"Randy!" The teenage Cody shrieked as Ted pushed him into the in ground pool that was located in Randy's backyard. Ted had been messing with Cody all day and he was getting pretty tired of it. Randy was always there to help Cody though, smacking Ted on the back of the head like they saw Gibbs do to Dinozzo on NCIS much to his and Randy's amusement.
Cody's head resurfaced just in time to hear the smack and an 'Ow!' Cody snickered as he swam to the side of the pool, pulling himself up onto the dry land. Randy, Ted, and he had been friends for a long time now, Randy being the leader at the age of 19, Ted being the beta at the age of 17, and Cody being the Omega at the age of 14.
"I thought I told you to stop messing with my brother, DiBiase," Randy growled and Ted grumbled under his breath as he rubbed the back of his sore head. Randy always called Cody his little brother even though they weren't really blood...
"Yeah, you did, I just didn't think I would get abused for having fun," Ted murmured, shooting Cody a glare but Cody just smiled innocently. Randy glanced quickly at the driveway again and Ted snickered now.
"Still waiting for Cena, Randy?" Ted asked and Randy glared at him but nodded in annoyance. In case you are wondering, Ted was referring to Randy's boyfriend, John Cena. Yeah, Randy was gay, so what? Cody was too, not that he would admit that to anyone besides Randy... Ted didn't even know, mostly because Cody felt an attraction to the older male...
"He probably won't even show up, maybe he's out with some girl," Ted said and Cody pinched his leg hard, gaining a sound of pain from the older male. Ted loved messing with Randy's head when it came to John. They got into arguments almost daily about it, it always began with Ted saying John was probably with a girl and it always ended with Randy locked in his bathroom.
"Leave him alone, Ted!" Cody hissed at him. He didn't need today to be like all the others. He just wanted to hang out with his two best friends in a day of peace, maybe even talk to John a little more if Randy could keep his hands off of him.
Randy sighed before sitting next to Cody and sticking his feet lightly in the water. "No, just let him talk Codes, maybe he's right..." Randy murmured and Cody frowned before glaring up at Ted. Why did he always feel the need to bring Randy, one of his best friends, down? It was a mystery to him.
But he wasn't going to let him get away with it. Not today. "A word, Ted," Cody growled, standing up and grabbing Ted's arm roughly before pulling him towards the door of Randy's basement. Cody opened the door almost absentmindedly; ignoring the cold gust of wind that hit his wet body as he practically threw Ted into the home then walked in after him.
Cody closed the door gently but when he turned around to face Ted, his eyes were on fire with rage. "What the hell was that?" Cody snapped and Ted flinched unconsciously. He had never seen Cody so mad over something that happened almost every day.
"What do you mean?" Ted asked and Cody snorted. Ted was going to play stupid now of all times, of course. Cody almost strangled him because of his lack of guilt for hurting his friend.
"As if you don't know! You know Randy already thinks he'll never be good enough for John, you're just feeding the fire!" Cody snapped and now it was Ted's turn to snort. What was Cody's problem? He was acting like it affected him.
"Maybe if he acted like he was normal and started dating chicks I wouldn't have to do this so called 'feeding the fire!'" Ted snapped back and Cody froze before beginning to laugh painfully, his heart weighing him down now.
"Normal?" Cody repeated the word and it left a bad taste in his mouth. Normal had never came into the mix when they were talking about Randy. What made it come in now?
"Yeah, normal," Ted said, confused on why Cody just shook his head in shock. Hadn't he just been screaming at him? He wished he would continue screaming at him, the silent treatment was even worse...
"If Randy isn't normal, than I ain't normal either Ted," Cody said, still mulling over the fact that Ted had so easily said being gay wasn't normal...
"Wh-What do you mean, Codes?" Ted asked in disbelief as he looked at the younger male. Was he trying to say what he thought he was trying to say?
"I'm gay, Ted," Cody said, leaving a gaping Ted alone as he grabbed his bag and opened the door again, walking out towards the pool to find Randy and John roughhousing. At least Randy was happy again...
