John was standing there completely confused. Nikki had just slapped him and he had no idea why. She looked very upset.

"You lying son of a bitch." Nikki said angrily.

"What did I do?" John asked confused.

"You slept with Jo."

"I did not." "I've never cheated on you." "I would never."

"Since we've been together I've asked you numerous times if anything has ever happened between you and Jo." "You said no." "You lied to me."

"No I didn't."

"Then why would Cody say you two slept together years ago?"

"What?!" "Cody knows?!" He said shocked.

"Ha, so it is true?"

"Yes." "We had sex once." "Just once, that's all." "Her parents had just died." "I was trying to comfort and consol her." "Our emotions just took over and we had sex." "It has never happen before or since." "I promise."

"Why didn't you tell me?" She asked tearfully.

"The morning after we did it Jo and I agreed never to speak of it again and pretend like nothing ever happened."

"Well she spoke to Cody about it, and you couldn't tell me?"

"I'm sorry."

"I knew there was a reason why you guys were so close."

"We were always close even before that."

"Do you love her John?" "Is she why you don't want to get married?"

"Nicole, I love you."

"That's not what I asked you." "Do you love her?"

"No." "You know why I'm timid about getting married." "I don't know how many times we have to have this conversation." "If I loved Jo, do you think I would have been able to marry Liz?" "Or give Jo away when she married Derek?" "Or fall in love with you?" "I love you Nicole." "You." "Not Jo." "Not any other woman." "Jo doesn't love me either." "She loves Cody." "Cody loves her."

"I need some time to process all this."

"I can't believe this." "You're mad at me for something that happened before we even met?"

"Yes you lied to me John." She left.

Cody had just went back to his locker room after Nikki stormed off. Dustin was sitting in a chair. Joanna was nowhere in sight.

"Where's Jo?" Cody asked.

She's in the bathroom changing." "What's wrong?"

"I let something slip that I don't think I was supposed to." "Jo's gonna be pissed at me." "I'll tell her after the match."

"What did you do?"

Joanna came out of the bathroom.

"You'd better get ready baby." Joanna said looking at Cody. "We're first."

"I'm going to right now."

They had a six-person intergender tag match against the Usos and Cameron. They defeated the Usos and Cameron. When they got to the back Dustin had left to take a shower. Joanna and Cody were standing in catering drinking water.

"Jo, I have to tell you something." Cody said.

"What?"

John came up to them.

"Thanks big mouth." He said looking at Cody. He looked at Jo. "We need to talk."

"I'm gonna go to the locker room." Cody said looking at Joanna.

"Ok." Cody left. Joanna turned to John. "What's up?"

"You told Cody we slept together?" John said.

"Yeah." "How do you know that?"

"He told Nikki."

"He what?" She said shocked. "Why would he do that?"

"I don't know but he did it."

"Oh no."

"Now Nikki's mad at me." "Why would you tell him?"

"I just wanted to be honest with him."

"We agreed never to mention it again."

"I didn't think he was gonna tell anyone." "If I thought that he would I wouldn't have told him."

"I'm surprised you brought up something that was obviously so horrible for you." John said angrily.

"Me?" She said in the same angry tone. "It was your idea that we never talk about it again."

"Only because I saw how much you regretted it."

"I've never regretted it." "I liked i- She stopped. "We're getting off topic here." "I agree Cody shouldn't have said anything to Nikki." "It's not like it happened recently." "It was years ago when I was going through a very rough time." "Cody's ok with it." "He understands it was just a one time thing and that's all." "There's nothing between us." "We're friends." "Why can't Nikki accept it to?"

"Next time tell your boyfriend to keep his mouth shut." John walked away.

Joanna went back to the locker room. She gave Cody an angry stare. Then she looked at Dustin.

"Is the shower free?" Joanna said.

"Yeah." Dustin said.

"I'm sorry." Cody said looking at Jo. "I thought Nikki knew." Joanna ignored him and went to her bag to get her clothes. "You're mad at me aren't you?" "Jo." "Jo?" She was getting ready to go into the bathroom. "Baby please talk to me." "I love you." She turned to face him.

"I love you too but I don't wanna talk to you right now." She went into the bathroom slamming the door behind her.

Cody sighed.

"I'm a witness to the first fight." Dustin said.

"Shut up Dustin." Cody said.

Joanna didn't talk to Cody the whole way back to his house or the rest of the afternoon. It was nighttime. Joanna was upstairs in one of the guestroom watching TV. Cody knocked on the doorframe.

"Can I come in?" He asked.

"It's your house." He went in. "Why did you tell Nikki?"

"I thought she knew."

"Well she didn't." "I told you that in confidence, and you go and tell her?"

"I was trying to stick up for you." "I had no idea of knowing she didn't know."

"The fact that I specifically told you I've never told anyone I'd slept with John before wasn't a tip off?" "If I've never told anyone, obviously he hasn't either." "She hated me already now it's gonna be worse."

"I'm sorry." "Jo, please, if I would've known me saying anything would cause this, I never would've said anything."

"It's to late for that now because of what you did, I'll never get a moments piece at work." "I'm tried." "Please leave so I can go to sleep."

"You're not coming to bed?"

"No." "Goodnight."

"Goodnight." He left.