A/N 1: Again, thank you so much for the reviews everyone!!!! :)
Chapter 9:
Jean bounced happily on her way back to the locker room, and a big smile broke across her face when she saw Trish ahead of her. "Trish!" she called as she ran up behind her.
"Hey girly girl," Trish said with a smile as she turned around to see who was calling her name.
"I thought you were staying at the hotel?" Jean asked curiously.
"Oh, well, I got bored, and I decided that I needed to get up the balls to do something," Trish explained.
"Ah, the man problem?" Jean raised an eyebrow.
"Exactly," Trish said. "If I don't do it now, then I know I'll never get up the guts to do it...so I'm going to get it over with."
"Awesome," Jean smiled. "So who's the lucky guy?"
"Well, you're about to find out in about thirty seconds. Here, come with me," Trish said as she opened the door to the catering area.
"Okie doke," Jean said, following her in. She really meant to watch Trish, but her attention was caught as soon as she walked in the door by the guy she'd run into earlier. He was sitting at a table with another guy, and she couldn't help but stare. *God, but he's SO hot.* she thought.
"Hey, can I talk to you for a second?" Trish asked shyly to a guy sitting at a table by himself reading a newspaper.
"Yeah, sure," he said, putting his paper down. "What can I do for you Trish?"
Jean snapped herself back to attention as she heard the man ask Trish that question, and her jaw dropped as she realized who Trish had a crush on. *Chris Jericho?!?! What the heck is up with that?! Out of all the people here...I definitely didn't think that Trish would like him. Hell, I don't even think he's all that cute! He definitely needs to cut his hair!* Jean thought as she wrinkled her nose.
"Hey little girl!" a familiar voice called.
Jean jumped suddenly and looked around to see the guy from earlier beckoning her over. "Hi," she said shyly as she walked in his direction.
"How'd your interview go?" he asked her.
"Pretty well actually, I'm hired and I start in two weeks," she said happily, holding up her contract. "I just have to review this and sign it, then bring it back to him in two weeks."
"That's good. I'm glad you got the job you came for," he said sincerely.
"Me too," she grinned.
"So do you know what you're going to be doing?" he asked.
"Yeah, I'm going to be working as a manager," she told him.
"Well, I figured that much," he said, rolling his eyes. "Do you know who you'll be working with, if you'll be face or heel, etc. etc.?"
"I know I'll be a heel character, but he hadn't decided who to put me with when I left. He was going back and forth between two different groups," she answered.
"That's cool," he said with a smile. *So she's heel...hmm, that means that she might be with us! Nah, probably not....I'm not that lucky.* he thought to himself. "Which groups were they?"
"Evolution and La Resistance is what Mr. McMahon told me," Jean said.
"Cool, cool," he said nonchalantly, trying to act like it wasn't a big deal. *Okay so I was wrong...maybe I might have a chance with her!*
"Jean!"
Jean turned her head as she heard someone call her name. "What's up Trish?" she asked the blonde diva as Trish walked in her direction.
"C'mon, let's head back to the locker room so you can let Amy and the boys know how your interview went," Trish said as she reached her. "Hi guys," she said to the two men Jean was sitting with.
"Hey Trish," the cute guy said, and then was echoed by his friend.
"Okay, well I guess I'll see you around," Jean said him, and then flashed a quick smile at his friend, even though they hadn't said anything to each other, and followed Trish out the door.
~Mystery Man's POV~
"See ya," I called after her, and then turned back to my friend, who just stared at me.
"How in holy hell did you pull that off?" he asked.
"Pull what off?" I asked, with a big smile.
"The first cute new girl without an attitude to come through the doors of this place in God knows how long...and you're already on speaking terms with her within the first day," he said.
I laughed. "She ran into me in the hallway while she was looking for Vince's office and was completely lost," I explained.
"Ran into you?" he asked skeptically.
"Ran into me," I repeated. "At full speed and landed on her ass." I chuckled at the memory. "Not that I minded, because she's pretty damn cute."
