How Taking Down Legacy Failed

I fluttered my eyes open after feeling my feet being nudged; I wiped my eyes and sat up slightly. The light from the window half blinded me. It took a few seconds until my eyes adjusted to the light, once I could see clearly; I saw the source off the nudger. Ted. "What's wrong?" I mumbled to hear him.

"I can't sleep and I'm bored" He replied with a whine. I just blinked at him before pulling the covers back over my head. "Baby!"

"Go away, I'm tired" He took the covers back off me. "Hang out with Randy"

"He's asleep" I rolled over to see Randy snoring softly. "Wakey Wakey!"

"Get off my bed!" I tried to pull my covers so that he would slip off, but he sat tight. "Your banned from my bed, get out"

"I see your not a morning person" He wagged his finger at me, I pinched him. "OW! That wasn't nice"

"You're barred, fuck off"

"Would you guys keep it down?" Randy moaned, rolling over.

"Ok, we will just take this another room"

"I'm tired! Let me sleep!"

"It's like, eight am Mickie, GOD"

"Go hang out with Becky, I hear she is an early riser and she always says she would love to see your gorgeous face first thing in the morning" I lied.

"Really?"

"Really"

"Oh Rebecca!" Ted sang.

"Ah peace" I sighed to myself, burying my face back into my pillow.

Unfortunately to my dismay Ted came back after finding out that what I said about Becky was untrue and he got me up, damn Ted, damn.

Becky's P.O.V

"Oh Rebeccieeeeeee!" The familiar voice of Ted called.

I kept my eyes closed and buried into my pillow and grumbled underneath my breath. I punched Cody on the arm.

"Kill him for me. Please."

Cody laughed and gently kissed my jaw. I felt movement on the bed before hearing several rustling sounds before the door creaked open.

"Good morning, Codykins! I would like to see Rebecca!"

Cody laughed nervously, "Ted, why would you think that I would know where Becky is?"

I heard Ted snigger before saying, "This is her room, dumbass."

I couldn't help smiling into my pillow when I realized that Ted was right but I pulled myself into a ball and tried to get back into the dream I was having – something to do with a hot Italian guy who was taking me around Italy on one of those bikes.

However, before I could even try to drift back off, a huge weight suddenly fell one me and a voice yelled in my ear, "GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE!"

I groped around for a pillow before whacking him over the head with a pillow. Judging from the 'oof' sound, I hit him.

"C'mon, let me sing!" He cleared his voice before singing, "Wake up, it's a beautiful morning!" He started shaking me, "Wake up, Rebeccie! The old Mickster said that you liked the idea of seeing me in the morning."

I grudgingly rolled onto my back and glared up at Ted, who had propped himself up on his elbow and looked like a complete poser. I stared at him, which just caused himself to raise his eyebrows and wink.

"Um, I saw that." Cody told him.

Ted then winked at him, "I don't mind it either way."

I sniggered before grabbing the hem of his shirt and lifting it up.

"Becky!" Cody exclaimed.

"Oh, she likes it rough, ay?" Ted pouted.

I rolled my eyes before putting all my strength into punching him square in the stomach. I hit him so hard that he actually fell off the bed and I could hear him moaning as he rolled around on the floor.

I snuggled deeper into my covers and tried to return to my Italian dream-man.

"She can be quite… violent when she needs to be." I felt a weight drop down next to me and I knew that I wouldn't be able to get to sleep again, so I sat up and looked to see who had sat down. It was Cody this time. That was okay, I liked Cody.

"I like my sleep!" I insisted.

Cody chuckled softly and he gently brushed my hair out of my face and kissed my forehead, "I know."

"Well," Ted grunted from the floor, sounding as if he was still in pain, "maybe if you two didn't stay up all night doing stuff that would make my mama cry, she would be able to get some sleep."

"Do you want me to get her to punch you again?"

"No!" Ted yelped and then quickly cleared his throat, "No." He repeated in a manlier voice. Suddenly he jumped to his feet and dived onto the bed so that he was lying on both Cody and I, "Last time I'm going to offer the three of us together!"

I cracked my knuckles and he whimpered.

"Wow. I would love to see you in a domestic relationship… just because it would be funny to see you beat the crap out of the dude." Cody told me.

"Aha, but then I wouldn't be with you." I pointed out.

"Okay, never mind." Cody grinned.

"Get a room." Ted scoffed.

I kicked Ted off of the bed and then pulled him up by the ear and dragged him towards the door. I was feeling strangely violent this morning, "Go away."

