It reached 4pm before Summer arrived back at the arena with Jeff and Hunter. They'd opted to take her out shopping to get some new clothes and wrestling gear as all of it had been completely destroyed by Dawn and Stacy.

When they were walking down the corridor to head towards the car park Summer had seen both women hanging around and almost went running after them. But Hunter held her back and dragged her away as she was cursing at them both.

After that outburst though, she was calm and back to her old self, skipping around and laughing with both Jeff and Hunter.

They'd helped her pick out new clothes for both street and wrestling clothes. Both of them were a big help and she loved their company, as they'd been trying on clothes and acting like idiots all afternoon trying to cheer her up. It had worked and Summer felt a lot happier, but still couldn't shake off the heartache of Mark tearing that picture up.

Of course she'd go and confront him but that wouldn't lead to anything positive, as he'd just bite her head off again. So she did what she thought was best and that was to ignore him and the other divas. That seemed easy enough as she'd be sharing her locker from now on with her brothers. It didn't bother her and she had fun with them both and they respected her privacy whenever she needed it.

"Summer if you keep smiling to yourself, people are gonna think you're crazy"

"They already think I'm crazy" she replied to Hunter's remark leading to her getting a nudge off of him. "Easy with the attitude"

"That wasn't attitude, just a simple statement" she smiled sweetly at him and got a smile in return. "Thank you for all of your help today by the way"

"It's not a problem little one"

"But it is though, surely you've got other things to do"

"Nope not really, we're friends now" Summer smiled at him.

"Plus I'm here to wind up your brothers" then he put Jeff in a surprise headlock.

"Whoa man let go!"

"I will, if you tell me you love me"

"What? I would never say that"

"Then I'm keeping you in this headlock until you say it"

"Well prepare yourself for a long night of waiting" Hunter laughed and did exactly as he said; he walked with Jeff down the corridor with him still in the headlock. "Nothing to see here folks!" Hunter said as he continued to walk whilst getting strange looks off people working nearby. Summer continued to laugh all the way down the corridor whilst heaving all of her bags along with her. Jeff had dropped his so she had to carry tons of bags filled with both her and Jeff's new clothes.

"Come on man this isn't funny anymore" Jeff said as he was starting to ache.

"Say you love me then"

"Nope, not a chance of that happening"

"Well I ain't letting go" Jeff groaned as Hunter lead him down the corridor to head towards the ring.

"You're a bit screwed aren't ya" Jeff said realising that Hunter couldn't practise whilst holding him.

"Why am I screwed dear Jeffy?"

"Because you've gotta practise and that means you'll have to let me go" Hunter froze for a second and Jeff laughed because he knew Hunter had realised the problem. "Meh we'll make it work somehow"

"Dammit!" is all Jeff shouted.

"Guys I'm just gonna put my stuff away and I'll catch you in the ring"

"Okay little one we'll see you in a few" Hunter shouted over his shoulder as he continued to cart Jeff around in the headlock. Summer smiled as she entered the locker room and dumped all of the bags onto the couch and sighed out of happiness. She'd brought a whole new wardrobe to wear whilst travelling on the road.

Although she was still pissed about the divas wrecking her clothing, she was happy because she'd gotten all new stuff to show off in the ring. New baggy pants and crazy t-shirts and new sneakers, some that had only been on sale for a couple of weeks and she'd bought them. Shopping made any girl happy and Summer was one of those women who loved shopping, it relaxed her mind. But now she had to focus on the upcoming match she had.

This time Vince had changed it so that Summer was only facing Funaki. Summer was nervous but she knew she could trust Funaki and they'd plan a good quality match. She smiled to herself as she threw on some baggy pants and pink t-shirt with purple fishnets down the one arm, then she tied the laces up on her sneakers and was ready to kick ass for practise. So she headed out the door humming to herself as she strolled down the corridors to head towards the ring. But whilst walking along in her own world, somebody called her name, "Summer" she turned around and wanted to keep on walking when she saw who it was.

