One Mistake Or Not?
In Detroit, Cody was sitting down in the hotel bar having a few drinks with the guys. He left his phone in his room and therefore didn't know that Lorelei was trying to call him. Cody wanted to head back to his room so that he could call Lorelei, but he was stuck between Randy and Chris Jericho.
Both Randy and Chris knew that Cody was missing Lorelei and decided to order him an extra strong drink that would help him relax. Cody slow drank the drink and soon became relaxed. Cody soon was able to leave and go back to his room. On the way there, he ran into Michelle McCool. Cody was having a hard time walking and standing and she decided to help him to his room.
Once they were at his room Michelle helped into the room and closed the door. Cody felt sick and headed to the bathroom. Michelle picked up his cell phone and saw the missed calls from Lorelei and the voicemails and she deleted them so that Cody would think that Lorelei didn't call him.
Meanwhile in Storrs, Lorelei had finished studying and decided to try and call Cody's phone again. This time it went directly to voicemail. Lorelei got ready for bed and just laid there. This was the first time that Cody hadn't called her. But why wasn't he calling her. Lorelei decided not to think about it right now and turned off the light.
It was late morning the next day, Lorelei was sitting in the Dean's office waiting for his decision. She had taken all of her finals for her degree and now the Dean had to grade them and make his decision.
"Lorelei, please come in." the dean stated.
"Thank you." Lorelei stated.
"I have made my decision based on your scores on all the finals." The dean stated. "Take a look at your finals."
Lorelei looked at all her finals and saw her grades. She couldn't believe what she was seeing. She had aced every single final based on what she knew and what she had studied last night.
"I would like to congratulate you on passing all your finals. It is my decision to bestow upon you the highest honor we can. Congratulations, Miss Michaels. You now have a Bachelors in Sports Entertainment and an Associates in Sports Law. You should be able to pick up your degree's next Monday afternoon. Since you have barely used your text books and I would like for you to take this to the book store with your books and sell them back to the girl at the back counter." the dean advised her.
"Thank you very much." Lorelei stated as she left the office.
Lorelei called her dad and told him the great news. After hanging up with her dad, she decided to call Cody.
You've reached Cody. I can't take your call at the moment. Leave me a message and I will get back to ya.
Lorelei left a quick message as she drove home. She decided to call Stephanie and ask her and Paul to find Cody. After talking to Stephanie, Lorelei got in the shower and just let the hot water hit her body.
Back in Detroit, Paul found out what room Cody was in and pounded on the door. Paul was really hoping that Cody would answer the door and give a good reason for not calling Lorelei. But what he wasn't expecting was Michelle McCool to answer the door. Paul knew that Cody liked to room alone so that he could talk to Lorelei in private.
"CODY! Get up now!" Paul demanded as he pushed past Michelle.
"Paul? What's going on?" Cody asked unaware of what was happening.
"Why the hell is Michelle coming out your room? Are you aware that your fiancé has been trying to call you for nearly 2 days and you don't answer or call her back?" Paul was now yelling.
"Why was Michelle in my room? I have no idea what is going on. The last thing I remember I was down in the bar with Randy and Jericho and I left. After that I blacked out." Cody yelled back.
"Well then I guess Michelle has some explaining to do as well. You had better call Lori and tell her before I do." Paul stated.
Paul left Cody's room to find Michelle. She was talking to Stephanie in the hallway in front of their room.
"Steph, get her in the room now. She has a lot of explaining to do." Paul stated as they entered the room. "Sit down and listen to me carefully."
"I didn't do anything wrong. He started it." Michelle lied.
"I highly doubt it. You are well known for causing many problems with the other male stars." Stephanie stated as someone knocked on the door and Stephanie stepped out.
"You will tell me the truth or I will have you fired." Paul stated.
"He was drunk and couldn't control himself. Not my fault." Michelle stated.
"You're nothing more than a liar and I should have my father fire you right now." Stephanie stated as she walked back into the room.
Meanwhile, Cody called Lorelei and tried to tell her what happened. Lorelei starting crying on the phone and really didn't want to hear what he had to say.
"You're lying to me!" Lorelei cried.
"I'm not lying to you. I am telling you that Randy and Jericho ordered me a drink that was ten times stronger than what I would normally drink and I blacked out after getting into the elevator. After sitting here and thinking about it, I remember getting back to my room and spending most of the night puking in the bathroom." Cody stated as he fought back tears.
"I can't deal with this now. Don't call me, I will call you when I want to talk about it. And if you're wondering if we are still engaged, well yes for now we are." Lorelei stated and as she hung up she really started crying.
Back in Detroit, a very angry Stephanie and Paul were still questioning Michelle about the night before. She was sticking to her story and Cody of course was sticking to his. Only Stephanie knew the whole truth, as there was a witness to the whole thing.
"I am giving you one more chance to tell us the truth." Stephanie stated.
"I have been telling you the truth." Michelle stated.
"You are not going to ruin my goddaughter's life because your jealousy. Now tell the damn truth!" Paul demanded.
"I'm calling Vince." Michelle stated.
"Go ahead, I'm sure he will tell you the same thing." Stephanie stated. "He's been listening to the whole thing since this started."
"What!?" Michelle responded.
"Yeah. So tell me the truth or you're fired!" Stephanie demanded. "And if you don't I will bring the person who witnessed last night in here as well as Cody and have my niece on the phone when they tell what happened."
