A.N: Well here it is, Chapter 2. You will understand the chosen name as you read it. Hopefully, you'll enjoy it, and I am sorry for the delay, it been quite hard to write it all up. Anyway read and review. Thanks!
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Chapter Two:
It Begins
Yesterday, I was flown with my brother on a private jet to meet our boss, Vince McMahon. Yesterday, we were given a task: retrain a WWE diva to a good standard. Of course it wasn't just the Hardy boys training Maria, but Matt's ex, who he still has feelings for.
I look at the clock next to me, hazy eyed, "7:00 am, I think I need to get up and get going to the arena for the house show." I sat up on the edge of the bed, reminiscing about yesterday. I still can't believe it, I will have to train another person and best as I could, no restrictions at all.
I walked over to the bathroom and have a quick shower, I then got changed into some jeans and a normal t-shirt, packed by gym bag and left the room.
Bleep-bleep!
"Umm.." I said, listening to my iPod walking down the hallway, "what was that?" I asked myself, but continued walking down the hallway, still listening to my iPod. But then suddenly.
Bleep-bleep!
I felt a vibration coming from my leg. I stopped, taking my earphones out and listened as I hear a bleeping sound coming from my pocket. My phone! I thought, digging into my pockets and withdrawing my phone. I looked onto the display screen, "New Text Message", I clicked the button allowing me to read the message, it said:
"Hi little bro,
Vince told me to tell you he is letting us use the arena after the house show to start training Maria. He also said that if we missed the plane to Washington on Friday, he said we could use his jet. Man. Probably we are kings now, the kings of WWE, all we need is our queens. Ha! Anyway, meet us in front of the hotel, I was allowed to dismiss Smackdown's house shows for the rest of the week. And then starting next week, I'll be a RAW Superstar, I guess it'll start soon then bro.
See yea,
Matt"
Yet again I am the last person to be informed; and when I am it is ALWAYS like 5 minutes before the actual event. Well, at least last night me, Matt and Amy chose what we were doing teach her separately. Matt, will be technical reverses and submission holds with a few power moves. Amy, she will teach doing kicks, punches, grapple and stuff and some more female kind of moves. And I, Jeff won't be teaching today, I lost a bet about who could drink a milkshake faster against Matt, and now I'm the dummy. I really don't feel like getting beaten after a match, well at least I know it can't be to bad, I mean all their training today is kicks and punches and some basic moves, right? I hope so.
Sighing, I walked through the elevator doors, but then a scream passed through my ears, and my basic instinct was to press the button to keep them open. And then, out of the right-side hallway, Maria ran into the elevator and stood next to me, breathing heavily.
"I guess you left late too," I said, turning to the struggling Maria.
"I didn't know what to wear for the training, so I just grabbed something randomly and put it on," she replied, with a smile on her face.
"Well, I think it suits you, you've got good taste even when you just randomly pick something to wear," I responded, smiling at her. She punched my arm laughing.
"Thanks teach, we what are you going to teach me today then?" she said with a smirk.
"Well, I am the dummy today, so I won't be teaching you anything today, I guess tomorrows is when I start teaching you." I said, rubbing my arm looking at the numbers light up above the door, 'floor 11', that's what it said. Why is it that it seems like my room floor gets higher every hotel I go to?
"Jeff," Maria mumbled, I looked at her nodding as if 'what?', "even if you are the person I have to beat up, you are training me something." She continued with a serious face. "I mean, look at you, you've risked your life yet you haven't ended your career. If I am correct, I don't think you have actually been injured yet."
"True," I answered back, "I'll teach you how to take bumps today then, Matt's tomorrow, it's okay to be a little more harder to him," I joked, watching her laugh. With a smirk she nodded.
"Okay Jeff," she said, smiling. I smiled back, and then, ding!
We had arrived at the ground floor, Maria carried on walking out as I thought, I do kind of know how to take a beating and not get injured, I mean I actually think I am the only guy on the roster who hasn't had a serious or minor injury.
Whilst I was thinking, laughing to myself I saw the elevator doors closed.
"Oh shit," I blurted out pressing the ground floor button, but I was too late I was going back up to floor twenty-two. "Fucking great," I said out loud, but the worst thing out of it all was, it was packed full of WWE fans wanting autographs but I didn't have enough room or time to sign any, but I decided to do it anyway.
After another 5 loads of people exiting and entering the elevator, I finally got off. My right hand hurting due to signing hundreds of autographs I regrouped with Maria who was laughing as she looked at me, shaking my wrist.
