"Rach, what should I do with this film?" Merigold says, as she exposes some film.
"Throw it in the garbage now." Rachel says, as she takes the film from Meri.
"Oops, sorry." Meri says and leaves the room.
The phone rings, and Chris walks in at the same time. He sits in front of her desk looking like death had visited him. She puts the phone down after the short conversation, ready to see what was on his mind.
"She kicked me out." Chris said and put his head on the desk.
"Why?" Rachel asked, as she played with his hair.
"She didn't give me a chance...You know I haven't been with Michelle, right Rachel. I didn't cheat." Chris said with tears in his eyes. "She didn't even give me a chance to find a place. By the time I got home the other night, my stuff was out on the lawn."
"Really? I knew something was going to happen the first night you met Michelle."Rachel said, and Chris lifted his head to look at her. "Where have you been staying?"
"Motel. Rach.. I need a favor. Can I stay with you guys?" He asks, hoping she says yes.
She sighed. She would have to talk to Adam about this. She really didn't want to get caught in the middle of all the drama when she had enough drama working with Meri and Rich.
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Beth and Michelle made there way through the hallways of the Denver Arena.
"These guys are huge Michelle." Beth says, as they pass Kane in the hallway. He steps aside for them to pass. "Does he ever take off that mask??"
Michelle laughs as they pass Matt talking on his phone. He waves a crutch as they walk by. He tells the person on the phone to hold on and speaks to them.
"Hey Beth, Jeff is in the dressing room if you want to catch him. He might be in just his boxers." Matt says with an evil grin.
Beth blushes, but goes to find the dressing room anyway.
"Meet me back here." Michelle says, as her friend leaves.
Beth knocks quietly at Jeff's door.
"Nobody home." Jess says as he answers the door in a towel. "HI" he says and smiles at her.
"UM, I came with Michelle." Beth says, and thinks.. what was that...I came with Michelle? Good grief girl get ahold of yourself.
He laughs and lets her into the room. "So, did you come to watch us wrestle, or are you just following Michelle around. Some people don't like wrestling, tell me, are you one of those people. Inquiring minds want to know." Jeff joked.
I've got cotton mouth, Beth thinks as she tries to talk. " I think I need some water."
"Cotton mouth? I hate that." He says handing her a glass of water. "So..do you have plans after the show?"
"Michelle..." She starts but he cuts her off.
"Ahh you don't have to spend the whole time with her... come with me to a Waffle House. After a much I am usually extremely hungry." He says laughing.
"I have a boyfriend." Beth says, and slaps a hand over her mouth.
"Matt can go if you want him to. We don't have to be alone." Jeff says smiling at her, and takes her hand away from her mouth. "Speak to me babe."
"We can go alone it's ok. I have this case of Foot In Mouth, but I'll get over it." She says laughing.
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"Do you love me Matt?" Christi asks Matt.
"Yes." Matt says and rolls his eyes.
"Are you sure?" She asks. "Sometimes I can't hear it in your voice."
He holds the phone away from him and looks at it, and then puts it back to his ear. "What does that mean?" he asks.
"Just say you love me." Christi said, as she twirled the phone cord around her wrist.
"Just because you don't hear it, doesn't mean that I don't." Matt said as he leaned against the wall. Sometimes he hated being in a relationship.
Amy walked past and stared at him. They had once gone out, but Christi had come into his life. She shapes her fingers into an L on her forehead as she passes, and he flips her off. It was amazing they were still friends. She walks back to him with a Coke for Matt and herself.
"Who is that?" She mouthed to him.
"Christi...you know I do." He said into the phone, hoping Amy got the point. "Look, call me later ok." he says, and hangs up before Christi can say good-bye.
"You know, if you don't feel the same way about her as she does you, you need to break up. Break it off now. No stringing her along." Amy says, as she drinks her Coke.
"I do care for her, but." He says with a far away look.
"Break it off, kind of like what we did." She said and took his hand. They walked outside, where people started taking their pictures. "I better go back inside, or else a picture is going to get out and you will have a lot of explaining to do.
He waves one crutch in the air at her.
"Break it off soon." Amy says, as Matt hobbles over to some adoring fans to sign autographs.
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Rachel and Chris put his things in a bedroom to be shared for a little while with Matt. She would talk to Adam later about the houseful they had.
"Wow, now we have two grown kids living with us." Rachel joked, only Chris was not in a joking mood. "Baby, I am sorry.. She should have let you stay until you found a decent place to stay."
"It's not that. I think she thought I would cheat on her. I am not a man that cheats Rachel. We had been fighting, and she said she was too tired to fight. I guess we need space." He said, and laid on the bed.
"Chris, have you noticed Adam being strange? Rachel asked, as she sat on Matts bed.
"What?? No." He said as he rolled onto his stomach and tried not to face her.
"Well, everytime I go into a room where Adam and Matt are, they quit talking and give each other these looks... " Rachel says and then stops to think.
"RACHEL HARDY YOU KNOW GOOD AND WELL THAT MAN LOVES YOU TO DEATH!!!" Chris says laughing hysterically.
"Well, sometimes I wonder." Rachel says, happy that he was finally in a some what better mood.
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Adam could take it no longer, he had to talk to Rachel. He called and was happy when she answered on the first ring.
"Rach, I have a question." He said, hoping it would all come out smoothly.
"Oh Adam!! Chris got kicked out, and now he is going to be with us, until he finds a place." Rachel said, hoping he wouldn't be too mad.
"Kicked out?" Adam said in shock.