"Go ahead." Michelle stated.
Stephanie got Cody into the room and also got the witness. Stephanie called Lorelei's phone and explained what was going on. Lorelei really didn't want to hear anymore, but Stephanie pleaded with her and she agreed to listen.
Cody told his side of the story and Michelle told her's. Then it was time for Phil, better known as CM Punk to tell what he heard and saw. Michelle kept trying to interrupt him, but Stephanie constantly told her to shut up. Phil told everything. Lorelei started to believe Phil as he had never been one to lie about something that serious.
After Lorelei heard everything, Stephanie stepped into the hall and asked what she wanted to do. Lorelei wanted to talk to Cody first. Stephanie called Cody out into the hall and handed him her phone.
"Hello?" Cody asked.
"I'm sorry." Lorelei stated.
"You don't have anything to be sorry about, baby. You didn't do anything wrong and neither did I." Cody stated. "You heard what Phil had to say and you know that he wouldn't lie to anyone about anything."
"I know. But I am still sorry for yelling at you and not listening to what you had to say." Lorelei started crying. "I want to be with you right now."
"It's ok. I understand. I want you here with me as much as you want to be here, but you have classes to go to." Cody stated.
"Actually I don't have anymore classes. That's why I had been trying to call you so much. The Dean made an executive decision based on all my final's scores to award me with my BS and AS degree's. I took the final's this morning and I aced them. I am done with school." Lorelei told him.
"That's great baby! So are we ok now?" Cody asked.
"Thanks. Yes. We are ok." Lorelei answered. "I am going to get on the next flight into Detroit. So I will see you tonight. I will let you know what time my flight arrives. I love you."
"I can't wait. I love you too." Cody stated before handing the phone back to Stephanie.
Lorelei talked to Phil and thanked him repeatedly for being there last night. Phil was happy to help out. Lorelei then told Stephanie that she didn't want to be anywhere near Michelle ever again. After Stephanie hung up with Lorelei, she called her dad to see what could be done about Michelle.
A few hours later, Lorelei was walking through the Detroit airport trying to get to baggage claim where Cody was waiting for her. Once she saw him, she ran into his arms and held him as tight as she could. After getting her luggage, Cody and Lorelei headed to the hotel. Cody told Lorelei about the decision that Vince and Stephanie made about Michelle.
"So she is gone?" Lorelei asked.
"Yeah. Stephanie made sure that she was packed up and on the next plane out of Detroit. So we don't have to worry about Michelle ever again." Cody stated as they reached the hotel.
"Did Aunt Steph and Uncle Vince fire her?" Lorelei asked.
"Pretty much. She is suspended without pay until further notice." Cody stated. "But enough about her. I just want to be with you and not worry about anything else."
"I can live with that. I would like to see my dad while he's still here." Lorelei stated.
"Sure he's just down the hall from us. Room 440." Cody stated.
"Ok. I am going to go talk to him and I will be right back." Lorelei stated as she kissed Cody.
Lorelei went to talk to her dad, but he wasn't in his room. She left a note for him on the door and headed back to Cody's room. They soon headed out for a dinner alone. After talking about school stuff, Lorelei brought up the wedding. Now that school was out of the way, they needed to start planning the wedding.
"Why don't we move the wedding date up since I am officially done with school?" Lorelei asked.
"Sure. But when? It's already March." Cody answered.
"We can still have an October wedding, it will just happen a year earlier than originally planned." Lorelei responded.
"Ok. Now where are we going to get married?" Cody asked.
"That I don't know. We only have 6 months to plan this and time is going to fly after I start working on RAW again." Lorelei answered.
"Well, where will we be in October?" Cody asked as Lorelei looked through her phone's calendar for Cody's schedule.
"It looks like WWE will be in St. Louis, then Atlanta and then Miami in October." Lorelei answered.
"Ok. How about St. Louis?" Cody suggested.
"Sounds good to me." Lorelei answered. "Now who is going to be your best man?"
"I was thinking either my brother or Paul." Cody responded.
"Paul as in my uncle Paul?" Lorelei asked.
"Yeah." Cody answered.
"Ok. Well I am going to ask Stephanie to be my matron of honor. For my brides maids, I am asking Maria, Beth, and Eve." Lorelei stated.
"Beth Phoenix?" Cody asked.
"No. Jeff's Beth. Uh, Britt that's her last name, Beth Britt." Lorelei answered.
"Um, that might not be a good idea, baby." Cody responded.
"Why not?" Lorelei asked confused.
"Well, because Jeff and Beth broke up about 3 weeks ago." Cody answered.
"What? I thought they were doing so good." Lorelei responded.
"So did everyone else. But Jeff came home early one night and found her sleeping with another man. He kicked her out of his house and out of his life. No one but Matt can ever really talk to him." Cody stated.
"Ok. Well then, I will ask Mickie." Lorelei stated. "What about your ushers?"
"Randy, Jeff and Matt." Cody responded.
"Sounds good. Maybe tomorrow we can go window shopping for the wedding." Lorelei suggested.
Once they got back to the hotel, Lorelei found her dad and told him what she and Cody decided about the wedding. Shawn was thrilled that his daughter was done with school and that she and Cody were making progress on the wedding plans. After that night, Cody and Lorelei agreed to never bring up the incident with Michelle ever again.