Holy shit, people...
Exactly ONE YEAR AGO today, I wrote and posted my very first Codiasi fic. And boy has it been quite the year, from opening codiasi (which has been the most amazing comm, seriously) to the huge ground swell of people supporting and actually writing this pairing... Yeah, it's been awesome. And the boys are still going stong. :D
Soooo, this is that fic that kinda came out of nowhere, and somehow grew into this. It's yet another one shot, but I really, really like this one. Hope you guys all do, too.
Title: A Series of Miscommunications
Pairing: Ted DiBiase Jr./Cody Rhodes (with some scattered John/Randy)
Raiting: NC-17
Summary: Cody's so-called friendship with Beth doesn't sit well with Teddy
Disclaimer: All rights belong to the WWE
Feedback: Would be lovely
A/N: Just so you know, there's a lot of Beth in this one. :O I know, how dare I?! But don't let that deter you from this fic, I just thought I should let you know she's in it a lot.
After the show, both Ted and Cody were back in the locker room. All through the shower, Ted was abnormally quiet. Not the normal kind of quiet that they had in the shower, but the tense kind, like he was trying to not say anything. Back in the dressing room, after toweling off, pulling a pair of pants on, is when Cody finally broke down and asked, “What the fuck is up with you, man?”
“Nothing,” Ted replied.
Cody rolled his eyes. Right, this was nothing. “Liar. Go on, tell me what’s going on in that head of yours.”
Ted paused and then said, “Fine. You’ve been spending an awful lot of time with Beth.”
“Beth?” Cody laughed. “Ted, she’s my friend. What does it matter if I’ve been spending time with her, or not?”
“But you started rooming with her!”
“Yeah, once again, it’s because we’re friends. She wanted some company, and I offered. Shit, it’s no big deal; I’ve known her since OVW. Jeez.”
“So you just up and ditch me, your best friend since we were little kids, for some chick you met wrestling at OVW? What happened to bros before hoes, man? Shit, what the fuck else have you been doing since OVW?” Ted asked, the level of his voice rising with each and every word until he was yelling right into Cody’s face.
Cody pulled his shirt over his head and slipped into his shoes before looking right back at Ted and shouting, “Each other!” He then turned around and stormed out of the locker room to the stares of many others and headed to wait in front of the women’s locker room for Beth.
She came out a few minutes later and spotted Cody leaning against the wall, a pout prominent on his face. “Hey, what’s wrong?” she asked, wrapping her arm around his back.
“I think I pissed Teddy off…”
“What? How? What did you do?”
Cody began walking and Beth followed, her arm still wrapped around Cody. “I’ll tell you in the hotel.”
She knew just what Cody needed right about now. After working with him for years, she got to know him and just what he liked to help cheer him up. B&J’s. “Well, I’ll tell you what, we’re going to find a Cumbies and get ourselves a pint each of Ben & Jerry’s.”
Cody gave her a small smile and placed his hand on her shoulder as they continued heading for the car. Ted spotted the two of them on his own walk to his car. Holy shit, had they really been fucking since OVW? Shit on a stick, how had he never seen it before?! Of course that’s why they wanted to room together. So, why didn’t Cody just tell him?! Why did he feel like he had to feed him some bullshit line about Beth just wanting some company? Now it was obvious just what kind of company she was looking for.
“Fuck.”
“Fuck what?” Randy asked, turning the corner.
“Fuck off…”
“Oh, what’s got your panties in a twist?”
Ted didn’t reply, instead he just walked on down to the car garage, leaving Randy to wait for John, even though he’d have to wait for the both of them before he could actually leave the place. He looked on as he saw Cody taking off with Beth, fighting the urge to punch the car, knowing the car would win every time. Fucking physics…
Beth drove towards the hotel, knowing she had seen a Cumberland Farms on the way over to the arena. She turned right at the second set of lights, and smiled when she was the building up on the right. She pulled in the parking lot and parked the car right in front of the entrance door. “All right, come on. Get out,” she said as she unlocked the doors.
The two stepped out and headed inside, bee lining it right towards the freezer section. After a quick scan of the ice creams, Cody found what he was looking for: Chunky Monkey. Beth grabbed a pint of Karamel Sutra for herself and they headed for the counter. They had to wait a bit in line for the old lady in front of them to finish her purchase of Lord knows how many scratch tickets, but soon enough they both had their ice cream on the counter. Beth paid for the both of them and they were soon back on the road.
“Remember, no touching that until we’re in the room,” Beth warned. That was their thing. Each time one of them had something really bothering them, the other would by both of them a pint of their absolute favourite Ben & Jerry’s flavour to pig out on later in their room.
“What the fuck is your issue?” Randy asked Ted as he glanced up into the rear-view mirror and saw him sulking in the back seat.
“I don’t have any fucking issue! Fucking Christ!”
“Woah there, bud,” John said, “don’t go bitin’ his head off. Shit, there’s no need to get all worked up over a simple question.”
“It’s fucking Cody! That ass hole has been ditching me for Beth nine times out of ten! I’ll ask him if he wants to go out for drinks, but he’s like no thanks, I already made plans with Beth. Plans my ass, he could have just fucking told me he was fucking her!”
“What?!” John and Randy asked at the same time.
“There’s no way those two-” John reasoned before Ted cut him off.
“No, man, he just told me today! I asked him how come he started up and rooming with Beth, and he fed me yet another bullshit line about how they’re good friends, and they’ve been friends since OVW and then I asked him how come she has priority over me, and that’s when he flat out told me he had been fucking her since OVW. That shit head never even told me!”
“Shouldn’t you be happy for the dude? I mean, there’s nothing wrong with getting some ass, am I right, John?” he asked, adding a wink for emphasis.
“He’s right, Teddy. Besides, if he’s getting it from a steady source, what the fuck does it even matter to you?”
“Bros before hoes!”
“You still got us, man!” John told him.
“Yeah, great. I’ll just hang out with you in between the times you’re sucking face or having sex with each other, how’s that sound?”
Once back in the room, Beth grabbed spoons and handed one over to Cody, who was already on the bed, in the process of opening the ice cream. She crawled in beside him and encouraged him to lean against her side.
“Ok, spill. What exactly did you say to Ted to piss him off?”
“Well, he was going on and on about how he didn’t like me spending so much time with you, then I said we’d been friends since OVW, and he was all ‘what else have you been doing since OVW?!’ so I yelled ‘each other’ and here we are…”
Beth couldn’t help herself, she burst out laughing. “Each other?!” she managed to get out between her fits of laughter. “Oh, that’s fucking priceless,” she said, wiping away a tear.
Cody had to admit it, it was pretty damn funny. Him and Beth? Teddy actually believed that?!
“Oh, sweetie…” She pulled Cody into a hug, still chuckling. “It seems as though your little crush is slightly dense.”
“I know, I know…”
Beth had known about Cody since, well, day one. She always had better than average gaydar, especially for a straight girl, so the second she laid eyes on Cody she knew right away that he was gay. It took her a little while longer to actually get around to asking, though.
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Since coming to OVW, Cody had made a few friends along the way, but the one he liked hanging around with most was Beth. She was always so chill around him, and he felt completely comfortable around her. People always asked them if they were dating, and they said no to everyone. No one ever believed them.
There was one night after a show where a bunch of them had gone out to a bar, and Beth and Cody had found a relatively quiet booth to sit in together. It had been a few months since they first met, and though Cody always felt like he could be himself around her, there was one thing he had yet to reveal about himself. Possibly one of the most important things about himself, too.
She noticed he kept glancing up quickly before dropping his eyes back down to the table. He seemed awful interested in watching a drop of condensation make its way down his glass of beer, growing bigger as it met with another drip, before finally landing on the table in the circle of water already surrounding the glass.
It was as good a time as any to try and get it out of him, right? “Codes, how come you’re not over there with the other guys trying to get into as many girl’s pants as possible?”
Cody’s head instantly shot up. He was not expecting her to say that, or anything like it. “What?”
“Did I stutter?”
