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"Ben who the hell are you? And how the hell do you know my husband?" I searched his face for answers. I found none. He was good at hiding his emotions. He stared out the window a distant almost cold look was forming in his eyes. The radio was slowly becoming just noise and some how with the hallow song that started playing fear started to flood my mind where trust once occupied. "Well Bennie….you are wasting precious moments of my life. Either tell me who you are or let me out of the car."
He kept starring straight ahead. "Did Randy ever speak of his time in the Marines?"
I was taken back by the question. It's not like it was a secret that Randy was a Marine and quite, but it was something that Randy preferred not to discuss. He only spoke of it once. And on that occasion he told me he was young and stupid. He also told me that when he went AWOL and ended up spending some time in a military prison. I could tell that it was something that he was not proud of so I never brought it up and he didn't either.
"Not often," I replied.
"Open the glove box, Jayme." He commanded without taking his eyes off the road. I had my reservations but, my curiosity captured the better of me.
I took a deep breath and twisted the old knob. The glove compartment popped open with a 'thud' . I'm not sure what I was expecting but was surprised to three tattered pictures. The one on top I imminently recognized. It was our wedding picture.
A million questions raced through my mind. But all I could do was remember and with that a flood of memories threatened to spill tears from my eyes. I closed my eyes.
I could see his smile as I walked down the Isle "I now pronounce you man and wife…Randy kiss your bride" The kiss…The touch of his lips…The way his arms held me during the first dance of the night…
And Hunter's best man speech…"I've known Randy for a long time and I have never seen the smile on his face so big. So my toast is to the beautiful woman who put that goofy grin on his face. Jayme, I just want to thank you. Thank you for controlling that infamous "legend killer" ego, oh and Dave said to thank you Randy off the market, but in all seriousness…Thank you for making him the happiest I have ever seen him. Randy, you may have found the best…well next to mine…take care of her because she has taken care of you. You have always been like a little brother to me. So in closing I love both of you…Ladies and gentleman…To Mr. And Mrs. Randy Orton."
Ben's voice broke into my thoughts. "Randy sent me the picture."
"Why?" I asked as I flipped to the second picture. It was a magazine clipping. I was escorting Randy to the ring at Wrestlemania. I had my arm linked with him and I was wearing a flowy evening gown adorned with sporadic sequins. It was right before the match with the Undertaker, 2 ½ hours before Randy's disappearance.
"Turn over the wedding picture." He said this time he looked at me. His eyes were much warmer and I could see a hint of smile start to creep up on his face.
There was a message scribbled in Randy's handwriting.
Bennie,
Hey man, sorry you couldn't be here. I guess the government has you on some special important mission to save the world. Anyway, here she is, my hell cat with a halo. Isn't she beautiful. I fell like the luckiest guy on the planet. I can't wait for you to meet her. Give me a call when you get back dude.
Randy
I was speechless. Why didn't Randy ever mention him? It was then I looked at the third and final picture. It was picture of two young marines. One I immdently recognized as Randy. The other looked familiar, I looked from the picture to Ben, same bone structure, same smile, same nose, it was him. He was standing saluting beside of Randy. They had the biggest goofiest grins on their faces. I couldn't hide my amusement.
"This is you." I finally spoke.
"Yeap, it's amazing what contacts and 30 lbs of muscle can do for a skinny kid with bottle capped glasses." He grinned. I smiled back.
"Why didn't he ever mention you?"
"Jamye, Randy tried hard to escape his past of what happened in the Marine's. I think that he felt ashamed and guilty as he got older. But you and I know Randy, that's not something that he would have admitted. You see he confided that he never wanted to join the military, but he wanted to impress his father. But the Cowboy would have been impressed with anything that Randy did." Ben said.
"Yeah, the sun rose and set in Randy's eyes, according to Bob." I grinned.
Yeap, so he quite and begged for forgiveness. He had told me all he ever wanted to do was follow in his father's foot steps and be a WWE superstar it was his…"
"…Destiny" I looked at Ben and smiled.
"Yeap his Destiny. He kept in touch when he left and I owe him a lot. He was my only friend there at first." He finished.
"So I just have one question… On the back of that picture it said you worked for the government…did you stop to become a reporter?"
"Well not exactly. I work with the CIA and FBI as an undercover agent. Right now I have been working on Randy's case. And trying to catch the people who made him disappear." He confessed.
His cell phone interrupted my train of thought.
"Hi Honey… Yes Jayme showed up…Yes I am on my way home…Yes I convinced her to stay with us…Yes she is as pretty as she was on TV of course you are more beautiful to me…Yes she is really nice…I am sure the guest room looks fine dear…yes I will tell her…I love you too. Bye" He closed the phone.
"Was that Martha?" I asked.
"Yeap, She is quite excited. To say the least. Although she has no idea about my connection to Randy. So I have some explaining to do for her also. We always watched RAW together though. She had quite the crush on Randy and she followed your real life romance. She is quite the fan." He smiled.
I sat back and took a deep breath. All of a sudden I felt safe. Almost like I had a little piece of normalcy back. I could actually feel Randy again. I had been almost numb for so long. I felt like everything was going to be okay. I closed my eyes and started to drift off to sleep.
"Sleep tight sweet princess, you are going to need rest for the things to come," Ben said. Or at least I thought he did. Someone said it. But maybe my mind was playing tricks on me but it felt like… Randy. I was too tired to think about it. I let sweet sleep engulf me.
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