Chapter 2.
Jessie woke up sometime later. She realized that she had been put under the covers, and the light had been turned off. It was dim in the room, so she figured she had been sleeping a while. She got out of bed and wondered what she should do. She was hungry, so she decided to go see what Randy and John were doing. She was still kind of leery of being around them, but she knew this was a permanent thing, and she had to get used to it. She padded down the hall and cautiously walked into the living room. John and Randy were sitting on the couch watching an old episode of RAW. On it Evolution was currently giving a beatdown to Goldberg.
"Man that really messed my ankle up that night." Randy said, pointing out how Batista took a step back and, accidentally stepped on Randy's foot. John made an ouch sound and grimaced. Jessie decided to let them know she was there. She didn't feel right eavesdropping. She coughed a bit. Both of them startled a little, and looked over at her. She snickered at them. "Hey sweetie have a nice nap?" John asked, a pleasant tone in his voice. Jessie liked it, it made her feel better. She nodded at him. "Not much of a talker are you? Must get that from your mom, because I definitely am not a quiet person. You don't have to just stand there. You can come sit down over here. I promise we don't bite." John joked, patting the spot beside him on the couch, and Jessie went and sat beside him.
"I like your attire" Randy said to her, gesturing to her shirt "I meant to tell you earlier, but I seemed to have bored you to death with my massage." He had a smile on his face, so she knew he was kidding. She decided to give him a dose back.
"Well my Ruck Fules shirt was dirty otherwise I would have it on." She smiled at him to let him know she was kidding. Randy fell over on the couch, in a fake dramatic pose, holding his chest where his heart was.
"Oh that hurts babe. So mean. Ahhh. Oww" Randy said, putting a comical hurt puppy dog look on his face, and both John and Jessie cracked up. "Oh I see how it is" Randy said standing up from the couch "well I am going to go to the bathroom and cry my eyes out, you two decide on what we are going to eat, because I feel the need to gorge my pain away.". He made a diva-esque exit to the bathroom with John and Jessie still laughing at him. After Randy had walked out, John and Jessie stopped laughing. Both wiping the tears of laughter out of their eyes. After they had composed themselves, John looked over to Jessie "so what do you feel like eating? Randy and I may not look like it, but we can tear it up in a kitchen. We kinda had to learn when we moved out. Don't tell anyone, but we traded recipes that our mothers gave us" Jessie almost laughed, but gave John a 'my lips are sealed' gesture instead. "I love Italian food" Jessie said. John leaned over and wrapped his arms around her in a big hug. It kind of took Jessie by surprise. "Sorry." John said pulling back "I'm just glad you got that trait from me. See my whole family loves Italian. We eat it as much as we can. I can cook any Italian dish you can think of." John looked at her for her vote on what to cook.
"Well I absolutely love chicken parmesan. I used to get it all the time at Olive Garden." Jessie could feel her mouth water at the prospect of having chicken parmesan. "I could eat loads of it." "Ok, well that's what we'll have. I have chicken in the freezer I need to use, so it works out perfectly." John got up off the couch "You can come watch me and Randy cook, or you can stay in here and watch tv, either one". Jessie thought about it. She could watch tv any old time, she didn't want to miss out on the chance of seeing John Cena and Randy Orton cooking.
