I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.

Cody's Point of View-

The next morning, I had gotten up before the alarm had went off because I oddly couldn't sleep so I went to take a shower to clear my head and figured I had the extra time now to take this shower. I got out of the shower pulling the suit I had brought with me on and walked out with the tie resting around my neck.

"Couldn't sleep?" Dustin asked as I looked over at him as he was sitting on the edge of the bed.

"Yeah, didn't mean to wake you." I said as I tossed my pajamas aside as I sat down as I began fumbling with the tie, "I hate ties." I said as Dustin chuckled.

"Come here." Dustin said as I got up going over to him as he tied hte tie for me, "What are you going to do when I'm not here?"

"I know how to do it, I just hate doing it." I retorted as Dustin rolled his eyes as he tightened it around my neck as he stood up.

"Look good Cody, now let me get ready." Dustin said as I nodded as I walked over grabbing my black dress socks pulling them on before sliding on my dress shoes tying them as I sat there trying to think what was I supposed to say to Lindsey besides I'm sorry or my condolence. Dustin took not that long, at least it seemed like it took him like five minutes compared to other times or how long it had took me. We left the hotel room to get into the car using the GPS to find our way to the funeral home and we slid in staying in the back since I didn't think me being seen would be the best right about now, didn't need to cause a scene in the funeral home. It was a nice ceremony, I was glad and hoped she didn't see me when she stood in front of the podium to do the eulogy. After the funeral, everyone lined their cars up to follow each other to the gravesite where the coffin would be buried. We stuck to the back, which didn't last long as the crowd began to disperse at the end of the ceremony and we got spotted. I saw Lindsey speak to her dad before she turned and began to walk towards Dustin and I.

"Hey. Thank you for coming." Lindsey said as she pulled Dustin in a hug as she turned to look at me seeing that she was angry through the puffy pink around her eyes as she smacked me, "What are you doing here? I didn't fight you!" She said as I rubbed at the spot she hit as I softly said ow, "But you came, oh god." She said hugging me then she broke the hug smacking me again, "But I hate you!" She said before she turned to Dustin, "Why'd you bring him?" She asked as Dustin looked to me then to her, "You know what, I don't care...I don't have time to deal with this mess right now okay?" She said as she wiped at her eyes seeing her catching tears that barely left her eyes. I watched as she walked over to where Evan and her dad stood, Evan looked at us and he didn't seem happy like he knew something but they turned around walking away.

"That went well." I said as I let out a sigh as I ran a hand through my short hair.

"Give her time, she is grieving right now." Dustin said as I nodded as he nudged me and we headed to our car heading back to the hotel but I couldn't deal with this. I hated not talking to her about what I said, not talking to her to see if she was okay and talking to her about her mom because she is in pain right now and I can't help her any. I climbed into the car next to Dustin, I was mad at myself and upset because I couldn't really talk to her but I checked my phone seeing a text from Evan that him, Lindsey and his dad were going to dinner at such and such restaurant, I owed Evan a lot and I don't know why he was texting me this information but I was thankful for it.

"They are going to dinner at some restaurant, could we go?" I asked as Dustin nodded as he locked that restaurant into the GPS to let that guide us to the restaurant. As we climbed out of the car, I stood there between the door and the car looking through the glass panels that were in the restaurant seeing Lindsey sitting at a table with Evan and her dad, her eyes locking with mine seeing her let out a sigh as she stood up walking through the restaurant meeting Dustin and I at the outside door.

"Hey..." She said as she was playing with the cuffs of her sweater nervously as she looked to Dustin, "I'll be right in, I want to talk to Cody." Lindsey said as Dustin looked to me then to her as he nodded sliding past her and into the restaurant.

"I want to talk to you too." I said as Lindsey put her hand up to stop me.

"Me first, I"m sorry for the way I had acted at the funeral...I'm just...a mess right now Cody beyond what you could possibly understand and I shouldn't have took it out on you." Lindsey said as I nodded.

"Apology accepted, but I want to talk to you about what I said...before you left." Cody said.

"Really Cody? Now? You want to talk about it now? Do you not know what I just said? Could you not be selfish for one moment of your life, did you just not see the whole me burying my mom not that long ago. I am an idiot for even apologizing to you right now." Lindsey said as she pushed past me and I turned to see her jogging off unsure where she was going.

"Lindsey, come on...where are you going?!" I yelled after her but she didn't even stop or anything. I went inside angry at myself that I had even chose now to say anything to her, I headed over to the table where the three men were not sitting.

"Where is my daughter going?" Lindsey's dad asked.

"I...I don't know sir..." I said truthfully.

"What did you say to her? What did you do to my daughter?" He asked standing up and getting face to face with me.

"Nothing sir, I wouldn't hurt your daughter." I said.

"He's telling the truth, Cody won't hurt her at all. I can't go looking for her due to my foot, Cody why don't you take my car and go find her."

