Ride For You

Chapter 11

Monday

July 2o, 2009

Randy stepped out of the catering room with a smile on his face. The last week of his vacation had been the best and he was actually thankful that Linda had suggested he take the vacation. He felt like a whole new man was coming out from this vacation. Rachelle had gotten comfortable with having him play a part in her life but she continued to let him know that she wasn't exactly ready to take the next step that he wanted to go towards. He understood where she was coming from but was glad that she was allowing him to be in her life. He was giving her the space that she needed.

Right now, Rachelle was meeting up with the girls and the twins were with their Uncle John. He wondered how Rachelle was holding up though. The past few days had gotten better for her. Since telling him who attacked her, she smiled more often around him. He hoped that she was still okay. But there was something that Randy still questioned about ever since Rachelle's accident. He wondered if the doctor had told her about the miscarriage that had happened. In his mind, Randy knew that Rachelle would be devastated to hear that she had miscarried. She would blame herself for losing the child. He didn't want her to blame herself. He didn't know how long he would wait though. He knew that he needed to tell her but he couldn't tell her at this moment.

But his train of thought had been disturbed when he saw Cody running towards him. He raised his eyebrow at his fellow Legacy member. Cody stopped running when he saw Randy. He tried to steady his breathing so that he could tell Randy what was happening.

"Cody, what's wrong?" Randy asked.

"It's Rae." Cody said.

"What's wrong with Rae?" Randy asked.

"Something happened to her in the locker room and she's freaking out. She's asking for you." Cody said.

As soon as those words came out of Cody's mouth, Randy ran. He ran to their locker room to see what was going on. When he opened the door to their locker room, Rachelle was on the ground crying. He rushed over to her and bent down to wrap his arms around her.

"Baby, what happened?" Randy asked.

Rachelle looked up at him. She shoved the envelope to him. Randy pulled out the contents that were inside the envelope. He saw the pictures of Rachelle dressing up in their bedroom at home, her being wrapped in his arms, and pictures of them as a family hanging out in the park. He read the note that had come with the pictures.

Dearest Rachelle,

Hope you know that we are watching your every move. And I will gladly take back what belongs to me, Rachelle.

XOXO,

You know who we are

"I didn't mean to take you away from her. I never meant for that to happen." Rachelle whispered as her tears came down her face.

Randy looked down at her and pulled her close to him.

"Rae, you never took me away from her. That was my own choice. I didn't love her as much as I did before. Things between us had gotten so complicated. She was cheating on me and I was just in denial about it. I didn't want to believe that she was because she had always been so caring and never lied. But then part of me felt that if I married Samantha, my whole life wouldn't be complete. I didn't want Samantha anymore. She had changed so much in our relationship and I was getting fed up with that. Then you came into my life and changed everything. It was like everything that I didn't see in Samantha, I saw in you. I saw the girl who completed my whole life. I saw the girl who I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. I saw the girl who I wanted to be the mother of my children. I saw the girl I wanted to have a family with. So if there was anything that you ever did, it was that you taught me what real love is." Randy said as he placed a kiss on her head.

Randy held her close to him for a few more minutes before helping her up to her feet. He kept his arms wrapped her as he felt her wrap her arms around him. He heard her mumble something but couldn't make out what she was saying.

"What did you say?" Randy asked.

"Thank you." Rachelle whispered as she rested her head against Randy's chest.

Randy pulled away from her and used his hand to have her look at him.

"It's nothing, Rae. I'm gonna do whatever it takes for you to be okay and I promise you that I'll take care of them. Now let's go walk around the arena." Randy said placing a kiss on her forehead.

"Don't you have to visit John to like go over tonight's show?" Rachelle asked.

"Yeah I do. Do you want to go with me to visit him?" Randy asked.

"Sure." Rachelle said.

Randy and Rachelle walked over to the door where Randy opened it for her. She stepped out of the room as Randy followed. They walked side by side and smiled at people in the hallways. Randy thought about how great this was. He was finally friends with Rachelle. Something that he had wanted for a while. As they walked down the hallway, Randy felt something reach for his hand. When he looked down he was shocked to see that Rachelle had grabbed his hand. He looked up at her and noticed her smile at him. He smiled back and pulled her close to him before placing a kiss on her head.

"Was that okay for me to do?" Rachelle asked as she looked at him.

"Of course it was, Rae." Randy said as they walked towards John's locker room.