“Well, no, but…”
“Then why don’t you answer my question? How come you’re always hanging around with me when you could be hangin with the dudes and scoring chicks.” Her eyes went wide and she clamped her hand over her mouth as though she just had some revelation. “Cody,” she said with a small smile, “do you have a crush on me?”
This time his eyes bugged out of his head and his mouth dropped open. What the fuck could he say to that? If he said no, wouldn’t she be offended? He would have to tell her…
“Cody?” she repeated when he didn’t say anything.
“Beth, I… Didn’t we agree that we should just be friends?” he stammered.
This was getting her nowhere. Why wouldn’t he tell her? Did he not trust her? So, she took matters into her own hands. She reached across the table and laced her fingers with his and she gave him a coy smile. “I know we had told each other that,” she started rubbing her thumb over his hand, “but don’t you ever wonder what it’d be like if we took things… further?”
“Uhhh…”
“It’s ok that you’re a little nervous about it, but we’ll never know if there could be an ‘us’ until we try, right?”
Fuck. Fuck fuck fuckity FUCK! This was NOT happening. Why was she doing this to him? He jerked his hand away and dropped her gaze. But not for long. It was now of never. He had to man up about it, and what kind of man would he be if he didn’t look her directly into her eyes when he told her everything. “There’s never gonna be an ‘us.’”
“But-,” Beth began to protest, feigning hurt.
“No, let me talk. Please. There’s never, ever going to be an ‘us’. EVER. Why’s that?” He took a deep breath and finally said it. “I’m gay. Beth, I’m gay,” he said again. Much to his surprise, Beth began to grin.
“Finally!”
“What do you mean by that?”
“I mean it took you long enough to tell me! How come you never said anything to me before? Shit, Cody, I thought you were my friend!”
“You are! But… I’ve never told anyone before… Only my parents and, uh… a couple other guys know.”
This time Beth’s eyes widened for real. “A couple other guys? And how do they know?”
“I don’t feel too comfortable talking out here… Mind if we head back to… anywhere else.”
“You can come back to my place. I’m sharing an apartment with a few of the other girls, but I’ve got my own room. And we can stop to pick up some ice cream on the way. That’ll make you feel better, won’t it?”
“But won’t that-”
“Sometimes you just gotta say fuck you to your diet. Come on, my treat.”
That was how their Ben & Jerry’s tradition got started. Soon they were both sitting on Beth’s bed, Indian style, eating ice cream.
“Ok, so, these other guys that know…”
“I’m not a virgin, ya know.”
“Never thought about it one way or the other. But you’ve really had sex with guys before?”
“That’s usually what gay men do,” Cody joked.
“What was it like?” she asked him, finding the idea of Cody with another man oddly… hot. “Were you on top, or did you bottom? Did it hurt?”
“Hey, slow down there!” he said as a smile grew on his face. He realized then that he liked being able to talk to someone about this. “One question at a time, ok?”
“Ok. So, your first time, what was it like?”
“Fucking nerve wracking. I was still in high school at the time. I had been invited to a party after my senior prom, and a bunch of us went to a lake and got completely smashed. I was in the water in just my boxers when one of my wrestling buddies came over, splashing me and being a complete idiot. When he tackled me, well… I, uh, couldn’t help but notice his, uh… fondness for me. Well, I was having a similar reaction to the situation. I got out of the water and turned my head to see if he was following. He jerked his head over to the side where there were a bunch of rocks and shit that hid the view from everyone else. Not like they were paying any attention to us, since they were all drunk or stoned out of their minds.
“So, I grabbed my towel and started walking down the shore to where the rocks were and spread the towel out and sat down. A couple minutes later he showed up. He sat down next to me and I could feel his eyes on me. I think I asked him what we were doing, because I was so fucking confused. Not that I didn’t know I was gay, because I’ve known that for a long time, but it was the first time I ever actually acted on it. He didn’t say anything, he just… kissed me. Oh, god, it was so good. Better than any kiss I had with a girl. One thing led to another, the kissing, the touching, and before I know it, his mouth is around my dick fucking deep throating me… Do you really want to hear all this?”
Beth nodded, unable to speak she was so wrapped up in his story. She realized her mouth was hanging open and nearly drooling, so she closed it, but encouraged him on.
“Ok. So, before I came in his mouth, he leans back and digs into the pocket of his, uh, previously discarded bathing suit to pull out a condom and some lube. The whole idea of that freaked me out, and he told me it was ok, that if I didn’t want to, I didn’t have to. But, fuck, I wanted to. I knew I was going so fast with it all, but I couldn’t help myself. He ripped open the condom, and I thought he was gonna roll it on over himself, so I was shocked as hell when he grabbed my dick and put it on me.
“When he got onto his hands and knees in front of me, I was frozen. I was in such shock that this was actually going to happen. So he whispered to me to get some lube onto my fingers and put those inside him first to help out. Well, that’s what I did until he told me to stop. I pulled my fingers out and he said I could figure out what to do next… Holy shit, Beth, I had never, ever felt anything like it before. It was so… tight. And hot. I’m surprised I didn’t shoot the instant I pushed into him. I was fucking close, though. Still, I only managed a couple thrusts into him before I did come. He was still fucking hard, though.
“I took off the used condom, and I was so embarrassed. It just seemed like such a shitty first time, ya know? He said that happened a lot, and that the more I did it, the better it would get. He asked if, uh… If he could fuck me, too, since he had a couple condoms with him.”
Beth took another spoonful of her ice cream. “Well, what did you say?”
Cody raised an eyebrow at her. “Are you getting turned on by this?”
“I may be. Now what was your answer?”
“I said yeah.”
Beth groaned. Her vibrator was in the top drawer of her dresser, and she had never wanted to use it so badly. But it might seem a little awkward what with Cody being there, and all. “So you had sex with him again?”
Cody nodded. “Yeah. He told me to lie on my back, so I did. He lifted my legs over his shoulders, and, let me tell you, it was weird feeling his cold, slippery finger go into my ass. It was a little uncomfortable, but nothing terrible. The second finger, though? That hurt. Until he hit my prostate. Now that was God’s gift to men. Holy motherfucker, that…
“Anyway, he took his fingers out and asked if I wanted a third, or if I wanted his dick. So I said his dick. I heard him ripping open the condom and after he put it on, I felt it pushing against my asshole. Well, I thought two fingers hurt. Shit! He kept telling me to relax, that it would be ok and feel better if I just let myself relax. I took some deep breaths, trying to relax, but it’s kinda hard to do that when someone is pushing something inside your ass. I managed it though. And I could even feel my dick getting hard again. As he got going, I admit, it did start to feel better. A lot better. Oh, and I thought his fingers felt good hitting my prostate? Holy shit. It was nothing compared to his dick. Over and over and over he kept hitting it, and it was driving me crazy!” he recalled. “I was even getting hard again. I couldn’t believe it. When he started, all I could think was how the hell could anyone actually want to do this. But by the time I was coming for a second time that night, I was wondering how anyone could pass it up.”
“I think you answered my first three questions,” Beth smiled around a spoonful of her ice cream.
Cody scooped up some of his own and stuck it in his mouth. He then reached forward and took a spoonful of Beth’s Cherry Garcia.
“Hey!” she protested. Cody grinned and held out his pint for her to take some Karamel Sutra for herself. “Damn, this is good.” It became her new favourite. “Ok, so, did you ever have sex with him again?”
“Yeah, a couple times. He was even the recipient of my first blow job,” he said with a smirk.
“How’d that go for ya?”
“Not too bad, actually. Turns out I can open my mouth pretty wide…”
“Oh, Cody… You’re precious.” She smiled at him and then added, “Thank you.”
“For what?”
“For coming out to me. I’m sorry I had to do it like that, but I knew from the moment I met you, and after we became friends I was waiting and waiting for you to tell me, yet you never did. And now you’re telling me all of this, and it really means a lot for you to open up to me like that.”
“You seem to be enjoying it quite a bit.”
Beth shrugged. “What can I say? I, uh, appreciate when two attractive male specimens get together…”
Cody began laughing, coughing as he started to choke on his ice cream. “Jesus, Beth, don’t go saying shit like that when I’m eating!”