"Were you day dreaming Mr Hardy?" She said with traces of sarcasm, I just laughed back and walked on forward thinking: God, why do I have to be beaten up twice today?
As me and Maria waited for my as usual late brother, I looked at Maria searching through her bag.
"What's wrong?" I said, withdrawing my earphones from my ears.
"I think I've lost my phone, I want to call someone about something, but obviously without a phone I can't," she mumbled, moving stuff around still looking for it, "that's it I give up, I'll just ask reception if I can use their phone," she said dropping the bag, letting it dangle from her narrow shoulder.
"Here, use mine," I said, producing my phone out of pocket and handing it to her.
"Are you sure?" she asked, slowly creeping her hand out to the phone.
"Sure, just be quick, okay?" I responded with a smile, she reached and touched my hand grabbing the phone that was laying in the middle of my hand. But for that mini second the our fingers touched, I could feel her smooth skin.
"Okay, Thanks," she said with an embarrassed look on her face.
I put the earphones back in and continued to listen to my iPod. As Maria used my phone, but halfway through 'Stairway to Heaven' my iPod ran out of battery. I pulled out my earphones and put them and the iPod into my gym bag. I looked at the clock on my wrist 8:00 am, I sighed, looking round, something to do to waste time. I noticed a water fountain, I looked next to me and noticed that the beautiful red head that was standing next to me had disappeared, with a thought I headed towards the fountain and sat down on the edge.
But where I was sitting, I could hear a familiar, Maria! I came technically ease-dropping into her conversation with her friend, I slowly started to move, stealthy but slowly, but then...
"Look Candice, I know that I may have a storyline with him, but that doesn't mean anything. Their just rumours. Okay, okay, I will admit it," then a quiet pause, I just couldn't move, I was like a statue, an evil one who ease-drops into other peoples private conversations, but I just wanted to her here next few words, I don't know why but it felt so strange. "...Me, Maria is going to be working as a member of Team Extreme" suddenly I could hear muffled screaming, "yes Candi, I mean with Jeff, Matt AND Lita! But do you know what the most amazing thing is?" she said, taking another pause, but shorter this time. "I am going to be trained by the most nicest people in the industry, yes Candi you heard me, I am totally going to be trained by them, everything". At this point I smiled, hearing her true feelings about being trained by us, came to a relief in some way. I decided to walk off now, before Maria would notice me, but before I could even draw one breath.
"Hello stranger, what are you doing her, stalking me?" Maria joked, tapping my shoulder. I turned round with a big smile my face.
"Of course not, it was that my battery power in my iPod is gone out, and I couldn't be bothered to stand around another half-hour, so I walked around and noticed this fountain." I said, as if I was being interrogated by a law-force authority or even worse, Vince McMahon.
"I hate when that happens. By the way here's your phone back," she said with a smile still on her face, "thanks for letting me use it," she continued giving me back the phone and the leaning in about to kiss my cheek as a thank you, just before...
"Oi!" shouted a horrid voice, "over here you two, we are going to be late" said my older brother.
"Okay Matt," Maria shouted back waving, "C'mon Jeff we better get going" she said skipping off to the car in the distance. I kept my rage inside, inhale then exhaled then turned towards where my brother's voice came from. I started to wave and walk over thinking to myself: just wait tomorrow, you'll be the test dummy.
"Whose driving?" I asked before I got in, "it better not be Matt, last time I was in a car with him driving, I wouldn't have a head right now."
"Jeff, you don't have to come with us," Matt shouted at me, not telling if he was being sarcastic or serious. "Bit Vince wouldn't like that you missed the show, he has already put use under pressure and has high regards for us, we don't want to make the boss angry now do we," Matt said with a serious pitched voice.
"I say we choose between a vote," I demanded, with a smirk on my face.
"Okay, okay, if it get's you guys to get in the fucking car then come on, fair with you Matt?" shouted Lita, loosing her patience.
"Okay, but if it's a draw I drive," Matt agreed. I nodded.
"Put your hands up if you want Jeff to drive," Lita said, raising her hand, me raising my hand. I then winked to a confused Maria in the back, and then she put her hand up.
"Okay, looks like I win," I said pushing Matt into the car.
"I want a recall!" he demanded, as I put mine and Maria's bags in the trunk.
"Demand rejected," I replied, getting the key out of Lita's hands as Matt sat next to the still-confused diva in the back. I sat in the driver's seat, key in the ignition, seatbelt, and turned the key.