"Well no shit," his friend said, rolling his eyes. "If you hook up with her, and she's got a friend like herself...I call dibs."
I grinned and shook my head, "I'll see what I can do, but I make no guarantees. After all, she said she didn't know if Vince was putting her with Evolution or La Resistance. So she might be with us, and she might not."
His friend nodded. "Hey, we can always hope at least," he joked.
"Yeah, I'll definitely be doing some of that. Oh well, we better head back to the locker room to get ready for the match," I said as I stood up and headed out the door to our locker room.
~Back to Jean & Trish~
"So how'd it go?" Jean asked as they walked back towards the locker room.
"He said yes!" Trish exclaimed happily with a big grin on her face. "We're going out tonight after the show."
"Awesome!" Jean cheered. "I'm so happy for you Trish!"
"Yeah, I'm proud of myself," Trish said with a big smile. "I hardly ever get the guts up to ask someone out, and I've liked him for almost a year."
"Yay!" Jean cheered. "I hope it all works out for you."
"Yeah, me too," Trish smiled again. She just had this happy glow about her along with a big, cheesy grin on her face...but she didn't care. She was happy. "So," she said, turning the conversation to Jean, "why were you sitting with them in the catering area?"
"Who's them?" Jean asked, momentarily confused.
"Those two guys," Trish said, as if the explanation was obvious.
"Oh!" Jean said as it registered. "I ran into one of them in the hallway earlier when I got lost looking for Mr. McMahon's office."
"Ran into him?" Trish asked, confused.
"Yeah, turned a corner and wasn't paying attention and ran into him at full speed and landed on my ass," Jean flushed as she relived the memory. "My butt still hurts!" she whined.
Trish laughed. "Oh man, I can just see you doing that too. But that still doesn't explain why you were with him."
"He took me to Mr. McMahon's office after I ran into him, and he was really nice about it too. I kinda expected him to be a real jerk because after all, I did run into him, but he was really sweet. He took me there, and then told me that he'd see me around, and then he said hi to me when we walked into catering and asked how my interview went, so I just kinda started talking to him," Jean explained.
"Oh, okay," Trish said as she began to understand. "That's kinda odd though. He has a reputation for being an arrogant ass...but hey, if he's going to be nice, I'm definitely not going to complain for your sake."
"Really?" Jean asked. "He was really nice the whole time."
"That's a good thing though, maybe he'll start being nicer to everyone now," Trish mused. "But then again, that's probably just wishful thinking."
"I don't think so," Jean contradicted her. "He was really nice to me."
"That's very true," Trish agreed. "Well, I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens."
"So, can you tell me what his name is?" Jean asked shyly.
"What? You don't know what his name is?" Trish laughed. "You ran into him, and he took you halfway around the backstage area...and you never asked his name?"
"I never thought about it," Jean admitted. "I just kinda thought about him as being 'the really cute guy that I ran into'."
Trish shook her head and started to answer her question when they were interrupted by a familiar voice.
"The really cute guy that you ran into?" Matt asked with a raised eyebrow as he came up to them. "Would you care to explain Jean?"
"Um, no, not really," she said, smiling innocently up at her cousin.
Matt rolled his eyes. "You're hopeless sunshine."
"I know," she grinned.
"Alright, well, you and Trish can have your little talk and I'll go on into the locker room and pretend this never happened, ok?" Matt said.
"Okay," Jean agreed happily.
"WRONG!" Matt exclaimed as he pounced and started tickling her. "You have to tell me everything little one!"
"Owwww! MATTHEW!! That hurts!" Jean gasped out in pain as Matt started to tickle her bruised sides.
"Oh my God, honey I'm so sorry," Matt said, getting off her instantly. "I completely forgot!" he said, flushing as he realized what he'd done.
"It's okay Matt, I'll forgive you. That just—really hurt," Jean said, as slowly got up, avoiding touching her sides.
"Okay, quit torturing the little one," Jeff said as he came up to them.
"I didn't do it on purpose!" Matt exclaimed. "I forgot about the bruises, and I was upset that she wouldn't tell me what cute guy she was asking Trish about.
