My Big Fat Fake Wedding

Everything, scenes, character names and song lyrics from Moulin Rouge does not belong to me. All rights go to their respectful owners.
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After searching through my suitcase for a date outfit, Casey pulls out a dress and goes into the bathroom.

"You know, it's nice of you to let her wear some of your clothes." Cody smiles at me.

"It's the least I can do." I shrug. A few minutes pass and Casey walks out in a strapless cocktail dress.

"Well?" She grins as she turns in a circle. "What do you guys think?"

At the exact same time I say "Cute!" while Cody says "No."

He looks at me. "Cute?"

"I believe that's what I said." I reply. "Why?"

"Come on. That is way too grown up for her."

"Cody...she's 19."

"Exactly! 19 not 26 like you." He shoots back. "Would you let our daughter go out like that?"

"She's a mature adult, Cody! So yes I would!"

"But look how short that hemline is. That's way too short for our daughter."

"I don't really know what you're implying with all this daughter stuff but fine!" I turn back to Casey. "Sorry Case. Go change into something more age appropriate. It's not 'daddy approved'." I say complete with air quotes before smirking at Cody.

"Okay..." Casey says turning towards the bathroom. She fishes something out of her bag and walks back into the bathroom.

"Our daughter? Seriously?" I ask. "What is that about?"

"I was just using it as an example."

"Uh huh..." I reply unconvinced. "You know this is a FAKE engagement. We're not having kids."

He stayed silent so I assumed that I won. "I have to go change." I mumble before grabbing my dress and walking into the bathroom.

As soon as we were both fully dressed I turned to look at my cousin. "Ready?"

She took a deep breath before answering. "I'm so nervous!"

"Don't be." I reassured her. "This is Zack we're talking about here. "Nothing to be nervous about."
"Easy for you to say. You're around him all the time. I'm not."
She had a point there. I held up one finger before walking over to the door and peering out. Zack was here sitting on the bed with Cody waiting. Both men looked at me and I pointed at Cody. "You. Come here for a sec."

He stands up and walks over to me. "What?"
I open the door a little so he could look in. "I need your daddy approval before I let her out." I smirk. He rolls his eyes but looks in. "Perfect." He smiles. "Much better."

Casey smiles and he backs away a little, giving me a look before going back over to Zack. I turn back to Casey and smile. "There. Your outfit is daddy approved. Ready?"
She takes another deep breath before nodding.

We step out of the bathroom and Zack's eyes widen a little. "Wow."

She frowns a little. "What? Do I look okay?"

"You look amazing." He smiles. She blushes but smiles back.

"You look beautiful." Cody whispers in my ear.

"You're pushing it." I whisper back. He looks away discouraged and I feel a little bad.

We head out to Zack's rental and I walk with Zack while Casey and Cody are talking in hushed tones in front of us.

"It was really nice of you to ask my cousin out , Zack." I say.

"She's a great girl." He smiles. "I'm just glad that you said yes to let me take her out."

"No problem…but Zack?"

"Yeah?"

"Casey is like my sister. If you break her heart, I'll break your face. Love ya but family comes first. Got that?"

He visibly swallow, giving a small nod.

"Good!" I smile giving him a pat on the shoulder as we reach his car. "Enjoy your date!"

He just stands there for a moment while everyone waits for him to unlock the car. "Zack." Cody says getting his attention. "Unlock the doors?"

"Oh, right!" He says hitting the button on his keys before getting in.

We go to this little dinner and dancing place. As soon as we finish eating, Casey and I go to the ladies room to freshen up a little leaving the guys to talk.

"So Zack, how's the date so far?" Cody asks.

"It's going great, bro! Casey is really great!"

"That's good." Cody nods. "Now, not saying you would but if you hurt Casey, I'll come after you."

Zack's grin faltered.

"I'm serious. She's like a little sister to me and if you hurt her, you'll deal with me. Okay?"

Zack nods. Cody is about to say something when Casey and I come back.

As the music starts to play, Zack nudges Cody. "Hey Bro, ask Charity to dance." he whispers. He looks over at me and Casey leans over.

"Do it Cody." She smiles. "It'll give you another chance to talk and get close to her."

At that moment, Zack looks at Casey and smiles. "Would you like to dance?" he asks her. She nods excitedly before standing up. "I'll be back." she tells me.

