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Chapter Thirty:

Edge wakes up to see that it is daylight. "Oh man, I feel asleep." He smacks his head. "Please tell me Johnny is still there. Jeff had to leave sometime during the night with the rules of the shelter. He runs to the shelter door to have it locked. "What it can't be locked?" He tries again and again. "Damn it." He pounds on the door.

"Edge, you are quite early to visit Jamie." Michelle joins him.

"Yeah, I plan to take her out as a surprise. I want to wake her up." He makes an excuse to cover his presence.

"Oh she doesn't like surprises that much." Michelle informs him.

"There is no harm in trying, right?" Edge smiles.

"I guess not." She opens the door.

"You don't lock the door." He is surprise that she just opened the door with ease.

"We don't lock it ourselves, it automatically locks itself. There is a trick to open it when it is close. The door behind this one is the one we lock during the day." She enters to open the lights.

"What is the trick?" Edge asks so he can enter at any time.

"That information is for staff and volunteers only." She is suspicious on why he wants to know.

"I see, well I am going to head to Jamie's room now." He smiles as he heads there. When he sees Michelle enter her office, he then heads straight to Johnny's room. He is surprise that Jeff is there beside Johnny sleeping.

"I thought we are not supposed to stay overnight." He ponders to himself.

"Mr. Adam, what are doing here?" Jamie asks wiping her eyes. On Edge's second day with her, he told her to call him by his real name, Adam. Jamie is also a light sleeper and any unfamiliar noises can wake her up.

"I came here to surprise you. I want to take you out for the day." Edge explains part of his presence.

"I don't know Michelle might need help with activities." Since Joan and Johnny are going to be adopted, Jamie steps in to help Michelle.

"I am sure Michelle can deal without you for one day." He smiles. He is taken a care for Jamie these past couple of days. Yes, he is using her, but each day he is going fawn of her.

"I still don't know Mr. Adam. I am not comfortable to be along with you right now. I am sorry." She hangs her head down.

"Oh Jamie it is okay. Maybe next week we can go out." He hugs her.

"For my birthday." Edge nods. "Can I invite my friends?" She perks up.

"I don't know about that." He is concern about the restraining order. There is a high possibility that Joan will be there."

"Oh okay, I am just going to get dress, so we can play some games."

"You do that while I set up the game." Their favourite game is Monopoly. Edge let's her win most of the although, he will deny it whenever he catches him to lose on purpose. He gets the game from the shelf to start setting it up.

Jeff awakes from the sound of laughter. He checks beside him to see Johnny still sound asleep. "Who could be up so early?" He ponders. After getting up, he heads to the common area to see Edge and Jamie having fun. To his dismay, this scene puts a smile on his face. Jamie truly looks genuine happy, but he wonders if this is an act on the part of Edge. After witnessing, he hopes, Edge's softer side, he heads back to Johnny's room to have him stretch to wake up his bones.

"Hey buddy, how did you sleep?" Jeff leans on the doorway.

"Great with you here with me." Jeff is speechless with his jaw dropped. Johnny chuckles at his expression. "I woke up when I felt a movement on my bed. I looked behind me to see you there. You scared me at first, but when I saw your face I calmed down. Moreover, what are you doing here?" He is puzzled with that all visitors can't spend the night.

"I just want to be sure you are okay. You seem very distracted last night." He speaks his reasons while sitting next to him.

"You saw the message, didn't you?" Johnny sighs.

"Yes buddy." He admits the truth. "Why didn't you tell me about it? This is something you shouldn't face alone." He sees the rebuttal on his face. "Joan is not only one you should have told. Lita and I are to help, guide, and protect you. If someone threatens, make fun of, or hurts we want to hear about it." Jeff advises.

"I just don't want you two involved. I don't want you three hurt." He explains caring for his future family.

"We appreciate that, but the right thing to do is to let us know. We know sometimes you want to deal with situations on your own, but that doesn't mean we support you. We need to know in case you do need us there. Does that sound like I good compromise?"