"Oh really?" Jeff asked, then looked at his cousin, who was trying to catch her breath. "Who exactly is this guy? Would you please tell me?"
"NO!" she cried, as she slowly backed away from her cousin, not trusting the look in his eyes.
"Okay, that doesn't work," Jeff said as he slowly walked towards her, and poked her in the shoulder. "Spill!" he commanded.
"This—is so---not FAIR!" Jean complained as she tried to get away from her cousins.
"Hey you two!" Amy exclaimed as she came upon the scene. "Leave her alone!"
"Aww," Jeff complained as Matt immediately did what his girlfriend commanded. "You're so whipped that it's not cool!"
"Yeah, but I'm happy," Matt said as he hugged Amy.
"Aww," Trish and Jeff said in unison and pretended to gag themselves.
"Oh shut up," Amy said, rolling her eyes. "So what was all this about?" she asked, looking at her boyfriend.
"Jean was asking Trish a question about a guy, and she wouldn't tell me or Jeff what was going on," Matt told her, pouting.
"I don't blame her," Amy said, tossing her hair. "Y'all are two of the biggest motormouths in the WWE! Now why don't you be good little boys and go take a shower, so that the three of us can have a girl talk," she said commandingly.
"Yes, sir captain sir!" Jeff said mockingly and saluted her as he walked off into the locker room to take a shower.
Matt rolled his eyes at his girlfriend and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek before following Jeff into the room. "Yes dear," he said.
"I love being in control," Amy said as she flexed her arm muscles jokingly
Trish laughed. "You have that boy soo whipped."
"I know," Amy said proudly. "But anyway...on to the guy in question. Fill me in!"
Jean quickly explained what had happened, and then turned back to Trish. "So are you ever going to tell me who he is???" she pleaded.
"Well," Trish said thoughtfully. "I'm not sure if I should."
"TRISH!!" Jean complained.
Trish laughed at the younger girl's face. "His name is...."
A/N 2: Muahaha! I'm going to be evil & wait until I get more reviews with which group I should put her with & who the guy should be :)
Chapter 9:
Jean bounced happily on her way back to the locker room, and a big smile broke across her face when she saw Trish ahead of her. "Trish!" she called as she ran up behind her.
"Hey girly girl," Trish said with a smile as she turned around to see who was calling her name.
"I thought you were staying at the hotel?" Jean asked curiously.
"Oh, well, I got bored, and I decided that I needed to get up the balls to do something," Trish explained.
"Ah, the man problem?" Jean raised an eyebrow.
"Exactly," Trish said. "If I don't do it now, then I know I'll never get up the guts to do it...so I'm going to get it over with."
"Awesome," Jean smiled. "So who's the lucky guy?"
"Well, you're about to find out in about thirty seconds. Here, come with me," Trish said as she opened the door to the catering area.
"Okie doke," Jean said, following her in. She really meant to watch Trish, but her attention was caught as soon as she walked in the door by the guy she'd run into earlier. He was sitting at a table with another guy, and she couldn't help but stare. *God, but he's SO hot.* she thought.
"Hey, can I talk to you for a second?" Trish asked shyly to a guy sitting at a table by himself reading a newspaper.
"Yeah, sure," he said, putting his paper down. "What can I do for you Trish?"
Jean snapped herself back to attention as she heard the man ask Trish that question, and her jaw dropped as she realized who Trish had a crush on. *Chris Jericho?!?! What the heck is up with that?! Out of all the people here...I definitely didn't think that Trish would like him. Hell, I don't even think he's all that cute! He definitely needs to cut his hair!* Jean thought as she wrinkled her nose.
"Hey little girl!" a familiar voice called.
Jean jumped suddenly and looked around to see the guy from earlier beckoning her over. "Hi," she said shyly as she walked in his direction.
"How'd your interview go?" he asked her.
"Pretty well actually, I'm hired and I start in two weeks," she said happily, holding up her contract. "I just have to review this and sign it, then bring it back to him in two weeks."
"That's good. I'm glad you got the job you came for," he said sincerely.