"Alright. Have fun." I smile. she nods and looks at Cody.

"Go for it." She mouths. Zack nods before they walk out to the dance floor.

"Hey." He starts to say. I look over at him and raise an eyebrow. Smirking he holds out his hand. "Come on. Let's go dance."

"No thanks. I'm good."

Leaning towards my ear, he grabs my hand. "That wasn't a question." He whispers before pulling away with his smirk still intact.

Chuckling, I Stand up and let him lead me to the dance floor. Immediately puts a hand around my waist, pulling me close. We wove in sync with each other until he turns me around. I turn and as I face him, he replaces his hand on my waist.

"You know Codes.. if I didn't know better, I'd say you were trying to romance me." I say looking him in the eye. He quickly spins me around and grabs my other hand so that my back is to him and he leans in next to my ear.

"Am I transparent?" He whispers. I turn my head to look at him and smirk.

"Just a little."

He lets one of my hands go and spins me back around to face him. "Damn, I thought I was steathy as a ninja."

I chuckle a little making him smile. I move my hand from his arm to his shoulder and pulled him a little closer. "You'll have to try harder than that." I whisper.

I pull away so that he can spin me around. He swings me out and pulls me back in. "What am I doing wrong?" He asks.

"You're way too predictable." I laugh.

"I am?

"Yes."

He swings me out again and before pulling me in, he spins me around and dips me right as the song ends.

"How was that?" He smiles. It takes me a moment to respond as he caught me off guard.

"That was..." I start to say taking a breath before smiling a little. "Unpredictable."

He stands me back up and we just stand there together for a moment smiling at each other before I quickly pull away.

December 14th, 2011

Today is Casey's last day on the road before she goes home tomorrow. Since we didn't have any media or house shows to do, Cody offered for us to hang out at his place and just drop Casey off in the morning.

Weirdly in the last five years, I had never actually been to Cody's place. I never needed to go . Now here we were at this house that I was completely in awe.

"Well…home sweet home." Cody smiles as he pulls into his driveway. As soon as he parks, we all hop out to grab our stuff.

"Ah…the Playboy Mansion! I always wondered what it look like." I joke earning a look from Cody.

"Ha Ha, very funny."

I give him a smirk before grabbing some backs from the backseat.

The inside of his house is absolutely gorgeous and not at all what I expected. Everything was clean and very modern looking. He showed us where to put our bags and gave us a mini tour in which he only showed places that were necessary like the bathroom and kitchen.

"Wow…" Casey breathed when he showed us his kitchen. "This is amazing! We should have a bake-off!"

"Um, Case? What about dinner? It's already getting late." I say pointing out the window. Since we spent most of the day driving, the sun was already setting.

"Don't worry about it." Cody said. "We'll just order some food and have it delivered."

"Sweet!" Casey smiles.

"Alright, how is this bake off happening?" I ask.

"Well… I'll find you each a recipe and then you both bake and in the end, I'll judge who's better."

"Well that's an obvious one." Cody says. "It's me. Charity can't bake to save her life."

Casey laughs as I punch him in the arm "Jerk."

He chuckles before turning to Casey. "But anyways, I have a computer in my study you can you to find the recipes. We'll print them off so we know the ingredients we'll need."

Cody shows her where his study is and I take a moment to relax. Cody walks back a moment later alone and I raise an eyebrow at him.

"She's looking for recipes for us." He answers. I nod as he walks toward me. "Come on… you know I was just kidding about the baking thing." He says softly. "I didn't mean it."

"Yeah but it's true." I chuckle. "I suck at baking."

He looks into my eyes for a moment as if to read me before breaking into a smile. It didn't take long until Casey came back grinning with two papers in her hand. "Okay you two. Like we've seen on that Iron Chef show back at the hotel, your two secret ingredients are….Chocolate and Peanut butter!"

Cody and I look at each other with a grin. "Oh Yeah, I know that I'll DEFINITELY win this one." He brags.

"Yeah we'll see about that."

Casey hands us our recipes and we quickly scan the ingredients. I was given the recipe for Peanut butter Bars. Peeking over at Cody's he got Peanut Butter pie.

"Looks like we'll have to go shopping." Cody says, looking up from his list. "I don't have a lot of things on my list—" He glances at my list. "Or yours."

"Okay so we'll go get our ingredients and then come back and start." I reply.

