AN: Thank you thank you thank you! Thank you to all of you who supported me through this whole endeavor, because honestly, you wanna know something strange? This is the first story I ever finished all the way through. I love you guys and I hope you stick around for the sequel!
Ciao!
After the night they made their amends, Randy and Sam put in a formal request to adopt Jessie as their daughter. After several months, the request went through, and Jessie became known officially as Jessica Nicole Long Orton. After talking over living arrangements, Jess decided to stay in Louisiana to finish out the school year. She ended up receiving a full paid scholarship to Southeastern Louisiana University, and decided to study biology there for her undergraduate studies.
During the summer, though, she went back on tour with the company. She continued her training with the Harts, and quickly became a proficient wrestler over the summer. Several house shows around the country and around the world featured the talents of one very young new Diva.
Over that next summer, Jess and Gunner dated for exactly 3 days, 4 hours, 28 minutes and 5 seconds. After spending too much time together, both realized that they couldn't really stand each other.
Cody spent a few weeks touring with Raw, during which he and Jess pranked Mark and Glenn… For old time's sake. Jess spent the rest of the summer digging through wrestlers' stuff trying to find her iPod.
(Jessie)
That's how everything went down. I sat down a few days after that night and started writing everything down. I never wanted to forget a single detail. I even got Randy to write down a few details for me. I quickly found that I could smile again, and got out of that funk I was in. Randy and I became life family. Life was perfect. It was everything I had ever wanted. My future is never certain. Nobody's is. But there is one thing I will always be sure of.
That summer changed my life.