"You've got some nerve" is all she said in almost a snarl.

"That's what I'm famous for, anyway I just came here to-"

"To what? Rub something else in my face or shout at me for more shit I haven't done?"

Mark was starting to get angry again. "Actually I was gonna apologise to you for ripping the photo up"

"I don't need your damn apologies, what I need is for you to get out of my face, I've gotta be somewhere" then she carried on walking leaving Mark fuming.

Summer walked out through the curtain and onto the stage where she saw a group of wrestlers in the ring. They were all sitting on chairs just discussing their matches, a thing they did most often. All of them sat together to brainstorm and come up with some good matches to entertain the fans.

Everybody helped out each other, especially with the older generations helping out the younger newcomers who couldn't quite get the crowd to pop and cheer loudly. It was like a huge family with everybody looking out for each other. Summer was still finding it hard to trust some people as the divas were spreading rumours to everybody they saw. So some superstars had misjudged Summer and now thought she was arrogant and stuck up. But Summer just embraced the friends she had and ignored the rest, soon they'd come round and realise that she was right all along and the divas lied.

"Sums you finally made it" Matt said as he noticed his sister strolling down the ramp looking around the empty arena. "Wow this place is huge" is all she said looking at all of the rows of seats. "I know, its amazing that we manage to fill every seat each and every week" Matt replied with a smile. "Anyway hop up kiddo we're just brainstorming" some of the superstars made disgruntled noises at that.

"What?" Matt shot back at them all with a hard stare.

"Nothing, we just don't need a chick hanging around" CM punk said getting more noises of agreement.

"Hey she ain't no chick, she's our sister and practically is one of us okay? She wrestles and wrestles good" Matt said glaring at them all again.

"Don't worry about it Matt I'll just go back," Summer said about to head back up the ramp.

"Sit with us Sums just ignore that lot," Hunter said motioning with his head towards some of the younger and cockier superstars, who obviously believed the rumours that the divas were making up. Hunter still had Jeff placed firmly in the headlock which meant that Jeff wasn't going to admit defeat just yet. Summer found that amusing but she was still angry with this situation.

"Look ya'll I'm gettin' tired of all this crap now, I'm not spreadin' rumours alright?" again they made disgruntled noises and Summer felt her temper rising.

"Don't bother sis, they'll find out the hard way" Matt shot at them all with another glare. "But pull up a chair and we'll continue brainstorming" Summer sat next to the bigger crowd of people she knew but some of the superstars actually moved so they had their own group to discuss things. Summer looked at them feeling quite hurt, "Wow they really must have said some harsh things"

"Who say what harsh things?" Adam said as he moved his chair closer to close the gap in the circle.

"The divas are spreading rumours about me towards everybody, some people believe it but others don't"

"What kinda rumours?"

"I'm not sure, I haven't heard them but they're obviously bad because it's causing all this" she motioned towards the gap in the ring where some superstars had split to be on their own.

"I heard some rumours going round" Christian interjected making Summer look at him.

"What were they?"

"That you'd made a list of superstars you're gonna sleep with and that you've already got halfway through it and we're all next"

"And that because you got beaten when you were a kid, you're secretly a psycho who's beating up one of the divas"

"What?! That's crap and you know it" some of the superstars remained quiet, "You believe this crap?! I'm not beating anybody up!"

"Then why is Torrie covered in bruises?!" Summer heard one of the superstars say who had moved away from her.

"I don't know! She's probably doing it to herself"

"How can she give herself a black eye!"

"I don't know, look stop blaming me for things I ain't done! Last I heard Torrie had a boyfriend so maybe something's happening at home!"

"Yeah yeah blame it on somebody else" Summer stood up from her chair but got pulled down again by Glen.

"Don't bother sweetie, leave that to me" he glared over at the Miz who had been the one making all of the harsh comments. Summer was still pissed off but was also really upset that all of these rumours had been said. None of them were true but she couldn't convince anybody because they didn't believe her.