“Sorry. Ok, so, that’s why you’re never off with the other guys… None of them know?”
“NO!” Cody yelped. “They can’t. God, what would they think if they found out they had been rolling around in the ring with a fag? No, they can’t find out…”
She held up her hands defensively, although she was still holding her ice cream. “Ok, sorry I brought it up. Hmm… Oh, I know. Is there anyone that you’re crushing on right now? Or maybe some secret crush you’ve held for years?”
Cody scratched the back of his head. Should he tell her? Fuck, he already told her about his first time, what would it matter if he brought up his man of interest? “Well… Yeah, there is someone I’ve liked for a long time. I don’t think you’ve met him before, but, uh, I’m sure you’ve heard of his dad before… Ted DiBiase Jr. would be his name.”
“Wait, you mean his dad is the Million Dollar Man?”
“Yeah. We’ve been friends since, well, just about forever. When I was old enough to walk, he would be there walking with me, even though he’s a couple years older. At least that’s what our parents say. We’ve always gotten along really well, hung out during the summers and stuff like that, but… Well, once I got into my teens, I started to notice him… Like, notice things about him that I probably shouldn’t be noticing. Like how he had started developing a nice looking six pack, and how his biceps were getting bigger, and how thick his trapezius muscle was. Not to mention how fucking good his ass looked in a pair of jeans.”
“And he doesn’t know about any of this?”
“No… I can’t tell him that I’m gay, Beth! He’s so religious, there’s no way he’d be ok with that! And then top that off with a big heaping helping of your best friend wants to have crazy monkey sex with you, yeah, that wouldn’t go down so well.”
“I’m sorry,” she said, reaching out to stroke her hand up and down his arm. “So, do you jack off thinking about him?”
“Beth!”
“What?!”
“Ok, ok, yeah, I do.”
“You do?!”
“Well, you asked… So, yeah, I do.”
“You know I have to meet this guy, don’t you? There’s no way I can miss out on seeing my GBF’s love interest.”
“GBF?” Cody asked.
“Gay best friend,” she told him with a smile.
He couldn’t help but grin at her. “So I come out to you today and I’m already your gay best friend?”
“Well, I’ve been telling myself you’ve been my GBF since I met you, but now I can actually say it out loud to you.”
“How’d you know? You said that earlier, that you knew I was gay.”
She shrugged again. “I have good gaydar, I guess. I had a lot of gay friends in high school and college, so I got really good at figuring it out…”
“Thanks… I’ve never been able to tell any of this to anyone, and it feels so good to be able to talk to someone. And I’m really glad it’s you.”
Beth smiled. “It’s my pleasure. So, how many guys have you had sex with?”
“BETH!”
“It’s a simple question.”
“I’m not telling unless you tell.”
“Two,” she told him looking him dead in the eye.
“Shit. Seven. Nothing too exciting…”
“Was that guy right, though, your first, has topping gotten better?”
“If you mean does it last longer than thirty seconds now, the answer would be yes. Happy?”
“Very. So, when’s the last time you got some?”
“BETH!”
“Jeez, you told me about losing your virginity; I think you can tell me when you last got some action.”
“Fine. But don’t you want to save anything for future conversations?”
“Nah, I want it all right here right now.” She took another spoonful of her quickly melting ice cream, ready to hear more of what Cody had to say.
“Ok. So, the last time I had sex? Last week after the show.”
“Really? That’s where you took off to?!”
Cody nodded. “Yeah.”
“How have you only slept with seven people if you’re going out and getting some after all the shows?”
“Well, a few months back, not too long after I started here, I met this guy, and we had sex, then I didn’t see him for a few weeks, but then we ran into each other again. After that we sort of… made this arrangement to meet up at least once a week…”
“Is he, like, your boyfriend?”
“Uhh, well… No, not really. I’ve never… Ok, no, I tried the boyfriend thing when I went out to try my hand at acting. Well, we didn’t work out too well; it was a nasty break up. After him, I didn’t have sex with anyone until I came out here. And now here we are.”
“Can I watch?”
“BETH!!!” he shouted in utter shock. “No, you can’t watch me have sex with someone!”
“Can I at least watch you… make out with him?”
A blush rose on Cody’s face. She was being really persistent, wasn’t she? “I dunno, maybe.”
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She finally got the chance to meet this legendary Teddy Jr. once he stared coming around to Raw to cut his promos about winning the tag team championship belts. As soon as Ted came along, Beth and Cody hung out less and less, but she still had the chance to talk to him.
The first night she saw him, when she got Cody alone, and beamed at him and whispered, “He’s cute.”
Cody blushed, and that’s how Ted caught them as he was turning the corner. “Hey Teddy! This is my friend, Beth. Beth, Teddy,” he introduced them properly as they shook hands. “So, do you wanna go out somewhere? A bunch of the guys like to go out after the shows, so what do you say?”
“Sure,” Ted answered, giving a quick glance to Beth.
“You two have fun getting shit faced,” Beth told them before turning around and leaving the two of the alone.
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As Cody’s crush on Ted grew and grew with each passing day, he started spending less and less time with Ted. He opened up to Beth with his feelings while keeping them hidden from everyone, especially Ted.
And today it was made painfully obvious that Ted had noticed. “God, I don’t know what to do!”
Beth ran her fingers through his hair as she took another scoop of her ice cream, which she kept between her knees. “Have you ever thought of, oh, telling him?”
“But I can’t tell him! He’s gonna hate me!”
“Don’t I tell you every time that he’s not going to hate you? He’s your best friend, and he’s obviously wondering why you’ve been spending more time with me. And now you’ve got him thinking that we’re having sex, and that’s not gonna help matters, because, well, we’re not together.”
“I know, I know! Shit, I’m sorry I got you wrapped up in this. I just got worked up and blurted out the first think I could think of and… And now we’re sitting here stuffing our faces… God, I feel like shit for this whole thing. I should have said something to him a long time ago.”
“Yeah, you should have! Didn’t I tell you that?”
“I know you did. Ok, mind if I call Teddy over? I think we need to sort things out between us.”
“I would agree with that. We most certainly have some things to sort out.”
Cody got out of her arms and headed to his bag, where he grabbed his phone. He hit Teddy’s number on speed dial and heard the ring three times before Ted picked up.
Ted was hanging out in John and Randy’s room at their invitation, since he looked so worked up about something that was supposedly nothing. They were trying to get out of him just what was going on with him.
“Ok, Teddy, can you just fucking sit down, or something? Just stop pacing; it’s driving me nuts,” Randy said, leaning against the head rest of the bed, trying to watch TV.
“Sorry,” Ted muttered, sitting down on the end of their king size bed.
“Are you really this worked up over finding out Cody and Beth were an item? Is that really all there is to it?” John asked.
“YES! Why would there be anything else to it?” he questioned a little too defensively.
“Maybe because you’re taking everything way too extreme. Maybe he didn’t tell you about her because he didn’t want it to get out to the entire locker room that he was involved with another employee. Sure, it happens all the time, but if there was something that happened, like a break up, it’d be a quiet one. And you, playing the role of best friend, wouldn’t try to ruin Beth’s life after they split.”
“I wouldn’t do something like that to him!”
“Then you could at least pretend like you’re happy for him. Shit, for being best friends, you don’t seem to know much about each other,” Randy stated.
“Fuck you, man. Sure I’m happy for him. He’s never had a girlfriend before; at least he’s never told me about one.”
“Maybe Beth popped his cherry,” Randy said, and beside him, John burst out laughing.
“She certainly does wear the pants in the relationship.”
“Hey, quit that. Cody’s not a chick…”
Randy raised an eyebrow at him. “Why, Teddy, aren’t you normally the first person to start raggin’ on Cody? Why the sudden change of heart?”
Ted stuttered, trying to think of what to say in reply to that. He couldn’t think of anything to say that wouldn’t reveal the thoughts he had been hiding. So he didn’t say anything. Which probably made it worse on him, since Randy, and John at this point, could read him like a book.
“Holy shit, Randy, you don’t think…”
Randy smirked, knowing exactly where John was going with this. “Oh, but I do think. Teddy, what have you got to say for yourself?”
