from begining...to end.
July 5th : [Six months before]
It was just another day,backstage at Smackdown. I was warming up for my match, while my bestfriend Kelly, was rating the superstars body's out of 10. Some of the superstars where saying something about McMahon wanting to make things bigger, better, more fun. In other words, McMahon was looking for a way to make more money! The WWE draft was only a few weeks ago, so i didnt see why we needed more change so soon. I'm still not fully 'at home' at Smackdown. Don't get me wrong, everyone here is super nice to me, I guess I'm just home-sick from RAW after all, that is the flag-shiped show that made me Maria Kanellis.
"Ok heres a good one Ria, Randy Orton?" Kelly said, as if it was the toughest decision ever.
"What are you talking about Kelly?" I said, still confused from thinking about what the chairman of the WWE was up to.
"Randy Orton!!" she said, a little load so people started to stare."What would you rate him out of 10?"
"Urgh Kelly, seriously! I don't want to play the game, I want to know what Mr. McMahon is up to" I said looking around curiously. I was really anxious to know what my new 'home' was turning into, and what new changes where going to take place.
"Fine then, ill rate him for you..10 duhh!!" Kelly said more than happy with herself.
"Yeah..i'll be right back, wait there don't go anywhere!" and with that i walked off over to where all of the Smackdown locker room where gathering.
"Hey guy's, whats going on?" I smiled, at my fellow co-workers.
"Hey, seriously? No idea!" Matt said. "I really want to though, it better be something good".
Yeah I wanted that too...then! When Mr McMahon appeared out of his office, he looked confused. Well who wouldn't be when every single WWE Smackdown superstar was gathering outside your office? McMahon gave us all that scary, kind of creepy smile, that he used alot.
"Im guessing you all want to know about my new money making idea then?" he said with great enjoyment.
A simple "yes" was all the boss got in return from each and every Smackdown all wanted to know,
there was no doubt about that.
"Well then i'll tell you" he said. "Were making a new storyline, a storyline that will be as realistic as ever" he smiled.
"A story line that will have everyone on there feet wanting more, a storyline that will have everyone hope it will last
forever. A storyline between a superstar..and a diva!" he said with dollar signs in his eye's. Wow this should be
interesting, i've alway's wanted to do one. I wonder who will get picked?
"Ok..but who is the superstar and diva who will be in it?" siad a confused smackdown superstar
"Well, i've put all your names into a hat, and im going to pull out two of then whoever you are,your now one half of my money making couple" he chuckled.
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"Are you serious?" i smiled
"Im dead serious Maria!" the boss said "So do you want to meet your new 'boyfriend'?
I nodded my head, still in shock my name was the name that came out of the hat. This was going to be fun, I could tell.
The only thing that i hoped for, was a nice, fun to be work with kind of guy. And well, a hot one wouldn't be too bad
either. With that McMahons office door swung open and a familar face appeared. I smiled. I knew this guy. Not alot but
I knew him to say hello to. He introduced himself when i first arrived here at Smackdown. Wow, now for a fact I knew
this was going to be so much fun!
"Hey, im guessing your my new 'girlfriend' then?" said, the friendly figure in front of me
"Hi!" i said happily, shaking my so called new 'boyfriends' hand. "This should be fun, right?"
The friendly guy smiled at me."Definately"
"Save it for the camera's you too." McMahon said "Maria, after your match, you come , you'll come over and congragulate her on her no.1 contendership victory." Jeff and i both looked at each other and smiled. Thats right, my wish for a nice, fun to work with guy came true ,I even got my bonus. Jeff was hot!
"Snap out of it you too!" McMahon said again. "Jeff, as I was saying, you'll congragulate Maria here, on her victory and..i don't know,use one of your chat up lines or something."
Jeff laughed a bit. "Yeah okay sir, I get it. It's not the first time i've been in one of theese storylines you know"
Jeff turned around to me and put out his hand."Ready to go girlfriend?" This was fun, I think i could get use to this
storyline rather quickly..