"Yes... remember what happened the other night. He's been staying in a motel ever since. Thats why we didn't hear from him for a few days. I know we have a house load now, but." Rachel said to him.
"It's fine. Just as long as everyone is ok with it all. One day we will be alone again." Adam laughs, and decides not to ask her until he is face to face with her.
"Ok..what was the question you were going to ask?" Rachel says laughing.
"I can't remember now. I'll call back later when I remember.. I love you though." He says laughing.
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There weren't that many people at the Waffle House Jeff chose. Sometimes he didn't like to be around a lot of fans. Especially when they bothered you while you were eating.. or they were smoking.
"Oh look the Hardy Boyz." A little boy said as he rain up to them. "You guys are going to eat hear!!"
Jeff smiles at the boy, and decides to sit in the next booth from them.
"Hi there." Matt says as he shakes the boys hand. "Who's your favorite wrestler?"
"Austin." The boy says with a milk mustache.
Beth laughs at Matts hurt expression.
"Oh but you guys are my second best favorite." The boy giggles.
"Thats fair." Beth says and laughs at the boys toothless smile.
Matt goes to see what is on the jukebox and leaves Jeff and Beth alone.
"What are you studying in school. Michelle talked about you a lot, but never said anything about your schooling." Jeff said to beth as she ordered the same thing he did.
"Thats because what I study is boring and not really worth talking about. It's Law.. I am going to become a lawyer, and maybe you can use me one day." Beth said as she tried to cure her cotton mouth.
"Use you?" Matt said walking up to them.
"She wants us to use her." Jeff says laughing.
"Oh God, that came out wrong!" She says laughing.
Matt walks back to the jukebox with the little boy.
"Have you ever been to Cameron before?" Jeff asks her.
"No. I don't do that much traveling, I am always in school. I am going to hate when this trip ends though." Beth said, as Jeff took one of her hands and started to play with one of her rings. "Do you like all the traveling you do?" She asked Jeff.
"Sometimes, but it gets really hard when you start missing people. Relationships have to be something special to survive." Jeff says to her.
"Like your sister and Adam." Beth says looking straight into his eyes.
"Yes like them. Matt and Christi, I dont know about." Jeff says look back into her eyes.
"Christi?" Beth asks.
"See!!" He says laughing.
Beth found that she liked to hear him laugh. She wish he would do that more often. "Oh ok.. i get it." She says smiling.
"What are you two in deep discussion about?" Matt asks, as he puts his crutch on the floor.
"Relationships." jeff and beth say at the same time.
"OH been there, done that. Don't know if what i have is real." He says, as a plate of food is in front of him. "If you don't have what Adam and Rachel have, you may as well hang it up."
"I'm beginning to see that." Beth says, as she takes off the ring that Jeff had been playing with and sticks it on his finger.
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Matt decided to go back to Cameron for a few days and visit Christi and his dad. Jeff went back to Tampa, so he could spend a few more days with Beth. He was beginning to like her, and it almost scared him.
It was Thursday, and another day at the office for Rachel. The phone rang and Michelle answered it.
"Rach, this is Shane McMahon. I was wondering if you could help me promote a little bit with Scotty and the Hip Hop Hippo." he asks Rachel.
"Hip Hop Hippo?" Rachel asks laughing.
"Albert." Shane responds.
"I knew you guys were going to change his name, but to that?" Rachel said through fits of laughter.
"Yeah, that was stephs idea." Shane said with a roll of his eyes.
"I understand. Ok. well, when do you have this little promo deal set up?" She asked.
"This Sunday at a house show in Pensacola Florida. Can you make it, if not, its ok." Shane said to her, hoping the answer would be yes. Sometimes he hated making these kind of calls.
"I'll be there." Rachel says as they hang up the phone. She looks up from her planner, and sees Rich, Meri and Mich huddled around Mich's table whispering.
"What are you guys up to?" Rachel asked, as she stood in her doorway.
"Nothing, just checking out some pictures Michelle took." Meri says, as Michelle pinches her arm.
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Beth lays by the pool in Michelle's back yard and enjoys the winter weather of Tampa. There weren't many places where you could lay out in February and have the temperature be 80 F.
The phone rang, and she answered it on the second ring.
"Hello?" She asks.
"Who is this?" A male voice asks.
"Who is this?" Beth asks, and sits up.
"Does Michelle Michaels live there?" The man asks.
"Why? Is this a bill collector?" Beth asks.
She hears the doorbell ring and wraps a towel around her to answer the door.
"OH, in that case. Yes she lives here." She says, and then click, the phone goes dead. "Hello?" She puts the phone down and stands there thinking.
"Whats wrong?" Jeff asks, as they walk onto the back patio.
"Oh my God...that was Shawn. I knew I recognized that voice! He knows where she is now." Beth said as she sat on a chair.
"The guy that beat on her. OH, this isn't good at all." Jeff said, as he too sat down.
"Michelle is going to freak. As long as he is alive, I don't think she will ever be rid of him." Beth said, as she twirled her fingers nervously through her hair. "I am so stupid."
"No, you didn't know. Can't she get a restraining order." Jeff asked, taking her hand from her hair and holding it.
"He won't obey it. He's that kind of guy. We have to let her know." She said, and picked up the phone again to call Michelle.
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Michelle let Jeff take Beth to the airport, so she could go dog shopping. The dog she chose, was no ordinary dog. A Rotweiler with an attitude, named Fear.
The dog growled at Rachel as she tried to pet it. "Wow, usually animals like me."
"This one doesn't even like his own shadow." Michelle said laughing. "Let Shawn come, he's in for a major suprise." She said as Fear let her pet him.