"I'm driving on the way back," Matt mumbled in the back, as Lita and Maria laughed at him crossing his hands like a spoiled child.
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We arrived at the arena, with just half-an-hour to get changed. Well expect Amy who doesn't start house shows till next week, she came to meet old friends and meet some of the new batch of young talent. But she was surely only here to train Maria.
Me and the still sulking Matt, both left Amy and Maria to go to the female locker room, as me and Matt went to get changed into our wrestling gear. Me and Matt entered the locker room, with Shawn, Paul, Adam and Chris.
"Hi Shawn, Hi Adam, Hi Paul, Hi Chris," I said as I walked to my locker on the other side of the room. The quiet older brother followed me, doing the exact same thing, then sitting next to me.
"You better be ready to take a beaten after the show, young brother," whispered my pissed of older brother as he unzipped his gym bag and started to change.
"The pain I'll feel, with my a substitute to what you'll feel tomorrow, brother," I whispered backing, trying to resist from laughing.
We got changed and walked around in the back, waiting for Amy, who was meeting with Shawn talking about something.
"So Shawn, that's how it goes, me, and Matt have to train Maria today, but I haven't got the basic knowledge to know how to react and stuff, and I know you've trained people in the past, so I came straight to you for help," I overheard Amy saying, as me and Matt walked over.
"Well, just be patient and remember, just because your the teacher doesn't mean your better then them or that you won't learn something from them, because most likely, you are going to learn something, either if it is important or just," Shawn said, looking over to me with a serious.
"Thanks Shawn, I'll kept that in mind," Amy said, turning waving before walking into me.
"aahh.." she screaming as she tripped over. "Jeff, what the hell do you think your doing? Tripping innocent women, what's your planned," she shouted, taking my hand as I pulled her up.
"What do you mean, Amy? You were the one walking into me, I am sorry if I got in the way, but I was just thinking about the match" I said smiling to her, she shook her head and replaced the angry look that was placed on her face with a more cheerful one. Within a second thought I remembered: Matt's hasn't got a match tonight, does he?
"Matt, may I ask what the hell are you actually doing here?" I asked, turning to him, who was clearly angered by my question.
"God, calm down," he said, strangely calm. "I was text by Dave, that Vince wants to give a teaser to the fans about the whole Team Extreme thing, so before your match with Harry, him and Ted is going to beat you up a bit, then I come down and help you making the match a tag match. Cool idea isn't it?" He said, knowing my reaction, he smirked.
"No, and you know it. Because after the show, i'll be taking more bumps," I shouted back.
"Look, Jeff, I know that the change may not be the best for you at the moment to find out, but please don't scream about," Shawn whispered to me, tapping my back.
"Why isn't it always you who gets the messages first?," I mumbled to Matt, who was still smirking.
We heard the work bell ring, telling us that the show started. I saw Maria running over to me, there she stood in front of me, in her unique attire.
"Umm...Jeff, I wanted to say, good luck, try not to get hurt too bad, okay?" She said, smiling at me, before running past me.
"Jeff! Jeff!! C'mon, get ready your match is first!" Shouted one of the roadies.
"Yeah, I'm coming," I responded watching her laughing with Candice. I walked over to the roadie to make my entrance start off the show. But I still couldn't help but smile, I will Maria, I will: I thought as I danced out to my music.
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14:00 in the afternoon, the house show had finished, and everyone was getting ready to get changed and headed out to the hotel, as me and Matt just relaxed for the available time. Matt, now more calm then earlier, came and sat next to me, passing a bottle of water.
"Here bro," he said passing over the bottle, "You may need this" he continued as I turned the lid and drank a little.
"Thanks Matt, but do I really have to be the fucking test dummy?" I said, looking at my brother sighing. "I did just get beaten down out there, they actually hurt me pretty bad," I continued, to my guilty conscience brother.
"Look, you knew that this might of happened when you made the bet against me," said my brother, shrugging off any attempt of a guilt trip. "Now c'mon Jeff, we don't want to make the girls wait any longer," he said, before storming off out of the room, with a evil smirk on his face. I took a large gulp of water, inhaled a large amount of air then exhaled, then I got up proceeding to hype myself up.
"Just wait until tomorrow, that when I will have my revenge on my heartless brother, tomorrow." I mumbled to myself as I approached to the ring. Laughing to the thought of pain I'd to Matt, and then it being done again by Maria, now that's justice!
