Author's Note: Hey guys thanks to all of you that reviewed the first chapter. I really enjoy hearing what you think about my writing. I've been really busy but I made it a point to get you a update as soon as I was able to. So here it is I hope you enjoy.
Disclaimer: I don't own Vince, Leon, or Jesse. But the other's I do own.
Chapter 2
"I just don't want him getting sick again. Make sure he takes care of himself while were in here?" Sydney said looking back down at her food.
"What's wrong with him?" Leon asked worried about what was wrong with his boyfriend.
"Two things about Ryder is one he gets stressed out he gets really bad migraines he won't eat and if he eats he throws it back up. They'd get so bad that he'd get them twice a day. The other is Ryder was born with a heart murmur." Sydney said.
"What's a heart murmur?" Vince asked as he set his fork down.
"It's a hole in your heart." Leon said. "Right Syd." Leon said looking at his sister-in-law.
"Right Le it's good you know about it because when he gets even a cold it effects the heart murmur and hits him harder than a cold hits anyone of us." Sydney said rubbing her arm.
"And he's lived with it since he was born?" Vince asked again as he started understanding why his brother-in-law was so sick the month before.
"Yeah but he's used to it that's why he avoided you when you had that cold," Sydney said before Ryder came back into the room closing his phone.
"They're bringing a truck by and Le you and me have to go to the loft and load up the vehicles for them. I'm going to make the trip with the driver's to Gran's and then drive my truck back. We won't load Le's car and your truck and Gabby can drive it to Dallas." Ryder said checking the time on his phone.
"We need to take them to the Mud Bogs when they get to feeling better." Sydney said a shit eating grin on her face.
"What in the hell is the Mudbogs?" Vince asked looking at his wife.
"Besides races in Dallas there's a place where everybody hangs out and shows how tough their trucks are and that's one of the reason's I have my truck." Sydney said as Gabby came into the room.
"Hey me and Le are heading out to load the vehicles you three going to behave while I make the run to Dallas and back?" Ryder asked Vince, Sydney, and Gabby.
"Yes sir," both Gabby and Sydney said at the same time which got Leon laughing.
"Hey I can't go anywhere," Vince said motioning to his arm strapped to his chest covered in bandages. "So I won't be getting in trouble." he said.
"That's never stopped you before on getting in trouble." Leon said as they were leaving the room.
"You know he does have a point about you still getting into trouble when your injured," Sydney said.
"The same would go for you," Vince said returning her smirk with one of his own.
A week later:
"Finally were getting out of here," Vince said as Sydney helped him pull the shirt on over his head.
"Yeah and we got a long drive to Dallas," Sydney said helping him get his arm back into the brace and sling that the doctor had ordered him to wear.
"I just want to get out of L.A." Jesse said from where Gabby was helping him get dressed.
"Let's hope Leon and Ryder didn't break anything when they packed the stuff up." Sydney said as she tied Vince's boots.
"We didn't break anything. The guitar's and amps are in the back of my truck. Gabby is driving your truck and Jesse and the dogs are riding with her Leon's on his own in his Skyline and you two are with me." Ryder said coming into the room with Leon.
"She even puts a scratch on my truck, she's got a ass kicking coming from me." Sydney said looking at her little sister.
"I know. I know." Gabby said as she tied Jesse's shoes for him as the doctor came in.
"Okay your sign out papers are at the nurses station. After you finish that you can go." The doctor said filling out prescriptions for a strong pain medication for Vince and Jesse and a slight pain reliever for Sydney, so it won't harm the baby.
"You guys ready to go?" Ryder asked as he gathered up the duffel bags.
"Yes I'm ready to get out of here," Vince said standing up, he held his good arm against the stitched wound in his side cause it still hurt.
"Lean on me and it won't hurt as bad," Sydney said getting under his arm.
"Want help Jess?" Gabby asked as she got under his arm and they headed out of the hospital room. They went to the nurses station and signed their release forms and Sydney gave them the address to the hospital in Dallas, were they will get checkups and Vince will get his physical therapy so their medical files could get transferred there.
"Let's get out of here" Sydney said as they headed for the elevators to go down to the first floor. They finally made it outside where the three vehicles and two dogs were waiting. "Ryder I love your truck but it's a pain in the ass to get into." She said opening the front passenger side door of the four door Dodge truck.
"Hold on a second," Ryder said putting the duffel bags in the floorboard behind his seat. Then walked back around as Vine was climbing into the back seat. Ryder picked up Sydney and lifted her up into the truck setting her in the seat, "That better now?" he asked her as he pulled the seatbelt out for her.
"Yes thanks big brother," she said fastening the seatbelt as Ryder shut her and Vince's doors and then goes around and climbs into the driver's seat starting up the truck.
"I grabbed your cd case out of the music stuff we had packed it's in the the floor under the middle seat." Ryder said and reaching under the middle seat to pull out Sydney's cd case and hands it to her. "Here you go get your music playing." he said as she started flipping through the cd's.
"How about Nickleback?" she asked as she pulled the cd out of it's pocket and slipped it into the cd player and soon If Everyone Cared came out over the speakers.
