I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORIES BESIDES OC'S.
I walked out of the room carrying the boots seeing Jeff staring out the glassed door as I cleared my throat getting him to look over his shoulder at me as he smirked and hoped that smirk meant that he calmed down some. He pulled the door open as I stepped out onto the wooden porch as he stepped out pushing the door shut as he led me to the training facility and nothing was said between us the whole walk, which was weird and glad that he waited because I would have gotten lost and probably wouldn't have shown up tonight. We arrived together, Matt was just unlocking the door to the building as he looked at the two of us weirdly.
"This is a first." Matt said as I glanced to Jeff then to Matt.
"It's a long story bro that will be saved for a later time." Jeff said as he glanced over to me, "Ladies first." Jeff said as he let me climb up the couple steps and into the training facility first, it was like a Hardy boy sandwich since Matt walked in before me and Jeff walked in behind me. I walked over sitting down on one of the metal folding chairs as I changed out my shoes to my boots as I walked over climbing onto the apron wiping my boots on the apron before I slid into the ring, since I was the only one there at the time I took that time to stand in the middle of the ring to take in what it truly felt like being in the ring and trying to imagine multiple chairs surrounding the ring that would be filled with fans waiting to see me perform my match with another female wrestlers, or on certain occasions, a male wrestler. "You want to practice?" Jeff asked as it broke my train of thought as I jumped a little to look over at Jeff who was wiping his feet on the apron just like I did as he slid into the ring with me.
"Against you?" I asked nervous about doing this, was Jeff still angry about earlier? Was this how he was going to take his aggression out?
"Yes…you scared?" Jeff asked with a chuckle as I smirked and shook my head no as I backed up some to get ready for our match to begin. I knew that Jeff was a professional and that he left our personal issues at the door, like him and Matt always told me about leaving my personal life at the door but yet I was still a little afraid that he wouldn't and that it would be a bad outcome for me but I had to get used to wrestling with the men since I was only one of two females in this class and on rare occasions there are male versus female matches booked. I walked around the ring with him always directly across from me as we stared directly into his green hazel eyes before I could sense that it was time before we both lunged in towards the middle where we locked up and began to communicate about what was to come next, I pulled him into a headlock like he had instructed me to do and somehow he was able to flip me and slammed me down with him pinning me down as I stared up at him. "You are going to stay at my place as long as you need…don't want you sucked into that laptop becoming a couch potato trying to find a job…" Jeff said under his breath as I was able to kick out and get back to my feet before I was able to spear him to the mat.
"But I don't want to impose and overstay my welcome…I'm an independent woman and I need something until my wrestling takes flight." I said holding his arms down.
"I think that would be three by now." Matt said as we both looked over at Matt who was leaning onto the apron across the ring from us. I rolled off Jeff and stood up, I stuck my hand out to help Jeff up to his feet and he obliged as he stood to his feet becoming face to face with me. Our match was very short but I think it got out both of our aggressions which I think we needed.
"You won't…I actually like the company…think that you should just focus on wrestling, you are so close to being ready to get out there that I think you should keep at it and hate for you to lose focus on your dreams." Jeff said softly as I ran a hand through my hair and sighed.
"But I can't just let you baby me until whenever this is." I said.
"Fine, we'll put a limit on it…in two months if you haven't improved or succeeded in getting booked on any show then you can become that couch potato job huntress on that laptop of yours for however long it takes for you to get a job." Jeff said as I bit at my bottom lip unsure if I can go that long without a job or wanting to look at job postings.
"Can I still browse jobs and randomly apply to ones between now and then so I won't be out of date on the job hunt? Fear the longer I wait, the harder it will be to get back into the job market." I said as Jeff sighed.
"Fine, but I don't want it to become a whole day thing." Jeff said as I sighed as I nodded.
"I think we have a deal." I said smiling as Jeff smiled as he stuck his hand out to shake mine as I glanced to it then back up into his beautiful eyes before gripping his hand shaking it.
"Am I missing something?" Matt asked curiously.
"We'll discuss it after training." Jeff said as I let out a sighed not wanting to tell more people and I'm unsure how or Matt would say, I don't think he will be as welcoming and understanding as Jeff was. What if Matt isn't okay with me not paying for training if and when money comes short? I can't not go along with training this close to being done with it, Jeff is saying and thinking I am close to being booked so I can feel it in my bones that I'm so close to reaching my goal, that gave me a boost in my confidence as I waited for rest of the students arrived as we went through the lesson that they had for the night, which was mostly character building than any other moves or anything like that. I sat on the inside the ring with my legs hanging over the edge of the apron as I leant forward against the rope in front of me as the last student besides myself left. "What are you doing? Lesson's over…" Jeff said.
"Not until the last student leaves the ring you always say." I said with a smirk.
"What more do you need to know?" Jeff asked curiously as he put his hands on his hips as I sighed as I bent back to maneuver my body to roll out from under the bottom rope.
"I'm just concerned and worried about my character, I don't know what or who I want to be." I said honestly with a shrug as Jeff and Matt smirked.
"You can be whoever you want to be, that is the joy of entertainment sweetie, hell you can be yourself cause look at us." Matt said as he had a point, they never really did a whole character thing.
"You are right about that…" I said smirking.
"So how do you feel extra practice?" Jeff asked.
