A/N: I wanted to say thanks to msgemgem, WhitneySheree, I am MJ, xMyHeartShine, AspiringMythbuster, & LilHellin, for the reviews. I love reading your guys reviews and it means a lot you take the time to write them, with that said, here's chapter eleven.


Grace looked herself over in the mirror, she was dressed in tight designer jeans that came with multiple rips and tears in them. She remembered when she was a teenager, cutting holes in her own favorite pair of jeans. Her grandmother had yelled at her saying she shouldn't have paid fifty dollars just to destroy them. She laughed at the memory and ran her fingers down the eight hundred dollar designer jeans she was wearing.

She was also wearing a black tank top that had studs around the collar and plummeting neck line. She was wearing her black Steve Madden round toed heels, probably the least expensive thing she was wearing and she had had them for two years. But, how often did single mothers wear heels anyway? She touched up her smoky eye makeup and pink lip gloss. She looked good, and she felt better than she had in a long time. She turned and watched Cody on the monitor. They would call her any second now. She felt the butterflies in her stomach but she tried to ignore them.

"I've been out there a million times." She told herself. "It's no different than it was back than."

She took a deep breath and left the locker room when the stage hand called her name.


"Put those bags on you heads I don't want to look at ANY of you!" Cody said into the microphone. He looked out into the audience as they booed him. He walked slowly around the ring a he spoke. Ted was standing in the corner; he had just completed a match against Sin cara and lost. Cody approached the other man and held out a paper bag to him. "Put this on your head."

Ted didn't move, he just stared back at Cody, leaning on the turnbuckle in the corner of the ring, his chest rising and falling rapidly.

"I SAID put this on your head." Cody yelled. "I can't look at you!"

Ted shook his head. "No."

Cody opened the bag about to put it on Ted's head for him when music started and the audience cheered. Cody turned and watched Grace walked down the ramp he had to force himself not to smile at the sight of her, she looked beautiful. She climbed into the ring and got a microphone from a stage hand, she slowly walked over to Cody.

"Grace" he said quietly, acting like he hadn't seen her in a long time.

"Cody, please—"She began but he interrupted her.

He blocked his face with his hand. "Don't look at me," he said, "my face, it's . . ."

"Cody, please give me the paper bag." She said gently grabbing his arm.

He wanted to yank his arm away, the feel of her warm skin on his drove him crazy, he wanted to tell her how he felt.

He handed her the bag than blocked his face from her view again. He watched Ted roll out of the ring and leave through the corner of his eyes. He turned his back to Grace.

"Cody please look at me." She said touching his back.

"Grace," he said sadly. "I USED to be dashing, now, now I'm hideously disfigured, I can't let you see my face."

He felt her hand grip his should gently and spin him around. He looked into Grace's gray-blue eyes and he wanted to tell her everything but he couldn't, not in the middle of the ring. He looked down like he was ashamed.

He felt her take the plastic mask off his face. He pretended to wince as she ran her fingers down his cheek.

"Please Grace, Now I'm just," he sighed "I'm hideous Grace, I'm average, I'm no longer Dashing."

He felt her fun her fingers down his cheek and jaw again. He forced himself to grimace. Her hand came to rest on his neck and she moved closer to him. "Cody, there is absolutely nothing average about you, you are still dashing." She said than she kissed him.


Grace kissed Cody, she heard the booing of the audience but it was a complete after thought as her lips met his. She felt his hand rest on her lower back and pull her closer to him. When he finaly pulled away from her she smiled.

There was a look in his eyes that she couldn't quite comprehend. Once the cameras were focused on a backstage segment he helped her out of the ring and they walked out back.

"You were amazing out there Grace." Cody smiled as he grabbed them both a bottle of water.

She took hers and smiled at him. "Thank you Cody, but I have nothing on you, you play a very convincing crazy person."

He smiled. "I'll try to take that as a compliment."

"It was supposed to be a compliment."

He drank some of his water than said. "Do you have any plans after the show?"

"No, after Randy's match I just planned on going back to the hotel with Natalya and Layla."

"Well, if you wanted, we could go grab dinner or something." He asked her.

Grace thought for a moment, what would the harm be in going out and having dinner with Cody? "You know what Cody, I'd like that. I'll tell you what, I'll go change and after the show I'll meet you out back, okay?"

He smiled. "That sounds great. I'll see you than."

Grace smiled and walked toward her locker room.

With the exception of having dinner with Randy it had been almost five years since she had gone out with a man, and that was when she was still dating Randy. She was excited to be going out, she needed to relax and celebrate her return.


Randy watched Grace and Cody's segment from Grace's locker room. Abby had been watching with him but Kaitlyn and AJ had come in and taken her outside to play. He stared, emotionless, at the two of them in the ring.

He watched as Grace ran her fingers down Cody's face. He watched Cody wince but he saw the real look in his eyes. Randy felt his temper rising. He knew he had no right to be jealous but he couldn't help it. He watched as Grace kissed Cody, her hand was placed gently on his neck and Cody had his hand on her back.

He missed Grace's kisses.

He cussed and rubbed the back of his neck. "You're married" he told himself.

'To a cheater' his mind shot back.

He wanted to break something. He also wanted to pound Cody's face in, but he knew that wasn't fair. He groaned in frustration and sat with his face in his hands and his knees on his elbows.

He had to think. What was he going to do? He had to confront Crystal about the necklace. If she was cheating, he would leave her, and he would take Elayna. He would go to court if he had to-

He was jolted out of his thoughts by the sound of Grace's voice. "Randy are you alright?"

He jumped up. "Yea Grace-Lynn I'm fine."

She looked at him, he could see the worry in her eyes but she nodded. "Okay Randy."

"Great job tonight Grace." He said as he forced a smile.

"Thanks." She said. "Where's Abby?"

"She's outside with Kaitlyn and AJ."

"Oh, alright." Grace smiled.

"What are your plans now?" he asked.

"I'll watch Abby until you are done with your match, then Cody and I are going out to dinner."

"Oh, okay" he faked another smile. "I better get going, my match is next Grace, have a good time tonight."

"Thanks Randy."

He nodded and left the room; once he was half way down the hall he stopped and let his fist collide with the wall."

He was pissed, jealous and confused, and there was nothing he could about it.


A/n: Next chapter: Dinner with Cody and Grace and Randy Confronts his wife. =]