It was just then when his phone started ringing in his pocket. He dug in and pulled it out, hitting talk and answering, “Hello?”
“Hey, Teddy. I think we need to talk… Can you come to my room for a bit?”
“Is your girlfriend going to be there?”
Cody cringed at Ted’s words, but replied as he looked at her, “Uh, yeah, Beth will be here.”
“Does she have to be?”
“Yeah, Ted, she does have to be here!” he shouted into the phone. He took a calming breath and continued, “Please, Teddy, can you come over to the room?”
“I guess so,” he replied.
“Thanks.”
“Yeah, sure.”
“See you soon.”
“Yeah, bye,” Ted said before he hung up.
Cody placed his phone down on the table next to his bed and went over to the door, where he opened it and flipped the hatch so it was in the door, keeping it propped open slightly. He then went back to his place on the bed in Beth’s arm, leaned against her shoulder.
“Are you sure you want to be here?”
“Yeah,” Cody answered.
A few minutes later, Ted knocked before opening the door. His face dropped when he saw the two of them sitting on a bed together in each other’s arms, eating ice cream. “What did you want?”
“We really have to talk.”
“What do we need to talk about? You seem perfectly content keeping the fact that you’re screwing her from me. So what more could there be to talk about?” He folded his arms in front of his chest, not moving from the spot he stopped in.
“Close the door,” Cody told him.
Ted rolled his eyes, but turned to face the door, opening it enough so he could flip the hatch back, closing the door completely. “Ok, there. What now?”
“We have to clear a few things up.”
“Such as?”
“Shit… I don’t even know where to start with this. I guess… Ok, so, Beth and I. Yeah, we’ve been really good friends since OVW. Shit, she’s the best friend I ever made there, even more so than Shawn.”
“I figured that when you told me you were fucking her!”
“Fucking listen to me, Teddy! Yeah, she’s the best friend I made there, but that’s all we’ve ever been: friends.”
“Like that means anything.”
“What the fuck is that supposed to mean? Ted, I’ve never had sex with Beth. Not in OVW, not now. Nor will we ever have sex.”
“But you told me that you were! Why the hell would you lie to me about that?!”
“Because I had to lie to you about something else!”
“What the fuck is that supposed to mean?” Ted shouted.
“Look, I’ve never told this to anyone before.”
“Does she know?”
“Don’t you talk to me like that!”
“Sorry… But does she? Does Beth, who you’ve never had sex with and are only really good friends with, know this thing about you that you’ve never told anyone?”
“Yeah, actually, she does. But she, unlike you managed to fucking figure it out on her own.”
“Well, why don’t you clue me in on just what you’ve been hiding from me?”
The two men were shouting with each other, Ted’s accent getting stronger the more aggravated he got. Beth was stroking Cody’s arm, trying to keep him calm.
“Shit, I… I don’t know how to tell you…”
“Then maybe you can tell me, if you’re not fucking her, how come you’re rooming with her and hanging around with her every spare minute of your day?”
“Because of you!” he shouted back, finally stepping out of the bed to confront Ted directly to his face.
“What the fuck?! Because of me? What the hell is that supposed to mean? I’m always asking if you want to go do something, but you’re the one that turns me down!”
“Shit, Teddy, I’m gay!”
That shut Ted up.
“That’s right, Ted, I’m gay. That’s why Beth and I will never be an item, because I like dick. I like it when men have their dick up my ass, and I also like it when men have their dick in my mouth, not to mention when my dick is in some other dude’s ass. And you know why I don’t want to hang out with you any more than I have to? Because I want my dick to be in your ass, and I can’t stand being around you because I know that you would think I was disgusting, and that you would never have any interest in me, and FUCKING HELL!”
“How come you never told me?” Ted whispered, his tone a complete 180 from what he had been previously using.
“Why do you think I never told you?”
Ted looked around him to Beth, who was still eating her ice cream as though she were watching some soap opera on TV. “And you figured it out yourself?”
“Yeah. I always had a good sense of, well, a good gaydar, I guess.”
“Did you figure out that he wanted me?”
“That he did tell me. I didn’t even know who you were at the time.”
“So you told her… You had a thing for me when you were in OVW?”
“Before that. Shit, Ted, I’ve had a crush on you since I was thirteen fucking years old.”
“You didn’t.”
Cody bowed his head, embarrassed. He knew Ted would react like this. “Yeah, I did. And this is why I never told you. I didn’t want to ruin our friendship by turning it to sex, and, shit, that’s what I want to do with you.”
Beth was leaning forward, really interested in the scene in front of her. She could literally feel the tension between them. And the things she was picturing happening between the two men… Oh, God, there was no way she could leave now.
“You want to have sex with me?”
“Like you wouldn’t even believe.”
“And you never told me because you thought it’d piss me off, thought I’d be pissed at you for thinking such a thing?”
“Yeah! Aren’t you?”
“Cody, I… No, I don’t have a problem with it. You know I’m fine with John and Randy.”
“Neither of them have been your best friend since we were little kids nor do they want to suck your dick… Unless… Unless you want me to suck your dick.”
Ted stood there, unsure of what to say to reply to that. Yeah, actually, he did want Cody to suck his dick. He wanted Cody to fuck him, he wanted to fuck Cody and then he wanted to do it again. “Maybe I do.”
Cody stared into Ted’s eyes, looking for some sense that maybe Ted was joking, was trying to give him shit for how he had been blowing him off lately, and for lying to him like he had. But he didn’t see anything like that. In fact, all he saw was truth. Ted wasn’t bullshitting him.
“How come you never said anything?”
“I just figured it out a little while ago… That this is what I wanted, that you were what I wanted.”
Unable to control himself any more, Cody grabbed behind Ted’s head and pulled him in close, their lips a hair’s width apart. “You swear this is what you want?” Cody whispered. “Because there’s no going back if we go from this.”
“There’s no knowing until we try. You just told me this was ten years in the making for you. Let’s not wait anymore.”
They closed the final distance between them, their lips meeting for the first time. Cody reveled in the feeling of finally getting Ted. It was better than he ever had imagined. And he had imagined this a lot. He slipped his tongue out and snaked it into Ted’s mouth, meeting his tongue and sliding over it.
Beth’s mouth had dropped open as she watched the two of them kissing in front of her. She flashed back to the conversation they had years ago when he came out to her, and she asked back then if she could watch him make out with some guy, and she had never had that chance. And now she was finally seeing it, with Teddy of all people. Teddy, the guy Cody had been crushing on for almost half of his life was currently kissing the hell out of her best friend.
Cody slid his hands up under Ted’s shirt, over the well defined abs and groaned into Ted’s mouth. Ted’s hands slipped around Cody’s back as their bodies pressed together and their tongues went deeper into each other’s mouths. Cody began working Ted’s shirt up over him, causing them to break the kiss for a split second as clothes were removed from each other.
Beth realized her spoon was hitting the cardboard bottom of the ice cream carton, so she reached over to grab Cody’s since discarded Chunky Monkey. She started digging into that, melty or not.
Ted began pushing Cody backwards towards the empty bed, but at this point, he wouldn’t even notice if Beth were curled up on the pillows on the same bed they were on. Cody pulled Ted down on top of him as he fell back onto the bed. They climbed up so Cody’s head was now on the pillow. Ted sat back on his heels and began undoing Cody’s pants, getting them off onto the floor before turning to his own.
When the two of them were there in only their boxers, Beth knew she shouldn’t be watching, but she couldn’t stop. Shit, she didn’t even want to blink. The two guys before her were putting on a clinic demonstrating the art of the eyefuck. As they did that, Cody reached his hands to the band of Ted’s boxers, pulling them down until he revealed Ted’s rock hard dick.
Goddamn, she had to leave. As hot as those two may be, this was far too personal a moment for her to be involved in. But she couldn’t just leave. She couldn’t risk the chance of opening the hall door and having someone walk by, peering in and seeing those two together. As quietly as she could, she climbed out of her bed and padded over to the bathroom. She shut the door, but could still hear the two men out in the bedroom, and she wasn’t possibly going back out there to grab her iPod. She’d just have to listen to them… And try and picture just what was going on out there with them… She smiled as she lowered the lid of the toilet seat and sat down. That might not be so bad. Although it looked like she was losing a roommate.