As I sat on top of the turnbuckle, awaiting for my brother to come with Maria and Amy, I thought, I wonder what would the future hold for the storyline? How improved would Maria be? All this collided in my head like a car crash on a motorway. Evaded from keeping track on the time, I heard something moving behind, with my instinctive reflexes I jumped from the turnbuckle turned around and caught a pair of gloves that headed to my face.
"Well done bro, your reflexes always amazes me, too bad you can't teach that today," said my brother, walking from the curtain from the ramp that laid stood.
"Yeah, whatever Matt, where's Maria and Amy?" I said, changing the subject.
"Well, Amy said she wanted to take about training techniques to Maria, and how to avoid sandbagging and taking bumps and shit, so I guess we have to wait here for them to return," Matt said as he entered the ring. Great, I have to put up with him babbling on about how he is going to injure me, I really can't be bothered with all that. But all of a sudden, as I looked at Matt's face he looked serious, for the first time today, he looked like he was bothered about something.
"Is something wrong bro?" I asked concerned for my brother.
He looked over to me, forcing a smile. But by the way he looked at me, I bet he could tell I wasn't buying it. "No, nothing is wrong," he mumbled, looking around the empty arena that was before him.
"Matt, obviously there is something wrong with you," I said walking over to him, tapping him on the shoulder. "You know, I ain't a dumbass Matt, I can tell when something is wrong with you, and you know when something is wrong with me. We have been brought up together by the same man, under the same roof. I am your younger brother, you can tell me anything." I said, repeatedly tapping my brother's cold shoulder.
"Okay," he mumbled, with a little smile developed on his face, "it's that being around Amy, you know like it used too, it brings back memories. Those memories are happy ones, ones I don't want to forget, but there still lodged in my head are these thoughts of what she did to me." He said, avoiding any comfort from me, he walked over to the middle of the ring leaving me standing near the turnbuckle. "I hate to think like that, you know, the bad side of people, the hatred of people, the things she did to me, I will never forget, but I hate that I judge her by that even though I have forgiven her." He continued purling his heart out. How can I comfort him, this is too much for me. I don't know what to say, or do I?
"Matt, a man once said to me, the heart is the strongest organ in the body, it can take a beating but it never gives up. Even when it's in a submission, it will not tap out, but it fights till the end. Broken and beaten it never gives up. So what you have to do Matt is fight this feeling, even though you have been put in a submission doesn't mean you listen to it, you fight on. That same man also said: A hurtful memory is a guidance for a better tomorrow. So Matt, you don't to be depressed, but make new-happy memories like today. Have a joke with Amy, make her smile and then you'll realise the woman you fell in love with." I said, replaying the words the man said in my head in my own way.
"Thanks bro, nice words, whose this infamous man i've heard about? I may want to thank him," said Matt, wiping the tears that had gathered in his eye.
"You Matt, when I broke up with Beth, you were there and you said that." I said, smiling back to him.
"He's a wise guy, this 'Matt', must be one good fellow," Matt replied, smiling ear-to-ear, giving me a hug.
As we hugged in the middle of the ring, we heard a tuttering noise. Matt unhitched his arms from my waist and looked with a guilty face, as if he was in trouble. I turned around to see Amy and Maria standing there. Maria with a smile and Amy with a mixture of serious glares and a trembling lips. I watched as Amy burst out laughing, not forcing herself to stop.
"Since when were you too the caring kind?" she blurted out with each gasp of air. Still laughing she grabbed Maria's and entered the ring. This is where it starts, this is where it begins.
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Fuck! Every inch of my body is aching! God dammit! It feels like I was in a car accident wearing my seatbelt, I know I have now serious injuries, but it just fucking hurts really bad. I don't want to be me tomorrow.
"Here you go bro," said my evil brother, passing me my bottle of water "I guess I went a little too hard on you. Three hours of training should do it today." But the funny thing was, it seemed Matt was going easy on me, as if he really wanted to thank me for earlier by now hurting as much. But it wasn't Matt that made me feel this pain, it was my student.
"Erm...Jeff," Maria said, in a guilty pitched voice behind. I turned round to see an upset look on her face.
"Yes Maria, what's wrong?" I said, smiling to her trying to break the saddened look upon her face. She looked down, looking even more guilty.
"I am sorry if I hurt you," she mumbled under her breath, "I never meant to hurt you." She looked up, with tears in her eyes, I looked deeply into them. And for that second it just seemed like it was just us two in the arena, no-one else, just us looking at each other. I shook my head, took a gulp of water and limped over.