"But why?" He screeched, "Why can't we all be friends?"

"Grown up time, go annoy Mickie or something!"

"Bah, humbag!"

Mickie's P.O.V

"He really kissed you?" Becky asked me, I nodded. "Whoa, I knew he liked you"

"He doesn't like me; he just probably wants to get…laid"

"Do you really believe that?" She sniggered at me.

"Can we not talk about how another guy wants to bed my girlfriend" Randy interrupted our conversation. "I think I will send Barrett a nasty tweet"

"Oh Randall" I shook my head and chuckled. "He doesn't go on it much anymore" Both Becky and Randy gave me an odd look. "Not that I stalk his profile or anything"

"Avada Kadavra" We all turned to Ted, he was about throw his book at an ant.

"Ted no!" I yelled, he still threw the book. "I don't get it, you gave Becky a hard time for killing that other bug, but yet…" I pointed to the ant.

"Wait, the ant didn't die! I'm going to call him Harry"

"And what? Just like that" I snapped my fingers. "You've forgotten all about poor Percy"

"I have not forgotten! I called mum earlier to check on him"

"You should of come up to the door Randy, his mum told me a story about when Ted was sick and how he had a pet a rock"

Randy sniggered. "Pet rock Ted?"

"Maybe" He mumbled.

"The pet rock died because Ted 'underfed' him"

"How does that work?"

"I was six!" Ted protested. "And I bet your mother doesn't have a cool story to tell about you!"

"Well Mickie will soon find out, right babe?" He said putting his arm around me.

I chuckled nervously. "Right" I didn't want to go! I hate meeting the parents, I'm no good.

"I expect there to be a Teddy room"

"A teddy room?"

"For when I come to visit" Randy pulled away and got up to go to have a shower.

"Visit what?" I asked him.

"Your house"

"We don't have one"

"Yet" Ted grinned.

"Err sure!"

"Now say it like you mean it"

"I can't"

"Well then, I guess I will have to bring this up" Ted said to me, I looked at him confused. "Randy!" He yelled, Randy poked his head round the bathroom door. "Since we are in Mickie's home town and her parents aren't far…why don't you go see them considering she is meeting yours…."

"HA! In your face Ted! He has already met my parents" I smirked in victory at Ted.

"But it would be nice to see them now we are dating" Randy said, oh no. "Ok, it's on, today we will go see your parents"

"Why Ted? Why?" I groaned.

"Bet you wish you agreed to the Teddy room now ay" Ted swung his arm around me. "Don't worry baby, I'm going to go too!"

"Great, that automatically fixes things"

"Now enough of that sarcasm missy!" Ted laid down on the floor and brought me with him.

"Mickie, have you seen my…?" Randy said coming out of the bathroom, but stopped in seeing me and Ted. "Now this isn't what a boyfriend wants to see" He chuckled.

"Don't worry, our relationship is simply just for the sex, there is no love involved" Ted told him.

"Thanks for the reassurance" Randy rolled his eyes. "Aha!" He picked up what I'm guessing he had come out to get. "I'll have my shower, get ready and we can hit the road" I let out a groan again. "They liked me last time, you don't have to worry about it" He went back into the bathroom.

"Yes and last time my parents embarrassed the hell out of me"

"Oh I cannot wait" Ted grinned, I punched him. "I'm telling your mother!" He growled and got up, he then started to laugh. "I actually can tell her!" I hung my head low, I was seriously dreading today. "How do I look?" Ted asked me.

"Are you going for the cross dressing look today?" I sniggered, Ted starred at me expressionless for a moment.

"Ahh you ruined my life!…yep! Life ruined" I just shrugged in response. "That's it, I'm changing"

I got up and ran after him. "I was kidding! You look fine! Look" I brought him to a mirror. "You look…dashing"

Ted scoffed at me. "Fine? Just dashing?" He then looked back at the mirror and winked at his reflection. "You handsome mother fucker"

"Ok Ted, ok" I patted his back before going into my bedroom.

"Hey Cody!" Ted waved him over as walked in the room. "I have an idea, the ultimate prank on Rebecca, we can…"

"I don't think I can do this Ted" Cody told him, Ted looked gutted.

"W..What? You're breaking up with me?"

"What? No, we aren't.."

"HE TOOK MY VIRGINITY" Ted screamed out laying his head on my shoulder, pretending to cry. "And now he is breaking up with me!"

"I didn't take your virginity, stop it!"