"Right now?" I asked excitedly.
"Nah, we can practice tomorrow…I'll work with you on those promo's and such." Jeff said smiling as I was excited about this and gave me something to do other than being concerned about missing out applying to jobs even though I was going to apply to at least five every day regardless of what Jeff wants or thinks.
"Sounds fun, I can't wait." I said excitedly as I slid off the apron.
"I'm so confused on how you two are acting tonight." Matt said as he was glancing between us two.
"May I?" Jeff asked curiously towards me as I let out a sigh.
"No, I'll tell him…" I said as I looked to Matt who looked even more confused, "Well…Target closed its doors last week it feels like and I kind of lost my job, which led to me having to sell my house to kind of make ends meet and continue to pay for training. I was living in my car for a while but it got towed one morning when I was eating a piece of toast and coffee at a local waffle house and after training that night I tried to go get on a bus but the bus system had ended for the night and it kind of was pouring so I came back here to sleep under the little bit of roof on top of the porch when Jeff found me and he kind of opened up his house to me and such." I said shoving my hands into my pockets nervously as I bit at my bottom lip waiting to see how Matt was to respond.
"Why the hell will you even sell your house to continue paying for wrestling training? We would have scratched it off the table for you until you could begin paying again." Matt said as I gave him a dirty look.
"It's all done and over with." I said with a shrug.
"So you can now stop paying us for training and put that money towards saving towards your own place." Jeff said.
"Are you guys sure?" I asked unsure about this because they were still providing me a service of training me and it was something I wanted and needed.
"Yeah, you are almost done with it anyway, I at least think you are pretty close to wrapping up this training." Matt stated as I nodded as I ran a hand through my hair.
"You know what I would like to do, I'll work with her on her promo work tomorrow but tomorrow we will continue the promo work in class but I am thinking working with her on making her audition tapes and such to send off to help get her booked." Jeff said his opinion as Matt smiled and nodded.
"Absolutely, Jeff knows good promo work so you are in good hands." Matt said as he patted his brother on the chest lightly.
"Well, I guess we should call it a night so I can rest up for this big day of promo work." I said with a sigh.
"Yeah, schools officially done." Jeff said as I walked first out of the training building as they stepped out as Matt locked the door behind him as Jeff walked with me back to his house, I think I will get lost regardless if I had walked that distance a billion times so I have no idea how Jeff has it memorized but I just figured it is because he has lived here for years and/or on this ground for his whole life so he has it memorized like the back of his hand. Jeff pulled the sliding glass door open and he let me step in first, but I also know now if I would ever trust my house unlocked in that manner but Jeff and Matt were somewhat secluded and very trustworthy type people but I just hoped he would lock it came time to go to bed. As he slid in behind me, I turned around seeing him locking it so he does lock it up so that made me feel a little more comfortable about the whole situation. "I'm starving, what do you want to eat?" Jeff asked as I shrugged as I followed him into the kitchen as we each looked into different cupboards as I bit at my bottom lip trying to figure out what kind of meal could be made with what he had as we were shooting out ideas before we figured just to go with something simple like hot dogs and macaroni and cheese which was something that you think young kids would eat but hey, it was still a good meal. We made our plates before heading out to his couch where we sat on other ends eating at our meal that we dished out on our plates as we watched what was on our television and I didn't really care what he chose to watch because it wasn't in my state to tell him what to watch or what not to watch since it was his television. I ate at my food and finished after Jeff, I stood up grabbing his plate from where he had set it on the coffee table hearing him softly say thank you as I took it with me to the kitchen where I gently washed off as much as I could before I slid it into the dish washer where I could before I headed back out to the living room.
"I think I'm going to call it a night." I said as I bent my knee to rest on the armrest of the couch as I leant against the couch slightly as I talked to Jeff.
"Oh, okay…I'll see you in the morning…I think I'm going to go for a morning run, would you like to come with?" Jeff asked curiously as that sounded fun and a run would help me get my mind off of things.
"That sounds good, what time?" I asked as he smirked.
"7 AM." He said as I let out a soft groan, I hated waking up early as I heard him chuckle, "I know that is early but you don't have to go if you don't want to." He said as I smirked and rolled my eyes.
"I'll go…I'll see you in the morning." I said as I pushed myself off the couch heading back to the guest room that I would call my home for the next couple of months or so, even as much as I had hated it, I had to accept it and like it. I found my phone charger plugging it into the closest outlet to the bed before I slid my phone onto the charger then set my alarm before I even begun changing into a pair of pajamas then slid into the bed I had found myself sleeping in this morning. I laid in the bed staring up at the ceiling in disbelief how everything was working out, I still think that this wasn't going to happen or something bad was about to happen cause there is no way that Matt and Jeff would both be okay with this, especially Jeff, because this was a lot. I rolled over to my side trying to not let these thoughts consume because Jeff seemed so sure of this and wasn't taking no as an answer as I still hated that he was doing this for me, I mean I had this love hate relationship about it. I loved that he was so generous, understanding and willing to lend a helping hand to let me stay here with a roof over my head, willing to feed me, help me out until I got back on my feet and wasn't looking for much in return but yet I hated being in this situation. I hated that I couldn't provide for myself, hated that he was being so nice because it made me feel worse about this whole thing but I guess I was just happy I wasn't where I was and I am off the streets.