"Yes, I'm sorry for not telling you." He hugs him.

"It is okay next time come talk to at least one of us or Lita's parents. We all care about you. Now, how about you change so we can start unpacking your clothes and valuables at the house?"

"Can I wear an outfit from yesterday that we bought?" He asks excited.

"I thought you would want to, so I have them in your closet."

"Why in there? You have to take them out anyways to put them in my closet in my room."

"These are only some of the clothes we bought. They are just for you to wear when you wake up. You don't want to wear your pajamas all day."

"Yes I do." Johnny jokes.

"Get dress funny man." He chuckles.

After Johnny gets all dressed, they head out to see Jamie with Edge. "Hey, Johnny." Jamie waves at them.

"Hello Jamie." He waves back.

"Come here, I want to tell you something." She waves them over. Johnny gulps at her request as they head there.

"Jamie, I am going to get some breakfast. I'll be back." Edge excuses following his order.

"Why, I want you to meet my friends." She pouts.

"Maybe another time, sweetie. You want bacon, sausage, and jelly on your toast, right?" He remembers her favourite breakfast meal.

"And a-"

"You want a huge glass of orange juice." He chuckles.

"No just a small glass." She giggles at his exaggeration.

"Of course, what was I thinking?" He slaps his forehead.

"Hello Jamie." Johnny greets trying to avoid Edge. He looks at them and leaves.

"Hello Johnny, I want to invite you to my birthday party here next week." She utters. With some pouting and sweet compliments, Edge cave in to have her invite her friends to her party.

"Sounds great, what time?"

"It will be at 5 pm until 11 pm. Mr. Adam is going to ask Michelle if we can stay up that long out of our room."

"Mr. Adam, wow Edge trusts her with his real name. No one, he knows, calls him by his first name." Jeff ponders why Edge would let her greet him by his real name.

"I hope so. I will see you next week for your birthday party." He waves bye. "And I will tell Joan about it as well."

Jeff and Johnny exit the shelter with Edge spying on them. "We need to go with Plan B." He calls Matt, who is still at the hotel room.

"Hey Plan B."

"Are you sure?" Matt asks making him positive to go with this plan.

"Yes." Matt hangs up and sighs.

Jeff and Johnny arrive at the house just in time as Lita and Amy.

"Hello Jeff." Joan, this time, greets him first.

"Now that's more like it." She carries her for a hug. "How is my best girl doing?" He asks.

"Oh you know I am good. I miss you." Lita answers.

"Amy, he was talking to me." She huffs.

"Oops sorry, Johnny how is my best boy doing?" She picks him up.

"Good, did you hear that Jeff you have been replaced?" He cuddles to Lita.

"Oh Lita, you have been cheating on me?" He is in pretend shock.

"Don't worry Jeff you have me." Joan cuddles to him.

"Thanks, sweetie." He kisses her head.

"So Lita, do you want to see our house?" Johnny asks.

"Yes, Joan do you want to see our house?" Joan and LIta both answer yes.

They enter the house to find it more home-like than before. There are couches, shelves, tables, curtains, and pictures on the wall.

"Wow, this is nice. I think we need to make this house our family home." Lita compliments.

"I don't know it only has two bedrooms. I don't want my princess to sleep in a cramp room; she should have her own."

"That's right." She crosses her arms. Everyone giggles at her action.

After showing them the tour of the house, Lita, and Jeff carry the supplies from the car to the house. Since most of it is Johnny's, it is left in his room.

"So what does everybody want for breakfast?" Jeff offers unpacking the groceries.

"I want some bacon and toast." Joan replies.

"Me too please." Johnny also replies.

"Coming right out." He heads to the stove with a pan to heat it up." What do you want, sweetheart?"

"I want my man." She whispers.

"What about us controlling our urges?" He whispers back.

"Right, I am just testing." She pecks her on the cheek. "So, who is up to watch some cartoons or play cards."

"Me." Joan and Johnny both jump in excitement.

