Jessie slowly made her way down the hall of the arena. John and Randy had to go back to work and Jessie came with them. John had taken Jessie to the doctor before they left and had gotten her a cane. It had taken a while for Jessie to get used to walking with the cane but she had, John kept the wheelchair though incase she got tired and needed it.
Jessie came to the place she was heading and slowly opened the door. The two people she had been expecting to be there were. She walked in the room, the two guys hadn't noticed. She watched as Mark and Maven played basketball, they were in their pants only as per usual with them and both had worked up quite a sweat. Jessie watched for a few minutes. It appeared that Mark was in the lead, which Jessie hardly doubted since he had been a basketball player in High School and College. Suddenly the ball rolled over and hit Jessie's foot. She bent down and scooped it up and when she looked at the two guys they were staring at her, mouths open in shock. She smiled and chucked the ball toward Mark, watching amused as it hit his chest and bounced off. "Jessie?" Mark asked tentatively, almost as if he was steeling himself to the fact that she won't have remembered anything and had simply wandered into the wrong room.
"Hey Markie" Jessie said pleasantly "oh and by the way" she turned toward Maven "watch your back I know it was you who was in accomplice with Randy to get me almost alone with Shelton so I'll give you the same warning I gave Randy...watch your back...you won't know when or where but I will get you back and it will be good". Mark laughed and came over to hug Jessie. She dropped her cane and wrapped her arms around his neck, not caring that he was sweaty. She had missed him terribly.
"God I can't believe you remember now. But I'm sure you've heard enough of that so why don't Maven and I go shower and we'll go talk in catering" Jessie nodded and Mark leaned down to grab her cane, handing it to her and making sure she was steady on her feet before letting go. Jessie walked down the hallway to her dad's dressing room while Maven and Mark walked the opposite way to theirs. Jessie got to the dressing room and knocked on the door. She waited until John yelled come in before going in. John was sitting on a bench adjusting his knee pads and Trish was sitting beside him reading a magazine, holding on to John's knee with one hand. Jessie smiled at the gesture, it showed how in tune with each other they were.
"Hey babygirl" John said looking up at her. She smiled at him and sat on a bench to rest for a minute. She had told Mark to pick her up there when they were ready.
"Daddy, Mark and Maven and I are gonna go to catering to eat and talk" she said looking at him. He smiled at her and nodded. "Mark wants to talk and catch up and all it should be fun. I've missed our talks. It feels like forever since we've had one". John and Trish laughed at this.
"Sweetie it has been a while since you've talked to Mark. It's been well I'm not sure when the last time you talked was but I know its been over two weeks" Jessie nodded, deep in thought, she thought over the last few weeks, well what she had been told of them, and felt sad. She couldn't believe that so much had happened and that she had affected people's lives so deeply. She was brought out of her thoughts by a knock on the door. John got up and opened it.
"Hey man" Mark said coming in "I wanna steal your little girl a bit" John nodded and gestured to where Jessie was.
"I wanna use my chair" Jessie said "I'm a bit worn out from walking all day". Mark nodded and helped her into it. Once she was situated, and had a pillow behind her back, Mark pushed her out the door promising to have her back before the end of the show. They walked, or in Jessie's case rode, down the hall in silence. Neither of them needing to talk at the moment, comfortable enough with each other to not need mindless talk. They got to the catering room and Mark wheeled Jessie over to a table where Maven was already sat, when he saw them he got up and moved a chair so Jessie's wheelchair could be pulled up to the table. Once she was situated he leaned over and kissed her cheek.
"Hungry darlin'" he asked. She nodded, feeling her stomach growling, she hadn't eaten since early that morning and even then it was only two bagels with cream cheese. "Cool me too. Tell me whatcha want and I'll fix ya a plate". Jessie rattled off a few things and Maven set off to fix his and Jessie's plates. Mark made sure she was ok alone for a few minutes and then followed to fix his plate.
"So" Maven said, coming back and sitting down before handing Jessie her plate "how have things been?"
"Well ok I guess I mean other than the whole crutch and bad back thing things have been going well. Dad's been kinda overprotective but he backed off a bit once we got here. I guess he knows there's a lot of people around to keep an eye on me" Jessie bit into her chicken and almost moaned at the great taste. Maven nodded at her. Mark came and sat down with his plate looking at the other two.
"What are we chattin' about?" he asked. Jessie laughed at him. He flicked potato on her and she squealed.
"About daddy" Jessie said wiping the slimy potato off her arm. She took the napkin and stuffed it under Mark's watch. He made a face but left it there.
"Is he driving you crazy?" Mark asked. Jessie nodded.
"A bit" she said "but not too much. Just usual stuff. It's not like he's overwhelming me but it is a bit annoying at times. Especially when he makes me go around in my wheelchair 'just in case'" Jessie made air quotes with her fingers and Maven and Mark laughed.
"Awww" Mark said "at least he cares".
"Yeah true" Jessie said. The rest of the meal went by with no major revelations, in other words the three just made small talk and goofed off a while.
Later that night Trish and Jessie were on a mission. It was the night Jessie decided to exact her revenge on Randy and Maven. John had sweet talked the lady at the front desk to give him the keys to the rooms and he was gonna stand look out while Trish and Jessie did their thing. It was decided that to save time they would each make up one person. Trish doing Maven and Jessie doing Randy. Jessie creeped lightly into Randy's dark room. She creeped over to his bed and began her work. He snored and moved a bit as she put the make up on him but never woke. Once she was done she met Trish outside they giggled and returned to John's room.
"Did you do it?" John asked when the two girls came through the door. They nodded and giggled. Trish stayed and talked a bit before she retired to her own room. John and Jessie got in bed too since they had to be up early the next day.