"Me too," she grinned.
"So do you know what you're going to be doing?" he asked.
"Yeah, I'm going to be working as a manager," she told him.
"Well, I figured that much," he said, rolling his eyes. "Do you know who you'll be working with, if you'll be face or heel, etc. etc.?"
"I know I'll be a heel character, but he hadn't decided who to put me with when I left. He was going back and forth between two different groups," she answered.
"That's cool," he said with a smile. *So she's heel...hmm, that means that she might be with us! Nah, probably not....I'm not that lucky.* he thought to himself. "Which groups were they?"
"Evolution and La Resistance is what Mr. McMahon told me," Jean said.
"Cool, cool," he said nonchalantly, trying to act like it wasn't a big deal. *Okay so I was wrong...maybe I might have a chance with her!*
"Jean!"
Jean turned her head as she heard someone call her name. "What's up Trish?" she asked the blonde diva as Trish walked in her direction.
"C'mon, let's head back to the locker room so you can let Amy and the boys know how your interview went," Trish said as she reached her. "Hi guys," she said to the two men Jean was sitting with.
"Hey Trish," the cute guy said, and then was echoed by his friend.
"Okay, well I guess I'll see you around," Jean said him, and then flashed a quick smile at his friend, even though they hadn't said anything to each other, and followed Trish out the door.
~Mystery Man's POV~
"See ya," I called after her, and then turned back to my friend, who just stared at me.
"How in holy hell did you pull that off?" he asked.
"Pull what off?" I asked, with a big smile.
"The first cute new girl without an attitude to come through the doors of this place in God knows how long...and you're already on speaking terms with her within the first day," he said.
I laughed. "She ran into me in the hallway while she was looking for Vince's office and was completely lost," I explained.
"Ran into you?" he asked skeptically.
"Ran into me," I repeated. "At full speed and landed on her ass." I chuckled at the memory. "Not that I minded, because she's pretty damn cute."
"Well no shit," his friend said, rolling his eyes. "If you hook up with her, and she's got a friend like herself...I call dibs."
I grinned and shook my head, "I'll see what I can do, but I make no guarantees. After all, she said she didn't know if Vince was putting her with Evolution or La Resistance. So she might be with us, and she might not."
His friend nodded. "Hey, we can always hope at least," he joked.
"Yeah, I'll definitely be doing some of that. Oh well, we better head back to the locker room to get ready for the match," I said as I stood up and headed out the door to our locker room.
~Back to Jean & Trish~
"So how'd it go?" Jean asked as they walked back towards the locker room.
"He said yes!" Trish exclaimed happily with a big grin on her face. "We're going out tonight after the show."
"Awesome!" Jean cheered. "I'm so happy for you Trish!"
"Yeah, I'm proud of myself," Trish said with a big smile. "I hardly ever get the guts up to ask someone out, and I've liked him for almost a year."
"Yay!" Jean cheered. "I hope it all works out for you."
"Yeah, me too," Trish smiled again. She just had this happy glow about her along with a big, cheesy grin on her face...but she didn't care. She was happy. "So," she said, turning the conversation to Jean, "why were you sitting with them in the catering area?"
"Who's them?" Jean asked, momentarily confused.
"Those two guys," Trish said, as if the explanation was obvious.
"Oh!" Jean said as it registered. "I ran into one of them in the hallway earlier when I got lost looking for Mr. McMahon's office."
"Ran into him?" Trish asked, confused.
"Yeah, turned a corner and wasn't paying attention and ran into him at full speed and landed on my ass," Jean flushed as she relived the memory. "My butt still hurts!" she whined.
Trish laughed. "Oh man, I can just see you doing that too. But that still doesn't explain why you were with him."
"He took me to Mr. McMahon's office after I ran into him, and he was really nice about it too. I kinda expected him to be a real jerk because after all, I did run into him, but he was really sweet. He took me there, and then told me that he'd see me around, and then he said hi to me when we walked into catering and asked how my interview went, so I just kinda started talking to him," Jean explained.
