Being backstage alone during either RAW or SmackDown was better if you had friends around. If you had friends to talk with, you wouldn't have to deal with the crippling boredom that befalls some of the members of the roster. This is what was happening with Alex Hardy during SmackDown tapings one night.

She knew that AJ and Kaitlyn both had a tag match and her own match against Wade Barrett was already taped for the night. Alex didn't plan on being alone for so long while her friends were getting their match done with and out of the way, so instead of heading back to her locker room like she normally did, she decided to take a walk around the backstage area and see some of her friends before they had to take off to shoot their own segments and matches for the episode. With nothing better to do, Alex decided to take a page out of AJ's book and skip around.

'Now I know why AJ skips around so much. It's definitely a lot more fun than just walking,' Alex thought as a smile started to cross her face.

By the time she had skipped around a good portion of the backstage area, Alex had no doubt gotten a lot of weird looks from the people around her. This didn't seem to phase her, so Alex kept up her rhythm for a few more minutes until she ended up crashing right into someone, which caused her to fall to the ground.

"Oww! My deepest apologies to whoever I just crashed into. I was just skipping and I was in a groove and I wasn't paying to attention to where I was headed," Alex said, rubbing her forehead and chest while she tried to stand up.

"It's not a problem at all, but you really should keep an eye on your surroundings. Not everyone would be as forgiving as I am," a familiar voice responded.

Taking the chance to look up at who she had skipped into, Alex saw that it was just one of her friends, Cody Rhodes, who held out his hand to help her up.

"Thanks for that, Codes. I guess hanging around AJ for so long is starting to rub off on me," Alex said, which caused Cody to laugh.

"Yeah. That much I noticed from the way you were skipping around like an 8-year-old girl," Cody said.

When Alex was fully reoriented, she looked at Cody that noticed that something was slightly…off with him.

"Umm, Cody. Not to sound like a crazy person here, but I think your 'lovestache' crawled away," Alex said, making the needed air quotes and her face a huge question mark.

"What are you talking about? Facial hair doesn't simply just crawl away," Cody said, chuckling.

"Well, yours is no longer a part of your face. See, take a look," Alex said, holding out her phone to Cody.

Not wanting to take any chances, Cody looked at Alex's phone screen and saw that she was telling the truth. However, Alex just stood there in confusion as Cody's face turned from humor to shock and horror. But, when Alex took the time to let the pieces fall into place, she went out on a limb and rubbed her forehead only to feel something that wasn't there when she first bumped into Cody. Slowly peeling away this unknown object, Alex looked down in the palm of her hand to see that, in the palm of her hand, was the very mustache that the WWE Universe came to know Cody for having as of late. At first, nothing happened between the two. In between Alex's bewilderment and Cody's shock that someone found out his secret, neither one of the two made a sound. Then, in the brief span of a few seconds, a massive argument seemed to break out.

"Is this what I think it is?" Alex asked, pointing at the mustache.

"Depends on what exactly it is that you're trying to talk about," Cody said.

"I'm talking about this very fake mustache resting in the palm of my hand. I thought you really grew it out," Alex hissed.

"Well, you thought wrong, my short friend. So, can I please have it back?" Cody begged.

"By all means, take it. It's got your sweat on it anyways," Alex said, as Cody took his fake mustache back and pressed it back to where it was on his face.

"So, now that you know it's not real, what are you going to do?" Cody asked, bracing for the worst.

"Nothing really. After all, I have absolutely nothing to gain from letting anyone know this," Alex said, with a playful sarcastic edge to her voice.

"Are you kidding? There are people that are just now believing that it's real and to find out that it's fake will make me an even bigger joke than Santino Marella," Cody said, desperation starting to creep into his voice.

"Well, since it appears that I'm the only one that knows, it sounds to me like you're willing to want to do just about anything to keep this a secret," Alex said.

"Yes, God yes! I'll do anything for you if you just promise me that you'll keep what happened between us a secret," Cody said, begging.

"Don't worry Codes. Your secret's as good as safe with me," Alex said, fighting the mischievous grin that threatened to cross her face.

"And how do I know for sure that you won't tell anyone?" Cody asked. But as soon as he asked, the song 'I am Glad, 'cause I'm Finally Returning Back Home' started to play from Alex's phone, which was still in Cody's hand. Looking down at Alex's phone and then back to Alex, who was blushing deeply, a grin split Cody's face. "So, you have the Troll Song on your phone?" Cody asked, trying to hide his laughter.

"Yes, but only because I lost a bet with Kofi and Punk," Alex said, taking her phone and sliding it into her pocket.

"Well, now it seems like we're both at an impasse. You've got embarrassing dirt on me and I've got dirt on you. What do you suppose we do about this?" Cody asked.

"I say we never mention anything that happened here between us ever again," Alex said. "That way, we won't be made into two of the biggest jokes here."

"Agreed. After all, I have this sinking feeling that if our secrets were to ever get out, people would laugh at us nonstop," Cody said.

"Well, mine isn't as bad as yours is. I mean, I just have to deal with ribbing about a ringtone on my phone. You've got the whole mustache thing going for you and people would definitely never let you live it down that it's fake," Alex said, shrugging.

"Don't remind me. So, it's agreed. We shall never speak of what just happened between the two of us just a few moments ago," Cody said, nodding with finality.

"Sounds good enough to me. Now if you'll excuse me, AJ and Kaitlyn are probably done with their match, so I think I'll go find them," Alex said, turning on her heel and leaving. As soon as Alex had gotten far enough away from Cody, she couldn't help but have a few laughs about the interesting news she had just learned.

'Too bad no one will ever know about this but me,' Alex thought as another mischievous grin split her face.

Now I know this is a huge 'What If?' on my end about Cody. While I must Cody having a mustache is helping him out now, I just honestly fall into days where I wish he'd just shave it off (I can't keep thinking of Magnum P.I. when I see him sometimes). Anyways, hope you guys enjoyed this second story. =)