Chapter 2
Present Day
Not a day went by that Cody didn't think of his missing wife. He tried to find her, but the girlfriend that had helped her move out wasn't saying anything about where she had went. He tried asking nicely, he tried pleading, he tried threatening her; but Michelle wouldn't say anything about the whereabouts of Jenna. He eventually gave up hope that she was ever coming back. He didn't know how else to try and find her, he sure as hell wasn't going to call her parents and ask if she was there; they probably wouldn't have told him anything anyways. He was also pretty sure that they were still pretty peeved that he had run off and married their daughter. Cody hoped that she would eventually find her way back home and into his arms once again.
She, on the other hand, managed to forget all about him. She had completely blocked out the fact that she was still legally a married woman. Jenna made it up to Minnesota and enrolled in the University of Minnesota and majored in Journalism. She aspired to be a writer. Writing gave her a way to escape her past and focus on something other than what a mess she had made of her young life.
It had been four years before she finally got the nerve to call her parents and apologize for her irrational behavior with Cody. She told them almost everything; she couldn't bring herself to tell her mom and dad about the baby they had lost. To this day, no one knew about the baby but her and Cody and she intended on keeping it that way. The relationship with her parents got better, they forgave her, but it still felt like it was strained, so she kept her distance and stayed in Minnesota.
Four years after she left him, Cody decided to try dating again. The problem was that no girl could catch his eye the same way Jenna had. They had been high school sweethearts and then husband and wife; and before they were high school sweethearts, he would tease her and make her cry in junior high just because it gave him a chance to interact with her. It might have been cruel, he thought, thinking about it now, but that's just how junior high boys are. That summer between junior high and high school was when everything changed for the couple. From the 10th grade and on, they were inseparable.
When Cody joined up with Ted DiBiase and Randy Orton in Legacy, there were plenty of opportunities for him to find a woman to have fun with, but he never got serious about any of them; they served a purpose—to keep his bed warm at night until Jenna came back to him. In Cody's mind, she must have still cared for him somewhat, she hadn't sent divorce papers yet. If she ever did send them, though, he was going to refuse to sign them. They belonged together.
It's now eight years later. Cody is a superstar with the WWE and travels 300 days out of the year. He still calls Atlanta his home, even though he's hardly ever there. Jenna is a freelance writer who makes her home in a suburb of Minneapolis. Her work gives her the chance to travel the country. With all of the traveling they both do, it's a wonder they had never ran into each other in a random city.
While Cody might have trouble dating and moving on with his life, Jenna did not. At 25 years old, she had finally found a man who she thought she would be happy with for the rest of her life. His name was Andy and he was in marketing. They had met at a press conference two years ago, and things were starting to get serious. She couldn't bring herself to tell Andy that she was actually still legally married; she knew eventually that she was going to have to file the divorce papers, but kept putting it off.
Jenna had no idea where she was going to find Cody. She had heard that he had finished wrestling school and had signed on with the WWE, but other than that little piece of information, she hadn't thought too much about him. She took a chance and called the old apartment number; no surprise that it was disconnected. She took another chance and called his father. Virgil, better known as Dusty Rhodes, Virgil didn't care too much for her after Cody told him they had gotten married in the middle of the night and that they were leaving Marietta for Atlanta. He was actually rather civil to her and said that he was out on tour right now on the east coast and wasn't expected back home for a few more weeks. "I have some papers for Cody, do you think if I mailed them to you, you could give them to him the next time he's home?" she asked, swallowing her pride and hoping like hell Virgil would do this favor for her and not ask too many questions.