"Oh, okay," Trish said as she began to understand. "That's kinda odd though. He has a reputation for being an arrogant ass...but hey, if he's going to be nice, I'm definitely not going to complain for your sake."
"Really?" Jean asked. "He was really nice the whole time."
"That's a good thing though, maybe he'll start being nicer to everyone now," Trish mused. "But then again, that's probably just wishful thinking."
"I don't think so," Jean contradicted her. "He was really nice to me."
"That's very true," Trish agreed. "Well, I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens."
"So, can you tell me what his name is?" Jean asked shyly.
"What? You don't know what his name is?" Trish laughed. "You ran into him, and he took you halfway around the backstage area...and you never asked his name?"
"I never thought about it," Jean admitted. "I just kinda thought about him as being 'the really cute guy that I ran into'."
Trish shook her head and started to answer her question when they were interrupted by a familiar voice.
"The really cute guy that you ran into?" Matt asked with a raised eyebrow as he came up to them. "Would you care to explain Jean?"
"Um, no, not really," she said, smiling innocently up at her cousin.
Matt rolled his eyes. "You're hopeless sunshine."
"I know," she grinned.
"Alright, well, you and Trish can have your little talk and I'll go on into the locker room and pretend this never happened, ok?" Matt said.
"Okay," Jean agreed happily.
"WRONG!" Matt exclaimed as he pounced and started tickling her. "You have to tell me everything little one!"
"Owwww! MATTHEW!! That hurts!" Jean gasped out in pain as Matt started to tickle her bruised sides.
"Oh my God, honey I'm so sorry," Matt said, getting off her instantly. "I completely forgot!" he said, flushing as he realized what he'd done.
"It's okay Matt, I'll forgive you. That just—really hurt," Jean said, as slowly got up, avoiding touching her sides.
"Okay, quit torturing the little one," Jeff said as he came up to them.
"I didn't do it on purpose!" Matt exclaimed. "I forgot about the bruises, and I was upset that she wouldn't tell me what cute guy she was asking Trish about.
"Oh really?" Jeff asked, then looked at his cousin, who was trying to catch her breath. "Who exactly is this guy? Would you please tell me?"
"NO!" she cried, as she slowly backed away from her cousin, not trusting the look in his eyes.
"Okay, that doesn't work," Jeff said as he slowly walked towards her, and poked her in the shoulder. "Spill!" he commanded.
"This—is so---not FAIR!" Jean complained as she tried to get away from her cousins.
"Hey you two!" Amy exclaimed as she came upon the scene. "Leave her alone!"
"Aww," Jeff complained as Matt immediately did what his girlfriend commanded. "You're so whipped that it's not cool!"
"Yeah, but I'm happy," Matt said as he hugged Amy.
"Aww," Trish and Jeff said in unison and pretended to gag themselves.
"Oh shut up," Amy said, rolling her eyes. "So what was all this about?" she asked, looking at her boyfriend.
"Jean was asking Trish a question about a guy, and she wouldn't tell me or Jeff what was going on," Matt told her, pouting.
"I don't blame her," Amy said, tossing her hair. "Y'all are two of the biggest motormouths in the WWE! Now why don't you be good little boys and go take a shower, so that the three of us can have a girl talk," she said commandingly.
"Yes, sir captain sir!" Jeff said mockingly and saluted her as he walked off into the locker room to take a shower.
Matt rolled his eyes at his girlfriend and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek before following Jeff into the room. "Yes dear," he said.
"I love being in control," Amy said as she flexed her arm muscles jokingly
Trish laughed. "You have that boy soo whipped."
"I know," Amy said proudly. "But anyway...on to the guy in question. Fill me in!"
Jean quickly explained what had happened, and then turned back to Trish. "So are you ever going to tell me who he is???" she pleaded.
"Well," Trish said thoughtfully. "I'm not sure if I should."
"TRISH!!" Jean complained.
Trish laughed at the younger girl's face. "His name is...."
A/N 2: Muahaha! I'm going to be evil & wait until I get more reviews with which group I should put her with & who the guy should be :)