people on the roster with a duck I assume you know what s going on."
"Not at all... it s just as bizarre for us."
Amber frowned. "Gosh. I hope they come back too. Saph and I have a match to plan out... "
Mick rolled his eyes and walked away.
About twenty minutes later, while I was taping a couple of my fingers that I'd hurt in my match against Mark, the door flew open and in a flash Raven had run into our room and into the bathroom. He slammed the door shut behind him. There was a Doppler Effect with his screaming. It was very amusing. And half a second later Saphrin ran in, holding Jake and laughing. She flopped down onto a chair and let Jake down onto the floor. He and Claudette played for a while.
"I hope you two don't mind," she said, a bit out of breath. When we asked her what said: "I trained Jake. Didn't you notice?" She laughed and clapped, and every time she clapped Jake quacked. She snapped her finger and he flapped his wings. "And you two know what happens when someone whistles, I suppose..."
I had an idea. "Holy hell!" I exclaimed, and began to ask. "Dude, now we should let Al use Jake!!! Gah!!" I was struck with another plague of laughter. We all laughed this time.