"Alright. Casey, do you wanna come with us or stay here?" Cody asks.

"Going!" She smiles.

I fold up my list and up it in the pocket of my jeans and handed Cody his keys from the counter. Cody put his list in his pocket as well before we headed to his truck.

At Wal-Mart, we agreed to split up to get our ingredients before meeting up near the cash registers to check out. Weirdly, Casey insisted on helping Cody so I went off alone. Just seconds after we had separated, my phone rang. I hit the send button and pressed it to my ear. "Hello?"

"Hey beautiful."

Hearing Ted's voice, I couldn't help but smile. "Hey Ted. How are you?"

I read the signs hanging above the aisles to find my first ingredient.

"I'm doing good. Little lonely without you here."

"I know… Today is Casey's last day with us before she goes back home. I can't just leave while she's here. Sha—" I started to say before catching myself. "Er…I mean, her dad would kill me."

"I know…." He replies. I can hear the sadness in his tone. Neither of us speak for a few moments until he finally does. "So anyways, what are you up to?"

"Shopping for ingredients." I chuckle as I scan the little shelf in front of me.

"Shopping for ingredients?"

"Yeah. Casey wants Cody and I to have a bake off with her as the judge. She picked out two recipes based on the two secret ingredients she picked and we have to see whose is better."

"How fun." He chuckles. "What are the two secret ingredients?"

"Chocolate and peanut butter."

"Oh! Cody should be an expert at that since he eats Reese's a lot." He says.

"Hey!" I laugh. "What about me? I eat Reese's too."

I find a bag of semisweet chocolate chips and put it in my little basket before moving onto my next item.

"Depends on what your recipe is." He chuckles.

"I have peanut butter bars."

"What is Cody's?"

"peanut butter pie."

"Seems like you both have pretty easy recipes. Should be an interesting bake off."

I agree and change the to a non-Cody related subject. Meanwhile, Casey and Cody were off in the craft section.

"Why are we looking for crafts?" Cody asks after a while. "The grocery area is on the other side of the store."

"For aprons, silly." She smiled.

"Aprons for what?"

"If you and charity are going to be Iron chefs, you need to look the part therefore you'll each get an apron with your last name on it. You'll be Iron chef Runnels and Charity will be…"

"Iron Chef Evans. I know." Cody grins. "Sounds good."

Cody grabs two black aprons while a bottle of fabric paint.

"So I saw how you and Charity were together last night." Casey grinned. "Smiling at each other and laughing…Looks like the dancing idea went well."

Cody smiled at the memory. "Yeah it did. Thank you for that."

"It was Zack's idea." She shrugs.

"Wait… does he know—"

"That the engagement is a sham? No. He just noticed how distant she acts around you."

"I don't know what to do. Every time I try to make any kind of move She's start giving in then pushes me away." Cody frowns.

"Have you told her you love her?" Falling silent he looks away. "Well have you?"

"Kind of."

"What do you mean 'Kind of'?"

"I did once when she was drunk. It was that night she confessed being your dad's niece."

"And?" she urges.

"And…I've tried a few times before but I always get interrupted."

"By what?"

"Other people or her."

She nods for moment before turning to him. She grabs his shoulders. "Cody…You need to get her alone."

"I can try…"

"Try tonight! We'll buy or rent a movie to watch while we eat the desserts you guys make tonight."

Cody agrees and they split up. Casey goes to grab the movie while Cody heads over to the grocery section to by the ingredients on his list.

I stood in the sugar aisle just staring at the long shelf full of all types of sugar. I glanced at my list for bout the 18th time in the last few minutes. Why did it matter what type of sugar is used? Don't they all just taste the same? While I argued over this in my mind, I jumped when I felt somebody barely graze my arm.

"You are so going down." Cody whispered before smirking.

"What makes you think that?"

"Well for one… the confectioner's sugar you're supposed to be looking for is right in front of you." He says grabbing a little package from the shelf.

"What's the difference? They all taste the same!"

"Not really. They all have a slightly different taste and—"

I wave him off. "Yeah, yeah…whatever Cody Crocker."

"Cody Crocker?"

"Do you prefer Betty Crocker? I can call you Betty."

"I'm good." He chuckles. I grab myself a package of confectioner's sugar and look at him. Seeing Casey not with him, my heart started racing.

"Cody….Where's Casey?"

