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Chapter Thirty-One:
"What did she say?" Jeff asks while the children are back on the couch watching cartoons.
"She said she will call back to let us know where he is." Lita replies back.
"What if Matt lies to her?" Jeff ponders. He might lie to save his chance to get back in the WWE.
"That could be a possibility, but why would he? Why would he jeopardize his probably last chance to return?"
"I don't know. I don't know him like I used to." Jeff wipes a hand down his face.
"We should just wait for Stephanie's call. Oh, she also congratulated us on the adoption."
"How does she know about that?" They both agreed not to tell anyone.
"Apparently Child Services called them for a background check."
"Well then." He pretends to be pissed.
"You don't believe me." He shakes his head. "Why would a lie about that information?"
"You are excited. You want to tell the whole world." He continues to pretend.
"Of course, I want to reveal it to everyone that I am adoption a wonderful child while you are adoption a handsome child. However, Child Services did call her." She repeats surprise by his reaction.
"Okay, I believe you." He starts to walk away.
"Hey-" She stops in front of him. "I don't like this game. It makes me think you don't trust me." She huffs.
"Of course I trust you. I am sorry for playing games. When Stephanie calls again, tell her thank you." He pecks her on the lips.
"Thanks." She starts to walk away.
"Hey!" He grabs her hand to have her face him. "You tricked me."
"That's right, I lied right in your face." She chuckles.
"Fine, I can never trick you."
"Child Services did actually call her." She restates a third time.
"I know. She called me to congratulate us yesterday."
"What, you mean- I hate you." She turns around with his back facing him.
"You love me." He brings her close.
"No I mean it I h-" She gets interrupted by him turning her around to kiss her. The kiss continues until the moment gets interrupted.
"Mommy, someone is at the door." Joan calls out fully realizing what she said.
Both of them smile with pride, "What did you say, Joan?" They call out from the kitchen.
"I called out 'Mommy, there is someone at the door.'" She repeats again.
"Okay, you two are okay?" She asks.
"Yes mommy we are fine. Daddy, tell mommy we are fine here so she can answer the door." Johnny answers this time.
Jeff just chuckles at Johnny's orders. "Well baby, you heard our children let us answer the door." He pecks her cheek.
"We shall." Lita opens the door to see a courier at the door.
"Hello, is this the Jeff Hardy residence?"
"Yes, may I help you?" He stops in front of Lita just in case.
"Envelope for you." The courier hands him a beige envelope.
"What is this?" He takes the envelope to inspect it.
"I don't know sir. Someone delivered this to me today and told me to give you this. Your guess is better than mine. Have a nice day" He walks to the next house.
"Thank you." He appreciates before closing the door.
"What do you think it is?"
"And who is it from?" Jeff includes.
"Well I am about 80% that it is from either Matt and/ or Edge." Lita speculates.
"I suppose." As they are about to open it, both their phones ring. "It is my mother."
"It is Stephanie. I guess the envelope needs to wait." Jeff lays it down on the counter. He enters his bedroom while Lita enters Johnny's.
Lita's phone call "Hello Stephanie." "She greets.
"Lita, so I called Matt and he says he has been with his parents the whole time. I didn't believe at first, so I warned him that I will call his parents and he agreed. I called them to see if he was lying he wasn't. His mother proved his statement right." She informs Lita.
"I am guessing that is not all of it. You are suspicious of the confession." She feels there is more for her to say.
"Her voice was a bit shaky when she answered. It sounded like someone made her recite the answer. Someone was at the house to make sure she recites the message perfectly." Stephanie offer her theory.
"I could be or I am just paranoid. You see Edge has been popping here for a while. Maybe I thought, mostly me they could be in contact together. Actually, Jeff question if they were a team and he didn't deny it. They want to sabotage our adoption." She investigates this situation.
"Wait, Edge has talked to you before; you two have crossed paths." She questions. As he is supposed to be his niece, who is in the hospital right now.
"Yes, it was our first day of visiting my parents. We went to the shelter to help them out. He caused a scene that officer had to come in to escort him out. After that, he wanted to adopt a child like we are. He is hanging around Jamie at the shelter sometimes." She discloses." Why is this wrong?"
"He said he is going to visit his niece who is having surgery. He requested a two months off just like you granted like you two. Thanks for the information. I will deal with him. You two just inform me on any encounters you have with Edge or Matt. I am still not convinced he is at his parent's house." She grins.
"Will do?" She hangs up with a sigh. 'Will Edge ever leave me alone?'
Jeff's phone call: "Hello mom."
