A small ray of light peaked through the curtains shining across Ryder's face, she rubbed her eyes trying to block out the piercingly bright sun that had rudely disturbed her sleep. Ryder turned her head to Randy who was still fast asleep, she smiled; there was no one else she would have rather woken up next too.

Without disturbing Randy, Ryder managed to wiggle herself out of bed. She began to stretch when her phone began to ring; she quickly snatched it off the nightstand and left the room. Looking at the caller ID Ryder sighed, she had barely been gone one day and John was already keeping track of her.

Swiftly walking down the stairs Ryder answered. "Hey John, what's up?"

"Oh nothing, except you didn't even say goodbye to me yesterday." He didn't sound impressed.

Ryder rolled her eyes "I'm sorry, I was rushing to catch my plane and I wasn't sure where you were."

"Oh, ok babe. I just want you to know I miss you."

Ryder leant against the kitchen bench and sighed. "I miss you too." Of course she missed him but nowhere near in the same way as he missed her.

"Everything ok beautiful?" John asked with concern.

"Yeah it's just so lonely without you." Ryder lied.

"Aw, that's so sweet. You know if I could I'd be there in a minute."

"I know, but they need you there so I'll just suffer." Ryder rolled her eyes again as she rested her head on her hand.

"Don't say that, I hate when you're sad." John sighed, in the background hunter was calling for him. "Look I have to go ok beautiful but I'll call you later. I love you."

Ryder swallowed the lump in her throat "I love you too." She replied quietly as he hung up the phone.

She placed her phone down on the bench and sighed.

"Something you want to tell me?" Randy asked, less than impressed.

Ryder jumped and turned towards Randy. "It's not what it looks like I promise!"

Randy raised his eyebrow at her and walked to the other side of the island counter. "Does Miss Ryder have herself a little boyfriend?" He joked.

Ryder sat down on one of the stools. "Well no, I mean yeah but" she sighed. "It's complicated and you just wouldn't understand."

Randy leant over the counter and looked Ryder in the eye. "Try me."

"You have to promise not to be mad." Ryder rubbed her hands together and avoided eye contact.

"Promise." Randy held his hand over his heart and smiled.

"Well" Ryder took a deep breath. "For some reason Hunter thought it would be a good idea to put me in a relationship with John because it would make things more interesting, but he told John I was in love with him and now he's declared his love for me and yeah."

Randy looked at her, he was more pissed than ever but h promised her he wouldn't be mad. Randy knew nothing good would come out of this especially with Hunter Involved.

"Well do you?" he asked bluntly.

Ryder looked up to him. "Do I what?"

Randy took a breath. "Love Cena?"

"No of course not, well as a brother maybe but not like that." Ryder stated.

Randy could feel his anger getting the better of him. "Then why are you doing this then?"

"Because he's my friend, and I want to help him." She whispered, Randy didn't need to know what was really going on, he needed to stay here and recover.

"Whatever" Randy snapped at Ryder, more than anything he was pissed it wasn't him. He sighed, "Whatever you do just don't get into trouble ok."

Ryder nodded, she knew Randy's heart was in the right place but he needed to control his anger better.

New Years Eve had arrived and John was calling Ryder every hour, it made Randy's blood boil; he thought having Ryder home would be great but now he couldn't wait until she went back so he didn't have to listen to her talk to John every hour. He sat himself down with a beer and watched TV, when Ryder was done on the phone she came and sat down with Randy.

"I think that's it for tonight." Ryder sighed.

"Don't come complaining to me, you got yourself into this stupid mess." Randy said bluntly not taking his eyes off the TV.

Ryder couldn't believe the way Randy was acting towards her. "Why are you being such an ass?"

Randy looked over to Ryder "Because you were meant to be here to spend the holiday's with me and not your boyfriend who by the way if you didn't notice is my fucking worst enemy!" he snapped.

Ryder shook her head. "Why are you being so Jealous Randy, it's just pretend?"

"To you maybe, but he thinks this is real and he's going to use it to his advantage over me!" Randy looked away from Ryder. "Why would I be jealous anyway?"

Ryder had never been so offended, she stood up and stood in front of the TV "Well why don't you just go back to that poor excuse for a fiancée Kelly, maybe then you will realize what losing a good thing is!" Ryder snapped back at Randy and began to walk away.

Randy stood up and grabbed Ryder's arm spinning her back around. "Don't you ever say that! She ruined everything I ever loved in my life, and I thought that's what I wanted but you know what I was wrong, what I wanted was here in front of me the whole time but I was too stupid to see how perfect my life could have been if I had just told you Ryder."

"Told me what" Ryder looked up into randy's steel blue eyes.

"I'm in love with you Ry; I always have been but life just kept getting in the way! Ever since I met you I wanted nothing more than to look after you but I was scared. I was scared I would hurt you like I always hurt girls; but you were different you are different."

Ryder was shocked she just stood in front of Randy speechless, that was the only thing she ever wanted to hear him say, but never expected it to happen.

Randy looked back into Ryder's eyes and smiled, he was finally free; she knew how felt and there was no better feeling. Randy tilted Ryder's head up, leant down and parted her lips with his own; it was a taste he had longed for every single day and he never wanted to live without it.

Ryder got Goosebumps, the feeling was surreal, and she couldn't believe it was happening. She put her arms around Randy and he picked her up without breaking the kiss, she had her legs wrapped around his waist while his hands kept her up around her waist.

Slowly pulling away Ryder looked into Randy's eyes and smiled like never before.

He returned the smile with a relived sigh. "Please Ry; let me prove to you that I can be better than any other guy. I'll look after you and love you every day." He quickly kissed her again "I won't get involved with this whole Cena relationship thing if you don't want me to, just let me be yours."

Ryder smiled. "I've waited too long to say no to this Randy."

Randy gently put Ryder down and hugged her. "I wish you didn't have to go tomorrow, but even from a million miles away I'll love you as best as I can."

Ryder pulled away and smiled. "I'll still come and visit on weekends if I can get away from John." She sighed.

Randy leant down and kissed her again, "don't worry about that until it comes." Randy led Ryder over to the couch and sat down bringing her with him. "I just want this last night to be perfect like it use to be. Just you and I."