It was early in the morning and Paige was getting ready to meet A.J. for their Breakfast date. Paige couldn't wait to tell her all about the book and to see her reaction to it. When she was done putting on her shoes she remembered that her and Cody where gonna carpool, so she went out the door to go to Cody's room. As soon as she opened the door she saw Cody sitting outside waiting for her.
"Well I see someone is anxious to see a certain Punk." Paige smiled as Cody stood up. He couldn't contain his excitement when he grabbed Paige's hand and started running to his car. When they got to his car the both of them were out of breath, but Cody hurried to unlocked the car and jumped into the driver side.
"Come on Paige we can't have them waiting!" Cody yelled out of excitement then he reached over to open the door for Paige. When she got in she looked over at Cody and saw him looking at himself in the mirror.
"Cody, are you trying to look good for Punk?" Cody looked at her then reached into the glove compartment and pulled out some expensive cologne to spray it all over himself. When Cody finally started up the car, Paige had to roll down the window where she can breathe and the whole ride there Cody kept asking Paige question after question.
"Do I look nice? Does my breath smell? Is there something in my teeth?" Paige was getting very annoyed at all the questions and wished she just left Cody back at the hotel. Finally they reached the diner where they were gonna have breakfast and Paige sighed in relief to finally be able to get out of the car and way from Cody and his questions. Paige saw Cody get out of the car and look into the side mirror to check his hair one last time. She laughed to herself to see how much Cody was into this. Paige was getting tired of waiting for Cody to check everything again, so she started walking to the diner. Once Cody noticed her walking, he ran to catch up to her where they could go in together and as soon as they got in the diner they saw A.J looking at a menu and Punk next to her leaning on his arm and looking kind of annoyed to be there. Paige turned to see Cody with a nervous expression on his face and looked like he was about to run out the door.
"Whats the matter Cody? I thought you wanted to see Punk?" Paige asked as she took Cody's hand where he couldn't escape. Cody tried to get his hand free before A.J or Punk noticed them but it was too late.
"Hey, Paige over here!" Was all Cody heard when A.J stood up to get their full attention. Paige smiled and waved then dragged Cody over to the table.
"Hey, Cody I didn't expect you to be here." A.J smiled at him.
"Good thing he's here, now I don't have to listen to you to have one of those girly chats." Punk said with an annoyed tone to his voice. Paige and A.J just ignored him and started to talk, first they caught up on events and then girl things, which made Punk more annoyed then he noticed Cody hasn't said a word since he got there.
"So, are we gonna talk about guy things or are you to focused on the girly events?" Punk then got a mad glare from A.J. "What's the matter with you? Was I talking to LOUD?"
"Can't you see me and Paige are trying to talk and here you are interrupting us." Punk then laid his head down on the table in annoyance.
"Why did you bring me if I can't even have a conversation?" Cody was gonna say something until Paige covered his mouth. Punk looked up when he heard Cody's muffled voice. "OK, that's it! You girls brought us here to talk but we're not allowed to. What are we suppose to do, sit here and look pretty?"
The girls were getting mad at the interruptions that they decided to leave. Punk just watched them go out the door and saw them get in his car. He started freaking out when he forgot that he gave A.J his keys. Punk ran out the diner to stop them but they already pulled out and were gone. After a few curse words Punk came back in and sat back down at the table with Cody.
"I can't believe she stranded me here! Whats so damn important that I even had to come here?" Cody got Punk's attention to talk about the book Paige found, but quickly changed his mind and decided to ask Punk if he wanted a ride somewhere. Punk just nodded and they both got up and walked to Cody's car.
After a while of driving they decided to get some ice cream and talk. Cody tried to bring up the book but still didn't have the courage to do so. Hours went by and Cody realized he had to be at WWE to go over a match he had later. He hurried up and ate his ice cream then ran to his car almost leaving Punk behind.
"Cody, what the hell?! Are you gonna ditch me like the girls did?" Cody apologized and reached over to open the door for Punk.
"Sorry, Punk I forgot I had to be at WWE. I have a match later, you need me to drop you off somewhere?"
"No, I have nowhere to be, hope you don't mind if I tag along." Cody smiled to himself, he didn't mind at all.
At WWE, Ryback, Kane, and Adam were waiting for Roman at the door. They planned on what they were gonna do the night before. As soon as they heard the door open, Ryback pounced on the person walking in.
"Hey, Big Guy what the hell?! Get off me!" Dolph yelled and Ryback got up and offered Dolph a hand up.
"Sorry, I thought you were Roman. Have you seen him?"
"No, I haven't, why?" Dolph looked confused why do they want Roman then he remembered 'Oh my god, did they find the snacks?' He thought to himself. Dolph was about to tell them it wasn't Roman when Roman walked in. The three men ran over to Roman and Adam pushed him to the wall and started yelling at him.
"Why did you take all my lollies? Tell me!" He started to shake Roman. Dolph tried to get Rose off him when Kane picked him up to get him out of the way and proceeded to yell at Roman too. Dolph then ran to Ryback to tell him that Roman didn't steal the snacks but Ryback was getting ready to punch Roman. Before he could, the door burst open and they saw Dean there with a lolly in his mouth and a sock full of 'god knows what'. He then threw it at the men hurting Roman and a big cloud of white dust exploded making everyone blind. Dean slid some goggles off his head to put over his eyes and ran to grab Roman and Dolph out of the dust.
"Dean. what the hell was in your sock?" Dolph asked as they turned the corner.
"Uh.. lets see foot powder, baby powder, baking soda, and febreze." Dolph and Roman looked at each other.