The more she said, the more they chewed her words up and twisted them into something else. Summer had been here for nearly 10 weeks now and had been through more crap backstage than somebody who would have been here for 2 years or more.

"I've gotta go" Is all she said as she rose from her seat and headed out of the ring to go backstage. She didn't care about her match tonight, she'd just have to improvise with Funaki and if their match was shit it was shit, she didn't care.

As she headed back to her locker room somebody tapped her on the shoulder, she was about to bite their head off but she saw it was Funaki. "We, practise together" he said in his best English, it was still easy to talk to him even though he didn't speak proper English.

"I'm not going back out there"

"We practise in ring in gym"

"There's another ring?"

"Yes gym, you come with me now" Funaki took her hand and lead her towards the gym that the arena had. They walked in and saw that the gym did indeed have a wrestling ring complete with the proper training equipment.

"Oh wow I didn't notice this" Summer said examining the ring.

"Hate to disappoint ya but this is our ring to practise in" Came a deep voice and Summer shuddered with disgust.

She spun round and glared at Mark, "Says who?"

"Says me"

"Mark just let them use it" Summer turned to see Stone Cold Steve Austin standing before her.

He smiled at her and said "I don't believe we've met, I'm Steve"

"I'm Summer, it's lovely to meet you I'm a huge fan"

"Well that's lovely to hear darlin'. When did you start here?"

"About 10 weeks ago, I worked dark matches (Mark snorted again) and now I'm on live TV teaming with Rey Mysterio"

"That's wonderful darlin' I'm happy for ya, I thought I recognised your name, seems that Vince loves you. You're a crowd favourite"

"And the biggest bitch backstage" Summer glared at Mark but Steve looked confused,

"I'm sorry? You'll have to fill me in" Mark was about to speak but Summer got their first

"Apparently I've been making harsh comments about the younger wrestlers and all the divas"

"And me" Mark interjected.

"And I need to tell you for the last time that I haven't said anything about you or anybody!"

"Of course you didn't… Liar" Summer glared at Mark again but Steve said "Whoa you two calm down, Mark grow up and Summer you and what's his name can use the ring first" he said pointing to Funaki who just smiled.

"You mean you're fighting against him?" Mark said with a vicious smile.

"Yeah, problem with that?" Summer said with her hands on her hips.

"No not at all, I personally can't wait to see him kick you all around the ring, hopefully he'll keep aiming for your face"

"And what's that supposed to mean?"

"Hopefully he'll cause more damage to your face than you did to Torrie's"

"Oh man not this shit again, Mark you are by far the most gullible and stupid man I have ever met"

"I'll bash your skull in right now"

"Do that and you'll get your ass kicked by me" Steve said going nose to nose with Mark. "Leave this girl alone and piss off back to your whore"

Mark glared at Steve but said, "I'd rather stay"

"No you're not"

"Steve just ignore him" Summer said as she entered the ring with Funaki. They warmed up together and practised a few moves before getting serious. Both came up with some pretty good moves to use on each other ending up with Summer getting the victory with a surprise roll up. Then Funaki would attack Summer and then Matt and Jeff would make the save.

It was finally heading up to Rey and Summer splitting up, the writers made it that Matt and Jeff saved her instead of Rey. Then she'd confront him about it and he'd apologise, but then after a couple weeks they'd cause more problems and eventually split up so that Summer could team with the Hardyz. That did excite Summer because she'd be teaming with her brothers, but again she couldn't team with Rey anymore. He was sad they were splitting up but Vince put him back in the title reign so he was happy about that too.

Funaki was waiting for Summer to jump off the top rope, so she did and gave him the hurricanrana and flipped him onto his back. Then when he got back up she monkey flipped him across the mat but rolled with him and punched him. Then she let him go and waited for his next move, but she reversed it and did a snap suplex and nipped up. Funaki eventually got up and they did a stare down and Summer had her fists raised circling Funaki. She was an avid boxing fan and loved watching it whenever she had free time.