Soooo, this is that fic that kinda came out of nowhere, and somehow grew into this. It's yet another one shot, but I really, really like this one. Hope you guys all do, too.
Title: A Series of Miscommunications
Pairing: Ted DiBiase Jr./Cody Rhodes (with some scattered John/Randy)
Raiting: NC-17
Summary: Cody's so-called friendship with Beth doesn't sit well with Teddy
Disclaimer: All rights belong to the WWE
Feedback: Would be lovely
A/N: Just so you know, there's a lot of Beth in this one. :O I know, how dare I?! But don't let that deter you from this fic, I just thought I should let you know she's in it a lot.
After the show, both Ted and Cody were back in the locker room. All through the shower, Ted was abnormally quiet. Not the normal kind of quiet that they had in the shower, but the tense kind, like he was trying to not say anything. Back in the dressing room, after toweling off, pulling a pair of pants on, is when Cody finally broke down and asked, “What the fuck is up with you, man?”
“Nothing,” Ted replied.
Cody rolled his eyes. Right, this was nothing. “Liar. Go on, tell me what’s going on in that head of yours.”
Ted paused and then said, “Fine. You’ve been spending an awful lot of time with Beth.”
“Beth?” Cody laughed. “Ted, she’s my friend. What does it matter if I’ve been spending time with her, or not?”
“But you started rooming with her!”
“Yeah, once again, it’s because we’re friends. She wanted some company, and I offered. Shit, it’s no big deal; I’ve known her since OVW. Jeez.”
“So you just up and ditch me, your best friend since we were little kids, for some chick you met wrestling at OVW? What happened to bros before hoes, man? Shit, what the fuck else have you been doing since OVW?” Ted asked, the level of his voice rising with each and every word until he was yelling right into Cody’s face.
Cody pulled his shirt over his head and slipped into his shoes before looking right back at Ted and shouting, “Each other!” He then turned around and stormed out of the locker room to the stares of many others and headed to wait in front of the women’s locker room for Beth.
She came out a few minutes later and spotted Cody leaning against the wall, a pout prominent on his face. “Hey, what’s wrong?” she asked, wrapping her arm around his back.
“I think I pissed Teddy off…”
“What? How? What did you do?”
Cody began walking and Beth followed, her arm still wrapped around Cody. “I’ll tell you in the hotel.”
She knew just what Cody needed right about now. After working with him for years, she got to know him and just what he liked to help cheer him up. B&J’s. “Well, I’ll tell you what, we’re going to find a Cumbies and get ourselves a pint each of Ben & Jerry’s.”
Cody gave her a small smile and placed his hand on her shoulder as they continued heading for the car. Ted spotted the two of them on his own walk to his car. Holy shit, had they really been fucking since OVW? Shit on a stick, how had he never seen it before?! Of course that’s why they wanted to room together. So, why didn’t Cody just tell him?! Why did he feel like he had to feed him some bullshit line about Beth just wanting some company? Now it was obvious just what kind of company she was looking for.
“Fuck.”
“Fuck what?” Randy asked, turning the corner.
“Fuck off…”
“Oh, what’s got your panties in a twist?”
Ted didn’t reply, instead he just walked on down to the car garage, leaving Randy to wait for John, even though he’d have to wait for the both of them before he could actually leave the place. He looked on as he saw Cody taking off with Beth, fighting the urge to punch the car, knowing the car would win every time. Fucking physics…
Beth drove towards the hotel, knowing she had seen a Cumberland Farms on the way over to the arena. She turned right at the second set of lights, and smiled when she was the building up on the right. She pulled in the parking lot and parked the car right in front of the entrance door. “All right, come on. Get out,” she said as she unlocked the doors.
The two stepped out and headed inside, bee lining it right towards the freezer section. After a quick scan of the ice creams, Cody found what he was looking for: Chunky Monkey. Beth grabbed a pint of Karamel Sutra for herself and they headed for the counter. They had to wait a bit in line for the old lady in front of them to finish her purchase of Lord knows how many scratch tickets, but soon enough they both had their ice cream on the counter. Beth paid for the both of them and they were soon back on the road.
“Remember, no touching that until we’re in the room,” Beth warned. That was their thing. Each time one of them had something really bothering them, the other would by both of them a pint of their absolute favourite Ben & Jerry’s flavour to pig out on later in their room.
“What the fuck is your issue?” Randy asked Ted as he glanced up into the rear-view mirror and saw him sulking in the back seat.
“I don’t have any fucking issue! Fucking Christ!”
“Woah there, bud,” John said, “don’t go bitin’ his head off. Shit, there’s no need to get all worked up over a simple question.”
“It’s fucking Cody! That ass hole has been ditching me for Beth nine times out of ten! I’ll ask him if he wants to go out for drinks, but he’s like no thanks, I already made plans with Beth. Plans my ass, he could have just fucking told me he was fucking her!”
“What?!” John and Randy asked at the same time.
“There’s no way those two-” John reasoned before Ted cut him off.
“No, man, he just told me today! I asked him how come he started up and rooming with Beth, and he fed me yet another bullshit line about how they’re good friends, and they’ve been friends since OVW and then I asked him how come she has priority over me, and that’s when he flat out told me he had been fucking her since OVW. That shit head never even told me!”
“Shouldn’t you be happy for the dude? I mean, there’s nothing wrong with getting some ass, am I right, John?” he asked, adding a wink for emphasis.
“He’s right, Teddy. Besides, if he’s getting it from a steady source, what the fuck does it even matter to you?”
“Bros before hoes!”
“You still got us, man!” John told him.
“Yeah, great. I’ll just hang out with you in between the times you’re sucking face or having sex with each other, how’s that sound?”
Once back in the room, Beth grabbed spoons and handed one over to Cody, who was already on the bed, in the process of opening the ice cream. She crawled in beside him and encouraged him to lean against her side.
“Ok, spill. What exactly did you say to Ted to piss him off?”
“Well, he was going on and on about how he didn’t like me spending so much time with you, then I said we’d been friends since OVW, and he was all ‘what else have you been doing since OVW?!’ so I yelled ‘each other’ and here we are…”
Beth couldn’t help herself, she burst out laughing. “Each other?!” she managed to get out between her fits of laughter. “Oh, that’s fucking priceless,” she said, wiping away a tear.
Cody had to admit it, it was pretty damn funny. Him and Beth? Teddy actually believed that?!
“Oh, sweetie…” She pulled Cody into a hug, still chuckling. “It seems as though your little crush is slightly dense.”
“I know, I know…”
Beth had known about Cody since, well, day one. She always had better than average gaydar, especially for a straight girl, so the second she laid eyes on Cody she knew right away that he was gay. It took her a little while longer to actually get around to asking, though.
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Since coming to OVW, Cody had made a few friends along the way, but the one he liked hanging around with most was Beth. She was always so chill around him, and he felt completely comfortable around her. People always asked them if they were dating, and they said no to everyone. No one ever believed them.
There was one night after a show where a bunch of them had gone out to a bar, and Beth and Cody had found a relatively quiet booth to sit in together. It had been a few months since they first met, and though Cody always felt like he could be himself around her, there was one thing he had yet to reveal about himself. Possibly one of the most important things about himself, too.
She noticed he kept glancing up quickly before dropping his eyes back down to the table. He seemed awful interested in watching a drop of condensation make its way down his glass of beer, growing bigger as it met with another drip, before finally landing on the table in the circle of water already surrounding the glass.
It was as good a time as any to try and get it out of him, right? “Codes, how come you’re not over there with the other guys trying to get into as many girl’s pants as possible?”
Cody’s head instantly shot up. He was not expecting her to say that, or anything like it. “What?”
“Did I stutter?”
“Well, no, but…”
“Then why don’t you answer my question? How come you’re always hanging around with me when you could be hangin with the dudes and scoring chicks.” Her eyes went wide and she clamped her hand over her mouth as though she just had some revelation. “Cody,” she said with a small smile, “do you have a crush on me?”