Outside the bosses office Jeff started a conversation.
"So who are you facing tonight Maria?"
"Umm..Candice" i said smiling at him.
"Oh that's interesting" he laughed
"It is?" i asked confused
"Well yeah, I meen I had a storyline with her before, it will probably turn into a rivalry between you two, all because of me, but then again i'm Jeff Hardy right? Who could blame you" he joked.
I laughed. "Way to win a girls heart over! But yeah, this probably will turn into a rivalry. This is great im going to be able to kick my friends ass"
"Oh your fiesty? That's cool" he said, still smiling. His teeth where pearly white and shiny.
"I'm not alway's innocent and sweet you know, I do have a mean streak" I blushed
He laughed some more."I guess so. So anyway's I guess we'll be hanging out alot now?"
"Yeah, i guess so" I said, still blushing
"Cool, this is going to be fun. You seem like a really cool girl.I guess we'll be travelling alot together too, if McMahon wants us to be together litrally 24/7" Jeff smiled at me again, and began to make fun of the boss. "Save it for the camera's you two!" I was laughing so hard I couldn't breath. Jeff was certainly something.
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Everything had gone perfectly in my match, the way it was suppose to. I was now getting ready for my backstage segmant with Jeff. Whenever i thought of him I felt myself smiling, but why? I meen I only knew the guy less than an had some type of effect in me. I was just about to drift into a daydream when my bestfried , also known as 'The Blonde Bombshell' Kelly Kelly, burst through the door. She had a smile on her face that looked like it would have to be surgicly removed.
"Oh my gosh! Why didnt you tell me? When where you going to tell me? How come your still not telling me?" she insisted.
"Tell you what?" I said, kind of confused from all of the questions she'd just asked.
"Tell me what?" she mocked "Tell me about your new storyline with Jeff Hardy! Also known as Jeff Hottie!!" she said still not calming down. This was the thing about Kelly. She got over excited easily. I didn't even know alot about my storyline, how could she have found out?
"Oh, that? Kelly seriously don't be un-professional, it's a storyline. And i only found out 30 minutes ago so to be honest I can't tell you anything other than that, we're doing a couple's storyline together."
"Un-professional my ass!" she laughed. "You can't tell me you dont think Jeff is extremly hot?"
"Okay..he's a good looking guy, but that doesn't change anything. This is a storyline and me and Jeff just met, I didn't really know him Kellz, so seriously what ever idea's your thinking, quit thinking them" I said, quite seriously "Now if you'll excuse me, i have to go find..." i thought about saying his name for a second, but then it would have Kelly asking me questions that I don't even know. "Somebody..right now so bye" I ran out of the locker room before i got mauled with another 25 questions.
I walked through my hotel door. Kelly was still asking questions that i didn't know about except this time, Ashley was helping her out.
"You see Ash, I told you she won't tell anything." Kelly said putting on the saddest face she could possibly manage.
"Don't worry Kellz, i'll just ask Matt has Jeff told him anything" Ashley smirked at me.
"Urgh seriously you guys are so annoying! Its a freaking storyline how many times I gotta tell you? And we only started it today, so get those thought out of your thick heads!" i snapped, I was getting annoyed by now as I was tired, and when i'm tired, i'm not one bit happy.
"Well then if nothing is going on how come you didn't tell me he was the guy you where doing a backstage segmant with?" Kelly asked.
"Because I knew you would be nosy and as a hundred questions about it! It's nothing to do with you" I glanced over at Ashley "And that goes for you too! Stay out of my buisneass, both of you."