"Get out of here! Get out you liar! You home wrecker! Oh Mickie hold me" Cody walked over to us and smacked him on the back of his head before walking away. "AHH! ABUSE! ABUSE" He screamed. "Mickie, you can help me now"

"I'm not going to help you prank Rebecca"

"You're going to help me or I will spank you"

I looked right at Ted and said "Bring it." He tried to square up to me, but ended up throwing his arms in the air and slumping down on the couch.

I got to take a ten minute nap until Randy came into the room in just a towel. He nudged me to wake up, I rolled over and shooed him with my hand.

"We are leaving in ten minutes" He told me.

"They might be busy today!"

"They aren't, I texted them from your phone" Ted poked his head round the door and smirked, I threw a pillow at him. Fucking great!

"I don't understand why you even want to go, why aren't you scared?"

"Why should I be scared?" He chuckled, putting on his t-shirt. "Wait, are you scared to meet my parents?" I just shrugged slightly and looked down. "Why?"

"What if they, you know…don't like me?"

He half laughed and half scoffed at that, he came over and placed his hands on my shoulder. "They are going to love you, I mean I do" I couldn't help, but smile at that. "Now come on" He grabbed my hand and led me out the room.

"Let's go!" Ted jumped up.

"You're coming?" Randy asked him.

Ted smirked at me. "Wouldn't miss it for the world" I punched him. "What have we said about the punching? That's it! Randy! Oh Randy!"

"What?"

"Me and Mickie were watching Return of the Jedi and she started crying at the end when R2D2 was taken apart"

"Really?"

"Well" I looked at Ted. "Ted cried at Bambi!"

Ted gasped. "But so did you!"

"Yeah, but I'm a girl, it's ok"

"She has a point dude"

"You be quiet! You weren't there!" Ted said angrily crossing his arms.

"You started this and I just finished it" I smirked at him.

"You should be nice to me considering we are going to see your parents" He patted my head patronisingly. "Haha, win." Me and Randy looked at him unamused. "Fuck you guys, my grandma says I'm funny"

We got in the car after that and drove twenty minutes until we reached my parent's house. "It's not too late to cancel" I told him.

"Relax" He whispered into my ear.

"No, I will not relax! Do you not remember the last time you saw them, how they are a huge embarrassment!"

"Oh shit, I left something in the car" Ted announced and ran back.

"Deep breath" Randy told me, I nodded and knocked on the door.

My mum opened it with a smile on her face, she pulled me into a hug. "Mom, please, please, remember what I told you"

"Don't worry! I won't embarrass you!…Again!" I gave her a disbelieving look as I pulled away. "Oh let me have my fun!" I groaned. "It's nice to see you again Randy" She shook his hand. "Looking as handsome as I remember!"

"Thank you Mrs James" He replied with a smile.

"Oh Mrs James" Ted sung from behind.

Randy gave me an odd look. "Did I forget to tell you that Ted has already met my mother?"

"I think you did leave that part out"

"Well, yes, they met and bloody hell…well I guess you'll find out"

"Theodore! It's so good to see you!" She opened her arms and pulled him into a hug. "You too are looking as handsome as ever!"

"Oh Mrs James, you've brought up my low self esteem!"

Randy scoffed. "Low self esteem?"

"It gets worse" I patted his back as if I was reassuring him.

"My, my, Mrs James, have you lost weight!" Ted said twirling her around.

"Oh Theodore, stop!" My mom giggled. She walked ahead, Ted went to follow, but I stuck my arm out blocking his way.

"Stop flirting with my mom!"

"I'm not flirting! I'm being polite! If anything, she is coming on to me, not that I blame her"

I rolled my eyes at him and let him pass, we walked in and awkwardly just sat on the couch. "Mickie, you should introduce Ted to Latoya, I'd be so proud to introduce Randy and Ted as my son in laws"

"Mom" I said sternly, she just laughed it off. "Besides, Latoya is engaged to someone else, isn't she?"

"You know your sister, it won't last long" Mom sighed.

"That's true" I nodded in agreement. "Where's dad?"

"He is on his way, he just went to pay for your sister's wedding dress"

"Figures" I rolled my eyes.

"It's about time you and your sister made up!" Mom told me sternly, before getting up to get Randy and Ted coffee.

"You know, your mom is right, you should speak to her" Ted said to me. "I mean you didn't even like John, so what was it she did so wrong?"

"Latoya said that you weren't hot"

"That girl has no boundaries" Ted growled, I smirked.

