While Cody made dinner, Bailey and Carey were doing some wedding shopping. Carey helped Bailey pick out a dress and helped her set up a seating arrangement plan as they talked about their daily lives. During the time that they talked, Carey and Bailey found more in common, other than knowing Cody, the more time they spent with each other. Before they knew it, they had spent two hours shopping, browsing around, and talking. The two women decided to head back to the suite at the Tipton. By the time they got back, they saw Cody waiting for them at the table. Carey and Bailey apologized for taking so long and Cody assured them that it wasn't a big deal. After brief amends, Bailey and Carey joined Cody for a delicious dinner of grilled chicken, steamed carrots and greened beans, and lemon rice pilaf and a nice pitcher of freshly brewed iced tea. Bailey and Carey applauded Cody for his culinary skills and showed their gratitude toward Cody for making dinner and for waiting for them. Cody admitted that he just wanted to see his two favorite women back home safely. He didn't want anything bad happen to his mom or Bailey, but especially Bailey because she most likely is a favored target for sexual predators than his mom. It's not that he doesn't think his mom is beautiful; it's just that she is at a certain age where sexual predators won't want to deal with women her age. To Cody, they most likely would find it a hassle to tackle a middle aged woman rather than a young and somewhat vulnerable woman like Bailey. After all, Carey did have more life experience than Bailey had which made Bailey naïve and inexperienced compared to her.

After dinner, Bailey and Carey thanked Cody for dinner and washed the dishes as a favor for him. Cody attempted to decline since it was his natural instinct to be a gentleman, but Carey assured him that he could relax. Reluctant, Cody moved over to the couch and turned on the TV. He channel surfed until he found a channel that he liked. As Carey washed the dishes and Bailey dried them, the two of them talked about Cody.

"Mrs. Martin, you certain did a great job with Cody."

"Oh, thanks, Bailey. But it wasn't easy raising two boys all by myself, let alone raise twin sons. But somehow I managed to raise them right. Well, I hope I did."

"What do you mean?"

"I'm not sure about Zack. It was much more challenging discipline Zack than it was to discipline Cody."

"So Cody was a well behaved son?"

"Most of the time. Sometimes, he'd get roped into Zack's crazy schemes and get into trouble with his brother and even be as bad as his brother. But he also tried to be the rational and responsible one between the two of them."

"So, Cody wasn't exactly a walk in the park?"

"No. But what child is?"

"That's true. It's in human nature for children to be a little unruly. It's a normal part of growing up."

"Do you recall how you were, Bailey?"

"It's been so long."

"Come on. You must have remembered how you used to act when you were little."

"Okay. Um…I remember this one time I hid in the barn hiding from my family until my mom found me asking me why I wasn't helping."

"Why were you the barn hiding?"

"I was depressed and I didn't want my family to see me cry."

"Why were you depressed?"

"They forgot my birthday."

"Oh….sweetie. That's wasn't your fault at all. That doesn't sound like something a misbehaving child would do. That sounds like what a mistreated child would do."

Bailey shrugged her shoulders like it was no big deal.

"It was a long time ago. I guess I really can't remember a time when I misbehaved. You could ask my mom."

"Maybe I'll ask her when I meet her at the wedding."

"That's an idea."

"But I'm still sorry what happened to you."

"It's okay. Stuff like that happens sometimes when you live in a big family."

"That is true. You can't predict what will happen to your life. Yet everything happens for a reason."

Thinking about how she met Cody, Bailey smiles a knowing smile.

"I know."

Carey turns off the sink and hands Bailey the last dish to dry. As Bailey wipes off the excess water with a drying cloth, Carey dries off her hands with a paper towel and throws it away in the trash can.

"Bailey, it was nice getting to know you."

Bailey handed Carey the dried dish and softly smiled at her.

"The same goes for me."

Carey grins at Bailey and puts away the last dish. Bailey sets down the drying cloth on the counter. The two women proceed to move toward the couch.

"Bailey, you and Cody can have some time alone and talk about the wedding. I just remembered that I have to do a rehearsal for tomorrow night's show. I should be back by nine forty five."

"But that's a little more than an hour and thirty minutes."

"I know, but at least you and Cody will have enough time to finalize your wedding plans, Bailey."

"I guess so, but we might finish early."

"Don't worry, Bailey, Cody is really easy to handle when he gets bored."

"What will we do?"

"I don't know. I wish I could say where the board games are, but we don't have any."

Bailey quickly looked over at Cody and whispered to him.

"Is she serious?"

Cody nodded his head. Bailey turned her attention back to Carey.

"I guess we'll figure something to do while we wait for your return."

"Good. Well, I'll see you guys in a bit."

Cody waved to his mom.

"See ya, mom. Bye."