But she heard somebody make a noise and she looked over to see Steve and Mark still standing there watching. "That was awesome darlin'" Steve said standing on the outside apron and leaning on the ropes, "How come you wrestle guys?"

"I always have done, since I was trained by Rey and Shawn"

"That's impressive, care to give me a run?"

"Steve some of us have got matches to train for" Mark growled to him, getting impatient with all the credit Summer was getting. Yes he thought her ring skills were good, but she was still a little lying rumour spreading bitch. She was fooling everybody she met and soon Mark would have to do something drastic to expose her.

"Sure Mark it's all yours" Summer said glaring at Mark as she exited the ring and walked past him.

"Don't let your flab slow you down, bad choice wearing those pants" Summer glared at him one more time before leaving the gym. Summer never really worried about her weight, she was neither fat nor skinny, in fact Summer was slowly developing a six-pack she'd been working that hard.

She trained with Jeff sometimes and he worked her hard until she couldn't stand up. He was tough on her like a real fitness coach and watched what she ate. Jeff wasn't strict all the time; he just wanted what was best for his sister.

Summer made it back to the locker room she shared with her brothers and looked at herself in the mirror. The pants she wore fit perfectly and complimented her curvy body. She wasn't fat at all, who did Mark see when he looked at her?

"I'll show that bastard tonight I am NOT fat" she said to herself and smiled.

"Who thinks your fat?" Came a voice from the doorway.

Summer quickly pulled her shirt back down and said "Nobody"

"Don't lie to me sis"

"I'm not Jeff"

"Yes you are, you don't have to hide it from me"

"Mark and his usual list of cruel sayings"

"Don't listen to him, Summer you're getting so skinny you can see your ribcages when your wrestling and that's not a good sign, you're more vulnerable to get injured that way"

"Jeff you've worked me that hard I've got a six-pack and I'm not surprised I'm skinny, you won't let me eat anything proper!"

"You can eat proper things"

"You don't let me"

"Yes because your idea of a healthy meal is a burger and chips"

"Oooo I am so craving that right now, thanks for the idea" she laughed and skipped out the door, squealing when once again Jeff chased her down the corridor.

"More calories young lady!"

"Yeah whatever Jeff, you know you can't stop me"

"Watch me" then Jeff tried closing in on her but she wiggled free and turned the corner but stopped when somebody shouted "Summer Grace Hardy and Jeffery Nero Hardy stop right now!"

Jeff skidded to a halt with Summer wrapped in his arms who couldn't wiggle free this time. "You two are like children," Matt said looking at the two, who could pass as twins.

"Sorry dad" they both said together and hung their heads.

"Whatever, when you're finished playing games, we need to run through the match in the ring again"

"I'm not going back out there" Summer said finally getting out of Jeff's death grip.

"Don't worry nobody is out there now, but we need a run through of this match because remember we're interfering and you need to tape that segment with Rey when the match is over"

"It's not live?"

"Nope, no segment is live anymore, too many mistakes and background noise"

"Oh ok"

"So lets get your butts down to the ring before I lose you again"

Summer grinned and said "Race you to the ring old man!" then she took off with Jeff following her.

"Or just ignore me, that's great!" Matt said as the two ran off down the corridors laughing and throwing playful insults at each other.

Matt couldn't help but smile at them though, without them both, Matt would be miserable all the time.

"Time for finisher" Funaki said in Summer's ear when he picked her up for the powerbomb. But Summer had to reverse it and roll down his body for the surprise roll up. Throughout the entire match the fans went crazy, as they hadn't seen a match like this for years, since the days of Chyna. And they cheered louder when Summer rolled Funaki up for the pin one two three! The crowd went crazy as her music played, a thing she hadn't sorted out yet so it was just generic boring music.

"Here is your winner, Summer!" Tony Chimel shouted down the microphone making the fans cheer louder. But they booed when Funaki got back up and started to kick and stomp on Summer who pretended to be in pain. But Funaki had been worried all day about hurting her, so his kicks were light yet somehow still fooled the crowds.