"Oh baby boy, we need to talk. Is there any possibility we could… umm…"
"Mom, what happened to you?" He knows that her mom only sounds like this when she needs a big favour.
"Edge-"
"Never mind. Now what do you need?" He is frustrated with Edge involvement in his life which now includes his parents.
"Is there a possibility that we could stay with you for a few days?" She nervously asks. She doesn't want to take a chance of him returning to do more harm.
"I don't know. I have to propose the idea to Child Service. Lita's parents bought their own house so Lita can use their house. I will call Child Services and get back to you."
"Okay." She sounds disappointed that it is not a yes.
"You know I would have both of you over to stay with me in a heartbeat, however I have to follow their rules." He sighs hating to disappoint his parents.
"I know just try to ask asap. I don't want Edge to return back here." She terrified on Edge's possible return.
"I will. Don't worry just stay put." He advises.
"Thank you, Jeff." She hangs up.
Jeff runs his hand down his face. "Edge, you will regret getting my family involved." He heads to the kitchen to join Lita who is already there. "What did Stephanie say?" He blurts out.
"She said that Matt is with your parents." He scuffs knowing that is dishonest. "She doesn't believe him even though she called your mother to confirm it."
"She did, but she was forced to say that by someone." He reveals to her.
"Who?" Lita inquires as she remembers about Stephanie's speculation.
"Guess who." He is disgusted with the answer.
"Edge." He nods. "I have to call Stephanie."
"Why?" He is surprise at her first reaction.
"Apparently Edge lied to Stephanie to have time off." Jeff rolled his eyes. "Edge told Stephanie that-" She gets interrupted by Joan's scream.
"Mommy, daddy I saw and heard a horrible image and video." Joan rushes to Lita to hug her.
"What did… where is the envelope?" She looks around to not see it anywhere.
"Johnny and I opened it." Joan says innocently.
"Joan, that is not yours to open. You don't open envelopes or anything that isn't yours." Lita yells at her.
"I'm sorry." She runs to Johnny's room.
"Lita, we don't know what is even in there. You can't yell at her like that." Jeff is astonished at the way she handled the situation.
She takes a breath. "I am just frustrated. These months are supposed to be relaxing, to spend more time with you without distraction, but it is not like that at all. I thought leaving for a few months who get Edge off my back.""
"I know, however don't let it out on Joan. She hasn't done anything wrong. You at least have to listen to her explanation on why she opened it." Jeff rubs her cheek to calm her down.
"Okay." She takes a few calm breathes. "I will be with Joan and you will stay with Johnny." She suggests.
"Okay, I love you." He smiles.
"I love you." They share a beautiful, short kiss.
When Jeff heads into the living room, his jaw drops. "Hi Jeff, is Joan okay?" Johnny asks peeking through his eyes to see it is in fact him.
"Johnny, this was in the envelope." He nods.
"It was labelled 'Lita and Jeff's special event.' I thought it was the Summerslam event. I missed watching it so we put the DVD in. When it played, it did show you two, but you were umm…" He doesn't know the right words to put it.
"Okay, come with me." He waves him over.
"I don't want to uncover my eyes." He doesn't move afraid that he will trip with his eyes close.
Jeff finds the remote and turns the TV off. "Okay, you are safe now."
Johnny peeks again to see the TV turned off. He runs to Jeff for a hug." What was that movie? What were you two doing?" He inquires.
Jeff doesn't know what to say. How do you explain to a twelve-year-old that they were having sex? "Ummm… it is a grown-up activity that two people in love will do." He nervously answers.
"But you two were naked and making weird sounds." He utters shaking his head to get rid of the sounds.
"Yes… how about we watch the Summerslam event; the real one." He changes the subject hopefully to postpone the talk.
"But you didn't answer my question." He is suspicious on what he didn't answer.
"When Lita and Joan join us I will try to explain it to you." He bides him more time to figure out how to explain the video.
Joan and Lita: "Joan?" Lita knocks on the door.
"I don't want any company." Joan sniffles out.
"I am sorry for yelling at you. I have been frustrated with some of the events that have happened. However, that gives me no reason for yelling at you. You were just curious with the package." She opens the door to see her on her side facing the window.
"Amy." Lita sighs that she didn't call her mom. "It was horrible. There were all these different noises and you two were naked."
"What, I was naked? Joan, what is on that video?" She should have asked before she yelled. If what she is thinking is on the video, she had the right to yell for her.
"I do not know what it is. It showed you two kissing each other like you do all the time and then it cut to Jeff on top of you. He was moving up and down slow at first and then faster. It was a horrible scene. You were screaming and clawing his back like he was hurting you. "Why did you let him do that?" She wonders.