After breakfast, they start to unpack Johnny's supplies for his room. During that, Jeff informs Lita about the text and why the children were acting weird yesterday.

"Who do you think send the message?"

"I don't know, but it has to be Matt. Edge doesn't have my number."

"What if Matt gave him your number?"

"It could be a possibility. Why would they stalk Johnny, he can't-"?

"Oh my goodness." She figures out why. "The restraining order."

"What do you mean?" Jeff doesn't get the connection.

"The restraining order doesn't include Johnny. He is trying to get him to ruin the adoption."

"No, Johnny will not do that. He loves us that is why he didn't tell us. He doesn't want any of us involve with this." He won't believe that is the case.

"I don't want another reason besides that one."

"We will go ask Johnny who send the message. Johnny." He calls out who is putting the rest of clothes into his drawers.

"Yes Jeff." He joins them.

"Who is the one who send the text to my phone?"

"I don't know it is an unknown number."

"Do you know who you could text me this?"

Johnny nervously fidgets with his fingers. "I have a feeling that Edge is the one who sent it."

"Why would you think that?"

"Well, Edge came to talk to me yesterday before Jeff go there. He told me that you two, well Jeff is a bad man. He said you took Lita from him. He also said that you, Lita, are a cheater. He wants me to sabotage the adoption or else. He warns me that he can be a bad man."

"So this is the complete reason why you two were so clingy yesterday." Johnny nods.

"Trust me, we will deal with him you and Joan are perfectly safe with us. Joan-" She calls out. "Joan!" She calls out again when she doesn't reply. They find her at the window. "Joan, what are you-" She looks out the window to see Matt exit a cab in front of the house. "Jeff, why is your brother here?"

"What, he doesn't know where my house is." He joins them along with Johnny.

"I've seen him before. He looks like the person that was spying on us at sleep country. I bet he is the one who sent the text." Johnny utters.

"Doesn't he have a condition to not ruin our vacation or even come near us?" Lita ponders back to what Stephanie's conditions about Matt conditions on returning to the WWE.

"Yes he does." He also recalls Stephanie's conditions.

"I am calling Stephanie." Lita dials her number. "Hi Stephanie."

"Hello Lita, how is your time off?" She is surprise that they called her.

"Good, but there something you should know."

"You and Jeff are adopting two children." She reveals happily.

Lita gasps. "How do you know about that?"

"Child Services called for a background check on both of you. Congratulations you two on that."

"We are in the probation period, but we are determined to be legal parents to them."

"That's great, anything else." She senses that is not the reason for the call.

"Yes, what was Matt's condition to return to work?"

"It was to not interfere or go near you two, why?"

"Joan, a child we are adopting saw him. Our other child, Johnny, confirm that he has been spying on him."

"Okay, I will look into this. If it is him, I let you two know." Stephanie offers.

"Thanks Stephanie." Stephanie hangs up and dials another number. "Hello Matt, where are you?"

"I am with my parents." Matt replies.

"You haven't been to Atlanta recently, haven't you?"

"No I haven't. I want my job back, Stephanie. I am following your conditions."

"So if I call your parents' home phone they will confirm it." She doubts his truth.

"Yes they will."

"Okay, stay on the line I will call them." Stephanie calls Matt and Jeff's parents.

"Hello." Mrs. Hardy greets.

"Hello Mrs. Hardy, this is Stephanie, principal owner of WWE. I am wondering if your son, Matt, is with you?"

Mrs. Hardy gulps. "Yes Stephanie he is." Her voice is a bit shaky.

"Okay thank you." Mrs. Hardy hangs up.

"Your story checks out I will be checking up on you more to make sure you do." She warns.

"No problem." He hides his nervousness.

"Have a good day." She hangs up.

Back at the Hardy household, Mrs. Hardy turns around to face someone. "Good job." The person appreciates.

"Why are you doing this?" She asks frighten of the person with her husband laid passed out on the couch.

"I want revenge and I am going to get. If she calls again, you know what to do." The person exits with a smirk on his face.

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