I knew they wouldn't let me go asleep until they knew every single detail, so instead I decided to go for a stroll around the really fancy hotel we where staying at. I sat in the little cafИ that was there. Not many people where in it, just a young couple, and one woman. This came as no suprise seeming it was 11:45 p.m. I took a seat and ordered a hot chocolate. Ok so call me a kid for liking hot chocolate, but it's just so delicious, and when I was younger I used to get it to cheer me up. So why not continue drinking what I like right? When the friendly waitress walked over with my hot chocolate, i gladly took it and thanked her. I then began to think of how fun this day was. I was so happy to have been choosen to do this storyline with Jeff. Jeff Hardy. I was smiling thinking of him again. Wow this is the guy I started to talk to a few hours ago. And now he's constantly on my mind. Ok it sounds kind of creepy, but come on.. You can't blame me. Just as I was about to stand up and leave I heard a voice that made my heart skip a beat.
"Hey, can't you sleep" the ever so friendly man said.
"Jeff, hi. Um, well I can but my won't let me" I smiled back at my new so called boyfriend. Vince said we had to make things look real. He wanted this storyline to be a realistic one, So Jeff gave me a kiss on the cheek seeming as a family with a little boy wearing a Jeff Hardy top walked by saying 'Mom look theres Jeff and his new girlfriend' Jeff waved out the window at him, as did I.
"So they won't let poor Maria sleep will they not?" Jeff joked when the little boy was out of sight
"No they won't let poor me sleep" i agreed. "Why are you down here though? You like drinking coffee late at night?"
"Actually.." he began "I needed to get away from the guy's"
"Oh..I think I know how you feel, what are they saying?" I asked
"Umm..not much, the same questions over and over again" he sighed "It's annoying so I thought I'd go for a walk. And then I saw you so, whats better than spending my night with Maria Kanellis?" Jeff joked again. I loved his personality, he was funny, charming,kind,hot!
"Nothing's better" I joked along with him.
"Your suppose to say, the only thing better is spending the night with you" he smiled "You suck at chat up lines Ria"
"Oh well thanks ever so much Jeff!" I playfully hit his arm
He laughed. "Hey you want another drink?"
"Sure, it's better than going back up to my hotel room" I said, gladly accepting his offer.
Jeff ordered himself coffee while I got another hot chocolate. He was easy to talk to. There was no awkwardness
between us, and I liked that.
After a few minutes of listening to Jeff's jokes and stories, i decided i would get to know him better.
"So Jeff.." I started
"Yeah" he replied, in a really sweet voice
"I was just wondering, how come you have that tattoo up your arm?" i continued "You don't have to tell me I was just-"
He cut in "No it's ok" he laughed "To be honest i dont know, I like to be different, and well there's not many guys out there who have a tattoo of roots up there arm now is there?"
I laughed back "No I guess there isn't. I like it, it's really unusual" I smiled at the man who was smiling into my eye's.
I felt as if i was being hypnotized. And i didn't know if that was a good thing or not.
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I tippy toed into my hotel room, hoping Kelly would be asleep. Much to my dismay she wasn't.
"There you are! You had me worried sick, where did you go to?" she once again asked me a load of stupid questions
"I went to get away from you, Ashley and the ridiculous questions! Which looks like are restarting" I snapped
"Ria, we only want the truth" she smiled "If you like Jeff well then-"
I stopped her right there "Hold on Kellz! I do not like Jeff. He's a really cool guy but seriously, we only met today. So can we drop this and go to bed please?" i begged.
Kelly just smiled "Sure, okay then. I believe you Ria, but as soon as you start to like-"
Once again I stopped her. "Ugh Kellz, that's it i'm tired, i'm going to !"
And that was the end of our conversation.I lay on bed that night thinking to myself. Was Kelly right? Did I have a slight
crush on the younger Hardy brother? Even though we just met today, we had some sort of though I
was really tired,I couldn't go asleep. Everytime I shut my eye's I remembered the way Jeff had being smiling at me.
I remembered our backstage segmant, where he told me I looked good. Even though it was a part of the storyline, I
couldn't help but hope that a part of him, felt the same way I did. And that's when I knew, that I never wanted my
friendship with Jeff Hardy to ever end.
