If I Were A Boy - Cody/Beth - PG - 1/?
Title: If I Were A Boy Category: Wrestling Character(s): Beth Phoenix & Cody Rhodes & Ted DiBiase & Randy Orton Pairing (s): Cody&Beth, Beth(As Cody)&Randy, Cody(As Beth)&Ted. Genre(s): General/Humor Rating: Rated: T Summary: After an argument about Ted, Beth and Cody wake up in each others bodies. Keen to upset Cody, Beth makes her feelings for a certain Legend Killer very clear while Ted's lusty feelings for Beth become a little too clear for Cody's liking.Taking a deep breath, Beth leaned her head against the wall, her boyfriend of almost eight months still getting ready. She was supposed to be the female in this relationship! She was supposed to be the one taking forever to get ready! Fussing over his hair, Cody stared at his reflection in the mirror, sighing when it wouldn’t sit the way he wanted it to. “Aren’t you almost done, Codes?” Beth asked, running a hand through her own hair. She had been ready in less than half an hour whereas he…Well, his had been the last match on the card and Raw had been finished for almost an hour and a half.
“Almost,” he said, his reflection winking at her in the mirror. “And besides, we gotta wait on Ted.” And with that, the former tag team champion returned to styling his hair, completely ignoring the horrified look on his girlfriend’s face. As the blonde looked on in horror, Cody shook his head. “I mean, since Kristen left him, he’s been pretty down and I told him that he could come out with us tonight, since he had nothing to do…It’s nice to see him smile for once, huh?”
“I guess, Cody, but tonight was supposed to be our night…” Beth replied, staring up in despair at her boyfriend. Dressed in her favourite outfit of a grey knit dress, thick black tights and a pair of grey ankle boots, she had been hoping that she and Cody could have just one night alone. Ted was always around and, in all honesty, she couldn’t remember the last time the two had spent a night alone. Whenever they went for dinner, whenever they went to a bar, Teddy was there. She understood that they were best friends and, since his split with his wife, Ted had been incredibly lonely, but nevertheless, Beth couldn’t help but feel pushed out. “It’s like you care more about Ted and his stupid break up than you do about me.”
“Elizabeth,” came the reply as the Marietta native turned to face her. “How can you say that?” Shocked to hear her words, he moved closer to her, getting onto his knees and running a hand through his newly styled hair, ruining his handiwork. “Baby, I love you…” When the blonde sniffed sceptically in response, he grabbed her hands, smiling a little when she recoiled, complaining about the hair gel on his fingers. “I mean it, Bethy, I love you. And it…it hurts that you’d question that. Of course Ted doesn’t mean more to me, but he is really upset right now…And he is coming to dinner with us.” And with that, he sprung to his feet and grinned. “Now grab your bag, we’re going.”
“No, Cody. No, we’re not!” she said, groaning and pushing herself onto her feet. “Just for once Cody, can’t you see it from my point of view? I mean, Samantha never has this problem, does she?” As the wrestler stared back at her silently, the Glamazon continued. “I’ll answer that for you, shall I? No, she doesn’t. Because her partner isn’t so insensitive that he would drag his best friend on every date they go on…When they celebrated being together for six months, was John at the dinner table with them? When she met his parents for the first time, was John reclining on the couch, having a beer with Bob? No! He wasn’t. And you know why? Because Randy isn’t an asshole!” Incredulous, Cody’s mouth opened and closed a couple times as he tried to gather the right words to say. But his attempts were futile as Beth picked her bag up from the bench she had been sitting on just moments ago. “Come see me when you’ve grown up, Cody.”
And, swishing her blonde hair over her shoulder, the diva left, the door slamming shut behind her leaving an echo pounding in Cody’s head. They had argued before, that much was true, but she had never walked out on him before. Never compared him to one of his best friends. “Come on Beth,” he called out, his words lost as they never made it past the door. As he realised that she would not be coming back - which took several moments - the superstar’s anger set in. “FUCK!” He cried out, kicking the waste bin by the door. The bin collided with the door just as it opened and as it impacted, the person behind it pulled the door closed again. “Beth?!” Rushing to the door, he hauled it open, sighing in frustration when he came face to face with Ted.
“Code?” asked Ted, face contorted in confusion. Dressed in a black, button down shirt and dark jeans, he was fully ready to go out. “Was that Beth I just saw? I mean, she looked pretty pissed…” Cody turned his back on his tag team partner, making his way back into the locker room, the door swinging back onto Ted’s awaiting hand. “Dude, what’s up?”
Dramatically, the younger man threw himself onto the bench, his head banging off the wall. “She’s gone…” equally as drastically, he placed his head in his hands, letting out a wail of anguish. “Said I had to…” he paused. Did he really wanna tell Ted that she had left him because of their friendship? “Said I had to grow up…Compared me to Randy…”
“Randy?”
“Said Sam doesn’t have to…”
“To what?”
“To put up with what she has to.” Even in despair, Cody couldn’t tell Ted why his girlfriend had left. “I guess she was just being dramatic but it still…I don’t know if she’s coming back, Ted…”
“Well,” Ted shrugged, finally stepping fully into the locker room rather than hovering on the doorstep as he had been. “If she doesn’t, it can be me and you, Codes, just like the old times. What was it Evolution used to say? Paid, Laid and Made? That can be us…”
“I guess…” Cody found this hard to believe. He and Ted had never been the ‘Paid, Laid and Made’ guys. Well, he might have hoped to be one day…But, from the start, Ted had been so caught up in Kristen that Cody was always left to go ‘out on the pull’ alone, or with John, Randy too having been ‘dicked down’ as the West-Newbury native often said.
“So how about you stop moping around, thinking about the little lady and get your ass ready to go find some pussy?” Ted had never been the best with words, to say the least and yet, Cody found himself nodding and attempting to pull his hair into the style he had had it in not so long ago. “So you go spruce yourself up, get a bit of cologne on, grab your wallet and I’ll go give Orton a call? Move it, Runnells.”
Ten minutes later and Cody was set to go, his hair restyled and his ‘happy’ face on. “So, when’s Orton meeting us?” he asked, watching Teddy re-enter the locker room, pressing the ‘End Call’ button on his cell.
“He isn’t!” Ted scathed, shoving his cell aggressively into his pocket. “Wants to spend some time with Sam…Something about neglecting her…” He tried his best not to sound too disheartened at the thought that their friend and mentor would not be joining them for ‘Cody’s get well’ night as he had called it. “Well who needs him, huh? While he’s busy being pussy whipped me and you can go out and have some real fun, hmm?”
And yet, pulling on his leather jacket, Cody didn’t exactly feel ready to ‘have some real fun’. Instead, it was Beth’s words that rang in his ears. ‘Cant you see it from my point of view?... Samantha never has this problem…Come see me when you’ve grown up’ And with that, he felt his heart pound - rather painfully - against his chest. While Samantha was spending the night with her boyfriend, probably being treated like a princess, Beth would probably be alone. Hers out on the town. It was hardly fair, was it?