Disclaimer: I own the OC's and nothing else.
Author's Note: This story has nothing to do with the Hell's Security Series. In fact, Hell's Security does not exist in this story.
Well, after a week Austin finally felt a bit better, she was even writing in her journal* now! (*Note, Austin did not have a journal up until four days ago).
Dear journal, her first entry said, today I learned that hiding from Mrs. McMahon-Levesque is impossible to do.
It was the truth. Austin had gone to the local movie theater [it was 8 PM on a Thursday], dressed in a yellow t-shirt, jeans, sneakers, and a gray hoodie, to hide from Stephanie. Why do I mention what she was wearing? Because Austin never wore yellow.
Stephanie, who was a master of disappearing acts, suspected that Austin would try hiding from her, so she had her followed…
…By Cody Runnels [Rhodes].
Austin saw Cloudy, With A Chance Of Meatballs, not quite sure what possessed her to do so, but she saw it anyway.
Cody had taken a seat two rows, and eight seats to the right, back from her, watching her more than the movie.
He caught every confused look, every laugh, every smile of hers and tucked those images into the back of his mind. She was so beautiful to him…
Wait, what I am I thinking?! He thought in horror, hitting his forehead.
A scuffling noise made him look away from her before looking back. She was gone.
"Darn it," he muttered softly, quickly leaving his seat and going down the aisle, stopping at her row.
Austin straightened. She had been leaning over to check her purse. She saw him and gave him a confused smile before settling back in her seat, her eyes on the theater screen.
Cody sighed, running a hand through his short hair, before going down the row and taking a seat near her. There was only one seat between them.
Cody tried, and failed, to focus on the movie. She was just so… Interesting.
"And the lion fell in love with the lamb…" Austin muttered.
"What?" Cody asked, looking at her in time to see her smile mischievously, her eyes still on the screen.
People nearby shushed him with hisses as she watched the rest of the movie, his eyes still on her.
Frustrated that he couldn't talk to her right now, but curious as to why she had said that, he returned his gaze to the screen, watching the rest of the movie play out with her.
Soon the movie was over and he was escorting her through the dark parking lot to her Dually truck.
She had her hands tucked into her hoodie pockets as she walked, looking up at the dark night sky. Seeing that she wasn't paying that much attention, Cody put one arm around her waist and led her around a parked car.
She noticed that, but only glanced at him briefly before looking at the sky.
"Aren't they incredible?" She breathed.
He looked at the sky briefly before looking down again. "What? The stars? Yeah, they are incredible."
Austin giggled, a musical noise, before looking down. "When I was little my older brother would take me and my younger brother to the park during twilight so that we could look at the stars. My brother's always found the large constellations, but I always found the smaller, subtler ones."
Cody smiled, somehow believing her, even though he had not spoken to her up until this moment.
The ringing of his phone ruined the happy moment as they reached her truck. He withdrew his arm to answer his phone as she turned away.
Her face fell as she unlocked her truck, opening the door and climbing as Cody said, "Okay, gotcha. See you later," before hanging up his phone.
She slammed the door with more force the necessary before starting the truck and rolling down the window.
He leaned in, resting his forearms on the windowsill. "So… Same time Saturday?" He asked her with a dazzling smile.
Austin blinked. Did I just find the real Edward Cullen?! She wondered in shock as she cleared her suddenly dry throat before answering. "Um, I can't." She said quietly, looking at the steering wheel so as not to see his crestfallen gaze.
"Why not? If I may ask." He asked, his blue eyes child-like.
Austin looked at him again with a sheepish smile. "I'm going to dinner with my family. My sister just got engaged." She said.
Cody, surprised, said the only thing that he could: "Oh."
There was an awkward pause before he took his arms off the windowsill, clearing his throat as he stepped back. "Well, tell your sister I said congrats. Have fun," he said as he put his hands in his jean pockets.
She nodded slowly. "Thank you."
He smiled. "Good night Austin, and next time you quote Twilight, try a lesser-known quote," he said, turning to go.
After recovering from her brief moment of shock due to him recognizing the quote, she spoke again. "But I'm free the same time on Sunday." She said, surprising both of them as he stopped before turning around.
"Oh really?" He asked, approaching the truck once more. "And why is that?"
Austin smiled, fluttering her eyelashes at him. "I have to have a reason?"
Cody coughed, shocked by her obvious flirting, as she laughed before he answered her. "Well, no. It's just that I expected that a pretty gal like yourself would have a packed schedule during the weekend."
Austin laughed. "What rumors have you been listening to? The ones Matt K. has been telling?" She asked him with a smirk.
Cody laughed. "What? No, never. What's your cell number? I'll give you a call when I find out if my schedule is free." He said as he got his phone out.
Austin, with cat-like reflexes, snatched his phone away, programming her number in as he watched her fingers. How could he have missed that she had so delicate hands? Or that she had short nails with bright orange nail polish on them?
"Here," Austin handed his phone back to him as he looked at the number before looking up at her again. "See you later Cody." She said with a wink before throwing her truck into reverse and backing out of the parking spot.
Cody watched her drive away as he waved before turning and jogging through the parking lot to his bright blue sports car.