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It was one week later, we where getting use to being with the superstars more. I think there was a few crushes developing from some superstars and divas. To be honest, I hoped there was. The way i saw it was that if other people where starting to have crushes, maybe they'd be to occupied talking about there love lives, than about mine. Not that I have one, just the fact everyone thinks me and Jeff have a 'thing' for each other. Which was crazy...right?
"Mickie, where did you put my new shoes?" said the Candy coated diva.
"Hey, how am i suppose to know?Your the one who un-packed your things" Mickie said in defence of herself.
"Yeah but..you know i'm a terrible person for forgetting where i put things, you should've been watching!" Candice said
With that Ashley threw two silver stap-up heels into the bedroom "Shut up you two, they where beside the table"
If your wondering why everyone was getting all dressed up, it's because we had arranged to go to some club with the guys. Well, Mickie arranged. We all knew why, it was because she had a major crush on Randy. And boy she didn't try hide it one bit. As all the girls where still getting ready, I sat on the sofa, stuffing my phone, ipod, money, room key and of course lip-gloss into my purse. I was ready.
"Will you all hurry up" I shouted "I want to go club! And your all taking forever"
"Sorry" the four fablulous diva's said at the exact the same time.
"Yeah yeah! well i'm walking down to the shop to get some bubble-gum, try be ready when I come back" I pleaded.
"Where are they?" i heard Mickie whine.
"I have no clue, but isn't it the girl's who are suppose to be late" asked the punk princess.
"You guy's" I started "give them some time there probably got in traffic or something".
"They better be!" Candice demanded
I sighed. I was hoping that the guys' wouldn't be much longer. I didn't no how much of the girls' whining I could take.
A few minutes later, the guys' limo showed up and they stepped out. I was impressed. They looked really well, all of
was the first to give a comment.
"Randy, you look really nice" said the hyper diva in a really flirtacious voice.
"Thanks" was all Randy said, and Mickie didn't seem to impressed seeming he didn't comment her outfit she spent 2 hours deciding to wear.
While all the girls where 'flirting' I just stood there, not knowing what to say..or who to say it I didn't have to go over to the guy that I wanted to go over to, instead he came over to me.
"Hey" he said.
I was happy that he, Jeff Hardy came over to me. "Hey,you look really nice" I said back happily
He laughed " Thanks, you look really nice too, so you want to go inside?"
I giggled a bit "Sure let's go" Jeff took my hand as there where paparazzi everywhere, and once againn we had to make our storyline look real. I saw Kelly give me a cheeky smile and motioned down to where my hand met Jeffs. I glared at her.
"Your unbelievable" I whispered to her
"What did I do?" Jeff said mistaken who I was talking to.
I smiled at him "Not you Jeff, her" I pointed over at Kelly.
"Hey I didn't open my mouth Kanellis!" she laughed
"You didn't need to" I snapped, getting really annoyed by her child-like behaviour.
"Oh Maria come on, don't be mad, not in front of Jeff" she mocked again, thinking this was some type of joke.
I know I was probably over reacting,but it was so embarrassing for your bestfriend to make you look like a complete lovestruck teenager.
"Shut up Kelly" I said, still smiling as there was camera flashes on me and Jeff.
"Maria, don't be so boring, it's only a joke" she said
I sighed "Kelly, sometimes you have to know when a joke goes too far" I glanced at Jeff who was looking at me unsure of what both Kelly and I where talking about.
"Um, I think we should go in now" Jeff siad, nodding towards the door.
"Yeah, so do I" I said back at him, with a fake smile. I walked in with Jeff, leaving Kelly outside because i didn't want to hear what she was going to say next.
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A/N: Err..yeah im not so hapy with this chapter, but I just wanted to give you an idea and, I didn't want it to get too dramatic too soon. So please review if you like it and want you guys'! [: