I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.

We arrived to his house where he pulled into the garage to make it easier to unload the trunk, I was able to carry all my clothes and personal items to the guest room in which would be my room for the time being.

"Do you need any hangers?" Jeff asked startling me as I looked at him as he stood in the doorway.

"Uh…do you have any free ones? If not, I'll be fine without."

"Of course, I wouldn't ask if I didn't have any." Jeff said as I chuckled and rolled my eyes as I pulled out article of clothing, one after the other cutting tags off and sliding them onto a hanger that Jeff kindly loaned me. I hung up all the hangers in the closet trying not to disturb any items that were placed in the closet nor in the room that was already placed in there by Jeff. After I had finished, I headed out to see Jeff in the kitchen on the phone unsure who he was chatting with as I unboxed the charger we had gotten for my phone in which I plugged into the wall and my phone, I was beyond excited it worked. I turned it on hoping that I still had minutes since I wasn't sure if I had paid the bill or something. Jeff joined me in the living room as he sat on the bar stool at the breakfast bar staring at me. "Glad it works, have you paid your bill?"

"If I didn't, I wouldn't be able to…would I be able to put your house phone down as my phone number in my resume?"

"No need, I'll just pay for your phone bill." Jeff said as I shook my head no.

"Absolutely not, I am drawing the line at my phone."

"That isn't even the beginning April, come on…" Jeff said.

"When will it stop?"

"When I say it does." Jeff said as I let out a groaned as he came over joining me on the phone as he helped me figure out how he could pay for my bills or transfer my account to his plan. "There you go…you have any voicemails?" Jeff asked as I looked at my phone seeing that I did as I listened to them but the most recent was from two days ago and didn't feel that I should even try calling them because I felt like by now it would be too late to even try. I put my phone aside to let it charge up as Jeff sat on the couch beside me as I loaded up my laptop to get to applying to jobs. Jeff pulled out his own laptop as I could glance over to see what he was looking at seeing that was on a different job site searching as well as I rolled my eyes. "What's your email?" Jeff asked as I shared it with him as he began to refer me to job after job which helped me a lot as I was continuing to go through application after application filling in the same information on each one. I heard the doorbell ring, my stomach dropped and my heart began to beat fast thinking that this was it, this is when Matt was going to show up and see me here with Jeff and then everything will have to come out. I bit at my bottom lip as I glanced to Jeff and I think he could sense my fear. "It's not Matt, I ordered Chinese take-out…" Jeff said with a chuckle as I smiled as I went back to working on these applications that piled up on me and I was quickly getting tired of them faster than I expected but I really needed to hit this ground running to get back on my feet because I couldn't get comfortable here even though I think secretly I would love to stay here to get to know Jeff back and really rub it in Heather's face because what better thing to use it for. I closed my laptop to get back to it when I finished eating as I got up following Jeff towards the door, but I slid into the kitchen opposed to going to the door with him. I began to pull down plates and silverware after opening different cabinets and/or drawers to find what I needed as Jeff paid for the food.

"What would you like to drink?" I asked curiously.

"Um…I'll take a diet soda." Jeff said as I nodded as I took the plates and silverware out to the living room and Jeff looked at me weird. "No need for that, we'll just use chopsticks and we'll share." He said as I cocked my head to the side looking at him weird as I turned around my heels heading back to the kitchen putting up the things I had just grabbed then reached into the fridge grabbing us each a diet soda to take back out to the living room. I handed Jeff his can of diet soda before I slid into my seat setting my can of soda down on the side table beside her as Jeff was opening the different white boxes that the Chinese food had came in. "What do you want to start with?" Jeff asked as he broke his chop sticks as I reached for the other pair of chop sticks.

"Um…the chow mein." I said with a shrug as Jeff smirked as he reached for some kind of chicken that was certainly not orange chicken. I grabbed the chow mein as I set it in my lap before I broke the chop sticks putting them where they felt comfortable between my fingers and used the sticks to help pick up the noodles. I was looking down at the food concentrating on not dropping any of the contents from my chop sticks since I was never comfortable with eating with them when I heard sounds coming from the room, I looked up noticing that Jeff had turned on the television.

"Any shows you like watching particularly?" Jeff asked curiously.

"Eh, not really…" I said as I moved my legs to get more comfortable.

