Kidnapped
A WWE Fan Fiction Story
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Chapter 22:
I felt the sun peaking through my bedroom window and the warm light hit my face. I was so comfortable, I didn't want to move, let alone open my eyes. I sighed, knowing I'd have to move eventually. As soon as I let out this comfortable sigh I felt a pair of strong arms pull me closer. I smiled remembering everything that happened last night, and to be honest it was the best experience of my life. Stu reached up to gently stroke the side of my face, I leaned into his touch, and slowly opened my eyes to see him leaning up on his elbow and smiling back at me.
"Good morning love!" He said watching my facial expressions trying to figure out if I was going to run and hide, or stay. I had no reason to run, I felt content, and safe, and relaxed. Actually it just hit me that there was however one thing that could make me run...Randy. What was I going to do about him now?
"Good morning!" I smiled back trying to push those thoughts to the back of my mind, at least for now.
"So..." He smirked, "last night was..." I giggled
"Amazing" I answered, trying to hold back my obvious smirk by biting my lower lip.
"I concur" I felt all sorts of butterflies going off in my whole body. I never expected to feel like this ever again... correction I have never felt like this.
"I suppose it's safe to say Kate wasn't wrong when she said we both wanted each other." He said nothing just stared at me. "This is going to sound really silly, and so embarrassing what I am about to admit." He raised an eyebrow at me, he was obviously intrigued. "Ever since I met you, you got under my skin, and I was dead certain you were not my type. You came off as one of those entitled tough guys who think any and every girl should be fawning over them, and to be honest that made me sick." I chuckled a bit, and he continued to listen, I couldn't read his expression, but continued any way. "I mean its a little laughable, you are a womanizing , man who can have any one he wants." I sighed. "And yet I got to know the real you, and you're a really sweet guy, so sweet that you deny what you clearly want for your best friend." He breathing heavier like he was holding back something. I could say I didn't like the look he was giving me now. "Stu...?"
"Is that what you think of me?" he was angry, I never meant that to come out the way he interpreted it. It was supposed to sound romantic and sweet. Damn it I'm such an idiot. He sat up, now looking at me with hurt and frustration.
"Wait.. What?"
"I mean Bugger Jamie, the media writes me off as a player, play boy, womanizer, but when have I ever shown you that? Hell, if I really were I wouldn't be here with you, I'd be in the bar every night to try to hook up with desperate women!" He grabbed his clothes and started to put them back on, as tears streamed down my face.
"Stu, that's not what I meant!" I tried to explain. "I just meant that I never thought some one like you could want some one like me!" That apparently didn't come out right either.
"Why, because I'm a lady's man, and can get any one I want?" I had never seen this side of him.
"You never said... and what about Randy!" He spent most of his time trying to set me up with him, how was I supposed to know.
"Oh right I forgot" I shook his head. "It all comes back to him!" I shook my head, unable to say anything. "You made it clear from day one that you had it bad for him! I may have fallen for you, but you'll never look at me the way you look at him!" He said before turning and leaving out of the door to my bed room. I let loose and started to sob uncontrollably.
When I finally collected my thoughts, and put some clothes on, to go after him, I heard the front door slam shut. 'no!' I whispered to myself. I ran into the living room, and he was gone. I saw Kate sitting at the kitchen table, drinking a cup of coffee, trying not to say anything even though I knew she wanted to. She had obviously heard everything. I ran up to the door, immediately opening it to try to find him, but he was gone already.
"Stu!" I shouted repeatedly standing in the door way hoping he'd come back. "Stu!" I finally broke down in sobs, as Kate came over to wrap her arms around me.
"Shh... hun he's gone. I'm sorry" She said calmly trying to console me rubbing my back.
It took about an hour to calm me down until I felt numb to come back inside, and have some coffee.
"Jamie, what happened?" I knew she'd ask eventually. I took a deep breath, and told her everything.
"Oh, Kate you were right, I have fallen for Stu" She tried to hide her smirk behind taking a sip of her coffee. She wanted to jump up and say I told you so, but because of the current situation she refrained. "I guess all of the alcohol I had last night put down my walls for me and I was able to admit that to myself and him." I swallowed. "I thought he felt the same way, and perhaps he does, but I screwed it up!"
