Authors Note: So this chapter doesn't have a whole lot going on and is fairly short, but I promise there is a method to my madness! Stick with me folks :P

Disclaimer: If I owned Matt Hardy, we'd all be in trouble. Emma Keating = mine all mine.

If This Isn't Love - Chapter 4


Matt had kept his promise, as always, and the evening had been spent eating steaks the guys had took turns grilling, drinking beer, and laughing at Jeff's squirming while Emma jokingly chewed him a new one for injuring his brother. Over all it had been the perfect day at home, and both Matt and Emma wished it could have lasted longer. Luckily Matt only had the pay-per-view in Rhode Island and a RAW and Smackdown taping in CT and NYC the next week, and then an unheard of five days in a row off to come back home and really settle in.

Emma was just starting to drift off to sleep, comforted by the feel of Matt's warm chest against her bare back, when she felt his breath blowing into her ear. It was a little game he played, whenever she'd start to fall asleep first he'd blow in her ear and giggle like a little boy until she rolled over to talk to him .. and it usually ended with him begging her to sing him to sleep as if he were a little boy again. She had a gorgeous singing voice, but it was reserved strictly for church, drunken karaoke, and Matthew Hardy.

"I was wondering when that was coming," she said, grinning as she rolled over onto her back. Matt propped himself up on an elbow and began tracing lazy circles onto her exposed arm. There were a few minutes of silence before Matt spoke quietly.

"You're happy, right Em?"

Emma's hazel eyes immediately searched for Matt's in the darkness as she turned completley over to face him. "Whoa. Where did that come from?" She could see him shrug as he tried to find the words to express himself.

"I know this isn't the typical situation, or the typical lifestyle. I can't always be here and we can't always be together, and it's stressful .."

"Look," Emma's voice was forceful as she interrupted him. "I knew what I was getting into three years ago when I gave you my heart. And not one day has gone by in that time that you haven't treated my heart like it was the most precious gift you've ever recieved."

"It is," Matt stated.

"Well then WHY on earth would I give that up for anything?" Emma asked. Matt didn't really have an answer for that, so he shrugged again. Emma continued to stare at him.

"Because I'm an idiot?" he tried, looking sheepish.

"Yeah well, lucky for you, you happen to be an incredibly adorable idiot," Emma teased, pressing a kiss on Matt's soft lips.

"Lucky for me," he responded against her kiss, his worries already fading away. They made love again and a while later, Emma once again found herself trying to fall asleep before she once again got an earful of Matt Hardy breath, literally.

"Really, again?" she laughed, turning over once more. Matt grinned at her sleepily.

"You didn't sing to me last night," he pointed out, and she groaned. "C'mon Em, please? It's been forever." He sounded like a petulant child, and Emma couldn't help but smile as well.

"Oh fine you big baby. But tomorrow I'm sleeping in while you pack and get Lucas ready for the flight."

"Deal," Matt agreed, even though they both knew that would not be happening. He snuggled into his pillows and draped an arm over Emma's waist. She thought for a moment and came up with the perfect song, one that had been stuck in her head the entire time Matt had been gone. Her quiet voice enveloped the moonlight room as Matt closed his eyes.

"Always another show, wondering where I am, lost without you. And being apart ain't easy on this love affair, two strangers learn to fall in love again. I get the joy of rediscovering you, ooh just stand by me, I'm forever yours .. faithfully."

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