From underneath the trees, we watch the sky
Confusing stars for satellites
I never dreamed that you'd be mine
But here we are, we're here tonight
Singing Amen, I, I'm alive
Singing Amen, I, I'm alive
[Chorus:]
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died
And I'm singing
Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive
Amen I, Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive
And in the air the fireflies
Our only light in paradise
We'll show the world they were wrong
And teach them all to sing along
Singing Amen, I, I'm alive
Singing Amen, I, I'm alive
(I'm alive)
[Chorus x2]
And as we lie beneath the stars
We realize how small we are
If they could love like you and me
Imagine what the world could be
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died
When nobody died...
[Chorus]
We'd see the day, we'd see the day
When nobody died
We'd see the day, we'd see the day
When nobody died
We'd see the day when nobody died
After the song ended Ryder looked over at Sydney and found her asleep against the door her head resting against a pillow he glanced back and found Vince sprawled out on the backseat asleep a pillow resting under his head as well. Ryder smiled as he picked up the cb mic. "Hey little sister how your passenger's doing back there?" he asked over the mic.
"Both the dogs and Jesse are fast asleep. What about your's?" Gabby asked him.
"There both out and all it took was one Nickleback song." Ryder said as they continued on the highway.
That evening around nine pm
"We need to stop there's no way I'm driving all night." Ryder said to Leon and Gabby over the cb as he began searching for a motel that had a vacancy sign. He glanced over and saw that Sydney was asleep again and he could hear Vince snoring in the back. Ryder fought back a yawn as he finally spotted a vacancy sign flashing in the distance. "Found a motel follow me." Ryder said as he pulled off the road and into the parking lot of the motel. He got out and headed into the office.
"Sir can I help you?" the woman at the desk asked him as she looked up from writing something down in some book.
"Yes ma'm I need three rooms for just tonight." Ryder said pulling his wallet out of his back pocket.
"Sorry sir but we only have two rooms available both have two queens in each room." the woman said and Ryder thought about it for a second.
"We''ll take the rooms and your sign said pets are allowed right?" he asked her as he pulled out his credit card.
"Yes but you have to pay a pet deposit per pet and list what breed your pet is." The woman said placing a form on the counter for Ryder to fill out. Ryder quickly filled out the form then paid for the deposit and the rooms with his credit card and the woman gave him two sets of keys. "Your rooms are 20 and 21 on the other side." she said with a smile as Ryder left the little bell ringing over the door.
"So what rooms do we got?" Leon asked as he got off his car where he had been siting waiting for Ryder to come back out.
"20 and 21 that's all they had left." Ryder said holding up a set of keys in his boyfriends face.
"Well put Jesse and Gabby in the room with Sydney and Vince and put the dogs with us." Leon said leaning up and giving Ryder a kiss then he took the keys from him.
"Let's go get the sleepy heads to bed." Ryder said going to his truck and climbed in starting it and pulled around the back of the motel where their rooms where. "Sydney, Vince wake up we're stopping for the night." he said waking them up, as he got out and grabbed the duffle bags out and went and unlocked the door to the room Vince, Sydney, Gabby, and Jesse were staying in.
"Where are we at?" Sydney asked as she helped Vince out of the truck.
"Tucson, Arizona." Ryder said as they came into the room. "Your rooming with Jesse and Gabby they only had two rooms left. Me and Le got the dogs in our room," Ryder said as Sydney set Vince on the bed.
"Gladly because they're going to be bouncing off the wall cause they have slept all day." Gabby said bringing her and Jesse's duffel bags in.
"As soon as my head hits the pillow I won't be waking up till I've at least had seven hours of sleep." Ryder said yawning as he leaned against the wall.
"Same here," Vince said falling back on the bed as Sydney was pulling his boots off.
"Were going to bed guys see you in the morning," Leon said dragging a half asleep Ryder out of the room and shut the door behind them. Leon unlocked the door to their room as Ryder got the dogs and locked up all the vehicles. Leon let the dogs into the room and Ryder came in carrying his duffel ba and closed the door.
"Damn it's been a rough day," Ryder said dropping his bag on the floor and sat down on the bed his fingers massaging his temples.
"Getting a headache baby?" Leon asked looking up from untying his shoes. He saw the stress lines on Ryder's face. He kicked his boots off and crawled up on the bed behind Ryder and sneaked his hand up the back of Ryder's shirts starting to massage the skin with his hands.
"Awww that feels good," Ryder said arching his back so Leon could make his way up his back to rub the sore tight muscles.
"Raise your arms," Leon said as he pushed the t-shirt up higher and Le pushed the shirt up and pulled it off over his head. Then he ran his hands over Ryder's shoulders and down his chest as Leon nipped at the back of Ryder's neck his hands then went up into Ryder's hair and Leon gently massaged his scalp. "That feeling any better?" Leon asked as he nipped at Ryder's ear.
"Much better the headache's gone," Ryder said as his eyes closed as Leon continued the massage therapy he was giving.
"Let's get you relaxed enough that you can get a good night sleep." Leon said rubbing Ryder's shoulder he leaned down and kissed each of the wings of the hawk wing tattoos that were on his back. "Let's get some sleep," he said climbing out from behind Ryder and quickly shedded his jeans and t shirt while Ryder pulled off his jeans. Ryder pulled the covers back and he climbed into the bed quickly followed by Leon who laid halfway on him. "Night baby," Le said snuggling into his shoulder.
"Night Le Le," Ryder said kissing the top of his head and pulled him tight against his side and closed his eyes and quickly fell asleep.
Author's note: hope you enjoyed the chapter I think I did pretty good on it since I was sick so I had plenty of time on my hand.