"Bye, you guys. And Cody, make sure Bailey feels at home."

"Will do, mom."

Carey waved goodbye to Cody and Bailey and left the suite.

Bailey plopped down on the couch next to Cody while he channel surfed.

"Bailey, do you want to watch TV?"

Bailey's voice turned into a cross-breed of a moan and a mumble.

"No."

Cody turned off the TV. Then he turned toward Bailey who had her body slumped against the couch cushions.

"Bailey, are you okay?"

Bailey snapped out of her daze and straightened out her spine so she was sitting upright. She turned her attention to Cody and her voice went back to normal.

"Yes. I just had a lot on my mind at the time."

"Do you want to talk about the wedding plans?"

"I don't think there's much to talk about. I mean, we've already taken care of all the essential details of the wedding. We've sent a few of the invitations already. We have a venue and date and everything else for our small ceremony. We even started looking at places to move in together. All we need to do is wait for our wedding day and have all the guest gathered and get a dress and suit."

"Did we talk about the food?"

"Yes."

"The flowers?"

"Yes."

"The gift registry?"

"Yes."

"Guest list?"

"Yes."

"Colors?"

"Yes."

"What about the cake?"

"Mmmm…Maybe that is one last thing we need to take care of. But I'm afraid we won't have enough time to find a cake."

"Don't worry about that, Bailey. I have an idea to get a cake while you'll be back in Kansas."

"What's that?"

"You tell me what flavor, design and how many tiers you think we'll need to feed everyone."

"And you'll be able to do that while I'm gone?"

"Of course."

"Okay."

"So, what did you have in mind?"

"Vanilla, two tiers, fresh strawberries on each tier, and on the very top in the middle, I would like to see a purple butterfly made out of fondant."

"Okay."

"Did you get all that?"

"Yep. Vanilla flavor, two tiers, fresh strawberries on each tier, and a purple fondant butterfly in the very middle."

Bailey smiled. "Good."

"What else?"

"What do you mean?"

"Do we have rings?"

"No."

"What will we do?"

"I'll take care of the rings."

"How will you? You don't know my ring size."

Cody grinned with confidence and grabbed Bailey's left hand. He rubbed his thumb over her ring finger and looked at her with assurance.

"I don't have to know the exact measurement. I know you."

At first Bailey didn't get what Cody meant, but then she had let what he said sink in and she got what he meant. Then she smiled at him to show that she trusted him to pick the right ring that would fit her finger.

"Okay."

Cody happily let go of Bailey's hand.

"So, is that all?"

"I think so."

"Okay then. What should we do now? We have an hour and thirty minutes all to ourselves before my mom comes back."

"I don't have the slightest clue on what to do."

"Did you like spending time with my mom?"

"Oh yes. I had a blast talking to her."

"I could see."

"Do you think she likes me as much as I like her?"

"I'm sure she does."

"Oh, good. What a relief."

"You don't have to worry about that anymore."

"I know. It's nice to know."

"I know. Even when you have good idea of what will happen, sometimes you need a verbal confirmation to back-up your belief."

"Yeah…"

"Bailey, my mom likes you which is enough for me because you and my mom are my two favorite people."

"Thanks, Cody. That means a lot to me."

"You're welcome."

"What should we do?"

"I don't know."

"Well, we have no board games to play with and I don't think we should watch TV for a while."

"We have to something."

"I guess we could talk about where we want to live."

"We already know. We want to live in the suburbs."

"But where? We never talked about which state or town or city we wanted to live in or near. I know that we were considering Boston, but we never finalized our plans."

"Should we consider other states?"

"Maybe not. I mean, if we want to be close to both of our families we would have to live on the East Coast or midway to the Midwest."

"But we want to live away from one family we could choose to live in a whole different state."

"The only way we could figure out where we want to live is know how much we value being close to family. How close to you want to be to your family?"

"I could stand being at least a state away from my family. What about you, Bailey?"

"I don't mind being far away from my family, but I want to make sure that we live in a place where they can come visit to and that it will be safe to raise a family."

"Okay. So I guess our best bet is to pick between the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut. If stay in Massachusetts, we should at least shoot for a suburb outside of Boston. If we choose to live in Connecticut, we should try to live close to the border that will lead into Massachusetts."

"What do you want, Cody?"

"I think it would be best that we lived within the state of Massachusetts."

"I suppose you're right. It would be much easier to our family if we stayed on this side of the country."

"Even if it would have been nice to experience a whole new lifestyle on the other side of the country."

"But we decided that we want to be close to family."

"Yes, we did. But even if choose to live outside of Boston we have the option of going toward the West for vacation if we wanted to."

"That's a possibility. We could raise a family in the East and visit the West for a family trip."