After a while though, the fans screamed louder than ever when both Matt and Jeff came into the ring to make the save. They fended off Funaki who was talking trash before heading backstage. Summer had to act really surprised to see her brothers, but inside she was smiling and screaming with joy. It had been successful as the fans took to it straight away and noticed how similar Summer looked to both of them.

When they headed backstage, everybody congratulated them with cheers and applauds. Even Vince had been standing watching the monitors with the rest of the crew. "Congratulations you did brilliant out there, the fans loved it"

"Well it was your idea Vince" Summer said smiling brightly even though her ribs were aching due to all of the kicks.

"I kick too hard?" Funaki asked as he noticed Summer holding her stomach.

"No I'm fine honest" she smiled at him and he smiled back and hugged her softly.

"Am happy for you" he said before heading off back to the showers.

"Great job lil girl" came another voice and Summer grinned when she saw it was Rey. He hugged her tightly and said, "I'm proud of you"

"I'm gonna miss working with you though"

"Hey we've still got another week or so"

"Filled with arguments and us eventually facing each other"

"We'll be fine lil girl and I wont hurt you I promise"

"I trust you"

"Hate to break this touching moment up, but you're in my way" came Mark's loud and grumpy voice.

"Sorry I forgot you needed room for your huge ego, lets see if I can find a pin so I can let all the air out of your head" Mark snorted as he walked past her and waited by the gorilla. Summer grumbled a response that went unheard, then she turned her attention to Matt and Jeff who were smiling brightly.

"See you got out of the headlock then" Summer said smirking at Jeff who cringed and turned red.

"Yeah" is all he said.

"Sooo did you have to tell him you loved him?"

"No"

"Then why are you out of the headlock? if anything Hunter sticks to his word"

"He just let me go"

"Why?"

"Because I-"

"Because you what?"

"I told him I-"

"Oh my god you did didn't you? You told him you loved him!"

"I had no choice, he was sending me unconscious with the grip he had!" Summer continued to laugh at her brother, wishing she could have been there to hear her brother say he loved Hunter.

"Oh man I wish I was there to see it" she said through laughter watching Jeff turn a deeper shade of red.

"It was the funniest thing you could imagine" Matt said grinning at his brother, "Yes Hunter I love you I love you now let go!" he imitated his brother getting pulled to the ground by Jeff. They rolled around fighting for a while before Vince cleared his throat and said "Guys we need to film your segment now" he looked at both Rey and Summer who nodded.

"Show time lil girl" Summer nodded and got back into character holding her stomach and head.

"Cameras rolling" one of the crew said following Summer. She walked backstage until she saw Rey talking to a group of the crew.

"Hey" she said and he turned to face her. "Hey lil girl what happened?"

"I had my match with Funaki and you didn't show"

"I'm sorry lil girl I got caught up"

"Well next time pay attention, he hurt me"

"What did he do?"

"Attacked me after I got the victory, dammit Rey you said you'd be there!" Rey sighed and said "I'm so sorry lil girl it wont happen again I promise" he held up his hands and Summer eventually smiled and said "Make sure you kick his ass for me next week"

"I certainly will lil girl" then they hugged and the camera guy yelled "That's a wrap, thanks guys" then he walked away with his camera to air the footage after the break.

"Ready to hit the showers?" Rey said letting go of Summer who smiled. "Yep, shower, relax and then bed"

"You mean you're not coming clubbing?"

"Nope I'm tired"

"But John will be crushed, he loves to dance with you"

Summer smiled and said, "I'll think about it"

"If John gets his way, you wont need to think about it. He'd force you to come"

"Okay I give up"

"Good, now go get changed and we'll meet you in the locker room later" Summer smiled again, then bid Rey goodbye and headed off towards her locker room to change and shower. She was glad that she had good friends like Rey and John; they took her mind off of all the other problems she faced with the rumours.

"I hope for my sake everybody sees sense soon, this is getting more than I can handle"