"It's not your fault, it was more Matt's and my fault." I said, tapping her on the shoulder. She looked up to me, with a little smile but it vanished once again in a second with the return of the sadden face.
"No it isn't. It's mine, I was the one doing the moves on you, not Amy nor Matt," she cried.
"Look, It was Matt's fault for having us train for three hours on the trot without a rest. If I could have had a couple of minutes to take a break, it would have been better," I said, rubbing her shoulders and she looked away from.
"Are you sure?" she mumbled, crying still.
"Yes, I am okay." I said, as she turned round to me, with a little a smile wiping away some tears. "Look, if you really want to help me, tomorrow hurt Matt as much as you want. Yea? As revenge, okay?" I whispered back, she needed and then we both looked at Matt.
"Why are you looking at me like that? Do you have something planned?" Shouted a eerie Matt Hardy.
"No, we were just discussing our techniques for tomorrow," Maria shouted back, happily she looked to me and then whispered, "Thanks Jeff, I am much better now," before kissing me on the cheek and then running over to Amy in the distance.
A mystified looking Matt walked over to me, and smacked me on the back.
"Oww.." I blurted out in pain, "that fucking hurt, you heartless bastard" I whispered to him.
"Oh, I am sorry, well that's what you get when you take a beating for 3 hours," he responded with a cheeky smile placed on his face.
"Well, we'll see what you'll be like tomorrow, with 3 hours of constant moves being done on you," I whispered to him again, trying not to let Maria over hear us.
"What? You expect me to make Maria work another 3 hours tomorrow, your the heartless bastard." Matt said, with a smirk on his face, trying to act mad.
"What? So I have to been the test dummy for 3 whole fucking hours and, then how long do you have to be the testing dummy for?" I whispered, raising my voice a little, looking over at Maria whose laughing with Amy, I just seemed to calm down.
"About an hour and a half, around that time," Matt replied more serious.
"Good, because tomorrow is time for Maria to learn how to high flying moves. Starting off with the Swanton Bomb, good luck Matt." I said sarcastically, walking past him to talk with Amy, who was now all alone. "Where's Maria gone?" I asked, approaching Amy as Matt followed me behind.
"She said she wanted to get something, and then ran off. I guess we'll have to wait till the roadies get back anyway, to dismantle the ring and get it away for SmackDown's house show," Amy said, sitting down on the edge of the ring.
"No, Smackdown's doing their house show here tomorrow, and then we train here and then they'll dismantle it and transported it to Seattle, were the next house shows are" Matt said sitting close to Amy. I watched Matt as he gained the confidence to talk to Amy like he used to do. As I stared at my brother laughing the woman he loves, I heard breathing behind me. I turned round to see Maria with a tray of coffee's. She walked passed me and gave one to and Matt and Amy, then turned round to me.
"Here you go Jeff, here's yours," she said passing the last cup of coffee.
"Where's yours?" I asked, taking the cup from her hands.
"I drank mine first, I got bored waiting," she replied.
"Well, thank you Maria, thank you very much," I said with a smile, raising the cup in the air as if I was cheering.
"Yes thanks Maria," Matt said after me.
"Thank you Maria," Amy followed, like an echo.
"There's no need, it should be me thank you guys for training me. I really enjoyed being trained by you today, and I especially can wait tomorrow," she said, smiling ear-to-ear.
"Well, I guess we should head to the locker room and get changed and get going for something to eat," I said, taking a sip of the hot coffee in front of me. Everyone else drank their coffee's (except Maria of course) and nodded. After 15 minutes, we drank all of our drinks and headed towards the ramp, and behind the curtains.
We then split up, as the women walked to the female locker room and a smug Matt and I walked to the male.
"Jeff.." I heard a mumble from Matt as we walked to the door. "Thanks, thanks for helping me bro" He mumbled as we entered the room.
"It's okay, bro," I replied following him to ours bag at the end of the room.
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18:00, Me and Matt finished getting changed and were waiting for Amy and Maria behind the curtains. I looked over to Matt who was staring at his phone, I then immediately copied him. But before I could reach to my phone, my brother came right next to me like a voucher diving at it's food.
"I got a text from Dave," he said, showing the screen of his phone. And there it said:
"Matt,
Vince had caught a little of your training whilst coming past the arena. He told me to text you saying he was impressed not only by the way Maria looked out there but how much moves Jeff took. Keep up the good work, but Vince wants Jeff to do more then just getting beaten up for tomorrow's training, tell him that I was told that Vince's wants him to do is job properly and stop acting like a test dummy.
