Comfort Inn
"Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey. How may I help you?" The clerk at the front desk greeted them. Matt walked up to the counter.
"Hi, we have reservations."
"What's the name?"
"Matt Hardy and Amy Dumas" Matt replied.
"Okay, we have 2 rooms. One is a single room and the other is a double. Is that correct?" Matt turned toward his brother and shook his head. He didn't know where Brianna was staying, but if she stayed with Jeff again he was making sure it was in two different beds.
"Okay, well your rooms are ready, the single room is 416 and the double is 313. Here are your keys. We have a continental breakfast in the morning from 6 to 9:30. The elevator is right around the corner. Enjoy your stay at the Comfort Inn and have fun in Trenton, New Jersey." Matt turned around and grabbed his and Amy's bags and started towards the elevator. Jeff watched Brianna walk up to the counter.
"Excuse me do you know if Eric Bischoff checked in?" The lady started looking through the computer.
"Do you know Mr. Bischoff?"
"Yea, he's my dad." The lady nodded and continued looking.
"He is in room 315, but he left a note asking us to give you a key because he left for the arena already." She handed Brianna a key.
"Thank you very much." Brianna walked over to Jeff who picked up her bag and started towards the elevator. Brianna still hadn't said too much to Jeff since Perkins and he was really starting to get nervous, but he didn't want to push her. When she was ready to talk, she would talk to him.
"Well, I guess we are neighbors." Jeff said as the elevator door closed. Brianna just nodded.
"Thanks for the ride." She said as she unlocked the door. She walked in and let the door close behind her. Jeff didn't know what he was doing, but all of a sudden he stuck his foot in the door before it closed on him.
"Brianna, can we talk? You haven't said anything since..."
"Jeff, I told you there's nothing wrong. I am just really tired and I need to call a friend. I already told you that it has nothing to do with you. You need to take a nap anyway, you promised me."
"I know you told me that it has nothing to do with me, but for some reason I am having a hard time believing you. But…whatever, if you don't want to talk to me then all you had to do was say so. Excuse me, I am going to go take a nap…have a fun rest of the summer." With that Jeff walked out of the room and right next door.
He couldn't believe he had just said that to his boss' daughter, but he knew she wasn't talking to him because of something he did (even though he couldn't think of anything). Back in the other room Brianna lay down on the bed and crawled under the covers. She looked around the empty room.
"I'm guessing this is what it is going to be like this whole summer." She started crying.
"God, why am I so stupid? He was just being a friend and I go and blow it all out of proportion." She grabbed her cell phone that she saw sitting on her dad's suitcase and dialed a familiar number and put the speaker phone on.
"Hello"
"Bobby…it's me" Brianna said trying to stop the tears.
"Bri, what's wrong?" Bobby asked concern racking his voice.
"I, um, well yesterday I got in a fight with my dad and I ran into this room. I didn't know there was anybody in there, but there was this guy…"
"Brianna…" there was concern and questioning evident in his voice.
"No, nothing happened like that…trust me. This guy was amazing. He was so nice and sweet. He asked what was wrong and we talked for a while and then he had to go wrestle and after we talked for another couple of hours until my dad said that we were leaving. When my dad realized there wasn't a lot of room in the car for me, he asked this guy if he wouldn't mind me riding with him. The guy said that I could ride with him and so we started following my dad, but my dad got tired somewhere in Virginia so this guy and I kept driving. When we got to D.C. the guy's brother had gotten him a hotel room and so we decided that we were going to sleep a little. When we got to the room there was only a single bed and the guy said that he would take the floor, but I couldn't let him do that because he had just wrestled, he was sore, and he has to wrestle and drive today so I told him I would take the floor. He refused, so I told him that it was either I sleep on the floor or we both sleep in the bed. He didn't like that idea either and he kept telling me that he would take the floor and I told him if he slept on the floor then I would too so he gave in and we both slept in the bed. Well, his brother and his brother's girlfriend woke us up this morning and I think that they think that something happened last night, but nothing happened. And then when we went to Perkins this morning the waitress was hitting on this guy…she asked him to marry her or something and so he asked if I would pretend to be his girlfriend. I said yes because I wanted to help this guy out…"
"BRIANNA!" Bobby yelled snapping her out of her two breath rant.
"What?" she asked finally catching her breath.
"Okay, number one…slow down and catch your breath, number two…you like this guy don't you?" Brianna was silent.
"Brianna, you know me and you can trust me. You like this guy and you are afraid that it is too soon and everything is going to turn out like Gary and/or Jack." Brianna was still silent, but the tears were starting to fall again.
"Bri…you have to answer me or I can't help you."
"Yes" she whispered. She couldn't believe what she had just said. She was scared.