"So whilst your here, how about I show you some of Mickie's baby videos!" My mom came back is with the coffee.

"Mom!"

"Oh darling don't be embarrassed, you were a cute little thing" She then started to laugh. "Actually with saying that, the first baby video we have of her is the family gathered around her, remarking how weird looking she was!"

Ted sniggered. "How about I break all your mirrors? Would it still be funny then, huh?" I asked him.

"I never had that problem, me? Weird looking, HA" Ted said smugly

"Your weird looking" I mocked his smug look. "Now you have"

"Mickie Laree James! Apologise!"

"But Mom…"

"Apologise"

"Yeah Mickie, apologise" Ted crossed his arms.

"I'm sorry" I muttered.

"What was that?"

"I'm sorry"

"Much better"

"I'm so glad we came" Randy chuckled.

"Yeah same, let's go" I tried to pull him up, but he pulled me back down.

"We just got here and I want to see your baby videos" He grinned.

"Well your not going to"

"That's what you think"

"On second thoughts, I can't wait to meet your parents" Now I was the one grinning, grinning evilly.

"Hello family! I'm back!" My dad came through the door. "Randy, nice to see you again son" His sights then set on Ted. "Ted" He hissed.

"Mr James" Ted equally hissed back.

"Am I missing something?" Randy whispered to me.

"Wait and see" I laughed and shook my head. My dad didn't appreciate Ted flirting with my mother and they have never seen eye to eye.

"I'm glad your here actually Ted because I need to show you something" My dad said to Ted, gesturing for him to come over.

"Really?" Ted questioned him, my dad nodded. My dad put his hand on the back of Ted and led him out the room, we then heard a door slam and my dad walked back in.

"Err Dad? Where's Ted?" I asked him, my dad just smirked. "Dad!" I said angrily rushing to the front door to see Ted standing there, arm's crossed.

"That wasn't very nice" Ted said to my dad as he walked back in the door.

Becky's POV

"Where are the others?" Cody asked as he pinned me down.

"Meeting Mickie's parents." I whispered and his lips met mine.

I would like to get this clear. I hated myself. I hated cheating. I hated affairs. I hated people who snuck around. It was wrong. It was hurtful.

I had become the very thing that I hated; yet there was a part of me – a tiny part – that didn't care, which actually made it even worse.

It was Cody's fault. It was the way that he would smile at me or the way that he'd make me laugh harder than I ever had or make me feel like the most special girl in the world. The way he cared so deeply about how I was and actually listened to what I said. He understood the words that I said, he didn't just hear them.

I should hate him but I couldn't. Especially whenever we were alone and he'd hold me in his arms, so warm and tight and protective. The way his lips would linger on my neck, so soft and gentle and loving.

It killed me that I couldn't walk in public with our hands locked or introduce him as my boyfriend. I hated lying. I hated that I was 'the-bit-on-the-side'.

It wasn't just a physical affair – and we both knew it –, it was emotional too. He wasn't just cheating with his body; he was cheating with his heart and mind too.

That was the only reason that I could let it go on. This was the only reason that I could live with myself.

His hand gently ran down my body, his lips were passionate on mine and his fingers tangled in my hair and, just like always, I forgot about my anxiety and worries and just lived in this moment.

Suddenly, his mouth was by my ear, "I love you," he whispered.

His breath tickled my neck and his words sent a thrill down my spine, I turned my head to face him and our lips met once more and our bodies locked in an embrace.

Then I heard it, the squeak of a door and I realized what was happening. I heard the gasp.

I closed my eyes so that I wouldn't have to see the look of shock on Randy's face or the look of horror on Mickie's.

"Cody," Randy's voice was too calm, "is there something you would like to tell me?"

Mickie's P.O.V

"I asked you a question" Randy said to Cody warningly. I can't believe he had caught them, you would of thought they would have learned to lock their doors by now. "Is this the guy then?" Becky stayed quiet. "ANSWER ME" He threw all the stuff which was on the banister.

"Randy, just calm…"

"Calm down?" He spat at me. "Why don't you seem that affected by this?" I felt my lip tremble. I hated it when he yelled at me. "You knew about this, didn't you?" I fell quiet. "I'm talking TO YOU" He yelled last part as I tried to turn away.