This time his eyes bugged out of his head and his mouth dropped open. What the fuck could he say to that? If he said no, wouldn’t she be offended? He would have to tell her…
“Cody?” she repeated when he didn’t say anything.
“Beth, I… Didn’t we agree that we should just be friends?” he stammered.
This was getting her nowhere. Why wouldn’t he tell her? Did he not trust her? So, she took matters into her own hands. She reached across the table and laced her fingers with his and she gave him a coy smile. “I know we had told each other that,” she started rubbing her thumb over his hand, “but don’t you ever wonder what it’d be like if we took things… further?”
“Uhhh…”
“It’s ok that you’re a little nervous about it, but we’ll never know if there could be an ‘us’ until we try, right?”
Fuck. Fuck fuck fuckity FUCK! This was NOT happening. Why was she doing this to him? He jerked his hand away and dropped her gaze. But not for long. It was now of never. He had to man up about it, and what kind of man would he be if he didn’t look her directly into her eyes when he told her everything. “There’s never gonna be an ‘us.’”
“But-,” Beth began to protest, feigning hurt.
“No, let me talk. Please. There’s never, ever going to be an ‘us’. EVER. Why’s that?” He took a deep breath and finally said it. “I’m gay. Beth, I’m gay,” he said again. Much to his surprise, Beth began to grin.
“Finally!”
“What do you mean by that?”
“I mean it took you long enough to tell me! How come you never said anything to me before? Shit, Cody, I thought you were my friend!”
“You are! But… I’ve never told anyone before… Only my parents and, uh… a couple other guys know.”
This time Beth’s eyes widened for real. “A couple other guys? And how do they know?”
“I don’t feel too comfortable talking out here… Mind if we head back to… anywhere else.”
“You can come back to my place. I’m sharing an apartment with a few of the other girls, but I’ve got my own room. And we can stop to pick up some ice cream on the way. That’ll make you feel better, won’t it?”
“But won’t that-”
“Sometimes you just gotta say fuck you to your diet. Come on, my treat.”
That was how their Ben & Jerry’s tradition got started. Soon they were both sitting on Beth’s bed, Indian style, eating ice cream.
“Ok, so, these other guys that know…”
“I’m not a virgin, ya know.”
“Never thought about it one way or the other. But you’ve really had sex with guys before?”
“That’s usually what gay men do,” Cody joked.
“What was it like?” she asked him, finding the idea of Cody with another man oddly… hot. “Were you on top, or did you bottom? Did it hurt?”
“Hey, slow down there!” he said as a smile grew on his face. He realized then that he liked being able to talk to someone about this. “One question at a time, ok?”
“Ok. So, your first time, what was it like?”
“Fucking nerve wracking. I was still in high school at the time. I had been invited to a party after my senior prom, and a bunch of us went to a lake and got completely smashed. I was in the water in just my boxers when one of my wrestling buddies came over, splashing me and being a complete idiot. When he tackled me, well… I, uh, couldn’t help but notice his, uh… fondness for me. Well, I was having a similar reaction to the situation. I got out of the water and turned my head to see if he was following. He jerked his head over to the side where there were a bunch of rocks and shit that hid the view from everyone else. Not like they were paying any attention to us, since they were all drunk or stoned out of their minds.
“So, I grabbed my towel and started walking down the shore to where the rocks were and spread the towel out and sat down. A couple minutes later he showed up. He sat down next to me and I could feel his eyes on me. I think I asked him what we were doing, because I was so fucking confused. Not that I didn’t know I was gay, because I’ve known that for a long time, but it was the first time I ever actually acted on it. He didn’t say anything, he just… kissed me. Oh, god, it was so good. Better than any kiss I had with a girl. One thing led to another, the kissing, the touching, and before I know it, his mouth is around my dick fucking deep throating me… Do you really want to hear all this?”
Beth nodded, unable to speak she was so wrapped up in his story. She realized her mouth was hanging open and nearly drooling, so she closed it, but encouraged him on.
“Ok. So, before I came in his mouth, he leans back and digs into the pocket of his, uh, previously discarded bathing suit to pull out a condom and some lube. The whole idea of that freaked me out, and he told me it was ok, that if I didn’t want to, I didn’t have to. But, fuck, I wanted to. I knew I was going so fast with it all, but I couldn’t help myself. He ripped open the condom, and I thought he was gonna roll it on over himself, so I was shocked as hell when he grabbed my dick and put it on me.
“When he got onto his hands and knees in front of me, I was frozen. I was in such shock that this was actually going to happen. So he whispered to me to get some lube onto my fingers and put those inside him first to help out. Well, that’s what I did until he told me to stop. I pulled my fingers out and he said I could figure out what to do next… Holy shit, Beth, I had never, ever felt anything like it before. It was so… tight. And hot. I’m surprised I didn’t shoot the instant I pushed into him. I was fucking close, though. Still, I only managed a couple thrusts into him before I did come. He was still fucking hard, though.
“I took off the used condom, and I was so embarrassed. It just seemed like such a shitty first time, ya know? He said that happened a lot, and that the more I did it, the better it would get. He asked if, uh… If he could fuck me, too, since he had a couple condoms with him.”
Beth took another spoonful of her ice cream. “Well, what did you say?”
Cody raised an eyebrow at her. “Are you getting turned on by this?”
“I may be. Now what was your answer?”
“I said yeah.”
Beth groaned. Her vibrator was in the top drawer of her dresser, and she had never wanted to use it so badly. But it might seem a little awkward what with Cody being there, and all. “So you had sex with him again?”
Cody nodded. “Yeah. He told me to lie on my back, so I did. He lifted my legs over his shoulders, and, let me tell you, it was weird feeling his cold, slippery finger go into my ass. It was a little uncomfortable, but nothing terrible. The second finger, though? That hurt. Until he hit my prostate. Now that was God’s gift to men. Holy motherfucker, that…
“Anyway, he took his fingers out and asked if I wanted a third, or if I wanted his dick. So I said his dick. I heard him ripping open the condom and after he put it on, I felt it pushing against my asshole. Well, I thought two fingers hurt. Shit! He kept telling me to relax, that it would be ok and feel better if I just let myself relax. I took some deep breaths, trying to relax, but it’s kinda hard to do that when someone is pushing something inside your ass. I managed it though. And I could even feel my dick getting hard again. As he got going, I admit, it did start to feel better. A lot better. Oh, and I thought his fingers felt good hitting my prostate? Holy shit. It was nothing compared to his dick. Over and over and over he kept hitting it, and it was driving me crazy!” he recalled. “I was even getting hard again. I couldn’t believe it. When he started, all I could think was how the hell could anyone actually want to do this. But by the time I was coming for a second time that night, I was wondering how anyone could pass it up.”
“I think you answered my first three questions,” Beth smiled around a spoonful of her ice cream.
Cody scooped up some of his own and stuck it in his mouth. He then reached forward and took a spoonful of Beth’s Cherry Garcia.
“Hey!” she protested. Cody grinned and held out his pint for her to take some Karamel Sutra for herself. “Damn, this is good.” It became her new favourite. “Ok, so, did you ever have sex with him again?”
“Yeah, a couple times. He was even the recipient of my first blow job,” he said with a smirk.
“How’d that go for ya?”
“Not too bad, actually. Turns out I can open my mouth pretty wide…”
“Oh, Cody… You’re precious.” She smiled at him and then added, “Thank you.”
“For what?”
“For coming out to me. I’m sorry I had to do it like that, but I knew from the moment I met you, and after we became friends I was waiting and waiting for you to tell me, yet you never did. And now you’re telling me all of this, and it really means a lot for you to open up to me like that.”
“You seem to be enjoying it quite a bit.”
Beth shrugged. “What can I say? I, uh, appreciate when two attractive male specimens get together…”
Cody began laughing, coughing as he started to choke on his ice cream. “Jesus, Beth, don’t go saying shit like that when I’m eating!”
“Sorry. Ok, so, that’s why you’re never off with the other guys… None of them know?”