"What do you mean you screwed it up, what happened? I mean Jam I can tell that man is smitten by you, and he admitted to me he felt for you, so what could have been so bad to make him storm out?" She gave me a stare down smirking at me. " I mean from the noises I was hearing last night, you both must have … some skills!" I blushed, knowing that she had in fact heard.
"Kate!" she laughed seeing how red my face got.
"Oh relax, just tell me what you think you did?"
"Last night was perfect, and I woke up still in his embrace. I have never had anything that perfect before." She nodded knowing the only man I'd ever been with had been my crazy heartless Ex, so of course I wouldn't know what 'making love' really meant. "I was trying to sound sweet, and convey how I felt about him, but it came out wrong, he got angry." I told her what I had said , word for word.
"Oh..." She sighed. "Jamie... I get it on both ends, you babble too much, and the point can be sometimes missed. I know you well enough to know you were trying to tell him how you felt" I nodded, thank goodness someone understood me. "...but I can also see how that would sound heart breaking to Stu." Oh no I didn't want to break his heart. "All he heard was you thought he was trying to play you, and what about Randy?" I sighed, trying not to cry again.
"I didn't mean that!"
"I know Jam," He held my hand. "He had spent this whole time trying to set you up with Randy, how could you know, except you could see on both of your faces and hear it in your voices, that you were in love with each other."
"How do I fix this?"
"I hate to say this, but you can't do much right now, most guys when they are hurt don't want to talk, he just needs time to cool down."
"What do you think I should do then?"
"Give him a bit of space, and if he still wont hear you out, then he doesn't deserve you, quirks and all!" Why can't everyone get me like Kate does? I hated the idea of not doing anything, and not talking to him.
Meanwhile Stu was so hurt, he couldn't stay in there with me, he had to go driving and get away for a while. He got into his car rental, and just started to aimlessly drive. I couldn't believe that was my opinion of him. He would never use or hurt me, or any woman, but especially me. The media had built him up as a bad boy for years, and he hated that. He figured that I knew the real him well enough by now that I would know that to be false, he was not a womanizer. I mean sure he was guilty of flirting, and looking at beautiful woman, but he rarely ever responded to any of them, because after his Ex hurt him all that time ago, he was afraid of getting hurt again and feeling that pain of rejection. He got angrier as he drove on, speeding up a bit. He hated to admit that maybe he should have tried not to get so close to me, and just stuck to the basics, after all she was Randy's, and he was helping him out, not helping himself to what was his. That was the problem though, he fell for me, hard, it was hard for him not to. As he got to know me, he knew I was more his type than he originally thought.
Stu's cell was going off so he pulled off to the side of the road, but he was too late , it went straight to voice mail. He expected it to me again, but it was not, it was Randy. He wasn't ready to talk to me yet, but talking to him, made his indies hurt as well. I called his voice mail box, and listened to it.
'Hey man, it's Randy. I was just checking in to see how you were feeling, after your fall. Were all worried about you. Any way I wanted to tell you I am getting into Pennsylvania earlier and thought about surprising Jamie, and I want to take things to the next level with her. Let me know what you think, I know you guys are friends so I truest your opinion. Thanks man, call me.'
Stu hung up, tossing his phone into the back seat. He couldn't deal with this right now. He knew this wasn't Randy's fault, he really couldn't help falling for the same girl, and he couldn't do the same thing to him that happened to him over a year ago. He trusted his opinion, and he had to focus, keep his head in the game, the original plan. He couldn't think abut me romantically anymore. That was the only way he wasn't going to feel heart break. He was going to get Randy and I together. That was the original plan, he should have never strayed, by getting so close.
He felt a little calmer, and decided to drive back to my apartment, and get his things to spend the remainder of his stay in a hotel close by.
As he drove up the my apartment building he saw a suspicious man running from the window. His instincts told him that it was Pete, and even after everything he still had to protect me. He got out of his car and tried to chase him, but he ran into a green trail blazer and sped off.
"Damn!" Stu cursed under his breath, and quickly went inside to see if we were ok. He came bursting through the door, and Kate and I looked up immediately from the kitchen table. He looked around cautiously. Everything seemed to be ok, so what was Pete doing?