"No, your yelling at me" I replied staying as calm as I could. "Yes, I knew but…"

"So you've all been lying to me this entire time?" Randy asked rhetorically, banging his fist against the wall, he kept drawing it back as if to actually punch the wall, but he stopped and just kept taking deep breaths. "I even bet Ted knew" Everyone stayed quiet. "Oh you've got to be fucking kidding me" He turned to Cody, a dangerous look in his eyes. "How the fuck could you do this to me? Now you've screwed my sister, bet you want to do my girlfriend too?" Cody just hung his head down and shook his head, not saying a word, wise. He then turned to me. "How the fuck could you keep this from me?"

"Randy please, it's not Mickie's fault" Becky pleaded with him, but Randy didn't turn his sights away from me.

I avoided looking him in the eye, I just couldn't stand the look he was giving me. "Just calm down, let them get dressed" I put my hand on his chest.

"I really like her man" Cody spoke up for the first time. Randy titled his head to the side, not saying anything for a moment, but then he just, laughed. It was a sarcastic kind of laugh and the next thing I knew, he had lunged at Cody. Becky was yelling for him to get off, she was shoving at Randy, I too tried to help. I tugged on Randy's arm, but he just pushed me away, I kept trying, I wouldn't stop. His fists just kept piling on top of Cody, who wasn't doing his best to defend him self, almost as if he thought he deserved it all. I tugged on Randy again, this time I used all my strength, I saw his hand titled side ways and it seemed to be coming towards me, the next thing I knew, I was sent not flying, but falling from a sharp pain. I landed with a thud, my hand instantly went to my cheek. Ow.

As the pain hit me, all the sound of Becky's screaming, Randy's punches and Cody's squirming deceased and they were all starring at me. Becky, a guilty look, Cody, just in shock and Randy, guilty and shocked. He starred down at his own hand. He slowly bent down to my level and shakily placed his hand where the stinging was. I didn't wince at his touch, I know he didn't mean to hurt me, I know it was an accident and I could see how horrified he was at his own actions. "Shit Mickie" His voice trembling, breaking slightly. He fell down in front of me and just starred at my cheek. "I'm so…I'm so sorry, I don't know…what came over me" His words were spoken slow and spread out. "I can't believe I just, it was an accident, I didn't mean to hurt you, I wasn't thinking I…" My eyes flicked over to Cody and Becky who had now had some clothes on. "Please say something" My eyes flickered back to him. "Please tell me, we're ok? I love you" His voice was getting weaker, his eyes looked as if he was trying not to cry, he was that shocked that he had hit me.

"It's ok, we're ok" I tried to make my voice sound as normal as I could. I was no longer in pain, just shocked, I wasn't angry at him, far from it. The anger from his face was no longer visible, he just looked distraught, he just stayed next to me, starring.

"We're going to go outside, when he is ready to talk" Becky told me softly, I just nodded. I looked back at Randy, he just leaned his head back against the wall, his hand on my thigh, stroking it softly with his thumb, Becky closed the door.

"I'm sorry" I said to him.

"Your sorry?" He asked. "Mickie, I just hit you, if anyone should be saying sorry it's…"

"I know I should of told you, but…"

"I don't care about that right now"

"Really?"

"Well I do, but this, this is more important to me" He pulled me closer to him. "I swore that I would never lay a hand on a woman like that"

"You had no problem at Bragging Rights" I joked. "But I guess that's different"

"Yeah" He chuckled slightly. "And more importantly I swore I would never lay a finger on you, I'm no better then John"

"Are you kidding me? Randy, it was an accident, I know that, I have no reason to be scared or compare you to John, John wanted to hurt me, it's what he set out to do" I told him as I wrapped my arms around him. "Don't you dare compare yourself to him"

"All I wanted to do was protect you and Becky and I couldn't even do that"

"You need to stop being so hard on yourself" I said shifting my eyes to where Cody and Becky once were. "Becky doesn't need protecting, if she did, I would of told you about her and Cody a while ago, she was safe, she was happy and she knew what was she was doing" He just sighed.

"Why didn't she tell me?"

"Err, why do you think?" I scoffed in a jokily tone. "She's a big girl Randy and I am too, we don't need you to be there for us 24/7, we need to make our own mistakes"

"He is suppose to be one of my best friends, how could he do that?"

"It wasn't his fault, he kind of just happened, like you and me I guess"

"I don't know if I'm ever going to be ok with this"

"Why? Cody is a great guy, sure he isn't perfect, but he makes her happy, isn't that all that matters?"

"I love you Mickie, I don't know what I would do without you" He mumbled into my hair and yawned, because of him I yawned too and slowly I felt our bodies moving to warns the ground so we were laying down and he just held me, tightly, like he never wanted to let go.

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