“NO!” Cody yelped. “They can’t. God, what would they think if they found out they had been rolling around in the ring with a fag? No, they can’t find out…”
She held up her hands defensively, although she was still holding her ice cream. “Ok, sorry I brought it up. Hmm… Oh, I know. Is there anyone that you’re crushing on right now? Or maybe some secret crush you’ve held for years?”
Cody scratched the back of his head. Should he tell her? Fuck, he already told her about his first time, what would it matter if he brought up his man of interest? “Well… Yeah, there is someone I’ve liked for a long time. I don’t think you’ve met him before, but, uh, I’m sure you’ve heard of his dad before… Ted DiBiase Jr. would be his name.”
“Wait, you mean his dad is the Million Dollar Man?”
“Yeah. We’ve been friends since, well, just about forever. When I was old enough to walk, he would be there walking with me, even though he’s a couple years older. At least that’s what our parents say. We’ve always gotten along really well, hung out during the summers and stuff like that, but… Well, once I got into my teens, I started to notice him… Like, notice things about him that I probably shouldn’t be noticing. Like how he had started developing a nice looking six pack, and how his biceps were getting bigger, and how thick his trapezius muscle was. Not to mention how fucking good his ass looked in a pair of jeans.”
“And he doesn’t know about any of this?”
“No… I can’t tell him that I’m gay, Beth! He’s so religious, there’s no way he’d be ok with that! And then top that off with a big heaping helping of your best friend wants to have crazy monkey sex with you, yeah, that wouldn’t go down so well.”
“I’m sorry,” she said, reaching out to stroke her hand up and down his arm. “So, do you jack off thinking about him?”
“Beth!”
“What?!”
“Ok, ok, yeah, I do.”
“You do?!”
“Well, you asked… So, yeah, I do.”
“You know I have to meet this guy, don’t you? There’s no way I can miss out on seeing my GBF’s love interest.”
“GBF?” Cody asked.
“Gay best friend,” she told him with a smile.
He couldn’t help but grin at her. “So I come out to you today and I’m already your gay best friend?”
“Well, I’ve been telling myself you’ve been my GBF since I met you, but now I can actually say it out loud to you.”
“How’d you know? You said that earlier, that you knew I was gay.”
She shrugged again. “I have good gaydar, I guess. I had a lot of gay friends in high school and college, so I got really good at figuring it out…”
“Thanks… I’ve never been able to tell any of this to anyone, and it feels so good to be able to talk to someone. And I’m really glad it’s you.”
Beth smiled. “It’s my pleasure. So, how many guys have you had sex with?”
“BETH!”
“It’s a simple question.”
“I’m not telling unless you tell.”
“Two,” she told him looking him dead in the eye.
“Shit. Seven. Nothing too exciting…”
“Was that guy right, though, your first, has topping gotten better?”
“If you mean does it last longer than thirty seconds now, the answer would be yes. Happy?”
“Very. So, when’s the last time you got some?”
“BETH!”
“Jeez, you told me about losing your virginity; I think you can tell me when you last got some action.”
“Fine. But don’t you want to save anything for future conversations?”
“Nah, I want it all right here right now.” She took another spoonful of her quickly melting ice cream, ready to hear more of what Cody had to say.
“Ok. So, the last time I had sex? Last week after the show.”
“Really? That’s where you took off to?!”
Cody nodded. “Yeah.”
“How have you only slept with seven people if you’re going out and getting some after all the shows?”
“Well, a few months back, not too long after I started here, I met this guy, and we had sex, then I didn’t see him for a few weeks, but then we ran into each other again. After that we sort of… made this arrangement to meet up at least once a week…”
“Is he, like, your boyfriend?”
“Uhh, well… No, not really. I’ve never… Ok, no, I tried the boyfriend thing when I went out to try my hand at acting. Well, we didn’t work out too well; it was a nasty break up. After him, I didn’t have sex with anyone until I came out here. And now here we are.”
“Can I watch?”
“BETH!!!” he shouted in utter shock. “No, you can’t watch me have sex with someone!”
“Can I at least watch you… make out with him?”
A blush rose on Cody’s face. She was being really persistent, wasn’t she? “I dunno, maybe.”
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She finally got the chance to meet this legendary Teddy Jr. once he stared coming around to Raw to cut his promos about winning the tag team championship belts. As soon as Ted came along, Beth and Cody hung out less and less, but she still had the chance to talk to him.
The first night she saw him, when she got Cody alone, and beamed at him and whispered, “He’s cute.”
Cody blushed, and that’s how Ted caught them as he was turning the corner. “Hey Teddy! This is my friend, Beth. Beth, Teddy,” he introduced them properly as they shook hands. “So, do you wanna go out somewhere? A bunch of the guys like to go out after the shows, so what do you say?”
“Sure,” Ted answered, giving a quick glance to Beth.
“You two have fun getting shit faced,” Beth told them before turning around and leaving the two of the alone.
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As Cody’s crush on Ted grew and grew with each passing day, he started spending less and less time with Ted. He opened up to Beth with his feelings while keeping them hidden from everyone, especially Ted.
And today it was made painfully obvious that Ted had noticed. “God, I don’t know what to do!”
Beth ran her fingers through his hair as she took another scoop of her ice cream, which she kept between her knees. “Have you ever thought of, oh, telling him?”
“But I can’t tell him! He’s gonna hate me!”
“Don’t I tell you every time that he’s not going to hate you? He’s your best friend, and he’s obviously wondering why you’ve been spending more time with me. And now you’ve got him thinking that we’re having sex, and that’s not gonna help matters, because, well, we’re not together.”
“I know, I know! Shit, I’m sorry I got you wrapped up in this. I just got worked up and blurted out the first think I could think of and… And now we’re sitting here stuffing our faces… God, I feel like shit for this whole thing. I should have said something to him a long time ago.”
“Yeah, you should have! Didn’t I tell you that?”
“I know you did. Ok, mind if I call Teddy over? I think we need to sort things out between us.”
“I would agree with that. We most certainly have some things to sort out.”
Cody got out of her arms and headed to his bag, where he grabbed his phone. He hit Teddy’s number on speed dial and heard the ring three times before Ted picked up.
Ted was hanging out in John and Randy’s room at their invitation, since he looked so worked up about something that was supposedly nothing. They were trying to get out of him just what was going on with him.
“Ok, Teddy, can you just fucking sit down, or something? Just stop pacing; it’s driving me nuts,” Randy said, leaning against the head rest of the bed, trying to watch TV.
“Sorry,” Ted muttered, sitting down on the end of their king size bed.
“Are you really this worked up over finding out Cody and Beth were an item? Is that really all there is to it?” John asked.
“YES! Why would there be anything else to it?” he questioned a little too defensively.
“Maybe because you’re taking everything way too extreme. Maybe he didn’t tell you about her because he didn’t want it to get out to the entire locker room that he was involved with another employee. Sure, it happens all the time, but if there was something that happened, like a break up, it’d be a quiet one. And you, playing the role of best friend, wouldn’t try to ruin Beth’s life after they split.”
“I wouldn’t do something like that to him!”
“Then you could at least pretend like you’re happy for him. Shit, for being best friends, you don’t seem to know much about each other,” Randy stated.
“Fuck you, man. Sure I’m happy for him. He’s never had a girlfriend before; at least he’s never told me about one.”
“Maybe Beth popped his cherry,” Randy said, and beside him, John burst out laughing.
“She certainly does wear the pants in the relationship.”
“Hey, quit that. Cody’s not a chick…”
Randy raised an eyebrow at him. “Why, Teddy, aren’t you normally the first person to start raggin’ on Cody? Why the sudden change of heart?”
Ted stuttered, trying to think of what to say in reply to that. He couldn’t think of anything to say that wouldn’t reveal the thoughts he had been hiding. So he didn’t say anything. Which probably made it worse on him, since Randy, and John at this point, could read him like a book.
“Holy shit, Randy, you don’t think…”
Randy smirked, knowing exactly where John was going with this. “Oh, but I do think. Teddy, what have you got to say for yourself?”
It was just then when his phone started ringing in his pocket. He dug in and pulled it out, hitting talk and answering, “Hello?”
“Hey, Teddy. I think we need to talk… Can you come to my room for a bit?”