"Yes, indeed. We'll keep that in mind, Bailey."

"That sounds good. Let's get a house in the suburbs outside of Boston or in a nearby town."

"That's fine with me."

"Great."

A sudden silence swept over Cody and Bailey as they sat still on the couch.

"What do you want to do, Bailey?"

"I want to see your old room."

"No, you don't."

"Why not?"

"It's not really exciting. Plus, it's kind of small."

"So? I would like to see what kind of living conditions you had when you shared a room with Zack growing up. If I see your old room, I could get an idea how big or small our children's rooms should be."

"How do you know we're going to have children?"

"Cody, shut up. I can tell that we both want children. Even if you won't admit it, you want to be a father someday. You seem like the kind of guy who will be ready to have kids almost right after he gets married."

"How could figure that? We haven't known each other for a whole year"

"Yeah? So? You asked me to marry you after only knowing me for a few months."

"That's true. But it's different from analyzing what kind of person someone is when it comes to their view points on having children."

"I figured out a lot more about you than you might have thought while we were on the island together, Cody."

"You did?"

"Yes."

"I don't see how you could have figured anything."

"I may have been somewhat oblivious about your sexual feelings toward me and how strong your love was, but I could figure what kind of personality you had that made me belief that you were the kind of guy who would want to be a father."

"Wow. How come you never told me?"

Bailey turned her face away with a certain level of aloofness.

"It slipped my mind."

"How could you have-"

Bailey quickly faced Cody again.

"Are you going to show me your old room now?"

Cody closed his mouth for a moment and thought.

"Why do you want to see it?"

"Please, Cody. Why should this be such a big deal for you? I just want to see your old room. I might get ideas of what kind of space we should provide our kids to have when they study, read, listen to music and go to bed to."

"Sometimes, I hate it when you're right."

Bailey grinned at Cody.

"Please, show me your old room."

Cody sighed heavily. "Okay."

Cody stood up and helped Bailey up from the couch. Then he placed a tender hand on the small of her back and ushered her into his and Zack's old bedroom. Cody brought him and Bailey down to his old bed.

"Happy? This is it."

Bailey looked around and a small smile formed on her lips.

"It's nice. I mean, the size could have been a little bigger, but it's nice."

"Thanks. Sometimes it was hard to share the room with Zack."

"Why?"

"The mess he made on side sometimes crossed over to my side. Plus, he would pass gas in his sleep at times."

"Oh. Well, that's all in the past. Now you have your own bedroom back at your very own home in the city."

"Yeah. You're right about that, Bailey. And even though I don't have my own bedroom back in the hotel room, I get to share it with you. I especially like that we get to share a bed together back in our room."

"I know. It's kind of nice being able to share a bed with your fiancé. I mean, it makes the transition much easier before we're married."

"Soon, we'll be husband and wife."

"Yes we will."

Cody and Bailey voluntarily fell silent and stared into each other's eyes with a deep intensity. Their faces inched closer together.

"Bailey."

"Yes, Cody?"

"I kind want to have you as my wife right now."

"I know. I feel the same way about wanting you to be my husband."

"I also miss having quality time with you."

"I know….It's kind of nice being alone together."

"Yeah…."

Cody and Bailey close the gap between their faces. Cody gently pushes his body against Bailey's body and they lay down on the bed. Cody runs his fingers through Bailey's hair and Bailey does the same with Cody's hair. The kiss starts out innocent and sweet but then some spice is added to the mix. Cody begins to nibble on Bailey's lower lips. His right hand slid down and caressed Bailey's tender yet firm thigh and ghosted over a small portion of her well-toned and lush ass. Bailey poked her tongue out and inserted it in Cody's mouth. Cody groped Bailey's ass which elicited a heavenly moan from Bailey's mouth.

"Cody…."

Cody poked his tongue as Bailey did before him and pushed hers back. He laid on top of her as his tongue explored her mouth and continued to message her upper thigh region. Bailey grabbed two fistfuls of Cody's shirt and pulled him close so they were completely lip locked. Bailey's hands run down to Cody's shoulders and goes to his chest. Her delicate fingers begin to unbutton his white, short-sleeved shirt. Cody moved his hands up and down so they were aligned to lift up Bailey's currently tight, purple t-shirt. He felt a little a nervous considering how easily he aroused Bailey. He had a growing suspicion that she was expecting something spectacular since he broke a new record of getting Bailey in the mood. Yet Cody quickly eased his nerves and slipped off Bailey's shirt just before she pushed off his. Bailey snaked her arms around Cody's neck as Cody's hands worked around to take off Bailey's bra. Once he got the bra unhooked, Cody could feel a level of excitement rise in his body especially in his lower region. Bailey released his neck from her arms and allowed him to kiss and play with her breasts. While Bailey sat back and relaxed feeling Cody's tongue massage her skin, Cody savored the taste of Bailey's succulent skin. After an ample of amount of time teasing and tasting Bailey's taut skin, Cody lifted his head and kissed Bailey on the lips. His hands went down to her jeans and undid them. Then his hands found their way underneath Bailey's underwear and caressed her womanhood and teased her clitoris. Bailey moaned and groaned from extreme pleasure. Her breathing got heavy and hot and her breasts rose and fell in tandem with her breathing pattern.

