All of the wrestlers had woken, and made their way down to the nearby café, each in deep conversation. One of these was between Adam and Jeff. Adam was asking about how last night went for Jeff.
"But dude, I heard you two arguing… are you sure everything's going to be alright?" Adam asked, concerned.
He'd heard the loud argument that Trish and Jeff had in the middle of the night. It stemmed from Trish taking most of the cover. When Jeff had complained, she used the opportunity to point out how selfish he was.
"I don't know Adam… I love her, and she knows it, but that programme last night, it must have made her doubt me or something…"
"Hold on, what programme?" Jay asked, slamming his coffee cup down on the table.
"Well, it was a programme about extreme sports stars, and I was on it. They went through all of my 'amazing' swantons, and the they moved onto my personal life…" Jeff allowed a loud sigh to pass through his lips.
"I take it that they'd dug a few skeletons up, then?"
"Forget a skeleton, a whole graveyard!"
"Was it really that bad?" Adam said, finding it hard to believe. Yet again, nobody had really known what was going on in Jeff's life once he had left the WWE.
"Jackie… I proposed to her while I was in the TNA… Trish didn't take it too well…"
Adam's mouth dropped open.
"You got Jackie? Way to go!" He exclaimed, setting his hand up for a high five. Jeff just pulled it down.
"It's not that simple… it happened while I was high, and they had loads of people that I must have met before saying about how much I loved her and that we were going to start a family. I tell you Adam, it was a load of bullshit!"
Just then, Trish arrived with Amy and Matt. They all shot Jeff disgusted looks. Trish must have told them about last night. Jeff made his way over to their table.
"Trish, can we talk?" Trish looked up, a huge tear falling from her brown eye.
"No Jeff, I'm not ready… I'll talk later…" Jeff looked at Matt desperately, trying to figure out what he was going to do. Matt took him to one side.
"Dude, she needs some time to think. I mean, Jackie…" Jeff couldn't understand. Why was everybody making such a point that it was Jackie? They were all acting like he'd cheated on her with the devil or something.
"Why is Jackie such a bad thing?" Matt shook his head in amazement.
"She stole Charlie from Trish, too!" Matt told him in a hushed tone. Of course! Jeff couldn't believe that he'd been so stupid! Especially as he'd been the one comforting her when Charlie Haas had left her!
"Man! I can't believe it! Can you ask her to speak to me as soon as possible, I'm going to be at the arena from 1… tell her I'll be in my locker room…"
"Ok, I'll try but I can't promise anything…" Then Matt walked away and whispered in Trish's ear. She just carried on staring at her toast.
It was now 2.30pm, and Jeff had heard nothing from Trish, and he was getting anxious. Everybody but her had been in. He'd talked to HHH about his match, Lita about whether she knew where Trish was (she didn't), and Matt about what she'd said to him after he relayed Jeff's message.
"Dude, she said nothing! I tried to get something out of her but she just sat there and stared into space…" Jeff knew that this was what he should expect, but things had gone so well up to that point… why did people have to be so up in his business? If that programme hadn't been on, then maybe things would be different. Things would be different.
"Are you sure bro? I mean, what about her body language? Did she tense up? Did she sigh? Did she relax? Did she cry?" Matt was getting frustrated now.
"She didn't say a word. She didn't shrug. She didn't cry. That's all I can say. I can't help you with anything more. Bye bro."
"Bye." Jeff replied absently. That was one thing that Trish had always been good at- hiding her feelings. Sure, it came in handy when she was with one of Jeff's friends that she couldn't stand, but when Jeff wanted her to open up to him, that's when it became a problem.
FLASHBACK
Trish walked in crying. She sat on the end of the hotel bed, trying to disguise her feelings just so that Jeff didn't panic. It didn't work.
"What's wrong honey?" Jeff asked, concern across his face.
"Nothing. Don't worry about it. I'll be ok." She said to him, flashing him a weak smile.
"Stop bullshitting Trish! Why won't you just tell me what's wrong? I thought we were friends?"
"Jeff… we are… it's just… I don't want to burden you…" Jeff rolled his eyes in a caring way.
"You'd never burden me Trish… believe me, if I didn't care I wouldn't be here right now…"
They were now facing each other, tiny tears escaping from Trish's eyes. Jeff hated to see her upset. It wasn't like they going out or anything, but the wrestlers referred to them as 'the married couple'. At first, he hadn't thought much of it, but gradually he had realised that his feelings for her may have been more than friendship could allow. So he just rocked her back and forth in his arms, singing gently in her ears until she stopped crying.
END OF FLASHBACK
"Why does she always have to be like that?" Jeff thought aloud, still thinking about that night. Little did he know, that he had said it loud enough for Adam to hear.
"Be like what?" Adam asked, curious to see as to what was making his friend so anxious.
"She never wants to tell me anything… I suppose that's why I never told her I loved her for so long… I never actually heard her say it…"
Adam abruptly stopped drinking his mochachino.
"Whoa! Hold on here! You told her that you love her? Talk about taking the plunge!"
"I know man, but it's true. When I was away from this company, all I could think about was her- she was driving me crazy! Knowing that I couldn't have her in my arms every night…"
Tears were threatening to escape from his deep green eyes. He didn't know it, but Trish was stood behind the whole time. A smile escaped across her face as she realised something.
"You do love me!" She screamed aloud. Jeff turned slowly, thinking that somebody was playing a cruel joke on him. But sure enough, it was his one and only love, Trish. Her heart leapt with joy as she thought of all the times they had sat in silence with nothing to say, and she has asked Jeff why he was smiling so much: he was thinking of her!
Meanwhile, Amy and Matt were engaging in yet another make out session. They were rolling on top of each other in Matt's locker room, touching each other all over- it was kinda sickening but they seemed to be enjoying themselves.
"Matt, you're gonna have to stop- you're giving me friction burns!" Amy struggled to inform him in between kisses.
Matt just laughed into her neck, which he was in the process of virtually eating.
"Can I give you a hickey too?" he joked.
Just then, a stagehand knocked on the door, but the two were so wrapped up in their cough activities, they didn't hear a thing until he burst through the door. Once he realised what was going on, he retreated with a very embarrassed expression on his face. All they knew is that he was pointing into the far corner of the room.
This didn't stop them from what they were doing, although Amy noticed something when she rolled on top of Matt…
"Is that a camera!" She screeched.