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Chapter 29
Her week off flew by, she spent as much time with her sisters and stepmother as possible. Angie had been very careful the day after she fell but was fine by the middle of their trip to the Zoo. Ryan had gotten her car fixed and was more careful whenever going out with her family, she didn't want to take any chances. She hadn't had any other mishaps while visiting Virginia but she wasn't holding her breath. It was Sunday night and she was on her flight to Sioux Falls, South Dakota for that Monday's Raw event.
She arrived in South Dakota late Sunday night and rented her car and ended up at the hotel very late it was close to midnight by the time she arrived. She checked in to her room and fell on to her bed, she wasn't tired, not even close.
Unzipping her suitcase, she changed in to some work out clothes and pulled on a pair of Nike Airs. She grabbed her key card and her ipod and walked out of her room and to the gym. She was going to take the stairs, but her paranoia got the best of her and she opted for the elevator.
She went down to the lobby and headed straight for the gym putting her hoodie over her head and plugging the earpieces to her ipod in to her ears. She stretched out her muscles a bit and climbed on to the treadmill that she was leaning against.
Turning her ipod up she began to walk, quickening her pace every few minutes. She was in a light jog as Randy's theme music began to play in her ears, a small smile crept on to her face just thinking of him. She couldn't wait to see him, let alone hug him.
She had come to realize over their time apart that no matter what they could work through their situations, together. Even if they were going through a hard time the one thing neither of them could do was run from it, they had done that and it just made the situation worse. She had talked to him several times since she was in Virginia but hadn't told him she was back in yet.
"And when my dear were you going to tell me you were here?" A voice came from behind her.
She couldn't hear a thing because of the loud volume her ipod was set on, the person behind her listened to her carefully, a smirk crossing his face.
"Hey! Nothing you can say…Nothings gonna change what you've done to me…HEY… now it's time to shine… I'm gonna take what's mine…."
She was singing quietly to his entrance music, he came up next to the treadmill not bothering her and continued listening to her sing, for not trying she didn't sound half bad.
"I gave and you take and I waited for you…but I made a mistake. It's clear that your fear is so near, because I see the look on your face. You tried to hold me under, I held my breath. Alone and now you wonder, what I possess."
She turned the speed down now, she was running at almost a full speed, slowing it down to a light jog she continued to jog and sing to herself. She had this awkward feeling in the pit of her stomach that she wasn't alone. She pulled her hoodie back and saw someone to her side and nearly fell off of the treadmill.
"You scared the ever living shit out of me…" She cried hoping off of the machine.
"I'm sorry," He laughed a bit looking her over. She was wearing a pair of form fitting cheerleader shorts that were obviously rolled up several times, and a black 'Chain Gang Soldier' hoodie. "You were just too cute singing my song…" He stated as he stuffed his hands in to the front pocket of his dark blue billabong hoodie, which brought out his blue eyes.
She just smiled at him and wrapped her arms around him tightly, not wanting to let go. Randy hugged her back and pulled her away placing a soft kiss on her lips.
"I missed you…" he mumbled hugging her again.
"I missed you too…" She stated holding his hoodie between her clenched fists.
They hugged for a few more seconds and Randy pulled her away, "So why aren't you reppin' the Legend Killer?" He asked plucking at her black hoodie as she turned off the treadmill and took a seat on a bench. Her muscles had tightened up from the quick halt in exercising.
"Because I'm totally with the Chain Gang leader now…" She stated in a ditsy voice as she massaged her calves and quads.
"You're so full of it… you like his merchandise better than mine…" Randy pouted a bit.
"He does have better merchandise…" She stated with a smirk.
"True, but once they let me get the title back… we'll be good…" He smirked back at her. "Here let me help…" he sat down taking her leg in his lap as he gingerly massaged from the top of her quad down to her ankle.
"That's right; it was your fault that I'm all cramped up…" She stated hitting him lightly in the arm.
"You were excited to see me though…" He stated rubbing her legs and smiling up at her, his blue eyes taking in hers.
"You are right my dear…" She nodded. She switched legs and he continued to massage them. "I'm glad we talked things out though…" She stated looking at him with a sheepish smile.
"Me too, it was driving me crazy…" Randy stated as he put her leg down and rubbed his hands together.
"You have no idea… you know I was thinking things over this week and came to the realization that we should be able to work out anything, you know by talking, because walking away from it just makes the situation worse…" She stated looking up at him as he stood up.
"Words of the wise…" Randy stated sticking out his hand to her; she gladly accepted it and he pulled her off of the bench. "Tired yet?" He inquired.
"A bit…" She stated shrugging.
"Well I'll walk you to your room, and if you're not tired then… I could think of a few things that could make you tired…" He commented in a naughty tone.
"Randall Keith…" She scolded in a playful tone.
"I meant we could watch some movies… talk… eat some food…" He stated covering for himself quickly while rolling his eyes.
"Suuuure…" She nodded her head in disbelief. "How 'bout you walk me to my room first?" She asked.
"It'd be my pleasure, mademoiselle." He stated holding the gym door open for her.
They small talked until they got up to her floor she took out her key card as they approached her door, she noticed that the door seemed to be open. Randy noticed this too as he pushed her behind him.
"Did you leave the door open?" He asked her.
"Not as far as I know, I'm pretty sure I shut it all the way before I went down…" She answered as Randy pushed the door open with the tip of his Nike sneaker.
"Stay back…" He stated as he entered the room cautiously looking as if he was on one of those Law & Order shows clearing the room before letting anyone else in to it. "Ryan…" He stated caught off guard.
