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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.
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"I wondered when you were going to get here.." Ashley greeted him, her bathrobe covering her entire body from his view as he entered the apartment.
The candles around the room flickered with each movement he made as he made his way in, taking the sight of the woman before him with them. Without so much as an acknowledgment he moved around her and made his way for the sofa.
Was he blind or did he not just see her standing there, waiting for him with the apartment done up for his arrival? Was she missing something?
She followed to where he now sat on the sofa and she punched him on the arm, causing him to finally look up at her with a questioning expression on his rainbow like features.
"OW! What did you do that for?" he demanded, rubbing the spot she had just punched, seemingly for effect more then actual pain.
"You deserved it you big idiot!" She snapped at him. "Do you always ignore an apartment full of roses and candles and a woman dressed in her bathrobe?"
Jeff grinned at her then and before she knew it she was on her back with him straddling her legs from above. Bending down until he was mere breaths away from her face, in a husky voice she had never heard before he spoke.
"No I don't make a habit of it, but then I never had a woman do this much for me before."
Unsure of whether to speak or not with him so close to her that she could feel his breath on her face, she decided that it was now or nothing.
"Did you plan on this Jeffery? Did you ignore me so that I would attack you?"
The grin formed on his lips again and she instantly knew she had been had. He had done what he did because he wanted to get a rise out of her, not the first time he had done it and she should have seen it coming.
"You're evil!"
The grin not moving for a second he got even closer until his lips were right in front of hers. "Yeah I am, but you secretly love it."
With that as his last words he kissed her then, letting his hands move down her body until they reached the drawstrings of her robe. With what could only be described as magic fingers he had the string undone and her robe open in a matter of seconds without even missing a beat as the kiss deepened with their tongues meeting each other, pushing the desire level within her even deeper.
He felt the material she had been wearing underneath the robe and he immediately broke away from the earth moving kiss. "You really planned this whole thing out didn't you Ash? When did you buy this?" he asked as he flicked the strap of the lingerie, causing it to snap against her body.
"Earlier today when you were out training...so I take it that I made a good choice?" she said grinning back at him, letting him know that two could play the game he was so intent on playing.
"If like means that I think its going to be a wonderful edition to our floor in about two seconds, then yes Ash, I absolutely love it."
He kissed her again, this time his desire seeping through into it, letting her know in no uncertain terms just what he thought of the clothing she had just spent hundreds of dollars on. She arched her body as he ran his hands over her body, slowly taking the robe off and pushing it to the floor as she did.
He worked his hands back up to the straps of the lingerie and he slid each one down slowly, taking his time and admiring the curves and nuances of her body as he did. Sure he had been here with her so many times before but this time was different in that he was really going to admire her body and her mind this time, take it all in its complete form.
He cupped her breast in his hands then and gently licked it slowly with his tongue, taking in the taste of her and also the sounds of intense desire that were now seeping out through her throat in a dry moan.
"Ashley! Can you hear me? Ash??!!"
Her eyes flew open then and she saw the two Diva's kneeling down beside her, looks of shock written all over their faces. It was obvious instantly that it had all been a dream and that none of what she had just had with Jeff had been happening.
"Where were you just now girl?" Candice asked putting her hand to Ashley's forehead as if looking for signs of sickness or fever. "We were yelling at you for about five minutes. Maria even snapped her fingers a shit load of times. Is everything alright?"
She pushed Candice's hand away and stood up, the two Diva's parting like the Red Sea to let her do so. She had snuck into the locker room again and while she knew she could and probably would get caught, it beat the alternative of staying at home and being lonely. Not to mention she had wanted to be there and see Jeff's match later that night. But she wasn't about to tell the two Diva's that.
"I'm fine alright, I just zoned out I guess."
Maria snorted and then covering her mouth before a giggle could escape she looked back at her Smackdown friend. "Went into a coma is more like it."
"Guys it wasn't that serious alright. I just haven't been sleeping very well. I didn't mean to pass out on you."
Candice smiled at her friend just thankful that nothing indeed was wrong with her and that it had been them that had caught her and not anyone from the head office.
"What were you dreaming about so strongly?" she asked, still wanting to know where Ashley had gone so deeply that they couldn't even wake her.
Ashley sighed and ran her fingers through her hair, realizing that it totally needed to be brushed and taken care off because it felt like grease. Did she dare tell her friends who she had been dreaming about and just how close she had been to making love with him? Would they really understand?
Realizing that they probably wouldn't and not wanting it to get back to Jeff and for there to be more drama, she just chose the easiest answer. "How the hell I am going to get my job back."
"You did what?" Shannon asked as Jeff suited up for his singles match that night out in the ring. He had told his friend just what happened at the diner only a few short nights before and now he was going to have to go even deeper into it. Shannon wasn't exactly known for his smarts.
"You're gonna make me repeat it? You heard me the first time man. I kissed the hell out of her."
Shannon laughed and put his hand up waiting for a high five which was never going to come. After a few seconds of his hand sitting in mid air, he realized it and took it down, the hint of laughter still showing in his eyes.
"Man I heard you the first time but I just can't believe ya did it. Damn that takes a lot of balls."
Didn't he know it. He had been thinking the same thing for the last few days after it happened. What he had been thinking still wasn't clear, he just knew he had to do it. It was more what happened after it and what he had finally admitted to her that was really bothering him. She had beaten it out of him and he just didn't know where to go from here.
At the very least he knew she was fired so she couldn't possibly be in the arena tonight to see just how much the entire thing bothered him.
Shannon spoke again then, making him remember he wasn't there alone and that someone else now knew everything. "You do realize that if Matt finds out your a dead man right? I mean he asked Michelle out but that was nothing. He still really loves Ash and wants her back."
Jeff ran his fingers through his hair. Of course he knew which was why he had to stay the hell away from her and any feelings that he might have for her. It was the best thing for his brother and in the long run for him and Ashley, no matter what his heart wanted.
"I know all of that already Shannon. Why don't you try telling me something I might not know, like how the hell I am supposed to forget that it happened and move on?"
"I don't think you can man. Did you find out if she felt the same way?"
Jeff paused, realizing then that he hadn't even bothered to let her speak much after he had laid his explosive feelings on the table. Now he might never know for sure what she thought about any of it. Not that it mattered anyway, she was still Matt's girl.
"No I didn't stick around to ask."
Shannon broke out in a fit of laughter and Jeff just turned his back on it. If his best friend thought it was funny the situation he was in then just what the hell was Ashley thinking about it? Could she possibly find it as funny?
He walked out of the locker room, headed for the Gorilla spot to be ready when his music hit only a few minutes from now and as he turned the corner that would take him where he needed to go, he came face to face with the person that would answer all of his lingering questions.
The person he most wanted to see but at the same time least wanted to see. The person that was now looking at him with her sparkling eyes was none other then the person he had bared his soul too. Ashley Massaro.