Cuts Heal In Time (CM Punk)

Chapter 51: Grand Crossing

"This is it," Bella said. 

The four friends, Bill, and the camera men arrived at Jackson Park hospital. 

The camera was on Bella as she stood across the street from it looking on, "This place marked the beginning and end of my stay in Grand Crossing. It's where I was born, and it's the last place I saw my mother in." Bella's eyes were glossy, as she continued staring at the hospital.
Noticing this, Punk grabbed her hand and rubbed the back of it with his thumb. He didn't like how intrusive these guys were. 

Bella snapped out of her little trance before turning her attention back to Bill, "Is there anything else you need with Grand Crossing?"

"Can we go back to your old house?"

Bella's eyes widened.

"How about we don't do that," Jade interjected.

Bella bit her lip, "Let's just do it." Her mom wasn't living there anymore, so it's not like she'd run into her or anything. 

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"Wow," Bella whispered, as she got out of the car. It was her childhood home, and it looked exactly the same, "Nothing has changed around here."

"What do you remember about growing up here?" Bill asked, with the camera on Bella.

"It wasn't all bad times. Sometimes I would come and sit on these stairs, and I would just watch the people in the neighborhood," she said, sitting on the steps of her old home, "we actually had one neighbor, Ms. Edna and she had a grandson who would come sit on these steps with me, when I didn't want to go inside." Bella's eyes darted around, taking everything in. She never thought she'd come back here.

"Really?" Bill asked, "Could you speak a little bit about that relationship?"

"He was 2 years older than me," she smiled remembering her old friend, "he's actually the one who introduced me to wrestling. I would go over to their house, and we would watch Raw and Smackdown there because we didn't have a working tv here." 

"Really?" Bill continued pushing her before turning to his coworkers, "This is great stuff." 

"Yeah," Bella chuckled, "We would practice wrestling moves on the grass, right over there." She pointed to the grass in the yard one house over.

"Do you know if they still live there?"

"I don't know. I haven't talked to them since I moved," she thought out loud, "But I do remember Ms. Edna saying she would never leave Grand Crossing."

"You want to go check?" Bill asked. 

Punk, Colt, and Jade watched Bill and Bella talking on the stairs of her old house from the car. 

"I don't like this guy," Punk said.

"Me either," Jade agreed, "He's way too nosey, and Bella's too damn nice to say no."

"Should we say something?" Colt asked.

"As much as I want to, I can't. Bella wouldn't want any of us to interject." 

"You sure?" Colt asked.

"I'm sure," Jade responded as her eyes followed Bella and Bill who made their way to the next house over. 

"What are they doing?" Punk asked.

Jade shrugged as she watched Bella knock on a door, "I have no idea." 

Bella didn't know to expect as she knocked, but when she heard the door swing open and smelt the familiar scent of Sweet Potato Pie, she covered her mouth with her hands as her eyes began to well with tears. An older light skinned woman with grey hair and reading glasses in a long floral dress opened the door, her eyes widening when she saw the young woman in front of her.