Chapter 30-CONCLUSION
Several weeks later:
"So how does it feel to be Mr. Money in the Bank after all of these years?" Steffi smiled the night WrestleMania ended.
"Pretty damn good," Brian grinned, "though I wonder if this was all planned because of the whole thing that went down with Audrey a couple of months ago and the damn documentary they made about it."
"Honestly!" Steffi gave him a look. "Did you even stop to think it's your hard work finally paying off at last?"
"Let's go with that," he nodded, putting an arm around her.
"So Dad," Heath asked, "when and what title are you cashing that in?"
"For me not to know and you all to find out," Brian answered, putting on a knowing grin.
"Oh, come on Daddy," Audrey begged, "not even a little hint?"
"How can I give any of you a hint when I don't even know yet? It all depends where they're going to shove my happy ass in a story line, remember?"
"Let's go with that," Heath said with a laugh, repeating his father's earlier line.
Ten years later:
WrestleMania was about to come around again; now Brian and Steffi sat in the first row during a taping of Florida Championship Wrestling where Heath was about to have his debut match. The young man had gotten a sports medicine degree while training to wrestle on the side, and Heath's hard work had paid off when he was spotted at an indy show and offered a developmental contract.
Audrey too was with her parents and husband; she and Bryan had married the year before and would be expecting their first child that fall. She had held a secret her baby brother had told her earlier, something she couldn't even tell her parents: if Heath won his match tonight, he had planned to propose to Kellie.
It was all Audrey could do to both contain her excitement and pray that he won his match.
He did. She was elated.
"Sweetheart, take it easy," Brian had laughed. "He hasn't taken any championships yet."
"I know," Audrey replied. But if you only knew what's going to happen later tonight, and if Kellie doesn't accept, I will wring that little woman's neck myself.
"Well, don't be bouncing all over the place. You have a baby coming, remember?"
"My God, Daddy, you're worse than Bryan," she giggled. "Was he this bad when you were having Heath and me?" she asked her mother.
Steffi nodded. "Worse."
"Bullshit," Brian said, making a face.
"Truth," Steffi countered. "You were calling every hour on the hour while you were on the road, especially when I got closer to my delivery dates."
"And now he's going to start again," Audrey said. "But this night isn't about me, isn't it? Come on, let's go back and give kudos to our up and coming, second generation star."
Just then, her phone beeped, indicating a text message:
SIS: ALL IS GREAT. SHE SAID YES!
Audrey let go a squeal. "I don't know about you, but judging from this text message, there is no time like to present to go back and give some serious congratulations to my baby brother."
She held up the text message to her parents, Brian having a confused look on his face. "What the hell?"
"For us to know and you to find out, Daddy," she said, taking him by the hand, "and you're not going to find out standing here, are you?"