She got up and followed her dad to the kitchen. Randy came back from the bathroom and joined them. She sat on a stool at the island, and watched as Randy and John moved around the kitchen doing their thing. It got very humid in the kitchen after the oven was turned on, and Jessie's eyes almost popped out of her head when Randy started sweating, and John took off the sweat shirt he was wearing. She knew he was her dad, but she couldn't help but admire his shirtless form walking around. She wished that Randy would take his off, but knew that he was probably cool enough, because he was wearing a tank top. After everything was cooking, John and Randy excused themselves to go freshen up before dinner. They didn't want to be all sweaty. Before they disappeared, upstairs Randy took his shirt off and winked at Jessie. She blushed 'did he see me checking him out' Jessie thought to herself. She just continued to sit where she was, and waited on them to get back. After about 15 minutes, John and Randy came back downstairs. John was wearing a pair of basketball shorts and matching jersey, and Randy was wearing jeans and a wife beater. Jessie swore he was trying to torture her. They sat down, and John started handing out the food, dishing it out on Jessie's plate, instead of letting her do it herself. She didn't need him to do it, but she thought it was nice that he was doing it. He seemed to have gone into the dad role with ease. During dinner Randy and John talked about work stuff. Honestly it didn't really interest her. She liked watching the show, but what they talked about was boring, and she didn't care. She let her mind wonder. 'Jessica Orton. Jessica Lynn Orton. Jessica Lynn Cena-Orton'. She was brought out of her thoughts by her dad calling her name. "Where'd you go?" He asked, a smile on his face. She wiped her face and quickly thought up a good lie. "I was thinking over everything thats happened. I don't think it's hit me really that moms dead, and that I'll never see her again. I guess I'm just feeling a bit out of sorts. I think it's just hitting me now." As Jessie finished she burst into tears; all of the pain, anger and, sadness just came out. John got up out of his seat, picked Jessie up in his arms, and cradled her in his arms while she cried. After a while, she finally got her tears under crontrol, and picked her head up off of his chest. "Sorry I guess I couldn't hold it in anymore. I haven't really cried since it happened. I guess I needed it." John simply kissed her cheek and moved back to his seat. The rest of the meal went pretty normal, minus the stupid comments made by John and Randy. After the meal and cleanup (which Randy and John insisted she not help with) they decided to watch a movie. John and Randy told Jessie to pick out a few. She looked through the collection John had, and decided on Forrest Gump, Toy Story 2, The Green Mile, Mystic River, and Stand By Me. She carried the dvd's to the couch, and handed them to John.
"Nice choices." John said looking them over "Any particular one you want to watch first?" He asked, standing up and going over to the DVD player. Jessie shook her head and John put in Stand By Me, since it was the one on the top. A little while into the movie, it got to one of Jessie's favorite parts. Gordie tells the others to shut up, and Jessie had to say the next few lines with them "I don't shut up, I grow up, and when I look at you, I throw up. And then your mother goes around the corner and she licks it up." After Jessie said the lines, she fell over in laughter. Her dad was sitting next to her, and her head landed on his leg. She was comfortable after she finished laughing, so she just kept her head where it was. Her dad started stroking her hair. She liked when someone did that, it made her really calm.
When Stand By Me was over, Randy got up and put in Mystic River. Jessie hadn't seen this movie before, but she had heard a lot of things about it. She settled in to watch the movie. The movie immediately gripped her when it first started. The first scene was just enrapturing. About half way through the movie, Jessie's eye lids were getting really heavy. She had been up since 7 am after going to sleep at midnight. She had taken the small nap earlier, but it hadn't been enough for her tired body. She guessed by looking outside that it was nearing 9 pm now. 'No wonder I'm getting tired' she thought. She closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep. Sometime later Jessie felt herself being lifted and carried, in her sleep induced state she figured out that it was John carrying her to bed.
DREAM SEQUENCE JESSE'S POV
I could hear the sounds of screeching tires and metal bending and crashing together, but I couldn't open my eyes. I felt our car being turned in ways that it wasn't meant to go. When I finally was able to open my eyes, I wasn't in my car anymore, I was standing outside of it, and this time it wasn't just my mom that was hurt, but John too. I started screaming for someone to help me, that I couldn't lose them both this time. I ran up to some stranger walking down the street, who was talking on his cell phone asking him to help me, but he ignored my pleas for help. I finally got him to turn around and it was the man that hit us. I knew it was him, as I had seen his face when he hit us. He looked at me with a sick smile on his face, muttered something to me, and started shaking me making me scream.
END DREAM SEQUENCE
Jessie fought off the shaking hands, what she didn't know in her sleep induced state was that Randy had heard her screaming, and was trying to wake her up. Finally she woke up opening her eyes. Once she did she looked into Randy's frazzled face. He had been the one shaking her, not the guy from the dream. She was still a bit hazed, but once she realized what was going on, Jessie flung herself into Randy's arms crying on his shoulder for a while. The dream had shaken her up. Not only did she lose her mom in it, she had lost her dad.