Lita is in shock on what their innocent children saw. They didn't know there were cameras where they made love. "Joan, Jeff wasn't hurting me he is not like Edge. He was making me feel good. We were celebrating." She tries to explain.
"Celebrating?" She is confused. She hasn't seen that kind of celebration before.
"Yes."
"What were you two celebrating?" She turns to look at her.
"We were celebrating being a couple."
"But why were you two celebrating like that? You could have thrown a party like for birthday."
"Well, this type of celebration is only for two people. Now, you don't do this celebration with just anybody. You celebrate like this with someone you truly love." She authorizes.
"You love Jeff, right?" She inquires.
"Absolutely." She answers without hesitation.
"And he loves you?"
"Yup, but how about you ask him?" She suggests having a plan to tease him a bit.
"Gotcha mommy." She smiles jumping off the bed.
"Mommy?" She smiles back back to Joan with her calling her mommy.
"Yeah, umm… that is okay, right? You two don't mind if I call you mommy and daddy. It will only be when we are in Jeff's or our house."
"Of course you can. I am proud to be your mommy. I love you, Joan." She kisses her hair.
"We are not celebrating like on the video, are we?" She makes a disgusting expressions.
"No sweetie, our love is a family bond it is completely different."
"Phew, I don't think I can do that. I only like to be naked in the bathroom for a shower."
"That is the way it is supposed to be until you find someone like Jeff to be with. Do we have a deal?"
"Yes mommy we do." They exit the bedroom to have Jeff and Johnny laughing. Since Jeff hasn't set up a computer and the laptop is at Lita's, they have to watch it on Jeff's cell phone. After the Summerslam video, they watch some funny moments from WWE.
"Jeff, do you love mommy?" She starts. The boys haven't notice that the girls have entered. "I am guessing he doesn't." She jokes.
"Jeff, baby, you don't love me." She pretends to be upset.
Like a trigger in his brain, Jeff looks up to see Lita upset. "What is wrong with my sweetheart?"
"Joan, ask you if you love me and you didn't answer. I guess you don't love me anymore." She pouts.
"Of course I do. I love you so much. So much that I would celebrate with you all the time." He found a way to explain it to Johnny about the video.
"Wow, daddy really does love you." Joan giggles.
"Hey!" He catches on to their teasing. "That is not fair." He crosses his arms as Johnny moves over still watching the videos.
"I'm sorry Jeff." She pouts again.
He sighs still can't resist her pouts. "Come here." He waves Lita over to have her sit on his lap. "You are my girl that I love. I don't want anyone but you. Don't forget how much I love you." He kisses her.
"We will be in Johnny's room if you two want to celebrate." She sees the first sign from the video.
"Nope we are not celebrating." They break off the kiss. "How about you get your jackets and we will go out to eat? Afterwards, we will play at the park before we visit the shelter." They cheer in excitement.
They exit Johnny's house not noticing Matt there to see how part one of the plan is going.
"Edge, I don't think they watched the video, either of them."
"Why would you say that?" Edge still with Joan playing a new board game. He is waiting for Jamie to come back from the washroom.
"They are cheerful and happy. I for sure thought Lita and Jeff would be furious or devastated."
"How about the children, maybe they saw it?" Edge can't believe they have not seen it yet. He thought they would open it right away.
"They don't look disgusted or scarred about they just saw."
"Okay, this puts us behind schedule. You have to make sure they have watch the video, well at least Jeff and Lita. We need that before we proceed to part two."
"How am I supposed to do that?"
"Figure it out. I don't want all my hard work to be for nothing."
"I thought you are starting to like Jamie." Matt sees the excitement when he visits and talks about her.
"I do, but she won't stop me from getting my revenge. No one will stop me from getting revenge on Jeff and Lita."
"Okay, I will find a way." For a minute, he thought he would let Jamie change his mind.
"Good, call or text me when both of the parts are done." He hangs up. He continues to wait not noticing that Jamie came from the washroom early to hear the end of the conversation. She is upset that he is just using her.
"Hello Stephanie." He greets.
"Hello Matt." She greets happily not conveying her suspicious in any way.
"Since you have been away from Lita and Jeff for this long, I have a proposal for you to return."
"Really." He is excited for this moment.
"Yes, it will happen in two months' time. I will forward you the storyline closer to when you are returning if you accept."
"Of course I do."
"Great, I will be in touch." They both hang up with Stephanie having a devilish grin on her face.
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