"Calm down. She's picking out a movie to watch tonight. I tld her I'd come grab the ingreients."

I nod as I let myself calm down. Looking in his little basket, I see two black packages and a bottle of paint. "What's that?" I ask motioning to his basket.

He looks down and smiles. "Our aprons."

I raise an eyebrow at him. "Aprons?"

"Yes. Casey said we can't be Iron Chefs without aprons."

"And what's the paint for?"

"For our names. I'm Iron Chef Runnels and you're Iron Chef Evans." He smirks.

"Okay then…" I started to relax when I finally saw Casey as she started walking down the aisle towards us.

"Find one?" Cody asks.

"Yep!" She smiles before holding it up. I quickly glance at the title.

"Moulin Rouge?" I ask. "What's that about?"

"Not really sure. I've heard how good it is but never actually seen it before." She shrugs. "All I know is that it's a romance/drama." She nudges Cody a little.

"Okay. As long as it's okay with Cody…"

"It's fine with me." He smiles. We finish up our shopping and check out before heading back to Cody's house. While Cody and I divide up our ingredients onto two separate counters and gathered the required equipment like bowls, measuring cups and so on. While we did this, Casey worked on putting our names on our aprons. She finished mine first and hands it to me.

"Hey Case?" I say as I put it on. "Mind tying the back for me please?"

She glances at Cody. "Cody… would you mind helping her really quick? I need to make yours still."

"Sure." He shrugs. She turns way before disappearing into the living room. I turn around and wait as he ties the back.

"Thanks Cody."

"No problem." He smiles. "I just hope you're ready to lose."

I turn around to face that cocky grin of his. "Oh really? And what makes you think that I'll lose? I'm probably win."

"Probably? Sounds like you're a little sure of yourself."

"No. I WILL win. Just watch."

He smirks a little at my response just as Casey comes back with his apron. "Here you go Chef Runnels!" She smiles as she puts it over his head. She helped him tie his apron and then turned so we could both look at her.

"Okay you two…" She says with a smile. "Tonight you will be facing off in a bake off to see who is the best baker." She pauses for a dramatic effect before telling us to bake. She leaves us to bake while she goes to watch TV.

Grabbing my one of the medium bowls mixed in 1 cup of melted margarine, 2 cups of graham cracker crumbs, two cups of confectioners' sugar and 1 cup of peanut butter.

Since Cody called the mixer when we were setting up, I had to mix everything the old fashioned way.

Cody scanned his recipe once before putting 1 package of softened cream cheese , a half cup of confectioners' sugar and a half cup of creamy peanut butter into his mixing bowl and hitting the button.

While he waited for that to become smooth, he stole a quick glance at Charity. She was busy mixing the first part of her recipe and looking frustrated. He couldn't help but chuckle a little. Hearing him she looked over at him.
"What's so funny?"

"Nothing." He smirks. "You just look a little frustrated."

She scowls. "Yeah, no thanks to you."

"Me?"

"Yeah. You called the electric mixer so I have to do it the old fashioned way."

"Oh come on. I'm sure it's not that bad."

She holds out the bowl with a few lumps in it. "Not that bad? Seriously?"

Cody scrunches up his nose mockingly. "Oh god…that is terrible." He breaks into a grin as she lightly taps him with her foot.

"At least I'm trying." She chuckles.

"Okay," Cody laughs. "It's not THAT terrible but it doesn't look very appetizing."

"Ha Ha very funny. Get back to your recipe, Chef Runnels." She turns away to her own bowl and continues to mix the contents in her bowl. He wasn't sure, but he thought he saw her blush a little bit before she turned away….

I quickly turned away as I felt the heat rise to my cheeks. Was I seriously blushing because of Cody? I tried to push all thoughts of Cody out of my mind as I went back to my mixture. It was all lumpy so I tried to break up the little chucks; mixing a little here and there. Finally it became smooth. I grabbed my 9 by 13 inch ungreased pan and pulled it near me before glancing at my recipe again.

Scooping out the mixture into the pan and tried my best to even it all out. It turned out to be a lot harder than you'd think.

After I was satisfied with my somewhat even spread, I set it aside to work on the next part.

After folding ½ a container of thawed frozen whipped topping in to his mixture, Cody spooned the contents into his prepared graham cracker crust. He takes a moment to evenly spread it around before placing the remaining whipped topping over the peanut butter mixture

Next to opens the bag of miniature Reese's peanut butter cups and measures out about a cup and starts unwrapping the candies.

