I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Daisy's Point of View-
I went back to bed for about four hours, I got up showering getting into a pair of jean capri pants and a black and orange Harley Davidson shirt. I blew dry my hair brushing it down and put an orange headband on and brushed my bangs out of the head band. I put on black eyeliner and I put on orange eye shadow. I put on my deodorant and a different perfume that didn't smell like any foods. I went out into the room slipping on the black and pink Vans with ankle socks, I woke Shawn up.
"Dad, I'm leaving you know mine and Dave's number." I said bending over to hug him.
"Have fun and call me once and a while."
"Will do, love you." I said grabbing my purse, phone and room key. I went down to the lobby and a cab driver was holding a sign with 'Daisy Michaels,' "That's me." I said, he walked me out to the cab.
"Cody is anxiously awaiting your arrival." He said opening the door for me.
"You talked to him?" I asked, he shut the door and ran around getting in.
"This morning, you mean a lot to him."
"Thanks." I said a little weirded out, I called Dave then three way to Lindsey. "If my dad calls, we are at the mall, really I'm at Cody's family reunion." I explained.
"That's a big step, meeting the family." Lindsey said.
"Obviously, please, I'll tell Shawn today or tomorrow, or the day after that." I said.
"You better, it is getting serious." Dave said.
"I will, I will, love you both, bye." I said hanging up the phone putting it in my pocket then looked out the window watching the things pass by.
"You should tell your dad." The driver said.
"I know, thanks. Are you friends with the Rhodes?"
"I've done some work with them."
"How are they?"
"Nice family, welcoming, they only want the best for their family."
"What has Cody said about me?"
"Only good things."
"What has he referred to me as, friend or girlfriend?"
"To me, he only said friend, I figured you were a girl by your name"
"Good." I said, I texted Cody, 'I'm in cab, u've been talkin bout me?'
'Ur constantly on mind.'
'I guess I'm like an infection.'
'How's that?'
'I keep buggin u and ur mind is infected.'
'But ur a good infection.'
'That's like sayin cold's r good.'
'Whateva.' He said, I smiled at this conversation.
"Ma'am, we're here." The driver said.
"Thanks." I said.
"Cody has already paid and tipped." He said, he climbed out and opened the door for me.
"Thanks sir." I said, I slowly walked up the driveway to the brown door, I raised my hand to knock but it was flung open.
"You must be Daisy." A lady said.
"Yes ma'am, nice to meet you." I said.
"I'm Michelle, Cody's mom."
"I can see it, thanks for letting me come."
"Just get in here." She said pulling me into the house, "Cody your girlfriend is here!" She yelled up the stairs, I almost chocked on my spit.
"Aw, Daisy, I'm Dustin, Cody's dad." Dustin said.
"It's a honor meeting a legend." I said shaking is hand.
"You know your wrestling."
"Absolutely sir." I said smiling.
"This is our other son Dusty and his girlfriend Tarel." He said.
"Nice to meet you." I said shaking their hands.
"He also wrestles as Gold Dust." Mr. Rhodes said.
"I've been told." I said nodding my head and I felt the dog sniffing my leg, "Aw, aren't you so cute?" I said looking down at the white and blue husky, he was so cute, he had one blue and one brown eye.
"He is just getting used to your smell, his name is Wolf." Dusty said, I started petting the dog and he was just trying to sniff me.
"Would you like a drink?" Mrs. Rhodes asked.
"Water please?" I said as I felt an arm wrap around me and smelt the axe, Cody petted Wolf a little.
"You look beautiful." Cody whispered into my ear, I blushed a little and smiled.
"Thanks." I said.
"Why don't you go introduce her to rest of the family." Mr. Rhodes said.
"There's more?" I asked.
"My aunt's, uncles, grandparents and cousins." Cody said grabbing my hand leading me onto the back porch, Wolf followed close behind us.
"I'm not going to remember al these names." I said.
"Don't worry about it." Cody said as he walked me around introducing me to everyone.
"Here's your water Daisy." Mrs. Rhodes said walking out handing me a water bottle.
"Oh thank you Mrs. Rhodes." I said opening it and taking a drink.
"Your not allergic to any foods are you?" Mr. Rhodes asked.
