I want to give a big shout out to everyone that has read the story so far. I want to send a special 'Thank You' to psion53, Kinley Orton, Livin on the EDGE AND foldintothenight. You guys rock! \m/~.~\m/ Here is chapter 10. Enjoy!

I laid my head back against Cody's chest as I stroked my hand up and over his wet knee. Cody cupped the bathwater in his hand and dribbled the water over my belly, where it was sticking up over the surface and let it run down the sides.

"You don't have to pick it just because I said it as a joke, sweetness." He said, laying his cheek against my temple.

"I know you were joking when you said it but I think it goes really good with the name we already picked for him." I laid my hand on my belly, rubbing softly. "Unless you want him to have your name as his middle name." Cody dribbled more water on my belly as he thought about it. We had been playing around with our baby boy's middle name for a few weeks and had yet to find what we thought sounded good.

"No. Nothing from my name sounds right." He laid his hand beside mine. "I think we may have finally made up our minds, sweetness." I smiled and laid my hand over his.

"I think so. It's perfect. Jordan Parker Runnels."

"Our boy's finally got a full name." He kissed my temple. "I like it, Georgie." I laughed and grabbed Cody's hand, moving it lower on my belly as the baby started kicking.

"I think he does too." Cody laughed too as Jordan kicked against his palm.

"That's still the most amazing thing ever." I nodded, agreeing.

"Just wait till he's here and we can touch his little feet for real."

"I can't…" Cody was cut off by my phone ringing in the bedroom. He sat us up. "You want me to go get that for you?"

"Naw. If it's important, they'll leave a message or call back. Although," I held my hand up, "maybe we should get out. I'm getting pretty pruny." Cody chuckled and kissed my cheek. He scooted me forward a bit and stood up. He climbed out and wrapped a dry towel around his waist. I flipped the plug and let the water start to drain out as Cody helped me stand up and step out of the tub. He sat on the closed toilet as he handed me a towel. "I love when you're home and I can take a bath. For one, I can't get in and out by myself anymore and two, the weight gets lifted off of me. For a while anyway." He smiled up at me as I struggled a little to get my T-shirt over my still damp belly. He took the edge of it for me and pulled it down the rest of the way. He ran his palms over the shirt, smoothing it out before laying his forehead against me.

"Hey there, Jordan. It's me, your daddy." I was trying not to cry at the vision of Cody leaned against me, talking to our unborn son. I reached out and ran my fingers through his wet hair, holding him close. "Mommy and I can't wait to meet you, kiddo. You'll never know how much I already love you." He stood up and cupped my face. "Or how much I love you." He said to me, kissing me softly. "Why are you crying, sweetness?"

"I just love you. So much." I snaked my arms around him and held him tight. He stroked my hair, rubbing my back. He pulled back to smile at me.

"Come on, Georgie. Let's get you into bed." I smiled at him and nodded. Cody walked with me and made a big production of helping me lay down, covering me up and giving me the remote and my phone. "I think I remember seeing some chocolate ice cream in the freezer earlier. You want some?" He asked as he pulled on some boxers and took his towel back into the bathroom.

"Oh, yes I do. And there's a new box of cheese crackers in the pantry. Can you get those too?" He made a face.

"Chocolate ice cream and cheese crackers? That's really going to give you heartburn." Yeah, I'd been suffering with that for a couple weeks.

"Not together, baby. I just want both." He just smiled, nodded and headed down to the kitchen to retrieve my snacks.

I flipped on the TV and decided to check the messages on my phone. I checked the last number. It was the same number that had called me earlier in the day and I still had no clue who it was. I was listening to the message when Cody came back in. All I could hear was some background noise and someone breathing softly before they hung up. The message was maybe 20 seconds max. I deleted the message and tossed the phone on the bed beside a sleeping Blue as Cody handed me my bowl of ice cream.

"Let me guess," Cody said, climbing in his side of the bed, "Annie, right?" He said with a smile. I shook my head.

"Actually, no. I don't know who it is. They called me earlier but this time they left a message." I told him, taking a bite of the ice cream. His smile faded.

"What was the number? Can I see?" I shrugged.

"Sure, baby. If you want to." I pointed to where the phone was lying on the bed. I watched him scan through the last couple of calls. "What are you looking for, Code?"

