BRANDON
"Where is my altar cloth?" I asked myself as I searched through my apartment for things to pack up. I stopped cold in my tracks when I saw my diploma from Centralia High School, it took me the entire summer but I got it.
"Oh, there it is." I said to myself. I walked over to pick it up and again froze in place. This time I saw my Class Of 2001 yearbook, I picked it up and opened it to a page that I had book-marked. It was a picture taken the Wednesday we all came back with WWF Championships, Ashley Agnew on the left with the WWF Women's Title, Myself in the middle with the WWF Championship, and Andrea Dawson on the right with the WWF Hardcore Title. I smiled at the memory and closed the book.
"Hey, you done with those boxes?" I turned around and saw Matt Hardy. "Yeah, take those out to the van." Matt picked up a stack of about 5 or 6 boxes and left. I went back to packing my Wiccan altar equipment.
Once I got my diploma from high school I flew down to Malibu, CA. It must have been a very lucky day because I found some prime beachfront property, and best of all, my neighbor is actress Jordana Brewster from the movie "The Fast and the Furious."
Matt came back in, "Anything else from here?"
"Yeah, those dozen boxes in the corner." I pointed to a corner in the living room. Matt went over to pick up more boxes; Jeff then came in and helped him. I turned back to my yearbook and looked at the signatures, Ashley, Andrea, Nicole, Leah and others, I realized I haven't seen or spoken to them since Eleah's graduation party.
Amy then came in and looked over my shoulder; "I guess it's true…" I turned and looked at her "…. you can never go home again."
I said "I'm actually gonna miss not seeing your classmates running around backstage." Amy said.
"I'm gonna miss bringing them." I replied as I put my diploma and yearbook in a box, closed it, and brought it into the living room.
Amy and I came out into the living room, I guess Amy sensed that I wanted to be alone, because she left. I just sat there, I teared up as I heard another voice behind me.
"So it's true."
I turned around and there was Ashley Agnew in the doorway. Matt, Jeff and Amy were right behind her.
"Ashley." I said as she entered with the Hardys and Amy.
"You're really leaving aren't you?" She asked.
"Could we be alone for a second?" I asked the Hardys and Amy, they wordlessly nodded and left. "It's true, I'm leaving Centralia…." I said bluntly "… there is nothing left for me here. Stephanie McKinney left last week, you are leaving tonight, Andrea and Nicole will be going to the college. There is nothing left for me here in Centralia." I said.
"If that's how you feel, I'm not going to stop you." Ashley said as we hugged, she then turned and said " Goodbye Brandon"
"Goodbye Ashley" I replied as she got into her car and drove away. The four of us stood in the doorway and watched her drive off.
NICOLE
"So Nicole, when do we start seeing you on TV?" Asked my friend Brooke.
"I don't know, I still have some training left and I have to do dark matches, but Stephanie said I don't have to do those for very long, so I'm guessing Halloween." I said as I packed some shirts in a suitcase.
"How can you continue training when Paul Levesque is still injured?" Brooke asked.
"Paul talked to the Hardys, they've agreed to pick up where he left off." I said as Brooke stared at the clock
"Where are the Hardys anyway?"
"Helping Brandon move, they should be back in a few days. Brandon got a place in Malibu, California…"
Brooke cut me off "… I heard he is living next to a celebrity." This was news to me
"Who?" I asked.
Brooke shrugged her shoulders "I don't know."
I finished packing my suitcase and set it next to my bed, I jumped in surprise when some more of my friends came in, Charly and Casey, we all said hi, hugged, then the phone rang.
"Hello" I said
"Hey Nicole, it's Jeff"
"Jeff, Jeff Hardy?" I replied
"Yeah…" he said. I mouthed 'Jeff Hardy' to my friends; they smiled and got giddy. "…the guys and I are leaving for Sacramento, want us to swing by and pick you up?" Jeff asked. Brandon's friends Jason Draco and Melissa Sheridan were taking his stuff to Malibu, but I wasn't ready to leave yet.
"No, I'll catch up with you guys at Summerslam."
"Ok, bye." Jeff said and hung up the phone.
I turned to my friends, needless to say, they were stunned. "He offered you a ride to California and you refused…are you feeling all right?" Charly asked as she felt my forehead, we all laughed.
"I'm fine, but I just don't want to go to Sacramento, I'll see Brandon, Matt, Jeff and Amy soon." I said as I sat down on the bed.
Casey then piped up "Are you going to bring people to the events like Brandon did?"
I thought about
it for a few minutes and said "Sure, why not?" We all
then broke out in laughter.