"So how's it going so far?" He calls over to his opponent. She leans against the counter next to the stove. where there's a double boiler over a medium flame.

"It's going." She honestly replied. "How about you?"

Smiling he grabs two candies from his bag and walks over, handing her one. "Almost done. I just have to add the garnish and refrigerate. He popped his candy in his mouth and grins.

Slowly unwrapping the candy she put it in her mouth. "You just got lucky. That's all." She turns away to stir her melting chocolate chip in the double boiler.

"Hey…" he frowns as he walks over to her. "Hey.. I wasn't trying to brag."

"I know…I meant you just got lucky with having such an easy recipe." She replies not looking at him. "You better finish up your dessert and get it refrigerated."

Cody opens his mouth to speak but decides not to say anything and walks back over to his area. He takes out his cutting board and a knife before putting his unwrapped Reese's on it and starts chopping them up. As soon as he has them the size he wants he sprinkles them over the top of the pie and puts it in the fridge.

"Is there anything you need help with?" He asks.

"No but we still need to come up with something for the winner and loser."

"Right….and what did you have in mind?"

"How about loser does all the dishes for tonight?" She asks, stirring some peanut butter into her now melted chocolate.

"Alright." He grins. "And the winner gets to choose where the loser sleeps tonight."

Glancing at him, she smirks. "You're on."

They shake hands and she goes back to her mixture while Cody pulls out his phone. "Well then, while you finish up, I'll order dinner." He walks away towards the living as he dials the Chinese restaurant's number. "Hey Casey!" He calls.

Casey looks over the side of the couch. "Yes?"

"Do you eat Chinese food?"

"Yes!" She smiles. "Love it!"

As soon as my peanut butter and chocolate are blended together, I shut off the flame and lift it off the burner. I bring it over to my already made crust and pour it on top before putting the now empty pan in the sink. I even out the chocolate/peanut butter topping until I'm satisfied then put into the fridge.

"There." I say to myself. After cleaning up my little area I joined the other two in the living room.

Our food came and we ate while watching the Moulin Rouge. I sat on one side of the small three seat couch while Cody sat on the other with Casey in the middle. About 30 minutes in, she moved and sat on the floor right in front of her seat leaving this small space between Cody and I.

Now it was at the part where Satine, the courtesan , tells Christian they have to end their secret relationship after she didn't show up the night before due to her illness. That same night she was supposed to have dinner with the evil Duke.

Christian is at his typewriter and stops typing as a silence looms in the air. Satine coughs and he looks up at her.

"Where were you last night?" Christian asks softly. His face showed the hurt he felt inside.

"I told you…" She replied looking off in the distance. "I was sick." She looked up at him with a small, yet sad smile. Christian rises from his typewriter and joins Satine on his bed.

"You don't have to lie to me." He says lightly. Sighing, she scoots over a little, turning her back to him. "We have to end it." She says softly. Christian looks downward an she continues. "Everyone knows… Sooner or later the Duke will find out too…"

Christian turns around on then bed so that his back his facing her as she looks at him. "On opening night…I have to sleep with the Duke." She says a little louder than a whisper. Christian's expression shows the pain he's feeling. "And the jealousy will drive you mad."
She gets up and walks over the window. Christian gets up as well , walks over to a different window, walks out of it, walks around the garret and walks through the window Satine is looking through to face her. "Christian…" She starts before trailing off.

"Then I'll write a song!" He says cupping her face. "And we'll put it in the show, and no matter how bad things get or whatever happens, whenever you hear it or when you sing it…" He says between kisses. "or whistle it or hum it, then you'll know it'll mean. It'll mean we love one another." He kisses her again. "I won't get jealous."

She pulls away from him to look him in the eye. "Things don't work that way, Christian. We have to end it." She walks out of the window to go stand on the edge of the balcony.

It's amazing how many similarities there are between the movie and my life. From the corner of my eye, I can see how Cody glances at me every so often. Is Casey secretly trying to tell me something? Is Cody my Christian while Ted is the Duke?

Leaning back in my seat, I rest my hand on the vacant seat between us.

Getting an idea for a song, Christian starts singing…

"Never knew…I could feel like this. Like I've never seen the sky, before. Want to vanish inside your kiss…"

Again Cody glances at me but instead of looking away, his gaze stays trained on me.