"Alright…" Jeff said as he flipped through the channels as I watched him do so as I continued to eat at the chow mein with the chop sticks curious as to what Mr. Jeff Hardy watches. He clicked on TBS that was playing American Dad at the time, I could get used to this as I leant back against the back of the couch enjoying watching the show along with eating the food that Jeff indulged in. "Switch." Jeff said as he stuck out the white box he was currently eating out of and his free hand reaching out to retrieve mine as I gave him the one that I was eating from and took the one he was eating room as I stared at the chicken that was still left.

"What kind of chicken is this?"

"Mandarin. It's really good." Jeff said as he took a bite of the noodles as I nervously picked one out of the box and put it into my mouth slowly eating it, I quickly enjoyed it. "Good, right?" Jeff asked as I smiled.

"Absolutely." I said with a smile and chuckle. We continued eating at the new entrees we had exchanged with the other leaving only two more boxes on the coffee table as I put the empty box back onto the coffee table as Jeff wasn't that far behind me. "What is left?" I asked trying not to sound too fat by asking.

"Rice and orange chicken."

"What kind of rice?"

"Brown rice, you okay with that?"

"Absolutely." I said smiling as he handed me that one as I'm sure he got the orange chicken and I guess that only seemed fair since that was the pattern we were going for right now. When I got to half way into the container Jeff nudged me to switch which I gladly did as I began eating at the orange chicken loving the taste of it, I couldn't remember the last time I had ate Chinese food so orange chicken tasted so good to my taste buds. After I had finished my portions of the food Jeff had ordered before I got up helping to clean up the mess before I returned to the couch where I continued applying to jobs as Jeff sat back onto the couch beside her.

"Is that what you will be doing all the time?" Jeff asked curiously as I could tell he was glancing over at the computer that was in my lap then to the television in front of him.

"Yes…I can't just stop…if I start slacking now then I will get comfortable with this…and this, this isn't where I should be…"

"I would like you to get comfortable with this, this is where you are right now and there was a reason for you being here…"

"I don't want to settle Jeff…I feel incredibly thankful that you opened your house for me and allowing me to stay here while I'm trying to get back on my feet but I can't live rest of my life sleeping in your guest room…you have your own life and I am just going to hinder your life…"

"Not as much as you think you will be, with my traveling I would need someone to stay here to watch my house while I'm gone and I'm sure Matt would love a regular dog sitter…you won't hinder you and you are far in your training so I know that sooner than later that you will be getting gigs, which you can travel with Matt and myself to save on cash, you will be able to get booked since we do shows every weekend so soon you will be able to save up enough cash to move out…" Jeff said as I still didn't believe him.

"It still isn't going to get me to stop from applying to job and trying to find some kind of source of income because working two shows a weekend for $100 would not add up a lot because what is that $400 a month? How far will that go? You know that will not be able to get me to move into any decent apartment or even get my house back or get a new car…I'll be fortunate for any kind of cash to help suffice for now and pay you back what I can but I need something stable until I can get under contract with like TNA or something that I can get paid a little bit more than $50 a show." I said as Jeff nodded as I watched him rub his hands against his thighs as he stood up and began to walk towards the glass door. "Where are you going?"

"To ride my dirt bike, I got to clear my head." Jeff said as he pulled the door open as I knew I probably pissed him off as shut my laptop setting it onto the coffee table, I would have tossed it but it was fragile. I got up pacing as I ran a hand through my hair, was I being too greedy or rude for not wanting to be here forever? Jeff was being all too loose about this, I wouldn't want myself staying here for months or longer, what is overstaying your welcome? I headed to the guest room sitting at the end of the bed and flopped back to lay down with my arm laying above my head as I stared up at the ceiling trying to think if I was overreacting about this, was I a bad person for wanting to get more than what I have now? I wanted to get a job, I wanted to get out of Jeff's house and be on my own again. I hated that I had to use him to just have the bare essentials and to even have a roof over my head, to even have a full stomach right now as I just wanted to say that Jeff was just being stubborn and hard headed like he always was but I don't know why he was so stubborn about this. I heard the sliding glass door slide open again as I sat up feeling my head being rushed from sitting up so fast as I had to sit there for a moment. "April, it's time for wrestling training…I'm heading over there now, you want to come with?" Jeff yelled through the house as I sighed.

"Give me five minutes so I could change…" I yelled back as I slid off the end of the bed quickly changing into my normal training clothes and slid on a pair of shoes to walk over there with as I knew to carry my boots.