“Is your girlfriend going to be there?”
Cody cringed at Ted’s words, but replied as he looked at her, “Uh, yeah, Beth will be here.”
“Does she have to be?”
“Yeah, Ted, she does have to be here!” he shouted into the phone. He took a calming breath and continued, “Please, Teddy, can you come over to the room?”
“I guess so,” he replied.
“Thanks.”
“Yeah, sure.”
“See you soon.”
“Yeah, bye,” Ted said before he hung up.
Cody placed his phone down on the table next to his bed and went over to the door, where he opened it and flipped the hatch so it was in the door, keeping it propped open slightly. He then went back to his place on the bed in Beth’s arm, leaned against her shoulder.
“Are you sure you want to be here?”
“Yeah,” Cody answered.
A few minutes later, Ted knocked before opening the door. His face dropped when he saw the two of them sitting on a bed together in each other’s arms, eating ice cream. “What did you want?”
“We really have to talk.”
“What do we need to talk about? You seem perfectly content keeping the fact that you’re screwing her from me. So what more could there be to talk about?” He folded his arms in front of his chest, not moving from the spot he stopped in.
“Close the door,” Cody told him.
Ted rolled his eyes, but turned to face the door, opening it enough so he could flip the hatch back, closing the door completely. “Ok, there. What now?”
“We have to clear a few things up.”
“Such as?”
“Shit… I don’t even know where to start with this. I guess… Ok, so, Beth and I. Yeah, we’ve been really good friends since OVW. Shit, she’s the best friend I ever made there, even more so than Shawn.”
“I figured that when you told me you were fucking her!”
“Fucking listen to me, Teddy! Yeah, she’s the best friend I made there, but that’s all we’ve ever been: friends.”
“Like that means anything.”
“What the fuck is that supposed to mean? Ted, I’ve never had sex with Beth. Not in OVW, not now. Nor will we ever have sex.”
“But you told me that you were! Why the hell would you lie to me about that?!”
“Because I had to lie to you about something else!”
“What the fuck is that supposed to mean?” Ted shouted.
“Look, I’ve never told this to anyone before.”
“Does she know?”
“Don’t you talk to me like that!”
“Sorry… But does she? Does Beth, who you’ve never had sex with and are only really good friends with, know this thing about you that you’ve never told anyone?”
“Yeah, actually, she does. But she, unlike you managed to fucking figure it out on her own.”
“Well, why don’t you clue me in on just what you’ve been hiding from me?”
The two men were shouting with each other, Ted’s accent getting stronger the more aggravated he got. Beth was stroking Cody’s arm, trying to keep him calm.
“Shit, I… I don’t know how to tell you…”
“Then maybe you can tell me, if you’re not fucking her, how come you’re rooming with her and hanging around with her every spare minute of your day?”
“Because of you!” he shouted back, finally stepping out of the bed to confront Ted directly to his face.
“What the fuck?! Because of me? What the hell is that supposed to mean? I’m always asking if you want to go do something, but you’re the one that turns me down!”
“Shit, Teddy, I’m gay!”
That shut Ted up.
“That’s right, Ted, I’m gay. That’s why Beth and I will never be an item, because I like dick. I like it when men have their dick up my ass, and I also like it when men have their dick in my mouth, not to mention when my dick is in some other dude’s ass. And you know why I don’t want to hang out with you any more than I have to? Because I want my dick to be in your ass, and I can’t stand being around you because I know that you would think I was disgusting, and that you would never have any interest in me, and FUCKING HELL!”
“How come you never told me?” Ted whispered, his tone a complete 180 from what he had been previously using.
“Why do you think I never told you?”
Ted looked around him to Beth, who was still eating her ice cream as though she were watching some soap opera on TV. “And you figured it out yourself?”
“Yeah. I always had a good sense of, well, a good gaydar, I guess.”
“Did you figure out that he wanted me?”
“That he did tell me. I didn’t even know who you were at the time.”
“So you told her… You had a thing for me when you were in OVW?”
“Before that. Shit, Ted, I’ve had a crush on you since I was thirteen fucking years old.”
“You didn’t.”
Cody bowed his head, embarrassed. He knew Ted would react like this. “Yeah, I did. And this is why I never told you. I didn’t want to ruin our friendship by turning it to sex, and, shit, that’s what I want to do with you.”
Beth was leaning forward, really interested in the scene in front of her. She could literally feel the tension between them. And the things she was picturing happening between the two men… Oh, God, there was no way she could leave now.
“You want to have sex with me?”
“Like you wouldn’t even believe.”
“And you never told me because you thought it’d piss me off, thought I’d be pissed at you for thinking such a thing?”
“Yeah! Aren’t you?”
“Cody, I… No, I don’t have a problem with it. You know I’m fine with John and Randy.”
“Neither of them have been your best friend since we were little kids nor do they want to suck your dick… Unless… Unless you want me to suck your dick.”
Ted stood there, unsure of what to say to reply to that. Yeah, actually, he did want Cody to suck his dick. He wanted Cody to fuck him, he wanted to fuck Cody and then he wanted to do it again. “Maybe I do.”
Cody stared into Ted’s eyes, looking for some sense that maybe Ted was joking, was trying to give him shit for how he had been blowing him off lately, and for lying to him like he had. But he didn’t see anything like that. In fact, all he saw was truth. Ted wasn’t bullshitting him.
“How come you never said anything?”
“I just figured it out a little while ago… That this is what I wanted, that you were what I wanted.”
Unable to control himself any more, Cody grabbed behind Ted’s head and pulled him in close, their lips a hair’s width apart. “You swear this is what you want?” Cody whispered. “Because there’s no going back if we go from this.”
“There’s no knowing until we try. You just told me this was ten years in the making for you. Let’s not wait anymore.”
They closed the final distance between them, their lips meeting for the first time. Cody reveled in the feeling of finally getting Ted. It was better than he ever had imagined. And he had imagined this a lot. He slipped his tongue out and snaked it into Ted’s mouth, meeting his tongue and sliding over it.
Beth’s mouth had dropped open as she watched the two of them kissing in front of her. She flashed back to the conversation they had years ago when he came out to her, and she asked back then if she could watch him make out with some guy, and she had never had that chance. And now she was finally seeing it, with Teddy of all people. Teddy, the guy Cody had been crushing on for almost half of his life was currently kissing the hell out of her best friend.
Cody slid his hands up under Ted’s shirt, over the well defined abs and groaned into Ted’s mouth. Ted’s hands slipped around Cody’s back as their bodies pressed together and their tongues went deeper into each other’s mouths. Cody began working Ted’s shirt up over him, causing them to break the kiss for a split second as clothes were removed from each other.
Beth realized her spoon was hitting the cardboard bottom of the ice cream carton, so she reached over to grab Cody’s since discarded Chunky Monkey. She started digging into that, melty or not.
Ted began pushing Cody backwards towards the empty bed, but at this point, he wouldn’t even notice if Beth were curled up on the pillows on the same bed they were on. Cody pulled Ted down on top of him as he fell back onto the bed. They climbed up so Cody’s head was now on the pillow. Ted sat back on his heels and began undoing Cody’s pants, getting them off onto the floor before turning to his own.
When the two of them were there in only their boxers, Beth knew she shouldn’t be watching, but she couldn’t stop. Shit, she didn’t even want to blink. The two guys before her were putting on a clinic demonstrating the art of the eyefuck. As they did that, Cody reached his hands to the band of Ted’s boxers, pulling them down until he revealed Ted’s rock hard dick.
Goddamn, she had to leave. As hot as those two may be, this was far too personal a moment for her to be involved in. But she couldn’t just leave. She couldn’t risk the chance of opening the hall door and having someone walk by, peering in and seeing those two together. As quietly as she could, she climbed out of her bed and padded over to the bathroom. She shut the door, but could still hear the two men out in the bedroom, and she wasn’t possibly going back out there to grab her iPod. She’d just have to listen to them… And try and picture just what was going on out there with them… She smiled as she lowered the lid of the toilet seat and sat down. That might not be so bad. Although it looked like she was losing a roommate.