"I just want to make sure it wasn't my father trying to scare you again." Ever since the 'incident' with Dusty a couple months ago, Cody had been worried that he would try the same thing when he was out of town or start calling me on the phone. Cody had even gone as far as to put up the security cameras he talked about. So far, Dusty had done nothing. He laid my phone back down. "It's not him. I don't know that number either."

"I'm sure it's just someone with a wrong number." I assured him. Cody agreed. I set my now empty bowl on the nightstand. I wiggled as best as I could to lay against his side. He wrapped an arm around me and laid his other hand on my belly.

"Are you sure that the doctor said you were okay for tomorrow?" Tomorrow morning, Cody and I were flying to New York for a benefit that the WWE was throwing for one of the charities that they worked with. Current and former Superstars/Divas were highly encouraged to be there and bring their significant others or a date. That meant Annie would be there too.

"Yes. She said it should be fine but it will probably be the last big trip until after Jordan is born." I turned my head to look up at him. "That is if you want me to go." He laughed softly.

"Of course I want you to go. Why wouldn't I want you to go?" I just held out my hand on either side of my belly. "I wouldn't want you to go cause you're pregnant?" I shook my head.

"No. Not that. It's just...this doesn't look as good all dressed up like it used to." Cody just shook his head and kissed me.

"We both know that's not true. You are more beautiful today than the day I met you." I started to disagree but he stopped me. "You're carrying our son. You're creating a life." He rubbed my belly. "How is that not beautiful, Georgie?" He kissed me again. "Plus, mom sent me a picture of the dress you two picked out. You and Jordan are gonna look amazing." And as if Jordan could hear Cody's voice, he started to kick. I moved Cody's hand right over the spot and smiled at him.

"I think he agrees." He kissed me.

"I can't wait to show you two off to everyone, sweetness."

The deep emerald green dress with the empire waist that Michelle talked me into was a big hit. Cody was slowly walking us through the room so he could stop nearly every single person we passed. They would exchange pleasantries and then Cody would turn to me. "And this is my beautiful wife, Georgia." Then he would rub my belly to draw their attention to how pregnant I was. Not that they couldn't notice the beach ball I was carrying under my dress. By the 50th person, I was ready to drop. I squeezed his hand and leaned in close to him.

"Baby, I know you want to show us off but I really need to sit down for a little while." I said softly. He shook his head at himself and kissed me.

"I'm sorry, Georgie. Of course you do. I wasn't thinking. Come on, sweetness. Let's get you to our table." By the time we got there, Annie and Randy were already there. Neither of them had seen me in two months and were both surprised at how big I had gotten.

"Oh my God, peaches. You look so beautiful. Your glow and that belly. He's getting so big." I nodded as Cody and Randy went off to find me something to drink.

"I know. We finally picked out a name too." Annie got excited.

"So..."

"Jordan Parker."

"That's so adorable. This is going to be the most spoiled little boy in history." She told me with a smile. I reached for her hand and laid it on my belly. She laughed as Jordan kicked hard against her palm.

"He loves the sound of that." I told her as Ava and Becky joined us. They both went crazy over seeing how big I had gotten. Jordan loved the attention and they both got to feel him kicking.

I was trying to talk the girls out of throwing me a baby shower when someone joined our little 'party'.

"You guys are having just too much fun over here." I looked up and instantly recognized the Diva, Jayde. She was currently a heel that had worked with Cody a time or two. She plastered on a ridiculously fake smile and turned to me. She held out her hand. "Hi there. I'm Lexis Conroy or as most people know me, Jayde." Becky rolled her eyes behind her back.

"She knows who you are, Lexis." She said.

"You do?" Lexis said with overly fake surprise. I nodded.

"I do. I've seen you try and cozy up to my husband a time or two on TV." I told her, a bit of jealousy flaring up. But to be honest I couldn't stop it if I wanted to. She was standing there in front of me with that perfect body, showing it off in a skintight dress that left little to the imagination and I was sitting there looking like I swallowed a globe.

"Really? What did you say your name was?" She asked, shaking my hand.

"She didn't." Ava mumbled under her breath. If Lexis heard her, she didn't show it.

"Georgia. Georgia Runnels." I said, politely taking my hand back. I was getting some serious 'I think I'm better than you' vibes from her. She reminded me a lot of the last guy mom tried to set me up with, Douglas Wellington. Just the thought of that guy had me suppressing the urge to shudder.

