The next morning Randy snuck out of his and Kelly's room so she didn't see he was leaving. He left her a note saying he was going to the gym and would be gone for a while. When he got out of the hotel he went and sat in his car. He was terrified of what he would find out; what happened the night before became more and more likely to have just been in his head as he thought about it. He began to drive; he needed to find out what happened and why she never told anyone.
He got closer to the address and he began to think about what he would ask. 'Where's your daughter? Is she dead? What about Seb?' he could feel himself shaking. He pulled up to a massive house just outside of the town, it was a huge property. Randy looked down to the piece of paper again, he was impressed.
He got out of his car and knocked on the door, his nerves were getting worse and he began shaking more. Someone came to the door and opened it, it was a much older lady; she looked extremely proper, like a real lady.
"Can I help you?" she asked.
"Are you Mrs. Paton?" Randy asked nervously.
"I am; why you are so nervous?" she was slightly concerned.
"I was just wondering about your granddaughter, she was a close friend of mine and she just disappeared out of my life."
The older lady looked down and sighed. "Please come in."
Randy knew it wouldn't be good news from here on in; there would be no way someone could look like that with good news. He followed her inside of the house, it was huge. Everything was so tidy and n its place, but everything also looked extremely expensive. Even on Randy's salary he would never be able to afford a house like this.
An older gentleman came out into the living area. He was dressed in a jacket and slacks. He came over and shock Randy's hand.
"And who might you be?" he smiled.
"Randy Orton, nice to meet you." He looked over to the lady "Both of you."
"It's our pleasure. Now, you wanted to know about our Ryder do you?"
"Yes, she used to live with me while he and her brother were in the states."
"I see, yes she told us about you when she gave us calls. So your unaware of what happened to her, why she all of a sudden disappeared?" the old man sat down while his wife went off to the kitchen to get him a drink.
"Yeah, I was hoping you could shed some light for me." He sat down in front of him.
"I see, well one night Ryder was just about to go to sleep…"
She walked down the halls of the almost empty house; she could hear crying from Seb's room. He hadn't cried ever since Randy left, she walked into his room and he was trying to scream but he couldn't. There wasn't enough air going into his lungs, he was being suffocated.
Ryder quickly ran into the bathroom and grabbed his medication to clear his airways, she ran back into his bedroom and he was just laying there, he was blue and had stopped breathing all together. She began to perform CPR on him but nothing worked he wouldn't start breathing again. She tried to force feed him his medication but it wouldn't go down. She could hardly see what she was doing through her tears.
She picked up her cell and dialed 911.
"What's your emergency?"
"My brother, he's dead." She screamed.
"You need to calm down please miss, is he breathing."
"No, he's turned blue, it's all my fault I couldn't help him."
"Please calm down. I'm sending an ambulance right now. Stay with him"
The phone cut out.
Ryder ran back into Seb's room and tried his pulse, it was gone, he was gone. She let him die. Ryder couldn't look at him like this; she ran into the bathroom and locked the door. She was scared, she tried everything to save him, but that wasn't good enough.
She caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror and ran over to it crying.
"This is all your fault, you stupid girl!" she screamed, Ryder had lost her mind. Nothing seemed as bad as what had happened to her brother, without thinking she punched the glass shattering it all over the floor. Her hands were cut up badly and were dripping with blood, she picked up the shards and they cut her hands worse then what they were already. She took them and started digging at her arms, she couldn't get the pain away, it was all her fault he was gone, she heard the sirens coming toward her house, she lay down on the floor in the shards and her own blood and closed her eyes, everything went away, the pain, the noise and the loneliness.
Randy just sat there, it felt like a bad dream that he couldn't wake up from; he wished he never left her now.
The old man stood up and started walking to the patio area. "It was a terrible loss for our family."
Randy stood up and followed next to him. "I'm so sorry, they both meant so much so me."
They stepped out onto the patio overlooking the hundreds of acres of land they owned.
"Yes, were so lucky to still have her though." The old man leant on the railing.
Randy looked at him. "What?" he was in disbelief.
"Yes, Ryder. She's gotten a lot better now; we demanded she moved back here so we could watch out for her." He pointed over to an arena where there was a girl riding a brown and white horse, she was so focused on riding that she didn't notice them.
Randy thought he was going to die of happiness. He knew she was still alive; he couldn't get the smile off of his face. He was speechless; he was in a total state of bliss.
"You can go down and watch her if you want, I'm sure she will be finished soon." The old man smiled and left him.
He walked down and sat on the fence that was surrounding the arena, he didn't want to disturb her, and she looked more beautiful than ever. He watched her work with her horse like she was born to work with them.
Ryder was practicing a Dressage test that was for a competition in a few weeks, she finished and looked up, and she couldn't believe her eyes at who was sitting down the other end of the arena. She sat there and looked at him for a good 30 seconds; she didn't believe it was him that he had come looking for her.
Randy picked his hand up and waved at her, she encouraged the horse to walk over to him and then she got off. Randy jumped down from the fence and they just stared at each other.
"Miss me?" Randy managed to speak.
"Every single day." Ryder replied, her voice was music to Randy's ears. She ran over and hugged him like she was never going to let go again at the risk of losing him again.
He hugged her back and wasn't about to let go any time soon. "I thought I was never going to see you again." He whispered.
She backed off a little bit "I thought the same about you."
"Well I'm never losing you again." He smiled. "I need my best friend back."
"I know so do I, but I can't leave." She sighed. "My grandparents don't trust me by myself anymore." She tugged on the sleeve of her jumper as a reflex to the scars.
"You won't be, you'll be with me. I'll look after you."
"But your gone most of the year, they won't believe you can look after me." Ryder sighed. "It's pretty hopeless Randy."
Randy tried to think of something, and then it hit him.
"Ryder get changed and come and see Teddy with me, I have an idea." Randy smirked.