11/7/12, NXT Taping…
"Hello?" Baron asks, having heard some sniffling in a darkened hallway. The small figure looked up and through the dark, Baron saw Amanda's hazel eyes and walked to her, sitting down. "What happened, Mandy? You and Cody break up?" He asks.
Amanda nodded, brushing her tears away.
"I'm an idiot… I thought he was a good guy but… Layla was right, Cody's a serial cheater. When I called him out on it, he tried to make it my fault and drag my friendship with Seth into it as well." Amanda says, Baron wrapping his right arm around her in a comforting manner. "Am I too close to him? We've been told that we're more like siblings… I guess I should've learned after what happened with Randy." She says, Baron stopping her there because as far as he knew, Cody wasn't physically abusive.
"Don't compare the two in that aspect… I used to watch Raw in 2006 and 2007, I saw how Randy was." Baron says, remembering how Amanda would try to pull her arm out of Randy's grip and he would drag her closer to him.
"John gave him hell after he saw bruises on my arms one night." Amanda says.
"I expect so. We're like your brothers but he's the real brother." Baron says.
"Yeah… no matter how old I get, he'll still see that little kid climbing up trees." Amanda says, letting out a slightly crooked smile.
"Aw, see? There's a smile. Come on, kiddo." Baron says, picking Amanda up into his arms before standing up and taking her down the hallway.
"I lost track of how long I've been in that hallway…" Amanda says as she leaned against him…
Present time…
'Six years to the day...' Cody Rhodes thought as he wandered the familiar hallways of Full Sail University.
He had been through the roughest year and a half of his life, Brandi had filed for divorce after catching him in bed with a woman who looked similar to his ex Amanda, he had left TNA Impact on less than amicable terms and things were just falling apart.
But the Bullet Club had surprised him with the offer that all of them had received to join WWE… and he jumped at it.
It had been six years since his and Amanda's breakup…
Four years since they patched things up…
Three years since Dusty's death…
Two years since Cody left WWE...
"Cody?"
Cody's head snapped up, him seeing Kenny Omega.
"Go find her… it's easy to see that you two still care about each other." Kenny says, heading off in a separate direction.
Cody wandered around until he found it, the lamented Demon King & Demon Mistress sign on the door.
'When are you gonna make her your Demon Queen, Balor?' Cody thought, hesitating a bit before he knocked on the door.
The door slowly opened and stood there in her Kiss: Hot In The Shade racerback tank top, black ripped up skinny jeans and ankle length motorcycle boots with her long brunette curls in a high ponytail was Amanda.
Her makeup mostly stayed the same with her eyes and face but she had a matte purple lipstick on, Cody seeing an angel wings tattoo on her right wrist and her nails were lacqured in a purple color.
"Cody?" Amanda says, a small smile forming on her face.
"Hey, Mandy… I missed you. I-" Cody says as he smiled and they stepped forward to hug.
"Mandy? Babe who's at the-"
Both turned around, Cody's smile disappearing as he saw Finn, who's hand immediately rested on Amanda's lower back.
"Cody…" Finn says.
"Finn." Cody says, turning tense.
Amanda knew that looking from her fiance, her and Finn having gotten engaged in September, to her ex that these kind of things disintegrated quickly at times and hid her left hand in the front pocket of her skinny jeans, hiding her Onyx marquise cut ring.
But hidden in the back pocket of her skinny jeans was a pregnancy test that read Positive and she had just told Finn.
She wasn't sure how to tell Cody and on that same note, the rest of the WWE roster as well as hers and Finn's families… but Cody was waiting outside the door right now, he was gonna find out some time.