"Runnels, huh? You're married to Dustin?" I raised an eyebrow at her.

"You know she's not." Becky said.

"It's Cody? You're married to Cody?" She asked like that surprised her. I nodded.

"Yes I am." I told her, laying a hand on my belly, instantly drawing her eyes there.

"Wow. He never told me that." She said softly. I'm not sure anyone else heard her, but I sure did. "Well, anyway," she plastered back on her fake smile, "congratulations with," she gestured with her hand at my belly, "everything." I was about to tell her where to stick her congratulations, when Cody finally came back to the table.

"Sorry that took so long, Georgie." He set the drink down on the table and kissed me. "There was a line a mile long just to get a drink." Annie shifted a seat over so that Cody could sit down. When she moved, I noticed that Lexis was gone. Not that I really cared. I was pretty sure I didn't like her much. I took a sip of my drink when Cody laid his arm over the back of my chair, leaning in as the lights started to dim signaling the ceremony was about to start. "You and Jordan okay, sweetness?" He asked softly. I turned my head a smiled at him.

"We're okay, Code." He smiled back kissing me softly.

Later that evening, when we got back to our hotel, I was finally able to take off my shoes like I had been desperate to all night. Of course my feet had swollen up and the shoes became uncomfortably tight. The moment I cleared the door, I leaned against the wall and toed off the shoes.

"What's wrong, sweetness?" Cody asked, rubbing my lower back as he stopped beside me.

"Those shoes are the spawn of the devil. My feet are swollen and those evil shoes didn't give any." I whined, kicking one of the shoes with my toes. "Can we burn them when we get home?" Cody laughed softly.

"Sure. Whatever you want, Georgie." I turned to smiled at him.

"That's why I love you." He smiled back and kissed my nose.

With Cody's help, I got out of the equally evil, did not want to cooperate, dress and into my comfy pjs. Once I got settled in the bed, Cody climbed in about halfway down and took my feet into his lap. The moment he started to massage them, I whimpered in relief. It wasn't long before I was moaning in pleasure at the feel of his thumbs working over my soles. Cody raised a questioning eyebrow at the sound.

"Feel good, Georgie?" I nodded.

"God yes. It feels so good. You have magic hands, baby." He smiled at me. I sighed as my phone rang. I leaned over and grabbed it off the nightstand.

"Hey, Annie." I answered.

"Hey, Georgie. Your feet feel better now?"

"Yes. My amazing husband is rubbing them right now." I said. Cody just shook his head, not bothering to hide his own smile.

"Speaking of your husband, have either of you been on twitter tonight?"

"Nope. Not tonight. Why?"

"So apparently, someone took pictures at the event tonight."

"Yeah, I saw those photographers all over the place."

"No, Georgia. This wasn't one of those guys. These are pictures from someone's phone."

"Oh, okay. So what does that have to do with twitter?"

"Well, it seems that whoever took these pictures sold them and a story to some of the dirt sheets. Mostly the ones of you and Cody."

"So there are pictures of Cody and I together online." Cody looked up at that. "What does that matter? People are bound to see us together."

"I know. The pictures themselves aren't the problem. The story that went with them is the issue."

"What does the story say?"

"There's a story?" Cody asked me. I nodded and turned my phone on speaker.

"The story says that Cody was seen with a pregnant woman tonight and the rumor going around was that she was trying to pass herself off as his wife. That you were lying to people and telling them that you and Cody are married and the person writing this story could find no evidence of Cody being married."

"So what? It's just a story, right?" Cody added. Annie sighed.

"I know it's just a story to you guys but it's hit twitter. The 'fans' are going apeshit and trashing Georgia BIG time." Annie told him. "The only good thing is they didn't say your name, Georgie. They also don't know your twitter handles."

"It can't be that bad, Annie." I said, handing Cody my phone and grabbing my laptop off the table beside me. I scooted to sit all the way up and opened it on the bed in front of me. I was proven wrong the moment I pulled up twitter. "Wow." I said in surprise. "All this from a story that isn't even true?"

"Yeah, well, they don't know that. Some of those 'fans' take those stories as gospel." Annie said. "Sorry, Georgie." I sighed.

"Not your fault, Annie. See you tomorrow, okay?"

"Okay. Night you two."