Good work so far,
Dave."
"Looks like I actually impressed someone," Matt said smirking at me.
"I told you that last night, didn't I Matt, but no, you had to make a bet," I replied to the laughing older baby in front of me. All of a sudden I felt a vibration on my leg. "My phone?" I mumbled digging into my pocket and fishing out my phone. It was a text, I read it."What the hell?" I shouted. I had just received the same message as Matt, but 5 minutes later and with it directed at me instead of Matt.
"What's wrong?" Matt asked curiously to my outburst.
"Nothings wrong, just something odd," I replied, stuffing my phone back into my pocket. As me and Matt bickered about random topics, out came Amy and Maria.
"Sorry if you waited long," said Maria.
"Nah, it's alright," I instantly replied
"Shouldn't we get going then," Amy said, her voice coming from behind Maria, "I'm starving." she added, revealing herself from the shadows.
"Sure," I added, walking off ahead knowing that I had the key.
"Wait..." Matt shouted, charging at me, "I'm driving Jeff."
"No thank you, but I would like to survive today without any casualties," I said jokingly.
"Alright, but next time, I am totally going to be driving," Matt mumbled, giving up bickering.
All I could hear was little laughs coming from behind us, I turned round facing Amy and Maria with tears coming from their eyes laughing.
"What's wrong with you guys?" Matt blurted out.
"You two are just like two little kids," Amy said, Maria laughing even harder.
"Yeah, well your just a poopy-heads," I said, joking with them.
"Jeff, your not funny," Amy added, starting to stop laughing.
"Well, If Jeff has any other bad attempts at a comedian, I think we should be get going, or we'll not be able to get something to eat on the way to the hotels." Matt implied as we all joked around. I nodded to him, and then we headed for the car.
"Your still not driving," I reminded him.
"Argh, Why not?" He responded. I just shook my head and walked off ahead, laughing to myself.
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"So what do you want?" Matt asked, as I looked out to the road, cars flying by, as I sat in a small restaurant. I turned to Matt, who had a menu in his face. I grabbed one of it, looked at the choices.
"Salad please," I said passing the menu back to him, and turning back round to the window, continuing to watch the cars fly by, blurry specks of colour, that's all I could see.
"C'mon Jeff, a salad? That's not a meal," Matt said, stuffing the menu in my face. "Re-choose your meal bro, believe me this place makes a good lasagne," Matt continued, shaking the menu.
"Okay, I'll give, I'll have the lasagne instead," I said, turning round with a smile.
"What was that?" Maria and Amy both said.
"What do you mean?" I said back, confused.
"That how thing then, you being depressed or something like that," Amy continued as she slurped down some of her chocolate milkshake.
"Well, every time I don't eat much during the day and do something that takes away energy, I get moody. It something that normally happens when I go to the gym by myself or with Matt, it's no biggie," I said, smiling to them.
"May I take you order, sirs and madams," Said a spotty teenager at the end of the table, who was clearly more interested in his blank notepad then looking at us.
"Yes, I will have a lasagne and so would he," Matt said to him. As Matt replied, the teenager withdrew his head from looking down and looked at Matt, me, Amy and Maria.
"Oh my god," he said, dropping his notepad, "your Matt Hardy, Your Jeff Hardy and your Lita. Team Extreme eating here, I can't believe it," he shouted, obviously excited he picked up the note pad. "Can I have your guys autographs?" he said, giving us a sheet of paper from the notepad and a pen from his pocket.
"Sure," Matt said. He signed the paper and passed it to Amy who signed it then passed it to Maria as she received it the spotty teenager looked up at me.
"Excuse who are you?" he rudely asked Maria, "I only want Matt, Lita and Jeff's autographs." I looked on as a sadden Maria passed the paper onto me.
"Excuse young man," I blurted out to him, Maria looking at me in shock, I just couldn't allow this teenager treat someone like that, it wasn't right. "This nobody that you probably think is an up and coming diva, and a friend of mine. If you treat her harshly then I don't really respect you. I only do autographs to people that show respect to others." I said, passing the paper back to the teenager who was in a kind of 'sorry' mood. He looked at me, I nodded to a confused and unconfident Maria who was hiding her face.
"Excuse me," he said, still looking at me, "I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings, it's just that I haven't seen you on TV yet, so was unaware that you were a WWE diva. May I have your autograph, please," he said, now looking at Maria who nodded with a little smile. He passed the paper back to Maria who signed it and passed it over to me.
