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The woman had to fight to keep the tears from falling down her cheeks. As she tossed all of her belongings into her black bag, she could feel them welling up in her hazel eyes, and she had to sniffle, as her nose threatened to run as well.
She eyed her little dog, Mason, a wire-haired daschund mix, as he sat nestled in her other bag - and doing so practically threatened her even more to cry. Hell, she wanted to just flat out bawl...
Damn it... She couldn't believe it... What she had begun to think of as the happiest night of her life had become a nightmare. Matt Hardy, with whom she'd dated on and off for nearly the last three years, had switched shows - he'd left SmackDown and come to RAW - and surprised her tonight. And what a surprise it truly had been...
She'd been a guest on Y2J Chris Jericho's Highlight Reel. Jericho had proceeded to humiliate her by rubbing in the fact that, after breaking her neck and making such a wonderful comeback, she'd lost her Women's title shot against champion Molly Holly at Survivor Series the night before.
Y2J had announced something about a person who was in the back coming out. She'd instantly felt her temper rising and told him that if he was talking about Christian, he was the last person she wanted to see...
...But he hadn't been referring to Christian. No, not at all...
And then, out from the back had come Matt... She'd been so surprised, so thrilled to see him.
It had appeared that the dark-haired man was about to propose marriage to her - he'd taken her hand and gotten down on one knee before her - but things were interrupted when Molly's music hit. And when she looked up toward the ramp, the angry brunette was there, a microphone in hand. Molly had complained that she was Women's champion, yet the woman in the ring was still the center of attention. And, at Jericho's suggestion, the beef had led to a mixed tag match - herself and Matt versus Molly and a partner of her choosing - Eric Bischoff...
Despite the fact that Bischoff was now the sole General Manager of RAW - after his team had become victorious at Survivor Series - the diva had felt no fear. On the contrary, she'd been, if anything, overconfident...
That had proven to be a big mistake...
When she'd been in the ring with the GM - after having gone toe-to-toe with tough Molly - she'd gone to her corner to tag in Matt...
...And he'd jumped off the apron to the arena floor. He'd refused to be tagged in, to help her...
While she'd been shocked, distracted and questioning him, Bischoff had taken advantage and pinned her.
Oh, God... Her job had been on the line... That bastard had threatened he'd fire her should Team Austin lose last night... That was bad enough, but the way he'd done it...
Matt had then gone into the ring to basically humiliate her. The 'question' he'd had for her had been as far removed from 'Will you marry me?' as possible. Instead, he'd demanded, 'How can you be so selfish?!' Then, he'd yelled into her face, 'We are through!!!'
As these brand new memories flooded her mind, Lita felt tears finally slipping down her cheeks.
By now, she was in the arena hallway, and all she wanted to do was get the hell out of there...
Damn it... She was such a butterfingers tonight... She stooped to retrieve the keys to her rental car, which she'd dropped...
...And looked up to see Christian standing over her...