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Summary: Jeff Hardy has got a lot more then wrestling on his mind lately, and it all centers around a certain WWE Diva. Will he admit his true feelings in time or will he lose his chance forever.

Distribution: The places that have the rights to this fiction as of its inception are The WWE Fan Fiction Library Open/Selected Archives, Fan Fiction Dot Net, and my own personal site.

Authors Note: Sorry for the lack of updating on this story, my mind was stuck with my Cena muse. But here is the next installment and I will begin work on the next chapter after that. I hope you enjoy and thank you all for the reviews. By the way, this is a short chapter but will pick up in the next one as I get deeper into it.

"Um..Uh..Jeff..." she knew she sounded like a stuttering fool but at that moment her mind seemed frozen as to what was really going on. Sure she had been wanting to kiss Jeff Hardy like that for awhile now but to have it happen that way right outside a diner where so many of their friends were waiting inside, well it just blew her mind.

For the first time in all her adult years, Ashley was speechless.

Immediately the apologies began to fly out of his mouth. He didn't know what had gotten into him, thinking that kissing her was going to make her truly understand just what he had been thinking off all of these weeks and why he wanted to bring her outside to talk. He would have smacked himself if not for fear of looking like an even bigger idiot.

"I made a mistake Ash, can we just forget this ever happened?" he said turning to run away from the situation he had just made for himself, knowing that if he could hide away, surely all of this agonizing would go away. As he started to walk away though she grabbed him roughly on the arm and spun him back around.

"Since when do you get to kiss me like that and then say it was wrong and run away? Jeffery Nero Hardy, you are an enigma to most everyone in the world but you are not to me and I won't treat you as if you are. Tell me what the hell just happened there!"

"I think I just kissed you Ash..I mean you were there, you know I kissed you. What else is there to say?"

She wanted to smack him right then and there she was so infuriated with him. Just what the hell was he thinking?

"I know we kissed dammit, but what I want to know is why?"

He had two choices here, he could be valiant and go with the direct approach, telling her the truth and laying it all out on the table, or he could lie like he had never lied before and hope it was good enough to get him off the hook. As he watched her face turn from anger to confusion he knew the way he had to go with this. There was no other way around it. He had to tell her everything no matter what the outcome with her, or for that matter with Matt.

"For the past few weeks I have been watching you." he said breaking off, taking a deep breath before attempting to speak again. But before he could, she cut him off.

"I know, I've seen you watching me. I wondered why to tell you the truth for a long time but then I just assumed you were watching me because your brother told you too. So is that what it was about or is there something else here? Was you kissing me some sort of test?"

He ran his hands through his hair nervously. Was it possible that she really believed that he had kissed her only minutes earlier because Matt had asked him too? Could she really believe that even if Matt had done that, that he would have agreed to it? Surely that wasn't the case here and she was just still really shaken up.

"Matt didn't tell me to do anything and even if he had I wouldn't have done it. I don't go around kissing women for the fun of it."

"Then WHY Jeff?" she asked pointedly, not breaking the eye contact she had with him.

"You really want to know Ashley? Fine, but don't say I didn't warn you. I kissed you just now and have been watching you for weeks, dreaming about you because I am sexually attracted to you. You have started to invade every part of my being, and its finally taken its toll on me. I can't focus on my career or my family because I can't stop thinking about what I want to do with you. Are you fucking happy now?" he said, his voice raising at the last second to emphasize just how messed up and angry he was with the whole thing.

Damn, he hadn't wanted to be here in this place with her right now, not when she was his brothers old girlfriend and a good friend of the family and everyone from North Carolina. No matter what way she took all of this it still didn't erase the history between all of them. Nothing good could come of it.

He walked away then, not wanting to know her answer, truly afraid of what she might have to say to him. But as he did, he could have sworn he heard her say exactly the words his heart had been wanting to hear all of this time.

"I've been dreaming about you too."