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Candy woke up with a throbbing headache. She rolled onto her stomach and pulled the pillow over her head trying to shut out the shouting from downstairs.
"Shouting?" Candy thought.
Candy bolted upright and immediately regretted the decision. Candy half-walked, half-crawled to the sink and tried to wash the taste of vomit out of her mouth. Candy tried to recall last night. The last thing she remembered was Brian Kendrick's slightly mocking tone he used when he discovered that she'd never had alcohol before and her sudden desire to drink.
She headed downstairs, determined to kill whoever was yelling. However, the voices stopped the second she entered the kitchen. She hoped it was due to the angry look on her face, but she knew better. They'd been talking about her.
Matt, Jeff, and Melina had been locked in a heated battle over whether or not they should tell Candy of their realization if she didn't remember.
Melina took the initiative and sat Candy on a stool, passing her a cup of coffee.
"Do you remember what happened last night, sweetie?" Melina asked.
"As long as I'm still a virgin and nothing's on film, then I really don't wanna know," Candy grumbled as she rested her cheek against the cool countertop.
Jeff choked on his coffee, "seriously?"
"Why be reminded of a night that would just embarrass me?"
"No, I mean you're seriously a virgin?"
"Yea, you got a problem with that?"
"No, it makes me…glad," Jeff answered searching his older brother's eyes for confirmation that that was the correct response.
"Okay, you guys are weirding me out. I'm gonna go watch TV at a really really low volume…like mute," Candy said as she got up and padded into the living room.
"You guys, we have to tell her," Matt said to Melina and Jeff.
"She doesn't wanna know," Jeff replied.
"She doesn't wanna know if she danced on tables or something. This is life altering; she'd want to know this."
"We don't know what she wants," Melina cut in, "does she want to know who her father is? That's what we need to figure out before we tell her it could be one of you."
"Okay," Jeff said, "you're her new best friend, go find out."
"I can't just ask her, as far as she knows we don't even know her real name, let alone that she has an absentee daddy."
Matt threw up his hands, "well, in about two weeks I have to declare my love for her on TV and I'm expected to make-out with her. So unless we know for sure, 100%, that I am in no way related to her, in two weeks time I'm going to tell her, whether Jeff likes it or not."
Matt stormed into the living room and took a seat next to Candy on the couch.
"Well, find out," and Jeff followed Matt, taking the seat on Candy's other side.
"They seriously expect me to do everything," Melina let out a frustrated sigh.
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'Voices' by Rev Theory played throughout the 1st Mariner Arena in Baltimore, Maryland.
"This is an intergender watch set for one fall. Entering the ring from St. Louis, Missouri, weighing in at 245 pounds, Randy Orton. His partner from Chicago, Illinois, Candy Vachon."
Candy and Randy entered the ring, receiving an odd mix of cheers and boo's from the crowd.
"And their opponents. First, from Calabria, Italy, weighing in at 227 pounds, Santino Marella. And his partner, from San Mateo, California, Rosa Mendes."
The match went fairly smooth, with the tags placed so that it was always Randy vs. Marella and Candy vs. Rosa. Randy had Marella in their corner when Candy tagged herself in. Candy heard Michael remind the audience that it was an intergender match as she set Marella up into a Tree of Woe. She backed up and then did a baseball slide into Marella's face.
"That folks is Candy's new signature move 'Bubble gum in your hair'."
Candy went for the pin, but Rosa interfered messing up the three count. While the ref and Candy were telling Rosa to back off, Marella started to get up, but was quickly put back down by Randy. Candy then did a Lollipop, her finisher, off the top turnbuckle and proceeded to pin Marella for the win.
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Candy needed Melina's help before her cut scene with Randy where Candy was supposed to make-out with him, then at the PPV this Saturday they were going to declare themselves a power couple. Candy rushed around backstage trying to find the only person who could calm her nerves. She rushed around a corner and almost ran into Matt and Melina who were making out up against an equipment box.
"Oh my god, I knew it, I knew it, I knew it," Candy squealed jumping up and down, "Matt and Melina sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g!"
"So you okay with this," Matt asked.
"Why wouldn't I be," Candy asked as she hugged Melina and Matt.
Melina elbowed Matt in the stomach shooting him a dirty look, "Ahh, no reason."
"But, this is going to be really awkward with the plot line they have us in. Do you think we could get them to change it?"
"Not without a really good reason," Melina pouted.
"That sucks."
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"So, you and Randy looked pretty into that scene there," Melina commented as Candy and her made their way to the locker rooms.
"What can I say? Randy is fine!"
"You should totally go for him then if you like him, but remember watch yourself. I've heard some pretty bad stuff about him."
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Candy sat in the backseat. Matt and Melina sat up front holding hands, with Matt driving.
"So, Candy, what does that stand for anyway?"
"Well, my full name's Candrima Hardy Vachon, which is a total mouthful. I kinda just smushed Candrima and Hardy together and got Candy."
"Hardy's a weird middle name; do you know why your mom choose it?"
"Matt…" Melina glared at him.
"No, it's fine Melina. I'm named after my father. My mom had a one night stand about 18 years ago that resulted in me."
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be, it actually helped show that she ultimately loves me, since she kept me. Most female wrestlers would have gotten an abortion, not that those were widely accepted back then, but wrestling's not exactly a business that will give you a leave of absence to go have a kid. So, my mom stepped down from wrestling and had me, she eventually went back to wrestling on an independent circuit."
"Wow, did you ever learn who your dad was?"
"Not who exactly, there were loads of wrestlers back then, all of them constantly changing names, if I try, I highly doubt I could find him. But, I agree with my mom's reasons for keeping it a secret."
"What were those," Matt asked as his hands gripped the wheel and his knuckles turned white.
"He had a family, a life, a future. Plus, she knew if he found out the network would, and my entire life would just become a plot line, she wanted more for me."
"But, you're here wrestling, isn't that the opposite of what she wants for you," Melina asked.
"This is exactly what she wants for me because I choose it for myself, she didn't want it forced on me."
"So, if you could find your father now would you?"
"I don't think I'd go looking for him, but if I ran into a guy with Hardy in his name who happened to get drunk at a wrestling after party on October 15, 1993, I'd get a paternity test. Anyway, lightening that very heart-warming conversation, where were you at Matthew Moore Hardy on the night of October 15, 1993," Candy asked, jokingly, shinning the pen light on her key ring in Matt's face.
"I was drunk at a wrestling after party," Matt said completely serious.