When the two of them got to John's room, John was opening the door and noticed the two. He smiled when he saw that they were holding hands. That meant that the relationship was going somewhere. Maybe the whole situation that was happening right now was making their relationship much stronger. John prayed that Randy and Rachelle would end up back together after the whole situation was dealt with. He couldn't bear to see Ryan and Rosella caught in the mess of having to deal with parents who were divorced.

"Hey you two." John said.

"Hey John." Rachelle said with a smile on her face.

John smiled back at her. It was good to see her smiling again. It was something everyone rarely saw the past couple of weeks since the incident and since Kurt and Samantha had been bothering Rachelle.

"Hey man, you ready to talk about what we're gonna do tonight?" Randy asked as John looked at him.

"Yeah I am. I was just about to get you." John said as he stepped aside to let Randy and Rachelle in.

"Where's Rose and Ry?" Rachelle asked as she looked around the room.

"Your dad decided to take them to walk around the arena. He said he wanted some bonding time with his grandchildren." John said.

Rachelle shook her head as John and Randy laughed at her.

"Yeah that's my dad. Always wanting to find an excuse so that he could spoil Rose and Ry. I should probably go and let you guys talk over your match." Rachelle said as she let go of Randy's hand.

"You sure you don't want to stay, ba...Rae?" Randy said catching himself.

John shot a look at his friend. There was definitely something going on between Rachelle and Randy but John couldn't put his finger on it. Why would Randy almost call her "baby" or "babe"? They weren't together. His thoughts went back again to thinking that they were really working out the situation and considering that their children needed their parents to stick together. He shook the thought out of his mind for a few minutes.

"Yeah Rae, I don't mind you listening to our conversation about how I'm gonna kick Randy's ass in our match." John said as Rachelle chuckled at him.

"It's fine. I should make sure my dad isn't spoiling the twins too much." Rachelle said.

Randy shot her a concerned look. He didn't want her wandering the hallways alone. Not with Samantha or Kurt watching her every move. Who knew what else they could do or what they were capable of doing? Rachelle looked at him. John thought the same idea as Randy. He would have much rather preferred that she stay with them till they were done discussing their match. He watched as Rachelle stepped closer to him and took his hand.

"I'll be fine. I promise. If anything happens, I'll call one of you guys." Rachelle said.

John watched on as Randy pulled her closer to his side.

"You promise?" Randy asked as he placed a kiss on her head.

Rachelle leaned into Randy's embrace. She felt so comfortable that it almost changed her mind about leaving the room but she knew she had to go get the kids from her dad. Her dad was a busy man and if he had the twins with him, he wouldn't be able to get any work done.

"I promise." Rachelle said reaching up to place a kiss on his cheek.

Randy smiled and then looked at John. John shook his head at the site. You could totally tell these two were starting to fall back in love with each other. He could see it in their eyes. The way that Rachelle's eyes seem to twinkle when Randy looked at her. Then the way Randy seemed to protect her as if she were his wife again. It was meant to be and he felt bad enough that he and Randy had to discuss their match. But maybe they could shorten the discussion.

"Wait! I have an idea on how this can go by fast so that you could walk with Rae to get the twins, Randy." John said.

"Oh?" Randy asked as Rachelle looked at John with curious eyes.

John looked at Rachelle.

"I'd feel much better knowing that my best friend was safe walking around the arena rather than letting you risk your life and us losing you. But anyways, we'll just get down to the main parts of our match and then we'll be done. How does that sound?" John asked looking at Randy.

"Yeah sounds good. Is that okay, Rae? We can get the twins together and hang out till my match." Randy said.

"Yeah I guess that's fine." Rachelle said.

"Well then let's sit down and get started." John said as he took a seat on the couch.

Randy took a seat on the chair and pulled Rachelle into his lap. His left arm was wrapped around her waist so that he was keeping her close to him. Rachelle had to admit that she liked this feeling of being safe in Randy's arms. He had always been her protecter and loved her for her. She missed this too but she had to admit that when he pulled her onto his lap, she was shocked. She hadn't expected that from him. She listened to Randy and John talk about their match and John was right within about 5 or 10 minutes, they were done.

"That's it?" Rachelle asked.

"Yeah. That was all we needed to talk about." John said.

"That was super quick." Rachelle said.

"I told you that it was gonna be fast." John said as Rachelle got off of Randy's lap.

"Well then I'll see you later, John?" Randy asked as he stood up.

"Yeah. I'll see you two later. Let the twins know that Uncle John misses them." John said.

"You just saw them." Rachelle said giggling.

"Still." John said.

"Will do, man." Randy said as he wrapped his arm around Rachelle.

"See ya, Johnny." Rachelle said as she and Randy walked out of John's locker room.