It started to rain as he climbed into the car, starting it before driving away from the theater, his mind racing. His schedule had to be free.
Note to self: Talk some sense into Korklan. He mentally noted as he drove towards the hotel.
Austin reached the hotel and climbed out of her truck with a sigh, slamming the door shut and locking the truck before entering the hotel.
Thunder rumbled as lightning flashed, Austin's back to the light show as she texted her older sister on her phone.
What r u up 2? Austin asked via text, rolling her eyes as she knew the answer was going to have something to do with planning the wedding.
Lol! Was the answer.
Austin waited for the elevator as she raised a slender eyebrow before texting back, 'Lol'? What?
The doors opened with a BING as Austin looked up, shocked to see Shannon Moore leaning against the back of the elevator, his arms crossed.
Breath. Breath. Make eyes smaller. Breath. Austin thought as her eyes returned to their normal size before she entered the elevator, pressing the button for her floor. Floor #13, how charming. She thought wryly as Shannon cleared his throat.
Austin looked at him, curious, before Viola texted back.
Oh. Austin smirked as she could just see her sister's annoyed face in the back of her mind. I thought u were Dave.
"Bleck!" Austin said before she realized what she had said and clapped one hand over her mouth. "Oops." Was her muffled response.
Shannon raised an eyebrow at her. " 'Bleck'? What? Am I that ugly?" He asked her as the elevator ascended slowly.
Austin lowered her hand. "What? Of course not." She said, texting her sister back, Hahaha- U were wrong!
She stopped as her eyes widened again, Shannon chuckling. "That's nice to hear." He said as she shook her head before the doors opened, Ted DiBiase Jr. getting on.
They were only at floor #7.
THANK GOD! She thought as Ted started talking to Shannon about tattoos, seems to be Ted was thinking about getting one, before they reached her floor and she bolted off the elevator, running down the hall to her room.
She bolted inside, slamming the door shut and resting against it, panicking. She listened for a few moments to hear if he, meaning Shannon, had followed her, before she sighed in relief, taking a step away from the door.
With a chuckle, she reached for the light switch.
"Do not turn on the light my love." A familiar voice said as she froze, panicking.
What do I do? Right. S.I.N.G. She thought, ready for a fight as she backed away towards the door.
The man rushed towards her, pinning her against the door as he held her close, her face pressed against his leather jacket.
"…Meep…" She squeaked.
"Oh, sorry," he said, letting go of her before taking a step back.
"S- Stay back. I know jujitsu!" Austin warned, blindly grabbing for the doorknob. She just hoped that the man wouldn't see through her blatant lie.
"I know that," he said as she froze again. "I also know that your favorite flowers are roses, you like maple candy, and you hate primates."
"Roses?" She mouthed silently as he stepped closer.
"You are the epitome of perfection, poise, grace, and beauty," he said, touching her cheek lightly before leaning in and kissing her.
Austin shoved him away before jerking the door open and running into the hall, screaming, "HELP!"
The man rushed from the room as Austin crashed into Matt Hardy, Jeff taking one look at her before yelling, "Hey you- Stop!" And taking off after the man.
"Are you okay?" Was all Matt had to ask before Austin was in tears.
"He kissed me!" She wailed, her head resting against Matt's shirt.
If she had looked up she would have seen Matt's look of shock before Melina stormed out of her hotel room, dressed in a fuzzy yellow bathrobe, fuzzy yellow flip-flops, a towel wrapped around her hair, and a mint green facial mask on her face.
"What is going on here?" Melina demanded to know as Matt gently nudged Austin towards Melina.
"Some strange man kissed me in my hotel room!" Austin wailed, Melina gasping as Jeff jogged back before stopping and resting his hands on his knees.
"Did you catch him?" Matt asked his younger brother as Jeff took several deep breathes before straightening and shaking his head.
"No, I didn't. But I caught a glance of him climbing into a red convertible before speeding away from the hotel." Jeff said as several more Diva's and wrestler's left their hotel rooms to find out why Austin was crying.
"I- I think that he thought that I was someone else." Austin hiccupped through tears, Natalie Neidhardt patting her on the shoulder.
"How do you figure?" Matt questioned.
"He- He told me that he knew that my favorite flowers were roses and that- That I liked maple candy and that I hated primates." Austin explained, her wails now quiet sobs.
"Hmm…" Jeff hummed in thought as Matt shook his head.
"I think you're right Austin." Matt said, Randy frowning behind Austin before smacking his closed fist into his open palm- Randy did that I mean, not Matt.
"We're going to figure out who did that if it's the last mystery we even think of trying to solve." Randy said with determination. "Now who's with me?!"
Everyone present raised their hands, including the Great Khali. Well- He couldn't raise his hand completely or else he would have touched the ceiling.
"Good! In the morning we start our investigation. For now we get Austin a different hotel room and we get hotel security to keep an eye out for a red convertible." Randy said, his blue eyes blazing.
Sorry about the lack of updates. Yes I am hyper. Yes I did quote Twilight. No I will not stop writing such strange stories. Review if you want, don't if you don't.
Flamers will be ignored.
