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Chapter Two: Just One of the Guysxxxxx
He was standing there, open mouthed, gazing at her like a deer trapped in headlights. Had Matt honestly thought she wouldn't find out? Had he really thought that acting as if nothing had happened then congratulating her on the match would make it all okay?
Oh, he was stuttering now, usually something she thought was sweet and endearing. Now it was just pissing her off even more. That tramp had flashed him and he'd just stared and said she looked good, but not only that, he'd lied about it. He'd said that nothing had happened and sweet-talked her into believing him.
She was fed up of it, fed up of everything. Sure they might not be going out in real life, but the fact remained that he had lied. And friends don't lie. Well, he usually didn't lie to her anyway, even after he had come up with the idea that they pretend to date so that her 'admirer' in the backstage crew would leave her alone. But even after they'd started pretending, he'd never lied to her.
Truth be told, it really bugged her. Not that he'd never lied, but that they were pretending. Lillian and Torrie knew how she felt, in fact they quite often told her she should just be honest and tell him, but she never could. The only other people who knew the truth about their pretence were Jeff and Chris and, when they were all together as a group, there was no pretending that Matt and Lita were dating. They were just friends, she was just one of the guys, just like she had always been to him. Another friend.
The problem was that she wanted so much more and, again, Jeff and Chris knew that, as well. They told her that Matt loved her, but she could never bring herself to believe it. Surely if he'd wanted her, he wouldn't have just suggested they pretend, surely he'd have asked her for real. She was surprised that he couldn't tell she was in love with him. Maybe he could, maybe that was what was going wrong. Things were getting tense between them on screen and she knew it. She could see it on camera, but, more than that, she could see it in his eyes.
She gazed up into his eyes at that moment, his guilty, remorseful eyes. She hated it when he looked at her like that. Jeff always called them his puppy dog eyes; they were the ones you could never stay angry at. The ones that made you want to take him home and keep him. Then again, she always wanted to do that, usually with less innocent ideas in mind...
He was holding her arms now, telling her how sorry he was, telling her that she meant so much to him, while all she could hear was her mind telling her that she didn't mean enough to him. She was always there for him, Matt meant the world to her, and she was fed up pretending otherwise. She always simply smiled and told him he was her best friend, nothing more, nothing less.
Well, not this time. This time she was going to show Matthew Hardy exactly what he meant to her, and she was going to get revenge on Stacy Keibler as well. She was going to show them once and for all that she was not just one of the guys. This time Lita was going to show everyone just how much more she was.
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