"Bri, I'm sorry for everything that Gary did and everything that Jack tried, but you can't take it out on every guy you meet. You are going to be missing out on getting to know a great guy if you think that all guys are like those two assholes."
"I know I can't let what Gary and Jack did to me affect the rest of my life, but it is hard Bobby. You don't understand."
"Well, help me to understand. What did Jack do to you?" Brianna realized that she had said that Jack did something to her which caused her to panic.
"Jack didn't do anything but push me to have sex with him." She said lying through her teeth. Bobby was silent on the other end. "Bob, say something…"
"You scared me there for a minute. I thought you meant that Jack did something horrible to you, like Gary."
"No, don't worry Bobby. Well, I am really tired, so thank you very much for listening to me. I am probably going to get in trouble for calling you I'm not supposed to use the phone. I'm grounded for a couple weeks. I'll talk to you later. Bye." She hung up the phone before Bobby could respond. She lay back down on the bed and started crying. After about 10 minutes she finally fell asleep.
Jeff's room
Jeff entered the room and sat down on the bed. He couldn't believe he had just said that to Brianna, but he was getting frustrated. She had talked to him the entire day before, but she wouldn't say anything since they left Perkins. Even though he was pissed at her, he couldn't get her off his mind. He was shaken from his thoughts when he heard crying coming from the other room. He knew that hotel walls were thin, but he had never heard anyone before.
"God, why am I so stupid? He was just being a friend and I go and blow it all out of proportion." There was silence for a couple minutes, except for the crying that he heard coming from the room. "Bobby…" he knew he shouldn't be listening, but he was really curious as to what she was talking about. He didn't hear too much of what she was saying because he was still fighting himself over the idea of listening or not. He was shaken from his thoughts when he heard the person Brianna was talking to yell. "BRIANNA!" He finally decided to listen to the rest of the conversation. "What?" she asked. Jeff could tell that she was trying to catch her breath. "Okay, number one…slow down and catch your breath, number two…you like this guy don't you?" Jeff could tell that Brianna wasn't going to saying anything. "Brianna, you know me and you can trust me. You like this guy and you are afraid that it is too soon and everything is going to turn out like Gary and/or Jack." Jeff couldn't hear anything coming from her room. "Bri…you have to answer me or I can't help you." He was trying to listen to what Brianna was saying but his phone rang when she answered the question.
"Damn it!" He yelled before answering his phone. "Hello" he said in a mildly nasty tone.
"Jeff, this is Eric."
"Mr. Bischoff…I'm sorry, I was trying to sleep."
"That's all right. Is Brianna there?"
"She is in your room. She wanted to be by herself for a little while."
"All right, um, well I am going to be coming back to the hotel for a little while. So you don't have to bring Brianna to the arena."
"Okay, that's fine." Jeff said trying not to sound as disappointed as he felt. He wanted to talk to her and figure things out, but he didn't want to upset her anymore.
"Well, I am going to take a nap so I will see you tonight Mr. Bischoff."
"All right, thanks again Jeff." They both hung up the phone and Jeff lay back down on the bed. He tried to see if he could hear Brianna, but all he heard was soft sobs. He wanted to run into the next room and hold her, but he knew that he was the reason she was in tears. He listened carefully to Brianna in hopes that she would say something. Finally about 10 minutes later he fell asleep to silence.
Ring, ring
"What the hell?" Jeff said waking up from a restless sleep. He then realized that his cell phone was ringing. He grabbed the phone on the third ring. "Hello?"
"What's up your ass?"
"Matt, I'm not in the mood for this. I just woke up and I kind of got in a fight with…" Jeff trailed off which did not go unnoticed by the older Hardy.
"You got in a fight? With who? Are you okay? Are you hurt?"
"Matt, it wasn't a physical fight. It was more of a verbal/emotional fight."
"Who did you get in a fight with?"
"Brianna"
"No, not who you got in a fight about, who did you get in a fight with?" Jeff was silent.
"JEFF HARDY! YOU GOT IN A FIGHT WITH BRIANNA?" Jeff pulled the phone away from his ear.
"ARE YOU CRAZY? YOU GOT IN A FIGHT WITH THE BOSS' DAUGHTER! ARE YOU STUPID?"
"Matt…it wasn't like that."
"JEFF I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT. YOU HAVE DONE SOME STUPID SHIT IN YOUR LIFE, BUT THIS HAS GOT TO BE THE STUPIDEST! WE JUST GOT INTO THIS, I DON'T NEED YOU TO SCREW THIS UP FOR ME."
"I have to go…I don't need to take this from you. You don't even know what it was about. I'll see you at the arena."
"JEFF DON'T HANG…" but it was too late, Jeff had already hung up. He couldn't believe that Matt wouldn't listen to him.