Chapter 3
"She's here?" Stephanie asked as Shane entered the room.
"Yeah, she's all settled. You may want to talk to her though. She's having second thoughts."
"I knew she would. That's why I didn't tell the guys she was coming. I'll calm her down. Don't worry"
"Wait you were planning on telling them?"
"Of course, it's their story line, and besides I think Jeff will freak out if she just appears."
"So what?"
"Shane, we can't just let them all go on without telling them. There's a lot of history. You know that."
"Of course I know that. But making sure Jeff Hardy is okay with this does not concern me. Jessica does. She deserves to be here and we never should of just let her quit."
"We didn't have a choice. She wasn't in the right frame of mind to work, you know that. I always figured eventually she would be ready to return. I just didn't think it would take this long." Stephanie cell rang. "It's Jess. Hey!" She said answering it. "Whoa, calm down. Look I'm coming now, don't worry and don't leave." She hung up.
"I warned you." Shane said.
"Okay I'll go talk to her. I want you to go find the Hardy's; they should be with Jay and Adam. Tell them she's here. Make sure this is good. Meet us back in Jess's room."
"All right." He said as Stephanie left. He then sat down. He had no intention of warning the Jeff. He wanted to see the pain that everyone says he still feels over Jessica. He deserved it. Jess will be angry of course but she'll get over it. One step back in that ring and she will never want to give it up again. He was doing this for her, making it up to her for letting her get hurt in the first place.
He had always known that Hardy was going to hurt her. He tried to stop it at first, getting Stephanie and even his parents involved in trying to get her to leave him. Jess wouldn't even think about it. No matter how many things Shane tried, Jessica always ran to Jeff. Stephanie eventually told him to lay off. Jessica was in love and there was nothing he could do about it. His sister even went so far as to accuse Shane of being obsessed with it, which wasn't completely untrue. He had know Jess for almost all their lives and Shane had started to develop feelings for her but never spoke up about it. Eventually Shane married and he had distanced himself from her a bit as to not hurt his wife, who had also noticed his closeness to her.
When Jessica joined the WWE, Shane was happy for her. He saw how happy performing in front of the crowd made her. Then she got the Hardy storyline and everything changed. He saw her getting closer and closer to Jeff but Shane couldn't stop it. Jessica even cut him off after getting tired of listening to him warn her about Jeff. In the end Shane was right. Hardy cheated on her, broke her heart and he and Steph had to pick up the pieces. There was a knock at the door and Jeff entered.
"Hey uhm, is Steph available?"
"No, she had to get some things done before we start. I'll tell her you were looking for her."
"Yeah, thanks."
"No problem." Jeff turned to leave, "Oh good luck tonight." Shane said with a smile as Jeff closed the door.
As Jeff headed to the locker room, Shane's smirk flashed into his head. The uneasiness that he felt in his stomach all day, grew stronger. Something was up.
"Hey." Matt greeted him as he entered. "What happened to you?"
"After I got off the phone with Meg, I went back to talk to Stephanie."
"About what?"
"What else? I don't think we should do this storyline."
"What did she say?"
"She wasn't there. Shane was. I didn't really think of sharing with him."
"Yeah, I could see why."
"Hey Jeff." Jay came over to them.
"Hey, welcome back." He said and gave him a friendly hug.
"Good to be back. You ready for tonight?"
"Yea sure."
"Great, hey check this out. They made a montage of our feuds." He popped a tape into the TV and soon images of the past came on screen. They watched clips of them all fighting, the tricks, the stunts, and then her face came on the screen. All of the sudden Jeff stood up.
"I'll see you guys later." He said and walked out of the room. Jay looked to Matt.
"I take it he's not happy."
"He'll be all right. He's having problems with Meg and this whole story just threw him for a loop. He just needs a little time. I'm pretty sure Stephanie's not gonna push the Jessica part." Matt said as he looked up at the screen. Why was she in those clips? Sure, she was a huge part in the original story line, but there was plenty of stuff with just the four of them.
"Have you spoken to her?" Adam asked.
"Jessica? I haven't seen her since that day. She never returned any phone calls and I just figured that's how she wanted it."
"Steph said she was a wreck at first. I just think in the beginning, she just felt she couldn't talk about it." Jay said.
"What about a couple of weeks later, or even months. I was calling her even a year after and she still wouldn't pick up."
"She got help." Adam interjected.
"What."
"Steph said that after a couple of months Jessica only got worse. Steph was worried about her and convinced her to go into hospital."
"Shit, are you kidding me?" Matt asked surprise.
"No, I'm dead serious."
"I can't believe it. All because of Jeff?"
"I'm pretty sure there was a lot of stuff going on besides Jeff. You know Jess, she never really talked much about her life, just focused on all us, you know but we all saw she there was something going on. I convinced Stephanie to tell me where she was, and sent her some flowers."
"Any response?"
"She sent a thank you note, said she missed us all and that was it. I called a couple of times after that but same as you, she never picked up." Adam sighed. "Hopefully she's out there getting the happiness she deserves."
