The next morning
Brianna woke up the next morning to someone gently shaking her. She opened her eyes slowly and looked directly into Jeff's eyes.
"Morning sleepy head"
"Morning" Brianna said rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. "What time is it?"
"Um, it is 8:00. Are you okay to drive now? Because we should probably get going, Matt and Amy have already left."
"Yea, I'm ready. Let's get you out of here." They walked to Jeff's car and threw the bags in the back. Brianna got in the drivers seat while Jeff hopped in the passenger side. "All right, here we go." Brianna put the car in drive and headed to Buffalo. They talked about everything they could think of on the way there. They stopped a couple times on the way so that Jeff could get out and stretch. Brianna didn't want him to get too stiff, but being in a car would not help no matter how often they stopped. About 7 hours later, they finally arrived at the Buffalo Convention Center. As they walked through the arena, Brianna finally noticed that Jeff had grabbed her hand. As they walked down the hall, everyone they saw stopped and asked Jeff how he was feeling. They finally made it to her dad's office. When they opened the door all the lights were off. Brianna had just talked to her dad, but he wasn't in his office. She was going to walk out of the room, but Jeff had let go of her hand and walked into the office.
"Jeff, what are you doing?" There was no reply.
"Jeff?" When there was no reply she walked further into the room. Before she could walk out of the room the lights flipped on.
"SURPRISE!" Brianna couldn't believe what was happening.
"What is this?"
"This is a welcome to the road surprise party." John said walking up to her. "Welcome back to the road." The rest of the afternoon and early evening was spent just hanging out backstage with all the wrestlers. When the show was about to start all the wrestlers went their separate ways. Jeff and Brianna went into the cafeteria and just hung out with anyone that was around. By the time the show was over, Brianna was pretty tired and ready to go to the hotel. Jeff and Brianna walked over to the car and drove to the hotel.
"So, are you staying with your dad tonight?" Jeff asked breaking the silence.
"I don't know. I guess I haven't thought about it. I'm kind of nervous to have you stay alone tonight. I just don't want anything to happen to you, especially after what just happened. I'm a little nervous that you won't…"
"I am feeling really good right now, but if you want to make sure that I'm all right I won't mind you staying in the same room as me." Jeff said with a big smile on his face.
"Well, my dad won't mind. I'll just leave him a message."
"Brianna! I don't want you to get in trouble and I certainly don't want to get in trouble with your father."
"You won't get in trouble. I will tell him where I am and just tell him that I won't leave you alone after what happened. And you aren't going to win this argument either."
"I know I won't, but it is still kind of fun to argue with you."
"Haha, you are so funny! Maybe I won't stay with you now." Brianna started walking out of the room, but was stopped when Jeff grabbed her from behind.
"You aren't going anywhere little girl." He spun her around and began tickling her.
"Jeff! Stop it! Oh my gosh! Quit tickling me! Jeff Hardy, stop it now!" She tried pushing him off her, but he was too strong. He finally stopped tickling her. She sat up on the bed trying to catch her breath.
"Still going to leave?" Jeff asked with a smirk.
"What do you think?"
"I think that you need a little more reason to stay." He pulled her up and kissed her. Brianna pulled back in complete shock, but it wasn't a bad shock.
"Well, I guess that is a pretty good reason to stay. Let me call my dad and tell him though. I don't want him to worry about me." Brianna got off the bed and walked to the desk. Jeff sat back and watched her. He couldn't help but stare at her. How could this girl be so captivating? Brianna hung up the phone and turned around. She saw Jeff staring at her.
"What's wrong?" She asked breaking Jeff from the trance he was in.
"Nothing, I was just thinking."
"What were you thinking about?"
"I was just thinking about how much I like you." He grabbed her hand and pulled her on the bed. She snuggled in close to him and grabbed the remote. Jeff held on to her as if she would vanish if he let go. He fell asleep listening to Brianna's slow and steady breathing. He couldn't believe the girl he was holding on to. She was the best thing that could happen to him right now and he didn't want to let her go.