"Why febreze?" Dolph asked.
"Because, when I put that stuff together it made a horrible smell." Dolph laughed a little to himself.
"You sure it wasn't your sock that smelled?" Roman asked as they made it to Roman's room.
"Do you think I'll actually mess up my sock to do this?"
"Then who's sock was it? Hey it better not be mine."
"Hey your my bro, I wouldn't do that to you. It was Seth's sock." Both guys started laughing as Dean grabbed a candy bar out of his pocket.
When the smoke cleared everyone was confused "What the hell?! Was that Dean? What the hell did he have?" Kane said as he wiped the dust off his pants.
"I don't know, but I think it had febreze in it." Rose added then started to look around "Roman's gone."
"So is Dolph." Ryback looked down and saw white foot prints on the ground.
"I bet if we follow them we can find Roman." Rose said and Kane hit him in the head. They followed the prints to Roman's room then Kane kicked the door open.
"Trying to escape from us, we still need to beat your head in for stealing the snacks." Roman was about to protest when Dean stepped in front of Kane.
"If you think Romes is the one that stole the food, you're dumber then you look." The three looked at Dean.
"So, you stole the food and my lollies?"
"DUH, I have one in my mouth. Do you want it Rosie?" Dean took it out of his mouth and tried to put in Adam's mouth.
"Ew, get that away from me!" Then Dean chased Rose out of the room with the lollipop.
"Roman, sorry about all this. We thought you stole all the snacks, hope there's no hard feelings" Ryback said as he put his hand out for a hand shake.
"You know Dean did it, but are you guys gonna hurt him or anything?"
"Hell no, that little fucker can bite through locks and brake into cars. I'm not fucking with that." Kane said as he exited Roman's locker room.
Dean chased Rose all the way to the exit. When Adam open the door, he hit Cody in the face and he fell to the ground. Rose didn't stop to help Cody up, he just ran to his car and locked the door.
"That's not gonna work Rosie, I can still get in there." Dean said from the doors of the WWE building. He looked down to see Cody on the ground holding his nose. "Oh man, Cody, you alright?" Dean reached his hand down to help him up.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Let's just get inside." When they got inside Dean noticed Cody's nose was bleeding and took him into the bathroom to clean up. When Cody finally got the blood under control he remembered he was gonna wait for Punk at the door so he ran out of the bathroom to find him. When Cody got to the doors all he saw was Paige. "Hey, Paige have you seen Punk, and wheres A.J?"
"They left and I don't know where they were going." Cody looked sad, he didn't even get the courage to tell Punk about the book. Paige noticed this and patted him on the back "I can tell you didn't tell him." Cody looked up at her.
"How did you know?"
"Because, when me and A.J told him he looked shocked and he left, that's why both of them aren't here." Cody then walked away tears forming at his eyes, 'He's never gonna talk to me again.' Cody thought to himself when he made it to his and Goldust's room. Goldust turned and saw Cody starting to cry.
"Whats the matter, did someone hurt you?" Goldust pulled his brother into a hug trying to comfort him.
"No I spent the morning with Punk. I tried to tell him about the book but I couldn't."
"I don't get why are you're sad." Cody got out of his brothers grasp and wiped his eyes.
"When I got out of the bathroom I found out Paige and A.J told him and he left." Goldust grabbed him into another hug. "Gold, what if he doesn't want to talk to me again?"
"Don't say that. Give him time, he'll probably forget it in the next couple of days, now get ready we have a match."
After they got ready and waited for their entrance theme to hit Goldust could see Cody's head wasn't in the game.
"Come on Cody, snap out of it we're about to go on." Cody looked straight ahead when their theme started. When they both got out there and did there entrance Cody saw all the Rhodes brothers signs and cheered up a little. He knew he had to stay focus if he wanted to win, but he couldn't get Punk off his mind. When they got in the ring and waited for their opponents to show, Goldust leaned over to Cody and whispered into his ear.
"When we left the locker room Paige stopped me and said there's a little surprise waiting for you in the audience." When the Prime Time Players' theme hit Cody took the chance to look around the audience to see if he could spot the surprise. He saw nothing yet then the match started and Cody asked Goldust to start the match where he can find anything. About five minutes in Goldust needed to tag so he ran to Cody and slapped him on the back Cody turned around looking disappointed at his brother. He still didn't see anything, while he was fighting Darren he was getting beat up really bad. Darren picked Cody up and threw him near the barricade. He was hurting and couldn't get up, but then he looked up when a sign dropped down next to him and Cody's face lit up.
"Get him Cody, Kick his ass!"
"Punk!" Punk reached over the barricade to help Cody back to his feet.
"Get back in there and beat their asses for me OK." It was nearly a ten count when Cody jumped back in the ring and fully motivated to kick ass.
After the match was over Goldust was surprised that his brother just destroyed the Prime Time Players all by himself. When they got backstage Booker congratulated them on the win and decided to take them to dinner after the whole show was over. Cody was still hyped up from the match and seeing Punk there cheering him on he couldn't stop jumping around and smiling. He finally stopped when he felt someone tap him on the shoulder and Cody turned to see Punk and A.J. standing there to congratulate him on the win. Cody did a nervous laugh and reached his hand out for a hand shake, but Punk grabbed it and pulled Cody into a hug. Cody stiffened at the sudden contact with Punk then he melted into his embrace. Booker stepped closer to Goldust with a smile.
"I see everything's good with Cody now. Ask Cody to invite Punk to dinner."
"So is it like a double date then Bookie?" Goldust laughed at Booker then Booker smacked him in the back of the head.
"Shut up."