"She isn't going to come back for her, I'll go with him and we'll take my car. We will be back and we will bring Lindsey back with us." Dustin said as he slid out of the booth leading me back out to the car we just climbed out of. "What the hell did you say to her Cody? You can't be hurting her or doing stupid things when her dad is around, as a father, he would kill you if you hurt his precious daughter." Dustin said as he continued giving me a lecture as I looked out the window, I knew I was wrong and it was a mistake but I can't help that I wanted and needed to know if she felt the same. "Where would she even go? She doesn't even live here and hasn't been here in years." Dustin said as it hit me of where she could be at.

"The graveyard, go back to the graveyard." I stated as Dustin looked at me weird, "Just do it." I said as Dustin popped a quick U-turn heading back to the graveyard we were at earlier in the day and he parked the car on the side of the road as I climbed out and stepped through the gate walking through the graveyard seeing what I was hoping to see, Lindsey kneeling in front of the unmarked gravesite and seeing her wiping at her eyes knowing she was crying yet again. I slowly and as quietly as I could I walked over to her peeling my jacket off as I got closer to her as I knelt down next to her wrapping my jacket around her.

"Why do I feel guilty? Why Cody? I hated my mom...she did horrible things to me Cody but I have this huge amount of guilt." Lindsey said as she glanced to me.

"It's a part of the grieving process Lindsey, soon you won't feel as much guilt. You feel guilt because you two didn't rekindle, regardless of the kind of mother she was." I answered as she let out a loud scream type cry as she forced her face into her hands, her elbows resting against her knees to hold her up and I wrapped my arms around her pulling her close to me. She moved her face to dig into my chest letting the tears get absorbed into my shirt. I wrapped my arms around her tightly, I supported her as I tried to pull her to her feet as I could tell her knees and legs were week cause she was leaning against me for full support walking her to the car where I helped her climb into the backseat as I slid in next to her. Dustin took the hint and drove us back to the hotel, it was the better choice than the restaurant but I took it among myself to write Evan that I had Lindsey and that was staying with me at the hotel tonight. She was able to walk on her own up to the room where Dustin let us into the room, she laid down onto the one bed as I sat on the edge of the bed gently brushing my fingers through her hair soothingly as she wiped at her eyes as she stared up at me. I heard the door open and shut, I had looked over presuming Dustin had left to give us some alone time.

"Cody..." She said in a soft tone, by the tone of her voice you could tell she was weak from the crying.

"Don't speak, you must be tired, so get some sleep." I said as she nodded, I watched and started humming a song my mom always hummed for me. I watched as she fell asleep, I stood up moving so that I could softly and gently move her so I could move her under the blanket that she was currently laying under. I sat down on the bed across from her watching her intently as she slept, oddly I found myself staying up night and I had no idea where Dustin had gone because he never came back to the room nor had he texted or called to let me know. I was grateful and knew he was trying to give us space so we could talk but all I wanted to do was to take away her pain and grieve. She woke up the following morning, she rolled onto her back as she wiped at her eyes and slowly sat up, she looked over at me as she slid to sit on the edge of the bed facing me. "Good morning." I said as she pushed a strand of hair behind her ear.

"Morning...where's Dustin?" She asked as I shrugged.

"He left for the night, he probably went to stay with Evan." I said as she nodded, "I think he wanted us to talk." I said truthfully.

"There isn't anything to talk about." She said as she stood up walking towards the desk, she stopped in front of the chair as I saw her checking herself in the mirror.

"Yes there is, and you know about what." I said as I stood up walking closer to her as I saw that she looked down before she slowly looked over her shoulder. "I'm not going to apologize for saying what I said, I meant it." I said as I hooked my thumbs onto my pockets as she turned around and let out a sigh.

"I'm sure you did, it just came at a bad time..."

"Regardless of when I said it Lindsey, I need to know if you feel the same way." I said as she bit at her bottom lip as she looked up at me.

"I...I don't know Cody."

"How do you not know? You know how you felt towards Evan?" I asked as she looked at me.

"Evan doesn't have anything to deal with this even though he is every last bit a part of this. What about him? What about us? We are like brother and sister."

"Technically we aren't brother and sister, you are adopted of sorts and we aren't blood related. Hell, in Kentucky cousins marry cousins." I stated as she let out a sigh as she pushed past me running a hand through her hair, "Quit pushing it off, I know the way you are and this is a for sure sign that you do have these feelings for me."

"If I do, I can't...I can't do that to Evan...and with the shit you had done to him, it is beyond unfair to him."

"So you want to fake a relationship with him because you feel bad? He would want you to be happy Lindsey, he would understand..."

"Yeah, but I don't know what I feel Cody..." She said as she pushed past me again and plopped back down on the bed as she looked upat me with her big blue eyes. "I'm a roller coaster of emotions Cody, sometimes I want to strangle the living crap out of you for putting me in this situation but sometimes I just want to hug you because I feel like a part of me does love you Cody." She continued saying.

"You just said you feel like a part of you loves me, only a part?" I asked as I sat down across from her.