"Night." Cody and I said together and he hung up the phone. Cody scooted up the bed to sit beside me. He slipped a hand behind me to rub my lower back.

"Is it as bad as Annie said?" He asked, leaning in so he could read my timeline. I laid my head against his.

"Yeah. They hate me for using you." Cody turned his head slightly and kissed my temple.

"Don't take it personal, sweetness. Our private life is none of their business. Let them think what they want." I nodded.

"Can I still correct them?" I asked with a smile. He laughed.

"By all means. Have at it. And if they get too irritating, you can tell them the truth. I don't care at all."

"Thank you." I clicked in the spot for a new message.

crossrhodes4me: Wow! So much unnecessary hate. Don't you think the story could be true? Maybe they are married and they're happy keeping it private.

To my surprise, I was jumped the moment my tweet hit their timelines. I got a lot of, 'There's no way it's true.' and 'It would be too hard to hide something like that.' and "How come his friends don't talk about it?'. I let most of them go and didn't answer until I got one certain one.

JaydeRox: crossrhodes4me I know for a fact that the story is true.

Was that a challenge? It looked like it might be.

crossrhodes4me: JaydeRox How do you know for a 'fact'?

JaydeRox: crossrhodes4me Because I have it on good authority that Cody Rhodes is dating one of the Divas.

crossrhodes4me: JaydeRox Oh really? Which one?

I turned to Cody as I hit send. "Did you know that you were dating a Diva?" I asked him. I leaned back against the headboard and rubbed my lower belly where Jordan was playing what felt like soccer. He grinned.

"I am?" Who is it?" I shrugged.

"This person hasn't answered me back yet. And you know what?" I shut my laptop. "I'm too tired to wait up and see." I laid my laptop to the side and settled down in the bed. Cody clicked off the light and laid down, facing me so that he could rub the belly.

"Maybe they'll have an answer for you in the morning." I kissed Cody softly before settling my forehead against his cheek.

"Maybe they will."

The next morning, I noticed that JaydeRox hadn't answered and to be honest, I didn't care in the least. I did however notice that most of the hoopla had died down. I seemed that tweeters had been asking people they knew were friends of Cody's if the story was true. No one had bothered to answer then but Randy. He must have gotten fed up with the hundreds of questions and finally tried to put a stop to it.

RandyOrton: Look, don't believe everything you read. I happen to know that Cody's VERY happy in the relationship that he's in. Let it go.

Yeah, Randy was my hero. I sent him a DM letting him know. Later that day, I got one back saying, 'Anytime, peaches. ;)'

Later in the week, when Cody and I were home, we went in for one of my routine checkups. I was closing in on my eighth month when my appointments would start to be once a week. This one, however was just a quick ultrasound, exam and blood work.

Dr. Palmer was sending us home with new pictures that I was adding to Jordan's baby book and a good report.

"What were you thinking about for lunch, sweetness?" Cody asked me. We were walking down the hall towards the doors that would lead us back to the waiting room. He had his hand on my lower back, guiding me along. I was a little slower now that I had developed the pregnancy waddle. Of course, Cody thought it was adorable.

"I want a big cheeseburger and onion rings." Cody nodded.

"Yeah, that sounds good. How about the diner?" I smiled. The diner, the place where we had breakfast after the first time we made love. Where we had confessed our love to each other. That diner was our private, special place.

"That's perfect." Cody smiled back at me as he reached past me to push open the door to the waiting room. I looked down at the folder in my hand. I hoped I hadn't left anything. Just as I took a step forward, someone took a step into the doorway. We bounced off of each other a step or two. Cody steadied me with an arm around me as my folder fluttered to the floor, spilling the contents.

"Oh my goodness. I'm so sorry, dear." The lady instantly knelt down to the floor. "Let me get these for you." I looked down as she scooped up the papers. God if she didn't remind me of my mother.

"Thank you." I said to her. I watched her hesitate as she picked up the ultrasound photos. She smoothed her finger over the top portion of the paper that said, 'Runnels, Georgia – week 32'. I was about to ask her for my stuff back when she looked up at me. "Momma?" She stood up and actually looked at me for the first time.