Ryan rushed in to the room to find her suitcase had been trumped through, the entire room was dismantled. She couldn't believe her eyes entire hotel room was trashed; Randy pulled her to him as if trying to protect her from something, as if it were still in the room.
"Randy, how…" her question trailed off as Randy left her side and checked the bathroom finding nothing in there the entire mess was in the actual hotel room.
"Call the front desk; ask them how the hell someone got in your room, I'm calling the police…" Randy stated as he took out his cell phone.
Ryan grabbed the hotel phone and called the front desk; she informed them that someone broke in to her hotel room and that management needed to get there as soon as possible. Randy was on the phone with the police station letting them know exactly who he was and what had happened. He hung up moments later and he ushered Ryan out of the room and in to the hallway.
"Ryan?" She heard the authoritative voice of her father.
"Daddy!" She ran over to him and enveloped him in a hug, he had just stepped foot outside his door with an ice bucket.
"Ryan, what's going on?" Dave asked hugging her with his free arm and looking over at Randy who was pacing in basketball shorts and a blue hoodie.
"Someone broke in to her hotel room…" Randy answered for her.
"What?" Dave asked pulling his daughter away from him.
"Well my flight just got in like two hours ago, I got my things, rented a car and checked in at about 12 o'clock, I wasn't tired so I went down to the gym and Randy was there and when we came back we found the door open all my stuff is all over the place." Ryan explained.
"It looks like someone ransacked the place…" Randy stated as he eyed the half open door.
"Is anything missing?" Dave asked.
"I don't know I haven't had a chance to look yet…" She stated.
"The police should be here in the next ten minutes or so…" Randy stated.
"That quick?" Dave asked.
"I lit a fire under their asses…" Randy smirked with a shrug as he put his arms around Ryan.
"I'll wait here with you…" Dave stated as he leaned against the wall looking over at his daughter. "How was your time off?" He asked.
"Really good, I had a lot of fun with the girls, and with Ang…" She smiled.
"I heard, you did a lot while you were up there…" he stated.
"I tried to keep us busy…" She nodded.
"Ang told me you guys told Bella about him…" Dave stated as he wrung his hands out nervously. "Do you think that was a good idea?"
"She asked us dad, I wasn't going to lie to her…" Ryan stated. "I left out most of the terrible details and just gave her the short choppy version."
"Are you Mr. Orton?" A voice came from behind them.
"I'm Randy Orton…" Randy responded turning around to come face to face with two police officers.
"Mrs. Orton?" The cop asked looking at Ryan. Ryan opened her mouth, closed it and shook her head after hearing this.
"No, I'm sorry I'm Ryan Bautista…" She stated looking at the officer's her arms folded over her chest, "This is my father, Dave Bautista" He introduced.
"I'm Officer Sidle and this is Officer Green…can you tell us what happened here?" He asked taking out a pad and pen.
Ryan and Randy explained to the officers exactly what they did from the time she checked in to the hotel to when they got back to the room after hitting the gym. Dave let them know how he got in to the mix, and by 2 o'clock in the morning they let her take her things and leave the room that had been broken in to. She gave him Adam's name to make sure that it wasn't him, or if it was some coincidence.
The officer's tried to make her feel more at ease, saying that it was probably a coincidence and that her ex probably had nothing to do with it. After they left Ryan stood in the hallway with her luggage.
"You can stay with me, if you want…" Randy stated as he looked over at Dave who seemed to be a bit nervous.
"I'm not sure how dad would like that…" Ryan stated looking over at her father.
Dave looked at her a bit alarmed at first, "Uhm, its ok you two probably need to catch up or talk or something…" Dave stated a bit suspiciously.
Ryan looked at her father and raised an eyebrow, being too tired to function at the moment she just shook her head shrugging it off as lack of sleep, and went with Randy to his room. She arrived putting her things in his room; he pulled the covers back on the Queen sized bed and pulled his shirt off.
"I'm going to take a shower real quick, ok?" She asked him.
"That's cool…" He nodded smiling at her.
Ryan jumped in the shower quickly her stomach in knots after seeing what happened to her hotel room, knowing damn well that it was not a coincidence. She sighed washing her body off, her mind trickled to her father's reaction to Randy's suggestion. Never in a million years would her father; in his right mind, would he be ok with her sharing a room with Randy – he nearly had a conniption the night she stayed with him over Thanksgiving.
She climbed out of the shower wrapping the white terry cloth towel around her body, she dried herself off and looked in to the mirror, it was badly fogged up. Taking her hand she wiped the mirror clean and gazed in to it, she nearly had a heart attack when she saw those eyes staring back at her; she turned around quickly to see nothing behind her. She looked back in to the mirror and saw nothing.
Her heart was racing at about a million beats a second as she threw the bathroom door open and walked in to the hotel room. Randy looked up from the TV to see Ryan standing there with only a towel on, she looked as if she was about to cry. He jumped out of bed and walked over to her.
"Ryan? Ryan what's wrong?" He asked taking her hands in his.
"I'm going crazy. Randy, I am literally going crazy…" She stated looking up at him, pure terror written on her face.
"What's going on?" He asked her.
"After I was done taking a shower, I looked in to the mirror and I could have sworn to God that I saw him… staring back at me…." She stated looking up at him worried.
"You're just over tired that's all. You just need to get some rest…" Randy told her.
Ryan nodded her head with a sigh; she slipped on a pair of shorts and a large oversized 'The Animal' shirt and climbed in to bed. She only hoped that the hours to follow would be less eventful.
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