"Not that I know of." I said.
"Good, we didn't want to cook something you were allergic to." He said.
"Cody, get the girl a seat so she could sit down and tell us more about herself." Mrs. Rhodes said.
"Yes mother." Cody said going to grab two lawn chairs.
"You have a beautiful house." I said trying to make small talk.
"We like it, where are you from?" Mr. Rhodes asked.
"Texas." I answered as Cody unfolded my chair for me and I sat down gradually crossing my legs.
"Aw…so tell us more about you." Mrs. Rhodes said, Cody wrapped his arm around me as I answered all their questions until rest of their family arrived.
"Whose up for a good game of Football?" Cody's uncle Jerry asked, there were some kids running around and most of the guys agreed to play including Cody, Mr. Rhodes and his brother Dusty.
"I'll play." I said standing up walking off the porch.
"We play rough." Cody said worriedly.
"I don't mind playing with the boys, bring it on." I said, two of his uncles were captains and they put Cody and I on two different teams. We huddled together and they were calling moves I didn't know, "Excuse me what?" I asked.
"He'll pass the ball to you and you run towards the other end if possible pass to him." Mr. Rhodes explained pointing to Cody's uncle Fred and his brother Dusty.
"Thanks." I said, we lined up and I was face to face with Cody, he smiled at me. I was the only girl playing, his aunts and mother were afraid to play. They hiked the ball, I ran past Cody with him close behind me, I caught the ball tossed to my from Cody's uncle Fred when I felt Cody's arms wrapped around me picking me up and spun me around. I tossed the ball in hopes his brother would catch it, I was kicking and trying to break his grip.
"Please put me down." I said as he insisted on running around the yard with me with Wolf close behind him barking.
"Cody Garrett, put the poor girl down." His grandmother yelled.
"Yes grammy." He said putting me down.
"Thanks." I said fixing my shirt.
"Are we going to play football or are we going to be lovey dovey all day?" One of his older cousins asked.
"Let's go!" Cody said, we ran back to our teams huddling up again. We played football until more people started to complain about hunger.
"I'm going to start the grill." Dusty said, Cody and I went and sat back down with his aunts and grandparents, his dad and brother were working the grill, his mom was in the house working on the other food, his uncles were standing behind their wives or their wives were sitting on their laps. I was watching the younger kids running around chasing each other with water guns.
"Hey, I've found some water balloons, Cody you want to help fill them up for the youngsters?" Mrs. Rhodes said walking out the sliding door.
"I don't know how to tie them though." Cody said.
"I do, I'll help." I said standing up grabbing the balloons, I followed Cody to the outside faucet, Cody will fill them up and I would tie them and hand it over to a kid. I tied one, I went to hand it to one kid then I got a great idea. "Sh…." I mouthed putting a finger over my mouth, the little girl giggled, I put the filled water balloon above Cody's head, he was bent over a little so it was easier and I popped the balloon with my finger causing the water to fall all over Cody.
"COLD!" He screamed as he squirmed about, the little girl was laughing along with myself. "Girl your dead." Cody said turning to look at me and his cousin or niece, I don't know, she pointed at me. "You did this Daisy?" Cody said.
"No…" I said in a tone that he knew I was lying, he grabbed a balloon that his cousin or niece was holding.
"I would run." She said.
"Your dead." Cody said, I took off running and he was chasing me with the balloon.
"I'm sorry." I yelled, he threw it and hit me right in the back, I grabbed a water gun that was laying on the ground pumping it squirting Cody and he snatched one from one of his boy cousins squirting me back, we were chasing each other getting each other drenched with water when his brother Dusty attached a hose to the one faucet handing it to Cody.
"Here you go bro." He said.
"Oh no!" I said running with Cody chasing right behind me with a hose, Mr. Rhodes went and attached another house to a different faucet handing it to me.
"It is only fair." Mr. Rhodes said, I smiled as I grabbed it from him.
"Thank you!" I said as I turned around and squirted Cody right in the face with the water from the hose.
"DAD!" Cody whined.
"It was only fair son." Mr. Rhodes said.
"We want to get wet too." One of Cody's younger girl cousins said, we shrugged our shoulders and called a truce, we started squirting the kids then I turned the hose on Cody starting the water fight all over again.