"Georgia. Oh my God, Georgia." She said with tears in her eyes. She wrapped her arms around me, hugging me tight. I didn't realize how much I missed her until that moment. I close my eyes as my own tears started. Neither my mom nor I felt it when Cody gently pulled us out of the doorway and stepped away so that me and mom could have our moment. "I've missed you so much, sweetheart." She said softly to me, stroking my hair. "I knew it was a stupid idea to follow what your father said." She leaned back so she could look at me. "I just knew we would miss out on something big." She wiped the tears from my face. "And this," she looked down at my belly, "is certainly big."

"I've missed you too." I told her softly. She hugged me again. When she pulled back, she smiled at me and Cody.

"I came here to surprise Lily and take her to lunch, but I think there's been a change of plans." She took my hand. "I want to take you and Cody to lunch. My treat." I had to laugh.

"Me and who?" Never once had she ever called Cody by his name. She smiled, catching on.

"You and my son-in-law, Cody. Come on. You two can catch me up on everything about my grandchild."

"Son, grandson." Cody said, coming to my side and putting his arm around me. "His name is Jordan." She started to tear up again. She smiled at us.

"My grandson, Jordan."

Mom had wanted to take us to a big fancy lunch until I told her how badly I was craving onion rings. She just nodded and instead took us to a small mom-and-pop restaurant that turned out to have amazing onion rings and strawberry milkshakes. Yeah, I dipped the onion rings in the shake. No one else seemed to think it tastes is good as I did.

I couldn't tell you how many times mom apologized to me and Cody. She knew she was in the wrong when she saw us together at Thanksgiving but for some reason she kept listening to the crap dad was feeding her.

Mom suddenly sat back in her chair. "Oh my."

"What?" I asked, instantly worried.

"I just realized...when I gave you the grief about gaining weight at Thanksgiving...you were pregnant then weren't you?" I smiled softly and nodded. "That's what you brought us all there to tell us wasn't it?"

"Yeah, that and the married part." Cody said. Mom just shook her head.

"I've been so stupid. Why I listened to your father about this is beyond me. I'm so sorry. I hope you'll forgive me and not shut me out anymore." I reached out and took her hand.

"As long as you forgive us for keeping you in the dark." I told her, squeezing her hand. "You have to understand why we did it that way. Look at how bad it turned out when our dads found out about us being married. I was terrified of what would happen when we said something about the baby."

"And I swore I would make this pregnancy as stress-free as I possibly could." Cody added. Mom smiled.

"And how is that coming along?" I turned and smiled up at Cody.

"He's doing an amazing job, momma." Cody kissed me softly.

"Except that one time."

"Well that wasn't his fault." I said, telling mom about the time Dusty showed up at her door unexpectedly.

"I swear. Our children are more mature than we are." Telling mom about Dusty's 'visit' gave me an idea.

"Momma, would you like to come see our house? I'll give you the grand tour and show you Jordan's room. It's pretty much finished. I'm sure Blue will love you."

"Blue?"

"Georgia's pug. And the worst guard dog ever." Cody said with a laugh. "Most of the time you'll find him on his back asleep wherever Georgia is."

"Hey, to be fair, he guards me a lot on the couch." I said with a laugh, poking Cody in the stomach. He smiled and kissed my temple. I turned back to mom. She was watching us with her own smile on her face.

"You two are really happy, aren't you?" She asked.

"I've never been happier, Mrs. Cooper. I don't think I could find the words to describe how happy. I love her so much." I looked at my hands in my lap, blinking, trying not to cry. Damn these hormones. Everything made me cry these days. Cody's hand crept into my line of vision, snagging one of my own and lacing our fingers. "I love them both." He said when I looked up. He gave me his little half smile.

"I don't even need to ask you, Georgia. I can see it in your face." She shook her head. "Your father is an idiot." She said with a huge smile. "And I'd love to see your home."

Mom seemed very impressed with our house. And as I predicted, Blue loved her. Not that Blue was heavy or anything but Cody didn't want me carrying him around anymore. So mom got that honor. She carried him all through the house until we got to Jordan's room which we saved until last. Mom put him down and asked Cody for a pen and a notepad. When he came back, I was made to sit in a rocking chair and take notes. She walked around the room spouting off things that needed to be done and what else needed to be purchased. I had to smile. That was the bossy, take charge mom I knew and loved.

Sometime later that evening, after her lists were made and later dates for dinners and lunches were also made, mom headed home. She left with the promise that she would keep my pregnancy from dad. Hopefully, she'd be able to hold off until Jordan was born.

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