"Hey, I'm... I'm headed home..." Cody called to them and Randy stopped short, looking at Cody in confusion. Ted had been wrong; he would normally want to rub that in Ted's face...
"Why? What's up?" Randy called back and Cody shrugged, glancing over his shoulder to find Ted just leaving the house. "Ask Ted, or maybe it's better if you don't, I don't think we're 'normal' enough for him," Cody said, heading up the small incline of a hill towards the street. His house was about 2 blocks over, not too far of a walk.
"Cody," Ted called after him but Cody kept walking. He wanted to cry, he really wanted to. To think he liked a guy who didn't think it was normal to be gay... "Cody," Ted called again but Cody still kept walking. "Cody, look out!" Ted's voice came again and it was in a panic.
Cody looked up from where he was looking on the ground just in time to see a truck coming right at him. Cody was about to get hit when he felt something else hit him, a body. Ted quickly ran and pretty much tackled Cody, taking them both off the road but going a bit too far and beginning to fall down a sharp incline.
Ted's embrace around the smaller male got tighter as they began to roll down, hitting twigs, rocks, leaves, and anything else that was on the downward travel of the hill. When they finally reached the bottom, Ted's back was aching from all the impact it took but he sat up. Cody arms had locked around Ted's torso during the fall so Cody was still latched onto him.
"You okay baby boy?" Ted whispered to Cody as he looked up to see if they could climb back up the hill. It was near impossible, there were too many uneven places that looked like they would give out at any time; he wasn't going to risk getting Cody hurt like that.
Cody shook his head as he began sobbing, something he would have never did in front of Randy or Ted if this was a normal situation, but it wasn't normal, according to Ted, he wasn't normal.
"C'mon Codes, don't cry..." Ted whispered, wiping the younger teen's tears away but they kept flowing. Cody couldn't stop the tears he kept in for so long, from the moment he realized he felt something towards his best friend until that exact moment...
"Why didn't you let it hit me?" Cody sobbed and Ted grimaced at the thought of letting that happen. He wasn't that heartless, why was Cody asking such a thing?
"Because you're my best friend, Codes, I wouldn't let that happen..." Ted tried to assure Cody but Cody just sobbed harder at his words.
"I thought I wasn't normal enough for you!" Cody snapped through his tears, suddenly trying to pass Ted away but only managed to make himself fall downstairs into the dead leaves and twigs.
"Excuse me, I didn't know that you were gay! I thought, since I'm your best friend after all, you would tell me something as big as that!" Ted snapped back as Cody sat up again.
"Well maybe I didn't want you to know!" Cody shouted, tears still rolling down his cheeks. "And why not? Is it because I'm not like you and Randy and John, am I not special enough to know?" Ted yelled back and Cody looked at him heatedly before something took over him.
He quickly leaned forward and his lips pressed against Ted's in a kiss that Cody didn't mean to trigger, but he couldn't back away now. He got closer to Ted and kneeled full up, making Ted's head tilt back as Cody became taller. Cody's hands rested lightly on Ted's shoulders as he moved his lips slightly, hoping he would get some kind of response from Ted, whether it was him kissing back or him pushing him back and started yelling at him for doing that.
What Ted did surprised Cody, he began kissing back and put his hands on his lower back, bring their bare chests together as Cody fell into a state of bliss. Ted laid back in the leaves, leading to Cody's body falling onto his own as they kissed.
Cody sighed briefly into the kiss, allowing Ted's tongue to slip in and start a dance. After a few more moments though, Cody pulled away and rested his forehead on Ted's. "So that's why you didn't want me to know..." Ted murmured as he pecked Cody two more times.
Ted's head was spinning as he tried to figure out if it was wrong or right to have such strong emotions towards his best friend. Was he just kidding himself the whole time because he didn't think Cody felt the same or did he still think being gay just wasn't... normal? He smiled slightly to himself as he made the conclusion that if being gay wasn't normal than he didn't want to fit in.