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"Hey Rylee, have fun?" I asked trying to avoid the obvious subject that I knew was about to come up.
"I went to the restroom...I had a blast." Rylee deadpanned "Now, let's talk about all the excitement that I missed while I was gone."
"What excitement? I was just talking to someone."
"Jae, that was not just someone! You really have no clue who you were just talking and flirting with, do you?"
"Why don't you enlighten me?"
"Girl, you were talking to Cody Rhodes!"
"And this is important how?"
"You don't know who Cody Rhodes is?"
"What is he, the August coverboy for GQ magazine?"
"No, but he could be. Girl, Cody Rhodes is a professional wrestler for the WWE."
"No way? He looks more like a model than a wrestler."
"Things have changed since you last watched wrestling, Jae. Not everyone is huge and muscular. Some of the guys have builds just like Cody. I am proud of you, girl."
"Why?"
"You were so flirting with him and he was flirting back."
"We were talking. He bought me a beer. Nothing serious."
"You can't fool me, Jae. It looked pretty serious."
I knew Rylee was right, even I sensed that things were picking up just from the brief conversation that I had with Cody. At least from talking to Rylee, I didn't have to worry about Cody being a model. He was a professional wrestler. Maybe I had to give Rylee some credit and go back to watching wrestling if all of the guys looked like Cody. "I don't know why you are getting all excited and proud of me, I will probably never talk to that Cody guy again."
Rylee looked over at the other end of the club where Cody had headed earlier. "Well, look who I spy with my little eye. A certain hottie wrestler that just so happens to be still looking at you."
"You are so full of shit, Rylee." I said. Secretly, I hoped she was not.
"Come on," Rylee said grabbing my arm and pulling me over to the other side of the club "we are gonna get you hooked up."
"Wait-no! Damn, it Rylee!" It was too late, she was leading to closer and closer to where Cody was standing with his friends, other wrestlers, I guessed. "Rylee, please stop!" I pleaded again. Thankfully she stopped before we reached the group of guys
"What, Jae?"
"Why are you doing this?"
"I'm doing this because for the first time in a while you actually seem happy. There was something about Cody that made you happy and I think that you should pursue it."
"Pursue it? Rylee, I can't do that! I am way out of his league."
"Jae, you really to wipe down whatever mirror you look in. Girl, you are beautiful."
"I need to lose like 100 pounds and then I will be beautiful."
"Jae, enough of that weight loss garbage. You have already lost 20 pounds. You look great. And besides, last time I checked, most guys would prefer a curvy lady than a rail thin stick."
"Yeah well-"
"And another point, if Cody was not interested in you because of your weight, I am pretty sure he would not have bought you a drink and talked to you afterwards."
"I just don't understand why he would even want to talk to me. Couldn't he date one of the female wrestlers that he works with?"
"Little known fact, Jae, a lot of the wrestlers couldn't be caught dead dating a coworker like that. And again, if that was the case, I don't think that he would be staring at you right now."
"Rylee,"
"No seriously, look."
"God, damn it," I muttered under my breath as I casually tried to look over at Cody's direction. Sure enough, I caught him looking right at me. Our eyes connected for a second and we both turned away quickly.
"Told ya so." Rylee laughed
"Hush." I hissed. "What do I do now? He's still talking to his friends. I don't want to intrude."
"Jae, I'm pretty sure that Cody and his friends are doing the same thing that we are. He's probably being told by his friends to go over and talk to you."
"So, let's wait for him to do that," I tried to walk back over to the bar.
"Oh, no you don't!" Rylee grabbed my arm and prevented me from running away.
"Damn you...damn you so much right now."
"You might be mad at me now, but once this works out for both of you, you will be thanking me for years to come."
"Or if it fails miserably, I will be talking mad shit about you for years to come...either one." I said in my usual sarcastic tone.
Rylee smiled at me "He's looking at you again, go over there and talk to him."
"You aren't gonna stop until I go over there, huh?"
"Ah, you finally got it figured out. Bravo." Rylee clapped
"Bitch." I muttered. "How do I look?"
"Great. Go get your man."
"He is not my man!"
"Not yet," I wanted to say something but I knew that for once I would not win this argument with Rylee. I took a deep breath and walked over to where Cody was standing, drinking another beer and talking to his friends. As I got closer, my eyes locked onto his again. Cody started to smile once he realized that I was coming over to talk to him. There was no going back now.
A/N: Do you think Rylee is correct in thinking that Cody likes Jaelynn? Will Jaelynn be brave and confident and talk to Cody? Find out next chapter! Remember, favorite, comment and review! :)