You all know I love writing Au. So here is another story, I've decided to chunk the whole wait to not start a new story till summer break starts up again out the window, because I have just been getting this huge urge to start a new story since Hero is doing a great job.

Yes the age and time will be off… By a lot… But get over it. You'll love this… I hope….

Disclaimer: I do not own any of these people. Though like you all know I wish I did..

Song for the story: Lose yourself- Eminem

Pairing: Codena

Summary: Cody isn't the bad ass in school, but he's no pussy either. He keeps to himself as best as he can, he has two good friends, Ted and Evan. The school they attend isn't the best school for someone who can't keep themselves to be going to. A lot of crime and drug related events take place at this school. Cody and his two friends are a few of the lesser people who refuse to get into those kind of things.

John Cena isn't the most popular kid in the school but he makes himself known. He's had his eye on the small Cody ever since the boy started his freshman year when John was in his junior. This is his last year in the hell hole and he plans on making it his best. He's managed to avoid gangs, drugs and murder. And believe you me that isn't easy to do at Carson High. He has three good friends and he keeps it that way. Randy, Mike and Jake.

Cody was having the kind of day that made him want to curl up under a rock and suck his thumb like a new born baby. His eyes ached from lack of sleep. He didn't exactly live in the safest of areas and his parents were out late last night doing only god knows what. He walked slowly towards the large chained doubled doors of his high school. He had two minutes to get to class. He smiled half-heartedly to the guard who stood watch. "Hey Carl."

"Hey Cody, you have one minute." Carl unchained the doors for Cody and the younger man was instantly zooming down the hall, he came to a screeching halt as he burst through the classroom door just as the bell rang.

"Hey Mrs. Cox." Cody gave his best apology for being late and made his way silently to his chair in the middle of the class room.

"Good morning Mr. Runnels." The class laughed as Cody blushed softly and slid into his chair. He placed his binder, a binder that was losing all of its weight distribution. It had completely fallen apart, papers springing out from the side and top. And it was only the second week of school. Hello sophomore year.

He pulled out a pen from his pocket and a crumpled piece of paper from his binder and began to scribble down the meaningless notes that his World History teacher had written on the chalk board. The school didn't have enough money for every class room to have a nice wash board and an over head projector. Cody squinted as her writing was rather small, and smudged in eloquent cursive letters. A language he had not learned to read, so he guessed each letter and made sure to make the ones he couldn't read to look like he had smudged them on accident. She checked his notes at the end of every week. Not just his, the whole class, and to say the least it was pointless he was the only one writing down the notes. He took a minute break, letting his hand shake free and loose as he looked around. Everyone else was chattering away with the person next to them.

He looked to the head of the class to find Mrs. Cox happily engaged in a news paper she must have picked up from the front office.

Cody didn't have a class with anyone he knew until third period Geometry. He had it with Evan, his best friend. He didn't have any classes with his friend Ted because he was a senior. Seniors in any other school would be aloud classes with lower classmen if they needed the credit, but not in this school. It was entirely too dangerous.

They didn't have assigned seats in this class so Cody made his place right beside Evan. Evan smiled up at him and Cody could only nod. He was not having a good day. He was nearly late to first period. He hadn't eaten breakfast that day, his stomach was growling loudly and he was clutching it in embarrassment in hopes his arms would block out the loud noise. His mom had been to tired to give him a ride to school so he had to run the whole three blocks. His second period teacher wasn't there today so they had sub.. A sub that didn't have any clue what he was doing, a sub that ended up running out half way through the period because the rest of his class decided to greet him with loads and loads of crumpled spit soaked paper.

"Hey Cody." Evans voice was soft and Cody replied. "Hey Evan."

They didn't talk much in this class, they didn't talk much in any of their classes. They figured bringing as little attention to themselves as possible was the best thing for them. They whispered quietly every now and then but other then that they stared quietly up at their math teacher and ignored the others around them as they rudely talked back, threw objects back and forth across the room, and left as they pleased.

Lunch finally rolled around and Cody was excited he would get to see his friend Ted. They had their own lunch table. It was near the school stage, at the back of the cafeteria. Cody and Evan sat down, neither of them ate lunch. This would make Cody's day worse. He was cranky when he didn't eat. But usually he had such a big breakfast that it held him off till diner that night.

He felt a hand clamp down on his shoulder and he tensed slightly until he saw Evans smile and he relaxed. "Hey Ted." Ted sat down next to Cody and pulled out his lunch.

"Hey boys how has your day been?" Ted took a large bite of his sandwich, his free hand popping open a can of soda.

"It was pretty good for me, but Cody here hasn't been having any luck." Evan motioned to his best friend who sat across from him.

"What's up Codes?" Ted looked to Cody and swallowed his mouth full before speaking again. "Tough day?"

"Yea to say the least." Cody forced his lips up into a half smile.

John Cena watched from across the lunch room as Ted and Cody spoke, a smirk across his lips as he sat on a window sill. He tapped his fingers along the brick and let his eyes travel over Cody's back. Cody had this air about him, an air that drew John in and brought out his protective instincts. "Yo, John…" He heard Randy next to him.

"What's up man?" John let his eyes fall from Cody and travel to his closest friend.

"We on for tonight?" Randy sat next to John in front of the window and tilted his head to look at his friend in curiosity.

"Yea man, of course." John nodded furiously and turned his gaze back. But Cody was gone. Ted and Evan still sat comfortably at their table. Where was Cody? John panicked momentarily before he found the smaller man across the room at the utensil table grabbing a fork.

Randy followed Johns gaze and gave a loud laugh. One that went un heard in the hustle and bustle of the lunch room.

"What?" John turned.

"Really John, Cody Runnels? I didn't peg you for the scrawny type." Randy watched Cody sit back down and hand Ted the fork he had grabbed for him to be able to eat the pudding he had packed. Ted was deathly in love with his vanilla pudding.

"He's not scrawny at all… He has potential. " John spoke up for the smaller man who had no idea he was someone's topic of conversation let alone John Cenas.

"Yea, right." But Randy let it go. John was a stubborn man. Randy had known John had had his eye on Cody for a long time and knew there was no talking his friend out of whatever he planned on doing. So he turned from John and stole a tater-tot from the table next to him.

"Hey!" The boy below him yelled and Randy looked down.

"What?" Randy glared and held his fist up as he chomped down on the tot taking the rest into his palm watching the smaller man as he stood back up to his full height.

"Nothing man.." And the boy turned back around and attempted to forget his dear tots. Randy chuckled and John shook his head at his friend.

"Grow up man.."

"Hey, I like tots…he wasn't eating them." Randy defended himself. But John got up and left as Cody pushed himself away from his table and began to walk from the lunch room.

Cody walked down the empty hall way, probably not the best idea seeing as he was probably second smallest to Evan in the whole school. He had to grab his Chemistry book from his locker before the bell rang or he wouldn't be able to.

John followed suit quietly, silently watching over his boy. He watched as Cody opened his locker and ten million things fell out trampling the smaller boy and he had to hold back a laugh and he walked forward to help him. Cody's reaction was expected so he ignored the jump and step away in fear that Cody sent him.

All Cody could think was ' Great another thing to add to my wonderful day.'