"Thank you," I said to the teenager in a more calmer tone voice. I signed the paper then passed it to him.
"Thank you very much, as a show of my apologise I'll buy you all a round of drinks. Now may I take your order," he said again, putting the paper in his pocket.
"Yes, I'll have the lasagne and so would Jeff," Matt said, smiling to me.
"And I'll have a salad," Amy said, passing the menu to him.
"Me too please," said Maria, with a cheerful smile looking at me.
"Any drinks?" The teenager added.
"Yes, I'll have a coke," Matt said.
"I'll have another chocolate milkshake," said Amy, slurping the rest of the milkshake she already had.
"I'll have a strawberry milkshake, please," Said Maria.
"I'll have a glass of water," I said.
"Are you sure, water is free, I'll buy you anything?" The teenager waiter insisted.
"It's okay, I'll fine with a glass of water, thanks," I replied.
"Well, if you change your mind at any time, just order a drink and say that Jeremy is going to pay for it," he replied, writing down the list we wanted. As soon as he left our table, Matt turned to me.
"Well, well, Jeff Hardy, the super hero," he said, laughing. I looked at Maria who was smiling ear-to-ear. She then grabbed a desert menu and placed it so Matt and May couldn't see her lips. She then looked at me, I followed her lips and she said something only moving her lips and no voice. Thank you, that's what she said, before opening the menu and pretending to look in it, laughing under her breath.
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20:00, that's what it read when I came out of the shower. What a day, a 3 hour training session with Maria, Matt and Lita. I then went out for lunch with them, which took longer then thought as Matt just had to order another plate of lasagne. Then we dropped Matt and Lita off at their hotel, leaving the car with me and Maria. Even though we had about an half-an-hour drive, we never actually told. We just listened to the radio, and blanked one another out.
But thank god, I can just sit down and watch a little TV before having an early night in.
Knock-knock-knock!
Great, whose that. I wonder if I keep quite they will probably think I am not in. Anyway, I am only wearing some jeans and can't be bothered to wear a top, it so hot here. I looked at the door, and listen to the knocking sound get louder. But then all of a sudden, silence, only the breeze in the fresh air, no sound but me breathing.
But then, this lovely and rare atmosphere was disturbed as the door handle started to turn.
"What the hell?" I thought watching it move, until it clicked. I laid down on the sofa, eyes closed pretending to be asleep.
"Look, he's a sleep, we can't disturb him while he's sleeping," said Amy, why she in my room? Who's with her?
"Non-sense, he sleeps all the time," Said another voice this time Matt's. What the hell are they doing here? Having a party?
"Look, Vince wanted to talk to all of you before tomorrow when you leave, even though it's a Thursday, he wants you guys there earlier for something at the arena," said Dave, as if he entered the room. Then I felt someone shaking my shoulder, "Jeff, Jeff, wake up, we have to talk about something." Dave said, just wondering how long I can get with this, I continued to pretend I was sleeping. "I guess he's a heavy sleeper."
"Yeah, my ass, I've got a plan," Matt said with a devious tone of voice. I heard his footsteps leave the living area and enter the bathroom. I then heard taps running, what is he thing? Then I heard him returning. "Here this will wake him up," he said.
"Matt, that is cruel, it's going to be hilarious," Amy said, making me feel uncomfortable.
Then suddenly, a large amount of freezing cold water splattered across my face, I shot up screaming. "You motherfucker!" I shouted.
"Good to see you up, little brother," Matt said laughing.
"I am so sorry I am late, I just gotten out of the bath and then..." Said Maria, running in with wet hair and stopped as she saw me standing their, wet and without a t-shirt on."what's going on?" She asked, confused.
"aahh, Maria your finally here. Well, now Jeff is up, I guess I can tell you guys, but if you could close the door, I don't want anyone to hear except you guys." Dave said, ordering Matt to close the door pointing to him. When Matt closed the door, still laughing about throwing water over me, he leaned against the door. As I stood up, still soaking, staring at Matt hoping that my stare would cause him to suddenly set on fire, but no luck. I turned to Dave as he started to speak again. "Well, you guys might not know, but Vince caught a glimpse of you training with Maria." A silence surfaced from that moment, as if he wanted someone to say something.
"What do you mean? You sent me and Matt texts, oh, that reminds me, I have to talk to you about something," I said, finally killing the silence that poisoned the atmosphere.