"Wanna tell me about it?" Randy asked, once she calmed down. He wiped the tears from her face, and tucked her hair behind her ears. She pondered over this for a minute. Did she want to relive it? Finally, Jessie came to the decision that it was better to talk to someone about it, then keeping it all inside. She nodded at Randy. Instead of saying anything, he patiently waited for her to speak.
"I had a nightmare about that night, the wreck. I relived it all. Except this time da--John was there too. He died right along with mom. And when I tried to get this guy to help them, he turned around and it was the drunk driver that hit us. He said something to me, but I couldn't understand what. Then he started shaking me." She looked up into Randy's eyes. "Randy, I was an orphan, they both...they..." She couldn't say anymore. She broke down again. The pain was too bad. "Sweetheart, baby. I know your mom died, but your da--John is still alive. He's right across the hall in his room asleep. Hey I know why don't you come with me, and we'll peek in on him to show you. He sleeps through anything." Jessie nodded and climbed out of bed. She followed Randy to the door that lead to John's room. Randy slowly and quietly opened the door. Jessie looked in and saw John sprawled across the bed, the covers pushed down to his waist. He was laying on his back and had one arm thrown across his face. Jessie looked up at Randy.
"Do you think he'd mind if I got in bed with him? The dream just has me freaked out." Jessie shuddered as the dream was brought up.
"Nah, he won't mind a bit. He might snuggle with ya though. Lemme tell ya, we had to share a room with one bed back in OVW once, and I woke up in the middle of the night to go pi--pee, and he had me snuggled like a dang teddy bear." Jessie giggled at Randy, and headed over toward the bed. She turned back and watched Randy close the door. When he was gone a realization hit her. RANDY FUCKING ORTON, THE LADY KILLER OF THE WWE, HAD BEEN TALKING TO HER WEARING NOTHING BUT A WHITE PAIR OF BOXER BRIEFS! If John hadn't been in the room, and it hadn't been in the middle of the night, she would have screamed. She walked over and pulled back the covers on the bed, and saw that John was sleeping NAKED! She almost went back to her room, but she really didn't want to be alone. She decided to sleep on top of the covers since it was a warm night. She got on the bed and laid down. Almost immediately John pulled her over to him, and wrapped his arm around her waist. Jessie smiled to herself, and put her head on his bare chest. It wasn't long before she fell right to a dreamless sleep. The next morning Jessie slowly woke up. She felt a naked chest under her and didn't know what was going on. Once her sleep induced brain woke up, she remembered the dream and coming and getting in the bed with John. She opened her eyes and looked up at John's face. She almost screamed once she realized that he was looking at her with a smile on his face, but held it in.
"Hey, I didn't expect a snuggle bunny in my bed when I woke up." John said with a quiet chuckle. "I needed to be with you last night. I had a...dream...a bad one" Jessie shuddered, as she thought about the vivid dream that gripped her last night. She looked down at the bed spread as tears came to her eyes.
"Want to tell me about it?" John asked, lifting Jessie's head so that she was looking at him, and wiping the tears from her eyes.
"I...its...its hard. You need to know about it, but I just can't tell it again. Randy heard me screaming last night, and came in and comforted me and I told him. You can get him to tell you. I just...I can't" Jessie shuddered. John pulled her to him in a big hug. He knew whatever the dream was about, that it was really bad to have her this upset about it. He filed in the back of his mind to have Randy tell him about it, once they were alone for a few minutes. "OK I understand babygirl. I'll get Randy to tell me. I have a question though. Why did you sleep on top of the covers? You could have gotten under them I wouldn't have cared"
"Well" Jessie blushed "I went to and...well...your kind of...naked"
"Ohhhhh, whoops I forgot about that. That's how I usually sleep. I didn't exactly expect you to hop in bed with me, so I slept as usual. I'll start wearing something, so that if you come get in bed with me, you can get under the covers without getting an eye full of the Cena family jewels." John gave a little laugh. He went to get out of bed, and remembered that he was still naked "baby can you like...close your eyes just a sec?" Jessie nodded at him, and did as he asked. Once her eyes were closed, he slipped out of bed and put on a pair of black boxer briefs "ok it's cool now, you can look. I'm as decent as I'mma get at the moment"