"I can't be sure Cody, I have other feelings and thoughts going on, like you hadn't noticed I just buried my mother earlier today and I am also in a relationship with Evan. I need to figure all of this out Cody...I can't...all these...all these feelings, emotions...thoughts.." She said as she started crying again, I got up moving to sit next to her holding her in my embrace as she cried into my chest again when my phone began to ring. I shifted about trying to pull out the phone out of my pocket without letting her out of my embrace seeing Dustin's name. I answered his call putting the phone up to my ear to listen to him on the other end of the phone.

"Hello?" I asked as my fingers gently played with the tips of her hair soothingly.

"Where are you? We need to head to the airport, our flight is today?" Dustin said as I looked to Lindsey letting out a sigh, knowing I needed to go because I couldn't not go to work nor did I want to leave Lindsey like this knowing she will go stay with Evan pushing her closer to him.

"I'm not going Dustin." I stated knowing that I didn't care at the moment, creative could think of something and he would explain everything later.

"Are you sure Cody?" Dustin asked as I looked to Lindsey who sat up staring at me with a different look in her eyes.

"Yes Dustin, I'm sure. Go ahead without me." I said as I heard Dustin sighed.

"Alright, I just hope you know what you are doing."

"I do...safe travels Dustin." I said as I hung up looking back at Lindsey.

"What are you doing? You can't just not go to work Cody."

"I can't just go and leave you here being all emotional unstable and such." I said as she slapped me across the face. "I am getting really tired of that." I said softly.

"You are so dumb Cody...I don't want you to not work...you don't have to do things because of me, you need to do what is best for you and you can't risk losing your job because I am what you call emotionally unstable. I can take care of myself."

"I am not dumb, I did this because I want to be there for you and because I care for you. It was for my own selfish reasons not because of you."

"Do you want kids?" Lindsey asked.

"Of course."

"Are you going to call out of work because I'm pregnant or what about our future? You get paid by the match, you miss one match now and it shows that you don't care about work, less and less matches they will book for you which means less and less money going into your pocket and it will be harder to support me and the family." She went on and on as I couldn't help but to smile and chuckle.

"Lindsey, it's just once...you forget that I'm in one of the biggest factions right now with one of the biggest named stars WWE has, I'm not going to worry about not getting matches. Your...our future...it'll be bright. You need to just get over the loss of your mother, and figure out deep within who you want to be with, Evan or me but for the time being I am going to stay here and help you cope with that first and foremost because that is what one does when they love someone." I stated as Lindsey let out more gator tears as she walked over wrapping her arms around my waist pushing her face into my chest as she began to rant about her mom as my hands ran through her hair as I was able to move her to lay down as she fall asleep again as I ordered room service knowing she will be hungry after her nap knowing she was weak. I stayed with her for one more day when I had to check out of the hotel, she had asked to stay with her dad a couple of days here in Florida which I understood knowing he must be hurting too and that she would want to spend time with him, those that are in pain too. I drove back up to Georgia worried about her but I did all that I could do and had to go back on the road and go on with my life knowing she will come around soon, I couldn't imagine losing a parent even if you are distant from them. I pulled my car into the driveway, I climbed out and went to the trunk pulling out my bag that I had took with me to Florida before slamming the trunk closed heading up to the house and let myself into the house. I set my bag aside seeing another bag setting aside knowing that it wasn't mine nor Dustin's. "Hello?" I asked trying to be tough as I pulled out my phone and reached for the bat that was in the closet as I began to slowly creep through the house not seeing anyone as I headed up the stairs as quietly as I could. I approached Lindsey's room as I slowly peeked around the door only to see the woman I loved sitting on the bed. "Lindsey? Wh-What are you doing here?" I asked as I put the bat down as I walked in as she looked up at me.

"I...I couldn't think of being in Florida by myself...when you left, I couldn't stand being alone. I felt like being with my dad or Evan wasn't right...I told Evan what we had wasn't what I was hoping for and that we couldn't last...even though I am still hurting from my mom's death, I somehow missed you Cody. I felt fine wrapped in your arms, felt like everything is going to be okay when you were there...with me. I didn't feel that with Evan or being with my dad, that is when it hit me that I need you Cody."

"You need me? That's it? You need me to make you feel better? You don't have any other feelings for me other than a selfish feeling to feel better?" I asked.

"Not just that Cody...you are important to me, more than just that..."

"What is so hard to say 'I love you Cody?'" I asked.

"It isn't Cody...I just can't...can't believe that you are right Cody...I love you Cody." She said as I smiled as I walked closer to her wrapping my arms around her.

"That wasn't too hard baby, why don't you get comfortable and I'll go make us some hot chocolate and find the cookies Dustin always hide and we'll watch movies? That make you feel better?" I asked as she smiled and nodded.

"Much so." She said as she stared into my eyes with her as I even dared to lean forward giving her kiss a soft kiss and surprisingly she accepted it.

FIN