"What do you want to talk about Jeff?" Dave responded, instantly with a smile on his face.
"Look, can you tell us why you wanted us here," Matt interrupted our conversation.
"Oh yeah, I forgot. Well like I said, Vince watched some of your training and was impressed." Said Dave, looking at me directly with a smile, as if this was mainly about me.
"Oh, that's good, I hope I am doing okay enough," Said Maria whose standing next to Amy with a huge smile on her face.
"Yes you are indeed doing better then his expectations, and believe me, that hardly ever happens." Dave replied to Maria, turning round to her before looking back at me. "He's so impressed, he wants to start the storyline next week." Suddenly the silence came back, everyone just was so shocked, next week? That's when it officially starts?
"What so you mean start?" I asked, again trying to avoid another period of silence.
"Well, as you guys already know, Jeff and Maria was going to have a interview. Now instead of a normal interview, Jeff will out-speak his thought on Legacy taking over which started this week. Because Jeff is the intercontinental champion and is speaking bad of Legacy, DiBiase and Rhodes will attack him before he could say his last line. This will engage, with another interview with Maria later on that night with you," Dave said, pointing at me. "You say, 'I am so pissed off by these little faggots. It's about time they'll learn a lesson in respect. The hard way or the extreme way' that when you," Dave continued, now pointing to Maria, 'you'll say, Maria, 'what have you got planned?' and that's when Jeff says, 'let's just say I've just called some people who I can rely on' and Jeff walks off. Later on, DiBiase and Rhodes interrupts Maria's Kiss Cam segment who she's presenting with Carlito. They warn Jeff about the beating he'll get if he doesn't just 'give-up' the intercontinental, and then DiBiase hits Carlito and does his finisher, Rhodes, who has now got the microphone says that: 'if that wasn't enough of a warning then this will be' and turns to a scared Maria who'll be trapped in the corner, and as DiBiase grabs her hair, Jeff's music hits." I now sit on the wet patch on the sofa listening to this new information.
"And? What happens next," Matt excitingly says, as Dave smiles to himself.
"Well, you and Jeff coming running down the ramp, with chairs. DiBiase let's go of Maria and they both run out of the ring as you guys enter. Jeff checks on a frightened Maria in the corner, as Matt scares them both up the ramp. As they stand on the stage, Jeff grabs the mic that was on the floor, and then says: 'let this war begin, now it's just gotten extreme. The Hardy Boys are back!!!' and throws the mic down and celebrates in the ring. And that will be the end of the show." Dave ended with a huge smile. I looked to the excited Maria and the overly-excited Matt. What a way to start the storyline, what a way to re-introduce the fans to the Hardy boy's reunion, and what a way to involve Maria.
"That's an excellent idea," I said, smile on my face standing up. "And what happens next, we have a match against them or something?" I asked, intrigued.
"No, you don't have a match that night. Instead, you have another interview alone with Maria. Then your attacked again by DiBiase and Rhodes, but this time Maria is hit by Natalya. Later, we see Matt answering the door in their locker room, thinking it's a set up by Legacy. He grabs a chair, but Jeff grabs it off him. Jeff opens the door, and it's Maria who says: 'I want revenge, like you guys, but I need some help, can I join and help you guys?' you guys accept her in and then that's the end of the angle for that night." Dave said, looking at me.
I nodded to him, I finally get it. It's me who is meant to be training her, not Matt, nor Amy, me. I remember, Vince wants ME as her trainer to get her to the best of her abilities, so she is the best diva, so she can compete. She's a quick leaner, I know that and so does Vince. That's why she hurt me so bad during the 3 hour training session, it's because she got it so right and so quickly. I tensed myself for her to do moves over and over, because I expected her to fail at the first opportunity. But like Dave said, she's been better then expectation. I know now what I have to do tomorrow, I have to train her the best I can, no matter what, it all starts in the next fortnight, so she should be trained by then. She's already half-way done, with half of the Team Extreme skills, I am next.
So next week, it begins, the beginning to a long storyline and chapter in my life. Someway's I can't wait to see how it goes, hopefully the fans will enjoy it, I know I will.
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A.N: Well, I know it isn't the best, but it was more a kind of filler then anything. By the way, I have just researched, and WWE's headquarters is in Stamford not Greenwich so I'll change that in later chapters. Also, I am sorry if you think I kind of hurried with the whole training thing, but remember there is more later. Anyway, like I said last time, Read then review, please! I really do appreciate every review and any criticism.