I look down at my hands as if they suddenly became interesting. The scene now switches back an forth between the singing and the later play rehearsal.

The Duke, Satine, Christian and all the rest of the people are in the room rehearsing.

"Now, uh, this is new scene is the scene where the, uh, sitar player writes a secret song for the courtesan so that whatever is happening, however bad things are, th-they remember their love, and um—We could take it from your line, Satine. So let's take it—"

To the Argentinean who's playing the penniless sitar player, Satine rehearses her lines. "We must be careful…"

"fear not! We will conduct our love affair right under the maharajah…" The Argentinean replies.

It switches back Christian singing to Satine in his little room. "Seasons may change….winter to spring…"

During rehearsal the Argentinean, who suffers from a disease called narcolepsy, passes out. "Honesty, amigo! This is impossible!" Harold Zidler complains.

"But I will love you…..Until the end of time…." Christian sings. Again it switches back to Christian singing to Satine on his balcony.

I saw how Cody slowly inched his hand over to mine before placing it on mine. I looked over at him and he gave me a small.

"Come what May….Come what May….I will love you…until my dying day!" Christian sings.

Never taking our eyes off one another, we lean in towards each other until I remember how Casey is right in front of us and pull away. I cross my arms across my chest as a blush rises to my cheeks. Feeling Cody still looking at me, I came up with an excuse to leave the room.

"Um….I think we should pause the movie and judge our desserts…."I say, not looking at Cody. Casey pauses the movie and looks at me.

"That's right! I almost forgot! Let's go." She grins jumping up. Cody and I get up also and follow her into the kitchen and grab our desserts from the fridge and put a slice/square on a plate for her to try. While she tries each out Cody leans toward me.

"I'm sorry…" He whispers. I look at him.

"For what?"

"Making you uncomfortable during the movie. I saw you blushing when you pulled away and I'm sorry."

Just having him point out that I was blushing made me blush. "It's fine." I say quickly. "Don't worry about it."

As Cody opened his mouth to say something, Casey was just finishing up the last little slice. "Oh my god…those were both amazing!"

"And now the moment of truth." Cody smiled. "And no being biased of your cousin either."

"No. Please be biased." I chuckle.

"Okay, okay you two." She giggles. "The winner of the challenge is….."

We waited on baited breath as Casey paused for dramatic effect.

"Cody!" She smiles.

"Damn…" I mutter while Cody smirks.

"Thank you Casey. I'm glad you enjoyed it."

"No problem! Now as fun as this is, I really want to get back to the movie." She runs back into the living room, leaving just Cody and I alone.

"Okay, I'm curious to see how you did." Cody says as he cuts himself a slice of my peanut butter bars then cuts a small slice of his pie and puts it on a plate. "We'll try each other's."

I shrug and grab a fork and eat a piece. "Oh my god…." I mutter.

"What?"

"I hate you sooooo much right now."

"Why?" He chuckles.

"Because this tastes like fucking heaven."

Laughing he takes a bite of my dessert. "Wow. That is really good!" He says taking another big bite. "This tastes just like Reese's!"

I smile a little as I finish up my slice. "Thank you. I'm glad you like them."

"No, I LOVE them." He smiles back. We finish up an put our dishes in the sink for me to do before bed.

"Well I'll let you finish the movie and I'll start washing the dishes."

"You don't have t do them right now." He frowns.

"It's okay. I lost so I have to do dishes and I wanna get them done before bed. "

He gives me an unsure look. "Are you sure? Do you want some help?"

"No thanks. I Got it." I smile reassuringly. He slowly walks back to the living room and I get to work.

I finished up right near the ending and sat down in my spot to watch the end.

"Is she asleep?" Cody asked as the end credits started to roll. I leaned forward and nodded.

"Yeah, she's passed out."

"Okay." Moving the blanket laid across our laps, he walked over to her and lifted her up.

"What are you doing?" I whispered.

He laid her down on the other couch, putting one of the pillows under her head and taking the blanket from me before draping it over her. After making sure she was taken care of he held his hand out to help me up. I let him and waited as he shut off everything before motioning for him to follow him. "Come on, I'll show you where you can sleep."