"Kids, act your age, not shoe size." His grandfather said.
"Food is ready." Mr. Rhodes yelled, we dropped our hoses going and shutting off the faucets.
"I'll go get you guys a towel." Dusty said, I looked down and I was drenched from head to toe, my shoes were even drenched.
"I'm such a kid." I said giggling, but at least we were laughing about it. Dusty came back tossing me and Cody a towel, I wrapped the towel around myself. Mrs. Rhodes made mine and Cody's plate since she didn't want us walking into the house until we dried some. I pulled my feet up onto the chair with me putting the towel over my legs.
"Are you enjoying yourself?" Cody asked.
"Yeah, your family is nice." I said smiling and looked over into his brown eyes.
"Alright, eat up." Mrs. Rhodes said handing me and Cody our plates, I folded my legs into Indian style, and ate listening to his family talking, I didn't really talk unless if someone asked for my opinion.
"I'm dry, you want me to take your plate?" I asked standing up sticking out my hand to grab Cody's plate to take inside to throw away.
"Don't worry about it sweetie." Mrs. Rhodes said.
"I don't mind." I said, Cody walked in with me showing me where the garbage can is.
"Do you want to see my room?" Cody asked.
"While you take her up there, why don't you give her some clean clothes it's getting kind of chili outside and I don't need her getting sick as well as you." Mrs. Rhodes said.
"Okay mom." Cody said grabbing my hand, he led me up the stairs.
"Which room is yours?" I asked looking down the hallway.
"It's not down there, it's up here." Cody said pulling down a set of stairs going up to the attic.
"Your room is in the attic?" I asked.
"I picked it, you'll see why." He said, I walked up the skinny set of stairs into the attic like in the cartoon show that was on Nickelodeon 'Hey Arnold!' and walked to the side so he could come up. "First let me get you some clothes to change into." Cody said going to his dresser, he pulled out a pair of jeans and an Old Navy shirt.
"Thanks, where's the bathroom?" I asked.
"You can go behind the curtain over there." He said nodding towards the curtain thing you only see in like western movies.
"You promise you won't peak?" I asked as I slowly walked behind it.
"I won't peak if you won't peak at me." He said, I went behind the curtain changing into the clothes, the pants fit, but the pant legs were kind of long and the shirt was a little loose.
"Are you done?" I asked.
"Yeah, come on out." Cody said, I walked out and he took our clothes down to the dryer for they can dry. I looked around his room until the window caught my attention, I walked over to the window looking out when I heard Cody walk up the stairs. "It's beautiful out there huh?" Cody said.
"Yeah, is that why you wished to be up here?" I asked looking back at him.
"You can even go out onto the deck." Cody said.
"There's a deck?"
"Yep, come on." Cody said opening the window, he climbed out, he stuck out his hand and helped me climb out onto the deck. "This is my thinking spot." He said, I leant against the banister lightly looking out onto his backyard and family below us.
"No wonder why you come out here to think, it defiantly helps clear my mind." I said.
"You can barely see the lake from here." Cody said pointing out the lake in the distance.
"It is kind of cold out here."
"I'll go get us a blanket." Cody said climbing back into his room grabbing a blanket and climbed back out with me. "Here we go." He said wrapping it around him and me.
"I feel like Princess Rupenzelle up here, if I had long enough hair, I'll throw it over." I joked looking down at the family below us and seeing how far down it was.
"Only if I could be your prince."
"Who else would it be?" I asked not looking up from the ground, he turned me to look at him, my lips met his in a soft passionate kiss, I felt electricity running through my veins and I saw fireworks shooting off in my eyelids.
"Whoa." Cody said after the kiss, I couldn't help but to smile.
"You could say that again." I said moving a stand of my bangs out of the way of my eyes.
"Whoa."
"Smart butt." I said, Cody wrapped his arms around me and I rested me head against his chest, I felt his head rest against the top of my head.
"So, would you do the honor of being my girlfriend?" Cody whispered.
"Do you have to ask?"
"Obviously if I asked."
"Yes, I would love too." I said, it felt right being in his arms and it felt like the ending of a romantic movie.