"Oh….Yes, yes, yes, yes…! Ah…ahh…ahh….Oh…Ah….!"

Cody turned it up a notch and slipped Bailey's jeans and underwear down just enough so he could eat her out. Bailey clutched onto the bed sheets, widened her legs out, and bent her knees. As Cody continued to slowly run his tongue over her clit, Bailey's eyes rolled back into her head for a very brief moment and silently moaned with pained joy.

"Oh yes."

Cody could feel a certain feeling wash over him. He realized that he had the choice to go all the way or stop for the moment and save the good stuff for their wedding night. Cody thought for a sweeping moment and pulled his head away from Bailey's sweet spot. He kissed her stomach and his kisses went upward against Bailey's torso region until they came back to Bailey's lips. Cody rested his hands on her hips and with a stealth-like touch he brought Bailey's underwear and jeans back up but kept the jean undone. After a quick cover up, Cody returned his hands to the comforting curves of Bailey's hips were they remained until further notice.

Needing some air, Cody and Bailey drew away from an intense make-out session. They stared into each other's eyes with great fondness and smiled at each other with the warmest glow of their souls. Cody kissed Bailey's nose and then lowered his head until it rested nicely in between Bailey's breasts. Bailey cocooned Cody's head between her breasts and left hand. She tenderly stroked his golden hair.

"This was nice, Bailey."

"I suppose so."

Cody felt a little nervous. He wondered what Bailey was expecting.

"But I understand that you want to save the best stuff for our wedding night."

Cody lifted his head up and stared at Bailey with caution.

"Don't worry, Cody. I don't blame you."

"But how-?" Bailey placed a finger over Cody's lips.

"I figured it out as soon as you pulled them back up."

Then Bailey took her finger off his lips.

"Oh. I guess you think I'm a fool."

"No, Cody. You're not. You're sweet, smart, caring, and…resourceful."

As Bailey spoke, she petted Cody's hair. With each passing word, Cody felt better about himself and put his head back on Bailey's chest with a feeling of complete contentedness. Bailey continued to stroke Cody's hair.

"I'm glad you understand, Bailey."

"I'm kind of glad you stopped when you did. I don't think I would have any energy left to return to our hotel room."

At Bailey's comment Cody lightly chuckled.

"But just so you know, Bailey, I won't show any mercy when it's our wedding night."

"I won't expect anything less from you, Cody. You better give it your all."

"And you better give it your all as well, Bailey."

Bailey grinned with a hint of wickedness.

"Oh. I intend for you for cry for mercy."

Cody lazily brushed his finger nails against Bailey's left breast. "Good. I would want you to."

Bailey lifted strand of Cody's hair and twirled it around between her thumb and forefinger.

"I'm still glad that we did this."

"Me too."

"I mean, as nice as it was for you to get along with my father and me bonding with your mom, I missed us having some privacy and sharing intimate moments like this one."

"I know what you mean, Bailey. Sometimes, we just need to some time to ourselves."

"What time is it?"

Cody looked at his watch.

"It's eight forty."

"We have some time."

"I want to cuddle."

Bailey looked down at Cody with bewilderment.

"You want to cuddle?"

Cody looked up at Bailey.

"Yeah. Why not?"

"Nothing. It's just that usually guys don't want to cuddle after having sexual activity."

"That's only after having actual sex because we don't recover as quickly as women do. Besides, I'm not like most other guys."

"Okay. You made your point. We can cuddle if you want to."

"Great. I'll set an alarm so we'll be ready before my mom comes back."

"Okay."

Cody rises from his position and sets his alarm clock to go off twenty minutes before Carey returns to the suite. Then Cody lays back down on Bailey's side with his chin resting on her head and wraps a protective arm around her exposed torso area. Cody kisses Bailey on the cheek and then snuggles close to her closing his eyes. Bailey smiles and rolls on her side so her chest is facing Cody's chest and crosses her arms across her chest to keep them warm and partially covered. Cody subconsciously has his hand curl against Bailey body where the small of her back meets the side of her breast. His other hand slips underneath Bailey's body and wraps around her hip. Bailey scoots closer to Cody and closes her eyes as well. Cody and Bailey prepare themselves for an eighty minute nap.

To Be Continued…