Shrugging, I followed him down the hall into a bedroom. "Oh, is this your spare bedroom?" I asked looking around. There was one big bed in the room and a huge dresser nearby. Another door on the other side of the room led into what I assumed was the bathroom.

"No." Looking at him, I watched as he stripped off his shirt and threw it into the nearby laundry basket before turning back to me. "My house only has one bedroom." He replied.

"Oh...okay, so this is your bedroom..."

"Yep."

I looked away from Cody at the wall and started to slowly walk backwards when the back of my legs hit the bed and I fell back onto it. I looked up at Cody who luckily wasn't paying attention but undoing his pants. He looked at me and raised an eyebrow.

"I'm gonna be sleeping in your bedroom...with you?" I ask sitting up.

He nodded as he sat on the bed next to me.

"In the bed with you?"

"Yeah. I know, it's a dream come true for you isn't it?" He grinned. Laughing, I whacked him jokingly on the chest. He whacked me back so that we were going back and forth until he tackled me so that I was pinned down.

"That's cheating!" I laughed. "How can I whack you if you have me pinned?"

"That's the point." He smiled. He looked into my eyes for a moment before leaning down and pressing his lips against mine. As the kiss deepened we inched our way back to the head of the bed so my head was resting on the pillows. We kissed for a while and then I felt Cody start to fumble with the button the front of my jeans. I pulled away and he continued to kiss down along my jawline down to my neck.

"Cody." I whispered

"Hm?" He asked not bothering to stop.

I closed my eyes tightly. This was as good as a time as ever. "You remember Shawn's niece? The girl you had a crush on?"

He stopped for a moment. "Yeah?"

"It's me... I'm Shawn's niece..."

I waited for a few minutes until a heard a small chuckle near my neck. Smiling, he brought his face back towards mine. "I know. I've known for a while."

I laid there in shock as he continued to work on my neck.

"How long have you known?"

"Not long." He mumbled. "Maybe a week."

As he continued to kiss down my neck to where my neck and my shoulder connected, he had already unbuttoned my pants and unzipped them. He ran his hand over my lower right abdomen to my side.

"Cody..."

He raised his head towards mine and moved a piece of hair that fell away from my face and caressed my cheek with his thumb as he cupped my face. He looked in my eyes for a few moments before going in for another kiss but I stopped him. He looked into my eyes once more and gave me a puzzled look.

"Casey is nearby..."

"It's okay. She's asleep, she'll be fine." He smiled before going in to kiss me again only to be stopped again.

"Codes...I can't do this. You're my friend... I know this might feel right, but it's wrong." I moved away from under him and sat on the side of the bed with my feet dangling off to the side. What the hell was I doing? Cody's my friend and I have Ted!

I could feel Cody crawling over to me and hugged me from behind. "I'm sorry..." He whispered. "I've just been waiting for this to happen between us for a long time...5 years to be honest..."

"...What?" I asked turning to look at him.

"I've liked you since we first started hanging out 5 years ago. You were my first friend in this business... But you left me in the friend zone..."

I could feel anger start to bubble up inside me. "What do you mean I left you in the friend zone?" My voice started to rise but I quickly lowered it in fear of waking Casey. Standing up I turned to face him. He kneeled there on the end and tried to pull me closer. "Calm down..."

"No!" I exclaimed pulling away. "I liked you and was too nervous to make a move. I thought you weren't interested since you never made a move."

"I was nervous too! I waited for an opportunity to make a move but then I thought what was the point? You were too good for me anyways!" He said looking me right in the eye. I stepped back as he got off the bed and walked toward me. "I gave up because I didn't think you'd want somebody like me...and I was wrong."

Crossing my arms over my chest I glared at him. "So where does the sleeping around come in? To make me jealous or something?"

"No. Believe it or not, guys have self-esteem issues too and sleeping around was my way of building mine up."

"Oh really?" I spat.

"Yeah, besides no matter how many women I slept with, none of them compare to you. What I said about wanting you to be my last, I was dead serious. I lo-"

I held up my hand as I looked away from him. "Save it, Cody..."

"Charity..." He said taking a step toward me.

"Casey and I will be out of here in the morning. Good night, Cody."

And with that I turned and left the room before he could say something. As I got back to the living room, thankfully Casey was still fast asleep. I rebuttoned my pants and zipped them up before putting my sweatshirt on and curled up on floor. After sending Ted a quick text I fell into a troubled sleep.